Our lawmakers, those in opposition in particular, are clamoring for a Legislative Yuan select or special committee on an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China....

Thursday, March 11, 2010 The president, after creating a degree of consternation at the APNS award ceremony in Islamabad by saying that the 17th Amendment would be done away with by the end of next...

TODAY more than 465,000 students nationwide will know their SPM results. Many will be jumping for joy, having done well in the examination. There will be a few who will be overcome with sadness...

IN any marriage there are bound to be problems. We can talk on this topic until the cows come home and still there will be marriages that end in divorce. Not necessarily in a mixed marriage only....

THE movie 2012 made us to ponder what may happen if disasters such as an earthquake or tsunami were to ravish our home. Are we prepared for such disasters? One should not think that Malaysia is free...

malacca@thestar.com.my MALACCA: Curiosity over a locked room at a private home for the aged and handicapped led to the rescue of a mentally-handicapped teenager who was found chained and...

KUALA LUMPUR: Fewer Malaysian men and women want to tie the knot now compared with 10 years ago. A recent survey by the National Population and Family Development Board on trends between 2000 and...

newsdesk@thestar.com.my MUAR: The happy chatter of children turned into screams of horror when an unidentified man armed with a hammer barged into a kindergarten here and bludgeoned three...

MUAR: Police have launched a massive manhunt for the man who brutally bludgeoned and injured three pre-schoolers at Tadika Sinario in Lorong Haji Ali here. Johor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd...

SINGAPORE: A young French student is the latest to claim that film-maker Jack Neo hit on her – when she was only 16 more than five years ago. Maelle Meurzec, now 21, told The New Paper in an...

KUALA LUMPUR: Guessing games are swirling fast and furious in MCA. When leaders are seen attending functions together, tongues wag overtime. For example, some leaders were seen on Tuesday night at a...

educate@thestar.com.my PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister’s call to raise the salaries and expedite the promotions of top performers in the public sector has been well-received by the Higher...

newsdesk@thestar.com.my KUALA TERENGGANU: Serious engineering flaws, shoddy workmanship, inferior materials and lack of expertise in the key project management team were found to be the main...

PETALING JAYA: Parents of serving civil servants will, for the first time, be entitled to free ward admissions at government hospitals. Ward charges will also be waived for government retirees, civil...

UNITED NATIONS (AP): Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers,...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP): Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years...

prisdberg@thestar.com.my GEORGE TOWN: A 36-year-old labourer has been acquitted by a High Court of trafficking in more than 96kg of cannabis at an apartment parking lot in Butterworth three...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins - and her popularity in the clouds. Despite complaints that aid was slow to reach the...

PETALING JAYA: A music teacher has been charged in the magistrate’s court here with murdering her 46-year-old British boyfriend in his rented house at SS2 last Friday. A handcuffed Karen Khaw...

JOHOR BARU: A labourer, who is already serving time for gang robbery, claimed trial at the magistrate’s court here to two charges of drug possession. K. Muthumaran, 39, was allegedly found with...

The main thrust of this budget is towards improving fiscal discipline. The fiscal deficit for the fiscal year 2010 is sought to be brought down to 5.5 per cent of the gross domestic product, with a...

The school opposed to the paramilitary approach, on the other hand, believes that coercion generates more heat than light. It proves counter-productive when brutality makes the Red Guards desperate...

The Central government is implementing reforms unilaterally, as though education is in the Union List. This infringes the federal spirit of the Constitution and the objective of promoting harmony in...

Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi recently took the extraordinary step of unilaterally releasing the minutes of the October 14, 2009 meeting between Union Minister Prithviraj Chavan...

Should Obama seek to go toe-to-toe with would-be maligners across the aisle? Or, should he retreat once again to his role as a thoughtful yet hesitant...

The poor health indices and health care in rural India have always been met with lofty ideals sans action; they demand urgent and radical...

In September 2009 it was announced that the U.K. was the first major economy where advertisers spent more on internet advertising than on TV advertising, with a record £1.75 billion online spent...

Some six years ago, on a cold and wet November morning a group of bleary-eyed London-based journalists , mostly from India and Pakistan, were bussed to Birmingham to be briefed about the BBC's...

An absolute majority of Palestinians lost confidence in the credibility of U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a poll said on Wednesday. Only eight per...

It does seem that pain and misery don’t fit in this beautiful earth. Then why is it that many of those who set out in life with a heart of gold, take up noble causes, and stand for the good of...