PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is being positioned as a model of tolerance that promotes healthy multi-religious and multi-cultural engagement as well as a platform for discussing efforts to counter Islamophobia. Read full story
Two Perak eco-parks get automated water surge warning system
IPOH: Two eco-parks in Perak have been installed with an early automatic warning system to detect the water surge phenomenon. Read full story
Public Services Commission opens three new centres in Sarawak
KUCHING: The Public Services Commission (PSC) has opened three interview centres in Sarawak; in Sibu, Miri and here as part of 17 such centres nationwide. Read full story
Plantation worker fined RM6,500 for posting insulting remarks about King
KUALA LUMPUR: A plantation worker was fined RM6,500, in default six months jail by the Sessions Court here for improper use of network facilities by sending offensive communications involving the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on his Facebook page in December last year. Read full story
POWs' suffering vividly retold in new book by retired military officer
KOTA KINABALU: The ordeal of prisoners of war (POWs) walking miles in water-filled boots as a form of torture, confined in tiny bamboo cages and even massacred are all searingly recounted in a new book launched here on Monday (Feb 27). Read full story
Malaysia to stay neutral in face of rising US-China tensions, Dewan Rakyat told
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will remain neutral amid rising tension in the South China Sea between China and the United States, says Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Mohamad Alamin. Read full story
Ecuador seizes US$330 million of cocaine bound for Belgium
ECUADOR confiscated about 8.8 tonnes of cocaine worth US$330 million (RM1.47 billion) that had been hidden between bananas in a container bound for Belgium, police said yesterday.
“Record seizure in 2023 of more than eight tonnes of cocaine,” police commander General Fausto Salinas tweeted.
Najib had no grounds to recuse judge in SRC International appeal, court told
NAJIB Razak’s lawyers’ argument to recuse Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from hearing the final appeal of the SRC International trial had no merit, prosecutor V. Sithambaram said.
Sithambaram said a social media post by Tengku Maimun’s husband, Zamani Ibrahim, in 2018 would not have influenced the judge.
Kapar MP says sorry for Menu Rahmah tirade
KAPAR MP Dr Halimah Ali today apologised if her statement in the Dewan Rakyat regarding Menu Rahmah was misleading or misunderstood.
The Perikatan Nasional MP’s apology was delivered via a poem before the debate on Supply Bill 2023 began.
Malaysia, Indonesia in pact to cut poverty, raise food security in Southeast Asia
MALAYSIA and Indonesia have reached a resolution to reduce poverty and increase food security inin Southeast Asia, Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman Idris Jusoh said today.
Idris said Asean will use the Felda model to overcome poverty in the region.