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TELLING IT AS IT IS Addressing page Train more
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issues holistically G25 founder

ON THURSDAY MAY 19, 2022 KEEPING HFMD AT BAY ... A nurse from KPJ

No. 8027 PP 2644/12/2012 (031195) www.thesundaily.my Penang Specialist Hospital showing pupils of Brainy Bunch
Kindergarten in Permatang Pauh, Central Seberang Perai
District yesterday the correct way to wash their hands to
reduce the risk of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)
infection. – MASRY CHE ANI/THESUN

Crypto threat
█ BY MUHAMMAD YUSRY
[email protected] oIllegal miners’ activities
threaten security and reliability
PETALING JAYA: Power theft for of public power supply
crypto mining will lead to
recurring interruptions in and compromised the integrity and flashovers or sudden fires at TNB
electricity supply as it causes stability of power supply in the area. installations,” TNB said.
system breakdowns, disruption to It was previously reported that from Aaron Tang, the country manager of
businesses, and places people’s safety at 2018 to 2021, 7,209 cases of power theft Luno Malaysia, which is a crypto
risk through the threat of fires, Tenaga for Bitcoin mining were recorded, with platform, said the mining process
Nasional Berhad (TNB) said. estimated losses of RM2.3 billion, or involves a global network of computers
4,545GWh (gigawatt/hours) of electricity. equipped with specialised technology
“With increased cooperation from the “Crypto miners run their systems that competes to solve mathematical
Energy Commission (EC), police and non-stop, consuming a large amount of puzzles.
local councils, TNB has detected a total of energy. In a day, a Bitcoin machine is These computers are known as
1,368 cases of power theft from January to estimated to use 32KWh (kilowatt/hours) “miners”, but they are essentially
April this year,” the company told theSun. of electricity, which is equivalent to two computers that process transactions.
one-horsepower air-conditioners “The first Bitcoin miner to solve the
It said such miners were conducting switched on 24 hours a day. The others, puzzle and add the transaction to the
their illegal activities at the expense of the such as the cooling systems and lighting blockchain is rewarded with a new
security and reliability of power supply also run non-stop. Bitcoin. Once this happens, the process
for the public. “In addition, the network of wiring in a starts all over again until the next puzzle
cryptocurrency mining premises puts the is solved.
While it is legal to mine crypto in buildings at risk due to the non-stop “To do this in a very secure way, these
Malaysia, TNB said it becomes illegal operation of high-powered computers miners need to perform very
when miners steal electricity either by without proper monitoring. complicated calculations that
tampering with meter installations or “This high-risk situation can trigger take a lot of computing power Turn to
bypassing the meter through illegal various incidents due to overloading, and, in turn, require a lot of
connections. including supply disruptions, fire at the energy and specialised —

Last Thursday, a team from the Hilir page 3
Perak district police headquarters seized
72 Bitcoin mining machines worth premises and surrounding areas, and processing equipment,” he said.
RM140,000 at a shophouse suspected to
have been used to steal electricity in Jalan
Intan 3, Bandar Baru Teluk Intan.

The illegal electricity connection
consumed a huge load to mine Bitcoin,

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Sarawak to Uphill task to reduce
formulate climate suicide numbers
change policy

KUCHING: The Sarawak state
government will formulate a climate
change policy in line with Malaysia’s
commitment to reduce greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions under the 12th Malaysia o Behavioural science expert calls for special rep in stakeholder (police) publicises data but also
Plan (12MP). Parliament to focus on mental health due to factors such as underreporting.
Assistant Minister of Energy and
Environmental Sustainability Dr Hazland “To significantly enhance decriminalisation
Abang Hipni said the policy, which would intervention and efforts, not only does data on
focus on green energy sources such as suicide (and mental health conditions) need to
hydropower, solar energy and hydrogen, █ BY SHIVANI SUPRAMANI interest this coming September,” she told be centralised, but it also needs to be fully and
would be drafted after a climate change [email protected] theSun. publicly available and accessible by all
study under the 12MP is completed. PETALING JAYA: An average of three suicide stakeholders,” she said.
“From the study, we hope to get the cases a day in the first five months of 2021 is an Nevertheless, she added that recent
guidelines on GHG emissions according to alarming statistic and it shows that more statistics have been nothing short of alarming. HELP University Faculty of Behavioural
sectors, namely, energy, transport, needs to be done to address mental health Sciences, Education and Languages dean Dr
industrial and agricultural as well as issues, according to experts. According to figures released by police, the Gerard Louis said while efforts to raise
through change in land use and waste increase in suicide cases was evident. awareness on mental health have been carried
management. Speaking on decriminalising suicide in out at the community level through
“Globally, the focus is currently on Malaysia, Mental Health Aid Organisation In the first five months of 2021, there were non-governmental organisations, more needs
sustainable development. The (Nyawa) director Farihin Ufiya said the 468 suicide cases, constituting 74.2% of cases to be done at the federal level.
implementation of Sarawak’s upcoming current drop in traction over the topic is not in 2020.
development projects will come with its due to a reluctance to decriminalise such acts. “We should have a particular
own costs, especially the impact on the Malaysia recorded three suicides daily on representative in Parliament or in the Senate
environment and biodiversity “Mental health stakeholders may simply average from January to May this year. whose sole focus should be on spreading the
conservation,” he said in a statement recognise that a Penal Code amendment word on mental health in Malaysia. The
yesterday. involves cumbersome bureaucracy and there “Attempted suicides also increased by various governmental bodies we have at the
In addition, Hazland said the study was are limited ways we can feasibly push to 61.7% since 2016, with the highest number moment are more towards licensing. We need
also expected to provide an action plan to radically reduce the red tape. Whereas public (312 cases) registered in 2021. one that focuses on advocacy and the
mitigate and adapt to the impacts of attention, in the fast-paced world of digital promotion of this topic,” he said.
climate change. journalism and social media, may be narrow “In addition, various groups demonstrate
“As such, we need to pursue and thus may have moved on to the next significant vulnerability to suicide. According Nevertheless, Gerard added that openness
sustainable development so that the equally-important concern. to police, among the 1,708 cumulative deaths among the younger generation regarding this
society has a better future, including a by suicide from 2019 to May 2021, 83.5% of topic is a good sign.
clean environment, a sustainable level of “We should note that the campaign and victims were female.
development without excessive waste and traction for decriminalisation culminated “Compared with about 20 years ago, when
pollution, with natural resources and during World Suicide Prevention Day in “Furthermore, 51% of the 1,708 victims there was a stigma on reaching out for help in
biodiversity protected and conserved,” he September last year and the announcement were adolescents aged between 15 and 18. regard to the mind, people today are open
said. – Bernama by the Attorney-General’s Chambers and Adult men, specifically those aged 19 to 40, towards those who need help. That’s a plus
Home Ministry quickly followed in October. showed a much higher prevalence in because it shows that the work done at the
Thus, we may see another rise in public attempted suicide: 60.3% of 2021’s attempted community, individual and familial levels has
suicide cases involved adult men within this started to pay off well enough,” he said.
age category as victims,” she said.
However, Gerard added that more should
However, Farihin added it was important to be done to overcome this issue.
recognise that the aforementioned data was
limited, not only due to the fact that one

The RTS link is ‘Safety factored
expected to into construction
absorb 35% of of breakwater’
traffic on the
Causeway when GEORGE TOWN: The Penang City Council
completed in (MBPP) has taken safety aspects into
2026. consideration during construction of the
– BERNAMAPIX breakwater and promenade at Tembok Laut
Padang Kota Lama here, including the lower
JB-Singapore RTS link expected to be regional game changer terrace promenade which was closed when the
high tide occurred on May 16.
JOHOR BARU: The Johor Baru-Singapore know that there are plenty of opportunities to enter the Customs, Immigration and
Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link project is invest in Johor Baru due to this RTS project. Quarantine Complex in Bukit Chagar until Penang Mayor Datuk Yew Tung Seang said
expected to play a major role in boosting Woodlands North (Singapore). the lower terrace promenade was specifically
economic activities, potentially becoming as “Our wish is that one day the Johor Baru- designed to allow sea water to pass through the
huge as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Singapore corridor will be a rival or match for “This is why we are looking at RTS as a game area as a form of public attraction, with
Corridor. the Shenzhen-Hong Kong corridor. That’s what changer for this region,” he added. measures taken to ensure it did not pose a
we are aiming for,” he said on the sidelines of the danger to them.
Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRT Corp) Wharton School of the University of Economic sectors that stand to benefit from
chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Zarif Pennsylvania and the Singapore Management the spillover effects of the RTS include “MBPP wishes to emphasise that the
Hashim said the RTS Link project’s value University’s visit at Menara JLand yesterday. hospitality, healthcare and higher education. project also takes into account elements of
cannot be measured only from the point of heritage conservation, which is important
view of its construction as it should also take into Mohd Zarif also said the RTS would not only Mohd Zarif said the project, scheduled to for George Town as a Unesco World Heritage
account how it would be able to attract ease traffic congestion but also encourage more be completed by December 2026, is expected to Site.
investments in the long run. cross-border businesses and activities between absorb 35% of the 350,000 people who use the
Singapore and Johor Baru. Causeway on a daily basis. “The council has also installed closed-
“Investments made by the government circuit television cameras in the area to
should provide returns in the short and long “So we are looking at 15 minutes overall He also said the link would have the capacity monitor visitors and sea water conditions.
term, so we are letting people around the world door-to-door (including immigration process to transport 10,000 people per hour, thus
and on train) journey, from the moment you helping to ease traffic congestion on the “We also have a gate at the entrance of the
highway. – Bernama lower terrace promenade and the access gate is
closed from 9pm to 7am every day, and it will
also be closed in the event of unpredictable
and severe weather conditions such as
thunderstorms and strong winds,” he said after
inspecting the area yesterday.

Yew visited the area following Monday’s
incident when the area was submerged in sea
water, sparking public controversy over safety
issues there.

According to Yew, the incident at the
lower terrace promenade was expected,
especially during the spring tide and high tide
which occurred last Monday and yesterday,
adding there were no design defects.

“The preparation and implementation of
the construction of the lower terrace, weather,
tidal phenomena and other factors have been
taken into account and considered carefully
before work on the project was carried out,” he
added.

He also said the lower terrace promenade
was also built to preserve the historical and
heritage features of the wall, which was
originally built in the 1800s. – Bernama

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‘Train more English teachers’

o G25 founder calls on govt to take swift action to improve Krishnan said the ability to converse well in deteriorating the use of the English language
level of language among Malaysians English would help Malaysians secure better with improper usage.
jobs both local and internationally.
█ BY SURAYA ALI The former Treasury secretary-general also “The reading habit through newspapers and
[email protected] said the education system should train more “My company is an international British books has significantly reduced since the
PETALING JAYA: The country must not delay teachers who can teach in English so that company and my bosses are British. I need to introduction of smartphones.”
efforts to make English proficiency an important students can stay interested in the subject. communicate with them in English daily. We
part of its education reforms, said G25 have some employees who are very good in their He suggested the government reintroduce
co-founder Tan Sri Mohd Sheriff Kassim. “There are complaints in schools which daily tasks, but we are unable to promote them to English as the medium of communication in
adopt the Dual Language Programme that the senior level due to their inability to speak or write primary schools first, followed by universities,
“While the rich and the elites can afford to children lose interest in subjects because of their in British English.” with no less importance given to our national
send their children to international schools teacher’s inability to express themselves well to language.
locally and abroad, the majority of Malaysians explain the concepts.” Srithren said if the organisation was a local
depend on the public education system to company, the level of English usage may not be “Introduce more subjects in English, organise
prepare their children for the future by giving Mohd Sheriff said current teacher training that demanding. more English Language Club programmes such
them a strong foundation in English so that they institutions must be upgraded to produce good as the Interact Club and inter-university debates.
can secure good jobs and have wider choices to English teachers in large numbers so that they “However, in Malaysia, our general office (Students should also) participate in
lead a productive life,” he told theSun. can be sent to all rural and urban schools. communication is still in English compared with international English programmes organised
other Southeast Asian countries. outside Malaysia.”
Asia-based event solution company Arena
Group’s head of Human Resource Srithren “The present generation of Malaysians do not He said overall, many Malaysians can speak
speak or write in English as they communicate basic English while they are at work, adding that
via social media using short messaging apps, employees would be able to improve their ability
where they use shortcuts in their spelling.” to read and write better with daily use of English
via emails and other forms of correspondence.
Srithren added that social media was further

GIACC proposals to
be sent to Cabinet

KUALA LUMPUR: Three
recommendations made by the National
Governance, Integrity and Anti-
Corruption Centre (GIACC) will be tabled
at the next meeting of the Special Cabinet
Committee on Anti-Corruption, and later
at the Cabinet meeting.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s
Department (Parliament and Law)
Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar
said the matter was agreed to during his
recent meeting with GIACC director-
general Datuk Seri Mohd Sallehhuddin
Hassan.
“The recommendations made by
GIACC involve the policy direction on the
enactment of a Bill related to political
funding, the current status of the
implementation of the National Anti-
Corruption Plan 2019-2023 and the
proposed development of the National
Good Governance Plan,” he said in a
statement yesterday.
Wan Junaidi said also discussed at the
meeting was the current status of the
Ombudsman Bill, which is scheduled to
be tabled this year.
He said he also proposed for
information on anti-corruption efforts be
intensified by all government agencies to
create a more positive perception of the
RAYACHEER...Datuk Seri Ismail SabriYaakob speaking to a member of his staff during a Prime Minister’s Department Aidilfitri event in Putrajaya yesterday. –BERNAMAPIX commitment of the government in fighting
corruption.
He said the move would also improve
‘Licensing miners would curb power theft, fire hazards’ Malaysia’s position in the Corruption
Perceptions Index in the future. – Bernama

