Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has denied a report of such a plan, saying “those who raised the issue of a casino licence lied”.

Gilley said he left the country due to safety concerns caused by an ‘Islamo-fascist mob whipped up by the government’.

The university cancelled all scheduled activities involving Gilley, who left Malaysia saying he was one step ahead of the ‘mob’ whipped up by the government.

Oo Saw Kee, 39, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for intentionally inflicting serious injury to the 33-year-old victim. The judge called her actions ‘cruel and inhumane’.

Israel wants ‘to deflect the global community’s attention from their nefarious, inhumane and unconscionable acts in Palestine’, Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said.

Influencer-turned-beauty queen Viru Nikah Terinsip apologised for sharing a video in which she could be seen responding to men’s suggestive dances while holidaying in Thailand.

Chai Kee Kan, who is charged with two counts of wounding the religious sensitivities of Muslims, apologised to king Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar over the scandal.

Malaysian tourism authorities are expecting over 5 million tourists from China this year, more than tripling last year’s figure, amid the launch of new routes connecting Shenzhen and Chengdu to Kuala Lumpur.

Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying said the government needed more time to engage with the industry to carefully formulate the tax principles.

Tourism Minister Tiong King Sing said the pork rib dish has been part of Malaysian society for a long time and urged everyone to respect the country’s multiracial culture.

Azalina Othman, Member of the House of Representatives of Malaysia, said that such demands, are a threat to the integrity of sovereign states and the principles of justice.

Deputy youth and sports minister Adam Adli said the gig was never offered to the country under a joint contract with Sportswork and a US-based company.

The place was so cramped that Chen, also known as ‘Goodnight Chicken’, could only sleep in a seated position.

Police said the drugs would be mixed with fruit flavouring powder before they were stuffed in packaging that looked like plane boarding passes.

Lisa Lim spent 30 days in a jail after airport authorities found a huge amount of traditional Chinese medicine in the luggage.

The ruling, dismisses the appeal of 2 NGOs which sought to declare the use of Chinese and Tamil as the language of instruction was unconstitutional.

‘The Chinese in many parts of the world … don’t have many kids,’ Malaysian Chinese Association President Dr Wee Ka Siong said. ‘You have to think twice because you have to nurture the younger generation.’

Multiple reports of people being duped by false promises of work led to the warning from Malaysia’s envoy to the city state.

Ex-1MDB general counsel Jasmine Loo told Malaysia’s High Court she would prepare documents for Jho Low, who would hand-deliver them to Najib Razak’s home in Kuala Lumpur.

Police said the 50-year-old had threatened to set his wife on fire previously. She died of her injuries on Sunday, 16 hours after being doused in petrol and set alight.

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said thorough vetting was done by all the agencies involved in granting permission for the event.

Chris and Marianne Fisher, who post videos of their globe-trotting adventures on social media, filmed a Malaysian policeman allegedly accepting cash to settle a traffic ticket he had just issued.

The Ukraine National Resistance Centre said the hired guns were accompanied by a translator and a former Wagner member at a training ground in Donetsk.

Two of his girlfriends, who featured in the clips sold illegally on social media, were also arrested at a house in Pahang.

Immigration director general Ruslin Jusoh said the operation was based on public tip-offs and intelligence made over a month.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) began a probe of Daim Zainuddin after the release of the Pandora Papers.

Malaysia’s food ministry said it will implement a price control scheme during the holiday period. Subsidies for poultry farmers were discontinued on November 1 last year, and replaced with a price cap on chicken.

Najib’s lawyers contended that the statements by several individuals in the documentary were in contempt of court as his corruption trial was still ongoing.

Malaysia’s former finance minister Daim Zainuddin said he stood to gain more wealth had he not joined politics, amid a probe by the country’s anti-corruption board.

Naimah Khalid, who was questioned by anti-corruption investigators, said Daim was already a multimillionaire before becoming a minister 40 years ago.