March 04, 2021
A health worker holds a vial of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to be administered to staff at a hospital in Sungai Buloh.
Reuters
A week after the launch of its national immunisation plan, Malaysia’s Covid-19 vaccination efforts have come under scrutiny following allegations that political aides and workers were jumping the queue.
Local media reported that doctors had complained these staff were cutting ahead of medical frontliners to receive the vaccine.
In a swift response, science minister Khairy Jamaluddin – who is at the helm of Malaysia’s 4 billion ringgit (S$1.3 billion) public health plan – said he would investigate the claims and urged whistle-blowers to reach out to him, promising anonymity.
Published on: Thursday, January 14, 2021
By: Cynthia D Baga
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Kota Kinabalu: The Sessions Court set Feb 25 for sentencing of a 49-year-old public servant charged with corruptly accepting RM169,400 from a contractor.
Sessions Court Judge Abu Bakar Manat set the date for Rupia @ Rubee Gindol who changed her plea and admitted to the charge against her.
Rupia is accused of receiving the money from one Berry Yong Soon, 35, at the CIMB bank in Api-Api Centre, here between 2018 and 2019.
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The charge stated that Rupia as the Community Development Assistant received the money, which has relation to her job at the General Welfare Services.
BUDGET 2021 may have been passed at the policy level during the second reading in parliament last week, but the supply bill has yet to be debated and voted on at the committee level. Moreover, it has to go through a third reading, according to member of parliament for Bangi and opposition lawmaker Ong Kian Ming.
Opposition lawmakers have described their action or lack thereof at the second reading as a “tactical move”, given the various amendments to the budget. They did not oppose the budget at that point as they preferred to wait for the committee phase, when items in the budget can be scrutinised in greater detail and debated on before another vote is taken.