S P Setia initiates legal proceedings against former senior management for alleged breaches of duties

PETALING JAYA: S P Setia Bhd has initiated legal proceedings against its former senior management over alleged breaches of duties linked to the purchase of lands in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, as well as the sale of units under the company’s Aeropod project. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, S P Setia said Datuk Wong Tuck Wai...

Pro-democracy activists rally behind Indonesia’s Constitutional Court

JAKARTA: Pro-democracy activists from all ideological persuasions on Thursday (Aug 20) held a meeting with the Constitutional Court (MK) honorary council to lend their support for the court's move to defend democratic principles in the country, following its ruling lowering the threshold for parties to nominate a candidate in the regional head elections. The activists, who...

RM49,000 deposited into Wan Saiful’s personal account two years ago, court told

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here was told on Thursday (Aug 22) that RM49,000 was deposited into the private bank account of former Bersatu information chief Datuk Wan Saiful Wan Jan two years ago. Maybank Bukit Damansara branch assistant manager Fazilah Omar, 49, confirmed that the amount was deposited into Wan Saiful's Maybank Islamic account via...

Najib not behind federalisation of TIA, court told

KUALA LUMPUR: The idea to federalise the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) in order to salvage it from its internal strife did not come from Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the High Court was told on Thursday (Aug 22). Instead, it was the then TIA CEO Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi who was "very eager" about the federalisation...

RM49,000 deposited into Wan Saiful’s personal account two years ago, court told

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here was told on Thursday (Aug 22) that RM49,000 was deposited into the private bank account of former Bersatu information chief Datuk Wan Saiful Wan Jan two years ago. Maybank Bukit Damansara branch assistant manager Fazilah Omar, 49, confirmed that the amount was deposited into Wan Saiful's Maybank Islamic account via...

Najib’s 1MDB charge ‘defective’

KUALA LUMPUR: There has never been evidence that showed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was at AmIslamic Bank Bhd to commit the crime he is accused of, the High Court here was told. Najib’s lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah submitted that the prosecution never showed evidence that the former Pekan MP was...

Six charged with kidnapping Chinese national

SEPANG: A married couple and four other individuals were charged in the Sessions Court here Thursday (Aug 15) with the kidnapping of a Chinese national for a ransom of USDT1 million (RM4.44mil) in cryptocurrency last month. The accused, Jun Hiong, 28; Law Han Wei, 28; Dhinnesh Tan Kin Yuan, 29; Jong Li Jiat, 25; and husband...

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SINGAPORE: A man with mild intellectual disability was sentenced to 15 months’ jail and two strokes of the cane for molesting children in public, including a victim as young as nine years old. District Judge Kelly Ho, who handed Ong Kian Peng his sentence on Wedesday (Aug 14), said Ong knew what he did was wrong,...

Man charged with trafficking over 111kg of cannabis

KUANTAN: A self-employed man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with trafficking over 111kg of cannabis early this month. The charge against Mohd Nasir Hassan, 48, was read before Magistrate Raja Norshuzianna Shakila Raja Mamat, but no plea was recorded as the case is under the jurisdiction of the High Court. According to the charge...