Category: Malaysia
Malaysia parliament to debate move to lower voting age to 18
Proposals on registration and candidate ages also under consideration in reforms that will need constitutional changes. Malaysia’s parliament will begin debating [...]
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Anwar demands probe on Wan Ji’s claim of prison warden assault
The Home Affairs Ministry must act upon Muslim preacher Wan Ji Wan Hussin’s allegation that he was assaulted by a warden at the Kajang Prison while seeking a stay of [...]
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Anwar: Public wants to know who is behind sex clip scandal
Malaysians are eager to learn the authenticity of sex clips implicating a federal minister and the culprits behind the scandal, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today. The PKR [...]
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Expressing confidence in youth, Dr M urges bipartisan support for Undi 18 Bill
Malaysian youths are mature enough to pick and vote for the country’s leaders, the prime minister said today urging lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to vote for a [...]
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Malaysia to file WTO complaint on EU’s palm oil curb by November
Malaysia will file a complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by November to challenge a European Union move to phase out palm oil from being used in transport fuels [...]
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Audit: Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board is inefficient, government lose RM3.71 million
The 2018 Auditor-General report today revealed that the government suffered losses amounting to RM3.71 million following the inexpert of the Malaysian Pineapple Industry [...]
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Najib: Yes, my credit cards used for RM3.3m in one day to buy gifts for ‘royalty’
Datuk Seri Najib Razak appears to have admitted that his two personal credit cards were used in 2014 for transactions worth RM3.3 million in a single day at a Swiss luxury [...]
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Widow of Nigerian PhD student accuses Malaysian authorities of autopsy without consent
A Malaysian post-mortem examination on Nigerian Thomas Orhions Ewansiha, a former PhD student at the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Cyberjaya, Selangor who [...]
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PM: Don’t let prideful defence of Bahasa be obstacle for Malaysian students
Prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad urged defenders of the national language to set aside their objections to the use of English in education, saying the learning of [...]
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Pua: Govt studying many new infrastructure projects, earlier freeze to fix inflated costs
The government is studying multiple infrastructure projects for implementation to ensure value for money, the finance ministry said. Tony Pua, political secretary to Finance [...]
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Guan Eng: PAC report confirms unlawful treatment of GST funds
Finance minister Lim Guan Eng insisted today that the Public Accounts Committee investigation triggered by his claim that Barisan Nasional (BN) “robbed” the [...]
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Najib denies attacking Robert Kuok, insists ‘Sugar King’ is family friend
Datuk Seri Najib Razak rejected today Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz’s claim that his criticism of Robert Kuok was to echo the former prime minister’s own remarks against [...]
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Najib: My name is not Guan Eng, I am not a liar
Datuk Seri Najib Razak said former Bersatu vice-president Datuk Hamidah Osman’s claim of seeing Lim Kit Siang moot her ex-party’s formation to Tun Dr Mahathir [...]
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$800,000 spent in one day on Malaysia ex-PM’s cards, court hears
Credit cards belonging to Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak were used to spend over $800,000 in one day at a luxury jeweller in Italy, a court has heard. The [...]
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Malaysia to challenge EU palm oil curbs at WTO
Malaysia will lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organisation over the European Union’s plan to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuels, a minister said Tuesday. [...]
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