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The truth about eating eggs - BBC Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 05:32 PM - Forum: Health News - No Replies   Afghanistan crisis: How Europe's relationship with Joe Biden turned sour Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 05:15 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies A series of disagreements, most notably over Afghanistan, have some European leaders revising their expectations about US President Joe Biden, and thinking more about a future untethered to the US. From a white-knuckle grip with Donald Trump to an arm on the shoulder with President Biden, Emmanuel Macron's greetings tell the story of how EU leaders saw the change of US administrations. At a Nato summit in May 2017, the French president dug his fingertips into President Trump's hand, staring him in the face. "It wasn't innocent", Mr Macron later said. "In my bilateral dialogues, I won't let anything pass." Roll forward four years to the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Joe Biden's first as US president, and again Mr Macron grasped the moment. As the cameras snapped, he walked across the beach with his arm around Mr Biden. The body language shift was clear: the two sides arm-in-arm once again. But in capitals across Europe, from London to Berlin, Afghanistan has soured the sweetness of Joe Biden's honeymoon. It's not the fact of the withdrawal itself that has rankled but the US's lack of coordination with allies, particularly since the Nato mission at the time of the drawdown comprised troops from 36 countries, three-quarters of whom were non-American, leading to an international scramble to evacuate. The German deployment in Afghanistan was its first major combat mission since World War II, so the frustration at how it ended runs deep. Armin Laschet, Germany's conservative candidate for chancellor ahead of elections later this month, called the US withdrawal "the greatest debacle that Nato has experienced since its foundation". - More -   Heavy clashes erupt between Taliban and anti-Taliban group in Afghanistan's Panjshir Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 05:04 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Heavy clashes erupt between Taliban and anti-Taliban group in Afghanistan's Panjshir province (CNN)Heavy clashes erupted Thursday night around Afghanistan's northern Panjshir Valley between Taliban fighters and an anti-Taliban group, according to a source within the group. Panjshir Valley, a mountainous, inaccessible region north of Kabul, is the last major holdout against Taliban rule, and has a long history of resisting the insurgent group. Sporadic fighting between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front (NRF) has continued for two weeks now. The Taliban have been massing forces in and around Panjshir province in recent weeks, and said on Monday they had captured three districts in the valley. The overnight clashes between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) started late Thursday, and were very intense, said the NRF source. - More -   US funding tapped for Pacific undersea cable after China rebuffed Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 04:50 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies SYDNEY – The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) will tap a United States funding facility to construct a Pacific undersea communications cable, two sources told Reuters, after rejecting a Chinese company-led proposal deemed a security threat by American officials. The US has taken great interest in several plans in recent years to lay optic fibre cables across the Pacific, projects that would bring vastly improved communications to island nations. The undersea cables have far greater data capacity than satellites, leading Washington to raise concerns that the involvement of Chinese firms would compromise regional security. Beijing has consistently denied any intent to use cable infrastructure for spying. Two sources with knowledge of the plans said FSM will use US funds to construct a line between two of its four states, Kosrae to Pohnpei, replicating part of a route proposed under a previous US$72.6 million (RM301 million) project backed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Reuters reported in June that the project, which also encompasses Nauru and Kiribati, was scuppered after Washington raised concerns that the contract would be awarded to Huawei Marine, now called HMN Technologies and majority-owned by the Shanghai-listed Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd. - More -   Good game, well played: Pulai MP’s motion to remove Azhar also rejected, says Fahmi Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 04:43 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Pulai MP Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub’s parliamentary motion to unseat Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun has been rejected. This comes after Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil revealed on Twitter yesterday that his own application was rejected by Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Rashid Hasnon. Today, Fahmi revealed the same happened to Salahuddin, although it appears that the latter may have complied with the necessary Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders. Fahmi explained that his own motion was rejected as it was “not preceded by a notifier under Standing Order 27”. “However, when Salahuddin filed a similar motion