[caption id="attachment_205547" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by KELLY SIKKEMA / UNSPLASH[/caption] PUTRAJAYA — The government will introduce a Tax Identification Number (TIN) for business or individual income earners aged 18 and above beginning in January 2021, said Deputy Finance...

PETALING JAYA, Jan 9 — The government achieved its fiscal deficit target for 2019 of 3.4% of gross domestic product (GDP), says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

[caption id="attachment_205541" align="alignnone" width="3840"] PICTURE BY MARKUS SPISKE / UNSPLASH[/caption] ALOR SETAR, Jan 9 — The Malaysian Border Security Agency (Aksem) in Kedah has foiled 63 attempts to smuggle goods of various items worth more than RM15 million last year. Kedah Aksem...

[caption id="attachment_205338" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Road users using Touch ‘n Go Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in Duke Highway recently.

[caption id="attachment_204157" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Picture by RAMON KAGIE/UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that there were no Malaysians on board Ukraine International Airlines aircraft that crashed in Iran on Wednesday. "The ministry...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — The Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry allocated RM387 million to carry out 69 flood-mitigation projects nationwide in 2019.

[caption id="attachment_205357" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.

[caption id="attachment_205409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A handout photo taken and received on December 31, 2019 from the State Government of Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region.

[caption id="attachment_205528" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A digitally-colourized, negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicting a number of Influenza A virions.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — Pos Malaysia Berhad (Pos Malaysia) is extending its Pos Laju SendParcel promotion until January 31 due to popular demand.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — The government has agreed to launch a programme to rehabilitate degraded areas throughout Malaysia by replanting 100 million trees starting this year until 2025 in an effort to preserve the country’s biodiversity and eco-system services.

[caption id="attachment_204352" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Picture by FRANK VEX/UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — Malaysia Airlines will avoid the airspace over Iran following the recent military tension in the region. In a statement today, Malaysia Airlines said it does not fly...

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 8 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today played several sets of audio recordings of conversations involving former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and others which anti-graft chief Latheefa Koya described as leakage of information from the MACC.

[caption id="attachment_205142" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Picture by LOGAN WEAVER/UNSPLASH[/caption] TEHRAN, Jan 8 — A Ukrainian airliner with 180 passengers and crew on board has reportedly crashed near Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport today. Al Jazeera reported that the Boeing 737 plane...

[caption id="attachment_205503" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by ANIQ DANIAL / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — A maintenance audit team should be set up at public transport stations to ensure that the facilities at these places are well maintained, said Federation of...

[caption id="attachment_205505" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A handout file picture provided by the Iranian presidency on September 22, 2019 shows members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) standing in formation during the annual "Sacred Defence Week" military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran.

[caption id="attachment_205187" align="aligncenter" width="807"] The smoking zone provided by MPAJ in a commercial area in Ampang.

[caption id="attachment_205498" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by LUCA BRAVO / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Rising awareness of the importance of cybersecurity has led to improved focus within Malaysian companies in addressing cyberthreats, according to technology group...

[caption id="attachment_205491" align="aligncenter" width="903"] Screenshot of the sexual awareness video for children produced by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.

[caption id="attachment_205139" align="aligncenter" width="900"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] PUTRAJAYA, Jan 7 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today that he will decide on the appointment of the new education minister because it is his prerogative. "It will be decided by me...