Archive - 1 August 2017

However, his office in a statement says reports that he had been 'charged' in France are misleading.

'When I asked where he obtained the RM230 million in his bank account, his answer was unclear,' says former PM.

Leaked email communications exposed the alleged links between Yousef Al Otaiba and Jho Low, WSJ reports.

Wan Junaidi believes the banning will only lead to major losses for the country as ketum has a high market value.

FT's JMM chief lodges a report asking Jawi to arrest Marina and check on her faith.

Videos of the event show about 30 young men kicking and jumping on each other outside a row of shops.

AUDIT REPORT | Karyaneka lands in a huge problem with 11 outlets suffering losses, eight others closing down.

Sultan Sharafuddin says the board should be balanced and appointed from amongst professionals.

The EGM will convene at 4pm on Thursday, and the quorum will be 500 members of the Bar. 

Failure to comply will subject 1MDB and MOF Inc to 'additional obligations'.

He says the current political climate requires the use of 'chemical weapons'.

We know the gov't is currently facing a cash flow problem, says, lawmaker.  

The DPM's press secretary says his boss did not mean to insult Indian Muslims.

The deadline for the payment is midnight Monday, New York time, or the early hours of Tuesday in Asia. 

Malaysian workers have to contribute to a fund that will provide up to six months of unemployment benefits.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court also orders finding Tamil interpreters as most of the settlers cannot speak Bahasa or English. 

UPDATED 5.17PM | Rahman Dahlan says that 95 percent of the state's debt reduction was made possible by the federal gov't. 

Migrant workers undergoing tests at Fomema clinics must have their fingerprint read and recorded.

UPDATE 4.25PM | 1MDB admits that it is waiting for funds that have been delayed to later this month.

The wing's higher education chief flays DPM's 'shameful' action on Dr M's purported IC.

UPDATED 3.18PM | Dzulkifli Ahmad says he has managed to turn something negative into positive.

The central PKR leadership must make a statement on this, says state PKR chief.  

'I on behalf of Umno youth would abide by the law and would cooperate with the police,' says Umno exco. 

UPDATED 2.30PM | The suspect was detained this morning in connection with the probe into the purchase of a hotel.

MPSPEAK | If these two have any honour left, they should do the right thing and resign.

The former PAS youth chief was granted the discharge not amounting to an acquittal based on a technicality. 

Education Ministry says the fact is still relevant and is maintained in textbooks.

UPDATE 1.30PM | DPM and DG of NRD have a week to do so, otherwise, the group plans to take further action.

COMMENT | The chief justice need not be unduly worried because even if I am successful in the leave application, I still have a mountain to climb.

UPDATED 1.21PM | Following the decision, three voters from the constituency withdrew their judicial review application, says lawyer Syahredzan Johan.

COMMENT | 'When we follow the footsteps of Mahathir and reject tyranny and corruption wholesale, we are all Anak Lelaki Malaysia Jati.'

Petronas should overhaul its overseas investment policies.

COMMENT | It is worrying that the very man who should be trusted to hold the details of an IC secret, is doing the exposing. 

Malaysia will receive 39 percent of the concession payment, while Singapore will take 61 percent, for 50 years. 

AUDIT REPORT | The RM88m hospital was to have been completed on Jan 9, 2015, but it is only 57pct ready, as of last December.

UPDATED 10.49AM | The embattled state fund has to pay RM2.58 billion to the Abu-Dhabi based sovereign wealth fund over its settlement agreement. 

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says it is highly irresponsible of the gov't to not send legal representation to the US for the DOJ suits. 

This is believed over the newly appointed communications director's lewd comments to The New Yorker magazine recently.

AUDIT REPORT | Despite not meeting contractual obligations, a ferry company got the job to deport immigrants for 10 years.

COMMENT | ‘Yes, why not create a law that once and for all asserts the primacy of Islam?’

Dispute between Housing Ministry and MBPJ over control of the Lembah Subang PPR units further frustrates the residents.

YOURSAY | 'Half a step away from hell is better than a backward step towards it...'

KINIGUIDE | Among others, the decision by the Prevention of Crime Board cannot be reviewed by the court.

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

YOURSAY | ‘Pandikar is wasting his breath defending the indefensible.’

The 'bin Abdullah' tag is like a badge of bastardy.