Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. nstonline.com.my's news ticker is javascript. If you're using Firefox (or some other useful browser), you can select some of the content around the news ticker with you mouse. Selecting dynamic content isn't always easy, so select some of the surrounding images too. Right-click the page and click 'View Selection Source'. That'll give you some source that'll tell you the news ticker is javascript
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Code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/marquee.js"></script>
Just copy and paste the src value onto the nstonline URL, and load the script into your browser:
Code:
http://nst.com.my/javascript/marquee.js
The text for the news ticker is in the javascript. I think some news tickers (BBC's maybe?) periodically query their home server. The NST's one is more simple.