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| Teenage Crisis |
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Posted by: uzma11 - 12-21-2021, 12:21 PM - Forum: Educations
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Almost every teenager goes through a Teenage Crisis. Sometimes you may notice that your teen slams the door when she goes out, even without any reason. Sometimes you may also see that your teen’s mood is cloudy. How can you tell the difference between an existential depression and a more severe problem? Even for specialists, it is not always easy.
https://blog.spouseware.net/how-do-i-kno...ge-crisis/
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| Children Internet Dependency |
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Posted by: uzma11 - 12-21-2021, 12:20 PM - Forum: Ipoh Residential Areas
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Children Internet Dependency has positive and negative outcomes. It will increase negativities in our youngsters from the hacking tendency to be hooking into online creation.
Everything ranging from faculties, offices to grocery looking has shifted online. It on a positive note permits the North American nation to finish all our daily tasks while not feat the comfort of our homes. However, we are able to not ignore that this has conjointly junction rectifier to a major rise in web and technology use.
On the opposite hand, the tendency to hack Facebook, Instagram etc. has become over double within the past.
https://www.hackerslist.co/internet-depe...od-or-bad/
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| Report: Two Umno leaders have ties to mega reclamation project in Melaka |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-21-2021, 10:46 AM - Forum: Politics
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Report: Two Umno leaders have ties to mega reclamation project party pushed for during Melaka election
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — Two Umno politicians were directly involved in the Melaka Waterfront Economic Zone (M-WEZ).
Malaysiakini reported that Umno duo, Dewan Negara Deputy President Datuk Seri Mohamad Ali Mohamad and former Melaka Deputy Speaker Datuk Ghazale Muhamad, both own companies that were awarded concession areas in the project.
Malaysiakini said it discovered this while performing a check on a new Klebang reclamation project under the M-WEZ, which is still undergoing its environmental impact assessment (EIA).
The EIA report, submitted by Konsortium Pembangunan Tanah Laut (Melaka) Sdn Bhd, showed that the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) state government awarded 300 acres of reclamation concessions to four companies own by Mohamad Ali and Ghazale between June 2016 and February 2017.
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| Climate expert warns of heavy rain till February |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-21-2021, 10:14 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News
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PETALING JAYA: A climate expert has warned of more natural disasters in the country because of climate change and called for a proper early warning system to be put in place immediately.
Fredolin Tangang, a climatology and oceanography specialist, said usually it was the east coast states that were affected by floods caused by the year-end rain.
This time, however, a tropical depression pressure system in the South China Sea moved into the peninsula and strengthened.
“This is the first time that it has crossed into the Klang Valley and strengthened itself at the Straits of Melaka, affecting Negeri Sembilan, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur,” Tangang, a Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia professor, told FMT.
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| French media pushes anti-China narrative in a monolithic block |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-21-2021, 09:36 AM - Forum: Politics
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French media pushes anti-China narrative in a monolithic block, but at least one man is fighting for objective views
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Maxime Vivas (Vivas), French writer and journalist, has been insulted and attacked for his objective views on China. Vivas started in early November on the world's largest petition platform, change.org, a petition to call on all sectors of society to have an objective view of China. But then the link for the petition quickly became unavailable, as the US-based website deleted the petition. "Respect China like we respect ourselves!" Vivas openly criticized the Western media outlets and social media that demonize China, but was frequently attacked by the French media. The Global Times reporters Chen Qingqing and Liu Xin recently had an online forum with Vivas and Zheng Ruolin (Zheng), a senior Chinese media professional and European studies expert who has lived in France for several years, to look into where the Western media bias came from on China-related coverage and how to deal with their smearing of China.
Zheng: Hello, Mr Vivas. I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak with you, especially regarding an appeal that you have launched for the right to speak differently about China. It is also an honor for me to participate. But the petition had been deleted by the US website change.org very soon. I saw the petition had already got 1,612 signatures. In the current context of Sinophobia around the world, it is very encouraging to see the petition. Could you tell us more about the petition? About why you started it, how it was deleted and how you managed to repost it on another website?
Vivas: The petition was initiated by Jean-Pierre Page, who was the co-editor of the book called China Without Blinders. The book was written by 17 people from five continents.
We initiated the petition since we realized that with this book and the book that I had written before on the Uygurs, I was being criticized, slandered, and defamed by the media and sometimes political figures. I thought it was necessary to obtain the right to speak about China differently.
China has endured unrelenting defamation and it prompted us to launch the petition.
Initially, we wanted to have 100 signatories from around the world to launch the petition. Later we got 150. The petition was released on change.org with extraordinary silence and then it was censored immediately.
