KUALA NERUS: A five-year-old boy was stung to death by wasps in Kampung Tok Jembal here yesterday. Eidrish Mohd Khalid was stung about 60 times when playing at the nearby playground with his sisters, Nur Adelya Qaisara, 10, and Nur Aiyris Dania, seven, yesterday evening. He died in hospital five…
SEREMBAN: Muddy river water caused by a landslide in a forest reserve in December has led to water supplies being disrupted to 4,000 households in Springhill, Port Dickson. Syarikat Air Negeri Sembilan director Yazid Ahmad said the river in the affected forest area was the main source of water to…
KAMPAR: Tajuddin Abdul Rahman of Umno can join PAS at any time to continue his political career, said PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan, following Tajuddin’s removal from the Umno leadership council. “Anyone can join PAS (including Tajuddin). We can and will accept,” he told reporters here. “In fact, in Kedah recently,…
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has set a new date to hear an application by former prime minister Najib Razak to obtain documents concerning companies controlled by Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s family and fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low). Deputy public prosecutor Mustafa P Kunyalam said the hearing would be…
PETALING JAYA: The health ministry will focus on making the price of baby formula and protein food staples affordable, to overcome the problem of stunted growth among children because of malnutrition. “It’s easy to ask parents to buy milk and healthy food but the bottom line is the price,” he…
KLANG: A 16-year-old girl is believed to have been killed by her boyfriend at the man’s house in Kampung Idaman, Pandamaran, near here, yesterday. Klang Selatan police chief Cha Hoong Fong said police were alerted to the discovery of an unconscious teenager in the front yard of the house at…
PETALING JAYA: Tajuddin Abdul Rahman’s “exposé” on Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is unlikely to cause any damage to the Umno president nor the party, says a political analyst. Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara said Tajuddin was not the most “credible” person given his missteps and controversies in the past, one of…
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor has filed a new bid before the High Court, seeking to disqualify Gopal Sri Ram from leading the prosecution in her ongoing corruption trial linked to a RM1.25 billion solar project. She claimed that Sri Ram’s appointment as an ad hoc prosecutor – made under Section…
KUALA LUMPUR: A senior lecturer of a local university was charged in two sessions courts here today on charges of misappropriating funds for a research project and using as genuine a forged document. Zulkefli Adam, 56, however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges. In the court before judge Suzana…
SHAH ALAM: Fifty Taman Sri Muda residents hit by the floods last December have filed a suit against the authorities for negligence and breach of statutory duties. They named the director-general of the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma), a minister in the prime minister’s department, the water and environment minister,…
KUALA LUMPUR: A former finance manager told the sessions court in Lim Guan Eng’s undersea tunnel corruption trial that his former boss, Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli, had “confessed” to paying bribes to the former Penang chief minister for the project. Azli Adam, who was Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd’s senior…
KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has denied instructing a lawyer or any staff of a legal firm to bank in millions of ringgit – the subject matter of his anti-money laundering charges – in a fixed deposit account. The former deputy prime minister also told the High Court here he…
PETALING JAYA: National women’s No 1 squash player S Sivasangari is out of the Commonwealth Games after being seriously injured in a car crash. The world No 19 suffered injuries to the head in the accident which occurred along the Maju Expressway yesterday, New Straits Times reported. Sivasangari was a…
PETALING JAYA: Warisan president Shafie Apdal has questioned how Putrajaya will fund its subsidies for consumer necessities, which are projected to reach an all-time high of RM77.3 billion this year. Shafie said this was higher than the country’s entire national development expenditure of RM76.6 billion. “Where do we get the…
KUALA LUMPUR: The assistance channelled under the Bantuan Keluarga Malaysia (BKM) is the largest direct cash assistance in the country’s history compared with Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) and Bantuan Sara Hidup (BSH), finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said. Tengku Zafrul said the BKM Phase 2, as announced by Prime Minister…
PETALING JAYA: PKR’s incoming deputy president Rafizi Ramli has defended his proposal for a national stockpile to address the food supply shortage. Last Friday, Rafizi had proposed establishing a national stockpile to prevent a food supply shortage after Umno had called for a national organisation to deal with the chicken…
PETALING JAYA: The Ipoh High Court has set Aug 5 to decide on M Indira Gandhi’s leave application to begin contempt proceedings against the inspector-general of police (IGP) and his subordinates for their failure to recover her daughter, Prasana Diksa. This was confirmed by Indira’s lawyer, Rajesh Nagarajan, at a…
KUALA LUMPUR: Emilia Hanafi, the former wife of tycoon SM Faisal SM Nasimuddin, has been sent to the Kajang prison to serve her seven-day sentence for contempt of court. This comes after her lawyer, Nazri Yahya, failed to meet the judge to appeal for a delay in serving the jail…
KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has applied for his ongoing corruption trial to be stayed pending the outcome of his appeal in May to obtain witness statements recorded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). Zahid, who filed the application with a supporting affidavit last week, said an appeal had been…
KUALA LUMPUR: The sessions court has warned former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng against making comments on his ongoing undersea tunnel corruption trial. Judge Azura Alwi said she was upset over Lim’s statement to the media last Friday after the hearing ended. Lim had told reporters that there was…