Year: 2024

KUANTAN, Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail officially began work at the new Sultan Ahmad Shah Administrative Centre, KotaSAS here. He added that the new state administrative centre replaces the 50-year-old Wisma Sri Pahang, which requires much needed maintenance. ‘May Allah SWT provide His blessings so that Pahang remains peaceful and prosperous,’ he posted on Facebook today. The new administrative centre, costing RM415.52 million, replaces Wisma Sri Pahang, which has been used since 1976, was inspired by Sultan Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah. The Sultan had previously said that the new administrative centre should be

KOTA KINABALU, The Sabah government fully supports the federal government’s firm stand in defending the country’s sovereignty and dismissing any demand over Sabah, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor. He said as Sabahans have chosen to jointly form the Malaysia Federation through the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), any external claims against the state of Sabah will not be recognised at all by the people. “Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has made Malaysia’s stand clear, which is similar to our stand all this while,” he said in a statement here today. On July 29, the Foreign Ministry reiterated the

KUALA LUMPUR, The number of flood victims in Perak and Selangor has risen to 225 people this afternoon, compared to 169 people earlier in the day. The Perak State Disaster Management Committee Secretariat, in a statement, said that as of 2 pm, some 82 people from 19 families were taking shelter at Dewan Kampung Pauh Behrang Stesen relief centre, up from 56 people in the morning. It said that these evacuees were from Kampung Sri Behrang and Kampung Pauh, adding that the flood-affected areas are experiencing good weather. In Selangor, 143 victims from 50 families in Hulu Bernam are now

KUALA LUMPUR, Six men were arrested on suspicion of stealing Telekom Malaysia (TM) cables in an incident at Jalan Besar Enggang AU2 near Ampang, last Saturday. Ampang Jaya police chief ACP Mohd Azam Ismail said the suspects, all locals, are between 20 and 32 years old. According to him, a police team from the Hulu Kelang police station spotted five of them doing maintenance work and another man in a hole cutting a cable at 2.45 am. “When approached, they claimed to be TM contractors, but checks by the police found that a cable had been cut and they were

MANJUNG, A labourer, who had previously been convicted of multiple similar offenses, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by the Magistrate’s Court today for fraudulently deceiving yet another elderly man regarding the eKasih programme. Muhammad Halmi Ismail, 49, pleaded guilty to the charge before Magistrate T. Kavita Tangga Rajoo. Prior to this, he faced 13 charges in the Ipoh Magistrate’s Court, two charges in the Lenggong Magistrate’s Court, and 18 charges in the Taiping Magistrate’s Court, all for similar offenses. He had also pleaded guilty to all these charges and had been sentenced to imprisonment and caning. In today’s