Share Malaysia will buy 12 military helicopters from Eurocopter in a 500-million-dollar deal, an official said on April 22, two years after the plan was shelved due to the financial crisis. In October 2008 the government scrapped a contract awarded to the European firm for 12 Cougar EC725 helicopters as a cost-cutting move and to [...]

Share As of 5.30pm April 20, 2010, 75 new cases of Influenza A (H1N1) have been detected, bringing the total number of cases to 13,274. Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said, however, no new cases of death were reported on April 20, 2010. Eleven people were undergoing treatment at the intensive care [...]

Share Some of the highlights of the Budget 2010 presented by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are as follows; Employees EPF contributions will be raised again to 11 per cent on a voluntary basis with immediate effect. However, from Jan 1, 2011 employees’ EPF contribution will revert to 11 per cent. The [...]

Share Malaysia is the third most desirable country to live in the Asean region behind Singapore and Brunei. Overall, it was ranked 66th globally out of 182 countries, according to UN data released this week. Data collected in 2007 before the global economic crisis ranked Singapore as the 23rd and Brunei the 30th most desirable [...]

Share When she was practicing law, Kartini Maarof once went beyond the call of duty for her divorce client. She arranged for Rohaya Mohamad, a mother of seven, to be married again, to Kartini’s own husband. The spouse they have shared for a decade is 43-year-old Ikramullah Ashaari, who has four wives and 17 children. [...]

Share This year’s Australian Malaysian Film Festival (AMFF) from Oct 4 to 7, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, here, pays tribute to the memory of Malaysian filmmaking legend Yasmin Ahmad. Yasmin’s work crossed conventional cultural barriers and fittingly, in its third year, the festival offers daytime screenings catering to Australian [...]