KUALA LUMPUR: A Selayang Municipal Council employee died after he was shot three times outside his house at Selayang Baru Monday.

ALOR SETAR: The Kedah government on Wednesday replaced two state executive councillors, one each from PAS and PKR, in its line-up of the 10-member state executive council sworn in for another year.

KOTA KINABALU: Former Member of Parliament for Labuan Datuk Suhaili Abdul Rahman, who pleaded guilty for not disclosing to the bank that he was a bankrupt when he became a guarantor in a loan application 14 years ago, was fined RM10,000 in default one month jail on Wednesday.

An Indian spiritual centre in Kuala Lumpur has been closed after it was revealed that ashrams spiritual guru Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda was allegedly involved in a sex scandal.

Malaysia became the latest Asian nation to raise interest rates, saying it wants to avoid a oefinancial imbalancesa as the economy recovers, and moved ahead of Indonesia, which kept borrowing costs unchanged.

UNIT trust firm Amanah Mutual Bhd plans to launch more Islamic capital-protected funds to meet rising demand for such products at home and abroad.

MALAYSIA Airlines , which carried 3.5 million passengers from Kuala Lumpur to destinations in Australia last year, expects a 5 per cent growth this year.

The Parit 4 Sekinchan Umno Youth branch chief on Tuesday filed a RM5 million defamation suit against Sinar Harian newspaper for portraying him as living in poverty.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has asked the relevant authorities in Kelantan to investigate and act against those marrying underaged girls.

Malaysian Chinese in traditional Chinese costumes hold a memorial ceremony for the Confucius prior to the premiere of the film "Confucius" in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, March 3, 2010.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 -- The Court of Appeal has fixed March 19 to hear the appeal by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim against the refusal of the judge in his sodomy trial to recuse himself from the hearing.

Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died.

Many countries are going badly. Indonesia was always going to be one. Or so we thought. It's turned out to be one of the surprise success stories.

KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI closed in negative territory at midday on Thursday, reversing earlier gains in the morning.

KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Rakyat suffered another blow by losing another representative today when Bagan Serai Member of Parliament Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri declared that he has quit the party.

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR sacked its controversial Kulim-Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli Noordin on Saturday after the party's supreme council meeting.

SUNGAI PETANI: The Sungai Batu archeological site in Bujang Valley proves that civilisation in this country had started much earlier, and was the oldest in South-east Asia.

KOTA KINABALU: Opposition parties have no hope of wresting power from Barisan Nasional in Sabah as the coalition has proven its ability to develop the state, Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said.

KUALA LUMPUR: Customers around the city are feeling the heat of the current 20 per cent increase in fishA price which traders blamed on the compulsory use of insulated boxes recently.