Day: 7 March 2023

Fewer victims displaced by floods

THE number of flood victims in three states fell slightly with 42,459 people placed at 235 temporary relief centres as of this evening compared with 42,909 this morning.  IN JOHOR, total flood victims continued to decrease to 39,315 people in nine districts at 2pm compared with 39,620 at 8am as more victims returned home. 

Santhara’s visit to NZ during pandemic morally wrong, says Najib

NAJIB Razak today told the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court that the 55-day visit to New Zealand by the then deputy federal territories minister Edmund Santhara Kumar during the Covid-19 pandemic was morally wrong. The former prime minister said Santhara, who is the Segamat MP at that point in time, should have sacrificed his holiday and […]

Sri Lanka president says China agrees to restructure loans

SRI Lanka’s president said today that China had agreed to restructure its loans to the bankrupt island nation, clearing the final obstacle to a long-awaited International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. An unprecedented economic crisis has seen Sri Lanka’s 22 million people suffer acute food, fuel and medicine shortages, along with extended blackouts and runaway inflation.

3 die in boat collision off Pangkor

THREE women were killed when two boats collided in waters off Pangkor, near the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) base, at about 9pm yesterday. Manjung district police chief Nor Omar Sappi said the identity of victims, aged between 26 and 43, who were pronounced dead at the Navy Hospital in Lumut, had yet to be ascertained.