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KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― The 47 criminal charges against Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi were purportedly due to political reasons as he was charged after the Pakatan Harapan coalition took over as federal government, his…

BUTTERWORTH: A sundry shop trader was today charged with outraging the modesty of a nurse at the Kepala Batas Hospital here last week. Mohd Ridi, 55, was alleged to have committed the offence against a 24-year-old nurse at the Covid-19…

LOS ANGELES: Facebook wants to get younger kids using Instagram via a restricted, special-purpose version of the social app that would be managed by parents. The company is forming a new team to build a version of Instagram intended for…

KUALA LUMPUR: Three sisters are feeling “helpless and terrified” even as their “Datuk Seri” father is to be charged soon with sexually abusing one of them since she was 10 years old. The older sister, aged 23, said they were hoping for…

JAKARTA: Siti Rohani remembers the day her teenaged daughter came home in tears after being bullied for not wearing a hair-covering hijab at her Indonesian school. The world's biggest Muslim majority country recognises six official…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Bursa Malaysia was lower in early trade today weighed by weaker overnight Wall Street and oil market performance. At 9.05 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) slipped 2.71 points to 1,625.28 from…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): The ringgit reversed Thursday’s gains to open lower against the US dollar today amid falling crude oil prices and spike in the United States (US) Treasury yields. At 9 am, the local unit fell 120 basis points (bps)…

KUALA LUMPUR: As the race to vaccinate Malaysians against Covid-19 gathers pace, homeless people worry about being left behind as most do not own smartphones and have no permanent addresses. Karthi, a 33-year-old former lorry driver, said…

PYONGYANG announced Friday that it broke diplomatic ties with Malaysia after the country extradited a North Korean citizen to the United States, in a foreign ministry statement carried on state news wire KCNA. On March 17, Malaysian…

KUALA LUMPUR: The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) and other Islamic religious agencies will take appropriate action on the issue on the use of the word “Allah” after getting the consent of the Conference of Rulers.…