PENANG, 20 May 2009: Penang police made their biggest drug bust of the year by seizing 227kg of ganja worth RM900,000 during a raid on a car warehouse in Bagan Dalam, Butterworth, yesterday. Penang police chief Datuk Wira Ayub Yaakob said, acting on a tip-off, a team from Penang, Kedah and the Bukit Aman Narcotics […]
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Foreign workers get RM4 billion windfall
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 May 2009: The 2.2 million foreign workers in the country would enjoy a RM4 billion windfall this year because they need not pay the levy as it would be borne by their employers. From April, it was compulsory for employers to pay the RM1800 levy per worker per year for both new […]
Youth pleads not guilty to causing death
BATU PAHAT, 20 May 2009: An unemployed youth pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to causing hurt and death of a pregnant woman in a robbery early this month. Mohamad Ariffin Anang, 26, from Taman Flora, is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of Jamilah Selamat at […]
78 dead in military aircraft crash in east Java (Updated)
Updated 2.44pm, 20 May 2009 JAKARTA, 20 May 2009: Seventy-eight people were confirmed dead when an Indonesian air force’s Hercules C-130 aircraft, with about 130 people onboard, plunged into a housing area in Magetan, east Java this morning. Authorities fear death toll could top 100, including among the villagers whose houses were crushed in the […]
19 June fixed for insulting Perak Sultan case
PENANG, 20 May 2009: The Butterworth Sessions Court today fixed 19 June to mention a case of a couple charged with spreading an obscene comment on the Sultan of Perak on a website, http://books.dreambook.com/duli/duli.html. Judge Julie Lack Abdullah fixed the date to enable counsel Jagdeep Singh Deo, who represented Chan Hon Keong and wife, Khoo […]
Wooing voters
By Zedeck Siew“Ministers and functionaries, people connected to the government, they’re doing their job.” THEN-Election Commission (EC) chairperson Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, shortly after the 2007 Machap by-election. He was commenting on the morality of development promises by Barisan Nasional (BN)-aligned government officials to voters before the polls. Abdul Rashid said that allocations, given out […]
Infectious diseases
By The Nut Graph teamTHE A(H1N1) strain of influenza. Meningitis. Leptospirosis. These are among the infectious diseases making headlines in Malaysia of late. They’ve obviously struck fear in the health authorities and the public. Entry points to Malaysia are screened to detect travellers with flu-like symptoms, in an effort to keep the A(H1N1) bug at bay. Health alerts are […]
2 DAP politicians among 11 arrested
By N Shashi KalaKUALA LUMPUR, 20 May 2009: Eleven people, including two DAP politicians, were arrested for taking part in a candlelight vigil in Seputeh yesterday evening. Among those arrested were DAP Socialist Youth (Dapsy) deputy chairperson and Teratai state assemblyperson Jenice Lee and DAP Serdang Member of Parliament (MP) Teo Nie Ching, along with nine other party […]
Umno won’t back independent in Penanti
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2009: Umno will not use dirty tactics by backing any independent candidate in the Penati state assembly by-election after deciding not to contest in the 31 May polls. Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Umno was not a greedy party and said any allegation that it would back […]
Six quarantined for suspected flu infection
KUANTAN, 19 May 2009: Six people, two of them tourists from Sweden, are under quarantine in Pahang since 13 May for suspected Influenza A (H1N1) infection, Pahang Health Committee chairperson Datuk Hoh Khai Mun said today. He said the couple from Sweden had been quarantined at a hotel in the Jerantut district while a family […]
