WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Oct 10) that Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado called him and said she accepted the prize in his honour, after the White House said earlier in the day that the Nobel Committee had chosen "politics over peace." The White House had criticised the Nobel Committee's...
KOTA TINGGI: A fatal accident involving three vehicles, including a sports utility vehicle (SUV) suspected of carrying smuggled cigarettes, resulted in three deaths at KM56 of the Senai–Desaru Highway (E22) on Saturday (Oct 11) afternoon, Sinar Harian reports. Kota Tinggi OCPD Supt Yusof Othman said that a 32-year-old local man driving an SUV sustained serious injuries...
KUANTAN: The Sultan of Pahang, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, has decreed that all houses built in the state must be of high quality and completed within the stipulated timeframe. His Royal Highness said failure to follow the construction schedule could lead to higher costs, burdening developers and, eventually, homebuyers. "Substandard homes are unacceptable as they amount to...
KUALA LUMPUR: Police will tighten security at public areas popular with shoppers ahead of the Deepavali celebration on Oct 20. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Fadil Marsus said the measure is aimed at ensuring public safety and keeping the capital city safe. "The police will act as the main enforcement agency together with other departments to...
PETALING JAYA: A powerful person, who operates "above the law" is behind the alleged fabrication of documents in Malaysia’s process of registering their mixed-heritage football players, claims Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The former prime minister said this during Sinar Daily's Top News Podcast on Thursday (Oct 9), when he expressed his embarrassment over the incident that...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the United States declined to extend the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expires next year. He said it would, however, be a shame if nothing remained of...
PETALING JAYA: People-centric measures that raise welfare aid and incentives to spur on the economy were among the main features in Budget 2026. The national budget, which Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim tabled on Friday (Oct 10), totalled to RM470bil. In comparison, it is a 11.6% increase from last year's national budget of RM421bil. Budget 2026, the fourth tabled...
PETALING JAYA: The Cybercrime Bill will not be misused as a political tool, says Datuk Seri Dr Zaliha Mustafa (pic). The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Federal Territories) assured that it would not impose restrictions on freedom of speech nor would it lead to excessive monitoring of the rakyat. "Its main objective is to handle cyber crimes...
MANILA: The Philippines' seismology agency (Phivolcs) has cancelled its tsunami warning following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck offshore near its southern coast. "Any effects due to the tsunami warning have largely passed," Phivolcs said in an advisory. - Reuters
BEIJING: An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck Ganzi prefecture in the Western highlands of China's Sichuan province on Thursday (Oct 9), according to China Earthquake Networks Centre. The quake was at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles), the centre said. Ganzi, a sparsely populated region, borders Yunnan to the south and Tibet to the west. Known for...
