KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Monday visited Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail, who is receiving treatment at the National Heart Institute (IJN). In a Facebook post, Anwar said Wan Rosdy's condition was improving when he visited him earlier this afternoon. "I had the opportunity to visit Pahang Mentri Besar...
KUALA LUMPUR: A note pleading for help led to the rescue of a 21-year-old Indonesian maid who had been locked up on the balcony of a condominium in Petaling Jaya. Only given a pillow and a mattress, the victim suffered whenever it rained. Her anguish ended when a team from Bukit Aman CID Anti-Trafficking in Persons and...
KOTA KINABALU: Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil was granted an audience by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at Istana Seri Kinabalu here Monday (June 10) to present the instrument of royal invitation to the Coronation of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia. Fahmi, who is also the chairman of the Special Committee...
GEORGE TOWN: A motorcyclist has been arrested for hitting a car with a helmet during a minor road accident on Jalan Sungai Pinang here. George Town OCPD Asst Comm Razlam Ab Halim said the suspect, in his 30s, was arrested at his house in Sungai Pinang at about 7pm. "The arrest was made after a complainant lodged...
GEORGE TOWN: More than RM400,000 in drugs were seized during police narcotics operations in Ayer Itam on June 7, with a 24-year-old suspected dealer nabbed. The arrest was made at about 7pm by the George Town police narcotic criminal investigation department during the police’s Ops Tapis sweep. George Town OCPD Asst Comm Razlam Ab Hamid said the...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has set June 12 to decide on the judicial review application filed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in relation to the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s (RCI) proceedings into Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks, and South Ledge. Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh has fixed 8.30am to deliver his decision, an hour before Dr...
BUKIT MERTAJAM: For the Goh sisters, making bak chang (Chinese rice dumplings) is an annual affair, and their friends and relatives will vouch for this tasty treat every Dragon Boat Festival. Hwee Gim, 60, and Sally, 64, learnt to make the dumplings from their mother when they were teenagers. The younger sibling said her specialty is the...
PETALING JAYA: The Chinese Embassy has unveiled a new song to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Malaysia-China relations. The song titled Sayang-Sayang my Dear Friend is performed by Malaysian singer Ah Niu. The song, which is in sung in Mandarin, also features English and Malay lyrics and speaks of the half-century-long friendship between the two nations. Part of its lyrics...
ATHENS/SYMI, Greece (Reuters) -British TV presenter and healthy living advocate Michael Mosley has been found dead in a rocky area on the Greek island of Symi, just metres away from his destination, local mayors told Reuters on Sunday. Mosley, 67, had been missing since Wednesday after he went for a walk alone along a coastal path...
PETALING JAYA: Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan will be holding a press conference on the diesel subsidy rationalisation on Sunday (June 9). The event is scheduled to be held at 5pm at the Finance Ministry office in Putrajaya. On May 24, Amir Hamzah said that diesel subsidies cost the government RM1bil a month, while...
