News by Emir Zainul

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said in a statement today that this will involve recipients of the moratorium from the bottom 50% of all Malaysians, in terms of income classification, for a period of three months in the fourth quarter of 2021

The former finance minister's lawyer said his client had been in close contact with a Covid-19 positive patient and as such, is under a 10-day quarantine order from Sept 1 to 10. 

In view of declining revenue collection for the first half of 2021 and it is expected that subsequent collection will continue to shrink due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of the various iterations of the MCO, tax experts and economists have called on the government to look into alternative avenues to increase the revenue. 

Taking over Ismail Sabri's defence portfolio is his Umno comrade Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.  

No reason was disclosed for the deferment of the hearing, which the court had on Aug 9 scheduled for today

Justice Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid said he will deliberate on the matter before delivering his decision by way of email to the parties. 

The prosecution's fourth witness, Muhamad Azrai Mohamad Zaini, who was assistant director of infrastructure in the Penang State Economic Planning Unit at the time, testified today that representatives from the Chinese company attended several meetings with the Penang state government to discuss the feasibility study and preliminary detail design work for the project following their memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2011

Former state executive councillor Datuk Lim Hock Seng testified today

This, he said, was achieved through an average daily vaccination rate of almost 400,000, surpassing its target of 300,000 daily doses in July.

However, the operating capacity will be dependent on the level of vaccination of the workers.