ZURICH, March 20 – FIFA’s executive committee began a two-day meeting on Thursday where they were expected to decide the dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, ending a saga that has lasted for more than four years. The committee is expected to ratify a recommendation from a FIFA task force
GEORGETOWN, March 19 – A very warm welcome everyone to the Launching of Penang World Music Festival 2015. The Penang World Music Festival (PWMF) 2015 will be returning on the 11th & 12th of April 2015. The festival had been organised by the Penang State Tourism since 2012. For the very
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 – The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) has announced new rates for taxi and express bus fares. The base rate for both Klang Valley and Penang budget taxis remains unchanged at RM3. However, for Teksi1M the base rate goes up from RM3 to RM4. Distance fares for budget
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― The organisers of #KitaLawan rally today announced their plan to hold a week-long sit-in protest at Dataran Merdeka starting this Saturday to demand the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to step down. PKR’s Chang Lih Kang said that under IGP Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, many politically-motivated
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― PAS cannot remain in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) after Kelantan passed the hudud amendment bill today as the Islamist party has “betrayed” the pact, DAP lawmaker Gobind Singh Deo said today. The DAP national legal bureau chairman said PAS Kelantan’s action was a deal breaker and that
GEORGE TOWN, MARCH 19 – A Penang DAP lawmaker has urged for all ties with PAS, starting from Penang to be severed at all levels as he claimed that PAS cannot be trusted any more following the party’s stand to implement syariah law or hudud. Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi urged the state government
GEORGETOWN, March 19 – The Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBA) will implement a revised water tariff come Apr 1 to curb wastage. PBA chief executive officer Jaseni Maidinsa said the tariff review, announced last year, was needed to avoid a possible water rationing and to reduce excess consumption. This review is in line
PETALING JAYA, March 19 — The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be imposed not only for MEPS transactions but also for online banking and over-the-counter transactions. Association of Banks Malaysia (ABM) executive director Chua Mei Lin said GST would be payable in respect of a basic charge or fixed fee
KELANTAN, March 19 – Kelantan PAS says the numbers in Parliament are in its favour as it only needs a simple majority to get hudud implemented in the state by amending a law governing the scope of the Shariah courts, and not the Federal Constitution, deputy menteri besar Datuk Mohd
PETALING JAYA, March 19 – Without the presence of Datuk Lee Chong Wei who is still under temporary suspension, the 2015 Malaysian Open Badminton Championships may lose its lacklustre and excitement. Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Norza Zakaria said Chong Wei is a legend of the
SINGAPORE, March 19 – An enhanced programme to match professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for training and jobs will aim to place over 3,000 PMEs by December 2017. Launched by Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday, the P-Max programme builds on the previous Place-and-Train
TUNIS, March 19 – Gunmen stormed Tunisia’s national museum, killing 17 tourists of various nationalities and two Tunisians on Wednesday (Mar 18) in an attack that raised fears for the birthplace of the Arab Spring. The brazen daylight assault sparked panic at the nearby parliament and the National Bardo Museum itself,
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s condition has deteriorated further, the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office said today. “He remains critically ill in the ICU,” it said in a one-paragraph statement. Yesterday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reported that the elder Lee’s condition had worsened due
KOTA BARU, March 18 – Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob tabled the amendments to the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 at the state assembly meeting today. He proposed to amend the enactment shortly after 11am, after the assembly took a break. His proposal was seconded by deputy menteri besar Datuk
KELANTAN, March 18 – The amendments to the Kelantan’s Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 tabled today has dropped sex between lesbians, necrophilia and bestiality as crimes. But anal sex between married couples has been considered an offence whereas before the section in the enactment only covered offences between men or
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 – Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s speech criticising Putrajaya will have little to no impact on Barisan Nasional (BN) as none of his remarks was new and the ruling coalition is too set in its own ways, analysts said, hours after the Kelantan prince urged his colleagues to
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will not be imposed on rentals of commercial units below RM500,000 a year, says Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The prime minister said the government had also decided that supply services for all stratified residential houses would be GST-exempt. He said under
GEORGETOWN, 17 March – The Chief Minister of Penang, YAB Mr. Lim Guan Eng today officiated at the official opening ceremony of Penang Medical College’s new PMC Clinical Skills & Education Centre, next to Seberang Jaya General Hospital. As Penang MedicalCollege is jointly-owned bythe RoyalCollege of Surgeons in lreland (RCSI)and University
KUALA LUMPUR, March17 – Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, who was arrested under the Sedition Act yesterday for an alleged remark in the Dewan Rakyat, was released today on police bail, said her lawyer and Subang MP R. Sivarasa. “Nurul Izzah was released at 12.30 pm. We are not sure
LANGKAWI, March 17 – A new aerospace blueprint will chart the growth of Malaysia’s aerospace industry till 2030, announced Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today. In his opening speech at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition 2015 (Lima 2015), Najib said that the new blueprint is aimed at making
