Two Australian Open players test positive for coronavirus
MELBOURNE — Two Australian Open players tested positive for coronavirus, health officials announced Tuesday, taking the cluster of cases associated with the Grand Slam tennis tournament to seven. The Victoria state health department said a total of nine people have tested positive while in quarantine ahead of the event in Melbourne, but two cases were […]
MetMalaysia uji siren Sistem Amaran Awal Tsunami di Kuala Kedah hari Selasa
ALOR SETAR: 19 Jan — Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia (MetMalaysia) akan melaksanakan ujian siren Sistem Amaran Awal Tsunami Malaysia (SAATNM) di Kuala Kedah di sini, bermula 1.30 tengah hari hingga 5.30 petang hari ini. Sehubungan itu, Pengarah Meteorologi Kedah Muhammad Khalil Ab Aziz meminta penduduk setempat tidak panik sekiranya mendengar bunyi siren berkenaan. Katanya ujian yang akan dibuat di […]
APMM mohon bantuan Indonesia kesan dua nelayan Malaysia
MELAKA: 19 Jan — Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia (APMM) Melaka/Negeri Sembilan telah memohon bantuan Indonesia dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) dua nelayan yang dikhuatiri lemas di Pulau Undan di sini. Pengarahnya Kepten Maritim Haris Fadzillah Abdullah berkata pihaknya memaklumkan kepada Badan Nasional Pencarian dan Pertolongan (Basarnas) kelmarin jika menerima sebarang maklumat mengenai kejadian bot […]
Covid vaccine: WHO warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’
THE world is “on the brink of catastrophic moral failure” by failing to give vaccines to poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday. “It is not right that younger, healthier adults in rich countries are vaccinated before health workers and older people in poorer countries,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general at […]
Thousands skip vaccination in India due to hesitancy
INDIA on Monday stepped-up efforts to bolster trust in coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed that nearly a third of those invited to get jabs at the launch of a nationwide drive failed to turn up. The government has launched one of the world’s most ambitious vaccine programs, aiming to inoculate 300 million of the […]
Imam Masjid Negeri Selangor Abdul Karim Omar disahkan positif COVID-19
SHAH ALAM: 19 Jan — Imam Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (MSSAAS) Shah Alam yang juga qari terkenal, Abdul Karim Omar disahkan positif COVID-19 dan kini menerima rawatan di Hospital Sungai Buloh. Menurutnya, ahli keluarga beliau yang turut positif virus tersebut dirawat di Pusat Kuarantin dan Rawatan COVID-19 Berisiko Rendah (PKRC) di Taman Ekspo Pertanian Malaysia Serdang (MAEPS). […]
Joe Flizzow trending di Twitter! ‘Ciao’, MK dan Jay Park rupanya punca
SEMALAM tanda palang atau hashtag Joe Flizzow tiba-tiba trending di Twitter dan hasil tinjauan SinarPlus mendapati ia gara-gara tersebarnya sebuah video teaser pendek hasil kolobrasi yang menampilkan MK K-Clique dan artis hip-hop Korea-Amerika, Jay Park. Wow, bukan calang-calang kolobrasi ini! Tiga nama besar bergabung untuk satu muzik video? Ya! Jay Park adalah nama yang tidak asing […]
Thailand sold itself as a paradise pandemic retreat. No one came.
IT’S HARD to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that can have their own pool and courtyard. Yet more than three months after the resort and more than a hundred like it reopened to […]
FBI vets thousands of troops amid fears of insider attack on Biden inauguration
THOUSANDS of military personnel guarding Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president on Wednesday are being vetted by the FBI amid fears of an insider attack. The biggest ever security operation for a presidential transition has turned swaths of Washington into a fortress, barricades, razor wire and 7ft fences erected to prevent a repeat of the deadly […]
