KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia( AIM) has channelled a total of RM2. 6bil in funds to entrepreneurs last year, according to Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Deputy Minister Datuk R. Ramanan.He said that the funding was a government initiative aimed at helping entrepreneurs improve their living standards and eradicate poverty." In Malaysia, we have many opportunities for entrepreneurs, and I am very proud of what AIM has done and accomplished, and I hope that the Prime Minister wil

Israel's military said early on Sunday it launched strikes against" militant targets" in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory. Video filmed in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, showed three huge explosions and fighter jets could be heard flying overhead.... There was no immediate confirmation on possible casualties. The Israeli military said the attacks targeted a rocket manufacturing facility and a military post for Hamas.... On Wednesday, Palestinian

More than 80 Pakistanis, including minors, were aboard the unfortunate vessels, which capsized in the Mediterranean. Earlier, 37 officials suspected to involvement in these incidents were dismissed from their service.... According to the FIA, action against officials is being carried out on the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The move against the 13 officials came after FIA DG Ahmed Ishaq Jahangir held departmental proceedings against them.... A spokesman said that eight constab

Is known throughout Israel by the nickname" Bibi." Spent his teenage years in the United States; went to high school in Philadelphia.... Netanyahu organized two international conferences on ways to combat terrorism, one in 1979 and another in 1984.... Timeline 1967-1972-Serves in the Israeli Defense Forces in the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal....

For long years under the yoke of Arabs, Turks and Iranians, the Kurds saw in the demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and now in the dismemberment of the other Arab autocracies an opportunity to join the new Great Middle Eastern Game that was unleashed by the Arab Spring. 1.