The ganja plants had been cultivated for six months hydroponically, a gardening technique not using soil, in that residential unit.
GEORGE TOWN: Two men and a woman were arrested for cultivating ganja (cannabis) plants in a luxury condominium unit in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday.
Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd said the three suspects, aged between 24 and 32, were arrested in a raid following intelligence gathering and public tip-offs.
He said police also seized 54 pots of ganja plants, ganja leaves weighing 2.6kg and 48 ganja seeds, all valued at about RM1.21 million.
“Investigations found that they had been growing it for six months hydroponically, a gardening technique without soil, in that residential unit,” he told a press conference here today.
He said all suspects have been remanded until next Monday to assist in the investigation.
Police also confiscated a Toyota Vios worth RM45,000.
Investigations are being conducted under Section 6B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for cannabis cultivation and Section 39B of the same law for drug trafficking.
A FIRE broke out today on Russia’s only aircraft carrier as it underwent repairs in an Artic shipyard, Russian news agencies said, with at least one worker reported missing.
The Admiral Kuznetsov has been undergoing repairs for more than two years in Murmansk and suffered previous damage in October 2018 when a crane crashed onto its deck.
BEIJING and Washington are keeping in “close” contact over a potential phase-one deal to resolve their trade war, China’s commerce ministry said today, days before another possible tariffs salvo.
Negotiators are still trying to hammer out a mini agreement, but tensions could escalate again if President Donald Trump goes through with a planned increase in import levies on Sunday.
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah visits the British Library in London December 11, 2019. — Bernama pic
LONDON, Dec 12 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah today attended a luncheon with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
Their Majesties were greeted upon arrival by a royal salute and received by the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward.
The royal couple were accompanied by their children, the Regent of Pahang Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah, Tengku Panglima Raja Tengku Amir Nasser Ibrahim Shah and Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Iman Afzan.
Also present was Malaysian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Datuk Mohamad Sadik Kethergany.
Earlier, Al-Sultan Abdullah visited Westminster Abbey, which is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable houses of worship and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for the English monarchs.
His Majesty also laid a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Warrior, an unidentified British soldier killed in a European battlefield during the first World War and his body brought to the church in 1920 from a battlefield cemetery in northern France and given a state funeral.
His Majesty also spent time visiting the Churchill War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre during the second World War.
Al-Sultan Abdullah and Tunku Azizah are in the United Kingdom on a special visit till December 16.
This special visit is Al-Sultan Abdullah’s fourth after the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Japan in June, July and October respectively, since being sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong in January. — Bernama
The government should escalate the initiative to encourage the use of E-Wallet in society in line with the direction of the majority in the world towards a cashless society. — Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — The government should escalate the initiative to encourage the use of E-Wallet in society in line with the direction of the majority in the world towards a cashless society.
Senator Datuk See Tian Sing said this was comparable to China whereby the digital transaction was widely used with the assistance of service handlers like Ali Pay.
‘’The government should consider boosting the E-wallet industry in the country seeing only eight per cent of this digital transaction is used in the payment sector in Malaysia,’’ he said when debating the Supply Bill 2020.
Lee also suggested that the government decide on the parties to develop the E-Wallet system and software to ensure security.
Meanwhile, Senator Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff also stressed on the importance boosting the digital agenda by the government which would be beneficial to the people especially in the rural area.
‘’For me, the digital agenda must be elevated and it will become the catalyst to the economic agenda planned other than using it as something feted (beneficial) by the people,’’ he said.
Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal says the state’s options have been forwarded to Petronas.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal said he won’t pre-empt talks that Putrajaya may consider selling a stake in Petronas to Sabah.
He said he would have a meeting with Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Sarawak Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg in Putrajaya on the oil royalty issue this Dec 16.
“There have been a number of discussions on the oil royalty with the authorities and Petronas previously.
“We had forwarded the state’s options to Petronas and we will look at the practicality of each of them and decide which one will work best for all parties — Petronas, the Sabah and Sarawak governments and Putrajaya,” he told reporters after officiating the Kota Kinabalu Christmas celebrations.
The options Shafie was referring to include Putrajaya failing to raise the states’ oil royalty from 5% to 20%.
Mahathir said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that the government would consider selling Petronas stakes to Sabah and Sarawak, as the two states were demanding a bigger share of revenues from oil extracted in their territories.
He said Putrajaya could not meet the states’ demand to increase the royalties paid by Petronas to 20%, but that government could let go of its stakes in smaller units of Petronas.
Sabah and Sarawak hold more than 60% of Malaysia’s oil reserves.
Some Sabah leaders have urged the Sabah government to refuse the offer to buy a stake in Petronas.
On another note, Shafie said he was thankful to Sabah PH for letting Warisan contest in the forthcoming Kimanis by-election.
A meeting held earlier tonight by Sabah PH chairman Christina Liew, attended by leaders from component parties, namely Sabah PPBM, Sabah Amanah, Sabah PKR and Sabah DAP, had unanimously agreed to let Warisan contest in the by-election.
The Kimanis federal seat was vacated after the Federal Court decided to uphold the election court declaration that the Kimanis election result, which saw the victory of BN’s Anifah Aman, was null and void.
This will pave the way for a by-election which has yet to be called by the Election Commission.
Shafie said he would inform Mahathir of the Sabah PH’s decision when he meets the prime minister in Putrajaya on Dec 16, during the oil royalty discussion.
He also said he will call for a meeting with Warisan, Sabah PH and Upko soon to discuss the strategies to win the by-election.
