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KUALA LUMPUR (March 22): The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) will file an application to seek an earlier date from the Federal Court to hear the four appeals raised by former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and AGC in relation to Najib's seven charges of criminal breach of trust and abuse of power regarding RM42 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.

  PUTRAJAYA (March 21): A three-member Court of Appeal bench here today dismissed three of four appeals by former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak in relation to his seven charges of criminal breach of trust and abuse of power regarding RM42 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.

PUTRAJAYA (March 18): Attorney General Tommy Thomas denied that there was a breach of natural justice on former premier Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, as claimed by his lead counsel in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Pestech International Bhd has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Japanese renewable energy power plant developer for a potential joint investment in the bidding for the Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic Plants for Peninsula Malaysia (LSS 3 Project) According to a bourse filing, the group’s wholly-owned subsidiary Pestech Power Sdn Bhd (PPW) inked the MoU with Japanese outfit RS Renewable KK (RSRKK), which is effective yesterday until legally binding contracts have been executed.

PUTRAJAYA (March 15): Ex-premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told the Court of Appeal today that his client wanted another judge to hear his criminal breach of trust and abuse of power case in relation to SRC International Sdn Bhd or that he be given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.

PETALING JAYA (March 13): The average cost of rental for expatriates in Kuala Lumpur (pictured) has seen an increase in 2018 after a sustained decline between 2015 and 2017, according to international research house ECA International in a press release today.

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 13): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak today claimed trial at the High Court here to three counts of money laundering involving RM47 million in 1Malaysia Development Bhd's former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 13): JCY International Bhd (JCY) has agreed to receive 133.

  PUTRAJAYA (March 12): Attorney-General Tommy Thomas told the Court of Appeal yesterday that the prosecution is under public pressure from within and outside the country to ensure that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s criminal breach of trust and money laundering trial begins as soon as possible.