SHAH ALAM, May 3 — A palm oil tanker overturned and spilled its content on the road heading to Bandar Sultan Suleiman near here yesterday.
North Klang district police chief S. Vijaya Rao said at about 1.55 pm the lorry involved, which was from Rantau Panjang, Klang, was going down a bridge when the tank lock came off the lorry’s head, causing the tank to fall into the left lane of the highway exit.
“The 49-year-old male driver did not suffer any injuries and has come forward to file a police report. The results of the urine screening test on the driver involved were negative,” he said in a statement today.
Vijaya also appealed for the cooperation of the public who have information regarding the incident to come to any nearby police station or contact Traffic Investigation Officer Insp R. Kishen Raj at 011-26249291.
The case is being investigated under Section 43(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987.
Earlier, a video went viral on social media showing an oil tanker on a road in Klang suddenly loosen from lorry and overturned, spilling oil on the road. — Bernama
Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who have died from disease and starvation have been children.
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged two men accused of urging others on social media to boycott and cast blank votes in last year’s legislative elections.
Police officers at a Tai Po polling station for the 2025 LegCo elections, on December 7, 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), which oversees Hong Kong’s election legislation, said in a Monday statement that the two men, aged 38 and 63, were charged with alleged breaches of the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance.
The pair, both security guards, have been released on bail and are scheduled to appear at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday.
Ramirez Lam, 38, faces one count of engaging in illegal conduct to incite another person to cast an invalid vote during an election period, while Wong Wah-kwong, 63, faces one count of engaging in illegal conduct to incite another person not to vote.
Their posts were made last year, between October 24, when the nomination period commenced, and December 7, the polling day, the ICAC said.
Lam is accused of leaving a comment on a media outlet’s social media post to incite an invalid vote at the election. The post was a news report on security chief Chris Tang’s remarks that it is an offence to incite people not to vote or cast an invalid vote.
Wong shared a post by wanted overseas-based activist Alan Keung on social media, calling on people not to vote.
Government posters and a video featuring Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee to promote “all patriots” Legislative Council election outside a building in Mong Kok district on November 5, 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
Keung himself faces two charges under the elections ordinance for inciting people not to vote. The activist, who also has a HK$200,000 bounty on his head for a separate national security allegation, called for a boycott of what he described as a “fake election.”
The ICAC charged three people accused of sharing posts made by Keung and another overseas activist, Tong Wai-kung, in November.
One Hong Kong woman, 61-year-old housewife Bonney Ma, was given an 18-month suspended jail sentence last month. The two other defendants are scheduled to appear in court in May.
The number of registered voters was down compared to 2021, with 32,998 fewer Hongkongers casting a ballot than in 2021, and a record 3.12 per cent of invalid votes were cast.
The party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been making gains in a state once beyond its grasp, but many decry an audit that removed nine million voters, many of them Muslim.
Vietnam’s President To Lam met with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese state media said, hoping to deepen ties he says are a top priority.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (second from right) and his wife Peng Liyuan (right) pose with Vietnam’s President To Lam (second from left) and his wife Ngo Phuong Ly at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 15, 2026. Photo: Vietnam News Agency/AFP.
The visit is Lam’s first trip abroad since the Communist Party leader was elected last week as president — the number two position in Vietnamese politics.
He has called ties with Beijing a “top priority” but faces a precarious balancing act between the United States — Vietnam’s main export market — and the country’s largest supplier China.
Xi and Lam met on Wednesday morning in Beijing’s opulent Great Hall of the People, and signed several cooperation agreements, state broadcaster CCTV said, without providing immediate details.
Lam wrote in an article published in China’s state-run People’s Daily on Tuesday that ties with China were a “strategic priority” for Vietnam.
“Cooperation between the two countries needs to move strongly from ‘increasing scale’ to ‘improving quality’; from expanding trade to deeper connections between development strategies, economic corridors, production chains, supply chains, and strategic infrastructure,” he wrote.
He reiterated that China was a “strategic choice and top priority” during a speech at Beijing’s Tsinghua University on Tuesday, Vietnamese state media reported.
Despite rival territorial claims in the South China Sea, the two countries have sought to deepen already close economic ties to guard against global trade upheaval caused by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Chinese exports to Vietnam surged 22.4 percent last year, with Vietnam spending $198 billion on Chinese goods — more than any other country in Southeast Asia.
But Chinese imports from Vietnam fell 0.7 percent, leaving Hanoi with a huge deficit close to US$100 billion with Beijing.
Lam is one of a string of leaders to visit this week from countries impacted by the Middle East war and its economic fallout, including Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Both Vietnam and China get much of their oil imports via the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has largely been halted due to the US-Israeli war with Iran.
However, Hanoi sees rivalry between top trading partners the United States and China as a major impediment to its ambitious goal of achieving double-digit growth over the next five years.
Last week, Xi expressed his willingness “to work with To Lam… to continuously strengthen our respective socialist causes”, as he congratulated the Vietnamese leader on his election, Chinese state media reported at the time.
Vietnam confirmed on Thursday that top leader To Lam will visit China next week at the invitation of counterpart Xi Jinping, his first foreign trip since becoming president.
To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, takes an oath as Vietnam’s president during a National Assembly’s session in Hanoi on April 7, 2026, capping his bid to centralise authority in a nation where senior cadres have traditionally governed collectively. Photo: Dang Anh/AFP.
The Communist Party boss was elected president — the number two position in Vietnamese politics — by the National Assembly on Tuesday, unifying leadership of the party and state as Xi did in China.
Lam and his spouse “will lead a high-level delegation on a State visit to China from April 14-17, 2026,” Vietnam’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
An official briefed on Lam’s travel plans previously told AFP the trip would begin April 15, saying the Vietnamese leader would meet with Xi.
Despite rival territorial claims in the South China Sea, the two socialist states have sought to deepen already close economic ties to guard against global trade upheaval caused by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Both Vietnam and China get much of their oil imports via the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has largely been halted due to the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Xi on Tuesday congratulated the Vietnamese leader on becoming president and expressed his willingness “to work with To Lam… to continuously strengthen our respective socialist causes”, Chinese state media reported.
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