Singapore PM Lee Gets His First Dose Of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, Jan 8 (NNN-Bernama) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Friday. Lee in his Facebook said he got it together with the republic’s Ministry of Health (MOH) Director of Medical Services Associate Professor Kenneth Mak. “We got…

1MDB Audit Report: Court To Hear Najib’s Bid To Recuse Sri Ram On Jan 27

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (NNN-Bernama) — The High Court will here on Jan 27 an application by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to disqualify former Federal Court judge, Gopal Sri Ram, from leading the prosecution team in his on-going trial over alleged tampering of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) audit…

COVID-19 Weekly Round-Up: Malaysia Weighed Down By Over 250 Active Clusters

By Melati Mohd Ariff This is a round-up of COVID-19 related matters in Malaysia and globally from Jan 2 up to noon today. In Malaysia, case numbers have exceeded 128,000 and globally, the virus has infected more than 87 million people and caused about 1.8 million deaths. More than 216…

Flood Situation Worsens, Almost 50,000 Evacuated

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (NNN-Bernama) — The flood situation in Pahang, Terengganu, Kelantan, Perak and Johor continued to worsen with close to 50,000 people having been evacuated to relief centres Friday morning. In PAHANG, the number of evacuees has risen to 27,073 from 7,278 families who were housed at 275…

Malaysian Govt’s Main Task To Ensure Political Stability, Be Functional

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (NNN-Bernama) — The main task of the government now is to ensure political stability to enable it discharge its duties and responsibilities well to fulfil the people’s hope and aspiration, said newly- appointed Pahang Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Saifuddin Abdullah. Saifuddin, who is also Pahang Parti…

COVID-19 : Clinical Trial For Vaccine From China Only For Willing Participants

KUCHING (Sarawak, Malaysia) Jan 7(NNN-Bernama) — The Sarawak Health Department will first have a discussion with those selected to undergo the clinical trial for the COVID-19 vaccine from China, before obtaining their consent. State Health Department director Dr Chin Zin Hing said those who have been selected would be contacted personally to…

5th Global High Performance Recognition For Maybank By WTW

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (NNN-Bernama) — Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has been recognised as one of the high performing organisations in Willis Towers Watson (WTW) 2020 High Performance Companies normative benchmark. In a statement today, the country’s largest bank by assets said this was the fifth time that it had been…

Finance Minister: Malaysia Did Not Hesitate To Expand Fiscal Position For Economic Recovery

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia did not hesitate to expand its fiscal position in the near term to support the counter-cyclical economic recovery packages and the nation’s largest national budget for 2021 at RM322.5 billion.  Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said even though it was Malaysia’s biggest ever…

Indonesia Records Daily Highest Number Of Almost 10,000 COVID-19 Cases

JAKARTA, Jan 7 (NNN-Bernama) — Indonesia recorded the highest number of 9,321 daily COVID-19 cases over 24 hours. This brings its overall positive cases to 797,723 with 68,753 patients under surveillance for the virus.  Indonesian President Joko Widodo, in a video uploaded to the presidential secretariat’s official YouTube channel, raised the possibility of reimposing the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB)…

COVID-19: New Daily Record Of 3,027 Cases, Eight Deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia has reported a record-high number of new daily COVID-19 cases with 3,027, bringing the total number of positive cases in the country to date to 128,465. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said meanwhile, 2,145 patients had recovered in the last 24 hours, bringing the…