All premises must adhere to social distancing rules, says KL mayor
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — All licensees, employees, customers and suppliers who wish to enter supermarkets,…
China to lift travel curbs on Hubei province, including Wuhan
People stand in a spaced line to buy pork at the entrance gate of a closed residential community in Wuhan. (AP pic) BEIJING: China announced Tuesday that a lockdown would be lifted on more than 50 million people in central Hubei province where the coronavirus first emerged late last year. But fears rose over a second […]
Hand-washing: A luxury millions of Yemenis can’t afford
People load up on water from a cistern at a makeshift camp for displaced Yemenis in the northern Hajjah province. (AFP pic) SANA’A: Hand-washing to combat the spread of Covid-19 is the order of the day, but it’s an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. Yemen’s broken healthcare […]
Submissions on Isa Samad corruption case postponed to April 8
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The High Court here today postponed the hearing of submissions in…
Ramasamy: Miti should release full list of factories allowed to operate
GEORGE TOWN, March 23 — Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy has urged the International…
Isa Samad graft case submissions postponed to April 8
THE Kuala Lumpur High Court today postponed the hearing of submissions in the case of former…
4 ministries get new sec-gens
CHIEF Secretary to the Government Mohd Zuki Ali today announced the appointment of the secretaries-general (KSU)…
England bakal gunakan kapal persiaran sebagai ‘hospital terapung’
England kemungkinan akan menjadi kapal persiaran sebagai ‘hospital terapung’ untuk tampung peningkatan pesakit Covid-19. (Gambar Daily Star) “Hospital terapung” biar betul? Itulah yang akan dilakukan oleh England jika bilangan pesakit akibat Covid-19 terus meningkat. Berdasarkan laporan Daily Star, Kapal persiaran Spirit of Discovery dan Saga Sapphire yang berlabuh di Pelabuhan Tilbury, England mempunyai kapasiti mencukupi […]
Oil prices volatile as virus saps demand
SINGAPORE: Oil prices were mixed in volatile Asian trade on Monday, but remained at multi-year lows due to the double shock of the coronavirus pandemic and the Saudi-Russia price war. Both main contracts plummeted at the open after a trillion-dollar support package for the American economy crashed to defeat, and virus deaths surged in Europe and […]
Asia steps up virus efforts as second wave of infections strikes
FROM Australia’s Bondi Beach to the streets of New Delhi, authorities across Asia ramped up efforts…