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Global climate strike: thousands join coordinated action across world Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 05:46 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies Hundreds of thousands of people in 99 countries have taken part in a coordinated global climate strike demanding urgent action to tackle the ecological crisis. The strike on Friday, the first worldwide climate action since the coronavirus pandemic hit, is taking place weeks before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK. In Germany, two days before the country’s general election, Greta Thunberg told a crowd of more than 100,000 people that “no political party” was doing enough. The Swedish activist, whose solo strike in 2018 inspired the global Fridays for Future movement, told cheering supporters they needed to keep up the pressure on Germany’s political leaders past election day. - More -   Family Frontiers: Putrajaya’s appeal of citizenship ruling ‘baffling’ Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 04:30 PM - Forum: Stop Gender Inequality - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — Welfare association Family Frontiers has challenged the government’s reason for continuing its appeal against the High Court decision granting automatic citizenship to children born abroad to Malaysian mothers with foreign spouses. In a statement today, Family Frontiers said it was deeply disappointed by the government's move, which was announced by Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin yesterday, and called it “baffling”. “The government continues to take a stance that its women citizens are second-class citizens; by continuing to appeal, the government sends a message that it is in favour of continued discrimination and marginalisation of Malaysian mothers and their non-citizen children,” it said. Yesterday, Hamzah said that in making its decision, the Cabinet had considered the existence of two different court case judgments regarding the interpretation of the term “father” in the Second Schedule Part II Section 1(b) and 1© of the Federal Constitution. - More -   Government urged to engage all stakeholders over logistics Bumiputera equity issuey Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 04:21 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Lawmaker urges government to engage all stakeholders over logistics Bumiputera equity issue KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming called today for objective discussions on the Finance Ministry’s proposal to require local logistics operators to have 51 per cent Bumiputra ownership. He said the ministry’s decision to postpone the requirement was not a long-term solution. Instead, Ong said relevant stakeholders including the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Transport, Malaysia Investment Development Authority (MIDA), port operators, logistics operators, business chambers, financial institutions and politicians must discuss the matter exhaustively. “I am sure that my colleagues and myself who have experienced in MITI, MOF and MOT would be willing to participate in an honest and open dialogue, in the spirit of the MOU that was recently signed by PH and the Keluarga Malaysia government, so that we can have a mature discussion and avoid politicking via newspaper headlines,” he said in a statement today. -- More -   Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 04:13 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies When Meng Wanzhou's flight landed in Vancouver on 1 December 2018, she was expecting to make only a brief stopover. But after almost a three-year prolonged stay, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of the telecoms giant's founder is now a free woman. On Friday, prosecutors announced that a request to extradite her to the US had been dropped. During the three years of intense legal battles, Canada was caught in the escalating tension between Washington and Beijing. At the centre of the story is a sixteen-page corporate PowerPoint presentation. Vancouver stopover and an arrest When her plane from Hong Kong landed, Meng Wanzhou planned to go to a house she owned in the Canadian city to collect some luggage before catching another flight to Mexico for a corporate meeting. - More -   China- and Hong Kong-based bitcoin holders scrambling to protect their crypto assets Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 02:50 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies Some crypto holders in China and Hong Kong are scrambling to find a way to safeguard their digital currencies, according to an attorney who works with overseas clients to protect their crypto wealth. This comes after the People’s Bank of China said in a Q&A posted to its website that all cryptocurrency-related transactions in China are illegal, including services provided by offshore exchanges. Some crypto holders in China and Hong Kong are scrambling to find a way to safeguard their bitcoin and other tokens after China’s central bank published a new document Friday spelling out tougher measures in its wider crypto crackdown, including souped-up systems to monitor crypto-related transactions. Bitcoin was down as much as 6% and ether sunk as much as 10%, amid a wider sell-off early Friday, as investors digested the news. “Since the announcement less than two hours ago, I have already received over a dozen messages – email, phone and encrypted app – from Chinese crypto holders looking for solutions on how to access and protect their crypto holdings in foreign exchanges and cold wallets,” David Lesperance, a Toronto-based attorney who specializes in relocating wealthy crypto holders to other countries to save