KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The government said today it is injecting an additional RM45 billion into the Covid-19 fund, bringing the total to RM110 billion. The latest memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the government and Opposition parties.....

GEORGE TOWN, Sept 14 — Police are still investigating whether DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng breached a home quarantine order. Penang police chief Datuk Mohd Suhaily Mohd Zain said they have recorded statements from 10 witnesses in connection.....

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 14 — Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his son, Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin have filed separate notice of motion to obtain leave to appeal against the Court of Appeals decision in dismissing their appeals to set aside the.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The election for a new deputy speaker that was supposed to happen today has been postponed to the next Parliament sitting, de facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said today. He said the postponement is...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Confirmed Covid-19 infections in Malaysia today breached the two million mark in overall cases since the pandemic started last year. The Health Ministry registered 2,011,440 cumulative cases as of today. However, the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The federal government is set to undertake a monumental task of reducing existing standard operating procedures (SOP) from about 180 to just 10 in the upcoming weeks as the country gradually transitions from the Covid-19...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The AirAsia Group said it will support the reopening of tourism activities in Langkawi, Kedah, with its Super App. The airline said it was ready to assist travellers with its Super App, a digital platform for booking rides.....

JOHOR BARU, Sept 14 — An illegal money lending network that had been operating out of Batu Pahat for the past two years was discovered after police arrested four men suspected of involvement. Johor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The difference in the policy of Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) Programme and immigration rules between Peninsular Malaysia  and the states of Sabah and Sarawak is the special prov...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Campus classes will resume in stages from October 15 for university students and staff who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Minister of Higher Education (MoHE) Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad announced today. She said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi should be acquitted and discharged of the 27 money laundering charges, his lawyer argued in court today. Ahmad Zahid’s lead defence lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The government needs to give focus, among others, on entrepreneurs from the bottom 40 per cent (B40) and middle 40 per cent (M40) income groups who conduct innovation and digital economy-based activities in order to...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — RSN Rayer (Jelutong-PH) has been suspended for two days from Parliament for calling Deputy Speaker Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon “shameful” in rejecting the motions proposing to replace Datuk Azhar Azizan as the Speaker....

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders were offered government posts in exchange for their support but rejected them to remain true to the Opposition’s role as check-and-balance, DAP’s Lim Guan Eng asserted today. His disclosure.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Umno information chief Shahril Hamdan today reaffirmed his party’s rejection of DAP and Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, saying this was unchanged by the bipartisan deal between the government and the Pakatan...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The High Court judge presiding over Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s trial today raised a question many Malaysians want to know, but had no chance to ask — why were the purported donations worth millions of ringgit from...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan said he was in self-quarantine at home after being confirmed as close contact of a Covid-19 patient In a statement today, Takiyuddin said he already...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang today urged ministers supportive of a court ruling granting automatic citizenship to foreign-born children of all Malaysian parents to advise the Cabinet to stop the legal appeal of the decision....

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob told Parliament’s Lower House today that the government would consider calls to compel lenders to waive interest fees on deferred loan repayment under Putrajaya’s loan...

KUCHING, Sept 14 — The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) today said it has found the complaints from a local, who claimed her application to return to her home state was rejected four times, to be baseless. The Sarawak agency said it...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Parliament has never been closed to MPs, including from the Opposition and can be accessed at “reasonable times”, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun said today. He stressed that he had never barred any MP...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The Health Ministry (MoH) will be forming a rapid deployment unit to send urgent oxygen supplies to states hard hit by a Covid-19 surges to address future shortages, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Health Minister Khairy...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa does not rule out signing similar agreements with other Opposition parties after yesterday’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakatan Harapan (PH)...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — De facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar today said he would speak his mind if the Cabinet discussed the government’s appeal against a court ruling granting automatic citizenship to foreign-born children....

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — A total of 413 new deaths from Covid-19 were recorded today on the Health Ministry's new CovidNow tracker, which also included backlog cases. The average number of deaths in the last seven days (according to the actual ...

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 14 — Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah underscored Malaysia’s support for an inclusive Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled process, towards a lasting political solution that would bring about....

SIBU, Sept 14 — Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh told the High Court here yesterday that he had issued a press statement merely to seek an explanation from the Sarawak government on Petronas paying RM2 billion in State Sales Tax (SST) instead of RM3.897...

KUCHING, Sept 14 — The government’s latest decision of not testing asymptomatic Covid-19 close-contacts is an attempt to manipulate the figures on infection cases to ‘artificially’ suppress the numbers reported, claims Sarawak Democratic...

KOTA KINBALU, Sept 14 — The State Government has allowed number forecast operators (NFOs) and turf clubs to operate starting today (September 14), said Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun.  “In line wi...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The election of a new Deputy Speaker will be among the focus at today’s Parliament meeting.  The election, to fill the vacancy left by Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said, tops the list of mo...