KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — A total of 15 banks are offering loan repayment moratorium for residents living in the flood-affected states, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The moratorium facility, including the extension of the moratorium...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced a special discount of 10 per cent for the electricity bills of six business sectors nationwide from January to March 2021. In a special address today, Muhyiddin said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the government will re-allocate existing funds to finance the newly announced additional stimulus package worth in excess of RM15 billion. In a special announcement today,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — The impact of the current movement control order (MCO) to the economy is expected to be manageable and growth will continue to be supported by the strong exports sector and the global trade recovery, Prime Minister Tan Sri...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — An additional 3,500 medical and health officers will be recruited by the government that will cost RM150 million, as part of the newly announced Permai aid package. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin when making the...

LABUAN, Jan 18 — The latest Covid-19 cluster here, namely the Jalan Mohammed Salleh Cluster, originated from the duty-free island’s Industrial Training Institute (ITI), involving students from Sabah and Labuan, said Labuan Health Department...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today announced the improved wage subsidy programme 3.0 under the Social Security Organisation (Socso) for which all employers operating in states under a movement control order (MCO).....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — A Datuk who was caught on camera assaulting a couple at a hotpot restaurant last week has since issued an apology for his actions in a video now circulating on social media. The man who only identified himself as one Datuk...

SHAH ALAM, Jan 18 — The Selangor government intends to purchase five million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for the people in the state, an effort most welcomed by the federal government and the Ministry of Health (MOH). Mentri Besar Datuk Seri...

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 18 — Holding of the Thaipusam celebration at temples this year in states under the movement control order (MCO) and conditional movement control order (CMCO) is not allowed. The Ministry of National Unity (KPN) in a statement today.....

MIRI, Jan 18 — The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) has been called to review its standard operating procedure (SOP) involving its lockup cells following the rape of a minor at Miri Central Police Station (CPS) on January 9. State Transport Minister.....

KUCHING, Jan 18 — Democratic Action Party (DAP) Sarawak chairman Chong Chieng Jen has urged political punters to stop spreading rumors of seat-swapping in his party for the state election, amid concern over the current surge in Covid-19 cases. The....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — The Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives (Medac) through the Cooperative Commission of Malaysia (SKM) continues to proactively assist the cooperative movement severely affected by floods by providing a...

KUCHING, Jan 18 — Sarawak Patriots Association (SPA) chairman Datuk John Lau Pang Heng today urged the state Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) not to designate longhouses as quarantine centres for those returning from high-risk areas in...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — An additional stimulus package worth in excess of RM15 billion was announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today. The Malaysian Economic and Rakyat Protection Assistance Package, dubbed the Permai aid package,...

BATU PAHAT, Jan 18 — A civil servant here lost RM200,000 after falling victim to the Macau Scam syndicate between October and November last year. Johor Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief ACP Mohd Salleh Abdullah said during the...

KUCHING, Jan 18 — The Sarawak government will help its students repay the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan which is in arrears in keeping with the previous incentive promise, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — A total of 467 civil servants were arrested for various corruption offences throughout last year, according to the arrest statistics posted on the official portal of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). It said...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan today filed a lawsuit against Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Malaysian government, in his bid to have the courts decide whether a prime minister who no longer has the majority support of...

KUALA PERLIS, Jan 18 — The Perlis Manpower Department is conducting a special operation beginning today until February 28 to ensure all 2,562 registered foreign workers in the state undergo Covid-19 screening tests. Its director, Iskandar Jassa,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — AME Elite Consortium Bhd (AME) said its subsidiary, I Stay Management Sdn Bhd, has notified that 22 Covid-19 cases were found among its tenants’ foreign workers residing in its workers dormitories in Kulai and Senai,...

KUCHING, Jan 18 — Police investigation into an incident in which a 16-year-old girl claimed that she was raped by a male detainee while being held at the Miri police station lockup on Jan 9 found that a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera...

MELAKA, Jan 18 — Melaka police have arrested two men following the seizure of 15.87 kg syabu worth RM2.4 million, during a crime prevention patrol near Sekolah Kebangsaan Lereh here, on January 14. Its chief Datuk Abdul Majid Mohd Ali said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 —  Physical travel documents such as airline tickets and boarding passes may soon be a thing of the past for passengers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with the roll-out of the first phase of the Singl...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s corruption trial involving Yayasan Akalbudi funds, which was due to resume today, has been postponed to Jan 27. Deputy public prosecutor Datuk Raja Rozela Raja...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) Information Chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan has disputed today DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng’s conditions to join the independent committee to advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Umno said today it has postponed its general assembly originally scheduled at the end of this month, following the new movement control order dubbed MCO 2.0 and state of Emergency. “A new date will be notified soon,”...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is due to make a special announcement at 4pm today on special aid packages, almost a week after the second movement control order dubbed MCO 2.0 came into force in most states last...

KUCHING, Jan 18 — The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) will start distributing food items to about 73,000 households in Sibu Division affected by the movement control order (MCO) on Wednesday, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Langkawi MP Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four other lawmakers from his Pejuang party are now seeking to be part of a constitutional court challenge regarding the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s discretion to refuse to declare an...