LAHAD DATU, April 28 — The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac) has identified an iconic scuba diving spot known as Blue Ring Hole at the Tingkayu Reef, Teluk Darvel, here, as the country’s new tourism product. Its minister, Datuk Seri.....

PUTRAJAYA, April 12 — The percentage of households that has access to the internet increased to 95.5 per cent in 2021 from 91.7 per cent in 2020, according to the ICT Use and Access by Individuals and Households Survey Report released today by the....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Several Rohingya detainees who escaped from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot near the state border of Kedah and Penang last week have been sighted in Selayang here, according to Immigration...

COMMENTARY, April 28 — Umno will hold an extraordinary general meeting on May 15 to insert a clause into its party constitution that will let it hold an internal election after a general election. This is so Umno will not face any problems with...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — The Finance Ministry today announced that it has accepted Datuk Syed Zaid Syed Jaffar Albar’s resignation as the executive chairman of the Securities Commission (SC). The ministry said Syed Zaid’s resignation would...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — The Singapore High Court today granted the stay of execution for Malaysian K. Datchinamurthy, who was supposed to be executed on Friday, April 29, just two days after the execution of another Malaysia Naga...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Emerging economies could see inflation hit eight per cent this year as the war in Ukraine is expected to keep energy costs up and prices squeezed by a persistent global supply bottleneck that is hindering recovery, an IMF.....

SINGAPORE, April 28 ― Singapore authorities late yesterday defended a decision to execute a Malaysian drug trafficker, in response to international criticism over their use of the death penalty. Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, had been convicted of.....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today insisted that judges in the country too fall under the jurisdiction of civil servants and the regulating body has the power to investigate them for any alleged abuse of....

IPOH, April 28 — Three Road Transport Department (JPJ) enforcement personnel were fined RM5,000 each, in default of one-month imprisonment, at the Sessions Court here for accepting bribes amounting to RM20,000 in exchange for allowing a cargo of...

JOHOR BARU, April 28 — Johor Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) have today called on the state government to involve state Opposition lawmakers in the activities of the soon-to-be appointed Barisan Nasional (BN)...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Epidemiologist Professor Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud cautioned that public apathy and resistance to use the MySejahtera app could cause a deterioration in the awareness of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia. If that happens,...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Malaysia’s new minimum wage rate of RM1,500 has been officially gazetted and will take effect nationwide this Sunday, which is also Labour Day. The exception is for employers with fewer than five staff members which will....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah has voiced his concern over the latest development concerning the sentencing of the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, on c...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — The Selangor state government has decided not to approve the increase in local government assessment rates for now. State Local Government, Public Transport and New Village Development Committee chairman, Ng Sze Han in a...

KOTA BHARU, April 28 — A total of 1,365 paddy farmers in Kelantan suffered losses amounting to RM26.19 million from the damage that floods caused to their rice crop in February. Kemubu Agricultural Development Authority (Kada) cha...

PETALING JAYA, April 28 — Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) presidential council today urged the government to ensure that enforcement agencies respect the judiciary’s independence. The PH top leadership reminded Putrajaya of its obligation to ensure the....

PETALING JAYA, April 28 — Malaysia recorded 3,471 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 4,440,383 since the start of the pandemic. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — A total of 785,432 children aged five to 11 years or 22.1 per cent of those in this age group have been fully vaccinated under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) a...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Another Malaysian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore is set to have his legal bid to stay his scheduled execution tomorrow heard today, Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) said. Datchinamurthy Kataiah, the Malaysian citizen.....

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has instructed the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to immediately use its existing resources to overcome the problem of flash floods that occurred in the capital recently....

IPOH, April 28 — It was a sombre mood last night at the family home of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, who was executed for drug trafficking in Singapore earlier yesterday despite multiple appeals for being intellectually disabled. Around 50 family.....

ALOR SETAR, April 27 — Most of the 61 Rohingya refugees who are still at large after escaping from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot near Bandar Baharu on April 20 are believed to have a good knowledge of the situation in this country......

SANDAKAN, April 27 — The Pan Borneo Highway construction project in Sabah is facing some slowdown due to the time-consuming procedure to transfer utility infrastructure along the route, says Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar...

DENGKIL, April 27 — Those planning to return to their villages for Hari Raya Aidilfitri should inform the police of their movements to facilitate crime prevention patrols, said Selangor Police chief Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed. He said they could do...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — All Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties at the central or state levels need to work closely to face the 15th General Election (GE15), said MIC president Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran. He said this was important to avoid any...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Malaysia and South Korea today will be a legal instrument in further strengthening defence cooperation between the two countries, says Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri....

PUTRAJAYA, April 27 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has urged the public to continue to be vigilant against Covid-19 despite the further loosening of the standard operating procedure (SOP) in the control and prevention of the...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — The National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) will allow family members or guardians to visit residents at Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Centres (Puspen) nationwide in conjunction with the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — The retail price of RON97 petrol will increase by 13 sen from RM3.81 to RM3.94 per litre for the week beginning April 28 to May 4. The Finance Ministry (MOF), in a statement, said the prices of RON95 petrol and diesel will....