KOLKATA: Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday (Aug 17) as medical professionals started a 24-hour shutdown in protest against the brutal rape and murder of a doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata. More than one million doctors were expected to join the strike, paralysing medical services across...
KOTA KINABALU: A 23-year-old man has been charged, together with two others who are still on the run, with murdering the son of a restaurant owner in the Sandakan district. The suspect, Mohamad Zulfaizzie Hanafie Bin Mohd Firdaus, 23, was charged at the Sandakan Magistrate's Court on Monday (Aug 12) In a statement on Monday (Aug 12),...
PASIR GUDANG: The main suspect in the murder of Istiqomah Ahmad Rozi, 33, only had business dealings with the victim, say police. Alor Gajah OCPD Supt Ashari Abu Samah said the suspect, a 37-year-old ex-teacher, and Istiqomah had known each other since they were in teacher's training college. Supt Ashari said preliminary investigations showed that the suspect...
GEORGE TOWN: A security guard has been sentenced to 13 years’ in jail by the High Court here for murdering his neighbour at an apartment where he was working at in Paya Terubong four years ago. The punishment was meted out by High Court judge Quay Chew Soon after the accused Ong Lai Seng, 69, pleaded...
HULU SELANGOR: A policeman has been charged at the Magistrate's Court here with the murder of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah who was found dead in a palm oil plantation. Muhammad Alif Monjani, 26, was accused of murdering Nur Farah Kartini, 25, at Ladang SKC Keledang in Hulu Bernam between 9am on July 10 and 6pm on...
MELAKA: The wife of the suspect implicated in the murder of 25-year-old Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah cries every day, says her elder brother. "My sister cries every day, her emotions have been in turmoil ever since she learned about the incident," says the man in his 40s who declined to be named. Sinar Harian reported in an...
PETALING JAYA: Police have confirmed that the main suspect in the murder of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah is a policeman. This was disclosed by both Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan and new Perak police chief Comm Datuk Azizi Mat Aris on Tuesday (July 16). Comm Azizi said the 26-year-old individual is a lans koperal...
SEOUL: One of the three suspects behind the May murder of a South Korean tourist in Pattaya, Thailand has been extradited here Wednesday (July 10), 58 days after he was apprehended in Cambodia. Korea's National Police Agency said the 27-year-old suspect arrived via Incheon International Airport this morning. He was nabbed by police in Phnom Penh, Cambodia...
IPOH: The High Court here has fixed Aug 1 for mention, giving both the prosecution and the defence time to file written submissions regarding the bail application of a senior police officer charged with the murder of a secondary school student last year. Justice Datuk Bhupindar Singh Gurcharan Singh Preet said that he would set a...
MANILA: The Manila Regional Trial Court has issued a gag order prohibiting all parties in the murder case of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo from discussing the case in public. Degamo and nine others were killed in a March 4, 2023 attack. Expelled Negros Oriental Congressman Arnolfo Teves and several others are facing 10 counts of...
