Monitoring team urged to take stringent measures
SUBANG: The 15th Mindanao International Monitoring Team (IMT-M15) has been urged to impose stringent precautionary measures while on duty in the southern Philippines following the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Chief of Defence Force General Tan Sri Affendi Buang said the team, which left for Mindanao yesterday, needed to pay close attention to the health […]
New Chief of Defence Forces known on Jan 2
KUALA LUMPUR: The year 2020 will see the Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) under a new commander, with the current Chief of Defence Force General Tan Sri Zulkifli Zainal Abidin going into retirement soon. A native of Perak who was born in Port Weld 61 years ago, he was appointed as the 20th Chief of Defence […]
Counter-balancing Kalimantan’s border posts
By Barina Nani KOTA SAMARAHAN: The demand for more security posts along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border was not only due to the coming relocation of Indonesia’s capital city to Kalimantan. Eastern Field Command (EFC) commander Lt Gen Datuk Wira Zamrose Mohd Zain said the purpose of adding more such facilities was to counter-balance the number of […]
Journalists take aim at closer ties
By Barina Nani KOTA SAMARAHAN: Twenty-eight media practitioners from 13 agencies participated in a shooting competition in conjunction with ‘A Day with the Media’ organised by the Eastern Field Command (EFC) at Muara Tuang Camp here yesterday. Its commander Lt Gen Datuk Wira Zamrose Mohd Zain said the programme was held to foster closer ties […]