Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Makanan (Mafi) akan menghantar lebih ramai pegawainya ke peringkat negeri bagi mempercepatkan bayaran subsidi kepada penternak ayam dalam usaha meningkatkan pengeluaran domestik.Dalam satu kenyataan, Mafi memaklumkan setakat ini hanya RM50 juta subsidi telah dibayar walaupun sebanyak RM729.43 juta subsidi disediakan di bawah Skim Kawalan Harga Keluarga…
Daripada R. Vikneswaran HANOI, 23 Mei (Bernama) -- Sukan SEA ke-31 dengan rasminya berakhir dengan obor temasya itu dipadamkan, dalam majlis penutup yang penuh warna-warni dan bertenaga di Hanoi Indoor Games Gymnasium, di sini malam ini. Majlis malam ini bermula dengan persembahan muzikal dan kebudayaan, yang diikuti dengan nyanyian lagu…
PETALING JAYA: A policy think tank has questioned whether the government’s National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) launched in 2019 had been abandoned after the MyGovernance plan for good governance was instituted. Tricia Yeoh, chief executive officer of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, said there was no need to reinvent…
PUTRAJAYA: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and four elected representatives have got the nod from the Federal Court to proceed with their appeal to challenge Muhyiddin Yassin’s action in advising the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to suspend Parliament during the emergency period. A three-member bench, led by Federal Court judge Nallini Pathmanathan,…
KUALA LUMPUR: Former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told the High Court today that his former aide, Major Mazlina Mazlan @ Ramly, had been negligent in handling his personal expenses as well as finances involving Yayasan Akalbudi (YAB). Zahid, 69, accused his former executive secretary of failing to understand…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia took a wrong turn away from agriculture in the 1980s-90s with too much emphasis on industrialisation and is now paying the price with a food supply crisis, says economist Noor Azlan Ghazali. He said the food crisis was made worse by the Covid-induced economic recession and Russia-Ukraine…
KUALA LUMPUR: The government should postpone the implementation of the minimum wage of RM1,500 for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), a youth leader from a Pakatan Harapan component said today. Calling the decision by the government “hasty”, Amanah Youth’s economy bureau director Ammar Atan said many employers are now feeling…
KUALA KANGSAR: The Perak state government expects the mining of a rare earth mineral called lintonite in Hulu Perak to boost its revenue. Menteri besar Saarani Mohamad said the state government had received the nod from the environment department to implement the pilot project. The environmental impact assessment (EIA) report…
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has approved proposals from the private sector for the construction of new highways, including around the Klang Valley, works minister Fadillah Yusof said today. He said they were among several proposals that the government had received for the construction of highways to address the problem of…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has dismissed former attorney-general Apandi Ali’s defamation suit against Lim Kit Siang over an article published by the DAP veteran in 2019. Judge Azimah Omar found that Lim’s remarks in the article titled “Dangerous fallacy to think Malaysia is on the road to integrity” were…
PETALING JAYA: Bawang Assan assemblyman Wong Soon Koh has asked Sarawak premier Abang Johari Openg to explain if Petronas has fully paid the state sales tax for 2021. At the state assembly today, Wong said an estimated RM3.88 billion in state sales tax on oil and gas production was taken…
KUALA LUMPUR: The arrival of foreign workers must be hastened to address the labour shortage in oil palm plantations, says the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC). MPC director-general Abdul Latif Abu Seman said the arrival of 32,000 foreign field workers from Indonesia must be accelerated. He said there was a shortage…
Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) menyuarakan kebimbangan berhubung dakwaan terbaru kebocoran data peribadi warga Malaysia dan penjualannya di internet.Ia selepas laman Lowyat.net melaporkan set data dalam MyIdentity kendalian Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara yang mengandungi maklumat warga yang lahir antara 1940 hingga 2004 ditawarkan untuk dijual di sebuah forum pasaran pangkalan data.Difahamkan sejumlah…
KUANTAN: Police arrested a Myanmar man for attempting to abduct a four-year-old boy from the compound of the child’s house in a village at Batu 3, Jalan Gambang, here yesterday. Kuantan district police chief Wan Zahari Wan Busu said members of the public chased and caught the 30-year-old suspect after…
PETALING JAYA: Empowering the Look East Policy and improving bilateral ties will be the twin thrust of Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s six-day official working visit to Japan starting today. The visit is the first to Japan for Ismail after being appointed as prime minister last Aug 21, Bernama reported.…
PETALING JAYA: An anti-graft watchdog has called on the authorities to disclose the findings of the investigation into the leak of a dataset containing information on some 22.5 million Malaysians. Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president Muhammad Mohan described the latest data leak as a “recurring” issue that highlighted the “lack…
SEREMBAN: Four students of a secondary school here pleaded guilty in the magistrates’ court here today to a charge of assaulting a junior student at the school. Three of them, aged 16 , and the other, aged 15, made the plea before magistrate Norzaliza Tesmin. All of them were jointly…
Indonesia halted exports of palm oil from April 28 in an attempt to bring down soaring local prices of cooking oil, rattling global edible oil markets already struggling with sunflower oil supply shortages due to the war in Ukraine. — Reuters pic Monday, 23 May 2022 2:20 PM MYT JAKARTA,…
KUCHING: Sarawak is pursuing negotiations with the federal government for its special grants entitlement under Article 112D of the Federal Constitution, the state legislative assembly was told today. This is being pursued through the joint consultative committee meeting under the Special Council on MA63. Deputy minister in the premier’s department…
PETALING JAYA: The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) has urged the state government to address racial imbalance in the civil service. According to a report in The Borneo Post, the party made the demand in a motion passed at its triennial delegates conference (TDC) in Kuching yesterday. The motion calls…