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Yahoo! Answers will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance today from 4:30 - 7:30pm (approximately) and one more next week on 20 April. Answers will be totally inaccessible during this time, except for the blog of course. Sorry for any inconveniences caused...

There has been a lot of interest and activity around our move to Yahoo! profiles. A benefit of using one profile for your Yahoo! experience means you can now share your Answers activity with those you are connected to via your Yahoo! profile, even if they aren’t Answers users...

We’re always working on improving Answers and creating new features to make sure that you get the most out of Yahoo! Answers. And we have something new to announce! If you have not noticed it already, there is a “Suggested Questions” module on the Yahoo! Answers homepage...

Back in October, Yahoo! redesigned the core profile pages, giving them a fresh new look and feel, and additional functionality...

I’ve always been fascinated by animals. When I was a child, I’d insist on visiting the zoos in the different countries we’ve traveled to (I know, spoiled brat)...

Someone once said, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. What this person didn’t realise is that while that may be true, humans are also very easily influenced by all the images of “beauty” constantly thrown at us by television commercials, magazine and newspaper advertisements etc...

The most famous (and commercial!) date in February has to be the 14th February - Valentine’s Day. It is a day that’s either highly anticipated by lovers, or dreaded by those who are single...

  (Photo by minato) I’m sure everyone is aware that Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. This means if you want to have a meaningful and memorable V-Day, then you should be thinking about it and planning for it now...

Q: What do Cameron Diaz, Christian Bale and Amber Chia all have in common? A: They have all taken part in Answers over the last couple of years...

Yahoo! Answers uses badges to designate the different types of community members participating in the Yahoo! Answers community...

Many of us have watched sci-fi (science fiction) films and read novels and comics from the same genre. Have you ever thought to yourself how the world will be like in the far future? Technology has improved a lot now, there are new tech gadgets being invented all the time, so who knows...

Despite all those political squabbling between Singapore and Malaysia, these two countries have always shared a special and close relationship. I mean, how many of you can genuinely say that you’ve never been to Singapore or do not have relatives or friends there? Not many of us can do that...

Happy 2009 everyone! Welcome to another new year, and hopefully things will get better, petrol prices will remain low and there will be peace in the country. So how was your new year? Mine was spent with my family in the morning, and met up with friends in the afternoon...

No, not thanksgiving - the American holiday, but I think December, being the last month of the year, is the most appropriate month to thank the people in our lives, and to give something to them to show our love and appreciation - it doesn’t matter how big or small that gift is...

Yahoo! Answers actually launched a system called Community Moderation a year or so ago. This allows trusted Answers users to work together to report and remove content that goes against the Community Guidelines and the Yahoo! Terms of Service. If you’re new to this, do read on...

It’s the school holidays, what are some of the activities you do with your family? I know that some families take a short holiday trip (or longer if they can afford it). Some, like my cousin, just stays at home and surfs the internet or helps out at another cousin’s flower shop...

We are happy to announce that Answers is back after undergoing essential maintenance! But you have not seen the last of it. There is another planned outage tomorrow, Thursday 20th November around the same time, from 4.30pm to 8.30pm (roughly ok?)...

Hi folks, Our engineers will be performing regular maintenance on Yahoo! Answers on Wednesday (12 Nov) and Thursday (13 Nov), at 4.30pm. We expect the work to last about 3.5 hours and Yahoo! Answers will be totally inaccessible during this time, except for the blog of course...

All the news today (The Star, Yahoo! Malaysia etc.) are splattered with pictures of Barack Obama, heralding his recent win at the US Presidential Elections yesterday...

What is Halloween? Besides knowing that it falls on the last day of October, all things scary and goes bump in the night appears, and American children like to dress up and go around asking for sweets, what does it actually mean and how did it originate? Have you ever wondered...

You know, under the Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines, we tell all users to “Share what you know”. So what do we mean by that? Well, take myself for example. I must admit I’m not very knowledgeable about everything (if I am, then I can be the first human walking encyclopedia...

Last Friday I received a happy sms, a friend of mine just gave birth to a baby girl! And the very next day, I received another one from an ex-colleague, who had just given birth to a baby boy. Both are very, happy news. But I guess in life, if there’s birth of life, there’s also death...

Can you imagine being in a world without Instant Messaging? No? Well, neither can I. :O I mean, how can we chat with our friends sneakily while at work? How can we continue those juicy gossips once we reach home? Phones? Emails? What are those? (let’s not even talk about writing letters...

Finally after one month of puasa, we will be able to celebrate Hari Raya Puasa with our family and friends tomorrow...

These few days we have been bombarded with news of unsafe milk from China (unsafe food products again!). So what exactly was wrong with it...

You know how we’ve been having these “Taking a breather” pages lately right? I know it has been very annoying for some of you, maaf la! But the Yahoo...

Interesting news on The Star today which featured a couple exchanging marriage vows “underwater” in a hotel swimming pool in Petaling Jaya. Now while underwater marriages are not new to Malaysia, it’s the first time it was held in the city center...

A few days ago, Yahoo! news mentioned that the “Geobacillus Zalihae enzyme extracted from protein crystallisation that was tested in space by Malaysian astronaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor last year has received a patent in the United States”...

Tomorrow is Malaysia’s 51st birthday! There have been so many different events happening throughout this month. But the most exciting would have been the “Perayaan Ambang Merdeka” tonight at Dataran Merdeka, Bukit Bintang and KLCC...

What are the similarities between Yahoo! Answers and your loved ones? No, your loved one is not a walking Q&A. No, you can’t hug Yahoo! Answers while you sleep. The similarity is…. we sometimes take both for granted! Sama sama lah...