Malaysia – The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, met with top executives from big American corporations. Microsoft, Google, Tesla, Boeing, IBM, Texas Instruments, GE Aviation, ConocoPhillips, Ford, National Instruments, Infineon, Micron, and Insulet were among the firms who participated. During the hotel’s meet and greet business session, Ismail Sabri interacted with them. The prime minister came …

Malaysia – Following the reopening of Malaysia’s borders after the transition to the endemic phase, the Home Ministry (KDN) has reactivated the list of persons barred from entering the country due to convictions. Its minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, stated that the measure was made to ensure the greatest degree of national security. “We do not specify which country they …

Malaysia – Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government would automatically lapse if the government fails to table a proposed law to prohibit party hopping next month, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Opposition leader said the PH coalition has reminded the prime minister of this requirement to maintain the historic MoU 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 …

In contrast to Pakatan Harapan, Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) will not enter into any arrangement with the current government. According to The Malaysian Insight, Pejuang chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad thinks his Opposition party should be allowed to check and balance the government and stated that signing any agreement would preclude it from doing so. He said that Pejuang …

Datuk Hajiji Noor, Chief Minister of Sabah, expects that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob would continue talks on the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63) between the Federal government and the governments of Sabah and Sarawak through the Special Council on MA63. He said that the previous Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin‘s special council should be reconvened, since considerable …

Tan Sri Annuar Musa, Minister of Communications and Multimedia, does not eliminate the possibility of having similar agreements with other Opposition parties following the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. According to reports, he indicated that the administration is interested in pursuing similar agreements with the rest of the Opposition. He said that this is just …

In a hearing at the Sessions Court, senior Penang government official was said to have received direction coming from Lim Guan Eng to meet with the representatives of Beijing Urban Construction Group Sdn Bhd (BUCG) when it lobbied for an undersea tunnel project. In his court statement, the current section head of the Penang State Economic Planning Unit (Transportation) Datuk …

Indonesia’s Research and Technology Ministry and Australia’s Monash University have consented to reinforce research cooperation between the two nations. The conceivable collaboration was remembered for a notice of understanding, endorsed by the service’s secretary, Mego Pinandito, and his Australian partner. In fact, Pinandito shared that he would screen and assess the execution of the MoU on research joint effort and …