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  • Singapore pollution record after Indonesia fires cause regional haze

    Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution on Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia worsened ...

  • Malaysias PC sales up 18 pct in first quarter

    Reset KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): Malaysia's personal computer (PC) market grew by 18 per cent sequentially in the first quarter (Q1) of 2013 to 898,000 units.In a statement today, IDC, the global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, said on a year-on-year basis, the market, however, showed a decline by the same percentage.IDC said Lenovo emerged as the top vendor as it ...

  • More Singaporean companies making prompt payments

    KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore's economic recovery has resulted in more companies making their payment more promptly, according to the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau. Its latest payment analysis showed companies' promptness in payment jumped by 17.03 percentage points from 32.79% in 2011 to 49.82% in 2013. The report said on Thursday this was a sharp improvement, mirroring the recent ...

  • KLCI closes 0.59 lower amidst Feds end of stimulus China slowdown

    KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian bourse ended Thursday in the red dragged down by losses in blue chips and the weaker regional market as the Fed signals the stimulus scale-back. At 5pm, the FBM KLCI stumbled 10.54 points or 0.59% to 1,762.34. Losers thumped gainers 668 to 172 with 257 unchanged. Turnover was 1.64 billion valued at RM2.017bil. Reuters reported bonds, shares and commodities fell ...

  • Air quality in Johor the worst in years haze-related health complaints increase

    PETALING JAYA: Air quality deteriorated rapidly overnight with Muar in Johor hitting hazardous levels for the first time with an Air Pollutant Index (API) reading of above 380, according to the Department of Environment (DOE). This is the first time in years that air quality has dipped to hazardous level with conditions worsening in as dry weather persists and fires rage in Sumatra. At 7am, the ...

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In Good Company

In Good Company

In Good Company is a feel-good dramedy about the power of honesty, decency, and good ol' fashioned belief in what one is doing to overcome the perils of faceless corporate hegemony. To fully enjoy the movie, of course, one must overlook the fact that it was produced and distri ... ...

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  • Luster waiting for concrete offer before deciding

    said he will decide the next course of action only when there is a concrete offer to acquire the company. "I often receive verbal offers either to buy other companies and to sell my company, but nothing in black and white. "So with regards to the report, I will only decide, plan or execute when there is something concrete on the table," he said when contacted. He was responding to ...

  • Sabah RCI Refugee gets citizenship after two years now secretary of BN branch

    KOTA KINABALU: A Filipino refugee who arrived in Sabah in 1984 is now the branch secretary of Tanjong Kapor Barisan Nasional, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Sabah illegals was told. Shukur Abdullah received his identity card just two years after arriving and has been voting in every general election as "it is my responsibility." "I went to Kudat as a refugee because of the ...

  • Sabah state assembly Heavy metals found in 14 dead elephants in Sabahs interior

    KOTA KINABALU: High levels of heavy metals such such as arsenic, cadmium, iron and chromium were found in the 14 elephants killed in a forest reserve in Sabah's interior last December, Tourism, Culture ...

  • China lifts freeze on Malaysian birds nest imports

    PUTRAJAYA: China has lifted its freeze on bird's nest imports from Malaysia, with approval granted to nine Malaysian companies to resume exports of the delicacy to the republic. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) deemed the nine companies to have earned a "conditional pass" on the quality of ...

  • Boy dies six people badly injured after express bus overturns

    KUANTAN: An express bus skidded and overturned along the Raub-Bentong road near Raub on Thursday, killing a three-year-old boy and badly injuring six other people, police said. The bus, carrying 19 passengers, was headed from Kota Baru to Kuala Lumpur when the accident took place at Km364 of the road at 4.30am, said Raub District Police chief Supt Wan Samsuddin Wan Osman. He identified the dead ...

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