PUTRAJAYA, May 15, 2014: The government has established a Goods and Services Tax (GST) Monitoring Committee to ensure the implementation of the tax system in the nation would proceed smoothly. The Finance Ministry in a statement today said the committee is responsible to ensure policies, laws and guidelines pertaining to the tax are ready, and to also monitor the implementation readiness of government agenc ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 16, 2014: Vehicle owners with licence plates and window tints that do not comply with regulations will have a month to remedy the situation before police action is taken. Federal Traffic Police chief Senior Asst Comm Mohd Fuad Abdul Latiff said they noticed an increasing trend of violations in this area. “Due to security reasons, we have decided to give an ultimatum to these vehicle owners ...

PETALING JAYA, May 14, 2014: A cross-section of Malaysians perceive political parties as being more corrupt than the police, according to Transparency International (TI-M) Malaysia. Its Malaysia Corruption Barometer (MCB) Survey 2014 done with Frost and Sullivan showed that the police who were in the top spot in last year's survey had fallen to second place. More than 2,000 Malaysians were interviewed for t ...

May 13, 2014: A pair of giant pandas from China will soon arrive in Malaysia as a symbolic gesture to enhance understanding and friendship between the two countries, China's Xinhua news agency reported today. As special envoys and symbol of friendship, the pandas, named Feng Yi (Phoenix) and Fu Wa (Lucky), would play an important role in further strengthening bilateral ties and developing all-round cooperat ...

May 9, 2014: The ranking of local universities at the international level is not the main consideration in accelerating the country's higher education towards excellency, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today. He said this was because most of the criteria and the yardstick used to gauge the position of local universities in the world ranking did not meet the country's aspiration. "The mo ...

PETALING JAYA, May 7, 2014: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) denied that the broadband speed in Malaysia was slow, saying that the result of researches on broadband speed differs when different methodologies were used. A recent survey by a global broadband testing and web-based network diagnostic applications company that compares the download, upload and line quality of broadband c ...

Mar 20, 2014: Nearly 16,000 restaurants will immediately collect the 6% Goods and Services Tax (GST) upon its implementation in April 2015, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan said. In comparison, just 4,357 restaurants collect the Sales and Services Tax for the government. “The reason for the increase is because the GST is applicable to businesses with annual sales of RM500,000 against the SST which ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25, 2014: Barely three weeks after its release, local movie The Journey is making waves in the local movie scene. The movie, which stars Australian stage actor Ben Andrew Pfeiffer, former Miss Astro Chinese International Joanne Yew and 74-year-old retiree Frankie Lee, made RM12.92 million (as of Feb 23), making it the highest earning local movie of all time, beating Syamsul Yusof's KL Gang ...

PETALING JAYA, Feb 18: Fossil remains of a carnivorous “fish-eating” dinosaur has been discovered in Malaysia, with Universiti Malaya set to unveil the evidence today. Discovered in the rural interiors of Pahang, the fossil remains of the spinosauridae dinosaur are believed to be from the late Mesozoic era, most likely from the Cretaceous period between 65 million and 145.5 million years ago. This is believ ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30: An opposition MP cast doubt today on the super hike of nearly RM7 billion set aside for the Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) in Budget 2014, claiming the hefty amount hid a giant slush fund to be used for political purposes rather than the public good. In a statement, Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong highlighted several dubious items listed under the PMD’s 2014 allocation that he said could e ...