First Posted: May 22, 2021 02:52 AM EDT
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Three times more than its expected selling price, an Albert Einstein handwritten letter with his world-changing E=mc2 equation has been sold at an auction house based in Boston for more than $1.2 million on Friday.
Individuals responsible in the archives of the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem noted that aside from the one sold at Boston, there are only three other known examples of Albert Einstein s written equation.
According to RR Auction, the auction house where the most recent purchase happened, this fourth example of Albert Einstein handwritten letter with an equation is the only one in the hands of a private collector and only recently made its public appearance. In the initial assessment of the auction house, they had expected it to sell for around $400,000.
GEORGE TOWN: Penang Wanita Barisan Nasional has likened the state government to an “ostrich who buries its head in the sand’ after it pretended that the controversial vaccine donation recently was over after lodging police reports.
Its chief Datuk Norliza Abdul Rahim said the controversial issue did not end, but instead raised more issues from the statement made by Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow on Friday (May 21).
Norliza said an English news portal quoted Sabah businessman Yong Chee Kong, the man who purportedly offered to donate two million Sinovac vaccine doses to Penang, claimed that the letter bearing his signature was written by the Penang DAP to be presented as a formal offer to the state government.
Saturday, 22 May 2021 03:33 PM MYT
BY SHAHRIN AIZAT NOORSHAHRIZAM
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said that state governments must be allowed to procure the vaccines without going through local pharmaceutical company Pharmaniaga. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 ― To assist the federal government on expediting National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has urged Putrajaya to decentralise vaccine procurement to state governments.
The former Penang chief minister said that state governments must be allowed to procure the vaccines without going through local pharmaceutical company Pharmaniaga.
KOTA KINABALU: The mysterious Yong Chee Kong, the person said to have made the offer to donate two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Penang, has been hauled up by police for questioning.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali confirmed that police were investigating the case involving the alleged donation of vaccines to the Penang government. Yes.this morning my officer will be recording his statement, he said on Friday (May 21).
However, he declined to say if Yong would be arrested.
Yong became the focus of attention when Khairy Jamaluddin, minister in charge of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, said that the offer by a private company of two million free doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for Penang was a scam.