KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 – The High Court here today set Aug 1 to hear the application for a judicial review filed by Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali and Muhammad Zahid Md Arip to challenge the decision to classify the Auditor-General’s report on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) as
TAORMINA, May 26 – US President Donald Trump said Friday the “problem” of an increasingly belligerent North Korea would be “solved”, as he met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe just before the start of the G7 summit. “It’s a big problem, it’s a world problem,” he said in the Sicilian town of
MANCHESTER, May 26 – British police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing made a new arrest Friday while continuing to search addresses associated with the attacker who killed 22 people. Seven other men are in custody in connection with Monday’s blast, all are being held on suspicion of offenses violating the Terrorism Act.
MIRI, May 26 – Former Bukit Aman (federal police) Criminal Investigation Department Special Task Force On Organised Crime (STAFOC) assistant director I (Intelligence), ACP Lim Meng Seah has been appointed as the new Miri police chief. Lim, 54, from Taiping, Perak, is taking over from ACP Khoo Leng Huat who goes on
WASHINGTON, May 26 – Donald Trump’s administration is pledging a Supreme Court showdown over his travel ban after a federal appeals ruled that the ban “drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination”. Citing the president’s duty to protect the country from terrorism, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that the Justice Department
KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 – As many as 61% of the 12,926 sexual crime cases reported over the past three years involved children, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim. She said this situation was serious as the children would grow up with negative psychological effects. “The
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 – The I.Seoul.U Concert in Kuala Lumpur received overwhelming response with more than five thousand fans featuring 3 acts from the biggest K-pop company, SM Entertainment, including Yesung from Super Junior, Red Velvet and NCT127 which happened at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on the 23rd of May. The
ALOR STAR, May 26 – The Kedah government today provided about 1,000 water tanks with a capacity of 900 litres to residents who faced frequent water disruptions in the state. State Housing and Local Government, Water Resources, Water Supply and Energy Committee chairman Datuk Badrol Hisham Hashim said the approach was also
MANCHESTER, May 26 – Britain’s politicians resume campaigning in earnest on Friday with national security in the spotlight, as police scramble to bust a Libya-linked jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester terror attack. Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had suspended campaigning after Monday’s bombing at a
SEOUL, May 26 – After successful missile launches, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un often exchanges smiles and hugs with the same three men and shares a celebratory smoke with them. The three, shown with Kim in photographs and TV footage in North Korean media, are of great interest to Western security and
MANCHESTER, May 25 – Bomb disposal units responded to a call at a college in Manchester on Thursday which turned out to be a false alarm, police investigating Monday’s terror attack in the city said. Police said a “possible suspicious package … has now been deemed safe and the cordon has been
LONDON, May 25 – US had leaks out about the British investigation into the Manchester bomber have strained the two countries’ “special relationship” and thrown into the doubt of the sharing of information among the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance. Greater Manchester Police are trying to establish who made the bomb detonated
KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 – Google Malaysia emerged as the top rank in JobStreet.com’s survey of top 10 companies Malaysians aspire to work for. JobStreet, Asia’s leading online employment marketplace said the result is based on a survey which involved 10,241 Malaysians across all position levels, and aims to determine what the
NEW DELHI, May 25 – An Indian woman who claimed that she was compelled to marry a Pakistani man at gunpoint, returned to India from Pakistan’s Islamabad Thursday, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. The woman, identified as Uzma, who is in her 20s, returned to India, a day after a high court
SINGAPORE, May 25 – Singapore has filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) its written observations on the admissibility of Malaysia’s application to revise the 2008 judgment in the case concerning sovereignty over Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge. In a statement today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
MANCHESTER, May 25 – British police arrested a seventh person Wednesday in connection with the massacre at a Manchester pop concert that left 22 people dead. The arrest was made following searches at an address in the town of Nuneaton in central England and is the first outside the Manchester area. “This
TOKYO, May 25 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has delivered three replacement steam generators to Electricite de France S.A. (EDF) for the Cruas Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 Reactor. The replacement steam generators have been certified by France’s nuclear authority as compliant with the country’s strict regulatory requirements on
PETALING JAYA, May 25 – Proton Holdings Bhd is divesting its interest in Lotus Group International Ltd after failing to turn it around since acquiring control in 1996. It is not due to want of trying, however, as numerous media reports point to efforts to inject more funds to drive the company
SINGAPORE, May 25 – The Taiwan flag waved proudly at the opening of CommunicAsia 2017 as it showcased 50 Taiwanese technologies and innovations at the Taiwan Excellence Pavilion. This year’s inaugural participation at Asia’s premier sourcing and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge platform is part of the country’s drive
JAKARTA, May 24 – Two blasts rocked a public transport terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday and caused casualties, police said. “There were two blasts at around 9pm (1400 GMT, 10pm Malaysia), close to each other, there are three victims,” East Jakarta police chief Andry Wibowo told TV station MetroTV,
