PETALING JAYA: The government has been asked by Klang MP Charles Santiago to clarify its relations with Goldman Sachs on issues arising from the 1MDB scandal. In response to allegations that the US government was working with Goldman Sachs to prevent evidence related to the scandal from being provided to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, he said Putrajaya had a …

Given all the cash acquired just to get them, a congressperson on Thursday asked the public authority: Where is the nation’s inventory of the critically required COVID-19 immunizations? Sen. Panfilo Lacson said this on his social media account as he noticed that the nation has an asset of P126.75 billion for the acquisition of immunizations — everything except P10 billion …

A sanction correction bill was dismissed by the parliament in its third and last perusing and neglecting to get the help of a greater part of parliament individuals and at any rate 33% of representatives as the constitution required. In view of this, The bill got votes of help from 206 House delegates and two of the 250 representatives, while …

The Indonesian Ministry of Health is thinking about demands for COVID-19 inoculation exercises to be led around evening time during the fasting month of Ramadan from mid-April to mid-May this year. They said that it is safe to say that they are prepared for immunization but they will talk about and conclude it further as the service’s representative for inoculation, …

The Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday affirmed the salivation test as an option in contrast to the nasopharyngeal swab test as one of the passage prerequisites to the island. The team highlighted that this should just be controlled by the Philippine Red Cross and other testing labs that have been endorsed and authorize by the Food and Drug Administration …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states are struggling to effectively resolve the crisis in Myanmar that has been unfolding since the February 1 coup, according to a group of lawmakers from six regional countries. “While the brave pro-democracy protesters of Myanmar are being killed by the military junta, all other ASEAN governments are demonstrating a lack of …

KUALA LUMPUR: Effective tomorrow, mosques and suraus in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Labuan will hold full-capacity prayers on their premises, with a 1.5m physical separation. The new ruling was made after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah gave his permission, according to Mohd Ajib Ismail, director of the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Department (JAWI). Friday prayers at …

PETALING JAYA: DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said today that the government’s new RM20 billion economic recovery plan was insufficient to lift the country out of recession. He said that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s new Pemerkasa stimulus package, which included just RM11 billion in fiscal injections compared to previous stimulus packages, was insufficient. This 50% discount or pay RM5,000 within …

Amidst the issues going through, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said he has gotten the applicant records for minister posts designated by government alliance parties, demanding he has the last say on a bureau reshuffle. Talking at Government House, the PM said the following stage would be a historical verification on every one of the applicants which would take some time. …

The Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan have squeezed for coordinating the advancement of the Tanjung Adikarto fishing port with the Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA). In view of this, Pandjaitan offered the expression while noticing the development work of the fishing port in Yogyakarta. Along with this, The Sea Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, Public …