KUALA LUMPUR: Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan remains unfazed and optimistic about his party’s future despite the departure of several big names since May and losses in recent state elections. In an interview with FMT, Wan Saiful admitted that the exit of Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin and Lahad…
PETALING JAYA: A lawyer has called on the government to employ more interpreters who can translate Chinese dialects and Tamil to assist litigants in civil cases. SV Namasoo said the government could, as a short-term measure, hire and place a pool of such interpreters in the main courts and assign…
KOTA KINABALU: Cadangan UMNO dan Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menggantikan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963 (MA63) dengan perjanjian baru adalah satu pengkhianatan kepada rakyat Sabah, kata Ketua Pemuda Pertubuhan Kinabalu Progresif Bersatu (UPKO) Penampang Billy Joe Dominic. Beliau berkata, MA63 adalah asas kepada penubuhan Malaysia dan sekiranya UMNO BN mahu menukar atau…
PETALING JAYA: Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Hal Ehwal Sabah dan Sarawak) Maximus Ongkili menzahirkan pendiriannya yang tidak bersetuju dengan usul Perjanjian Malaysia baharu. Beliau berkata, Perjanjian Malaysia asal dan ditandatangani pada 1963 atau lebih dikenali sebagai MA63, adalah satu dokumen suci serta asas berkaitan pembentukan Persekutuan Malaysia. Ahli Parlimen…
GEORGE TOWN: Kedah menteri besar Sanusi Md Nor defended his explanation that a water head phenomenon had caused the massive floods in Baling, after an environmental NGO said he should not blame Mother Nature for it. Sanusi likened Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) to armchair critics. He said the explanation he…
PETALING JAYA: Police are investigating several Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers for allegedly extorting a man in an interrogation room at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya. The incident allegedly happened early last month when several MACC officers were investigating the man, who is said to be a director of a…
KUALA LUMPUR: A human rights group says it will continue to protest the death penalty, even as another Malaysian is scheduled to be hanged in Singapore tomorrow. Kalwant Singh will be hanged in the city-state after the Singapore Court of Appeal dismissed his final appeal for a stay of execution.…
PUTRAJAYA: The latest report on the supply of cooking oil in 1kg packets, chicken and eggs in the market will be presented at the special task force on “jihad” against inflation meeting tomorrow, said economic affairs minister Mustapa Mohamed. Mustapa, who is a member of the task force, said the…
KUALA LUMPUR: The magistrates’ court has warned Emilia Hanafi, the former wife of SM Faisal SM Nasimuddin, not to use medical certificates as an excuse not to attend the trial involving the well-known businessman who is accused of injuring her. Magistrate Nadia Othman also quashed the arrest warrant issued against…
PETALING JAYA: The Selangor department of environment (DoE) yesterday raided a premises in Port Klang, suspected of discharging waste into Sungai Chandong which turned the river red. The site – which the DoE did not identity – is also suspected of illegally operating as a waste collection centre. In a…
PETALING JAYA: Without legislation, MPs from both sides will only enjoy the equal allocation for their constituencies until the end of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Pakatan Harapan (PH) and the government, says a think tank. Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) CEO Tricia Yeoh said that while…
PETALING JAYA: Social media users have cried foul over Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) decision to raise the overnight policy rate (OPR) to 2.25% today. Several netizens vented their frustrations as the raise in the OPR comes at a time when the prices of goods and the cost of living are…
GEORGE TOWN: Residents in Penang are storing water and rushing to buy bottled water at supermarkets in anticipation of a possible supply disruption that could last until noon tomorrow after water treatment plants were forced to shut down following the floods in Baling, Kedah. Checks by FMT found that large…
PUTRAJAYA: The environment and water ministry will implement four urgent projects worth RM203 million in Baling, Kedah, to prevent flash floods from recurring. Its minister, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, said the projects were based on the assessments made by ministry secretary-general Zaini Ujang and department of irrigation and drainage (DID)…
PETALING JAYA: The monetary policy committee (MPC) of Bank Negara Malaysia announced today that it has raised the overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 basis points, raising it to 2.25%. This came amid rising food and energy prices. The ceiling and floor rates of the corridor of the OPR are…
KUALA LUMPUR: The star witness in Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s trial admitted in the High Court today that it was his interpretation that the Muar MP’s words were an instruction to him to “clear” RM1 million belonging to Bersatu Youth. Cross-examined by Gobind Singh Deo, who is representing Syed…
PETALING JAYA: Bestinet Sdn Bhd has confirmed that its office was raided by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) yesterday and said it is fully cooperating with the authorities. A spokesman for Bestinet told FMT that none of its staff or management had been arrested by MACC following the raid. The…
PETALING JAYA: An extension to the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the government and Pakatan Harapan would make room for more meaningful reforms over the next year, said Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming. The DAP MP said introducing a “MoU 2.0” that would push GE15 to July next year would…
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob is expected to lead his political party’s campaign in the next general election (GE15), which is widely expected to be called by year end. Though he began his premiership last August with a clean slate, the dark history of the state fund 1Malaysia…
PETALING JAYA: The magistrates’ court has given nasyid singer and composer Yasin Sulaiman a discharge not amounting to acquittal (DNAA) on a cannabis trafficking charge. Yasin, 47, was charged in March with trafficking in cannabis weighing about 214gm under Section 39B (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which provides…