He said the process of mining is necessary to platforms, tools and services for properly, this can very easily be a profitable Road closed due
generate more crypto into circulation. cryptocurrencies, said crypto is mined using venture without having to resort to electricity to landslide
“You can think of crypto, like Bitcoin, as application-specific integrated circuit (Asic) theft.
one global ledger system that records miners machines. Asic miners can cost KOTA KINABALU: Jalan Ranau-Klulu at
transactions between one person and upwards of RM10,000 per rig and “We believe it is in everyone’s interest to Km19.2 has been closed temporarily
another. Whenever Bitcoin transactions From consume a lot of electricity during the legitimise these kinds of operations. Mining following a landslide caused by heavy rain
are processed, someone has to ensure process. permits should be issued by municipal councils on Tuesday.
all the transactions are recorded front to reward sufficiently capitalised entrepreneurs
page Its managing director Kelvyn Chuah so they can operate ethically. The Sabah Public Works Department
(PWD) said in a statement that motorists
correctly and that the ledgers on all the said electricity tariffs for industrial zones “This will prevent electricity theft and fire using Jalan Kiulu-Rondogung heading
systems worldwide are synchronised,” he said. are approximately RM0.35 sen per KWh while hazards while boosting Malaysia’s presence in towards Ranau are advised to use
Sinegy, a fintech company which develops off-peak tariffs can drop as much as 30%. Done the global crypto mining industry,” he said. alternative routes such as Jalan
Tamaparuli-Ranau.
Look East Policy could help fix pandemic setbacks: Tun M
“The landslide occurred at about 3pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia must examine the “We discarded those that were unsuitable. “In my opinion, brilliant policies and and the route was closed to road users due
growth strategies and models of China, Japan But those that were suitable for Malaysia, we effective programmes can only be fully to safety factors.”
and South Korea to accelerate its own took and we tried to benefit from the waves of implemented and their goals attained if their
economic development, said former prime development that are seen in those countries, executors have the proper attitude and sense of Residents in the surrounding areas are
minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. in particular Japan,” he said, noting that Japan responsibility,” he added. also advised to use the Tamparuli-Ranau-
rebuilt itself after the Second World War to Tamparuli alternative road (Tamparuli-
He emphasised that the Look East Policy, become the second largest economy in the Today, over 400,000 Malaysians are Tomis-Tiong-Lokub).
introduced in 1982 during his first tenure as world before the rise of China in recent years. employed by close to 1,500 Japanese
prime minister, could serve as a platform to companies operating in Malaysia. The Look Meanwhile, Tuaran Member of
explore the development models of the Asian “Therefore, there must be some merit to East Policy has been instrumental to Malaysia’s Parliament Datuk Seri Wilfred Madius
giants, chart new possibilities and Japan’s actions. We wanted to gain knowledge industrialisation efforts and has contributed Tangau said he contacted the Tuaran PWD
opportunities as the government addresses the from Japan. To accomplish that, we had this significantly to the country’s overall district engineer to close the road after
setbacks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Look East policy,” he said yesterday during a economic growth. receiving a complaint about the incident.
question-and-answer session commemorating
Mahathir said the Look East policy was not the 40th anniversary of Malaysia’s Look Mahathir expressed hope that the 40th “Although I am overseas, I am closely
limited to Japan but also includes South Korea East Policy. anniversary would provide a new impetus to monitoring the situation and the engineer
and China as well as other entities in East Asia, the Look East Policy and Malaysia-Japan has informed me that the concessionaire
adding that Malaysia should adopt good Mahathir said the policy has been a success relations as a whole, as well as an opportunity to will bear the responsibility for repairing
practices from these countries while and should remain a cornerstone of Malaysia’s examine the Japanese education system from the damage to the road,” he said in a
discontinuing practices that were unsuitable. development strategies and programmes. pre-kindergarten to university level. – Bernama separate statement. – Bernama

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Public urged to activate MySJ Trace

█ BY MUHAMMAD YUSRY o Feature on MySejahtera app is best way necessary as the data is not useful for trace casual or close contacts due to
[email protected] to track close contacts, but issue of data contact tracing. many positive cases.
PETALING JAYA: In light of the rising security needs to be resolved first: Expert
number of Covid-19 cases after the Universiti Malaya Institute of “The situation is different today
Hari Raya festivities, members of the Overall, the number of unique that it is a serious disease. Biological Science virologist than when the pandemic started,”
public have been urged to activate the premises checked in has dwindled “Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms Dr Muhamad Afiq Aziz said Covid-19 he said.
MySJ Trace feature on their from 503,643 logged on April 30 to cases will continue to increase even if
MySejahtera app to facilitate contact 277,147 on May 14. should do a self-test, and report it in the MySejahtera app is used. “To live in the endemic era, we
tracing. MySejahtera if the result is positive,” need to ensure that we complete our
However, Hoe said before a he said. “This has happened before, and vaccination and booster shots, and
Universiti Malaya social and universal use of MySJ Trace is cases are increasing after the practise good personal hygiene,”
preventive medicine head Dr Victor implemented, the issue of data “Visitors to entertainment outlets holidays. he added.
Hoe said MySJ Trace is the best way to security needs to be resolved, and such as pubs and nightclubs still have
track and trace close contacts, legislation passed to ensure that to check in with the MySejahtera app “As we move towards the Health Director-General Tan Sri
considering that the usage of MySejahtera and MySJ Trace data are because most of these outlets are endemicity phase, we must learn and Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told
MySejahtera nationwide has plunged only used in relation with public crowded and have poor ventilation. practise regular self-monitoring and theSun that as of May 16, there were a
by 97% since the government lifted its health matters. self-isolation. total of 7,602,516 active MySJ Trace
mandatory use two weeks ago to “The risk of Covid-19 users.
check in at premises. “Currently, we are in the phase of transmission is higher. If the MySJ “Covid-19 will soon become a
living with the virus. Trace is activated, it will be easier to similar situation as the seasonal flu,” “Since March last year to April this
The number of unique accounts track and trace close contacts.” he said. year, a total of 49 million casual
also dropped 93.9%, with only “However, the public must bear in contacts were traced using the MySJ
442,318 recorded on May 14, mind that Covid-19 still exists and Hoe said returning to mandatory Afiq added it would be ideal if the Trace,” he said.
compared with 7,281,285 unique MySejahtera check-ins is not MySJ Trace feature could run
users who logged in on April 30. automatically on the cell phone Noor Hisham had earlier said new
without users having to check in Covid-19 cases had jumped by
every time they want to enter a 119.2% to 19,137 from 8,732 recorded
building. a week before.

“Nowadays, it is very difficult to Over 16m adults
given boosters
12 childcare
centres closed as KUALA LUMPUR: A total of
HFMD cases rise 1,073,551 or 30.2% of children aged
five to 11 completed their vaccination
MALACCA: A total of 12 childcare KPJ Penang Specialist Hospital paediatrician Dr Abdul Nasir Mohamed examining a child’s hands for HFMD infection under the National Covid-19
centres were closed after the state yesterday. – MASRY CHE ANI/THESUN Immunisation Programme for
recorded 1,378 cases of hand, foot Children as of Tuesday.
and mouth disease (HFMD) as of Three HFMD clusters were “Kindergartens, nurseries and office at high-risk premises.
May 14. reported as of May 14, bringing the childcare centres reported the He said to date, 30 premises had According to the CovidNOW
total to 16 clusters with Jasin district highest number of infections with 12 portal, 650,581 children or 46.5% had
State Health and Anti-Drugs recording the highest with 11 active clusters,” he said. been inspected, adding that four received at least one dose of the
Committee chairman Dr Muhamad (68.8%) followed by four in Central Town Hall sessions would be held to vaccine.
Akmal Saleh said the increase in the Malacca (25%) and Alor Gajah with Inspections and monitoring are brief teachers and operators of
number of HFMD cases was one (6.2%). being conducted by the state Health government and private childcare For adolescents aged 12 to 17,
reported after the Aidilfitri holidays, Department and district health centres on the issue. – Bernama 2,906,035 or 93.4% of the group had
and this was due to travel movement completed their vaccination, while
and reopening of childcare and 3,003,483 or 96.5% received at least
kindergarten centres. one vaccine dose.

“There was an increase of 1,322 Meanwhile, a total of 16,069,133
cases compared with the or 68.3%t of the adult population had
corresponding period last year received the booster dose, while
which was 56 cases, and 95.5% of the 22,971,604 or 97.6% completed two
cases involved children below six doses and 23,247,523 or 98.8%
years,” he said in a statement received at least one dose.
yesterday.
A total of 14,253 vaccine doses
He added eight HFMD cases were dispensed on Tuesday, with
required admission during the 19th 3,300 as the first dose, 8,348 as the
epidemiological week (from May 8 second dose and 2,605 as booster
to 14), an increase of six cases dose, bringing the cumulative
compared with the previous week. number of doses administered
under the national immunisation
“Overall, the total number of programme to 70,708,376.
admissions to paediatric or medical
wards was 67 cases with 91.4% According to the Health Ministry’s
treated as outpatients. No deaths GitHub portal, three deaths were
have been reported so far.” recorded on Tuesday with one case
each in Kedah, Malacca and Perlis.
He said Central Malacca district – Bernama
recorded 124 cases, an increase of 69
cases (125.4%) from the previous Ketum export
week, while Alor Gajah and Jasin proposal paper
reported 162 and 115 cases completed
respectively,
ALOR STAR: The Kedah Economic
‘Housemen bullying could be due to lack of guidelines’ Planning Division has completed the
proposal paper to export ketum
KUALA LUMPUR: The death of a attributed the bullying issue to the “For example, insulting, Of the total, 20% were reported to leaves for medicinal purposes to
medical houseman at the Penang absence of official guidelines to train humiliating or denigrating trainees have depression, causing them to Thailand, and fine-tuning it before
Hospital last month has triggered junior doctors. in front of patients, colleagues or seek psychological counselling. tabling it to the State Executive
widespread concern over toxic work other nurses are common, on the Council.
culture and alleged bullying at “Sadly, the nation’s medical excuse of strengthening their mental Shawaludin said there is an
public hospitals, prompting a probe institutions until now do not have and physical resilience. Are these urgent need to formulate Mentri Besar Datuk Seri
by the Health Ministry. any guidelines to either train still acceptable and part of the HO transparent training guidelines for Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said the
The 25-year-old doctor died after housemen or contract doctors, and process? HO and contract doctors as the proposal paper would be tabled
falling from his apartment complex this is one of the key factors current approach is no longer possibly next week, before the
in Penang on April 17, merely three contributing to the rampant bullying “And if focus is given towards suitable in the present situation. application is forwarded to the
weeks after he joined the hospital. culture in the sector.” mental resilience without any federal government.
While the cause of death has yet transfer of knowledge, should this be Health Minister Khairy
to be ascertained, several quarters He said the two-year totally accepted, and how can Jamaludin said he wants to create a He was speaking on the latest
have called for an end to the bullying housemanship (HO) is a competencies be enhanced and situation where mutual respect and development pertaining to the state
culture of trainee doctors, noting programme involving mentorship quality doctors be produced?” support among colleagues are government’s proposal to export
that such unhealthy practices, if not matching between a houseman and nurtured. ketum leaves after the council
eradicated, would tarnish the noble a senior doctor. Based on a survey conducted by meeting yesterday.
profession’s image. the Hartal Doktor Kontrak group two “Work environment must have
Malaysian Society for However, the absence of official months ago, 60% of the 150 respect, support and should be In March, Muhammad Sanusi
Occupational Safety and Health guidelines led to senior doctors respondents, comprising trainee empowering, not abusive and had proposed that the federal
president Dr Shawaludin Husin applying a similar approach when and contract doctors, admitted humiliating,” he said on Twitter government allow the export of
they were trainees, which is seen as a experiencing stress due to bullying following an outcry over the bullying ketum leaves, especially to Thailand
rite of passage that every houseman by senior doctors. issue at hospitals under the ministry. for medical purposes, as a measure to
must go through. – Bernama curb ketum smuggling. – Bernama

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Be more gender sensitive, cops told

o Group urges police to train personnel to unit by the government. comments as claimed, stern action believed to be mentally challenged.
ensure women feel safe when making reports Tan was responding to a case would be taken against them. We The man had apparently trailed
will always provide the best service
█ BY CHARLES RAMENDRAN put in place to ensure long-term where a policeman allegedly made and treatment to the public.” the complainant during the event,
[email protected] gender-responsive policing. “victim-blaming” remarks on a making her feel uneasy.
PETALING JAYA: A women’s group cosplayer who went to a police On Monday, the 21-year-old
has called on police to priortise She cited several cases where station to lodge a report on Monday. female cosplayer, who had On another matter, Mohd
gender sensitivity among their police failed to take gender-based participated in an Anime Fest, a Fakhrudin said a police officer who
personnel to ensure women feel violence seriously and urged them Petaling Jaya police chief ACP cosplay event at Paradigm Mall in was fined for using a mobile phone
protected when they seek redress for not to delay the gender-sensitivity Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said he Kelana Jaya, decided to lodge a while driving will face disciplinary
their grievances. agenda, which could lead to views the allegation seriously and report after being stalked by a man action for his disregard of road
under-reporting and further trauma has ordered an internal at the event. traffic laws.
All Women’s Action Society for victims. investigation to be carried out by the
(Awam) information and Integrity and Standard Compliance She claimed that at the police He said police will not tolerate
communications officer Jernell Tan She said such training should be Department. station, an officer told her that “she any personnel flouting the law and
Chia Ee said regular training on carried out by the Criminal was stalked due to her attire and was will ensure they face severe
gender sensitivity and awareness of Investigation Department’s sexual, He said the complainant had partly to blame”. reprimand.
gender-based violence should be women and children investigations gone to the Kelana Jaya police
division and funded by a station to make a report and felt The officer also told her “not to The policeman concerned was
RM13 million allocation given to the uncomfortable with the way she was get involved in modelling if she did captured on video using a mobile
treated and by the comments made not belong to an agency”. phone while driving in an official
by an officer on duty. police car near Sungai Way.
It was learnt that police have
“If investigations prove that any marked the woman’s case as “no The video, which was taken by a
officer or personnel had made the further action” as the stalker is passing motorist, went viral on
social media on Monday.

