Anyone who visits will be mesmerised by the range of grape colours from varieties like Ninel, Jupiter and Dixon. "There is no denying that people are attracted to my house because they want to see and taste the grapes. "It’s probably hard to believe, but each vine can yield 500 grape clusters weighing 500g to 700g each,” said Wan Yusoff, adding that he got his know-how from the Internet. Usually, following a harvest, I prune the vines and they produce fruit again in 90 days,” he said. Wan Yusoff said vines grown in Malaysia produce more fruit through three to four crops a year.

Once upon a time, before World War II, there lived a photographer who had a studio across the Chung Thye Phin Building in Ipoh, Perak. A section of the Made In Ipoh gallery-museum featuring vintage pedal cars, tin-toys and games. One of the attractions in Made In Ipoh is its three-storey high, fully restored 116-year-old Victorian cast iron spiral staircase in Phin Kee Chan. The Phin Kee Chan trade signboard, restored and crafted by Sifu Chow, the last traditional signboard maker in Ipoh, is also on exhibit here. Made In Ipoh and Phin Kee Chan opened its door to the public with its first private group guided tours in August last year, during the recovery control movement order period.

KUALA LUMPUR: The 53rd ASEAN Economic Ministers’ (AEM) Meeting and Related Meetings concluded on a positive note for the revitalisation of regional economic growth and the importance of ASEAN centrality and commitment to work collectively and emerge from the COVID-19 crisis successfully. The AEM also welcomed the finalisation of the ‘Bandar Seri Begawan Roadmap: An ASEAN Digital Transformation Agenda to Accelerate ASEAN’s Economic Recovery and Digital Economy Integration (BSBR)’, which will provide a focused plan for ASEAN to develop an enabling environment for a robust ASEAN digital economy and ensure the region emerges stronger from the pandemic. He reiterated Malaysia’s commitment to incorporate comprehensive digital economy elements in international trade arrangements and cooperation so as to create a digital trade environment with improved stability, lower risks, and reduced compliance costs. The initiative complements Malaysia’s MyDIGITAL that outlines strategies to drive the growth of the digital economy and narrow the digital divide as well as to transform the nation into a digitally-enabled and technology-driven high-income economy. The ministers endorsed the Framework for Circular Economy for the ASEAN Economic Community in recognising the importance of advancing sustainable economic agenda.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): The exponential surge of the digital assets ecosystem that has grown significantly in recent years has raised the important issue of what happens to these digital assets when an owner/investor passes away. “Octowill's digital inheritance solutions were created to mitigate the risks involved with maintaining digital assets and ease the process of asset transfers. “I was burdened with the daunting prospect that passing on my digital assets to my family may not be a straightforward process. “Providers of digital services also greatly benefit from the Octowill e-nomination services. Ramasamy said Octowill also plans to launch other forms of digital assets such as email, media, and phone content soon.

StarBiz spoke to Alex Ng, master trainer and speaker at VI College, on how he weathered the market uncertainties and what sort of opportunities he sees. He suggests that it is very important for investors to first understand their risk tolerance before going into the market. In value investing, he said that when the market makes a major dip it is a buying opportunity. “For me, to find a good stock I will follow three main factors – business model, management and valuation,” Ng says. Ng will be speaking at a live webinar on “Smart Strategies for Stock Investing” on Sept 18.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia administered 287,059 Covid-19 vaccine doses on Friday (Sept 10), says the Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV). JKJAV said that of this total, 111,027 received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 176,032 individuals had either completed both doses or received a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine. Sarawak led the way in first doses, administering 19,080 jabs, followed by Perak (16,785), Johor (16,140) and Pahang (14,995). JKJAV also said that to date, 38,001,646 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered since the start of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. As of Friday, 90.5% of the country's adult population had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 72% of the adult population were fully vaccinated.

But after Shum wrote a memoir denouncing the system that could detain his ex-wife without consequence, he finally heard from her. But “Red Roulette,” Shum’s insider account of of business and politics in Xi Jinping’s China, was already in various stages of distribution. “At the moment, every private entrepreneur faces a huge question: where does Xi Jinping want to take China?” Shum said in a video call. Li, who made arrangements for China’s party heavyweights when they landed in Beijing, was found guilty of corruption and executed. He and Duan were willing players in the “roulette-like political environment of the New China,” he writes, not innocent bystanders.

Would this set a precedent for the word “father” and “mother” in legislation in this country to be used interchangeably? For instance, should the courts go further and decide what “father” and “mother” or “husband” and “wife” is to mean? Would it not be better to deal with this lacuna by amending the Federal Constitution to read as “mother or father”? The government should take a proactive and sympathetic approach within the ambit of the law for people genuinely residing in Malaysia to have a right to stay and thus avoid living in uncertainty. In genuine cases, shouldn’t the adopted children have a right to stay here to avoid breaking up the family?

