KUALA LUMPUR: Local councils are slow in providing disabled-friendly facilities and infrastructure, says Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

“I am not happy about it at all.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Society of Petroleum Engineers contributed RM10,000 the New Straits Times Press-Media Prima Disaster Fund in aid of the Hidayah Madrasah Al-Taqwa orphanage landslide victims.

KOTA BARU: A 39-year-old father can be happier now that the long wait for his three children to obtain Malaysian citizenship is finally over.

GEORGE TOWN: A mentally-challenged woman who had apparently converted to Islam last month is now regretting her action, claiming that she was tricked into it.

Eow Su Chin, 23, now known as Sofiah Eow Abdullah, is medically-certified to have the mental age of a seven-year-old.

KANGAR: Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim has hit out at husbands who treat their wives as sex objects instead of cultivating a good family life.