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Zuraida: Decision to take leave to ensure probe outcome is impartial
PUTRAJAYA: PKR vice president Zuraida Kamaruddin said she decided to take leave from all posts in the party to ensure the decision made by the party political bureau on her disciplinary case would be more transparent. This was because she was
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Police arrest driver after Myvi rams patrol car in Shah Alam
SHAH ALAM: A 25-year-old man was arrested for reckless driving after ramming a police patrol car in an incident at Km16.4 Grand Sepadu Expressway heading towards the Bukit Raja toll, here, yesterday morning. North Klang district police chief ACP Nurulhuda Mohd Salleh said the
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Coronavirus: Public transport operators to beef up cleanliness at terminals
PUTRAJAYA: The Transport Ministry directed all public transport operators to undertake precautionary measures and increase the level of cleanliness to curb the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection. Its minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook said at a post-cabinet
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228 plastic waste recycling plants shut, suspended since July 2018
SUNGAI PETANI: A total of 228 plastic waste recycling plants were ordered shut or suspended nationwide between July 2018 to January this year. These factories, which include licensed or those operating illegally, committed offences under the Environmental Quality Act 1974.
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“Rosmah instructed me to speed up approval for solar energy project’ – Mahdzir
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid told the High Court yesterday that Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor instructed him to speed up approval for the project to supply hybrid solar power to 369 rural schools in Sarawak worth
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Gobind: Let MCMC decide on Nur Sajat
SEREMBAN: Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo is leaving it to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to decide on the controversy involving cosmetics entrepreneur, Muhammad Sajjad Kamaruz Zaman, or Nur Sajat. The minister said he believed that
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DPM: M’sia to extend travel ban on other Chinese provinces
KUALA LUMPUR: The temporary travel ban on Chinese nationals arriving from Hubei province and the city of Wuhan will be extended to all other provinces placed under lockdown by the Chinese government in the wake of the 2019 novel coronavirus
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Dr M on Airasia scandal: Offset not bribe, unless the money is pocketed
PUTRAJAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said although he dares not make a comment on graft allegations involving AirAsia and AirAsia X, he felt that corruption occurred only when the money received is pocketed. The Prime Minister said even the government asked for an offset when
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Loke: Up to MACC to investigate Airbus’ deals in Malaysia
PUTRAJAYA: Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook said it is up to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to undertake the necessary investigations into Airbus’ interest in Malaysia following the corruption allegations implicating the aircraft manufacturer and two executives of AirAsia. When met by
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Dr M: Cabinet will decide on PPSMI, not me alone
PUTRAJAYA: The government is still mulling the implementation of the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) and decision will be made based on the majority opinion of the Cabinet members, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
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