MM2H programme to be reactivated in October

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 Department beginning October after all […]

Conditions for lifting of Emergency

KUCHING: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may lift the Emergency in Sarawak before February 2 next year to pave the way for state election to be held provided several important conditions are met. Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew pointed out the important conditions would include Sarawak achieving 80 percent herd […]

State must meet these conditions first

KUCHING: Sarawak has to meet several critical conditions before it can reopen its economy and move on to the next phase of the National Recovery Plan (NRP), said Dr Jerome Kueh Swee Hui. The Deputy Dean of Industry and Community Engagement in the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) said the timing […]

Additional conditions for haj pilgrims may be known in Ramadan

KOTA BHARU: The government is expected to find out about the additional conditions that may be stipulated by the Saudi Arabian government for haj pilgrims as early as Ramadan, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Ahmad Marzuk Shaary. He said this includes the possibility of making Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for […]

The qwerty factor

Te whetu Orongo

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle, Greek philosopher Programming, conditioning and indoctrination make us who we are to sustain us from womb to tomb through original genetic structure, family, community and ultimately peer pressure. As I see it, human actions are […]