Malaysia – Employees Provident Fund (EPF) participants will be allowed to make a special withdrawal of RM10,000 from their accounts beginning today, allowing individuals affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to clear their outstanding obligations. The majority of Umno members who favor the withdrawal claim that it would also assist to improve people’s lives and invigorate the local economy, particularly for …

Malaysia – After many federal MPs claim that they had been denied development financing for their constituencies, they called the Keluarga Malaysia idea as a hypocritical term. Non-Pakatan Harapan members of Parliament alleged they were treated unfairly because they refused to recognize the “memorandum of agreement” inked by the major opposition coalition and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s …

Malaysia – Under the Budget 2022, a comprehensive program for all sectors of society, regardless of race, religion, age, or gender, is being undertaken via the Developing Malaysian Family approach. Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, Finance Minister, stated that a total of RM200 million has been allocated particularly for the Chinese population, with the goal of implementing home remodeling …

Malaysia – A minister has disputed that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s Keluarga Malaysia (Malaysian Family) concept took ideas from the DAP’s Impian Malaysia. Datuk Abd Latiff Ahmad, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions), said this in a legislative written response to Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kui Lun, who asked the administration to declare that the …

The opposition party DAP said it would consider the next Prime Minister‘s proposal for the federal Opposition to join the government in the battle against Covid-19 and efforts to rehabilitate the nation, but only if the opposition’s participation would not be a “rubber stamp.” Lim Guan Eng, the DAP’s secretary-general, went to Facebook today to respond briefly to newly appointed …