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Public uni admission should be needs-based, not race-based: Raub MP

The race-based admission system into Malaysian public universities has to go, and should be replaced with a needs-based approach, said a government backbencher.

Affirmative action needed but not necessarily race-based: PM

Affirmative actions are necessary for the poor and marginalised to get equal opportunity, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today. 

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Let Rukun Negara be our guide – Ravindran Raman Kutty

For those of you, dear Malaysians, who have forgotten our Rukun Negara, I would like to remind everyone of them… these words of gold were the basic tenets of national unity.

Elmina crash: SG experts fail to retrieve memory puck data, M’sia turns to US for help

Singapore authorities have been unable to retrieve data from the memory puck in the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the plane wreckage in Bandar Elmina, Shah Alam last week.

Halal certificate application decisions must be swift, within 30 days: Zahid

Decisions on applications for halal certificates must be made within 30 working days, and there should be no excuse for delays, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.