under Standing Order 27, Rashid said it was not accurate. “So, which one is it? Good game and well played,” Fahmi tweeted. - More -   High Court orders EC to implement Undi18 by Dec 2021 Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 04:27 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies High Court orders EC to implement Undi18 by Dec 2021, says govt’s delay to Sept 2022 irrational, illegal KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 ― Five Malaysian youths who took the government and the Election Commission (EC) to court for delaying lowering the voting age to 18, won today. The High Court in Kuching, Sarawak ruled that the government and Election Commission (EC) must take steps to implement Undi18 by the end of this year, to enable Malaysians aged 18 to vote in the next elections instead of waiting until they turn 21. High Court judicial commissioner Alexander Siew How Wai ruled that the EC and government had acted “illegally” and “irrationally” when they decided to delay the Undi18 implementation from the promised date of July 2021 to September 2022. Following his decision that the EC and government had failed to act with “all convenient speed” to implement the lower minimum voting age of 18, Siew granted two court orders. - More -   Tengku Zafrul to moot upping statutory debt limit to 65% Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 02:33 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz will propose to the cabinet that the statutory debt limit be raised to 65% from the current 60% of gross domestic product. Although the statutory debt-to-GDP ratio is currently at 58%, he said, given the commitment made by the government to support the people and businesses, the ratio will probably increase to above 60% by year-end. “Today, we are still below 60%, (which is) about 58% of our statutory debt limit, and even if we breach it, it will be marginal, but then again, we still have to go to Parliament to increase the limit. “The plan is to present (the proposal) to the cabinet next week. Then, we will bring it to Parliament at the right time,” he told a press conference here today. - More -   No need for review, just reverse degazettement, Selangor govt told Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 01:59 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies PETALING JAYA: An NGO and two other groups, including one supporting Anwar Ibrahim, have submitted a memorandum urging the Selangor government to stop the degazettement of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR). Natural Heritage of Malaysia (PEKA), the pro-Anwar Otai Reformis and Gerak said the Selangor forestry department had received 45,000 letters and more than 129,034 online petitions objecting to the degazettement. In a memorandum to the Selangor Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) and menteri besar Amirudin Shari, they urged the state government to reverse the degazettement instead of reviewing the decision. They said Selangor was developed enough and the state should focus on the preservation and conservation of nature. Source: FMT   Why do we need special envoys when we have diplomats, asks Kadir Jasin Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 01:55 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The new government’s move to continue the practice of appointing MPs as special envoys has come under question, with a veteran newsman asking how much taxpayers’ money is used for this purpose. “Why do we need to pay for ministerial-level special envoys when we have many ministers and professional diplomats who are already serving as ambassadors and high commissioners?” said A Kadir Jasin in a Facebook post. “What are their duties and key performance indicators, aside from supporting (former prime minister) Muhyiddin Yassin and now (Prime Minister) Ismail Sabri Yaakob?” Kadir was commenting on reports that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and Progressive Democratic Party president Tiong King Sing would continue in their respective roles as special envoys to the Middle East and China. In announcing the government’s decision yesterday, the Prime Minister’s Office also said that former minister Richard Riot Jaem had also been appointed a special envoy for East Asia. - More -   Potential risks surrounding Malaysia’s 5G rollout, claims group Posted by: superadmin - 09-03-2021, 01:51 PM - Forum: Telco Service Discussions - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Several potential risks have been raised surrounding the governance of the special purpose vehicle tasked with managing the country’s sole 5G network, Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB). UK-based GSMA Intelligence said in a report commissioned by DT Economics that most of the risks were related to lack of regulatory frameworks, monopoly and pricing as well as lack of clarity in policy objectives. DT Economic representative Lara Stoimenova said there was an unclear approach to the pricing. “When allocating spectrum to DNB, it is important that the government implements an approach which minimises potential competitive distortions between different mobile services,” she said at a webinar titled “Advancing Digital Malaysia” organised by GSMA yesterday. “As a monopoly network operator, DNB would have the incentive and ability to use its position for its own commercial advantage. This would be particularly the case when negotiating wholesale access prices.” - More - Pages (1152): « Previous 1 … 879 880 881 882 883 … 1152 Next » Jump to page: