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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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.
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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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Nation
Malaysia faces twin shortage of organs and transplant surgeons
PETALING JAYA: More than 10,000 Malaysians are on the waiting list for kidney transplants, but organs are scarce.
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Food News
Auspicious beginnings await this Lunar New Year
AS the Lunar New Year approaches, Pavilion Hotel Kuala Lumpur invites families, friends and loved ones to rediscover the joy of reunion.
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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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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.
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China
Crackdown on insurance fraud
Authorities launched a new countrywide crackdown on medical insurance fraud in mental health institutions this week, after local media reported some hospitals were offering free services to compete for patients in Hubei province.
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Japan
Nuclear power to resume soon
THE nation will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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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.
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