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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has dismissed criticism against Lynas’ operations in Malaysia, saying that the rare earth processing plant “is not Chernobyl”.

SHAH ALAM: All quarters, including the country’s political leadership, have been urged to respect the agreement reached on the prime minister’s position.

GEORGE TOWN: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) and the Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) voiced their serious concerns over the government’s decision to allow Australian rare earth company Lynas Corporation to continue its operations for another six months.

WASHINGTON: July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.

KUALA LUMPUR: Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said enforcement agencies under his ministry will not think twice about taking action against all those who undermine the country’s peace and public order.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy is projected to expand at a minimum four per cent in the second quarter of this year, supported by exports, said IBC Assets Bhd head of research Dr Serge Pierre Besanger.

LONDON: A man was taken to hospital after being stabbed Thursday outside Britain’s Home Office interior ministry in London.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: Five people died in firing along the de facto border in disputed Kashmir Thursday, the Pakistani military and local officials said, as tensions between nuclear-armed rivals Islamabad and New Delhi soar over the Himalayan region.

GEORGE TOWN: An average of three cyber crime cases are reported daily in Penang, police said today.

KUALA LUMPUR: Standing by his daughter’s hospital bed, Afghan Lutfullah Ahmad Hussain’s eyes welled with tears as he appealed for her life to be saved - just one of thousands of refugees in Malaysia living in increasing desperation.