IPOH: A Nepali has been killed in a fight between two groups of foreign workers in Kuala Kurau, Kerian. Kerian OCPD Superintendent Juna Yusoff said the victim, 28, died after he was stabbed during the fight at 12.35am on Sunday (Aug 18). "Police received a call about a fight involving foreigners at a workers' hostel in Kuala...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today received a courtesy call from International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan. In a Facebook post, Anwar shared that during the meeting, he was briefed on the role of the ICC and discussed international issues, particularly those concerning Palestine and Myanmar. Anwar emphasised Malaysia's call for Israel to...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today received a courtesy call from International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan. In a Facebook post, Anwar shared that during the meeting, he was briefed on the role of the ICC and discussed international issues, particularly those concerning Palestine and Myanmar. Anwar emphasised Malaysia's call for Israel to...
TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AFP): Bangladesh stopped dozens of Myanmar security personnel from crossing into its territory to flee advancing rebel forces, a local government official based near their river border said Tuesday. Clashes have rocked Myanmar's western frontiers since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked security forces in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since the...
YANGON: Hundreds of mourners turned out Wednesday (June 5) to pay their respects to a former Myanmar general turned democracy activist and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, in a rare sanctioned public gathering in the junta-controlled commercial capital. Foreign ambassadors and senior figures in Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party were among those...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Suspended policeman Kevin Chelvam admitted in court on May 27 that he had grabbed domestic helper Piang Ngaih Don by her hair and lifted her off the ground in a fit of anger a month before her death. The 24-year-old Myanmar national weighed only 24kg when she died on July 26, 2016,...
SEPANG: Two more job scam victims have returned to Malaysia after six months of being forced to work as online scammers in Myawaddy, Myanmar. For 29-year-old Sarawakian man who only wanted to be known as Lau, he said the hellish experience began at the end of last year. "I had been working in Singapore for six years...
SEPANG: Two more job scam victims have returned to Malaysia after six months of being forced to work as online scammers in Myawaddy, Myanmar. For 29-year-old Sarawakian man who only wanted to be known as Lau, he said the hellish experience began at the end of last year. "I had been working in Singapore for six years...
YANGON (AP): The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council marked Armed Forces Day with a speech claiming that the nation’s youth were being tricked into supporting the resistance against army rule, and that ethnic armed groups allied with the resistance engage in drug trafficking, natural resources smuggling and illegal gambling. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing spoke...
The government has been urged to block ships carrying fuel from Malaysian ports to Myanmar, in a bid to weaken the military junta. This was following Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s condemnation of the “barbarism and depravity inflicted upon the people of Myanmar” in his United Nations General Assembly address, said the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar president U...
