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PUTRAJAYA: Some 1,128 students in local higher education institutions will begin their journey home beginning Monday (April 27) night, as the government begins its first phase of allowing students stuck in their respective dormitories to…

The need to conserve data is especially important as facilities such as Internet Centres, an initiative by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to make Internet available in under-served areas, have been shut down…

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore, which has one of Asia’s smallest populations, is emerging with the region’s highest number of Covid-19 cases after the world’s two most populous countries. The island-nation reported 931 new cases on…

SYDNEY: Survivors of last year’s New Zealand volcano eruption are planning to sue cruise ship company Royal Caribbean for failing to warn of the risks involved in touring the area, lawyers said Monday. There were 47 people, mainly…

BEIJING: Children in China’s two most important cities went back to school Monday after more than three months at home, as coronavirus restrictions eased and governments around the world began charting a path out of the pandemic lockdown.…

SINGAPORE, April 24 -- Singapore’s Ministry of Health today confirmed an additional 897 cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the tally for the republic to 12,075. The ministry attributed the vast majority of the cases to foreign worker…

PARIS (AFP): Nicotine could protect people from contracting the coronavirus, according to new research in France, where further trials are planned to test whether the substance could be used to prevent or treat the deadly illness. The…

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24  -- Ramadan this year will not be the same, especially for Muslims in Malaysia, with the enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO), now entering its fourth phase, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As is often the…

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A group of researchers at Universiti Malaya (UM) has developed the Covid Symptom Monitoring System (CoSMoS) to help medical staff monitor patients suspected of Covid-19 infection. The university said the system has…

SINGAPORE, April 24  --  As part of the city-state’s push to take more steps to further reduce transmission of COVID-19, Singapore introduced a targeted measure to improve crowd management at four ‘hotspot’ markets from April 22. The…