KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has engaged in discussions with the federal government to gain greater autonomy in healthcare, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Joachim Gunsalam.

JOHOR BARU: The Johor government has warned that business licences will be revoked on the spot if any foreign traders are found operating at Ramadan and Aidilfitri bazaars, including cases of “subletting” stalls to non-Malaysians.

KUCHING: Traders who have set up stalls in villages or along the roadsides will be given the flexibility to operate in the Kuching Utara City Hall (DBKU) area, said its Mayor, Datuk Hilmy Othman.

ALOR STAR: The Alor Star City Council (MBAS) is stepping up enforcement throughout the Ramadan bazaar season to ensure traders adhere to the established rules and regulations.

LUBBOCK: Five-year-old Shado is one of dozens of children being rushed to a health centre in the US state of Texas to get the measles vaccine, after the recent death in the area of a child who was not immunized against the highly contagious virus.

KUALA LUMPUR: Pharmaniaga Bhd returned to the black after two years of losses with a net profit of RM131.8 million in the financial year 2024 (FY24).

HOUSTON: An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, authorities said Wednesday, marking the first US fatality from the highly contagious disease in nearly a decade as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed a growing outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has issued a stern warning to take strict action, including revoking and blacklisting the licences of Ramadan and Aidilfitri bazaar stallholders found to be selling their lots to others.

KUALA LUMPUR: As the 2025 school session enters its second week, attention is increasingly focused on school meals, which are vital to students’ health and academic performance.

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho said last Thursday that his new film highlights the resilience of ordinary people against the powerful in a time of creeping authoritarianism at home and abroad.

“IT’S just the flu”. We often hear someone say this when they are under the weather.

BEIJING: A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARSCoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread to humans, Chinese researchers have reported.

WASHINGTON: A study published Thursday by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences.

WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled US Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist of President Donald Trump, to be director of the FBI, the country’s top law enforcement agency.

KUALA LUMPUR: Glove stocks remained in the red on Wednesday, following a heavy sell-down the previous day that wiped out a staggering RM5.23 billion in market capitalisation for Bursa Malaysia's four largest rubber glovemakers.

KOTA BARU: A total of 200,880 elderly individuals in Kelantan have been offered free and voluntary influenza vaccinations, which can be received at 57 clinics across the state.

BANGKOK: The Public Health Ministry, on Feb 18, revealed that a total of 107,570 influenza cases have been recorded in Thailand this year, resulting in nine deaths.

GEORGE TOWN: A total of 3,618 senior citizens aged between 60 and 90 have received their influenza vaccination.

KOTA BARU: Kelantan has received 3,600 doses of the influenza vaccine for the vaccination programme for senior citizens aged 60 and above.

KUALA LUMPUR: A whopping RM5.23 billion was wiped from the collective market capitalisation (market cap) of Bursa Malaysia's four largest rubber glovemakers yesterday due to panic selling induced by Hartalega Holdings Bhd.