KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 – Thailand took aim at table-topping Malaysia for stacking the sports programme in their favour as they conceded defeat in the Southeast Asian Games medals race. Thailand dominated the last edition of the 11-nation competition in 2015, when they claimed 95 gold medals to finish clear of hosts
PEKAN, Aug 27 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said a retired leader should support his successor because his past strength was based on the support from Umno party members. Najib, who took over the country’s administration from Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawai, said every prime minister has the obligation to
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 – An analysis claiming an increase of 10 to 20% Malay votes going to the opposition in the 14th general election has been dismissed by Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak as being far off the factual truth. Referring to the analysis by
GEORGE TOWN, Aug 27 – Lim Guan Eng has declined comment on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) call to him to publicly apologise for describing the commission’s recent arrest of a state exco as “illegal”. The Penang chief minister, who appeared calm at a press conference here today, did not entertain any
KOTA KINABALU, Aug 27 – The Malaysia Day celebration should be more inclusive and also held on a larger scale of nationwide and not only centred in Sabah and Sarawak, said the Sabah National Civics Bureau (BTN) director Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali. He said it would make the celebration of Malaysia
PEKAN, Aug 27 – Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) still had time to fine-tune and perfect their machinery before the 14th general election. The Prime Minister who is also Umno president said from the feedback he gathered through the Umno Delegates Conferences nationwide, the party machinery’s
Both Facebook and Instagram are down for many users this morning. While neither social network has yet acknowledged the outage, a slew of user have taken to Twitter to complain while Down Dector also shows a massive spike in complaints as of this morning… Facebook’s status page shows that the platform
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 – Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi charmed Wanita MCA members and other guests at a dinner event tonight when he told them in Mandarin that “we are a family despite being different races”. “I am Malay, you are Chinese. But we are all Malaysians. We
Nur Dhabitah endures pain to deliver silver Kuala Lumpur SEA Games cauldron lighter, Nur Dhabitah Sabri who collected a silver medal in the women’s 3m springboard at the National Aquatic Centre in Bukit Jalil today was not at her best during the competition. According to the 18-year-old national diver, she suffered
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 – Federal Territories (FT) Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has proposed for every People’s Housing Project (PPR) in the federal territories to establish their own cooperative in support of the implementation and development of fair price shop network. He said the involvement of cooperatives in
SEPANG, Aug 26 – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) will hold a discussion with Selangor PAS over the latter’s intention to contest 42 state seats in Selangor in the 14th general election (GE14). Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali, who is also PKR deputy president, said the matter would be solved easily
TAIPING, Aug 26 – The Tourism and Culture Ministry, through the National Heritage Department, will gazette buildings, sites, objects or certain living persons and underwater cultural heritage under the National Heritage Act 2005. Its minister, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz said the move would be taken to safeguard their interest and to
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 – Malaysia’s world-class divers took three gold to push the hosts further ahead in their target for 111 and overall domination of the biennial sporting event.
BANGKOK, Aug 26 – No one in former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s legal team knows her present whereabout, despite media speculation that she could be in Dubai where her exiled brother, Thaksin, maintained a home there. Her lawyer, Norrawit Larlaeng, in a Twitter posting today said, Yingluck did not inform them
JELEBU, Aug 26 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng will face civil or criminal action if he refuses to make an open apology within the stipulated period, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner Datuk Dzuklifli Ahmad said. He said this in response to Lim’s statement that the arrest of state
BALIK PULAU, Aug 26 – The government could not have implemented many development projects for the benefit of the people if it continued with its dependence on oil and gas resources at 41% each year, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak. He said the move to diversify resources including the
BALIK PULAU, Aug 26 – Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the federal government will not support the proposed Penang South reclamation project involving 4,500 acres in the southern part of the island by the state’s Pakatan Harapan government if it affects the livelihood of the people. “The 4,500-acre (1,800-hectare) land reclamation project to be
KOTA KINABALU, Aug 26 – The education ministry has reminded schools not to obtain educational materials from private distributors without verifying its contents with the ministry. Deputy minister Datuk Chong Sin Woon said the ministry never encouraged schools to simply obtain textbooks or workbooks from the private sector without checking the accuracy
BANGKOK, Aug 26 – Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra is in Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told AFP Saturday, after fleeing the country to avoid a court ruling in a vanishing act that stunned many Thais. Yingluck, 50, was due on Friday morning
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 – The ringgit is expected to trade firmer against the US dollar at 4.2500 to 4.2700 level next week on strong demand for the local note, backed by rising commodity prices and a weaker US dollar. Affin Hwang Investment Bank Vice-President and Head of Retail Research, Datuk Dr
