KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, who was charged with racial incitement over a Facebook posting last year, was acquitted today. Sessions court judge Edwin Paramjothy Michael Muniandy freed the 43-year-old accused although deputy public prosecutor Azizah Aling had applied for a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.…
PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo has questioned the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) silence over allegations of corruption within the police force. In a Facebook post, Gobind said it was an “unprecedented” case, as Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador was the one who publicly declared there were corrupt practices…
PETALING JAYA: DAP has described PAS’ proposal to redraw election boundaries to benefit the Malay-Muslim community as an admission the Perikatan Nasional-led government will “gerrymander constituencies” at the expense of others. Its secretary-general, Lim Guan Eng, said the proposal by PAS’ Khairuddin Aman Razali, to secure a two-thirds parliamentary majority,…
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Najib Razak is seeking to compel the government to provide banking documents belonging to companies controlled by Low Taek Jho and Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s family. In an application for the documents, he said they were crucial for his 1MDB defence and the government had not…
PETALING JAYA: Lawyer Rosli Dahlan has lodged a police report against former Umno Supreme Council member Lokman Adam and Kuang assemblyman Sallehudin Amiruddin over various claims made against him involving the 1MDB case and Goldman Sachs settlement. In the report sighted by FMT, Rosli said it was not true that…
KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian countries lose out on as much as US$6 billion a year as most of their single-use plastics are thrown out rather than recovered and recycled, the World Bank said in a new study. More than 75% of recyclable plastics in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines are…
PETALING JAYA: DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has criticised law minister Takiyuddin Hassan for rejecting calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate claims of a “cartel of dirty cops”. Lim said the issue cannot be dealt with internally by the Police Force Commission, and that it was…
KLANG: A Vietnamese woman married to a Malaysian but held for 11 days to determine if her travel documents were in order was fined RM350 after she pleaded guilty in the magistrates’ court for failure to observe the rules in place during the ongoing conditional movement control order (CMCO). Tran…
GEORGE TOWN: A woman has accused a Penang assemblyman of “sexual disturbance” when he took her out for dinner at a mall in Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, two weeks ago. In a police report sighted by FMT, the 30-year-old woman, who said she was also from the same party as…
PETALING JAYA: Political party MUDA is rallying support for Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Abdul Hamid Bador to take action against the “dirty cops” cartel and bring them to justice. Calling for the people to back the IGP on the issue, MUDA also urged the police to be transparent with any…
KUALA LUMPUR: Two human rights groups have sought the help of the courts to compel the government to provide details of the 1,200 Myanmar nationals arrested by the authorities previously. Asylum Access Global (Asylum) and Amnesty International Malaysia (Amnesty) want the government to provide details of the Myanmar detainees within…
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has urged the government to table a motion in Parliament to increase the country’s debt limit. In a Facebook post, Najib said it was not wrong for the government to take on more debt in its effort to help the people during the…
GEORGE TOWN: DAP’s P Ramasamy today slammed the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) for its lack of apology nor expression of regret over the use of the word “keling” in describing a person of Indian origin in a dictionary. The issue began after a screenshot of the definition for the…
PETALING JAYA: Ipoh Barat MP M Kula Segaran says the lack of internet access in certain areas and lingering worries about the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines would dent any plans to set a June deadline for vaccine registration. Yesterday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin proposed setting a registration deadline of…
PETALING JAYA: IBM has announced that it will be shutting down its Global Delivery Centre located in Cyberjaya, Selangor, on May 31. The Edge, quoting an IBM spokesman, said the closure of the global centre supporting client information technology (IT) infrastructure in Malaysia would have no impact on other IBM…
PETALING JAYA: Most of the 22,000 contract medical officers who received letters upgrading them from UD41 category to UD43 over the past week will not receive any salary increase as they are earning more than the starting pay in the new scale. Several doctors said they were currently drawing a…
PETALING JAYA: Umno has received approval from the National Security Council (MKN) to hold its annual general assembly this weekend, party secretary-general Ahmad Maslan said. In a tweet, he said attendance was capped at 50% capacity in Dewan Merdeka, which has a maximum seating of 3,000, at the World Trade…
PETALING JAYA: The Federal Court has taken a step in the right direction by awarding RM200,000 in aggravated damages for a death in custody, although the majority allowed the government’s appeal on a point of law, a retired judge said. Gopal Sri Ram said custodial deaths and injuries were a…
PETALING JAYA: Two construction workers fell to their death after a launcher crane at a highway construction site in Kuala Lumpur toppled over, crushing a car, this morning The Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department said the driver of the car was seriously injured as steel from the crane crushed…
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia has urged the government to make preparations for the creation of vaccine passports for those who have been immunised against Covid-19 to kickstart the medical tourism sector. Its president Dr Kuljit Singh said this should not be limited to those who have…