PETALING JAYA: A defence analyst, describing the local defence industry as a patronage machine, says politicians and bureaucrats and not the military have the final say in arms deals. Thomas Daniel, an analyst with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, said the armed forces mainly conducted technical evaluations in…
KOTA KINABALU: Seramai 500 peserta menjayakan Program Webinar Generational End Game Anti Rokok (GEGAR) Kampus anjuran Kelab Persatuan Mencegah Dadah Malaysia (PEMADAM) Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) di sini, baru-baru ini. Bertemakan Generational End-Game, para peserta didedahkan dengan peri pentingnya pembentukan generasi bebas rokok pada masa hadapan serta bahaya penggunaan rokok…
KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) menerima lawatan daripada rombongan Program Retreat Jawatankuasa Post Exco Pendidikan dan Tekonologi Melaka, baru-baru ini. Timbalan Naib Canselor (Hal Ehwal Pelajar dan Alumni) UMS, Profesor Madya Dr. Raman Noordin yang menyambut rombongan tersebut turut memberi penerangan ringkas mengenai sejarah, pencapaian serta perkembangan UMS. Raman…
KUALA LUMPUR – Former transport minister Anthony Loke considers Putrajaya’s decision to continue with the Klang Valley double tracking (KVDT2) project through direct negotiation a “vindication” of efforts during his time in office. The DAP secretary-general said that this is because the government had agreed to continue the project with…
KUALA LUMPUR – The government will report the schedule and progress of the littoral combat ship (LCS) construction project in stages, said Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. He said his ministry was given six months to mobilise efforts to revive the project, and he believed the first ship…
KUALA LUMPUR: The star witness in Lim Guan Eng’s undersea tunnel corruption trial told the sessions court that businessman G Gnanaraja “threatened” him with a money laundering probe and charges over the project. Consortium Zenith Sdn Bhd director Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli said he received WhatsApp messages in 2017 from…
PETALING JAYA: DAP MP Wong Hon Wai has criticised the energy and natural resources ministry’s report on the Baling floods as being incomplete and not comprehensive. The Bukit Bendera MP said the report had merely elaborated on the incidents from a geological perspective, and not on chronological records of changing…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has dismissed Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s attempt to obtain an interim injunction against Muhyiddin Yassin pending the outcome of his defamation suit. Zahid’s lawyer, Baharudeen Mohamed Ariff, said judge Rozana Ali Yusoff ruled that the issues raised by the parties were matters that could be decided…
KUALA LUMPUR: The first littoral combat ship (LCS) built by Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS) will be completed in “at least a year or two”, says defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein. He said the ministry will ensure that the project will be completed at the set time, adding that updates…
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 677 child daycare centres and 1,239 nurseries have yet to register with the welfare department (JKM), says deputy women, family and community development minister Siti Zailah Yusoff. She said the ministry has taken action against 274 daycare centres through JKM for breaching the Care Centres…
PETALING JAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases increased from 28,339 to 28,554, or 0.8%, last week from the week before, said health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. In his update for the week ending Aug 6, Noor Hisham said the number of patients admitted to public hospitals and quarantine…
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is wrong to work with Muhyiddin Yassin-led Bersatu instead of Umno, says a former leader of the Islamic party. Kuala Nerus MP Khairuddin Aman Razali said Hadi should have worked on strengthening its cooperation with Umno instead. He described Bersatu as a “small…
BIRMINGHAM – For a fleeting moment, national diver Nur Dhabitah Sabri looked on course to deliver the country’s first-ever diving gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Despite leading the way after the third dive with 207.90 points, Dhabitah’s challenge fizzled out with a poor fourth dive – a…
KUALA LUMPUR – Police denial on their links to a troll farm mentioned in Meta’s revelatory report is “weak and unconvincing”, said DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang as he calls for a public inquiry into the allegations. “I call for a public inquiry headed by a judge or former judge…
PETALING JAYA: A Malaysia-based start-up that aims to facilitate online commerce for underserved offline communities has received an investment from Free Malaysia Today and Winacore Capital under the FMT accelerator programme. The investment will help Products2U to expand into new regions in Malaysia, and bring new offerings on board their…
PETALING JAYA: DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has called for a public inquiry into allegations of the police’s links to a “troll farm” – a network of fake Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that tried to boost support for the government and run down the opposition. Lim said the…
PETALING JAYA: A family of four was devastated when news of their eldest son’s death while on holiday in Mexico reached them two weeks ago. Raised in Malaysia since birth, Mohammad Faisal Miah, 22, was a Bangladeshi student enrolled in a science degree course, majoring in electrical engineering, at Ryerson…
PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional (BN) is ready to study a proposal to allow consumers to take up shares in Air Selangor. The idea was first mooted by former Selangor menteri besar Khalid Ibrahim in 2008 as he felt it would give consumers a greater say in improving the company’s services.…
PETALING JAYA: A consumer group has urged the government to list the types of foreign products bought online that will incur sales tax under a proposed new rule next year. An amendment to the Sales Tax Act passed on Thursday calls for a 10% sales tax to be imposed on…
PETALING JAYA: Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government did not need to enter an agreement with Pakatan Harapan to stay in power, says DAP secretary-general Loke Siew Fook. It already had a majority. Speaking to FMT, Loke said: “You have to understand, even without the MoU these groups of people are in…