PETALING JAYA: The Kuching High Court has ordered seven people, who were previously acquitted for refusing to stand when the national anthem was played during an event, to enter their defence on Oct 28. The ruling came after the High Court allowed the appeal of the prosecution against their acquittal…
KOTA KINABALU: Sindumin assemblyman Yusof Yacob announced today that he has quit Warisan, days after brushing aside claims he was leaving the party. Yusof, who was the Warisan information chief, is the second Warisan assemblyman to quit this year. He told reporters he is now an independent assemblyman but supporting…
PETALING JAYA: New prices for Covid-19 self-test kits will be announced in November after several factors are finalised, says domestic trade and consumer affairs minister Alexander Nanta Linggi. He said the sale of these kits in supermarkets is also expected to be implemented by the end of October. Alexander said…
PETALING JAYA: Home minister Hamzah Zainudin must disclose the steps taken to improve police accountability in custodial death cases, a lawyer said. M Ramachelvam, a member of the Bar Council’s taskforce on police accountability, said while custodial deaths should remain a human rights issue, any possible links with race should…
PETALING JAYA: PAS has been asked to clear up an ambiguity in its statement about supporting Umno and Bersatu in the next general election. Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid of Universiti Sains Malaysia and Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs said it was not clear whether PAS…
PETALING JAYA: The four Melaka assemblymen who caused the state government to collapse by withdrawing their support for it may have put themselves in a tough spot, but they may, in time, bounce back. It looks like their political future is in limbo given that three of them have been…
PETALING JAYA: It is time to end the debate as hand sanitisers are still very much effective against Covid-19, say health experts. Former deputy health ministry Dr Lee Boon Chye said all hand sanitisers would go through certain classifications which contain chemicals that were sufficient enough to eliminate the virus.…
PETALING JAYA: Any attempt to hold an election in Melaka will be a “bold act of disrespect” given the current state of Malaysia’s fight against Covid-19, said former Sabah chief minister Salleh Said Keruak. This comes after the Melaka state assembly was dissolved yesterday following the withdrawal of four assemblymen…
PETALING JAYA: The dissolution of the Melaka state assembly has sparked speculation that Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu will start looking for ways to profit from a rift in Umno. Analysts Azmi Hassan and Oh Ei Sun told FMT they believed the two parties would try, for example, to entice Umno…
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) has called for medical tourism to resume as soon as possible, given its economic benefits and the capacity of private facilities to handle them with Covid-19 cases on the decline. In 2019, the last full year sans pandemic, there were roughly…
PETALING JAYA: Economists believe the World Bank’s recent revision of its projection for Malaysia’s GDP growth to 3.3% for the year is still too optimistic given the risk of stalled spending by the public. This is the bank’s second downward revision of the year, having predicted 6% in March and…
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) will go to court over the legitimacy of the current Melaka administration being allowed to function as a “caretaker government” until the state election. This comes after the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Mohd Ali Rustam dissolved the Melaka state assembly yesterday following an announcement that four…
PETALING JAYA: The health ministry reported 117 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, according to its GitHub database, up from 76 the day before. Of the total, 16 were classified as brought-in-dead (BID). The death toll now stands at 26,876. Most of the fatalities were recorded in Sarawak with 21 deaths, followed by…
PETALING JAYA: A lawyer has urged the government to take another look at Article 122 (1A) of the Federal Constitution to prevent a repeat of judges who retire mandatorily holding administrative positions in the judiciary. Another lawyer wants the provision to be amended to allow the chief justice to appoint…
PETALING JAYA: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said it was time for Umno to “move on” from Muafakat Nasional, the political alliance it formed with PAS in September 2019. In the clearest indicator that there was not going to be any further cooperation between the two parties, the Umno president said the…
Kajian terbaharu oleh Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi menunjukkan 78.4% pelajar universiti tidak berasa tertekan ketika mengikuti pengajaran dan pembelajaran (PdP) secara dalam talian tetapi pelajar dan pensyarah tidak bersetuju dengan penemuan itu. Murina Rose Pawanteh, seorang pensyarah di UOW Malaysia KDU berkata, sesetengah pelajarnya percaya sesi kuliah perlu seimbang antara kaedah…
PETALING JAYA: The US government’s overzealous response to terrorism in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks created opportunities for military contractors, like infamous Malaysian ‘Fat Leonard’, to enrich themselves. In a podcast hosted by journalist and “Billion Dollar Whale” author Tom Wright, Leonard Glenn Francis, or Fat Leonard, detailed…
KUALA LUMPUR: Home minister Hamzah Zainudin has told MPs not to tie the issue of deaths in custody to ethnicity, saying there was no evidence of the issue involving one particular race, according to statistics. He told the Dewan Rakyat that, as of September this year, 10 custodial deaths had…
PUTRAJAYA: An unemployed man who killed a two-year-old boy and kept the body in a chiller box for a month in his house was sentenced today to eight years’ jail after he pleaded guilty to an alternative charge. Mohd Affandi Fauzi Ramlee, 39, began his jail term today as he…
ALOR SETAR: The spread of Covid-19 at a leading hotel in Langkawi will not disrupt the tourism bubble project on the island, according to Kedah menteri besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor. “The cases will not affect the tourism industry in Langkawi because we have taken appropriate action to protect the…