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MACC moves to prevent conflict of interest over government contracts
PETALING JAYA: All members of the administration and their immediate families should be barred from bidding for government contracts, says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). This is one of the proposals mooted by the commission’s consultation and prevention panel to check corruption. The nine-member panel, headed ...
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Ambiga and team to pass baton to new Bersih leaders
and members of her Bersih 2.0 steering committee are expected to step down soon and pave the way for a new leadership, a news portal reported. The electoral watch group will hold internal elections among its 84 member organisations to determine who will lead the group, the portal quoted her as saying yesterday. Ambiga said there would be changes in the Bersih 2.0 committee ';once a proper ...
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Roof of village mosque comes crashing down
HULU TERENGGANU: It was a close shave for several villagers performing Isyak prayers at the Kampung Binjai Kertas mosque here when the roof of the main entrance collapsed. The villagers were shocked to hear a loud, crashing sound while they were inside the mosque on Monday night. ';There were about five of us still inside the mosque when I heard a loud crash. The lights also went ...
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PKR expected to nominate new names for Selangor exco
KLANG: PKR may nominate an entirely new line-up to represent the party in the Selangor state exco. As the party won the fewest seats in the state in the recent general election compared to its Pakatan Rakyat allies, PAS and DAP, it has given up one of its exco positions. After the 2008 elections, PKR had four representatives in the exco which is made up of 10 members. The four ...
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Empowered to reach out to cancer patients
KUALA LUMPUR: When lorry driver Tan Chu Tea, 53, found blood in his stools two years ago, he was unsure what to make of it. ';I didn’t feel any pain or discomfort but there was blood. ';I was worried and didn’t know what to do,'; said Tan who lives with his family in Selayang. Luckily for Tan, non-governmental organisation The Cancer Advocacy Society of Malaysia ...
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Experts say job seekers still finding the English language a hurdle
head Serm Teck Choon said this was a major problem especially among fresh graduates. ';Most job seekers can speak and write in English, but their command of English is very basic and not up to the expectations of the employers,'; he said when commenting on the column by The Star executive director and group chief ...
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HR manager laments declining standard of English
when he talked to them to evaluate their communications skills. In citing an example, he said his department had an intern from a local university a couple of months ago and he asked what her area of study was. ';Her reply was ‘I were studying communications’. What I asked was in simple English, which I think primary school children would be able to answer,'; he said. He ...
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Join the Metro Online Broadcast
PETALING JAYA: If you love writing and photography, join the MOB or the Metro Online Broadcast - our new citizen journalism website. MOB encourages public participation in story-telling, so get your smartphones out and send in your stuff. As our city is alive with stories, MOB gives you a chance to read, write and share them with others on the site. You can choose to submit your stories on the ...
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‘Armed forces and police collaboration to be strengthened’
would lead to new collaborative measures to be announced soon. He said more measures would be in place to strengthen the police and armed forces collaboration as part of the National Blue Ocean Strategy. ';There are currently 17 National Blue Ocean strategies in place and we will be looking at introducing several new measures to further strengthen collaboration between the Home and Defence ...
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Dow SP end at all time high on Fed officials reassurance
NEW YORK: Stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs as Federal Reserve officials' comments eased some concerns that the central bank could start reducing its stimulus programme. Dow component Home Depot gave the market a lift after the world's largest home improvement chain raised its profit outlook, driving its stock to a record intraday ...
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Jeffrey Kitingan warns against boycott
KOTA KINABALU: The call by certain groups to boycott Chinese businesses is dangerous for the country’s well-being, said State Reform Party (STAR) ...
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Ongkili seeks to cut down on power disruptions in Sabah
wants to halve the number of power interruptions in Sabah within the next two years. He said that the Federal Government had spent over RM3.3bil on infrastructure facilities to reduce the system average interruption duration index (Saidi), or electricity interruption, in Sabah under the Eighth, Ninth and 10th Malaysia plans. He said the Government had also allocated RM4.06bil on diesel ...
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Chinas bird flu outbreak cost US$6.5bil loss
GENEVA: The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion (4.2 billion pounds) in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on Tuesday. Health authorities worldwide must be on the lookout to detect the virus, the experts said, which could still develop the ability to spread easily among humans and cause a ...
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What is the Irish loophole behind iPhone maker Apples low tax bill
's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has hinged on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. A U.S. Senate investigation has revealed that Apple, maker of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, had channelled profits into Irish-incorporated subsidiaries that had "no declared tax residency ...
