DAVOS, Jan 21 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today held high-level meetings with business leaders from six multinational companies (MNCs) including AstraZeneca, Fortescue, DP World, Medtronics, Nestle, and Google. Arranged by the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (Miti), the meetings took place on the sidelines of the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — A KK Mart outlet at Kompleks Perdana Siswa (KPS) in Universiti Malaya (UM) was vandalised with red paint, according to the Umany students group. The incident comes in the wake of the controversy over KK Mart’s “ham and cheese sandwich” incident, although no direct connection…

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 — A businessman pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to 17 charges of deceiving the Social Security Organisation (Socso) over non-existent courses and training involving money totalling RM832,000, five years ago. According to the first to 17th charges, P. Sathia Seelan, 52, is…

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 21 — The Inland Revenue Board (HASiL) has begun issuing official receipts in a new format as proof of tax payments made manually at the Kuala Lumpur Revenue Management Centre (PPTHKL) counters, starting yesterday. HASiL said that the new receipt format was introduced following an amendment to Treasury…

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 — The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) will conduct mobile phone checks only on individuals suspected in specific investigations, said Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Razarudin Husain. He assured that such checks would not be conducted arbitrarily or randomly in public areas. “This means there must…

BRUSSELS, Jan 20 — Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim met leaders of the European Union (EU) at the Europa Building here today. Upon arriving at the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, Anwar, who is here on a two-day working visit to Belgium,…

CHUKAI, Jan 20 — Two men, including a director of a government agency in Terengganu, have been remanded for six days, starting today, on suspicion of soliciting and accepting a bribe of approximately RM900,000 in exchange for securing a project, preparing, and approving several development plans for a consultancy firm….

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — The High Court here was today told that Datuk Seri Najib Razak was the shadow director of SRC International Sdn Bhd and was personally and directly involved in handing out cheques worth RM16 million and RM3.5 million to Umno and Selangor Umno. Lawyer Razlan Hadri…

TUMPAT, Jan 20 — Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Telegram are the four online platforms identified as the most preferred spaces for scammers to commit fraud, according to Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. He said that losses from scams and fraud committed on these four platforms had easily reached hundreds of millions…

JOHOR BARU, Jan 20 — The owner of umrah agency Hejira Travel & Tours Holding Sdn Bhd and his wife were detained by the Johor police contingent last Saturday in connection with another fraud case reported in Johor. Johor police chief Datuk M. Kumar said the couple, both aged 32,…