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POLICE have arrested eight people, including three women, involved in a controversial Hari Raya gambling commercial. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said the eight suspects were actors, agents, a videographer and a producer/director. Read more »

FORTY healthcare workers who were fully vaccinated have contracted Covid-19, said Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, stressing on the importance of keeping one’s guard up against the virus. The director-general of health said the 40 were infected after they had received the full course of the vaccine. Read more »

MALAYSIA Airlines extending its ticket rebooking dates, following the extension of rhe movement control order (MCO) In a statement, the national carrier said it is offering eligible passengers longer ticket validity with a one-time fare difference and service fee waiver due to domestic travel restrictions as a result of the… Read more »

A RWANDAN priest was arrested in France this week on charges of providing, among other things, food to militiamen who massacred members of the Tutsi minority in his church during the 1994 genocide in the African country, authorities said yesterday. Marcel Hitayezu, who was born in 1956, was charged on… Read more »

THE United States yesterday welcomed Brazil’s renewed promise to end illegal deforestation but urged immediate action to protect the Amazon, a major factor in global climate change. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime scourge of environmentalists, in a letter to President Joe Biden ahead of next week’s US-led climate summit… Read more »

NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said yesterday, in a huge victory for Elon Musk’s company. The contract, worth US$2.9 billion (RM12 billion), involves the prototype Starship spacecraft that is being tested at SpaceX’s south Texas facility. Read more »

ONCE the poor man’s fish, low stock and high demand have pushed the price of ikan kembung (Indian mackerel) up, but it is still a favourite among customers, said wet market traders. The price of fresh kembung is now hovering between RM20 and RM22 kilogramme. At the Chow Kit wet… Read more »

GROUPS running refugee schools have turned to sponsorship programmes and providing food aid to the students’ families to ensure the children do not drop out. Making sure that they are able continue their studies begins with ensuring that they don’t have to stop lessons to work, in order to help… Read more »

A DEARTH of foreign labourers to work on fishing boats has led to a dwindling supply of locally caught seafood, which has subsequently pushed prices up, said the Kuala Lumpur Hoi Seong Fish Wholesaler Association. Association chairman Sing Kian Hock urged Putrajaya to allow foreign workers back into the country so… Read more »

THE administration of President Joe Biden on Friday announced it would spend US$1.7 billion (RM7 billion) to improve its ability to sequence the coronavirus for genetic changes, as new and potentially dangerous variants are poised to dominate the pandemic. The funding comes from a US$1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package passed… Read more »

CHINA’s CoronaVac vaccine, also known as Sinovac, was 67% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 and 80% at preventing death, according to real-life results unveiled today from Chile’s inoculation campaign. “These figures should convey peace of mind to the country,” Health Minister Enrique Paris told journalists as he announced the outcome of… Read more »

THE Pakistan government imposed an hours-long shutdown of social media and instant messaging platforms today, after days of violent anti-France protests. The move came after French nationals and companies in Pakistan were advised by their embassy to temporarily leave the country, in the wake of rallies led by an extremist… Read more »

IRAN said today it has begun producing uranium at 60% purity, in another breach of its commitments to the international community, which is concerned about its nuclear programme. The Islamic republic had declared it would sharply ramp up its enrichment of uranium on Tuesday, two days after an attack on… Read more »

THE Malaysian Bar has filed a suit at the High Court to challenge the emergency ordinances that have been passed since a state of emergency was declared on January 11. Bar Council president AG Kalidas said the decision to pursue legal action was made at the Malaysian Bar Annual General… Read more »

A NIGERIAN man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court in Kuala Kubu Baru, today on 24 counts of cheating a headmistress out of RM141,262, in connection with the accused’s father’s non-existent inheritance worth RM2.4 million. Nwaokorie Chikezi Patric, 41, a diploma in tourism student at a private college pleaded not… Read more »

TAIWAN prosecutors charged a lorry driver with negligent homicide today over his role in the island’s worst rail disaster in decades, which left 49 dead and more than 200 injured. The April 2 crash was caused by a railway maintenance lorry that slid down an embankment moments before a packed… Read more »

THE European Union is very unlikely to renew its Covid-19 vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, a French minister said today. Denmark this week banned the use of AstraZeneca jabs over blood clot concerns, just as the EU said it was expecting 50 million Pfizer vaccine doses earlier than expected. Read more »

THE officer-in-charge of a police station (OCS) and a school principal in Miri were slapped with hefty compounds “as a lesson to the others” after violating Sarawak’s strict standard operating procedure on Covid-19 prevention, said state disaster management committee chairman,Douglas Uggah. The deputy chief minister said the police officer was… Read more »

POLICE denied allegations that a cop in Kajang had died after receiving her second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine shot. Kajang district police chief Mohd Zaid Hassan said the police are still waiting for the investigation report and the post-mortem results from the Kajang Hospital Forensic Department. Read more »

TWO Indonesian hackers have been arrested over an international scam in which US$60 million (RM247.6 million) was stolen from a Covid-19 aid programme helping Americans left jobless by the pandemic, authorities said. Text messages were sent to 20 million Americans directing them to more than a dozen fake United States… Read more »

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MOTAC telah menutup penerimaan butiran Pemandu Pelancong Berlesen pada 31 Mac 2021 bagi tujuan bayaran One-Off RM500.00 PERMAI.Proses saringan dan mengemaskini maklumat tersebut sedang dijalankan dan proses bayaran akan dilaksanakan selepas proses ini selesai.Sehingga kini, seramai 4118 Pemandu Pelancong Berlesen telah menerima bayaran ini. Senarai Pemandu Pelancong Berlesen Yang Telah Menerima Bayaran Bantuan One-Off… Read more »

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Permohonan Atas Talian Dalam inisiatif PEMERKASA, Syarikat Pengendali Pelancongan di bawah Kementerian ini akan mendapat manfaat bantuan kewangan sebanyak RM3,000.00 secara One-Off melalui pengumuman YAB Perdana Menteri pada 17 Mac 2021 bagi meringankan beban kewangan yang dihadapi pengusaha pelancongan yang terjejas. Inisiatif-inisiatif yang diumumkan dijangka akan merancak sektor pelancongan dan… Read more »

Kementerian Pelancongan, Seni dan Budaya (MOTAC) ingin memaklumkan mengenai penangguhan dan pembekuan bagi urusan semua perkhidmatan kaunter dengan digantikan perkhidmatan urusan pelesenan secara temujanji (appointment) dan atas talian melalui konsultasi dan khidmat nasihat berkuatkuasa pada 26 Oktober 2020 hingga ke satu tarikh yang tertakluk kepada arahan Kerajaan selanjutnya. Sebarang urusan… Read more »

Pemandu Pelancong Berlesen yang layak bagi bantuan ini berdasarkan syarat-syarat ditetapkan MOTAC tetapi belum menerima bantuan tersebut perlu mengemukakan butiran seperti berikut: Nama (seperti MyKad) No. Kad Pengenalan No. Lesen Pemandu Pelancong Tarikh Tamat Lesen Pemandu Pelancong Bank No. Akaun Bank No. Telefon untuk dihubungi Butiran ini perlu dikemukakan sebelum… Read more »

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