GEORGE TOWN: The High Court here today dismissed a legal challenge filed by a construction company to question a by-law enacted last year in granting a six-month extension to companies to settle their debts during the movement control order. Judicial commissioner Quay Chew Soon made the decision during an online…
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng has been discharged from the National Heart Institute (IJN) and will attend his corruption trial in the sessions court tomorrow, his lawyers said. “We will proceed tomorrow with his presence,” counsel Haijan Omar told Judge Azura Alwi. The judge had earlier…
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 2.3 million passenger movements were recorded at airports in Malaysia last month, surpassing the two million mark for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd managing director Iskandar Mizal Mahmood said the 77% increase from…
KUCHING: Sarawak has the right to seek independence from the federation of Malaysia, claims Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK) president Voon Lee Shan. Voon, a former DAP man, was responding to Parti Sarawak Bersatu president Wong Soon Koh, who reportedly urged Sarawakians not to be “fooled” by talk of independence on…
PETALING JAYA: The proposed enhanced penalties of up to RM1 million and other amendments to the infectious diseases law, under which Covid-19 SOPs are enforced, ought to be reviewed, Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan said today. Under a new bill tabled in Parliament to amend the Prevention and Control of…
PETALING JAYA: The Social Security Organisation (Socso) has suspended wage subsidy for 8,133 employers who breached conditions by sacking their employees despite receiving the subsidy. The human resources ministry said that as of Nov 7, Socso had received 4.423 complaints from workers that their employers had abused the wage subsidy…
IPOH: State assembly speaker Mohammad Zahir Abdul Khalid today reprimanded Hulu Kinta assemblyman Muhamad Arafat Varisai Mahamad for bringing a whole raw chicken to the sitting yesterday. He asked security personnel to carry out more rigorous inspections on items such as bags and packages brought into the assembly.about:blank “I would…
PETALING JAYA: A coalition of 25 health organisations and seven medical specialists has called for a “variant strategy” as Malaysia prepares to enter the Covid-19 endemic phase. The Malaysian Health Coalition said variants were inevitable in a multi-year pandemic, and the government should establish and implement an endemic Covid-19 strategy…
KUCHING: Analysts do not expect yesterday’s passing of the bill to return Sabah and Sarawak to equal status with Peninsular Malaysia to yield much in the way of votes for Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS). Universiti Malaysia Sarawak’s Dick Lembang Dugun and Universiti Malaya’s Awang Azman Pawi told FMT they believed…
PETALING JAYA: The pandemic and the political unrest in the country have not dented Malaysia’s attractiveness to Japanese investors, said the country’s ambassador Takahashi Katsuhiko, who rated Malaysia as one of the region’s premier destinations for investors. “Some may argue that other Asean countries are catching up quickly as destinations…
PETALING: DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has questioned whether Malaysia’s special ambassadors have submitted their 100-day report cards. Lim, the Iskandar Puteri MP, said the special ambassadors are paid by public funds and the people have a right to know how they have performed. “Can the four special envoys –…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has reaped great rewards from the Look East policy, which turns 40 next year, Japan’s ambassador to Malaysia Takahashi Katsuhiko has said. Katsuhiko said the policy, introduced under then-prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, had seen over 26,000 Malaysians study in Japan over the years. “I think the…
PETALING JAYA: Business groups have called on the health ministry to reconsider the proposed maximum compound of RM1 million for businesses or agencies not complying with Covid-19 SOPs. The maximum amount that can currently be imposed is RM50,000, and the hefty increase is among the amendments to the Prevention and…
KUCHING: There are murmurs among political observers and on the streets of Batu Kawah that incumbent Dr Sim Kui Hian has not been seen on the campaign trail as much as the other contestants. It is understood that the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president is busy as a bee…
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) wants the government to halt Employers Provident Fund (EPF) withdrawal schemes before members reach the retirement age of 60. MEF president Syed Hussain Syed Husman said the recent EPF withdrawals through the i-Lestari, i-Sinar and i-Citra facilities had seen RM101.1 billion being withdrawn.…
PETALING JAYA: Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has hit out at “hypocrisy and double standards” practised by those pushing for a gambling ban and a clampdown on the sale of alcohol, saying they want to use Islam “for their own personal interest”. In a wide-ranging interview with former…
KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) under the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy (FBEA), and Department of City Tourism Development, Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK), organised Community-Based Tourism Action Plan workshop for the community of Kampung Darau, Inanam recently. The Head of Tourism Management Program in UMS, Associate Professor…
KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor assured that reducing climate change impact is high on the Sabah State Government’s agenda. “As part of our commitment to reduce the impacts of climate change, the Sabah State Government has targeted to plant about 36 million trees as…
KOTA KINABALU: Tan Sri T.C Goh, President of the Federation of Chinese Associations Sabah (FCAS) has urged the people of Sabah, the Chinese community included, to pay close attention to the Sarawak state election, which polling falls on this coming Saturday, 18 December. He said, this is only appropriate since…
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is among the members of Parliament (MPs) who expressed their support for the Bill to amend the Federal Constitution to be in line with the provisions in the Malaysia Agreement 1963. When debating the Constitution (Amendment) Bill today, Anwar said matters related…