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Haze, embarrassing to Jokowi
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, said the haze caused by forest fires in Indonesia has been an embarrassment for him to face Malaysia and Singapore as the problem has affected them. “I sometimes feel embarrassed. This
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Malaysia’s international reserves up at US$103.9b
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s gross international reserves rose to US$103.9 billion as at July 31, from US$103.3 billion on July 15, the central bank said on Wednesday. The reserves were sufficient to finance 7.6 months of retained imports, and were 1.2
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Nora Anne was abducted, family insists
PUCHONG: The family of missing Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin is resolved that the 15-year-old was abducted and “increasingly frustrated” with the Malaysian police’s tactics to find her even though the Malaysian police continued to investigate the case as a
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Pro-Anwar faction tried to oust Selangor MB
PUCHONG: The faction aligned to PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim approached Selangor Umno state lawmakers in a bid to oust Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari who is aligned to party deputy president, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali. The Malaysian Insight reported
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Third and final attempt to disqualify Gopal Sri Ram fails
PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s third and final attempt to disqualify Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram from being the lead prosecutor in three of his cases has failed. The application to oust Gopal was unanimously rejected by
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Azeez’s corruption trial to begin on Sept 25
KUALA LUMPUR: The corruption trial against former Tabung Haji chairperson Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim involving RM144.6 million will begin on Sept 25, decided Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi. She also heard from DPP Azlinda Ahad that the prosecution
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New Zealand’s central bank stuns markets with 50-bp rate cut
WELLINGTON: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) stunned markets today by cutting the official cash rate (OCR) by a bigger-than-expected 50 basis points to 1.00%, as it looks to prop-up a cooling economy in the face of intensifying global
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SAR for Nora Anne Quoirin continues
NILAI: It has been 72 hours since the search and rescue (SAR) operations activated to locate Nora Anne Quoirin, 15, a missing Irish teenager. The scope of this SAR operation which entered its fourth day, has been expanded to include
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At large millionaire murderer of Malaysian wife apprehended
LOS ANGELES: A British-born millionaire who went on the run for more than four years has been arrested in Mexico and extradited to the US to face trial for the murder of his wife at their California home. Peter Chadwick,
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New chief judge of Malaya and other promotions on the bench
PETALING JAYA: Senior Federal Court judge Tan Sri Azahar Mohamed has been appointed as chief judge of Malaya (CJM), a post left vacant since May, sources say, FMT reported. Azahar, 63, had been performing the duties and functions of the
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