Malaysia

Malaysia – Food waste is a worldwide issue, which is why Dr Kajel Kaur Gill, the recently crowned Miss Earth Malaysia 2022, believes Malaysia might play a part in tackling it. She claims that the government can better control food waste by enacting a new rule that outlines how extra food should be handled rather than being tossed or destroyed. …

Malaysia – On March 28, the Dewan Negara announced that the Federal Territories Ministry has established a Poverty Unit at the ministry and agency levels to address the problem of urban poverty on a continuing basis. Its Deputy Minister, Datuk Seri Jalaluddin Alias, said the unit was set up under the Labuan Corporation for the Federal Territory of Labuan, in …

Malaysia – According to PKR secretary-general Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the party’s weak performance in the state elections between 2020 and 2022 would be on the topic at the party’s National Congress, which is likely to take place in June. According to him, the sequence of setbacks prompted changes to their methods, narrative to the public, election instruments training, …

Malaysia – Following a sharp increase in online crimes recorded in Malaysia, cybersecurity remains one of the country’s top issues. The number of instances related with cyberbullying, fraud, intrusion, phishing, and email scams has almost doubled, as stated by Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin. According to him, roughly 13,000 cybercrime instances were recorded in 2019, totaling RM539 million in …

Malaysia – The Penang Chinese business community, according to its spokesman Hong Yeam Wah, would never welcome or invite corrupt politicians to the state or any of its activities. The head of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce (PCCC) informed Malaysiakini that members of the organisation had neither invited or greeted Umno politician Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who visited the city …

Malaysia – Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin stated today that Umno ministers gathered at a hotel in Putrajaya yesterday morning for breakfast since they hadn’t broken bread in a long time. He went on to say that the gathering was not intended to discuss dissolving Parliament. His remarks came after Utusan Malaysia reported on the meeting earlier in the day, claiming …

Malaysia – The Sessions Court sentenced Indonesian Ellis Andreyani to two years in prison on March 23 after she confessed to physically abusing a one-year-old toddler in her care last year. The 47-year-old woman has lived in Malaysia for seven years and is married to a Malaysian. When Sessions Court judge Mazdi Abdul Hamid read the punishment, he added, “The …

Malaysia – Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the PKR secretary-general, claimed the party has kicked off 11,000 members who were proven to have supported previous party leaders implicated in the Sheraton Move, which destroyed the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government just 22 months after it won Putrajaya. Saifuddin added during a livestream interview that PKR‘s disciplinary board had worked around the …

Malaysia – Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, the leader of the Sabah Opposition, has denied any connection with the descendants of the former Sulu Sultanate who are seeking a claim in Sabah. He also disputed charges that he was in Spain during an arbitration hearing in 2019 while he was the governor of Sabah. Instead, the Parti Warisan president chastised …

Malaysia – Dr Boo Cheng Hau, the outspoken chairman of the Johor DAP, has called on Lim Guan Eng, the party’s newly nominated national chairman, to resign owing to his current corruption case. He believes Lim should resign and let DAP‘s recently elected central executive committee (CEC) members free of burden in order for the party to move forward, rebuild …