KFC Malaysia posted on its Instagram a photo of a bucketful of fried chicken against a backdrop of blazing flames. The photo’s headline reads: “Not Rendang”.

In its captioned photo, KFC said: “The only thing that should be crispy is our fried chicken”.

iThe fast-food chain also congratulated Malaysian MasterChef UK contestant Zaleha Kadir Olpin despite being booted out of the programme.

Instagram user izzs said if a person wanted crispy chicken then it is best to remember KFC.

Sofysodikin7 said KFC’s fried chicken is the “crispy-est!”

“#wedontwantcrispyrendang #onlycrispyKFC,” she said.

On Monday (April 2), in a MasterChef UK episode, Zaleha had prepared a traditional rendition of nasi lemak with chicken rendang.

However, judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode had criticised the rendang that came with Zaleha’s nasi lemak. The criticism caused Zaleha to be eliminated from the programme.

Wallace had criticised the chicken skin for not being crispy enough, saying that he couldn’t eat the chicken because of this. “The chicken skin isn’t crispy. It can’t be eaten and all the sauce is on the skin, I can’t eat,” Wallace said.

Torode said that the chicken rendang had not enough time to cook down and become “lovely and soft and falling apart”.

Earlier, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad had also responded to one of the chefs on Twitter, “Maybe you are confusing rendang chicken with KFC,” in reference to the fried chicken chain.

Rae included the recommendation and others in his final report released today.

Canada needs to step up its spending on the mass migration crisis and should play a leading role in the investigation by the International Criminal Court of possible war crimes, read the report.

He also suggests the federal government could target some of Myanmar’s military leaders under its new Magnitsky Act that seeks to isolate human rights abusers.

But Rae stops short of recommending further sanctions because, saying those would only hurt the 50 million people of an already impoverished country.

According to the Canadian Press, the 39-page report is noticeably silent on another major issue: how to address Nobel laureate and honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto political leader who has been widely criticized for not speaking out against the atrocities being committed against the Rohingya.

Rae made two trips to Myanmar in recent months and describes seeing what he essentially characterizes as a slow march towards genocide.

Rae made two trips to Myanmar in recent months and describes seeing what he essentially characterizes as a slow march towards genocide.

A doyenne of Washington society in the 1960s, she charmed politicians and diplomats while running her late husband’s cargo airline, becoming embroiled in the Richard Nixon election scandal known as the Anna Chennault Affair, and funneling large sums of Nationalist Chinese money to Republicans.

Chennault, also known by her Chinese name Chen Xiangmei, died in Washington on Friday three months after she suffered a stroke, her daughter Cynthia Chennault told The Washington Post.

Born in Beijing on June 23, 1923, Chennault was raised in a well-off family of diplomats and editors who fled mainland China as Japanese invaders approached in 1937.

She studied journalism at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University and became a reporter for the Xinhua News Agency.

Covering the rise of Mao Zedong’s communists after the war, she met and married lieutenant general Claire Chennault, whose swashbuckling Flying Tigers operated out of Burma in the early 1940s in support of Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek against the Japanese.

As the communists took power in 1949, the couple started up two Taipei-based airlines, Civil Air Transport and the Flying Tiger Line, which helped relocate Chiang’s nationalists to Taiwan.

Both continued to operate for years, Flying Tiger as a pioneering global cargo carrier and Civil Air Transport becoming a CIA front.

When Claire Chennault died in 1957, Anna moved to Washington, where she learned the ropes of lobbying, and became a powerbroker in her own right, representing especially Taiwan’s Nationalist government.

She entertained out of an opulent apartment in the Watergate complex, raised money for Chinese refugee charities and maintained the mysterious aura of a svelte “Dragon Lady.”

Election scandal

Adamantly opposed to the Beijing regime, she became a public advocate for Asia’s anti-Communist autocrats, strongly backing the Vietnam War.

That put her at the center of an election scandal. In the 1968 presidential election, Chennault was vice chair of the Republican National Finance Committee, raising huge sums for Nixon.

During the campaign, Nixon used Chennault to set up a back channel to the South Vietnamese government, scheming to block any efforts by then-president Lyndon Johnson to enter peace talks with North Vietnam.

Republican Nixon wanted to make sure that Johnson’s launch of peace talks would not propel his Democratic election rival, vice president Hubert Humphrey, into office.

