Abdul Said News Today

KEPALA BATAS: The number of seven-year-olds going to school for the first time in Penang this year is up nearly 5% from last year.

The intergovernmental Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) executive committee is gathering for an emergency meeting in the Saudi port city of Jeddah to discuss recent developments in Afghanistan and the humanitarian situation there under the Taliban-led government.

An explosion has ripped through the Afghan capital near the entrance to the Foreign Ministry building, according to an official from the Taliban-led government and eyewitness accounts.

An explosion outside the military airport in Kabul on January 1 has caused multiple casualties, a spokesman for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry said.

Residents of northwestern Pakistan are bracing for a bloody year ahead as the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan intensifies its attacks in the region. The TTP ended a months-long cease-fire in November after more than a year of inconclusive peace talks.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Penang state officials are slated to convene a meeting in an effort to save Sekolah Kebangsaan Assumption in Butterworth which is set to be permanently closed on February 28 after some 89 years. Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy said the Penang government would hold a...

A gang member who fired a shotgun in Bolton during a turf war wants his jail sentence reduced as he claims the judge offered as shorter term in…