The Borneo Post - 2018-01-03

• All-out war against rabies
• Major shift in state’s top civil service
• Rela members not qualified for postal voting — EC
• January shopping list for Europe’s top football clubs
• Flooding forces three schools to close in S’wak
• Girl among vagrants found at makeshift shack
• S. Korea offers talks with defiant North
• Gillian Anderson confirms new ‘X-Files’ season’s her last
• Competitiv­e local natural gas prices by 2019
• ‘Proposal for Dr M as temporary PM may lead to power struggle’
• Govt hospitals across S’wak record delivery of 44 New Year babies
• Miri is indeed a hidden gem — Abang Johari
• STU highlights difficulty in implementi­ng ‘two teachers in class’ proposal
• Plans underway to make Miri, Mulu key stop-overs for Royal Brunei Airlines
• CM: State govt to implement all policies made last year
• ‘100 per cent access to early childhood education by 2020’
• Former DO gets longer jail term for outraging staff’s modesty
• Developmen­t Bank of Sarawak’s office still under renovation
• 11 dilapidate­d Kemas preschools in Sarawak to undergo rebuilding works
• Contractor to ‘face the music’ if found guilty — Datuk Bandar
• Remove Sibu from RAS category, says Tiong
• Wong supports Tiong’s call for more flights to Sibu
• Man lands in jail for criminal intimidati­on
• DBKU studies feasibilit­y of setting up ‘Orange Zones’
• Folk urged to return to Telang Usan to make Christmas merrier
• Chou: Power-sharing most effective solution for SUPP, UPP
• MAHB: Strict security protocols based on rules
• Soldiers advised to be alert at all times
• Kampung Semadang residents lament nonaction over leaking undergroun­d pipe
• 56 Yayasan sponsored students in exchange programme
• Usher in Chinese New Year with Kjeldsens cookies
• Seafarers advised to join PPS and KPSB
• 7-Eleven steps up its CSR initiative
• Sports Toto to launch Chinese New Year donation campaign
• Parishione­rs, guests bid farewell to Rev Fr Joseph Chai
• Polio patient and family receive aid from caring individual­s
• Closures due to floods: Check with schools first
• Three policemen, civilian allegedly involved in robbery case freed on police bail
• Floods: Nine schools closed in Kelantan, S’wak, Terengganu
• Five anglers stranded at Lubuk Keliu found safe
• Putrajaya schools abolish class streaming system
• ‘Inaugural AGM not held according to constituti­on’
• Back to old prices for ferry tickets after protests
• Pikachu, Upin and Ipin animated characters enliven first day of school
• Call for DAP to hold CEC re-elections again
• Winds seen as factor in plane crash that killed 12
• Dense fog continues to affect flights, train services in New Delhi Colombian police arrest woman smuggling 320gm of coke
• Nearly 200 hurt in Philippine New Year revelry despite fireworks order
• Some 386,000 babies born worldwide on New Year’s Day
• England ponder taking a spin with Crane in Sydney
• ‘We’re not weak’: Thai trans boxer to blaze trail in France
• Tough choice to decide African Footballer of the Year
• Hulk determined to deliver SIPG’s first title in 2018
• Cross stuns Taylor in world final
• Kim says N. Korea could participat­e in South’s Winter Olympics
• Muguruza injury jinx continues with Brisbane retirement
• Svitolina eyes Grand Slam success
• DeRozan delivers career-best performanc­e with 52 points
• Design flaws leave Arsenal, Chelsea with uncertain futures
• Lingard beauty gives United New Year cheer
• Klopp quashes renewed talk of Coutinho sale
• Leicester’s Mahrez finds form in time for January sales
• Volvo flotilla set sail for Hong Kong
• Manchester United lift Mourinho, Liverpool leave it late
• Nine dead, hundreds arrested as fresh protests hit Iran
• Singapore detains fugitive Vietnamese intelligen­ce officer
• Australian investigat­ors to raise seaplane which crashed into Sydney river, killing 6
• Indian state leaves 13 million citizens off register
• India court orders rape victim’s baby exhumed for test
• Bangladesh prosecutor­s seek death for opposition leader’s son
• Two dead, thousands flee storm-weary central Philippine­s
• Japan’s emperor greets New Year well-wishers before he abdicates
• Anti-Beijing protesters march in HK
• Indian police arrest two over deadly restaurant fire
• Pakistan summons US ambassador over Trump tweet
• Israel finds 2,700-year-old ‘governor of Jerusalem’ seal
• New Israel law tightens hold on occupied Jerusalem sectors
• Israel charges Palestinia­n teen in viral ‘slap video’
• Israel targets Hamas sites after Gaza rocket attack
• North American revellers welcome 2018
• German parties at odds ahead of coalition talks
• Bulgaria takes over revolving European Union presidency
• Czechs, Slovaks mark 25 years since split of Czechoslov­akia
• All vehicles destroyed in Liverpool car park blaze
• Four killed in London New Year knife violence
• ‘Jedi’ holds off ‘Jumanji’ on NY’s weekend
• New Russian film celebrates a Soviet Olympic miracle over the US
• Jackie Chan goes sci-fi in ‘Bleeding Steel’
• China box office recovers with 13 pct growth
• Guide to 2018 movies - minus the superheroe­s, sequels,
• Everything to know about the controvers­ial new ‘Bachelor’ star, Arie Luyendyk Jr.
• Top Hollywood women launch anti-harassment initiative
• Former Miss America Carlson named new chairperso­n after scandal
• Mixed outlook from additional tax claim for MMC Corp
• Year ahead may not be smooth sailing for certain sectors
• Business output to remain positive in next 12 months — Index
• Perodua aims to increase share to TIV by three to four pct
• Better loan growth in 2018 — Analysts
• Keppel O&M sanctioned 17 current, former employees over Brazil bribery case
• Mitsubishi says on track to deliver long-delayed jets by 2020
• 2018 will see the continuati­on of bull market, says Pacific Mutual
• Positive on AirAsia’s completed listing of Indonesian airline
• PLUS Expressway­s forked out RM1 bln in 2016 to maintain highways
• T7 Global bags RM260 mln contracts
• RAM reaffirms Gulf Investment Corporatio­n’s AAA/Stable ratings
• Rhone Ma to distribute Ceva’s Animal Health products
• Profit taking drags share prices lower on first trading day of 2018
• Malaysia’s headline inflation to moderate to 2.7 pct in 2018
• Prasarana announces new CEO for Rapid Rail
• What a weak dollar means in 2018 and US shopping
• As world eats more meat, US soy losing battle to feed animals
• Dads, stop the ‘we-don’t-babysit’ thing
• ‘Make reforms while sun shines on world economy’
• Oman projects a budget deficit in 2018 on low oil price
• Saudi, UAE introduce VAT in first for Gulf
• As US budget fight looms, Republican­s flip their fiscal script
• Spain says Catalan crisis cost ‘one billion euros’
• Crisis of expectatio­ns: Iran protests mean economic dilemma for government
• Shares across Asia scale decade top on China optimism
• Jakarta launches first airport train to tackle gridlock
• China’s WeChat denies storing user chats
• Singapore bar offers bitcoin New Year party package
• China factory activity accelerate­d in December — Caixin
• Turning e-waste into art at Ghana’s dump

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