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KUALA LUMPUR: Public health experts in Malaysia are calling for a strict lockdown as the nation continues to face a surge in coronavirus cases. On Thursday, authorities reported 7,857 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. It was the third consecutive day on which the number of infections in the country has hit a record high. The total number of cases in Malaysia, which has a population of nearly 33 million, now stands at more than 541,200, and nearly 2,500 people have died of conditions related to COVID-19. It is the third worst-hit country in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia and the Philippines. W...

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- LETTER | The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) kick-started with a lot of fanfare. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin received his first vaccine in public on February 24. Three months later, the people expressed their dissatisfaction and lamented that the vaccination rate is too low, alleging that it is mainly due to the government being slow and incompetent. Often, the “better” countries they cited are Singapore, European Union countries, the United States, Israel and so on. I would like to offer an objective perspective on the national vaccination programme. Often the public...

Ludovic MARIN / AFP President Cyril Ramaphosa has added his voice to leaders calling for greater equality in the international economy. Ramaphosa and African leaders want a greater share of the IMF's reserve. During times of crisis, Special Drawing Rights have boosted the international economy. In his latest weekly newsletter, President Cyril Ramaphosa writes about how struck he was by the image of a boy, floating on a buoy of plastic bottles, trying to escape hardship in Africa for a better life in Europe. The boy was one of 8 000 migrants, who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Cueta in the...

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