[ad_1] (Reuters) – Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani has been suspended for three games and fined 100,000 pounds ($ 136,590) after admitting a charge from the American Football Association (FA) for using a racial term, the governing body of soccer. The 33-year-old Uruguayan used the word “negrito” in an Instagram …
Read More »Malaysian politics at its ‘dirtiest and most divided’ aspect
[ad_1] Sociologist Syed Farid Alatas says that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad lost the opportunity to unite Malaysians when his government collapsed. PETALING JAYA: Malaysian politics is the most divided and dirtiest in decades and there is no leader who can unite them for now, says sociologist Syed Farid Alatas. Instead, he …
Read More »Explainer: How does AstraZeneca’s vaccine compare to Pfizer-BioNTech?
[ad_1] ZURICH (Reuters) – Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve the UK’s home-grown COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca, adding an easy-to-administer injection to a desperate nation’s arsenal for alleviating the pandemic. Still, scientists – and regulators in Europe, following the Brexit divorce – are skeptical, …
Read More »RMCO: What happens on January 1, 2021? Malaysians need answers
[ad_1] [ UPDATE 1/1/2021 01:50 ]: It appears that the RMCO rules have been extended until March 31, 2021. More details here. === The current Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) is scheduled to end today on December 31, 2020. During the Prime Minister’s address to the nation tonight, no extension …
Read More »Muhyiddin outlines five top priorities for 2021
[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: The nation will prioritize five areas while tackling Covid-19 and at the same time nurturing the economy, says Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (photo). In his New Year’s speech aired last night, he said the first priority was to improve public health through the procurement of …
Read More »‘We have to be remembered for what has been done,’ says Trump, returning to Washington early
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After weeks of vowing to win his fight to stay in office, US President Donald Trump released a video on Thursday analyzing what he called “historic victories” and saying: “We have to be remembered. for what has been done. “ Trump, who has yet to formally …
Read More »China Grants Conditional Market Approval for Its First Household COVID-19 Vaccine
[ad_1] A staff member checks the packaging quality of COVID-19 inactivated vaccine products at a packaging plant of Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd. in Beijing, capital of China, on Dec.25, 2020. Photo : Xinhua China announced on Thursday that it granted attached market approval with conditions for its …
Read More »Ole Gunnar Solskjaer win from top spot … Manchester United is the real deal
[ad_1] Just three weeks after a rather humiliating withdrawal from Leipzig, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has every reason to enter the new year feeling optimistic about his Manchester United side. Serious questions were asked of Solskjaer after United were sent off from the Champions League in Germany. How much progress have …
Read More »Indonesia declares persona non grata to the staff of the German Embassy
[ad_1] JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post / ANN) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the German embassy staff member who allegedly visited the headquarters of the Front of Defenders of Islam (FPI) in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, is not welcome in Indonesia after that he left the country shortly after …
Read More »NCID nurse becomes first person in Singapore to receive COVID-19 vaccine
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Senior RN Sarah Lim became the first person in Singapore to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday (December 30), with a total of 40 healthcare workers at the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) receiving the vaccine. They are receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed …
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