KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — DAP urged the federal government today to make good on its previous promise to increase the monthly welfare assistance to impoverished Malaysians to RM1,000. The Opposition party likened the one-off financial assistance...

LABUAN, July 9 — The newly emerged Titian 2 Covid-19 cluster started from a group of community in the Filipino Refugee Settlement Scheme in Kampung Muslim here. At least 37 cases have been reported as of yesterday from this cluster out of the 870.....

GEORGE TOWN, July 9 — American companies were still interested to invest in Penang and Malaysia but some were discouraged by the country’s unstable regulatory climate, said United States Ambassador Brian McFeeters. He said there were long-term...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Malaysia today recorded its most ever new Covid-19 cases in a single day with 9,180 cases, surpassing the 9,020 from slightly more than about a month ago on May 29. This is only the second time in the country’s history...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa has said he will propose that the capital city slowly reopen under strict standard operating procedures (SOP) when 80 per cent of residents have been vaccinated. On Twitter,...

KOTA BHARU, July 9 — A senior police officer with the rank of ASP has been remanded for four days starting for allegedly soliciting bribes worth RM200,000 from a drug-dealing couple.     It is understood that the 48-year-...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Umno information chief Shahril Hamdan said the party’s supreme council has decided that its federal lawmakers could vote according to their conscience when attending Parliament later this month. He said this was one of two....

IPOH, July 9 — A businessman and his partner were fined RM1,500 each for flouting the standard operating procedures (SOPs) while distributing food bank assistance at a restaurant last month. Sungai Siput district police chief, Supt Mohd Khaizam...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Senator Datuk Ras Adiba Radzi today called on the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KPWKM) to amend the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Act 2008 to include people with albinism in one of the categorie...

SHAH ALAM, July 9 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has given his consent to the reconvening of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly for eight days from Aug 23. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin...

KUCHING, July 9 — A Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) leader today expressed hope that the appointment of Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as deputy prime minister will ease Umno’s jitters and give the federal government a better chance to look....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng has applied for his graft cases, related to the Penang undersea tunnel project, to be transferred to the Kuala Lumpur High Court. The Bagan MP who filed the application yesterday...

TAPAH, July 9 — Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) deputy president Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu today said that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government won’t have to persuade Umno MPs to support Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. He....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Opposition lawmakers have once again called for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government to clarify their stand regarding decriminalising suicide and attempted suicides. According to the lawmakers, the PN government has been...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Umno had to reject Perikatan Nasional as it would otherwise be endorsing the administration that was mishandling the Covid-19 pandemic, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi asserted today. He claimed Umno was being blamed for the...

TAPAH, July 9 — Perak Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu said it will keep supporting Mentri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad despite the latter’s party rejecting the coalition at the federal level. Ahmad Faizal, who is...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Umno supreme council member Datuk Mohd Puad Zarkashi has said that the party’s MPs will maintain their support for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration until Parliament reconvenes. Free Malaysia Today reported him as....

IPOH, July 9 — Perak Opposition Leader Abdul Aziz Bari today said that asking Umno to prove its withdrawal from Perikatan Nasional (PN) in Parliament was merely a tactic to prolong Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s ‘illegitimate’...

PUTRAJAYA, July 9 — Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob clocked in at the Deputy Prime Minister's Office at Perdana Putra here today to start his duty as the number two leader in the country’s administration. Clad in a blue suit, Ismail ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — A total 376,909 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were administered yesterday, which is the highest number given in a day so far, compared to 375,842 doses last Wednesday. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba, in a Twitt...

KUCHING, July 9 — A 20-year old man who was caught impersonating a medical doctor at the Covid-19 vaccination centre at the State Indoor Stadium, Petrajaya, did not administer any vaccination, state Health director Datuk Dr Mohamed Sapian Mohamed.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — The KL Performing Arts Centre (klpac) has appealed to the authorities to consider several suggestions that would help Malaysian theatre cope with the adverse economic conditions following the Covid-19 pandemic. Klpac issued.....

UALA LUMPUR, July 9 — The public has been advised to be wary of false information being spread on the Covid-19 vaccination. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said they should verify all information on the...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Malaysia’s Covid-19 infection rate has almost returned to the same level that saw the country register a record of 9,020 cases at the end of May, according to the Health Ministry’s latest data. While announcing an...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Two senior Umno leaders were in conflict over the legitimacy of a letter declaring Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers’ support for Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan, who...

SHAH ALAM, July 9 — All hospitals in Selangor are receiving high numbers of Covid-19 cases especially involving category three and above continuously since late last month, said State Health director Datuk Dr Sha’ari Ngadiman. Subsequent...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — The expected infectivity rate (Rt) of Covid-19 based on daily cases for the whole country today is 1.09 with Putrajaya recording the highest Rt value at 1.28. According to data shared by Health director-general&n...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — A recent survey by market analysts Ipsos found that political party polarisation is the key source of tension among Malaysians. Compared to the global country average, Malaysia has 77 per cent polled under this category,...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Rapper Arunboii grew up in Klang, in a community made up largely of blue collar workers, mostly Indians. His debut single Enge Port has already garnered more than 83,000 views on YouTube and is being viralled on TikTok. It...

JOHOR BARU, July 8 — The Johor Department of Environment (DoE) is in the process of completing investigation papers on the dumping of a chemical which is said to be the source of contaminations in Sungai Sengkang near Kulai recently. State Health.....