Cosplayer under probe over brandishing of toy pistol Teacher charged with
power abuse
PETALING JAYA: Police are investigating a man walking with an object that resembled a “A police report has been lodged and we
participant of a cosplay event, which was held firearm tucked in his pants. have commenced investigations.” BUTTERWORTH: A teacher was charged in the
at Paradigm Mall in Kelana Jaya, after videos sessions court here yesterday with two counts
of him brandishing a toy pistol were posted on He said the video is believed to have been He added that police are tracking down the of abuse of power by ordering school supplies
social media. taken at the shopping mall during the Anime man and the individual who posted the from her company in 2017.
Fest cosplay event, which was held from videos.
Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Fakhrudin Friday to Monday. Hazlina Kasah, 46, pleaded not guilty to
Abdul Hamid yesterday said police had Fakrudin said the case is being both charges, which were read out to her by an
viewed videos, which were posted in an “We suspect the man was a participant and investigated for misuse of network facilities interpreter before judge Zulhazmi Abdullah.
online video-sharing platform, that showed a had portrayed an anime character when he under Section 233 of the Malaysian
showed up for the event. Communications and Multimedia Act. On the first count, Hazlina was accused of
using her position as the head of physical
education of SMK Pokok Sena to submit a
request note to the school to appoint Hazwan
Event Management, a company that she owns,
to provide school supplies.

She was charged with supplying 10 reams of
A4 paper, 30 whiteboard markers, a radio, blood
pressure monitor, three compasses, two
weighing scales, a trampoline and 10 reams of
coloured paper through a requisition order,
worth RM2,353.66 on Oct 17, 2017.

On the second count, Hazlina was charged
with committing a similar offence by supplying
five footballs and one futsal ball through a
requisition order for RM522.66 to the same
company on Oct 19, 2017.

Both charges were framed under Section 23
of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission
(MACC) Act 2009 and are punishable under
Section 24 of the same Act, which provides a
maximum jail term of 20 years and a fine of not
less than five times the amount or value of the
bribe or RM10,000, or whichever is higher.

The court allowed bail of RM8,000 in one
surety for the two charges on condition that the
accused surrenders her travel documents to the
court and reports to the nearest MACC office
every month.

The court also prohibited her from harassing
witnesses, fixed June 27 for remention and for
her to appoint a lawyer. – Bernama

SUCCESSFUL OPERATION... Putrajaya district police chief ACP A. Asmadi Abdul Aziz (second left) showing some of the stripped copper and Brothers drown after
other items seized from the suspects arrested in a cable theft case. – BERNAMAPIX falling into drain

‘Najib asked me to get testimony guide from PAC chief’ IPOH: Two brothers, aged four and six, were
found drowned after they fell into a drain at
KUALA LUMPUR: Former 1Malaysia Farid, just to make sure that we all understood the second meeting. Batu 12 in Jalan Segari, near Pantai Remis
Development Berhad (1MDB) chairman Tan roughly what needed to be shared or said and “I got the impression that Hasan and yesterday.
Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh told the High Court that was the gist of it.
yesterday that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak Ahmad Farid were just trying to get me to be Manjung district police chief ACP Nor Omar
had asked him to meet former Public “At the time, the concern was to safeguard more accommodative, not to be too hard with Sappi said police were alerted to the incident at
Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk the reputation of the PM.” the testimony or replies to PAC,” he said, 7pm and on arrival at the scene, the bodies had
Seri Hasan Arifin to get guidelines for his adding that he was told not to make any been placed on the ground in front of their
testimony to PAC in 2016. He was replying when cross-examined by reference to the prime minister. house.
Najib’s lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad
Mohd Bakke, 68, said he received a call Shafee Abdullah in the former prime To a question on fugitive businessman “The district health clinic assistant medical
from the former premier about two weeks minister’s trial over the misappropriation of Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, the witness said officer confirmed the time of death as 7.15pm.”
before the PAC proceeding on Feb 11, 2016. RM2.3 billion from 1MDB. Low was the intermediary between 1MDB
and Najib and not a nominee for the Nor Omar said an initial investigation
“I received a call from Najib asking me to The witness also said he met Hasan twice Pekan MP. found that the two victims had gone out to play
meet PAC chairman Datuk Hasan Arifin. He on different occasions at Ahmad Farid’s house at 5pm, while their 36-year-old mother was in
asked me to meet up at the house of Datuk in Kiara Hills. Najib, 68, is facing four charges of using his the kitchen.
Seri Ahmad Farid Ridzuan, the former position to obtain bribes totalling
managing director of TV3. Former 1MDB chief executive officer RM2.3 billion from 1MDB and 21 charges of “About half an hour later, the mother asked
(CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi money laundering involving the same her eldest son, aged 10, to look for his younger
“He wanted me to meet Hasan and Ahmad was also present at the first meeting while amount. – Bernama brothers and get them to return home.
1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy attended
“The boy later found both his brothers in a
nearby drain and rushed home to inform his
mother, who then sought help from the public
to remove them.”

Noh Omar said both the bodies have been
sent to the Seri Manjung Hospital for post-
mortem and investigations found there was no
criminal element in the incident. – Bernama

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Man to repay Fukushima water release plan gets initial approval
¥46.3m ‘bit by bit’
after subsidy mix-up TOKYO: Japan’s Nuclear Regulation into the ocean, starting around question will have no negative Tepco still requires the consent of
Authority (NRA) granted an initial spring 2023. impact on the public’s health, the local communities, including the
TOKYO: A Japanese man who blew a approval yesterday for a Tokyo ministry said in a statement. governor and mayors as well as
¥46.3 million (RM1.6 million) Electric Power (Tepco) plan for The announcement provoked fishermen, before starting work.
Covid-19 handout at online casinos releasing water from the destroyed concerns from local fishermen and Tepco plans to filter the
after receiving the cash in error will Fukushima nuclear power plant into objections from neighbouring China contaminated water to remove The government and Tepco have
pay authorities back “bit by bit”, sea, citing there are no safety issues. and South Korea. isotopes, leaving only tritium, a indicated that the new facilities will
reports said yesterday. radioactive isotope of hydrogen be completed by mid-April next year,
The NRA plans to make a The International Atomic Energy hard to separate from water. with the aim of starting discharge in
“I feel very sorry that I used it up,” decision on final approval after a Agency (IAEA) is tasked with around the spring of 2023.
the man said according to his lawyer, one-month public comment period, conducting safety reviews of the Tepco will then dilute the water
who told the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said an official at the authority who planned release, and the NRA’s initial until tritium levels fall less than Before granting the initial
that his client had gambled away the deals with the issue. approval came when IAEA chief 1/40th of regulatory limits, before approval, NRA has looked into
money. Rafael Grossi was visiting Japan. pumping it into the ocean. various factors such as the
Last year, the Japanese performance of equipment for
The hefty lump sum was government approved the release of Grossi told Japanese Industry Tepco plans to build a tunnel diluting water with seawater and how
transferred last month in a mix-up by over one million tonnes of irradiated Minister Koichi Hagiuda that the reaching into the sea for the to stop the release of water in the
officials in the remote town of Abu in water from the site after treatment IAEA’s reviews would give the world operation. event of an abnormality. – Reuters
western Japan, which had organised a confidence that the water in
cash handout for low-income Even after the NRA’s approval,
residents affected by the pandemic.
OVER
Weeks of failure to repay the ¥46.3 TROUBLED
million by the man, who is reportedly WATERS ...
24, led authorities to sue him in a A man carrying
desperate attempt to get their money a woman
back. through a
flooded street
Now, he has made up his mind to after heavy rain
“return the money, even if it’s going to in Bangkok
be bit by bit”, his lawyer said. yesterday.
– AFPPIX
The town said officials at one point
even asked the man’s mother to join
them in visiting him at work to
convince him, but to no avail.

And questions have emerged over
whether he is able to pay the money
back at all, after the lawyer said his
client is now running very low on
funds.

Abu Mayor Norihiko Hanada told
reporters yesterday that he was
“honestly happy” about the man’s
decision, but said the town is not
planning to withdraw its lawsuit.

“That’s one thing, and the lawsuit
we’re filing against him is another
thing, so I hope that he will tell the
truth in court.” – AFP

BRIEFS MARCOS WANTS CHINA
TIES IN‘HIGHER GEAR’
MANILA: President-elect Sri Lankan police
Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the arrest two MPs economic crisis that has resulted in
acute shortages of food, fuel and
Philippines’ relations with China essential medicines.
will expand and shift to a higher
gear under his administration, The shortages have been
and Beijing had assured him of its accompanied by record inflation and
support for his “independent lengthy blackouts, bringing severe
foreign policy”. Marcos, who won hardships to Sri Lankans, who are
last week’s presidential election
by a landslide, said he held “very experiencing the country’s worst
financial crisis since independence
substantial” talks by phone from Britain in 1948.
yesterday with China President Xi
Jinping, who agreed to hold more Ranil Wickremesinghe was
appointed as prime minister last
comprehensive discussions of demonstration by anti-government week.
issues. “The way forward is to o Ruling party lawmakers allegedly instigated protesters demanding that the
expand our relationship not only mob violence that left nine dead president resign over an economic Wickremesinghe has the crucial
crisis that has paralysed the country. support of two main opposition
diplomatic, not only trade, but parties to form a “unity government”
also in culture, even in education, The then-prime minister, who is
even in knowledge, even in the president’s elder brother, aimed at pulling the country out of
resigned shortly after the mob attack the crisis, but had yet to form a full
health to address whatever minor COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police “There is direct evidence against sparked retaliatory violence and cabinet.
disagreements that we have right arrested two ruling party lawmakers the two MPs and that is why they arson, with more than 70 ruling party
now,” Marcos said in a statement. for allegedly instigating mob were arrested,” the official said. leaders’ homes destroyed. Four ministers were appointed on
– Reuters violence that plunged the country Saturday.
into days of unrest and left nine Sanath Nishantha and Milan More than 225 people were Official sources said
TANKER SEIZED OVER people dead last week, officials said Jayathilake were among 22 hospitalised from the violence, Wickremesinghe was still in talks
ALLEGED SMUGGLING yesterday. politicians, including former prime according to health officials. with potential coalition partners to
minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his finalise his cabinet.
TEHRAN: Iran’s navy seized a The members of Parliament, son Namal, whose passports were Police said they have arrested Energy Minister Kanchana
foreign vessel in the Gulf and both from President Gotabaya impounded last week following about 500 people in connection with Wijesekera said the energy crisis was
arrested its crew on suspicion of Rajapaksa’s party, were questioned allegations that they instigated the violence and retaliation. worse than initially feared.
fuel smuggling, state media said by criminal investigators on Tuesday violence. “We will not be able to supply
yesterday, in the second such evening and detained overnight, a Thousands continue to petrol in the next two days and I
operation in a week. “A foreign police official said, speaking on On May 9, thousands of ruling demonstrate outside the president’s appeal to motorists not to queue up,”
ship, carrying 550,000 litres of condition of anonymity. party supporters who were bussed seafront office in Colombo, Wijesekera said in parliament. – AFP
smuggled fuel, was seized in the into the capital attacked a peaceful demanding he resign over an
waters of the Persian Gulf,”
Hormozgan province judiciary India top court frees prisoner linked to ex-premier’s killing after 30 years
chief Mojtaba Ghahremani told
state TV. “The smuggled fuel was NEW DELHI: India’s top court Perarivalan was convicted for India later withdrew troops petition in 2015 between the state
seized and seven crew members yesterday ordered the release of a supplying batteries used in a bomb deployed to the island country after and the central government.
arrested,” he said, without man jailed over the assassination of that killed Gandhi in the southern losing 1,200 of them at the hands of
specifying their nationalities. former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, state of Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991. the rebels. Tamil Nadu’s governor passed
“Operational forces and naval more than 30 years after he was first the decision on the plea to India’s
vessels of the republic seized the arrested. The bombing was carried out by Perarivalan, who was arrested in president, but the Supreme Court
vessel and escorted it to port,” the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. 1991 and was 19 at the time of the ruled that this did not have
Mojtaba said, adding that “the A bench headed by Justice L. assassination, was first sentenced to “constitutional value” and invoked
ship has been handed over to the Nageswara Rao invoked Gandhi’s killing by a suicide death, but later had his punishment special powers to order Perarivalan’s
judicial authorities for legal extraordinary powers to grant relief bomber was seen as retaliation for a commuted to a life sentence. release.
proceedings and necessary to A.G. Perarivalan, 50, who was 1987 Indian government pact with
investigations”. – AFP already granted parole in March. Sri Lanka to disarm the Tamil His case was mired in legal Six others are still in jail serving
guerillas. wranglings since he filed a mercy life sentences in the case. – AFP

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Climate change indicators hit record high

GENEVA: Four key climate change of the Global Climate in 2021 report. WMO said human activity was will warm the planet for many Guterres proposed five actions to
indicators all set new record highs The annual overview is “a dismal causing planetary-scale changes on generations to come. jump-start the transition to renewable
last year, the United Nations (UN) land, in the ocean and in the energy “before it’s too late”, including
said yesterday, warning that the litany of humanity’s failure to tackle atmosphere, with harmful and “Sea level rise, ocean heat and ending fossil fuel subsidies, tripling
global energy system was driving climate disruption”, UN chief Antonio long-lasting ramifications for acidification will continue for investments in renewable energy and
humanity towards catastrophe. Guterres said. ecosystems. hundreds of years unless means to making renewable energy
remove carbon from the atmosphere technologies, such as battery storage,
Greenhouse gas concentrations, “The global energy system is “Our climate is changing before are invented.” freely-available global public goods.
sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean broken and bringing us ever closer to our eyes,” said WMO chief Petteri
acidification all set new records last climate catastrophe. We must end Taalas. Four key climate change indicators “The renewable energy
year, the UN’s World Meteorological fossil fuel pollution and accelerate “build a consistent picture of a transformation can be the peace
Organisation (WMO) said in its State the renewable energy transition “The heat trapped by warming world that touches all parts project of the 21st century.” – AFP
before we incinerate our only home.” human-induced greenhouse gases of the Earth system”, the report said.

