NAYPYIDAW: Asean envoys called on Myanmar’s junta to free all political prisoners and discussed implementing a regional “consensus” to end turmoil since the Feb 1 coup, the regional bloc said. Myanmar’s junta has shown little sign of heeding April’s five-point agreement among the 10 Asean countries, including Myanmar, which calls…
PETALING JAYA: There is no need for the public to update their health status on MySejahtera except under certain circumstances, the National Security Council (MKN) has clarified after several factory workers in Perak were fined for failing to do so. Based on the current SOPs, MKN director-general Mohd Rabin Basir…
PETALING JAYA: A hybrid Parliament is nearing reality with a special committee studying several aspects of its implementation, said Dewan Negara president Rais Yatim. He said this was to ensure there was no violation of the SOPs in force during the Covid-19 pandemic, adding that the committee was also referring…
PETALING JAYA: An academic and an educationist have criticised Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for cancelling a talk by classical dancer Ramli Ibrahim, saying universities are meant to help students broaden their minds. On Saturday, UTM confirmed it had cancelled Ramli’s talk on how dance transcended race on the advice of…
PETALING JAYA: You don’t celebrate somebody’s death. Nobody does. Unless he is a monster. Many celebrated the death last week of a former Thai army general who nauseated the world last year. He was responsible for mass killings of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees at Wang Kelian in Perlis, a village…
GEORGE TOWN: A woman who took photos of the Kedah menteri besar and his two aides in what appeared to be a test drive on Saturday said she has been under attack by supporters of the menteri besar, ranging from religious teachers to those with political links. Nini Siron, 36,…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s Covid-19 infectivity rate, or R0, has continued its two-week decline and fallen below 1.0 for the first time since April 7. According to data shared by health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah on Twitter, yesterday’s infectivity rate was 0.99 compared to 1.00 the day before. It reached…
A rise in vacancies and drop in rents are the problems that will continue to plague owners of office buildings in the Klang Valley in the months ahead, according to property consulting firms VPC Alliance and Raine & Horne. With new Covid-19 cases on the increase, and seven more months…
PETALING JAYA: A task force should be set up to end confusion over which products may be sold during the lockdown, an economist urged the government as social media users vented their anger over vague rules. Yeah Kim Leng, professor of economics at Sunway University, said consumers are confused over…
PETALING JAYA: Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani has listed the ministries and agencies from whom travel letters will be accepted at police roadblocks. They are: International trade and industry ministry (Miti);Transport ministry;Agriculture and agro-industry ministry;Plantation industries and commodities ministry;Communications and multimedia ministry;Home ministry and all its agencies;Local authorities;Bank…
PETALING JAYA: A former minister has called for transparency about vaccine procurement agreements, saying openness would allay suspicion of supply being throttled to create a monopoly. Zaid Ibrahim, a former minister for law, said Malaysia was struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, having vaccinated only 4% of its population. “Our government…
PETALING JAYA: The Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) has been told by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to study making vaccinations mandatory. Bernama quoted Muhyiddin as saying this needed to be considered if the number of registrations for vaccinations remains low and fails to meet the government’s target…
KUALA LUMPUR: Police said they issued compound notices to several food delivery riders this week because they had breached the movement control order. Cheras district police chief Beh Eng Lai said 12 compound notices were issued to riders on Wednesday and yesterday as they were eating in groups and failed…
PETALING JAYA: With Covid-19 cases surging, there is a push by some ministers for the emergency to be extended beyond August, according to a source in the know. However, others want the emergency to end in August as they fear the people will punish them in the next general election…
PETALING JAYA: Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng said he will be contributing three months’ allowances to assist those in need in his constituency. Instead of following in the footsteps of ministers and deputy ministers who have pledged to contribute their salaries to a trust fund, he said he would keep…
PETALING JAYA: A call has gone out to PKR members to set up more branches and get people to join its women’s wing to win the 15th general election. PKR advisory council chairman Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail noted that the party’s membership had increased gradually since its establishment 22…
PETALING JAYA: A former deputy health minister says the country’s limited testing capacity should be focused on localities with high transmission and high-risk groups. Dr Lee Boon Chye said Malaysia’s maximum capacity of 200,000 tests a day was far from adequate. Commenting on calls for mass testing to be done…
PETALING JAYA: A shop selling alcoholic beverages was ordered to close, as it is not considered an essential service during the June 1 to 14 lockdown. Brickfields police chief Anuar Omar said a man had lodged a police report claiming a shop selling such drinks was allowed to operate with…
PETALING JAYA: An MP wants to know what happened to the 6.4 million doses of Sputnik V vaccines Malaysia pre-ordered. In March, Khairy Jamaluddin, the minister coordinating the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, told health news portal CodeBlue that unless the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) approved the Rusisan Covid-19 vaccine…
PETALING JAYA: RM1 billion set aside for “special projects” in the 2021 budget for the Prime Minister’s Department should be reallocated into the Disaster Trust Fund for Covid-19-related expenditure, an MP has proposed. In a statement, Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil said the fund reallocation should be done through an…