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India
Cops probe death of three sisters
POLICE said an investigation has been launched into the death of three young sisters over concerns that they were heavily "influenced" by games and movies online that they were later denied access to.
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Focus
A giant beneath the steppe
MORE than 3.2km beneath the wind-swept steppe of western Kazakhstan, porous rock formed from the skeletons of ancient coral and marine life holds one of the world's most prolific oil deposits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nation
New targeted financing schemes for MSMEs lauded
PETALING JAYA: Business groups have welcomed the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry's introduction of two new targeted financing schemes aimed at supporting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
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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.
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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.
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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
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Metro News
Pasir Gudang’s growth roadmap
Pasir Gudang City Council (MBPG) has unveiled a comprehensive roadmap featuring major infrastructure overhauls and high-value investment targets to transform the industrial hub into a "smart, sustainable, and investor-ready" metropolis.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nation
IJM chairman held over RM2.5bil assets abroad
KUALA LUMPUR: The IJM Corporation Bhd chairman has been detained by graft busters.
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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.
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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".
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Nation
Two words reinstated in Act
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has reinstated the words "offensive" and "annoy" in Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) 1998, ruling that the terms are not unconstitutional.
