KUCHING: Sarawak State Assembly Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar will submit a notice to the Election Commission (EC) of the vacancy for the N67 Jepak state seat following the death of its incumbent, Datuk Talib Zulpilip, yesterday. Deputy Speaker Datuk Idris Buang said that as provided for in
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Pakatan Harapan (PH) has denied a report by a local news portal that former Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman will lead the coalition. In a joint media statement issued by Sabah PH yesterday, the coalition insisted that the matter had never been discussed or decided by
KUALA LUMPUR: The police have busted a cigarette and liquor smuggling syndicate following the arrest of 10 men and seizure of over RM36 million worth of contraband in three raids in Kajang on Sept 7. Security and Public Order Division director Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali said that intelligence gathering by
KUALA LUMPUR: National badminton women’s singles player, Goh Jin Wei’s diligence and persistence paid off when she advanced to the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open after pulling out all the stops to beat sixth seed Han Yue from China in their quarter-final match in Hong Kong Coliseum, Kowloon yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The preliminary report on the plane crash at Bandar Elmina in Shah Alam, Selangor ruled that there was no evidence of incapacitation or physiological factors that affected the pilot’s performance as the cause of the fatal accident. According to the Aircraft Accident Preliminary Report issued by the Ministry
KUALA LUMPUR: The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) is documenting the traditional knowledge related to medicinal plants among the Orang Asli and Malay communities so that it will not disappear over time. Its Natural Products Division Research officer Dr Fadzureena Jamaludin said the effort was important because the knowledge and
KUALA LUMPUR: There was no evidence of foreign object ingestion, bird feathers or matter to any of the engine components in the crash involving fixed-wing aircraft Hawker Beechcraft 390 in Elmina, Selangor on Aug 17. According to the preliminary report by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) Air Accident Investigation Bureau
GEORGE TOWN: Police arrested a foreign national on suspicion of running an unlicensed money-lending business in a raid of a house in Bayan Baru near here last Wednesday. The Barat Daya district police headquarters, in a statement today, said the suspect was a 27-year-old man who has been working as
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has revoked the notification of cosmetic products ‘Beaute Treatment Cream’ and ‘Beaute Nite Cream’, found to contain scheduled poisons and are no longer allowed to be sold in Malaysia. Health director-general Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan said Beaute Treatment Cream was detected to contain hydroquinone,
BEIJING: Being far away from home is no obstacle for a group of Malaysian students to express their patriotic spirit and promote the nation’s cultural heritage on the world stage. Describing it as a responsibility of Generation Z, a troupe of university students who are pursuing their studies in engineering
