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Three charged for possession of pygmy elephant tusks
TAWAU: Three men who are serving a jail term were today charged with possessing or conspiring to possess two protected Borneo Pygmy elephant tusks at the Tawau Sessions Court. The three men, Paranchoi Nordin, 59, Abdullah Simin, 68, and Martin
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Najib accuses DAP of racist banner, gets Mandarin translation wrong
PUCHONG: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today accused DAP of playing the religious card by claiming that the Umno-PAS tie-up, or Muafakat Nasional, was equivalent to Talibanism. In a Facebook post, Najib posted a picture of a
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Waytha: Consultative Council for People’s Harmony launched to ensure Malaysian unity
PUTRAJAYA: The Consultative Council for People’s Harmony (MPKR) was launched yesterday to replace the functions and responsibilities of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC). Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P. Waytha Moorthy (pix) said MPKR would be a credible
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Terengganu to ensure entertainment and cultural programmes are shariah-compliant
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu state government will publish guidelines on entertainment, culture and tourism in January next year. State Tourism, Culture and Information Technology Committee chairman Ariffin Deraman said all relevant processes had been completed and a briefing session with
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Pantai Kundur residents build wave breaker to face high tide phenomenon
KOTA BHARU: Residents living near Kampung Pantai Kundur beach here have begun preparing for a possible high tide phenomenon expected to occur this monsoon season. A Bernama check today found that residents have begun constructing the wave breaker in their backyards to
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Two minors charged for murdering tahfiz student
TEMERLOH: Two teenage boys were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with the murder of seven-year-old Mohammad Aimin Nurul Amin at a tahfiz centre here on Thursday. The two minors, both aged 13, nodded to indicate that they understood
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Two men plead not guilty to cruelly injuring dogs
KUALA LUMPUR: Two men were produced in the Sessions Court here to face separate charges of cruelly injuring a dog each in January and last week. Personal driver Amir Abd Salim Meor Lope, 51 and lorry driver S. Mathialakan, 55,
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Asyraf taken to task over ‘failure understand mathematics and economics’
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth Chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki has been told by Damansara Member of Parliament and DAP Publicity Secretary Tony Pua to know the difference between land value and total development value before speaking up on the matter. On
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TNB assures of continuous power supply in Tanjung Piai
PONTIAN: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has taken measures to ensure that power supply to the Tanjung Piai polling and vote-counting centres tomorrow will not be disrupted, said Johor state executive councillor Jimmy Puah Wee Tse. Puah said TNB had set
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NFC data leak: Rafizi and Johari acquitted by court
KUALA LUMPUR: The Shah Alam High Court today acquitted PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli and former Public Bank clerk Johari Mohamed on charges of disclosing banking details belonging to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), which was in breach of the Banking
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