Nation

Legal Malaysians living in fear in Minnesota

PETALING JAYA: For Sarah Ng, a 30-year-old Malaysian professional living in southern Minneapolis, a major city in the state of Minnesota, for the past decade, her daily routine was simple: driving to work and back home. 

Metro News

Momentum with Red Devils as Spurs visit

EVERYTHING points to another win for Manchester United this weekend, when they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Old Trafford.

Food News

Old ingredients, newly acquainted

CENTURY egg tofu is a cold appetiser that brings together two ingredients of ancient lineage, making it a fitting, if understated, addition to the Chinese New Year table.

Focus

Fighting for every breath

WITH pollution in Pakistan hitting record highs in recent years, citizens clutching air monitors and legal papers are taking the fight for clean air into their own hands.

India

Teacher bags US$1mil prize

AN Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centres and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the US$1mil (RM3.95mil) Global Teacher Prize.

Focus

The man behind the club

FROM a television studio, Venezuela's feared interior minister would brandish a plastic club and call out the names of government critics – who knew what that usually meant. They could expect government agents to show up and take them away.

Nation

Fine print needs to pass real test, say policy experts

PETALING JAYA: Hope is growing around the government's proposed Base Medical and Health Insurance/Takaful (MHIT) plan, particularly following assurances that Malaysians with pre-existing conditions will be included.

Insight

Address stunting in children

Stunting, stemming from malnourished babies and children, is more than a matter of below-average height – it carries long-term consequences if unaddressed.

Thailand

Tough fight to decide nation’s fate

Thais vote tomorrow in an election pitting the popular reformists who won last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister, with ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra looming large from his prison cell.

Swimming

Hoe Yean stays on track amid coaching transition

KUALA LUMPUR: Khiew Hoe Yean may still be waiting to find out who his next coach will be, but the national swimmer is not standing still.

Citycism

How silence fuels KL rubbish crisis 

LAST month, I joined 26 journalists from South Asia and South-East Asia at a two-day workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, titled "Combating disinformation and misinformation".

Letters

Rethinking cash aid and a path to resilience

FROM GALVIN LEE KUAN SIAN Lecturer & programme coordinator Diploma in Business School of Diploma & Professional Studies Taylor's College

Cambodia

Historical evidence sought from France on border row

PRIME Minis­ter Hun Manet has asked France to provide historical documents to help resolve an enduring border dispute with Thailand that twice spilled over into armed conflict last year, Cambodia's foreign ministry said.

Japan

Trump endorses Takaichi

US President Donald Trump gave his "total endorsement" of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a national election in Japan tomorrow, adding that he looked forward to hosting her at the White House next month.

Nation

IJM chairman held over RM2.5bil assets abroad

KUALA LUMPUR: The IJM Corpo­ration Bhd chairman has been detained by graft busters.

Japan

Mount Fuji cherry blossom festival cancelled due to overtourism

A CHERRY blossom festival boasting a highly Instagrammable view of Japan's Mount Fuji has been cancelled after residents complained of overtourism fuelled by the weak yen.

Nation

Over 155,000 foreigners join Migrant Repatriation Programme

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 155,000 foreign nationals have registered under the Migrant Repatriation Programme, with over 138,000 successfully repatriated to their countries of origin to date.

Metro News

Happy home in Gelugor

ENGINEER Mohammad Fakruf Aiman Abdul Ghani and his wife, Aida Yasmin Ahmad Azmi, a bank employee, are glad that their loan application for an affordable housing unit in Penang was approved without much hassle.

Nation

For Sakinah, distance makes marriage stronger

ACTRESS Sharifah Sakinah says being in a long-distance marriage presents challenges but has ultimately strengthened their relationship, Kosmo! reported.

Nation

Anti-graft activists applaud HRD Corp suspensions

PETALING JAYA: The suspension of three senior Human Resource Development Corpo­ration (HRD Corp) officials is a necessary step towards strengthening governance and restoring confidence in the management of employer levy funds, say anti-graft activists.