Verification mandatory for overseas grads seeking registration with medical council
KUALA LUMPUR: All overseas medical graduates who wish to register with the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) are required to go through the ‘Primary Source Verification’ process for degree verification and transcript effective June 1. This was announced by Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, who is also the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) president, in […]
Standardised packaging mandatory for all tobacco products in Singapore from tomorrow
SINGAPORE: All tobacco products imported into, distributed, sold, offered for sale or possessed for sale in Singapore must comply with the standardised packaging regulations from Wednesday (July 1). The tobacco products include cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, beedies, ang hoon and other roll-your-own tobacco. According to the republic’s Ministry of Health, the requirements set out in the […]
Law finally catches up with murder accused
KUANTAN: After more than three years on the run, a former farm worker was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday with murdering of his former supervisor in 2016. The accused, Rahmat Hasrah Abdul Razak, 25, from Pasir Mas, Kelantan, acknowledged that he understood the charge which was read before Magistrate Nordiana Abd Aziz. No plea […]
No plans to extend child safety seat ruling to other vehicles
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has no plans to extend the mandatory use of the Child Restraint System (CRS) in private cars to other types of vehicles, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook. He said for now the focus of the mandatory use of child safety seats was on private vehicles only. “In the long […]
