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Traders at wit’s end over rising flour prices |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-17-2022, 07:09 PM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment
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KUALA LUMPUR – The price of wheat flour is expected to increase following India’s immediate ban on wheat exports as the country seeks to bolster its food security.
The implication of the ban would certainly result in a lack of flour stock in the market, as wheat is the main ingredient. To some extent, it could lead to a spike in food prices.
Among those who would be affected are the bakery operators, mamak restaurant owners and bread manufacturing companies.
If the price of flour increases, Malaysian Muslim Restaurant Owners’ Association (Presma) president Datuk Jawahar Ali Taib Khan said the cost of raw materials for restaurateurs would also increase.
Jawahar said flour is one of the main ingredients used in daily meals at mamak restaurants, especially the all-time favourite roti canai and mee.
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We won’t give Wan Fayhsal Bagan Serai seat, says PAS chief |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-17-2022, 07:05 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: PAS will not give way to Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal to contest the Bagan Serai parliamentary seat in the 15th general election (GE15), says the Islamic party’s Bagan Serai chief Abdul Aziz Abdul Majid.
“He received no mandate from the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition at the state or federal level to contest the seat,” Aziz was quoted as saying in a Sinar Harian report.
He described Wan Fayhsal’s announcement that he would be contesting the seat as “inappropriate”.
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US shooter embraced racist ‘replacement’ theory online |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-17-2022, 02:59 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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WASHINGTON – The teenager charged with shooting dead 10 African-Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York followed an insidious racist creed gaining ground among white Americans that minorities are taking over society.
The 18-year-old suspect Payton Gendron took explicit inspiration from the white supremacist gunman who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.
The Christchurch killer had warned in a manifesto of a “Great Replacement” of white Christians of European descent by Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, and others, a theory that has found an increasing echo in American right-wing politics and on cable news.
Lifting often word-for-word from the rambling text, Gendron produced a chilling 180-page manifesto of his own – in which he stated his goal: to “kill as many blacks as possible”.
Gendron himself came from a rural town in New York state that had a very small number of non-white residents.
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See the ‘bigger picture’ of Muslim unity, says PAS veep |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-17-2022, 08:44 AM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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PETALING JAYA: Muslim unity, and not political survival, is the reason PAS continues to defend its ties with Umno via Muafakat Nasional (MN), PAS vice-president Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar said.
He said PAS saw the “bigger picture” of Muslim unity and would continue to hold talks with Umno to ensure that their cooperation continues, Berita Harian reported.
The fate of the alliance, which came about in 2019, has been in doubt because of differences between Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang.
“We will continue to hold talks with Umno to ensure the cooperation continues even though some leaders consider MN dead and buried,” he said, according to the report.
Last month, Perlis Umno chief Azlan Man described the pact between the two largest Malay parties as “dead”.
MN was established in September 2019 as an electoral pact aimed at uniting the Malay-Muslim vote.
However, ties between the two parties have grown increasingly strained after PAS joined Bersatu to form Perikatan Nasional when Muhyiddin Yassin was the prime minister.
In February, an Umno leader admitted that MN was “merely a marriage of convenience”.
Hadi had rejected the pact in November, describing it as akin to being “shackled”.
Source: FMT
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Underestimate PKR at your own peril in GE15, says its Bayan Baru MP |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-16-2022, 05:11 PM - Forum: Politics
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GEORGE TOWN – It is not unusual if pundits here predict that PKR is destined to be a goner in the next general election, but the party’s deputy chief in Penang has cautioned them not to underestimate its potential.
Sim Tze Tzin, who is also Bayan Baru MP, said that many critics have been slamming PKR since the 1990s, as the party was largely seen as an underdog despite having a substantial membership base.
Prior to the 2018 general election, Sim said, many political scientists had forecasted that PKR would lose badly, especially since its leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was then behind bars.
“What happened in 2018 was that PKR alone delivered up to 50 (parliamentary) seats.
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Ruthless India make history with first Thomas Cup crown |
Posted by: superadmin - 05-15-2022, 06:57 PM - Forum: Badminton
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BANGKOK: India made history today by winning the Thomas Cup for the first time with a ruthless 3-0 upset of reigning champions Indonesia in Bangkok.
The Indian team, competing in their first final of the men’s team championship, sealed the title when world No 11 Kidambi Srikanth defeated Jonatan Christie 21-15, 23-21.
A devastated Indonesia, the tournament’s most successful team having previously won it 14 times, could not keep pace with the fire brought by the Indian team – who joyfully rushed the court following Srikanth’s win.
India were already 2-0 up, with Lakshya Sen beating Anthony Ginting in the first singles match and then Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeating Mohammad Ahsan and Kevin Sukamuljo in the doubles.
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