GEORGE TOWN, Sept 23 – Penang State Government launch the Trash2Treasure Mobile Application here on Tuesday at Komtar. In moving towards Zero Waste society, Penang Green Council has developed a mobile application -Trash2Treasure. This application supports Penang State Government’s vision to increase the efficiency of recycling and recyclables-buyback processes. The Federal government has implemented the mandatory waste
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 – Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam clarified on Tuesday that currently there were no confirmed cases of humans contracting rabies in the three affected northern states as Perlis, Kedah and Penang. Dr Subramaniam said there were 12 people who have been bitten by dogs have been found
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 – Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) spent about RM500 million on talent management as well as on leadership training and competency building across its 51,000 employees last year. President and Chief Executive Officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said apart from making a hefty investment to nurture talents,
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 23 – Penang established an amount of RM5.6 million as the fund to assist non-Islamic places of worship in maintaining and upgrading their premises in the state. Penang Housing Committee Chairman Jagdeep Singh hold a press conference here on Tuesday said such places may need to be renovated and upgraded for
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 22 – The Veterinary Services Department director Dr Siti Salmiah Tahir, who was present at the press conference today at Komtar said they had been confirmed that the state has run out of rabies vaccines as of last night while the new vaccine stock was expected to arrive to
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 22 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng who is already under pressure from various animal welfare groups for approving the culling of stray dogs in the state in bid to stamp out rabies hole a press conference today told the NGO to simply deliver the vaccines
ALOR SETAR, Sept 22 – Kedah will observe seven days of mourning beginning today until Sept 27 following the death of Raja Puan Muda Tunku Hajah Raudzah binti Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 86, on Monday at 10:15am. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir, who made the announcement on her death at the Wisma
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 – UMNO president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and party executive secretary Datuk Abdul Rauf Yusoh will file an application on Tuesday to strike out a lawsuit against them over the RM2.6 billion (US$650 million) allegedly deposited into the personal account of the prime minister. Lawyer Nor
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 – The road next to SPRINT Highway will continue to close from tomorrow until Nov 6 as to facilitate the MRT work in the area. MMC-Gamuda in a statement here on Monday said that the closure would be started from 10pm to 6am during the period. He said during the closure
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 – Police have detained another one of the two men sought to assist in the investigation into the case of the killing of Anthony Kevin Morais less than 24 hours after initial information on them were revealed. Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Zainuddin Ahmad said the man namely
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 21 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he is ready to face the backlash from voters in the next election. He said he know that now he is under a heavy fire for authorising the mass culling of stray dogs in Penang that to curb rabies. The DAP leader
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 21 – The Veterinary Department has vaccinated 2,286 dogs on Sunday which had following the rabies outbreak in the northern states. There were 2,286 dogs where separated into 3 state which are Perlis (465), Kedah (1,648) and Penang (173) dogs have been vaccinated. “There were samples from 40 dogs had shown
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 21 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng hold a press conference today at Komtar said the order to culled all the strays dogs is to protect the safety and health of the public. He said we don’t wait till the disease get happen and get blamed from the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – The High Court here has quashed the Home Ministry’s decision to two financial publications which The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily over reports on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). On Monday, High Court Justice Datuk Asmabi Mohamad ordered the three-month suspension against The Edge Financial daily and The Edge Financial
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 20 – Penang Gerakan chairman, Teng Chang Yeow hounded the DAP about the state government’s order to kill all the stray dogs instead to carry out mass vaccinations. He said that although the previous state government led by the Barisan National also did not kill any dogs, but just only
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – An express bus with about 30 passengers skidded and crashed into a Proton Saga car before landing on its side at Km445.5 of the PLUS Expressway near the Rawang exit on Sunday while the bus was heading to Penang. All the passengers managed to get out of
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Saturday hit out at DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua over his insistence that the company deny allegations by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It said in a statement responding to one by Tony Pua earlier on Saturday that Tony Pua “has conveniently forgotten”
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak visited PAS Spiritual Leader Datuk Dr Haron Din at the National Heart Institute (IJN) here on Saturday. Najib via his Facebook website said he had the opportunity to call on Ustaz Haron Din at the National Heart Institute just now. He
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – University Malaya Specialist Centre consultant psychiatrist and smoking cessation specialist Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin said the use of electronic cigarette or vape is dangerous and it will be effects on the consumer’s health because of the nicotine in its liquid. “It was more worrying when
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – UMNO Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin hold a press conference after launching the National Sports Day Sale at Mid Valley Megamall here on Saturday said the action must be taken against anyone including UMNO Youth members if they were found to break the laws during the ‘Himpunan Rakyat
