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A screen capture shows the offending sandwich sold through some KK Mart stores. — Picture from Facebook/Dr Akmal Saleh
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Supplier confirms chicken ham in Shake and Bake sandwiches certified halal

Transport Minister Anthony Loke gives a press conference in Putrajaya on January 15, 2025. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Now, Loke says no definite date for KLIA’s aerotrain to start service

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (centre) officiates the groundbreaking ceremony for the Penang Light Rail Transit (LRT) Mutiara Line in George Town January 11, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

With Singapore SEZ, clock ticking for Johor Baru to develop mass transit system

According to a source, the individuals — four men and one woman between the ages of 50 and 60 — were detained around 7pm yesterday, after appearing for questioning at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

MACC nabs five, including four company directors, over alleged misappropriation of RM104m investment funds

In a statement, EPF said the recent decision to make a voluntary general offer for MAHB’s shares at RM11 per share as part of a consortium reflects a separate, long-term strategic plan aimed at achieving sustainable growth and returns. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Money  / 16 h ago

EPF’s investment in MAHB to support dividend payouts

After being shown the transcripts of two audio recordings of alleged phone conversations between Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the then crown prince Sheikh Mohamed Zayed Al-Nahyan in 2016, Najib agreed that he did make a ‘personal request’ in the second phone conversation regarding Riza Aziz. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Najib admits asking UAE crown prince to help clear moviemaker stepson Riza Aziz of 1MDB money claims

In a note, CIMB Securities said this is due to the off-takers for YTL Power’s AI data centres (DCs) being US hyper-scalers, including Nvidia, which are not subject to the limits. — Shutterstock pic
Money  / 17 h ago

YTL Power expected to attain NVEU status amid new US global AI chip policy, says CIMB Securities

Anwar said embracing blockchain and cryptocurrency will help Malaysia stay competitive in the global financial landscape. — Reuters pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

PM Anwar says going digital is way forward for Malaysia

LUAS said the pink discharge was detected around 6.40pm January 14, 2025 and tracing the final discharge point to a factory in the Beranang industrial area, which feeds into the Beranang and Semenyih rivers. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Not spilt ‘air bandung’: Selangor water authority issues yellow alert after Sg Kabul turns pink, confirms supply unaffected for now

A motorcade believed to be carrying impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol following his arrest drives down a road, in Seoul January 15, 2025. — Reuters pic
World  / 19 h ago

South Korea’s Yoon becomes first sitting president to be arrested in country’s history after weeks-long standoff

Testifying in his own defence in his trial involving RM2 billion of 1MDB funds which allegedly entered his bank account, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he had sent his then special officer Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin alone to China to explore if the latter was interested in infrastructure projects in Malaysia. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

Najib: China never settled 1MDB debts; I used Jho Low for 2016 ECRL talks there as wanted quick riches for Malaysia

Mohd Isa Abdul Karim (centre) was charged with seven counts of accepting RM26,300 in bribes for processing foreign marriage registrations. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Kangar mosque imam charged with taking RM26,300 in bribes for registering Muslim marriages held abroad

Money  / 18 h ago

YTL gets green light for Ryt Bank, Malaysia’s first ‘AI-powered’ digital bank in venture with Shopee owner

The sentence was upheld due to defendant Liang Yu-chih’s intention to kill, the cruelty of his actions and the high risk of him reoffending, it reported the court said in a news statement.
World  / 8 h ago

Taiwan upholds death sentence for man convicted of Malaysian student’s brutal murder in 2020

When asked if Jho Low had made any proposals, former chief executive officer of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Arul Kanda Kandasamy said there was one in particular that involved an investment on Al Maryah Island, a financial district in Abu Dhabi. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Former CEO Arul Kanda says he met Jho Low in Abu Dhabi four years prior to joining 1MDB

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In this photograph taken on August 17, 2024, women employees arrive to work at a leather factory in Karachi. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Expected to stay home, more Pakistani women join workforce as country hounded by economic crunch

An aerial view shows Derna in eastern Libya on September 18, 2023, following deadly flash floods that destroyed entire neighbourhoods. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Politics and nepotism continue to hamper Libya’s rebuilding a year after destructive floods 

Outgoing France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal (left) and newly appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier attend the handover ceremony at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on September 5, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Jupiter's fall: In new era, Macron will have to abandon top-down ruling and stay on the sidelines

Pope Francis, seen wearing a traditional headdress, interacting with a youth during a meeting with Catholic faithful of the diocese of Vanimo in front of Holy Cross Cathedral in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, on September 8, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Donning feathered headdress, Pope calls for end to ‘superstition’ as black magic sparks tribal violence in Papua New Guinea

Toppled trees line a street in front of St Joseph Cathedral in Hanoi after Super Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam on September 8, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Super Typhoon Yagi kills nine in Vietnam after wrecking China and the Philippines

A Palestinian man sits in front of rubble in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip at the site where a makeshift pastry shop was hit by an Israeli strike on September 2, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Gaza emergency service says its deputy director and family killed by Israeli airstrike 

An Israeli flag is seen on top of signs pointing out distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Israel. — Reuters pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Israel emergency service says three people shot dead at West Bank crossing

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) welcomes Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the tarmac in Ankara, Turkiye on September 4, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Turkiye’s Erdogan moots Islamic alliance to stop ‘Israeli arrogance, banditry and state terrorism’

Venezuelan prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia (in red cap) from the Plataforma Unitaria Democratica party that accused President Nicolas Maduro of foul play to keep his seat in the July 28 reelection. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Venezuela says challenger who accused its president of fraud has left country for political asylum in Spain 

Two life-size boards of Pope Francis are displayed during Sunday Mass at the Church of Saint Anthony of Motael in Dili, East Timor ahead of Pope Francis’ visit on September 8, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

Catholic clergy’s decades-long sexual abuse of East Timor children shadows Pope Francis’ Asia-Pac tour

Pope Francis attends a meeting with Catholicsof the diocese of Vanimo in front of Holy Cross Cathedral in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea on September 8, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

In Papua New Guinea, Pope Francis holds Mass for Catholics ‘at the edge of the world’

A file photo shows an LGBT activist wearing a feminist badge in Kuala Lumpur on December 27, 2018. Australia announced that it will have sexual orientation and gender questions in its 2026 census survey to be more inclusive of its LGBTQ community. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
World / 08 Sep 2024

‘You matter, you will be counted’: Australia tells LGBTIQ+ that sexual orientation, gender questions will be in 2026 census

Law enforcer rush to the I-75 highway after reports of multiple people shot about nine miles north of the city of London in Kentucky, the US on September 7, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

‘Keep your doors locked while this guy’s on the loose’, Kentucky mayor tells residents after highway shooter wounds seven

A three-storey building in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in India collapsed after days of continuous rain, killing at least eight people though more could still be buried. — Screengrab from X/Ajay Bijarniya
World / 08 Sep 2024

Indian rescuers pull eight dead from collapsed building housing warehouse and car workshop as monsoon rains lash Lucknow

Georgia Tech said its partnership with Tianjin University and Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute is no longer tenable four years after the US Commerce Department added the Chinese schools to its export restrictions list for actions contrary to US national security. — Reuters pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

US varsity Georgia Tech ends semiconductor research with China over military concerns

Chinese carmaker Neta shows off its all-electric SUV Neta X in Kuala Lumpur in July 2024. The US government has imposed sanctions or trade restrictions on Chinese companies and products, citing unfair competition or in the interests of national security. — Picture By Raymond Manuel
World / 08 Sep 2024

‘Modern China’ with large population not a threat but an opportunity, Beijing tells Washington