Geo Politics

KUALA LUMPUR: To help kickstart the international air travel industry, AirAsia has joined aviation and tourism experts in calling for a standardised approach to travel protocols. Bo Lingam, president of AirAsia Group (Airlines), said that for cross-border travel to resume effectively and safely, a mutually agreed global framework approach is needed. “Travel requirements in the region are currently complex and …

PETALING JAYA: According to de facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan, the fine for violating Covid-19 laws is not set at RM10,000. Takiyuddin said the fines range from RM100 to RM10,000, depending on the severity of the crime, during a live-streamed press conference. “The authorities will use their discretion; there are guidelines,” he said, despite the fact that the Emergency Ordinance …

PETALING JAYA: Former Barisan Nasional secretary-general Annuar Musa has asked Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to clarify if he wrote to Muhyiddin Yassin about the party’s position on the PPBM. He said that Zahid wrote Muhyiddin a letter on February 26 informing him of the outcome of the Umno Supreme Council meeting in Janda Baik, Pahang, on February 19. The …

Many Thai nonconformists and police were harmed in rough conflicts at an enemy of government rally recently. The police were recognized that elastic slugs or the so-called rubber bullets were released since fights began a year ago. Along with this, the police additionally utilized poisonous gas and water cannon against dissenters who walked on an army installation in Bangkok, calling …

MELAKA: The Melaka state government has refuted claims that in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, more than 100 state politicians were given preference over frontliners for vaccination. In response to accusations made on social media, executive councillor Rahmad Mariman claimed that the state Health Department decides the list of qualified people without the participation of any …

As the Philippine government starts the rollout of immunization program against the COVID-19, a backing bunch for political detainees asked wellbeing specialists not to fail to remember detainees mulling in the nation’s packed jails. Kapatid, a care group for political detainees, kept in touch with Health Secretary Francisco Duque requesting that the public authority incorporate all people denied of freedom …

The Health Ministry, as a team with online healthcare specialist co-op, Halodoc, has arranged administrations for the drive-through immunization of inhabitants in the old class, to encourage the dissemination cycle of the COVID-19 antibody. The drive-through immunization program for the older is wanted to be started in the Kemayoran territory, Central Jakarta, and will extend to different territories. Indeed, they …

The concerns over the political issues never stops as the government pundits have voiced their interests over lawful entanglements that may prevent a sanction revise if the Constitutional Court rules on the legitimateness of the proposed corrections past the point of no return. The worries were raised at a conversation went to by Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, who is head of …

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin reiterated on Monday (Mar 1) that once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, he will dissolve parliament. “The key priority of this government at this time is to steer this country out of the double whammy of health and economic crises,” he said in a speech focusing on his first year in office. I …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a long-standing policy of political non-interference in member states’ internal affairs. Despite the events of the previous five years in Myanmar, where the military carried out “clearing operations” against some 1 million civilians belonging to the Rohingya minority, the association remained committed to that theory. This, though, will not be an option …