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Road At UPSI Crash Site Was In Good Condition

Jun 11, 2025

The Public Works Department says the road surface and safety features at the site of the fatal UPSI bus crash were in good condition.

In fact, all essential road safety elements, such as guardrails and signboards were properly installed and well maintained while there were also no potholes.

Meanwhile, the Transport Ministry says the bus in question was not fitted with passenger seatbelts, since it was manufactured seven years before seat belt installation became mandatory for new buses.

The ministry acknowledged that this is a problem and assured that it's looking into proposals to make seatbelt use compulsory on all express buses, regardless of when they were built.

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The outstanding amount owed by PTPTN borrowers has reached 5 billion ringgit.

According to the Higher Education Ministry some 400 thousand loan recipients have never made a single repayment.

It adds that some of these defaulters completed their studies as long as over a decade ago.

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Local scholarship providers are being urged to send sponsored Malaysian students to countries other than the US in the wake of recent restrictive policies by the Trump administration.

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At least 11 people have been killed in a school shooting in Austria, in what is the deadliest gun attack in the country's recent history.

Police say the 21-year-old gunman, who was a former student at the school, took his own life shortly after.