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Ning Baizura It’s not for cheap publicity
SINGER Ning Baizura denied that she was seeking cheap publicity when she held a press conference to show off her first child to the media, Berita Harian reported. She said she only wanted to declare to the world her happiness over her child, Ryan Sky Dalton, who is now three months old. The singer married Omar Sharif Christopher Layton Dalton in January 2008. ';My mum didn’t want me ...
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Vodafone holds back dividend posts largest quarterly drop in revenue
LONDON: Vodafone posted the largest ever fall in its main revenue measure, forcing it to keep a dividend from its healthy US arm to compensate for a slump in southern Europe. The world's second largest mobile operator, at the centre of intense speculation as to whether it will sell its stake in US ...
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Loan sharks making life hell for retiree
KUALA LUMPUR: Liew and his family have been living in fear since his son, Meng Kat, went missing after borrowing money from Ah Longs. The nightmare started for the 64-year-old retiree and his family when his eldest son, who had not come home in four years, suddenly showed up at their Jinjang Utara home on March 19. "He told me that he had borrowed a lot of money from loan sharks and he had ...
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Benefits lost because of bickering among Indians says Tamilselvam
has cited bickering among the Indian community as the reason why it lost most of the benefits and incentives in the past 56 years, reported Makkal Osai. The community, he said, could have been on par with the others if it had started to receive and make use of the benefits. Social problems involving the Indian community had also increased tremendously due to the lack of job opportunities and the ...
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Male Singaporean singer gets boob job
ONE-TIME Singaporean singer Kurt Tay, 27, shot to fame after he had breast augmentation surgery in Bangkok, reported Sin Chew Daily. Tay, who is known for releasing only one song previously and taking out a full-page advertisement about himself in a magazine last year, spent S$4,100 (RM10,250) on 395ml of silicon implants. He also uploaded a video on YouTube to show off his new figure. The ...
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Report Apple kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to avoid taxes
has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government, a US Senate report on the company's offshore tax structure said. In a 40-page memorandum, the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations identified three subsidiaries that have no "tax residency" in Ireland, where they are incorporated, or in the United States, ...
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Malaysia knocked out of Sudirman Cup
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 - Malaysia’s campaign in the Sudirman Cup 2013 came to an abrupt end when they lost 2-3 to Germany in the second Group match at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil here today. It was the second loss for the national squad after losing by the same score to Group C champions Taiwan and thereby snuffing out Malaysia’s hope to qualify for the quarter-finals tomorrow. In the ...
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EPF invests more abroad
has invested US$1.3bil (RM3.91bil) more overseas in global real estate, bonds and equities for the first quarter ended March 31 as part of its diversification strategy to expand its investments abroad. The EPF said in a statement its overseas exposure stood at 17.55% of its total investment cost at the end of the said quarter. The pension fund is allowed to invest up to 23% of its investment ...
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What is integrated talent management
WHAT does the term "integrated talent management" mean to you? Suppose your answer is something like this "Well now, let's see I should know something about management, after all, that's what they call me! Talent that must be something about all those university graduates they recruit, I suppose? And, integrated well, that sounds like something I used to learn about in ...
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Bad behaviour spreads to oil market
WHISPERS of oil price manipulation are travelling fast down the hallways of the world's oil markets. After a short silent spell, the oil market sprang a surprise via the double raiding of niche trading house Argos and price fixing agency Platts. Dutch trading house Argos Energies, a mid-sized trading company that deals in physical oil products and owns storage facilities, was visited by ...
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4As eyeing FODM conference in Thailand next year
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia (4As), which has the Future of Digital Marketing (FODM) rights for Asia for three years, is looking at holding the conference in Thailand next year. "We can do it as a single event next year or as a circuit comprising both Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. It depends on the response to the conference in Kuala Lumpur next ...
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Malaysia's 10th MP sets focus on education
On the 10th of June, 2010, the 10th Malaysia Plan was revealed to Malaysia’s news media, outlining what is essentially the government’s budget plans for the next five years. The 10th Malaysia Plan will therefore be in effect during 2011 to 2015. Malaysia is a vast country and the plan is therefore vast as well, a thick and complicated document, but one of the most important aspects of the plans announced in parliament were those that involve the education departments of the country.
Malaysia has an extensive public schooling system, operated under the belief that every child has a right to equal and fair opportunity in the country, a right that is enshrined in the constitution. The government spends around RM 7 billion on public education throughout the country, and in the 10MP, extremely important plans were outlined, aimed at increasing pre-school attendance from 67% of the population currently, to 87% by 2012. Read more
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