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[ad_1] UPDATED 7.35PM | Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah has accepted an emergency proclamation in Batu Sapi, Sabah. “After considering (refine) the explanation of the Prime Minister and the briefings of the Chief Secretary of the Government Zuki Ali, the Attorney General Idrus Harun, the Director General …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: Eight new conglomerates have been detected in the country, three of them in Sabah, says Health Director General Tan Sri, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. The other new groups were one in Putrajaya-Selangor, Kuala Lumpur-Selangor, Penang, Sarawak, and Johor-Melaka. Dr. Noor Hisham said that the new groups in …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The government should introduce a “windfall tax” to companies that made windfall profits during the Covid-19 pandemic, says Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman. He said that several glove companies had raised billions of ringgit this year following high global demand due to the pandemic. He …

[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA: Two locations in Ipoh will be placed under an enhanced movement control order starting Friday (November 20) following a spike in Covid-19 cases, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. The locations are Zone B and Zone C at Taman Meru 2C in Ipoh. He said that …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The mental health investigation of former Federal Minister Tun S. Samy Vellu will be closed to the public and the media after the High Court allowed a request by his son Datuk Seri S. Vell Paari to keep the matter private. Attorney David Mathews, who represents Vell …

[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA: The National Security Council (NSC) will hear on Friday (November 20) an assessment on the Covid-19 situation in the “green states” that have been placed under conditional MCO to see if the order can be lifted, it says Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: Malaysia and China have signed an agreement to deepen cooperation on the development and accessibility of a Covid-19 vaccine. The agreement, which was virtually signed by Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin and his Chinese counterpart Wang Zhigang on Wednesday (November 18), aims to forge …

[ad_1] KOTA KINABALU: Bugaya Assemblywoman Manis Muka Mohd Darah was determined to recover from her illness and take the oath as an Assemblywoman from Sabah, says her daughter Fara Deeba Sabardin. Fara said that Manis, 65, had been ill for a while and had not taken the oath after she …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Approximately 4% of the total number of registered Covid-19 cases were tracked involving those who used the health self-assessment feature on the MySejahtera mobile app, Parliament was informed. In a written response on November 12, the Health Ministry said there were 23 million users of the app, …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The special Covid-19 allocation for health care personnel is given only to those who perform tasks to combat the pandemic, said Secretary General of the Ministry of Health (MOH), Datuk Seri, Dr. Chen Chaw Min (pix). “The allocation is done selectively. It is not for all of …