MELAKA: A single mother didn’t hesitate to break her fast at a Taoist temple in Tanjung Minyak on

MELAKA: A 179-metre-long dragon lantern at the iconic Jonker Walk ushers the Lunar New Year celebration and gets the locals into the festive mood. Jonker Walk management committee chairman Datuk Wira Gan Tian Loo said the dragon, touted as the longest in the country, would ring in the Year of the Dragon for the state." We have now a pair of dragons at Jonker Walk radiating auspicious vibes in conjunction with the Chinese New Year festive season," he said on Saturday( Jan 27). Gan said 150 volunt

SINGAPORE – Former Supreme Court senior judge Chao Hick Tin has been appointed chairman of the Presidential Council for Religious Harmony.... Mr Chao was chairman of the council from 2019 to 2023, taking over from former Public Service Commission chairman Eddie Teo. The Presidential Council for Religious Harmony was set up in August 1992 under the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.... Members of Presidential Council for Religious Harmony appointed for 3-year term Sign up Already have an acc

SINGAPORE-In a fast-changing world, whither the future of heritage businesses?... Even pre-pandemic, these usually family-run operations were already finding the going tough, with their labour-intensive products underappreciated by the mass market. But the pandemic sounded a further death knell.... His father is nearing 70, his grandmother almost 90. The problem: He is still apprenticing in the craft, spending one day a week learning how to draw the eyes on the sometimes palm-sized effigies...

LONDON( Kyodo)--An exhibition showing 103 publicly unseen sketches by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai will open at London's British Museum on Thursday.... According to the museum, the volume was never published and the so-called" block-ready" drawings, or" hanashita-e," were preserved in their original form.... At an advance viewing of the exhibit, curator Alfred Haft explained the chance discovery and expert investigation that brought the sketches to public view some 200 years afte

SINGAPORE-They hailedfrom 10 different faiths, but the 10 religious leaders from the Inter-Religious Organisation( IRO) were united in silent prayer for the 13-year-old River Valley High School student who was killed on Monday( July 19). Imam Syed Hassan Mohamed Al-Attas, who organised the prayer session on Friday( July 23) under the auspices of the IRO, said he was spurred to do so in the aftermath of the alleged murder and the new Covid-19 wave. The IRO council member told The Straits Times th

PETALING JAYA: Exasperated with having to clear tonnes of waste every year, leading Chinese associations in the country have implored those observing Qing Ming to go easy on the burning of joss paper and food offerings. The management of Kwong Tong Cemetery, the largest and oldest one in Kuala Lumpur, had to hire several five-tonne lorries to clear some 150 tonnes of “ tomb-sweeping garbage ” every Qing Ming for the past several years. Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia( Huazong) presid

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan( AP)--Officials in Taiwan were pursuing leads Friday into the cause of a fire in a run-down mixed commercial and residential building in the port city of Kaohsiung in which 46 people were killed and another 41 injured.... Local media say police were questioning a female resident of the building who allegedly discarded a burning incense coil in a trash can inside the apartment where she had also stored small gas canisters.... A man who carelessly discarded a cigarette outside

One way to summarize the role of Lee Kuan Yew in world’s history and the world economy is to state the obvious: he showed that almost everything is possible in the realm of economic transformation and modernization. Last summer I travelled to Singapore on business and had the pleasure to once again

" We need to counter this worrying trend by facilitating conversations responsibly through messages of peace, love and harmony," Mr Abbas added. The initiative comes after two youths were recently detained under the Internal Security Act( ISA) for separate plans to attack Muslims and Jews.... The self-radicalised youths had consumed violent materials online. The first was a 16-year-old Christian Singaporean student who plotted to attack Muslims at two mosques here on the second anniversary of t