Muhyiddin shows mettle in first year as PM 28 Feb 2021 / 21:20 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
(pix) took the bull by the horns in his first year in office to keep a deadly pandemic at bay as he micro-managed to put food on the table for Malaysians and ensure no one is left behind.
The Prime Minister, who helms the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government, has procured the vaccine for the Covid-19 disease and provided up to RM300 billion in stimulus aid packages to ensure the survival of the people in a year of unprecedented difficulties.
In a special interview with several media organisations on his first year in office, Muhyiddin, 73, recalled the immediate challenges he had to face, especially the negative perception of the people towards him and, even worse, the demand by his political foes for his resignation purportedly over waning support from the MPs.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin took the bull by the horns in his first year in office to keep a deadly pandemic at bay as he micro-managed to put food on the table for Malaysians and ensure no one is left behind.
The Prime Minister, who helms the Perikatan Nasional government, has procured the vaccine for the Covid-19 disease and provided up to RM300bil in stimulus aid packages to ensure the survival of the people in a year of unprecedented difficulties.
In a special interview with several media organisations on his first year in office, Muhyiddin, 73, recalled the immediate challenges he had to face, especially the negative perception of the people towards him and, even worse, the demand by his political foes for his resignation purportedly over waning support from the MPs.
LETTER | A long slow recovery for tourism businesses
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Tourism Malaysia had posted the latest figures on foreign tourist arrivals in its website. Last year, the total number was 4,332,722, a drop of 83.4 percent compared with 26,100,784 in 2019. The percentage was exactly what I had forecasted that “2020 was bad for tourism, 2021 could be worse”.
In September, I wrote “foreign tourist arrival figures are grim” after results for the first six months of 2020 were released showing a 68.2 percent drop. I projected it would decrease by 83.5 percent for the whole year, and later adjusted it to 83.4 percent.
Last January, then tourism, arts and culture minister Mohamaddin Ketapi dismissed concerns that the coronavirus outbreak would affect visitor arrivals and asserted the ministry could achieve its target of 30 million foreign tourists for Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY2020).
Author of the article: Jordan Haworth
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Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced $5 million in funding for agriculture and horticulture societies across the province last week.
“This funding will help support these societies during a difficult period so they can operate future fall fairs and exhibits and participate in our future economic recovery,” said Hardeman in a press release.
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021 10:54 AM MYT
BY IDA LIM
A total 16 federal and state lawmakers, including ministers, tested positive for Covid-19 in January. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 January is not even over, and already Malaysia has 16 federal and state lawmakers, including ministers, who were this month confirmed to have contracted Covid-19.
Curious to know how they are doing and how many have recovered? Read on.
They are listed chronologically according to the dates they tested positive or were informed of their results, instead of according to the dates when their results were announced to the public: