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KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government is optimistic that its tourism industry, badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, will recover at a faster rate following the reopening of the state’s international border with Brunei.
BACHOK: A 45-year-old principal of a religious school in Machang was detained by police this morning for allegedly raping a student.
KUALA KANGSAR: Five assemblymen took their oaths of office as Perak state executive council members before Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah at the Istana Iskandariah, here, today.
PETALING JAYA: Celebrity preacher Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohammad Shaiful, who was detained following a series of sexual assault reports lodged by several women, has been charged with committing unnatural sex and molesting a college student.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Rakyat today approved a motion to reduce the controversial RM85.5 million allocation proposed in the 2021 Budget for the revival of the Special Affairs Department (Jasa), which has been re-branded as the Department of Community Communications (J-KOM).
KUALA LUMPUR: The global banking sector could see US$1.5 trillion to US$4.7 trillion in cumulative revenue loss due to the Covid-19 crisis between 2020 and 2024, said McKinsey & Co.
GEORGE TOWN: School bus and van drivers in the state have been struggling to make ends meet in recent months after not getting any income, especially since last month.
KUANTAN: The Pahang Sports Complex (Sukpa) at Indera Mahkota here has been cordoned off with barbed wire fencing as the indoor stadium is being used as a Covid-19 quarantine and low-risk treatment centre (PKRC).
MUMBAI: India’s Air Force has urged Netflix to withdraw scenes from a film in which a veteran Bollywood actor wearing a military uniform used offensive language.
KUALA LUMPUR: The world’s largest liquefied natural gas-powered containership, CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, has berthed at Westports Holdings Bhd’s Container Terminal 7 yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The property market will remain soft this year.
Indonesia will raise the excise duty on cigarette products by an average of 12.5 per cent as the country seeks higher earnings from the industry.
KUALA KANGSAR: Five state executive councillors (Exco) will take their oaths of office today in front of the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah at Istana Iskandariah, here.
KOTA BARU: A government servant lost about RM23,000 to a Macau Scam syndicate which impersonated an Inland Revenue Board (IRB) officer and policeman on Monday.
BRUSSELS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave themselves until Sunday to decide on the future of post-Brexit negotiations, after a three-hour dinner left the two sides “far apart.”