Kids step up when parents are down with Covid-19
“To my shock, they told me I had Covid-19 and dengue, ” said Nor Khayrana, who is a subeditor at a news portal. “We kept in touch with our parents, especially my mother, through video calls and texts, ” he added. Hadi also suggested that the authorities check on children left alone during quarantine more often. In Perak, Dr Samsu Ambia Ismail and his children comforted each other when they were hit by Covid-19 in March last year. Her sister Elisya Syamin, 16, said she was thankful that the hospital had arranged for them to be warded together.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 23:15 UTC
110-year-old woman gets vaccinated
PETALING JAYA: A 110-year-old woman has gotten vaccinated against Covid-19 and hopes others will follow her lead. Chong Ngi Chau from Labu, Negri Sembilan, received her first dose at Nilai Medical Centre on Friday morning. Her granddaughter Luo Xiu Ying and grandson-in-law Huang Yu Tang said they were glad that their grandmother had gotten vaccinated as those living with her often had to leave the house for work. Luckily, our grandmother is healthy and has no chronic illness, ” Luo told mySinchew, the English portal for Sin Chew Daily. Luo said her grandmother felt fine after the injection and that the medical staff were surprised when they learned her age.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 23:15 UTC
‘My father’s grief over losing his wife was heart-wrenching’
PETALING JAYA: After witnessing her father’s unimaginable grief over the loss of his beloved wife to Covid-19 just two weeks after Hari Raya Aidilfitri, a woman is pleading with fellow Malaysians to keep battling the virus. Civil servant Siti Raudhah Md Yatim, 39, said her mother Hajah Saby Musa, 63, breathed her last after a week of treatment at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Siti Raudhah told mStar that it all started when her father came down with a fever on May 14, followed by her younger brother and mother two days later. “My parents, my younger brother, my older sister and my brother-in-law did swab tests. “I apologised for everything and tried not to cry in front of her even though the situation was heart-wrenching, ” Siti Raudhah recalled.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 23:15 UTC
The tale of a paw-sitive friendship
JOHOR BARU: For more than a year, a brown female dog faithfully accompanied frontliners on duty at the KM16 Jalan Kulai-Kota Tinggi roadblock, set up since the first movement control order in March last year. Taken by the mongrel’s calm and friendly nature, one of the policemen, Kpl Mohd Faidzul Ishak, named her “Jony”. “It became a routine and we would often feed her whatever food we had, such as chicken and rice, as she does not like eating dog food, ” Kpl Faidzul, 33, told The Star. “We hope Jony can recover and go back to being her bubbly and active self soon, ” Kpl Faidzul said. When contacted, Kuan said he was only trying to highlight the friendship between Jony and the policemen to spread some positive energy during these trying times.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 23:03 UTC
Top priority – keep the kids safe
We hope neither we nor our kids get infected by the disease,” said the 30-year-old from Kota Baru. We understand that we must stay at home to guard against getting infected,” she said. Kiranjit Muniandy wonders if she is doing enough to protect her 19-month-old daughter from getting infected. “The number of kids getting infected of late is alarming. My husband works in the day while I work at night so we take turns,” said the banking executive.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 23:03 UTC
Berkshire leads $750 mln Nubank funding round, values it at $30 bln
Nubank, best known as a credit card issuer, also said it raised an additional $250 million from a series of other investors. The new investments give Nubank a $30 billion valuation, up from $25 billion at the time of its previous fundraising round, according to a source familiar with the situation. His Berkshire Hathaway also acquired a stake in payments company StoneCo Ltd almost three years ago, when it went public. Nubank's $750 million new funding round is part of its series G fundraising round, which totaled $1.15 billion. An initial part of the series G round was announced in January.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 22:54 UTC
Family doing their bit to boost vaccine drive
Compiled by XIAO TONG, JAROD LIM and R. ARAVINTHANTHREE members of a family in Kelantan are supporting the vaccination programme by offering free rides for senior citizens to vaccination centres (PPVs), reported Utusan Malaysia. Ratna Salsabella Ismail, 31, alongside her brother Ahmad Firdaus, 37, and her sister-in-law Nur Badariah Mohd Din, 31, started the service three weeks ago. They offer free rides to seven or eight senior citizens each day, except Fridays, starting from 9am. Ratna Salsabella said they only allow one passenger in each trip to avoid the risk of transmission of the Covid-19 virus. He said after a friend informed him about the incident, he rushed to the site when the rain subsided.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 22:52 UTC
Trafficking gang lured girls using TikTok
At least 11 people have been arrested for being suspected members of a Bangladesh trafficking gang that lured girls and women into India's sex trade using the social media platform TikTok, Dhaka police said recently. The gang's alleged ringleader Rafizul Islam Ridoy - nicknamed "TikTok Ridoy" - would "lure young girls from TikTok and other social media groups, promising to make them TikTok models", Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) paramilitary unit said. The latest arrests came on Monday when two men were held in a southwestern border district in Bangladesh for allegedly trafficking girls and women aged between 17 to 22, Dhaka police's deputy commissioner Mohammad Shahidullah said. A total of nine people were arrested in Bangladesh and two others in India's tech hub Bangalore for allegedly being part of the trafficking gang, police added. Shahidullah said that since 2019 when TikTok became popular in Bangladesh, such gangs had sprung up to draw in teenagers from low-income families.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 22:52 UTC