BRUSSELS: Finland and Sweden yesterday Finland, Sweden World unprepared
submitted a joint application to join Nato as apply to join Nato to face new
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forces a dramatic pandemics: Panel
reappraisal of security in Europe. o First Ukraine war crimes trial begins
GENEVA: Global reform efforts to better
The reversal of the Nordic countries’ historic moment which we must seize,” he said. when international bodies are also conducting ward off new pandemic threats have been
longstanding policy of non-alignment came as The membership push could represent the their own investigations. slow and fragmented, leaving the world as
the war nears its third month and Ukraine unprepared as when Covid-19 first surfaced,
strives to evacuate the last of its soldiers holed most significant expansion of Nato in decades, Vadim Shishimarin, 21, from Irkutsk in a report warned yesterday.
up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol. doubling its border with Russia, and Putin has Siberia, is accused of shooting an unarmed
warned it may trigger a response from 62-year-old man in Ukraine’s Sumy region on A year ago, an independent expert panel
Azovstal has become emblematic of the Moscow. Feb 28 – four days into the invasion. presented a damning report to the World
fierce Ukrainian resistance that has forced Health Organisation’s main annual
Russian President Vladimir Putin to reorient But the applications face resistance from Shishimarin faces a possible life sentence. assembly complaining that poor
his military goals after a devastating campaign Nato member Turkey, which has threatened to Prosecutors said he was commanding a unit coordination and bad decisions had allowed
strewn with alleged war crimes. block them over accusations the Nordic in a tank division when his convoy came under the Covid pandemic to swell to such a
neighbours act as safe havens for armed attack. catastrophic scale.
In Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the first war crimes groups opposed to Ankara. He and four other soldiers stole a car and
trial of a Russian soldier since the invasion encountered the man on a bicycle, shooting At the time, the Independent Panel for
began got under way. Meanwhile, the war crimes trial in Kyiv, him in cold blood, according to the Pandemic Preparedness and Response,
expected to be followed by several others, will prosecutors. – AFP co-chaired by former New Zealand prime
“By this first trial, we are sending a clear test the Ukrainian justice system at a time minister Helen Clark and former Liberian
signal that every perpetrator, every person who president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, drew up a
ordered or assisted in the commission of long list of measures needed to overcome
crimes in Ukraine shall not avoid Covid and ensure the world is better
responsibility,” said prosecutor general Iryna prepared to face future threats.
Venediktova.
But in an assessment report one year on,
At Nato headquarters in Brussels, alliance the no longer active panel cautioned that the
chief Jens Stoltenberg formally received the world was still “tinkering” and its inaction
applications from the Finnish and Swedish was laying “the groundwork for another
ambassadors, calling them “an historic step”. pandemic”.

“All allies agree on the importance of Nato “We largely have the very same tools and
enlargement. We all agree that we must the same system that existed in December
stand together and we all agree that this is an 2019 to respond to a pandemic threat,” Clark
told reporters.
Swedish soldiers camouflaging a tank
during a field exercise on the Swedish “Those tools were not good enough.”
island of Gotland. – AFPPIX All was not bleak.
Clark hailed that the “transformative
work required at the global level to prevent
the next pandemic has begun”.
She pointed to how new mechanisms set
up after Covid surfaced had made it possible
to deliver around 1.5 billion vaccine doses to
poorer countries, and praised the efforts
under way to diversify production of
vaccines and antivirals.– AFP

BRIEFS JAPAN URGES CHINA TO
PLAY ‘RESPONSIBLE’ ROLE
Morrison crunches child in election photo-op own goal
TOKYO: Japan’s foreign minister
CANBERRA: Politicians are meant to kiss But then the 54-year-old stepped it up a similar escapades during a friendly rugby yesterday urged Beijing to “play a
babies, not crash into children. gear, hunting down a cross-field pass that match. responsible role” over Russia’s invasion
threatened the opposition’s pop-up mini-goal. of Ukraine in his first talks with his
But on the campaign trail yesterday, Prime Realising what he had done, Morrison threw Chinese counterpart in six months.
Minister Scott Morrison barrelled into a young Morrison, who recently described himself his arms around the kid in a hug and lifted him Japan has joined Western allies in
boy during a friendly kickaround, eliciting a as “a bit of a bulldozer”, lowered his head and off the ground, as a coach sprinted across for an implementing tough sanctions against
chorus of stunned “ooohs” and “aaaws” from torso like a veteran sprinter ready to burst out impromptu Head Injury Assessment and Russia over the Ukraine crisis, while
spectators. of the blocks and propelled himself forward to photographers switched to rapid-fire. Beijing has declined to condemn
intercept the pass. Moscow’s invasion. Yoshimasa Hayashi
Morrison was playing five-a-side soccer in Morrison’s teammates played on, taking told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi
northern Tasmania, where he is trawling for Unfortunately, a small red-haired boy about advantage of the man – and boy – down to drill that Russia’s invasion “is a clear violation
votes ahead of Saturday’s nail-biter election. two-thirds of Morrison’s size was in the way. the ball into the top right corner. of the United Nations Charter and other
international laws”, Japan’s Foreign
At first, Morrison – shorn of his jacket, but Morrison’s left shoulder drove straight into The shocked interjections turned to muffled Ministry said in a statement. He “urged
still sporting a shirt and tie – sauntered around the unsuspecting child’s face, sending both laughs as the youngster dusted himself off and China to play a responsible role in
the field somewhat aimlessly, trying to get a toe tumbling to the artificial turf – in what one Morrison sheepishly rose to his feet. maintaining international peace and
on the ball here and there as it ping-ponged commentator called “doing a BoJo”, a reference security”, it said. – AFP
from boy to boy. to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “Red card and facing the tribunal on
Saturday,” said one Twitter commentator. – AFP MASS ARRESTS IN ARMENIA
AS PROTESTS SPREAD

YEREVAN: Police in Armenia arrested
hundreds of protesters yesterday as
opposition supporters sought to spread
their month-long anti-government
demonstrations throughout the capital.
Police detained nearly 300 opposition
supporters who attempted to block
dozens of streets in the capital, an AFP
journalist witnessed. “As of 11am, 277
people were briefly detained,” Armenia’s
police department said in a statement.
Yerevan has been gripped by protests
since mid-April, with opposition parties
demanding Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinyan’s resignation over his
handling of a territorial dispute with
Azerbaijan. – AFP

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COMMENT Taiwan’s Covid-19 LETTERS
containment strategy
by Dr Shih-Chung Chen [email protected]
Digital Covid Certificate programme at the end of adopted a name-based rationing scheme,
TWO years into the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021, and allowed citizens to apply for digital distributing tests to NHI-contracted pharmacies Ensure boat
more than 520 million confirmed cases vaccination certificates and test certificates. The for the public to purchase using their NHI cards. safety of
and more than 6.27 million deaths have programme was one of the first global standards Preserving healthcare capacity passengers
been reported around the world. As to be developed. It was adopted by many states Taiwan has adopted a triage approach, having
nations continue to battle the pandemic, Taiwan’s and was the first to be applied for international milder Covid-19 cases undergo home care and IN early May, during the long Hari
achievements have been widely recognised. travel. Taiwan people can enter 64 countries, reserving hospital treatment for members of high- Raya holidays, my family and I
including EU member states, with these risk groups, such as moderate and severe cases made a trip to Pulau Redang in
As of May 10, 2022, around 390,000 confirmed certificates. and the elderly. Terengganu. The ferry we boarded
cases and 931 deaths had been reported in Electronic medical records and telemedicine at Taman Tamadun Islam Jetty in
Taiwan, which has a population of 23.5 million. Taiwan has been building health information During home care, people can access Kuala Terengganu had a capacity
And thanks to a joint effort by the government infrastructure since 2010, such as the electronic emergency medical consultations through for 196 passengers. The trip took
and the people, Taiwan’s economic growth rate medical records (EMR) exchange system. Since mobile apps. A network of pharmacists and more than one and a half hours.
for 2021 reached 6.45%. May 2021, Taiwan has expanded its telemedicine community pharmacies has been put together to
Universal health coverage services in healthcare institutions and included provide consultations and deliver medicines. During the journey, I noticed
Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) such services into NHI coverage as a means of life vests wrapped in transparent
system, which was launched in 1995, has played reducing the risk of cluster infections at these As of the end of April 2022, about 80% of the plastics under the passenger seats.
an important role in the fight against the institutions. people in Taiwan had received a primary series of However, not every seat had a life
pandemic. The NHI system provides the Covid-19 vaccine, while 60% had received a vest. I noticed, less than 50% of the
comprehensive and high-quality health services, Using the NHI MediCloud and EMR systems, booster dose. seats had them.
achieving universal (99.9%) coverage. zero-contact telemedicine allows medical Taiwan helps
personnel to obtain patients’ medical records and The world today continues to face challenges of Life vests are an important part
Taiwan’s robust healthcare and NHI systems offer people in remote areas appropriate and the pandemic, vaccine supply and post- of safety. They are meant to save
have safeguarded the people and ensured social comprehensive services, in turn helping to realise pandemic recovery. Countries should work lives. Essentially, it is equivalent to
stability during the pandemic. Furthermore, the the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) goal of together and prepare for possible future a seat belt in a car. The main
NHI’s comprehensive database and other health for all. pandemics. function of a life vest is to keep a
up-to-date information systems have been critical New Taiwan Model person afloat.
in ensuring the successful application of digital Taiwan was able to contain the pandemic while Taiwan is an indispensable partner in ensuring
technology for disease prevention. having people lead normal lives and achieving a successful post-pandemic recovery. To contain It is a requirement by law that a
positive economic growth through the precise use the pandemic, it has continued to cooperate with life vest must be provided for each
Taiwan’s healthcare system was ranked of technology, information transparency, strict other countries on research and development of person on a boat or ferry. It is
second in the world in 2021 by CEOWorld. In border controls and accurate screening and case Covid-19 vaccines and drugs, and has donated obvious, the ferry I boarded had
Numbeo’s annual survey, Taiwan was ranked first investigation. medical supplies, such as medical masks and breached the requirement.
among 95 countries surveyed in the Health Care medicines, to countries in need. This has
Index category for the same year. However, with the worldwide spread of the demonstrated that Taiwan can help and is Boat incidents have happened
Using technology in epidemic prevention Omicron variant since the end of 2021, helping. in Malaysian waters, and there
During the early stages of the pandemic in community transmission also began to increase have been fatalities as well as
February 2020, the government implemented the in Taiwan. The variant appears to be more The 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) will people missing. A notable
Quarantine System for Entry to reduce the risk of contagious but causes mild or no symptoms. be held in May. For the past five years, Taiwan has maritime tragedy happened in
community transmission, by integrating NHI, Trying to block the transmission of every single not been invited to participate in the assembly. To Sabah on Jan 28, 2017, when a
immigration and customs databases to allow for case would be a vain effort that would greatly ensure it is not left behind and there is no tourist boat capsized. The boat
big data analysis. affect people’s livelihoods. Therefore, the coverage gap in global health, Taiwan seeks to carrying three crew and 27 tourists
government has chosen to aim at eliminating participate in the WHA this year in a professional from China capsized due to strong
Data was introduced to the Digital Fencing severe cases, managing mild cases, minimising and pragmatic manner, so that it can make winds and huge waves while
Tracking System, which used the positioning overall impacts, and caring for moderate and contributions as part of the global effort to realise travelling from Kota Kinabalu
system on mobile phones to monitor the severe cases since April 2022. This new Taiwan WHO’s vision of a seamless global disease to Pulau Mengalum, 56km
whereabouts of people under home quarantine Model seeks to allow people to lead normal lives prevention network. northwest of Kota Kinabalu. Four
or isolation. For privacy concerns, personal data while active epidemic prevention measures lives were lost and five persons
captured was stored for a maximum of 28 days remain in place, as the country steadily opens up. We urge WHO and related parties to support missing.
and then deleted. Strengthening people’s resilience Taiwan’s inclusion in WHO and allow it to fully
With the introduction of rapid antigen test kits, participate in its meetings, mechanisms and Another rule not strictly
To ensure all residents would enjoy equitable Taiwan has shortened quarantines and reduced activities. adhered to on my trip to the
access to medical masks as demand increased, control measures, requiring confirmed cases to mainland was that passengers are
people were required to use their NHI card to notify their close contacts to undergo home Taiwan will continue to work with the rest of required to register their
purchase masks under the Name-based Mask isolation and using electronic contact notification the world to ensure that all enjoy the fundamental particulars before they board a
Distribution System, helping to prevent an during the process. human right to health as stipulated in the WHO boat. I was required to register my
imbalance in supply and demand. Constitution. details before boarding the boat
As the demand for rapid tests increases, the departing for Pulau Redang.
While protecting personal data, a new function government has requisitioned a fixed amount and In the spirit of the United Nations’ 2030 However, this was not imposed on
for querying the travel and contact history of Sustainable Development Goals, no one should my return trip to the mainland.
patients was added to the NHI MediCloud System be left behind.
to effectively integrate health data. This helped Perhaps, the Malaysian Marine
frontline medical personnel judge infection risks Dr Shih-Chung Chen is Taiwan Health and Department should look into the
and take relevant infection control measures. Welfare Minister. matter before any untoward
Vaccinations and digital certificates incidents happen, especially with
To digitalise healthcare services, the NHI Express borders now open and tourism
App was launched. It offers features such as picking up pace.
vaccination appointments, personal health data,
medical records, Covid-19 vaccination records Wong Soo Kan
and test results. Petaling Jaya

Taiwan joined the European Union (EU)

