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Firecrackers fly as Taiwanese celebrate pared back festival

YANSHUI, Taiwan (Reuters) - Firecrackers lit up the skies on Friday night as Taiwanese celebrated a cacophonous traditional festival in the island's south, pared back this year due to the coronavirus pandemic but still allowed to go ahead due to Taiwan's low case numbers.

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Enough of the old politics of dominance

UMNO supreme council member Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani was recently quoted in the press saying; "I am always of the opinion that the single largest party must either lead the government or the opposition. You cannot be somewhere in between. When you are somewhere in between, it will create lots of political instability."

Nation

Firemen continue to battle blaze at Ampang Jajar waste disposal site

BUTTERWORTH: Firemen are still battling a fire that broke out on Friday (Feb 26) at the garden waste and bulk waste disposal site at the Ampang Jajar Transfer Station here.

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Asia Today: S. Korea allows workers to squeeze extra doses

SEOUL, South Korea (AP): South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency has allowed health workers to squeeze extra doses from vials of coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

Arts

‘Where’s Waldo?’ goes for a walkabout in this book and sneaker collaboration

Now you can dress up like your striped top hero when you go Waldo-watching

Style

Virtual makeup testers now the next big trend in online cosmetics shopping

It is hard to buy a lipstick or eyeshadow without being able to test them on your skin tone. But that’s what we would have been forced to do during 2020, if virtual makeup testing hadn’t made its way to our smartphones to save the day.

Living

Turning diapers into compost gold

Used diapers represent huge waste streams, that mostly end up in incineration. The start-up Les Alchimistes sees this waste as a potential.

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Kit Siang at 80 - auspicious yet awkward

TURNING 80 is pretty auspicious and birthday greetings flowed in for DAP leader Lim Kit Siang when he touched the big eight-oh last week.

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Laos issues new decree on dams aimed at minimising harm

BANGKOK, Feb 27 (Reuters): The government of Laos issued new guidelines for managing hydropower dams aimed at minimising water shortages and flooding, state media ha reported, amid debate on how its hydropower boom has altered the vital Mekong River.

World

Yemen's children starve as U.N. seeks billions to avoid vast 'man-made' famine

SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ahmadiya Juaidi's eyes are wide as she drinks a nutrition shake from a large orange mug, her thin fingers grasping the handle. Her hair is pulled back and around her neck hangs a silver necklace with a heart and the letter A.

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Indonesia says "ready to fight" EU at WTO over nickel export curbs

JAKARTA, Feb 26 (Reuters): Indonesia is "ready to fight" the European Union's challenge of the South-East Asian country's ban on nickel ore exports at the World Trade Organisation, arguing the bloc's actions may hinder Indonesia's development plans, the trade minister said.

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Cargo train slips off track, blocking two railway tracks at Batu Tiga KTM station

SHAH ALAM (Bernama): A cargo train laden with goods slipped off the track near the Batu Tiga Station near here Saturday (Feb 27), resulting in both tracks near the station to be completely blocked.

World

Berlin activists show manspreaders who wears the trousers

BERLIN (AFP): A man lounges across two seats on a crowded Berlin train, oblivious to his surroundings -- until the two women opposite him suddenly spread their legs, revealing a message on their trousers: "Stop spreading".

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Two men nabbed following viral traffic incident remanded four days

PETALING JAYA: Two men detained after fleeing from police in a Proton Waja have been remanded until Tuesday (March 2).

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NGO to begin dolphin conservation project in Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Non-governmental organisation (NGO) 1StopBorneo Wildlife is embarking on Sabah Dolphin Conservation Project 2021 with the cooperation of local communities, says founder Shavez Cheema.

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EPF, Malaysian pension fund, assets grow to value of US$252bil in 2020

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Reuters): Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) saw its investment assets grew 7.9% from a year earlier to a market value of 1.02 trillion ringgit (US$252 billion) at the end of 2020, the fund said on Saturday.

Nation

M’sia, China working together in procurement deals, clinical trials for other Chinese vaccines, says China envoy

PETALING JAYA: The CoronaVac vaccines that have just arrived in the country demonstrate the friendship and cooperation between China and Malaysia, says China’s ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing.

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Philippine soldiers ordered to get virus vaccine for Covid-19

MANILA, Feb 27, 2021 (AFP): Philippine soldiers will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the military said Thursday, as the country prepares to receive its first doses and begin inoculations.

Music

Blackpink's 'Ddu-du Ddu-du' sets most-viewed record on YouTube with 1.5 billion views

Blackpink became the first K-pop artiste to have a music video that was viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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Elderly woman arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband with a meat cleaver at a Hong Kong housing estate

The 73-year-old woman is accused of killing her husband as he slept early on Thursday morningPolice believe the woman’s mental state may have played a part, as she was an outpatient being treated for schizophrenia and depression