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Open up sectors based on risk assessment, says PKR Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 01:59 PM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies PETALING JAYA: PKR has proposed that the government scrap the essential or non-essential approach and open up the various economic sectors based on risk assessment instead. Subang MP Wong Chen said the party viewed the essential and non-essential classification of industries and services as redundant as, after eight weeks of various movement control orders (MCOs), all sectors had become essential. “We have proposed a new re-classification for industries and services, determined by which economic activities are high-risk or low risk,” he said in a statement today. “To achieve this, the government has to build the data collection infrastructure for risk assessment now and then back it by frequent periodic mass testing of industries and services.” - More -   Show professionalism, drop cover-ups, Pua tells health ministry Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 11:35 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Stop giving Malaysians “half-baked excuses and speculative projections” when presenting Covid-19 data, an MP told the health ministry today. Instead, Damansara MP Tony Pua said, the ministry should demonstrate professionalism and not cover up mistakes with “made-up arguments and excuses”. Pua, of DAP, said that when the movement control order (MCO) 3.0 began on May 23, Malaysians were told the number of cases would be reduced if they sacrificed their livelihood by staying at home. However, the number of cases did not drop and the government announced a total lockdown while the number of positive cases remained “sticky”, causing the lockdown to extend for another two weeks. “It obviously didn’t work because a further two weeks of enhanced movement control order (EMCO) was then imposed on the Klang Valley from July 3 with Malaysia setting a record of 13,215 Covid-19 cases recorded yesterday,” he said in a statement. He said this scenario clearly proved the health ministry had failed to carry out its duties to mitigate the spread of infection, even as the people were suffering in silence, losing income and livelihood. - More -   Thorny issue of Raub durian farmers Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 11:02 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Anyone with the flimsiest knowledge of growing durians knows that it takes many years of tender loving care to grow and nurture healthy fruit-bearing trees. Last week, 18 farmers were arrested when they tried to harvest the fruit but were prevented by officials from the menteri besar’s office. Despite the stand-off between the Musang King (MK) farmers of Raub and the state authorities, who said the farmers had illegally occupied the land, was it right for the state officials to cut down 200 mature trees at harvest time? This is revenge politics. It will not endear the rakyat to the authorities. Why did the state and land office take this drastic action despite allowing the cultivation for many decades? The story about the MK farmers is one that is common throughout Malaysia. Soon after Merdeka, when most of the country was barren jungle and covered in virgin forest, farmers were encouraged to work the land by the land office. They were also told that they could apply for a temporary operating licence (TOL) or deeds to the land. The state preferred the land to be worked, and people to be self-sufficient instead of depending on welfare. However, as in Raub, some farmers were unable to get the TOL or title deeds, despite repeated requests. - More -   Flooding in Germany: Death toll rises to 33 with dozens still missing Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 10:41 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies   Gundlach says the dollar is ‘doomed’ over the long term because of rising U.S. defici Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 09:48 AM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies Gundlach says the dollar is ‘doomed’ over the long term because of rising U.S. deficits DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach told CNBC on Thursday that he believes the U.S. dollar is “doomed” over the long term. “The dollar is going to fall pretty substantially” at some point due to increasing U.S. trade and budget deficits, Gundlach said. “It’s a question of what your horizon is,” the so-called bond king added. DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach offered a dire long-term assessment on the U.S. dollar Thursday, telling CNBC in an interview he thinks the greenback is “doomed.” “Ultimately, the size of our deficits — both trade deficit, which has exploded post-pandemic, and the budget deficit, which is, obviously, completely off the charts — suggest that in the intermediate term — I don’t really think this year, exactly, but in the intermediate term — the dollar is going to fall pretty substantially,” Gundlach said on “Halftime Report.” “That’s going to be a very important dynamic, because one of the things that’s helped the bond market, without any doubt, has been foreign buying, with the interest rate differentials having favored hedged U.S. bond positions for foreign bond investors,” he added. - More -   WHO experts warn 'more dangerous' Covid-19 variants could take hold Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 09:39 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies GENEVA (AFP) - The World Health Organisation's emergency committee warned on Thursday (July 15) that new and more dangerous Covid-19 variants were expected to spread around the world, making it harder to halt the pandemic. The announcement was further bad news as several countries battle a new wave of infections fanned by new variants, namely Delta which was first identified in India. "The pandemic is nowhere near finished," the committee warned in a statement on Thursday following a meeting a day earlier. Committee chairman Didier Houssin acknowledged to reporters that "recent trends are worrying". He said a year-and-a half after the WHO first declared a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) - its highest alert level - "we are still running after this virus and the virus is still running after us". For now, four concerning variants of Covid-19 are dominating the global pandemic picture: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and especially the rapidly spreading Delta variant. - More -   ‘Regular families’ among people calling food bank Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 09:35 AM - Forum: Inspiring Stories - No Replies PETALING JAYA: For the first eight years of their existence, the Food Aid Foundation mainly catered to underserved communities like the urban poor living at low-cost flats, those at shelter homes, refugees and the Orang Asli communities around the Klang Valley. Since the start of the pandemic, however, the team has been inundated with calls from people they never expected to hear from: regular families in need. While the #BenderaPutih campaign is a new development, the struggles faced by breadwinners to put food on the table throughout the pandemic has been no secret to the NGO. “We never used to do these big home deliveries to individual families, we always targeted homes for the marginalised. But when Covid-19 hit, it became a whole new ballgame. - More -   1 in 2 hospitalised Covid cases develop complications, study shows Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 09:11 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies PARIS: As many as one in every two people hospitalised with severe Covid-19 go on to develop other health complications, according to comprehensive new research released on Friday. Authors of the study said their findings showed a “profound” short and long-term health impact on Covid-19 patients as well as on health and care services. Data from more than 70,000 hospital patients across more than 300 British hospitals were collected for the research. It found that the most common health complications were problems with patients’ kidneys and lungs, but neurological and cardiovascular conditions were also widely reported. - More -   How many COVID infections go unnoticed? | COVID-19 Special Posted by: superadmin - 07-16-2021, 09:03 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies   9 Chinese die in Pakistan bus blast Posted by: superadmin - 07-15-2021, 10:37 PM - Forum: International News - No Replies China condemned on Wednesday a bus blast in northwestern Pakistan that killed at least 12 people, including Chinese nationals, and called for a thorough investigation into the explosion, the Foreign Ministry said. The shuttle bus of the Dasu Hydropower Project for which a Chinese company was contracted to build, was hit by a blast when they were heading towards the construction site early in the morning, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan said in a statement. The blast killed nine Chinese nationals and three Pakistanis, it said. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular news briefing that Beijing was shocked by and condemned the blast, and it demanded that Pakistan get to the bottom of the incident. The bus was carrying Chinese engineers and surveyors to the Dasu dam construction site in Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. - More - Pages (1225): « Previous 1 … 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 … 1225 Next » Jump to page: