PETALING JAYA (The Star/ANN) -- Even the fittest of athletes can succumb to Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), a mountaineer here said. Malaysian Mountain Goal adventure consultant Phang Tong Wah, 45, said AMS was the most difficult aspect a trekker had t...

KUALA LUMPUR (The Star/ANN) -- Incidents of violence are increasing in tandem with the rising political temperature in Malaysia, with an assault with a steel rod, torching of a party base and threatening of party workers with a parang (type of knife) ...

SEMPORNA (The Star/ANN) -- Like many other eastern Sabah towns in Malaysia gripped by the fear of attacks from armed intruders for the past three weeks, life is limping back to normalcy in this springboard town to the diving havens of Sipadan and Mabu...

LAHAD DATU (The Star/ANN) -- A claimant to the North Borneo Sulu Sultanate is disputing the claim of a Sulu armed group that Sabah was their ancestral homeland. "My family is the rightful owner of the throne," said the 45-year-old Lahad Datu businessm...

KUALA LUMPUR (The Star/ANN) -- RHB Research Institute says Malaysian company Felda Global Ventures (FGV) is close to securing some acquisitions, likely to be upstream plantation land in Indonesia. "We believe FGV would prefer to buy a combination of g...