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Published on: Thursday, February 18, 2021 By: The Star All gone: Ng speaking at the press conference organised by Wong. IPOH: This Chinese New Year has been a bitter one for 80-year-old Ng Kam Moi after she was cheated out of her life savings of RM77,000. Ng, a former government hospital attendant who lives in Tanjung Rambutan, said she was told to withdraw her fixed deposit by a man in his 30s so that she could open another bank account offering higher interest rates. The Feb 9 incident has ca...

Published on: Thursday, February 18, 2021 By: The Star All gone: Ng speaking at the press conference organised by Wong. IPOH: This Chinese New Year has been a bitter one for 80-year-old Ng Kam Moi after she was cheated out of her life savings of RM77,000. Ng, a former government hospital attendant who lives in Tanjung Rambutan, said she was told to withdraw her fixed deposit by a man in his 30s so that she could open another bank account offering higher interest rates. The Feb 9 incident has ca...

Ng Kam Moi, 80, relating her story during a press conference by Kat Wong (right). IPOH: A senior citizen was cheated of her life savings just days before Chinese New Year after being convinced to withdraw the money from her fixed deposit for the promise of higher returns through a new bank account. Ng Kam Moi, 80, lost RM77,000 on Feb 9 after fallling prey to a "friendly acquaintance". The former government hospital attendant, from Tanjung Rambutan, said it all started on Feb 3, when her forme...

Published on: Friday, January 08, 2021 Text Size: Credit: The Star. Kota Kinabalu: The Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) satisfaction with the briefing given by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti) and Ministry of Health (MOH) on Covid-19 vaccine procurement and use affirms the government’s transparency, said Sabah MCA Wanita Chief Dr Pamela Yong  (pic).  ADVERTISEMENT She said the satisfaction expressed by PAC, which is headed by opposition MP,  Wong Kah Woh (Ipoh Tim...

GEORGE TOWN: MCA vice-president Datuk Tan Teik Cheng says affirmations by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) debunked DAP adviser Lim Kit Siangs allegations that Malaysia is paying 20 times more than Belgium for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, which alludes that monetary malpractices were involved. "It is discomforting that Lim had exploited the pandemic and vaccines to cast aspersions on the Perikatan Nasional government. "However, his fellow party comrade Ipoh Timur MP Wong Kah Woh expressed sa...

IPOH: Two Perak DAP assemblyman are standing by their statements, saying that they did nothing wrong to be criticised by their own state party leaders. Malim Nawar assemblyman Leong Cheok Keng said he only questioned Nga Kor Ming on how the state party chief was going to take responsibility if he had made a mistake by working with Umno. "They alleged that I made a personal attack on a leader. "A personal attack is when I call names or talk bad about his family, which I didnt do," he said when...

IPOH: Perak DAP has taken to task three of its state assemblymen for criticising its party leadership during the state political impasse. In a joint statement issued by 17 of its state representatives on their Facebook page, they called out Leong Cheok Keng (Malim Nawar), Leow Thye Yih (Pokok Assam) and Terence Naidu (Pasir Bedamar) for issuing statements without going through the proper channels. They said all three have violated party discipline for the statements they made, which had hurt it...