KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun (pic) has expressed shock over “period spot checks” being conducted on female students in schools. The Women, Family and Community Development Minister said she will engage the relevant authorities to ensure the practice ends. “This is unacceptable and shouldn’t happen in schools,

SINGAPORE, April 23 (The Straits Times/ANN): Education Minister Lawrence Wong will helm the Ministry of Finance, in the latest Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday (April 23). The changes will take effect from May 15. Replacing him at the Education Ministry will be Trade

Independent pollster Merdeka Center said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin enjoys a 67 percent approval rating in Peninsular Malaysia and described his rating as stable. Muhyiddin’s highest approval rating recorded by Merdeka Center was 74 percent between June and July last year. The lowest rating recorded was 63 percent in

The prosecution failed to provide documentary evidence to prove 1MDB funds flowed into Najib Abdul Razak’s bank account, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard today. The former prime minister’s counsel Tania Scivetti submitted this during the hearing of the government’s lawsuit to forfeit alleged 1MDB-linked monies and

PUTRAJAYA: Enforcement authorities should combine efforts and work together to tackle indiscriminate price hikes, particularly during the festive seasons, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The Prime Minister said this is to ensure continuous monitoring and effective enforcement against unscrupulous businesses. “We have been hearing people’s grouses over increases in

Former education minister Maszlee Malik has joined the chorus of those condemning the practice of conducting menstrual period spot checks on school girls. The Simpang Renggam MP said such degrading practices must be stopped and condemned, and should have never happened anywhere, let alone in schools. “This is clearly a

GEORGE TOWN: A 35-year-old kuih seller has been charged with the murder of a police constable who was killed while on duty. Mohd Arraffat Taufik nodded his head when the court interpreter read out the charge in Bahasa Malaysia. No plea was recorded after the charge was read to him

PETALING JAYA: Convent Bukit Nanas has escaped the axe for now, thanks to a 60-year lease renewal, but the story of the school mirrors that of other mission schools that have had to give up their land. From the late 1990s to 2000, Bukit Bintang Girls’ School also had a

The Health Ministry predicts Malaysia’s Covid-19 situation will continue to worsen to over 3,000 cases per day by Hari Raya Aidilfitri if the standard operating procedures are not followed. Its updated forecast also shows that the cases could even reach nearly 5,000 per day by the end

YOURSAY | ‘I am tickled that Mahathir is using an analogy which is race-slanted to mask his own agenda.’ Mahathir, others seek audience with Agong over public fury on emergency Annonnymous 080: “It is quite clear that a large number of Malays are now angry because they are suffering due to

PUTRAJAYA: The judge who convicted Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case did not err in law when he added more grounds in his written judgment compared to the verbal ruling he delivered in court earlier, the Court of Appeal heard. Ad hoc prosecutor Datuk V.

KUALA LUMPUR: The administration of SMK Convent Bukit Nanas has thanked the government for extending the land lease of the 122-year-old mission school here. “We are grateful and thank the government of Malaysia for extending the land lease for 60 years, ” said Lady Superior of the Society of Saint Maur,

PETALING JAYA: A non-governmental organisation and a city planning expert have expressed mixed views over the government granting a 60-year lease extension to SMK Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) today. Save Kuala Lumpur (Save KL) chairman M Ali poured cold water over the move, saying that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin should

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday (April 22) has failed in his bid to obtain leave to challenge Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s action in advising Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah to suspend Parliament during the emergency period. This followed

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pix) today failed in his bid to obtain leave to challenge Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s action in advising Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah to suspend Parliament during the emergency period. This followed a decision by Court

PUTRAJAYA: The declaration of emergency has allowed the government to better handle the Covid-19 situation in the country, including through the amendment of several specific acts to curb the spread of the disease, says Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin (pix). Stressing that there was no hidden agenda by the

PETALING JAYA: The land lease of the 122-year-old Convent Bukit Nanas has been extended for 60 years, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has announced. The lease had been set to expire on Sept 6. In a statement, the PMO said it made the decision after taking into account the

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore has discovered more virus cases in a foreign worker dormitory that was within the epicentre for the Covid-19 outbreak in the country last year, raising concerns about reinfections as almost all the labourers had previously tested positive. To stop the potential spread at the Westlite Woodlands dorm,

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 474,213 individuals have received both doses of their Covid-19 vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of yesterday. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said during the same period, 757,547 individuals received their first dose, bringing the total number of Covid-19

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today accused the Perikatan Nasional-led government of incompetence and irresponsibility after the government used emergency powers to utilise the National Trust Fund (Kwan) for vaccine procurement. In a statement today, Lim, a former finance minister, warned that Kwan was meant as a strategic cash reserve

Former ministers Rafidah Aziz and Azalina Othman Said have expressed shock and anger at reports stating period spot checks are a common practice, particularly in boarding schools.  “That is totally disgusting and a violation of a person’s privacy. No religion gives such permission. “The Education Ministry must act to

KUALA LUMPUR: The special ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting on Saturday in Jakarta will enable ASEAN leaders to hear first hand accounts of the ongoing political crisis in Myanmar. Former United Nations (UN) special envoy to Myanmar Tan Sri Razali Ismail (pix) said however, it should not be misinterpreted as the regional

Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar has urged critics of the government’s handling of the Covid-19 vaccination programme to be careful with the words and not enable the anti-vaccination movement. In a statement today, Nurul Izzah (above) said there are frustrations and justified criticisms of the weaknesses in the