PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) today announced the appointment of Suhaimi Ali as an assistant governor and the retirement of assistant governor Norzila Abd Aziz, effective April 1. It said assistant governor Adnan Zaylani Mohamad Zahid will assume Norzila’s portfolio in the Investment Operations and Financial Markets and Foreign…
PETALING JAYA: After its defeat in the Johor elections, Pakatan Harapan (PH) hopes opposition parties will not contest in its traditional seats in the upcoming general election. PH’s presidential council said Saturday’s Johor polls showed that multi-cornered fights involving opposition parties only served to split the votes, making it increasingly…
PETALING JAYA: Former Johor menteri besar Hasni Mohammad’s handling of the appointment of his successor will raise his standing among the Malay community, a political analyst said. Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid said the Benut assemblyman handled the situation in a “very dignified” manner. “In a way, it…
PETALING JAYA: Khairuddin Aman Razali has not ruled out returning to PAS once he is done with reprimanding the party. The Kuala Nerus MP, who quit PAS on Monday, said he would not join Umno or set up a new party. “My exit is temporary, for a particular purpose, and…
PETALING JAYA: There were 1,782 new hospital admissions involving Covid-19 cases yesterday, the health ministry said. Of this, 1,076 cases were in Category 1 and 2 while 706 were in Category 3, 4 and 5. Selangor had the highest number of new admissions with 289, followed by Perak (214) and…
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has called on delegates to the Umno general assembly, beginning this evening, to use the annual conference to deliver the voice of the grassroots, whom he described as the backbone of the party. In a Facebook post, Ismail, who is also an Umno…
PETALING JAYA: A PKR Youth leader has slammed Warisan president Shafie Apdal for his remarks on Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) leadership, saying the former Sabah chief minister should focus on his own party. “In Sabah, his party was rejected by the people, they lost in the 2020 state elections,” said Razeef…
PETALING JAYA: The recent Johor state elections have erased any doubt on the position of the so-called “court cluster” in Umno, says a political analyst. The “court cluster” refers to prominent Umno leaders, including the party’s president, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, and former prime minister Najib Razak, who are either on…
PETALING JAYA: Khairuddin Aman Razali, who quit PAS on Monday, has accused the party of violating its own constitution. The former plantation industries and commodities minister cited the alliance PAS has with Perikatan Nasional, the coalition led by Muhyiddin Yassin. He claimed that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang only discussed…
KOTA KINABALU: The return of Rafizi Ramli to active politics may just be the antidote PKR needs to revitalise and unite its disenchanted followers, political analysts said. Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs said the timing of the PKR vice-president’s comeback was right as PKR was…
NEW YORK: A Goldman Sachs Group Inc senior legal executive who helped vet the 1MDB bond deals that exploded in scandal told a jury he warned Goldman bankers not to do business with Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low. Stephen O’Flaherty, who served in British intelligence for 30…
GEORGE TOWN: Two inaugural flights, as part of the vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with Singapore, will arrive in Penang via two airlines tomorrow, the state government announced today. After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Penang-Singapore air route is set to be restored. Before the pandemic, it was…
KUALA LUMPUR: Vehicles may be charged congestion fees for entering the city centre once the Mass Rapid Transit Line 3 (MRT3) is completed in 2030, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Transport minister Wee Ka Siong said the proposal to implement either a congestion charge or environmental fee will be…
PETALING JAYA: Damansara MP Tony Pua has slammed Najib Razak for his claim that 1MDB could have made RM9.7 billion in profits, stating that the former prime minister seemed “financially illiterate”. Following finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz’s statement yesterday that the government faced a RM17 billion shortfall to repay 1MDB’s…
PETALING JAYA: The Securities Commission (SC) has cautioned the public on the sharp increase in investment scams promoted on Telegram. Since January this year, the SC has received 47 complaints and inquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through the messaging app. “These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very…
GEORGE TOWN: The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has ordered CIMB Bank to submit its statement of defence in a lawsuit brought by 12 account holders over a bank error that caused their money to be frozen and left them in debt. The court ordered the bank to file its…
PETALING JAYA: Electoral reform group Bersih has urged the government to no longer delay the tabling of an anti-hopping bill. It views the government’s postponement with “disappointment” and “grave concern”. “Bersih calls on the government to table the bill as soon as possible in this parliamentary sitting to convince the…
PETALING JAYA: PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli has announced his return to active politics. In a statement today, he said the future of progressive, multiracial politics would be in danger if PKR and Pakatan Harapan continue to be a “third party” which fails to attract undecided voters. “Based on that, I…
PUTRAJAYA: An NGO has lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) urging it to investigate Court of Appeal judge Nazlan Mohd Ghazali over his alleged links to 1MDB. Persatuan Sahabat Ulul Amri Malaysia (PSUAM) president Syed Muhammad Imran Syed Abdul Aziz said former prime minister Najib Razak’s SRC…
KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional (BN) has submitted 38 statutory declarations (SDs) from its newly elected Johor assemblymen stating their support for Benut representative Hasni Mohammad to be appointed the state’s next menteri besar (MB), FMT has learned. This comes amid talk of a stalemate between the coalition and the Johor…