KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The ‘Ziarah Finas Prihatin’ Programme continues to run although the country is now under the Conditional Movement Control Order (MCO) or Recovery MCO, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Malaysia recorded 1,671 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with Selangor recording 652 cases, almost double from yesterday. Meanwhile, Sabah had 102 new cases, the first time the state reported triple digits since...

JOHOR BARU, March 20 — Sungai Kim Kim in Pasir Gudang, here, is one of the pilot river reserve areas that will be upgraded into a recreational site under the National River Trail programme in an effort to conserve the river in the state. Johor...

PUTRAJAYA, March 20 — The Education Ministry (MOE) is mulling to use the Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) technology for the construction of additional buildings in schools, said Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin. However, he...

KOTA KINABALU, March 20 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will make a two-day official visit to Sabah beginning tomorrow. According to a spokesman of the Sabah Chief Minister’s Office, the visit is aimed at strengthening cooperation...

ARAU, March 20 — North Korea’s decision to sever diplomatic ties with Malaysia has not affected the country’s economy, said Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz. According to him, it is because the country’s contribut...

TEBEDU, Mar 20 ­— The issue of illegal immigrants crossing the border into Sarawak must not be taken lightly during the present Covid-19 pandemic, said Datuk Seri Michael Manyin Jawong. As such, the Education, Science and Technological Research...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Since North Korea announced yesterday that it is severing ties with Malaysia, its embassy in Jalan Batai in Bukit Damansara has been the focal point for local and foreign media. Reporters started converging outside the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — North Korea’s decision to sever diplomatic ties with Malaysia will not affect foreign investments into the country, said Senior Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali. Azmin, who is also International Trade and Industry...

LABUAN, March 20 ― The second dose vaccination of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine under phase one of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Labuan commenced at vaccination centre in Membedai Health Clinic involving 180 frontliners...

JELI, March 20 ― A total of 389,177 individuals in the first phase group of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme has been vaccinated so far yesterday. Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali said the total indicated that the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 ― The Finance Ministry today announced that the government has agreed to directly channel special assistance amounting to RM260 million to all state governments. Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said the.....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 ― Police will record Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s statement over a video showing the former prime minister violating the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) at a restaurant in Bukit Bintang, here, yesterday. The...

KANGAR, March 20 — Perlis Road Transport Department (JPJ) deputy director was remanded for two days from today to assist in investigations into cases of corruption. Magistrate Kamaliza Md Zain issued the order to remand the 41-year-old man, to...

KANGAR, March 20 — Perlis Umno will continue to be loyal to the party’s top leadership and did not propose breaking from the party’s central leadership, said Arau MP Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim. He said he did not have any problems with the top....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Three illegal immigrants had climbed a 20-metre high wall made of zinc before falling into a drain filled with faeces to evade arrest during an operation conducted by the Immigration Department early today. They were among....

SEREMBAN, March 20 — Rasah Wanita Umno head, Hapsah Hamid, 75, died in her daughter’s residence in Kampung Jiboi Baru here of a fever at 5 am this morning. Her granddaughter, Faiqah Khairul Azam, 25, said her grandmother was suffering from a...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The Immigration Department (JIM) has assured that it will resolve the congestion issue at the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore. Its director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said JIM, in collaboration with the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Despite the country’s Covid-19 infectivity rate remaining at an effective reproduction number (Rt) of roughly 0.9, six other states in the country still showed values higher than the national average, Tan Sri Dr Noor...

SINGAPORE, March 20 — Singapore has recalled eggs imported from another farm from Malaysia due to the presence of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). The affected eggs can be identified by the stamp “CEM014” on the eggs, said the Singapore Food...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — PKR organising secretary Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad revealed that party president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was initially approached to be part of the “Sheraton Move” last year but had rejected the offer, reports The Malaysian....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The police have now joined the hunt for cosmetics entrepreneur Nur Sajat Kamaruzzaman as she continues to elude the Selangor Islamic Religious Department’s (Jais), Utusan Malaysia reported yesterday.  The Malay.....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The enforcement of the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance (No.2) 2021 is not a move by the government to restrict freedom of expression says Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chief regulatory...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — It is important for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to collaborate with each other as they are an engine of economic growth, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The government cannot adopt an overly open approach when it comes to hiring foreign workforce at present, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan. He said that the government and ministry’s focus currently.....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Over the last few weeks, rumours of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Umno banding together for the next general election have picked up pace, and if it were to come to fruition, the alliance would be a formidable one, political...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has strongly urged the military leadership in Myanmar to change its course and choose a path towards a peaceful solution. Muhyiddin said Malaysia had&nb...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has owned up to not scanning the MySejahtera QR code before dining-in at a restaurant earlier today. In a Facebook post, he this should result in a fine of RM1,500 two days ago.....

KUCHING, March 19 ― The government will consider making the Covid-19 vaccine jab compulsory when it comes to hiring foreign workers in the future, said Senior Minister of Works Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof. He said that this could not be...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 ― The long drawn-out controversy over the use of the word “Allah” in Christian publications could have been resolved if the Malaysian government had fully implemented its 10-point Solution in 2011 and dropped its 1986...