Youth as job creators
THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Entrepreneur Development has implemented a number of entrepreneurship programmes to encourage young people to become job creators rather than job seekers. Its Deputy Minister, Dr Ripin Lamat, stated that among the initiatives implemented are youth-specific courses, seminars, mentorship, co-working space, business incorporation support and market access. Ripin also stated […]
Number of those allowed in for next Dewan Rakyat session to be decided
KUALA LUMPUR: The number of individuals, including Members of Parliament, allowed to be present at the first meeting of the fourth session of the 14th Parliament beginning Sept 6 will be decided as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19, Deputy Speaker Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon said. He said this is to ensure the […]
MOH expects daily Covid-19 cases to stabilise
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) expects the country’s daily Covid-19 cases to stabilise and show a decline in the next one to two weeks’ time, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said that the vaccination drive nationwide and public health controls such as the current movement control could flatten […]
Efforts to enhance water management capacity
SIMANGGANG: Many efforts have been undertaken by the federal and Sarawak governments to enhance the capacity of water management, said Assistant Minister of Community Wellbeing Datuk Francis Harden Hollis. He said this measure was expected to mobilise initiatives with regard to catchment area conservation and water resource management. “Among the approaches being taken is developing […]
Private vehicles can carry passengers according to capacity from tomorrow
PUTRAJAYA: Starting tomorrow, private vehicle drivers will be able to ferry passengers according to their respective vehicle capacity, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said the passengers of the vehicle must be from the same family and same house. “For multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) the capacity is seven passengers, so starting tomorrow, they can carry the maximum […]
Malaysia to boost Covid-19 testing to over 22,000 daily
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will increase its testing capacities for Covid-19 to over 22,000 tests per day by next week with two automated test processing machines. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the automated processing machine which could do 5,000 tests per day would be placed at Institute of Medical Research (IMR) in Kuala Lumpur by this […]
Enough bandwidth capacity to go around, but…
KUALA LUMPUR: With most Malaysians now working from home because of the Covid-19 pandemic and extended movement control order (MCO) until April 14, there has also been an increase in complaints of slow internet. Users have been voicing out their frustration in social media platforms. Whether it be students unable to finish their assignments or […]
SIA makes significant capacity cuts and grounds aircraft
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be cutting 96 per cent of the capacity that had been originally scheduled up to end-April, given the further tightening of border controls around the world over the last week to stem the Covid-19 outbreak. “This will result in the grounding of around 138 SIA and SilkAir aircraft, out of […]