The gambit worked, but Johnson was infuriated when FBI wiretaps exposed Chennault’s backdealing, and she was castigated in the press.

Chennault later expressed disappointment that she was not named by Nixon to an official position, but she continued to wield influence — and money — across Washington for years.

But after Nixon undertook his historical opening to China, Chennault herself joined in, helping the Reagan administration in the 1980s as a “shuttle diplomat” with the government of Deng Xiaoping.

“The smart thing about the Chinese is they’re so patient,” Chennault said in 1981, according to the Post.

Amid a chaotic scene in the city of San Bruno, a woman believed to be the shooter was found dead at the scene of the Google-owned video sharing service.

“We have one subject who is deceased inside the building with a self-inflicted wound,” San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told reporters. “At this time, we believe it to be the shooter.”

Barberini mentioned “four victims” but it was not immediately clear if that included the shooter.

There was no immediate word on any motive.

Shootings by women are an extremely rare occurrence in the United States where the overwhelming majority of gun violence is carried out by men.

According to an FBI study that looked at 160 incidents involving one or more shooters in public places between 2000 and 2013 — just six of the people who opened fire were women, a share of 3.8 percent.

Amid conflicting reports on casualties, Barberini said the injured “have been transported and are being treated for injuries that are treatable.”

He said police had sealed off the building as they pursued the investigation and searched for any additional possible victims.

Frantic escape

Employees recounted frantic scenes as they fled YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco, with one saying he saw blood on the floor as he escaped.

“We were sitting in a meeting and then we heard people running because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake,” employee Todd Sherman tweeted.

Sherman said that as he headed for an exit “someone said that there was a person with a gun,” and added “at that point every new person I saw was a potential shooter.”

Sherman’s tweets continued: “I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peeked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front.”

One image posted by a Twitter user showed employees being led out of the building with their hands up, with no further explanation.

Another YouTube employee, Vadim Lavrusik, tweeted: “Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.”

Later, Lavrusik said he had escaped to safety.

Witnesses reported helicopters on the scene as well as police SWAT teams.

The White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed and that his administration was monitoring the ongoing situation in San Bruno.

Shortly afterward, Trump tweeted, “Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.”

YouTube headquarters is located some 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the main Google campus in Mountain View.

The shooting, which follows a series of deadly gun incidents at schools and elsewhere, comes amid heated debate on gun control measures in the United States.

An estimated 1.5 million people participated in demonstrations March 24 calling for stricter firearms measures following a deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Organizers of the March for Our Lives sent a message of solidarity to the employees hit by Tuesday’s shooting, tweeting “Our hearts are with you, @YouTube.”

A boat carrying the Rohingya refugees, who were trying to reach Malaysia, had stopped briefly at Koh Lanta in Krabi province on Sunday as fears grew about overcrowded camps in Bangladesh for the stateless minority fleeing violence in Myanmar.

“I suggest not to sensationalise the issue.

“We took care of them on a humanitarian basis and coordinated with the country of origin, transit and destination,” Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha told reporters yesterday.

The group was detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency upon their arrival in Malaysia.

Maritime Northern Region director First Admiral Rozali Mohd Said said the boat was found at 9.10am yesterday about 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 kilometres) off Pulau Nyior Setali by Maritime and Navy vessels patrolling the waters.

“We found 19 male adults, 17 female adults, 12 girls and eight boys on the boat.

“Maritime has provided initial aid, such as food, drinks and medicine as required,” he said in a statement.

Handed over to immigration

Rozali added that the boat |has been escorted to the Kuala Kedah jetty and the people were handed over to the Kedah Immigration Department for further processing.

“We are serious about handling breaches in Malaysian waters, but on a humanitarian basis, the refugees were given good treatment,” he said.

This is the first group of Rohingya refugees to attempt a sea journey to Southeast Asia since the violence in Rakhine state last August that forced some 700,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

However, it was unclear where the group had sailed from as the Bangladeshi authority said earlier that the group were not from the refugee camps.

Thai authorities, who launched a major crackdown on human trafficking in 2015, said human |traffickers do not appear to be involved.

A Rohingya source said the |group would not be the last and a |few hundreds of others are also preparing to attempt the dangerous journey to Thailand due to |difficulties in the refugee camps and the continued violence in Rakhine state.

The century-old bungalow, which Lee Kuan Yew used to live in, has sparked a bitter feud between his children — including current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong — since the patriarch’s death in 2015.

