KUALA LUMPUR: Only about 73,400 Bumiputera graduates (or 27 percent) were hired by the private sector in 2020 compared to 103,900 (40 percent) in 2019. A study by the Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit (Teraju) attributed the decline to a 29.3 percent drop in job opportunities over two years. “Looking at
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s tourism receipts recorded a drop of 71.2 percent to record RM52.4 billion in 2020 compared to RM182.1 billion in 2019, according to Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin. He said 2020 is the second year that domestic tourism receipts exceeded the inbound tourism receipts with a contribution of 73.8
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s daily tally of Covid-19 cases dropped further today to 13,754 from 14,990 recorded yesterday. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a social media post said the figures bring the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in the country to 2,156,678. “Alhamdulillah, as expected, the declining trend in daily cases is
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) is no longer using the conventional formula of achieving at least 80 percent herd immunity among the country’s adult population in curbing the spread of Covid-19. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the world’s health experts had now stopped using this formula and were instead focusing
KUALA LUMPUR: The Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM) is committed to ensuring high-speed internet access is available nationwide, especially in Sabah and Sarawak, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Its minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said it was through a project to build new telecommunication towers, upgrade existing transmitters, provide
KUALA LUMPUR: Ministry of Transport is in the midst of carrying out a feasibility study on the application of the latest technologies including the use of sensors in driving tests in the country. Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said it would improve the learning process and integrity of
KUALA LUMPUR: New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia dropped below 15,000 today, at 14,990 cases compared with 15,759 reported yesterday. Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in his tweet, said the latest development brought the total number of cases nationwide to 2,142,924. Selangor recorded the highest number of cases
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of RM593 million has been spent on emergency procurement of additional hospital equipment for Covid-19 treatment over the past two years, the Dewan Rakyat was told today (Sept 22). Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the procurements made in 2020 and this year (2021) had been distributed to health
KUCHING: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) has requested its member hospitals in Sarawak mainly in Kuching to assist the government in managing the rising numbers of Covid-19 patients in the state. APHM President Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh said, as of yesterday (Sept 21), there were 3,724 positive Covid-19
BY NINA MUSLIM Severe cases among unvaccinated younger people are outnumbering cases among vaccinated elderly people, which may be possibly linked to vaccine hesitancy, according to doctors in a Covid-19 hospital in Klang. This comes as more than 55 percent of the population in Malaysia are fully vaccinated and almost
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