Jalaluddin denies no-confidence motion against N Sembilan MB, Zahid gives assurance

Dressed in his trademark white shirt and traditional Sundanese headcloth, West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi stood near the barren slopes of Mount Wayang. Announcing a new initiative to pay hundreds of local farmers to replant its forests and shield the region from flooding, he delivered a line perfectly pitched for the cameras tracking his every step. “I am a leader who does not want obedience caused by poverty,” he declared on September 26. “I want obedience caused by prosperity.” It is this...

'Haze is not an annual festival that we should simply accept as normal.'

The English proficiency of Vietnamese teachers is the biggest challenge to making English a second language in schools, according to the U.S.-based Educational Testing Service (ETS), following a survey of 35,000 teachers across six provinces and cities.

Hanoi inaugurated projects, opened a road section to technical traffic and broke ground on major works on Oct. 9 to mark the 72nd anniversary of Capital Liberation Day (Oct. 10, 1954-2026).

Growing up in a Malay family in Singapore, Hafeez Hassan feared dogs. He never expected to mourn one like a sibling. “Maybe that is what I have been grieving all along … The experience of loving something that I was taught I was not supposed to love,” he said. Even as an adult, walking his former partner’s husky Pieces in public made Hafeez anxious that a relative might see him, or that he might be judged for being close to an animal whose saliva and waste are regarded as ritually impure by many...

The Trump administration has opened an investigation into nine U.S. universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT, over alleged fraud in the J-1 visa program for foreign researchers and scholars.

Numerous hotspots identified across republic.

The path to settling in Australia is no longer as straightforward as it once was, and foreign students with genuine study goals are likely to face fewer challenges compared to those seeking permanent residency through education, experts say.

51-year-old detained for probe under Section 44(1A)(a) of the Road Transport Act 1987 - Sarudin.

Malaysia is facing renewed pressure to clamp down on its companies over their alleged links to forest fires abroad, as recurring haze from Indonesia continues to disrupt schools and daily life despite years of regional efforts to tackle the problem. On Thursday, Malaysia ordered schools to close across several states, including Johor, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and the Rompin district in Pahang, while sporting events scheduled for the weekend were cancelled. The latest...

This is a budget of disciplined continuity, says AmBank Group CEO.

Six more freehold luxury apartments seized in Singapore's S$3 billion (US$2.3 billion) money laundering case will go under the hammer on Oct. 28, after only four of the first 26 properties offered at auction found buyers.