PUTRAJAYA: Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat and several other top judges are hearing Najib Razak’s appeal to include fresh evidence to set aside his conviction in the RM42 million SRC International corruption appeal. Besides Tengku Maimun, the judges currently hearing Najib’s appeal in the Federal Court are Court of…
PETALING JAYA: A group of more than 50 NGOs has urged all MPs to support the proposed implementation of seven days’ paternity leave. Welcoming a statement from human resources minister M Saravanan stating that he had included the leave in the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2021, the NGOs said most working…
LAHAD DATU: Three people, including a child, were killed, while two others were seriously injured in an accident involving two vehicles at Kilometre 30, Jalan Sandakan-Lahad Datu, near Ladang Mensuli, here on Monday.The three victims were identified as Muhammad Isyam Samsudin, Masniati Yusuf and a child named Ainul Mardhiah Abdullah, whose age…
KUALA LUMPUR: A white paper on healthcare reforms will be tabled in November, says health minister Khairy Jamaluddin. Responding to a question by Wong Hon Wai (PH-Bukit Bendera), Khairy said this will ensure proper allocations for public healthcare. He said there had been a “chronic underinvestment” in the public healthcare…
PETALING JAYA: The post of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president, which had seen a tussle since August 2019 after there was a tie in the election, has finally been resolved after one of them officially withdrew today. Mohd Jafar Majid submitted a letter of withdrawal today to the…
PETALING JAYA: Umno’s general assembly, which begins tomorrow, is expected to be the platform for the party’s leaders to echo the grassroots’ demand for the 15th general election (GE15) to be expedited on the heels of Barisan Nasional’s victories in the recent Johor and Melaka polls. BN claimed 40 of…
PETALING JAYA: Umno veteran Shahrir Samad said he had been left embarrassed that despite a landslide election victory, Hasni Mohammad would not be nominated to a second term as menteri besar. Shahrir said Hasni’s statement yesterday, in which he called for a young person to lead the state, inferred that…
PETALING JAYA: There were 1,521 new hospital admissions involving Covid-19 cases yesterday, the health ministry said. Of this, 887 cases were in Category 1 and 2 while 634 were in Category 3, 4 and 5. Selangor had the highest number of new admissions with 219, followed by Johor (175) and…
PETALING JAYA: An agreement on the recruitment of domestic helpers between Malaysia and Indonesia will be signed in April instead of this week, according to Indonesian ambassador Hermono. He said it was supposed to have been signed in Jakarta on Thursday or Friday this week, witnessed by Prime Minister Ismail…
JOHOR BAHRU: A machine operator died after falling into a grinder at a mosaic factory at Nusa Cemerlang Industrial Park, near Iskandar Puteri, yesterday. Iskandar Puteri police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said Fenddy Asim, 19, died from head and shoulder injuries. He said the incident occurred at about 11.30am when Fenddy…
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno will need to resolve potential internal issues if there happens to be a clash of views on the Johor menteri besar candidacy following Saturday’s state elections. Political analyst Sivamurugan Pandian of Universiti Sains Malaysia said this is because throughout the election campaign, only Johor Barisan Nasional chairman…
NEW YORK: Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, the alleged mastermind of the 1MDB scandal, stole US$1.42 billion from bond transactions that Goldman Sachs Group Inc arranged for the Malaysian wealth fund, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who traced the funds testified. Eric Van Dorn cited…
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PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional’s top leadership will decide on its “poster boy” for the 15th general election (GE15), says the coalition’s chairman, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. At an event in Johor Bahru today, Zahid was asked if Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who is also an Umno vice-president, would be BN’s…
KUALA LUMPUR: Younger Malaysian voters angered by the 1MDB corruption scandal played a key role in ending the six-decade rule of Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) back in 2018. Ahead of another national election, there’s a lot more of them – and they appear more worried about the economy. Lowering…
PETALING JAYA: An analyst says Putrajaya is correct to take a non-committal approach on establishing diplomatic ties with Afghanistan, adding that it is not the right time to do so. Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara said this is because there were doubts over the Taliban administration’s commitment to human rights…
KUALA LUMPUR: Investors looking for shelter from the upheaval in global markets are turning to Malaysia. The exporter of oil and crude palm oil has seen its stocks, currency and bonds outperform most of its peers since the war in Ukraine broke out. Soaring commodity prices are expected to boost…
PETALING JAYA: Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam and her father have accused a former teacher, who allegedly made lewd jokes in class, of sexual harassment and criminal misconduct. In their counterclaim responding to the former teacher’s defamation suit, they said his lewd jokes caused her “nervous shock”. The defamation suit, filed…
PETALING JAYA: State polls since the last general election have cost the government RM420 million, with tomorrow’s Johor elections accounting for nearly RM100 million of the bill. Since 2018, state polls have been held in Sabah, Melaka and Sarawak to elect new legislative assemblies. In a parliamentary written reply to…
PETALING JAYA: The government spent RM600,000 on door gifts for visitors at its 100-Day Aspiration event in December last year. In a written parliamentary reply to Wong Shu Qi (PH-Kluang), special functions minister Abdul Latiff Ahmad said the items included paper bags, face masks, hand sanitisers, caps and stationery. The…