KUALA LUMPUR: High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah today told Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s lawyers to advise their client to refrain from attending any meeting a week before his case resumes so as not to disrupt his corruption trial. Sequerah said this when postponing Zahid’s hearing, scheduled to resume today, to…
PETALING JAYA: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is looking into complaints filed by Malaysia’s banking union, who have cited the human resources ministry’s failure to enforce the protection of their members in a number of disputes with HSBC bank. The National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) said it was forced…
PETALING JAYA: Medical groups have given the thumbs down to the government’s decision to vaccinate all MPs and state assemblymen in the first phase of the Covid-19 immunisation programme. Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Dr Subramaniam Muniandy said elected representatives should receive the shots only in the third phase of…
PETALING JAYA: The government’s announcement that schools across the country will reopen from March 1 has not exactly been welcomed with open arms by two parents’ groups. When all schools were ordered to close on Nov 9, the daily number of fresh Covid-19 cases was 972. By comparison, there were…
SEPANG: The first phase of the national immunisation programme will kick start earlier this week on Wednesday, instead of Friday as previously announced. Science, technology and innovation minister Khairy Jamaluddin said this to reporters after they received the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine today. “The prime minister (Muhyiddin Yassin) and…
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) has urged the military junta in Myanmar to immediately stop the use of live ammunition against protesters and to release the political prisoners detained during the recent coup. It expressed grave concern over recent developments with reports that security personnel have severely injured and killed…
SEPANG: The first batch of Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport today. The MASKargo flight on a special Malaysia Airlines aircraft with the Jalur Gemilang livery, arrived at around 10am. The flight ferried the vaccine from Pfizer’s factory in Purrs, Belgium and transited at Leipzig Halle…
PETALING JAYA: Addiction experts have welcomed the announcement that plans are in place for drug abusers and addicts to be rehabilitated instead of being sent to jail, but said that improving support services will be an essential part of the proposal’s success. Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, a professor of medicine and…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) has linked the recent deaths of scores of pigs in the northern Pitas district to a possible outbreak of the deadly African swine fever (ASF). However, deputy chief minister Jeffrey Kitingan, who is also the state agriculture and fisheries minister, said…
JOHOR BAHRU: The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar said Johor appreciates the role played by the Chinese community in developing the state since the beginning of the Johor Sultanate in the 16th century. The Royal Press Office, in a statement issued to mark the Lunar New Year, stated…
KOTA KINABALU: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has told party members in Sabah to set aside any friction with its partners in Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and to continue strengthening the coalition government. Speaking via a virtual conference during Sabah Umno’s 30th anniversary celebrations here last night, Zahid said the…
PETALING JAYA: The close ties between PAS and PPBM may result in the Islamic party getting tougher with Umno on seat allocation, according to a political analyst. This comes as Umno’s general election director Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said talks between Umno and PAS in Terengganu may have come to a…
PETALING JAYA: A showdown between Muafakat Nasional partners looms in at least four states around the country, with Terengganu Umno set to contest all seats in the state at the next general election. Umno’s coalition partner PAS holds 22 of the 32 seats in the state assembly and six of…
PETALING JAYA: The government is working to ensure all students in Malaysia will be able to access online learning by 2025, minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (economic affairs) Mustapa Mohamed said today. Mustapa, or Tok Pa as he is often called, said this will be implemented through the MY…
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Umno is not likely to be given the 14 parliamentary seats it wants to contest in the next general election, analysts said. Universiti Malaysia Sabah senior lecturer Lee Kuok Tiung said it would not be possible for one party within the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition to…
PETALING JAYA: The Federal Court’s decision to impose a RM500,000 fine on Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the company which runs Malaysiakini, for contempt of court over comments by the news portal’s readers has not gone down well, with many taking to social media to criticise the sentence. Even the foreign…
PUTRAJAYA: Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the company which runs Malaysiakini, has been fined RM500,000 by the Federal Court after it was found guilty of scandalising the judiciary in publishing readers’ comments last year. The fine was more than the RM200,000 proposed by senior federal counsel Suzana Atan. Court of Appeal…
KUALA LUMPUR: Taxpayers may submit their income tax returns for 2020 through e-Filing from March 1. The returns are for forms E, BE, B, M, BT, MT, TF and TP, the Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) said. In a statement, the board said it expects to receive up to 530,000 E…
JOHOR BAHRU: Johor Umno deputy chief Nur Jazlan Mohamed wants PAS to state its official stand on whose side it is on – with Umno in Muafakat Nasional (MN) or with PPBM and Perikatan Nasional (PN). Describing the party as making a “neither here nor there” stand in the current…
PETALING JAYA: The difference between the movement control order (MCO) and the conditional MCO is so vague that people are confused, says a medical expert, adding that the National Security Council (MKN) has to be clear on its guidelines. It has to look no farther than New Zealand, which has…