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Kenaikan pelbagai harga barangan dan perkhidmatan yang berturut-turut sejak kebelakangan ini memang boleh membuatkan darah rakyat turut menaik saja. Kerajaan yang kononnya berpaksikan slogan “rakyat didahulukan” dan menjanjikan mimpi yang indah-indah semasa pilihan raya lalu, kini dilihat seperti melupai janji sendiri dengan tidak sabar-sabar…

Angela Merkel is due to be sworn in today for a rare third term as German chancellor, capping months of political uncertainty as she bartered with her rivals to help govern Europe’s top economy.

Eighty-six days after Merkel, 59, swept to victory in elections but failed to grab an outright majority, the Bundestag lower house of parliament will…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today announced that Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt will be inducted next year.

The Cleveland, Ohio institution also said Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles from 1962 until his death in 1967, will be inducted for Lifetime Achievement.

So will Rolling Stones…

Putrajaya should renegotiate with highway concessionaires to avoid increasing the toll rates, says Penang Gerakan.

Its secretary, Oh Tong Keong, said a toll hike would have a domino effect on the price of goods, notably transport charges.

“Putrajaya must find a solution to prevent highway toll increase. The Government, which has shares in…

Pharmaceutical giant today said it would stop paying doctors to promote its products through speaking engagements and end linking compensation for its sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write.

GlaxoSmithKline also plans to stop payments to healthcare professionals for attending medical conferences.

The initiative…

A severe earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has been recorded off the coast of Fiordland, shaking New Zealand’s Southland region early today.

The 6.2-magnitude was centred 125km west of Tuatapere and registered at a depth of 25km at 1.07am local time today, Xinhua news agency reported.

No damages or casualties were reported.

By…

The hole decorated with a golden frame by well-known Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic near the junctions of Jalan Nagore and Jalan Hutton, in George Town, Penang, has been covered up.

However, the frame remains untouched.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the square hole did not belong to the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) but was…

Sarawak DAP said Monday’s armed robbery of an assistant minister should be a wake-up call to the state government to “stop manipulating the crime statistics just to show they are doing a good job in bringing crimes down”.

Instead, it should “seriously act” to stop the deteriorating security in the state,

Opposition leader, Chong Chien Jen…

Ken Robinson, seorang pakar pendidikan di dalam bukunya Out of Our Mind pernah menulis, “Being creative is not only about thinking: It is about feeling”.

Saya tertarik dengan sebuah restoran Pakistan yang terletak di Kuching, berhampiran bulatan Simpang Tiga, antara kawasan utama di Kuching. Apa yang menarik di kedai ini adalah bagaimana ia…

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency named a prominent provincial governor a suspect today in the latest in a series of high-profile corruption cases that have eroded public trust in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s ruling coalition.

Over half of Indonesia’s 539 regional leaders are now under investigation for graft corruption, helping keep…

The world’s largest travel site today announced the most prolific content contributors of 2013, based on the reviews and opinions submitted on TripAdvisor from its community of millions of travellers worldwide.

Top contributors were recognised by country and individual.

TripAdvisor now features more than 260 million monthly visitors and its…