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COMMENT soared with political turmoil in the Middle The People’s Bank of China coordinated monetary policy with both fiscal and industrial policies to
and JomobKywAanmiseChSuonwddahruamry East. However, Boston Fed head Eric boost confidence, promote desired investments and achieve stable growth. – REUTERSPIX
Rosengren argued, “tightening monetary
CENTRAL bank policies have often policy solely in response to contractionary customised, often innovative tools. Improving policy coordination
worsened economic crises instead of supply shocks would likely make the impact of Lessons from China Central bankers monitor aggregate indicators,
resolving them. By raising interest the shocks worse for households and China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China such as wages growth. However, before reacting
rates in response to inflation, they businesses”. (PBOC), developed “structural monetary policy” to upward wage movements, the context needs
often exacerbate, rather than mitigate business tools and new lending programmes to help to be considered. For example, wages may have
cycles and inflation. Referring to Boston Fed research, he noted victims of Covid-19. These ensured ample stagnated or the labour share of income may
commodity price changes did not affect the interbank liquidity, supported credit growth and have declined over the long-term.
Neither gods nor maestros long-run inflation rate. Other research has strengthened domestic supply chains.
US Federal Reserve Bank chair Jerome Powell also concluded that commodity price shocks Moreover, wage increases may be needed for
has admitted: “Whether we can execute a soft are less likely to be inflationary. This reduced Outstanding loans to small and micro critical sectors facing shortages to attract workers
landing or not, it may actually depend on inflationary impact has been attributed to businesses rose 25% to 20.8 trillion renminbi with relevant skills. Wage growth itself may not
factors that we don’t control.” “structural changes”, such as workers’ (RM13.55 trillion) by March 2022, from a year be the problem. The issue may be weak long-
diminished bargaining power due to labour before. By January, the interest rate for loans to term productivity growth due to deficient
He conceded, “What we can control is market deregulation, technological innovation over 48 million small and medium enterprises investments. Input-output tables can provide
demand, we can’t really affect supply with our and globalisation. Hence, central banks are no had dropped to 4.5%, the lowest level since information about sectoral bottlenecks and
policies. And supply is a big part of the story longer expected to respond strongly to food 1978. The PBOC has also provided banks with productivity, while flow-of-funds information
here”. Hence, decision makers must consider and fuel price increases. loan funds for promising, innovative and reveals what sectors are financially constrained
more appropriate policy tools. creditworthy companies, e.g. involved in and which are net savers or debtors.
Policymakers should not respond renewable energy and digital technologies. It,
Rejecting “one size fits all” formulas, aggressively to supply shocks – often thus, achieves three goals: Fostering growth, Such information can helpfully guide design
including simply raising interest rates, symptomatic of broader macroeconomic maintaining debt at sustainable levels and of appropriate, complementary fiscal and
anti-inflationary measures should be designed developments. Instead, central banks should “green transformation”. monetary policy tools. Undoubtedly, pursuing
as appropriate. Instead of squelching demand identify the deeper causes of food and fuel heterodox policies is challenging in the face of
by raising interest rates, supply could be price rises, only responding appropriately to Defying global trends, China’s “factory-gate” policy fetters imposed by current orthodoxies.
enhanced. Thus, Milton Friedman – whom them. Wrong policy responses can compound, (or producer price) inflation fell to a one-year
many central bankers still worship – blamed rather than mitigate problems. low in April 2022 as the PBOC eased supply Central bank independence – with dogmatic
the 1930s’ Great Depression on the US Fed. Appropriate innovations chains and stabilised commodity prices. mandates for inflation targeting and capital
A former Philippines central bank governor, Although consumer prices have risen with account liberalisation – precludes better
Instead of providing liquidity support Amando M. Tetangco Jr, noted it had not Covid-19 lockdowns, the increases have coordination, e.g. between fiscal and monetary
to businesses struggling with short-term responded strongly to higher food and fuel remained relatively benign so far. authorities. It also undercuts the policy space
cash-flow problems, it squeezed credit, prices in 2004. He stressed, “authorities should needed to address both demand- and supply-
crushing economic activity. ignore changes in the price of things that they In short, the PBOC coordinated monetary side inflation. Monetary authorities are under
cannot control”. policy with both fiscal and industrial policies to tremendous pressure to be seen to be
Similarly, before becoming Fed chair, Ben boost confidence, promote desired investments responding to rising prices. But experience
Bernanke’s research team concluded, “an Tetangco warned, “the required policy and achieve stable growth. reminds us that they can easily make things
important part of the effect of oil price shocks response is not … straightforward … Thus, worse by acting inappropriately. The answer is
[in the 1970s] on the economy results not from policymakers will need to make a choice It maintains financial stability and policy not greater central bank independence, but
the change in oil prices, per se, but from the between bringing down inflation and raising independence by regulating capital flows, thus rather, improved economic policy coordination.
resulting tightening of monetary policy”. output growth”. avoiding sudden outflows and interest rate hikes – IPS
in response.
Adverse impacts of the 1970s’ oil price He emphasised, “a real sector supply side Comments: [email protected]
shocks were worsened by the reactions of response may be more appropriate in
monetary policymakers, which caused addressing the pressure on prices”. Thus,
stagflation. That is, US Fed and other central instead of restricting credit indiscriminately,
bank interventions caused economic financing constraints on desired industries
stagnation without mitigating inflation. (e.g. renewable energy) should be eased.

Likewise, the longest US recession after the Enterprises deemed inefficient or
Great Depression, during the 1980s, was due undesirable – e.g. polluters or those engaged
to interest rate hikes by Fed chair Paul Volcker. in speculation – should have less access to the
A recent New York Times op-ed warned, “The limited financing available. This requires
Powell pivot to tighter money in 2021 is the designing macroeconomic policies to enable
equivalent of Mr Volcker’s 1981 move” and dynamic new investments, technologies and
“the 2020s economy could resemble the economic diversification.
1980s”.
Instead of reacting with blunt interest rate
Monetary policy for supply shocks? policy tools, policymakers should know how
Food prices surged in 2011 due to fiscal and monetary policy tools interact and
weather-related events, ruining harvests in impact various economic activities.
major food producing nations, such as
Australia and Russia. Meanwhile, fuel prices Used well, these can unlock supply
bottlenecks, promote desired investments and
enhance productivity. As no one size fits all,
each policy objective will need appropriate,

LETTERS [email protected] Time to address English deficiency

Fallback plan for greater sustainability THE concern by Parent Action Group to their strong command of
for Education over the poor English. It is not about reducing
ONE of my favorite topics of organisation of society. Are our decisions on day to day of command of English across the board the importance of our national
conversation when I meet foreign The Covid-19 pandemic has community living strongly rooted in and its call for a reset to put the language, but recognising that to
workers who work in factories and a consciousness of being part of a country’s human resources on par produce the best, we need to
hotels is what would they do when they shown how a formal economy in an natural environmental system that with world standards (“Language have a quality education and a
return to their respective countries at urban setting can be devastated, needs to be nurtured and protected? barrier” by Suraya Ali, theSun, May realistic upgrade in our teaching
the end of their employment contract. causing millions to be unemployed, 17) resonates with many of English, which is used
businesses going bankrupt and far Do we need a disastrous right-thinking Malaysians. internationally.
To my surprise, I always get a worse, people losing their lives due pandemic for us to realise the
similar response – they will not need to infection by a deadly virus. importance of an informal economy The key issue, with the lack of It is pertinent to note that a
to work in a formal sector since their that enhances the skills and exposure and use of English, can large number of our local
villages have all the necessary The crisis has shown a world that knowledge of individuals in our be addressed by reverting to graduates are unemployed for
resources to survive. They have farms is obsessed with economic prosperity community? English as a medium of various reasons, including their
for growing food and rearing and growth, and has forgotten the instruction in at least the key lack of fluency to communicate in
chickens, cows and goats that are sense of balance that comes with The informal economy, where an STEM (science, technology, English.
used for personal or community community solidarity, informal economic activity that is not engineering, and mathematics)
consumption or sold to the cities economic activities and integral subjected to government regulation subjects. A good command of English
through a supply chain. ecology. and taxation, supports some of the is to recognise the pre-eminence
most vulnerable in society. For Years ago, our English of English as a worldwide
There is a fallback plan to their In fact, the three elements example, in sub-Saharan Africa, the proficiency was on par with any language in science, research,
rural eco-system in case there is a mentioned should be the vision of countries generate 90% of English-speaking Commonwealth commerce, global affairs and
rupture or end to employment in the the future built on the principle of employment opportunities. country, but now the detrimental diplomacy.
formal economy. subsidiarity, where local solutions to slide needs to be urgently
local issues are sought. Let us build up an alternative addressed. Hence, our country’s
What is interesting is that there is vision of community solidarity, well-documented English
an alternative informal rural economy Are we fostering a sense of informal economy and integral Simply put, for economic language deficiency needs an
that is built on the ethos of village community living in our villages and ecology to fall on before another advancement, we must be able to urgent public policy reset if we are
living, that provides social security urban housing areas? disaster happens. compete strongly on an serious about our ambitions to
where one takes ownership of one’s international level, and as such we develop and maintain a strong,
social interaction and economic Are we working on abandoned Ronald Benjamin need a superior human capital competent and competitive
activity, unlike the formal economic land in our surrounding areas for Secretary Association and workforce. workforce in an increasingly
system where the capitalist community farming, where we can for Welfare Community competitive global market.
utilitarianism tends to determine the fall on when there is a rupture in the The standard of our human
formal economy such as food and Dialogue capital entering Malaysia’s Sze Loong Steve Ngeow
inflation? workforce needs to improve. Kajang
Singapore is ranked higher due

10 theSUN ON THURSDAY | MAY 19, 2022

BRIEFSLIVISTONIA VIII 3-STOREY Asia-Pacific prime office
SHOP OFFICES rents see sustained recovery
FULLY SOLD IN A WEEK
o Knight Frank Malaysia says the Kuala Lumpur market uptick in economic activities and improved
PETALING JAYA: SP Setia Bhd’s three- remains tenant-led as existing and incoming supply continues business sentiments. Demand for space is
storey shop office project Livistonia VIII to outpace demand expected to increase with more workers
in Setia Tropika, Johor Baru, recorded a returning to the office and as organizations firm
100% take-up rate within a week after KUALA LUMPUR: Prime office rents in the industry continue to seize opportunities for up their physical workplace planning. Endemic
its launch in mid-February. Setia Tropika Asia-Pacific are heading for a sustained premium quality spaces in the central business trends indicate that organisations opting for
general manager Saniman Amat Yusof recovery, judging from the report for the first district at low rents. hybrid work models are likely to see several
said it is encouraging to see Livistonia quarter 2022 (Q1’22) by independent global advantages, hence having good infrastructure
VIII fully taken up within just a week, property consultancy Knight Frank. Of the 23 cities tracked by the index, 21 of and facilities to support the new way of working
which follows the easing of Covid-19 them recorded stable or increased rents this is crucial,” according to Knight Frank Malaysia
related restrictions for businesses. In its Asia-Pacific Prime Office Rental Index past quarter compared with 13 in the previous executive director of office strategy and
Livistonia VIII consists of 30 units of for Q1’22, the index is up 0.8% quarter-on- quarter. solutions Teh Young Khean.
shop offices and will serve an estimated quarter (q-o-q), after rising by 0.3% in the
population catchment of more than preceding quarter. This indicates that the Shanghai recorded the highest y-o-y increase Knight Frank Malaysia executive director of
60,200 residents within the township economic recovery is sustained from Q4’21 in Q1’22 at 4.2% among the cities tracked by the research and consultancy Judy Ong said: “The
and surrounding neighbourhoods. despite a turbulent first quarter with index, while Shenzhen continued its decline office market, however remains tenant-led as
Prior to Livistonia VIII, Setia Tropika, accelerating inflation and the Russian invasion trend by 4.5% y-o-y for the same period. existing and incoming supply continue to
with a gross development value of of Ukraine weighing down on market outpace demand. An estimated 495,850 sq m of
RM4.17 billion, launched a total of 392 sentiment. The overall index is up 0.2% year-on- On a quarterly basis, Bengaluru saw rent space is scheduled to enter the Kuala Lumpur
units of shop offices under the year. increasing by 5.8%, accelerating from the 1% q- market by the end of 2022 and this will continue
Livistonia series which have sold out. o-q improvement the quarter prior. to exert pressure on rentals. Notable upcoming
Vacancy remains elevated at 13.1%, similar completions include Merdeka 118 Tower, PNB
MOVING UP FOR LESS to that of Q4’21. This should start to reduce as The index has started tracking Ho Chi Minh 1194, Felcra Tower, Aspire Tower @ KL Eco City
WITH GAMUDA LAND’S more Asia-Pacific markets start to open their City from Q1’22 onwards. Rent grew 0.7% q-o-q and The MET Corporate Towers.”
HIGH-RISE SERIES CAMPAIGN economies and tenants in the technology and stayed flat on a yearly basis.
“Optimism at the start of the year was
PETALING JAYA: Gamuda Land has “The pace of recovery in the office sector will tempered by multiple resurgences of Covid-19
introduced its GL High Rise Series continue to pick up this year in tandem with the which resulted in Hong Kong and several tier-1
campaign for home buyers to take Chinese mainland markets retightening
advantage of selected high-rise ASIA-PACIFIC PRIME OFFICE RENTS FOR Q1 2022 movement restrictions. The sustained economic
developments in the Klang Valley, recovery post-Covid in the region is also
Johor and Sabah. The campaign which City Annual change Quarterly change Forecast challenged by the Russia-Ukraine war which led
runs until July 31, 2022, offers home (year-on-year %) (quarter-on-quarter %) next 12 months to the surge in energy prices and inflationary
buyers a range of deals, which include pressure. As such, the growth forecasts for the
zero instalment for up to five years, Brisbane 1.5 0.0 Increase region could be lower than what have been
alongside a booking fee of only RM500 Melbourne 0.0 0.0 Increase projected.
and free legal fees. Home buyers who Perth 1.0 0.6 Increase
purchase within the promotional Sydney 0.6 0.5 Increase “Nevertheless, the Asia-Pacific market is not
period will enjoy 100% financing from Auckland -3.6 1.0 Decrease as directly impacted by the macroeconomic
Maybank Islamic’s HouzKey programme. Tokyo -4.0 -1.3 Decrease uncertainties as other regions. Particularly in
Participating developments campaign Beijing -1.1 -0.3 Increase countries where there is sustained optimism
are Maya Bay Residences @ Gamuda Guangzhou -1.0 -0.4 Flat over re-opening, corporates are choosing to take
Cove, GAIA Residences @ Gamuda Shanghai 4.2 1.9 Increase more decisive leasing decisions in view of the
Gardens, The Amber Residences @ Shenzhen -4.5 -1.4 Decrease rising material costs and construction delays,”
twentyfive.7, Jadite Suites @ Jade Hills, Hong Kong 1.1 0.6 Increase said Knight Frank global head of occupier
HighPark Suites @ Petaling Jaya, The Taipei -0.1 0.0 Flat strategy and solutions Tim Armstrong.
Robertson @ Bukit Bintang, D’Suites @ Seoul 4.2 2.2 Increase
Horizon Hills and Bukit Bantayan Bengaluru 3.6 5.8 Increase “There are still mixed signals particularly in
Residences @ Kota Kinabalu. Mumbai -1.9 0.0 Flat developing countries where office leasing
NCR 1.0 0.0 Flat demand is still in a state of flux. As economic
Felcra co-op, Siab Phnom Penh -8.4 0.5 Flat recoveries hinge significantly on foreign direct
in JV for RM389m Jakarta -1.8 2.0 Decrease investments, the macroeconomic environment
project in Gombak KUALA LUMPUR –2.1 0.0 Decrease now is making things more unpredictable than
Singapore 1.9 1.2 Increase ever before. Nevertheless, the drop in rents
KUALA LUMPUR: Koperasi Peserta- Bangkok -1.4 0.7 Decrease during the entire pandemic were not as deep
Peserta Felcra Malaysia Bhd (KPFB) has Manila 1.2 0.0 Decrease compared to previous crises, and we also do not
inked a memorandum of understanding Ho Chi Minh City 1.0 0.7 Increase expect supply-side pressure on both rents and
(MoU) with Siab Development Sdn Bhd to occupancies in the coming quarters in the Asia-
jointly undertake a housing project with a Source: Knight Frank Pacific.
gross development value (GDV) of RM389
million on land in Gombak, Selangor, “With hybrid working being the way forward,
owned by KPFB. occupiers are likely not over-committing to
space the way they did in the past, which could
KPFB chairman Datuk Sabari Misran modestly support stable leasing demand in
said the proposed land development markets that are already out of the woods,” said
measures about 7.9 hectares and the project Knight Frank Asia-Pacific head of research
will be completed in 2025. Christine Li.

