Former deputy information minister and ex-Kuantan MP Fauzi Abdul Rahman joins PKR

NIK Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (tengah) dikerumuni wartawan selepas menghadiri mesyuarat tertutup pemimpin tertinggi parti itu di sini, hari ini. Hadir sama Timbalan Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Dr. Haron Din (kiri), Presiden parti Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (belakang) dan timbalannya Nasharudin Mat Isa (dua, kiri). - fotoBERNAMA
(Dikemas kini) PETALING JAYA: Empat hari selepas Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Ninety-six diplomats, including the US and Turkish ambassadors, were briefed by the Home Ministry on the sodomy allegations against PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Syed Albar said the ministry’s briefing was intended to give foreign missions the real story backed by facts and not something peppered with insinuations [...]

SHAH ALAM: The man killed in a shootout in Subang Jaya on Tuesday had been involved in at least nine goldsmith shop robberies in the Klang Valley since early this year, escaping with jewellery worth RM3.2mil, Selangor police said.
Police who raided his house in SS14 later the same day found two sub-machine guns, a .38 [...]

KUALA TERENGGANU: Terengganu executive councillors will go ahead and use the newly-purchased Mercedes E200 Kompressors although a Treasury condition says members of the administration can only use Proton Perdana executive cars.
Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the government would stand by its decision to use the Mercedes as official cars for exco members and other [...]

NIBONG TEBAL: A factory worker was found hanged in his house in Kampung Parit Kasa here, with his two children lying dead nearby.
Shaari Hamid, 34, believed to be in the midst of a divorce, was found hanged from a wooden beam with the bodies of Muhammad Shamir, four, and one-year-old Nor Ameelia Shafiqahin lying on [...]

KUANTAN: A company director and his wife have been slapped with 189 charges of money laundering involving close to RM170mil in three Sessions Courts here.
It is believed to be the largest amount involved in money laundering activities.
Jailani Jabar
Jailani Jabar, 48,and his wife, Latifah Taib, 47, of Jalan Kubang Buaya here claimed trial to being [...]

The original spot of the cornice that fell (circled) at the lobby of the state assembly building. (Inset) Ex-representative of Jawi Tan Cheng Liang (centre) taking a closer look at the fallen cornice.

GEORGE TOWN: It was a close call for some 40 people, including Barisan Nasional component party members and pressmen, when part of [...]

Maritime Institute of Malaysia director-general Datuk Cheah Kong Wai explains to EVANGELINE MAJAWAT why Singapore’s claim for Exclusive Economic Zone for Pedra Branca is on shaky ground

Q: Can islands and rocky outcrops claim territorial sea and exclusive economic zones?
A: Article 121(3) of the Law of the Sea states that “rocks which [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore’s claims of territorial waters and an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around Pedra Branca contravene the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) 1982, of which it is a signatory.

All 156 states, including Malaysia and Singapore, who have signed and ratified the convention are legally bound to its principles.
Established on [...]