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KUALA LUMPUR: Newly crowned All England champion Lee Zii Jia is now ranked eighth in the world. The shuttler moved up two rungs from World 10 in the new BWF world rankings, released on Tuesday. After amassing 12,000 points as the All…

GEORGE TOWN: A religious teacher was charged at the sessions court today with sodomising a 15-year-old boy at a house in Teluk Kumbar here. The 29-year-old ustaz was charged with committing the offence between November last year and March…

KUALA LUMPUR: A freelance photographer was today found guilty of uploading offensive remarks on Hindus on his Facebook two years ago. Sessions Court judge M. M. Edwin Paramjothy meted out the verdict against Zamri Abdul Razak, 51, after…

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Penang police busted a drug processing laboratory and seized drugs worth RM11.8mil with the arrest of three men in Seberang Jaya and Sungai Petani. Penang police chief Comm Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan said the suspects, aged…

SYDNEY: A “plague” of the world’s most venomous spiders could swarm Sydney after torrential rain and flooding, the Australian Reptile Park said Wednesday, warning that the deadly arachnids could seek refuge in homes as they escape the…

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Najib Razak is seeking to compel the government to provide banking documents belonging to companies controlled by Low Taek Jho and Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s family. In an application for the documents, he said…

WASHINGTON/SEOUL, March 23 : North Korea fired two short-range missiles at the weekend, US and South Korean officials said, but Washington played down the first such tests under President Joe Biden and said it was still open to dialogue…

KUALA BERANG: A childcare centre supervisor and six children were yesterday held at gunpoint by a man wielding an air rifle who entered to rob the centre here. Hulu Terengganu police chief Deputy Superintendent Mohd Adli Mat Daud said in…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The ringgit was lower versus the US dollar at opening Wednesday amid the resurgence in COVID-19 cases globally which has dented investor sentiment, dealers said. At 9 am, the local note fell to 4.1330/1360 against…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Bursa Malaysia extended losses for the third consecutive day as investors adopted cautious trading given the overnight losses on Wall Street amid concerns over US bond yield, weaker oil prices, and intensifying…