Day: September 28, 2024

SEREMBAN, The driver of a sand-laden lorry involved in a fatal accident with five other vehicles at the traffic light intersection on Persiaran Golf, Nilai, yesterday, has tested positive for drugs. Nilai district deputy police chief DSP Mat Ghani Lateh said the 30-year-old man’s urine sample tested positive for methamphetamine. ‘The man has been remanded for four days until Oct 1 to complete the investigation under Section 44(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987,” he told Bernama today. In the 3.45 pm incident, a 31-year-old woman was killed after being trapped in her vehicle and four others were injured. The

SHAH ALAM, The Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) confirmed that it had never received any kind of zakat payment from GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) or its subsidiaries. LZS Head of Collection Division Mohd Fikri Naim Harun said this was despite the board having held talks on tithe collection at GISBH premises. “There are more than 20 GISBH-related companies on our list but none have made zakat payments to LZS. We also cannot determine the tithe amount required to be paid by GISBH and their subsidiaries because we have never received any information regarding their assets and liabilities,” he said. He

KLUANG, Even though it’s only been a month since she gave birth to her first child, young mother Nur Syafiqah Azani who is still in confinement, was determined to go out and fulfill her responsibility as a voter of the Mahkota state by-election. Nur Syafiqah, 19, of Sarawak said she did not want to miss out on voting because the by-election was her first, so she and her husband left early in the morning from their family home in Johor Bahru. “We left at 4 this morning. To be honest, it was noisy but everything went smoothly and the staff

KLUANG, Voters in the Mahkota state assembly by-election made considerable efforts, journeying back from various locations across the country and even from Singapore, to exercise their voting rights. Nurakmal Shafiq Norapandi, 28, who works across the causeway, stated that the expense and time were a small sacrifice and also an opportunity to bring his family back for a holiday. “I took leave two weeks ago because the date of the by-election was announced well in advance. I decided to bring my family along because many relatives are returning. It’s a chance for us to gather, even if briefly. “But my

KUALA LUMPUR, The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) is currently in the proposal stage to provide a new system for the selection of athletes to the 2025 Thailand SEA Games. OCM secretary-general Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin Najib said the system would see only the truly best athletes listed to compete in the biennial games. “This week we have met the sports association and we see that it is better to have one qualifying criteria for each sport. Compared to before where we use a qualification system where there is category A and category B. “So we want each association to discuss