Prestar eyes highway jobs for earnings sustainability

KUALA LUMPUR (March 21): Prestar Resources Bhd is eyeing highway and associated road projects to deal with the margin squeeze it is currently facing, and the future earnings dilution from the proposed listing of its flat steel manufacturing unit Tashin Holdings Bhd.

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Dr M to Ismail Sabri: ECRL cost query should have been posed when BN drafted contract

KUALA LUMPUR (March 20): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told the Parliament today that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob raised a rhetorical question on the cost of Malaysia's suspended East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, because such query should have been posed when the former government under Barisan Nasional (BN) was still formulating the contract.

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Najib dozes off in Appeal Court

PUTRAJAYA (March 18): A police officer had to wake ex-premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak (pictured) after he was seen sleeping in front of a three-member Court of Appeal bench during the hearing of his appeal that is linked to the charges he faces involving funds from SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former subsidiary of 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

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