Ahmad Faris

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

The KL High Court has ruled that Putrajaya's decision to remove liquid nicotine used in vape and e-cigarettes from the poisons list was irrational and made without proper consultation with the Poisons Board.

It found that former health minister Zaliha Mustafa’s exemption was mainly driven by plans to impose excise taxes on vape products announced in the 2023 federal budget.

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[Richard Ker @richardker]

She was born the seventh of nine children in Kuantan.

Her father was a public servant who got transferred all over the country, so she grew up moving between small towns.

Her mother never finished school. But her mother worked harder than anyone she knew, and believed education was everything.

That belief sent Swee Lay Thein to medical school at Universiti Malaya. She graduated in 1975.

Then she moved to the UK and spent the next 20 years chasing one stubborn question. Why do some patients with blood disorders suffer terribly, needing transfusions their whole lives, while others barely feel sick?

The answer was hidden in a gene. Babies are born producing a special kind of hemoglobin that protects them. Then the body flips a switch and stops making it.

Swee Lay wanted to know what controlled that switch. If you could keep it on, you could save millions of lives.

It took her decades. She travelled across the UK collecting blood samples from families. She flew to Malawi to study a single family with 270 members across seven generations. She hit dead ends. She kept going.

In 2007, she and her team found the gene. They called it BCL11A.

That discovery led to Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. A real cure. Already changing real lives around the world.

Last month, Dr Swee Lay Thein stood on a stage in Los Angeles and accepted the Breakthrough Prize, often called the Oscars of Science.

She is the first Malaysian-born scientist to ever win it.
In her speech she said, "As a child hanging out with my older brothers, playing on old railway tracks in Malaysia, I never imagined being here today."

She dedicated the moment to her mother. The woman who never finished school.

A girl from Kuantan. A mum who believed in education even though she never got one herself. A daughter whose work is now saving lives around the world.

That is a Malaysian story.

Tahniah, Dr Swee Lay Thein. We see you. We are proud. 🇲🇾

[SOU👾 @soudemarspiguet]

こんな感じで出たらバカ売れするだろうな。定価8万、プレ値40万位になると予想。

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

BREAKING: Two Singapore residents isolated, awaiting hantavirus test results, officials say

[Pick @pickyhn]

Tahukah anda, kalau lampu kat lobby entrance PPUM ni warna hujau, maknanya pada hari tersebut ada hamba Allah yang dah dermakan organ kepada hospital.

[David Daines @daviddorg]

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks

Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains

That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

[Ahmad Faris @ahmadfaris]

A massive thank you to Ms. Putri at the KTM Sg Petani station. Her assistance with ticket purchases today was outstanding.

She truly went out of her way to ensure everyone was taken care of. Exceptional service that deserves recognition! 💯 cc: @ktm_berhad

[Arsenal Chizzy @ArsenalChizzy_]

🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on Liverpool.

🗣️ “In my whole career, I’ve never seen a club spend over £500M and become this bad…
You invest that kind of money and expect progress, structure, identity… but what I’m seeing is the complete opposite.

There’s no clear system, no consistency, no fear factor anymore. Teams don’t respect Liverpool like they used to.
From one of the most feared sides in Europe… to a team everyone looks at and believes they can beat.

That should never happen at a club of this level.
I’m sorry, but this is unacceptable. This isn’t a rebuild… this is a collapse.”

[Fakta Bukan Auta @FaktaBukanAuta]

10 April 1933 - Hari ini dalam sejarah kemangkatan Raja Sir Chulan.

Kalau hari ini kita tengok Sultan & Kerabat negeri Perak belajar tinggi² mungkin sebab Raja Chulan.

Ayah Raja Chulan adalah Sultan Abdullah yg dibuang negeri ke Pulau Seychelles, jadi Raja Chulan nekad utk majukan tanahair & bangsa kena guna ilmu & diplomasi bukan semata konfrontasi.

Dia bagi fasih English, dia belajar tinggi², dia sertai perkhidmatan awam, dia tulis buku, dia berhujah dgn Inggeris, dia bentang kertas kerja, dia beri idea - semua ni utk tingkatkan taraf hidup orang Melayu.

Melalui idea Raja Chulan lah Inggeris wujudkan tabung biasiswa utk hantar orang Melayu belajar luar negara ambil medicine & dentistry.

Kemudian habis belajar dia gesa British sediakan laluan kerjaya dlm gov utk mereka ini jadi doktor di daerah yg memerlukan.

Tertubuhnya Rejimen Askar Melayu pun antara ideanya.

Punya respect British kat dia hingga diberi gelaran Sir.

Al-Fatihah Intelektual Melayu - Raja Sir Chulan.

[Iran Embassy In Malaysia @iraninmalaysia]

We had said that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not forget his friends.The first Malaysian ship passed through the Strait of Hormuz

Kami telah mengatakan bahawa Republik Islam Iran tidak akan melupakan rakan-rakannya.Kapal Malaysia yang pertama yang telah melalui Selat Hormuz

[𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐧 @ghostinvoid]

Qatar and Emirates airlines are fully refunding tickets as far ahead as July travel.

Not even rescheduling anymore.

Make of that what you will.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth appoints his longtime advisors Jack Daniels and Captain Morgan as his top two generals.

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

In a next level scheme at Tunku Azizah Hospital (HTA) in KL, a 28-year-old N1 admin assistant (pembantu tadbir or PT) allegedly scammed at least 187 housemen in the paediatric department of the government hospital out of more than RM47,000 over the past two and a half years from Sept 2023 to March 2026.

The female junior PT's alleged con was two-pronged: collecting an RM900 "refund" by falsely claiming that the government "overpaid" emoluments and a “fee” of RM40 to RM45 for a compulsory course, the neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP), that was actually free of charge.

Payments by 187 known victims – all doctors during housemanship postings to HTA’s paediatric department – were either banked into the admin asssistant's personal account or physically paid to her in cash, totalling RM47,210 over the past 30 months.

The 187 people paid the PT either RM45 or RM40 each, except one who paid RM120, under the NRP scam, totalling RM8,210. Forty-two of them were additionally hoodwinked by the salary scam, with 40 housemen getting cheated of RM900 each, one of RM1,200, and another of RM1,800, totalling RM39,000.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews with a dozen victims this week, most, if not all, of the deceptions and financial transactions in the admin assistant’s alleged criminal fraud occurred in their workplace at HTA.

The junior doctors said they didn’t think much about making payment to the PT’s personal account at the time, citing a heavy clinical work burden and trust in “Kak S*****”, whom they relied heavily on for human resource responsibilities.

“She showed me the QR code and said it was her personal account. I never hesitated and I never doubted because I never thought of being scammed by her since she’s the admin. Whatever she said, I fully trusted her. So I straight away banked it to her," a houseman told CodeBlue.

RM900 Salary Scam: Forged Document

The PT allegedly used a forged document to convince house officers to pay her a "refund" of RM900, supposedly because the government "overpaid" their RM300 monthly Imbuhan Tetap Khidmat Awam allowance.

Her alleged modus operandi (MO) involved setting up one-on-one meetings in her office on Level 6 of HTA with her victims, during which she falsely claimed to junior doctors that the government had “overpaid” their emolument for the first three months of housemanship by RM900. She gave them a form to sign.

The fake document titled “Bayaran Balik Emolumen Terlebih Bayar PPS”, which had the doctor's name and IC number, was actually a forgery of a genuine Gantian Cuti Rehat document.

The PT gave housemen two options to pay the RM900 "refund": by cash in an envelope that they could submit to Unit Gaji themselves or via QR code to her personal account. Her victims all chose to directly bank in the money to her.

RM45 NRP Scam: Housemen Batches on Orientation Day

If the admin assistant's MO for her alleged RM900 salary scam was individual shakedowns during personal meetings in her office, her alleged RM45 NRP hustle defrauded entire groups of house officers during orientation at the MOH hospital.

Being the sole PT in charge of trainee doctors in HTA’s paediatrics department, she conducted briefings alone for housemen on the first day of their posting to the department, without anyone else present in the room.

Housemen were told varying accounts of the RM45 payment for the compulsory NRP course: a fee, or for books or certification, but these were actually free of charge.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews, the admin assistant wouldn’t let the trainee doctors leave the room until everyone paid her RM45 there and then, either via QR code to her personal account or cash.

End of 30-Month Scam

Two of the PT's victims ended her 30-month scam last March 27, after the house officers went to Unit Gaji and the human resource department and discovered that the RM900 form was a fake document.

At least 13 police reports have been filed.

CodeBlue understands that the admin assistant, who is reportedly a contract staff under the government's MyStep programme, has since been terminated.

When contacted, the PT told CodeBlue that she was “cooperating” to resolve the “financial issues”, adding that she hoped “this issue can be resolved privately and not published in an article”.

In a WhatsApp message to a houseman, the 28-year-old woman claimed that this was the "first time I did something like this" and that her family was in debt with loan sharks.

HTA and MOH Putrajaya declined comment, citing the ongoing police investigation.

Read more: https://t.co/u88iTmYfE7

[Sonal Varma @SonalVarma10]

Asia's Hormuz Exposure Scorecard

The region is at the epicenter of the energy security shock and faces potential stagflation, if disruptions persist beyond a month. Thailand, South Korea and India are most exposed @Nomura

https://t.co/0Vjkkybe4z

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Estée Lauder Companies has filed a lawsuit against perfumer Jo Malone, her fragrance brand Jo Loves and Zara’s UK business over the use of her name on perfume packaging.

The dispute centres on a Zara perfume collaboration labelled “A creation by Jo Malone CBE, founder of Jo Loves”, which Estée Lauder says breaches an agreement and misleads consumers.

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[MYDIN @MydinMalaysia]

"Pembaziran makanan menurun 11.7% bulan Ramadan 2026"

Tahniah rakyat Malaysia.

[Earth @earthcurated]

We can't always change what hurts us, but we can always find something to hold us up.

[FaceValueAllRedTickets @FVAllRedTickets]

If you haven’t already seen this give it a watch.

Are they still married is the real question?

[Gabi Wall @gabi_wall6]

LONDON: A 15-year-old boy stunned a London courtroom after refusing to live with every family member the judge suggested claiming his parents, aunt, and grandparents had all beaten him.

With no relatives left to place him with, the judge asked who he wanted custody from.

The boy calmly replied:
“Chelsea FC. They can’t beat anyone.”

After checking legal guidelines, the judge granted temporary custody to the team.

That’s it, ladies and gentlemen.