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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has assured the LGBT group (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders), the concept of a secular state and communist ideology will never be recognised during the administration of the Unity...

Industry figures and medical experts have criticised new measures imposed by many governments saying they are motivated by politics rather than science. READ SOURCE...

Mehdi Beyk, political editor of reformist newspaper Etemad was arrested, and more than 80 media workers have already been detained, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. READ SOURCE...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThe lead humanitarian coordinator for the UN has said aid supplied by the organisations cannot...

A fashion designer, revolutionary and “emblem of English eccentricity”, Vivienne Westwood exploded onto the scene in the mid-1970s as “one of the chief progenitors of the punk aesthetic”, said The Times.She was in her 30s when she and her art...

SINGAPORE – A snack suspected of containing hemp seeds has been pulled from vending machines here, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Friday. Known as Piranha Power Pack and put on sale recently, the product containing nuts, seeds and...

Survey finds more than one in three cross-border pupils prefer the checkpoint for their daily commute. READ SOURCE...

THE US economy maintained a strong pace of job growth in December, with the unemployment rate falling to 3.5 per cent. READ SOURCE...

When is imposing a pre-flight Covid test requirement on travellers from China against medical advice not a breach of a commitment to follow that advice? When it’s done out of an “abundance of caution”, enough other countries are doing it...

“Many experts, academics and internet users have been actively using their professional knowledge and gathering authoritative sources to help with combating the pandemic,” a statement from Weibo said on Thursday.“It is not acceptable to hurl insults at people who hold...