KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Royal Malaysian Customs Department has seized 100,500 packets of smuggled cigarettes of various brands worth over RM1.99 million in a raid in Jalan Lama Penampang-Papar, off the Pan Borneo Highway, near here. State Zone Customs assistant director-general Cheong Yu Min said acting on public information, its…
KUALA LUMPUR – The tabling of the 2023 national budget in Dewan Rakyat will be brought forward three weeks to October 7. This was told to the cabinet by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob during its meeting today, reported The Star. The Dewan Rakyat sitting resumes on October…
KUALA LUMPUR: PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli has challenged Special Functions Minister Datuk Abdul Latiff Ahmad to sue him, Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd (BHIC), and auditors behind the now-declassified littoral combat ships (LCS) report despite the latter’s latest denial. In a Tweet, Rafizi said Latiff had merely made an…
KUALA LUMPUR: Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive Arul Kanda Kandasamy has no personal knowledge of whether justice Datuk Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, in his previous role in Maybank, had any involvement in the bank’s loan to the sovereign wealth fund. During the trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s alleged…
KUALA LUMPUR: 1MDB’s management was not cooperative in providing information and documents to the national audit department when the Cabinet ordered an investigation into the company’s financial status, the High Court was told. Former 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy said he received a complaint from then auditor-general Ambrin Buang during…
PETALING JAYA: PKR’s Rafizi Ramli has challenged special functions minister Abd Latiff Ahmad to sue him and Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC) over the identity of a woman who allegedly misappropriated funds for the RM9 billion littoral combat ships (LCS) project. The PKR deputy president previously said the woman, Zainab…
PETALING JAYA: Umno will not be swayed by the opposition’s calls for the next general election (GE15) to be delayed, says party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. In a Facebook post, Zahid said the opposition was merely seeking to delay GE15 to buy time to organise its strategy and launch more…
PETALING JAYA: A DAP MP has called on PAS Youth to organise nationwide protests against corruption instead of concerts featuring international artists. Klang MP Charles Santiago said PAS Youth chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari’s efforts were better off spent on protesting against corruption, citing the troubled RM9 billion littoral combat ship…
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has conducted raids on the offices of Kuala Lumpur Football Association (KLFA) and Kuala Lumpur City FC in its probe against KLFA. A source said the raids were carried out after the MACC received a report on an alleged breach of trust involving…
GUA MUSANG: A 16-year-old odd-job worker died yesterday after allegedly being beaten with a helmet by his employer four days ago. Kelantan acting police chief Zaki Harun said the teenager had complained that he was beaten by his employer at Kampung Mentara Lama in Gua Musang on Aug 22. He…
KUALA LUMPUR: Certain individuals who were involved in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal had taken active steps to “suppress information” from reaching the National Audit Department (NAD) when the sovereign wealth fund was in the process of being audited in 2015, the high court here heard today. During the…
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has affirmed the acquittal of Ahmad Saiful Islam, the son of former defence minister Mohamad Sabu, over his drug abuse conviction. Judge Kamaludin Md Said dismissed the prosecution’s appeal to reinstate Saiful’s conviction under Section 15(1)(a) of Dangerous Drug Act and his eight-month jail sentence.…
PETALING JAYA: An army tank broke down along busy Jalan Damansara this morning, obstructing traffic for about an hour. The Kuala Lumpur Command & Control Centre’s (KLCCC) Facebook page posted a screenshot from CCTV footage of the incident with a timestamp of 10.27am, showing the tank blocking the middle lane…
PETALING JAYA: Graphic artist and activist Fahmi Reza, who was charged in February with insulting former health minister Dr Adham Baba on Twitter, has been given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA). Fahmi’s lawyer, Rajsurian Pillai, said judge Nor Hasniah Ab Razak made the ruling at the Kuala…
PETALING JAYA: Umno’s chances of retaining the Pekan seat in the 15th general election (GE15) will not be affected by former prime minister Najib Razak’s jailing. Najib, the Pekan Umno chief, has held the parliamentary seat since 1976, defending it in GE14 with a majority of 24,859 votes in a…
PETALING JAYA: Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan has denied reports that party leaders have given Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob an ultimatum to fulfill several demands or he will be sacked as the vice-president. This follows reports quoting sources that Ismail had been told to remove Attorney-General Idrus Harun and Chief…
PETALING JAYA: Some 62 operators of National Service Training Programme (PLKN) campsites have either gone bankrupt or are waiting to be declared as such, after bearing huge debts following the abolition of the programme in 2018. They had failed to repay bank loans after investing up to RM12 million for…
PETALING JAYA: Special functions minister Abd Latiff Ahmad insists that he does not have a wife named Zainab Salleh. In a Facebook post, Latiff also said that “none of my family members are involved in the business of supplying or constructing littoral combat ships”. PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli previously…
TAWAU: Sabah needs a bigger allocation in the 2023 Budget to lift the state out of the abyss of poverty, says Tawau MP Datuk Christina Liew. She stressed that more funds must be channelled to the state for implementing its poverty eradication programmes and infrastructure development. "The Federal Government is…
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has again rescheduled its decision on former Tabung Haji chairman Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim’s bid to strike out his corruption and money laundering charges. This was after lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad told the court the Baling MP was admitted to University Malaya Medical Centre this…
