BANGKOK (Bernama): The Office of the Thai Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) today received two Thais suspected of drug trafficking, extradited from Malaysia. The Secretary-General of the ONCB Pol. Lt. Gen. Panurat Lakboon said the ONCB Regional Office 9, Narathiwat Provincial Police, Narathiwat Immigration Police, and military officers from ISOC Region 4 received the suspects at the...
EXCELLENCE in sports and extracurricular activities is important but so is academic success for a good career growth, says shuttler Thinaah Muralitharan. The 26-year-old, who will be making her maiden appearance in the Olympics in Paris in July alongside her partner Pearly Tan, has been interested in sports from a young age. Despite her jam-packed training...
PETALING JAYA: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, reaffirms that fighting corruption, the country's number one enemy, will be a major focus of his reign. Sultan Ibrahim said he had granted an audience to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki on Monday (April 1) to find out the latest developments from...
KUALA LUMPUR: A witness in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial has told the High Court that her knowledge about PetroSaudi International (PSI) Ltd was only based on documents. Former 1MDB general counsel Jasmine Loo said this when asked by Najib's lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, if PSI, a company with...
KUALA LUMPUR: A KK Super Mart outlet in Kuching has been attacked with a Molotov cocktail, the third such attack on the convenience store chain. Kuching OCPD Asst Comm Ahsmon Bajah said the attack occurred on Sunday (March 31). "It was reported by a 25-year-old man who works at the KK Super Mart on Jalan Satok here. ALSO...
PETALING JAYA: PKR Youth urges Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Salleh to take responsibility and stop the rhetoric on the KK Super Mart socks issue, which has been escalating. PKR Youth information chief Nabil Hakimi said a politician should help calm the situation and not exacerbate it. "Dr Akmal should realise that his actions had contributed to...
PETALING JAYA: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, reaffirms that fighting corruption, the country's number one enemy, will be a major focus of his reign. Sultan Ibrahim said he had granted an audience to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki on Monday (April 1) to find out the latest developments from...
KLANG: Two teenagers died after their motorcycle collided with two others. North Klang OCPD Asst Comm S. Vijaya Rao said that the accident occurred late Sunday (March 31) night near SMK Bukit Kapar. It is believed that the two teenagers had crashed their motorcycle into two others heading in the opposite direction near the school. "Both victims, aged...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming dismissed Custodia Bank’s plea for a Federal Reserve master account. Custodia Bank, specializing in digital assets, has been seeking a master account from the Federal Reserve since 2020. The account, often described as “a bank account for banks,” is crucial for accessing the Fed’s payment systems. The Wyoming-based...
Consensys, the software company behind MetaMask digital wallet, is calling on U.S. regulators to recognize the advanced safeguards inherent in the design of Ethereum (ETH). The Fort Worth, Texas-based firm penned a letter in response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent request for public comments on Nasdaq’s pending application for a rule change to permit the trading of iShares...
