Archive - 7 May 2020

The upcoming parliamentary sitting on May 18 is expected to be the main topic.

Five people including the Stampin MP were at home, but there are no reports of injuries or fatalities.

Permission from the authorities must be obtained beforehand, they add.

Finance minister says this is because the 12MP, which covers the 2021-2025 period, is a long-term economic plan.

Police say some 13,000 vehicles are estimated to be travelling interstate today.

He had suffered a heart attack.

However, the source says he does not know how many Bersatu representatives have signed SDs.

UPDATED 11.59PM | Two Bersatu leaders have refuted claims that the party's leadership had decided to leave Harapan.

UPDATED 8.24PM | CORONAVIRUS | Dr Noor Hisham says the downward trend was recorded by the Health Ministry (MOH) through surveillance cases.

CORONAVIRUS | Health Ministry DG Noor Hisham says 436 workers were screened for Covid-19 and only 10 tested positive so far.

Some of the wing’s division chiefs say they never consented to be part of a statement distancing from the national leadership's stance on Umno and Harapan.

CORONAVIRUS | Health DG tells the media that they should be able to see the outcome in two weeks time.

B Lisa Christina questions why a politician's daughter and his son-in-law were only fined RM800 each for the same offence.

The minister urges employers to pay for tests, treat foreign workers like family.

Transmission among locals continues to remain low.

Party information chief Radzi Jidin says all members must support the party's official stand which has been decided collectively.

PKR leader says if gov't can reopen economy, it can allow Parliament sessions to be held online.

UPDATED 4.27PM | Speaker says MPs cannot dispute prerogative of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong.

Daroyah questions mass sacking and suspension of members including her boss, Wanita PKR chief Haniza Talha.

UPDATED 7.45PM | PKR president says Harapan sec-gen has told Dewan Rakyat speaker of the decision by the coalition's presidential council.

UPDATED 3.09PM | Dr M also submits separate notice on no-confidence vote against Muhyiddin Yassin.

The minister says the gov't estimates a million will lose jobs without reopening economy.

Congregational prayers at the mosque also not allowed any time soon, says Ismail Sabri.

He adds it won't be easy to formalise the PN coalition considering many Bersatu MPs were from Umno.

143 out of 191 Bersatu Youth division heads say they would rather stick to the party's supreme council decision to withdraw from Harapan.

CORONAVIRUS | The following is the update from the Communications and Multimedia Ministry on countering fake news on social media.

The revision means MBPP and MBSP will receive less in tax after nearly 15 pct of ratepayers objected to the initial planned increase.

The deputy federal territories minister has been in the news quite a bit lately but for all the wrong reasons.

Children under immunisation scheme were supposed to get two dosages of bOPV and mOPV, but it has been delayed due to MCO.

Starting May 10, 526 gov't projects worth RM22.1b will resume works, says SDMC.

Waiters wear gloves and face shields, and use a long board to bring dishes into the glass cabins at Eten restaurant.

UPDATED 12.55PM | The DOJ says it has settled its civil forfeiture cases involving Khadem al-Qubaisi.

CORONAVIRUS | The republic’s Health Ministry says the deaths involved the elderly, bringing the total number of fatalities to 20.

The corporate liability law is scheduled to come into force on June 1.

Kedah PAS commissioner claims MB has lost more than half of support from Bersatu state assemblypersons, PAS ready to take over.

Saravanan says it can be done with Socso-appointed service providers at 39 locations and 120 mobile units nationwide.

This comes after a packed train for Port Klang-Tanjung Malim service failed to ensure social distancing on May 5.

Media can only discharge its responsibility as Fourth Estate if it is free from shackles of the state.

Bersatu Youth chapters in T'ganu, Sabah, S'gor and Perak reject central body's call to rejoin Pakatan Harapan.

In the video, Denman, 34, answered questions from a person off-camera speaking in English.

Contact tracing apps should keep functions to a minimum and protect private data, says Jac SM Kee.

Plus expects over 300,000 vehicles, based on applications made to Gerak Malaysia, to be on the road from today until Sunday.

UPDATED 8.10AM | The lawmaker passed away at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, believed to be from a heart attack.

Why are we risking our young and the elderly by reopening the economy now?

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Nor Hisham says DBKL is committed to enforcing the existing by-laws to prevent foreign hawkers from operating in the capital.