SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Get ready to sizzle in April and May. Temperatures in the next two months – usually among the warmest months in the year – could be nudged up further due to lingering effects of the El Nino phenomenon that gripped Singapore from the second half of 2023, experts say. El Nino is a...
BANGKOK (Bernama): The Office of the Thai Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) today received two Thais suspected of drug trafficking, extradited from Malaysia. The Secretary-General of the ONCB Pol. Lt. Gen. Panurat Lakboon said the ONCB Regional Office 9, Narathiwat Provincial Police, Narathiwat Immigration Police, and military officers from ISOC Region 4 received the suspects at the...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s doubles pair Wan Arif Wan Junaidi-Yap Roy King continued their march in the Spain Masters badminton tournament as they advanced to the final in Madrid on Saturday (April 6). The unseeded pair, who did not compete in tournaments for the last three months due to a knee injury to Roy King, defeated Christo...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s doubles pair Wan Arif Wan Junaidi-Yap Roy King fell at the final hurdle of the Spain Masters in Madrid on Sunday. Arif-Roy King battled hard against Sabar Karyaman-Moh Reza Pahlevi but could not stop the Indonesians from securing a 21-18, 17-21, 21-19 win in 52 minutes. The Malaysian pair led 19-18 in the third...
PETALNG JAYA: Top Malaysian women’s professional S. Sivasangari’s dream run at the London Classic continued as she upstaged world No. 4 Nele Gilis of Belgium to reach the final on Sunday (March 31). The competition format shifted from best of three to best of five sets but it did not matter as world No. 16 Sivasangari...
EXCELLENCE in sports and extracurricular activities is important but so is academic success for a good career growth, says shuttler Thinaah Muralitharan. The 26-year-old, who will be making her maiden appearance in the Olympics in Paris in July alongside her partner Pearly Tan, has been interested in sports from a young age. Despite her jam-packed training...
PETALING JAYA: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, reaffirms that fighting corruption, the country's number one enemy, will be a major focus of his reign. Sultan Ibrahim said he had granted an audience to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki on Monday (April 1) to find out the latest developments from...
KUALA LUMPUR: A witness in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial has told the High Court that her knowledge about PetroSaudi International (PSI) Ltd was only based on documents. Former 1MDB general counsel Jasmine Loo said this when asked by Najib's lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, if PSI, a company with...
KUALA LUMPUR: A KK Super Mart outlet in Kuching has been attacked with a Molotov cocktail, the third such attack on the convenience store chain. Kuching OCPD Asst Comm Ahsmon Bajah said the attack occurred on Sunday (March 31). "It was reported by a 25-year-old man who works at the KK Super Mart on Jalan Satok here. ALSO...
PETALING JAYA: PKR Youth urges Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Salleh to take responsibility and stop the rhetoric on the KK Super Mart socks issue, which has been escalating. PKR Youth information chief Nabil Hakimi said a politician should help calm the situation and not exacerbate it. "Dr Akmal should realise that his actions had contributed to...
