Japan’s first Lambda variant case linked to Tokyo Olympics
WITH Japan reporting more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases last week, health authorities said its first case of the Lambda variant was associated with the recently ended Tokyo Olympics. According to government sources, the woman in her 30s had travelled to Peru where the variant, feared to be more contagious and more resistant to vaccines, was […]
Death toll in massive Haiti quake jumps to over 1,200
LES CAYES, Haiti: The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 on Sunday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination. In Les Cayes, as in other hard-hit cities on the southwestern peninsula, most of the population spent the night sleeping […]
KL Hospital frontliners breathe sigh of relief
The medical personnel at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, among the main medical treatment centres in the fight against the Covid-19, are breathing a sigh of relief after seeing a drop in the number of categories three, four and five Covid-19 patients requiring hospitalisation. This was especially so for coronavirus patients requiring admission to semi-critical or Intensive […]
Polis Melaka bersedia hadapi ketidaktentuan politik
MELAKA: Polis Melaka sentiasa bersedia untuk menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan berikutan keadaan politik yang tidak menentu ketika ini. Ketua Polis Melaka, Datuk Abdul Majid Mohd Ali, berkata sebagai pasukan yang bertanggungjawab untuk menjaga keselamatan negeri dan rakyat, pihaknya akan sentiasa bersedia untuk memastikan kesejahteraan dan keharmonian rakyat sentiasa terjamin. “Kita bersedia dengan apa-apa tindakan demi keselamatan […]
PM Muhyiddin selesai menghadap Agong
KUALA LUMPUR: Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, selesai menghadap Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, sebentar tadi. Sesi menghadap Seri Paduka itu berlangsung kira-kira 40 minit. Kenderaan pelbagai guna (MPV) Toyota Vellfire yang membawa Perdana Menteri keluar dari pekarangan Istana Negara melalui pintu satu pada jam 1.01 tengah hari. Beliau sekali […]
MAA: Car dealers posted RM14b losses in June and July
KUALA LUMPUR: Car dealers posted total losses of more than RM14bil in June and July due to sharp plunge in sales of vehicles in the domestic market following the movement control order (MCO), the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) said on Monday. MAA president Datuk Aishah Ahmad said local automotive industry had suffered huge losses since […]
FGV, Felcra, Qatar’s Baladna in Chuping Agro Valley venture
KUALA LUMPUR: FGV Holdings Bhd’s unit (FGV) has teamed up with Felcra Bhd and Qatar’s Baladna Food Industries Co. W.L.L to look into turning FGV Chuping Agro Valley into one of the leading agro-valley hubs in Malaysia. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia on Monday, FGV said its unit FGV Integrated Farming Sdn Bhd (FGVIF), had […]
Sydney records deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne lockdown extended
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, while residents in Melbourne face a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of lockdown amid a surge in infections. Sydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia’s third COVID-19 wave that […]
More than 60 countries say Afghans, others must be allowed to leave Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 60 countries issued a joint statement saying Afghans and international citizens who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to depart and added that airports and border crossings must remain open, the U.S. State Department said late on Sunday. The U.S. government and countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, […]
