SHAH ALAM, June 15 — Phase 4 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will be implemented in Labuan in the near future, to contain the pandemic on the island, said its Coordinating Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin. He said that the vaccination...

KOTA KINABALU, June 15 — Controversial Sabahan lawyer Marcel Jude Joseph said that he’s ready to face the native court if called up over his statement on the Unduk Ngadau cultural beauty pageant. He said that he has yet to hear from the court...

KOTA KINABALU, June 15 — The spread of fake news cases dropped by 83 per cent during the third movement control order (MCO) 3.0 as compared to MCO 1.0 last year, said Communications and Multimedia deputy minister...

KOTA KINABALU, June 15 — Sabah has received 400 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which will be given out on a voluntary basis, said State Health director Dr Christina Rundi. Due to the small volume, the roll out of the vaccine here has...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will address the country at 5pm today to lay out the government’s plan to steer Malaysia out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, Muhyiddin said the government was drafting an exit.....

KOTA KINABALU, June 15 — Sabah is set to ramp up its vaccination programme, with the state government saying that it hopes to more than double the number of jabs administered by next month to 30,000 shots per day. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji.....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was seen entering Istana Negara here today for an audience with Yang diPertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah. It was not immediately clear what the...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) today recorded 5,419 new Covid-19 infections, with Selangor still topping the chart with 1,996 cases. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced the latest numbers today...

SHAH ALAM, June 15 — Another local bank employee was remanded seven days from today for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes from applicants of personal loans amounting to RM18 million between 2018 and 2020. The remand order against the...

GEORGE TOWN, June 15 — A routine check on a vehicle, whose driver was acting suspiciously this morning, turned into a 6km high-speed car chase that left one pedestrian dead before the police shot at the car tyres and arrested the suspect. In the...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Malaysia has given conditional approval for two new vaccine variants which need only one dose to be administered, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today. The vaccines are the Convidecia...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The Malaysian Indian Restaurant Owners Association (Primas) today said that with the restaurant business in dire straits, businesses under its purview need the aid of the government, in every way possible. In a statement...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Umno Youth executive council member Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris has denied he was the blogger known as Papagomo, according to a filing at the High Court. Wan Muhammad Azri made this denial in a defence statement against a...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — A coalition of NGOs and civil society organisations has called upon the federal government to end the ongoing Emergency and reconvene Parliament. It said the reimplementation of the movement control order (MCO) at the start....

KUCHING, June 15 — Sarawak will only allow the ‘walk in and get your jab’ approach for the current Covid-19 vaccination programme in its interior areas, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas. He explained that under this...

GEORGE TOWN, June 15 — More Covid-19 vaccination centres (PPV) will open over the next few weeks in Penang to boost the daily inoculation rate. Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said currently, the seven PPVs along with four government hospitals....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The People’s Volunteer Corp (Rela) denied today that it was automatically registering Malaysians without their knowledge or consent, after it was discovered yesterday that some were included in its database despite never.....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Prices of vegetables from Cameron Highlands rose up to 40 per cent since yesterday, after the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) was enforced in several areas there, Sinar Harian reported. Other types of vegetables...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The 20,000 smartphones the Perak government gave to students in the state were poorly equipped devices unsuitable for online learning, the local chapter of Amanah Youth said today. Commenting on reports of the smartphones...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — Health workers administered 197,963 Covid-19 vaccine doses yesterday, pushing the total number of vaccinations in Malaysia close to five million. According to the statistics from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The Covid-19 pandemic has made it hard and tragic for the family members of victims to say goodbye to their loved ones. The New Straits Times reported funeral director Richard D. Ernest as saying funerals have changed...

GEORGE TOWN, June 15 — The Penang South Islands (PSI) project, also known as the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project, has been a hot-button issue in recent weeks with everybody — both sides of the political divide, civil society and...

JOHOR BARU, June 14 — The Covid-19 Quarantine and Low-Risk Treatment Centre (PKRC) at Olive B, Permai Hospital has become the first PKRC in the country to specifically accommodate women, pregnant mothers and children under the age of 12. Johor...

KUCHING, June 14 — The police have arrested a Covid-19 positive patient yesterday for fleeing from the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), said the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC). “The man was arrested at Jalan Datuk Patinggi Ali...

KUCHING, June 14 — State Secretary Datuk Amar Jaul Samion has refuted the claim that Datuk Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman’s departure as State Financial Secretary (SFS) was sudden. In a press statement today, Jaul clarified that Ahmad Tarmizi’s past...

PUTRAJAYA, June 14 — The Human Resources Ministry has reminded employers who have to ferry their workers for purpose of screening or quarantine to use suitable modes of transportation to ensure the safety and welfare of the workers and the public.....

ALOR SETAR, June 14 — The Kedah Health Department (JKN) confirms that it directed the employer of a chicken processing factory in Bedong, Sungai Petani to send its Covid-19 positive workers to the Kuala Muda District Health Office, yesterday....

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Employers will have to fully bear vaccination charges for workers in critical economic sectors in the Economic Frontliners Vaccination Programme for the retail sector which is expected to begin this month, according to...

PUTRAJAYA, June 14 — The official UPUOnline portal has reopened for applications for admission to public universities, polytechnics, community colleges, and public skills training institutions for Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 leavers for...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The public-private partnership immunisation programme (Pikas) needs to prioritise critical industrial sectors facing high risk of Covid-19 infection and widen its coverage to encompass all 17 essential sectors, the...