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KANGAR: All food and beverage shop premises including stalls and hawkers within the Kangar Municipal Council (MPK) area are prohibited from using plastic straws for customers, effective August 1. According to Bernama, MPK Chairman…

PUTRAJAYA: In simultaneous operations throughout four states on June 22 and 23, the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) detained eight people, including a former lecturer, on suspicion of involvement in radicalism and extremism associated with…

JAKARTA: The communications minister of Indonesia told Reuters on Monday that a cyber attacker had breached the country's primary data centre, interfering with immigration procedures at airports, and demanded a $8 million ransom. Long…

KALLAKURICHI: According to police, 56 individuals have died in India as a result of a batch of poisonous bootleg alcohol; 117 more are still in hospitals recovering from the fatal beverage. A batch of locally produced "arrack," which was…

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Awie's final solo performance will take place on August 3 during Konsert Journey Awie at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur. The lead singer of Wings announced yesterday in an interview that he had made the decision…

GEORGE TOWN: Today, the Magistrate's Court here mandated that a guy accused of killing his mother be sent for mental monitoring to Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Perak. In accordance with Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code,…

KOTA KINABALU: Recently, 2,500 cartons of liquor worth RM347,223.60 (duty and tax included) that were being smuggled into Sabah from the duty-free island of Labuan were found by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) in Sabah.…

IPOH: A severed human hand was discovered yesterday close to the site of a burning car involved in an accident near Tanjung Rambutan's Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta. According to Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad, assistant operations director of the…

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 will end next year, and the Education Ministry is now working on a new blueprint for education. As a result, the ministry's Proposals for the Future of Malaysian Education…

KUCHING: Sarawak has suggested holding the opening ceremony in the Land of the Hornbills and is prepared to co-host the 2027 Southeast Asian Games. Sarawak is willing to split the Games' hosting expenses with Putrajaya, according to…