PEKAN, Oct 3 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the move by the government to reduce the fuel subsidy was to look after the interest of the people and country in the long-run. He said although the move was unpopular, it had to be carried out as the fuel
JOHOR BARU, Oct 3 – POLICE yesterday picked up a money changer they believed had “helped” a man fitting the description of one of the Latin American ATM-hacking gang members to convert a suspiciously high amount of the ringgit. The owner of the money changer, who spoke under condition of
HONG KONG, Oct 3 – Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests may have cost the city’s retailers more than $2bn Hong Kong dollars (£175.7m), ANZ bank estimates. The demonstrations have coincided with mainland China’s Golden week holiday, which usually prompts a huge influx of shoppers from the mainland. Chinese tourists account for
KOTA KINABALU, Oct 2 – The Sabah government acknowledged the contributions of private higher learning institutions (IPTS) to the state’s development, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman. He also noted that the IPTS’ contribution to educational development in Sabah was in line with the state government’s aim to provide more opportunities
KEMAMAN, Oct 2 – The car boot sale on the site of the old Customs jetty has not only liven up the nightlife in Chukai but can become a new attraction to this town. Kemaman branch chairman of the Malaysian Small Entrepreneurs Chamber of Commerce Ahmad Fadzli Mohamad said the car boot
UNITED STATE, Oct 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is due to discuss the ongoing protests with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday. The White House issued a statement of support for “the aspirations of the Hong Kong people” on Tuesday, in response to a petition urging the U.S. government
SHAH ALAM, Oct 1 – Malaysia Airlines (MAS), in collaboration with local streetwear clothing brand Abstrax Jingga, launched the #FLYINGHIGH T-Shirt in conjunction with the national carrier’s 42nd anniversary today. MAS senior vice-president of strategic communications Datuk Najmuddin Abdullah said the collaboration was a second part of the two series #STAYSTRONG, #FLYINGHIGH
MELAKA, Oct 1 – Bumiputeras cannot blame the government and other races if the target of 30 per cent Bumiputera equity ownership in the economy by 2020 is not achieved, says former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said they (bumiputeras) only have themselves to blame for not doubling efforts
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 1 – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail, Wednesday gave her statement at the Registrar of Societies (ROS) here pertaining to the sacking of Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim as a party member. The session, which lasted for about two hours, was conducted by ROS enforcement
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – The police are investigating the possible involvement of bank staff and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) vendors in the spate of ATM hacking recently. Commercial Crime Investigation Department deputy director (Cybercrime and Multimedia), SAC Mohd Kamarudin Md Din said the police are investigating various aspects, including the possibility
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – The remains of another five victims of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Flight MH17 tragedy will arrive in Malaysia this Friday at the Bunga Raya Complex, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 8.30am. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai in a statement, in Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday said
KUALA TERENGGANU, Oct 1 – Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, Wednesday gave three more months up to the end of the year for the state departments and agencies to address 37 identified matters. He said they had to ensure that the 37 matters were attended to as these would figure
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – Malaysia will continue to act on reducing carbon emissions besides being at the forefront in articulating the need for a balance between the environment and development. Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Zakri Abdul Hamid said the effort to cut carbon emissions, through new policies involving
KUALA TERENGGANU, Oct 1 – Terengganu has prepared 472 evacuation centres to accommodate 75,587 flood victims at any one time as part of efforts to brace for the eventuality of floods during the year end’s monsoon season. Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, said the state government had identified 116 distribution
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – The Home Ministry hopes that the standard operating procedure (SOP) involving disasters will be part of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) Summit 2015 agenda. Its deputy minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said there had always been some constraints when some countries wanted to extend
Stars like Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page are asking Google to blur out their houses on Street View, but that’s not a feature exclusive to celebrities. You can do it, too. Celebrities — they’re just like us! There’s not a whole lot of privacy to go around nowadays, so it’s a
Microsoft finally announced the much-rumoured new version of Windows, called strangely enough, Windows 10. The build as shown is still an early “Technical preview” — the operating system is due to go through more extensive changes before it is released towards the end of 2015. Instead of a radical redesign
iOS 8 and Yosemite work together unlike any other operating systems Apple’s ever created, but after removing one of Continuity’s most promising new features – the ability to send and receive SMS texts from Messages on a Mac – Apple has restored the feature to OS X Yosemite slightly ahead
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 – Tesco Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Tesco) today announced its collaboration with CIMB Bank to utilise its Plug n Pay service to facilitate payments for Tesco Online home deliveries. Plug n Pay by CIMB Bank is Malaysia’s first-ever chip-based mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solution that offers businesses of
HONG KONG, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day. Riot police shot pepper
