Join our Whatsapp channel THIS is not how it works.... Trying to treat it as such undermines the very roots from which one’s power grows. The government has some cause to celebrate the fact that it has stabilised the economy, to take one example.... In 2008, for instance, the total foreign exchange reserves plummeted by$ 7 billion from peak to trough before an IMF programme was initiated and another round of stabilisation launched....

PUTRAJAYA: The latest attack against him was meant to erode public trust on the anti-graft body

justice, had eroded the independence of the judiciary, ” Justice Minallah said in a 36-page dissenting

The announcement came exactly as you might expect from a former star for the Ohio State Buckeyes: white text on a scarlet background, Rep.... Its message was also one that would be familiar to Buckeye fans, given that it amounted to an unexpected loss. Support our journalism.... 6, announced Thursday evening that he would not seek reelection next year....

Hong Kong’s raucous and politically diverse news media, though free from the constraints placed on journalism next door in mainland China, has contended with various threats over the years.... Hong Kong’s chief of police, Chris Tang, warned earlier this year that the police would investigate news outlets deemed to be endangering national security, citing Apple Daily as an example. Officials have not provided much clarity on what that means.... In comments this week, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chi

The producer-price index also showed input prices for construction of highways and streets was up 20% from a year earlier, with steel mill products and plastic construction products up 113% and 35%, respectively, over a year.... The price of gasoline and diesel fuel are each up more than 50%.... While still rising, construction workers’ hourly wages increased at a slightly slower pace than wages did for private-sector workers overall in the past year, according to Labor Department data....

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan's struggle to gain support among the native Kadazandusun and Murut communities was hit badly when two assemblymen-vice president Datuk Peter Anthony and Juil Nuatim-quit the party. The move by the two effectively takes away the party's presence in the rural Murut-Dusun belt of the interior and shakes Warisan's hold on the semi-urban new Limbahau seat in Papar. Peter, the Melalap assemblyman was party's strongman in Sabah's interior Tenom area while first-time Limbaha

not erode the rights of the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department( Religious Affairs) and

It’s cutting people out of decisions, when we need all hands on deck to deal with crises we face.... He also warned the bill would leave local councils less able to “ deliver affordable homes on small sites, new nature reserves or on renewable energy generation in new housing developments ”.... Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, said public participation in planning was important as it gave people a voice in protecting nature and responding to climate change....

The remarks are the latest in a furious war of words between the two sides which shows no sign of cooling.... In a serious escalation of rhetoric, No10 yesterday accused the EU of undermining the peace process by demanding bureaucratic checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea. Officials lashed out at the way Brussels was enforcing the Protocol, blaming the Commission for heightening political tensions in the province.It comes the day after Ireland's foreign minister, Simon Coveney, accused the UK