KUALA LUMPUR : The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation stands ready to provide psychological and counselling support services for both victims and perpetrators of school bullying. MCPF senior vice-chairman Datuk Sri Ayub Yaakob stated this initiative will be implemented across all educational levels to ensure every school remains a safe environment free from crime and violence. He added that the foundation is prepared to organise intervention programmes and crime prevention awareness initiatives through training and seminars for educators, parents and community members. “This issue requires serious attention as it represents a national concern demanding collective commitment rather than just government responsibility,“ Ayub emphasised. The MCPF remains committed to empowering Crime Prevention Clubs in schools to enhance student awareness about actions that could impact their futures. Ayub urged all stakeholders including higher education students, Parent-Teacher Associations, non-governmental organisations and local communities to unite in combating bullying. – Bernama

• theSun
• 11 saat, 24 dakika

PETALING JAYA: Jabatan Peguam Negara (AGC) akan meneliti alasan penghakiman susulan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi Kota Kinabalu berkaitan 40 peratus hasil Persekutuan kepada Sabah sebelum mengambil tindakan lanjut. Jabatan itu berkata, antara hal menjadi pertikaian melibatkan tafsiran undang-undang bawah Perkara 112C dan 112D Perlembagaan Persekutuan. “Pada 17 Okt 2025 Mahkamah Kota Kinabalu telah memutuskan antara lain ... Read more The post AGC teliti alasan penghakiman keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi Sabah appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

• Utusan Malaysia
• 11 saat, 24 dakika

SHAH ALAM – Mahkamah Tinggi Kota Kinabalu pada Jumaat memutuskan bahawa kerajaan Persekutuan dan kerajaan negeri Sabah perlu menjalankan satu lagi kajian semula berhubung pemberian khas Sabah bagi tahun 1974 hingga 2022.Jabatan Peguam Negara (AGC) dalam satu kenyataan berkata, antara perkara yang menjadi pertikaian adalah tafsiran undang-undang ke atas Perkara 112C dan Perkara 112D Perlembagaan Persekutuan."AGC akan meneliti alasan penghakiman Mahkamah Tinggi Kota Kinabalu setelah menerimanya kelak sebelum mengambil sebarang tindakan lanjut," katanya ringkas pada Sabtu.Sebelum ini, Sinar Harian melaporkan bahawa mahkamah memutuskan kerajaan Persekutuan telah bertindak secara tidak sah dan melampaui kuasa perlembagaan apabila gagal menunaikan hak Sabah terhadap 40 peratus hasil Persekutuan selama hampir lima dekad.Keputusan itu disampaikan oleh Hakim Datuk Celestina Stuel Galid yang menyifatkan pemberian khas yang dibuat antara kerajaan Persekutuan dan kerajaan negeri Sabah sebagai 'tidak sah, ultra vires dan tidak rasional' serta melanggar Perlembagaan Persekutuan.Menurut beliau, adalah tidak sah bagi pihak kerajaan Persekutuan untuk membuat pemberian khas sebagaimana yang dimaksudkan di bawah Jadual Kesepuluh.Dalam penghakiman itu, mahkamah mendapati Perintah Semakan Kedua dan Ketiga (Second dan Third Review Order) yang dikeluarkan oleh kedua-dua kerajaan adalah tidak sah, dan seterusnya membenarkan permohonan sepenuhnya oleh Persatuan Undang-Undang Sabah (SLS).Mahkamah turut mengeluarkan perintah mandamus yang mengarahkan kerajaan Persekutuan mengadakan semakan semula hasil bersama kerajaan negeri Sabah di bawah Perkara 112D Perlembagaan Persekutuan bagi menegakkan semula hak 40 peratus hasil Sabah bagi setiap tahun kewangan dari 1974 hingga 2021.Perintah tersebut menetapkan supaya semakan dibuat dalam tempoh 90 hari, manakala persetujuan bersama antara kedua-dua kerajaan perlu dicapai dalam tempoh 180 hari dari tarikh perintah dikeluarkan.Selain itu, mahkamah turut mengeluarkan perintah certiorari untuk membatalkan bahagian tertentu dalam tiga warta kerajaan yang berkaitan.Kes tersebut dimulakan oleh SLS pada Jun 2022, apabila badan itu memfailkan permohonan semakan kehakiman bagi mencabar kegagalan kerajaan Persekutuan menegakkan hak hasil Sabah seperti yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

