Most cat owners dread their pets bringing home mice or birds. But for the owners of one felonious feline in Auckland, New Zealand, there’s a worse shame – being the unwitting accomplice to an unstoppable one-cat crimewave. His prolific laundry-pinching from clotheslines and bedrooms in the placid beachside neighborhood of Mairangi Bay has turned 15-month-old Leo into...
PETALING JAYA: The Penang Hindu Association (PHA) has called for the health ministry to set up help desks at government hospitals and clinics to assist senior citizens and persons with disabilities in navigating the public healthcare system. While praising the ministry and hospital staff for providing excellent services to the general public, specifically to senior citizens, PHA...
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Bar has delivered the memorandum on safeguarding judicial independence to the Prime Minister’s Office, according to its president Mohamad Ezri Abdul Wahab. Lawyers, including leading figures from the Malaysian Bar, staged a “Walk to Safeguard Judicial Independence” on Monday (July 14) afternoon, proceeding from the Palace of Justice to the Prime Minister’s Office. The...
SEPANG: A couple has been charged at the Magistrate's Court here over the murder of University of Cyberjaya student Maniishapriet Kaur Akhara last month. M. Sri Darvien and D. Thineswary, both 19, appeared before Magistrate Khairatul Animah Jelani on Thursday (July 10). Sri Darvien was accused of murdering Maniishapriet at a condominium in Cyberjaya between 9.11pm and...
Self-taught pianist Alfred Brendel, who was widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, was himself baffled by his success on the world stage. "I'm completely at a loss to explain why I made it," the musician, who retired in December 2008 after a career spanning six decades, was quoted as saying...
Gold prices climbed on Friday to their highest levels in nearly two months, and were on track for a weekly gain, after Israeli military strikes on Iran drove investors toward safe-haven assets. Spot gold was up 1.2% at $3,423.30 an ounce, as of 0544 GMT, after hitting its highest since April 22 earlier in the session....
Find out more about the brothers convicted in 1993 for the brutal murder of their parents as they are now closer to potential release. Lyle and Erik Menendez have been serving life sentences for the brutal murders of their parents on August 20, 1989, when the brothers—then 21 and 18—shot and killed José and Kitty Menendez inside their Beverly Hills mansion. More than three...
KUALA LUMPUR: Two prominent local non-profit universities received a RM1mil boost to their student loan funds from the family of the late Tan Sri Wong Mook Leong. The donation saw the establishment of permanent revolving interest-free student loan funds, each worth RM500,000 under his name, for both Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology (TAR...
CYBERJAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has recorded a statement from a man who allegedly uploaded offensive comments about Prophet Muhammad and Islam on his Facebook. The recording of the 63-year-old man's statement was carried out together with Iskandar Puteri police in Johor on Sunday (April 20), said MCMC in a statement on Thursday. It...
BANGKOK: On Monday (April 14), a series of earthquakes were reported in Thailand and Myanmar, with the strongest tremor measuring 5.3 magnitude. Earthquake Observation Division, Thai Department of Meteorology (TMD) reported that the epicentre of this quake was located in Myanmar, approximately 10 kilometres from the Thai border. Several smaller earthquakes were also recorded in Myanmar, ranging...
