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THE payment of zakat, the fourth pillar of Islam that each Muslim who can afford it must fulfil, can be seen as a great tool to alleviate poverty. In Malaysia, the commitment among Muslims to pay zakat has been on an upward trend. This is indicated by the increasing figures of collection by the state authorities every year.
SWEIDA (Syria): IT was a day like any other for the team of international volunteers tasked with distributing food for the villagers of Khirbit Awwad.
JORGE Pereyra Diaz (pic) scored his first hat-trick in the Super League to boost Darul Ta'zim's title hopes after they came back from two goals down to beat Terengganu 4-3 in Johor Baru yesterday while Police sealed their return to the top-flight.
SAN Antonio followed up one of the greatest offensive halves in league history with a balanced attack in game four to blow out Miami and take a stranglehold on the NBA finals.
JOHOR BARU: Developers in Johor failed to build 180,000 low- and low-medium cost housing units in the past 10 years.
GEORGE TOWN: KEDAH'S dream of having an international airfield has led to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng saying that any airport for the northern states should be built on the island, and not in Kulim.
KUANTAN: A company director and his wife were sentenced to 10 and six years' jail respectively, and ordered to pay a total fine of RM50 million yesterday on 189 counts of accepting deposits without a licence, and money laundering six years ago.
THE collaborative effort to adapt Malay literature works into television dramas and movies is lauded (“Media Prima, DBP to adapt novels for movies” — NST, June 12).
KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur FA will hold selection trials today and tomorrow to pick a squad for the Under-19 Youth Cup in Gambang after Hari Raya.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating a video clip showing a traffic policeman allegedly smashing the window of a car after he was believed to have been offered a bribe by the driver.
I HOPE the government can make it impossible for construction companies to hire foreign workers. One only needs to look at the living quarters of construction workers to see why locals are not keen to take up jobs in the industry.
ARGENTINA players laughed off criticism of their supposed defensive weakness on Thursday and vowed there would be no repeat of their 2010 World Cup quarter-final thrashing by Germany. Having waltzed through the early rounds of the South Africa World Cup, then manager Diego Maradona's team were humiliated 4-0 by the Germans in a game that exposed what many see as the frailty behind arguably the world's greatest forward line.
SEREMBAN: It is not wrong for politicians to issue support letters to people or businessmen as this was part of their duties. However, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed said the letters should not be in the form of directives.