KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Johor DAP chairman Liew Chin Tong today said that the landslide win Barisan Nasional (BN) earned in the Johor state election was due to a lack of unity among Opposition parties. He said it was time for parties in Pakatan...

JOHOR BARU, March 14 — Umno president and Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will have an audience with the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar, on the appointment of the Johor Mentri Besar this...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Member of Parliament for Kuala Nerus Datuk Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali has quit from Islamist party PAS effective today (March 14). Khairuddin — who was recently sacked as PAS Syura Ulama Council secretary — handed in.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 14 — Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz today said that the Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) 6.1 per cent dividend for conventional savings for 2021 could have been 6.7 per cent if previous unprecedented...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Flash floods have once again hit several areas in the Klang Valley.  In some instances, the heavy downpour has led to people needing to be rescued from their partly submerged vehicles as seen on social media.&n...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak would have only gotten a relative sum amounting to “peanuts” if he had received US$30 million (RM126.2 million) from multi-billion ringgit bonds raised by 1Malaysia...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — The final award on the claim of heirs of the Sultan of Sulu issued in an arbitration proceeding in the Paris Arbitration Court in France does not affect the position of Sabah as a state of the Federation of Malaysia, said.....

KOTA KINABALU, March 14 — The Immigration Department has identified a new site for the construction of the Customs, Immigration, Quarantine and Security (CIQS) complex in the Nabawan district which is located at the Malaysia-Indonesia border....

SHAH ALAM, March 14 — The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah today advised the state government to place more serious emphasis on efforts to address the increasing number of floods and flash floods in the state. Sultan Sharafuddin...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — DAP needs to be more flexible in its negotiations with other parties when it comes to seat allocations and campaign strategies if they want to avoid a defeat at the next general elections, says Ong Kian Ming. The DAP MP...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — There were 51,631 online fraud cases with more than RM1.61 billion in losses reported from 2019 to last year, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Jonathan Yasin sai...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Police have classified the case of a missing four-year-old boy, Eric Chang Wei Jie, as murder, according to Kuching district police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah. He said the case is now being investigated under Section 302 of...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Trade group coalition Industries Unite today urged the government to allow the operation of nightclubs with health and safety measures in place, such as the closure of dance floors and the implementation of physical...

KOTA KINABALU, March 14 — Toh Puan Rahimah Stephens, the widow of the late Tun Fuad Stephens –— Sabah’s third Yang di-Pertua Negeri and first chief minister — has passed away this morning. She was 92. When contacted, daughter Fauziah...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today said that the main reasons for Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) poor performance in the Johor state election were a lack of unity within the Opposition, not using a common logo and its...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Daily Covid-19 cases continued on a downward trend, with 22,535 new cases recorded by the Health Ministry in the last 24 hours.  In a statement this morning, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and other leaders in Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) should resign from the government, Umno supreme council member Datuk Mohd Puad Zarkashi said today.  Puad chided Bersatu’s poor....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — A total of 2,837,197 individuals or 91.2 per cent of the adolescent population, aged 12 to 17, in the country have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, as of yesterday. According to the CovidNow website, a total of...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Online purchase fraud and government action relating to abandoned housing projects are among the issues expected to be raised in the Dewan Rakyat today. According to the Order Paper published on the Parlia...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Barisan Nasional’s (BN) supermajority in the recently concluded Johor state election — winning 40 out of 56 seats — signifies the coalition’s return as a political powerhouse. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)...

SUNGAI SIPUT, March 13 — MIC will file an election petition to challenge the Bukit Batu state seat results in the just concluded Johor election, said its president Tan Sri S. A. Vigneswaran. He said MIC’s candidate S. Suppayah lost to PKR’s...

ALOR SETAR, March 13 — The Kedah state government has proposed that the National Security Council (MKN) take over part of 77 hectares of land owned by the Malaysian Fisheries Development Authority (LKIM) in Bukit Malut, Langkawi, to build new...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Police have ordered the occupants of 15 houses along Jalan Bukit Permai 1 to vacate their homes and relocate elsewhere temporarily following new landslides near Taman Bukit Permai 2 here yesterday. Ampang Jaya district...

TANAH MERAH, March 13 — The government has allocated RM500 million for phase two of the Forest Plantation Development Programme 2021-2025 for entrepreneurs who are interested in venturing into the industry. Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB)...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Barisan Nasional (BN) must be really ready and has the support of the majority of the people for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to dissolve Parliament to enable the 15th General Election (GE15) to be held....

JOHOR BARU, March 13 — Datuk Hasni Mohammad’s clean image, an efficient party machinery and division among the opposition are the main factors that led to Barisan Nasional’s two-third majority victory in yesterday’s Johor state election. The....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Barisan Nasional (BN) led the popular vote in the Johor state election yesterday with 599,753 votes or 43.11 per cent. Perikatan Nasional (PN) which took 334,457 votes or 24.04 per cent and Pakatan Harapan (PH) with...

BERA, March 13 — The Keluarga Malaysia Education Tour (JPKM) programme organised by Yayasan Prihatin Nasional (Prihatin) can help realise the aspirations of rural students to further their studies at the tertiary level, says Prime Minister Datuk...

JOHOR BARU, March 13 — It is still too early to discuss the candidates for the State Executive Council (Exco) following Barisan Nasional’s (BN) victory in the Johor state election yesterday, says MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong. Wee said...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Government-linked companies (GLCs) and government-linked investment companies (GLICs) should direct their efforts this year towards the three main focus areas outlined in Budget 2022, namely the Malaysian Family (Keluarga.....