PETALING JAYA: The government should have educational programmes on radio to complement similar content that is aired on TV under the education ministry’s home-based Teaching and Learning (PdPR) programme, the opposition said today. In a joint statement, Pakatan Harapan’s education committee, along with other opposition parties, said educational programmes on…
PUTRAJAYA: Working from home is not an excuse to relax and not do work, civil servants have been told. Speaking virtually at the monthly public service department assembly, director-general Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman said all civil servants must be at their stations to carry out their daily tasks. Some…
PETALING JAYA: Veteran crooner Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin and her husband, Khalid Mohamad Jiwa, have been fined RM10,000 each for breaching Covid-19 SOPs during a “tahnik” ceremony for her second child in April. Berita Harian quoted Selangor police chief Arjunaidi Mohamed as saying religious affairs minister Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri had also…
PETALING JAYA: Tajuddin Abdul Rahman’s sacking as Prasarana chairman last night caught many by surprise due to the government’s razor-thin majority in Parliament – but it’s just another milestone in the chequered career of this maverick politician. His bizarre press conference on the country’s worst Light Rail Transit (LRT) accident…
KLUANG: An unemployed man who raped his seven-year-old niece was sentenced to 18 years’ jail and six strokes of the cane by the sessions court here today. Judge Mujib Saroji ordered the man to serve the jail sentence from May 15, the day of his arrest. He was charged with…
SHAH ALAM: Former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had not adhered to government protocol when he approved the extension to Ultra Kirana Sdn Bhd’s contract to manage the foreign visa system, a witness in his corruption trial told the High Court today. Siti Jalilah Abd Manap, a former deputy…
PETALING JAYA: Umno and its leaders are equally responsible for the “mess created by Muhyiddin and Azmin Ali” and cannot wash their hands of the Perikatan Nasional government’s failures, says Khalid Samad. During a forum on the proclamation of emergency today, The “Tamat Darurat” committee chairman said Umno can choose…
PETALING JAYA: Johor MPs and assemblymen held a special “assembly” today to discuss the Covid-19 situation, with mass screenings and a two-week lockdown being among the proposals put forward by both sides of the divide. The virtual “assembly” came a week after the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar,…
KUALA LUMPUR: Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman gave his statement to the police for one-and-a-half hours today over his tweet involving sacked Prasarana chairman Tajuddin Abdul Rahman. The former youth and sports minister thanked the police for treating him well and said he was called in to assist…
PUTRAJAYA: Civil servants have been given a stern reminder to shed their old work culture of perfunctory and inefficient service, knowing that their salaries and allowances would be paid anyway. The reprimand came from public service director-general (KPPA) Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman himself, following public dissatisfaction over the level…
GEORGE TOWN: DAP backbenchers today accused opposition parties of being “blind” to the benefits of the RM46 billion Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP) and the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project. They said the parties, including Gerakan and PAS, have been using “oft-repeated” narratives that have been “countered many times”. In…
PETALING JAYA: Speculation of a possible “baby boom” during the movement control order (MCO) period has been proven false with a drop in the number of births in the first quarter of this year. The Statistics Department recorded 102,969 births between January and March, a 10.8% decline from 115,439 in…
PETALING JAYA: Opposition MPs have urged Putrajaya to carry out an independent probe by appointing experts and releasing video footage of the LRT train crash three days ago. PKR MP Maria Chin Abdullah said an independent task force was needed to ensure accountability and transparency, and prevent “suspicion of a…
PETALING JAYA: The government can lock down its people, but it must not lock down democracy, says Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Azalina Othman Said. Azalina said denying the rights of MPs to engage with the government meant denying the rights of the people. In a statement, she called for the…
PETALING JAYA: With most healthcare facilities operating at maximum capacity and some even overflowing, the health ministry is again pleading for volunteers to help fight Covid-19 in the country. Health ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a Facebook posting that volunteers were needed to ease the burden of…
PUTRAJAYA: The home ministry has refused to accept a memorandum from a group of Pakatan Harapan representatives calling for an independent taskforce to investigate the deaths of A Ganapathy and S Sivabalan. Klang MP Charles Santiago (DAP), Selayang MP William Leong (PKR), Sentosa assemblyman Gunaraj George (PKR), Rawang assemblyman Chua…
PETALING JAYA: A new feature will be added to the MySejahtera application by the end of the week to identify pregnant and breastfeeding women to ensure they are administered the recommended Covid-19 vaccine. “For example, for women 14 to 33 weeks pregnant, the Pfizer vaccine is the recommended vaccine,” science,…
PETALING JAYA: The second round of registration for the AstraZeneca vaccine will be opened to those under 60 in the Klang Valley, Penang, Johor as well as Kuching and Miri in Sarawak from noon tomorrow. Science, technology and innovation minister Khairy Jamaluddin said about 228,000 senior citizens have registered so…
KUALA LUMPUR: Two Bersatu members have asked for clear guidelines from the National Security Council (MKN) for politicians who need to cross state borders. A party member said ministers or their officers have been travelling across states to attend to emergencies even while the public are not allowed to do…
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have urged the public not to speculate on the cause of the train crash on the Kelana Jaya LRT line last night. Dang Wangi district police chief Mohamad Zainal Abdullah said the task force team should be allowed to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident. “During…