It was an arbitrary style during the era of Tun Mahathir Mohamad and it was indeed too fierce. However, another extreme has been emerging over the recent few months, causing the delay of important programmes.

MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said he would defend his post to "carry out the unfinished reform" while former President Tan Seri Ong Ka Ting hinted that he would be "duty-bound".

SUNGAI PETANI, KEDAH: Semilang residents were amazed at a sand mound found in a palm oil estate that looked like a Guanyin statue.

Under the Literacy and Numeracy (LINUS) programme, all Year One students are required to sit for the LINUS test. Would such an education reform work? Is it necessary to do so?

SAN IGNACIO, March 12 (AFP) - When the massive, barnacle-spotted head of a Pacific gray whale slid alongside Pachico Mayoral's wooden boat, he nervously reached out to touch it.

MAP TA PHUT, March 12 (AFP) - In Thailand's industrial heartland, the workmen who should be constructing dozens of metal and petrochemical products are nowhere to be seen, their tools lying unused.

The MCA fresh polls have once again offered political speculators an opportunity to have back-room deals, divide up the spoils and make benefit transfer. "You make me the president and I keep a few positions for you", such private deals are made as if the 2400 central delegates are all idiots.

Since you are so sweet, I would like to recommend three dishes here, so that other housewives can also try them at home.

Regardless how perfect a race car is, it will be inadequate after 20 years. In order to win the first place, the engine must be replaced. It has been 40 years since the New Economic Policy (NEP) was introduced in 1970. The country needs a new economic engine to walk out from the plight.

PATNA, March 11 (AFP) - Seven-year-old Deepak Kumar, born with four legs and four arms in one of the most impoverished states of India, is still too young to understand why pilgrims come to the house to worship him.