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US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November, 2019 — TV report Posted by: superadmin - 08-09-2021, 12:28 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israeli television reported Thursday. According to Channel 12 news, the US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of that month and drew up a classified document. Information on the disease outbreak was not in the public domain at that stage — and was known only apparently to the Chinese government. US intelligence informed the Trump administration, “which did not deem it of interest,” but the report said the Americans also decided to update two allies with the classified document: NATO and Israel, specifically the IDF. The network said Israeli military officials later in November discussed the possibility of the spread of the virus to the region and how it would affect Israel and neighboring countries. - More -   Anwar’s lawyer accuses police of double standard Posted by: superadmin - 08-09-2021, 10:44 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: A lawyer representing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has accused the police of applying a double standard by taking swift action against opposition MPs and delaying action against government ministers. Sankara N Nair questioned how the authorities seemed to have dragged their feet when it came to taking action against the likes of federal territories minister Annuar Musa and plantation industries and commodities minister Khairuddin Aman Razali when they were caught flouting SOPs earlier this year, Even then, police had to be pressured into action, said Nair. By contrast, he said the police had acted swiftly in calling up Anwar, who is PKR president, as well as several other opposition MPs for questioning over an attempt by MPs to hold a meeting at Parliament House. The MPs had sought to demand that a special sitting of the Dewan Rakyat be resumed, even though it had been postponed on the advice of the health ministry following the detection of positive Covid-19 cases in the Dewan Rakyat. - More -   Afghanistan war: Taliban capture three regional capitals Posted by: superadmin - 08-09-2021, 10:26 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies The Taliban have captured three regional capitals in Afghanistan as they continue to make sweeping territorial gains in the country. They seized control of the key northern city of Kunduz on Sunday, as well as Sar-e-Pul and Taloqan. It means five regional capitals have fallen to the militants since Friday, with Kunduz being their most important gain this year. The Taliban said there is no agreement on a ceasefire with the government. A spokesman for the group warned against further US intervention in Afghanistan while speaking to Al Jazeera TV on Sunday. Violence has escalated across Afghanistan after US and other international forces began to withdraw their troops from the country, following 20 years of military operations. - More -   With MCA backing Bersatu, could Umno turn to DAP? Posted by: superadmin - 08-09-2021, 10:16 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: MCA’s decision to side with Bersatu, by backing the current government, will lead to a parting of ways between the party and its longtime partner Umno, according to a political scientist. Wong Chin Huat said the Umno-MCA alliance had been “approaching death” after the 2018 general election, when Barisan Nasional (BN) lost power. He said MCA’s decision to side with Bersatu over Umno would only see the end “come earlier and officially”. MCA president Wee Ka Siong was among a group of MPs from BN, said to be 31 in number, who had declared support for the Bersatu-led Perikatan Nasional government, headed by Muhyiddin Yassin. The declaration of support came in the wake of Umno’s decision last week to withdraw support for Muhyiddin and the PN government. - More -   Coronavirus Florida: Patients in Florida had symptoms as early as January, 2020 Posted by: superadmin - 08-09-2021, 09:01 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies The novel coronavirus infected as many as 171 people in Florida as long as two months before officials announced it had come to the state, a Palm Beach Post analysis of state records shows. Patients reported symptoms of the deadly virus as early as Jan. 1, when the disease was thought to be limited to China, Department of Health records reveal. The records don’t say if patients reported those symptoms to the state until months later or if local offices of the health department actively investigated the illnesses at the time or a combination of both. The state pulled the records off its website late Monday without explanation. Florida did not announce its first two presumed coronavirus cases until March 1. At the time, cases were not considered confirmed until reviewed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC confirmed those first two cases, in Manatee and Hillsborough counties, on March 2. The state now has recorded more than 36,000 cases of the deadly virus. But at the time of the first two cases, 171 people across 40 counties who would later test positive for COVID-19 were suffering from the disease, state records show. Three of those patients were in Palm Beach County, which officially didn’t record its first two coronavirus cases until March 13. The county now has more than 3,300 cases. Until Monday evening, when the state confirmed a coronavirus case, it publicly posted data on each case, without identifying the patient. The publicly shared data included a date that represented one of two things: when the patient first started feeling symptoms or when the patient received a positive test result. It is not clear from the data how the state treated the patients or even when they found out about their symptoms. No state officials could be reached for comment late Monday. - More -   Mahathir Seeks Another Path Back to Malaysian Power Posted by: superadmin - 08-08-2021, 08:38 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Dr Mahathir Mohamad may be 96 but his ambitions remain as red-hot as ever. His party may have been reduced to nothing more than a minor hiccup in Parliament but that has not stopped him from scheming to regain power. The recently launched National Recovery Council (NRC) is but his latest scheme to convince the nation that he ought to lead the country in these difficult times.  