LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition leader Keir Starmer said on Thursday a Labour government would set up a new police unit to tackle illegal migration and suggested he was open to a returns agreement with the European Union to solve the crisis. How to tackle illegal migration is set to …

KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Speaker of Dewan Rakyat Datuk Ramli Mohd Noor rapped several MPs on Thursday (Sept 14) for trying to turn the Dewan Rakyat into a fish market during the debate on the 12th Malaysia Plan Mid-Term Review. This came after the MPs engaged in a war of words …

KAJANG: Malaysia’s real estate market recorded a stable performance in the first half of 2023 (1H 2023), with the value of transactions increasing by 1.1 per cent to RM85.37 billion from RM84.40 billion in 1H 2022. Deputy Finance Minister I Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said the volume of transactions, however, …

Blackmailers are using doctored indecent images and threatening to circulate them online if their victims do not pay money in a new ruse targeting Hongkongers, police have warned. The latest scam prompted the force to issue an alert on its CyberDefender Facebook page, urging the public to remain vigilant. Police …

KOTA KINABALU: Two ministers from Sabah, one with the state government and the other with the Federal Cabinet, are putting their heads together to get more help channeled to businesses in the state in Budget 2024. State Industrial Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Phoong Jin Zhe said he had held several …

SINGAPORE: DBS Group Chief Executive Piyush Gupta said current widespread pessimism about China’s economy was not “overdone” but he was upbeat about India, where the bank plans to triple its business in the next five years. “There’s some real headwinds in China in the short-term”, he told a Reuters Newsmaker …

KUALA LUMPUR: An Opposition MP has suggested that Malaysia emulates Singapore’s group representation constituency (GRC) system to enhance the representation of minority ethnicities in Parliament. Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim (PN-Arau) said it was time for Malaysia to reform the electoral system, noting how the present one was determined in 1957, …

DERNA, Libya (Reuters) – Survivors of a flood that swept away the centre of a Libyan city picked through the ruins on Thursday in search of loved ones from among thousands of dead and missing, while authorities feared an outbreak of disease from rotting bodies. A torrent unleashed by a …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will initiate a probe on the Human Resource Development Corp (HRD Corp). However, it is unknown what had prompted the probe into the agency which was under the purview of the Human Resources Ministry. PAC chairman Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said the topic …

SINGAPORE: Oil prices rebounded on Thursday after falling in the previous session as markets turned their attention back to a tighter crude supply outlook for the rest of 2023, with demand set to stay robust through to next year. Brent crude futures rose 54 cents, or 0.6%, to $92.42 a …