KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has conceded that a handful of policemen received bribes from foreigners while conducting random checks. He said the matter was not easy to control and the police have taken various drastic measures, including taking action against the personnel concerned.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – The High Court here was told today that three of the accused in deputy public prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais’ murder were detected to be near the deceased’s residence before the car he was travelling in was involved in an accident with a Mitsubishi Triton pickup truck.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – Bursa Malaysia ended broadly lower today, reversing yesterday’s gains as profit-taking emerged mostly in key heavyweights and blue-chips. At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 10.60 points to 1,759.93 after fluctuating between 1,759.46 and 1,768.61 throughout the day. Key heavyweights, Maybank and TNB, lost two sen each
ALOR STAR, Jul 7 – Gerakan is confident it can regain the Sidam and Derga State Assembly seats which it lost in the 13th general election (GE13), said its president Datuk Seri Mah Siew Kong. He said the party had already drawn up a new strategy to face GE14 instead of the
Nintendo will launch a new “Nintendo Switch Online” companion app for its latest console that will arrive on July 21 alongside the release of its new Splatoon 2 game. The Nintendo Switch Online app will allow users to invite other players with the same game via an iPhone (and presumably other
MOSCOW, Jul 7 – JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and United Settlement System (USS), a non-bank credit organization in Russia, announced the signing of a license agreement for JCB card POS acquiring in the POS-terminals network of USS and its partner banks
MILAN, Jul 7 – A five-story apartment block has collapsed near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities are working to find anyone who may have been trapped. Firefighters told Sky TG24 that six or seven people are believed to be buried in the rubble in the town of Torre
PETALING JAYA, Jul 7 – A Delta Airlines flight made a turn back soon after takeoff from Seattle to Beijing on Thursday night after a passenger attempted to enter the cockpit, CNN reported today. Citing two people familiar with the incident, it said three people were injured in the incident aboard Delta
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 7 – Microsoft said Thursday it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs amid reports the US tech giant was reorganizing its global sales operations. “Today, we are taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated,” Microsoft said
HONG KONG, Jul 7 – Hong Kong customs officials said Thursday they have seized more than $9 million worth of ivory this week in the city’s biggest haul in 30 years. Customs officers discovered 7,200kg of elephant tusks on Tuesday in a shipment from Malaysia that had been labelled as frozen fish,
PETALING JAYA, Jul 7 – The deaths of two children in Serian after getting infected with rabies could have been avoided. Their family just didn’t have RM40 to seek medical attention at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) fast enough. Monica Mazlan, six, was bitten on her heel while her brother Jackson Mazlan,
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jul 7 – Terengganu Entrepreneur Tunas Association (Patut) said the government’s move to exempt Malaysians from paying the tourism tax at three-star rated hotels downwards will be a boost to industry players, which are mostly dependent on local tourists. Its president Amir Hakimin Che Razali said the positive move
PETALING JAYA, Jul 7 – A team of investigators from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have said they believe they may have found the wreckage of the MH370 plane. The Boeing 777 jet vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people
TOKYO, Jul 7 – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it has been conferred the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Integrated Biometrics Solutions for Public Safety Leadership Award. The award recognizes NEC for its technical leadership and growth performance in 2016 in Asia Pacific for the Biometrics solutions
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak has called on all party members taking part in the Umno Divisional Delegates Meeting beginning tomorrow to close ranks to achieve the objectives of the party’s struggles. Najib, who is also the Prime Minister, wanted all delegates to grab the
Pokémon GO has been updated today with new features including a special Pikachu wearing Ash’s hat, a limited time Anniversary box, and more as Niantic and The Pokémon Company continue to celebrate the game’s one year anniversary. The latest limited time event runs from today through July 24 at 1 PM
HONG KONG, Jul 7 – China’s sole aircraft carrier arrived in Hong Kong for the first time Friday in a display of military might less than a week after a high-profile visit by president Xi Jinping. Xi’s trip marked 20 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain, and
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – “Op Selamat 2017” conducted in conjunction with Aidilfitri has been deemed a success, showing a record drop in the number of road deaths, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. He said during the 15-day operation, fatal accidents dropped by 12% to 239 cases compared
Instagram is today adding new functionality to its Stories feature that will allow users to reply with photos and videos. Head below to learn how to use the new feature. Replies in stories allow for fun, in-the-moment conversations with your friends no matter where they are. Today’s update makes those
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 6 – DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said today the Pakatan Rakyat coalition was no more. He said there is no Pakatan Rakyat anymore. He told this in a press conference after attending the Penang Development Corporation Aidilfitri ‘open house’ here. Lim’s statement came a day after Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said that Selangor would continue to be governed
