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A screen capture shows the offending sandwich sold through some KK Mart stores. — Picture from Facebook/Dr Akmal Saleh
Malaysia  / 12 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  / 12 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  / 10 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  / 9 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  / 12 h ago

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

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

‘Active shooter’ fires at US interstate highway traffic, casualties said to be ‘numerous’

Demonstrators march against the appointment of right-wing Prime Minister Michel Barnier by France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Strasbourg, eastern France on September 7, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Sep 2024

In France, hundreds of thousands protest Macron’s pick of prime minister

People march to mark the 8th anniversary since the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa College
World / 08 Sep 2024

Mexico arrests alleged drug boss linked to 43 missing students

Officials from the state forensic department investigate at the site where a missile struck, at Moirang in Manipur, India, September 6, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Ethnic violence in India’s Manipur escalates, six killed

A colleague of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, US-Turkish activist who died after reportedly being shot in the West Bank town of Beita, shows his blood-stained hand at a hospital in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 6, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Family demands independent probe into ‘Israeli military’ killing of American

CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned today that the world order was ‘under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war’. ― iStock pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

UK and US spy chiefs warn of threat to world order

A resident checks the damage in the yard of a house, following an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank on September 6, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Gaza war in its twelfth month with truce hopes slim

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra speaks during a press conference after a special cabinet meeting at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, September 7. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Thailand PM Paetongtarn vows to stimulate economy, continue Srettha’s policies in first cabinet meeting

Two animal lovers who stopped on a US freeway in Los Angeles to rescue a stranded kitten caused a three-vehicle crash. — AFP
World / 07 Sep 2024

Rescue mission gone wrong: Couple causes three-car crash on US freeway while saving kitten

Storm clouds gather over buildings in Hong Kong on September 5, 2024, as super typhoon Yagi tracked across the South China Sea towards the southern China coast. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Super Typhoon Yagi kills two, injures 92 in China

Colleagues of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, US-Turkish activist who died after reportedly being shot in the West Bank town of Beita, react on news of her death in a hospital in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 6, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Turkish-American woman shot dead at West Bank demo where Israeli forces opened fire

Strong winds blow during Super Typhoon Yagi in Haikou, Hainan, China September 6, 2024 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Super Typhoon Yagi sets sight on Vietnam after tearing through China’s Hainan

The study, which began in 2021, analysed tissues from 461 animals that had died of disease across China. — File picture via Reuters
World / 07 Sep 2024

New study reveals dozens of potentially risky viruses from dead fur animals in China

This is the most accurate colour map ever produced of the surface of Mars. — Picture courtesy of Science China Press/Elsevier B.V.
World / 07 Sep 2024

China set to launch Mars sample mission in 2028, as US faces delays

This court sketch made on September 2, 2024 shows defendant Dominique P. (R) during his trial in which he is accused of drugging his wife for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

New horrors emerge in French trial as daughter brands father ‘one of the world’s worst sex predators

The US space agency has been discussing potential plans with SpaceX to leave two seats empty on an upcoming Crew Dragon launch for Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first crew to fly Boeing's Starliner capsule. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2024

Boeing’s Starliner capsule returns to Earth without astronauts after technical issues