What if parents or immediate family cannot provide support or continue to be the source of trauma, for example, in cases of child abuse or ill-treatment? In such cases, professional agencies such as Family Service Centres and the Child Protective Service under the Ministry of Social and Family Development will…
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy is estimated to have grown 3.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 from a year earlier, official advance figures showed on Friday (Apr 19), driven by growth in the services sector. The advance estimates released by the Statistics Department compared with annual growth of 3 per cent in the final quarter of 2023, when subdued exports weighed on growth. Malaysia’s chief statistician Mohd Uzir Mahidin said all main sectors experienced…
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SINGAPORE — A teenager turned on his younger sister and raped her when she refused to have sex with him as a condition for playing games on the computer in his room. On Friday (April 19), the teenager, now 18 years old, was given four weeks to engage a lawyer after…
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WASHINGTON: Startled by nighttime pounding on his door, American political strategist Rick Wilson walked out in his underwear to find policemen with guns drawn. They were responding to yet another hoax, increasingly seen as a tool of intimidation in a crucial election year. In recent months, election workers, judges, and politicians…
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LONDON: Bitcoin enthusiasts were eagerly waiting for bitcoin’s ‘halving’ on Friday (Apr 19) – a change to the cryptocurrency’s underlying technology designed to cut the rate at which new bitcoins are created. The halving, which happens roughly every four years, was written into Bitcoin’s code at its inception by pseudonymous…
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If you think nothing of working out before heading to the office, you deserve serious respect for your superhuman dedication to fitness. But for us mere mortals who sometimes need that extra push to hit the gym, blasting our favorite tunes can provide the added motivation we need. When scouting…
