Malaysia

Parliament can open in September or October under strict SOP according to the new recovery plan of the government, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. According to him, in the third phase of the plan, if the new Covid-19 cases will continue to go below 2,000 each day and the vaccination rate is at 40 per cent of the …

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 …

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 …

Khairy Jamaluddin told former science, technology and innovation minister Yeo Bee Yin that using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet won’t be enough to handle millions of data on a daily basis “To say the present system is unable to prioritise senior citizens is untrue. We are dealing with 15 million registrations, more than 30 million data points in a tenth of …

Lim Guan Eng who is the former finance minister has called for the government to raise an amount of RM45 billion through bonds which could help Malaysians in dealing with the economic impact of the latest movement control order or simply the MCO 3.0. Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng said that following the extension of the MCO to June 28, …

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s proposal to establish a National Operations Council or Mageran, its Malay abbreviation as known by many has been rejected by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council. PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Parti Amanah Negara president Mohamad Sabu and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said in a statement that the most pressing matter …

The police’s investigation on the alleged receipt of 1MDB funds involving the husband of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) ex-governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz is about to be concluded. Reports say that according to Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Kamaruddin Md Din, only a few more documents are needed by the police before concluding their investigations. Kamaruddin said that …

Certain critical rail operating standards of procedure (SOP) were not adhered to which led to the eventual Light Rail Transit (LRT) train collision on May 24, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong said of the findings of the nine-member investigation committee today. Wee said the aforementioned findings by the committee headed by Transport Ministry secretary-general Datuk Isham Ishak included …