KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The government has approved 7,387 applications for financing totalling RM1.38 billion under the Penjana Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Financing programme as of April 9, 2021. In the 50th Inter-Agencies Economic...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan today shared how she incorporated her experience as a lawyer into her advocacy for clean and fair elections as the leader of the Bersih 2.0 movement, and how she pressed on amid her family’s...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The High Court today dismissed PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s application for leave to proceed with his lawsuit against the prime minister and the Malaysian government over their alleged unlawful advice to the.....

KUCHING. April 22 — A Magistrates’ Court here today fined a self-employed man RM1,500 in default five months in prison for punching his 21-year-old girlfriend in the face. Magistrate Zaitom Anuar convicted Asfarizan Jeffrin Zaini, 28, on his own....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Rohingya Muslim refugee and activist Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to reconsider his application for resettlement after living in Malaysia for almost 30 years......

KUCHING, April 22 — The body of missing diver Karen Chong, 31, was found about 52km from her last known location today. MMEA Sarawak deputy director of operations Capt Yousry Yaali said local fishermen spotted Chong’s body around 9am about 16.4.....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — A widower was sent to the gallows by the High Court here today after he was found guilty of trafficking 149.5 grams of methamphetamine three years ago. Judicial Commissioner Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid handed down the sentence....

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The government has given assurance that it will continue to provide the widest possible access for the media to report news in line with the existing provisions under the Federal Constitution. Communications and Multimedia...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The authorities should renew the lease for the land where SMK Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) is located, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) said today. Suhakam said it shared the concerns by various organisations....

JOHOR BARU, April 22 — A 51-year-old man who claimed he was a legal representative of the Johor Royal Palace was arrested by the police today after he grifted more than RM185,000 from an advertising company in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. The suspect,....

KUCHING, April 22 — The Sarawak DAP convention to elect the new state committee has been postponed to another date in the light of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the state, its chairman Chong Chieng Jen said today. He said the decision to.....

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak was not deprived of an opportunity to put up a proper defence when the trial judge in his SRC International Sdn Bhd corruption trial only provided a summary of key findings in his prima facie ruling,...

BUKIT MERTAJAM, April 22 — Police arrested a man and crippled an international drug trafficking syndicate after seizing drugs worth RM6.5 million in two raids carried out from Monday until Wednesday. Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — DAP’s Klang MP Charles Santiago has questioned the government’s move to use the National Trust Fund (NTF) to finance the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines and vaccine-related expenditure, asking the government to...

JOHOR BARU, April 22 — A frozen food supply company director and manager pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here, today, to being involved in the so-called meat cartel scandal. The accused, LY Frozen Food Sdn Bhd director Yong Chee Keong,...

LABUAN, April 22 — The number of people registered for Covid-19 vaccine in Labuan has surged from over 16 per cent in March to 44.1 per cent in April. Labuan Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) chairman Rithuan Ismail said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — I’m going to get a little personal real quick. I received news recently that my grandma had gotten her first Covid-19 vaccination and I’m over the moon. My grandpa, on the other hand, has succumbed to Facebook nonsense....

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — Four Customs Department officers have been charged in the Sessions Court here with releasing two containers filled with illicit cigarettes from the Pasir Gudang Port late last year. However, all four accused, attached with...

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The supply of fresh chicken is guaranteed to be sufficient until after the Aidilfitri celebration, said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi. He said that his ministry had held...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Strong and decisive leadership decisions, and calls for an immediate cessation of violence must be top priorities for Asean leaders meeting in Jakarta this weekend, or they risk seeing Myanmar relegated to the region’s...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has granted an audience to the Committee for Ending the Emergency Declaration, its chairman Khalid Samad said today. The Shah Alam MP, however, said that a date has yet to be set for the meeting,.....

STRASBOURG, April 22 — French prosecutors announced Tuesday an international arrest warrant for a leading figure in conspiracy circles who is suspected of helping to organise the kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl that gripped the country last...

JOHOR BARU, April 22 — An Interpol Red Notice has been issued to locate and arrest fugitive businessman Datuk Seri Nicky Liow Soon Hee and his Chinese national wife, said Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay today. The Johor police chief said the Red...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The uneven Malaysia’s labour force situation in 2020 was profoundly caused by the health crisis and economic consequences, leading the unemployment rate to reach 4.5 per cent compared to 3.3 per...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aprril 22 ― Former Federal Territories minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor's appeal hearing against his conviction and sentence for accepting a bribe of RM2 million from a businessman concluded today. However, the thre...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 ― DAP Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching questioned why the education and deputy minister on information have remained silent about accounts of female students being humiliated during “period spot checks.” Despite the matter being...

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The claim by Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s defence that the prosecution had “shifted goalposts” throughout the SRC International Sdn Bhd corruption trial is nothing more than an “ingenious” attempt to exclude relevant...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has lambasted the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government for what he claims is an “unacceptable” slow vaccine rollout to the rakyat. In a Facebook post today, referencing the...

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The government is targeting the contribution of the mineral industry to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to increase to RM29 billion by 2030 and that the industry to be further developed in a sustainable.....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The Federal Territories Land and Mines Office’s remarks that its decision not to renew the land lease for 122-year-old SMK Convent Bukit Nanas as it would be converted to a fully-aided government school “does not hold.....