July 16, 2020 11:43 AM
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has urged Putrajaya to extend the six-month moratorium for loans for the B40 and M40 groups, saying they have been the most affected by the recent economic downturn.

“They need an additional six-month respite as clearly, the country needs at least that much time and well beyond to get the economy ticking again, while waiting to go full throttle once the Covid-19 vaccine makes it to our shores,” MTUC secretary-general J Solomon said in a statement.

He also urged Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin or Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz to state clearly whether or not the moratorium would be extended.

The moratorium, introduced on April 1, will end on Sept 30.

Jumaat, 17 Julai 2020 @ 8:43 AM
SEBANYAK 286 atau 99 peratus daripada jumlah kawasan yang terbabit gangguan bekalan air berjadual sejak 14 Julai lalu, pulih sepenuhnya setakat 7 pagi tadi.

Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) dalam satu kenyataan memaklumkan daripada jumlah itu, empat kawasan di wilayah Klang/Shah Alam masih dalam proses pemulihan, manakala wilayah Kuala Langat, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur dan Petaling, masing-masing pulih 100 peratus.

"Kawasan yang masih mengalami gangguan bekalan air adalah keseluruhan Taman Sentosa Klang, keseluruhan Taman Sri Andalas Klang, Jalan Raja Nong Klang dan Jalan Rajion Klang.

"Usaha menstabilkan sistem agihan bekalan air sedang giat dilaksanakan untuk mempercepatkan proses pemulihan bekalan air di kawasan yang masih terjejas," menurut kenyataan itu.

Friday, 17 Jul 2020 05:40 AM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 — One of the biggest challenges faced by the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) is people’s gullibility.

The department’s acting director Commissioner Datuk Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said despite all the warnings and stories in the media about people being cheated, people are still falling for various scams like “love scams”, “Macau scams” and “Pos Laju scams.”

With Malaysia reopening again after so many months of restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Saiful Azly warned that scammers have kept up with the times and become more creative as they too need to earn a “living”.

In an exclusive interview with Malay Mail on Tuesday, he said that the department saw a spike in cases in the first six months of the year compared to last year,

Tuesday, 25 Jun 2019 07:05 AM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — The number of poor Malaysians is higher than official figures if the relative poverty line reflects today’s reality, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) said.

The research house wrote in a June 11 note on its 2018 report on the state of Malaysian households that the number of relatively poor households rose to 1.54 million in 2016 from 1.08 million in 1995, after it raised the threshold to measure incidence of relative poverty to 60 per cent of the median household income.

Currently, the government defines relative poverty as families earning between the official poverty line income (PLI) and below the 50 per cent national median household earning, a baseline KRI said was still the lowest among other countries with similar median income level.

“Our own calculations using 60 per cent median show a slightly higher number (of relative poverty households) as we use a higher percentage and include also those below the PLI,” the note said.

Critics would likely cite the findings to reaffirm what they have long believed: That Malaysia’s impressively low number of poverty incidence masked a bleaker reality that belies its much-touted success.

By setting the bar unrealistically low, previous administrations claimed it achieved astounding success in eliminating absolute and hardcore poverty. Up until last year, poverty was only measured through the PLI and the consumer price index.

Rabu, 15 Julai 2020 | 5:22pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Pimpinan mahasiswa secara umum menyambut baik keputusan kerajaan mengurangkan kadar yuran asrama, perkhidmatan dan aktiviti mahasiswa universiti awam (UA) sehingga 15 peratus.

Rata-rata pemimpin pelajar di UA melihat langkah itu mampu mengurangkan sedikit beban ibu bapa, khususnya yang terjejas pendapatan atau kehilangan pekerjaan akibat pandemik COVID-19, selain golongan B40.

Bagaimanapun, ada pemimpin mahasiswa berharap Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi (KPT) dapat mempertimbangkan untuk menambah kadar pengurangan yuran itu kepada antara 20 hingga 25 peratus.

Presiden Kesatuan Pelajar Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (IIUMSU), Amir Nadzim Kaharudin, mengakui pengurangan itu langkah tepat dan meringankan beban ibu bapa walaupun kadarnya agak kecil.

