46k Malaysians face severe vision loss
KUCHING: Some 46,000 Malaysians beyond the age of 45 years old are at risk of irreversible blindness due to wet age-related macular degeneration (Wet AMD). The prevalence of Wet AMD is expected to rise along with Malaysia’s ageing population. Given the scenario, Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon, OasisEye Specialists president […]
Belief in God key to nation’s harmony
BY MOHD FAIZAL HASSAN KUALA LUMPUR: Each principle contained in the Rukun Negara has a goal and deeper meaning that must be achieved by all citizens in multi-racial and multi-religious Malaysia. In recognising that Malaysia has people of many faiths, the Rukun Negara’s first principle of ‘Belief in God’ was accorded priority when the national […]
No shortage of time
Malaysia is another country not spared from the Covid-19 pandemic, the spread of which is being fought against the backdrop of a movement control order (MCO), imposed since 18 March and just recently extended to 14 April 2020. Hence, Malaysians have, for more than a week to date, been brooding indoors and hoping for a […]
Overseas Malaysian rush home to beat the movement control deadline
By Linda Khoo Hui Li BANGKOK: Many Malaysians working or on holidays in Thailand scrambled to book the next flight to Malaysia after a two-week nationwide movement control order from March 18 was announced in the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many Malaysians rushed to airports early morning to make sure they got back home by today to avoid being […]
Two Covid-19 PUI cases recorded in Sarawak
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded two new Person Under Investigation (PUI) cases for the Covid-19 yesterday. According to a statement issued by the State Disaster Management Committee, both patients are Malaysians. “One was recorded in Sarawak General Hospital and the other at Miri hospital. “With these two new cases, the state has a cumulative total of 99 […]
Two Malaysian evacuees tested positive for coronavirus
PUTRAJAYA: Two of the 107 Malaysians and non-Malaysian spouses and children airlifted out of coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China yesterday have tested positive for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This brings cumulative cases of the coronavirus in Malaysia to 12. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad said the two new cases involved a 45-year-old man and his son, aged nine, and […]
Understand tourism data to develop industry
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes. Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and first to reach the peak of Mount Everest, along […]
Change or be left trailing
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist Throughout the millennia, civilisations have risen and fallen. In recent history, the rise of Nazi Germany and Japanese Empire prompted them to invade other countries during the Second World […]
Local spice cube maker eyes overseas markets
JOHOR BAHRU: When Siti Rahayu Abd Rashid was staying abroad, friends would ask her if there were easier ways to prepare traditional Malaysian food. That was how the 41-yearold got the idea to start a spice cube business in 2016, creating the Aydeen cube brand together with her husband Ahyaludin Ab Wahab, 49. Her firm, […]
King calls for stronger unity
KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has called on all Malaysians to forge stronger unity and cooperation to enjoy continued harmony and prosperity while maintaining the nation’s sovereignty in 2020. The King decreed that the beginning of a new year should be celebrated by removing any basis for racial prejudice […]
