KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 – XOX Bhd is on track to achieve its target of getting two million active subscribers this year while continuing its growth momentum after achieving a 260 per cent growth last year, its Group Chief Executive Officer, Ng Kok Heng said. He said the company had so
GEORGE TOWN, March 19 – The Penang Hospital has sought the next-of-kin of two patients who died of infection complications at the hospital recently. The deceased have been identified as Ong Kai Chye, 51, and an unidentified 59-year-old woman. In a statement yesterday, hospital director Datuk Dr M. Sukumar said Ong died on
MOSCOW, March 19 – Russian officials said on Saturday that all 61 people on board a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport. Russia’s emergencies ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based
BUTTERWORTH, March 19 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was not giving the true picture when he said the 0.8 hectare (two acres) Taman Manggis in George Town was unsuitable for public housing project (PPR), said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan. “This was
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s defamation suit against the former Permatang Pauh Barisan Nasional candidate Dr Mazlan Ismail and also two others for linking him with corruption, today failed to be settled amicably through mediation. This is because the defendants – Mazlan, Sistem Television Malaysia (TV3)
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will open an investigation paper (IP) on Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over his alleged purchase of a house in the state at an undervalued price. A reliable source said the IP would be opened under the MACC Act 2009,
BUTTERWORTH, March 18 – Parti Cinta Malaysia today lodged a police report over the purchase of a bungalow by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng allegedly below market price. Its president, Datuk Huan Cheng Guan, called on the authorities to investigate the allegation raised by Tasek Gelugor MP Datuk Shabudin Yahaya
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – Petronas Lubricants International (PLI), global lubricants manufacturing and marketing arm of Petroliam Nasional Bhd, has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia, today. In a statement today, Petronas said the office marked PLI’s business expansion to form a wider Asia-Pacific portfolio. “With the establishment of PLI
KOTA KINABALU, March 18 – Two NGOs today lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission over a bungalow in George Town bought by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng allegedly at below market price. They are Pakatan Ngo Pro BN and Gerakan Akar Umbi Umno Malaysia (GAUM). Pakatan Ngo Pro
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office in Penang today received a report on the purchase of a bungalow by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng allegedly at below market price. MACC said it had recorded a statement from the complainant on the purchase of the house in Jalan
TOKYO, March 18 – Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has decided to merge Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering Pte. Ltd., which handles the design, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane systems, and Aqua Works and Engineering Pte. Ltd., an engineering company that handles water related facilities for condominiums
TOKYO, March 18 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, NEC Mexico and the Sahara Force India Formula One Team had been announced today about the extension of their partnership for the 2016 season. NEC will continue as the team’s Premium ICT
GEORGE TOWN, March 18 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has invited the PERDA Chair and Tasek Gelugor MP Datuk Shabudin Yahaya foe to meet one-on-one meeting at Komtar on 11 am 20 March (Sunday) to clarify the corruption allegation concerning his house purchase. Lim said he read in the Malaysiakini yesterday that allegations
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – The famous composer Datuk Adnan Abu Hassan passed away at the Selayang Hospital on 2:17am this morning. Adnan admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital on midnight due to stroke, diabetes and kidney failure and only rely on a respirator. The funeral prayers for Adnan would be held at at
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – The ringgit continued the uptrend momentum at opening today as traders trimmed dollar positions on a bearish outlook for US interest rate hikes, dealers said. At 9 am, the ringgit was quoted at 4.0395/0455 versus the US dollar from 4.0565/0625 yesterday. A dealer said bullish sentiment
CAMERON HIGHLANDS, March 18 – “Less vegetables, the quality is low, and the profit is less,” these are among complaints of vegetable growers here who are reeling from the hot weather due to the El Nino phenomenon. The highlands which is synonymous for cool temperature, has not seen rain for almost a
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – The federal government’s debt has reached RM630.5 billion, representing 54.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), as at December 2015, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said. Of this amount, 96.6 per cent or RM609.1 billion is domestic debt, while the rest is offshore debt, the MoF
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – The Graduates Tracking System showed that last year 54,867 graduates remained unemployed three months before their convocation, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said the amount represented 23.9 per cent of the total 229,568 graduates surveyed throughout 2015. “The
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – A back-bencher today called for an investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission into the alleged sale of several lots of land in Penang claimed to have been originally set aside for construction of houses under the Hardcore Poor Housing Project. Datuk Shabudin Yahaya (BN-Tasek Gelugor)
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) does not dismiss the possibility of cooperating with a new political block, the PAS-Parti Ikatan Bangsa Malaysia (Ikatan) pact, if both parties share the same struggle. PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the party’s focus was on the
