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KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 10): The relaxed three-day quarantine for cabinet ministers returning from foreign travel may be made available to business travellers and members of the public next, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba (pictured) told Malaysiakini in an interview yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 9): Cabinet ministers returning from official visits abroad are allowed to shorten their self-isolation to three days, only if they meet certain criteria, said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 9): The Malaysian Bar said the Government order exempting Cabinet Ministers returning from overseas official visits from the need to undergo a 10-day quarantine is a violation of the people’s “constitutional right of equality under the law”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 9): Both former finance minister Lim Guan Eng and former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak have criticised the government over the decision for Cabinet ministers returning from overseas trips to only be subjected to a three-day quarantine period, as opposed to the usual 10-day quarantine requirement.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 9): The government has decided that Cabinet ministers returning from overseas trips to only be subjected to a three-day quarantine period, as opposed to the usual 10-day quarantine requirement.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1): Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin (pictured) and senior minister for education Radzi Jidin have been conferred the Panglima Mahkota Wilayah award - the “Datuk” title, by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in conjunction with this year's Federal Territory Day.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1): Cost of living, sustenance and poverty eradication issues in the Federal Territory will be the government’s main focus through various approaches taken under the Urban Poverty Programme (5MY), Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 25): The leaders of parties in the Pakatan Nasional (PN) government are satisfied with the explanations and in-depth discussions on the Emergency Ordinance, as well as how the emergency and the Covid-19 pandemic are being managed, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 11): Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will have a national address on the movement control order (MCO) at 6pm today, according to the National Security Council (NSC).

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Singapore could not accept Malaysia’s proposal to remove the systems supplier and network operator of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project, says Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung, according to The Straits Times.