PARIS, Jan 10 – France will take “all measures” to ensure the safety of Sunday’s march to be attended by European leaders after this week’s attacks and is maintaining its highest possible security level in the Paris area, the interior minister said. Speaking on Saturday after an emergency meeting with French
PEKAN, Jan 10 – A comprehensive standard operating procedures (SOP) to face massive floods will be ready in the next six months, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. He said a special committee was preparing the SOP, which would also include the proposal for new assets and training for those
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 10 – Investigators searching for black boxes in the crashed AirAsia plane lifted the tail portion out of the Java Sea on Saturday, two weeks ago after it went down, killing all 162 people on board. It was not immediately clear if the cockpit voice and flight data
KAMPUNG GAJAH, Jan 10 – Flood victims who obtained loans from the Rural and Regional Development Ministry are exempted from paying loans for six months. Its minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said this was to alleviate the financial burden of victims. Speaking to reporters here after visiting Kampung Pasir Salak
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 – Several dog lovers who donated money to Malaysia Independent Animal Rescue (Miar) are now crying foul after receipts were not issued to acknowledge their donations. The NGO, headed by animal activist Puspa Rani was recently in the spotlight after former committee members had accused her of having misappropriated close to
PEKAN, Jan 10 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Razak said the people should also play their roles to help reduce the impact of the natural disasters which will be more frequent due to climate change. He said the people should have a new perspective on disasters such as floods, as previously
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 – A moderate earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at 6.59am today, according to the Malaysian Meteorogical Department. It said in a statement here today that the epicentre was located at 2.6 degrees north and 96 degrees east, 25km southeast
KUCHING, Jan 10 – The weather in town is gloomy reflecting the emotions of people in the state who are mourning over the demise of former Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Ya’kub. The national and Sarawak flags were seen flying half-mast to pay respect for Rahman, who had served as
UNITED STATES, Jan 10 – President Obama on Friday called for making at least two years of college education free and universal, a bold idea that reflects his desire to offer far-reaching proposals in his last two years in office, even if Congress is unlikely to adopt them. Building on a model
KLANG, Jan 10 – Certain vegetables which used to be sold at RM3 per kg previously are now being priced at RM10 per kg in the Klang Valley. Most traders claimed that it was due to floods despite the fact that those vegetables were not produced by the flood-hit states. In fact, spinach, green beans and mustard
PARIS, Jan 10- Twitter users have posted the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag, a sign of solidarity with the victims of theCharlie Hebdoattack in Paris, more than 5 million times, Twitter France said Friday. The symbolic five-million mark, an unprecedented number in the history of France-related hashtags, was reached after elite forces killed the brothers
KUCHING, Jan 10 – Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem described the late Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub as a key figure in many important moments in the state’s and country’s history. “Tun Rahman has been a key figure in major events in both the state and the country since
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the families of former Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak, Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub who passed away today. Najib in his twitter said, “My condolences to the family of Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub. His contribution to
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 10 – Indonesian search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings they believed were from the plane’s black box flight recorders on Friday, 12 days after it went missing with 162 people on board. Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 vanished from
PARIS, Jan 9 – French police said Friday there was a “connection” between a suspect identified in a fatal policewoman shooting south of Paris and the brothers wanted for a massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine. Up until now, police had not linked the murder of 12 people on Wednesday morning in
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 – Johor has been hit by floods again and four relief centres were opened in Segamat to provide shelter for 130 evacuees from 35 families. This new development has caused the overall number of flood victims in the country to rise to 17,719 people tonight as compared to 17,628 in the
PARIS, Jan 9 – An armed man took several hostages and one person was wounded in a shootout at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday, police sources said, denying an earlier media report that two people were dead. It was not immediately clear whether there was a link between
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 – Former Governor of Sarawak, Tun Abdul Rahman Ya’kub passed away just now at the Normah Medical Centre in Kuching, Sarawak. Abdul Rahman died at around 9.30pm at the age of 87. He was the third Chief Minister of Sarawak and the fourth Governor of Sarawak. He was also
FRANCE, Jan 9 – So-called Islamic State flags have appeared on the websites of several municipalities near Paris whose homepages were hacked. The hacks come amidst an intense manhunt to capture two suspects believed to have committed the Charlie Hebdo office massacre. The attacks, apparently carried out by a group
PARIS, Jan 9 – French security forces swarmed a small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper. Shots were fired as the brothers stole a car in the early morning hours, said a
