Malaysia among top furniture exporters worldwide

KUALA LUMPUR: Hundreds of pieces of furniture will be on display at the 18th edition of the five-day Malaysian International Furniture Fair, beginning here on March 6. Close to 500 local and foreign furniture manufacturers and exporters are participating in the exposition, organised by MIFF Sdn Bhd. The fair, where […]

Stevens Institute of Technology honours Rosmah

NEW JERSEY: Stevens Institute of Technology, a premier private co-educational university focused on research and entrepreneurship and committed to exploring the frontiers of engineering, science, and management, bestowed its highest award on Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Malaysian prime minister. The university’s president, Dr Nariman Farvardin, presented the […]

Burning of the Book and the Great game

By AIJAZ Z. SYED ARABNEWS Are the Americans really that dumb? I mean after spending 11 years in the world’s most dangerous battlefield and dealing with the fiercely proud and famously hot-blooded Afghans you have to be stark, raving mad to be doing what the Americans were found doing last […]

10-Minute Moves For Strength, Speed and Agility

Be light on your feet Super-fun workout alert: Leap into these moves (based on Equinox’s Blockbuster Body class) designed to make you stronger, faster, and more agile. To get totally toned from this shape-up—co-created by Lisa Wheeler, Equinox’s national creative program manager of group fitness—choose a move for your arms, […]

Monarch Lotus: a flower shaped solar energy collector

The four-meter-wide Lotus not only looks like nature’s symbol of renewal but folds up the same as nature’s version. In his research, Dr. Hui employs biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The new Lotus is capable of generating enough power (2 […]

For minorities, now is the time to report

By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon It is unfortunate that among those most anxiously observing the uprising in Syria (and not only Syria) have been members of the Middle East’s religious and ethnic minorities. Indeed, Syria’s Alawite leadership is perpetrating a butchery partly because it expects its community to […]