Changlun

A pile of electric poles that were stacked near a construction site came crashing down, killing a boy who was playing nearby at Kampung Belukar Changlun.

Police have mounted six roadblocks in this district as part of efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 linked to the Sivagangga cluster.

A teacher at a school in Changlun suffered a loss amounting to RM333,000 after being duped by individuals, believed to be members of a Macau Scam syndicate.

He said the police had found new evidence that could help identify the murderer.

Kedah CID chief SAC Mior Farid Alathrash Wahid said the two suspects, aged 36 and 37, were held in Alor Setar and Jitra on Thursday.

A Bukit Aman policeman who was in the midst of gathering information on the underworld and smuggling activities at the Malaysia-Thai border was gunned down at a friend's house in Jitra last night.

Robbers blew up an automated teller machine (ATM) in at the Napoh Rural Transformation Centre (RTC) building in Changlun early morning today.

A four-year-old girl was killed and five others were injured, when a Honda Stream car they were travelling in skidded and crashed into a tree.

Such a directive had already been issued by the Education Ministry but probably some district education offices have yet to receive the directive.

Police detained two couples in two separate cars yesterday, including a policewoman, for their alleged involvement in smuggling firearms into the country and criminal activities.

Floods in Changlun

The Kedah Anti-Smuggling Unit arrested 20 illegal immigrants at the Changlun bus stop Monday.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.

It represents a big legal victory for Donald Trump, who won the Nov. 5 US election and is set to return to office on Jan. 20.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards).

The warm-up matches will involve matches against better ranked teams in the world, namely Austria (first) and Belgium (third).

The United States, part of the G7, has rejected the ICC decision, with President Joe Biden describing it as outrageous.

A legend who has influenced our music for decades, was one of the highlights of my career, says Francissca Peter.

Judges are reviewing TikTok's challenge to a law requiring ByteDance to sell its US assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.