What is remarkable is that it is not the change.org office in France or its Paris office that censored it, but the US office. The website sent me an email that the petition did not meet their criteria.
So, it is the US that decided which petitions could circulate in France. It's already a little bit unbelievable. It's incredible.
For now, we are not talking about it. But they will have to talk about it at one time or another. Currently, the media is silent on both censorship and the fact that 150 intellectuals from around the world are advocating that we should talk about China differently.
You know, there is a principle in law which says that you cannot try someone without giving the floor to the defense or counter-witnesses.
Despite the media's silence, we got many signatures. We also got support from a great French poet, who is well-known in China since he lectured and toured there.
His name is Serge Pey. He was awarded the Apollinaire Prize. He wrote me a poem. I am going to read a part of it to you and you will see the support of this great French poet.
Because their job is to spit, they spit on my friend, they spit on him because their job is to spit.
Watch how he spits, because their job is to spit.
He spits on the truth, he spits on it because their job is to lie.
Hear how they lie, because their job is to spit.
He spits in the springs, they spit on it, because their job is to dirty.
See how dirty they are, for their job is to spit.
He spits on the hand of peace and spits on it, for their job is to kill.
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| China confident amid global Omicron rampage |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-20-2021, 04:18 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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With the Omicron variant already rampaging through some 89 countries and being found in three Chinese mainland cities, more nations have decided to drop their "living with the virus" policies and tightened up pandemic control measures, including canceling public celebration events and reintroducing travel restrictions amid the upcoming New Year holidays.
Facing grave challenges posed by Omicron from overseas, Chinese public health experts expressed confidence in reining in the new variant, with China's inactivated vaccines potentially being more effective compared with other types, as well as the mature epidemic response mechanism established across the country.
As two of the most important holidays for Chinese people's family reunions - the New Year and the Spring Festival - draw near, several cities and regions in China have announced policy encouraging residents to stay put during the two holidays. But unlike last year, this year's proposals have been more targeted, considerate, and suitable to local conditions.
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| UK regulator fines HSBC £63.95 mil for money laundering failings |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-20-2021, 09:26 AM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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LONDON – Britain’s financial regulator today handed a large fine to HSBC for failings in its anti-laundering procedures.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined the bank £63.95 million (RM358.4 million) after detecting serious weaknesses in three key areas of its monitoring systems.
The FCA said HSBC had failed correctly to evaluate scenarios deployed in money laundering and terrorism financing between March 2010 and March 2018.
FCA executive director Mark Steward said the failings were “unacceptable and exposed the bank and community to avoidable risks”.
HSBC did not challenge the ruling, which saw its punishment reduced from an initial 91 million pounds.
The FCA noted that HSBC had since put in place a large-scale programme to correct weaknesses in its systems.
In mid-morning trading in London, HSBC shares gave up 0.58% to 445.65 pence. – AFP, December 17, 2021
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| Shock over Sarawak polls for better or for worse? – Stephen Then |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-20-2021, 09:21 AM - Forum: Politics
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THREE days before polling, I wrote an article that Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) leaders have already declared victory over the rural frontiers of Sarawak.
On the eve of polling, in the late afternoon hours, veterans of opposition parties PKR, DAP, and Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) told me they were still hopeful as there were signs that they could make crucial inroads into numerous constituencies.
However, in the late evening hours that same day, I received footage showing celebrations in longhouses adorned with big GPS banners.
People were seen dancing and singing, with crates of beer to share.
There was also a video allegedly showing a politician telling longhouse folk to collect cash handouts after casting their votes.
Later that night – a few hours before campaigning ended – an audio recording made its rounds, of someone saying there were “angpows and cakes” to be collected at a certain place in Miri city.
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| Stop being shameless freeloaders |
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Posted by: superadmin - 12-20-2021, 09:10 AM - Forum: Politics
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At a car wash recently, two enforcement officers in an official vehicle drove in and asked for the car to be washed. After 20 minutes, they left without paying. When I asked the foreign workers why they did not ask for payment, they just shrugged and walked away saying “what can we do.”
A few weeks ago, a chat with some corporate figures who deal with politicians in power, or their representatives, revealed how those in power use facilities and just walk away without settling their bills.
One of them was terribly upset that the “big names” or their associates who make bookings for groups on behalf of the “bosses” do not even have the courtesy to ask if they have to settle their dues before they leave. Some behave as though it is their birthright, he said.
Another said these freeloaders run up bills ranging from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of ringgit depending on the facilities and the number of days they use the outlet.
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