KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – The Royal Malaysian Police has sought Interpol assistance over the hackings of 17 local automated teller machines (ATM) in September. Commercial Crime Investigation Department (Cybercrime and Multimedia) deputy director SAC Mohd Kamarudin Md Din said a ‘purple notice’ had been sent to Interpol in France to obtain
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Petronas is investing about US$27 billion (RM89.3 billion) to build its Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor with the official groundbreaking for its Pengerang Co-Generation Plant (PCP) here today. Petronas Vice President, Infrastructure and Utilities Ir. Pramod Kumar Karunakan said the PCP is expected to power the
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took to twitter today to wish ‘Success’ to students who would be facing their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination tomorrow. “All the best to Form Five students who will be sitting for their SPM tomorrow. I wish them every success,” he tweeted. A
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 3 – President Barack Obama and his entourage were switching to a different plane for his return trip to Washington on Sunday because of a minor flap issue with the aircraft, dubbed Air Force One, that flew them earlier in the day, a spokesman said. “While in Philadelphia, we have
KUANTAN, Nov 3 – Pahang fans lined the streets in the state capital as the team celebrated their Malaysia Cup success with a victory parade today. Players, including coach Zainal Abidin Hassan, showed off the trophy, which they won on Saturday against Johor Darul Ta?zim in a dramatic penalty shoot-out
MOSCOW, Nov 3 – Voters in rebel-held eastern Ukraine turned out at the polls Sunday to elect members of Parliament and prime ministers in the pro-Russian separatist provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in a vote criticized by the Ukrainian government in Kiev and Western governments. Against a backdrop of violence and
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – The road stretch from Jalan Imbi to Jalan Hang Tuah has been reopened to traffic since 2.20 pm Monday, said Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Talib. He said the three-lane road was closed to facilitate resurfacing work of roads in the open-cut area which was
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – The Federal Court today ordered the Parliament to pay the salary and remuneration withheld from Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo during his one year suspension in 2009. The court, in upholding the decision of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, held that there was
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – The installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) at 526 strong rooms where the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) question papers are stored will hopefully prevent any leakage of the questions, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. He said the immediate measures to tighten up security
GEORGE TOWN, Nov 3 – Thirteen families in Kampung Sungai Nyiur, Butterworth, near here, wants the Penang government to intervene in the issue of compensation payment for demolishment of their homes which they find too low at RM2,000 per house. The group’s representative, Samuel Walter, 46, said the 13 affected families had
SHAH ALAM, Nov 3 – Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali pledged to use the entire Malaysian Road Record Information System (Marris) allocation from the Federal Government to maintain roads in the state. The utilisation of the allocation, which is provided to every state, was subject to each state government’s
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Arguing that penetration did occur in Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s alleged sodomy of a former aide, the prosecution said the lack of injury or tear on the complainant was because of the lubricant used in addition to the possibility of “previous encounters”. Lead prosecutor Tan Sri
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) was in a spotlight on Monday morning after reporting financial year (FY) 2014 results that were above expectations. In four separate statements, analysts from Maybank Research, Alliance-DBS Research, AffinHwang Investment Bank and Hong Leong Investment Bank revised the target price for TNB at
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Malindo flight 206 suffered a technical problem during its Delhi-Kuala Lumpur route, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Bangkok early this morning. The airline’s chief executive officer Chandran Rama Muthy told The Rakyat Post that about 6am today, the aircraft’s pilot, in light of the
WASHINGTON, Nov 3 – Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he governs. Without waiting for results from elections
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 – Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim returns to court today, the fifth day in what was supposed to be a two-day trial, in his bid to convince the Federal Court to overturn the Court of Appeal’s decision which had found him guilty of sodomy. Anwar was
