Archive - 3 August 2020

Despite its mammoth task, it is as if the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has been disarmed.

CORONAVIRUS | The ministry says this is similar to the approach towards the tabligh and tahfiz groups when Covid-19 broke out.

CORONAVIRUS | Health DG says the person makes up one of two new Covid-19 cases recorded today.

Its deputy minister attributes the delay to invalid bank registrant information and failure of registrants to respond.

UPDATED 7.47PM | This is to make up for the 2020 year-end school break being cut short and because of the delay in year-end examinations.

CORONAVIRUS | He says the AG's Office will gazette the usage of MySejahtera application as compulsory soon.

Those who are already in the country can appeal to Nadma, says Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

PARLIAMENT | Since 2018, there have been six deaths involving children accidentally left in vehicles.

Sabah PAS contested in 19 state seats in the previous election but lost in all of them.

Ismail Sabri says those who have paid their fines can ask for a refund.

Finance minister addresses the criticism that the bank was being easily let off for its role in the theft of 1MDB funds.

PARLIAMENT | Lim says Harapan rejected the CPTPP as it was worried that the agreement would expose M'sia to the foreign interference.

He says the main criteria is not about fielding new faces or candidates with qualifications, but the fact that they will not defect.

Reusable cloth face masks are more environmentally-friendly and help mitigate climate change, besides being affordable.

Political analysts say it will be difficult for PN to penetrate Permatang Pauh, which is Anwar Ibrahim and family's stronghold.

PARLIAMENT | He says entertainment outlet operators are only encouraged to do so.

Malaysian police are tight-lipped over details of Djoko's arrest, while Indonesian police have described it as a 'planned operation'.

Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol.

CORONAVIRUS | The installations are expected to be completed by next week.

UPDATED 2.14PM | He says while elected representatives may leave their party on issues of principle, switching sides due to enticement is wrong.

The discharge not amounting to an acquittal is over Hafarizam Harun's money laundering case involving RM15m.

Police will record Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin Malaysia president Ramesh Rao's statement at Bukit Aman tomorrow.

Modi’s govt says it has undertaken reforms but the Covid-19 pandemic, hitting Kashmir hard like the rest of India, got in the way.

CORONAVIRUS | Hotels have offered their premises to the State Disaster Management Committee for use as quarantine sites.

'We're going to hold an election on November 3 and the president is going to win,' says White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

CORONAVIRUS | Latin America, which has some eight percent of the world’s population, accounts for close to 30 percent of global cases and fatalities.

The astronauts completed Nasa's first crewed mission from launched from the US in nine years.

CORONAVIRUS | The BAM Invitational Championships, which will feature the country's top and back-up shuttlers, has been fixed for Aug 11 to 16.

It is like saying, 'I divorce you, but still want to remain your spouse.'

'Supporters will have to wait for PAS to be back in opposition to push for it.'

Najib shows no contrition for the crime he has committed.

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