ALOR SETAR, Jan 11 — Perikatan Nasional (PN) remains a strong political coalition despite issues between Umno and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), said PAS president, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. He said that at present, no other...

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Jan — Two friends were sentenced to two years in prison by the High Court here today for providing financial assistance of RM100 to carry out terrorist activities in Indonesia three years ago. Judge Datuk Muhammad Jamil Hussin...

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 11 — The government via the Health Ministry and Pfizer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd today signed an agreement for the first phase delivery of the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech BNT1262b vaccines in Malaysia. The manufacturing and supply agreement...

SANDAKAN, Jan 11 — Continuous downpour since early this morning resulted in the closure of Kilometre (KM) 1, Jalan Buli Sim Sim in Sandakan due to landslide and flooding. Sandakan district police headquarters in a statement said the landslide...

MELAKA, Jan 11 — The Melaka government is stressing on seven fundamentals to its civil servants towards realising all its policies and plans, including the Melakaku Maju Jaya Strategic Plan 2035 and State Budget 2021. Chief Minister, Datuk Seri...

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 11 — The speedboats plying the Penang channel could cause a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state if unchecked, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) said today. CAP president Mohideen Abdul Kader said a lack of physical...

KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 11 — The situation in two districts affected by the floods in Terengganu has been restored with the closure of 17 relief centres today after all the evacuees returned home. Head of the State Disaster Management Committee...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — MAB Kargo Sdn Bhd (MASkargo) recently delivered its first charter flight for the year, transporting about 20 tonnes of Covid-19 test kits from Seoul to Jakarta. Chief executive officer Ibrahim Mohamed Salleh said utilising...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Datuk Seri Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub said he is not the first Umno MP to withdraw support for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government led by Bersatu’s Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The Machang MP also said that his party also did not....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Kelantan’s Galas assemblyman Mohd Syahbuddin Hashim announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19, making him the latest in a string of public representatives to contract the disease. In a Facebook post today,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — A graphics has been released to announce Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s special address at 6pm today on the implementation of the movement control order. While the government has so far not confirmed that a new.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has been certified by medical experts to be free of cancer, the Prime Minister's Office clarified today amid rumours claiming he needs to undergo treatment for illness. The Prime.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Any Emergency declaration sought by the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government would not be to contain the latest Covid-19 surge, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today. The Pekan MP waded into public debate...

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 11 — All Cabinet members have been instructed to undergo Covid-19 testing after two ministers contracted the virus, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba confirmed today. He said those undergoing testing will also have to do a...

RAUB, Jan 11 — Nearly 105,000 of the 892,000 foreign workers in the country have underwent Covid-19 screening test as of yesterday, said Social Security Organisation (Socso) chief executive Datuk Seri Dr Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed. He sa...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — To fight the rising tide of Covid-19 cases in the country, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang has called for Pakatan Harapan to be “restored” as the federal government with PKR’s Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as prime minister. ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Teng Mini Market Centre (TMC), a popular supermarket in Bangsar here will be shut today for Covid-19 sanitisation. In a Facebook post today, TMC’s management said the store will be closed for 24 hours after two of its...

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 11 — The Penang government has called for a request for proposal for a privately-funded cable car service up Penang Hill after the federal government cancelled its RM100 million allocation for the project. Chief Minister Chow Kon.....

KUCHING, Jan 11 — An unspecified number of longhouses in the Sarawak district of Sebauh under the Bintulu Division have been placed under lockdown since last night, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said today. The Bintulu MP said movement has been...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang urged the government to announce the names of its ministers who have tested positive for Covid-19, after two members of the Cabinet were contracted the virus. Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, the....

IPOH, Jan 11 — A former estate worker M. Sugu escaped jail term with a three-year good behaviour bond of RM8,000 after pleading guilty at the Sessions Court here to possessing an offensive weapon in July last year. Judge Norashima Khalid meted out....

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Malaysia on Monday signed a deal to buy an additional 12.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by U.S. and German drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech, the health ministry said in a statement. The deal brings the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Malaysia’s unemployment rate rose by a marginal 0.1 percentage point month-on-month to 4.8 per cent in November 2020 with 764,400 unemployed persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Minister Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun has tested positive for Covid-19, just a day after her Cabinet colleague Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed was also announced to have tested positive. In a statement, Rina’s office said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Federal ministers are being screened for Covid-19 after ministers Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed and Datuk Seri Rina Harun tested positive for the virus.  A government official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Ma...

JOHOR BARU, Jan 11 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is expected to chair the inaugural Johor Perikatan Nasional (PN) state liaison (BPN) committee meeting in Putrajaya tomorrow. The meeting is e...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — The flood situation in Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang and Perak has improved as of 8am with more evacuees allowed to return home. However, the number of evacuees rose in Johor due to incessant rain since last night. In...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein is expected to be named deputy to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, according to The Malaysian Insight. The news portal cited anonymous sources saying Hishammuddin...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Malaysia’s long-awaited mission to join the coveted developed nations club seems to have been further derailed. The country’s brain drain is intense relative to a narrow skill base, with one out...

SINGAPORE, Jan 11 — Two Malaysians were among 42 imported cases of Covid-19 reported in Singapore yesterday, with one involving a nine-year-old girl who arrived from Austria. Labelled as Case 59,155, the dependant’s pass holder who&n...