KUALA LUMPUR: DAP’s plan to mobilise its members in Penang to “defend” a business premises involved in the recent upside-down flag controversy risks sparking a direct confrontation, warns MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong (pic). He said the move, announced by DAP, could draw large numbers of politically charged individuals to a location already...
KUALA LUMPUR: The government will examine the need for specific laws on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in light of emerging legal challenges. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said (pic) said the current legal system needs to be upgraded, as AI-related laws require different approaches, including burden of proof,...
MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya (Reuters) -When Ritz-Carlton opens its first safari lodge on Friday in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, guests will pay nightly rates starting from $3,500 per person for tented suites with private decks overlooking a river crossed by migrating wildebeest. But the director of a Maasai conservation institute and researchers say the true...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry will conduct engagement sessions with all stakeholders to explain the current guidelines for handling bullying offences, says Minister Fadhlina Sidek (pic). She said the move was in response to one of the four demands in the #JusticeForZara memorandum submitted to the ministry by a group of student activists here on Tuesday...
SEREMBAN: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has obtained a remand extension from the Magistrate's Court here on a broker suspected of using a land title with falsified details to obtain RM3.8mil, the proceeds of a land sale. On Monday (Aug 11), Magistrate Nurul Saqinah Rosli allowed an application from the MACC to remand the suspect, in...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India on Monday accused its neighbour Pakistan of "sabre rattling" and "irresponsibility" after media reports on remarks about nuclear threats in South Asia made by Pakistan's army chief while on a visit to the United States. Indian media reports, citing sources, quoted Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir as saying: "We are a nuclear...
GELANG PATAH: A Pakistani man and a local woman have been arrested for their alleged involvement in motorcycle petrol theft at an apartment in Tanjung Kupang. Iskandar Puteri OCPD Asst Comm M. Kumarasan reported that the suspects were detained following a report lodged by a 28-year-old local woman. "In her police report, the woman stated that the...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) has launched a 10-day tax compliance operation codenamed "Ops Titan" to strengthen enforcement against tax non-compliance. In a statement on Monday (Aug 11), LHDN said Ops Titan was launched following the emergence of certain parties using aggressive tax planning to evade taxes in terms of transactions between related groups...
MELAKA: Police have arrested a primary school headmaster alleged of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old male pupil. Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the 58-year-old suspect, who hails from Segamat, Johor, was detained at 9pm on Friday (Aug 8). He said the suspect is being investigated under Section 14(a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children...
PARIS (Reuters) -A wildfire in the southern French prefecture of Aude is not expected to be under control until late on Sunday, the regional chief firefighter said on French television. The fire, which began Tuesday, is one of the largest recorded in France since 1949. Spread over 16,000 hectares (around 40,000 acres), it has led to...
