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Businessman fined RM5,000 for becoming member of Geng 24
KULAI: A business with the title “Datuk” was fined RM5,000 by the Magistrate’s Court here today for becoming a member of a secret society known as “Geng 24” or “Geng Leng Hor”. Magistrate Sharifah Maleeha Syed Hussin meted out the
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The rising threat of heart disease in Malaysia
PUCHONG: Health Ministry today said no other disease kills more Malaysians than cardiovascular disease. Mortality due to cardiovascular diseases almost doubled in Malaysia between 2017 and 2019. In a Facebook post, the ministry said based on Death Statistics 2019 report
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Floods: Mosques encourages to hold solat hajat after Friday prayer tomorrow
KUALA LUMPUR: Mosques across the country are encouraged to hold the ‘solat hajat’ after Friday prayers tomorrow, to pray for ease in facing of the current flood situation. The recommendation was made by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department
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CheguBard: Don’t drag me into Anwar’s sex scandals!
PUCHONG: Former PKR supreme council member, Badrul Hisham Shaharin denied his involvement in the latest sexual misconduct allegation involving party president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Badrul said he had no part in the allegation made by Anwar’s former research officer
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17-month-old Myanmar boy found drowned in Ipoh
IPOH: Police have detained the parents of a Myanmarese toddler who was found drowned near a bridge across Sungai Chemor here yesterday. Ipoh district police chief ACP A. Asmadi Abdul Aziz said the body of the male toddler, aged one
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Singer Nassier Wahab dies
KUALA LUMPUR: Popular 1980s singer Nassier Wahab, best known for his song “Memori Cinta Luka”, died at the Universiti Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC), near here, early today. The Artiste Association of Malaysia (Seniman) secretary-general Hafiz Nafiah, in a statement, said
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Yusoff’s SD details the alleged sexual assault suffered
PUCHONG: Earlier yesterday, PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s former research officer Muhammad Yusoff Rawther alleged that the former had attempted to sexually assault him. Yusoff held a discreet press conference on the matter, claiming the former deputy prime minister
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Guan Eng: RM40m for TAR University College this year
PUTRAJAYA: The RM40 million allocation for the benefit of Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TAR UC) for 2019 will be handed over to the Tunku Abdul Rahman Almuni Association (TAA) trust fund once it is set up, says Finance Minister
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2019 Umno General Assembly begins with meetings of the wings
KUALA LUMPUR: The 2019 Umno general assembly began today with the simultaneous General Assembly of the Wanita, Youth, Puteri wings tonight officiated by party deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan. Mohamad in his speech at the opening ceremony said Umno
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India’s April-Sept edible oil imports drop 19%
NEW DELHI: India Commerce and Industry Ministry said the value of the country’s edible oil imports in the first six months of the current financial year dropped almost 19%. India imported 5.87 million tonnes of edible oil valued at US$3.59
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