JOHOR BARU, Dec 23 â Police have rescued two Chinese nationals with disabilities (PwD) who were allegedly forced by a syndicate to beg at night markets and eateries in the district. In addition, a Malaysian man was arrested, suspected of being involved in human trafficking and smuggling, as part of an operation conducted last night. […]
ALOR SETAR, Nov 30 â Syarikat Air Darul Aman Sdn Bhd (Sada) has temporarily ceased operations at seven of its water treatment plants (WTPs) after the water levels at their intake points reached a critical stage. In a statement issued last night, the company said that the situation was caused by continuous rainfall over the
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NEW YORK, Nov 23 â US antitrust lawyers are calling on a judge to force the sale of Googleâs Chrome browser to limit the companyâs market clout in a move that would shake up the internet giant. On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice submitted its recommendation for the breakup to US District Court Judge
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 â Private education operator Sri KDU Schools today said it âvoluntarilyâ closed the canteen at its Kota Damansara branch for deep cleaning, and not because it was made to do so due to suspected food poisoning incidents. It also said the school reopened on Oct 25, one day after the cleaning.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 â Former al-Arqam founder Ashaari Muhammadâs eldest daughter Ummu Atiyah identified the location where she claimed she was confined at a settlement owned by Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISB) in Kampung Batu Hampar in Perak today. She arrived at the village with police at 2.30pm and led
PERTH, Oct 10 â British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, has been granted bail after facing serious rape allegations by a woman following a concert in Perth last month. The 20-year-old performer was arrested in Queensland and extradited to Western Australia (WA) on Wednesday night, according to
SHAH ALAM, Sept 16 â The government has never made a decision to require all restaurants nationwide or any food and beverage (F&B) industry to apply for halal certification, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. He said any proposal and study on halal certification would not compel non-Muslim operators to do
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 â Over 400 children, some as young as one year old, were rescued in police raids across welfare homes linked to the Global Ikhwan Group, also known as GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH), in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan yesterday. The raids were prompted by 41 police reports that had been lodged
IPOH, Sept 11 â The Perak Department of Labour (JTK) rescued four Bangladeshi boys suspected of being exploited as forced labour in a factory here under its labour enforcement operation today. Perak JTK director Muhamad Fauzi Abd Ghani said the four teenagers, aged between 14 and 16, are believed to have worked in the factory
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 â Since January 2023, Malaysia Airlines planes have had to several make emergency landings and flight redirects. In the space of the last one month, it had also faced five incidents. This comes as the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) on August 28 cut the validity period of its air
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 â The global outage of IT operations running on Microsoft-based systems seems to have hit Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with reports on social media from users, saying that operations have been disrupted at Terminal 2. Long queues have been sighted as the kiosks are Terminal 2 are not operational, forcing
KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 â Police rescued a 13-year-old boy after he was allegedly left to sleep in the corridor outside his parentsâ flat in Pasir Gudang in Johor Baru for four days. According to a report published in The Star today, Seri Alam OCPD Supt Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said the boy appeared to have
