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About 120,000 workers in Penang will experience a water cut to enable diversion work from a broken pipe at the foot of Sungai Perai, said its chief executive, Chow Kon Yeow. He added that consumers in the south-west region will be affected by the water cut, the date of which …

The Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) said 200,000 water consumers in the state may face water cutoff after the Perai Riverbed pipeline bursts again. This is the fourth time the pipe has burst since last month. In a Facebook post, the national water company said it was trying to pump …

Yesterday, in the 600-year-old Kampung Chetti village on Jalan Gajah Berang in Melaka, it was reported that members of the Melaka Chetti are working hard to support Parchu Bhogi. Held on the eve of Thai Pongal, Parchu Bhogi is an ancient ritual to honor the dead. The Melaka Chetti are …

The plan to build a new power plant by Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) will be discussed to increase the electricity supply in Labuan at a meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday. Deputy Chief Minister Fadillah Yusof said the proposed power plant, led by Petronas, will be a collaborative effort with …

Bomb attacks today in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv wounded several people, including children, officials said. “According to preliminary data, children were injured by shrapnel … and a woman was injured,” Sergiy Bolvinov, head of Kharkiv region’s investigative department, said in Kharkiv. department of housing. …

Iran today executed a man convicted of killing a policeman and injuring others during the 2022 national protests, judges said. “Mohammad Ghobadlou’s death sentence… was made this morning after 487 days of legal proceedings,” the Mizan Online website of the judges said. Ghobadlou, who was a pioneer in particular, continued …

Four survivors of the crash of a Moscow-bound charter plane in northern Afghanistan are in good health, Taliban officials said today. He also said that the bodies of two passengers who died in the accident were being transported to the capital of Afghanistan from a remote location. Russian aviation officials …

Four of the six passengers, including the pilot, were found alive on Sunday after the Russian plane crashed in Badakhshan province, in northeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban government announced. In a statement published in , Anadolu news agency reported. He said the investigation team was investigating two other passengers of the …

A father killed his son after the two agreed to fly a political party’s flag before Pakistan’s general election, police said. The controversy started when the boy, who had recently returned from his work in Qatar, raised the flag of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party at …

Pakistan and Afghanistan opened major trade routes today, officials from both sides said, as a dispute over travel documents as Islamabad undermined border movement. The closure of the Torkham border since January 12 came after Islamabad introduced stricter controls requiring drivers on both sides to have visas and passports – …