“KPFB’s involvement in the real estate Straits Trading, Malaysia Smelting unveil
field with the signing of this agreement master plan for Straits City in Butterworth
involves KPFB PR1MA and KPFB Felcra
Residency, and Felcra employees and the PETALING JAYA: The Straits Trading Co Ltd elevate Butterworth as a city of the future that commerce centre that is rich with history and
B40 group will be given priority in the sale of and Malaysia Smelting Corp Bhd have unveiled offers a multitude of business, hospitality, heritage. At the same time, the Penang
the units. the master plan for Straits City, its flagship residence, and leisure experiences. government is set to revive Butterworth’s
development in Butterworth, Penang, which commercial and industrial activities under
“This project is supported by Felcra Bhd aims to be the beacon of smart and sustainable Smart technologies will be utilised to enhance Penang 2030 Vision. This is expected to
and the Cooperative Commission of integrated development in the state. the quality of life at Straits City, which include stimulate the economic landscape of
Malaysia, which encourages cooperatives to artificial intelligence-driven security systems and Butterworth, which bodes well for Straits City.
invest in real estate that is profitable and Comprising an integrated mix of residential, the Internet of Things solutions such as
promises lucrative returns,” he said during retail, hotel and commercial components, the connected sensors. These will contribute to a Located in the heart of Butterworth, Straits
KPFB’s Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration and 40 acres Straits City is situated on the prime more efficient built environment management, City is easily accessible via air, sea, road and rail
the MoU signing ceremony at the seafront central business district of Butterworth. better services for its community and lower routes. It is about 30 minutes’ drive from Penang
Setiawangsa Community Centre here energy consumption for the entire Straits City. International Airport, five minutes’ drive from
yesterday. Straits City’s first phase of development Penang Sentral transport hub, free-trade zone at
includes a 23-storey four-star hotel with a net Apart from that, Straits City will be North Butterworth Container Terminal and the
The MoU was inked by Sabari and Siab lettable retail area of 41,823 sq ft. It comprises introducing green features such as pedestrian- Penang Bridge.
Holdings Bhd executive director Meryl Lim. 343 rooms, a retail podium and meetings, link bridges, walkways, and cycling paths that
The signing of the agreement was witnessed incentives, conferences, and exhibition facilities. connects the various parcels within Straits City. “Upon completion of the first phase of
by Felcra Bhd chairman Datuk Ahmad The hotel and retail podium is scheduled for This is anticipated to improve walkability and development in 2023, we will continue with the
Jazlan Yaakub. opening in the third quarter of 2023. reduce the use of vehicles, thus leading to lower remaining phases of development which entails
carbon emissions. retail, commercial and residential blocks. Straits
Sabari also said that several cooperatives At a topping-out ceremony held on Tuesday, City is expected to be fully developed by 2038,”
with a large number of members have also Straits Developments Pte Ltd CEO Eric Teng Straits City is poised to enhance the said Teng.
been appointed as housing agents, namely said upon completion, Straits City will help positioning of Butterworth as a trade and
Koperasi Perkhidmatan Pelajaran Nasional
Bhd, Koperasi Kakitangan Felcra Malaysia
Bhd and also Koperasi Hartanah Angguna
Bhd.

He noted that with the signing of the
MoU, KPFB is expected to earn a profit of
13% of the GDV, which is equivalent to
RM50 million. – Bernama

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% RM m RM m RM m

46.2 Institutions 1047.9 1034.7 13.2

23.1 Retail 520.3 522.9 -2.6

30.7 Foreign 686.8 697.4 -10.6

100.0 2255.0 2255.0 0.0 6.31 23.46 41.76 7.72 251.45 240.77 5.54 70.20
KLCI STI HANG SENG SCI NIKKEI TSEC KOSPI S&P/ASX200
Preliminary stats (excluding trade amendments). For final data, please refer to www.bursamalaysia.com 1,554.91 20,644.28 3,085.98 26,911.20 16,296.86 2,625.98
Source: Bursa Malaysia 3,225.35 7,182.70

KL MARKET SUMMARY Retail group upbeat on
May 18, 2022

INDICES 11,100.60 CHANGE +40.20 sales, consumer spending
FBMEMAS
FBMKLCI 1,554.91 +6.31
CONSUMER PRODUCTS 582.80 +5.48
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 198.98 -1.44
CONSTRUCTION 163.74 +0.39
FINANCIAL SERVICES 16,666.90 +132.42
ENERGY 848.95 +9.67
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 601.53 -5.32 o However, external factors, manpower shortage and
HEALTH CARE 1,978.25 +2.84 lack of supply are factors that could affect the sector:
TRANSPORTATION 849.24 +1.33 RGM managing director
PROPERTY 692.06 +2.09
PLANTATION 8,222.76 -37.43
FBMSHA 11,542.80 -6.39
FBMACE 5,322.37 -40.87
TECHNOLOGY 66.90 -0.17
█ BY GLORIA HARRY BEATTY sustainability. “Retail purchasing is positive
TURNOVER VALUE [email protected] at this moment, but my concern now is how
3.739 BIL RM2.254 BIL PETALING JAYA: Retail Group Malaysia long can it last?”
Sdn Bhd (RGM) expects the retail industry
5 MOST ACTIVES and consumer purchasing power to be In the latest Malaysia Retail Industry
May 18, 2022 positive in the second quarter (Q2) of this Report published in March, RGM projects
year although concerns linger. 6.3% growth in retail sales for 2022, which is
STOCK VOL CLSG (sen) +/– (sen) an upward revision from its estimate of 6% Tan is cautious on the sustainability of
SAPNRG 487,576,000 7.5 UNCH RGM managing director Tan Hai Hsin made in November last year. consumers’ purchasing power. – PIX BY
TECHNAX 389,494,500 5.0 -3.0 said: “The retail industry may see improved MOHD HAFIZ SOHAIMI /THESUN
SERBADK 215,781,400 16.0 -0.5 performance in Q2 in light of the recent Meanwhile, Tan said manpower
YONGTAI 136,145,100 8.5 -1.5 Aidilfitri period but concerns over shortage and lack of supply are two However, this problem is not unique to
SMTRACK 92,351,300 9.0 +2.0 prospects linger due to external factors that emerging factors that could affect retail Malaysia as the same issue is also faced by
could affect consumers’ purchasing power.” sales and retailers. Singapore.
5 TOP GAINERS
May 18, 2022 Due to the positive performance last During the recent Hari Raya Aidilfitri Tan said he foresees growth for all retail
month, they “may have to revise the period, retailers were struggling due to lack sectors, including those that flourished
STOCK VOL CLSG (RM) +/– RM projection for Q2 2022 upwards but of staff on hand to operate stores and during the pandemic such as online
NESTLE 182,400 134.40 1.60 whether that will result in high overall services. shopping platforms and food delivery
HLBANK 2,767,000 21.20 0.46 growth rate for the retail sector remains to services.
PPB 753,300 16.92 0.38 be seen”. He observed that some restaurants could
AIRPORT 4,753,300 6.56 0.36 not serve their signature dishes to customers
TEXCHEM 2,929,100 3.40 0.25 Tan said during a press conference he due to lack of imported raw materials.
expects the purchasing power of the public
to remain positive but does not foresee its Both these factors will affect business
negatively since retailers “cannot operate to
their full capacity” due to lack of supply and
manpower.

5 TOP LOSERS We’ll work with US, UK on timber shortage: Zuraida
May 18, 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is prepared to industry has continued to perform well the US authority on the suspicion of trade
STOCK VOL CLSG (RM) +/– RM work closely with the United States (US) despite the Covid-19 pandemic and circumvention, collaboration is being
F&N 271,400 20.60 0.68 and the United Kingdom (UK) to address economic aftermath, with exports up by drawn up between the US compliance
CHHB 21,344,900 83.5 0.355 the shortage of timber and timber products 3.1% to RM22.7 billion in 2021 from officer and Malaysian authorities such as
PMBTECH-LA 16.20 0.30 faced by the two countries. RM22.02 billion in 2020. the Malaysian Timber Industry Board and
HSI-HEJ 100 1.62 0.25 Customs,” she added.
UTDPLT 25,000 14.44 0.22 Plantation Industries and Commodities “However, shipments from Malaysia are
204,600 Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said slow as the shortage of logs from natural Meanwhile, Zuraida said Malaysia is
this can be done by sourcing and value- forest has left Malaysian sawmills struggling keen to know the UK’s position on the ENVI
EXCHANGE RATES MAY 18, 2022 adding from other countries, especially for to fulfil the increasing demand and orders. (European Committee on the Environment,
timber products with Programme for the Public Health and Food Safety)
Foreign currency Bank sell Bank buy Bank buy Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). “Exporters also have to cope with logistical Deforestation proposal, as well as in
constraints such as heavy port congestion, working out a consensus on the definitions
1 US DOLLAR TT/OD TT OD In a statement yesterday, Zuraida said lack of containers, insufficient vessel space of deforestation and forest degradation.
1 AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR 4.4510 4.3180 4.3080 the sanctions on Russian timber product and others; nevertheless, transshipment of
1 BRUNEI DOLLAR 3.1510 3.0270 3.0110 exports to the US have led to American timber products has been identified as a “As of Jan 1, changes in the UK Customs
1 CANADIAN DOLLAR 3.2130 3.1200 importers looking for alternative sources of potential medium-term solution,” she said. regulations came into effect as the country is
1 EURO 3.4720 3.3810 3.1120 materials, especially plywood. on the verge of leaving the European Union’s
1 NEWZEALAND DOLLAR 4.7050 4.5540 3.3690 In this regard, Zuraida said, the US- Customs Union and Single Market framework.
1 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 2.8440 2.7410 4.5340 “The current market sentiment on based International Wood Products
1 STERLING POUND 3.2130 3.1200 2.7250 Malaysian timber in the US is positive, Association is eager to speak to Malaysian “While Malaysia benefits from the UK
1 SWISS FRANC 5.5660 5.3910 3.1120 especially for meranti and keruing, with timber industry leaders on the ways and customs regulation update, it also hopes
100 UAE DIRHAM 4.4690 4.3660 5.3710 year-on-year demand for meranti and means to address the issue. that the UK government will further
100 BANGLADESHTAKA 122.5800 116.2500 4.3510 keruing sawn timber increasing by 9% and streamline the procedures and document
100 CHINESE RENMINBI 5.1750 4.8490 116.0500 467%, respectively,” she said. “As this will entail measures to protect handling to ease the current logistical
100 HONGKONG DOLLAR 66.2000 63.6000 4.6490 Malaysia from being targeted by the US nightmare,” she said. - Bernama
100 INDIAN RUPEE 57.3000 54.4600 Zuraida noted that the Malaysian timber domestic timber product association and
100 INDONESIAN RUPIAH 5.8400 5.4800 N/A
100 JAPANESE YEN 0.0314 0.0285 54.2600 ‘Renovate business premises this year to enjoy tax deduction’
100 NEWTAIWAN DOLLAR 3.4440 3.3360 5.2800
100 PAKISTAN RUPEE 16.1000 KUALA LUMPUR: The government on office renovation, you can save renovation and refurbishment need to be
100 PHILIPPINE PESO 2.3000 N/A 0.0235 extending the tax deduction of up to RM51,000 in taxes,” Low said. certified externally.
100 QATAR RIYAL 8.6200 2.1600 3.3260 RM300,000 for business renovation and
100 SAUDI RIYAL 123.2300 8.1200 refurbishment until Dec 31, 2022 is He was responding to a question on If the company accounts are not audited
100THAI BAHT 119.9700 116.9800 N/A something businesses can look forward to whether there are any tax savings for but the owner wants to make a claim, the
13.4800 113.8900 1.9600 for the remainder of this year, said business owners in response to the Covid- owner may need to seek the services of an
11.9700 7.9200 education platform director Genesis Origo 19 pandemic. audit firm, Low said, adding that tax
116.7800 Low Chin Ann. deductions are not allowed for designer fees
113.6900 Low said if a business owner plans to and professional fees.
11.5700 “If you are short of cash, you (still) have renovate the office premises next year, he can
the time to arrange for bank financing,” he consider doing it this year to take advantage Businesses can also seek advice from tax
Source: Malayan Banking Berhad/Bernama said in a webinar titled “Tax 101: Tax Guide of the tax deduction. If the business runs into consultants with regard to expenses on
for SMEs and Entrepreneurs” yesterday. a loss, this can be carried forward to the Covid-19 tests for employees.The other
future year of assessment, he added. things that businesses can consider include
“Consider a small and medium buying smartphones or devices for
enterprise (SME). If you spend RM300,000 He suggested that business owners seek employees to get a tax deduction. – Bernama
advice from tax consultants because the

