[caption id="attachment_205564" align="alignnone" width="3543"] Picture by HUSH NAIDOO / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — Two more children have been infected with the polio virus in Sabah, after a three-month baby boy was diagnosed with the disease in Tuaran in December last...

[caption id="attachment_205139" align="alignnone" width="1200"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] SHAH ALAM, Jan 10 — The Cabinet has agreed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will serve as the acting education minister. According to a statement issued by the Prime...

[caption id="attachment_203886" align="alignnone" width="885"] File Picture by Bernama[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah admitted that his duties as the current Malaysian king are indeed difficult and...

[caption id="attachment_204121" align="alignnone" width="810"] File Picture SELANGORKINI[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — The government’s effort to help people save money on public transport via the My100 unlimited travel pass has borne fruit and commuters are expected to enjoy about RM100...

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 10 — Malaysia is closely monitoring around-the-clock the developments in West Asia before making a decision to evacuate Malaysian citizens in Iran and Iraq, said Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.

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

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Short-term interbank rates closed stable today on Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) operations to absorb surplus liquidity from the financial system.

[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.