A shocking murder unfolded in Kecamatan Way Serdang, Mesuji, last Saturday when a man brutally killed his married neighbor after she rejected his love confession.
The victim, Krisnawati, 25, was reportedly boiling water behind her house when the suspect, identified as Sendi, 30, approached her. According to Mesuji Police Chief AKBP Muhammad Harris, Sendi expressed his romantic feelings for Krisnawati despite knowing she was married.
"The suspect is believed to have seen the victim in the open area behind her house. He then approached her and confessed his feelings," Chief Harris explained.
Startled by the unexpected confession, Krisnawati rejected Sendi's advances and asked him to leave. The rejection enraged the suspect, who grabbed a hoe and struck the victim's head twice, causing her to collapse.
The police chief further revealed that Krisnawati managed to get up momentarily but was ultimately overpowered by Sendi, who fatally assaulted her before fleeing the scene.
The suspect was later apprehended at his residence and now faces legal action. Authorities confirmed that he could face a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
The Umno member also names another Facebook user for an insulting post and urges authorities to take action.
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Shahrol Azizie Azmi (right) claimed Harith Iskander’s post on Facebook insulted Islam.PETALING JAYA: Local celebrity Shahrol Azizie Azmi, also known as Shahrol Shiro, has filed a police report regarding a Facebook post by comedian Harith Iskander.
In the police report shared on his Facebook page, Shahrol also lodged a complaint against an individual named Cecelia Yap.
“Harith and Cecelia, for the sake of my religion, police report ON,” said Shahrol, who is also an Umno member.
In the report made at the Kluang police headquarters, Shahrol claimed that Harith’s post and Cecelia’s comment insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
Harith Iskander’s Facebook post last week, in which he joked about a menu that contained the word ‘ham’. (Facebook pic)
In a Facebook post last week, Harith jokingly said his faith was shaken after seeing a menu advertising “Ham Sap Coffee”, because it contained the word “ham”.
His joke follows a controversy surrounding ham sandwiches allegedly lacking halal certification being sold at a convenience store at Universiti Malaya.
The companies, including the world’s largest solar panel producer Jinko Solar Co, are said to be bracing for tariff hikes by the Trump administration.
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More Chinese solar panel manufacturers are expected to cease operations in Malaysia, as many of them had set up shop purely to target the US market. (Bernama pic)PETALING JAYA: Multiple China-based solar panel companies have reportedly halted or cut back on their operations in Malaysia as they brace for tariff hikes by the incoming Donald Trump administration in the US.
Singapore’s The Straits Times quoted industry sources as saying tariffs imposed by the US in 2024 had already affected the profit margins of these companies, while further hikes were expected with Trump taking office.
The affected companies reportedly include Jinko Solar Co – the largest solar panel producer globally – Risen Energy Co, and JA Solar Technology Co. The three companies contribute to 40% of Malaysia’s total capacity for solar production.
Risen Energy is said to have reduced its operations over the past six months, after initially planning to invest more than RM42 billion over 15 years in its factory in Kulim, Kedah. The company began production in Malaysia in 2021.
Another Chinese firm, Longi Green Energy Technology Co, has scrapped plans to expand its operations in Malaysia after establishing three solar panel factories in Selangor and Sarawak, the report said.
It is said to have invested RM5.4 billion as of 2023 since it first entered the Malaysian market in 2016.
Malaysian Photovoltaic Industry Association adviser Chin Soo Mau said more Chinese companies were expected to cease operations in Malaysia, as many had set up shop here purely to target the US market.
“With higher scrutiny over the ownership of companies exporting solar panels to the US, and potential higher tariffs by Trump, their products will no longer be competitive in the US market,” he was quoted as saying.
Consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie reported that nearly 80% of Malaysia’s solar production capacity in 2024 were contributed by Chinese firms, with the remaining from US’s First Solar, and Korea’s Hanwha Qcells.
These solar panels are mostly exported to the US.
A source at a local bank told The Straits Times the move by major Chinese firms to scale down or cease operations had a ripple effect on smaller companies in the supply chain that were also from China.
“They are unable to supply their products to the major solar panel manufacturers that have shut operations,” said the banker, whose clients included some of these smaller China companies.
With more Chinese solar panel manufacturers anticipated to leave the Malaysian market this year, Wood Mackenzie’s head of solar supply chain research, Yana Hryshko, said more than 5,000 workers stand to lose their jobs while revenue from the sector would dwindle.
However, a government source said Putrajaya’s agencies were trying to get some of these companies to help in Malaysia’s transition to renewable energy.
“The manufacturing facilities are already built, so we are exploring whether they can be used to supply solar panels to local power producers,” said the senior government official, who did not want to be named.
The group says it is stopping ‘sanctions’ against ships owned by US or British individuals or entities.
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The Iran-backed Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023. (EPA Images pic)LONDON: Yemen’s Houthis will limit their attacks on commercial vessels to Israel-linked ships provided the Gaza ceasefire is fully implemented, the Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOOC) said.
The Sanaa-bsed HOCC, which liaises between Houthi forces and commercial shipping operators and is associated with the Houthi military, said it was stopping “sanctions” against vessels owned by US or British individuals or entities, as well as ships sailing under their flags.
“We affirm that, in the event of any aggression against the republic of Yemen by the US, the UK, or the usurping Israeli entity, the sanctions will be reinstated against the aggressor,” it said in an email sent to shipping industry officials dated Jan 19.
“You will be promptly informed of such measures should they be implemented.”
The HOCC said the Houthis would stop targeting Israeli-linked ships “upon the full implementation of all phases of the agreement”.
Many of the world’s biggest shipping companies have suspended voyages through the Red Sea and diverted their vessels around southern Africa to avoid being attacked.
The Iran-backed Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023 and sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers.
They have targeted the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which are joined by the narrow Bab al-Mandab strait, a chokepoint between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
Hamas released three Israeli hostages in Gaza and Israel freed 90 Palestinian prisoners yesterday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war.
Caution
Executives from shipping, insurance and retail industries told Reuters last week that they were not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route because of uncertainty over whether the Houthis would continue to attack shipping.
A spokesman for Germany container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said today the company was still monitoring the situation, adding: “We will return to the Red Sea when it is safe to do so.”
The Houthis have attacked ships in recent months based on outdated information, Jakob Larsen, chief safety and security officer with shipping association BIMCO, said.
“In recent months, they have made several false claims about successful attacks, thereby slightly undermining their credibility,” he said today.
“Assuming the ceasefire holds and the US also refrains from using force, shipping companies are expected to gradually resume operations through the Red Sea.”
Insurers were also were waiting for test voyages to determine if war risk premiums would ease, market sources said today, asking not to be named.
Higher war risk insurance premiums, paid when vessels sail through the Red Sea, have meant additional costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a seven-day voyage for any ships still sailing through the area.
The Houthis hold the Bahamas-flagged Galaxy Leader and its 25 crew members, which was seized by the militia’s commandos in international waters in November 2023.
“The Filipinos, Mexicans, Romanians, Bulgarians, and Ukrainian who were on board are desperate to leave Yemen,” the vessel’s owner Galaxy Maritime Ltd and manager Stamco Ship Management said today.
“Some have been hospitalised with malaria and one can only guess at their mental state.”
