News by Emir Zainul

The prosecution's second witness Azman Azra Abdul Rahman, who was the chief assistant secretary in the Immigration Affairs Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs from August 2008 until October 2015, testified today that there were three occasions where Najib had sent minutes to Zahid to recommend Ultra Kirana Sdn Bhd (UKSB) as the sole operator for the visa application management system in China. 

The trial involving 40 charges of bribery against Zahid commenced here earlier today and is scheduled to go on for at least 16 days until the end of June. 

Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is facing two money laundering charges involving RM9.5 million, which the prosecution alleged was received from Najib.

The prosecution has failed to prove the monies were obtained from illegal activities. 

Former health minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad contended that the high prevalence of reported sporadic cases right now is due to the federal government's failure to restrict infections within Covid-19 clusters that have spilt over to infect communities, causing an outbreak. 

Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah: The people of Malaysia are a very important front line at this point and are expected to continue to stay at home, if there are no important matters outside. We have no choice anymore, we must take care of ourselves!

"We observed that 80% of current infections are not in clusters but are sporadic. This means that Covid-19 is already in the community and this is why we are worried that the number of cases may rise."

The group, however, denied that the enterprise value of the sale would be RM5.2 billion.

"Based on the increasing trend of daily Covid-19 cases, the government has decided to take more drastic and stringent measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 infections in the community and prevent a sharp increase in cases," Muhyiddin said.

Pushing the cumulative figure of positive cases in the country to 427,927