Category: General

KLUANG, The voting for the Mahkota state assembly by-election concluded today, with all 20 polling centres, which opened at 8 am, officially closing at 6 pm. The counting of votes will now take place at the Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail here. According to data from the Election Commission (EC), 61,397 voters were eligible to cast their ballots today, while early voting took place last Tuesday, and postal ballots were issued on Sept 15. Overall, the Mahkota state constituency has 66,318 registered voters, with the majority being Malay at 56 percent, followed by Chinese at 34 percent, Indian at eight percent,

MIRI, The political stability achieved in this country over the past two years should not be misused by political leaders to strengthen their positions but should serve as an opportunity to implement good policies for the people, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Prime Minister said this stability, which has led to a strengthening of the ringgit, a decrease in unemployment and more controlled inflation, has allowed the current government to focus on efforts to develop the people of this country. “Sometimes there are still some politicians who are quite desperate, feeling overwhelmed; they see the economy growing, the ringgit

BEIJING, Malaysia welcomes the collaboration of telecommunications companies with any local media organisations to develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications to help produce content, as well as report efficiently and effectively. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil gave Huawei as an example of a company from China that has sophisticated AI applications that can be used in various fields, including the media and film industries. “I found that there are some very interesting applications, whether in terms of digital twinning, language translation applications, large language modeling (LLM) to study weather forecasts and also some other applications to optimise network. “So I have asked

KUALA LUMPUR, Owners of food premises in the Federal Territories who failed to maintain the cleanliness in their respective premises face losing their business licenses. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa said their licences would not be renewed. She said that at a meeting of the heads of agencies of the Federal Territories department two days ago, she had instructed the Kuala Lumpur Mayor (Datuk Seri Dr Maimunah Mohd Sharif) to carry out enforcement on the cleanliness of premises in the city, especially food premises. ‘If the cleanliness of the premises is found not up

PUTRAJAYA, Climate change is one of the factors affecting the breeding of Aedes mosquitoes in the country, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad. He said the breeding process of Aedes mosquitoes is very active when there is a temperature change. “Structural factors such as sand trap is also a factor. I noticed that the sand trap is the breeding base (location) of Aedes. A rooftop that does not meet public health requirements also becomes a breeding ground for larvae,” he told reporters after the Gotong Royong Mega Fight Aedes 2.0, 1 Hour Malaysia Clean Up and Malaysia Clean