Published on: Monday, January 25, 2021
By: Bernama
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TAWAU: Two siblings were shocked to discover their father’s body in a boat off the coast of Batu Payung, here, Sunday afternoon.
Amirkhan Binjamin said his father Binjamin Osman, 65, had left his house in Kampung Tanjung Batu Laut at 5pm on Saturday to fish in the nearby sea area.
“However, my father did not return home by midnight, but at that time, we still did not suspect anything because we thought it was possible for him to go fishing again.
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“At 11am today, my brother and I went out to search, and we found my father’s boat here about noon, with our father lying unconscious in it,” he told reporters here, Sunday.
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Malaysia’s king asked politicians in the country on Tuesday to set aside their differences after lawmakers across the spectrum questioned his decision to declare a national emergency to contain escalating coronavirus cases.
Meanwhile, Malaysia extended a lockdown over most of the country amid consistently elevated rates of COVID-19 cases daily, a day after the prime minister announced a multi-billion-dollar stimulus package to shore up the pandemic-battered economy.
“This is the time for us as Malaysians to put aside our political differences, races and religions and show our loyalty, humanity and solidarity in fighting the pandemic,” King Al-Sultan Abdullah Riayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said in a statement.
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Published on: Thursday, December 17, 2020
By: Lagatah Toyos
Some of the seized items.
TAWAU: A local man was arrested by the Marine Police here while trying to smuggle in a number of fruits worth RM22,320 through the waters of CIQ Lama on Tuesday.
District Marine Police Operation Base Commanding Officer DSP Mohd Nazari Ismail said his team apprehended a boat carrying loads of fruits believed to be from Indonesia.
“Further inspection found wooden boxes containing various types of fruits such as mango, avacado and dragon fruit suspected to be brought into Malaysia from neighbouring countries,” he said.
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According to him, the captain, 26, failed to provide any documents and permission letter from the Department of Agriculture to bring in the fruits.