Category: General

PUTRAJAYA, Datuk Seri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar, announced today as the new Chief Secretary to the Government (KSN), effective Aug 12, will take on the significant task of driving public service and national development. Taking over from Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali, Shamsul Azri, 55, will be the Cabinet Secretary, Chief Public Service Officer of Malaysia, and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department (JPM). Based on checks on the list of former KSNs from 2006 to 2024, Shamsul Azri is the second individual from the Public-Private Partnership Unit (UKAS) to be appointed as a KSN. The first one was

PUTRAJAYA, The official portraits of Their Majesties Sultan Ibrahim and Raja Zarith Sofiah, the King and Queen of Malaysia, will begin to be distributed tomorrow, according to Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. He said the Malaysian Information Department (JaPen) will receive the official portraits, and other ministries and departments can get them tomorrow at the Ministry of Communications. ‘For members of the public who wish to get the official portraits free of charge, they can contact the state JaPen office or their district officers,’ he told a press conference here today. Meanwhile, Fahmi said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in

KUALA LUMPUR, The government initiative to incorporate MADANI housing blocks in every new residential project to help the low-income group own homes in the capital proves that the government is concerned about the plight of people who are still not homeowners. Former Kuala Lumpur mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said the price offered must also be affordable. ‘Projects that will be implemented later should not only benefit developers and the set prices should not be too high,’ he said when contacted by Bernama. “Discussions also need to be done to also implement the initiative in the border areas of Kuala

KUALA LUMPUR, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has filed a preliminary objection against the Malaysian Bar’s motion to challenge the Pardons Board’s decision to reduce his prison sentence and fine, claiming that the professional body’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) was void. The former prime minister, in an affidavit sworn by his counsel Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee, argued that the Malaysian Bar lacks locus standi to initiate the legal action. He claims that the Bar’s 78th AGM, which passed a motion to file the action, was void, as it was purportedly conducted without the necessary quorum and thus violated the Legal

SUNGAI PETANI, All 375 petrol station operators in Kedah have been ordered not to allow repeated sales of diesel and RON95 petrol to both local and foreign registered vehicles on the same day effective immediately. Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry (KPDN) enforcement director-general Datuk Azman Adam said the petrol station operators in the state received the order during a meeting this morning. “The control order was issued based on provisions under Regulation 12A of the Control of Supplies Regulations 1974 regarding the ban of repeated sale of diesel and RON95 petrol on the same day to local and