KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur Mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail was among the seven recipients of the Seri Mahkota Wilayah (SMW) which carries the title "Datuk Seri" at Istana Negara in conjunction with the Federal Territory Day 2010 yesterday.

Malaysia’s third-biggest builder might delay launch of its RM8 billion Yenso Park project in Hanoi, Vietnam due to the country's Dong devaluation, a top research house said.

Vietnam, struggling to control steep inflation and widening trade deficit, is poised to keep weakening the dong, after devaluing the local currency for the first time since December last year.

Recently, the State Bank of Vietnam lowered the reference rate by 5.4 per cent against the US dollar and raised the policy rate to eight per cent from seven per cent.

They are Wee Choo Keong and Zulkifli Nordin from Parti Keadilan Rakyat, and Chong Chieng Jen from DAP. Wee is Wangsa Maju MP, Zulkifli the Kulim-Bandar Baharu MP and Chong is Bandar Kuching MP.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan by the Pakatan Rakyat government in Selangor to send mosque officials after Muslims who drink alcohol in public has raised serious concern over the extent of powers to be vested in these officials and its far reaching implications.

AFTER a three day-shutdown, ailing television station, Bernama TV, appears to have been given a new lease of life, after the intervention of the government.

It is understood that the head honchos of the television station, which is 33 per cent owned by the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), had a meeting with Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim on Monday. He directed the television station to resume operations despite its current troubles.