Sabahan in Korea receives RM7,000 in donations for hospital bill

KOTA KINABALU: Help is pouring in for Eddy Laimin, who is hospitalised in Korea and needs help paying the hospital bill and coming home. As of Monday afternoon (April 15), 27-year-old Sabahan received about RM7,000 in donations three days after his family’s call for help was shared by the media. His sister Juitah, who is also in...

Restaurant workers in India steal Malaysian family’s bag with passport and cash

NEW DELHI (Bernama): Two restaurant workers in southern India stole a visiting Malaysian family's bag containing their passports and cash. The Malaysian couple and their daughter were travelling from Trichy city in Tamil Nadu state to Puducherry by car on Sunday when they had stopped to have lunch in the Samayapuram area, according to a report...

Cops looking into claim that Indian drug lord is Malaysian

PETALING JAYA: The Royal Malaysia Police is seeking more information from the Indian authorities regarding allegations by a senior investigative journalist that an "Indian drug kingpin" is a Malaysian citizen. According to Sinar Harian, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said so far, police have not received any information on it. He said checks with...

M’sian Couple With 8 Kids Took 15 Years To Get Marriage Legally Recognised, This Is Their Story

Feel-good story of the week. How long would you wait to get married? For Malaysian Zeng Xueli and Myanmar-born He Zhansheng the answer is 15 years. The heartwarming story of the couple, who have eight (yes, eight) children aged between one and 15, recently swept the internet. According to reports, Zhangsheng and Xueli's marriage application were rejected by Malaysian...

PDRM, Aussie police collaborate in probe of RM1.7bil Melbourne drug haul

KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) is collaborating with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in an investigation into the arrest of a Malaysian man in connection with a drug seizure in Melbourne. Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Seri Kamarudin Md Din (pic) said the 34-year-old man was among the four individuals arrested following...

“She Slapped My Niece At Least 3 Times”: Miss Asia Malaysia 2023 Winner Called Out For Being A Bully In Secondary School

Her alleged victims have flooded her celebratory post with recounts of the terrible things she did to them in school. At the ATV Miss Asia Malaysia 2023 Pageant on Tuesday (Sep 26), 23-year-old Malacca native Luwe Xin Hui was named the winner. She walked away with 30K ringgit (S$8.7K) in cash, and an apartment worth 1.5mil ringgit (S$436K). However, Xin...

Claim that 54,000 Chinese nationals will be given citizenship untrue, says Fahmi

KUALA LUMPUR: Claims that the Unity Government will be granting Malaysian citizenship to 54,000 Chinese nationals are not true, says Minister of Communications and Digital Fahmi Fadzil (pic) Through a video shared on his Facebook page on Saturday (Aug 26) night, Fahmi said the figure was actually the total number of applications received from 2017 to...

Gary Chaw’s Son Just Turned 15, And People Are Calling Him The Most Handsome Second-Gen Star

Netizens are also saying he resembles Korean actor Lee Jong Suk. Many of us remember Malaysian singer Gary Chaw’s kids Joe and Grace as toddlers in Chinese reality show Where Are We Going, Dad? in 2014. Grace is now 13, and Joe just celebrated his 15th. And both teens have gotten a lot of attention for their good looks over the years. Gary, who split with his wife Taiwanese fashion...

‘Still angry’: As Malaysians lose faith in politics, will new faces offer hope?

At a Kuala Lumpur tea stall, Kamal, a civil servant in his mid-40s, said his vote this time would be driven by "disgust" over the politicking and infighting that has riddled Malaysia since its last election in 2018. The Pakatan Harapan (PH) government collapsed less than two years into a five-year mandate given by that election...

Malaysian beauty pageant contestant under fire for ‘unpatriotic’ and xenophobic social media posts

A Malaysian beauty pageant contestant has come under fire for her "racist" and "unpatriotic" comments. Abby Lee, a contestant in the recently concluded Miss International Malaysia (MIM) 2022 pageant, allegedly made the incendiary remarks on her social media accounts. The comments were captured and subsequently re-shared on the social media pages of another netizen known as Hui Yue on...