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PETALING JAYA: The Prisons Department announces that families can visit inmates on the third and fourth day of Hari Raya.
JOHOR BARU (The Straits Times/ANN): Two Singaporean cabinet ministers attended the Johor royal family's Hari Raya Open House on March 31, continuing an annual tradition that reaffirms Singapore's strong ties with Johor.
Virtual relationship on social media turns real-life as Mississippi family flies in to cement bond with online Chinese pals
Japan's ancient imperial family will launch a YouTube account next week, the government said on March 28, in the latest attempt at public outreach by the tradition-bound monarchy.
OBSERVANTS of Qing Ming (Tomb-Sweeping festival) are making an effort to beat the crowd, Sin Chew Daily reported.
PUTRAJAYA: The National Anti-Drug Agency will hold special visit sessions next month for families and guardians of clients undergoing Institutional Treatment and Rehabilitation programmes at all Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Centres nationwide in conjunction with Aidilfitri.
PETALING JAYA: Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari visited the family of a student involved in an accident in Jordan.
KUALA LUMPUR: Her Majesty Raja Zarith Sofiah, Queen of Malaysia, visited flood victims housed at two temporary relief centres in Johor.
JOHOR BARU: The Regent of Johor, Tunku Mahkota Ismail or TMJ, visited and provided aid to several families affected by the floods in Taman Tampoi Indah here on Sunday.
BANGKOK: A Uyghur deportee told visiting Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai that he appreciated the cooperation between the Thai and Chinese governments in helping him reunite with his family in Xinjiang.
KUALA LUMPUR: This Ramadan brought joy and relief to six selected asnaf (hardcore poor) families at the Kerinchi People's Housing Project in Bangsar, as they not only received contributions for Aidilfitri preparations but also assistance in the form of monthly house rental support.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has extended by a year a visa scheme for Turkish nationals wishing to visit 12 islands in the Aegean Sea for up to a week, diplomatic sources said, continuing a programme that represented a slight thaw in often fractious ties between the neighbours.
Three children and a man died, after the electric vehicle they were travelling in crashed into a traffic barrier and burst into flames in Taoyuan in north-western Taiwan on Jan 25.
KOTA KINABALU: A mother held the hands of her two children, ages 5 and 6, before they were seen falling into the sea in Sandakan in the wee hours of Sunday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The report on the fatal incident involving a visually impaired man who was run over by a train after falling onto the Titiwangsa Light Rail Transit (LRT) tracks on Feb 22 has been submitted to the Transport Ministry and the Land Public Transport Agency (Apad).
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, has decreed that the Aidilfitri celebration should serve as a platform to foster stronger ties and unity among the diverse races in the country.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Monday (March 31, 2025)
Thailand may be fully in the spotlight but neighboring destination Vietbnam that's one-upping it in terms of growth.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Over the course of Ramadan and on occasions throughout the year, Muslims visiting the graves of departed family members bring along air asah-asahan, a brown-coloured water mixed with fresh flowers to pour over the graves after reciting tahlil and prayers.
SOME 21 patients of Hospital Slim River were surprised with a home visit by hospital director Dr S. Sivanandarajah.
