The emergency decree gives Muhyiddin’s administration more power to tackle a surge in Covid cases and may allow the police and military to assist in public health measures.
Malaysia says it has negotiated with Pfizer an option to boost its purchases to cover another 20% of its population, and is in talks with Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Muslim religious authorities have previously exempted vaccines from halal labeling. Still, concerns about the shots containing items banned under Islamic law continue to linger.
Resurgence of virus in factory complex of world’s largest surgical gloves maker puts at risk key export for the Southeast Asian manufacturing centre and a nascent economic recovery.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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