Kuala Lumpur: Pro-Israel academic Bruce Gilley whose events were cancelled by the Ministry of Higher Education has now accused Malaysia of being an “unsafe” country to travel to, despite spending several days here.

Kuala Lumpur: The University of Malaya Student Union (KMUM) today demanded that the management of the university take responsibility for hosting an American professor known for pro-Israel and pro-colonialism views.

JOHOR BARU: The Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Service (Maqis) said today it detected parasitic worm contamination in a batch of canned sardines that were earlier seized at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) here.

PETALING JAYA: The EPF is set to undergo significant restructuring, reorganising its members’ existing two accounts into three to include the addition of the much anticipated flexible account.

PETALING JAYA: Perlis menteri besar Shukri Ramli has confirmed that his son was detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to assist in a graft probe.

PETALING JAYA: A McDonald’s billboard in Sungai Petani, Kedah, has been vandalised in the latest such incident against American companies following Washington’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

KUALA TERENGGANU: The contract farming programme by the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) is one of the strategies to liberate farmers from the profiteering of middlemen, the Terengganu assembly was told today.

PETALING JAYA: Amnesty International Malaysia has commended Malaysia for the abolition of the mandatory death penalty and for imposing a moratorium on the execution of the death sentence, which has led to an overall decrease in the use of the death penalty by the courts.

PETALING JAYA: Capital A Bhd, the operator of budget airline group AirAsia, has extended the contract of its CEO Tony Fernandes for another five years, enabling him to continue driving the group’s future growth.

Kuala Lumpur: An investigating officer admitted in court today that she did not ask former prime minister Najib Razak whether he had instructed a top 1MDB executive to remit US$700 million to a company owned by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, popularly known as Jho Low.