Malaysia

As Malaysia is faces coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), struggling to protect people’s health and livelihoods at 40 per cent of household revenue. It reported three bundles of economic assistance. The new two are named Prihatin (which translates into “care”), and they concentrate on helping the Malaysians who fear slipping through the cracks. This include street sellers, micro-enterpreneurs, artists and other informal …

Positive social interactions can help us develop and sustain healthy mental wellbeing. Social interaction even allows us to properly control depression and also tends to enhance a variety of physical wellbeing effects. Sharing time with friends and relatives is one of most common ways of handling depression – and it works. Our families, friends, and co-workers. As friendships play a …

It has been a concern on the country about the status of the economy as everyone is battling with the pandemic virus. The different businesses are reviewing the posibilities of what will happen for the upcoming months. Development in Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to ease from 3.6 percent in Q4 2019 to an annual average of 2.2 …

The Dewan Rakyat has approved a motion to hold a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof shared that the the resolution, tabled by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, will be forwarded to the upcoming one-day meeting on May 18. Mohamad Ariff reported that Dr Mahathir got two motions …

KUALA LUMPUR – Dewan Rakyat Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof confirmed today that he rejected the letter sent by Sabah Chief Minister Shafie Apdal seeking a motion of confidence to Langkawi MP and former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. “Yes, authentic,” Mohamad Ariff said when contacted by Malay Mail. Ariff said the motion is inconsistent with with Article 43 …

Muhyiddin should have confidence of his own survival because, in theory, he should have 113 out of 222 votes, based on his administrative lineup. Ministers and deputy ministers must always vote with the government, because of collective responsibility. Because they are on the government’s payroll, they are also called payroll votes. Ministers and deputy ministers normally join the government as …

Malaysia’s Parliament will be convened for only one day on May 18. A 10-week pushback from the original date (March 9), the May 18 seating has to happen for one reason. If not reconvened, the Parliament will stand dissolved by June 5, six months from Dec 5, 2019 when it was last in session. That’s the constitutional mechanism in Article …

Due to the double standard she experience, she appealed for an explanation towards it. A single mother who spent eight days in jail for violating the motion control order (MCO) asked whether the daughter and son-in-law of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi were sentenced to a mere RM800 fine each for the same crime. Lisa Christina, who was originally sentenced …

Noting so far that the current governing coalition had not displayed true coherence, Everyone should have come together to prevent disunity, which was one of the big shortcomings of PH. In view of this, political observers have played down PPBM president Muhyiddin Yassin’s possibility of bringing the party back to Pakatan Harapan (PH), the alliance that he abandoned before joining …

Everyone is in need of ingredients for their daily food and their other benefits in living their life. One of these is Palm oil. As we all know it’s a vegetable oil edible from the fruit of oil palm tree pulp. The oil palm tree is native to West Africa and is now most widely cultivated in Southeast Asian tropics. …