Local entertainer, Ning Baizura, isn’t wasting much time. She got married earlier in the month and kept her honeymoon short because a new album is about to be launched.

The long-awaited album will be released on Feb 26. The first single from EastToWest is Age Of Pollution, which can currently be heard on the airwaves.

There is an international feel to Ning’s new material. Her album EastToWest, distributed by EQ Music, is the brainchild of Luigi Bajona, (a radio and club DJ, as well as a classical pianist trained at Conservatoire Serge Rachmaninoff in Paris).

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Some 200 students of Sekolah Menengah Sains Dungun probably felt they were in a real live ghost story. They are convinced they saw ghosts flying around the school on Sunday — in the classrooms, the dormitories and the assembly hall.

With many of the girls at the co-educational boarding school in hysteria, classes for the 600 students of the school were cancelled for the rest of the day.

On Monday, the hysteria repeated itself so the school was closed, and remained so as of yesterday. Many of the students who live nearby have been taken home by their parents, but the out-of-state students had no choice but to remain in their dormitories.

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SPM school leavers who applied for the Matriculation Programme under the Education Ministry by filling in a form or through the internet can check their applications from Feb 4 to 14 2008.

This will enable them to make any corrections to their personal information or streams applied for.

Changes can be made by logging on to www.moe.gov.my, going to the link on Pre-University and then checking their application for the 2008/9 session.

Students must enter their identity card numbers or SPM candidate numbers to make any changes.

The Matriculation Department’s help line can be reached at 03-8884 4100. It will be operational from 8.30am to 4pm, between Feb 4 and 14.

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Former Indonesian president Suharto died at the Pertamina Hospital in south Jakarta at 1.10pm local time (2.10pm Malaysian time) after slipping into a coma earlier today. He was 86.

The announcement was made by former Minister of State Secretariat Moerdiono over a local radio station to the nation after a team of doctors treating Suharto since Jan 4 confirmed the death of the former Indonesian strongman.
Suharto helmed Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, for 32 years from 1966 to 1998.

Suharto had been in critical state since admission to the hospital on Jan 4.

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Over 120 days have passed since the brutal murder of little Nurin Jazlin Jazimin but the early alert system for missing children mooted in the aftermath of the tragedy is yet to be implemented.

The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry thinks implementation of the alert system is just a matter of formality; that the system is in place and working.

“Actually, I can see the alert system in place, judging by the nationwide efforts to find Sharlinie.

“The response is faster because everyone has learnt the (cost of) delay (in Nur in’s case). Even though there’s no official endorsement of the NURIN Alert yet, I could see the difference — the police acted faster and the NGOs, the public and the media also quickly offered to help,” says its minister, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.
Ministry parliamentary secretary Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun says the efforts put into the search of 5-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar in the last few weeks had demonstrated how the early alert system would be like.

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