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KUDAT, Nov 27 – Three people died and four others are feared missing after a fishing boat reportedly carrying more than 20 people capsized on the way to Pulau Banggi near here yesterday, police said today. Kudat police chief DSP Dawi Ossen said the dead were a male and two female passengers, whose bodies had been sent to hospital at about 7pm. He appealed to […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 27 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said efforts to address climate change must be consistent with keeping global trade and investment open and free, without raising new barriers to trade and investment. The Malaysian prime minister also called for changes in industrial systems, business models, economic assumptions, market rules and governanc […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 – The MCA annual general meeting (AGM) will be held as scheduled on Dec 4 and 5, MCA Information and Communication Bureau chairman Senator Heng Seai Kie said today, dispelling claims that it would be postponed. She said in a statement issued here that there were no plans at all to reschedule the AGM to a later date. “MCA headquarters has […]

By Adib Zalkapli KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 – Days after resolving the controversy in the Kelantan Mentri Besar Corporation (PMBK), a local council in PAS-ruled Kelantan has been accused of mistreatment of workers and abuse of funds by the councillors. According to a report yesterday in the online version of PAS newspaper Harakahdaily, the Kelantan Municipal Counc […]

MECCA, Nov 27 – Tabung Haji will absorb the extra cost incurred for the longer stay of Hajj pilgrims due to a delay in their return flight home after the Saudi authorities rescheduled flight services. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom said the delay was due to a directive by the Saudi Arabian government to allow only f […]

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 – The Barisan Nasional-led federal government may face a tough time defending its Biro Tata Negara (BTN) programmes when PKR initiates a nation-wide tour together with ex-BTN officials to prove its allegations that the programmes are used to “indoctrinate” civil servants and students with racist propaganda. The lead […]

KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 27 – Floods have subsided in Hulu Terengganu while the situation in Kuala Terengganu, Dungun and Marang is getting better. A spokesman for the Terengganu national security council operations room said the number of flood victims still in evacuation centres were 995, 618 in Kuala Terengganu, Dungun (346) and Marang (31). He said all evac […]

NEW DELHI, Nov 27 – Will the real Noordin Mohammed Top please stand up? While Southeast Asia’s feared militant was killed in a gunbattle with Indonesian police last September, the current Interpol website on the status of the Malaysian is baffling. Strangely, the man, who was better known as Mat Top, continues to haunt the mind – more than two months after h […]

BESUT, Nov 27 – Five friends emerged tired but safe from the Gunung Tebu recreational forest today just as rescuers were about to set out in search of them after they were reported lost overnight. Mohd Asri Awang, 23, and Mohd Nor Iqbal Yusli, 18, of Machang, Kelantan, and Mohd Khaidir Che Noh, 25, Mohd Shahidan Salleh, 14, and the only female who wanted to […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 — For the first time since its inception, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is set to rock the skies of Langkawi in its maiden appearance at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA). "We will be welcoming the Republic of Singapore Air Force aircraft and personnel," HW Lima Sdn Bhd managing di […]