KRI: Realistic poverty measures show more Malaysians poorer now
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Tuesday, 25 Jun 2019 07:05 AM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 โ The number of poor Malaysians is higher than official figures if the relative poverty line reflects todayโs reality, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) said.
The research house wrote in a June 11 note on its 2018 report on the state of Malaysian households that the number of relatively poor households rose to 1.54 million in 2016 from 1.08 million in 1995, after it raised the threshold to measure incidence of relative poverty to 60 per cent of the median household income.
Currently, the government defines relative poverty as families earning between the official poverty line income (PLI) and below the 50 per cent national median household earning, a baseline KRI said was still the lowest among other countries with similar median income level.
โOur own calculations using 60 per cent median show a slightly higher number (of relative poverty households) as we use a higher percentage and include also those below the PLI,โ the note said.
Critics would likely cite the findings to reaffirm what they have long believed: That Malaysiaโs impressively low number of poverty incidence masked a bleaker reality that belies its much-touted success.
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Potongan yuran melegakan ramai
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Rabu, 15 Julai 2020 | 5:22pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Pimpinan mahasiswa secara umum menyambut baik keputusan kerajaan mengurangkan kadar yuran asrama, perkhidmatan dan aktiviti mahasiswa universiti awam (UA) sehingga 15 peratus.
Rata-rata pemimpin pelajar di UA melihat langkah itu mampu mengurangkan sedikit beban ibu bapa, khususnya yang terjejas pendapatan atau kehilangan pekerjaan akibat pandemik COVID-19, selain golongan B40.
Bagaimanapun, ada pemimpin mahasiswa berharap Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi (KPT) dapat mempertimbangkan untuk menambah kadar pengurangan yuran itu kepada antara 20 hingga 25 peratus.
Presiden Kesatuan Pelajar Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (IIUMSU), Amir Nadzim Kaharudin, mengakui pengurangan itu langkah tepat dan meringankan beban ibu bapa walaupun kadarnya agak kecil.
"Yuran penginapan di UIAM adalah RM550, bermakna pengurangan 15 peratus adalah sekitar RM80 manakala yuran aktiviti dan perkhidmatan yang merujuk kepada penggunaan perpustakaan, makmal dan pengangkutan adalah RM200, dengan pengurangan kira-kira RM30.
Tesco teroka tenaga solar
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16 Julai 2020
SEBANYAK 15 daripada 62 cawangan pasar raya Tesco di seluruh negara akan dijana dengan tenaga solar, kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Tesco Stores Sdn Bhd (Tesco), Paul Ritchie.
Menurutnya, inisiatif berkenaan adalah hasil kerjasama pasar raya berkenaan dengan syarikat usaha sama PETRONAS dan NEFIN Group iaitu NE Suria Satu Sdn Bhd (NESS) melalui Perjanjian Pembelian Kuasa (PPA) jangka panjang terbesar (Tesco-NESS PPA) untuk tenaga solar di Malaysia.
Beliau berkata, perjanjian selama 20 tahun sehingga 2040 itu akan menyaksikan pemasangan panel fotovoltaik solar (PV) di atas bumbung 15 cawangan Tesco terpilih.
Jelasnya, pemasangannya yang dijangka selesai pada Oktober itu merupakan fasa pertama dalam usaha Tesco mengunakan tenaga boleh diperbaharui.
25 schools in Sandakan have no access to clean water supply
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Wednesday, 15 Jul 2020 l 6:13 PM MYT
KOTA KINABALU: About 25 schools in Sandakan, including 16 located on islands off the district, currently have no access to clean water supply.
Sandakan district education officer Dr Dalmansa Tahil in revealing this, said the students and teaching administration have been relying on rainwater which they harvested in tanks for their daily consumption.
However, efforts are being made to apply with the State Education Department for installation of water pipes to these 25 schools, he assured.
โAt present, there are no pipelines to distribute treated water supply to these school premises.
โThis includes SK Bambangan, the school I visited today (Wednesday), โ Dalmansa said in a statement to the media after his visit to monitor the reopening of Year 5 and Year 6 classes at that particular primary school.
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Selangor bans smoking, vaping, alcohol drinking in playgrounds, parks for health reasons
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Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 04:12 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 โ Selangor has banned smoking and the consumption of alcohol in playgrounds and parks โ the first state in Malaysia to do so.
State Local Government, Public Transportation and New Village Development chairman Ng Sze Han today said the Selangor government decided to include outlawing drinking alcohol, smoking and vaping under its 2005 Parks By-Laws of local councils.
Prior to the amendment, the by-laws do not list smoking and the consumption of alcohol as prohibited activities at parks and playgrounds.
โWith this amendment to the Parks By-Laws 2005, Selangor under the leadership of Pakatan Harapan is set to be the first state in Malaysia to prohibit the drinking of alcohol and smoking at playgrounds and recreational parks,โ the Kinrara assemblyman from DAP wrote in a statement on his official Facebook page.
Ng noted that Malaysians are increasingly prioritising and practising a healthy lifestyle, with parks and playgrounds increasingly frequented by the public including by children and the elderly for recreational activities, sports and family activities.
