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Modi to start second term without aide Arun Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take his oath of office today along with his ministers. However, he suffered at the start of his second term when key aide and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley opted out of the government.
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Dr M: Malaysia will continue using Huawei technology
TOKYO: Malaysia will continue using Huawei products and is unperturbed by spying allegations levelled against the tech giant. “We are too small to have an impact on the company like Huawei, whose research is far bigger than the whole of
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Debate dare: Does Kit Siang have a problem?
PUCHONG: Pekan MP Datuk Seri Najib Razak took Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang to task for claiming that he chickened out of a debate. “Debate topic proposed by him. He was the one who asked whether I was ready
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Socso advised to extend self-employment scheme to other sectors
PUCHONG: The Human Resources Ministry is recommending that Socso extends the Self-Employment Scheme (SPS) to include farmers, fishermen, hawkers and artistes. Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said the proposal was to ensure that apart from those with employers, workers in
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Dr M: Let’s have gold based currencies
TOKYO: Malaysia is proposing a new currency based on gold as it is more stable as opposed to the present currency trading which is manipulative, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad . He said that gold can evaluate trading
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Refugees return to Syria for Ramadan holiday
Approximately 44,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Syria so far ahead of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan Bayram, also known as Eid al-Fitr. Wanting to spend the holiday in their homeland, Syrian refugees from all around Turkey come to the
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China accuses US of ‘naked economic terrorism’
BEIJING: China accused the US of ‘naked economic terrorism’ as the communist nation ramps up the rhetoric in their trade war. The world’s top two economies are at loggerheads as trade talks have apparently stalled, with US President Donald Trump
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ORAT exercise for KLIA2 departing airline crew
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB) will be conducting an operational readiness, activation, and transition (ORAT) exercise for the new dedicated processing centre for departing airline crew at the klia2 beginning from tomorrow. Group chief executive officer Raja Azmi
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Amendments to boot out Zahid, Najib from Umno
PUCHONG: Acting Umno president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan is pushing for amendments on his party’s constitution to boot out leaders facing legal challenges such as party president, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. The amendments, if passed in November this year
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New provision to tackle corruption in commercial organisations
PUCHONG: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will enforce the new provision in the MACC Act 2009, effective June 2020, to enable commercial organisations involved in corruption to prosecuted. MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Datuk Seri Azam Baki said the enforcement
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