Day: July 17, 2024

SEREMBAN, The Negeri Sembilan Immigration Department conducted an early morning raid on a suspected illegal settlement covering 0.3 hectares near the forest in Taman Bandar Senawang today. Its director Kennith Tan Ai Kiang said that during the three-hour raid starting at 1 am, a total of 69 individuals, including eight women, aged 24 to 60, from Indonesia and Bangladesh, were inspected. Eleven of them were arrested for offences under the Immigration Act 1959/63. ‘The offences include violations of Section 6(1)(c) for lacking valid passports and travel documents, as well as Section 15(1)(c) for overstaying,’ he said. ‘Based on gathered information,

KOTA BHARU, A fire broke out at a palm oil processing factory in Felda Kemahang 2, Tanah Merah last night. No casualties were reported. A spokesman for the Kelantan Fire and Rescue Department said an emergency call was received at 11.25 pm, and a 13-member team from the Tanah Merah Fire and Rescue Station (BBP) and Kemahang BBP was deployed to the scene. “On arrival at the location, we found that 50 per cent of the factory had been razed but no victims were involved,’ he said when contacted today. “The fire was extinguished at 11.43 pm yesterday, with the

KUALA LUMPUR, It has been a decade since the black tragedy befell Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 was shot down by Russian-controlled forces while flying over eastern Ukraine and crashed from a height of 30,000 feet, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. The victims in the ill-fated Boeing 777 aircraft comprised 93 Dutch nationals, Malaysian (43), Australian (27), Indonesian (12), British (10), Belgium (four ), German (four), Filipino (three) and one each from Canada and New Zealand. The shooting down of MAS Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, provoked reactions from many countries and organisations and was

MELAKA, Three individuals have been remanded for five and six days, starting today, to assist in the investigation of bribery allegations involving a bank officer in the state, amounting to RM12,072. Magistrate Sharda Shienha Mohd Suleiman granted the remand order after receiving an application from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). According to a source, the three suspects, two men and a woman, aged 41 and 43, are suspected of giving bribes to facilitate the documentation process for the approval of property loans from a financial institution. The suspects, who are managers and owner of law firms in Melaka and the

KUALA LUMPUR, Members of the public, especially city dwellers, are advised not to panic upon hearing the booming sounds of cannon fire while driving along Jalan Sultan Abdul Halim on this Friday and Saturday morning. Head of Corporate Communications Unit at the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Faidz Sanusi said exactly at 8.30 am on Friday, two cannon shots would be fired during the full rehearsal of the Installation Ceremony of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim as the 17th King of Malaysia. ‘On the actual day of the installation ceremony on Saturday, also at exactly 8.30 am, a 21-gun salute will be