KL schoolchildren living in low-cost housing to get free bus service

MORE than 10,000 pupils living in low-cost housing in Kuala Lumpur will be ferried to school on a fleet of vehicles for free when school reopens next week. The free bus service is a programme under the MySchoolBus @Wilayah initiative. Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Kamarulzaman Mat Salleh said the number of applications for the free … Read more

Malaysian police raid against illegal migrant workers fuels ‘xenophobic’ views amid calls for greater tolerance

Previously a hub for buses in the city centre, Jalan Tun Tan Siew Sin is cluttered with derelict shop lots that are now mostly occupied by migrant-owned businesses including restaurants, telecommunications stores and remittance offices serving Bangladeshi workers that form the backbone of many construction projects in the city. In the lead-up to Christmas, Bangladeshi-run … Read more

Missing Malaysian flight MH370 could be found in ‘days’ with new search, claim experts

Experts have called for a new search on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 following new leads on the flight. Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly called for a new search based on revelations about the fate of the flight. The duo claimed the mystery of the missing flight could be solved in … Read more

As Malaysia’s next king takes up Singapore high-speed rail cause, is it a case of too costly, too late?

The ruler reportedly said the project remained viable if financed privately and should be realigned to run through the troubled Forest City mega-project, in which he is a key investor, and that the cost would not have ballooned so much if the government had not been “on-off-on-off” in its decision on the HSR. Malaysia’s decision … Read more