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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) will not be able to use the ongoing tax amnesty programme to escape criminal prosecution over alleged theft of state funds, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (Aug 5, 86 sen) Maintain buy with an unchanged target price (TP) of RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, who is known to have facilitated transfers to and from AmBank accounts of Datuk Seri Najib Razak between year 2011 and 2015, may have skipped the former prime minister’s approval in one of those transfers, the High Court was told yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) ordered RM40 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds to be channelled into former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s AmBank accounts in the final week of December 2014 to ensure funds advanced by two Putrajaya Perdana Bhd units could be returned.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his wife, his brother and two others have applied to strike out the RM52.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): The trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak involving the alleged siphoning of RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd into his account enters its 47th day today, with the defence to continue its cross-examination of former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 5): Kylie Jenner (of the Kardashians) has booked the superyacht Equanimity (recently renamed Tranquility) to celebrate her 22nd birthday.

PUTRAJAYA (Aug 5): The Court of Appeal today dismissed an application by both the prosecution and defence to postpone Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) or the Tanore trial, which is scheduled to begin on Aug 19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): Further escalation on trade tensions between the US and China could prompt Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to cut interest rates again as early as November — bringing them down to levels not seen since March 2011 — to mitigate any impact on domestic growth, said Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB).

Residents of a Kepong condominium want action taken to resolve the issue of double parking at a nearby restaurant.