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• Malaysian Indian artists get new platform

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Jan 6 (IANS) Symbols Art Club, a new platform for Malaysian Indian artists to connect and to express themselves, has begun by holding its first exhibition - Caves on Canvas.The venue is the Batu caves that has a series of caves and cave temples, located in Gombak district, 13 km north of the [...]
  4 hours ago

• Lazy columnist, lazy Times, Lazyfeed

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 437
  Have fun with Lazyfeed , a web-based news reader or news aggregator with a difference. All you have to do is visit the website, type in "Singapore", "books", "music", "movies" or any other topic --- and you will see live updates automatically popping up on the page. Some of the information may be junk, but you ...
  20 hours ago

• Drugs hidden with Indian prayer ash seized in Malaysia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Jan 5 (DPA) Malaysian airport police seized 150 kg of ketamine worth 2.7 million ringgit ($780,000), which were hidden among boxes of Hindu prayer ash from India, a news report said Tuesday.The drugs were seized during a check on a container from Chennai, India, which was docked Wednesday at the western ...
  1 day ago

• Straits Times GDP goof-up

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 437
  How can Singapores leading newspaper make elementary mistakes in economics? It goofed up on the very first day of the year in its report on the Prime Ministers New Year message. In a sidebar on the front page, it reported: Quarter on quarter, the Singapore economy grew by 3.5 per cent from October to December, ...
  1 day ago

• Malaysian PM calls for calm after protests over ‘Allah’ ruling

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Jan 4 (IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has appealed to fellow Muslims to remain calm as 13 non-governmental organisations protested against the use of the word “Allah” in a Catholic weekly, the Herald.The issue needed to be “handled wisely”, Razak said Sunday. His government has ...
  2 days ago

• ‘3 Idiots’ one of the best from Bollywood: Malaysian film critic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Dec 31 (IANS) Applauding the cast and crew of recently released hit film “3 Idiots”, a Malaysian film critic described director Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial venture as “one of the best from Bollywood”.If you want to find fault with “3 Idiots”, it should be the title - for its wrong ...
  6 days ago

• Singapore puts paedophile behind bars for 10 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Singapore, Dec 29 (DPA) A paedophile was put under a 10-year preventive detention for molesting six young girls, including a one-year-old toddler, the Straits Times reported Tuesday.But Salim Abdul Rahman escaped the mandatory caning for his crimes because he had turned 50 years old Dec 20, and under the law that ...
  1 week ago

• More powerful battery for EVs

  
  Solar Headlines — Authority: 141
  PANASONIC Corp has developed more powerful batteries for use in everything from laptops to electric vehicles, the Japanese electronics maker said on Friday. The new lithium-ion batteries are 20 per cent to 30 per cent more powerful than current batteries, according to Osaka-based Panasonic. They can raise the ...
  1 week ago

• Press Muse: Speaking “truth” for power

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 580
  Click to enlarge Spiegel Foreign talent, national identity, immigration, integration. The deluge of reportage on these issues du jour is incessant, from fears of the dilution of identity to possible citizenship tests, from ministers’ speeches to  stories about foreign-born men doing national service . People ...
  1 week ago

• Singapore extradites terror suspect to US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Singapore, Dec 25 (DPA) Singapore has extradited a businessman to the US, where he had allegedly tried to buy weapons for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Straits Times reported Friday.Balldev Naidu Ragavan, 47, tried to act as a broker between firearms manufacturers and purchasers between February and ...
  1 week ago

• ST letter-writer calls Singapore Athletic Association ‘despicable’

  
  The Singapore Sports Fan Says... — Authority: 428
  The letter:This letter by Maurice Alphonso appeared in the online forum of The Strais Times yesterday (www.straitstimes.com). I found myself nodding at his sentiments.Pity the letter wasn’t published in the paper version of  TheStraits Times. I am sure it would have made a much bigger impact.Here’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• World Cup: Give the viewers a (commercial) break

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 437
  I dont agree with the Sunday Times that if Fifa charges five times more for the World Cup telecasts next year, television viewers must also pay five times more than they did four years ago. Thats not how the media business works. Look at the Sunday Times sister paper, the Straits Times. With a news-stand price of ...
  2 weeks ago

• This good English?

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 437
  The Speak Good English Movement in Singapore has turned some purists into vigilantes, encouraged by the leading local newspaper. The Straits Times asked its readers to email photos of bad English on billboards, road signs and notices in public places. "The most common error spotted: No outside food allowed," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asian Markets Decline On Shares Surge Worry

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 162
  Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Hong Kong, China (AHN) - Pending initial public offerings are stirring fears of a glut in shares that impacts on liquidity sending Asian stocks to a decline on Thursday. The Shanghai Composite Index shed 2.3 percent while Hong Kongs Hang Seng Index was down 1.2 percent. Japans Nikkei ...
  2 weeks ago

• Budget hotels in Malaysia being turned into sex dens

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Dec 16 (ANI): The Alor Star City Council has found that 90 per cent of the city’s budget lodgings are fire traps.Many such places have also become dens for immoral activities, including gambling and prostitution, the council found.The findings come as the council checked about 100 budget lodgings, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asian Stocks Decline On Chinese Property Worries

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 162
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter Hong Kong (AHN) - Asian stocks declined Tuesday amid Chinese concerns that the government might act to cool heated real estate prices. The Shanghai Composite index slipped 28 points, or 0.9 percent, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 272 points, or 1.2 percent.
  3 weeks ago

• Asian Stocks Rebound On Dubai Debt Reassurance

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 162
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter Hong Kong (AHN) - Asian stocks pulled out of their dive on Monday after Abu Dhabi said it was giving $10 billion to Dubai to relieve the island countrys debt problems, taking stress off European banks. The news turned around several markets. Hong Kongs Hang Seng had been down 1.6 percent in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Malays dysfunctional families and ITE Dropouts

  
  Anak Melayu Boleh — Authority: 130
  I was reading the Straits Times a few days back about the state our Malay ITE dropouts which is alarming. I don’t have the exact figure, but the article didn’t seem encouraging enough. I would have thought the success rates of Malays students would have been better with the times. Now the ‘gahmen’ even ...
  3 weeks ago

• Indian barbers in Malaysia told to shut shop

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Dec 12 (IANS) An estimated 2,000 Indian barbers in Malaysia face a crisis. The government has decided that foreigners are not required to ply their trade in this sector.In Penang, 50 of the 70 barber shops have closed down in the last six months.Penang Indian Hairstylists Association committee member K. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Make English second official language, Malaysia urged

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kuala Lumpur, Dec 11 (IANS) A leading Malaysian Indian lawyer-lawmaker wants the constitution to be amended to make English the second official language to enable its free use in courts.Reacting to a judgment stipulating use of Bahasa Malaysia in courts and for filing documents, Karpal Singh, who is also the ...
  3 weeks ago

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