PUTRAJAYA, Dec 1 — Senior citizens and individuals with comorbidities are advised not to travel abroad at this time, besides avoiding crowded public areas, following the recent discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Health Minister Khairy...

JOHOR BARU, Dec 1 — Before the coronavirus pandemic, Mohammad Faris Abdullah’s daily commute between his home in Malaysia and his job in Singapore took just 30 minutes. But when the countries’ border shut without warning...

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 1 — The Federal Court, in a 2-1 majority decision, ruled that a Muslim individual cannot be cited as party in legal marital dispute involving non-Muslim married couple in the civil court. In delivering the majority decision by a...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today expressed concern over the spread of the Omicron variant that has been categorised as a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today said that it is satisfied with the government’s vaccine procurement price, but red-flagged the premium price paid to pharmaceutical giant, Pharmaniaga Berhad (Pharmaniaga), on the...

PORT DICKSON, Dec 1 — The Covid-19 outbreak has not affected the level of alertness of Malaysian Battalion (Malbatt) peacekeepers to carry out missions in Lebanon, said Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) Chief, Gen Tan Sri Affendi Buang. Affendi said...

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 1 — The Penang government does not plan to form any alliance with the opposition parties in the state, the state legislative assembly heard today. Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said the state government is now stable and...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Malaysia will charge Dyson supplier ATA IMS Bhd following complaints received by the labour department, a minister said, after forced labour allegations emerged against the manufacturer. Dyson told Reuters last week it was...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued a yellow alert weather warning of continuous rain in Terengganu and several areas in Kelantan for two days starting tomorrow. In a statement today, MetMalaysia.....

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 1 — The Thai Pak Koong (Ng Suk) Temple in Penang received the Award of Merit at the 2021 Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation today. The temple was one of nine projects from six countries and the only one.....

SHAH ALAM, Dec 1 — A total of 9,551 deaths due to Covid-19 have been recorded in Selangor this year until November 2, while 66 deaths were recorded last year, the Selangor State Legislative Assembly was told today State Public Health, Unity, Women....

SHAH ALAM, Dec 1 — A total of 1,076 child abuse cases were reported in the state from January to September this year, the Selangor state legislative assembly was told today. State Public Health, Unity, and Women and Family Develop...

SEREMBAN, Dec 1 — A total of 1,064 Muslim divorce cases were recorded by the Negri Sembilan Islamic Religious Affairs Department (JHEAINS) and the state Shariah Court from January to September this year, the state legislative assembly sitt...

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 1 — The forest restoration and conservation plan in Sabah needs to be supported by all parties especially the Sustainable Forest Management Licence Agreements (SFMLA) concessionaires, downstream industry players as well as...

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 1 — The increase in vegetable prices was temporary and the fluctuations were due to several factors, according to the Penang branch of the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNHEP). Penang KPDNHEP director Mohd...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The number of undocumented cases of deaths in custody in 2021 has been severely underreported, according to human rights group Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram). Suaram senior programme officer Mohammad Alshatri said the Home...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Celebrity Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor and her husband, Muhammad Haris Mohd Ismail, were given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal  (DNAA) on three charges for breaching standard operating procedures...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Malaysia will temporarily deny entry to travellers from countries with confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. The minister said 18 countries have so far reported cases of...

LUNDU, Dec 1 ― A son of former chief minister, the late Pehin Adenan Satem, could be among the new faces to be fielded by Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) in next month’s state election, Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg said today. The GPS chairman said...

JOHOR BARU, Dec 1 ― The Johor State Department of Environment (DoE) arrested the director and manager of a metal-plating plant in the Pasir Gudang Industrial Estate here, to assist in investigations following an incident where the water of Sungai.....

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 1 — Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob today admitted that the price of essential goods has increased but said it was not caused by traders. The prime minister attributed the price increase to costs accumulated at various levels of the.....

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 1 ― Penang has seen an increase in the number of passengers taking the speedboats that replaced the iconic but old ferries that plied the Penang Channel since January this year. State infrastructure and transport committee...

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 1 — The Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project is not as large as the mega reclamation projects in Johor and Melaka, state executive councillor Zairil Khir Johari asserted today as the proposal continues to court controversy. The.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Putrajaya has no plans to rebrand the Sabah and Sarawak regions as “mainland Malaysia”, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Hanifah Hajar....

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Environment and Energy Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man told the Dewan Rakyat today that the planned domestic carbon trading market, a complex mechanism to incentivise reduction in carbon emission, will be...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob launched today the new Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control Centre (KLATCC). The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) said the new centre was part of its efforts to standardise....

KUALA KANGSAR, Dec 1 — Local actor Muhamad Niezam Mohd Zaidi, director Mohd Latif Zami, and assistant director Saiful Zaidrin Ismail, were supposed to have been sentenced today after they pled guilty to possessing illicit drugs at the Magistrate�...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Seputeh MP Teresa Kok is pushing the education minister to take an official stand on the case of a teacher who sued his former student for alleged defamation after she called him out for making light about rape. The veteran...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The federal government should stabilise the prices of essential goods that have reportedly been soaring in Malaysia, by using the RM3 billion that would be collected through a one-off windfall tax known as Cukai Makmur or...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — A total of 22,689,471 individuals or 96.9 per cent of the adult population in Malaysia have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday. Based on the Health Ministry’s CovidNow portal, 98.3&nbs...