KOTA KINABALU: Pusat Minda Lestari (PML) Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) memberi pendedahan tentang dunia persekitaran kepada murid-murid berumur 3 – 9 tahun melalui aktiviti menaiki Buggy Car baru-baru ini. Menurut kenyataan PML, kesemua murid dibawa ke Institut Biologi Tropika dan Pemulihan (IBTP) UMS selain menyaksikan keindahan pemandangan di universiti tersebut.…
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob cancelled his meeting with Perikatan Nasional (PN) secretary-general Hamzah Zainudin slated for yesterday at the last-minute, claims a Bersatu leader. Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan said the meeting was supposed to take place at 2.30pm yesterday. “Bersatu wants the prime minister…
PETALING JAYA: Despite “going big” on the use of Malay at international functions, the government has increased the monthly allowances for civil servants serving abroad who pick up foreign languages to use in the course of their duty. However, Putrajaya has kept its policy of not paying any allowance for…
PETALING JAYA: DAP national chairman Lim Guan Eng has called for a special sitting of the Penang state assembly to decide the fate of two assemblymen who switched their support from Pakatan Harapan to Perikatan Nasional. Lim, the Air Putih assemblyman, said the state assembly should use the emergency sitting…
PETALING JAYA: PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has described Pakatan Harapan’s memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Putrajaya as one of the proudest moments of his political career. According to Saifuddin, the MoU with Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government had even given him greater “political satisfaction” than PH defeating Barisan Nasional to…
PETALING JAYA: Two environmental NGOs have filed an application for judicial review of the Selangor government’s degazettement of a piece of land in a forest reserve said to be the size of approximately a thousand football fields. Lim Teck Wyn of the Shah Alam Community Forest Society (SACF) and Damien…
PETALING JAYA: Gerakan Tanah Air (GTA), the newly formed Malay-only coalition led by Dr Mahathir Mohamad, will not last long, an analyst said, noting that the former prime minister was the only one who had a wealth of experience in the political arena. Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid of Universiti Sains…
GEORGE TOWN – The four Bersatu assemblymen in Penang who had won their current state seats under the banners of other parties have pledged to continue in their positions despite the Federal Court ruling that the state’s anti-party hopping legislation is valid and binding. The apex court had ruled that…
KUALA LUMPUR – Stalking could soon be considered an offence, with the government proposing an amendment to the Penal Code to criminalise the act. Deputy Law Minister Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin today tabled the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2022 for the first reading in the Dewan Rakyat, which aims to…
KUALA LUMPUR: Terengganu’s Sultanah Nur Zahirah had never interfered in the affairs of the state government and was not involved in the establishment of the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA), former menteri besar Ahmad Said told the High Court. Ahmad said that as the wife of the sultan, the sultanah only…
KUALA LUMPUR: The star witness in Lim Guan Eng’s undersea tunnel corruption trial told the sessions court that media statements he issued on the project after his arrest were untrue. In his testimony, Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli acknowledged that he had claimed in the statements that there were no elements…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here set Aug 11 to decide on Labuan MP Rozman Isli’s application to strike out a charge of abusing his position to secure a contract for a company in which his father and brother had an interest three years ago. Judicial commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain…
PETALING JAYA: The Myanmar refugee who threw his three children off the Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2) highway before taking his own life had mental health issues, police said. Sentul district police chief Beh Eng Lai said the 38-year-old UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholder had often talked to…
PETALING JAYA: Former defence minister Mohamad Sabu and his former deputy, Liew Chin Tong, are demanding that key documents on the littoral combat ship (LCS) project be declassified. They agreed with the call by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the governance, procurement and finance investigation committee’s report on the…
GEORGE TOWN: Four Penang assemblymen have challenged chief minister Chow Kon Yeow to prove that he is sincere in wanting to bring the state constitution in line with the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution dealing with anti-party hopping. This comes before the state decides their fate as assemblymen and…
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has remanded two more individuals over bribery allegations linked to foreign worker recruitment. This follows the arrest of eight others yesterday to help in the investigation. An MACC source said the two male suspects were a businessman and an employment agency owner, aged…
PETALING JAYA: A video showing a group of children crossing a river on a sampan to go to school has been going viral since yesterday. The video shows the group made up of those with life jackets and those without. Those with lifejackets can be seen waiting for their turn…
KUALA LUMPUR – Bursa Malaysia remained on a high note at mid-morning, boosted by bargain hunting after two consecutive days of losses, in line with the positive sentiment in the regional markets. At 11.05am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) advanced 10.12 points to 1,500.69 from yesterday’s close of…
KUALA LUMPUR – Several amendments will be made to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) to ensure the law remains relevant and dynamic for data governance under its purview, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa. During ministerial Question Time in Parliament today, Annuar listed out several…
PUTRAJAYA – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested eight individuals, including the chief executive officer of an IT company, for allegedly receiving bribes in return for securing foreign worker quotas. According to a source, the five men and three women, aged 40 to 60, were nabbed at the MACC…