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SIBU: Heavy rumble broke the silence and a couple went to their window to view a sight they have never seen before – fireworks exploding around them at 180 degrees. For most Chinese in Sibu, Chinese New Year (CNY) is one of the most anticipated events of the entire year, but for a Canadian couple [...]

JOE LEONG
DON’T raise your hopes too high for the Lunar Year of the Tiger that starts on Sunday, Feb. 14. It has been pointed out that in the past few decades the Tiger Year had coincided with economic slowdowns and some in the Chinese community hold the belief that it could spell natural disasters as [...]

JOE LEONG
THE Chinese community on Borneo island join millions elsewhere round the globe to get ready to usher in the Lunar New Year that begins on Sunday, Feb. 14. Each Chinese year is named after one creature in a cycle of 12 and the one just ahead is the Year of the Tiger.

IN a landmark ruling on Dec. 31, 2009, the Kuala Lumpur High Court lifted the Malaysian Home Minister’s ban against the Catholic Church publishing the word “Allah” to refer to God in its weekly paper, the Herald.

THE night before my arrival in Kuching, Sarawak, (Dec. 22, 2009) to celebrate Christmas there, six shop houses at Gambier Street were destroyed by fire that started at around 8.47pm.
Six fire engines and 48 firemen fought the fire and brought it under control by 11.30pm, preventing it from spreading to other buildings, part of 47 [...]

Economic Outlook for 2010
AS people around the globe get ready for countdown to usher in the New Year, many economists predict tough times ahead in 2010.
Carl Weinberg, the chief economist of High Frequency Economics, is reported to have said in Washington in the final days of 2009 that he has “grave doubts” about the capacity [...]

Happy Christmas!
THE light that shines on the true meaning of Christmas is slowly but surely growing dimmer and dimmer. It seems to fade away, heavily clouded by the frills of commercialism and the “thrills” of parties.
Sadly, this is the case not only in Malaysia where Christians are in the minority, but appears to be a [...]

Pope2You, launched by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications in May, is now inviting websurfers to send online Christmas greetings to Pope Benedict.
People can also choose to include a photograph in their email which the site states will be gathered for the Pope and shared with the site’s users.

It happens only once a year,
We celebrate His birth,
But sometimes we lose sight,
In our gaiety and mirth,
Of just who Christmas day is for.