PETALING JAYA: The Registrar of Societies (RoS) has given PKR more time to clarify the results of its party elections, says PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. He told FMT the party had given preliminary information after receiving RoS’ official notice on July 5, though he will need to provide it…
KUALA LUMPUR: The tabling of the Constitution (Amendment) Bill (No 3) 2022 and the Provision for the Prohibition of Members of Parliament from Party-Hopping will be the focus of the Dewan Rakyat today. The bill is expected to be tabled by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Engagement sessions for the…
PETALING JAYA: Finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz has warned that the existing subsidy mechanism, in which subsidies are given to Malaysians across the board, is unsustainable. With Putrajaya’s expenditure on subsidies set to increase by over RM40 billion compared to the RM31 billion allocated in its 2022 budget, he said…
PETALING JAYA: A transport consultant has urged the government to raise the minimum age for eligibility for a motorcycle licence from 16 to 21. Rosli Azad Khan said 16-year-olds were too young to ride motorcycles and called for the immediate cancellation of “this regressive policy”. He told FMT the government…
MELAKA, 26 Julai (Bernama) -- Kemunculan watak utama filem 'Mat Kilau' lakonan Datuk Adi Putra menghangatkan upacara pembukaan Kejuaraan Pencak Silat Dunia ke-19, malam ini. Dewan Pusat Dagangan Antarabangsa Melaka (MITC) gegak gempita dengan sorakan semangat lebih 500 peserta dari 40 negara yang mengambil bahagian dalam pertandingan selama lima hari…
PETALING JAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases increased from 26,355 to 29,886 – or 13.5% – last week from the week before, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. In his update for the week ending July 16, Noor Hisham said the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to public…
PETALING JAYA: The government must be firm in taking legal action against developers who are unable to complete housing projects on time, says Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian). He said such companies should be blacklisted and brought to court. “These companies need to be brought to face justice and must refund the…
SHAH ALAM: Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been named as one of the individuals who received RM2.6 million as political donations from Ultra Kirana Sdn Bhd (UKSB) for his then Bersatu party after the 14th general election (GE14). Former UKSB administrative manager David Tan told the High Court in Ahmad Zahid…
PETALING JAYA: Two NGOs have criticised the government’s decision to adopt the Tracking Refugees Information System (TRIS) for all United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholders in Malaysia. Beyond Borders and the Alliance of Chin Refugees said TRIS was an invasive and dehumanising system that was open to abuse.…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian households will see significant growth in their disposable income for the rest of the year and up until 2026, says Fitch Solutions. Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research said household disposable income had grown beyond pre-pandemic levels of RM98,300 per household in 2019. For the medium-term…
PETALING JAYA: Corporate figure and founder of property developer Emkay Group, Mustapha Kamal Abu Bakar, died this morning at the age of 73. Astro Awani reported that the chairman of Setia Haruman Sdn Bhd died at 7.45am at the National Heart Institute (IJN). He will be laid to rest at…
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, state media said today, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades. The four, who included another prominent democracy activist, were executed for leading “brutal and inhumane terror acts”, the Global…
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is looking at a new budget for the construction of public housing units under Program Perumahan Rakyat Termiskin (PPRT) as contractors are not willing to build such units currently. The budget to build one PPRT unit is set at a maximum of RM56,000 currently, while the…
PETALING JAYA: The driver of a BMW was burnt to death in an accident involving four vehicles on the EDL highway in Johor. The other vehicles were two cars and a van. According to a Berita Harian report, Larkin fire and rescue department chief Suhaimi Jamal said the identity of…
KOTA KINABALU: Eco-Campus Visitors Information Centre (EVIC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) menjangkakan mampu mencapai jumlah 10 ribu pelancong antarabangsa menjelang Disember tahun ini. Menurut kenyataan dari EVIC, jumlah tersebut mampu dicapai berdasarkan trend peningkatan 30% daripada rekod jumlah pelawat bulan Jun hingga bulan Julai dengan anggaran sejumlah 10,765 pelawat sehingga…
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) will continue to drive regulatory review programmes through the MyMudah initiative to simplify the affairs of industry players. In a statement today, MPC said this was in line with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s recommendations in the Economic Action Council meeting…
Recent research ‘Does sustainable consumption matter? Consumer grocery shopping behaviour and the pandemic’ a survey among Malaysian consumers were published in the Journal of Social Marketing by two senior lecturers in the Marketing Program of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in collaboration with an…
PETALING JAYA: PAS has agreed to use the new Perikatan Nasional (PN) logo at the 15th general election (GE15), says its president Abdul Hadi Awang. Hadi said the issue was still being discussed, but the party had agreed in principle to use the coalition’s new logo. Speaking to reporters after…
PETALING JAYA: Police have arrested a couple for allegedly abusing a child, after their actions were caught on video. Kajang district police chief Zaid Hassan said the four-year-old girl is the child of an Indonesian national but did not have any documents. He said the girl had been under the…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 3.4% in June from a year earlier, driven by rising food prices. The food index increased 6.1% and remained the main contributor to the rise in inflation during June, said chief statistician Uzir Mahidin. In a…