Sunday, 06 Jun 2021 05:16 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
The Malaysian Medical Association emblem is seen at their headquarters in Kuala Lumpur November 13, 2019. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 Amid another lockdown, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) today urged the government to heed the advice of real infectious diseases experts to better combat the pandemic.
MMA president Prof Datuk Dr Subramaniam Muniandy said the association agrees with former Universiti Malaya medical faculty dean and infectious diseases expert Prof Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman who said the government’s ongoing public sanitisation methods were a waste of precious public funds and resources.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) Kondwani Nankhumwa has joined a ring of politicians in the country who abuse their powers after it has been revealed that he bought institutional houses, belonging to the Tobacco Commission (TC), illegally.
The Tobacco Commission is a statutory corporate body formed in 1938, and regulated by the Tobacco Industry Act of 2019 and, as such, Nyasa Times understands, Nankhumwa ought to have followed proper procedures in acquiring a property belonging to it.
Kondwani Nankhumwa
‘Named and Shamed’
According to a report released by the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday, and signed by former Ombudsman Martha Chizuma who is now Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general, Nankhumwa’s purchase of the house had numerous irregularities.
SIBU: Sarawak is keeping to the 14-day quarantine instead of 10 days for those entering the state to prevent Covid-19 variants from spreading, says Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian.
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PETALING JAYA: The "archaic" Section 17 of the Federal Constitution should be repealed or amended and no child should be deprived of the fundamental right of citizenship on grounds of illegitimacy, says Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin.