By Nas Norziela Nasbah SHAH ALAM, March 8 — The Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) has announced that this year’s zakat fitrah rate in the state will remain the same as the last, at RM7, RM14 and RM21, depending on the type of rice consumed by contributors.  In a statement, LZS said the decision was...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — The unemployment rate in November 2023 has returned to pre-pandemic levels at 3.3 per cent, with 569,000 unemployed individuals, compared with 3.4 per cent recorded in October, according to the latest Labour Force statistics from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE, Nov 15 — China's central bank ramped up liquidity injection but kept the interest rate unchanged when rolling over maturing medium-term policy loans on Wednesday, matching market expectations.

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PUTRAJAYA, Aug 10 — Malaysia's unemployment rate declined 0.1 percentage points to 3.4 per cent in June 2023 from 3.5 per cent recorded in the previous month, according to the Statistics of the Labour Force, June and second quarter 2023 released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) today.

PUTRAJAYA, May 19 – The labour market has expanded 2.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year with 16.65 million persons compared to 16.25 million persons in the same period last year, according to the Labour Market Review First Quarter 2023 released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 — The opening of the country's borders after the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the factors contributing to the increase in Lembaga Tabung Haji's (TH) profit, from RM2.46 billion in 2021 to RM2.65 billion in 2022.

GUA MUSANG, April 21 — The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) is offering a special settlement rate of RM50 for every traffic summons issued in 2022 or earlier, for one month, starting today until May 21.

SYDNEY, Feb 25 — Asian shares slipped on Monday as markets were forced to price in ever-loftier peaks for US and European interest rates, slugging bonds globally and pushing the dollar to multi-week highs.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — A total of 117,563 doses of vaccine jabs were administered yesterday (June 3) — the highest number of daily vaccinations since the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) was implemented 100 days ago on February 24.

By Sheeda Fathil SHAH ALAM, April 9 — The (compulsory) zakat fitrah (personal tithe) rate in the state remains at RM7 per person as with the previous year. Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) chief executive officer Saipolyazan M Yusop said the rate is in accordance with the approval made by the...

MOSCOW, Nov 23 — The AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the Oxford University and the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical giant, is up to 90 per cent effective, according to results of an interim analysis of the clinical trials in the United Kingdom and Brazil, AstraZeneca said on Monday, noting that the average efficacy is assessed at 70 per cent.

WASHINGTON, April 1 — The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) death toll in the United States may range from 100,000 people in the good and up to 2.2 million people in the worst-case scenario, Sputnik news agency reported according to expert materials released on Tuesday by the White House.