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KUALA PERLIS, The Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia (LKIM) has urged youth, especially children of fishermen, to master skills necessary to become boat skippers as preparation to manage large fishing vessels capable of fishing in Zone B and C to enjoy more lucrative incomes. Its chairman, Muhammad Faiz Fadzil said training centres to train skilled skippers run by the Fisheries Department were located in Lumut, Perak and Chendering, Terengganu. “Our only problem is the lack of interest among children of fishermen or possibly the lack of exposure, so we want the fishermen’s associations to encourage their children to gain these

PUTRAJAYA, Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) holders who have filed UPUOnline appeals for public university (PU) admission can check the results from Tuesday (Aug 6) until Aug 15. Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapha Sakmud said the results will be available on the UA portal and the UPUPocket application from noon and candidates must confirm their acceptance between Aug 7 and 15. ‘The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) is working to ensure that the best students secure a place. This is in line with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s directive that no excellent students are left out in the context

GUA MUSANG, The by-election of the Nenggiri state seat will begin tomorrow with the nomination of candidate taking place at Dewan Perdana, Perdana Complex, Gua Musang District Council, here. Potential candidates are given an hour from 9 to 10 am to submit their nomination forms before the list of those eligible to contest is announced by the Returning Officer. Once the nomination process is over, candidates have 14 days to campaign for votes in the state constituency which is one of the three state seats under the Gua Musang parliamentary constituency. The EC set the voting day on August 17,

CEBU CITY: The Federation of Cebu Transport Cooperatives urged President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to save the modernization program of the public transport system. The FCTC wrote the President on Aug. 1, expressing its opposition to Senate Resolution No.1096 which seeks to suspend and review the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP). Ellen Maghanoy, chairperson of FCTC, said on Friday that transport players in the province are hoping Marcos will reject the resolution and go ahead with the PTMP. The federation defended the program that ‘intends to replace old and dilapidated jeepneys with new, safer, more environmentally friendly vehicles equipped with

MANILA: The Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF) of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. celebrated its first anniversary this month by rolling out a total of PHP1.26 billion worth of ‘mega’ government services and financial aid to some 253,000 Eastern Visayas beneficiaries –the largest so far in the history of the service caravan. Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, the main proponent of the BPSF, said he is “very happy” with what the government program has accomplished so far, considering that the Serbisyo Caravan in Tacloban City from Friday to Saturday is the 21st of such kind in the country since it