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KUCHING (Nov 6): The High Court here today sentenced a farmer to 30 years in jail for murdering his friend with a handmade shotgun two years ago. Judicial Commissioner Alexander Siew How Wai convicted Nuli Natau, 57, on his own guilty plea to a charge framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

An artificial intelligence (AI) system to be used as a sentencing guideline in courts within Peninsular Malaysia is in the works, while it’s now applied in Sabah and Sarawak. Before it proceeds, a lot of deliberation and consultation is needed.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 — Three youths in Sarawak today failed at the High Court in Kuching to get leave for the court to hear their legal bid to be allowed to vote in the Sarawak elections this Saturday. The three youths’ lawyer Simon Siah confirmed the decision today by High Court judicial...

KUCHING: Three youths have filed an application for a judicial review at the High Court here seeking to exercise their right to vote in the 12th Sarawak state election.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — Three youths aged between 18 and 19 have filed an application to the High Court here for judicial review against the Registrar of Electors for Sarawak and Election Commission (EC) to exercise their voting rights in the 12th state election. Avril Clarice Chin Ning, 18 and...

High Court previously found delayed implementation 'illogical'.

Govt filed no appeals by Oct 6 deadline, says Siah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — The Malaysian government has not filed any appeal against the High Court’s order for it to implement Undi18 by the end of December 2021, lawyers have confirmed. Since the Malaysian government and the Election Commission (EC) did not appeal to the Court of Appeal within the...

12 Jul 2021 / 09:15 H. FOR the Penans, it is a chicken-and-egg situation. They can’t solve the problems facing their community, including poverty, if they don’t go to school and get a decent education. But they can’t go to school if they don’t have identification papers. It appears that the Penans have an entire system stacked against them. Unless the government is able to acknowledge their problems with the infrastructure problems in rural areas, the issues of statelessness will persi...