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KUALA TERENGGANU, A baby boy, still alive, was found dumped in a dried-up ditch near Paka Beach in Dungun, at 2 pm today. Dungun District Police chief Supt Maizura Abdul Kadir confirmed the incident and said the baby had been sent to the Kemaman Hospital. “We will track down the irresponsible individuals who dumped the baby. “The case is being investigated under Section 317 of the Penal Code for concealing the birth with the intention of abandoning the baby,” he said when contacted today. Meanwhile, lorry driver Mohd Zoo Abd Rahman, 44, said he found the baby boy left on

PUTRAJAYA, The Malaysian Standards Department (JSM) hopes the batik industry will use its updated Malaysian Standard (MS) 692 specification to produce quality products. In conjunction with World Standards Day, the department held a consultation session today with industry players in Kota Bahru on the MS. The session was to shed light on the requirements and amendments in the draft MS 692 Batik Malaysia specification (third revision). “The development of MS 692 Batik Malaysia is one of the efforts to strengthen and empower the Malaysian batik industry through the setting of comprehensive and practical standards,” said a statement from JSM. In

KUALA LUMPUR, Crude palm oil (CPO) futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives closed mostly lower today due to profit-taking, said a dealer. Fastmarkets Palm Oil Analytics senior analyst Sathia Varqa told Bernama a weaker ringgit flipped the CPO futures into profit-taking mode at the end of the session. Meanwhile, palm oil trader David Ng said CPO has reversed earlier gains as weaker crude oil and soybean oil prices have weighed down on sentiment today. ‘We see support at RM4,280 per tonne and resistance at RM4,400 per tonne,’ he told Bernama. At the close today, the spot month October 2024 contract increased

BUKIT MERTAJAM, The Penang Fatwa Committee is set to determine on Wednesday whether the practices and beliefs of GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) are considered deviant. Penang Islamic Religious Council (MAINPP) president Datuk Dr Mohamad Abdul Hamid said the committee will convene a two-day session starting tomorrow to reach a decision, which will then be submitted for the consent of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia. ‘The decision will be made during the Penang Fatwa Committee meeting, chaired by Penang Mufti (Datuk Dr Mohd Sukki Othman),’ he told reporters at the Penang International Halal Expo here today. So far,

KUALA LUMPUR, Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm, in its new research report revealed that enterprises in Asia Pacific (APAC) are quickly adopting new application development and maintenance (ADM) technologies as they carry out digital transformations. The 2024 ISG Provider Lens Next-gen ADM Services report for APAC finds that the region’s ADM market is expanding rapidly, mostly driven by organisations upgrading legacy systems, migrating to the cloud, and integrating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The global market for ADM and infrastructure services grew 57 per cent in the second