Malaysia will continue using Huawei products “as much as possible,” bucking a global trend prompted by security concerns and a US ban on the Chinese firm, the country’s prime minister said Thursday (May 30).
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The civil servants’ pension fund KWAP would have preferred to receive a government guarantee for its second RM2 billion loan to SRC International Sdn Bhd before releasing the funds in 2012, but had transferred the money first due to the Finance Ministry’s assurance, the High Court heard today.
SINGAPORE: A company was fined S$6,000 on Wednesday (May 29) for illegally importing more than 2 tonnes of fresh vegetables from Malaysia, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said in a media release.
While waiting for his car’s petrol tank to be filled at a station in Johor, the driver of a Singapore-registered gold BMW 320i switched his licence plates to that registered to a Hyundai car before speeding on a Malaysian highway.
As durian season begins, prices for the prickly fruit have been plunging following an increase in supply from Malaysia.
WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (May 28) added Singapore and Malaysia to a watchlist of trading partners for currency practices, citing both countries’ foreign exchange intervention operations.
Visit any Ramadan bazaar during the fasting month in Malaysia and one will notice a common feature: food and drinks are all packed in single-use plastic.
As part of its ambition to be a super-app in South-east Asia, mobile payment and deals platform Fave has acquired two food-ordering startups in Singapore and Malaysia.
SINGAPORE: It is “not tenable” for Singapore to go easy on Malaysian drug offenders who are caught on this side of the Causeway, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on Friday (May 24).
President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have extended their condolences to Malaysia’s King after the death of his father, former Pahang ruler Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a press statement on Friday (May 24).
SINGAPORE: Firefly is aiming to connect Singapore with more destinations in Malaysia as the turboprop airline works to expand flights from Seletar Airport.
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Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah paid his respects to his father, former Pahang ruler Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah, at the palace in Pekan on Thursday (May 23).
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Malaysian officials are disguising themselves as cooks and waiters to catch Muslims who don’t fast during Ramadan, with a rights group Thursday (May 23) blasting the “disgraceful act of spying”.
Since the Pakatan Harapan government took power in Malaysia around a year ago, it has made three requests to stop executions of Malaysians in Singapore, two of whom are drug traffickers, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Friday (May 24).
A Malaysian man was granted a stay of execution on Thursday afternoon (May 23) by the Court of Appeal, a day before he was due to face the gallows.
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A Malaysian woman was killed in a bus accident at Woodlands Checkpoint on Monday night (May 20).
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said Singapore must continue to “learn how to evolve and improve our systems” and adopt useful policies from other countries.
A committee set up to discuss boundary delimitation in the waters between Singapore and Malaysia has held “constructive discussions” in its first meeting, said Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Wednesday (May 15).
Aliff Aziz is in the middle of yet another scandal. According to The Malay Mail, photos of the Singapore-born, Malaysia-based actor-singer have surfaced of him kissing a woman at an entertainment outlet.
SINGAPORE – Singapore and Malaysia had “constructive discussions” on the delimitation of their maritime boundaries, following a dispute that flared … Read more