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Ride-hailing firms leave elderly cabbies in the dust Posted by: superadmin - 01-19-2022, 10:19 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies PETALING JAYA: An elderly cab driver sits at the taxi stand in the heat outside Bangsar Village I in his crisp white shirt, looking around for passengers. He waves at his fellow taxi drivers. Some join him on the bench but others remain in their cabs with the engines switched off and windows wound down to let the air circulate. Bhavin and his mates, aged 70 and above, are being swept away by the tides of change that have come with the introduction of e-hailing services in the city. This is because some ride-hailing companies allow only those aged 21 to 69 to be their drivers and require those aged 50 to 69 to pass a medical check-up. For Bhavin, aged 72, signing up to be an e-hailing driver is a non-starter. - More -   Inflation is killing your future Posted by: superadmin - 01-19-2022, 10:15 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies I’ve noticed something peculiar happening over the years. When I was a teenager, I would accompany my parents to the Giant hypermarket in our neighbourhood to pick up groceries. The month’s haul – which would fill up the shopping cart – would cost my dad around RM500 or so. And every so often, he would lament about how when he was a teenager growing up in the 60s, things were so much cheaper. But of course, as most teenagers do, I brushed off my dad’s comments and just accepted this increase in prices over the years as a natural phenomenon. In my mind, price hikes were just something that happened, like gravity or growing old – no explanations were needed. But as I got older, and especially after I started working, I began taking this seemingly natural phenomenon much more seriously. After all, it was thinning my own wallet and I didn’t like it. I wondered why I had to pay increasingly higher prices for goods that pretty much remained the same over the years? I mean, how much can you improve sugar or spinach or milk? And yet, I was asked to cough up more and more money for it over the years. But again, this wasn’t an urgent enough matter for me to merit a deep dive – until now, that is. The RM500 that would fill up my parents’ shopping cart 15 years ago barely fills up a quarter of mine today. Most alarmingly, this increase in prices seems to be accelerating, all while wages remain largely stagnant. - More -   Kit Siang’s bouquet for Musa, brickbat for Dr M Posted by: superadmin - 01-19-2022, 09:48 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies From Terence Netto DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang’s opinion that Musa Hitam was the best prime minister Malaysia never had ought to be viewed against the backdrop of a video that made the rounds last year. It showed Musa holding forth on an encounter he had with Kit Siang some time during the 22 months that Pakatan Harapan ruled the federal government. Musa mused on how at that encounter Kit Siang had waxed euphoric about halcyon times for the DAP under the second premiership of Mahathir Mohamad. Musa had been deputy prime minister (July 1981 to February 1986) during the first five years of Mahathir’s first tenure as prime minister (1981-2003). He had emerged from that experience leery of the methods and morals of Mahathir. So when Kit Siang was lyrical about his party’s situation, the former deputy prime minister, who had a bitter falling out with Mahathir in early 1986 that led to his resignation, was unimpressed. Sure, Kit Siang was entitled to bragging rights. DAP had six ministers in Mahathir’s Cabinet, with son Guan Eng holding the high-profile finance portfolio. - More -   Emergency declared to save Muhyiddin, not Malaysia Posted by: superadmin - 01-19-2022, 09:40 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Federal Bakery: Is the Covid-19 pandemic worse than endemic corruption? Worse than leaders stealing the public wealth? Worse than the general ineptitude of a bunch of political shysters who took on the mantle of government by stealth? If the pandemic is worse than war as former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin seems to see it, it is because he and the bunch who call themselves ‘the government’ lack the aptitude to deal with the disease and need a metaphor to hide their failings. Pompous platitudes of the type that is being meted out by this man and his friends won’t cure even an ant bite. The pandemic reigns and will continue to reign for as long as democracy is banished, as long as we are ruled by street gangs who conduct the affairs of state through press conferences and the fiat of their own utterances and by invoking authority outside the democratic processes which this country was once ruled by. The greater danger we face today is that all of what is happening is being justified by our experts as autochthonous alternatives to the constitutional set-up we are used to. Shame. OCT: Muhyiddin’s decision to declare an emergency didn't achieve the results it was intended for. Many countries fought the virus without declaring emergency. In the end, these countries ended up in much better shape. Muhyiddin used the wrong tool to fight the virus and lost. In actual fact, the emergency helped him to remain as PM and to spend without being questioned. Just look at the confusing SOPs and MCOs introduced by his then senior minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and how his ministers breached the rules. The rakyat became collateral damage while his ministers were not reprimanded. His whole team of more than 70 ministers and deputy ministers, special envoys, and advisers couldn't manage the crisis. Most of the time was spent on defending his PM post. Eventually, he was nevertheless ousted by Umno. This is the result when the PM the rakyat voted for was not the PM they got but a backdoor PM. Instead of the best of the best, we got the worst of the worst. - More -   SC’s findings on Azam ‘upsetting’, says Guan Eng Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 07:01 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Lim Guan Eng says that the Securities Commission Malaysia’s (SC) inability