Malaysia To Raise Palm Oil Output This Year After Hiring More Foreign Workers

NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia will increase its palm oil production this year following a 5.0 per cent decline last year due to a pandemic-induced labour shortage with the intake of more foreign workers. Thousands of new plantation workers will be being hired from Bangladesh, India and Indonesia to make…

Malaysia Sends Humanitarian Aid Weighing Five Tonnes To Afghanistan Via Special Flight

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia sent humanitarian relief aid weighing five tonnes in the form of various necessities to Kabul, Afghanistan via a special flight which departed from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Tuesday following dire humanitarian crisis in the country.  The mission is undertaken by Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) in…

Malaysia Heading Towards Top 10 Global Digital Competitiveness Index

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia is poised to be in the Global Digital Competitiveness Index’s top 10 ranking in terms of digital infrastructure by 2025. The Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) said that this can be achieved by addressing the issue of digital infrastructure construction through enhancing the cooperation…

Uzbekistan Keen On Deepening Relations With Malaysia In Economy, Education And Tourism

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 (NNN-Bernama) — Uzbekistan is keen on deepening relations with Malaysia on the basis of traditional friendship and will be working to further strengthen its mutually beneficial cooperation with Malaysia in three pillars – economy including trade and investment, education and tourism spheres. Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to Malaysia…

Thailand’s Daily Covid-19 Cases May Hit 100,000, Warns Virologist

BANGKOK, Feb 21 (NNN-Bernama) — A Thai virologist warned that daily COVID-19 cases may reach 100,000 amid the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron spreading rapidly in the kingdom. Dr Yong Poovorawan, senior virologist from Chulalongkorn University said at present, an average of 25,000 COVID-19 cases was being reported daily, including those tested positive using the Antigen…

Ukraine Committed To Peaceful Resolution Of The Russia-ukraine Crisis — Embassy

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19 (NNN-Bernama) — Ukraine remains firmly committed to politico-diplomatic settlement of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the Ukraine Embassy in Malaysia said. In a statement here Saturday, the embassy said allegations that Ukraine intends to launch an offensive operation in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Donbas are…

Thailand Rally For Asean To Urge Major Powers To Restrain Competition

BANGKOK, Feb 19 (NNN-Bernama) — Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai rallied ASEAN to be more assertive in calling for world major powers – especially those from the ASEAN Dialogue Partners – to restrain competition. In a statement, Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said Don, who participated in the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’…

Omicron Wave Has Started In Malaysia – Health Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (NNN-Bernama) — The Omicron wave has begun in Malaysia and the number of COVID-19 cases in the country is expected to rise, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. He said the situation, however, will be under control as the country has a high vaccination rate. “The healthcare system is prepared. Serious cases are…

Malaysia Tops Emerging Southeast Asia For Foreign Investment – Milken Institute

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia ranks No. 1 in emerging Southeast Asia as the country with the most potential to attract foreign investors, according to the 2022 Milken Institute Global Opportunity Index. This annual assessment, created to help inform investor and policymaker global investment decisions, evaluates an economy’s…

Malaysia Maintains Stand On Only Inviting Non-political Representatives From Myanmar — Pm Ismail Sabri

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia’s position to only invite non-political representatives from Myanmar to ASEAN’s high-level meetings remain unchanged – unless there was real progress in the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PCs). According to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra), this view was expressed by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob during…