The Customs Department Monday launched a new approach of inspecting business premises to check the distribution and sale of untaxed cigarettes in the Klang Valley.
Customs Investigations Director Datuk Zainul Abidin Taib said Monday, the approach could trace traders of untaxed cigarettes and it differed from the approach of checking lorries transporting cigarette consignments.
“Under the new [...]
About 200 Penans have declared 163,000ha of remote jungle in upper Baram, Sarawak, as their peace park to protect their way of life, according to the Swiss-based environmental movement, Bruno Manser Fund (BMF).
In an email to Bernama here Monday, BMF claimed that a declaration ceremony took place at the remote village of Long Ajeng in [...]
Bintulu lass, Claudia Nera is among 18 finalists vying for the inaugural Miss Borneo Beautiful 2009 title to be held in Kuching on Monday night.
The 19-year old Claudia is of Iban and Chinese parentage and the sole representative from Bintulu in a contest dominated by Kuching beauties.
The beauty contest Initially known as Miss Dayak [...]
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The Dewan Rakyat was today told that 304,358 Malaysians migrated from March 2008 till August this year. Deputy Foreign Minister Senator A. Kohilan Pillay said the figure for 2007 was 139,696 citizens.
“Among the factors for their migration were because of education, brighter career or business prospects as well following their spouses for Malaysians who married [...]
The Consumer Protection Act 1999 will be amended to cover purchases made through electronic transaction, said Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The proposed amendment entails the setting up of a committee to monitor advertisements in efforts to curtail misleading advertisements, he said when winding-up debated on the ministry’s supply bill [...]
Hundreds of former members of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and peace negotiators gathered here today, to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic signing of the Peace Accord between CPM and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand.
The one-day event at the Lee Garden Hotel, the same venue where government representatives from the [...]
Facebook users have been warned they will be among targets of a huge increase in cyber crime next year.
Internet scammers are increasingly hacking into personal profiles on social networking sites to defraud the account holder’s friends, said one expert.
David Hall, from internet security company Symantec, said most people were wise to email scams but could [...]
Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population.
Muslim groups in Switzerland and abroad condemned the vote as biased and anti-Islamic. Business groups said the decision hurt [...]
