KOTA KINABALU: A Sabah Deputy Chief Minister, along with two other assemblymen, have provided statements to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigators regarding graft claims linked to the issuance of state mining licences. The trio were questioned following the release of videos by a news portal, in which they were seen in conversation with a whistleblower discussing...
KOTA KINABALU: The federal Public Works Department should allow local construction companies to form consortiums to carry out the Pan-Borneo Highway projects, says Parti Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal. He said awarding such contracts to public listed companies with no physical presence in Sabah would only further delay the long-overdue Pan-Borneo Highway projects in...
KOTA KINABALU: Almost three-quarters of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributors in Sabah have savings of less than RM50,000 in their EPF accounts. Sabah and Labuan EPF regional director Mohd Fadil Sarehan said this represents about 71%, or 691,322, of the 973,693 contributors in Sabah. Mohd Fadil said there is a need to raise awareness among contributors to...
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued an advisory on Tropical Storm Trami, which was detected 1,281 kilometres (km) northeast of Kudat, causing continuous rain and strong winds in Sabah. MetMalaysia in a statement on Wednesday (Oct 23) said that the tropical storm was located at latitude 15.7 north and longitude 124.4 east, about...
GIVEN how in-demand affordable housing is, it is very likely that any posts online claiming that a government body is selling forms for a People's Housing Project (PPR) would go viral rapidly. Recently, a claim made the rounds online that the Putatan District Council is selling forms online for the construction of a new PPR project? Is...
KOTA KINABALU: Police are investigating allegations by two women that they were molested by a male colleague in Sabah's east coast district of Tawau. The women and the alleged perpetrator work in a federal department in the nearby Lahad Datu district. Tawau police chief Asst Comm Jasmin Hussin stated the incidents reportedly occurred after the women visited...
PETALING JAYA: The future of a 19-month-old girl in Sabah looked grim after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but Malaysians have come together to raise RM30,000 for the toddler. Malay daily Sinar Harian reported that the baby began suffering from constipation and a bloated stomach in August, according to Daneen Auni Riksi's mother Fallarystia Sintom. "She...
KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman has proposed that relevant agencies conduct searches at buildings linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISB) and subsequently seal the premises in Sabah and Sarawak. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said the police had a meeting with agencies involved in the investigations into GISB to scrutinise the current...
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have started investigations into a viral video of the Malaysian flag being taken down and replaced with the flags of Sabah and Sarawak. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said preliminary investigations under the Sedition Act 1948 and Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 found that the incident happened in Melbourne, Australia on...
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued a warning for thunderstorms across 12 states at 5pm on Monday (Sept 23) The affected states are Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Johor, Sarawak, Sabah, as well as the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Labuan. The thunderstorm is expected to last...
