KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Jan 2009: Malaysia has the legal and regulatory framework to safeguard local manufacturers from unfair trade practices because of the current global economic and financial crisis, the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) said. Its secretary-general Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Mamat assured manufacturers Miti was monitoring Malaysia’s trade data and was in […]
PM departs for three Gulf states
PETALING JAYA, 17 Jan 2009: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today departed for an official visit to three Gulf countries. The executive jet carrying Abdullah and wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah took off from the air force base in Subang at 12.55pm. Abdullah will kick off the official visit in Bahrain tomorrow, followed […]
Polling in KT ends (Updated with video at 7.20pm)
by Danny Lim and Deborah Loh(Updated 7.20pm, 17 Jan 2009) Polling at Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Bukit Bandar, where Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh and wife Toh Puan Intan Baizura Abdul Wahab cast their votes KUALA TERENGGANU: All 36 polling centres for the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election were closed at 5pm today. Election Commission (EC) chairperson Tan Sri Abdul Aziz […]
Landslide victims still missing
MIRI, 16 Jan 2009: Two petrol station workers are missing following a landslide that hit their workplace here early this morning. A search and rescue operation began at 6.30am but up till 10am, they were yet to be found. The workers are only known as Endi, 28, an Indonesian, and one Ah Chiang, 22. It […]
February tabling of bill on police
KUALA TERENGGANU, 16 Jan 2009: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will table the bill on the police force and enforcement agencies at the Dewan Rakyat sitting next month. The prime minister said today the bill was the last of three on reforms to three institutions, namely the judiciary, Anti-Corruption Agency and the police, which he […]
Ringgit opens higher against USD
KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Jan 2009: The ringgit was higher against the US dollar in early trading today as investors liquidate their greenback positions ahead of the weekend break, dealers said. Hence, the US dollar was under pressure in the early morning, a dealer said. At 9.00am, the ringgit was traded at 3.3300/3333 against the US […]
US wanted FTA talks postponed
KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Jan 2009: The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Malaysia and the US have been postponed because of a request from Washington, DC, International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. “This is not the ministry’s decision. Fact is the talks have been temporarily stopped on the request made by […]
Body found in cave rockfall
IPOH, 15 Jan 2009: The body of security guard, Yip Lum Choon, 55, who was crushed in the Perak Tong cave temple rockfall in Jalan Kuala Kangsar was found last night. Perak police chief, Datuk Zulkefli Abdullah, said Yip’s body was found at 10.15pm and sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital for a post-mortem. […]
Assessing Chinese Malaysian support
KUALA TERENGGANU, 14 Jan 2009: The street in Kampung Cina here appears relatively calm despite daytime activities and the intensified campaign for the 17 Jan Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election. “Actually, it is boiling here,” a coffeeshop owner, who wanted to be known only as Chua, said, referring to the close battle for the 8,229 Chinese […]
Ponggal celebration for Hindus
PENANG, 14 Jan 2009: Today is Ponggal Festival, an occasion that has R Subramaniam’s family waking up much earlier than usual to make the necessary preparations like decorating their house with sugar cane, mango leaves and drawing the kolam. Dressed in their colourful new clothes, Subramaniam, his wife and their three children began the Ponggal […]
