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Pharmaniaga confident of meeting targeted demand for Sinovac vaccine
KUALA LUMPUR: Pharmaniaga Bhd is confident of meeting the targeted vaccine demand of 120,000 shots per day, according to its deputy managing director Mohamed Iqbal Abdul Rahman. He said the company was able to produce two million doses of the ‘CoronaVac’
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Woman allegedly beaten to death in row over TikTok video
KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian woman is believed to have been punched and slapped to death by her husband at a flat in Petaling Jaya, here Monday, in a row over a TikTok video. Petaling Jaya District Police chief ACP Nik Ezanee
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Company director pleads guilty to content piracy charge through sale of Android Box
KUALA LUMPUR: The director of a company which sells Android TV Box sets pleaded guilty in court recently for promoting hardware and software which allow the bypassing of technological protection measures on copyrighted broadcast works. Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer
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Red Leaf Monkey species flourishes in Sabah’s undisturbed jungles
KOTA KINABALU: Not many people may know that Dr Maklarin Lakim, who was appointed Sabah Parks director in January last year, is an expert on the red leaf monkey or lotong merah, one of Borneo’s endemic primate species. The first phase
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Ministers returning from official overseas trips subject to quarantine, surveillance
KUALA LUMPUR: Cabinet ministers returning from official overseas trips are not only subject to a three-day quarantine but will also be placed under surveillance before they are discharged without danger to the public, said lawyer Datuk Mohd Haaziq Pillay Abdullah.
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Youth cool with becoming a cucumber farmer
KUANTAN: Muhammad Rusydan Fikri Mohd Roslan’s advertising and graphics studio was not spared the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The business he started after graduating from Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) in 2018 with a visual communications degree survived less than
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More blood needed to ensure continuous supply
KOTA KINABALU: The amount of blood raised from donors during the Movement Control Order (PKP) in Sabah has been very low, with only 468 pints last month against the state’s need of 5,833 pints a month. Chairman of the Sabah
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Members of independent special panel on emergency 2021 are of calibre and integrity
KUALA LUMPUR: All the 19 individuals, including those from the opposition, appointed to the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 are of calibre and integrity, said Bersatu Information chief Datuk Wan Saiful Wan Jan. “The formation of the committee reflects Prime
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MDEC on a mission to ‘recreate’ itself, enhance administration
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Digital Economic Council (MDEC) is on a mission to ‘recreate’ itself by implementing radical transparency and integrity measures in its administration to drive the agency forward and serve the people better. Its chairman Datuk Dr Rais Hussin
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Three-day quarantine: Ministers must comply with strict conditions
PUTRAJAYA: Cabinet Ministers going on official visits overseas must comply with strict conditions in order to obtain an exemption to reduce their quarantine period to three days, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said that if they
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