Full trial for IGP's suit against Anwar
KUALA LUMPUR The High Court here Friday granted an order for full trial in a defamation suit filed by Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on the black-eye incident in 1998.

Garden State-style reality programs enthrall nation
From the muscle-headed play-yahs of MTV's 'Jersey Shore' to the angry table-flippers of Bravo's 'Real Housewives of New Jersey,' the Garden State is proving fertile territory for reality TV.

Migrants made to feel like 'election scapegoats'
Migrant communities say they are being made to feel like scapegoats by both the major parties in the election debate on population and asylum seekers.

10 ways of doing without FDI
By P. Gunasegaram, TheStar Cut corruption. This insidious, widespread problem is eventually the cause for much bottleneck, inefficiency, higher costs and a downright hindrance to improving productivity at all levels. Its incredible how little we have done to stop this scourge. A STIR of sorts has been caused by the story that foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country for 2009 fell 81% to ...

Genetic changes linked to diet, alcohol could predict breast cancer severity
Washington, July 31 : Epigenetic changes to DNA in breast cancers are directly linked with diet, alcohol, and tumour size, and could hence give a glimpse of the severity of the disease, according to researchers from Brown University and the University of California San Francisco.