[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Permodalan Nasional Bhd’s subsidiary, Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd, has announced an income distribution of 3.5 sen and a bonus of 0.75 sen per unit for its flagship fund Amanah Samah Bumiputra (ASB) in 2020. All ASB shareholders will also receive a special 30th anniversary payment from Ehsan …
Read More »Guan Eng’s Christmas Eve interrogation is off
[ad_1] Police Inspector General Hamid Bador texted Lim Guan Eng about the postponement with an apology for the confusion. PETALING JAYA: DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng’s questioning of two press releases he made in 2019, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed to a later date next year. In a …
Read More »Trump pardons Blackwater mercenaries accused of killing Iraqi civilians
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and sparked an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. Supporters of former Blackwater Worldwide …
Read More »Review the process for the proposed Covid-19 vaccine within the schedule, says the Director General of Health
[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: The National Pharmaceutical Regulation Agency (NPRA) requires 90 to 120 business days to review documents and make recommendations to the Drug Control Authority (DCA) on the registration of Covid-19 vaccines, says the director general of Health So Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Noor Hisham said that …
Read More »Top Glove Says It Will No Longer Fire Whistleblowers; opens help lines for workers
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Top Glove Corp Bhd, the site of the country’s largest virus outbreak with more than 5,000 cases, said Wednesday that whistleblowers will no longer face termination and three complaint hotlines have been established. from the workers. Reuters reported last week that the 27-year-old Nepalese worker …
Read More »‘Taugeh’ turns out to be drugs in 15kg seizure at Singapore checkpoint
[ad_1] The agents’ suspicions were aroused when they noticed abnormalities in the scanned X-ray images of the consignment declared as “personal effects” items. SINGAPORE: The trucks claimed to bring furniture, personal effects and “taugeh” (bean sprouts) to the market. But the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) was not fooled. …
Read More »Philippines to suspend flights from UK due to new strain of virus
[ad_1] MANILA: The Philippine government said on Wednesday that it would suspend all flights from Britain after the emergence of a new strain of the rapidly spreading coronavirus detected there, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night approved the temporary suspension of all flights from …
Read More »Vaccine Raises Rare Questions in Nearly Virus-Free Singapore
[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters): As Singapore prepares to roll out Covid-19 vaccines, its surprising success in controlling the virus raises questions about whether they should get the vaccines. In a city-state where enforcement is generally high, some Singaporeans fear that potential side effects, even if minimal, are not worth the risk …
Read More »After dissolution of Parliament, Israel will hold snap elections, says president
[ad_1] JERUSALEM: The political coalition of the two Israeli party leaders has been on the brink of collapse, as Gantz, Israel’s defense minister, and Netanyahu failed to agree on the country’s budget for this year and 2021, as the first Minister tried to postpone the deadline to present the budget …
Read More »Forget Putrajaya if we can’t unite, Ramasamy tells opposition parties
[ad_1] DAP leader P Ramasamy says the irreconcilable differences between Anwar Ibrahim and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad must be resolved first. PETALING JAYA: Any plan by the opposition parties to take over the government will fail if they cannot work on their unit, which now appears fragile, says Penang’s Chief Deputy …
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