JOHOR BARU: A 41-year-old businessman was fined RM200,000 by the Sessions Court here for using a fake Datuk title from Pahang. Mohammad Shaiful Nizam Abu pleaded guilty to two counts of the offence, committed at a wellness centre of a resort in Senai, Kulai on Jan 27, 2021. He was initially charged on April 28, 2022 where...
PETALING JAYA: A light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing near Port Klang. The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) said that the Piper PA-28-161 aircraft made the landing at an open space near Port Klang on Thursday (June 27). "The aircraft departed from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport at 2.50pm, carrying two passengers,...
KUALA LUMPUR: Four arrest warrants have been issued by the Magistrate’s Court here against former television personality Norjuma Habib Mohamed for failing to attend proceedings of her cases involving three charges for voluntarily causing hurt and two charges of causing mischief. The arrest warrants were issued by Magistrates Noorelynna Hanim Abd Halim, Illi Marisqa Khalizan, Fatin...
AMPANG: The "Demo Rakyat Lawan Anwar" planned for Saturday (June 29) will proceed even without permission from venue owner Putrajaya Corporation, says the organiser. "We expect at least 600 people to join," Aidil Yunus, the Demi Negara movement coordinator, told reporters here on Thursday (June 27). He added that the rally is scheduled to begin at 4pm...
JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra, officials said on Tuesday. Residents discovered the bruised body of high-school student Afif Maulana in a river close to a village in Padang, in West Sumatra on June...
HANOI (Bloomberg): National carrier Vietnam Airlines JSC risks insolvency as early as July if the repayment deadline for a government-backed loan isn’t extended, according to a statement on the National Assembly’s website. The airline is in a "financial crisis” because it hasn’t yet completed refinancing efforts such as restructuring non-core investments and sales of new shares...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) detained a former company manager on suspicion of submitting fake employment contracts to apply for foreign worker quotas worth RM77mil. MACC sources said the suspect, a man in his early 40s, was detained at around 6pm on Monday (June 24) while giving his statement at the MACC office in...
SINGAPORE (Bernama--Agencies): It will take three months to complete the oil spill clean-up in the Tanjong and Palawan beaches at Singapore's resort Sentosa, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Grace Fu has announced. The spill happened on June 14 after a collision between a Netherlands-flagged dredger and a Singapore-flagged bunker vessel. The oil spread to Singapore's...
(Reuters) - Nvidia short sellers have raked in nearly $5 billion in paper profits from the AI chip designer's sharp selloff over the past three sessions, according to data analytics firm Ortex Technologies. The stock has slumped 13% and lost $430 billion in market capitalization since June 18, when it briefly became the world's most valuable...
JOHOR BARU: A ten-year-old boy drowned after falling into a drain while fishing with his friends here. Johor Baru South OCPD Asst Comm Raub Selamat said the boy was found at about 3.40pm on Tuesday (June 25) in a drain at Desa Mutiara here. "The victim was fishing with four others, including his brother, when he slipped...
