KUALA LUMPUR: A “special investigation” was why the statements of a key prosecution witness in the ongoing corruption trial of Lim Guan Eng have been different in the Sessions Court and a previous case in Shah Alam. Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (CZCSB) executive director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has urged palm oil industry players to grasp the golden opportunity to export palm tocotrienol products to China after obtaining the approval to register the product in the republic recently. Following the approval received on March 13, palm tocotrienol (Vitamin E) is …

HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Linda Chen looked wistfully around her apartment in Taiwan’s eastern city of Hualien, which her family believes is now too dangerous to live in after it was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.2. Wednesday’s quake, which left cracks in the walls of Chen’s home big …

PORT DICKSON: Mussels found in waters off the resort town here have been contaminated by dangerous biotoxins and are not safe for consumption, says the Fisheries Department. The public had also been advised against eating mussels and other bivalves such as lokan and lala harvested here for three weeks till …

The US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that their researchers have come up with a technique for measuring blood glucose concentration accurately through a magnetometer on a regular smartphone. Today’s mobile phones are almost all equipped with a magnetometer, or built-in compass, that detects the …

MANILA: Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo is the nation’s unrivalled heroine in the Olympics after bringing home the first-ever gold medal from the Summer Games. So when Father Time might have caught up with her on Wednesday (April 3) night, no tear should be shed for the greatest Filipino weightlifter of all time. …

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka does not see any need to re-open talks on a contentious island ceded to it by New Delhi 50 years ago, the foreign minister has said, after the low-key territorial squabble turned into a hot-button election issue in India. The party of Prime Minister Narendra …

PUTRAJAYA: An unemployed man escaped the hangman’s noose after the Federal Court commuted his death sentence to 32 years in prison for murdering his friend in Gerik, Perak, six years ago. A three-judge panel comprising Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and Federal Court judges Datuk …

KUALA LUMPUR: Her Majesty Raja Zarith Sofiah, Queen of Malaysia attended the World #QuranHour 2024 programme held at Masjid Negara here. The Queen arrived at the national mosque at 11.45am on Thursday (April 4), accompanied by Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek and Karangkraf Media Group advisor cum founder of Warisan Ummah …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Government has allocated approximately RM8.9bil for grants to state governments this year, says the Finance Ministry. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who chaired the National Finance Council Meeting, underscored the Federal Government’s commitment to collaborate with all state governments in driving comprehensive national development. Anwar, …