Taiping, Malaysia

LIKE many city folk, I also took advantage of the recent long weekend during the Selangor State holiday to visit my parents in Taiping, Perak.

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.

PORK in Taiping has been found to contain beta-agonist, Malaysian Pork Consumers' Association said.

TAIPING: The Heritage Commission plans to nominate Lenggong Valley to Unesco as a world archaeological heritage site.

The International Institute of Public Policy and Management , University of Malaya on Wednesday commemorated its 10th anniversary with three book launches.

A 22-year-old man from Batu Kurau, Perak has died of dengue, bringing the number of death from the fever so far this year to 79 from 38,062 cases, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican.

PEOPLE are always making a big fuss about me not driving, and I think they should just give up.

Imagine a mart where you can find all things fashion under one roof. THE colour pink is often associated with sugar and spice, and everything nice, or so the rhyme goes.

Companies like Panasonic takes a personal interest in implementing global measures to save the environment.

TAIPING: All the nine Chinese independent secondary schools in Perak became RM900,000 richer after they received a cheque of RM100,000 each from the state government on Thursday night.

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will be the first nation in the world to own the 'Amphibious Sealegs,' a high-tech boat which is functional both on water and on land, if the purchase receives the green light from the Government.

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Tin gave the people in the Kinta Valley an identity - and stories of awe and inspiration.

SINGAPORE : Perak wants to market itself aggressively abroad by promoting attractions dubbed the "10 Icons of Perak" to boost annual tourist arrivals by 500,000 to 3.5 million next year, senior state executive councillor Datuk Hamidah Osman said here.

A total of 191 people in Selama near here were evacuated when their villages were inundated by one-metre of flood waters Friday.

IPOH: The prosecution in the corruption trial of two former exco members and three others yesterday questioned the need for the defence to harass occupants of a house which was occupied by the prosecution star witness.

Most of us will have moved homes at some point, and faced the challenge of making new friends and adapting to new environments.

IPOH, Mon: The police put the brakes on a 'drugs-on-wheels' operation when they detained seven men and seized 10kg of ganja in Perak last Friday.

From the housewife and the goreng pisang makcik to fast-food joints, almost every one uses cooking oil.

KUALA LUMPUR: Nurfazrina Mohd Zamri can never forget that fateful day in 2006 when she fell on the slippery floor of a hostel at Kolej Multimedia in Taiping.