PETALING JAYA: A crowd has gathered at the court complex here on Wednesday (June 12) ahead of the possible arrival of the parents of murdered six-year-old autistic boy Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matiin. Sinar Harian reports that members of the media have been gathering since 7.30am, adding that only those with official business have been allowed in. Zayn...
KOTA KINABALU: Customs officers have detected another case of falsely declared goods brought into Sabah by smuggling syndicates to evade tax. Sabah Customs seized six containers with some RM2.7mil worth of beer, including unpaid taxes, that came through Sepanggar port near here on May 10. The seizure was made after it was determined that the consignment had...
PETALING JAYA: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) recorded total distributable income of RM19.20bil for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024 (1Q24), an increase of 33.1% from the RM14.42bil recorded in the corresponding quarter in 2023. The distributable income does not include mark-to-market (MTM) gains of securities that have not been realised. EPF chief executive officer, Ahmad...
KUALA SELANGOR: The Sessions Court here has fixed July 11 for next mention of the case involving a married couple suspected of supplying firearms to an Israeli man. Sharifah Faraha Syed Husin, 41, and Abdul Azim Mohd Yasin, 43, arrived in court at 9.30am and 9.50am Tuesday (June 11) respectively. In Tuesday's proceedings, DPP Fazeedah Faik said...
PETALING JAYA: Cases of food poisoning are now more common, with 51 incidents recorded for every 100,000 people in Malaysia in 2023. This is more than double the rate of 18.4 incidents in 2021. ALSO READ: Two deaths linked to food poisoning from Gombak school, say cops Recently, two deaths from food poisoning have been linked to food...
ANKARA: The Defence Ministry has handed over the letter of agreement (LOA) for the purchase of the second batch of three littoral mission ships (LMS) to Turkiye defence company Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik (STM). Ministry deputy secretary-general (development) Dr Mohd Bakhari Ismail handed the document to STM general manager Ozgur Guleryuz here on Monday (June 10). ALSO READ:...
GEORGE TOWN: More than RM400,000 in drugs were seized during police narcotics operations in Ayer Itam on June 7, with a 24-year-old suspected dealer nabbed. The arrest was made at about 7pm by the George Town police narcotic criminal investigation department during the police’s Ops Tapis sweep. George Town OCPD Asst Comm Razlam Ab Hamid said the...
JAKARTA: Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, erupted on Monday (June 10), spewing volcanic ash up to 800m high from its crater, according to the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Centre (PVMBG). Adzan Anugrah Indiarsyah, an officer at the Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki observation post, stated that the eruption occurred at 7.20am local time,...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has set June 12 to decide on the judicial review application filed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in relation to the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s (RCI) proceedings into Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks, and South Ledge. Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh has fixed 8.30am to deliver his decision, an hour before Dr...
KUALA LUMPUR: Veteran journalist Khalidah Adibah Amin was named the national journalism laureate in conjunction with the Malaysian Press Institute (MPI)-PETRONAS Malaysian Journalism Awards (HKM) 2023 at the Malaysian Journalists Night 2024 on Friday (June 7). Known as Adibah Amin, her nomination as the first woman to be named national journalism laureate was proposed by the...
