KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Parti Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal was given an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah at Istana Negara here today. The Semporna MP arrived at about...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — The government will do its best to curb the Covid-19 pandemic and ensure that the economic recovery will continue, said Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz. He said the public can also play their part by...

IPOH, June 10 — Getting a Covid-19 jab is a breeze at Indera Mulia Stadium (SIM) here, taking only 10 minutes at its drive-through vaccination centre (PPV) compared to one hour at other centres. Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad said 100...

BANGKOK, June 10 — AstraZeneca says it is working closely with South-east Asia governments to ensure its Covid-19 vaccine is supplied “as quickly as possible”, after reported delays in deliveries of orders from a Thai plant owned by the...

KOTA KINABALU, June 10 — The state Cabinet has decided a 50 per cent pay cut for two months for all Cabinet ministers and assistant ministers effective this month. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Hajiji Haji Noor who is also state finance...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Datuk Seri Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar has stated that he is still the mentri besar of Terengganu, according to a local news site. Astro Awani today reported Ahmad Samsuri as saying that he had not faced any issue regardi...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — After yesterday’s bump back up above the 6,000 mark, the Health Ministry announced that there were 5,671 new Covid-19 infections in Malaysia in the last 24 hours. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah...

JOHOR BARU, June 10 — The Johor government will require all recipients of the latest Ihsan Johor 3.0 Economic Stimulus Package initiative, that will be distributed this month, to be registered with the Covid-19 vaccination programme through the...

JOHOR BARU, June 10 — The Johor government today announced its third economic stimulus package worth RM241 million consisting of 33 initiatives as part of its Covid-19 pandemic management efforts and to also provide financial assistance to the...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Umno never sought for a National Operations Council (NOC), or Mageran as it is known by its Malay initials, to be reintroduced in Malaysia during the Emergency to replace the role of the federal government, the party’s...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Parti Pejuang Tanah Air pro-tem chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrived at Istana Negara at 1:59pm today. He was scheduled to meet Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah at 2:30pm...

KUCHING, June 10 ― Only 12,887 or 8.6 per cent of the 150,000 laptops promised by the finance minister last November have been distributed as of June 5, said Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching. The former deputy education minister said the government of the...

IPOH, June 10 ― Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah today approved an allocation for a special relief fund worth RM14.6 million to help affected the affected rakyat (people) in the state following the enforcement of movement control order (MCO)...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 ― The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has recently detected fraudulent activities related to Haj, umrah and Haj by proxy packages for the 2021 season, which are being offered by several travel agencies. Bukit Aman Commercial...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 ― Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today praised Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 candidates for achieving success in the examination which was held at a time when the country and the world were grappling with the...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Malaysia’s professor Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman had earlier today addressed the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, where she stressed the need for more funding and a science-based and...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Calls by various quarters for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to set up a body with absolute power such as the National Operations Council (NOC) are not suitable to be implemented at the moment, according to the ...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Upwards to 40 per cent of small-and-medium enterprises (SME) in Malaysia face the risk of shutting down if an automatic moratorium on bank loans is not forthcoming, warned a business association. SME Association of Malaysia....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — A total of 1,220,939 individuals have received both doses of vaccination under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as at yesterday, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba. According to...

KOTA KINABALU, June 10 — Sabah politician and pageant co-organiser Phillip Among has pleaded not guilty to five charges of molestation here today. Of the five, four of the charges involve the same person, an Unduk Ngadau pageant contestant...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) completed emergency repair work for a burst pipe on Jalan Kuari in Kuala Lumpur at 9pm yesterday. In a statement today, Air Selangor said that water supply will be returned to.....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Yesterday, 154,866 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were  administered nationwide, according to the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Supply (JKJAV). In a Twitter post today, JKJAV stated that 40,195...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia’s Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof said the government’s focus should be to help the rakyat during the full-scale lockdown, instead of meting out penalties. Malaysiakini reported the...

KOTA BHARU, June 10 — The Kota Bharu Medical Centre (KBMC) has been selected as the first private hospital vaccination centre in Kelantan under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. Its general manager Mohd Nazri Yaacob said KBMC...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Islamist party PAS deputy president Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man arrived at Istana Negara at 10.20am today. The minister of environment and water was the first party representative to enter the gates today for a...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Education Minister Datuk Mohd Radzi Md Jidin today announced that SPM candidates who sat for the 2020 iteration of the exams can collect hard copies of their certificate from July 10. He said that the certificates would be.....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Continuing a positive trend which has been recorded since 2016, the 2020 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) results achieved a better National Average Grade (GPN) of 4.80 from 4.86 in 2019 amid challenges caused by the Covid-19....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — PKR secretary-general Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has said that Umno and the remaining components of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition — PKR, DAP and Amanah — could work together under a ‘big tent’...

TANJUNG MALIM, June 10 — Anyone can come forward to extend Covid-19 aid to the needy, without having their assistance being politicised said Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad. He said any political party or non-gov...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — A recent video depicting officers from the Immigration Department rounding up migrants in Cyberjaya, Selangor for a mass disinfection exercise to prevent the spread of Covid-19 drew consternation from public health...