KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 — Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been appointed as the country’s 9th Prime Minister and will be taking his oath of office tomorrow.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has given consent to Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to act as caretaker Prime Minister until a new Prime Minister is appointed.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today resigned after only 17 months of being the country’s 8th Prime Minister.

SHAH ALAM, July 14 — Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) Klang has denied claims that the Emergency and Trauma Department (ETD) was ‘vacated’ because Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was visiting the hospital yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has announced that the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will introduce i-Citra, a new facility aimed at easing the financial burden of the fund’s members due to the impact of the movement control order (MCO).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Tuesday said Parliament could reconvene by September or October, providing the average number of new daily coronavirus infections falls to under 2,000.

JERUSALEM, June 3 — Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that a deal has been reached to form a coalition government that would end the 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reported Xinhua.

SINGAPORE, April 23 — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named Lawrence Wong, who has been tipped as a contender to be the future premier, as the new finance minister on Friday in a broad cabinet reshuffle.

TOKYO, March 1 — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday once again apologised for a scandal involving his eldest son, Seigo, whose company had provided expensive dinners to high-ranking officials, reported Sputnik news agency.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has urged the industry and public to fully comply with the standard operating procedures (SOPs) set by the government to ensure that business and trade can continue operations, thus helps break the Covid-19 chain.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 —  Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday welcomed advice and ideas from health experts to reduce the number of Covid-19 infections in the country, and its subsequent impact on the lives of people.

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination campaign, reported Sputnik News Agency.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — A phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial will start on January 21 at nine Health Ministry (MOH) hospitals by their respective Clinical Research Centres (CRC), said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

SINGAPORE, Jan 8 — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine today and urged others to take the jabs in a country that has largely brought the pandemic under control.

SYDNEY, Nov 13 — Australia will not allow foreign students to return as Canberra prioritises the return of locals stuck overseas, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.

HANOI, Nov 12 — Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will chair the 37th Asean Summit and related summits from November 12-15, which are the most important activities in the year Vietnam undertakes its role as Asean Chairmanship, reports Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

LONDON, Nov 1 — Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called on Facebook to ban Islamophobic content on its platform, warning of a spike in radicalisation amongst Muslims, hours after he hit out at the French president for "attacking Islam".

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 26 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today chaired another special meeting with his Cabinet following the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Riáyatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah’s decree yesterday that there was no necessity to declare a state of emergency in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said a special focus on sustainability agenda will be included in Budget 2021 with a very important announcement on it to be made this November 6.