KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak submitted a formal request to the Prison Department seeking permission to attend the funeral of Malaysia’s fifth Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who died yesterday at the age of 85 at the National Heart Institute.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 — The High Court here today ordered Datuk Seri Najib Razak to enter his defence on four charges of using his position to obtain gratification totalling RM2.3 billion in 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds and 21 money laundering charges involving the same amount.

By Danial Dzulkifly KLANG, Dec 11 — State executive councillor for local government and tourism Ng Suee Lim was conferred a state award by the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Alhaj today, bestowing him with the title of ‘Dato’. Ng, along with State Financial Officer Ahmad...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1DMB) trial judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah revealed to the High Court today that he had worked with 1MDB’s former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, who is now under police custody.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — After a one-month hiatus, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial resumed at the High Court today.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial at the High Court here today has been vacated as the former premier is still warded in hospital for diarrhoea.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak relating to the embezzlement of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds has been postponed and will resume this Thursday after the former prime minister was reported to be suffering from severe diarrhoea and had to be referred to specialists at Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — A former AmBank relationship manager told the High Court here today that she never expected someone would use Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts for money laundering.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 —Former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has withdrawn an application to obtain recorded statements of witnesses from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in the case involving Yayasan Akalbudi funds.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — A labourer who was previously fined RM5,000 for slashing the head and left hand of a lawyer, who had rebuked him for not wearing a face mask in a supermarket, was today ordered to serve a year in jail by the High Court here.