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                                <title><![CDATA[ RM29 million contract goes to same firm in charge of eHIS during Ampang Hospital crash ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Xenophobic bots turn their attacks on migrant children at school, yet videos remain online ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ RM1 billion suit surrounding KL Tower heads for trial with new concessionaires as defendants ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ It comes more than a year after the high drama outside the iconic structure, when police and enforcement agencies forcibly evicted the former concessionaire. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Questions surround the arrest of pro-Palestine Singaporean lawyer deported by Malaysia ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Lim Tean is the latest target of the PAP regime in its series of actions to silence lawyers and critics. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Monks plead with Anwar to save historic Perak caves monastery threatened by quarrying ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Protected by past governments, century-old Buddhist monastery in Anwar's Tambun constituency faces eviction over quarry works ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The monks of the caves monastery are calling on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to intervene. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ KWAP's RM163 million loss highlights red flags in due diligence, decision-making and 'FOMO' behaviour ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Among other issues, questions linger over the involvement of global financiers with a history of poor investments, as well as over how KWAP understood the issues involving civil servants’ retirement savings. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ As Zionist-friendly Bahrain brings F1, Malaysia reminded to stand firm on no-Israeli policy ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Smaller host countries have been targeted for exercising their immigration rights during global sporting events. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ No arrest, no response: 4 months on, family seeks answers over elite commando left vegetative after camp assault ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Sabahan Abdul Hamid Taib was a healthy 25-year-old elite commando, but now his family faces the heartbreaking task of bringing him home in a permanent vegetative state after an assault that has yet to result in a single arrest. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'Thank you Farhash, for getting us together': Pictures reignite questions on Anwar's ties with ex-aide ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse, the second son of Thailand’s king, thanks Farhash Wafa Salvador for arranging meetings with the prime minister and the human resources minister. ]]></description>
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