Category: General

Manila: Land Transportation Office (LTO) Chief, Assistant Secretary Vigor Mendoza II, on Thursday warned his employees against colluding with ‘fixers’ or face administrative sanctions including losing their jobs. Mendoza made this remark after three LTO personnel, including a district office head, were placed under investigation for their alleged involvement in illegal transactions with fixers or persons outside LTO that offer faster transactions in exchange for a fee. ‘On the very first day of my assumption as LTO Chief, I made it clear that I will be running after all the fixers and their cohorts in our agency. We will not

KUALA LUMPUR, Crude palm oil (CPO) futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives continued their upward trend to close higher for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday due to better export performance, a trader said. Palm oil trader David Ng said the upward trend was also driven by lower palm oil stocks in Indonesia. ‘We see support at RM3,950 and resistance at RM4,100,’ he told Bernama. At the close, the spot month October 2024 contract was RM51 higher at RM4,125 per tonne, nearby month November 2024 gained RM54 to RM4,077, while the benchmark December 2024 rose RM55 to RM4,043. The January 2025

JAKARTA, The Malaysian delegation’s participation in the Indonesia International Book Fair (IIBF) 2024, which will be held for five days from today (Sept 25-29), will be the best platform to internationalise Malaysian works abroad. Malaysian Institute of Translation and Books (ITBM) chief executive officer Sakri Abdullah, who is also head of the Malaysian delegation to IIBF 2024, said it is also an opportunity for the institute to establish strategic collaborations with Indonesian and other international publishers. Sakri said in addition to that, ITBM can also take advantage of the IIBF, which is themed ‘Internationalising Manuscripts of the Archipelago’ this year,

KUCHING, Two years ago, Selangor’s Ahmad Nazri Hamzah decided to give bowling a try. And he’s glad he did that because, today, he is the proud owner of a gold medal after winning the TPB8 (physical impairment) category at the 2024 Malaysia Para Games (Para SUKMA) here. “Actually, I am a member of the national (Malaysian Wheelchair Basketball Federation) team. When wheelchair basketball was not contested in the 2022 edition of Para SUKMA, I decided to give bowling a try. “Of course, being new to the game, I did not win anything in 2022. But this time, although I was

PUTRAJAYA, More than 400 employers have appealed to the Home Ministry (KDN) to extend the payment period for registering foreign workers under the Manpower Recalibration Programme (RTK) 2.0. Syah Putra Marwan, a representative of the employers, said the closure of RTK 2.0 without any prior notice has affected employers’ efforts to comply with the law by regularising undocumented migrants in the country as legal foreign workers. “This (closure of RTK) will make it difficult for sectors that heavily rely on foreign workers, such as construction, plantation, manufacturing and services,” he told the media at a peaceful assembly attended by nearly