PETALING JAYA: Nasi lemak, one of Malaysia's favourite dishes, has been featured in the United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) World Factbook. In a Facebook post on Saturday (April 20), the CIA said that nasi lemak is considered the "national dish of Malaysia" and a popular "breakfast food". "Its name in Malay literally means 'fat rice' because...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysians have chided PAS for calling the Education Ministry's directive - to keep school canteens open during Ramadan - 'excessive'. The Star readers expressed their views on Facebook, saying that Malaysians should learn to respect each other. Nakanathan Kandasamy wrote, "Be tolerant to other religious people, they are not fasting." Meanwhile, reader Chew Yew Bin said...
Meta-owned social media platforms facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users on Tuesday (March 5) in a global outage. The disruptions started around 11.30pm with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in. There were more than...
PETALING JAYA: Former Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar will soon lodge a police report over a slanderous posting made against her. In a statement on Facebook, the daughter of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, said that her lawyers would lodge a report sometime next week after the Chinese New Year celebration. "Let's not forget the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Blogger "Sang Kelembai" pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here Wednesday (Jan 31) to a charge of making an offensive post about vaccine procurement matters on his Facebook page four years ago. Datuk Abd Zarin Mohd Yasin, 72, was charged with creating and initiating the transmission of offensive communications with intent to annoy...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail have extended prayers and well-wishes for the marriage of Sultan Brunei’s son, Pengiran Muda Abdul Mateen Bolkiah and his wife, Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anisha Rosnah Adam. In a post on Facebook, Anwar said he and Dr Wan Azizah...
KUALA LUMPUR: The people have the right to know about the RM700mil expenditure on advertising and publicity spent by the two previous governments, says Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. Through a post on X on Thursday (Dec 28), he said it was a significant expenditure. "The people have the right to know how this RM700mil was spent, whether...
PETALING JAYA: Further study is needed to ensure the effectiveness of the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong (pic). The MCA president said this includes finding a way to tax the industry effectively, and even possibly banning any products found to be too harmful. Dr Wee said...
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal here has ordered independent preacher Wan Ji Wan Hussin (pic) to begin serving his nine-month prison sentence for publishing offensive words and insulting the Selangor Sultan via Facebook 11 years ago. This followed a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel led by Justice Hadhariah Syed Ismail to reinstate the Shah Alam...
KUALA LUMPUR: An unemployed man was sentenced to six months in prison and fined RM10,000 or three months prison in default, by the Sessions Court here after he pleaded guilty to posting an offensive message against the Sultan of Selangor and failing to provide his Facebook password. Judge N. Priscilla Hemamalini ordered Mohamad Azlan Ibrahim, 47,...
