PUTRAJAYA, Jan 19 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will on Tuesday announce economic modifications and interventions amid the changing global economic landscape. Najib, who is also Finance Minister, said the recent 60 per cent fall in oil prices affects the global economy, and Malaysia is no exception. “An
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 19 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday outlined six priority areas as part of efforts to drive the nation’s economy and protect the people’s well-being. He said the measures include those relating to the need to make changes and interventions in the wake of the
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 – Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi does not need to reveal the relationship between the government and alleged gambling kingpin Paul Phua, said former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor. In an interview with Malay daily Sinar Harian yesterday, Rahim stated that the
PARIS, Jan 19 – Wealth accumulated by the richest 1% will exceed that of the other 99% in 2016, the Oxfam charity said today, ahead of the annual meeting of the world’s most powerful at Davos, Switzerland. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the
HONG KONG, Jan 19 – A Hong Kong court ruled Monday that a 14-year-old girl who was arrested for drawing on a wall used to post pro-democracy messages, could remain in her family’s care. Authorities had been seeking a “care and protection” order for the teenager, which could have seen her taken away from
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 19 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is set to announce a review of the 2015 Budget tomorrow. The review and restructuring of the budget were made following the weakening of the Ringgit and falling of global oil prices. Najib, who attended the Prime Minister’s Department’s monthly meeting
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 19 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wants all programmes relating to aid for residents affected by the floods, including to construct and replace damaged houses, to be expedited. He said the problems suffered by of the people affected by natural disasters were always the government’s priority
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 – Two more bodies of victims on board the ill-fated AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 have been found in the primary search location, and transferred to Pangkalan Bun by a search and rescue ship. AirAsia, in a statement tonight said as of today, Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency
KUANTAN, Jan 19 – The Health Ministry has directed its Food Safety and Quality Division to inspect and take samples of all imported apples to test whether they are tainted with Listeriosis bacteria. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the division had been ordered to inspect and take samples of
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 – MIC deputy president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam has emphasised he had never met party president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel to discuss the MIC crisis in detail. He said many of his attempts to meet Palanivel had failed miserably, “except for our cursory meetings in Cabinet.”
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 – Low-cost carrier AirAsia has confirmed the suit by an Australian nurse, Erin Crocker, 36, against the company following the incident where a stewardess fell on her during bad turbulence in Thailand. AirAsia X spokesman however said that no statement will be issued on the matter as the
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 – An Australian nurse is suing AirAsia after an air stewardess fell on her and injured her foot during a flight. According to a report in Herald Sun, Erin Crocker, was on her flight back from Thailand on April 4, after a vacation, when the plane that she was
TANAH MERAH, Jan 19 – Kelantan flood victims would receive the biggest contribution from the Welfare Association of Wives of Ministers and Deputy Ministers (Bakti), said its president Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. The Prime Minister’s wife said 5,500 flood victims in the state would be given various forms of aid by Bakti. “Kelantan will
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 19 – The Education Ministry has assured that schools affected with floods nationwide will receive their text books by the end of the month or at least on Feb 1. Education Minister II Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said the re-printing process for the textbooks destroyed in the floods
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 19 – Some 20,000 Gala and Granny Smith apples worth RM82,000 have been seized due to fears of listeriosis bacteria, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahya. In a press conference in Balik Pulau today, he said the affected apples were only found in Sabah and
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 – The East Java Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified five more bodies out of the 162 people who were on board the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 on Saturday. Kompas.comreported the bodies were identified through DNA samples obtained from the victims’ personal belongings. “The bodies were
NIAMEY, Jan 18 – At least two churches were torched in Niger’s capital Saturday as protests raged on against the publication of a Prophet Muhammed cartoon by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported. Around 100 helmeted riot police stood in front of the Niamey cathedral at
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 – The Malaysian rubber market is likely to be uncertain and would adopt a wait and see attitude next week as there was no direction for the market, a dealer said. He said the market direction had yet to be determined as traders were cautiously monitoring the
KUALA LUMPUR Jan 18 – DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang is crying foul over the Deputy Finance Minister’s statement that the federal government has spent RM800 million to help flood victims when the actual sum, he claims, is only RM41 million. In a statement today, the Gelang Patah Member of Parliament said Datuk Ahmad Maslan should
KANGAR, Jan 18 – Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom today brushed off claims that the Malay girls who were involved in an “inappropriate” acts at a mini Korean pop (K-pop) concert in Kuala Lumpur recently, had been sentenced to a six months jail and
