KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 – BURSA Malaysia is expected to consolidate this week, riding on lower unemployment figures in the United States, the upcoming Umno general assembly and better performance on the spot market. Traders said the overall market sentiment is positive ahead of the Umno assembly from November 25-29,
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 – World number one badminton player Datuk Lee Chong Wei deserves the best treatment in his hour of need after his urine sample was tested positive for a banned substance, said MIC Youth chief C. Sivarraajh. Sivarraajh said Chong Wei was an exceptional player and had done lot
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 – The Meteorological Department of Malaysia (MetMalaysia) today forecast rainfalls and thunderstorms in the evening in several areas in Cameron Highlands until Thursday. Nevertheless, a MetMalaysia spokesman told Bernama here, today no rain was forecast in the morning and night in the areas concerned. Meanwhile, the minimum average
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 – An injection of new investment funds set to boost the growth of Malaysian technology startup ecosystem. Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) announced to join forces with four more co-investment partners following its first co-investment partnership with Singapore-based seed fund provider, Golden Gate Ventures Pte Ltd (GGV) last
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 – THE Federal Court reserved its judgment on opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and five-year jail sentence. The five-man bench, chaired by Chief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria, deferred their verdict after thanking all parties for their submissions. The other members of the bench are
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 – President Obama will nominate Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, to be the next attorney general, reaching outside his inner circle to fill a key post, the White House said Friday. If confirmed, Ms. Lynch, 55, would be the first African-American woman to be
SEOUL, Nov 8 – Head butting stacked tiles, smashing a slab of granite on your chest with a mallet, breaking light bulbs with one finger. All vital qualifications if you want a job protecting the elite of North Korea. Propaganda footage from North Korean TV shows a staggering array of physical
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 – The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) edged up this morning on selective trading as traders remained on the sidelines, a dealer said. At 9.30am, the key index stood at 1,832.22, up 0.24 of a point, after opening lower at 1,827.76. On the broader market, market breadth
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 – The medication that national shuttler Datuk Lee Chong Wei took was a steroid to aid athletes’ rehabilitation, not a drug to enhance performance, The Star Online reported Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar as saying. The Youth and Sports Minister said Chong Wei, who tested positive for drugs,
PUTRAJAYA, Nov 8 – The young generation or the Generation Y should not be sidelined from participating on activities and programmes organised by the Welfare Association of Wives of Ministers and Deputy Ministers (Bakti). Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who is Bakti president, said by luring more youths to participate in
ALOR GAJAH, Nov 8 – The government is setting up a special laboratory to gather information and conduct opinion surveys to further improve the National Service Training programme (PLKN) module, Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri said today. The move, he said, was in tandem with the national youth transformation
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 – The Election Commission (EC) has been urged to review the method of its delimitation exercise to improve accessibility and voters’ participation. The public need to have easier access to view revised maps of constituencies so that feedback and objections can be easier made within the one-month ‘objection’
MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 – Suspected gang members in Mexico confessed to killing more than 40 missing students and incinerating their remains in a case that shocked the country, the attorney general said Friday. But Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam warned that it would be difficult to identify the charred
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 – After more than 151 years, First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing finally got his day at the White House, even if he could not enjoy it personally. President Obama formally presented the Medal of Honor on Thursday to the family of Lieutenant Cushing, a Union soldier who
GEORGETOWN, Nov 8 – The Penang government is shocked and saddened by the news that world badminton No.1 Datuk Lee Chong Wei’s B sample has tested positive for dexamethasone. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said that he did not know how to react to the news. “We are shocked and sad,”
BEIJING, Nov 8 – China is all geared up for the arrival of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders here on Monday with Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak expected to have a tight schedule during his working visit here. The prime minister will join other leaders from the grouping’s 21 economies to engage
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 – President Barack Obama is sending up to 1,500 more soldiers to Iraq to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces to fight ISIS, in a deployment that would almost double the total number of American troops there to 2,900. The White House said in a statement that it will
CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Nov 8 – The cause of the recent Cameron Highlands floods was man-made, and the blame has been placed on its Member of Parliament, Datuk Seri G. Palanivel. Regional Environmental Awareness of Cameron Highlands (Reach) president Ramakrishnan Ramasamy, in making this claim today, added that ironically Palanivel was also the
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 – Minority shareholders of Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) today approved a proposal for a selective capital reduction (SCR) and repayment exercise of the company pursuant to Sections 60 and 64 of the Companies Act, 1965. The proposed SCR was made by Khazanah Nasional Bhd, the majority
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 – Pos Malaysia Berhad (PMB) has vowed to clip the wings of drug syndicates which have allegedly gone ‘postal’ to distribute ketum leaves for addicts nationwide, via its PosLaju service. Already, PMB has begun an internal investigation into allegations that its employees might be in cahoots
