PETALING JAYA: The Supreme Court in the Netherlands has decided in favour of Malaysia in a final landmark judgment, thereby throwing out the compensation claims by the self-proclaimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said. According to the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the decision by...
KUALA TERENGGANU: Former national weightlifter Che Mohd Azrol Che Mat died last night at Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital here. He was 45. His younger sister, Suraya Che Mat, 39, said Che Mohd Azrol, who remained unmarried, succumbed to a heart attack at 7.09 pm after spending 10 days in the hospital. She explained that her brother had...
YANGON: Two people have died and over 600 others have been hospitalised with severe diarrhea in Hlaingtharya township of Myanmar's Yangon region from July 5 to Monday (Sept 2), an official from the Ministry of Health told Xinhua on Friday (Sept 6). The health official said that the two deceased had underlying health conditions. As of Tuesday,...
GEORGE TOWN: Kamal (not his real name), 54, has been working for more than 30 years mainly doing maintenance work at a government agency. Sometime at the end of last year, he suffered a hand injury while operating a machine and sought treatment at a public hospital in Bukit Mertajam. “I fractured two of my fingers that...
MELAKA: A 34-year-old childminder has been remanded for seven days in connection to the alleged murder of an infant at Taman Kelamak Utama in Alor Gajah. The remand order was issued by Magistrate Nor Syaliati Mohd Sobri on Saturday (Sept 7) when the suspect wearing a lock-up attire was produced at the Alor Gajah Magistrate's Court...
IPOH: The police have arrested a local man for allegedly sending offensive comments on Facebook about the policemen who were killed in the Ulu Tiram incident in May this year. Tapah OCPD Mohd Naim Asnawi said the man, aged 25, was arrested at a house in Masai, Johor, at 8pm last Thursday (Sept 5). He said the...
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, on Saturday attended the Investiture ceremony at Istana Negara to present the 2024 federal awards, medals and honours that were conferred in conjunction with his official birthday. It is the first investiture ceremony by His Majesty after being installed as the 17th King of Malaysia last July...
PETALING JAYA: The Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar was among those who headed the list of awards conferred by His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia. Shamsul was among the 116 awards recipients to mark His Majesty's official birthday celebration on June 3. He was conferred the Panglima Mangku Negara (PMN),...
AVIGNON, FRANCE (AFP): The daughter of a Frenchman on trial for enlisting strangers to rape his drugged wife described him as "likely one of the worst sexual criminals in past 20 years". Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, has admitted to abusing his wife without her knowledge between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and...
MELAKA: An interior design company supervisor was sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM70,000, in default 12 months in jail, by an Ayer Keroh Magistrate's Court here for driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in a road crash and caused the death of a car driver, three years ago. Magistrate AzureenSahira Sauffee...
