Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's government Saturday reduced the retail price of petrol by 5.6 per cent to help curb rising inflation.
The pump price of gasoline was fixed at 2.55 ringgit (0.77 dollars) per litre down from 2.70 ringgit. Diesel prices have been reduced from 2.58 ringgit to 2.50 ringgit per litre.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made the announcement late Friday, saying the move would help curb inflation, which rose to a decade-high of 8.5 per cent in July.
"The government hopes that the reduction in gasoline and diesel prices will help to ease consumers' burden as well as ease inflationary pressure," Abdullah said in a statement.
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 22: Over the past almost one year, incidents of school teachers physically abusing students of Indian origin have been on the rise in Malaysia, and in some instances, teachers even called the Indian students by derogatory names.
The school teachers have reportedly acquired the ‘hate-Indian students’ attitude after the transfer of a school teacher from a secondary school in Banting, who is now facing an inquiry after she admitted to leveling racial slurs against Indian students.
Several parents of such children here have lodged police reports since November last year alleging that as many as five school teachers had physically and verbally abused Indian students.
Kuala Lumpur - Two trainee pilots have been reported missing after their two-seater aircraft was believed to have crashed in a jungle in Malaysia's north-eastern state of Terengganu, news reports said Thursday.
The two trainees, ages 20 and 21, from a private aviation school had taken off in a Diamon 40 MAHA aircraft late Wednesday before losing contact with the control tower minutes later, the official Bernama news agency said.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's former immigration chief was charged Tuesday with accepting bribes worth 60,000 ringgit (18,000 dollars) to speed up visas for more than 4,300 Bangladeshi workers.
Former immigration director-general Abdul Wahid Mohamad Don pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on a 50,000-ringgit bail, the official Bernama news agency said.
Abdul Wahid was accused of accepting the bribe on 10 July to expedite visa approvals for 4,337 Bangladeshis. He was arrested two days later by the Anti-Corruption Agency.
Kuala Lumpur - Anti-vice religious authorities in the northern Malaysian state of Perak have been issued a 14-day notice with the intention to sue by a housewife who said they stormed into her home in the middle of the night without reason, a newspaper reported Friday.
Zuraida Zainul Abdin, 28, told the New Straits Times she was breastfeeding her 3-month-old son before dawn July 25 when four men identifying themselves as officers from the state's Religious Department entered her home and began searching it while refusing to answer her questions.
Kuala Lumpur - A top Malaysian tourism official has been charged with corruption, the third senior bureaucrat in a month to face graft allegations, news reports said Thursday.
Mirza Mohammad Taiyab, head of Malaysia's Tourism Promotion Board, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to accepting free dental treatment worth almost 14,000 ringgit (4,200 dollars), from a company that he allegedly gave contracts to, the Star daily reported.
Kuala Lumpur - Two trainee pilots have been reported missing after their two-seater aircraft was believed to have crashed in a jungle in Malaysia's north-eastern state of Terengganu, news reports said Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's former immigration chief was charged Tuesday with accepting bribes worth 60,000 ringgit (18,000 dollars) to speed up visas for more than 4,300 Bangladeshi workers.