on taxes, told CNBC early Friday. Lesperance said the move is an attempt to freeze crypto assets so that holders can’t legally do anything with them. “Along with not being able to do anything with an extremely volatile asset, my suspicion is that like with Roosevelt and gold, the Chinese government will ‘offer’ them in the future to convert it to e-yuan at a fixed market price,” he said of President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy around the private ownership of gold, which was later repealed. “I have been predicting this for a while as part of the Chinese government’s moves to close out all potential competition to the incoming digital yuan,” said Lesperance. - More -   Tok Mat uncertain if Umno polls will be held before GE15 Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 02:11 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The next general election (GE15) will not be a factor when deciding to call for Umno elections, says party deputy president Mohamad Hasan. He also said it was not possible to say if it will be held before or after GE15 at this point, adding that there had been no calls from party members to expedite the holding of the elections. “The party has given the mandate to the Supreme Council to decide on the dates for the Umno general assembly and elections. “As for the likely dates, it will depend on the situation. We are not able to say if it will be held before or after GE15,” he told Utusan Malaysia. Mohamad, also known as Tok Mat, said the party had asked for opinions from the relevant government agencies on whether to hold the party elections or not. - More -   This country claims it hasn't had a single Covid-19 case. Activists say that's a lie Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 10:49 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies (CNN)In the nearly two years since the pandemic began, Turkmenistan has not seen a single case of Covid-19. Or at least, that's what the central Asian country's secretive, authoritarian government claims. Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic home to nearly 6 million people, is one of at least five countries that have not reported any coronavirus cases, according to a review of data collected by Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization. Three of those are isolated islands in the Pacific and the fourth is North Korea, a tightly-controlled hermit state. Turkmenistan's repressive President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who has ruled since 2006, has dismissed reports of Covid-19 in the country as "fake" and told the United Nations in an address Tuesday that the response to the pandemic shouldn't be "politicized." But independent organizations and journalists and activists outside Turkmenistan say there's evidence the country is battling a third wave which is overwhelming hospitals and killing dozens of people -- and warn the President is playing down the threat of the deadly virus in a bid to maintain his public image. - More -   51% Bumiputera ownership requirement for freight forwarders may create cronyism Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 10:31 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies 51% Bumiputera ownership requirement for freight forwarders may create cronyism: Pulai MP KUALA LUMPUR – Bumiputera ownership requirement for freight forwarding companies may create domination and cronyism within the freight industry, said Pulai MP Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub. The Amanah lawmaker’s comments come after a letter by the Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders (FMFF) to the government seeking a clarification of Bumiputera equity requirements which was sighted on the internet. “Following what FMFF has said, freight companies will find it difficult to comply if the government requires them to have 51% Bumiputera ownership,” Salahuddin said in a statement. He questioned the rationalisation of such a requirement, adding it is both unfair and biased. - More -   After 3-year legal battle, Huawei exec leaves Canada for China Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 10:26 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies VANCOUVER – A Canadian judge yesterday ended extradition proceedings against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and ordered her bail conditions lifted, effectively freeing her and bringing to a close a nearly three-year legal saga. The decision by British Columbia Supreme Court associate chief justice Heather Holmes comes after Meng earlier reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the United States to avoid felony fraud charges. “I’ve signed the order of discharge,” said Holmes at the end of a short hearing in which Canadian government lawyers acting on behalf of the US requested a stay of proceedings and the removal of bail conditions. - More -   Showdown looming in Umno? Posted by: superadmin - 09-25-2021, 10:05 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: A political analyst has speculated a showdown in Umno, saying this is indicated by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s decision to give equal funding to all MPs. Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs told FMT he believed a tussle for the Umno presidency was likely and that Ismail was desperate for the support of MPs. He said the decision to allocate equal funding could “only mean that something is brewing” in Ismail’s administration and that “Umno is heading for a showdown.” He added that the equal funding would probably last as long as Ismail felt secure in his support, particularly from his own party. - More - Pages (1133): « Previous 1 … 838 839 840 841 842 … 1133 Next » Jump to page: