SEPANG, Feb 21 — The revenue collection of the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) Central Zone in 2023 reached RM37.7 billion, surpassing the initial RM36.85 billion target.

PORT KLANG, Feb 20 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department seized four containers containing pork weighing 96,000kg, with an estimated total seizure value of RM2.7 million.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 19 — Traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) practitioners who are registered under the T&CM Act 2016 [Act 775] will be exempted from the eight per cent service tax, according to the Finance Ministry (MoF).

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 31 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has officially appointed Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali as the first director-general of the newly formed Malaysia Checkpoints and Border Agency (MCBA), effective today.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 9 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has urged government-linked investment companies (GLICs) and government-linked companies (GLCs) to reduce their overseas investments and increase their domestic investments.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 28 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) is allowing a temporary postponement of placement and transfer directives according to requests from its officers involved in these orders, said its director-general Datuk Anis Rizana Mohd Zainudin.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — A total of 1,101 foreign nationals were detained for various Immigration offences under an integrated operation involving several enforcement agencies around Jalan Silang this morning.

NILAI, Dec 18 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) seized fentanyl drugs weighing 807.9 kg worth RM44.4 million at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Air Cargo Complex, Sepang, on December 9.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 — The 10 per cent sales tax on online purchases only applies to imported goods valued under RM500, said Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 — Malaysia will start charging a 10 per cent sales tax on imported low value goods (LVG) sold online from Jan 1, 2024, announced the Royal Malaysian Customs Department.

NILAI, Dec 1 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) crippled an international drug trafficking syndicate and seized 260 kg of ketamine worth RM15.6 million on November 21.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 17 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) Central Zone Unit III (LTA Kuala Lumpur) foiled an attempt to smuggle an estimated RM86,800 worth of heroin hidden in the 'marking labels' of floor tile commodity trading boxes when they raided a premise in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, on November 6.

BUTTERWORTH, Nov 3 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department seized 5.8 million sticks of white cigarettes worth over RM400,000 with a RM3.7 million excise duty, smuggled in boxes of instant noodles last Thursday (October 26).

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 25 — The citizenship application security vetting processing period has been reduced from 73 days to 14 days, through the integrated security vetting system launched by the National Registration Department (NRD) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — A total of 170 customs personnel from Malaysia and Indonesia are involved in the Indonesia-Malaysia Coordinated Customs Patrol (Patkor Kastima) operation to curb smuggling activities in the Strait of Malacca from October 18 to November 9.

MELAKA, Oct 17 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) confiscated over RM10.3 million in cigarettes, alcohol, and imported rice worth smuggled into the country between April and October 1, said its deputy director-general Datuk Sazali Mohamad.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 — Government tax refunds increased by 17.8 per cent to RM25.72 billion in 2022 compared to RM21.84 billion in 2021, according to the Auditor-General's Report (LKAN) 2022.

IPOH, Oct 7 — There has been a 6.79 per cent decrease in the number of wildlife-related offences from January to September this year compared to the same period last year, says Bukit Aman Department of Internal Security and Public Order (KDNKA) director Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali.

JOHOR BAHRU, Sept 24 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department in Johor seized 2.91 million sticks of kretek and white cigarettes, estimated at RM3.9 million inclusive of duty and taxes, in two operations on September 6 and September 12.

SEREMBAN, Sept 18 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) in Negeri Sembilan seized 65,000 litres of smuggled beer worth RM362,843, with an estimated tax valued at RM2 million in a raid on September 8.