Other nations include children for vaccination
PETALING JAYA: Countries are looking at strategies to curb Covid-19 infections among children, with some even approving vaccines for adolescents. In Brazil, deaths among children under the age of 10 were reportedly over 2, 000, according to data as of mid-April. Now, as vaccination rates gain traction across the world, children and adolescents are slowly being included for such vaccination. Prof Dr Moy Foong Ming, of Universiti Malaya’s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, also pointed out children may risk infecting others. “If there is supply, children above 12 years old should be vaccinated like in the US, UK and Singapore, ” she said.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 22:52 UTC
PM wants social protection database to ensure aid can be handed out effectively to the people
PUTRAJAYA: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wants a new and effective approach in providing social protection coverage to the people. The Prime Minister emphasised on the need to have a social protection database so that social protection and aid can be handed out effectively. He said the database, when available, would be the sole reference point for social protection programmes and will cover various aspects including employment, social insurance and social assistance. “This is in line with my intention for an effective approach in providing social protection coverage that is more comprehensive, especially for the vulnerable groups, ” he said in a Facebook post after chairing the Malaysian Social Protection Council (MySPC) via video conference on Tuesday (June 8). This includes, among others, a proposal to expand the Social Security Organisation’s protection scheme to groups that are not covered by any other social security networks.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 08:48 UTC
Malaysia’s migrant labour conundrum: A conversation with Andy Hall
The Edge: Can you explain what you do as a migrant worker rights specialist? Nowadays, people call me a migrant worker rights specialist, but essentially I am an activist and researcher. ESDC is the main research arm on forced labour issues for the Canadian government; it recommends sanctions to CBSA. Obviously, there are many things that need fixing when it comes to the issue of migrant workers. You have so many migrant workers, and this needs to be controlled from the top.
Source:The Edge Markets
June 08, 2021 08:03 UTC
Wan Zulkiflee exits ExxonMobil board, respects shareholders decision
KUALA LUMPUR (June 8): Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said he respects the decision at the ExxonMobil Corp’s annual general meeting (AGM) last week not to reappoint the former Petronas chieftain to the board of the oil major. “It was indeed a privilege for me to be appointed to the highly prestigious ExxonMobil board. Wan Zulkfilee also thanked the board members of ExxonMobil for their fellowship during his four-month stint with the oil major. Wan Zulkiflee is currently serving as non-executive chairman of Malaysia Airlines Bhd and Malaysia Aviation Group Bhd, and was also appointed as chairman of DRB-Hicom Bhd. The engineer by profession led Petronas as president and group CEO from April 2015 until June 2020.
Source:The Edge Markets
June 08, 2021 06:45 UTC
Govt channelling RM5.08b to micro SMEs under GKP, payment of RM1.5b starts on June 10
"The government hopes the direct assistance channelled to the micro SMEs will ease their burden, especially those affected by the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) 3.0," he said in a statement today. Under PEMERKASA, announced on March 17, 2021, he said the government decided to provide GKP 3.0 of RM1,000 to more than one million micro traders to ensure the continuity of their business, especially in managing their cash flow. This means the total payment of GKP 3.0 is RM1.5 billion. "We are pleased to inform that nearly one million micro SMEs involving existing recipients of MCO 1.0 and MCO 2.0, as well as micro SMEs that have been approved under MCO 3.0, will receive a payment of RM1,000 from June 10 (Thursday) in stages involving financial implications of almost RM1.0 billion," he said. An additional payment of RM500, involving an allocation of almost RM500 million, will be paid in July 2021 bringing the total amount under GKP 3.0 to RM1.5 billion.
Source:The Edge Markets
June 08, 2021 06:45 UTC
Azeez's appeal to strike out graft, money laundering charges fixed for Sept 6
PUTRAJAYA (June 8): Former Tabung Haji chairman Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim's appeal to strike out all his 13 corruption and money laundering charges has been fixed for Sept 6 by the Court of Appeal. Justice Jamil said Abdul Azeez had failed to prove those key accusations in his application. Following that, Abdul Latif was scheduled to testify against his younger brother. On Dec 23, 2020, theedgemarkets.com reported that Abdul Azeez had in December that year applied to strike out his corruption and money laundering charges, claiming the charges are defective and groundless. Read also:High Court rejects Abdul Azeez's bid to strike out corruption, money-laundering chargesHigh Court grants Abdul Azeez stay pending appeal in corruption trial
Source:The Edge Markets
June 08, 2021 06:10 UTC
Workers on MRT Putrajaya line snap up 1,000 vaccination slots under FT Ministry mobile pilot programme
KUALA LUMPUR: Some 1,000 workers involved in the construction of the MRT Putrajaya Line have received their Covid-19 vaccines under a pilot programme. "The pilot programme offered 1,000 vaccine doses to our workers who are mainly at the frontline. He added that the vaccination exercise is the latest proactive measure taken by MMC Gamuda to help in the fight against the pandemic. The laboratory currently carries out screening of about 16,000 workers involved with Gamuda MMC projects each week, he added. Meanwhile, the vaccination process, which began at 9am on Tuesday near the MMC Gamuda office in Jalan Chan Siow Lin, proceeded smoothly.
Source:The Star
June 08, 2021 06:00 UTC