News about Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah broke into tears today when announcing the retirement of his deputy Datuk Dr Rohaizat Yon.

PETALING JAYA (June 10): Annual General Meetings (AGMs) and Extraordinary General Meetings (EGMs) of strata developments can now be conducted physically, according to the government's latest Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guidelines on strata management for the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) phase which began today (June 10).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Is the pandemic a boon to autocracy? In Malaysia, efforts to constrain the coronavirus have chipped away at the very democratic principles that for decades made the country a natural US ally and bastion of stability in a volatile region, Bloomberg reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low traveled to Kuwait last September, slipped past international arrest notices and authorities in the US and Malaysia seeking him for his alleged role in the multibillion-dollar state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) fraud, says the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

PUTRAJAYA (June 10): Malaysia’s borders may only be reopened if daily confirmed Covid-19 cases are maintained at single digits until the end of the recovery movement control order (RMCO) on Aug 31, according to Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 8): The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) has denied a report on Astro Awani of a surge in hotel room bookings within an hour of the announcement of the recovery movement control order (RMCO) yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 7): The recovery movement control order (RMCO) phase from June 10 to Aug 31, which will relax interstate travel, meetings and workshops, augurs well for the tourism industry and marks the beginning of the recovery of domestic tourism.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): The number of positive Covid-19 cases in the country is not expected to see another spike after Thursday's record high of 277 new infections, according to Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Malaysiakini report today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): Malaysia saw new Covid-19 cases nearly double from yesterday’s 19, rising to 37 new cases as of noon today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): There may be light at the end of the tunnel for hotels, The Edge reported today.