Tax rates can be reduced from time to time: Najib

Tax rates can be reduced from time to time: Najib

Tax rates can be reduced from time to time: Najib

Posted: 15 Feb 2013 12:32 AM PST

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said tax rates can be reduced from time to time depending on the long term trend of the economic development model implemented by the government.

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Indonesian Muslim youths observe Valentine's Day despite Islamic injunction

Posted: 15 Feb 2013 12:21 AM PST

Like in previous years, Islamic authorities, clerics and residents in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, voiced their protest Thursday against the observance of Valentine's Day by Indonesian youths.

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Malaysia's 2012 growth above forecast

Posted: 15 Feb 2013 12:15 AM PST

Malaysia has performed well in 2012 with Ernst and Young envisaging full-year growth of 5.1 per cent, up from 4.5 per cent initially forecast, said its Malaysia Markets leader, Azwan Baharuddin.

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Choked

Posted: 15 Feb 2013 12:10 AM PST

Having travelled up and down the country during the CNY holidays, I have once again come to experience Malaysia's own version of "spring festival traffic woes."

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Meteor shower sows panic in central Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:42 PM PST

A heavy meteor shower rained down on central Russia on Friday, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris smashed windows and injured dozens of stunned locals, officials said.

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Protest, voter anger put political risk in Singapore’s future

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:52 PM PST

SINGAPORE, Feb 15 — Gilbert Goh is an unlikely radical. But as anger swells over living costs and immigration in Singapore, one of Asia's richest and most expensive countries, the bespectacled 51-year-old unemployment counsellor is moving beyond the fringe of political activism to the centre of a rancorous debate over the nation's future. In a ...

Exhausted passengers disembark stricken Carnival ship

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 09:50 PM PST

MOBILE, Alabama, Feb 15 — Carnival Corp's crippled cruise ship Carnival Triumph that lost power for more than four days in the Gulf of Mexico was pulled into port in Mobile, Alabama, late yesterday as passengers cheered the end of a "hellish" voyage marked by overflowing toilets and stinking cabins. Tugboats pulled the Carnival Triumph into port ...

Obama: Americans deserve to know more about drone war

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 07:32 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 15 — President Barack Obama yesterday promised to be more forthcoming with the American public on his administration's campaign of drone strikes amid criticism over the targeting of suspected US terrorism suspects abroad. Obama, under pressure from the left and right to allow greater scrutiny of the secret decision-making process ...

VIDEO: Meteors stream across sky in Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:52 PM PST

A meteor shower in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say.

VIDEO: Oscar Pistorius arrives in court

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:58 PM PST

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has arrived at court to face a murder charge after his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed at his home near Pretoria.

Russia a year away from Sochi Winter Olympics

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:51 PM PST

Russia's cities start the one-year countdown to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2013.

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Smoking out tobacco: The rise of the e-cig

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:42 PM PST

The camera zooms in on a bearded man dragging on a cigarette and blowing out a thick cloud of smoke with what seems to be great satisfaction.

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Protest, voter anger put political risk in Singapore's future

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:37 PM PST

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gilbert Goh is an unlikely radical.

VIDEO: Fear returns to Mali amid clashes

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:40 PM PST

The military presence has been beefed up in the northern Malian town of Gao following two suicide bomb attacks last week and heavy fighting against Jihadi fighters.

VIDEO: Life inside N Korea's secret state

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 08:14 PM PST

President Obama has threatened to take firm action against the government in Pyongyang.

VIDEO: Treating chimps with anti-depressants

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:19 AM PST

A study has shown that anti-depressants can be used to help former lab chimps combat depression and trauma

VIDEO: Disabled piglet gets tiny wheelchair

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:23 PM PST

A month-old piglet from Florida, born without the use of his back legs, is now sporting a custom-built wheelchair to get around.

VIDEO: French claim horsemeat 'mislabelled'

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:22 PM PST

Ministers in France claim meat processing firm Spanghero has been engaged in "fraud", an accusation the company denies.

VIDEO: Asteroid set for record near-miss

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:17 PM PST

An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.

Japanese boy, 11, kills himself on train tracks

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:06 PM PST

An 11-year-old boy has died after throwing himself under a train in Japan, in an apparent suicide in protest at plans to close his school, police and press reports said Friday.

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