Nation

PORT KLANG: Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong has assured medical device manufacturers' that he is in talks with Finance Ministry to reconsider raising the limit and extending reinvestment allowance for manufacturers beyond 2018.

SEPANG: Beginning June 2018, all new models of passenger cars marketed in the country must be equipped with Electronic Stability Control (ESC), says Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

KUALA LUMPUR: Real Estate and Housing Developers Association Malaysia (Rehda) is open to discuss with the government alternative ways of reducing the costs of development, in light of the ongoing challenging marketplace.

KOTA KINABALU: A senior reporter from a local daily here was believed to have died from a heart attack while driving home from work this evening.

LABUAN: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was granted a seven-day remand order against a federal government department director to assist in another corruption probe here.

KUALA LUMPUR: Two UMNO youth wings, the Pemuda and Puteri movements expressed their readiness to step up efforts and plans to tackle various issues blanketing the public in making a better Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak today urged party leaders and members, who no longer love Umno, not to insult the party which has contributed a lot to the Malay community.

MALACCA: With Christmas just around the corner, the Hatten Group of Companies, through their Hatten Cares corporate social responsibility initiative, this week launched their 2016 Christmas charity campaign, dubbed "A Christmas Bundle of Joy" in collaboration with the media.

KUALA LUMPUR: Umno state and division leaders today declared their readiness to face the 14th General Election after receiving a moral boost from party president Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

KUALA PILAH: "Please pray for my wellbeing while I'm in Iran mother."

KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth today handed over a donation of RM100,000 in alms to the next-of-kin of its recently departed former members.

GEORGE TOWN: Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman is to meet Myanmar Foreign Minister and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi over the alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas in the country's northern Rakhine State.

MALACCA: A 60-year-old Singaporean fell overboard from the Super Star Gemini cruise ship in waters off Tanjung Kling, Malacca on Sunday night, prompting frantic search and rescue operations in the area for the second time in a month.

KUALA TERENGGANU: Cityfolk here briefly went into panic mode when continuous heavy downpour, which began at 8am, swiftly inundated major parts of the city, disrupted traffic, flooded homes and generally brought life to a standstill.