KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 6 – Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said on Tuesday night Islamophobia in the West arose from a misunderstanding of the true teachings of Islam which have been misinterpreted by some. The Prime Minister said that from a certain viewpoint, the blame should be laid on a handful of
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 6 – Komtar Assemblyman Teh Lai Heng had announced on Tuesday that the second years of ‘Merdeka Zumba’ was return to Penang and to be held at Prangin Mall’s Landscape A which is next to CIMB Bank on August 28 from 5.30pm onwards. Participant were be charges RM20 per person. The
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 6 – George Town Special Area Plan (SAP) will be gazetted come Aug 1, according to Penang Housing, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh. More than 5,000 buildings in the 259.42ha site, 2,569 buildings and the buffer zone comprising 2,444 buildings, will now be governed by stringent development
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 5 – Having the Attorney-General (A-G) conduct the prosecution in a high-profile case, especially involving a dignitary or minister, is normal and more proper, says the senior lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. In the case of Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali personally conducting the prosecution against Penang
YANGON, Jul 5 – An official in Myanmar has been charged with defamation for referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with a slur parroted by the former junta she spent decades campaigning against, police said Tuesday. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept historic polls in November, with the veteran activist
ALOR STAR, Jul 5 – In a move to ensure the availability of sufficient water supply, the Kedah Government has instructed Syarikat Air Darul Aman (SADA) to conduct a study on the rate of water usage during the Aidilfitri festive season. Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah said the
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 5 – The seventh annual George Town Festival (GTF) will make its return to Penang 29 July 2016 – 28 August 2016. The past editions of the festival have always been about the arts – discovering local talent and bringing in world class shows at affordable prices for the people. This year,
SOLO, Jul 5 – A suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up outside an Indonesian police station Tuesday, injuring one officer in an attack officials said was linked to the Islamic State group. The attack in Solo city, the country’s radical heartland and the hometown of President Joko Widodo, came as
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 5 – Traffic flow on several major highways was smooth and under control as at 9am today. A spokesman of PLUS Malaysia Berhad, when contacted by Bernama, said traffic flow heading to the north was under control, although slow moving at several stretches. He said traffic was slow moving from
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 5 – The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tuanku Hajah Haminah will host an open house at Istana Negara on the first day of Aidilfitri. Datuk Pengelola Bijaya Diraja, Datuk Wira Awang Kecik Abdul Rahman said Tuanku Abdul Halim and Tuanku Hajah
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
