PUTRAJAYA, Feb 26 — Malaysians should help the government to ensure the success of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme by conveying accurate information on the Covid-19 vaccine to their family members as well as the community. Minister in....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — The Malaysian Pharmacists Society (MPS) is ready to provide Covid-19 vaccine-related explanations to any member of parliament, state assemblyman and member of the Senate. Its president Amrahi Buang said this was to reduce...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — A one minute, 45-second video of a motorist ramming his car into other vehicles at a traffic light junction to evade police has gone viral on social media. The incident occurred at the Sierramas traffic light in Sungai Buloh....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — A homegrown diagnostic solution start-up has developed a digital rapid Covid-19 test kit — dubbed APTSENS — that can upload test results in real-time with geo-location data to cloud servers via a mobile app. Biogenes...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Musa Hassan failed today to dismiss DAP’s Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh’s defamation lawsuit against him over his remarks in a January 2020 forum, her lawyer confirmed today....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Asean Economic Ministers will engage in earnest discussions on the development of post-Covid-19 recovery efforts at both the national and regional levels at the virtual 27th Asean Economic Ministers’ (AEM) Retreat, to be...

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 26 — The country’s border control will continue to be given focus and will be strengthened this year through the transformation of its management and governance, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin. He said border...

KUCHING, Feb 26 — Three media practitioners were among the first 132 frontliners to be given the jab in the first phase of the Covid-19 Immunisation Programme held at the Kota Samarahan Health Office near here today. They were Utusan Borneo...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — A coalition of international human rights organisations highlighted today its concerns that Malaysia had shipped children to Myanmar alone where they risked repercussions of their families who fled the South-east Asian...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah have extended ‘Happy Chap Goh Meh’ greetings to those celebrating the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — The Sessions Court here has set March 15 to 17 to hear the case of an ex-political secretary to former Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu who was charged with five counts of accepting and soliciting bribes, amounting to.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Former education minister Maszlee Malik today instructed his lawyer to issue a letter of demand to Umno Youth chief Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, after the latter accused the Pakatan Harapan administration of glorifying...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Marriage ceremonies for non-Muslims can now be held at the National Registration Department (NRD), places of worship and non-Muslim religious association premises in areas placed under the movement control o...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 ― The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) personnel involved in operations and foreign missions are the first group among the personnel to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, said Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail...

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 26 ― Two policemen, a city council worker and a businessman are being investigated on suspicion of taking payments to suppress information about a drug dealing syndicate in Penang over the past few years. All four, aged between 29....

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 26 — The Jambatan Kedua Sdn Bhd (JKSB) operations office in Batu Kawan here will be closed today and tomorrow for disinfection and sanitisation after one of the employees tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday. The concessionaire.....

IPOH, Feb 26 — Perak police broke up several drug syndicates around the state this week, including a party involving six of their fellow officers here. State police chief Commissioner Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said that the Perak narcotics...

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 26 — Penang poultry sellers at wet markets have until March 31 to install chillers at their stalls, the state’s Island City Council (MBPP) Mayor Datuk Yew Tung Seang said today. He said the chillers were to ensure the freshness.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Six male Chinese nationals who were arrested for alleged involvement with a Macau Scam and online gambling syndicate will remain in detention under the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca) 1959. This came after th...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — It is only a matter of time before Umno officially leaves Perikatan Nasional (PN), a party leader asserted, accusing its coalition partner of political dishonesty and betrayal such as during the Sabah state elections last...

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 26 — The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) has approved the appointment of an independent checker to vet through Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) reports for new development projects on the island.  MBPP, through its full.....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaacob received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Tuanku Mizan Army Hospital in Wangsa Maju here today. The vaccine jab for Ismail Sabri, who is also...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — The Federal Court in a majority decision today said Perkasa and its then president Datuk Ibrahim Ali have to pay RM150,000 in damages to former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng over the group’s defamatory statements...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Augustus Ralph Marshall, the once trusted aide to Malaysia’s second richest man Tan Sri T. Ananda Krishnan, is rumoured to be the frontrunner to spearhead the government’s special purpose vehicle (SPV) tasked with the...

TANJUNG MANIS, Feb 26 — The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Tanjung Manis Zone detained a tugboat, six crew members, and a barge laden with sand in waters off Belawai near here on Wednesday. The barge laden with sand detained by MMEA.....

BINTULU, Feb 26 — Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) is continuing its intensive operation for the crocodile that killed a 14-year-old boy at Kampung Hilir, Kuala Tatau last month. In a written reply to Minister in the Chief Minister’s...

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 26 — Following the exit of Sebatik assemblyman Hassan A. Gani Pg Amir from Parti Warisan Sabah yesterday, the party’s deputy president Datuk Darell Leiking said that some politicians unfortunately cannot stomach being in the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — PAS reportedly attributed the public squabble between Malay parties within Perikatan Nasional (PN) to the distribution of electoral seats ahead of the 15th general election. In a report by Malay daily Sinar Harian, the...

PETALING JAYA, Feb 26 — A Youth wing leader from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia yesterday said that Umno cannot continuously claim to be the supreme Malay-dominated party, as there are now several other similar parties with its own strengths....

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — The proposal to expand travel bubble arrangements with green zone countries during the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed further before agreement could be reached with the various parties, said Tourism, Arts and...