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Malaysia PM Najib Malaysian PM Najib Tun Razak, whose National Front (BN) coalition has been in power for 56 years, dissolved the Malaysian Parliament yesterday (3 Apr) to make way for a general election. He announced, "The king has accepted my request to dissolve Parliament effective April 3." He added that he hopes his BN... 

The Health Ministry has said the H7N9 bird flu cases in China are isolated and there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission so far. But MOH said it is monitoring the situation. Experts said that influenza viruses are usually species-specific. Associate Professor Leo Yee Sin, clinical head of the Communicable Diseases... 

A reader, Patrick, sent a letter to TRE earlier on, wondering how 2 PRCs were allowed to run a hawker stall at Toa Payoh Lorong 8 hawker centre and market as NEA's rules only allowed Singaporeans and PRs to tender for hawker stalls ('Foreigners owning hawker stalls?'). In particular, Patrick quoted ST’s Sunday Life (24 March)...