THE 10th World Bamboo Day will be celebrated virtually in Malaysia in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In conjunction with Malaysia Day on Sept 16, the planting of 100 bamboo plants will take place simultaneously nationwide. The virtual launch of World Bamboo Day Malaysia (WBDM) 2021 will be held on Sept 20, together with the unveiling of the National Bamboo Industry Development Action Plan 2021-2030 and Malaysia Bamboo Industry Sustainability Forum 2021. Two webinar series on Sept 28 and 29 — on the use of bamboo in the construction industry and bamboo plantations — will be held at the closing of the WBDM 2021 celebrations. Each of the World Bamboo Day activities planned for this year is aimed at bringing awareness to the public on the bamboo’s potential to boost the country’s economic growth and as an eco-friendly material.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia administered 322,346 Covid-19 vaccine doses on Thursday, reports the Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV). It said that of this total, 133,861 individuals received the first dose of a two-dose Covid-19 vaccine, while 188,485 had completed both doses. Perak administered the most first dose with 21,674 jabs, followed by Johor (17,467), Kedah (14,394) and Penang (13,501). Kuala Lumpur saw the most second shot of Covid-19 vaccine given with 24,347 doses, followed by Sabah (22,909), Selangor (18,449) and Terengganu (17,071). It added that, as of Thursday, 37,714,587 Covid-19 vaccine doses had been administered in the country since the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme began in February.

A PARK in Penang once touted as the best traffic garden in the country has been given a much needed facelift. “This time, we extended part of the roofing, resurfaced the road in the park and replaced the old board as the old one looked shabby. “There will be more maintenance and upgrading work done at the park this year,” he said. “Despite the pandemic, the MBPP managed to complete the upgrading work swiftly,” he said. The garden, which was opened in 1983, has a mock petrol station, fire hydrant, post box, a hospital signpost, a telephone booth and various road signs.

PETALING JAYA: Perak have a chance to ‘save face’ as they bow out from the Super League. “It is our last chance to gift something to our fans. Burhan Ajui took over as interim coach and had a nightmare start when they were thrashed 6-0 by Selangor at home. We’ll see what can be done against Perak,” added Burhan. “I want the boys to get a positive result before competing in the Malaysia Cup.”The last time both teams met, Sabah won 2-1.

Men’s singles: K. Sathish Kumar (Ind) bt Ong Ken Yon (Mas) 19-21, 21-17, 21-17; Priyanshu Rajawat (Ind) bt Meiraba Luwang Maisnam (Ind) 21-17, 21-17. Sankar Prasad (Ind) 21-19, 21-14; Ishaan Bhatnagar-K. Sai Pratheek (Ind) bt Loo Bing Kun-Lwi Sheng Hao (Mas) 24-22, 21-17. Women’s singles: Dounia Pelupessy (Sui) bt Mariia Stoliarenko (Ukr) 12-21, 21-9, 21-18; Polina Buhrova (Ukr) bt Aadya Variyath (Ind) 21-8, 21-15. Women’s doubles: Stine Kuspert-Emma Moszczynski (Ger) bt Low Yeen Yuan-Valeree Siow (Mas) 21-16, 21-18; Mariia Stoliarenko-Yelyzaveta Zharka (Ukr) bt Kati-Kreet Marran-Helina Ruutel (Fin) 21-14, 21-14. Mixed doubles: Yap Roy King-Valeree Siow (Mas) bt Malik Bourakkadi-Annabella Jaeger (Ger) 21-17, 21-14; Johannes Pistorius-Emma Moszczynski (Ger) bt Danylo Bosniuk-Yevgeniya-Paksyutova (Ukr) 19-21, 21-17, 21-12.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Former Brazilian soccer great Pele remains in an intensive care unit and is recovering satisfactorily almost a week after surgery to remove a tumor from his colon, his doctors said on Friday. Pele "is conscious, conversing actively and is maintaining normal vital signs," a statement from the Alberto Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo said. "I'm looking forward to playing again, but I'm still going to recover for a few more days." Pele's doctors discovered the tumor last week during his annual medical and he was operated on last Saturday. (Reporting by Pedro Fonseca; Writing by Gram Slattery and Andrew Downie; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer and Alistair Bell)

And one of the reasons is that it’s hard to argue when you don’t really know what the case is going to be. There’s two securities acts; the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act 1934, which makes a list of things that are securities like notes, bonds, stocks, options, you know the usual things. So you think about what’s happening, you put your money to the bank and what does the bank do with it? And I’ve long thought that it would make sense for them to have a banking operation, given they’re a centralized exchange. And indeed, that was the genesis of the Securities Act of 1933, as to what happened in the run-up before the crash of 1929.