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SEATTLE: Amazon Web Services Inc AWS expected to develop
(AWS) is committed to realising data centres in Malaysia
Malaysia’s potential as a data hub in
Southeast Asia, and is expected to o Amazon Web Services wants to iron out some issues with Mida, access to digital technology, especially
make a major investment this year to Miti and Finance Ministry first before committing to major investment industries, including the small and
develop data centres in the country. medium enterprises (SME),” the
He added that the discussion has Azmin also met with representatives of also prepared to provide input to the minister added.
Senior Minister of International resulted in a better understanding of Microsoft Corp, where the company government in its efforts to enhance
Trade and Industry Datuk Seri the incentives that AWS requested, said it is committed to train local talent the country’s competitiveness in the On his meeting with Ammex Corp,
Mohamed Azmin Ali said the which are being considered by Miti via the “Bersama Malaysia Microsoft” digital economy. Azmin said the company is prepared to
government has given approval to AWS and MoF. initiative that was launched in April expand its glove imports from Malaysia.
to invest in the country. However, AWS 2021. “The presence of these companies
has informed that it still has some “We are confident that the surely will accelerate the 60% of the company’s glove imports
things to iron out with the Malaysian negotiation process will be finalised “I have been informed that almost transformation and adaptation of are sourced from Malaysia.
Investment Development Authority soon because for Malaysia, this 500,000 local workers have been digital technology which will help to
(Mida), the Ministry of International investment is very important to trained since the beginning of this year, generate sustainable growth in the “We have identified several local
Trade and Industry (Miti) and the accelerate the digital technology and I am confident the target to train country. glove makers to meet the company’s
Ministry of Finance (MoF). transformation process in Malaysia,” over one million local workers would demand.
Azmin said. happen by 2023,” he added. “Such investments are in line with
“As this involves high quality new the aspirations of the MyDigital policy “This will help to enliven
technology, the government is Prior to the meeting with AWS, Azmin said Microsoft and AWS are which aims to provide Malaysians manufacturing activities in our
prepared to study the requests made by country, especially among SME, with
AWS in order to encourage quality regard to meeting international
investments into Malaysia. We are standards and enhancing their
discussing several new incentives productivity for the US market,” he
which are more innovative and added. – Bernama
attractive to AWS so that it will build
more data centres in Malaysia,” the
minister said after meeting
representatives of AWS here on
Tuesday.

AWS is a pioneering giant in the
provision of cloud computing services.

France’s StudioCanal keen Avanade launches digital innovation studio in TRX
to shoot film in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Avanade ideas, and test latest technologies clients in Malaysia to continuously
yesterday announced the launch of from proof-of-concept and assess the dynamic economic
CANNES: StudioCanal, a film its first digital innovation studio in prototype to market launch and landscape and co-create tailored
production and distributor in Malaysia. scale. solutions that support new
France, has expressed its interest in business models and enhanced
Malaysia as its filming destination. Situated in Avanade’s expanded For example, the studio experiences.”
office space in Tun Razak Exchange partnered with a multinational “Understanding end-user
Suraya Filem Production (M) Sdn (TRX), the studio will be home to a retailer to rethink the future retail perspectives, collaborating across
Bhd director Shures.R said the multi-disciplinary team of experience – one that uses artificial disciplines and co-creating with
matter was expressed by designers, developers, engineers, intelligence and Internet of Things our clients are key aspects of our
StudioCanal head of production Elsa and product managers dedicated to to create a personalised experience, human-centred approach. It allows
Bonomi and head of sales and helping clients reimagine from room ambience and curated our Digital Innovation Studio to
distribution Mathilde Mourey during experiences and create new shelves to preferred payment rapidly develop bespoke solutions
a discussion and luncheon session Shures... Suraya Filem Production and products and services through a methods, for every customer. that transform our clients’
with Communications and StudioCanal had been cooperating design-led, user-centric approach. operations and business models by
Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar for 20 years and it was a chance for “Malaysia is a strategic market putting people at the center of
Musa on Tuesday. us to promote the FIMI to the French The new digital innovation for us in Southeast Asia, and this everything they do,” said Avanade
firm where no other countries offer studio combines Avanade’s deep investment underscores our regional innovation and studio
He said the company was also such an incentive.– BERNAMAPIX engineering and technology commitment to develop local lead (Southeast Asia) Girish
interested in the 30% cash rebate happy with the rebate and the experience with the agility and talent as well as support the Khanna.
offered through the Film in Malaysia welcoming of the minister for them creativity of a digital agency, to country’s digital economy Avanade’s digital innovation
Incentive (FIMI) and an additional to shoot in Malaysia,” he added. deliver enterprise-scale projects for aspiration. The nation’s MyDigital studio in Malaysia joins the growing
up to 5% through the cultural test. businesses in Malaysia’s key initiative will unleash new growth network of 19 studios located in
He said promoting Malaysia as an industries such as energy, oil and opportunities for organisations major metropolitan hubs in
“All this while, we have made a lot international filming destination gas, telecommunications, and that are agile and innovative Singapore, Australia, Japan, Brazil,
of distributions and bought a lot of would give a good return to the financial services. enough to seize them,” said the US, Canada, the UK, France,
content. So now, why not bring country, especially in terms of the Avanade managing director Netherlands, Germany, Italy and
forward the production to Malaysia? economy and create more job To help companies get started, (Southeast Asia) Bhavya Kapoor. Poland. – Bernama
If the storyline of the film requires a opportunities for the locals to work the studio will create physical and
Malaysian background, why not with international companies. digital spaces where companies can “Our digital innovation studio
come to Malaysia, rather than find inspiration, co-create new will work side-by-side with our
Thailand or other countries? We can He added that his company had
get a better rebate. also planned to promote FIMI to The studio at TRX
other international companies will be home to a
“They (StudioCanal) have including Lionsgate as well as team of
decided to bring the head of their production companies from Iran designers,
production team to Malaysia to and India. developers,
check all the places they want for engineers, and
their next project. The conversation Marche Du Film is the film product
between StudioCanal and Tan Sri industry’s biggest gathering for managers
Annuar Musa is like 99% is on,” he producers, financiers, broadcasters, dedicated to
said at the Malaysia Delegation distributors, suppliers and buyers helping clients
Networking Reception in from around the world to meet, share reimagine
conjunction with the Marche Du ideas and make deals. experiences and
Filme here on Tuesday. create new
National Film Development Corp products and
Shures said Suraya Filem (Finas) CEO Prof Dr Md Nasir services. –
Production and StudioCanal had Ibrahim said apart from promoting AVANADE
been cooperating for 20 years and it and selling the country’s creative WEBSITE
was an opportunity for him to content products, Malaysia’s main
promote the FIMI to the company purpose in the film market was to
where no other countries offer such attract foreign investors to the
an incentive. country through the FIMI. – Bernama

“That is why we proposed
StudioCanal and then they also very

CIMB wins three awards in Asia’s Best Managed Companies 2022 poll

KUALA LUMPUR: CIMB Group has Relations in Malaysia. and governance (ESG) agenda, a net-zero economy,” said CIMB which we operate,” he added.
clinched three awards in Asia’s Best Held annually, the Asia’s Best bringing it closer to achieving its Group CEO Datuk Abdul Rahman In 2021, CIMB intensified its
Managed Companies 2022 poll Managed Companies poll by ambition of becoming an Asean Ahmad.
organised by FinanceAsia. FinanceAsia serves as a benchmark sustainability leader by 2024. “Meanwhile, corporate engagement with the investment
of the region’s most influential responsibility remains a priority as community by holding its inaugural
Scored with input from both companies by evaluating the “We are pleased to be recognised we have committed RM150 million Sustainability Investor Day, where it
investors and analysts throughout the corporate behaviour and by the investor and analyst towards community investments also announced the group’s
region, CIMB was the most awarded performance of Asian peers over the community at the Asia’s Best over five years and 100,000 employee enhanced sustainability commit-
Malaysian company in this year’s poll past 12 months. Managed Companies 2022 poll by volunteerism hours annually by 2024 ments. These commitments include
as it swept the awards for Most These awards are a testament to FinanceAsia. These awards highlight in order to bring about positive among others CIMB’s target to
Committed to Environmental the headway made by CIMB in our significant progress towards change and make a meaningful achieve net-zero greenhouse gas
Stewardship, Most Committed to advancing its environmental, social becoming an Asean sustainability impact across the communities in (GHG) emissions by 2050, including
Social Causes and Best Investor leader as we play our part in realising scope 3 and financed emissions.

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AmInvest is the Best Bond Group at Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards

PETALING JAYA: AmInvest has In two of the categories, Best Bond outlook for bonds is the expected “Markets are ebbing and flowing optimise risk-adjusted returns for
again been awarded the Best Bond MYR Fund Over Three Years and Best interest rate hike decisions by central along with the sentiments and investors based on, amongst others,
Fund Family Group Over Three Years Bond MYR Fund Over Five Years, banks in developed markets as rising emotions of investors as the interest rate expectations, currency
for the third consecutive year at the AmDynamic Bond is the winner for inflationary fears continue. pandemic continues to cloud movements and diversification
Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards the third year running. outlooks and change perspectives. opportunities through its exposure to
Malaysia 2022. “Although the market is pricing in Fund managers find themselves both local as well as foreign bonds,
Commenting on the four wins, such factors, this year will likely be looking beyond earnings statements the group said. It employs an active
The annual event highlights funds AmBank group CEO Datuk Sulaiman another year of volatility,” Goh and factoring in the impacts of management investment strategy that
and fund management companies Mohd Tahir said AmInvest has been predicted. various viral waves, all of which make seeks to increase returns by
that have excelled in delivering managing funds for over 40 years and active management more challenging capitalising on market views and
consistently strong risk-adjusted these awards truly underscore the Lipper, Refinitiv head of research than ever,” he added. timing decisions rather than a buy-
performance relative to their peers for capabilities of its investment team in Robert Jenkins said the 2022 Refinitiv and-hold strategy.
the year ended Dec 31, 2021. adding value to investors’ portfolios Lipper Fund Award recognises AmInvest has delivered
notwithstanding volatile market managers who are successful in outperformance and the As at March 31, 2022, AmDynamic
AmDynamic Bond has won all conditions. facing down market factors not seen accompanying comfort of consistency Bond registered a total return of
three Best Bond MYR Fund’s in decades which include rising to investors’ portfolios in a time of 14.3%, 28.5% and 59.4% over periods
individual award categories – Three AmFunds Management Bhd inflation, a thinning labour pool and unprecedented changes, said Jenkins. of three years, five years and ten years
Years’, Five Years’ and Ten Years’ (AmInvest) CEO Goh Wee Peng said continuing constraints on the global respectively.
performance. the leading factor affecting the supply chain. AmDynamic Bond seeks to

LBS Bina turns in improved BRIEFS TOURISM MALAYSIA TO WOO
performance for first quarter INDIANS AT SATTE 2022

