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Aman Palestin’s executive chairman, CEO and director face a range of charges, including criminal breach of trust, cheating and money laundering.
Ex-1MDB general counsel Jasmine Loo told Malaysia’s High Court she would prepare documents for Jho Low, who would hand-deliver them to Najib Razak’s home in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian-born Vanessa Chan talks to the Post about her debut novel The Storm We Made, set in British Malaya, and why she would rewrite a character for Michelle Yeoh if there is a screen adaptation.
News of the ex-PM’s hospitalisation came after his lawyer told a Kuala Lumpur court his client was unable to attend a defamation hearing.
Tengku Yasmin Natasha and her mother were accused of being ‘threats to the sanctity of Islam’ after filing a legal challenge over the expansion of sharia law in Kelantan.
Landmark case tested the separation of powers between common and religious laws under the country’s unique dual legal system.
Mirzan and Mokhzani said they are compiling all relevant documents, but asked Malaysia’s anti-graft body for patience as they try to collate 43 years’ worth of information.
Critics have lambasted the Unesco plan for the Chinese villages in Selangor as a move to challenge the historic rights of the Malays and Bumiputra.
Malaysian authorities are counting on the convicted former Goldman Sachs banker, Roger Ng’s cooperation, to recover as much as possible from the billions looted from the fund.
As the cost of living back home soars, Singaporeans are taking advantage of their local dollar’s unprecedented strength. And the Malaysian ringgit isn’t the only Asian currency at a record low against it.
The ceasefire could be in effect for several weeks, spanning Ramadan and the Buddhist Songkran festival.
Critics have accused PM Anwar of abandoning his reform agenda as anger grows over the reduced sentence for ex-leader Najib for corruption linked to the 1MDB scandal.
FamilyMart’s parent company says it has ended a deal with Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems, adding it is against ‘supporting violence or killing’.
Police said the 50-year-old had threatened to set his wife on fire previously. She died of her injuries on Sunday, 16 hours after being doused in petrol and set alight.
Raghad Kurdi has refuted allegations that she forcibly removed the state’s longest-serving chief minister from a hospital ICU against his doctor’s orders.
A police report alleges that Taib Mahmud’s wife, Ragad Kurdi Taib, had forcibly removed him from a hospital in Sarawak over the weekend.
The decision to halve Najib’s sentence and cut his fine for corruption linked to the plunder of the 1MDB state fund enraged the public and reopened wounds on all sides of Malaysia’s festering political divide.
Najib will be freed in August 2028 after his 12-year jail term was halved by Pardons Board led by King Sultan Abdullah, in one of his final acts in office.
Both Sultan Ibrahim and his predecessor have called for Anwar Ibrahim’s administration to be allowed to see through its full term after years of political turmoil and a revolving door of prime ministers.
Mahathir Mohamad and Daim Zainuddin are among the old adversaries to be swept up in a wide-ranging anti-graft probe. Anwar denies he’s had a hand in it. Still, at least one observer says it’s a ‘smart move’.
Najib was jailed in 2022 after being convicted of corruption linked to the plunder of state fund 1MDB. The decision means he could now be eligible for release as early as next year.
An official said 131 people escaped from the Bidor immigration detention depot in Perak state.
Hailing from the US$5.7 billion Johor royal family, the sultan has a collection of 300 luxury cars, his own private army – and family ties to Hitler?
Singapore visitor arrivals were up 115 per cent to 13.6 million in 2023, and the tourism board expects the recovery to continue in 2024, partly due to the implementation of 30-day visa-free travel with China.
Mystery surrounds the fate of the disgraced former leader, who was jailed in 2022 for 12 years for corruption linked to the 1MDB scandal.