• Sinar Harian
• 11 saat, 25 dakika

LIPIS: Data dan angka memainkan peranan penting dalam membantu kerajaan negeri merancang serta membuat keputusan berasaskan fakta.   Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail berkata, angka bukan sahaja penting untuk individu, malah menjadi asas kepada pentadbiran kerajaan  dalam menentukan dasar serta hala tuju pembangunan negeri. “Angka dan data Itu sangat penting dalam kehidupan seharian ... Read more The post Angka dan data penting bentuk dasar pembangunan negeri appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

• Utusan Malaysia
• 11 saat, 26 dakika

KOTA KINABALU : The Malaysia MADANI Satellite Tuition programme will expand to schools in the Sepanggar parliamentary constituency to provide free academic guidance for students preparing for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination. Deputy Minister of Higher Education Datuk Mustapha Sakmud said the free tuition initiative was first introduced at his parliamentary office three years ago and is now being extended to schools to benefit more students. He explained that the available space at the parliamentary office is no longer sufficient as the number of students interested in joining the tuition continues to increase. Many students also face difficulties travelling to the parliamentary office due to logistical constraints. Therefore they decided to bring the programme directly to schools by setting up dedicated tuition centres. Mustapha said the initiative will first be implemented at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bandaraya and SMK Telipok before being expanded to other schools based on local needs. He added that the programme targets average-performing students who have the potential to be guided to obtain better SPM results. This approach gives students the opportunity to continue their studies to a higher level. Based on statistics, 94% of students who received free tuition at his parliamentary office successfully gained admission to universities through the University Central Unit. This positive outcome reflects ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of education for students in Sabah. – Bernama

• theSun
• 11 saat, 27 dakika

THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has not opened any investigation paper regarding allegations of document falsification in the registration of seven heritage players by the Football Association of Malaysia. MACC Chief Commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki stated this is because the case is viewed as a technical issue between FAM and FIFA. He added that the commission will leave it to the national football governing body to resolve the issue. “So, it’s up to FIFA whether they will consider or not the appeal submitted by FAM.” “But, for now, the MACC will not investigate this case as it’s more about FIFA’s action.” “We have also taken into account the verification made by the Home Ministry in connection with the seven heritage players,“ he told reporters after the award ceremony for the Anti-Corruption Student Volunteer Corps Cadets at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin here today. The media had previously reported that FAM and seven heritage players were penalised by FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee after being found guilty of violating Article 22 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code related to document falsification. The seven players are Gabriel Felipe Arrocha, Facundo Garces, Rodrigo Holgado, Imanol Machuca, Joao Figueiredo, Jon Irazabal and Hector Hevel. – Bernama

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• 11 saat, 30 dakika

GEORGE TOWN : MCA tidak menjalin sebarang kerjasama dengan DAP seperti dakwaan sesetengah pihak, sebaliknya, kekal memainkan peranan sebagai parti komponen dalam Barisan Nasional (BN) sahaja. Perkara itu ditegaskan oleh Presiden MCA, Datuk Seri Dr. Wee Ka Siong selepas merasmikan Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan MCA Pulau Pinang di sini, hari ini. Justeru, beliau berkata, dakwaan kononnya ... Read more The post MCA tidak bekerjasama dengan DAP appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

