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SEOUL: China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst said on Tuesday (Dec 1), citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources. Harry Kazianis, a North Korea…

KUALA LUMPUR: The allocation for Malaysia's Prime Minister's Department (PMD) in the 2021 budget was passed in parliament on Monday (Nov 30), after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim questioned the need for additional funding. In a bloc vote,…

SINGAPORE: Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study…

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's approval ratings fell five percentage points to 58 per cent, with many unhappy with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a poll taken over the weekend by the daily Nikkei…

JAKARTA: A volcano in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Sunday (Nov 29), spewing ash and smoke as high as 4km into the sky and forcing more than 2,700 residents to seek refuge, the country's disaster mitigation agency said.…

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 9.6 million people or 30 per cent of Malaysia’s population are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19 next year, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Saturday (Nov 28). He noted that the government has…

KUALA LUMPUR: The seventh edition of Flavours of Mexico is being held online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, with a special segment on the Mexican cuisine and its similarities with Malaysian food. The Embassy of Mexico in…

SINGAPORE: Penta-Ocean Construction has been awarded the first of two civil contracts for the construction of the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Thursday (Nov 26). The…

MERU: Customers going to a hardware store off Jalan Teratai are not allowed to enter. Instead, they have to stand around a metre from the store entrance and tell the shop assistant what they are looking for. The shop was in the limelight…

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Ministry of Finance announced that more than 8 million members of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) can now make withdrawals from their account 1 if their source of income has been affected by the COVID-19…