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Rancang simpanan persaraan
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Rabu, 15 Julai 2020 @ 7:30 AM
ORANG ramai dinasihatkan bertemu pegawai Khidmat Nasihat Persaraan (RAS) yang disediakan Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP) bagi memastikan perancangan kewangan yang baik khususnya membabitkan simpanan persaraan.
Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz berkata, perkhidmatan ini disediakan secara percuma bagi membolehkan perancangan simpanan dilakukan dan ia turut ditawarkan kepada orang ramai termasuk bukan ahli KWSP.
"Program i-Lestari (KWSP) mencatatkan penerimaan baik sejak diluluskan di bawah Pelaksanaan Pakej Rangsangan Ekonomi Prihatin Rakyat (Prihatin).
"Sehingga 13 Julai, sebanyak 4.43 juta permohonan diluluskan dengan jumlah pengeluaran kumulatif antara April sehingga Julai adalah sebanyak RM5.37 bilion," katanya dalam laporan Laksana ke-13 pelaksanaan Pakej Rangsangan Ekonomi Prihatin Rakyat (Prihatin) dan Pelan Jana Semula Ekonomi Negara (Penjana) di sini, semalam.
Bekalan air mula pulih 9 pagi ini
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Rabu, 15 Julai 2020 @ 8:36 AM
KERJA penggantian dan penambahbaikan aset kritikal di Loji Rawatan Air Sungai Selangor Fasa 3 (LRA SSP3) siap sepenuhnya jam 11 malam tadi.
Sehubungan itu, pemulihan bekalan air juga mengikut jadual iaitu bermula 9 pagi ini sehingga 5 petang, Jumaat.
Ketua Komunikasi Korporat Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor), Elina Baseri berkata, Air Selangor kini sedang mengaktifkan semula sistem LRA SSP3.
"Kepada pelanggan yang terjejas, Air Selangor menasihatkan agar menggunakan air secara berhemat sepanjang tempoh gangguan bekalan air berjadual ini kerana bantuan bekalan air ke kawasan perumahan hanya akan digerakkan pada 16 dan 17 Julai.
"Pada masa ini, lori tangki Air Selangor memberi bantuan kepada premis kritikal seperti hospital dan pusat dialisis," katanya dalam satu kenyataan, hari ini.
Elina berkata, Air Selangor juga menempatkan sebanyak 82 tangki statik di sekolah sebagai persediaan untuk pembukaan sesi persekolahan, klinik kesihatan dan pusat dialisis.
Petaling Jaya woman suffers RM700,000 losses in Macau scam
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Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 10:53 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 โ A female civil servant suffered losses of almost RM700,000 after a Macau scam syndicate duped her into believing she was involved in a money-laundering scheme.
Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said the 51-year-old woman who worked at a statutory body agency had received a phone call from an individual claiming to be a Pos Laju staff from Kuala Lumpur on May 21.
He said the victim was informed that there was a package registered under her name containing an identity card and an ATM card sent to an individual with an address in Tuaran, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and that the package had been held.
โThe victim, who initially denied the matter, was then put on the line with another individual who introduced himself as a police officer from the Kota Kinabalu headquarters, stating that the victim had been identified to be involved in money laundering activities,โ he said in a statement here today.
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Penyelenggaraan cerun tidak dijalankan sejak 2013
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14 Julai 2020
PUTRAJAYA - Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) didapati tidak menjalankan pemeriksaan penyelenggaraan rutin terhadap cerun sejak tahun 2013.
Perkara itu didedahkan oleh Ketua Audit Negara, Datuk Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid pada sidang akhbar berkenaan Laporan Ketua Audit Negara (LKAN) bagi Tahun 2018 Siri 3 hari ini.
Menurutnya, peruntukan belanja bagi menguruskan kerja pembaikan cerun berjumlah RM205.56 juta.
"Bagi kerja pencegahan cerun, peruntukan disalurkan di bawah Inisiatif Pembiayaan Swasta II berjumlah RM40 juta bermula tahun 2018," katanya.
Bagaimanapun beliau berkata, perbelanjaan kerja pencegahan cerun adalah sekitar 32 peratus berbanding peruntukan yang diterima.
"Kerja pembaikan dan pencegahan cerun amat penting dilakukan untuk mengurangkan kadar kerosakan harta awam, kerugian ekonomi, menjamin keselamatan pengguna jalan raya dan risiko kehilangan nyawa.
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Expired food used in cooked food supply programme in boarding schools, reveals audit
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Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 l 4:32 PM MYT
PUTRAJAYA: Dry ingredients used in the cooked food supply (BMB) programme in some boarding schools had expired for as long as 427 days, the third series of the Auditor-General's Report 2018 found.
The report said that in a physical audit done from February to March 2019, it found that 28 dry ingredients in 13 out of 42 school samples had no expiration dates and had food that had expired, ranging from one to 427 days.
"This is because there was no inspection done by the contractor or the dormitory supervisor on the expired stocks and the stock production methods used by the contractors that did not use the โFirst In First Outโ (FIFO) concept.
"This can cause food poisoning among the students," stated the report which was released on Tuesday (July 14).
The report noted that the audit involved the evaluation of the BMB programme from 2016 to 2018, covering two main audit areas which are its performance and programme management.
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