GEORGE TOWN, May 4 – Penang MCA chairman Datuk Tan Teik Cheng denounced Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng inciting and provoking state Malay leaders to siege him for speaking up for Chinese – by Lim’s advantage after allocating huge amounts of RM450 million to state Islamic affairs – is a
BANGKOK, May 4 – Five men were charged with violating Thailand’s draconian royal defamation law for sharing Facebook posts written by an exiled dissident academic, a human rights lawyer said Thursday. The case is the largest known lese majeste prosecution so far under Thailand’s new King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who ascended the throne
NEW YORK, May 4 – A Massachusetts court on Wednesday sentenced a man for attempting to defraud a Hollywood studio of millions of dollars by falsely claiming to have created the characters from the 2008 movie Kung Fu Panda. Jayme Gordon, 51, from Boston, was found guilty last November on four counts
BAGAN SERAI, May 4 – The Malaysian High Authority (MHA) is asking motorists to use the ‘Touch ‘n Go’ card facility being enforced on the North-South Expressway (PLUS) since April 26. MHA chairman Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali said the use of the card would reduce congestion, especially during festive seasons besides
MUMBAI, May 4 – An Egyptian once believed to be the ‘world’s heaviest woman’ left an Indian hospital Thursday for the United Arab Emirates where she will continue treatment following drastic weight-loss surgery, doctors said. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed roughly 500kg when she arrived in Mumbai in February, but has
GEORGE TOWN, May 4 – JJPTR, CYL, Richway Global Venture and BTC I-system all have one thing in common; they are major money game schemes that have been in the limelight recently BUT for the wrong reasons. The president of Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) S.M Mohamed Idris said CAP
GEORGE TOWN, May 4 – Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific today released a report calling on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to cease all funding of coal projects, saying that its current climate and energy policies are incompatible and hypocritical. This year the ADB turns 50, and in the last decade
GEORGE TOWN, May 4 – An investor of the troubled high-yield investment company JJPTR refused to speak to the media over fears of making the situation worse. He was approached by reporters at the office in Jalan Perak here but declined to speak, claiming media attention would make things worse. He said
PUTRAJAYA, May 4 – The Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism never issued foreign exchange (forex) business licences to any company or individual, said its minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin. All businesses such as ”money game”, get-rich-quick, forex and ponzi schemes under the guise of direct selling business and multi-level marketing
BEIJING, May 3 – China’s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday hailed the “dialogue” between Beijing and Manila over their border dispute in the South China Sea during a phone call with Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, state media reported. Duterte is loosening the Philippines’ long alliance with the United States while strengthening ties
BANGKOK, May 3 – A Thai human rights lawyer could be sentenced to a maximum 150 years in prison after he was charged with a record ten counts of royal defamation, a rights group said Wednesday. Prawet Prapanukul, a well-known critic of the law under which he is now being prosecuted, was
BANGKOK, May 3 – Apple, Facebook and Google logos have been removed from a giant statue of a mythical beast that will stand inside the sprawling cremation complex being built for Thailand’s late king after their inclusion caused an online outcry. Dozens of palace artisans are working around the clock to produce
PETALING JAYA, May 3 – The new retail price for petrol RON95 and RON97 for the first week of May will drop across the board by 10 sen while diesel will go down by 6 sen per liter which will effective at midnight tonight. The new prices will come into effect on Thursday until May 10. The new price after Goods
SEOUL, May 3 – North Korea on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to “overturn” the regime, as tensions spike between the isolated nuclear-armed nation and Washington. Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, became the third American held in the North when he was detained at the capital’s airport
TOKYO, May 3 – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday announced plans to seek the first-ever changes to Japan’s post-war pacifist constitution and said he wants the revisions to take effect in 2020. The changes, which would spell out the status of the nation’s “self-defence” military forces, were announced as Japan marked
KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 – The Malaysian government will apply to strike out a suit by former Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for his release from prison for sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Lawyer Latheefa Koya, who represented Anwar, said the High Court ordered the application to be
KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 – Umno needs to provide ample room for the young generation to pursue the party’s struggle in tandem with its 71st anniversary this May 11. Bandar Tun Razak Umno division leader Datuk Rizalman Mokhtar said at present, the party was seen as not giving enough for the young
MUAR, May 3 – A young scientist has succeeded in proving the existence of a supermassive black hole hidden cosmic circle. Nur Adlyka Ainul Annuar, 27, an Astrophysics PhD student at the Extra galactic Astronomy Centre, Physics Department of Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) became interested in astronomy and astrophysics at 13,
KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 – Sultan Muhammad V has opened Pameran Raja Kita (Our King’s Exhibition) at the Royal Museum here in conjunction with his installation as the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong. His Majesty was accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at the ceremony. Sultan Muhammad
PETALING JAYA, May 2 – A woman who is two-month pregnant pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here to a charge of causing hurt on her husband. M. Chandrakala, 22, was charged with hurting R. Elangovan, 23, at a field at Jalan Nuri 7/4, Kelana Jaya here, at 11am last April
