KUALA LUMPUR: Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) is adding two extra electric train services (ETS) with a total of 2,520 tickets, including business class coaches, for the Padang Besar-KL Sentral route and vice versa during the Awal Muharram public holiday on July 7. According to KTMB, these additional trains will operate for four days starting from...
PUTRAJAYA: A drastic decrease in diesel sales following the subsidy rationalisation policy points to the fuel subsidy being widely abused, says Fuziah Salleh. The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Deputy Minister said since the introduction of the targeted diesel subsidy on June 10, there has been a substantial shift in diesel consumption patterns in Malaysia. "Diesel...
JEMPOL: A man has been arrested for the alleged murder of his 63-year-old mother. Jempol police chief Supt Hoo Chang Hook said preliminary investigations have revealed that the 33-year-old suspect, who was the victim's oldest child, was mentally unwell. "We received a call around noon today about an argument between a mother and her son which led...
SINGAPORE (South China Morning Post): A Malaysian beautician living in Singapore, who had all four limbs amputated after contracting a serious infection, has bravely decided to live resiliently with her family’s support. Lin Ailing, 37, went to Singapore in 2016 to work as a beauty therapist, a job she thoroughly enjoyed and which afforded her the...
NIBONG TEBAL: The candidates of the Sungai Bakap by-election bumped into each other during their respective walkabouts at Puteri Gunong Night Market here on Tuesday (June 25). Pakatan Harapan candidate Dr Joohari Ariffin and Perikatan Nasional candidate Abidin Ismail were both at the market courting for votes from locals when they realised each other’s presence at...
KOTA BHARU: A Muay Thai coach was charged in the Sessions Court on Monday (June 24) with three counts of rape and physical sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl, and one count of burglary. Muhammad Haziq Aiman Azhar, 25, pleaded not guilty to all the charges read before Judge Zulkifli Abllah. Muhammad Haziq Aiman was accused of...
Entrepreneur Datuk Seri Adnan Abu, better known as Datuk Red, is on standby in case his two ex-wives, Sharifah Nur Shafila and Adira Suhaimi, want to reconcile with him. The 46-year-old said he will remain single as long as his two ex-wives have not found new husbands. "As long as my ex-wives do not remarry, I will...
KUALA LUMPUR: The first phase of the empirical study on the separation of roles of the attorney general (AG) and public prosecutor (PP) will conclude after the research by the Special Task Force on Comparative Studies in the United Kingdom (UK) is completed, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said. The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department...
KANGAR: The number of houses damaged by storms in Perlis since Friday has increased to 107 as at 8.18pm Sunday night, according to the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIPs) data. MAIPs chief executive officer Mohd Nazim Mohd Noor said 96 houses were damaged in the storm on Sunday (June 23), while 11 houses...
IPOH: Police say that a severed hand found near a burning car in front of Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta near Tanjung Rambutan was likely from a fight where three men were ambushed by 20 assailants near a road along the Sultan Azlan Shah Health Ministry Training Institute. Ipoh district police chief ACP Abang Zainal Abidin Abang...
