SHAH ALAM, Sept 16 — 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 — 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
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IPOH, Sept 11 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Police rescued a 13-year-old boy after he was allegedly left to sleep in the corridor outside his parents’ 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
KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — A Malaysian Airlines flight was forced to return to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) tonight after experiencing pressurisation issues while en route to Bangkok. In a brief statement, Malaysian Airlines said the operating pilots of MH780 initiated an emergency descent although cabin altitude was not exceeded. “Malaysia Airlines flight
SEREMBAN, June 13 — Police have rescued a 14-year-old disabled boy who was a victim of forced labour in Kuala Pilah. Kuala Pilah police chief Supt Amran Mohd Gani said a CID team from the district also arrested two men in connection with the case. One of the suspects was guarding the child while he
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TENOM, Feb 15 — The complainant of the sexual harassment case against preacher Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, popularly known as Ebit Lew, told the Magistrates’ Court here today that she regretted idolising him for his charitable work and had not expected such lewd conduct from him. The woman, in her 40s, added that she had
AMSTERDAM, Feb 9 — Dutch DJ Tiesto has cancelled his performance at today’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas due to a family emergency, with DJ Kaskade stepping in at short notice to fill the gap. Tiesto, whose real name is Tijs Verwest, was due to be the Super Bowl’s in-game DJ, performing before the game
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PARIS, Jan 30 — Sometimes exceptional life events result in some pet owners having to leave their furry companion behind. While veterinarians and animal associations have sought to raise awareness about the anxiety that such separation causes in pets, the effects of such episodes on humans have been little studied. A recent article indicates that
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 3 — Polar bears in Greenland have shown considerable flexibility as climate change forced them to drastically adapt their diet and habitat, but the current shift could still prove a daunting challenge, researchers said Wednesday. At the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago, “when temperatures went up, sea ice
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