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RM11 Billion Lost To Commercial Crime Since 2020
Jan 20, 2025
More than 11 billion ringgit has been lost to commercial crime in the country over the past four years.
Bukit Aman’s CCID director says cybercrime alone accounted for 5 billion of the total.
This includes love and investment scams, as well as compromised email accounts.
This has prompted Malaysia to call for the creation of an Interpol-style Cybercrime Task Force for ASEAN.
It's to facilitate real-time intelligence sharing and regional cooperation to better tackle increasingly sophisticated digital attacks.
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The PM is pushing to make it easier for Malaysians living overseas to vote.
He says he’s already raised the issue of postal voting with the Election Commission, including the possibility of a new mechanism where voters will not need to go through the embassy.
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The Housing and Local Government Ministry will hold discussions next year about requiring fire department personnel to have a body mass index of less than 28 in order to qualify for promotions.
This would be in line with the same criteria recently set by the police for promotions within PDRM.
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Police have arrested and remanded a fifth suspect, as part of the investigations into the assault of a disabled man in Kemaman, Terengganu last week, after he crashed his bike into a market stall.
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The flood situation in Sabah has seen a significant improvement, with the number of evacuees down to around 370, compared to nearly 1,200 earlier today.
Meanwhile, there are around 89 victims in Sarawak.
This, as the Met Department issued a yellow alert for continuous rain across most divisions of Sarawak until this Thursday.
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And elsewhere, 90 Palestinian prisoners, as well as 3 Israeli hostages, have been released as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal between the Israelis and Hamas.
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