PASIR MAS, July 5 — The General Operations Force (GOF) South-east Brigade has reported an increase in various cross-border crime activities in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang from January to June 31 compared to the same period last year. Its...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The joint efforts between Malaysia and Qatar through Trade and Investment Mission (TIM) is to reinvigorate a sustainable economy post Covid-19, said the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) today. It said in a....

KANGAR, July 5 — The Perlis government believes it can move to Phase Three of Movement Control under the National Recovery Plan (PPN) by October, said State Secretary Azman Mohd Yusof. He said this based on the increase in the state’s Covid-19...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Daily Covid-19 cases rose to 6,387 from a slightly lower figure yesterday, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today. So far, July has seen no days of cases dipping below 6,000. Selangor is...

GEORGE TOWN, July 5 — Students and residents at St. Nicholas Home, here, who are visually impaired, are grateful and happy to have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine today. In fact, most of those who were initially worried about receiving....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Parti Pribumi Bersatu Youth Wing’s chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal today denied saying that he will contest in the Bagan Serai Parliamentary seat for the 15th general election (GE15). He said that the party has yet....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia ( Suhakam) today urged the government to look into Malaysia’s downgrade to the lowest ranking in a closely watched annual report on human trafficking by the US State...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Parliament will sit for five days starting July 26, the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement issued this evening, after months of public and Palace pressure. Dewan Rakyat proceedings will take place from July...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba today announced that another state would be joining five others, by entering into the second phase of the National Recovery Plan (NRP). However, Dr Adham stopped short of revealing...

PEKAN, July 5 — More than RM600 million in various assistance have been channelled through religious agencies under the Prime Minister's Department to the needy until June this year. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Reli...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Vaccination for adolescents would only be administered for those with underlying medical conditions for now, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba...

JOHOR BARU, July 5 — The Johor Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition asked the government to allow the state to move to the second phase of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) as it has a low Covid-19 infectivity rate. In a joint statement, Pakatan said a...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Human Resources Ministry has pledged to implement several measures to address allegations of forced labour in the country. This includes a study on the current recruitment process which labour rights groups claim put...

KUCHING, July 5 — The General Operations Force (GOF) Sarawak Brigade carried out a total of 229 raids, 754 arrests and deportations of immigrants, involving seizures amounting to RM27.27 million for the first six...

IPOH, July 5 — Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia’s Youth wing chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal confirmed that he will contest the Bagan Serai Parliamentary seat in the 15th general election. The deputy youth and sports minister said that he.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Malaysian Association of Advertising Filmmakers (MAAF) asked Putrajaya to allow them to work as their business is “hanging on a thin line.” In an open letter to Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, the minister of...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Selangor executive councillor Datuk Teng Chang Khim today said that under the Selangor Vaccination Programme (Selvax), employers will have to bear the cost of two vaccine doses per employee for RM350.  Teng, who is i...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) health committee today described the third movement control order (MCO) or MCO 3.0 as an unmitigated failure.  In a statement this afternoon, it concurred with the findings of the Health and....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — A total of 2,618,316 people or 8.0 per cent of the Malaysian population have completed two doses of Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday (July 4), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba. The Covid-19 Immunisat...

GEORGE TOWN, July 5 — Once Covid-19 self-test kits are available in the market, the government may make it compulsory for everyone to conduct self-testing at home, said Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. He suggested that the government will...

GEORGE TOWN, July 5 — The state government has kicked off its Covid-19 mass screening programme  (PSC19)  at the City Stadium here today, as it aims to test about 1,000 individuals from six constituencies on the island.  ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Tras state assemblyman Chow Yu Hui was detained by the police while escorting durian farmers during a visit to a parcel of land at the centre of a legal dispute with the Pahang statement government yesterday, but has since...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The government has unveiled eight economic packages worth RM530 billion in total to address the crisis ever since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared last year, Asia Analytica said. The research and....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Malaysia received one million doses of the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from the United States this morning.  The United States (US) Embassy in a statement today said that shipment of the vaccine arrived at the.....

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Police have identified the two local men who escaped through a barbed wire fence at a public housing (PPR) in Jalan Kampung Pasir, here, which has been placed under the enhanced movement control order. Brickfields...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — With another year of home-based learning for Malaysian children in the Covid era, a number of parents are wondering if their young ones will ever be able to catch up with their peers academically and socially when schools...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 — Police will be calling up a woman who claimed that the increase in Covid-19 cases in Selangor was due to a glove factory, via a viral Tik Tok video. Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said.....

SEREMBAN, July 4 — The vaccination centre (PPV) at Paroi Youth and Sports Complex (Kombes) will begin operations tomorrow, Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun said. He said with the opening of the centre, the vaccination...

BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 4 — The police have detained a man with five fake firearms in a raid at a hardware store in Jalan Permatang Pauh here yesterday. The 25-year-old man was detained with three HK 416 rifles and two M16 rifles that were modified...

JOHOR BARU, July 4 — The Johor state government is making a shift in the strategies used to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, said Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Hasni Mohammad. In a posting on his official Facebook Hasni said this was because Johor was...