Cyberjaya, September 2 – A new policy is to be implemented making English a compulsory subject, besides Bahasa Malaysia, for students to pass at Malaysia’s public universities. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic), who is also the Education Minister, said he had discussed the matter with Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 ― After their Merdeka crackdown on members of the Penang Volunteer Patrol Unit (PPS), the police will shift their crosshairs on PAS’ Unit Amal corp, a senior minister said today. Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he was confident the police are already in
SEREMBAN, SEP 2 – The ashes of Captain Eugene Choo Jin Leong, one of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 pilots, will be at his residence at Sri Carcosa near here until Thursday for family members and friends to pay their last respect. A representative of Choo’s family, Jacob Lim, 44, said
BAYAN LEPAS, Sep 2 – MH17 remains of the victims has arrived back home. The third contains seven Malaysian nationals and two Dutch nationals MH17 bodies of the victims, arrived this morning 8:25 KLIA big red lounge. This morning it began to drizzle, the General Assembly declared 8:58 start one
KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 2 – The commotion occurred during the arrival of three deceased MH17 passengers, a pair of Paul Goes, the Dutchman and his wife, Subashni Jretnam, and their children, Kaelamayajay Goes at Nirvana Memorial Centre, Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur. It occurs when one member of the family, suddenly attacked
156 Volunteer Patrol Penang (PPS) was arrested on 31 May 2014. They had been fully released on bail on 1st September 2014 at 10:20pm only after the police summoned two people back to the police station, was detained by the police grounds no record to the mouth of supply and
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 1, 2014 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has challenged Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to a debate on the Voluntary Patrol Team (PPS), if the latter thinks he’s in the right. “If he thinks he’s right in instructing for the arrest of the
GEORGETOWN, Aug 24 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was the latest Malaysian to take up the ice bucket challenge today to help create awareness of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Lim’s wife Betty Chew poured the freezing cold water on him, after he launched
Kiev, July 21 – The first Malaysian investigators to access the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash ste has been confirmed. There has been a delay in getting international investigators, rescuers and forensic experts to the region after the Boeing 777 aircraft went down near the town of Grabovo, in the Donetsk
KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 – United States President Barack Obama spoke from the White House tonight, where he also addressed the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH17 which was suspected to have been shot down over Ukrainian airspace on Thursday night. Obama also shared the same conviction with Prime Minister Datuk
KUALA LUMPUR , July 21 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib tonight said the 282 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site will be sent to the Netherlands for further investigations before the remains of the Malaysians are brought home. He also announced that the Ukrainians had agreed
PETALING JAYA, July 19 – Looters are reported to have descended on the Ukrainian field where Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 crashed last Thursday and ransacked victims’ possessions. According to witnesses, many pieces of luggage that were pulled from the charred crime scene had already been opened and rifled through, USA
PETALING JAYA, July 19 – Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will waive any change fees for passengers intending to make amendments to their flight itineraries to any MH destination, the carrier said Saturday. It added that passengers who wish to postpone or cancel travel plans can obtain a refund, including for non-refundable
KIEV: The quest for clues in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet faced major obstacles Friday as the rebel militias that Ukraine blames for the disaster limited access to the mammoth crash site strewn with airplane parts and bodies. Ukrainian officials were trying to negotiate safe passage for teams of
Donetsk, July 18 – Gunmen prevented monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe from observing the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday, the rights and security watchdog said. Calling their behavior “impolite and unprofessional”, an OSCE spokesman said some gunmen in
MOSCOW, July 18 — A London-based reporter for Russia’s state-owned English-language channel RT quit today in protest at its coverage of the Malaysian Airlines crash in Ukraine. Sara Firth is the second person since March to publicly resign from RT, formerly known as Russia Today, over its coverage of the
KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said an emergency Parliament sitting will be called to condemn the inhumane act responsible for the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which had gone down in the eastern Ukraine on Thursday night. “We strongly condemn any violence act,
KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 – Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the government will do its best to ensure Malaysia’s investigators can work smoothly at the MH17 crash site in Ukraine, which is controlled by separatists. This, the Prime Minister said, included using its diplomatic channels. “We had asked those involved to ensure
KIEV: Below are the main developments since flight MH17 of Malaysia Airlines crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine on Thursday killing all 298 people aboard: THURSDAY, JULY 17 – A Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people aboard crashes at the village of Grabove,
USPA NEWS – KIEV: Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners — dressed in overalls and covered in soot — spread out today across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of the Malaysian plane shot down as it flew miles above the country’s battlefield.
