KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is actively implementing various strategies to reduce the country’s dependency on food imports. Deputy secretary-general (Development), Datuk Badrul Hisham Mohd said the measures include setting up a grain corn cultivation industry. Aware of the country’s dependency on imported grain corn,
NEW DELHI: India warned China on Thursday that it reserves the right to suitably respond after Beijing issuing “stapled visas” to Indian citizens from Arunachal Pradesh state, which China claims to be part of its territory. In a weekly media briefing, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that
KUALA LUMPUR: The weather is expected to be fair in the morning in almost all districts in the six states that will go to the polls on Aug 12 for nomination day tomorrow. According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) website on Wednesday, the weather in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kelantan
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) has issued a total of 1,149 notices for various trade offences under Ops Catut 2023 conducted since Jan 1 this year until last June 30. Its deputy director-general of enforcement (Operations) Shamsul Nizam Khalil said the notices were
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has allocated RM6.5 billion for the implementation of 1,002 dilapidated school redevelopment projects nationwide from 2016 to 2023. Educational facilities in Sabah and Sarawak have also been improved through the implementation of 327 dilapidated school building development projects, or 78 per cent of the total projects
BEIJING: A new ultra-wideband radar life detector has passed field test, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Friday. The detection signal of the detector can penetrate non-metallic material such as a brick wall, a wood panel, concrete, and soil, said Qi Qingjie, chief scientist with the detector’s developer China
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has postponed to Aug 1 to hear Barisan Nasional candidate Tan Sri M. Ramasamy’s appeal to challenge the 15th general election (GE15) results for the Segamat parliamentary seat as his lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is unwell. A three-member bench led by Justice Datuk
JAKARTA: Rescuers in Central Java province are deploying pumps to extract water to save at least eight illegal gold miners trapped in a 60-meter deep mining hole since Wednesday, at the Pancurendang gold mine on the outskirts of Ajibarang, Banyumas. Indonesia’s rescue team had brought six submersible pump machines on
RIO DE JANEIRO: Five prisoners were killed and two injured in a day-long riot at a maximum security prison in the Brazilian state of Acre, Xinhua quoted prison sources on Thursday. The incident started on Wednesday morning at the Antonio Amaro Alves Prison in the city of Rio Branco when
KUALA LUMPUR: The Allo’s Rahmah Fixed Broadband Package under the Rahmah Package initiative offers a fixed broadband subscription price of only RM69 for a 24-month contract, according to Minister of Communications and Digital Fahmi Fadzil. He said that Allo’s Rahmah plan provides internet service with unlimited data throughout the contract
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