Biarpun negara ketika ini masih berdepan dengan masalah penularan COVID-19, usaha untuk mengekalkan perpaduan dan kesejahteraan dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia harus diperkukuhkan.

Di Bulan Kebangsaan ini, kita nak sama-sama membentuk satu kefahaman kepada rakyat Malaysia, walau apa terjadi di Malaysia ketika ini, kita mesti terus bersatu.

Untuk memahami konsep perpaduan dan inisiatif mengukuhkan pemahaman tentang kepentingan kebersatuan, kita bersama Pengerusi Ikatan Komunit Selamat, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.

Pelantikan Perdana Menteri kesembilan Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob bukan tempoh untuk berbulan madu. Beliau perlu segera merangka pelan untuk keluar daripada pelbagai pelbagai krisis untuk memulihkan negara.

Cabaran pertama, membentuk Kabinet baharu yang bersih, telus dan efektif.

Prof Madya Dr Awang Azman Awang Pawi / Penganalisis Politik Universiti Malaya (UM).

Ketahui berita yang perlu anda tahu hari ini bersama Hakim Rahman dan Nursyazwani Saiful Sham dalam AWANI Pagi 22 Ogos 2021.

Antara fokus berita pagi ini merangkumi: 

- "Saya akan jalankan tugas dan amanah ini untuk Malaysia" - Ismail Sabri.

- Pandemik yang dihadapi, hendaklah menginsafkan para pemimpin - Sultan Nazrin.

Apa yang menjadi harapan kepada corak kepimpinan yang bakal dibawa oleh PM ke-9 dalam kita menuju ke arah suasana politik negara yang lebih harmoni? 

Ikuti temu bual Nazri Kahar bersama Tan Sri Annuar Musa dalam #AgendaAWANI.

The situation on the ground in Afghanistan is mounting. With the humanitarian crisis looming, Ibrahim Sani speaks with Florian Seriex.

Spokesperson, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on how things are shaping up there.

The youth voted overwhelmingly for Pakatan Harapan during the 14th General Election, in a clear signal that they reject the old guard. And yet, today, the old guard has been named as the new premier. Ibrahim Sani speaks with YB Howard Lee, DAP Socialist Youth on the way forward for the youth.

As the new administration is shaping up under newly minted Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri, we look at some policy issues pertaining to education & employment. Ibrahim Sani speaks with Mourhrna Anetha Reddy, Founder Kelab Belajar Cemerlang Selangor & Kuala Lumpur on what to expect.

With Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to be sworn in as PM9 tomorrow, next comes the formation of Cabinet. Will we see a shake-up & downsizing? Or more posts awarded for coalition stability? Tonight on #ConsiderThis Sharaad Kuttan & Melisa Idris speak to Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan & Prof James Chin about the new Government's dilemma.

Diskusi mengenai pelantikan Perdana Menteri ke-9 bersama Pengerusi Institut Kajian Dasar, Datuk Khalid Jaafar dan juga Timbalan Pengarah KITA-UKM, Prof. Dr. Kartini Aboo Talib @ Khalid.

AMONG the headlines for Friday, August 20th, 2021, Malaysia's king Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has agreed to appoint Bera Member of Parliament, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Also, The Taliban called on Afghanistan’s imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to more cities on Thursday, including the capital, Kabul.

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