GEORGE TOWN: Food and drink prices have soared with more people eating out since the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.A check by The Star found that a plate of economy rice which consists of white rice, one meat and one vegetable dish, as well as a cup of beverage, which would have cost around RM5 in pre-pandemic times now costs between RM8 and RM10.A customer who only wanted to be known as Roger said that an economy rice stall in Pulau Tikus had charged him RM10 for only a piece of fish.“ A piec

MELAKA: A Form Two student has been charged with murdering his nine-year-old brother at the Magistrate's Court in Ayer Keroh here. The charge, framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code, was read to the accused before Magistrate Sharda Shienha Mohd Suleiman. The accused merely nodded when the charge was read to him on Tuesday( July 18).He was accompanied by his parents. Based on the facts of the case, the accused had allegedly strangled his brother to death between 11. 30am to 12. 35pm at a hous

ALOR GAJAH: A Form Three student and two others faced three counts of charges at the Sessions Court here with being involved in spate of armed robberies. However, the 15-year-old accused together with Naufal Izmeiel Abdullah, 24 and Muhammad Ridzuan Mat Nasir, 26, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them before Judge Nariman Badruddin on Wed( Jan 24). Based on the charge sheet, the trio, together with two others who are still at large, had allegedly staged the robbery by using a mac

PETALING JAYA: The two most common elements that ensnared people in scams were their greed and gullibility, says a bank’s financial crime investigator. The officer at a publicly listed bank in Malaysia told Sunday Star under the condition of anonymity that scammers would try to target people who evaded taxes or believed that they could get rich quickly.“ When calling the victims, the scammers would impersonate an Inland Revenue Board officer and see if they could ‘bait’ the victim.“ They would s