SEPANG: Two more job scam victims have returned to Malaysia after six months of being forced to work as online scammers in Myawaddy, Myanmar. For 29-year-old Sarawakian man who only wanted to be known as Lau, he said the hellish experience began at the end of last year. "I had been working in Singapore for six years...
KUALA LUMPUR: Four monorail stations - Bukit Nanas, Raja Chulan, Bukit Bintang and Imbi - will be temporarily closed for cleaning and repair works after an uprooted tree smashed onto the monorail track on Tuesday (May 7). Rapid Rail Sdn Bhd (Rapid Rail) in a statement on Tuesday night said the service provider would carry out...
KUANTAN: Sultan of Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has proposed that the state government establish a Syariah Supreme Court to further streamline syariah laws in the state. His Royal Highness said that currently, Pahang has three levels of syariah laws, namely the Syariah Lower Court, the Syariah High Court and the Syariah Appeals Court. "Islamic...
PETALING JAYA: Children of low income families in Malaysia’s capital are eating less than three meals a day as their families have been forced to cut back on spending due to rising food prices in the post-pandemic era. About 52% of the children surveyed ate less than three meals a day, compared to 45% before the...
SEPANG: A luxury car was among the vehicles seized under special operations to get rid of airport touts by the Road Transport Department (JPJ). JPJ deputy director-general (Planning and Operations) Aedy Fadly Ramli said a luxury MPV was among the 10 cars seized during the department’s latest three-day operation against airport touts at Kuala Lumpur International...
KOTA KINABALU: A man with 33 drug and criminal offences on his record was among two suspected burglars arrested in connection with a sundry shop break-in at Sabah's east coast Tawau district. Tawau OCPD Asst Comm Jasmin Hussin said the two suspects, aged 39 and 19, were caught in separate operations in the district on Tuesday...
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution has listed seven reasons in its appeal petition in the RM150mil graft case involving Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife Zizie Ezette Abdul Samad. In the petition filed on May 3, the prosecution contended that the High Court judge had erred in his exercise of revisionary powers when...
BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): Two “panda dogs” have been delighting and perplexing visitors of a zoo in China since a dedicated enclosure opened to the public on May 1. Videos of the animals posted online confused netizens, some of whom mistook them for real pandas, with others asking whether “panda dog” was a real breed. And while...
BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Thailand has welcomed more than 12 million foreign tourists during the first four months of this year, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has announced to the media. The TAT said 12,127,447 foreign tourists entered Thailand from January 1 to April 30, an increase of 142.87% from the same period last year. According...
Police in Vietnam have arrested the former head of the government office, Mai Tien Dung (pic), on suspicion of abuse of power, the Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday, amid a widening anti-graft crackdown in the Southeast Asian country. The arrest of Dung, 65, is part of an investigation into a bribery case in the...
