Law/Government

About 360 homeless people around the city who were rescued during the Movement Control Order (MCO) will undergo training and motivational courses before starting work after Aidilfitri.

The government has agreed to exempt the disabled placed under mandatory quarantine, from paying hotel accommodation charges. Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said this was decided at the daily ministerial meeting with the National Security Council today.

Melaka Umno Liaison Committee deputy chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Mohamad and television personality Ras Adiba Radzi were sworn in as senators at Dewan Negara here today before the Senate President Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran. Both of them were appointed for the first time for a period of three years.

Sabah will see Likas Sports Complex here turned a makeshift healthcare facility to treat Covid-19 patients. State Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said an allocation of RM2 million had been set aside for the medical facility from a RM200 million fund allocated for infrastructure development.

For Susana Cristo and other parents of autistic children, Spain’s strict coronavirus lockdown is proving especially harrowing and has led to insults, harassment and even fines.

The Permatang Pauh PKR Youth wing in Penang has decided to offer free delivery service to those in need during the movement control order (MCO) period.

The Society of the Blind Malaysia (Sarawak branch) has appealed to both the state and federal welfare ministries to give top priority in aid disbursement to the 40,000 handicapped folk in Sarawak.

A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Monday for killing 19 disabled people in a knife-wielding rampage in 2016 that was one of post-war Japan’s worst mass killings.

The Terengganu government will start free equine therapy programmes for people with disabilities at the Terengganu Equestrian Resort (TER) near Kuala Terengganu next month.

Eleonore Laloux has battled all her life to be treated like others. Now the 34-year-old is waging a new campaign: to become one of the first women in France with Down’s syndrome to win a local council seat in this month’s municipal elections.