Day: August 2, 2024

GEORGE TOWN, The police have confirmed that an individual who used a firearm to apprehend a man as depicted in a viral video is a policeman. Timur Laut district police chief ACP Razlam Ab Hamid said the individual was a personnel of the Penang contingent police headquarters Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and that the incident occurred in the Relau area around 5.45 pm last Wednesday. The policeman in question was apprehending a local man believed to be involved in a case of obstructing and using criminal force against a civil servant. ‘On Aug 1, at 12.30 pm, the police found

PUTRAJAYA, Izzul Zafran Abd Razak, a student of Muadzam Shah Polytechnic, Pahang, has made Malaysia proud by winning first place in the Adobe Certified Professional World Championship 2024, held in California, the United States. Izzul Zafran, a fifth semester diploma student studying graphic design, beat 47 other participants from 40 countries, winning a trophy, medal, US$8,000 (RM36,170) in cash, and a certificate with his poster entitled ‘Digital Skills for A Sustainable Future’ created using the Adobe Creative Cloud app in the contest that took place from July 28 to 31. Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapha Sakmud told Bernama when

KUALA LUMPUR: The decision to remove Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s social media posts relating to the assassination of Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was probably done by those at the higher level at Meta Platforms Inc (Meta) and not by their team in Southeast Asia, according to Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. He said in a series of discussions he had with the management of Meta at the Southeast Asia level so far, they hinted that they were not the ones who removed the Prime Minister’s posts from Facebook and Instagram. ‘There is a possibility that it involved a higher-level

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia closed lower on Friday due to broad-based selling in tandem with the slump in regional bourses as investors remained cautious over the United States’ slowing economic growth and expectations of another rate hike in Japan. The negative tone today was also affected by the rising geopolitical tension concerns in the Middle East recently. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) declined 13.20 points or 0.81 per cent to 1,611.05 from yesterday’s close of 1,624.25. The market bellwether opened 4.94 points lower at 1,619.31 and moved between 1,607.75 and 1,619.31 throughout the day. On

KANGAR, The Perlis branch of the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) seized four cars, including a luxury model, with an estimated worth of RM1,625,000, believed to have not obtained custom clearance and had violated the not more than 90 days (allowance) in the Peninsula for cars registered in the duty-free island of Langkawi. Its director, Ismail Hashim said the cars were seized in separate raids between June and July this year in Kangar and Kuala Perlis, involving a tax of RM2,239,475. “The seized vehicles were two Honda City cars and a Nissan Sylphy as well as a Bentley Bentayga Speed