• Utusan Malaysia
• 11 saat, 31 dakika

SOMETHING is deeply wrong with the world our children are growing up in. And the scariest part is they are beginning to mirror it. It began with the horror in Malacca: four teenage boys allegedly raped a 15-year-old schoolmate in a classroom after school hours. Two of them reportedly recorded the assault on their phones. The school has since expelled the students involved, following nationwide outrage and a promise to review school safety and discipline. Before we could even process that, another shocking incident took place: this in Bandar Utama, where a 14-year-old boy fatally stabbed a 16-year-old senior. Police now believe he may have been influenced by violent video games and social media content. And just this Thursday in Baling, Kedah, appeared yet another case – three students were expelled after a 15-year-old girl was found to have had sexual encounters with several boys, some of which were filmed and circulated. Three tragedies. Three different schools. One terrifying pattern. The children we are raising and the world they are inheriting feel unrecognisable. What was once innocent curiosity has curdled into cruelty. What was once discipline has been replaced by digital chaos. I’m scared – not as a journalist but as a mother. I look at my 10-year-old son and my seven-year-old autistic daughter and wonder: Is this world still safe for them? Will they grow up knowing right from wrong or will that, too, become blurred in a world where even violence can go viral? This isn’t just about bad kids or bad parenting; it is about a generation being shaped inside an overstimulated and desensitised ecosystem – a world where morality feels optional, where empathy is drowned out by noise and where humiliation and harm are just another kind of content. Social media didn’t invent cruelty but it has made cruelty performative. Video games didn’t create killers but they have made violence feel thrillingly consequence-free. Our children are learning lessons no school ever intended to teach – that human pain is a spectacle, that consent is negotiable and that power and popularity come from dominance, not decency. In the Malacca case, the assault took place in a classroom – a space meant for learning. The boys not only committed the act, they recorded it. That says everything about how far the line between private sin and public entertainment has eroded. The 14-year-old in Bandar Utama picked up a knife and ended a life, perhaps after watching too many virtual victories where death comes with a “restart” button. And in Baling, what should have been an awkward stage of adolescence turned into exploitation – filming, sharing and circulating – a generation so addicted to exposure that intimacy has become performance. These are not isolated incidents; they are warning lights, flashing red, about how we are failing to form our children’s moral core. We talk about devices and discipline, algorithms and access but beneath all that is a deeper void of values, grounding and connection. We are raising children who can code before they can cope and who can go viral before they can verbalise their emotions. The Education Ministry says the students will be expelled but expulsion only removes them from a building, not from the world that shaped them. We need something deeper than punishment; we need intervention – in homes, in classrooms and in national priorities that put character, compassion and conscience on equal footing with grades and gadgets. And we – the parents – must stop outsourcing morality. We need to talk, listen and set boundaries even when it makes us unpopular. We must stop treating children like fragile glass that must never be told “no”. Because every “no” we avoid now may one day echo in a police report. I think of my children often when I read these stories. My son, growing up in a world that confuses toughness with cruelty. My daughter, vulnerable in a world that mocks difference. I hold them closer and wonder: How do I raise them to stay human in a world that feels less and less so? If the world has changed – and it has – then we must change too, not in surrender but in resistance. We can’t save every child but we can start by saving our own from the emptiness of a world that scrolls faster than it feels. Because if schools have become crime scenes, then maybe it is time for homes to become sanctuaries again. And that begins with us – turning off the noise, looking up from the screens and teaching our children what the world seems to have forgotten: that being human is still the most important lesson of all. Hashini Kavishtri Kannan is the assistant news editor at theSun. Comments: letters@thesundaily.com

