PETALING JAYA: Universities should come up with a zero tolerance policy against any form of bullying whether physical, verbal, cyber, sexual or social, says the Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE). Its chairman, Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim, said this policy could be supported by anti-bullying campaigns. This comes after the…
PETALING JAYA: There are “hidden” populations – such as the homeless, undocumented and stateless – in the country which are struggling to access Covid-19 vaccines. A community NGO working with such people in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, said aside from not having identity cards or passports, many did not have…
PETALING JAYA: A prominent economist has questioned the lack of fairness in Budget 2022, citing the massive disparity in allocations between the Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera communities. Muhammed Abdul Khalid, who was once former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s economic adviser, said the RM11.4 billion allocation for the Bumiputera community dwarfed…
PETALING JAYA: The health ministry reported 64 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, according to its GitHub database. Of the total, 16 were classified as brought-in-dead (BID). The death toll now stands at 29,155. Most of the deaths were recorded in Sarawak with 19, followed by Johor (8), Kelantan (7), Perak (6), Selangor…
PETALING JAYA: Players in the esports industry want the government to be transparent in its spending of the RM20 million budget allocation for the sector next year. Under Budget 2022 unveiled in Parliament last Friday, a sum of RM20 million was proposed for the esports industry, including RM5 million to…
PETALING JAYA: Umno is expected to put up 90% fresh faces in its line-up of candidates for the upcoming Melaka state election. The chosen candidates were said to have met with Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan at the party’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Utusan Malaysia reported. The list will…
KOTA KINABALU: The Election Commission (EC) must give its assurance to Sabah MPs and assemblymen that only genuine Sabahans are included in the state electoral rolls, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Maximus Ongkili said. He said the party supported Undi18, but was against the automatic voter registration. The Kota Marudu…
PETALING JAYA: Former health minister Dzulkefly Ahmad has welcomed the results of a health ministry study on Ivermectin, which found that the controversial drug sold in the black market does not reduce the risk of severe illness among Category 4 and 5 Covid-19 patients. Stating that the I-tech study was…
KOTA KINABALU: On what will be his second visit to Sabah since becoming prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob will launch the east coast packages of the Pan Borneo Highway in Kinabatangan on Saturday. Deputy chief minister Bung Moktar Radin said Ismail is scheduled to arrive in Sandakan tomorrow evening before…
KUALA LUMPUR: Parents and guardians are advised to ensure their children keep their Covid-19 vaccine second dose appointments, deputy health minister Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali said. The Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force-Adolescent (CITF-A) chairman, in a statement today, said the health ministry had in the past week found that there have…
PETALING JAYA: Pengerang MP Azalina Othman Said has defended her call for an anti-hopping law in Melaka, which has seen the government fall twice since the last general election because of party-hoppers. This comes after a lawyer said Azalina had “crossed the line” by calling for an anti-hopping law in…
KUALA TERENGGANU: Abdul Hadi Awang was returned unopposed as PAS president at the 67th PAS Muktamar (annual general assembly) for the 2021-2023 term. PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man was also returned unopposed as the party’s deputy president. “Hussin Ismail and Kamal Ashaari were returned unopposed as…
BUKIT GANTANG: Local authorities have the power to ban the sale of alcoholic drinks to Muslims in their respective areas, religious affairs minister Idris Ahmad said today. He said hopefully, this would lead to a wider restriction on the sale of alcohol openly to Muslims. The ban, he added, can…
PETALING JAYA: A former minister says Malays as a whole are no longer poverty-stricken though the community is “poor” in the sense it lacks good leaders and institutions. In a Facebook post, former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim questioned the expectations of those calling for new Bumiputera affirmative action…
PETALING JAYA: The health ministry has reported 5,713 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. In a statement, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 5,865 recoveries, bringing the total number of those discharged to 2,396,244. He said the total number of infections now stands at 2,492,343. There…
PETALING JAYA: Bersih 2.0 wants the Election Commission (EC) to categorise Sarawakians in the peninsula as absentee voters so that they are allowed to vote in advance at mass voting centres in Peninsular Malaysia. The electoral watchdog said the EC must prepare at least one mass voting centre in each…
PETALING JAYA: A law expert has dispelled the myth that cyclists don’t have the right to be on the road due to the fact that the pedal-powered two-wheelers are not required to pay any road tax. Daniel Abishegam, the academic director at Advance Tertiary College (ATC), feels that the claim…
PETALING JAYA: A father is despairing over his 16-year-old son’s future after the Shah Alam High Court’s recent decision to dismiss the teenager’s citizenship application because he was born out of wedlock. The 47-year-old Selangor resident, who wants to be identified as Andy, told FMT his son was born in…
SHAH ALAM: Deepavali would have been just like any other day for M Kumar this year, that is until his mother returned for good from Saudi Arabia recently after being away for 10 years. Kumar, 38, said this is the first Deepavali where the family is together again after all…
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian behind the US navy’s worst corruption scandal had “abducted” his two children, who are Malaysian citizens, from a Filipino partner to the US, defying a Singapore court order to return them to the mother. Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard, had apparently sent the two…