TUDM dalam proses peroleh pesawat tempur dari Kuwait
KUALA LUMPUR – Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) telah merangka program peningkatan keupayaan pesawat tempur F/A-18D (Hornet) dan kini dalam proses mendapatkan sejumlah pesawat tempur dari Kuwait, Dewan Negara diberitahu hari ini. Timbalan Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz berkata, perolehan yang dirancang itu melibatkan 33 buah pesawat F/A-18C/D Tentera Udara Kuwait yang […]
Massive gender pay gap revealed at RBNZ
WELLINGTON: It led the world with inflation targeting, but New Zealand’s central bank is no pioneer for women. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has released its gender pay gap for the first time, revealing a gulf that’s more than twice the size of the shortfall in the nation’s public service as a whole. […]
Second death, rapes reported at Sudan’s mass protest Sunday
KHARTOUM: The death toll from a crackdown on Sudanese protesters Sunday rose to two, medics said Tuesday, while a government ministry said two women were raped in the chaos. On Monday medics had reported a first shooting death in the previous day’s street violence, while the health ministry reported 125 protesters injured, many by tear […]
Kajang shelter rescues 120 cats and dogs from floods
KAJANG: Volunteers at a animal shelter in one of areas worst-hit by floods in Malaysia staged an eleventh-hour rescue of 120 cats and dogs in lorries as waters rose around its premises. More than 60,000 people have been displaced and at least 17 killed in floods across eight states in Malaysia, following torrential rainfall that […]
Banjir: Tidak ada masalah makan makanan dimasak bukan Islam – penjelasan Dr. Zulkifli
PETALING JAYA: Bekas Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Hal Ehwal Agama), Datuk Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad al-Bakri memberi penjelasan melalui laman Twitter peribadinya mengenai isu bantuan makanan yang dimasak oleh mereka bukan beragama Islam. Penjelasan itu susulan orang beragama lain memasak untuk mangsa banjir dan ada pihak mempertikai status halal makanan tersebut. Menurut beliau, hidangan yang […]
One dead, at least 70 missing after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
YANGON: A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar Wednesday killed at least one person and left dozens missing, a member of the rescue team told AFP. Scores die each year working in the country’s lucrative but poorly regulated jade trade, which uses low-paid migrant workers to scrape out a gem highly coveted in […]
Tesla’s Musk says he sold ‘enough stock’; slams California for ‘overtaxation’
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 22 — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had sold “enough stock” to reach his plan to sell 10 per cent of his shares in the world’s most valuable car company, according to an interview released on Tuesday. The billionaire, who moved the company’s headquarters from California to Texas this month after […]
Three Senators sworn in
KUALA LUMPUR: Three senators took their oaths of office before Dewan Negara president Tan Sri Dr Rais Yatim today. They are PAS Women’s chief Nuridah Mohd Salleh, Sabah Umno Wanita Information chief Noraini Idris and Berjaya Corporation Berhad executive director Datuk Seri Zurainah Musa. Nuridah has been re-elected for the senatorship by the Terengganu State […]
Banjir: Kerajaan Selangor sasar operasi pembersihan selesai Jumaat ini
PUCHONG: Kerajaan Selangor mensasarkan Jumaat ini untuk operasi pembersihan pasca banjir seluruh negeri selesai sepenuhnya. Bagaimanapun, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap Kerajaan Tempatan, Pengangkutan Awam Dan Pembangunan Kampung Baru, Ng Sze Han berkata, berkemungkinan operasi pembersihan akan mengalami kelewatan di beberapa kawasan. Menurut Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Kinrara itu, ini kerana terdapat kawasan yang sukar dimasuki lori-lori […]