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• 11 saat, 31 dakika

BESSENT : United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced he will likely meet China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng in Malaysia next weekend. Their meeting aims to prepare for anticipated talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping later this month in South Korea. Bessent confirmed the planned Malaysia meeting after holding a video call with the Chinese vice premier on Friday. He described their online discussions about US-China trade as frank and detailed. “We will meet in-person next week to continue our discussions,“ Bessent wrote on social media. China’s official Xinhua News Agency also reported on the video call between the two officials. Xinhua characterised the discussions as constructive and said both sides agreed to hold another round of high-level economic talks soon. Bessent revealed the Malaysia meeting plans before the video conference with his Chinese counterpart. He said his team and He’s delegation would “meet in Malaysia probably a week from tomorrow to prepare for the two presidents to meet.” Malaysia will host this year’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations summits with partner nations starting October 26. President Trump is expected to attend these regional meetings before travelling to Japan and South Korea. Bessent and Vice Premier He have led multiple rounds of trade talks in European cities since spring. The Chinese official serves as a trusted economic aide to President Xi Jinping. “I think that things have de-escalated,“ Bessent told reporters during Trump’s White House lunch with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He expressed confidence that Trump’s relationship with Xi would help restore positive bilateral relations. Trump confirmed his plans for one-on-one talks with Xi during their South Korea visit for an Asia-Pacific economic summit. “We’re talking, and I think we’ll make a deal that will be good for both,“ the US president said. Trade tensions recently escalated after China announced new export controls on rare earth minerals. Trump responded by threatening a 100% additional tariff on Chinese imports last week. The US president has set November 1 as the potential effective date for these additional tariffs. Trump has not met Xi in person since returning to the White House in January. – Bernama-Kyodo

• theSun
• 11 saat, 33 dakika

Semalam Mahkamah Tinggi Kota Kinabalu putuskan kerajaan pusat bertindak secara tidak sah dan melampaui kuasa Perlembagaan apabila gagal tunai hak Sabah.

• Free Malaysia Today
• 11 saat, 34 dakika

KATA ADUN | Jika masih mahu mulakan dengan soal selidik atau kajian, ia semestinya akan menimbulkan rasa gusar semua pihak.

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• 11 saat, 34 dakika

KUALA NERUS : Tiada kertas siasatan dibuka buat masa ini berkaitan dakwaan pemalsuan dokumen pendaftaran tujuh pemain warisan oleh Persatuan Bolasepak Malaysia (FAM). Ketua Pesuruhjaya Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) Tan Sri Azam Baki berkata kes berkenaan melibatkan isu teknikal antara FAM dan Persekutuan Bolasepak Antarabangsa (FIFA). Beliau menyerahkan sepenuhnya kepada badan induk itu untuk menyelesaikannya. “Jadi terpulang kepada FIFA sama ada akan pertimbangkan atau tidak berhubung rayuan.” “Buat masa ini, SPRM tidak akan menyiasat kes ini kerana ia lebih kepada tindakan FIFA.” “Kita juga mengambil kira pengesahan yang dibuat Kementerian Dalam Negeri berhubung ketujuh-tujuh pemain berkenaan.” Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas Majlis Penganugerahan Kadet Kor Sukarelawan Mahasiswa Antirasuah (Kor SUAR) di Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). Media sebelum ini melaporkan FAM dan tujuh pemain warisan kebangsaan dikenakan tindakan oleh Jawatankuasa Tatatertib FIFA. Mereka didapati melanggar Artikel 22 Kod Tatatertib FIFA berkaitan pemalsuan dokumen. Tujuh pemain terbabit ialah Gabriel Felipe Arrocha, Facundo Tomas Garces, Rodrigo Holgado, Imanol Javier Machuca, Joao Vitor Brandao Figueiredo, Jon Irazabal Iraurgui dan Hector Alejandro Hevel Serrano. – Bernama

• theSun
• 11 saat, 36 dakika

Law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said says guidelines enabling this will be launched on Oct 24.

• Free Malaysia Today
• 11 saat, 36 dakika

KUALA NERUS, Oct 18 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has set up a monitoring team to ensure that...

• Malay Mail
• 11 saat, 36 dakika

Suasana Pantai Klebang di sini, umpama pesta dengan kehadiran orang ramai untuk mengutip kerang selepas video menunjukkan hasil laut tersebut banyak terdapat di situ, tular di media sosial.

• Astro AWANI
• 11 saat, 37 dakika

OCTOBER 18 —  Malaysia’s schools have been shaken in recent months by a series of disturbing incidents...

• Malay Mail
• 11 saat, 37 dakika