The senior Lee, widely credited with transforming Singapore into one of Asia’s wealthiest countries, had stated in his will that he wanted the house torn down to avoid the emergence of a personality cult.

But in a row that gripped the city-state last year, Lee Hsien Loong’s siblings said their brother is attempting to block the house’s demolition to capitalise on their father’s legacy for his own political agenda.

A ministerial committee set up to decide on the future of the house released a report Monday, in which it laid out three options and said the fate of the property should be decided by a future government.

The options were: preserving the house as a national monument, demolition for redevelopment, or tearing it down but preserving the most historic portion.

But the siblings of current prime minister Lee said the alternatives to demolition proposed by the committee go against their father’s wishes.

“(Lee Kuan Yew) made absolutely clear what he wanted done with the house. He and Mama had long decided they wanted it demolished after they were gone,” the prime minister’s sister Lee Wei Ling wrote on Facebook.

The premier’s brother Lee Hsien Yang said in a separate post that Lee Kuan Yew “wanted demolition unwaveringly.”

He added that “the committee’s statement does not accurately represent Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes.”

The prime minister, who had recused himself from government decisions about the house, said in a Facebook post Monday that he accepted the committee’s decision.

He denied all allegations by siblings in a public broadcast at the height of the feud last year, while parliament held a special two-day debate on the controversy.//AFP

The High Commissioner Vicki Treadell had weighed in on the dish after Malaysians on social media criticised the judges of MasterChef UK, questioning whether they were qualified to be criticising Asian foods.

“It can be chicken, lamb or beef. It is never crispy and should also not be confused with fried chicken, sometimes served with nasi lemak,” Treadell said on Twitter on Tuesday (April 3).

Treadell also said “rendang” was an iconic Malaysian national dish and should not to be confused with the Indonesian variant.

She also tagged the MasterChef UK twitter account and the two judges who had commented on the dish, Gregg Wallace and John Torode.

Treadell has Malaysian roots, having been born in Ipoh, Perak.

On Monday (April 2), MasterChef UK contestant Zaleha Kadir Olpin’s had prepared a traditional rendition of nasi lemak with chicken rendang during the MasterChef UK competition, but was eliminated from the quarter-finals of the programme.

Both Wallace and Torode had criticised the rendang that came with Zaleha’s nasi lemak.

Wallace criticised the chicken skin for not being crispy enough, saying that he couldn’t eat the chicken because of this. “The chicken skin isn’t crispy. It can’t be eaten and all the sauce is on the skin, I can’t eat,” Wallace said.

Torode said that the chicken rendang had not enough time to cook down and become “lovely and soft and falling apart”.

    The vessel carrying 56 people was intercepted by Malaysian maritime authorities near the northwestern island of Langkawi, said navy chief Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin.

Its arrival came as fears grow about conditions in overcrowded camps for the minority fleeing violence in Myanmar. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have sought shelter in southern Bangladesh since Myanmar launched a brutal crackdown last August.

“All 56 passengers, mostly children and women, are safe but tired and hungry,” said the navy chief.

“The boat and its passengers will be handed over… to the immigration authorities.”

The navy and coastguard had stepped up patrols in the area after the boat briefly stopped on an island off Thailand’s western coast Sunday, and the passengers said they were en route to Malaysia.

Rohingya migrants trying to travel south by boat have been rare since Thai authorities clamped down on regional trafficking networks in 2015, leaving thousands of migrants abandoned in open waters or jungle camps.

Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh have arrived to find cramped settlements and often squalid conditions in the Cox’s Bazar district. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled previous waves of persecution are already living in the district.

An agreement to repatriate Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Rakhine state has yet to see a single refugee returned.

Many of the Rohingya ensnared in the 2015 boat crisis ended up in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia because Thailand stuck to a policy of not accepting the vessels.

There are nearly 70,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers living in Malaysia, according to the most recent statistics from the UN refugee agency.//AFP

    The firebrand activist died in a Johannesburg hospital, her family said, adding that she had “fought valiantly against the Apartheid state” and that she was known “far and wide as the Mother of the Nation”.

Winnie Mandela, who was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, played a high-profile role in the struggle to end white-minority rule, but her place in history was stained by controversy and accusations of violence.

Leading the tributes, Nobel laureate archbishop Desmond Tutu described her as “a defining symbol” of the battle against oppression.

