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
TAWAU, Jan 18 – The Education Ministry would not consider any request for funds from schools that failed to submit their respective monthly financial expenditure report. Education deputy minister Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching said the requirement for schools to submit the report, to qualify them for funds the following year, was
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 – Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has never issued business licences to any foreigner doing business in the vicinity of Jalan Petaling, here. Minister of Federal Territories Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the ministry would take action against local enterpreneurs who rented out their sites
BUKIT MERTAJAM, Jan 18 – The payment of this year’s 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) has been deemed more meaningful by the recipients. Halijah Abdullah, 70, said the this year’s BR1M money would really help her in coping with the rising cost of living and the hike in the price of consumer
PARIS/LONDON, Jan 17 –Passengers are facing severe disruption after the Channel Tunnel was closed “until further notice” following a fire on a lorry. Eurostar says all its services today have been cancelled and trains are returning to their original stations. Kent Police said the fire happened at the French end of
PARIS/LONDON, Jan 17 –Traffic through the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France has been halted due to a truck fire, authorities say, calming earlier fears in a region spooked by recent terrorist attacks. Eurotunnel, the operator of the crossing between Britain and France, said passengers on a train between Dover in
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 17 – A homemade bomb was found near a residential area in Jalan Badak Mati, Sungai Bakap here today. In the 11am incident, police received a call from a woman who noticed a suspicious package near her home. Upon inspection by police, it appeared to be a bomb
NIBONG TEBAL, Jan 17 – Plumes of black smoke was visible from miles away when furniture factory at Jalan Cangkat here caught fire today. In the 6pm incident, the fire was said to be originating from the bagasse storage area. No one was reported to be hurt.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – Pos Malaysia Berhad (Pos Malaysia) will release the third series of Medicinal Plant stamps and philatelic products on Tuesday (Jan 20). Pos Malaysia chief executive officer Datuk Iskandar Mizal Mahmood said the first series of stamps to be released in 2015 was to create awareness
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wants Malaysians to have a sense of responsibility in whatever they are doing to ensure that the peace they are enjoying all this while can be preserved. The Prime Minister said the people must inculcate the feeling of mutual respect and
KUANTAN, Jan 17 – Some 150 new permanent houses will be built for Pahang flood victims whose homes had been completey destroyed in the recent floods. Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said the Pahang government was making a feasibility study on the method of residential construction which could be
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – The Malaysian passenger on-board the ill-fated tug boat that sank in the Yangtze River on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Cheong Kin Chin, Xinhua, a Chinese news agency reported. Unfortunately no other details were provided for by the Jiangsu Maritime Bureau and Jingjiang city police. Meanwhile,
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – The ringgit, which ended the week on a weaker note, is expected to trade between 3.51 and 3.59 against the US dollar next week, a dealer said. The direction of crude oil prices coupled with the US dollar’s performance and Switzerland’s surprising move to scrap its cap on the
BERA, Jan 17 – Malaysia will stop the import of apples from United States which were tainted with Listeriosis bacteria, says Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said the ministry had received a notice from the US authorities that the Gala and Granny Smith apples from California
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – German airline Lufthansa will introduce daily flights from Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur from March 29. For the new summer schedule, Lufthansa will increase the capacity on the Frankfurt-Kuala Lumpur route from five weekly connections to a daily service, the airline said in a statement. The route will continue to be
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 – A Muslim American man held two weeks without charge after the 9/11 attacks will get US$385,000 (RM1.3 million) compensation from the US government and an FBI agent, a rights group said. Abdullah al-Kidd was detained in 2003 as a “material witness,” a formulation widely used in the US after
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 – Hackers took over Twitter accounts of the New York Post and United Press International on Friday, writing bogus messages, including about hostilities breaking out between the United States and China. One tweet posted under the UPI account quoted Pope Francis as saying, “World War III has begun.” Another message delivered
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Seri Shahril Mokhtar said the biggest challenge was not building the MRT, but getting people to use it. However, based on his replies to questions posed by The Rakyat Post (the full transcript of
