KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) will avoid confrontation with politicians and focus on its assets monetisation strategy. 1MDB’s President/Group Executive Director, Arul Kanda, said his job was to ensure 1MDB monetise its assets in a way that delivered the best to shareholders. “We want to steer clear
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – Low visibility of less than five kilometres over the waters off Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor, Pahang and Sarawak is expected to persist till Saturday. According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department, the condition is dangerous to sea vessels without navigational equipment. A similar
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 1 – Northeast district police chief Asst Commissioner Mior Faridalatrash Wahid said police will take action against organisers of the Penang “red rally” which will reportedly be held at the Komtar premises here tomorrow. He said so far police had not been informed about the rally. Mior Faridalatrash Wahid said there were nobody has applied
KOTA KINABALU, Oct 1 – The non-governmental organisation (NGO) slams over DAP leaders who also Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng which should stop to twisting the words and attacking whatever of the ruling government have been done for the people. The Sabah-based Media Teens Consumer Group head Zeno Abdullah Roben in
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – As of 6 pm today, 16 areas throughout the country still had ‘unhealthy’ Air Pollution Index (API) readings. According to the Department of Environment’s (DOE) portal, Port Klang recorded the highest reading at 133, followed by Port Dickson (129); Pasir Gudang (123); Bukit Rambai(122); Shah Alam (121);
JAKARTA, Oct 1 – Indonesia requires three years to address the issue of burning of fields and forests in the country, and solve the haze problem in neighbouring countries. President Joko Widodo said the problem of forest fires could not possibly be solved in a short time, and the three-year time period
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 1 – Religious affairs domestic trade and consumer affairs committee chairman Datuk Abdul Malik Kassim hold a press conference today at Komtar said there was no issue at all as the whole matter was being blown out of proportion by certain parties. “It was not a fatwa yet,
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 1 –Penang Chief MinisterLim Guan Eng this morning said that after being accused of eating dog meat and now he did not rule out the possibility will be described as an individual who issued a fatwa banning prayer in this country. He said yesterday he was accused of eating
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 1 – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the statement on Wednesday said the transboundary haze from Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia is expected to dissipate as Malaysia is forecast to receive the easterly winds in early October. “This situation will bring rainfall in most areas in the west
BUTTERWORTH, Oct 1 – The Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya said there was no individuals in the country have tested positive for Rabies, only dogs have tested positive for Rabies. He in a statement on Wednesday said there has been a wrong perception about the disease (Rabies) and reiterated that Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz told reporters at the Malaysia-OECD High-Level Global Symposium on Financial Well-Being here on Wednesday that there is still no need to peg the ringgit to the US dollar currently despite the continued downtrend of the local unit. “If
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 1 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng asked Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak, who reportedly claiming that Malaysians prefer slower broadband speeds. He said he had failed to understand the rationale of the minister claiming that Malaysians prefer “snail-pace” broadband to “cheetah-pace” with describing that the statement was
KOTA BAHARU, Sept 30 – The PAS vice-president Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah who is also Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar claimed that there were not all voters from the Chinese community support DAP. He said this was based on a research by PAS after the party confirmed severing ties with DAP at its annual assembly in June.
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 30 – Housing and Local Government Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Mohammad Mentek said there were around 54,000kg of recyclable materials have been collected in seven states over the past three weeks after implementation of the solid waste separation at source, which took effect on Sept 1. Urban Wellbeing, He said in Pahang, the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 – The new retail price for petrol and diesel for October will increased by 10 sen per litre in October effective at midnight tonight. The new price after Goods and Services Tax (GST), the retail price of petrol and diesel for the month of October 2015 is as follows: RON95
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 – The Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak on Tuesday said that Malaysian government is focusing on speed, coverage and affordability on the nation’s Internet development and will ensure that by 2020, at least 95 per cent of Malaysians will have Internet access.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 – Thirty-four major roads including three highways around Kuala Lumpur will be completely closed in stages for the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2015 this Sunday (Oct 4). Kuala Lumpur Traffic Investigation and Legal staff officer DSP S. Markandan said the closure of roads would start as early as
CYBERJAYA, Sept 30 – Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) Head of Division for Market Regulation Laila Hassan said that Malaysia is on the track in expanding of the communication capacity and coverage towards becoming a smart nation by 2020. “This was based on the Industry Performance Report 2014, Malaysia’s mobile
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 29 – Animal welfare NGO Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) is able to rapidly deploy 40,000 doses of rabies vaccination once their usage in a mass vaccination program was approval by Putrajaya. WVS CEO Dr Luke Gamble said that the vaccines will be sponsored and estimated the cost to be about
KUALA TERENGGANU, Sept 29 – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) should be included as one of the law enforcement agencies regulated by the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC). EAIC chairman Datuk Yaacob Md Sam said under the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission Act 2009 (Act 700), EAIC’s role was to accept complaints from
