PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme will be reactivated with improvements to policies and application conditions so as to balance the security and economic aspects. Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz said new applications for the programme would be processed and managed by the Immigration
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MOH) has urged pregnant women to get the Covid-19 vaccine to reduce the risk of complications if infected with the virus, and is asking husbands to encourage their pregnant spouses to get vaccinated. MOH said there have been 70 reported deaths involving pregnant women due
WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Tuesday approved a long-awaited infrastructure Bill, after months of strenuous negotiations between Democrats and Republicans. In a rare stroke of bipartisanship, more than a dozen Republicans joined Democrats to back the legislation. The final vote was 69-30, comfortably surpassing the 60-vote threshold required for most
By Norhidayyu Zainal AHMAD SHAWAL MISPAN nearly went insane after a construction company he set up when he was still in his teens hit rock bottom. This agro-entrepreneur, who was 27 years old and then enjoying the luxury of life being a young millionaire, owning various assets and luxury vehicles,
KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has released the revised Reference Rate Framework, under which the Standardised Base Rate will replace the Base Rate (BR) as the reference rate for new retail floating-rate loans from Aug 1, 2022. The central bank said under the revised Reference Rate Framework, the Standardised
KUALA LUMPUR: The retail prices of RON97 and RON95 petrol, as well as diesel, will remain unchanged at RM2.74, RM2.05 and RM2.15 per litre respectively from Aug 12 to 18. Ministry of Finance (MOF) in a statement today said the prices were set based on the weekly retail prices of
PUTRAJAYA: The number of births recorded in the second quarter of this year in Malaysia declined by 4.4 per cent to 111,573 births compared to 116,688 births during the same period in 2020, the Demographic Statistics reported today. Commenting on the report in a statement today, Chief Statistician Datuk Seri
KUALA LUMPUR: New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia increased to 20,780 today from 19,991 yesterday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Noor Hisham, in a Twitter post, said this brings the cumulative figure for positive cases in the country to 1,320,547. Selangor again topped the daily case
MELAKA: Forty-four years ago, Mark Ruffin set his foot for the first time in Malaysia and never had he thought he would one day call it home. The 66-year-old American said the beauty of Malaysia and the uniqueness of its multi-racial and multi-religious society had truly made him fall in
BERLIN: Germany will no longer offer free Covid-19 tests for unvaccinated people, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. “As we are now in a position to offer vaccination for the entire population in Germany, we would be ending free tests on Oct 11,” Merkel said at a news conference in Berlin,
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