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By R.S. Kamini KUALA LUMPUR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is studying the possibility of setting up mobile mammogram clinics. Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said the clinics would serve the rural areas, especially those in Sabah and Sarawak, and would help to increase awareness of breast cancer. She said her ministry had also endorsed 50 clinics in the country run by the National Population and Family Development Board. "These clinics provide a RM50 subsidy for...

By Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal MEET the woman who has captured the heart of the country's first angkasawan. INTAN MAIZURA AHMAD KAMAL finds out how she's coping in the spotlight. The first thing that strikes you upon clapping eyes on the future Mrs Angkasawan, Dr Halina Mohd Yunos, is how tall she looks, especially in her stylish black and white ensemble. Then it's her easy, pretty smile that dissolves into uncomfortable giggles every time she finds herself posed with questions related to...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia is thinking of buying the Russian craft that carried the first Malaysian into space and putting it on exhibit to stimulate scientific interest among the country's youths, an official said Monday.Science Minister Jamaludin Jarjis said Russia's space agency offered to sell the Soyuz TMA-11 craft to Malaysia and that negotiations were under way. There was no mention of any possible price.Malaysia's Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor lifted off on Oct. 10 in the Soyuz...

SEPANG, Malaysia -- Malaysia plans to push the boundaries of space travel, by making a cup of tea.Malaysia will send its first astronaut into the heavens aboard a Russian rocket next year and attempt for the first time to make the nation's favorite hot drink, teh tarik, in space."The physics experiment is to see what happens to teh tarik in space," Haniff Omar, head of Malaysia's astronaut selection program, told reporters in all seriousness on Monday after two Malaysian men were...