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Did you report demands to interfere with court cases, Gobind asks Muhyiddin Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:35 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo has questioned if former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin had lodged a report over alleged demands to interfere with the judiciary while he was in office. “Did Muhyiddin Yassin lodge a report with the police or MACC over allegations he made that certain quarters had demanded that he interfere in court matters to free several individuals who were being prosecuted for certain criminal offences when he was prime minister?” Gobind asked in a Facebook post. - More -   Azam cannot override Parliament, say PSC members Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:29 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Four members of a parliamentary select committee (PSC) that was to grill Azam Baki tomorrow say the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief cannot override Parliament and must show up when summoned by the PSC. At a press conference, Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong also urged the chairman of the PSC on Agencies under the Prime Minister’s Department, Abdul Latiff Rahman of PAS, to review his decision to cancel the meeting tomorrow. He said the meeting should go ahead even if Azam did not show up as there were other matters the PSC needed to discuss, including who else to summon for questioning. “Who is Azam Baki? Can he override Parliament? We should insist that he comes for the hearing first. If he refuses, then we can take action. We should proceed with our meeting. “The reasons given by Azam (that the hearing cannot be held) were just excuses. If we summon him, he should come for the meeting and give his views. Come first. - More -   Azam wrong about parliamentary panel’s powers, say lawyers Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:36 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Three lawyers have dismissed arguments by top graft-buster Azam Baki against a hearing by a parliamentary committee into his shareholdings, saying he was wrong in his contentions. Haniff Khatri Abdulla said the committee would be acting within its powers to investigate the allegations and had the right to recommend the next course of action to the government. He said parliamentary committees have the power to subpoena Azam or his legal team to attend the meeting, and it should go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday with members discussing the terms of reference of the meeting if Azam does not attend. Azam, who is head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, had sought a deferment of the meeting. Parliament secretary Nizam Mydin Bacha Mydin said yesterday the meeting had been postponed pending a reference to Parliament’s legal adviser. - More -   Civil society, youth wings to stage street protest against Azam on Saturday Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:31 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Civil society organisations and political youth wings will take to the streets in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to protest against the conduct of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki and call for his arrest. The Tangkap Azam Baki Committee, a loose coalition of 25 groups, will gather outside Sogo at 11am to demand that he is arrested immediately, that legal action be taken against him, and that the MACC be placed under parliament’s purview. “If you are not with us on the day at the time, fly the black flag and use the hashtags #TangkapAzamBaki and #RombakSPRM on all your social media posts,” the committee said in a statement today. - More -   Environmental Sting Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:24 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he has never had trouble providing food for his insects, until 2021 when unseasonally heavy rain left his honeybees hungry. Five days of torrential rainfall in Dang district in October sent temperatures plummeting, killing the bright yellow blooms of the mustard plants Khatri grows to provide nectar and pollen for his 300 colonies of European honeybees. Then, when he took his bees to graze on nectar from chiuri (butter) trees in a nearby forest, he discovered that the rains had knocked all the flowers off their branches, he said. As he walked through his apiary inspecting his hives with their empty honeycombs, the 44-year-old beekeeper said he used to extract more than 40 kilograms of honey per hive each year. But in 2021, his insects produced less than half of that. Previously, Khatri had always been able to move his hives to another part of the region to feed, but in 2021 there was almost no pollen or nectar to be found anywhere. "My 500,000 rupee [$4,220] investment has all gone in vain," he said. "Honey is my sole source of income. I don't know how I can cover my household expenses." - More -   China provides most medical supplies, vaccines to world to fight COVID-19: NBS Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:46 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies China has been playing an indispensable role across the globe in battling the COVID-19 pandemic by providing medical supplies and vaccines to the international community, with the country supplying the most vaccines to the world, a senior official of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.  