to determine if Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki had committed a securities offence was “upsetting”. He said the laws are clear about proxy share trading, yet the SC had yet to reveal if Azam’s brother was involved in purchasing the shares. Lim said if the regulators cannot answer pertinent questions, then it should explain why three people were similarly fined millions of ringgit for a similar offence in the past. “This is clearly double standard. Is SC going to return the fines they have paid and apologise for prosecuting them?” Lim said SC’s response was against its legal duty as capital market regulators. He said Azam had openly and publicly admitted that he had allowed his brother to conduct proxy share trading. “Like every developed capital market in the world, proxy share trading is outlawed, as a trading account must be opened in the name of the beneficial owner or authorised nominee,” he said. - More -   SC’s findings on Azam should be made public, says C4 Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 06:55 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: An anti-corruption watchdog has urged the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) to explain how it could not “conclusively establish” if Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki broke the law over his ownership of shares. “We urge the SC to make public their inquiry findings and how it arrived at this uncertain conclusion,” Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) executive director Cynthia Gabriel told FMT. “This vindicates further our position from the onset that only a full and independent probe will suffice, as it will also establish any potential breach of the public servant asset declaration laws and circulars as well as reveal the source of funds,” she said. Stating that the country is “deep diving into further darkness”, Cynthia also called for Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to immediately convene a high-level task force to investigate the issue. Meanwhile, Bersih chairman Thomas Fann said the SC must explain why their investigations were inconclusive. - More -   Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Joslin - Henri Mancini, Nino Rota Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 06:32 PM - Forum: Musics - No Replies   A physicist’s lessons about race, power, and the universe Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 03:41 PM - Forum: Sciences - No Replies When Chanda Prescod-Weinstein was a 10-year-old growing up in East Los Angeles, she came across the Errol Morris documentary A Brief History of Time, which chronicled the life of the physicist Stephen Hawking. Watching it, Prescod-Weinstein says, she realized Hawking “was being paid to use math all day to solve problems Einstein hadn’t worked out.” For a queer Black Jewish kid from a working-class neighborhood who liked doing math, that seemed like a pretty good deal. “That was really where I got my first taste of the idea that math is kind of like the language of the universe,” Prescod-Weinstein told me. She’s now an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Hampshire, where she studies dark matter and particle physics. She’s also on the core faculty of the university’s Women’s Studies department — a seemingly unusual combination that hints at the multifaceted approach she brings to her work. In 2021, Prescod-Weinstein published The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred, a wide-ranging book that is both a scientific explainer and an argument that unjust power structures shape the world of physics. She tells stories of subatomic particles like baryons, which are the building blocks of atoms; she critiques a trend she’s seen, in which writers compare the mystery and invisibility of dark matter to the lived experiences of Black people. In a chapter called “Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story” — a chapter that grew unexpectedly out of her writing on the dark universe, and that she debated including in the book — she writes about how her own experience of sexual assault shaped her understanding of injustices in her field. - More -   SC can’t confirm if Azam broke the law over share ownership Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 03:31 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) says it cannot “conclusively establish” if Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki broke the law over his ownership of shares. “The SC has concluded its inquiry and based on the evidence gathered, the SC is not able to conclusively establish that a breach under section 25 (4) of the Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act 1991 (Sicda).” - More -   Who does Azam think he is: Pakatan PSC members call for meet to proceed Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:39 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Pakatan Harapan (PH) members of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on Agencies have pressed their chairman to carry on with tomorrow’s proceedings with or without Tan Sri Azam Baki’s attendance. Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong said it is pertinent that the meeting be held even without the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief, to establish the terms of references pertaining to its probe into Azam’s share ownership. Khoo said this would include finalising details on who else would be summoned by the PSC under the Prime Minister’s Department, with Azam’s brother Datuk Nasir Baki among the names being proposed. The DAP lawmaker added that under the Standing Orders, the PSC has the power to call in any person to obtain information related to its investigations. His remark follows Azam’s reasons not to attend tomorrow’s proceedings, which prompted the committee chairman and Kuala Krai MP Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahman to postpone the meeting. “Who is Azam Baki to say he doesn’t want to come? Can Azam override Parliament now? Why is it that when Azam issued a letter (to Latiff stating his reasons not to attend), we had to postpone our meeting? - More - Pages (1309): « Previous 1 … 906 907 908 909 910 … 1309 Next » Jump to page: