NILAI, Feb 10 — Heavy vehicles will be kept off the roads on Feb 12, 13, 20 and 21 under a ban to be imposed to avert traffic congestion during the Chinese New Year “balik kampung” rush. Road Safety Department deputy director-general Sim Say Kiong said a total ban would be imposed on heavy vehicles like lorries carrying logs and construction materials like c […]

KUANTAN, Feb 10 — Six public servants were separately charged in the Sessions Court, here today, with receiving bribes in connection with sand smuggling activities. They are assistant land Officers at the Kuantan Land and Mines Office Muhammad Nur Irwan Ramly and Rozlan Md Amin; Azmi Othman and Zakaria Mohamad, both general workers at the office and traffic […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Tengku Temenggong Kelantan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra has sought the help of the Indonesian and United States embassies here to get three court judgments reach his estranged wife,  Manohara Odelia Pinot. His counsel Mohd Haaziq Pillay and Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar handed over the High Court judgments to a representative of […]

By Debra Chong KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir, who was yesterday recognised by the Federal Court as the lawful Perak Mentri Besar, said today he is following a strategy of “peace and prosperity” to win over an electorate that has been sharply split for the past one year by the state’s constitutional crisis. A recent poll by a local resear […]

SANDAKAN, Feb 10 — Villagers living in areas bordering forest reserves in Sabah have been told not to carry out open burning in order to prevent forest fire. Sabah Forestry Department deputy director Fidelis Edwin Bajau said this was because the El Nino phenomenon was expected to occur, causing hot weather and long bouts of drought. He said the phenomenon co […]

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 10 — The Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) today obtained a stay of the Federal Court’s decision ordering it to pay RM11 million in damages to 354 settlers pending the disposal of its application for a review of the decision. The stay was granted by Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Alauddin Mohd Sheriff and Federal Court judges Datuk […]

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Lim Kit Siang said today that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak must respond to a damaging report by an international risk consultancy which said that Malaysia was veering towards instability. The Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) report noted that Najib’s administration is steerin […]

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Feb — Cuepacs is demanding cash payment instead of off-days for overtime work by civil servants. Its secretary-general, Ahmad Shah Mohd Zin, said today that since last December almost 50,000 support staff from various government departments and statutory bodies had been given just off-days for the overtime work. “For every eight hours of ove […]

By Neville Spykerman KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Under fire for their lack of success, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today reached out to the Hua Zong — the umbrella body for Chinese groups — in an attempt to garner more public support for its cause. MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed said the meeting with the Federation of Chinese […]

By Adib Zalkapli KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today downplayed Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s police report over a death threat posted on the Opposition Leader’s Facebook fan page. “Comments on a fan page normally stays there for a while, but in this case, it was posted, then it went missing,” Anwar told reporters outside the Kuala Lumpur courts c […]