KUALA LUMPUR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has stopped providing a disability allowance for a recipient who was found to engage in begging activities and owns a Proton X70 Premium. Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad (pic) said besides discontinuing the RM450 allowance starting this month, the ministry has also issued a warning and requested...
KUALA LUMPUR: More foreign nationals are expected to join the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme as the government is looking into relaxing some requirements, says Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing (pic). The Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister said this is in line with last year's Budget 2024 announcement where Putrajaya said it wanted to make...
OSLO (AFP): Norway's 87-year-old King Harald had a permanent pacemaker implanted on Tuesday (March 12) in Oslo in a procedure the royal palace termed "successful". Europe's oldest reigning monarch, King Harald had to be repatriated to Norway on a medical transport flight on March 3 after contracting an infection while on holiday in Pulau Langkawi. Upon his...
There’s no chicken-and-duck talk but shared similar culture, heritage and customs GEORGE TOWN: For Chinese nationals working in Malaysia, the country is almost like a home away from home. Most of all, they do not encounter chicken-and-duck talk, a phrase which refers to people having problems communicating with one other. “Many people here speak the dialects of China....
KUALA LUMPUR: Emphasising on the vowels to get the pronunciation right, a French grandmother's take on Malaysian states and words has locals amused. The videos uploaded on TikTok by a content creator and multi-media artist who goes by @malay_frenchie_explorer, shows the French grandmother and his family members attempt to pronounce the names of local delights including...
PETALING JAYA: The Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry plans to regulate Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) agents, requiring all of them to re-register but the update of their operating licence has been on hold since Dec 15 last year, leading to uncertainty among many agents. MM2H Consultants Association president Anthony Liew said members were instead given...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has been listed as number five in the ten happiest countries in the world, according to a report. Topping the list of top ten happiest countries by the Global Mind Project’s fourth annual “Mental State of the World" report was the Dominican Republic, followed by Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Panama, Malaysia, Nigeria, Venezuela, El...
PETALING JAYA: Vernacular schools are not a factor leading to division but rather towards unity, says the National Unity Minister. Datuk Seri Aaron Ago Dagang points to enrolment data, indicating a continuous increase in non-Chinese students attending Chinese vernacular schools and non-Indian students in Tamil vernacular schools from 2018 to 2023. "This demonstrates that unity among the...
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Harry Kane scored a hat-trick in Bayern Munich's 8-1 demolition of Mainz 05 on Saturday to set a Bundesliga record as the champions cut the gap on leaders Bayer Leverkusen to seven points. Kane, who joined this season for a league record 100 million euros from Tottenham Hotspur, became the first player to...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s doubles shuttlers Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik believe that they have hard work ahead of them if they are to realise their dream of ending Malaysia’s elusive wait for gold in the Paris Olympics in July. Yesterday, world No. 5 Aaron-Wooi Yik went down 19-21, 16-21 to South Korea’s reigning world champions Kang Min-hyuk-Seo...
