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KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry will launch a national health screening initiative this July to detect non-communicable diseases (NCD), says Khairy Jamaluddin. The Health Minister said the ministry aims to provide 1.5 million people above the age of 40 who never had health screenings with free health screenings - including fecal occult blood stool testing (FOCB) for … [Read more...] about Khairy: National health screening to be launched in July to detect non-communicable diseases

Britain’s business secretary has ordered a full national security assessment of the £63 million (US$79 million) acquisition last year of the country’s biggest semiconductor maker by Nexperia, a Dutch subsidiary of China’s Wingtech Technology. The inquiry comes after media reports in April stating the British government would not intervene in the deal following a separate … [Read more...] about UK orders full national security review for Chinese takeover of semiconductor maker Newport Wafer Fab

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is scheduled to join more than 700 media practitioners at the National Journalists Day 2022 (Hawana 2022) celebration in Melaka this Sunday (May 29). Ismail Sabri is slated to deliver his opening speech at 2.30pm at the event, which will also be attended by journalists from several Asean countries, said Hawana 2022 … [Read more...] about Ismail Sabri to launch Hawana 2022 on May 29 to honour journalists

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 27 (Xinhua): The Brunei government ohas announced that its Early Endemic Phase will end on May 31 (Tuesday), and the guidelines for Covid-19 control measures will be updated beginning in June. As part of Brunei's National Covid-19 Recovery Framework, the country moved to the Early Endemic Phase in December last year, when local infections gradually … [Read more...] about Brunei to end early endemic phase, update Covid-19 guidelines on Tuesday (May 31)

MANILA: Philippines central bank governor Benjamin Diokno was named the nation’s finance secretary by President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Diokno, whose term at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is set to end mid-next year, will succeed Carlos Dominguez in the top finance post, Marcos said in a televised briefing, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report of the … [Read more...] about Central bank’s Diokno named as Philippine finance chief