KOTA KINABALU: This year is the first year after the Pandemic that we able to organize the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan cultural pageant with the full attendance from the districts who held their Kaamatan and Unduk Ngadau in 2022. However we still have to follow the SOP of 1000 people inside…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Building Society Bhd’s (MBSB) net profit in the first quarter ended March 31, fell 8.2% to RM58.2mil from RM63.41mil in the same quarter last year. MBSB, in a statement, said the lower profit is due to lower non-funded income and higher operating expenditure on technology and personnel-related…
A chicken seller catches a chicken for his customer in Kuala Lumpur May 26, 2022. — Picture by Firdaus Latif Thursday, 26 May 2022 5:54 PM MYT KOTA KINABALU, May 26 — The temporary ban on the export of whole chickens is to meet the domestic supply which has declined…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, alongside Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, waves as the two board the plane to Japan to attend the QUAD leaders meeting in Tokyo, in Canberra, Australia May 23, 2022. — AAP Image/Lukas Coch via Reuters Thursday, 26 May 2022 12:39 PM MYT SYDNEY, May 26…
KOTA KINABALU, 25 Mei — Pulau Daat yang terletak di antara Menumbok, Sabah dan Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan akan dilelong pada 27 Mei, di Bornion Centre, Jalan Kolam, Luyang, Kota Kinabalu. Iklan mengenai lelongan terbuka itu tersebar di media sosial sejak beberapa hari lalu, dengan pulau berkeluasan 237.55 hektar terbabit bakal…
Pihak pendakwaan hari ini memohon untuk menyemak keputusan Mahkamah Majistret Tangkak yang melepas tanpa membebaskan Long Tiger atau nama sebenarnya, Abdul Hamim Ab Hamid atas pertuduhan melakukan pemerasan.Permohonan itu dikemukakan di hadapan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Muar Datuk Abu Bakar Katar yang kemudiannya menetapkan 1 Jun untuk keputusan.Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Muhammad…
MAY 25 — The sphere of national food security is an invaluable pillar of the overall national development strategy via its reciprocal link to other spheres of socio-economy.Effective national food security strategy leads to greater food availability and affordability, lowers food expenditure as a share of the overall household spending,…
KOTA KINABALU, 25 May – The International Relations program of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSK), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, recently had the pleasure of hosting a guest lecturer from Cankiri Karatekin University, Turkey, Prof. Dr. Sezai Ozcelik. According to FSSK, Ozcelik, who is attached to the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science in the Department of International…
PETALING JAYA: Several roads in downtown Kuala Lumpur were flooded just after noon today following continuous heavy rain since morning, city police said. In a Facebook post, police said vehicles could still travel on some of the roads that were not too badly affected. These include Jalan Ipoh, Jalan Rahmat,…
PETALING JAYA: Consumers now have to pay more to fill their bellies. Data from the department of statistics Malaysia shows that the prices of 89.1% of all food items recorded increases in April. This led to a 4.1% rise in inflation for food and beverages in April, compared with the…
PETALING JAYA: A think tank has called on the government to allow market forces to prevail in the issue of the high prices of chicken. Carmelo Ferlito of the Center for Market Education said the government’s recent measures, including the RM8.90 per kg ceiling price and an export ban on…
PETALING JAYA: Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin Abdullah has slammed the government’s approval of proposals for the development of new highways, calling it “extremely premature”. She questioned the government’s go-ahead without first consulting and seeking approval from the respective state governments and their residents. Maria reminded the government that developers…
PETALING JAYA: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, and the Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, have expressed their condolences to the family of former Perak track guru Suppiah Ramalingam, who died on Sunday. In a statement posted on the Istana Negara Instagram page, the…
PETALING JAYA: The meteorological department has issued a warning of thunderstorms and heavy rain across the Klang Valley. The warning, issued at 9.55am today, said the bad weather was expected to last until 1pm, with the whole of Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya affected. The entire state of Melaka and…
PETALING JAYA: Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva has defended the city-state’s criminal justice system after a group of UN human rights experts criticised two recent high-profile executions of convicted drug traffickers. Umej Bhatia also said that reports about reprisals against legal counsel representing the death…
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,131,326 or 31.9% of children aged five to 11 have been fully vaccinated under the Covid-19 national immunisation programme for children (PICKids) as of yesterday. According to the CovidNow website, 1,683,567 children or 47.5% of the age group have received at least one dose of…
PETALING JAYA: DAP has called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to provide more information about its investigations into corrupt practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. MACC chief Azam Baki yesterday revealed that the anti-graft agency had opened investigations into bribery in the procurement of medical services, fraud related to the…
KOTA KINABALU: Peningkatan 100 peratus kes jangkitan baharu COVID-19 di Kota Kinabalu daripada 16 kes semalam kepada 32 kes hari ini menyumbang kepada peningkatan jumlah kes jangkitan harian virus itu di Sabah hari ini. Menteri Kerajaan Tempatan dan Perumahan, Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun berkata Sabah merekodkan 52 kes positif baharu…
SEBERANG PERAI: A trade unionist has slammed an Amanah Youth leader for suggesting that the government postpone the implementation of the RM1,500 minimum wage order for cash-strapped small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). K Veeriah, the Penang division secretary of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said the call by Ammar…
KUALA LUMPUR: A federal minister has hit out at DAP for “politicising” the government’s decision to ban the export of chickens and cancelling the approved permits (APs) for importing certain food products, following a shortage in supply. Domestic trade and consumer affairs minister Alexander Nanta Linggi said the decision was…