Gazette of PSKL 2040 postponed to May 31, says Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR: The gazetting of the Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2040 (PSKL 2040) has been delayed until May 31 to allow further engagement sessions by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) with stakeholders, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Read full story

Colombian villagers resist evacuation as volcano rumbles to life

SMOKE billows from the crater of a snow-capped Andean volcano, reminding local inhabitants of the threat of another potential deadly eruption. Yet at the foot of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in the Colombian Andes, thousands of villagers were staying put to tend to their crops and pack animals, despite an urgent call from the […]

Anwar denies conflict of interest in Najib pardon bid

PRIME Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said there would be no conflict of interest with his involvement in the pardon process for disgraced former prime minister Najib Razak. Anwar said the decision to grant a pardon was at the sole discretion of the king.

Judicial interference claims bear looking into

MINISTER in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Azalina Othman Said was reported to have confirmed that Justice Mohamad Nazlan Ghazali, who convicted former prime minister Najib Razak of multiple corruption charges in the SRC International trial, had violated the judges’ code of ethics and had a conflict of interest when presiding over […]

3 new Star Wars films on the way

THREE new Star Wars movies are in the making, studio executives announced yesterday, including the first film in the cinematic universe to be directed by a woman. Pakistan-born Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is leaping from the Marvel universe to the Star Wars galaxy to direct a new film set 15 years after the end of the […]