Education transformation to create thinking generation: Najib

Education transformation to create thinking generation: Najib


Education transformation to create thinking generation: Najib

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT

A transformation of the national education system is necessary to create a younger generation which can think and adapt knowledge to face future challenges, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today.

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Cuepacs consulted while drawing up SBPA: Najib

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:48 AM PDT

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today the government consulted Cuepacs when drawing up the Public Service New Remuneration Scheme (SBPA).

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No plans to introduce Freedom of Information Act: Rais

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:47 AM PDT

The Information, Communications and Culture Ministry has no plans to formulate a Freedom of Information Act because this is already provided for by the Constitution.

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Singapore ranks third in global competitiveness

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Singapore is the world's third most competitive city out of a field of 120 global markets, said an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report commissioned by Citigroup Inc.

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Govt always fair to local investors: Mustapa

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:46 AM PDT

There is a wrong perception that the government provides special treatment to foreign investors compared with local investors, said International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed today.

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Consider reducing airlines' cost burden, Malaysia urged

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:45 AM PDT

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged the Malaysian government to consider reducing the cost burden on airlines operating in the country, specifically, by withdrawing the landing and parking charge increases planned for 2013 and 2014.

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Insight - How German history helps modern spies

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:19 AM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Every time he goes into a meeting or discusses anything sensitive with colleagues, Andreas Blume places his mobile phone inside a small tin container.



Israel, Gaza militants agree to truce - Egypt official

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:40 PM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and militant factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official told Reuters on Tuesday.



Taking vitamin E linked to osteoporosis: research

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:10 AM PDT

Japanese scientists say they have found a link between consumption of vitamin E and the degenerative bone condition osteoporosis, in a study likely to shed new light on the use of supplements.

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RM1.92bn distributed under BR1M: Najib

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:55 PM PDT

A total of RM1.92 billion was distributed to 3.8 million households in the country under the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) up to March 1, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak told the Dewan Rakyat today.

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Incoming investment focus shifted: Mukhriz

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:53 PM PDT

Malaysia has shifted its investment focus to more high technology and capital intensive industry-related deals, said Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir.

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Over half South Koreans use e-learning

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:53 PM PDT

South Korea's market for online or electronic-Learning (e-Learning) systems rose sharply last year with more than half of the population aged over three saying they have used such educational aids, Yonhap news agency quoted the government here as saying on Tuesday.

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Exclusive - France's Le Pen clears hurdle to stand in election

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:26 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has obtained the backing of 500 elected officials required to be a candidate in the April-May presidential election, she told Reuters on Tuesday, clearing a hurdle days before Friday's filing deadline.



S. Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:39 PM PDT

Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago.

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Seven dead, 150 missing after Bangladesh ferry sinks

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:34 PM PDT

At least seven people died and about 150 people were missing after a ferry sank in Bangladesh in the early hours of Tuesday morning, officials said, adding that 35 survivors had been found.

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Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:10 PM PDT

Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month.

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Thailand to hold inquests into protest deaths

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Thailand is to hold inquests into the deaths of 16 people killed during a crackdown on "Red Shirt" anti-government protests two years ago, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Japan boosts lending, leaves rates unchanged

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:57 PM PDT

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday boosted a loan programme by almost $25 billion as part of efforts to kickstart the economy, while leaving the key interest rate unchanged at between zero and 0.1 percent.

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James Cameron to explore oceans' deepest trench

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:51 PM PDT

(America-AFP) - "Titanic" director James Cameron will try in the coming weeks to dive to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, to return with specimens and images. Images of the preparation, courtesy of National Geographic/Deepsea Challenge. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.

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Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:49 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison on Monday for participating in a 1982 massacre that claimed 201 lives.



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