Новости за 29.07.2024

KUALA LUMPUR: Reports of animal abuse and neglect in Malaysia have dramatically increased, with the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) receiving 7,613 reports from 2021 to now.

BELURAN: An elderly man who was searching for nipah shoots at the mouth of the Kampung Air river was found drowned last night.

KUALA LUMPUR: TA Securities Holdings Bhd expects EPB Group Bhd’s sales to grow 10 per cent, 12 per cent and 15 per cent for the financial years 2024, 2025 and 2026 (FY24/25/26) respectively.

KLANG: The Light Rail Transit 3 is expected to begin taking on passengers in the third quarter of next year, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke.

PUTRAJAYA: An appeal hearing against the acquittal of Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad on corruption charges has been postponed to October.

TANAH MERAH: The love of a wife is evident in her willingness to ride a motorcycle for 50 kilometres, carrying her husband who suffers from skin cancer to the Tanah Merah Hospital at least three times a month for treatment.

PARIS: The action at the Olympic Games is set to heat up along with the Paris weather on Monday, when 19 gold medals will be up for grabs.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia opened higher on Monday morning, mirroring Wall Street’s resurgence last Friday, and data out of US which supports a September federal rate-cut.

LANGKAWI: Langkawi has welcomed over 1.5 million local and international tourists by the end of the second quarter of this year, says Langkawi district officer Mohamad Subhi Abdullah. 

PARIS: Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira has been sent home from the Paris Olympics and her teammate Gabriel Santos was given a warning after they left the athletes’ village without clearing it with the team, the Brazilian Olympic Committee said on Sunday.

PARIS: Charlotte Dujardin’s withdrawal for whipping a horse repeatedly has heaped the pressure on her mentor Carl Hester who must rally his teammates if Britain are to regain the Olympic team dressage title from 2012.

ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkiye might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened almost flat against the US dollar on Monday, however, the short-term outlook for the local currency remained promising as the anticipation of a United States rate cut gained momentum, an economist said.

JOHOR BARU: Police will apply to extend remand on the 31-year-old male suspect in the kidnapping of Albertine Leo Jia Hui, 6, at a shopping centre in Iskandar Puteri, when his remand ends today.

PARIS: Canada’s disgraced women’s football coach Bev Priestman on Sunday apologised for the spying scandal which has rocked their Paris Olympics campaign and promised to cooperate with an investigation.

PARIS: France crashed out of the women’s gymnastics at the Paris Olympics on Sunday with Melanie de Jesus dos Santos in tears as she also failed to qualify for the all-around final.

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan is setting the stage for an era of steady interest rate hikes by claiming victory in its long battle with deflation, sources and analysts say, in a major review of past policy that nods to significant consumer behaviour shifts.

GURUN: Two houses, two motorcycles and a car were destroyed when fire broke out in Kampung Guar Chempedak here last night.

Nestled between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, the Sunda Strait is a vital maritime passage connecting the Indian Ocean to the Java Sea and, by extension, the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

KOTA BELUD: Elite runners from Sabah have earned their well-deserved race points to qualify for the final Asia Trail Master Championship season.

KUALA LUMPUR: Ex Sime Darby Bhd's group chief strategy officer (GCSO) Datuk Thomas Leong Yew Hong is set to join Main-board listed George Kent (Malaysia) Bhd’s board, according to people familiar with the matter.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium: Lewis Hamilton emerged as the winner of a dramatic Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday after Mercedes teammate George Russell, who took the chequered flag, was disqualified when his car was found to be underweight following the race.

KUALA LUMPUR: Vendors of Busana@Menara Mara, a Mara Incorporated Sdn Bhd company, are crying foul over the building’s management and practices which they say have led the once bustling podium lose its luster.

IPOH: Malaysian students who were brought back from Bangladesh will have the option of either continuing their studies in the country or returning to Bangladesh if the situation there is safe again.

KUALA LUMPUR: A woman lost RM630,000 after being convinced by a scammer that she was being probed for money-laundering activities.