PETALING JAYA: The increase in toll rates for three major highways, which was supposed to take effect on Jan 1 this year, has been postponed to next year. Works minister Fadillah Yusof said this will cost the government RM2.25 billion in compensation, with negotiations to restructure toll rates ongoing with…
PETALING JAYA: Health activists have welcomed Putrajaya’s decision to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine on a voluntary first come, first served basis. While they agree that reports of blood clot complications among recipients of the vaccine deserve attention, they say such cases are “extremely rare” and that allowing people to…
KOTA BHARU: PAS assemblyman Dr Mohd Yusnan Yusof died early this morning at his home in Ketereh from heart complications. The two-term Melor assemblyman was 53. The party’s Harakah Daily quoted Yusnan’s secretary, Tanazi Ariffin, as saying he had previously received treatment at the National Heart Institute (IJN). He leaves…
KUCHING: An educationist has spoken of the need to enhance the professionalism of teachers who will evaluate students now that the UPSR has been abolished. Jonathan Chai, the president of the Association of the Management Boards of Aided Primary Schools in Kuching, Samarahan and Serian, said the education ministry should…
KOTA KINABALU: Tawau is a red zone, but so are Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Yet, Tawau is under MCO while the other two are under conditional MCO – and the residents in the rural town are seeing red about this. Sabah Human Rights Centre chairman Sherzali Asli said the government…
PETALING JAYA: Najib Razak has told Putrajaya to ignore statements made by two “useless” Cabinet ministers, and called for the government to review the risk Covid-19 posed in the education sector. The former prime minister said he was uncomfortable with the number of new clusters being detected daily, especially those…
PETALING JAYA: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) must launch an investigation into controversial lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff for allegedly stoking religious tensions in comments made about a DAP MP. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim’s assistance to a Malay youth who was facing some tough times had…
PETALING JAYA: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it has yet to verify whether Top Glove Corp has resolved all 11 International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators on forced labour before it can lift the withhold release order against its products. On Monday, Top Glove, the world’s largest glovemaker, said…
PETALING JAYA: Active politicians should not be appointed to the boards of listed companies, the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) said. Instead, it said, all board members should be nominated based on their qualifications and legal responsibilities. This is to promote the exercise of objective and independent judgment in line with…
KOTA KINABALU: Kerajaan negeri Sabah menubuhkan jawatankuasa teknikal peringkat negeri bagi menangani masalah pendatang haram, kata Timbalan Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin. Beliau berkata jawatankuasa teknikal itu yang dipengerusikannya sendiri, dibahagikan kepada Jawatankuasa Keselamatan dipengerusikan oleh Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah Datuk Hazani Ghazali, dan Jawatankuasa Pendatang Haram dan Pekerja Asing dipengerusikan Tan Sri…
KOTA KINABALU: Residents from 59 villages in Sabah’s Pitas northern district are demanding that the state government return their ancestral land after the area was taken over by the Sabah Forestry Development Authority (Safoda). Safoda is a statutory body under the chief minister’s department. Bengkoka ancestral action working committee chairman…
PETALING JAYA: A police officer allegedly linked to fugitive businessman Nicky Liow will file a writ of habeas corpus against the use of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) to detain him, his lawyer said. T Harpal Singh said police could not rely on Sosma to investigate an alleged…
KOTA KINABALU: Residents in Taman Bandar Sierra and Taman Rimba di Telipok are fed up of the water disruption in their areas since April 23. They said the Sabah Water Department (JANS) should pull up its socks and rectify the problem immediately. One of its residents, Tony Paridi Bagang, said…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s economy is falling behind other nations while the rest of the world seems to be recovering from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, says former prime minister Najib Razak. Najib said Malaysia has been lagging behind other economies since the 14th general election, pointing out that the…
PETALING JAYA: Cuepacs has welcomed as “timely” a proposal to make it mandatory for armed forces personnel to retire after 21 years of service to enable them to receive a pension. Currently, those in the armed forces may retire voluntarily after 12, 15 or 18 years of service without pension.…
PETALING JAYA: The government has allowed students at all higher educational institutions to return to their hometowns for Hari Raya Aidilfitri, except those from Sarawak. The higher education ministry said this was decided by the National Security Council (MKN) at a meeting yesterday. In a statement, it said the students…
PETALING JAYA: The Election Commission (EC) will take immediate steps to implement Undi18 following a decision by the Cabinet yesterday, de facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan said. He gave an assurance the government is committed to lowering the voting age to 18 in line with a Federal Constitution amendment, passed…
PETALING JAYA: The decision by Putrajaya to abolish the UPSR has received a mixed reaction from education groups. Education minister Radzi Jidin, in announcing the scrapping of the exam for Year Six students, said the ministry would introduce an alternative method to evaluate students who are supposed to sit for…
PETALING JAYA: The health authorities should decant non-Covid-19 patients to private hospitals to make room for Covid-19 treatment in government hospitals, the Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) said. Its president, Dr Kuljit Singh, said patients from public hospitals may receive treatment at the agreed cost, accepted last year, to…
PETALING JAYA: Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates who sat for the examination last February are asking when the results will be released. They say the lack of updates from the education ministry is leaving them in a post-secondary-school limbo. These students were supposed to have sat for their SPM exam…