Sabah state assembly speaker, ministers take oath of office

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 8: Sabah state ministers taking their oath of office. (From left) Minister of Special Tasks Datuk Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif, Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin, Community Development and People’s Wellbeing Minister Shahelmy Yahya; Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Yakubah Khan; as well as…

Up to Khazanah to sort out Malaysia Airlines’ quandary – Tengku Zafrul

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz has reiterated that the government will not pump in any more funds into Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) and it will be purely up to its sole owner, Khazanah Nasional Bhd to sort it out. “We have consistently said that…

Malaysians must unite against mass COVID-19 transmission

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) — All Malaysians must be united in the war against this current large scale of COVID-19 transmission, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.  He said the public play a crucial role by fully complying with the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOPs) regardless of the person’s position…

Selangor govt to conduct targeted COVID-19 screening in Klang

PETALING JAYA, Oct 8: A staff from Sunway Medical Centre conducting a COVID-19 screening for the public here. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA. SHAH ALAM, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Selangor government will conduct targeted COVID-19 screening in areas in Klang district which will be placed under Conditional Movement Control Order…

Sabah Floods: Flood relief operations end as all evacuees return home

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Dewan Masyarakat Tun Said flood relief centre in Kota Belud was closed at 12.30 pm today after the 21 evacuees there were allowed to return home, marking the end of flood relief operations in Sabah.  The Sabah Disaster Management Committee Secretariat said the last batch of evacuees to…

Malaysia updates AMCC on progress in regional plan to set “norms” in cyberspace

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia has presented the progress and development of the draft ASEAN Plan of Action on the Implementation Norms of Responsible States Behaviour in Cyberspace at the fifth ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity (AMCC) main session, which was held virtually Wednesday. The Communications and Multimedia Ministry…

Updated: CMCO in three areas in Sabah, Klang in Selangor – Ismail Sabri

​​​​​​KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) will be imposed in Sandakan, Papar and Tuaran in Sabah, and Klang in Selangor beginning Oct 9 to check the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said the CMCO would…

Police cripple syndicate in Klang distributing beer, liquor, cigarettes

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The police crippled a syndicate distributing smuggled liquor and cigarettes in the Klang Valley after detaining six men and seizing the contrabands worth RM1.3 million in  a raid in Pandamaran Klang, Selangor. Bukit Aman Department of Internal Security and Public Order deputy director Bukit Aman Datuk Fisol…

NTHU’s research team gives hope to improving dementia treatment

Professor Sun Yuh-Ju of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology showing team member Tsai Jia-Yin how to grow a crystal. Photo courtesy of Business Wire) KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A research team led by Professor Sun Yuh-Ju of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology recently solved…

Kedah APM ready to face monsoon season

ALOR SETAR, Oct 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Kedah Civil Defence Force (APM) is ready to face any risk of disaster including heavy rains and floods during the monsoon season taking into account the current situation of the COVID-19 outbreak. State APM director Lieutenant Colonel (PA) Awang Askandar Ampuan Yaacub said the experience of operating COVID-19…