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Singapore TikToker hit with Pofma order over false claims on Chinese leadership course

SINGAPORE, Sept. 7 -- A Singaporean TikTok user has been ordered to correct false claims he made about a Singapore government-backed leadership programme, in the latest use of the city-state's controv... Read More


Need to confront your husband's mistress? Tokyo had a 'Scary Person Rental Service' for that

TOKYO, Sept. 7 -- For three days at the end of August, Tokyo was home to a start-up that seemed destined for either a Netflix documentary or a sociology seminar: a "Scary Person Rental Service." The ... Read More


Meant to enforce, filmed in reverse: Cops investigate themselves after Kepala Batas police truck with faulty brake light caught on TikTok

ALOR SETAR, Sept. 7 -- Law enforcers have been left red-faced after a police truck was filmed flouting traffic laws in Alor Setar. A viral TikTok video has put the spotlight on a Toyota Hilux belongi... Read More


Birthplace of a million: Former KK Hospital buildings set to join Singapore's national monuments list

SINGAPORE, Sept. 6 -- Singapore is set to recognise one of its most storied hospitals as a national monument, with three blocks of the former Kandang Kerbau Hospital in Hampshire Road slated for prese... Read More


Attorney General says no plans to charge others in Zara Qairina case apart from the five students, will review after inquest

KOTA BHARU, Sept. 6 -- The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) has no plans to charge anyone else over the death of Form One student Zara Qairina Mahathir until the ongoing inquest proceedings at the Co... Read More


Facebook post lands Sabah man in police custody after threats to forensic pathologist in Zara Qairina's death probe

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6 -- Sabah police have arrested a 61-year-old man in Semporna for allegedly issuing death threats on Facebook against a forensic pathologist who testified at the inquest into the d... Read More


Ex-Thai PM Thaksin's Singapore health trip goes awry after Seletar Airport curfew, lands in Dubai instead

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6 -- What was meant to be a straightforward medical trip abroad for former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra turned into an unexpected detour, with his private jet landing in ... Read More


Police arrest Chegu Bard lookalike for sedition probe over viral royal speech video

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6 -- Police have arrested a 47-year-old man, said to resemble Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) Information Committee member Badrul Hisham Shaharin, better known as Chegu Ba... Read More


Forensic pathologist lodges police report over online threats linked to Zara Qairina case

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6 -- Forensic pathologist Dr Jessie Hiu has lodged a police report over alleged online threats she received following her recent testimony in the inquest into the death of 13-year-... Read More


Analyst warns Petros replacing Petronas as gas aggregator could destabilise system

PETALING JAYA, Sept. 6 -- Oil and gas analyst Jamil A Ghani has cautioned that Sarawak's push for its state-owned firm Petros to take over from Petronas as Malaysia's sole gas aggregator could pose ri... Read More