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Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak expressed remorse about 1MDB scandal in a letter read at a press conference by his son, Datuk Mohamad Nizar.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will witness exchange of several MoUs before proceeding to a joint press conference with Narendra Modi.

The decision was made because there would be more briefings by government ministers during the annual parliament meeting, said a spokesman.

Chinese authorities from National Health Commission held a press conference on Nov. 13 to report an increase of respiratory disease.

Through the special press conference, Tharman and several other panel members will launch a two-year initiative on the Economic of Waters.

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had penned his support for Anwar Ibrahim to topple the Perikatan Nasional Plus government on Oct 11.

This was alleged by Annuar Musa, who was removed as BN secretary-general yesterday.

The Ketereh MP told an hour-long press conference today that he had verified the existence of Zahid's letter with various sources.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in a joint press conference with Umno's Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah this evening, said there is a possibility that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's government might fall tomorrow.

In this happens, the former premier urged MPs to think of the common good instead of themselves.

"We need a government that is not motivated by what it gets but what it can contribute to the country," he told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.

Sabah chief minister-designate Hajiji Noor met Sabah governor Juhar Mahiruddin today to receive an invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremony.

GRS agreed on nominating Hajiji for the position after two days of intense negotiations.

This was announced by Hajiji himself, at a joint press conference with Sabah BN chief Bung Moktar Radin at a hotel in Kota Kinabalu that was used as the command centre for PN during the state election.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad does not believe a multiracial youth party headed by his former protege Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman will be successful.

At a press conference in Putrajaya today, Mahathir said he did not know why Syed Saddiq wanted to form a youth party and did not find it a viable model.

Pakatan Harapan was only responsible for 5.3 percent of the directly awarded contracts worth RM6.6 billion mentioned by Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz yesterday.

At a press conference at the Parliament lobby today, former finance minister Lim Guan Eng said most of the RM6.61 billion went to legacy projects (67.7 percent) and contracts for supplies or services (26.5 percent) taken on during the BN administration.

He stressed that Harapan was only responsible for a fraction (0.07 percent) of the directly awarded contracts during its 22 months in power, which were mostly due to reasons that could not be avoided.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said top ministry officials were in the dark about Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali's violation of home quarantine rules until last week.

An internal investigation into the series of events following the minister’s July 7 return from Turkey has since been completed and shared with the police, who are probing the issue.

Asked during a press conference this evening, Noor Hisham shared that he, along with the ministry’s deputy director-general and head of infectious diseases, were not informed about the matter until it made the news.

Foreigners who are allowed to enter Malaysia must pay their quarantine charges and Covid-19 testing fees upon arrival or they can stay in the airport, warned Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

"We have made the decision that before they can pass immigration, they must make the payment for their hotel or quarantine centres.

"If they refuse to pay, we will not let them pass immigration, so they can stay at the airport till whenever," Ismail Sabri said in his press conference on Covid-19 updates today.

Previously, he said there were many incidents where foreigners who could enter Malaysia refused to pay for their quarantine and testing fees after those were completed.

Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng and businessperson Phang Li Koon have claimed trial to graft charges, while Lim's wife Betty Chew has been charged with money laundering at the Butterworth Sessions Court today.

Lim pleaded not guilty to a charge under Section 23(1) of the MACC Act 2009 for using his position at the time for the gratification of RM372,009 for Chew, through private company Excel Property Management and Consultancy Sdn Bhd.

Speaking at a press conference after the hearing Lim said that it was an act of political vengeance against him and added that the company involved did not even get the project.

Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng has claimed trial to a charge at the Butterworth Sessions Court for allegedly using his position at the time for personal gratification of RM3.3 million in relation to the undersea tunnel project.

In a press conference at the Bagan MP service centre, Lim stressed that the accusation against him is baseless and politically motivated.

He said he would fight in court to prove his innocence.

The government has announced that all national schools across the country will begin to reopen from July 15.

In a press conference today, Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said, Forms 1 to 4, remove classes, as well as Standard 5 and 6 can resume from July 15.

However, Standards 1 to 4 would only resume on July 22.

The minister also announced that the government had identified three models for schools to operate based on its differing abilities to adhere to the SOPs on social distancing.

The three models are for single-session schools, two-session schools, and alternating school sessions