170,000 tourist arrivals at island from Dec 1-20, says Lada LANGKAWI: Tourism is making waves again here with thousands of holidaymakers converging since the school holidays began. According to statistics released by the Langkawi Development Authority (Lada), 68,000 visitors set foot on the island during the first week of the school holidays beginning Dec 15. Average daily arrivals...
SHAH ALAM: A 44-year-old man was charged with the murder of a 26-year-old woman at the Magistrates Court here. Khoo Choon Heng was accused of stabbing Koh Chea Ling to death at Jalan Bayu Tinggi in Klang at 1.00pm on Dec 18. The charge was read to Khoo in front of magistrate Amirul Asyraf Abd Rashid and...
KOTA KINABALU: An aide to former deputy home minister Datuk Mohd Azis Jamman has lodged a police report against the Facebook page "Berita Jenayah Malaysia" for linking him to a suspected drug kingpin in Sabah. Azis's former special officer Jasni Mohammad lodged the report here on Tuesday (Dec 26) following the online post that had gone...
PETALING JAYA: Those with the Tun title should be investigated and have their property seized if they failed to explain the source of their wealth, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The former prime minister said that obtaining evidence of the misdeeds is unnecessary, as "suspicion" alone should be enough. "The Tuns should not only be investigated. They...
PETALING JAYA: The house of the Kelantan Mentri Besar has been flooded as the situation worsens in the state, but this has not stopped Datuk Mohd Nassuruddin Daud from carrying out his duties. "The water level rose quite rapidly. Last night (Dec 26), my residence and the surrounding area of Kampung Meranti were also flooded. "Thank God,...
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping (pic) vowed on Tuesday (Dec 26) to resolutely prevent anyone from "splitting Taiwan from China in any way", the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two weeks before Taiwan elects a new leader. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the government in...
(Reuters) - Japan's Naoya Inoue became the second male boxer to be a four-belt undisputed champion in two weight divisions with a 10th-round knockout of Marlon Tapales in Tokyo on Tuesday. Inoue unified the super-bantamweight titles of all four major sanctioning bodies, taking the WBA and IBF crown from Tapales and retaining the WBC and WBO...
NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) -Nottingham Forest striker Chris Wood scored a superb hat-trick against his former club Newcastle United at St James' Park on Tuesday to give his struggling side a much-needed 3-1 victory in the Premier League. Forest's first win under new coach Nuno Espirito Santo lifted them to 16th in the table on 17 points,...
(Reuters) -Manchester United shares rose about 3% on Tuesday after a stake purchase by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe cleared months of uncertainty over a deal that fans and investors hoped would revitalize the British soccer club. Ratcliffe's INEOS Group is taking a 25% interest in the company at $33 per share, valuing the 20-time English champions at...
KUALA LUMPUR: A crowd of protestors gathered outside the US embassy in solidarity with Palestine amid heavy police presence on Tuesday (Dec 26). The crowd gathered outside the embassy around 10.45pm with the entrance in front of the embassy blocked by police. Dozens of policemen were seen standing by in front and around the embassy, with the...
