Kedah, Malaysia

THE seven affiliates, who walked out of the Malaysian Karate Federation's Annual General Meeting last month, have demanded for a new election under the supervision of the Sports Commissioner's Office.

PUTRAJAYA: The first batch of more than a hundred students received not only their Sijil Pendidikan Kesenian but also their Penilaian Menengah Rendah certificates.

ALOR SETAR: The High Court here today found a 40-year-old man guilty of murdering and raping nine-year-old Siti Syazwani Ahmad Dusukhi six years ago.

JOHOR BARU: Yoga practitioner P. Balakrishnan repeated his death-defying feat of lying on a bed of 108 nails while having a car run over him.

ALOR SETAR: Kedah ranks has the most number of diabetes cases in the country. Some 13.6 percent of the Kedah one million population is affected by the disease.

International Union for Muslim Scholars president, Dr Yusuf Abdullah Al-Qaradawi, of Egypt, has been selected as one of the winners of the Tokoh Maal Hijrah 1431H award for his contribution as a contemporary intellectual scholar respected worldwide.

ALOR SETAR: The issue of the relocation of a Hindu cemetery at the site for the construction of the Insaniah University College campus at Ladang Batu Pekaka, Kuala Ketil, near here, is considered 'settled.' Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak said the matter was settled after the government held discussions with family members and the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The country was not spared tragedies and disasters, including freak accidents, landslides and plane crashes this year.

ALOR SETAR: A jobless man who torched his grandfather's house a month ago burned down his grandmother's house as well.

ALOR SETAR: The man who hand-delivered a shoe box-like parcel and caused a panic at the official residence of Alor Setar High Court Judge Datuk Mohd Suffian Abdul Razak in Jalan Tengku Bendahara here on Saturday has been identified.

ALOR SETAR: A woman was left with only the clothes on her back after a fire, believed to have been caused by her mentally disturbed grandson, destroyed her house in Kampung Sematang Bogok, here, early this morning.

The other attribute of the West worthy of emulation is its respect, almost deference, to science and technology rather than to tradition and hierarchy.

THE Ministry of International Trade and Industry aims to get existing foreign investors to plough back more money into Malaysia next year.

KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign-registered vehicles will only be allowed to pump a maximum of 20 litres of fuel when travelling within a 50km radius from the border, said Domestic Trade, Co-operative and Consumerism Mini ster Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

This another view of the fishing port Kuala Kedah, some 15 km from downtown Alor Star, the capital of the Malaysian state Kedah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 -- The government has no plans to provide free broadband or WiMax service to the people at the present time, said Deputy Minister of Information Technology and Culture, Datuk Joseph Salang.

BRITISH retailer Tesco plans to open six more stores in the next financial year ending February 28 2011, bringing total number of stores in the country to 38.

ALOR SETAR : The Kedah state government has decided to defer the implementation of its new housing policy, which will require having a 50 percent Bumiputra quota for new housing schemes.

Member of Parliament for Alor Setar Datuk Chor Chee Heung hopes for additional allocation under the 10th Malaysia plan for engineering works to overcome the problem of perennial floods in Kedah.

GREEN Packet Bhd said its unit has secured a RM41.5 million contract from the government to supply broadband to Perak and Kedah.