Новости за 12.07.2024

KUALA LUMPUR: Tina Turner impersonator Rebecca O'Connor entertained fans of the late Queen of Rock 'n' Roll during a sizzling concert at Zepp KL, here, last night.

KUALA LUMPUR: The government is currently studying and refining steps to draft the Anti-Rent Seeking Act, better known as the Anti Ali Baba Act.

PORT DICKSON: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) of Melaka and Negri Sembilan confirmed the discovery of a floating body in the waters around Port Dickson yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: A trader yesterday retracted his police report which had triggered investigations against controversial blogger Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris for alleged seditious remarks, just two hours after testifying on the first day of the trial.

KUALA LUMPUR: Men's doubles ace Aaron Chia insists he and Soh Wooi Yik are more comfortable with the underdog tag as they aim to improve on their bronze medal from Tokyo three years ago at the Paris Olympics.

IN the dead of the night, wearing bullet-proof vests, their faces masked, scores of armed Spanish police staged a stealthy pre-dawn raid on homes in a small Catalan town this week.

TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped more than 2 per cent on Friday, retreating from the previous session’s record high as tech stocks tracked their U.S. peers lower and the threat of currency intervention spurred profit-taking ahead of a long weekend.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia extended its downtrend to close lower at midday dragged by profit-taking activities in the financial services and utilities sectors. 

KUALA LUMPUR: An expert has backed the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s (RMAF) plan to acquire F/A-18 Hornets from its Kuwaiti counterpart, saying the country is in “dire need” of such fighter jets.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Parliamentary Services Act (PSA), which was repealed during the administration of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, will be reintroduced in Parliament in October, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M. Kulasegaran.

PUTRAJAYA: The Housing and Local Government Ministry welcomes the National Audit Department to conduct audits on any department and agency under the ministry to ensure adherence to principles of integrity, said Minister Nga Kor Ming.

KUALA LUMPUR: Mandopop's King Of Dance Show Lo is coming back to Malaysia to put on a show!

KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore firms view Johor as an attractive destination and are eager to set up operations and invest in the proposed Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ), according to a report released by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF).

MELAKA: A former chief executive officer of a government-linked subsidiary in Melaka was fined RM15,000 by the Ayer Keroh Sessions Court here today after pleading guilty to abuse of power for appointing his daughter to the company in 2021.

KUALA KUBU BARU: Actor Hafidz Roshdi, 30, is grateful that his ex-wife Nurul Shuhada Mat Shukri has withdrawn her assault case, in which he allegedly punched her left cheek on March 13.

KUALA LUMPUR: The manufacturing sector recorded sales value of RM154.9 billion in May 2024, up 5.5 per cent from the previous month supported by growth in the electrical and electronics products (E&E) sub sector at 12.2 per cent.

KOTA BARU: Prominent Malaysians, including some with Datuk titles, have sought to conceal their identity when tying the knot in Thailand’s southern provinces.

LIPIS: A female pillion rider, who was returning home from attending Quran recital class, was killed while her friend sustained injuries when their motorcycle collided with a lorry at Km20 Jalan Lipis-Merapoh near Kampung Gua here yesterday.

KUALA LUMUR: G3 Global Bhd was among the most actively traded stock today after it won a 30-year concession from the Maldives government.

KUALA LUMPUR: One of the two foreign airlines that will be operating out of Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SAAS) Airport, better known as Subang Airport, is Indonesia’s PT TransNusa Aviation Mandiri (TransNusa). 

KUALA LUMPUR: Singer Lay Zhang of Exo fame blended in with the locals so well that netizens would not have noticed him.

KUALA LUMPUR: FAM faces potential expulsion from Fifa if it fails to put a stop to the recurring problem of unpaid salaries in the M-League.

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,085 cases of uprooted trees were recorded from January to April this year, the Dewan Rakyat was told.

TOKYO: The Japanese Navy’s chief of staff quit on Friday after a raft of scandals including over people without adequate security clearances handling classified defence materials.

KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian singer Afgansyah Reza or Afgan, 35, often visits Malaysia to entertain fans.