AirAsia Bhd’s proposal to build a RM1.6 billion airport in Labu, Negeri Sembilan has been turned down by the Government, but the low cost carrier managed to win some important concessions in the process, several sources said here Friday. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) will be given the task of building a new low cost [...]
Six houses collapsed in landslides at Kampung Lereng Bukit here Friday. A villager told Bernama that the first landslide occurred at 10am and the second around noon. A spokesman of the Fire and Rescue Department said the 74 people from eight families residing in the houses managed to escape. Some of the victims have been [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, red-faced from verbally sparring with President Shimon Peres over the recent fighting in Gaza. Erdogan told Peres: “You are killing people.” Please note that no translation is provided for Erdogan’s comments in the clip below. A [...]
Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud drives a cream Rolls-Royce, wears a gem the size of a walnut on his ring finger and is said to have once paid US$2 million (RM7 million) for a piano owned by Liberace. The Chief Minister of Sarawak, like the late American entertainer, is certainly flamboyant and he’s been well [...]
Sarawak’s newest tourism product, the Rajang River Luxury Cruise, will be launched in London on Feb 6. Minister of Environment and Public Health Datuk Sri Wong Soon Koh said the product would be operated by Myanmar-based Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Southeast Asia’s largest river cruise operator. Speaking at a Chinese New Year gathering here last night, [...]
Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has expressed support to the proposal to introduce the Anti-Hop Law to ensure political stability in the country. “It’s needs to be looked into again. It is not that we fear more will leave the Barisan Nasional (BN) but what is important is the question of principle,” he said. [...]
North Korea announced Friday it is scrapping all political and military agreements with South Korea, accusing Seoul of pushing relations to the brink of war. The communist state said all agreements on ending confrontation would be nullified, including one covering their Yellow Sea border — the scene of bloody naval clashes in 1999 and 2002. [...]
The ground is abuzz with word that Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam has taken the lead in the lively contest for the Umno deputy president’s post. While there is no way of verifying this, a substantial number of political observers are convinced that Mohd Ali has overtaken International Trade and Industry Minister [...]
Tajol Rosli to quit as Gerik Umno division chief and reported to have sent letter resignation to Umno deputy president Najib Razak as Perak Umno liaison chairman. Bernama reports: “I had not given any press statement on the matter, so the information did not come from me. It was a closed-door meeting with (Umno) members. [...]
Floods have forced the evacuation of some 800 people in central and northern Sarawak, while the southern region braces for a second round of flooding in a month. Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam said a second wave of heavy rains had hit Kuching and Samarahan Divisions. State authorities have alerted [...]
