Year: 2024

KUALA TERENGGANU, The Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) is urging civil servants to consistently demonstrate a high level of commitment and enhance their work performance, in line with the upcoming salary increase in December. Its president, Datuk Dr Adnan Mat, said he believed that with the details of the new salary rates to be announced next week, the government expects civil servants to prove their capability to deliver excellent services to the people. ‘The salary increase was announced by Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) on May 1 and the specific details will

KUALA LUMPUR, The Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) and the Malaysian Press Institute (MPI) are set to explore a strategic collaboration to offer training and courses in journalism in an effort to nurture more talent in the field. According to Bernama Chief Executive Officer Nur-ul Afida Kamaludin, the collaboration will highlight and enhance various journalism courses and training, including those related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. ‘We have agreed to collaborate in offering courses to diploma-level students who are keen to explore and gain a deeper insight into journalism. ‘With the expertise of MPI’s teaching staff and the energy and

BALIK PULAU, A foreign man was found murdered with multiple stabs around 3.15 this morning at a Thai restaurant in Bukit Genting, Jalan Bukit Genting. ‘Preliminary investigations indicate the victim had a dispute with several foreign colleagues at the restaurant. ‘The Penang Criminal Investigation Department launched a special operation and detained eight foreign men and one local man for questioning,’ said Penang police chief Datuk Hamzah Ahmad in a statement today. With the detention of the nine suspects, aged 20 to 35, police believe they have solved the case in under 12 hours. ‘They are under a seven-day remand until

GUA MUSANG, Police have approved 16 campaign permits for parties contesting in the Nenggiri state by-election from nomination day last Saturday until today. Gua Musang district police chief Supt Sik Choon Foo said of the total, 10 permits were for ceramah (political talks) and the remaining were for mobile campaigns. He also said that no permit applications have been rejected so far. ‘A total of eight permits have been approved for Barisan Nasional (BN), with two for ceramah and six for mobile campaigns, while for PAS, all eight permits approved are for political talks,’ he said when contacted today. The

PARIS, The country’s head track cycling coach John Beasley expects the speed of track racing events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to be faster. He said this is because the track surface at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome built in 2014, was just upgraded ahead of the games. ‘The velodrome has just been resurfaced. The surface will be extra fast with the warm weather, the track will likely be faster. ‘However, the athletes have all raced here before, so it’s quite quick to adapt to the surface here. We have one more training session before the events start,’ he told