PETALING JAYA: Police have reported another death in custody, this time in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, just days after another man died in a lockup in Taiping, Perak. In a statement, Bukit Aman’s director of the integrity and standards compliance department, Azri Ahmad, said the death occurred yesterday at the Pengkalan…
PETALING JAYA: A DAP MP has welcomed the offers by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and home minister Hamzah Zainudin to help a stateless 22-year-old Muslim woman adopted by a Chinese kindergarten teacher to get her citizenship. However, Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching asked whether the federal government would be…
SHAH ALAM: High Court judge Abd Halim Aman has advised members of a mosque committee involved in washing a teenager like a “corpse” for theft to issue a public apology to the community. He said this was one of two recommendations made by him so that the case would be…
SHAH ALAM: The High Court today set aside the 10-day jail sentence and RM4,000 fine on a teenager who stole money from a mosque and hid it in the mortuary. Judge Abd Halim Aman said the sentence on Daniel Iskandar, 19, would be replaced with compulsory community service at the…
PETALING JAYA: The road transport department (JPJ) collected a revenue of RM4.04 billion last year despite the Covid-19 pandemic. JPJ is one of the leading enforcement agencies in generating high earnings for the country. The 2021 revenue was a deficit of RM152 million from the previous year as a result…
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer Mahadev Shankar had recruited several pupils, including some notables, to be under his wing as the volume of work coming his way in a legal firm here was unceasing. However, one escaped his radar for he did not do a thorough background check. He is none other…
PETALING JAYA: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Wong Kah Woh says Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has the power to initiate the suspension of Parliament’s Standing Orders to make the inquiry into Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki’s shareholding public. He was commenting on Azhar’s statement yesterday that…
PETALING JAYA: As the scorching midday sun shines relentlessly in Bukit Bintang, former para swimming champion Koh Lee Peng sits in her wheelchair waiting patiently for passers-by to buy her handmade pouches for tissue paper. Dressed in the distinctive ‘Harimau Malaya’ polo shirt and holding a discoloured clipping of a…
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) says it is committed to assisting the government in clearing the backlog of 50,000 surgical and medical procedures this year. “The balance of patients that cannot be treated early at the public facilities should be transferred to the private hospitals at…
PETALING JAYA: The row over oil royalty for Kelantan has been revived by those who claim the state has been unfairly deprived of what it deserves, and that it has affected the state’s development. The Kelantan government and like-minded activists have been demanding the oil royalty for decades, only for…
IPOH: A special committee to determine the status of Perak’s cave temples will include political representatives as members, said menteri besar Saarani Mohamad. Saarani said having members from both the government and opposition would prevent the matter from being politicised. “This is not a political issue, so it is all…
The students on their way to school at SK Mangkapon, Pitas are without the basic security when riding a boat ― a safety vest. ― Picture via Facebook/A Korn Korn KOTA KINABALU, Jan 15 ― Hundreds of students are risking their life commuting to school in small boats without using…
Sebuah badan pemikir, The Centre Malaysia hari ini melancarkan penjejak yang direka untuk memantau ucapan kebencian di media sosial.Penjejak yang dipanggil 'Tracker Benci' itu merupakan prototaip yang dibangunkan oleh The Centre untuk menapis dan menanda perbincangan atas talian di Malaysia yang mengandungi unsur kebencian.Bercakap pada majlis pelancaran secara maya hari…
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Citigroup Inc displayed some of the financial bruises required for its current restructuring as it reported a 26% drop in fourth-quarter profit on Friday. The bank said results were depressed by $1.1 billion in after-tax expenses for its ongoing divestitures of consumer banking businesses outside of the United States. The…
JAKARTA, 14 Jan (Bernama) -- Gempa bumi dengan magnitud 6.7 menggegarkan Pulau Jawa, Indonesia pada 4:05 petang (Waktu Indonesia Barat), Jumaat, tetapi tiada amaran tsunami dikeluarkan. Menurut Badan Meteorologi dan Geofizik (BMKG) Indonesia, gempa itu berlaku 52 km dari barat daya Sumur-Banten dan 197 km barat daya Jakarta. Gegaran itu dilaporkan pada kedalaman 10 kilometer di…
JOHOR BAHRU: Parti Warisan (Warisan) menyarankan 250,000 masyarakat Borneo yang menetap di Semenanjung menukar alamat tempat pengundian mereka menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU-15). Menurut Utusan Malaysia, Naib Presiden Warisan, Datuk Junz Wong berkata, seruan itu dibuat khusus kepada komuniti berkenaan yang tidak berhasrat pulang ke kampung halaman bagi mengundi…
Laporan Tabung Kanak-Kanak Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (UNICEF) yang menunjukkan Malaysia berada pada kedudukan kedua di Asia pada 2020 bagi perbuatan buli siber dalam kalangan belia, menunjukkan bahawa buli siber kini menjadi masalah yang semakin ketara dalam negara.Penggunaan media sosial yang meluas telah menjadikan ia platform yang menggalakkan perbuatan buli siber…
TOKYO: Asian shares took a beating on Friday after a fresh salvo of hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve officials solidified expectations that U.S. interest rates could rise as soon as March, leaving markets braced for tighter monetary conditions. Fed Governor Lael Brainard became the latest and most senior U.S. central…
Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal has tested positive for Covid-19 while the team is in Saudi Arabia playing in the Spanish Super Cup. — Reuters pic RIYADH, Jan 14 — Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal has tested positive for Covid-19 while the team is in Saudi Arabia playing in the…