“She refused to be bowed by the imprisonment of her husband, the perpetual harassment of her family by security forces, detentions, bannings and banishment,” Tutu said.

“Her courageous defiance was deeply inspirational to me, and to generations of activists.”

The statement from her family said that she passed away at the Netcare Milpark hospital in Johannesburg.

“She died after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year. She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones,” it added.

In the ruling African National Congress (ANC), head of policy Jeff Radebe described her as “an icon of the revolutionary struggle”.

Newly-appointed President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Tuesday evening that a “national official funeral” would be held on April 14, preceded by a public memorial service on April 11.

 – Lives apart –

Most of Winnie’s marriage to Nelson was spent apart, with Nelson imprisoned for 27 years, leaving her to raise their two daughters alone and to keep alive his political dream under the repressive white-minority regime.

But her reputation came under damaging scrutiny in the twilight years of apartheid rule.

In 1986, she was widely linked to “necklacing”, when suspected traitors were burnt alive by a petrol-soaked car tyre being put over their head and set alight.

In 1990 the world watched when Nelson Mandela finally walked out of prison — hand in hand with Winnie.

The following year, she was convicted of kidnapping and assault over the killing of Stompie Moeketsi, a 14-year-old boy.

In 1992, the Mandelas separated, and then divorced in 1996, after a legal wrangle that revealed she had an affair with a young bodyguard.

During her old age, she re-emerged as a respected elder who was feted as a living reminder of the late Mandela — and of the long and much-storied struggle against apartheid.

Just last month, she was shown in television footage joking with Ramaphosa, who paid a courtesy call to her home in Soweto, the township where she lived for decades.

Dressed in full ANC colours of yellow, black and green, she asked Ramaphosa, who is known for his morning runs, “Why don’t you get tired?”

“We can’t get tired when you have given us work to do'” he told her.

– ‘Voice of defiance’ –

After her death was announced, Ramaphosa described her as “a voice of defiance and resistance” who “was an abiding symbol of the desire of our people to be free”.

“For many years, she bore the brunt of senseless brutality of the apartheid state with stoicism,” he said.

“Despite the hardship she faced, she never doubted that the struggle for freedom and democracy would triumph and succeed.”

Winnie Mandela often criticised the ANC, but she had expressed support for the current leadership of the party, which her husband led to power in the euphoric post-apartheid elections of 1994.

On Monday evening, Ramaphosa returned to her Soweto house as mourners gathered outside, singing struggle-era songs in tribute and praise.

“In African culture, we sing when we’re hurt,” ANC Women’s League official Winnie Ngwenya, 64, told AFP.

African Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat also paid tribute to Winnie Mandela, saying “the continent and beyond” were in grief at her passing.

She “will forever be remembered as a global icon, a fearless campaigner who sacrificed much of her life for freedom in South Africa and for women everywhere,” he said on Twitter.

The SABC state broadcaster said she had attended church in Soweto on Easter Friday before being admitted to hospital complaining of flu. She had also suffered from diabetes for some years.

Suggestions that Winnie remained extremely close to Nelson Mandela in his final years were fuelled in a recent book by his doctor.

Vejay Ramlakan wrote that Winnie — not Mandela’s widow Graca Machel — was with Mandela when he died in 2013. The book was withdrawn by its publishers under pressure from Mandela’s family.//AFP

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven out of Rakhine state and are living in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh since a Myanmar army operation in August.

After the council proposed a visit in February, Myanmar’s government said it was “not the right time,” but it has now given the green light.

Peruvian Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, who holds the council’s rotating presidency, said details of the itinerary had yet to be finalized, including whether the government would allow the council to visit Rakhine state.

“Obviously, we’re interested in Rakhine state,” said Meza-Cuadra. “There’s nothing better than a visit on the ground to see how it is.”

Britain, Kuwait and Peru are organizing the council’s visit, which would include a tour of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. No date for the trip has been announced.

Myanmar authorities say the operation in Rakhine state is aimed at rooting out extremists, but the Security Council is demanding that the Rohingya be allowed to safely return home.

The council is also planning a trip to Iraq, in a show of support ahead of parliamentary and provincial assembly elections on May 12.

Iraq “needs support from the international community for rebuilding the country and to ensure reconciliation” after Baghdad’s successful campaign to re-take territory from the Islamic State group, said Meza-Cuadra.