NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wrexham will play Bournemouth and Major League Soccer (MLS) side Vancouver Whitecaps as part of their North American tour in July, the Welsh club said on Thursday after they secured back-to-back promotions earlier this month. The fan-favourite club co-owned by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney earned promotion to League One,...
GEORGE TOWN: Commander Muhammad Firdaus Ramli was a hero in many ways, said his father Ramli Abd Hamid. Describing his son as a country hero and hero to the young people of Sungai Nibong, where Muhammad Firdaus was born and raised, he expressed his gratitude for the love Malaysians have shown his late son. Ramli, in his...
KUANTAN: The Fire and Rescue Department will be sending its pilots to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for simulated helicopter emergency training to enhance the skills of its personnel. Its director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohammad said JBPM has been allocated RM800,000 to send all 17 of its pilots to that country. He said the simulated training is...
SELAMA: It never occurred to Laila Fairus Ismail, 58, that her niece's excitement of flying in a helicopter would end in tragedy, with Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) Warrant Officer II TNL Noorfarahimi Mohd Saedy perishing with nine other TLDM personnel when two helicopters crashed at the TLDM base in Lumut on Tuesday. Laila said Noorfarahimi, 41,...
JOHOR BARU: A housewife lost RM400,000 after falling prey to a phone scam. Johor Baru North OCPD Asst Comm Balveer Singh said the police received a report from the 46-year-old woman on Monday (April 22). "On March 6, the victim received a call from an individual claiming to be an officer from a delivery company, who said...
KUANTAN: The Sultan of Pahang, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, has ordered all mosques in the state to perform the funeral prayer in absentia following the tragic crash involving two helicopters at the Royal Malaysian Navy Base in Lumut, Perak, on Tuesday (April 23). Comptroller Major General Datuk Mohamed Zahari Datuk Yahya, in a statement,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security...
KUALA LUMPUR: Perikatan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has no moral standing to make statements regarding current affairs in the country, including political issues, said PKR Information chief Fahmi Fadzil. Fahmi, who is also the Communications Minister, said this was due to Muhyiddin’s failure to cooperate with the authorities in urging his son-in-law, Datuk Seri...
PETALING JAYA: The man suspected of attempting to kill his wife at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) says he still loves her. “I still love my wife, Farah Md Isa, thank you," Hafizul Harawi told the media as he arrived at a Magistrate's Court in Kota Baru on Monday (April 22) morning for a remand...
KOTA BHARU: The remand period for the suspect in the shooting case at the Arrivals Hall, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in the early morning of April 14, has been extended by five days. The order to extend the remand, which is effective on Tuesday (April 23) until April 27, was made by Magistrate Ahmad Syafiq...
