(CNA) - Indonesia's investment on a mega project to relocate its capital city has been put on hold, as the country shifts focus to spend on containing the COVID-19 outbreak, but may resume next…

(DailyMail) - President Donald Trump's company holds a multi-million debt to the state-owned Bank of China – and it will come due in the middle of his second term. Trump's ownership of the…

(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday (Apr 23) a screening of 3,000 people found nearly 14 per cent tested positive for antibodies for the novel coronavirus, suggesting that…

(NST) - Malaysian doctor R Vishna, who was serving as a consultant neonatologist at the Birmingham Women's Hospital of the United Kingdom, has died from Covid-19. New of the death of Dr R…

(Bernama) - The Dewan Rakyat one-day sitting on May 18 is decided by the government after taking into account the safety aspect of all quarters involved in the proceeding. Minister in the Prime…

(FMT) - Now is not a good time to sell government assets to generate cash for economic recovery, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for economy Mustapa Mohamed said. He said he did not…

(MMO) - The Finance Ministry has identified three short-term objectives as part of its plans to boost the economy after taking a hit from the movement control order (MCO) to battle the Covid-19…

(MMO) - For Putrajaya’s technocrats, the Covid-19 crisis provides an opening for industries to reshape a domestic economy highly reliant on manual labour into that driven by digital innovation and…

(Suara Merdeka) - KERAJAAN diingatkan supaya tidak menjadikan wabak Covid-19 ketika ini sebagai alasan untuk melemahkan dan meminggirkan fungsi Parlimen. Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit…

(FMT) - Former prime minister Najib Razak has backed the controversial action by the authorities in pushing back Rohingya refugees trying to land on Malaysian shores last week, some four years…

The US acting director of national intelligence is weighing ways to pressure countries with anti-LGBT policies, including reducing intelligence sharing, the New York Times reported. (FMT) -…

Opposition MPs in Penang are crying foul that they have been sidelined in the distribution of Covid-19 food hampers for the poor allocated to their constituencies. (FMT) - They said the aid was…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Covid-19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organisation, warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to…

(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill on Thursday, funding small businesses and hospitals and pushing the total spending…

(ST) - For four weeks, Mr Balappa has woken up anxious about how to feed his children. "I spend most of my day searching for rice. I can't look my wife in the eye anymore," the construction worker…

(Forbes) - Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has responded to criticism over Virgin’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. In an open letter to “the Virgin family” Branson thanks his 70,000 staff and…

(BBC) - A further 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to mount. The new applications brought the total…

(Bernama) - Parties in the forfeiture suit brought by the government against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his family and several others are scheduled to meet the High Court Judge…

(FMT) - PKR president Anwar Ibrahim today defended his ties with DAP following queries about the notion that his party and fellow Pakatan Harapan (PH) component Amanah are subservient to the…

(Reuters) - Leading Pakistani doctors on Wednesday (Apr 22) urged the government and clerics to reverse a decision to allow prayer congregations at mosques during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,…

(Xinhua) - A border checkpoint in southern Thailand has been temporarily closed for a week of sanitisation against the Covid-19 pandemic after two immigration officials have been found infected…

(NST) - Covid-19 will stalk the planet for a long time to come, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, warning that most countries were still in the early stages of tackling the…

(NST) - New clusters of Covid-19 coronavirus infections in northeastern China near the Russian border forced officials on Wednesday to tighten restrictions on movement as they seek to prevent a…

“In a worst-case scenario, we could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries, and in fact, in 10 of these countries we already have more than one million people per country who are on…

“The ministry should investigate and explain to the public why there are discrepancies between the food distributed to the B40 group in its constituency and the guidelines distributed earlier, and…

(FMT) - A second wave of the novel coronavirus in the US could be even more destructive because it will likely collide with the beginning of flu season, one of the country’s top health officials…

(FMT) - Several Malay groups have called on Putrajaya to let government-linked companies (GLCs) to be helmed by professionals and technocrats. This follows reports that Perikatan Nasional MPs…

(FMT) - North Korean state media made no mention on Wednesday of new appearances by leader Kim Jong-un, a day after intense international speculation over his health was sparked by his absence…

(NST) - A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations-marked vehicle was ambushed as they carried Covid-19 test samples in conflict-ridden Rakhine…

(SCMP) - Missouri’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government on Tuesday, claiming that Beijing’s denials and cover-ups led to the coronavirus becoming a pandemic that has…