Police record statement of man seen on CCTV footage leaving suitcase with RM500,000 in parking lot

SHAH ALAM: Police have recorded the statement of a man who is believed to have left a suitcase containing RM500,000 in cash in the parking lot of a shopping centre in Damansara on March 19. Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the man was identified as the individual who placed the bag there through...

End call to boycott

IPOH: Calls for boycotts as well as criminal acts of attack on KK Super Mart convenience stores should stop. The people should let the law take its rightful course, says the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF). MCPF Kinta district chairman Chung Kok Heung said Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh must end his calls to boycott...

PKR leader offers to be Akmal’s lawyer

JOHOR BARU: A PKR leader has offered to represent Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh, who is being investigated under the Sedition Act 1948 and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim said Dr Akmal should not be investigated under these laws as both are "iron-fisted" in nature and often...

30 school kids among 178 people nabbed in joint enforcement op in Ipoh

IPOH: A total of 30 school students were among the 178 people arrested by police in a joint law enforcement operation held here. The operation at 2.30am on Sunday (April 7) was carried out by personnel from the Ipoh Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Division and the Perak National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK). Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Abang Zainal...

IGP looking into claims ‘Allah’ word seen on shoe sole, store denies claim

PETALING JAYA: Police will look into an allegation that the word "Allah" in Arabic script has been found on the sole of a shoe. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain, when contacted, said police are looking into the matter. “I’m checking,” he said briefly on Sunday (April 7). Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh had said...

FTX estate sold $1.9b Solana at discount price

While FTX creditors decried unfair bankruptcy proceedings and decisions, the defunct crypto business offloaded a trove of Solana tokens at a massive discount. FTX’s estate, under bankruptcy administrators led by CEO John J. Ray III, traded 25-to-30 million Solana (SOL) coins well below market prices as the company tried to plug a $16 billion hole left...

Binance’s web3 wallet adds support for 35 new dApps

Binance recently completed integrating 35 new decentralized applications into its web3 wallet. Popular platforms such as Aevo, Ambient Finance, and BAC Games have been added as new additions. The update allows users to directly access and interact with a wide range of decentralized applications (dApps) for various purposes, including gaming, finance, and trading, through the wallet. The Web3...

Miner earns 6.36 BTC on 1 block of Bitcoin as halving approaches

A solo miner mined a single block of Bitcoin and earned 6.36 BTC before the impending halving. On April 5, a solo miner with an equipment hashrate of 7 PH/s keyed block #837,814 into the blockchain of the first cryptocurrency. According to Mempool, the user received a total of 6.36 BTC, the equivalent of $422,750 at...

Crypto Koryo: Startup investments surge by 38% in Q1

The volume of venture investments in the crypto industry reached $2 billion in the first quarter of this year. Crypto Koryo experts noted that the $2 billion figure broke a two-year downward trend and notched a 38% increase in investments compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. The number of transactions increased by 49% to 250. Although...

Ethena’s USDe stablecoin rockets past $2b supply

Ethena Labs’ synthetic dollar has surged to a $2 billion market cap less than two months after the protocol released its product on Ethereum’s public mainnet. Launched in February, the market cap of stablecoin USDe has grown over 147% in the last 30 days, per DefiLlama. CoinGecko categorizes the cryptocurrency as the fifth largest token in...