Category: General

KUALA LUMPUR, The Ministry of Communications through the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is open to receiving any input from various parties regarding the implementation of social media and internet messaging service licensing by the government. Minister Fahmi Fadzil said engagement sessions will continue with all stakeholders before the implementation of the social media license comes into force on January 1, 2025. “The government maintains the position that social media platforms and internet messaging need to be subject to a regulatory framework to ensure the internet is safer for all Malaysians, especially children and families,” he said. Fahmi said

IPOH, The number of flood victims in Muallim today increased slightly to 111 victims from 25 families compared to 107 from 24 families yesterday who are still sheltering in the temporary evacuation centre (PPS) at Masjid Jamek Kampung Pasir. The State Disaster Management Committee secretariat in a statement said that all the victims have been placed in the PPS since last Friday due to a mudslide in Kampung Pasir. Meanwhile, the Department of Meteorology Malaysia (MetMalaysia) is forecasting stormy weather in the afternoon for several districts in the state such as Larut, Matang, Selama, Kerian, Central Perak, Hilir Perak, Hulu

KUALA LUMPUR, The United Nations Association of Malaysia (UNAM) lauds the humanitarian gesture of the Malaysian government in evacuating some of the seriously injured Palestinians and providing them with medical assistance. UNAM President Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed in a statement said in calling for an immediate end to these atrocities, UNAM fully supports and endorses the Malaysian government’s consistent and principled stand on the just struggle for a Palestine homeland. He said UNAM views the reference made to the ‘killing fields’ of Palestine by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as accurate and appropriate. ‘It is a long overdue description

GEORGE TOWN, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), through the Centre for Policy Research and the Hamzah Sendut Library, has made history when it became the first university to be granted the sole right to access digital images of the Malay Archipelago Correspondence Collection 1768-1794, also known as the Light Letters, by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. According to USM, this milestone was achieved through a Memorandum of Agreement signed in September 2018. The agreement allows USM to provide researchers, scholars, and the public with access to these digital images, along with descriptive metadata, transcription, and

PUTRAJAYA, A former burger seller escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal here today commuted the death penalty to 30 years in prison for the murder of an unlicensed money lender over debt dispute. The three-judge panel led by Justice Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim also ordered Kamaruddin Abd Rahim, 48, to be given 12 strokes of the cane and directed Kamaruddin to begin his prison term from Sept 11, 2017, the date of his arrest. Justice Ahmad Zaidi, in delivering the court’s decision, said the defence submission regarding the conduct of the High Court judicial commissioner who proposed recalling