SHAH ALAM, March 22 — Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador has given his assurance that allegations of a cartel within the police force will be addressed without having to lodge a report with the Police Force Commission...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow is appealing to Putrajaya to enforce the Safe@Work initiative on factories and the manufacturing sector to squash the high number of active Covid-19 clusters in the sector. He said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Despite the public uproar, no one issued with the RM10,000 fine for any of the compoundable offence under the Covid-19 regulations has formally asked the Health Ministry for a lower penalty in the past 12 days, Datuk Seri.....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Police have opened an investigation paper against an an ‘instafamous’ couple for allegedly giving false information in obtaining permission for interstate travel. Dang Wangi district police chief Supt Ashari Abu Samah,....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — The Selangor chapter of PAS and Umno renewed today their political cooperation with each other to take Malaysia’s most developed state from nemesis Pakatan Harapan (PH) in the next general election. The two Malay parties....

IPOH, March 22 — The number of individuals that have registered to receive the Covid-19 vaccination in Perak via the MySejahtera app is only 21.1 per cent (406,380 people) from the total state population, which is considered very low, said Perak...

PUTRAJAYA, Mar 22 — Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has arrived at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters today for a meeting with the agency’s chief Datuk Seri Azam Baki. The Port Dickson MP arrived at 2.53pm...

SINGAPORE, March 22 —  “It is good that they have officers to assist at the main gate,” said a senior citizen who accompanied her husband to collect his renewed passport at the Malaysian High Commission Complex (STM), here, today. The....

PUTRAJAYA, March 22 — The family of a lorry driver P. Chandran will receive a sum of RM357,500 in damages over his death in police custody in 2012 after his medical needs were not attended to. This is despite the Federal Court seven-member bench...

KUALA TERENGGANU, March 22 — Terengganu Perikatan Nasional (PN) has officially formed a state committee comprising the state’s PAS and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) leaders last night. Terengganu PN Information chief Wan Sukairi Wan...

KOTA KINABALU, March 22 — The Sabah Health Department will be carrying out its proactive approach to reach more people to receive the Covid-19 immunisation. Its director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi said this move is important because as at March 17,.....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba today confirmed the government has received extra doses of the Covid-19 vaccines from several makers procured following negotiations last year. He said the amount is nearly 60 per...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — The government has agreed to compensate individuals who suffer severe adverse effects after being vaccinated for Covid-19. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said the compensation is capped at RM500,000 per person,...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — The government will start calling people who have downloaded the MySejahtera mobile phone app and ask them to register for the national Covid-19 immunisation programme if they haven’t done so already. Science, Technology....

PONTIAN, March 22 — Two men, a Myanmar ship captain and a Singaporean crew member, were today accused of smuggling a whopping RM47.1 million worth of cigarettes into Malaysia earlier this month. The two, 55-year-old captain Myint Aung and crew...

JOHOR BARU, March 22 — The body of a man who was believed to have fallen into Sungai Tebrau here yesterday, was found this morning. Tebrau Fire and Rescue Station Operations commander Kamalrulzaman Mohd Salleh said the body of S.Parthiban, 28, was....

KOTA KINABALU, March 22 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today promised to correct the socio-economic imbalance in Sabah that has caused it to fall behind the rest of the country within the next decade. The prime minister is on a two-day visit to the...

KOTA KINABALU, March 22 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today acknowledged that Malaysians are fed up with the constant politicking in the country and said he is concentrating on providing political stability and ensuring the government.....

KOTA KINABALU, March 22 — The government is considering a deadline on registering for the Covid-19 vaccine in order to achieve its target of 80 per cent herd immunisation. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said registration through the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Singapore’s Foreign Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will be making a two-day working visit to Malaysia starting tomorrow. The Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) said in a statement here today that during the visit, Dr Vivian....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Road or lane must be closed to all traffic if a heavy structure needs to be removed in implementing road or highway construction projects, said Senior Works Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof. He said the matter wa...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — A Datuk Seri businessman claimed trial at the Magistrates Court here today to alleged molestation against his daughter through the use of criminal force and obscenity to outrage her modesty a year ago. The 49-year-old...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Three Chinese nationals were killed today after a crane fell on top of a car at a construction site along Sungai Besi-Ulu Kelang Elevated Expressway (SUKE) near Puncak Banyan, Cheras.  The Malaysian driver of the c...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — De facto law minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hasan should abide by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s wishes and push for Parliament’s reopening under the Emergency instead of delaying it, DAP’s Lim Guan Eng said today. The.....

MIRI, March 22 — An oil tanker carrying a load of about 15,000 litres of diesel estimated to be worth RM33,000 was detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here last Saturday for various offences. MMEA Miri director Capt Md...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — For disclosing internal party discussions, an Umno supreme council member purportedly received a monthly “reward” of RM20,000, Utusan Malaysia reported today. The Malay newspaper reported an unnamed source saying that.....

KOTA KINABALU, March 22 — The Pemerkasa stimulus package, announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has given the country’s economic sector a glimmer of hope in these trying times. Many business associations have thanked the...

BUTTERWORTH, March 22 — A five-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle in front of his house died when hit by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) in an incident in Kampung Tok Sani, here yesterday. Seberang Perai Utara police chief ACP Noorzainy Mohd...

KUCHING, March 22 ­— The Sarawak government has been urged to reconsider its decision to allow the intake of 27,000 foreign workers into the state which began March 1. In making the call, Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK) president Voon Lee Shan...

KUCHING, March 22 — Any decision to allow Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) to field candidates in the next state election would reflect very badly on the state’s ruling coalition Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), said political analyst Prof.....