"Yuran penginapan di UIAM adalah RM550, bermakna pengurangan 15 peratus adalah sekitar RM80 manakala yuran aktiviti dan perkhidmatan yang merujuk kepada penggunaan perpustakaan, makmal dan pengangkutan adalah RM200, dengan pengurangan kira-kira RM30.

16 Julai 2020
SEBANYAK 15 daripada 62 cawangan pasar raya Tesco di seluruh negara akan dijana dengan tenaga solar, kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Tesco Stores Sdn Bhd (Tesco), Paul Ritchie.

Menurutnya, inisiatif berkenaan adalah hasil kerjasama pasar raya berkenaan dengan syarikat usaha sama PETRONAS dan NEFIN Group iaitu NE Suria Satu Sdn Bhd (NESS) melalui Perjanjian Pembelian Kuasa (PPA) jangka panjang terbesar (Tesco-NESS PPA) untuk tenaga solar di Malaysia.

Beliau berkata, perjanjian selama 20 tahun sehingga 2040 itu akan menyaksikan pemasangan panel fotovoltaik solar (PV) di atas bumbung 15 cawangan Tesco terpilih.

Jelasnya, pemasangannya yang dijangka selesai pada Oktober itu merupakan fasa pertama dalam usaha Tesco mengunakan tenaga boleh diperbaharui.

“Panel solar PV ini secara kolektif akan menghasilkan sekitar 18 jam gigawatt (GWh) tenaga bersih setiap tahun, sehingga mengurangkan sekitar 13,624 tan pelepasan karbon ke atmosfera.

Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 10:53 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 — A female civil servant suffered losses of almost RM700,000 after a Macau scam syndicate duped her into believing she was involved in a money-laundering scheme.

Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said the 51-year-old woman who worked at a statutory body agency had received a phone call from an individual claiming to be a Pos Laju staff from Kuala Lumpur on May 21.

He said the victim was informed that there was a package registered under her name containing an identity card and an ATM card sent to an individual with an address in Tuaran, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and that the package had been held.

“The victim, who initially denied the matter, was then put on the line with another individual who introduced himself as a police officer from the Kota Kinabalu headquarters, stating that the victim had been identified to be involved in money laundering activities,” he said in a statement here today.

Wednesday, 15 Jul 2020 l 6:13 PM MYT
KOTA KINABALU: About 25 schools in Sandakan, including 16 located on islands off the district, currently have no access to clean water supply.

Sandakan district education officer Dr Dalmansa Tahil in revealing this, said the students and teaching administration have been relying on rainwater which they harvested in tanks for their daily consumption.

However, efforts are being made to apply with the State Education Department for installation of water pipes to these 25 schools, he assured.

“At present, there are no pipelines to distribute treated water supply to these school premises.

“This includes SK Bambangan, the school I visited today (Wednesday), ” Dalmansa said in a statement to the media after his visit to monitor the reopening of Year 5 and Year 6 classes at that particular primary school.

14 Julai 2020
PUTRAJAYA - Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) didapati tidak menjalankan pemeriksaan penyelenggaraan rutin terhadap cerun sejak tahun 2013.

Perkara itu didedahkan oleh Ketua Audit Negara, Datuk Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid pada sidang akhbar berkenaan Laporan Ketua Audit Negara (LKAN) bagi Tahun 2018 Siri 3 hari ini.

Menurutnya, peruntukan belanja bagi menguruskan kerja pembaikan cerun berjumlah RM205.56 juta.

"Bagi kerja pencegahan cerun, peruntukan disalurkan di bawah Inisiatif Pembiayaan Swasta II berjumlah RM40 juta bermula tahun 2018," katanya.

Bagaimanapun beliau berkata, perbelanjaan kerja pencegahan cerun adalah sekitar 32 peratus berbanding peruntukan yang diterima.

"Kerja pembaikan dan pencegahan cerun amat penting dilakukan untuk mengurangkan kadar kerosakan harta awam, kerugian ekonomi, menjamin keselamatan pengguna jalan raya dan risiko kehilangan nyawa.

"Secara keseluruhan, pengurusan cerun di Jalan Persekutuan di Semenanjung tidak dilaksana dengan cekap dan berkesan," katanya.

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