Yesterday DAP named 31-year-old Pang Sock Tao as its candidate to retain the Kuala Kubu Baharu seat. It is confirmed that Perikatan Nasional too would be fielding a candidate, although it remains unclear whether Gerakan would get a second chance or would Bersatu get its maiden chance. Interestingly the contest for the semi urban mixed…
Perlis Menteri Besar Shukri Ramli’s son’s arrest by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission for allegedly falsifying documents and falsely declaring RM600,000 in repair, maintenance, supply, and service fees is the headlines in four Chinese dailies – Kwong Wah Daily, Sin Chew Daily, Guang Ming Daily and China Press Daily. They are detained until today. Nanyang…
A female tourist from China arriving at Kuala Lumpur International Airport encountered three scammers within three hours. In a video posted on “Xiaohongshu,” the woman recounted encounters with three scammers who approached her with the intention of deceiving her into giving them money. She first encountered a scammer after she withdrew money from an ATM,…
An Instagram post by My Forever Doggo revealed a man who owned 35 dogs was subjecting to them to cruel treatments. My Forever Doggo is a online platform that is dedicated to promoting kindness and the adoption of dogs in Malaysia.Attached to the Instagram post was a video that showed the dogs were left to…
Effective from June, Malaysians crossing the border to Singapore would be able to clear the immigration checks at land checkpoints more efficiently. This is made possible with the introduction of QR codes. Singapore had rolled out its QR codes on March 19. Johor’s Works, Transportation and Infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said that…
Immigration Department director general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh stressed that the department’s officers cannot reject any passport renewal application simply because the applicant fail to converse in the Malay language. He however said that they can conduct random checks “professionally and with courtesy” to verify the application. He said this in response to a case where…
Pang Sock Tao, an aide of Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming, is expected to be named as a candidate in the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election. The 31-year-old Pang who hails from Ampang, Selangor, previously worked as a news presenter for Ubah TV, a video channel owned by DAP. Prior to this several…
A Chinese woman, dining at a Japanese restaurant on 21st April was alarmed to find dead flies in her beverage just before leaving. To her surprise, her friend sitting nearby had encountered the same issue, prompting her to loudly criticise the restaurant’s poor hygiene conditions. Apparently, the female customer and her friends visited a Japanese…
Penang Immigration Department director Nur Zulfa Ibrahim confirmed that immigration officers implicated in denying an elderly woman her passport renewal due to language have been reprimanded. They will be reaching out to the affected individual to facilitate a passport renewal said Nur Zulfa. “We will continue to follow up and learn from this incident,” she…
The US Senate today approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a US$95 billion foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which has now cleared Congress…
