KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — A meeting with 70 financial fund investors and corporate members at the recently concluded Joint Investors Meeting in London has touched on the Madani government’s immediate action to stimulate strategic investment in important technologies, according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF). In a statement today, it said that the government is serious about making investments a national agenda through the establishment of a high-level investment facilitation platform to ensure the implementation of potential and approved strategic investments through a “Whole of Government ..read more

JOHOR BARU, April 24 — Four members of an “Along” syndicate which included a woman who is three months pregnant pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today on five charges of committing mischief by fire against four victims last month. On the first four charges, Abdul Halim Md Noor, 31, Veeno Chiew Men Ying, 42, and Nur Azman Hassan, 36, were jointly accused with committing the acts with the intention of causing destruction to the homes and vehicles of the three victims in Ulu Tiram and Taman Abad here, between March 10 and March 27. On the fifth charge, Abdul Halim, Chiew and Liew Ch ..read more

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — Former Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong has filed an appeal in the Federal Court against the Court of Appeal’s decision upholding his conviction for raping his maid five years ago. Yong’s lawyer, Datuk Rajpal Singh, confirmed that the notice of appeal was filed on March 5. “The court has not yet set a date for case management for the appeal,” he said when contacted today. On March 1, in a majority decision of 2-1, Justice Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, leading the panel with Justice Datuk Azman Abdullah, upheld Yong’s conviction, while Justice Datuk S.M. Komathy ..read more

PUTRAJAYA, April 24 — Malaysia has urged countries that suspended their contributions to resume their support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The agency serves as a vital lifeline for the besieged Palestinians, according to the Foreign Ministry. In a statement, the ministry widely known as Wisma Putra said Malaysia welcomed the decision by several countries to resume their contribution to UNRWA. “It is imperative for nations to re-evaluate their priorities with Israel, given its despicable actions at the expense of the Palestinia ..read more

SHAH ALAM, April 24 — Five civil servants, one of them a woman, have been remanded for three days from today to assist in investigations into cases of corruption. Magistrate Muhammad Syafiq Sulaiman issued the order to remand all of them, aged between 32 and 42, to facilitate investigation under Section 17 (a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009. The civil servants are suspected to have received bribes of between RM3,000 and RM15,000 from contractors involved in cleaning works from 2018 to 2020 as an inducement not to impose payment deductions for cleaning contract wor ..read more

PUTRAJAYA, April 24 — Immigration officers are not allowed to reject any passport renewal or first-time application solely because the applicant fails to master the national language, said Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh. “I would like to clarify that in fulfilling their responsibilities, immigration officers will conduct random checks in various aspects to verify applications. “However, these checks must be conducted professionally and with courtesy,” he said in a statement today. On Monday, a man expressed his disappointment in failing to renew his mother’s passport at the U ..read more

LUMUT, April 24 — The post-mortem on the 10 people who died in the crash of two Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) helicopters at its base here yesterday was completed at 2.20pm today. The Strategic Communications Branch of the Naval Headquarters said in a statement that the bodies of eight Muslim victims would be taken to the 23rd Batallion of the Royal Malay Regiment Camp, Ipoh for funeral prayers. The body of Lt T. Sivasutan will be brought to the family home in Sitiawan, while the body of Able Seaman I Joanna Felicia Rohna will be flown back to Serian, Sarawak using a Royal Malaysian Air Force (R ..read more

KANGAR, April 24 — Perlis Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri Ramli confirmed that he knew about his son being arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and will leave it to the authorities to complete their investigation. “I have been informed of the news by the MACC and leave it to the discretion of the MACC, that’s all for now,” he said briefly when met by reporters after the Perlis state assembly sitting here today. Earlier, the MACC remanded six men, including the son of a menteri besar, to assist in the investigation into a case of producing falsified documents to make RM600,000 ..read more

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigating officer told the High Court today she had never asked Datuk Seri Najib Razak about purported instructions given for the transfer of US$700 million to an entity linked to fugitive Low Taek Jho or Jho Low back in 2009. Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Senior Superintendent Nur Aida Arifin said this while under cross-examination as the 49th prosecution witness in Najib’s trial over the misappropriation of 1MDB’s RM2.27 billion here. Under cross-examination by Najib’s lawyer Wan Azwan Aiman, Nur Aida t ..read more

PUTRAJAYA, April 23 — Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil today said that the Defence Ministry will provide an interim report on the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) helicopter crash in two weeks. He also said that the full report on the tragedy will be ready in over a month. "The prime minister has conveyed condolences and the defence minister has committed that an interim report will be prepared within two weeks, with the full report on the incident to be published within a month from now,” he said in a press conference here today. Fahmi added that the Defence Minister will also make several an ..read more