Sports is more than just dropping tons of sweat to burn that extra calories you had for breakfast. It is more like a way life where one can have to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. However, sports is no stranger to Bintuluans. Every park or field you go to, you’ll definitely see young people [...]
Sony Music capitalizes, instead of suing the couple and those behind the wildly viral Youtube video of ‘Jill and Kevin wedding entrance dance’ featuring its song Forever without proper authorization. Yup, it’s a Chris Brown song – the singer that battered Rihana recently. At the time of this writing the video generated 12,302,389 views and [...]
Sarawak rural elected representatives in parliament are committed, consistent and unobtrusive in speaking on the problems faced by their constituents. Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Seri Pandikar Amin Mulia said since assuming his position 15 months ago, he had yet to know of anyone of them not speaking up. He said this Thursday at a gathering [...]
Some 3,000 Penans in six settlements in upper Belaga, in Kapit Division are facing a food shortage, Deputy Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun said here, today. The settlements of Lusong Laku, Long Avit, Long Kajang, Long Tanyit, Long Malim and Long Ladem had been facing the shortage of food over the [...]
Will the MCA disciplinary committee be calling off the hearing of party deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek’s involvement in a sex DVD case after the complainant withdrew his complaint? Simpang Renggam MCA division chairman Eng Cheng Guan had last year filed a complaint with the MCA disciplinary committee requesting action against Dr [...]
Singapore Airlines Ltd. announced its first quarterly net loss in six years as the global economic slowdown and the outbreak of H1N1 influenza crimped passenger and cargo demand. SIA reported a net loss of 307.1 million Singapore dollars (US$212.2 million) for the three months ended June 30 compared with a net profit of S$358.6 million [...]
Malaysia’s plan to deploy personnel from a notorious volunteer task force to help enforce a crackdown on crime triggered criticism Thursday from human rights campaigners. The New Straits Times said the home ministry had enlisted 254 members from the Civil Defence Department and RELA, a 553,000-strong citizen corps that has been accused of serious rights [...]
Traffic along Jalan Ipoh and Jalan Tun Razak here was reduced to a crawl for almost two hours since 11am today when an illegal gathering took place in from of the MIC’s headquarters. Dang Wangi police chief ACP Zulkarnain Abdul Rahman said the gathering of more than 100 individuals, led by several leaders from DAP [...]
Padiberas Nasional Bhd (Bernas) plans to buy back part of the 31 percent equity shares held by Hong Kong company, Wang Tak Co. Ltd. (Wang Tak), in Bernas. Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said Bernas had personally relayed its intention to buy back the shares from the foreign company as a [...]
In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a “vaccine” of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later. The study [...]
