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Nation
A picture-perfect family tradition
PUCHONG: For cousins Parveena Selvarajah, 41, and Sandra Thavarajah, 52, Deepavali comes with a ritual.
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Bangladesh
Protests continue despite wage board move
Garment workers staged fresh protests in Bangladesh, forcing factories to suspend operations despite a wage board move to introduce a revised pay structure from December.
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Letters
Treat cybersecurity as a national resilience issue
From R. MURALI RAJARATENAM, Kuala Lumpur.
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China
Cross-border corruption law passed, scope expanded
Beijing has adopted a new law to combat cross-border corruption, state news agency Xinhua said, adding that it was aimed at deepening international cooperation on the issue and safeguarding the country's sovereignty and security.
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Cambodia
US hits scam empire with fresh sanctions
The United States has imposed sanctions on dozens of companies and individuals linked to an alleged Cambodia-based cyberscam group and a network in Madagascar that targeted Americans.
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Indonesia
Another nabbed for spying on Prabowo
Police have named a fourth senior officer as a suspect in the alleged wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto, as authorities continue to investigate the motives behind a scandal that has exposed a deepening rift between the president and his predecessor, Joko Widodo.
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Short Position
Cybersecurity – many agencies but how secure are we?
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's warning that Malaysia could become a target of cyberattacks amid growing geopolitical tensions should prompts this question – how prepared are we, despite having multiple government agencies responsible for cybersecurity?
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Nation
Move to attract REE investors
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has agreed to ease its moratorium on raw rare earth exports under strict conditions to attract investors and encourage the development of domestic processing facilities, says Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani (pic).
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Nation
Tighter border controls against drug syndicates
KUALA LUMPUR: The country's strategic location and extensive transport networks have made the country vulnerable to exploitation by international drug syndicates seeking to move illicit substances across borders, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (pic).
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Star Biz7
A construction boom with an expiry date?
One after another, the Datuk Seri Najib Razak-era mega infrastructure projects are nearing completion, marking the culmination of investments initiated about a decade ago.
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Nation
Najib’s lawyers want house arrest to begin without delay
KUALA LUMPUR: The Prisons Department must facilitate the release of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to commence his house arrest, say his lawyers.
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Letters
The sky behind Van Gogh’s starry night
From DR NORFARAZIEDA HASSAN, Lecturer Pusat Kanser Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Nation
Former PM’s residence officially declared a prison
PETALING JAYA: The residence of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in Jalan Langgak Duta, Kuala Lumpur, has been declared as a prison.
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Sabah & Sarawak
Sarawak’s scheduled waste powers get Cabinet nod
KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet has agreed to a memorandum on amendments to the Borneo States (Legislative Powers) Order for Sarawak, paving the way for the transfer of scheduled waste management powers to the state government under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
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Star Biz7
India’s overseas investment rush
Indian investors are expected to look increasingly beyond their home market as disappointing domestic equity returns, a weakening rupee and growing appetite for artificial intelligence (AI)-related stocks drive more household savings overseas.
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Indonesia
Tourists flock to see whale sharks
Passengers gasp in delight as Ansar Lasimpala, 47, manoeuvres his glass-hulled boat towards the large, dark shadow of a whale shark gliding under the waters off the beach.
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Insight
The Verde Solution
IN last week's column, we discussed the energy transition issue at length, drawing on Datuk Dr. Kenneth Pereira's latest book, The Energy Transition Conundrum.
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Star Biz7
Moderna’s co-founder bets on long shots
Biochemical engineer Noubar Afeyan likes wildly improbable ideas. In 2010, he co-founded a company to turn the body's own cells into tiny platforms for producing drugs. Few thought it would work.
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Short Position
SoftBank’s US$50bil investment plan in Malaysia
Softbank's reported plans to invest up to US$50bil in artificial intelligence (AI), technology and data centres (DCs) across Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak is certainly good news for Malaysia.
