Fed Govt's fiscal deficit to dwindle to 4.7 pct this year, Dewan Rakyat told

Fed Govt's fiscal deficit to dwindle to 4.7 pct this year, Dewan Rakyat told


Fed Govt's fiscal deficit to dwindle to 4.7 pct this year, Dewan Rakyat told

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:48 AM PDT

The Federal Government's fiscal deficit is expected to dwindle to 4.7 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) this year, Deputy Finance Minister Donald Lim Siang Chai told the Dewan Rakyat today.

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Rais: no application received on ballet performance

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:48 AM PDT

Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim today denied that the Central Agency for the Application for Filming and Performance by Foreign Artistes (Puspal) had rejected an application by a Singapore ballet troupe, due to perform here this weekend.

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Fukushima leak may have flowed into Pacific: TEPCO

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:34 AM PDT

About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying Thursday that some may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean.

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Vietnam accuses 18 of 'plotting to overthrow state'

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:28 AM PDT

Vietnamese prosecutors have accused 18 members of a little-known "reactionary" group of plotting to overthrow the communist government, official media reported Thursday.

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Skin cancer on the rise among young adults: US study

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:28 AM PDT

Skin cancer is on the rise among young adults, according to a US study published Monday that suggests indoor tanning beds and childhood sunburns may be to blame.

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Exclusive - Key China insurer to stop covering tankers with Iran oil

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:25 PM PDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Key ship insurer the China P&I Club will halt indemnity coverage for tankers carrying Iranian oil from July amid tightening Western sanctions against OPEC's second largest producer, two club officials told Reuters on Thursday.



Japan rushes to restart reactors to avoid total shutdown

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is racing to get two nuclear reactors, idled after the Fukushima crisis, running again by next month out of what experts say is fear that a total shutdown would make it hard to convince a wary public that atomic power is vital.



Rocket from Egypt's Sinai hits Israeli city - police

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:26 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai desert struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Thursday causing no casualties or damage, Israeli police said.



Analysis - South Korea's unloved chaebol

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:24 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - If you are a South Korean you might well wake up in a Samsung-built apartment, watch the news on an LG television, drive a Hyundai car to work and make a dinner reservation at a Lotte Hotel restaurant on a Samsung phone.



VIDEO: Kachin still face 'serious abuses'

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:20 AM PDT

There are continuing allegations of "serious abuses" against the Kachin people, one of the ethnic groups who live on Burma's eastern border.


Govt committed to double per capita income

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:28 PM PDT

The government is serious and committed in doubling the per capita income to USD19,000 (RM58,282) by 2020, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

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Hong Kong probes body-in-suitcase death

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:24 PM PDT

Hong Kong police said Thursday they were investigating the death of a woman whose body was found by swimmers in a suitcase floating in the Chinese city's famed Victoria Harbour.

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The green and yellow rally

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:20 PM PDT

The BN must convince the people that there will be no corruption practices in the next general election after the electoral reform plan is proposed. If the people are convinced, it can then offset the call of Bersih.

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Southeast Asia fails to tackle sea spat with China head on

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:48 PM PDT

PHNOM PENH, April 5 — The Philippines claimed progress yesterday in persuading Southeast Asian leaders to present a united front to China in a festering maritime dispute, but the region remains divided over how to tackle its biggest security challenge. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is under growing pressure to ...



Former student charged with murder in California shooting

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:43 PM PDT

OAKLAND, California, April 5 — A former nursing student was charged with murder and attempted murder yesterday in a shooting rampage that killed seven people and wounded three others this week at a small, Christian college he once attended in California. The suspect in the shootings at Oakland's Oikos University, 43-year-old One Goh, described by ...



S. Korean game addict accused of killing baby

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:08 PM PDT

A South Korean woman has been detained for killing her baby who was born while she was playing online games, police said Thursday.

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Four die in Philippine clash with militants

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:07 PM PDT

Three police aides and a member of an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group were killed in a clash in the southern Philippines Thursday, the military said.

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S.Korea court confiscates dolphins from show

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:35 PM PDT

A South Korean court has ordered the release of five illegally captured dolphins which had starred in a show on the holiday island of Jeju, a court official said Thursday.

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Freedom of speech must comply with rules - Sultan of Pahang

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:29 PM PDT

The freedom of speech and expression in the country should comply with the constitution, said the Sultan of Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah.

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Four detained over deadly Thai blasts: police

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:25 PM PDT

Thai police have arrested four suspects in connection with a series of devastating bomb blasts in the insurgency-plagued deep south, an official said Thursday.

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