China had provided about 372 billion face masks, more than 4.2 billion pieces of protective clothing, and 8.4 billion test reagents to the international community as of the end of 2021, Ning Jizhe, director of the NBS, said during a press briefing in Beijing. In addition, China has supplied more than 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations, becoming the country that has supplied the most vaccines to the world as of the end of last year, Ning noted. - More -   Omicron cases in Beijing, Shenzhen suspected of links to packages from North America Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:43 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from North America. Virologists warned of the high risk of packages from overseas causing domestic COVID-19 flare-ups, when the epidemic overseas is running high, as contaminated packages from epidemic-rampant countries may spread the virus to people with weak immunity through viral particles floating in the air, or people without proper protective gear. A patient from Shenzhen, who was confirmed to be infected with Omicron on Sunday, is likely to have contracted it after being exposed to contaminated goods from overseas, Shenzhen's health authorities said at Monday's press conference. - More -   Ancient life may be just one possible explanation for Mars rover's latest discovery Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:36 AM - Forum: Astronomy - No Replies (CNN)In the search for life beyond Earth, NASA's Curiosity rover has been on a nearly decade-long mission to determine if Mars was ever habitable for living organisms. A new analysis of sediment samples collected by the rover revealed the presence of carbon -- and the possible existence of ancient life on the red planet is just one potential explanation for why it may be there. Carbon is the foundation for all of life on Earth, and the carbon cycle is the natural process of recycling carbon atoms. On our home planet, carbon atoms go through a cycle as they travel from the atmosphere to the ground and back to the atmosphere. Most of our carbon is in rocks and sediment and the rest is in the global ocean, atmosphere and organisms, according to NOAA, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's why carbon atoms -- with their cycle of recycling -- are tracers of biological activity on Earth. So they could be used to help researchers determine if life existed on ancient Mars. When these atoms are measured inside another substance, like Martian sediment, they can shed light on a planet's carbon cycle, no matter when it occurred. Learning more about the origin of this newly detected Martian carbon could also reveal the process of carbon cycling on Mars. A study detailing these findings published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - More -   Airlines ask Biden administration for 'immediate intervention' on 5G Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:26 AM - Forum: Technology - No Replies Washington (CNN Business)Executives from the nation's largest airlines asked the Biden administration for "immediate intervention" in the planned rollout of 5G technology near major airports on Wednesday, warning of dire transportation and economic consequences. The representatives of 10 carriers asked the administration in a letter obtained by CNN to further delay the rollout near airports where Federal Aviation Administration flight restrictions take effect once the technology kicks in. The aviation world is concerned 5G signals will interfere with aviation technology including the radar altimeter onboard planes. - More -   Fourth jab 'partially' effective against Omicron: Israeli study Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:20 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies JERUSALEM – Fourth doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against Covid-19 are only 'partially' effective for the Omicron variant of the virus, the authors of an Israeli trial said Monday. A team from Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv began conducting a trial in December on fourth doses of coronavirus vaccines, inoculating 154 hospital personnel with Pfizer jabs and 120 other volunteers with Moderna doses. Preliminary results of the trial "have shown that the vaccines are safe and have shown to produce substantial antibodies, but are only partially effective in defending against the Omicron variant," the hospital said in a statement. Professor Gili Regev-Yochay, who leads the study, said that while there was an increase in antibodies after administering a fourth dose, it nonetheless "only offers a partial defenser against the virus" for those infected with the Omicron variant. The vaccines were "extremely effective against the earlier variants," Regev-Yochay noted. Israel was among the first countries to launch mass immunisation campaigns for its population. It then began offering booster shots last summer, and has since greenlighted fourth shots for elderly and vulnerable populations. More than 537,000 Israelis have received a fourth dose of vaccine, according to the health ministry's latest figures. More than 80% of Israel's adult residents have received two coronavirus vaccine shots and more than half have also been given a booster. – AFP, January 18, 2022 Pages (1267): « Previous 1 … 848 849 850 851 852 … 1267 Next » Jump to page: