[ad_1] The closure of the Sony plant in Perai, Penang, next September will affect 3,400 employees, including 1,800 Malaysians. PETALING JAYA: The Penang government will mobilize its resources to help thousands of Sony employees affected by the closure of its Perai plant in September. Chief Deputy Minister II P Ramasamy …
Read More »Gunners or Gonners? Spurs test will tell
[ad_1] You spend billions. You pay the best guys over RM1 million a week. Fire 55 low-paid workers, including the explorer who discovered many of them, and a much-loved pet, in order to pay for the high-paid stars. Yes, I know, but that’s how the club explained it. He uses …
Read More »Death of senior doctor sounds alarms in pandemic-stricken Indonesia
[ad_1] JAKARTA (Reuters) – Dr. Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, was admitted to his local hospital in East Java on Tuesday afternoon. In just over 24 hours, as his fellow doctors called hospital after hospital looking for a respirator in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and within a few hours’ …
Read More »Addressing the price gap to stop the black market for tobacco
[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Australia is learning the hard way that strict enforcement alone cannot stop the growing number of smokers turning to the black market for tobacco, the Retail and Trade Brand Advocacy (RTBA) said today. The comments from RTBA, an international non-governmental organization that aims to safeguard supply chains and …
Read More »MY EG gets a 3-year extension to provide electronic RTD services
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: My EG Services Bhd had its concession contract to provide services to the Department of Highway Transportation extended for three years from May of this year to May 2023. In an announcement to Bursa Malaysia, he said he had received the letter from the Transport Ministry on …
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Trump’s challenge to election results
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Thursday refused to accept a case by President Donald Trump’s campaign challenging the results of the state’s Nov.3 presidential election, the latest in a series losses suffered by the campaign. Trump’s team submitted the petition, which challenged the Wisconsin election results and sought …
Read More »MyEG gets a three-year extension to provide e-govt services
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (December 4): MyEG Services Bhd (MyEG) has secured a three-year extension for the e-government services it provides. In a bag filing today, the group said the Ministry of Transportation (MoT) had granted the extension from May 23, 2020 to May 22, 2023. He said the extension is …
Read More »Ex-fish vendor fined RM3,000 for abusing and spitting on shop worker
[ad_1] The prosecution asked for an appropriate sentence, saying the man’s actions had altered interracial sensitivity. IPOH: An unemployed man was fined RM3,000 by the Magistrates Court here today after he was found guilty of humiliating a grocery store employee by uttering abusive words and spitting on him. Magistrate Noor …
Read More »Kenanga Research Raises Serba Dinamik Price Target to RM2.75
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 4): Kenanga Research has maintained its “superior performance” call for Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd, with a higher price target (TP) of RM2.75 from RM2.70, set at 15 times the price ratio. – Earnings (PER) projected for the financial year ending December 31, 2021 (FY21). The research …
Read More »Political will, realistic ways necessary to curb corruption
[ad_1] Corruption has seeped into all levels of society. The general opinion is that it is now deeply ingrained in the culture of the nation. Most Malaysians believe that corruption in government is getting worse and will increase in the coming years according to a recent Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) survey. …
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