KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia on Friday (May 7) reported 4,498 new Covid-19 cases, the highest in three months, as the government faces a public backlash for allowing Ramadan and Hari Raya bazaars to continue operating in areas placed under the movement control order (MCO).
Malaysia also notched 506 admissions into intensive care units (ICU) around the country on Friday, the highest since the pandemic was tracked early last year.
Selangor state recorded the highest number of infections (1,424), followed by 750 in Sarawak and 436 in Kuala Lumpur. A total of 22 fatalities were recorded to bring the cumulative number of deaths to 1,632.
Several localities in Johor, including state capital Johor Baru, Perak, and Terengganu, are also under the MCO.
Annuar says rumour of his marriage to a singer is to ruin his career
Modified30 Apr 2021, 1:55 am
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Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa has described the rumours of his second marriage to a Malaysian singer as slander to ruin his political career.
Annuar also expressed his regret and displeasure towards the action of the rumour-mongers that also affected the reputation of other unrelated parties.
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LETTER | Why is DBKL cutting down perfectly good trees in Taman Seputeh?
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LETTER | In Malaysia, warnings by conservationists that we have been losing our forest cover have been ringing in our ears for decades. Unfortunately, the problem has always seemed remote as we are constantly told that our nation’s devastating forest loss is the result of unsustainable logging and palm oil cultivation – activities that take place far away from urban areas, adversely impacting indigenous people and endangering animals like the
orang utan, sun bear, pygmy elephant and clouded leopard.
This is no longer the case as the high profits for timber, poor government regulation and corruption have brought the problem closer to our doorstep than we dare imagine. On April 12, 2021, this was made brutally clear to me when I accosted a logging truck carrying the remains of a felled hardwood tree felled from a playground in Taman Seputeh, right in the middle of Kuala Lumpur.