KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Between 4,000 and 5,000 contract doctors are expected to join the #HartalDoktorKontrak (contract doctors strike) on Monday, said movement representative Dr Umar Baraka. Dr Umar said contract doctors from major hospitals in.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Malaysia registered a second consecutive day of record-high Covid-19 numbers today, surpassing yesterday’s unprecedented 15,573 cases. According to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the number of...

KUCHING, July 24 — Churches within areas with Covid-19 cases and are placed under Enhanced movement control order (EMCO) are not allowed to open, said Association of Churches in Sarawak (ACS) president Archbishop Simon Poh. He said that churches...

KUCHING, July 24 — Anglican churches and chapels in Sarawak will remain closed despite being allowed to open at 50 per cent capacity, said Bishop of Anglican Church in Sarawak and Brunei Rt Rev Datuk Danald Jute. He said that regrettably, they had....

TANJUNG MALIM, July 24 — Perak needs sufficient Covid-19 vaccine supply in order to implement the walk-in vaccination initiative in the state, said Mentri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad. He said this was because the state government already has the...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Members of the #HartalDoktorKontrak movement today said their planned July 26 strike will proceed, after expressing dissatisfaction with the government’s announcement of improved benefits and contract extensions...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 ― A convoy of 10 cars drove around the city centre today with black flags to indicate objection towards the government, under close watch by the police. The cars made their way from Menara UOA, Bangsar Utama and spent about...

PUTRAJAYA, July 24 ― A district officer and a quantity surveyor have been remanded for allegedly receiving bribes from a contractor in Selangor, bringing to five the number of people arrested so far. Putrajaya Magistrate Wira Abdul Halim today...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 ― Hospital Selayang will get an additional 450 beds for Covid-19 patients, the Health Ministry said. The addition, dubbed Operasi Selayang, is part of the efforts carried out by the Klang Valley special task force. “Operasi....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun has rejected Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s motion to debate the Emergency ordinances, among others, by saying the Port Dickson MP had submitted this too early......

IPOH, July 24 — The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) has started investigation to determine whether the helicopter that landed at a field here yesterday to pick up a “nasi ganja” order had violated regulations. CAAM, in a statement,....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah today expressed their condolences to the family of Datin Latifah Sidek,....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 ― For the first time in 2021, the Dewan Rakyat convenes on Monday, July 26, in a special meeting called during on ongoing emergency declared to curb the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen almost one million cases in the country.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Malaysia administered 462,242 Covid-19 vaccines yesterday, close to but under the country’s target of half a million vaccinations daily. However, the number meant that the country has remained above the 400,000-dose mark.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The extraordinary circumstances around the five-day special meeting next week did not invalidate the usual parliamentary conventions and practices such as lawmaker’s votes, said DAP’s Lim Kit Siang. The DAP lawmaker...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said photographs of him eating “nasi ganja” being recirculated online were from last year, after the images were used to allege that the finance minister sent a helicopter to Ipoh,...

KUCHING, July 24 — The Unit for Other Religions (Unifor) has decided to allow non-Muslims houses of worship to open from 6am to 8pm at a 50 per cent capacity under Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) effective today. However, religious...

KUCHING, July 24 — Sarawak will not take up the federal government’s offer to buy Sinovac vaccine as the Covid-19 situation here is starkly different from that in peninsula where the vaccine is waiting for people and not the other way around....

KUCHING, July 24 — Sarawak will continue to monitor the situation with Covid-19 variants and revise its policy as the virus evolves, including the deadly Delta variant, said Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) advisor Datuk Seri Prof Dr...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The cooperative sector in Malaysia, which will be a century-old next year, needs to expand its wings in various sectors of the economy, including company shareholding and construction. Entrepreneur and Cooperative...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The threshold indicator for new Covid-19 cases set under the National Recovery Plan (NRP) may be changed to a more appropriate value based on current developments and the situation in the country. NRP Coordinating Minister.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — With schools forced to shut temporarily and in-person classes replaced by online ones, the Covid-19 pandemic has in essence crippled the education sector in Malaysia.  As a result of this sudden change in teaching a...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — More than half of the 8,067 patients currently admitted in hospitals in Klang Valley for Covid-19 are within Category (Cat)-4  and Cat-5 of infection, or at the stage that requires immediate medical attention, said ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Any non-governmental organisation (NGO), employer or individual who harbours or hires illegal immigrants without valid permits or documents, can face severe punishment, including fines of up to RM50,000. Immigration...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah hopes that vaccination for those involved in the film industry can be expedited, to enable them to undergo filming outside the studio under Phase Two of the...

MARANG, July 23 — A man was killed and his nephew seriously injured after being shot with a shotgun by a close friend in an incident at a Rukun Tetangga hut in Taman Raya Wakaf Tapai, here, this afternoon. The incident that occurred at around 2pm.....

PUTRAJAYA, July 23 — A total of 173 trainers from the Ministry of Health Training Institute will be assigned to health facilities in the Klang Valley from July 27. Secretary-general Datuk Mohd Shafiq Abdullah said the move was to help streamline...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — A 30-year-old financial analyst who was arrested earlier today for tweets questioning RM 70 million MySejahtera application has been released earlier tonight. His lawyer Rajsuran Pillai told Malay Mail that the analyst was.....

JOHOR BARU, July 23 — The Johor Baru City Council (MBJB) has never issued any statement on registration forms for Pfizer vaccine under a certain party’s quota as shared on social media platforms recently. The MBJB in a statement today said, the.....

ALOR SETAR, July 23 — Kedah will receive a larger supply of Covid-19 vaccines next week, speeding up the vaccination process in the state which has seen a spike in infections, Mentri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said. Without specifying the total.....