PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will ban all elephant rides at the country’s famed Angkor temple park by early next year, an official said Friday, a rare win for conservationists who have long decried the popular practice as cruel. The Angkor archaeological complex in northern Siem Reap attracts the bulk of the kingdom’s foreign tourists – which topped six million in 2018
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A young doctor’s story about overcoming the adversity of coming from a poor family has captured the hearts of netizens. According to Malaysiakini, Dr Nimelesh Balanthiren, 30, lost his father while he was only 11, and was raised by his mother, K Vijayalakshmi, 59, who earned a meagre RM1,000 a month, working as a kindergarten teacher in Georgetown, Penang. While
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United Kingdom : British-Tamil rapper MIA has condemned the imprisonment of Julian Assange, saying the UK should appreciate the whistleblower as an asset while the US is wrong in its attempt to have him extradited. Speaking to Al Jazeera on 6th November by phone, after a protest event on Tuesday evening held in support of the WikiLeaks founder outside the
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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia was not attacked by terrorist groups such as Daesh and al-Qaeda but was used by these organisations as a “source and transit point”, according to the United States Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2018. It said Malaysia was used as a transit point by suspected Daesh supporters deported from Turkey and individuals planning to
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A TEENAGER was electrocuted after charging her phone with a frayed extension cable which touched the metal legs of her bed. Nong Ying, 17, had been playing on her smartphone while it was plugged into the mains using the damaged lead, which was wrapped with duct tape. The cable appears to have touched her aluminium bed frame, killing her instantly
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BEIJING (ANN): A family of cockroaches was found crawling inside a man’s right ear after he complained of a “sharp pain” in it while sleeping. The man, identified as Lv, sought help at the Sanhe Hospital in Huiyang, China, after his family members found a large cockroach inside his ear, as per Mirror last Wednesday, Nov 6. The family found
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THE inclusion of silambam in Sukma 2020 is hailed as a great opportunity for associations and exponents to work together to make it a success, Malaysia Nanban reported. Persatuan Silambam Malaysia deputy president R.T. Uthayakumar said silambam was first introduced in Sukma 2007 as a showcase, and went on to be included as a competitive sport in two subsequent Sukma
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Unhappy over the unfair arrests of 12 Malaysian Tamils under charges of purported links to defunct terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group of British-Tamil staged a demonstration outside the Malaysian High Commission in London yesterday. The protest, held at 4pm yesterday in Belgrave Square, was attended by nearly 100 members of the Eelam Tamil community who
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OPINION | Do Malaysians still remember how the Prime Minister has repeatedly stressed that “New Malaysia” is strictly based on the rule of law? This is apart from the PH GE14 manifesto that promised to do away with detention without trial laws such as SOSMA, POCA and POTA. Recent police action is disturbing as it is in direct contradiction to
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KUALA LUMPUR: Ratu gimnastik negara, Farah Ann Abdul Hadi mencipta sejarah tersendiri apabila layak ke Sukan Olimpik Tokyo 2020, selepas mencatat keputusan memberangsangkan pada Kejohanan Gimnastik Dunia 2019 di Stuttgart, Jerman. Atlet berusia 25 tahun negara layak ke temasya terbesar dunia itu selepas mengumpul keseluruhan 49.898 mata pada pusingan kelayakan acara all-around individu, sekali gus menamatkan kemarau 16 tahun skuad
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