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By Allison Lai, Rahimy Rahim and Raman The Star/Asia News Network Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 CHINA - An 11-year-old girl has saved RM100,000 (S$40,055) in ang pow money given to her since she was small. Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pau reported that Xu Leyi, a Standard Four pupil from...

AFP Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly higher Wednesday, with Sydney hitting a near three-year high, but Tokyo sank on profit-taking and as the yen picked up strength against the euro and dollar. The Japanese currency picked up after a Group of Seven statement...

AFP Monday, Dec 24, 2012 CHINA - China on Saturday showed off the final link of the world's longest high-speed rail route set to begin whisking passengers from Beijing to Guangzhou next week in a third of the time currently required. The much anticipated opening of high-speed passenger...

The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network Monday, Dec 24, 2012 JAKARTA - As the United Nations has adopted a resolution urging member states to ban female genital mutilation, the government has been told it has no choice but to revoke a Health Ministry regulation issued in 2010 that condones female...

By Tan Sin Chow The Star/Asia News Network Monday, Dec 24, 2012 GEORGE TOWN - A 54-year-old father is now sorry that he did not believe the complaints of his daughter that her uncle had made advances towards her. The girl had claimed that the uncle, 56, molested and hugged her on...

The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 A teacher dated a man for three years before things went sour. He then threatened to post her nude photos and videos online if she did not pay him RM50,000 (S$20,000). Ms Tan, 30, knew Mr Lai, 34, through mutual friends. A few months into...

Arrested Chinese nationals are escorted by Sri Lankan police as they are taken to a remand prison. AFP Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 COLOMBO - Police in Sri Lanka arrested at least 114 Chinese nationals over an alleged Internet currency fraud, during a string of raids in and around Colombo...

Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 The Star/Asia News Network MALACCA, Malaysia - A 16-year-old girl has complained about a driving school instructor who apparently demanded for two packets of cigarettes as an “incentive” for him to convince the Road Transport Department to pass her motorcycle test...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 Harian Metro reported that a single mother of three who had been a mistress to a civil servant for nearly 11 years has had enough after realising he was merely using her. The woman, known only as Ros, in her 40s, also admitted to having...

AFP Friday, Dec 21, 2012 NEW DELHI - India's government, facing swelling protests over the gang-rape of a female student on a bus, vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing. Home Secretary R.K. Singh also offered state assistance...

AFP Friday, Dec 21, 2012 PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court warned Friday that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from next month because of a lack of new donor pledges. It said the funding crunch would affect 300 Cambodian employees...

Kiatisak Chua, Kathleen Ann Kili and Edmund Khoo | The Star/ANN | Sat Dec 22 2012 Tan said his family members prepared the tang yuen at home instead of buying it. George Town, December 22, 2012 For the Tans, the focus is on family every Winter Solstice Festival. "The tang yuen...

By Edmund Ngo and Elween Loke The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 IPOH: Perak Speaker Datuk R. Ganesan has rubbished an allegation by two Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen implicating him in a CD with a lewd picture on its cover. Ganesan said he would lodge a police report...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 PETALING JAYA: 'Tis the season for giving, but many charity homes are just not getting enough. Traditionally, Malaysians have been known to be more charitable during the festive seasons but this year, it seems that the giving has trickled...

By Yong Yen Nie The Straits Times Friday, Dec 21, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - In Malaysia, those under 16 years of age cannot drink or drive. But marry? Increasingly, it seems, yes. Those under 16 can apply, along with their parents, to Islamic courts for consent to marry, and some states are...

Reuters Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 LOS ANGELES - The multi-billion-dollar videogame industry came under scrutiny on Wednesday after Hollywood canceled, postponed or played down a slew of movies and TV shows with violent content in the wake of last week's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school...

The Star/Asia News Network Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 MALAYSIA - It is known as the street that never sleeps. And for all the wrong reasons. Because of the proliferation of gambling outlets, businesses along the same street, both legal and illegal, operate non-stop to cater to the demands of...

The Star/Asia News Network Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 GEORGE TOWN - Some video games arcades in Penang are doubling as mini casinos where punters can try their luck on huge gambling slot machines. One, in Bandar Baru Air Itam here, looks just like any other video games arcade as children...

By Regina Lee The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 PETALING JAYA - Mixed martial arts fighter Ray Elbe is used to being kicked and punched for a living but nothing prepared him for one of the most excruciating injuries of his life "fracturing" his penis. The 30-year-old...

The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 MALAYSIA - A 16-year-old girl in Johor Baru is "offering" herself to potential customers through a social networking site, reported China Press. The "bidding" by interested parties has so far soared from RM800(S$318.60) to RM15,000 since...