The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan, Tuanku Ja’afar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, died at 11.45am today. He was 86. State Secretary Datuk Norzam Mohd Nor announced Tuanku Ja’afar’s demise at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital where he died. Born in Klang on July 19, 1922, Tuanku Ja’afar was the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, serving [...]

There were no surprises today in the naming of Senator Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh as Barisan Nasional‘s (BN) candidate for the crucial Kuala Terengganu by-election, but the controversies surrounding him and his close links with the prime minister will be campaign fodder for Pakatan Rakyat. For Wan Farid, who is also Kuala Terengganu Umno [...]

The recent Special Court order for Yang DiPertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman to pay US$1 million (RM3.5 million) to Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad (SCBMB) was over a banking transaction and not a loan, according to his private secretary. Datuk Abdullah Abas, in a statement, said press reports [...]

World number one shuttler, Datuk Lee Chong Wei and national swimmer Sow Yi Ting were selected as the Male Olympian and Female Olympian 2008 respectively at the Olympian Night held at Wisma OCM, here tonight. Chong Wei, 26, was selected based on his achievement as the only Malaysian athlete to win a medal at the [...]

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday. Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be a huge reason for the shift, particularly in [...]

The Government has released without publicity more than a dozen Muslim extremists linked to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror organisation. They include Malaysian Yazid Sufaat, who is believed to have abetted the Sept 11 attacks in New York. Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yazid emerged as a key figure in JI’s regional network because [...]