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KUALA LUMPUR, Issues regarding the Human Resource Development Corporation (HRD Corp) highlighted in the Auditor-General’s Report Series 2 2024 took centrestage during today’s Dewan Rakyat session. Khoo Poay Tiong (PH-Kota Melaka) urged for a comprehensive investigation into HRD Corp, especially from 2020 to 2022, including the possibility of power abuse. ‘So much misappropriation has occurred. Whose orders, who instructed them till they dared to commit such wrongs. (For instance) the Tapah office building, why make it in Tapah? The answer (according to the report) at the particular time, the minister was from Tapah,’ he said. Voicing his support, Hassan Abdul

SUBANG JAYA, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil will hold a meeting with Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said tomorrow to discuss matters related to cyberbullying. ‘We want to make sure that the internet is safe, especially for children and families. ‘All these matters will be carefully discussed with the two ministers involved before we bring them to the Cabinet meeting this Friday,’ he said after launching the CelcomDigi AI Experience Centre here today. Meanwhile, Fahmi said that an individual believed to be involved in cyberbullying that

MANILA: The episcopal ordination of Baguio Bishop-elect Rafael Cruz is set for Sept. 7. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) News reported on Wednesday that the ordination will be held at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral at 9 a.m. Lingayen-Dagupan archbishop Socrates Villegas will be the principal consecrator of the ceremony, which is expected to be attended by several bishops, including Papal Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles Brown. Pope Francis appointed Cruz to the post on June 20, replacing then Bishop Victor Bendico, who was named Capiz Archbishop in May last year. On Sept. 17, Brown

ILOILO CITY: Two Ilonggo leaders rallied behind Senator Sonny Angara following his appointment as the new head of the Department of Education (DepEd), replacing Vice President Sara Duterte, who will relinquish the Cabinet post on July 19. Rep. Julienne Baronda said she had known Angara when she was still president of the Sangguniang Kabataan of Iloilo City. She said she knows how passionate and dedicated Angara is to serving the public. ‘I know very well, too, how he values education as a platform to help people uplift their lives. I have no doubt he will champion initiatives that would improve

MANILA: Operatives of the Philippine National Police-Drug Enforcement Group (PDEG) seized more than PHP1.2 million worth of kush (high-grade marijuana) and ecstasy in a buy-bust in Pasay City on Wednesday. In a report, PDEG chief Brig. Gen. Eleazar Matta said Mark Cedrick Nicolas, 26, was arrested during the operation along Service Road, Roxas Boulevard at about 5:50 a.m. Seized from Nicolas were about 700 grams of kush with an estimated street value of PHP1.05 million and 100 ecstasy tablets with an estimated drug price of PHP170,000, as well as other pieces of non-drug evidence. “I’d like to underscore to everyone