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Budget 2020: Get your live feeds here…

At 4pm today, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng is scheduled to deliver Budget 2020 speech at the Dewan Rakyat. Follow us here for snippets of the budget speech, exclusively from The Leaders Online: Overview of Budget 2020 Budget 2020 is

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Ramasamy: Charge those arrested for LTTE links in court

GEORGE TOWN: Penang deputy chief minister II P Ramasamy said that the seven people suspected to be involved with the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group should not have been arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act

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Fisherman charged with 22 counts of sexual assault on stepdaughter

IPOH: A fisherman in Manjung was charged with 22 counts of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter, including raping and filming her naked over the past three years. The 36-year-old is accused of committing the offences at a house in Kampung Tersusun

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Widad offers RM3 bln to acquire PLUS Expressways

KUALA LUMPUR: Integrated facility management and construction outfit, Widad Business Group (WBG) has offered to buy the PLUS Expressways Bhd concessionaires by taking over 51% of the concessionaires owned by Khazanah Nasional Bhd for RM1.5 billion cash, or 100% of

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Several residents of Azalea Apartments evacuated following landslide

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 65 residents of Azalea Apartments in Jalan Sri Penchala 1, Kampung Sri Penchala here, were forced to vacate their units following a landslide earlier this morning. Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) Fire and Rescue Station’s

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Pakatan reps tell police to release those arrested over claims of LTTE ties

KUALA LUMPUR: Sixteen Pakatan Harapan (PH) elected representatives today called upon the police to release the two DAP lawmakers and five others arrested for allegedly having ties with the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). In a joint

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German city in “state of shock” after anti-Semitic killing

BERLIN: The eastern German city of Halle remained in a state of shock, a day after an anti-Semitic shooting which left two people dead, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting a German public broadcaster. Bernd Wiegand, mayor of Halle, said in

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Petronas wins three exploration blocks in Brazil bid round

KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas through its subsidiary, Petronas Petróleo Brasil Ltda (PPBL) has won three exploration blocks during Brazil’s exploration blocks bid round held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday. PPBL won blocks CM 661, CM 715 and CM 541, all

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Modi and Xi to discuss border issues amid Kashmir row

NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to agree new security measures along their unsettled border during a summit today, officials said, in an effort to smooth ties ruffled by differences over Kashmir.

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North Korea warns it may end freeze on missile testing

North Korea issued a veiled warning yesterday that it could end a freeze in long-range missile testing as it criticised a call by UN Security Council members for it to give up its nuclear weapons and denounced a recent US

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