PUTRAJAYA: Umno will continue to seek a full royal pardon for Datuk Seri Najib Razak, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. The Deputy Prime Minister and Umno president said this was to fulfil the wishes of the former prime minister and his family. However, the effort would be made with full respect towards His Majesty Sultan...
PETALING JAYA: National director of coaching Rexy Mainaky has brought in two former Indonesian international shuttlers to spar with top women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah. Ade Yusuf, who was ranked world No. 16 with Wahyu Nayaka in 2015 in the men’s doubles, and Gerardo Rizqullah Hafidz, also a former Indonesian men’s doubles player, have started...
PETALING JAYA: He was a firm character and brooked no nonsense but for his friends and those loyal to him, he would do anything. That was former national footballer Khalid Ali, a key member of the national team that qualified for the 1980 Olympics. Khalid had also won numerous trophies as a Selangor player. Khalid was known...
PUTRAJAYA: A total of 25 undocumented foreigners were detained following a raid at Tamara Residence condominium here, says the Immigration Department. Its director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said those detained in the raid yesterday morning comprised 23 men and two women – with ages between 25 and 45. They were from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Myanmar and the Philippines,...
KAJANG: Heavy vehicles are prohibited from using roads for four days in conjunction with Chinese New Year, which also coincides with the start of the school holidays. Road Transport Department (JPJ) senior enforcement director Datuk Lokman Jamaan said that the ban will take effect on Feb 8, 9, 12, and 13, and strict action will be...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be submitting a new application for a full royal pardon, says his lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. "The reason we want to make another request (for a pardon) is because we don't think that the Pardons Board operated in a way the Federal Constitution expected...
PETALING JAYA: Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has been sentenced to two years' jail for defaming Terengganu Sultanah Nur Zahirah. Magistrate Nik Mohd Tarmizie Nik Mohd Shukri passed down the sentence on Rewcastle-Brown on Wednesday (Feb 7) at the Kuala Terengganu Magistrates' Court, Harian Metro reported. Rewcastle-Brown did not attend the hearing. She was charged with criminal defamation...
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution in Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's money laundering case has once again objected to the former prime minister's application for a temporary release of his passport, this time to travel to Bangkok, Thailand on Feb 15. In the prosecution's counter affidavit to the application obtained by the media, deputy public prosecutor Zander Lim...
MELAKA: A 38-year-old man who went into hiding for three months after allegedly raping and impregnating his teenage daughter has finally been caught. State police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zainol Samah said the suspect was arrested in Kampung Kelemak Dalam at midnight on Tues (Feb 6). He said police launched a manhunt for the suspect, a labourer,...
PETALING JAYA: Former men’s singles shuttler Chia Jeng Hon has found a new way to stay involved in the sport after being dropped by the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM). He has returned ‘’home’’ as a sparring partner at Academy Badminton Association. The 21-year-old Jeng Hon was one of the players axed from the national set-up following...
