Thousands of honorary staff so far have not been accommodated in the Law on State Civil Apparatus (ASN) No. 5 of 2014. In fact, not a few honorary staff who have worked for decades served in state agencies. There are hundreds of thousands of honorary staff whose fate is unclear to date. To that end, the National Mandate Party (PAN) …

All of passengers and crews will be be re-examined by Cambodian authorities after a passenger reportedly carried the novel coronavirus. This also including hundreds of Indonesian nationals who are crews of that cruise ship.   “The Cambodian government will conduct re-examination. If they are declared clear [from the virus infection], they are allowed to sail,” Director for the Protection of …

There is another Indonesian crew member of the Diamond Princess cruise ship that positive coronavirus. That positive test for coronavirus was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Previously, three Indonesians were confirmed of having the highly contagious virus while on duty on the ship. They are now being quarantined off in Yokohama, Japan. “We …

PUTRAJAYA – Pakatan Harapan (PH) is expected to discuss the transfer of government from Mahathir to Anwar at the party coalition’s presidential council meeting this Friday. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad reiterated that he would step down after the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November but he is unsure if whether there will be any discussion in this Friday’s council …

LONDON – Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed that Malaysian top leadership believed that the vanished Flight MH370 in 2014 was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot. “My very clear understanding from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on here, they thought it was a murder-suicide by the pilot,” Mr …

PETALING JAYA: Manufacturing sector and industrialists are confident that the current situation caused by the corona virus or Covid-19 outbreak would soon slow down as most business units and plants in China are back in business. The rest of the areas, except in Wuhan where the virus originated, factories in China are running at full steam, as reported by the …

PETALING JAYA – Two aides of PKR president Anwar Ibrahim today both failed on their respective applications to remove their boss’ name from legal suits filed by Muhammad Yusoff Rawther as they claimed were all for political stunts. Yesterday, the Shah Alam Sessions Court dismissed the applications by Anwar’s political aide Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak and press-secretary Tunku Nashrul …

PUTRAJAYA – Malaysian Health Minister Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad confirmed that two more coronavirus two more (Covid-19) patients have been discharged from Hospital Sungai Buloh this morning. The 64-year-old woman and 31-year-old man were among the 15 patients now cured of the infection. Dzulkefly revealed that the woman was the mother-in-law of another patient while the man was an overseas worker …

Two former Diamond Princess coronavirus-wracked passengers have died, local media reported on Thursday as concerns grow over those who left the ship despite having tested negative for the virus. Advertising A man and a woman who had been infected died in their 80s, said public broadcaster NHK and others, the first fatal cases among the more than 600 on board …

The Immigration Bureau (BI) is “immediately relieving” 19 workers reportedly connected to a supposed scheme in which Chinese nationals are escorted in exchange for a fee through the immigration process. The office did so in compliance with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order, BI spokeswoman Dana Sandoval said Thursday. The Immigration Bureau (BI) is reportedly “immediately relieving” 19 workers linked to a …