Kuala Lampur — The authorities are clear, and the lawyers are right: The Federal Court could make a ruling even if there were no submissions from former prime minister Najib Razak’s counsel. Then Judge of Court of Appeal Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim in a 2018 case of Dato Sri Dr Mohamad Salleh bin Ismail & […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug — The Malaysian Bar has reiterated its call for the enactment of political financing laws without further delay. In a statement, its president Karen Cheah Yee Lynn said the professional body has been working on a draft Bill with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Political Financing in the hopes that this will […]
The Registrar of Societies (RoS) has approved Umno’s application to amend its constitution allowing internal polls to be deferred to after Malaysia’s national election, Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan announced this evening. The Umno secretary-general said he received official confirmation from the RoS today. “Please be informed that the RoS has approved the application related to […]
KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Malaysia is fast losing its appeal as a destination for migrant workers, economists cautioned, even as key sectors in the country were already struggling with manpower shortages due to regulatory obstacles to foreign recruitment. They warned that refusal or inability to swiftly address the issue would leave Malaysia vulnerable to […]
Kuala Lampur — US authorities eager to get people vaccinated against Covid-19 have offered inducements ranging from free beer to million-dollar lottery prizes, and now rock concert promoters have their own twist: whopping ticket discounts. Fans of punk bands Teenage BottleRocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin can get into the June 26 concert in coastal Saint Petersburg, […]
Kuala Lampur — Netizens are calling for the national vaccination programme to be speeded up by harnessing both public and private healthcare resources. A petition to the prime minister titled “Mass Vaccination in the Shortest Time Possible” garnered close to 10,000 signatures within 12 hours yesterday and the number is still climbing. The petition was […]
KUALA LUMPUR — Over one million doses of the AstraZeneca and CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccines arrived this morning at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) which the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) said will be used to speed up the national programme (NIP). CITF said 559,200 doses of the AstraZeneca type vaccines and the 500,000 CoronaVac […]
NEW YORK — In the end, it seems that artificial blue light from smartphones, tablets and other screens may not be harmful to skin. A new scientific study suggests that artificial blue light only has a “negligible effect” on skin, unlike natural blue light from the sun, which the scientists consider to be “the actual […]
KUCHING — The Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) has detected seven Covid-19 cases of the South African Variant of Concern (VOC), B.1.351, in the Kuching District. Unimas head Professor Dr David Perera said the earliest case was tested positive after Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests on April […]
