PETALING JAYA: While many school leavers are unhappy about not receiving an offer to study medicine at a public university, experts are saying there are other areas in healthcare that offers various rewarding career opportunities. Not only are these alternative paths facing a significant shortage of professionals, they also offer good earning and learning potential. As the...
KUALA SELANGOR: Drug addiction cases in this country have increased by 27% in the first six months of this year to 118,820 addicts compared with 93,534 addicts reported in the same period last year. The National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) director-general Sutekno Ahmad Belon said this upward trend is worrying as more than half of the number...
JOHOR BARU: The state government will push for the reopening of a pedestrian shortcut to the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (BSI CIQ), including facilitating a study to look into its feasibility. State works, transportation and infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said he will bring the matter up in the coming...
NEW YORK: Malaysia has expressed its willingness to buy military equipment from Turkiye, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar said prior to this, some of Malaysia’s military equipment had been purchased from South Korea, adding that the choice of suitable purchases from Turkiye will be decided by the Malaysian Armed Forces Council. "We could be...
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will take his concept of Malaysia Madani to the world stage when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow in his maiden appearance as leader of the country. Anwar is scheduled to deliver his statement at the general assembly at 10am tomorrow, or 10pm Malaysian time. Besides the...
KUALA LUMPUR: The retail price of RON97 petrol will be higher by 10 sen at RM3.47 per litre, while the prices of RON95 petrol and diesel remain unchanged for the week from Sept 21 to 27. The Finance Ministry in a statement on Wednesday (Sept 20) stated that the prices of RON95 petrol and diesel remained...
KOTA KINABALU: A group of men could only look on helplessly as their friend was mauled by a crocodile in Sabah’s east coast Lahad Datu district early Wednesday (Sept 20). In the pre-dawn attack, four men were trapping crabs in waters off Kampung Tinagian, Tanjung Labian, when the reptile lunged at the victim, a 23-year-old oil...
KEPALA BATAS: The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry (MAFS) expects the shortage of local white rice supply in the market to stabilise within a month following various intervention measures and continuous monitoring from the government. Its Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu (pic) said that the ministry's engagement session with the country’s rice industry players involving manufacturers,...
KUALA LUMPUR: Two contractors pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Sept 20) to a charge of cheating a school’s board of governors concerning repair work of facilities at the school, worth RM875,000, three years ago. Mohd Syafeeq Mohd, 40, and Cheah Seng Nam, 48, were jointly charged with cheating the Board of...
KUALA LUMPUR: The crime index for Kuala Lumpur showed a reduction of 10.3% between Jan 1 and Aug 31 compared to the corresponding period last year. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Allaudeen Abdul Majid said the reduction of 10.3% or 334 cases is a testament to the hard work by all police officers and personnel. "We...
