[caption id="attachment_205075" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by MICHAEL LONGMIRE/UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Increased spending in the nation’s health sector and adding value to government and private healthcare services are among the Health Ministry’s biggest...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Bank Rakyat Malaysia Bhd (Bank Rakyat) has identified six blueprints as the key to its new journey in realising "Bank Rakyat 2025" (BR25) aspirations to become a sustainable bank, said its chairman Datuk Noripah Kamso.

[caption id="attachment_205480" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Tourists on their Hop On-Hop Off tour to explore the city centre on January 4.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The police will conduct a special operation known as Operation Libero Purus to detect civil servants believed to be involved with drugs.

[caption id="attachment_203922" align="alignnone" width="960"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] by Ashwin Kumar KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Political parties and its leaders were called to understand the dynamics of the country and refrain from playing up racial and religious...

[caption id="attachment_205168" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Smoking and vaping has been strictly banned in all eateries across Malaysia from 2020 onwards.

[caption id="attachment_205470" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Luo Huining, the new head of the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, speaks briefly with the media in Hong Kong on January 6, 2020.

[caption id="attachment_205194" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by BILL OXFORD / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Two separate High Courts here today set Jan 16 to hear the bail applications of Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan and DAP member V. Suresh Kumar who are facing charges...

[caption id="attachment_205465" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by UNSPLASH[/caption] JASIN, Jan 6 — The government, via the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (Mestecc), aims to raise its net energy metering (NEM) programme output to 300 megawatts...

[caption id="attachment_204788" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by CHEDET OFFICIAL[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Although Vision 2020 did not fully achieve what was planned, Malaysia has made a lot of progress following the launch of the vision in 1991, said Prime Minister Tun Dr...

SEOUL, Jan 6 — Bong Joon-ho's black comedy "Parasite" was named best foreign-language film at the Golden Globe Awards on Monday (Korean time), reported Yonhap news agency.

[caption id="attachment_205453" align="aligncenter" width="600"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] PUTRAJAYA, Jan 6 — New year resolutions should be made not just for self-benefit but also for the success of the country says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr Mahathir said if all...

[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.

BEAUFORT, Jan 4 — The Kimanis parliamentary by-election in Sabah is a straight fight between Datuk Karim Bujang of Parti Warisan Sabah and Datuk Mohamad Alamin of Barisan Nasional (BN).

SHAH ALAM, Jan 3 — The petrol price for RON97 will increase by 2 sen per litre from tomorrow, selling at RM2.65 per litre, said the Finance Ministry.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — The government has projected an increase of four million tourist arrivals from China and another million from India this year, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapi said.

[caption id="attachment_204283" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by KEN YAM/UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — OAG, the world’s leading provider of travel data and insight, has released its annual Punctuality League 2020, which is the industry’s most comprehensive ranking of...

[caption id="attachment_204988" align="alignnone" width="900"] Picture by CDC/UNSPLASH[/caption] IPOH, Jan 3 — Babies born from this year onwards will be eligible for free pneumococcal vaccinations starting June, said Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye. He said the ministry is in the...

[caption id="attachment_205428" align="alignnone" width="900"] A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on October 2, 2019 shows Qasem Soleimani, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General and commander of the Quds Force, attending...

[caption id="attachment_205423" align="aligncenter" width="900"] This handout aerial picture taken and released on January 1, 2020 by Indonesia's National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) shows flooded houses and buildings following overnight rain in Jakarta.