KANGAR: The votive tablets discovered in Gua Berhala and Gua Kurong Batang are the physical evidence of the existence of a settlement for protohistoric community in the state of Perlis in the ninth century. Kota Kayang Museum director Siti Munirah Kasim said the tablets were either circular or pear-shaped lumps of clay with Buddhist images and...
KUALA LUMPUR: Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Bhd (PUNB) announced the appointment of former inspector-general of police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani (pic) as its chairman with effect from Friday (Sept 1) to replace Datuk Ahmad Nazlan Idris, who resigned from the position on Dec 20 last year. PUNB chief executive officer Izwan Zainuddin said members of...
KUALA LUMPUR: "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! We are going down.” This distress call was probably the last words uttered by the pilot of a Royal Air Force (RAF) B24 Liberator KL654 aircraft, carrying a crew of eight and war supplies, that had taken off from Cocos Island, Australia, before crashing in a remote forest in Negeri...
PETALING JAYA: Are there any 100-year-old contributors of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) out there? The answer is yes! The EPF recently posted a general notice including in The Star classified ads seeking to contact people who are 100 years old and above who have not claimed their EPF savings. The fund said members and their beneficiaries...
KUALA LUMPUR: The National Industrial Master Plan (NIMP) 2030 will have specific plans to ensure growth in local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and improve the livelihood of Malaysians, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. According to Anwar, the government’s Madani Economy framework and NIMP 2030 were both aligned in their focus to improve lives...
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are on the lookout for one witness in their investigations into an alleged gang rape here. Wangsa Maju OCPD Supt Ashari Abu Samah said that the victim, a local woman, had filed a report on Aug 30 stating that she had been raped by five men at a house in Wangsa Maju. "All suspects...
MELAKA: An army commando has discovered a mortar shell just 30m away from his house here. Zakaria Ismail, 32, said he and other family members were at his house in Taman Tanjung Minyak here to celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday. He said he was looking for bamboo shoots to cook a dish for the birthday party when he...
GEORGE TOWN: A 43-year-old man has drowned at Miami Beach in Batu Ferringhi here. In a statement, the Fire and Rescue Department said some individuals attempted to rescue the victim, Haryardi Salleh, before authorities were alerted to the incident at 4.28pm on Thursday (Aug 31). The victim was recovered from the water but remained unconscious. "Rescuers who arrived...
PUTRAJAYA: The police say that the vehicle that hit two cyclists as seen in a viral video is an ehailing vehicle and that the accident occurred on Jalan Dengkil, Kota Warisan in Sepang on Aug 27. Sepang deputy OCPD Supt Md Noor Aehwan Mohammad said the ehailing driver and one cyclist lodged police reports over the...
SEOUL (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A South Korean influencer is stirring up a hornet’s nest online with her bizarre selfies that only the most gullible will believe are actually of her in the flesh. Shasheile is seen in her photos with reality-morphing proportions: a head with a babyish, anime-looking face that is so tiny it’s...
