Japan and Indonesia have agreed to strengthen their security relations by expediting talks on the export of Japanese defense technology and consulting their defense ministers and foreign ministers in the near future. As Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the presidential palace in Bogor, south of Jakarta, this reflects concerns about increasing Chinese regional assertiveness. …

KUALA LUMPUR – Umno and PAS, the two largest parties in the country have agreed to formally register their alliance as Muafakat Nasional (MN) with the Registrar of Societies (RoS). The move was announced in a joint statement from the new coalition Secretary-General I and II, Tan Sri Annuar Musa and Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan. The announcement was shared by Annuar …

KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health (MOH) says its looking at the side effects and complications on patients who recovered from Covid-19. According to director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham, MOH is conducting close monitoring on the patients by following-up  treatment to check on the patients progress and if they have mild symptoms, the side effects are maybe less. …

METRO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte, while he has claimed to have never killed anyone, says  he has no problem with being held responsible for the thousands of killings under his government’s war on drugs, while adding that he was even ready to go to jail. In a television remarks on Monday, Duterte said that he does not mind facing …

METRO MANILA – The newly buily 18-kilometer Skyway Stage 3 will be opened to motorists in December and will be toll-free for a month, San Miguel Corp. (SMC) announced Tuesday. According to SMC president and COO Ramon Ang the new elevated expressway will be soft opening in the next two months and will be toll free for the motorist fo …

NANNING – The recent China-Asean education exhibition held in capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, has embraced the steadily increasing demand for smart educational equipment. The event set up seven showrooms with great variety of educational equipment for all ages as well as providing seminars and training services to participants. President of the Guangxi Educational Equipment Industry …

METRO MANILA – Metro Manila mayors unanimously agreed to ban Christmas parties in the Metro Manila region as a precaution to further stop the spread of the virus. According to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año however said that the mayors agreed to allow churches to open at 30% capacity as the country approaches the yuletide season. Año said that Christmas parties …

METRO MANILA – Public Works Secretary Mark Villar has created a task force to investigate reportedly rampant corruption into by employees and officials in the agency. The decision to form a task force came in after a state auditors flagged over P100 billion worth of unimplemented projects in 2019. Secretary Villar creates DPWH Task Force against graft and corruption pic.twitter.com/dfFO9c0eyo— …

SHAH ALAM – Proton Holdings Bhd has confirmed that additional 49 of its employees have tested positive on the Covid-19 screening after one employee tested positive last week. In a statement released by Proton today, all 49 employees are from its Engineering Division in their Shah Alam facility. The company has now requested all non-essential personnel from the said facility …

PETALING JAYA – Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today echoed the recent research findings released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the effectiveness of the drug dexamethasone on treating patients with Covid-19. According to the Health director-general, the findings reported by WHO obtained during the Solidarity Therapeutics Trial that dexamethasone which is the drug to prevent …