PETALING JAYA: Rainer Rotthoff may have looked like just another foreign tourist wandering around Kuala Lumpur, but to many of the city’s most vulnerable people, he was an angel of mercy. “He would clean the wounds of sex workers, of people living on the street. He would go under bridges…
KOTA KINABALU: Tourism in Sabah will suffer a slower recovery because of China’s “zero-Covid” policy, which strictly limits travel to and from the country, industry leaders said. They said Sabah is highly dependent on tourists from China, who made up half of tourist arrivals between 2017 and 2019. An upsurge…
NEW YORK: Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng should be convicted of helping loot billions of dollars from 1MDB and causing “immeasurable” harm, a US prosecutor told jurors in her closing argument on Monday. But a lawyer for Ng, Goldman’s former top investment banker for Malaysia, countered that he had…
PETALING JAYA: A Sabah lawyers’ group has urged Putrajaya to hold mediation dialogues with the descendants of the Sultan of Sulu over a French arbitration court’s instruction to pay them RM62.59 billion (US$14.92 billion). The Sabah Law Society (SLS) said “non-binding without prejudice conciliation or mediation dialogues” with the claimants…
KUALA TERENGGANU: Four technicians were killed when the van they were in collided with an express bus at Kampung Sungai Ikan in Kuala Nerus yesterday evening. The crash occurred at about 6.20pm when the van, which was on its way from Setiu to Kuala Terengganu, was overtaking a car and…
KOTA KINABALU: U-Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) menerima rombongan lawatan kerja daripada Pusat Sains Negara (PSN) baru-baru ini. Ketua U-Science, Zawawi Datuk Tiyunin berkata, kunjungan tersebut antara lain bertujuan untuk membincangkan kerjasama strategik selain sesi perkongsian maklumat antara kedua belah pihak. “Semasa menerima kunjungan ini, kita telah memberi penerangan tentang…
KUALA KANGSAR: The Perak state government has identified a waste processing plant in Simpang Pulai as having caused odour pollution due to metal smelting being carried out. State executive councillor Akmal Kamarudin said a joint operation headed by the Environment Department found the source of odour pollution to be from…
PETALING JAYA: An estimated RM20 billion will be drawn out in the next round of special withdrawals from the retirement accounts of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members, according to economist Lee Heng Guie. Lee, who heads the Socio-Economic Research Centre think tank, said the RM20 billion in EPF withdrawals could…
PETALING JAYA: A boardroom tussle has developed among companies involved in developing and operating the MySejahtera contact tracing programme. A suit has been filed by Hasrat Budi Sdn Bhd, a shareholder in MySJ Sdn Bhd, which operates the MySejahtera app, seeking the removal of two MySJ directors, Shahril Shamsuddin and…
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah chief minister Hajiji Noor has urged that the proposed border checkpoints at Kalabakan and Pagalongan be made a main priority and not be delayed. He said today he had ordered Sedia, the state economic development agency responsible for border town development, to continue pursuing the matter following…
PETALING JAYA: The prices of cooked food sold at Ramadan bazaars are beyond the control of the government, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today. “I understand that there are no guidelines for controlling the prices of cooked food, but I hope traders will not charge exorbitant prices,” Ismail said…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah broadcasting department has apologised after its Tawau FM radio station aired the Maghrib azan (call to prayer) at 6.16pm and 6.20pm yesterday, on the first day of Ramadan. The department’s director Zulkefli Mohd said the double broadcast was unintentional but it led to claims on social…
SHAH ALAM: The High Court has dismissed a suit against the police and the government for negligence over the death of a businessman detained in a police lockup here four years ago. Judge Choo Kah Sing ruled that businessman S Thanabalan’s widow and father-in-law had failed to prove their case.…
PETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he expects to be hauled in by authorities for questioning the justice system after noting that Najib Razak, who had been convicted of corruption, had yet to spend a day in prison. Mahathir in a posting today compared his predecessor’s position to those convicted…
PETALING JAYA: Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid, a member of PKR’s central leadership, has announced that he will be in the running to be a vice-president at the party elections next month. He said he would not defend his position in the central leadership council Abdullah, who is MP for Kapar,…
PETALING JAYA: Descendants of the sultan of Sulu were “chased away” by a British court when they tried to start arbitration proceedings there against Malaysia, says former attorney-general Tommy Thomas. Speaking at a legal forum, Thomas said the lawyers for the Sulu descendants had written to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC)…
PETALING JAYA: The youth wing of Pakatan Harapan (PH) in Perak has lodged a police report calling for investigations into the sale of land for a proposed international airport in Seri Iskandar, Tronoh. “We hope the authorities can reveal who is the real mastermind,” said Perak PH Youth chief Mohamad…
PETALING JAYA: A DAP man has questioned Sabah PKR chief Christina Liew over her lack of presence as Tawau MP. Tawau DAP youth chief Thien Ee Hang claimed that Liew was absent on the ground in her constituency and had also missed many Dewan Rakyat sittings. Citing the MyMP website…
PUTRAJAYA: As of April 1, the human resources ministry has received 475,678 applications to recruit foreign workers. Human resources minister M Saravanan said of the total, 290,248 applications were for workers in the manufacturing sector, followed by the services (77,000), plantation (53,854), construction (43,519), agriculture (11,037), mining and quarry (20)…
PETALING JAYA: The spat between Rafizi Ramli and Najib Razak over Sapura Energy Bhd continues, with Rafizi insisting that the former prime minister accept responsibility for the RM983 million paid out to Sapura’s former chief executive officer (CEO). Rafizi said that although Sapura was not a government-linked company (GLC) when Najib…