PETALING JAYA: Ta Win Holdings Bhd, through its subsidiary Ta Win Copper Biohealth Sdn Bhd (TWCB), today entered into an agreement to acquire a 32.5% equity interest in Royce Pharma Manufacturing Sdn Bhd for RM20.85 million cash, marking its first investment in the pharmaceutical industry. Ta Win group managing director…
PETALING JAYA: A former deputy minister has cautioned the government against haste in adopting a proposal to allow vaccinated travellers to enter the country without undergoing quarantine. Dr Lee Boon Chye, who was deputy health minister in the Pakatan Harapan government, said the government should observe the effectiveness of Covid-19…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is bidding for a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the 2022-2024 term, Foreign Affairs Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said today. Traditionally, between four and five Asia-Pacific states are elected to the council each term, and the last time Malaysia was on the council…
PETALING JAYA: With restrictions under the conditional movement control order (CMCO) slowly being lifted and the country gearing up to reopen the economy, the Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB) is confident its “Meet in Malaysia Campaign” will serve as a much needed spark for the tourism industry. Running until…
PETALING JAYA: DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today said the finance ministry’s lack of spending in next year’s budget has put the country in an awkward position. He said Malaysia was not spending enough to help the people but also failing to impress credit rating agencies with its fiscal consolidation.…
PETALING JAYA: Umno leaders exploring ways to form a new Perak state government have broached the possibility of new political alliances, but political analysts say such partnerships could only be temporary and not last. Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs said the chances of a coalition…
PETALING JAYA: PAS has declared it will not be part of the new Perak government that would be formed after Menteri Besar Ahmad Faizal Azumu lost the confidence of the state assembly earlier today. In a statement, PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said all three of the party’s assemblymen had supported…
PETALING JAYA: Two political analysts have dismissed the possibility of PPBM’s reabsorption into Umno at any time in the foreseeable future. James Chin of the University of Tasmania’s Asia Institute and former Universiti Teknologi Malaysia lecturer Azmi Hassan told FMT a major factor preventing such a merger was competition for…
KOTA KINABALU: Warisan deputy president Darell Leiking has rubbished notions that the Sabah opposition outfit was in cahoots with ruling parties after its MPs sat out several budget votes in the Dewan Rakyat this week. “There is no such thing. Warisan is not working with Perikatan Nasional (PN) nor Barisan…
KOTA KINABALU: Like their counterparts in Batu Sapi in Sandakan, voters in Sabah’s east coast Semporna district are hoping the impending Bugaya by-election is deferred until after the Covid 19 pandemic is brought under control. Many fear a repeat of what happened after the Sabah state polls in September when…
KUALA LUMPUR: PPBM Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayshal Wan Ahmad Kamal has backed a fellow leader’s remarks that the issue of dominance should not arise if his party, PAS and Umno worked together in the next general election (GE15). This, he said, was because there has been no dominant party…
PETALING JAYA: Umno vice-president Mohamed Khaled Nordin said today those who claim there should be no dominant Malay party “fail to understand the nature of national politics”, are insensitive and make no effort to help the Malays. Saying Umno and PAS were strong enough to be dominant, he added: “The…
PETALING JAYA: Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says Malaysia is set to provide affordable HIV medicines pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) after being included in a licensing agreement with a global specialist HIV company. The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) signed a voluntary licensing agreement with ViiV Healthcare…
KOTA KINABALU: Ketiadaan semua Ahli Parlimen Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) di Dewan Rakyat hari ini merupakan mesej jelas penolakan parti itu terhadap Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Ahli Parlimen Labuan, Datuk Rozman Isli seperti dilaporkan Malaysia Kini berkata, semua wakil rakyat tersebut sepakat untuk sengaja tidak hadir hari ini…
KUCHING: Selangau MP Baru Bain (pic) said confusion among the opposition members led to the voice vote that saw the 2021 budget approved at the policy stage yesterday. The Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) MP, believed to be one of the 13 to have stood up for a bloc vote, said…
PETALING JAYA: Despite yesterday’s approval of the 2021 budget at the policy stage, political analysts say Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is not in a safe position yet. Azmi Hassan, a former lecturer with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, said although many saw the approval as a confidence vote for Muhyiddin, the budget…
KUCHING, Nov 26 -- The Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) imposed in the Kuching district ends at 11.59 pm tomorrow, said the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee, in a statement today, It said the decision was made after the COVID-19 situation in the district, earlier categorised as a red zone area, was changed to…
Presiden PKR, Anwar Ibrahim berkata dia telah meminta Presiden Amanah, Mohamad Sabu dan Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng untuk tidak melakukan undi belah bahagi pada Belanjawan 2021 hari ini.Ini kerana kata Anwar, dia tidak mahu dilihat menolak insentif baru yang diumumkan oleh Menteri Kewangan Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz.Namun, Anwar…
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) has slammed opposition MPs for failing to push for an individual bloc on the budget, saying they have “broken their promise to the rakyat”. In a blog post, the Langkawi MP maintained that he and his three other Pejuang MPs will…
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin plunged on Thursday to its lowest in 10 days, leading a sell-off that extended to other smaller digital coins. Bitcoin, the world's biggest cryptocurrency, slumped as much as 13% to US$16,317, a sharp correction from its three-year high of US$19,521 hit a day earlier. It was…
