WASHINGTON, Jul 5 – US President Barack Obama celebrated the country’s military as well as his daughter Malia’s 18th birthday at the White House to mark America’s Independence Day holiday on Monday. Obama said they all know that their freedoms are dependent on an incredible group of men and women in uniform and
KOTA BARU, Jul 5 – Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob said state departments and agencies will open on July 10 to enable outstation Kelantanese to deal with office matters on July 10 (Sunday). He said he feel that the four-day break is already sufficient. He said this when commenting on the move
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Umno has accepted the decision of suspended vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal to quit the party, said party secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor. He said that according to party rules, “if he (Shafie) has declared having left (the party), automatically he was no longer
KANGAR, Jul 4 – Almost 10% or 9,000 out of 92,000 Tenaga Nasional Berhad customers in Perlis are enjoying free electricity for spending below RM20 in their monthly bills. Its state general manager, Abd Aziz Yaacob said the number has declined as compared to almost 13,000 consumers in 2014. The federal government programme
TOKYO, Jul 4 – The Japanese operator of fast fashion giant Uniqlo has banned non-essential travel to Bangladesh and ordered its staff there to stay at home, days after militant Islamists killed foreigners in a bloody siege. Tokyo-based Fast Retailing, which operates Uniqlo, said it had told 10 Japanese employees not to
PUTRAJAYA, Jul 4 – Barisan Nasional Strategic Communications director Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan today blasted Pakatan Harapan for insisting that Lim Guan Eng should continue to serve as Chief Minister of Penang. He said he can only marvel at the shoddy excuses given by Pakatan Harapan leaders to deny that they practise double
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that two of the Bangladeshi nationals who died in the attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh were ex-students of Monash University in Malaysia. However, he said, police had not identified whether they were victims or members of the armed group
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Malaysian police say the Islamic State has carried out its first successful attack in the country. Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar told CNN that a grenade attack on June 28 at a nightspot near Kuala Lumpur, the country’s capital, was carried out on the orders of
PETALING JAYA, Jul 4 – Former UMNO vice president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apda today announced that he is quitting the party, 10 days after he was suspended by the party’s supreme council. Mohd Shafie, who is also Semporna Umno division chief made this announcement during a gathering at his house in
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Police have confirmed that the grenade attack at the Movida bar at a Puchong mall last week was the first ever successful Islamic State (IS) terrorist group attack on Malaysian soil. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said two male suspects were arrested last week and
AMSTERDAM, Jul 4 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has won an international tender to supply CENI, the National Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 22,000 mobile biometric voter enrollment kits to support a comprehensive update of the country’s national
SYDNEY, Jul 4 – A Malaysian is among eight men charged over a seizure of the drug “ice” worth some Aus$275 million (US$206 million, RM822.60 million) in Australia, authorities said Monday. Some 275kg of crystal methamphetamine were found under the floorboards of shipping containers after a tip-off, the Department of Immigration and
LONDON, Jul 4 – The favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister on Sunday vowed to push for an EU trade deal that limits immigration, as a law firm warned Brexit needed parliament’s backing to begin. The shock June 23 vote caused upheaval in British politics and financial markets, leaving lawmakers at
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Traffic flow at all major highways is reportedly smooth as at 10am today, except on the North-South Expressway from Bidor to the Tapah Rest Area. PLUS Malaysia Berhad spokesperson, when contacted by Bernama, said traffic was slow moving on the expressway due to the high number of vehicles.
SUNGAI PETANI, Jul 4 – A total of 6,312 road accidents have been recorded nationwide during the first four days of ‘Ops Selamat 9/2016’, which began on June 29 with Selangor recording the highest number of 2,051 cases. Bukit Aman Traffic Enforcement Investigation Department (TEID) director Datuk Mahamad Khir Darus said the
BAGHDAD, Jul 4 – A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through a busy Baghdad shopping district Sunday, killing at least 119 people in the deadliest attack this year in Iraq’s capital. The blast hit the Karrada district early in the day as the area was packed with
GUA MUSANG, Jul 4 – The police distributed 1,500 cups of coffee to travellers returning home for the Aidilfitri celebration through Gua Musang on Saturday night. It was carried out under the ‘Coffee Break’ programme and the drinks were distributed to the travellers when they stopped at the Gua Musang rest area along Jalan
NILAI, Jul 4 – Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has brushed off reports that the shooting incidents in Batu Caves and Cheras, and the bomb explosion in Subang Jaya were acts of terrorists. Instead, Khalid asserted that all the incidents which occurred had its own reasons. “Investigations found that
MIAMI, Jul 3 – Juno, an unmanned Nasa spacecraft, is barrelling toward Jupiter on a US$1.1 billion (RM4.39 billion) mission to circle the biggest planet in the solar system and shed new light on the origin of our planetary neighbourhood. On July 4 and 5, the solar-powered vehicle — about the size
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 3 – Students of Diploma in Mass Communications of INTI International College Penang was hosting an event called 英迪慈善表演之 Love x Help Charity Night, who attended by Fuying and Sam (FS), at City Light Main Auditorium here yesterday evening. The student aim to raise the awareness and funds raising for the Pertubuhan Kebajikan Seri
