A Myanmar citizen living in India burns a poster of Myanmar's army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing with his face crossed out, during a protest organised by Chin Refugee Committee, against the military coup in Myanmar, in New Delhi, India on March 3, 2021. CHAMPHAI — When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with...
Get ready to register your family members without phones for their vaccinations! Starting last month, Malaysians could register to get their vaccination via their MySejahtera app. Currently, the vaccination program in Malaysia is at its first phase where frontliners will be getting vaccinated first. Following this, the second phase will involve those with comorbidities, senior citizens,...
Anyone else planning their vacation? In his press conference today, Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri announced that the government has announced that interstate travel will now be allowed between states under Recovery Movement Control Order to help the suffering tourism industry. However, the travel must strictly be for tourism purposes and using tourist vehicles only and private vehicles...
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced in his latest press conference today (9 March) that the government has agreed to allow live performances to take place in areas under CMCO and RMCO starting tomorrow (10 March). For CMCO areas, a 50% maximum capacity must be observed according to the size of the premises, while there was no...
Dato’ Aliff Syukri can’t seem to sell his luxurious Pavilion Residences apartment in Bukit Bintang. Apparently, Aliff’s apartment unit has not been well-received by potential buyers. This is due to the high selling price that not many can afford to purchase the prized apartment, especially not in this pandemic situation. The 33-year-old businessman wrote, “I feel very sad...
Scores of Chinese nationals demonstrate outside their embassy in Malaysia in 2019 claiming they lost their life savings to Teow’s MBI group.Facebook/Irene Andy An enigmatic Malaysian businessman with links to the rich and famous disappears, apparently fleeing the country and leaving in his wake hundreds of millions of missing ringgit, a string of angry investors and...
Deserted roads in Kuala Lumpur on the first day of the country’s latest lockdown The streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city, were empty on Wednesday (Jan 13) morning – a far cry from the previous night’s hubbub as people scrambled to make preparations for a two-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. Roads were packed before the...
The Sinovac vaccine was just 50.4 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic infections. A coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech will have to go through regulatory scrutiny and authorisation by Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) before it can be rolled out to the public, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Wednesday (Jan 13). This update...
Before Covid-19 brought travelling to a stop, Amos Ananda Yeo led a jet-setter’s lifestyle. A fashion designer by profession, he regularly shuttled between his native Singapore, Korea, Japan and Vietnam for his eponymous streetwear label Amos Ananda. But for the past four years, he has been based mainly in Shenzhen, China, where he runs a...
WhatsApp’s policies changed to reflect the possibility of commercial transactions involving the mingling of activity among Facebook apps. There was a backlash to WhatsApp in recent days after it posted what appear to be overhauled privacy policies. Let me try to clarify what happened. Some people think the messaging app will now force those using it to...
