The Ministry of Health’s official guidance on its Covid-19 website has listed a few groups it deemed are not suitable to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine. This includes: women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant; cancer patients who are undergoing treatment like chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy, Persons Living with HIV with CD4 counts of less than 200. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Prof Dr Woo Yin Ling, Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

The Ministry of Health’s official guidance on its Covid-19 website has listed Persons Living with HIV, with CD4 counts below 200 (protein found on immune cells) as among the groups that are not suitable to receive Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine. This however seems to contradict international advice. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Dr Khairil Erwan Khalid, Secretary, Malaysian Society of HIV Medicine.

Timbalan Ketua UMNO Bahagian Putrajaya, Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz menuntut tiga perkara kepada Tribunal Lembaga Disiplin UMNO sebelum beliau diarahakan untuk menghadiri sesi berkenaan.
Permintaan berkenaan jelasnya bagi menjamin dan memastikan proses pendengaran dan membuat keputusan tribunal ini dilaksanakan secara adil dan telus.

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Among the headlines for Wednesday, the KL High Court today stayed the Malaysian government’s deportation of the remainder of the original 1,200 Myanmar nationals named in a lawsuit until the matter was decided. Also, a man escaped North Korea last week by swimming several kilometers before coming ashore in the South, where he managed to evade border guards for more than six hours

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Kita bersama Prof Dr Irwan Mohd Subri, Pengarah Besar, International Fatwa & Halal Centre, USIM bagi perinciannya.

Malaysiakini today paid the half a million ringgit fine for contempt of court, that was imposed by the Federal Court last Friday over five readers' comments on its website.n The news portal launched its fundraiser immediately after the sentence was handed down, and raised the 500,000 in less than 5 hours. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to MalaysiaKini CEO Premesh Chandran.

Immediately after the Court’s verdict, lead counsel for MalaysiaKini was quoted in the press, warning against knee-jerk reactions to the summaries of the judgments. He said that the full grounds of the Federal Court rulings would have to be studied. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan ask Datuk Malik Imtiaz Sarwar what his understanding is of the judgment.

How has Malaysian media evolved to keep up with new technologies and platforms, but also the growing demand of the public to speak and to be heard? Will the verdict trul spell the end of free speech in Malaysia? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Gayathry Venkiteswaran is Assistant Professor at the School of Media, Languages & Cultures at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

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