BENGALURU: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near the Myanmar-India border on Friday (Aug 22), the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. - Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose to US$122bil as at Aug 15, up from US$121.3bil as at July 31. “The reserves position is sufficient to finance 4.8 months of imports of goods and services, and is 0.9 times the total short-term external debt,” Bank Negara said in a statement. The main components of the reserves were...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Oct 31 to deliver its decision in an attempt by Toh Puan Na'imah Abdul Khalid to intervene in an application by the public prosecutor involving offshore assets in the British Crown dependency of Jersey. Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin fixed the date for the hearing as well as to deliver...
The Taiwan dollar led Asian currency declines on Friday, logging a seventh straight session of losses and slipping to a more than three-month low, as foreign investors sold local stocks and the island's residents bought overseas bonds. The Taiwan dollar weakened 0.6% to 30.682 per U.S. dollar and is on track for its worst weekly percentage...
ALOR GAJAH: A father of five has been remanded for four days at a Magistrate's Court here after allegedly attacking his teenage daughter simply because she was late in reheating a meal for her mother. The remand order, until Aug 25, was issued by Magistrate Dr Teoh Shu Yee against the 40-year-old suspect to assist investigations...
SINGAPORE: A man accused of sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl was working as a cook at her pre-school. Teo Guan Huat allegedly targeted the toddler in school on at least eight occasions between May 2023 and November 2023. He is being named by The Straits Times for the first time after Deputy Public Prosecutor Claire Poh clarified...
KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman's Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (Jips) will take appropriate action on the initial investigating team for the death of Form One student Zara Qairina Mahathir, says Datuk Seri Mohd Khalid Ismail. The Inspector-General of Police, during a press conference at Bukit Aman Friday (Aug 22), was asked to comment on updates to...
KUANTAN: The two Royal Malaysian Air Force officers piloting the F/A-18D Hornet fighter jet successfully executed emergency ejection procedures before the aircraft crashed at Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport (Kuantan Air Base) late Thursday (Aug 21) night. According to Air Force chief General Datuk Seri Muhamad Norazlan Aris, the pilot, Major Mohamad Azhar Alang Kamarudin, 34,...
KUALA LUMPUR: MRT Corp clarified on Thursday (Aug 21) that the budget ceiling for the LRT Mutiara Line project has been set at RM16.8bil, stressing that the figure reflects current market conditions and not uncontrolled cost escalation. The company said the original estimate for the Penang LRT Bayan Lepas Project in 2016 was RM10bil, based on...
KUALA LUMPUR: The family of the missing Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh has voiced frustration over the lack of meaningful updates in the investigation, despite recent remarks by Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo, who represented the family, said the minister had disclosed that four Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers were...