He says he’s only interested in helping the country by offering advice but make no mistake, he is positioning himself as an alternative to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s failed government. Don’t believe that Mahathir is content with an advisory role; it’s just not in the nature of the man. He knows the country is in turmoil. He knows that people are getting so frustrated that they’ll be ready soon enough to embrace anyone who promises them salvation. He sees an opportunity to make a comeback and is seizing upon it. In the same way that he used the 1MDB scandal to topple Najib Tun Razak, he is now seeking to use the pandemic to topple Muhyiddin Yassin. Mahathir has, of course, been pushing for an autocratic body (similar to the 1969 National Operations Council) to run the country ever since he lost power in 2020 following the infamous Sheraton Move. He has argued that the politicians are too divided and have made such a mess of things that they ought to be temporarily pushed aside and non-partisan professionals brought in to steer the country back to health. It sounds reasonable, but what he has in mind is an essentially authoritarian construct that would allow him to rule the country without a popular mandate and with few checks and balances. He blames politicians for the mess the country is in but conveniently sidesteps his own role in Malaysia’s slide into dysfunction and disarray. It is typical of him that he now shifts the blame to others while claiming that he alone has the answers and the experience to save the country. He says he is acting apolitically but apolitical is certainly not a term that anyone can safely apply to Mahathir. He says he only wants to offer solutions instead of criticising the government, but that has not stopped him from agitating for Muhyiddin’s ouster. His arguments and his actions are too full of contradictions to be accepted at face value. - More -   Mahathir's Shattered Legacy Posted by: superadmin - 08-08-2021, 08:30 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies By: Murray Hunter After nearly 75 years in public life, the political career of Mahathir Mohamed appears to be drawing to a close at age 96. As he becomes less relevant despite his recent launch of a thinly disguised bid to return to power via a National Recovery Council amid the country’s current fevered political maneuvering, it is time to look at what the last four years, with 20 months as prime minister once again, did for his legacy. (See related story: Mahathir Seeks Another Path Back to Malaysian Power) Most acknowledged Mahathir had made mistakes, particularly in allowing endemic corruption and cronyism in an attempt to create a Malay entrepreneurial class, and in the sacking and imprisonment, in what many regarded as a legal farce, of his protégé, Anwar Ibrahim. But most were willing to gloss over his shortcomings, as it was believed his time had passed. Seemingly in his dotage, Mahathir enjoyed almost universal acclaim at public events. He has always been a controversial figure. His style has always been to crash through, or crash, both outcomes occurring during his career. No other person has influenced the direction and shape of Malaysia, for good or ill. In the mid to late 1990s, there was a prevailing feeling that Malaysia, an Asian Tiger, had found its place in the world. The Penang bridge, North-South Highway, a new airport, a Formula One racetrack, and a new administrative capital, Putra Jaya was constructed. Malaysia had a proclaimed flawed national car, Proton. The KLCC twin towers, then the highest buildings in the world, became the icon of the success story. Many had expected him in political retirement after his first 22 years in power to move onto the international stage and use his support from non-aligned countries to either run for the Commonwealth or United Nations Secretary-General positions. However, first, he became fixated on what he regarded as the poor performance of his hand-picked successor Badawi, sniping both publicly and behind the scenes to play a major role in Badawi’s political demise. - More -   Probe offers to ‘buy’ MPs, PH tells MACC Posted by: superadmin - 08-08-2021, 06:07 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan has called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate claims that certain parties are offering money and ministerial positions in exchange for support for the Perikatan Nasional-led (PN) government. The PH presidential council said at least seven of its MPs — representing Rasah, Kota Melaka, Ipoh Barat, Kulim Bandar Baharu, Setiawangsa, Kuala Kedah and Alor Setar — were offered these “incentives”. “If the MACC fails to investigate, it will prove the allegation that the government organisation is being used as a weapon for the political survival of certain parties and does not uphold the rule of law. “It is well-known that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has lost his majority and still refuses to resign, based on Article 43(4) of the Federal Constitution. - More -   Why probe our commissioners, Suhakam asks cops Posted by: superadmin - 08-08-2021, 05:41 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has expressed disappointment that police have summoned its commissioners for questioning when they were only doing their duty under the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia Act 1999. Suhakam said it was mandated under the Act to exercise any or all of its powers, including monitoring the human rights situation in the country. “Suhakam’s presence at the recent ‘Keluar’ and ‘#Lawan’ assembly on July 31 was in line with its function, which is to monitor public assemblies,” it said in a statement today. It said since its inception, its commissioners or officers have never been summoned by police for questioning when monitoring any event. Suhakam said the action to investigate its commissioners and other human rights defenders, including representatives from the Malaysian Bar Council, for monitoring a peaceful assembly was a regressive move and against the spirit of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 and the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. - More -   Potential PN candidate can go for confidence vote to be PM, says lawyer Posted by: superadmin - 08-08-2021, 05:38 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: An MP from the current Perikatan Nasional (PN) government can be appointed prime minister to replace Muhyiddin Yassin, provided his successor wins a confidence vote in the Dewan Rakyat, a lawyer said. Bastian Pius Vendargon said Muhyiddin could convene a session as soon as possible to allow the 220 MPs to vote to determine whether that candidate enjoyed majority support. “The Yang di-Pertuan Agong can appoint the candidate as prime minister if the confidence motion succeeds. However, Article 43 (4) of the Federal Constitution kicks in if the candidate fails to get the support of at least 111 MPs,” he told FMT. As required under that Article, he said Muhyiddin has to tender his resignation if the King declines his advice to dissolve the Dewan Rakyat for fresh polls. - More - Pages (1149): « Previous 1 … 914 915 916 917 918 … 1149 Next » Jump to page: