#MorningBrief: Top 5 news - 20 January
Astro Awani
January 20, 2017 11:38 MYT
January 20, 2017 11:38 MYT
The list of key news you need to know today.
HERE is the list of key news you need to know today.
Eight shops at Kea Farm in Berinchang here were destroyed in a fire around midnight.
Cameron Highlands Fire and Rescue Station chief Mohamad Haziq Hazmi said a restaurant, fruit store and souvenir shop were among the outlets that were ravaged, incurring an estimated loss of RM500,000.
The police have recorded statements from several witnesses over the case of a lorry driver who was beaten up by a group of men at the car park of the Puncak Athenaeum Condominium in Bukit Antarabangsa here last Saturday.
A video recording of the fight that went viral showed several men beating up the lorry driver, who was lying on the ground, for several minutes.
The Federal Government will spend RM38 billion to develop Sabah and Sarawak in the next five years, which will include the toll-free Pan Borneo Highway, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been extradited from a prison in northern Mexico to the United States, the Mexican government said on Thursday, one day before Donald Trump assumes the U.S. presidency.
Guzman was one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins until he was captured in January 2016. Six months earlier, he had broken out of a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki, who was overseeing a graft investigation into scores of powerful politicians, was killed in a plane crash on Thursday, raising questions about who will take over the country's biggest ever corruption case.
Rescuers found three bodies in the wreckage of the small, twin-prop plane that crashed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state amid heavy rains, firefighters said. Federal prosecutors and police said they would immediately open an investigation in addition to that of aviation authorities.