KUALA LUMPUR: Police have seized 21 motorcycles and a car in a traffic law compliance operation in Ampang. Ampang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Azam Ismail said the operation was conducted from 7pm to 9.30pm Thursday (Sept 14) in the Pandan Mewah and Tasik Tambahan areas. A total of 31 summonses were issued, mostly for driving or...
KUALA LUMPUR: The police are investigating an incident where an Islamic prayer was read out at an event where people of other faiths also said prayers. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Allaudeen Abdul Majid said a report was lodged on the matter on Aug 22. "However, the investigation is being carried out by the Bukit Aman...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants the practice of soliciting and giving commissions in the implementation of development projects, including housing, to be stopped immediately. He said the government never prevented any company from conducting operations and earning profits, but the practice of giving commissions to any minister or political party for that...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz told the High Court that the central bank took seven years to discover that some US$700mil from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) coffers were diverted to Good Star Ltd, a company linked to Low Taek Jho or Jho Low. Zeti said, however, that this span...
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak has sent a second representation letter to the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) to drop the criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges he faces with former Treasury secretary-general Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah. Najib and Mohd Irwan were charged in 2018 with six counts of CBT amounting to RM6.6bil in...
KUALA LUMPUR: All OCPDs in Kuala Lumpur must go to the ground and be more hands on, says Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain. The KL police chief said he wants all OCPDs in the Federal Territory to be on the ground with their officers and personnel. "I want all my OCPDs to be hands on,...
NEW DELHI: Customs officials at Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) airport in southern India seized 47 pythons from an Indian national arriving from Kuala Lumpur. The pythons and two lizards were concealed in the passenger's baggage. The reptiles were seized under India's customs and wildlife protection laws and will be sent back to Malaysia, local media reported on Monday. The male...
PETALING JAYA: An anti-vice raid saw the arrest of over 80 foreigners at an entertainment outlet in Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of Tuesday (July 25). Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said 84 foreign women working as guest relation officers (GROs) were nabbed along with nine local workers aged between 18 and 46...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has issued a licence to Starlink, the satellite communications service started by Elon Musk, to provide Internet services in the country, particularly in remote areas, its communications minister said on July 20. Minister Fahmi Fadzil said in a Facebook post that Starlink, which is operated by Musk's SpaceX, would begin by providing its services...
KUALA LUMPUR: Six suspected cable thieves, including Telekom Malaysia (TM) contractors, have been arrested after they were spotted loading a lorry with stolen cables. In a statement on Wednesday (July 19), Ampang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Azam Ismail said a 31-year-old complainant called the authorities after spotting several people pulling out copper wires along Jalan...
