PUTRAJAYA – The Road Transport Department will open booking tenders for special registration number with prefix and suffix of M. Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the M____M series signified Malaysia Merdeka to mark the 66th Independence Day celebrations. The bidding will be opened to public on Thursday (Aug 31) and ends on Sept 4. The …
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KUALA LUMPUR – The Health Ministry hopes that the approach to drug addicts will be addressed through treatment and rehabilitation, as opposed to the current method which is more geared towards enforcement and imprisonment. Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa said it was because drug addiction is a type of ‘chronic disease’ that needs to be …
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A white man has shot dead three Black people in a racially motivated attack in Jacksonville, Florida, before taking his own life, authorities said. “He targeted a certain group of people and that’s Black people. That’s what he said he wanted to kill. And that’s very clear,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a news conference …
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Voters in Gabon are heading to the polls for presidential, legislative and local elections that the opposition hopes will foil President Ali Bongo’s bid for a third term and end his family’s 56-year grip on power. Poling stations opened across the Central African country at 8am (07:00 GMT) on Saturday with 19 candidates on the …
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Former United States President Donald Trump has surrendered himself to authorities in the state of Georgia, where he faces criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The Republican leader flew down from his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, to appear at the Fulton County jail on Thursday afternoon, less than a day …
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KUANTAN – A police station chief has pleaded not guilty to 98 counts of bribery amounting to RM31,400 in 2021 and 2022 at the Sessions Court here today. Anuar Yaakob, 54, claimed trial after the charges were read out in four languages, taking more than 40 minutes in front of Judge Datuk Ahmad Zamzani Mohd …
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MELAKA – The Youth and Sports Ministry has increased the participation target for the Rukun Negara in Schools programme from 60,000 to 100,000 by the end of this year. Deputy Minister Adam Adli Abd Halim said the programme, aimed at improving understanding of democracy among youths, had received encouraging response following in-person and online promotions …
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Two American soldiers have been arrested in Germany over the death of a young man at a funfair in the west of the country, according to German police. “Following the murder of a 28-year-old man, two suspects were arrested … They are American servicemen,” police in the western city of Treves said in a statement …
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JAKARTA – The Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries detained two Malaysian-flagged fishing boats suspected of illegal fishing in its territorial waters in the Malacca Strait. The boats, were detected during a patrol at coordinates 03º07’814”N-100º41’911”E and 03º07’501”N-100º41’426”E, respectively at 3.15 am on Thursday. Eight Indonesian crew members were detained, 1.4 tonnes of fish …
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said most of its member states are ready to participate in a standby force that could intervene in Niger following a coup there late last month. Defence chiefs from the 15-member regional bloc met in Accra on Thursday as part of the latest efforts to overturn …
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