PUTRAJAYA, March 3 – The Court of Appeal here Thursday granted leave to the Penang Government to commence a judicial review to challenge the Home Ministry’s order in declaring the Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) as an illegal organisation. A three-man-bench led by Justice Datuk Lim Yee Lan allowed the state government’s
PUTRAJAYA, March 3 – A total of 9,721 candidates obtained excellent results (Grade A+, A, A-) in all subjects in the 2015 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination, but the number fell by 0.25 per cent from 11,289 candidates in 2014. Education director-general Datuk Seri Dr Khair Mohamad Yusof said the index
SINGAPORE, March 3 – Ah Boys to Men actor Noah Yap, 22, was convicted on Wednesday of drug consumption and jailed nine months in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) detention barracks. In response to media queries, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said on Thursday (March 3) that the subordinate military court
SHAH ALAM, March 3 – Ex- Umno Supreme Council and now PKR secretary Saifuddin Abdullah said after an Asset Declaration forum here today that the suspended Umno Deputy President Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Former Deputy Prime Minister, can’t save the ‘dying’ UMNO. Saifuddin explained that internal reforms was almost
CANBERRA, March 3 – The airplane debris found in the African country of Mozambique would be transferred to Australia for examination, China’s Xinhua news agency reported Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester as saying on Thursday. Chester confirmed in a statement that the debris is a piece of
SINGAPORE, Mar 3 – 136 entries have made it as finalists and will be contending for metals at the Asia Pacific Effie Awards 2016. Each of these finalists have been through two rounds of rigorous judging by an expert jury comprising 130 senior level advertising and marketing professionals from agencies and
GEORGE TOWN, March 3 – Penang Gerakan urged Penang State Government to reveal full plan of Gurney Wharf which planned reclamation project at the Gurney Drive seafront. The party’s state youth chief Hng Chee Wey noted that the overall Phase 2A of Sri Tanjong Pinang at the shore of Gurney Drive land reclamation
KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 – A moderate earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck Southwest of Sumatra this morning, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department. In a statement Thursday, the department said the quake with its epicenter at 629 km southwest of Siberut, Indonesia, 1,140 km southwest of Port Dickson,
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – Most states recorded good results in the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) 2015 examination announced today, with some recording full pass percentages of one to five subjects surpassing the national percentage. In KOTA BAHARU, the overall full pass percentage of candidates for Kelantan was 98.26
PUTRAJAYA, March 2 – The Education Ministry is awaiting a full report from the hospital on the case of pupils of Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) Ladang Nigel Gardner, Hulu Selangor who ate a breakfast of fried noodles believed to be tainted with glass shards. Its minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is confident that former UMNO deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will continue to be with the party despite being suspended of his post. He said based on the spirit of Muhyiddin for the party when he
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – The Social Security Organisation (Socso) is targeting 50,000 employers to register their staff this year, says chief executive officer Datuk Dr Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed. He said: “If in 2014, we recorded 41,847 employers who registered their staff with Socso and in 2015, there were 49,751,
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) today denied that it was conducting a second-stage water rationing plan for the Klang Valley, as spread on WhatsApp recently. Its corporate communications chief Amin Abdullah said the information which was spread referred to the water rationing plan in
GEORGE TOWN, March 2 – Four men were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with four counts of wrongful restraint against two Singaporean nationals last month. Chee Kok Fang, 37, Loke Kah Wooi, 23, E. Boonroy, 30, and Koy Kean Teong, 26, however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges
JAKARTA, March 1 – A powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday (March 2). The National Meteorolgical Agency issued a tsunami warning for West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Aceh. The epicentre was 808km (502 miles) south-west of Padang, USGS said. It was
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – The Malaysian Government has taken to task the Wall Street Journal for continuing to try and link the funds deposited into the Prime Minister’s accounts with 1MDB even after “multiple lawful authorities” have confirmed the money came from Saudi Arabia. In a statement, a government spokesman said:
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 – 1Malaysia Development Berhad has slammed the Wall Street Journal for repeating “disproven allegations”. It was responding to a WSJ article which claimed that more than US$1 billion was deposited into the accounts of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and that “much of it” came from
GEORGE TOWN, March 2 – The Transport Master Plan (TMP) will not involve acquisition of land from 197-year-old Penang Chinese Girls High School (PCGHS), said Chow Kon Yeow, state executive councillor Governtment, who is in charge of the local government, traffic and flood mitigation committee at Komtar here today. “The project delivery partner, SRS Consortium,
SEREMBAN, March 1 – Toll collection on the Kajang-Seremban Highway (Lekas) will go fully electronic at noon tomorrow. Toll is collected at six plazas on the highway, namely Kajang Selatan, Semenyih, Pajam, Mantin, Setul and Ampangan. Lekas said in a statement that motorists paying cash who enter the highway at any of
KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 – MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai urged Penang State Government to reconsider the Penang Transport Master Plan which plan for a 30ft land setback of Penang Chinese Girls’ High School (PCGHS). He said he hope that Penang State Government can reconsider it for being allowed to build a new
