10 Things In Malaysia You Need To Know Today

SHARON TANG

 SEP. 24, 2014

 CEphoto, Uwe Aranas/Wikimedia Commons

Home Ministry, Putrajaya

Good evening! Here’s a look at today’s biggest stories.

1. Putrajaya has ordered local financial institutions banks to freeze the assets of terror suspects as part of a new initiative to check the financing of terror groups, especially the al-Qaeda and Taliban.

2. A 200 year-old Siamese settlement in Pulau Tikus, Penang is at risk of being demolished to make way for the construction of a five star hotel.

3. Major investors from Qatar and Abu Dhabi are considering pulling out of the Tun Razak Exchange and Bandar Malaysia, frustrated by the lack of transparency and slow progress.

4. SP Setia is in a leadership crisis, with the departure of its second CEO and the lack of a permanent replacement for the post three years after PNB’s hostile takeover bid of the builder.

5. Popular local coffee chain OldTown White Coffee has apologised for a job advertisement that said priority would be given to Malay and Chinese applicants.

6. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who’s in New York for a working visit to the United Nations General, gets a billboard welcome in Times Square.

7. It’s a quiet first day at work for new Selangor Mentri Besar Azmin Ali who was sworn on Tuesday. He clocked in without any fanfare at 7.50 this morning.

8. Azmin’s appointment is flawed, says constitutional lawyer Tommy Thomas. He says: “What happened in Selangor was absolutely wrong”.

9. Infamous sex blogger Alvin Tan, who’s on the run after being charged with sedition, is seeking political asylum in the US.

10. Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh will make an appearance in the final season of the Cinemax action series “Strike Back,” her first for American TV.