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Rafizi to award money from refunded NFC suit for students
PUCHONG: PKR vice president Rafizi Ramli wants to award the funds from a refunded defamation suit he had paid for in 2017 to National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFC) amounting to RM300,000 as a student scholarship. “All fees, aside from
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Perak MB: Not shying away from seeking advice
IPOH: Before May 12 last year, when he was appointed as Menteri Besar, not many people knew Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu and the Perak Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) chairman himself admitted this fact. “I didn’t win the contests
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Zuraida: New policy to address abandoned housing projects
GURUN: The Housing and Local Government Ministry is the midst of drafting a new policy on abandoned housing projects to fine-tune the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to address the long-standing problem. Its Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said this was because the
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Sandakan by-election: PH and Warisan not a one-time wonder
PUCHONG: The Sandakan by -election has proved two essential matters. The first is that the Pakatan Harapan and Warisan are not a one-time wonder, said DAP’s veteran leader Lim Kit Siang. “The Sandakan by-election was a rare achievement which is
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Ramadan and Aidilfitri celebrations differ at home and Malaysia
PUCHONG: Ramadan is a month when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. While Malaysians have the luxury of breaking fast with family at dusk and eating food before dawn, foreigners residing here don’t get to do that with their loved
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Four caught over terror attack plans in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have caught four men who were planning terror attacks and assassinations in Malaysia during Ramadan. The four men linked to an Islamic State ‘wolf pack’ cell was arrested during the first week of Ramadan in connection with a
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‘Want to influence how to indirectly murder innocent people go elsewhere’
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Youth and Sports’s supervisory facility (KBS) is a prohibition zone for any party that holds the country’s antivaccine understanding to spread their message. Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman stressed that organizing seminars
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Trio charged with causing man’s death
PASIR MAS: Three men, all aged 26, were charged in the Sessions Court here today with causing the death of a man in front of the Kampung Bagus village headman’s office in Rantau Panjang last month. However, all of them,
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Mazlan Mansor named Deputy IGP
KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman’s Commercial Criminal Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Mazlan Mansor is the new Deputy Inspector-General of Police effective from May 9. Mazlan’s appointment, which was announced today, comes shortly after the appointment of Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador
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More press freedom post GE-14 with room for improvement
KUALA LUMPUR: After a year of Pakatan Harapan (PH) rule, the press in Malaysia is going through some positive developments as the new government repealed or set aside many of the archaic laws seen stifling press freedom in the country.
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