KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Na’imah Abdul Khalid's lawyers say they are disappointed and concerned by the decision of the police and Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) to classify her police report on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki as "no further action" or NFA. The report,...
KUALA LUMPUR: MIC vice-president Datuk T. Murugiah was injured in a road accident on the North-South Expressway near the Bangi interchange on Sunday (June 22). In the incident at about 8.30pm, the former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department was on his way home after officiating the Bakri MIC Division annual general meeting in Johor. According...
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) -Global environmental lobby Greenpeace added its voice on Monday to protests against this week's celebrity wedding in Venice between American tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist Laura Sanchez. The event, expected to attract some 200 guests including U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as scores of stars...
KOTA KINABALU: A Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) student has defended the recent anti-corruption protest and symbolic act of burning a caricature of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, pointing out that Anwar once led similar demonstrations during his university days. In a Facebook post, final-year student Fadhil Kasim reminded the public that when Anwar was a...
KUANTAN: Pahang police will establish a task force to prevent theft at the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project sites here following several reports. State police chief Datuk Seri Yahaya Othman said they are keeping an eye out for such activities after receiving 10 police reports related to theft at the project's construction locations since last...
VIENNA (Reuters) -Entrances to tunnels used to store part of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile at the sprawling Isfahan nuclear complex were hit in U.S. military strikes overnight, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday. "We have established that entrances to underground tunnels at the site were impacted," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement. Officials...
SYDNEY: Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong (pic) said on Monday (June 23) that Canberra supported the United States strike on Iran and called for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy. "We support action that the US has taken to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," Wong said in a television interview with Seven Sunrise. In a...
KLANG: The daily routine of the community in Taman Meru Utama came to a standstill when the peace was shattered by the sound of gunfire in front of a motorcycle shop that claimed the life of a local man on Friday (June 20). At the time of the incident, a retail shop owner, a woman who wished...
JAKARTA (AFP): A plane carrying hundreds of hajj pilgrims back to Indonesia from the Middle East was diverted Saturday after a bomb threat, the transport ministry and police said, the second such incident in a week. Saudia Airlines flight SV5688 had flown from the Saudi city of Jeddah to the Omani capital Muscat before travelling on...
BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): As the conflict between Israel and Iran stretches beyond a week, China has found itself sidelined in developments that could yet have far-reaching consequences for its interests in the Middle East. While Beijing has offered itself as a peacemaker, it is unlikely to wade into the conflict directly, or to supply arms...
