[ad_1] Yang di-Pertuan Agong during a meeting with UAE Minister of Health and Prevention Dr. Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on December 23 (photo by Bernama). KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia hopes to step up efforts on vaccine development with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
Read More »JKR should apologize to all contributors
[ad_1] YOUR OPINION | “They should apologize to all of us, everyone, every day.” The Department of Public Works apologizes after a pothole caused an accident on the minister’s bicycle GreenViper4010: I have read the comments on Malaysiakini and they find that most of them are negative, unfortunately. I think …
Read More »EU paves the way for investment pact with China
[ad_1] BRUSSELS: EU member states gave political backing to Brussels’ planned investment pact with China on Monday (December 28), paving the way for an agreement between the world’s largest economic blocs. At a meeting of ambassadors, the German EU presidency noted that no member had “raised a stop sign and …
Read More »Biden: Trump helps set up ‘roadblocks’ for his transition team
[ad_1] WILMINGTON, Delaware / WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden said Monday that many of America’s security agencies had been “gutted” under President Donald Trump and that the lack of information provided to his transition team on the part of the outgoing administration it was a problem. “irresponsibility.” “We have …
Read More »China shows Jack Ma what an activist can do
[ad_1] (December 29): The rare activist moment starring China’s central bank was too late and too crude. For years, when it came to innovative business ideas, Beijing’s stance has been to let them flourish: there would always be room to regulate and control things later. And so the superstars of …
Read More »Soccer: Premier League COVID positives hit new record amid match fears
[ad_1] (Reuters) – The Premier League recorded more COVID-19 positives than ever on Tuesday amid match fears in English soccer after game postponements. The league said 18 people had tested positive for the new coronavirus, the most in a week this season, with the latest Sheffield United reporting several new …
Read More »China wants Jack Ma’s Ant Group to “go back to its roots” as a digital payments provider
[ad_1] Days after news broke that Alibaba was being investigated for alleged “monopolistic conduct,” China’s regulators ordered Ant Group, an Alibaba subsidiary founded by Jack Ma, to reduce the size of its business. According to Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of China’s central bank, some of the services in Ant Group’s …
Read More »KLCI finishes 0.54% lower, weighed down by glove manufacturers
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 29): FBM KLCI closed down 8.91 points or 0.54% at 1,634.99 today, in part due to falling stock prices for rubber glove manufacturers , although news of US President Donald Trump’s approval of the US $ 2.3 trillion (about RM9.32 trillion) stimulus package to counter the …
Read More »There is no end of the year party for glove bulls.
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 29): As Covid-19 vaccines gain momentum, glove makers’ stocks may find it difficult to cheer at the end of the year. Although most glove makers’ stock prices have fallen by at least a third from their peaks, some of them are set to post record gains, …
Read More »Malaysian and bumiputera contractors asked to upgrade capacity
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian and bumiputera contractors should always increase their capacity and capacity to be able to tender and implement other private sector projects, rather than simply relying on government projects, said Labor Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof (pix). Fadillah, who is also a Chief Minister, said he believed …
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