BENTONG: Six people, including an illegal metal workshop factory owner and five foreigners, were detained after authorities raided the premises operating opposite a housing settlement at Taman Saga here on Wednesday.

JOHOR BARU: Police have arrested a Bangladeshi man, suspected of being involved in a dog-hitting incident, which went viral two days ago.

MELAKA: A Bangladeshi was among two workers killed while two others suffered burns in a fire at a transformer room of a factory in the Tangga Batu Industrial Area here today.

KLANG: The atmosphere at Meru’s Central Market Complex turned chaotic early this morning when foreign traders and visitors ran helter-skelter at the sight of an enforcement team from the Selangor Immigration Department.

BATU PAHAT: A Bangladeshi factory worker was charged in the magistrate’s court here today with the murder of his Nepali co-worker at their workers’ hostel last week.

PUTRAJAYA: The Immigration Department arrested 46 foreigners suspected of running an online scam syndicate raking in an estimated RM100,000 to RM150,000 profits daily in a recent raid.

ILLEGAL e-waste dumping by countries near and far is a mushrooming menace for Malaysia. In the most recent raids in three states, enforcement agencies netted RM1.4 billion worth of e-waste, with the haul in Sungai Siput, Perak, being the biggest in five years.

JOHOR BARU: The police have dismantled a subsidised diesel smuggling syndicate operating under the guise of a transportation company at a factory in Jalan Perniagaan Setia 3, Taman Perniagaan Setia, here yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Desperate to evade checks by the Immigration Department and police, an undocumented immigrant resorted to hiding under a mattress.

MELAKA: A lecturer from a public university pleaded not guilty at the magistrate's court here yesterday to two charges of assaulting two male students last year.

MELAKA: A Bangladeshi grocery store assistant was fined RM2,000 by the magistrate's court here yesterday for unlawfully imprisoning and injuring a disabled woman in October last year.

JOHOR BARU: The Johor Immigration Department detained 130 foreign nationals and two local employers in an integrated operation in several districts in Johor last Friday.

KUANTAN: Malaysian authorities have apprehended three individuals, including a Chinese national and a Bangladeshi, linked to the illegal processing of electronic waste (e-waste) valued at approximately RM410 million.

SHAH ALAM: Police arrested five Bangladesh nationals, including two women, to assist in the investigation of the murder of a fellow countryman in Section 7, here yesterday.

GENEVA: Bangladesh’s former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN said Wednesday, warning the abuses could amount to “crimes against humanity.”

KLANG: A syndicate involved in smuggling undocumented migrants has been earning nearly RM200,000 a month by illegally transporting people across the border for the past seven years.

Old rivalries between India and Pakistan are driving a shift in regional ties, with New Delhi courting Afghanistan’s Taliban while Islamabad befriends the new leaders of post-revolutionary Bangladesh.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: The General Operations Force’s northern brigade uncovered an illegal factory processing and storing e-waste in Machang Bubuk here, seizing materials worth RM21.8 million yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Department (JIM) has arrested 58 foreign nationals, including individuals from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam, during a joint operation targeting an illegal food court business in Puchong.

KUALA LUMPUR: A petrol station attendant was believed to be a regular customer at a local brothel because he was infatuated with an Indonesian sex worker there.