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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin (pictured) “solely depended” on the words of his late boss Datuk Azlin Alias, as well as Low Taek Jho to act on the fugitive financier’s instructions as the civil service hierarchy’s protocol had prevented him from speaking directly to the prime minister, the High Court was told yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s former special officer Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin agreed with a suggestion that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, behaved like a ‘puppet master’ who controlled those around him to do his bidding, no matter what their rank or where they were from.

KUALA LUMPUR (Spet 6): The government has decided to terminate the project delivery partner (PDP) agreement for the Sarawak portion of the Pan Borneo Highway project although nearly half of the first phase has been completed, sources close to the matter said.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has not blacklisted Aset Kayamas Sdn Bhd despite its entanglement with former Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor's corruption case.

  GEORGE TOWN (Sept 5): Property buyers say that developers are making them pay between RM30,000 and RM90,000 extra in packaged deals for units under the low-cost housing scheme.

Often, urban living means having to sacrifice space and comfort.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Prosecution witness Datuk Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin admitted at the High Court today during the 1Malaysia Development Bhd-Tanore (1MDB-Tanore) trial that he had in 2010, obtained a US$200,000 (about RM839,000) loan from Low Taek Jho to buy a RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): At one point, Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin (pictured, left) brought home some RM75,000 per month as the special officer to Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the High Court was told today.

JOHOR BAHRU (Sept 5): Repeated efforts by the authorities to clean up illegal dumpsites have gone to naught when some irresponsible parties continue to dispose their waste at the sites.

  MELAKA (Sept 5): Apart from illegal immigrants, Melaka has a new trans-boundary issue – an invasion of wild pigs from Indonesia.