The 40-year-old Singaporean Dickson Yeo, who spied for China in the United States is being detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for acting as a paid agent of a foreign country. The Internal Security Department (ISD) said in a press release today that it had served the detention order on Dickson Yeo on January 29 and that his continued …

A coalition of NGOs and civil society organizations have urged the federal government into ending the Emergency and reconvene the Parliament. According to it, implementing the MCO again at the beginning of the month has made the public more anxious which affected Malaysians with several difficulties. In a statement, the coalition said that the enforcement of the state of Emergency …

The People’s Volunteer Corp (Rela) has denied accusations that it was registering Malaysians as volunteers in its database without the knowledge or consent of the person, this was after some people found out that their details were included in its database even though they have never signed up for it. This issue has emerged following the posts from some social …

Ambassadors in Iran and Spain of the Philippines have assumed the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) committees in the respective countries they are currently posted. Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Wilfredo Santos assumed the ASEAN Tehran Committee (ATC) chairmanship from the outgoing Chair, former Malaysian Ambassador to Iran Dato’ Rustam Yahaya. He was represented …

Recently sacked former non-executive chairman of Prasarana Malaysia Berhad, Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman is considering taking  legal action against his critics, who he has accused of painting him badly and tarnishing his reputation, following remarks he made after a two-train collision last month. An online petition calling for his sacking at that time had garnered over 100,000 signatures and …

Tan Sri Mohd Sheriff Kassim who was a former secretary-general of the Finance Ministry, has said that if the retail prices of fuel and cooking oil in southern Thailand, Indonesia’s Sumatra province and the Philippine islands off Sabah followed market trends, then the subsidised Malaysian fuel and cooking oil would be cheaper. This former top civil servant has called on …

Unexpectedly, The Philippines positions eighth among 10 Southeast Asian countries as far as inoculating its entire populace and second in immunization arrangement against COVID-19. The information given by global research organization of the world in its data this month showed that the Philippines has immunized uniquely about 4.23 percent of its complete populace as of June 8, with 6.31 million …

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is perky about the capital city of Jakarta accomplishing group resistance against COVID-19 in August 2021. The president offered the expression while noticing mass immunizations at the Pluit Reservoir in Jakarta, as seen on the YouTube channel of the Presidential Secretariat here on Monday. They anticipate that DKI Jakarta should accomplish crowd invulnerability in August and …

No change has been made to the plan for the Friday general gathering of the decision Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) in this notheastern area, says Ekrarath Changlao, a gathering list MP. In view of this, Mr Ekrarath, executive of the gathering’s essential panel of the Northeast, said the gathering plan had been set thus far, no different proposition had been …

The UAE will progress to start its new term on the UN Security Council on January 1, 2022. This would be the second time it has served on the body. UAE has been elected to the council on last Friday, and has been a member of the UN since the UAE’s founding in 1971 and held a seat once before, …