KUALA LUMPUR: A Bangladeshi company manager was fined RM38,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Oct 22) after pleading guilty to using false documents to provide labourers for construction work at a bridge replacement project site, two years ago. Judge Azura Alwi, in handing down the sentence on Md Nazmul Islam Babul, 58, ordered the...
SINGAPORE: Billionaire tycoon Ong Beng Seng was fined S$30,000 on Friday (Aug 15) for abetting the obstruction of justice in a case linked to former transport minister S. Iswaran. Ong, 79, was handed the maximum fine for the offence after he had earlier pleaded guilty on Aug 4. When Principal District Judge Lee Lit Cheng delivered the...
KUALA LUMPUR: A software company owner was fined RM6,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Aug 6) for dishonestly removing RM50,000 belonging to a retired insurance agent into his company's bank account last year. Judge Azrul Darus meted out the fine on Muhammad Farid Mohamad Mohyar, 27, after he changed his plea to guilty on...
KOTA KINABALU: A woman pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution after she was caught in the act during a police raid in Sandakan. The woman, 26, was arrested along with her "agent" - an Indonesian woman named Lely Fiter, 50 - after police raided a premises in Taman Mawar around 3.30pm on July 29. According to the facts...
KUALA LUMPUR: Comedian Harith Iskander and social media user Cecelia Yap have each been fined RM10,000 for uploading offensive content on Facebook involving Islam. The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) stated that the offensive content was uploaded on Jan 18. "The issuance of the compounds is under Section 233 of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998,...
MELAKA: The woman known as “Mak Cik Kamboja”, who sparked controversy last year, was fined RM40,000 after pleading guilty at the Sessions Court here on Friday (Dec 6) to two charges of insulting Malays, reported Sinar Harian. Her son, who was also accused, was released on a RM10,000 bond. The accused, Mariyah Yaakob, 48 and Ezuan Hafsham...
KUALA LUMPUR: A police officer and his wife were sentenced to 12 and 10 years in prison, respectively, by the Klang Sessions Court for trafficking their Indonesian maid for forced labour exploitation, causing the woman to suffer severe injuries. Judge Zulqarnain Hassan handed down the sentence to S. Vijayan Rao, 40, and his wife, K. Rineshini...
And you think traffic laws in Singapore are strict. A Xiaohongshu user recently posted a clip of two female pedestrians jaywalking in Hong Kong. The twist? They were later chased down by traffic police, who were on surveillance duty nearby, and handed a fine. One of the ladies even tried to turn around and run from the officer, but was intercepted...
MELAKA: An interior design company supervisor was sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM70,000, in default 12 months in jail, by an Ayer Keroh Magistrate's Court here for driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in a road crash and caused the death of a car driver, three years ago. Magistrate AzureenSahira Sauffee...
RECENTLY, a video was circulated online of a female passenger being harassed by an ehailing driver before being abandoned by the roadside. The video, which the victim recorded, showed the driver getting out of the driver's seat and threatening the passenger with a water bottle. The passenger could be heard screaming, "Don’t touch me", as the driver...
