KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to leverage its chairmanship of the upcoming Asean summits next year to resolve outstanding South China Sea issues, says Deputy Defence Minister Adly Zahari (pic). Adly said the Defence Ministry emphasises three important pillars over the South China Sea issue: Malaysia’s readiness and the modernisation of its navy assets, the robustness of...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission (SC) Malaysia has updated its Investor Alert List to include 19 potential clone entities and eight unauthorised entities as of Oct 18, 2024. In a post on X today, the SC urged investors to be cautious of potential clone entities that may be impersonating legitimate firms. The regulator identified the potential clone...
PETALING JAYA: A yellow alert warning for continuous rain has been issued for parts of Sabah, including the west coast and its capital Kota Kinabalu. The warning issued by the Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) is for Wednesday (Oct 23) to Friday (Oct 25). The advisory was issued at 9.45am on Monday (Oct 21). The areas affected are the Inland...
A DRAMATIC video has surfaced, capturing what appears to be a building in an industrial area consumed by flames. The footage has spread across social media, and commenters have said that the clip was of a palm oil processing centre in Pasir Gudang. So, does this viral video truly show the fiery devastation at the Johor facility? Verdict: TRUE A...
BEIJING (SCMP): A young Chinese man has astonished mainland social media with his remarkable academic accomplishments, which include two postdoctoral degrees, four PhDs, four master’s degrees, and more than 20 memberships in academic organisations. Zhao Zijian, 29, sparked intense public debate after the Inner Mongolian National Culture and Art Research Institute announced his appointment as a...
PETALING JAYA: The new Employees Provident Fund (EPF) measures are expected to benefit over 2.3 million people in Malaysia including two million foreign workers, says the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). Mechanisms are still being worked out on mandatory foreign workers’ contributions to the fund as well as the intergenerational transfer of wealth as proposed in the...
MANILA: Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Justice Department said on Monday (Oct 21). In April 2000, members of the Abu Sayyaf group kidnapped at gunpoint 21 people from a holiday resort on...
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s new leader Prabowo Subianto endeared himself to voters as a kindly grandfather vowing to give free meals to schoolchildren. Now to get things rolling in South-east Asia’s largest economy, the president is signaLling a strongman approach. The former general used his maiden speech on Sunday (Oct 20) to rail against corruption and poverty, a...
PUTRAJAYA: The government will defend academics’ right to freedom of expression as long as they are evidential and based in fact, says Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir. “Academic freedom at the university is still maintained, there is no need for any measures that try to restrict it. “At the same time, academics who present...
KUALA TERENGGANU: A businesswoman has pleaded not guilty in the High Court here on Monday (Oct 21) to murdering her business partner in November last year. Nooraini Remali, 36, was charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code with murdering Noorzihan Abd Karim, 65, in front of the Telekom Malaysia guard post, Batu 23, Kuala Berang...