o Revenue and profit contributed more than 80% of the its revenue While material NEW DELHI: Tourism Malaysia is
increase, aided by Klang for Q1’22. prices and labour participating at India’s largest tourism
Valley property development shortage were fair, South Asia’s Travel & Tourism
projects As at May 17, LBS secured total property hurdles faced in Exchange (SATTE), for the 18th year in
sales of RM593 million, bookings in the Q1, the group Delhi. The three-day event from May 18
PETALING JAYA: LBS Bina Group Bhd pipeline of RM561 million. managed to push to 20, is an effort to lure back Indian
yesterday announced better first quarter through and still travellers after the long-awaited
results for the financial year ending Dec 31, As at April 30, unbilled sales totalled RM2.4 delivered strong reopening of Malaysian borders on April
2022 (Q1’22). billion, which will contribute positively to the results, says Lim. 1. At SATTE this year, Tourism Malaysia
group’s revenue over the next few years. Nonetheless, it is encouraging to see LBS push aims to raise awareness of Malaysia as an
For the quarter under review, LBS delivered through and report a solid set of results. ideal holiday destination and instill
a revenue of RM409.02 million compared with Commenting on the results, LBS executive “In addition, the recent announcement by confidence among Indians to feel safe to
RM402.55 million in the first quarter of 2021 chairman Tan Sri Lim Hock San said: “We were Bank Negara Malaysia to increase the visit Malaysia once again. With more than
(Q1’21). excited to kickstart 2022 on a fresh note and overnight policy rate is expected. This is part 35,000 visitors expected to attend the
begin a year without disruptions from the and parcel of running a business and we have event, this will anticipate to increase the
Profit before tax and profit after tax were Covid-19 pandemic. However, we were faced prepared ourselves for this. We believe that our number of Indian tourists to Malaysia
RM54.26 million and RM33.8 million with a challenging Q1 attributed to the material products, which are within the affordable significantly, as well as encourage greater
respectively, which translated to a year-on-year prices and labour shortage. It has affected the housing range section and located in strategic cooperation between tour operators and
increase of 2.14% and 2.7%. industry and market sentiment all around. areas, will continue to receive strong demand members of the tourism fraternity. The
from the public,” he said. Malaysian delegation is headed by
Profit after tax and non-controlling interests This was aided by the government’s stamp Tourism Malaysia deputy chairman
clocked in at RM30.16 million, a commendable duty waiver on first property purchases valued Datuk Seri Dr Anil Jeet Singh Sandhu,
year-on-year increase of 20% despite a quarter up to RM500,000 by Malaysian citizens for sale together with 15 tour agents, three hotel
inflicted with the Russia-Ukraine war and and purchase agreements executed between operators, three product owners, three
higher raw material prices. Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2025. airline operators, and a state tourism
board along with several officials from
On a segmental basis, property Tourism Malaysia. – Bernama
development remained the group’s main
earnings contributor. Property development LABUAN’S SHIP-TO-SHIP
revenue took up 96.2% of the total revenue at OIL TRANSFER GOOD
RM393.48 million, a year-on-year increase of FOR ECONOMY: SENATOR
1%.
LABUAN: Ship-to-ship transfer of cargo
The steady revenue was attributed to activity in Labuan waters is vital in
progress from its Klang Valley projects such as generating auxiliary services and
Residensi Bintang Bukit Jalil, LBS Alam economic activity, said Senator Datuk
Perdana and KITA @ Cybersouth. Bashir Alias. He said the ship-to-ship
cargo transfer which is part of the
The group further announced that components in the logistics industry
development projects within the Klang Valley provides significant macro contributions
to the national economy by creating
StanChart M’sia raises UMW Toyota Motor, Perodua employment, national income and
lending, deposit rates delivered 32,600 vehicles in April foreign investment influx. Labuan-based
Victoria STS (Labuan) Sdn Bhd opened a
KUALA LUMPUR: Standard Chartered PETALING JAYA: The UMW Group’s the corresponding period last year. new chapter in cargo handling, carrying
Malaysia (StanChart) is raising its base rate UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) and UMW’s However, the ongoing sales campaigns out a ship-to-ship (STS) crude oil transfer
and base lending rate by 25 basis points associate company, Perodua, delivered operation for the first time ever at the
(bps) to 2.52% and 5.7% respectively effective 32,600 units sales in April, lower than the for Hari Raya such as “Bersama Lebih Labuan port limit of Victoria Bay on May
today. 35,246 units in March, mainly due to the Bermakna” are expected to drive sales, 10. Victoria STS, with specialist expertise
disruption in production caused by the group said in a statement. in offshore handling of liquefied gas and
The rate adjustment of 0.25% will also supply chain issues that are affecting the bulk petroleum cargoes, received its first
apply to the bank’s fixed deposits interest automotive industry. Meanwhile, Perodua registered sales licence on July 31, 2021 to conduct STS
and Term Deposits-i profit rates across all of 25,654 units in April, 4.1% lower than operations of oil and liquefied gas
tenors. UMW Holdings Bhd president and the 26,759 units registered in the previous products within the Victoria port limit of
group CEO Datuk Ahmad Fuaad Kenali month. For the first four months of 2022, Labuan. – Bernama
Correspondingly, the bank is also raising said the persistent supply chain issues Perodua sold 87,278 units, 11.5% higher
its Islamic base rate and base financing rate had disrupted production in April. than the 78,308 units registered in the BURSA ISSUES UMA QUERY
by 25bps to 2.52% and 5.7% per annum same period last year. The sales is TO COUNTRY HEIGHTS
respectively. “Both companies are working closely continued to be driven by its top-selling
with their suppliers to minimise the models, namely, the Myvi, Axia and KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia
This comes following the Monetary Policy impact to their production schedule and Bezza. Securities Bhd (Bursa Securities) has
Committee’s decision to increase the expedite the delivery of vehicles to our issued an unusual market activity (UMA)
overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25bps to 2%. customers,“ he said. With the improving demand and query to Country Heights Holdings Bhd
With the sustained reopening of the global positive outlook for the automotive following the sharp fall in price and rise in
economy and improvement in labour market UMWT registered sales of 6,946 units industry in Malaysia, Perodua has set a volume of its shares recently. “Investors
conditions continuing to support the while Perodua sold 25,654 units in April higher sales target of 247,800 units for are advised to take note of the company’s
recovery of economic activity, Bank Negara with Toyota Vios, Yaris, Corolla Cross and 2022. Sales tax exemption as well as the reply to the above UMA query which will
Malaysia has expressed confidence that the Hilux were among its best selling models. introduction of new and facelifted be posted at Bursa Malaysia’s website
transition to endemicity would further Year-to-date, UMWT sold 29,393 units, models is expected to drive the higher under the company announcements
strengthen economic activity. 11.2% higher than the 26,431 units sold in sales. (section) when making their investment
decision,” the exchange said in a
statement yesterday. It said Country
Heights was asked to disclose any
corporate development, rumour or
report concerning the company’s
business and affairs as well as any other
possible explanation to account for the
trading activity. It also asked whether the
company is in compliance with the Bursa
Securities Listing Requirements (LRs), in
particular Paragraph 9.03 of the Bursa
Securities LRs, on immediate disclosure
obligations. – Bernama

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SHANGHAI EASES COVID
BRIEFS CURBS, SOME FINANCE UK inflation in April soars
FIRMS ALLOWED TO REOPEN to 40-year high of 9%

SHANGHAI: Shanghai authorities have o Households face biggest cost-of-living squeeze An increase in prices charged by restaurants
granted approval to 864 of the city’s as consumer confidence sinks towards all-time lows and cafes, as value-added tax rates went back to
financial institutions to resume work, their pre-pandemic levels in April, also added to
three sources with direct knowledge of LONDON: British inflation surged last month to significant support where we can, and stand the inflation jump last month.
the matter said yesterday, as it gradually its highest annual rate since 1982, piling ready to take further action,” Sunak said.
eases a city-wide lockdown that began pressure on finance minister Rishi Sunak to step The BoE this month forecast inflation would
seven weeks ago. The China Foreign up his help for households facing a worsening Sterling fell after the data and was down 0.6% top 10% later this year and investors expect it
Exchange Trade System, Shanghai Stock cost-of-living crisis. against the dollar at 0816 GMT. will add to the four interest rate increases it has
Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange, implemented since December and which have
and China Financial Futures Exchange Consumer price inflation hit 9% in April, the Soaring energy bills were the biggest taken its bank rate to 1%, its highest since 2009.
were among the 864 financial Office for National Statistics (ONS) said inflation driver, reflecting last month’s increase
institutions put on a “white list” of yesterday, surpassing the peaks of the early in regulated energy tariffs. Knock-on effects “Things are going to get worse before they
companies allowed to resume work 1990s recession that many Britons remember from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means those get better,” said Paul Dales, chief UK economist
published by the Shanghai Municipal for sky-high interest rates and widespread bills are likely to jump higher again in October. at Capital Economics consultancy of yesterday’s
Financial Regulatory Bureau and mortgage defaults. data.
provided by the sources that was Households are facing the biggest cost-of-
reviewed by Reuters. Financial Reuters’ poll of economists had pointed to a living squeeze since records began in the 1950s, Retail price inflation – an older measure
institutions who conduct nationwide reading of 9.1%. according to Britain’s budget forecasters, and which the ONS says is now inaccurate, but
businesses or system operations were consumer confidence has sunk towards all-time which is widely used in commercial contracts
given priority, the sources said. – Reuters Britain now has the highest inflation rate of lows. and to set interest payments on inflation-linked
Europe’s five biggest economies and almost government bonds – jumped to 11.1% last
HYUNDAI MOTOR TO EXPAND certainly the Group of Seven countries, with Anti-poverty campaigners called on Sunak to month, also the highest since 1982.
ITS DOMESTIC EV BUSINESS Canada and Japan yet to report figures for April. act now, starting with an immediate increase in
Neither are likely to match Britain’s price the value of welfare benefits to match inflation. There were signs of further inflation pressure
SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Group said growth. ahead as manufacturers suffered the joint
yesterday it plans to invest a total of 21 While the government has said it now has a biggest increase on record in the prices they pay
trillion won (RM72 billion) through “We cannot protect people completely from £22 billion (RM120 billion) package of support for their raw materials, which were up by an
2030 for the expansion of its electric these global challenges but are providing for households, much of this is cancelled out by annual 18.6%, matching March’s high.
vehicle (EV) business in South Korea. the effect of recent tax increases on workers.
The South Korean auto group, which Factories increased their prices by 14% over
houses Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Corp, the 12 months to April, the biggest jump since
plans to annually build 1.44 million July 2008. – Reuters
units of EVs in South Korea by 2030. The
1.44 million units of EV production China steps up support for tech as virus limits options
volume in South Korea would account
for about 45% of a combined global EV BEIJING: China’s leaders have doubled down stalled manufacturing. China’s booming so-called “platform economy”
production capacity of 3.23 million EV on support to the country’s tech sector in a rare That appears to have motivated a softer – in which brisk commerce takes place over
units in 2030, the auto group said in a meeting with executives, as Beijing changes its digital spaces controlled by tech giants.
statement. Reuters reported last week tack towards an industry it had suppressed until approach towards the vast, money-spinning
that Hyundai plans to build a new EV a virus rebound. tech sector, after an 18-month crackdown Vice-Premier Liu He and other leaders
manufacturing plant in the US state of driven by fears its massive internet companies addressed executives including Robin Li of
Georgia. – Reuters China – the last major global economy control too much data and expanded too Baidu – universally used for its search engine
sticking to a rigid zero-Covid policy – is quickly. and mapping service – and Zhou Hongyi of
ERICSSON TO RESHUFFLE contending with an economic slump due to internet security firm Qihoo 360, state media
OPS, TWO EXECS TO DEPART prolonged virus lockdowns which have The Chinese public’s ubiquitous use of apps reported late Tuesday.
constricted supply chains, quelled demand and that streamline payments with everyday needs,
STOCKHOLM: Ericsson yesterday laid out from transport to shopping, have contributed to Liu offered support for “the sustainable and
plans to restructure its operations to healthy development of the platform economy
focus on business customers and mobile In a surprise move, Beijing changes tack by backing an industry it has suppressed until a virus rebound. and the private economy,” according to state
infrastructure, announcing two senior – AFPPIX broadcaster CCTV.
executives will leave the company. CEO
Borje Ekholm said the move was aimed He also vowed to “support digital firms
at boosting performance rather than listing in domestic and foreign capital markets”,
cutting costs, and said it was too early to CCTV reported.
say whether there would be job losses.
“We hope that with a divisional shake- Under the tech crackdown, overseas IPOs
up and new management, this problem from Alibaba’s Ant Group and Didi Chuxing –
area can show improvement after a China’s Uber – were summarily spiked, while
number of years of disappointment,“ Citi millions of dollars of fines over anti-trust and
analysts wrote in a research note. data breaches were ladled out onto tech giants.
Ericsson executives Arun Bansal,
currently executive VP, and Peter Laurin, China’s economic data is increasingly
head of business area managed services, pointing to the dismal fallout of Beijing’s zero-
will leave the company. – Reuters Covid policy.

AIR FRANCE-KLM INKS DEAL On Monday, the country said retail sales and
WITH CARGO GIANT CMA CGM factory output had slumped to the lowest figures
since the start of the pandemic while
PARIS: Air France-KLM said yesterday unemployment had edged back towards its
that it had signed a freight alliance with February 2020 peak.
shipping giant CMA CGM, which will
take a minority stake in the cash- Chinese tech shares surged late April after
strapped airline as it emerges from officials pledged support for internet firms at a
Covid losses. CMA CGM, based in the Politburo meeting.
Mediterranean port city of Marseille, has
seen its profits soar during the pandemic Tech giants including Alibaba, Tencent and
as lockdowns wreaked havoc on global Baidu were marginally lower yesterday
supply chains, prompting it to launch its morning, with e-commerce behemoth JD
own air freight service last year. Financial slumping over 4% after it recorded a three
details were not disclosed but CMA CGM billion yuan (RM1.9 billion) loss in first-quarter
said it would take up to 9% of Air France- earnings. – AFP
KLM’s stock, possibly at an upcoming
capital increase round aiming to raise up
to €4 billion (RM18 billion). – AFP

Japan’s GDP shrinks in January-March as surging costs raise spectre of deeper downturn

TOKYO: Japan’s economy shrank for March from the previous quarter, won’t be a dramatic recovery, leaving expected by economists but below Capital spending rose 0.5% versus
the first time in two quarters in the GDP figures showed, slower than a the possibility of further spending the upwardly revised 2.5% growth an expected 0.7% increase and
January-March period as Covid-19 1.8% contraction expected by wide open as elections draw near,“ seen in the December quarter. following a 0.4% rise in the previous
curbs hit the service sector and economists. That translated into a said Hiroshi Shiraishi, senior quarter, driven by general-purpose
surging commodity prices created quarterly drop of 0.2%, the Cabinet economist at BNP Paribas Securities. Japan’s export-reliant economy machinery and research and
new pressures, raising concerns Office data showed, versus market got little help from external demand, development payments. That helped
about a protracted downturn. forecasts for a 0.4% drop. “The lockdown in China and US with net exports knocking 0.4 domestic demand contribute 0.2 of a
rate hikes as well as the Ukraine crisis percentage point off GDP growth, a percentage point to GDP growth.
The decline presents a challenge The weak reading may pressure could weigh on external demand. tad larger than the negative
for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Kishida to release even more Declines in household and corporate contribution of 0.3 percentage point For the whole of fiscal 2021 to
drive to achieve growth and wealth stimulus with upper house elections real income due to worsening terms seen by economists. March, the economy grew 2.1%,
distribution under his “new pencilled in for July 10, following the of trade may hamper recovery in posting the first gain in three years.
capitalism” agenda, stoking fears of ¥2.7 trillion (RM91 billion) in extra domestic demand.” The weak yen and surging global
stagflation - a mix of tepid growth budget spending compiled on commodity prices helped imports of Economy minister Daishiro
and rising inflation. Tuesday. Private consumption, which goods and services including Yamagiwa said the economy has not
makes up more than half of the cellphone and medicine grow 3.4%, returned to pre-pandemic levels but
The world’s No. 3 economy fell at “The economy will return to economy, was little changed, the overwhelming export growth of that further downside would likely
an annualised rate of 1% in January- growth in the coming quarters but it data showed, better than a 0.5% fall 1.1%. be limited. – Reuters

T H U R S DAY
1 9 M AY 2 0 2 2

Vtuber fan Kazumi has adorned his home with pictures of his favourite character, Mio Ookami. – AFP
The videos are designed to make fans feel as though they are interacting with their favourite idol. – AFP
AYU IIZUKA sheds her
soft-spoken personality
and starts cackling,

Mscreaming and waving

Going behind the maskwildlyinamakeshiftstudioinTokyo
as her avatar appears on a
livestream before hundreds of fans.
Virtual YouTubers like Iizuka, o Japan’s virtual YouTubers are blurring the lines between themselves and the animated characters they voice
who voices and animates a
character called Yume Kotobuki,
have transformed a niche Japanese is linked to the way other fan
subculture into a thriving industry Mayu Iizuka, who voices and subcultures function in Japan, said
where top accounts can rake in animates a character called Yume Noriyuki Nagamatsu, a digital
Kotobuki, hosting a livestream at
more than a million dollars a year. a studio in Tokyo. – AFP business specialist at advertising
The videos are designed to make firm D.A. Consortium.
fans feel they are interacting directly “Super Chat is essentially an
with their favourite animated idols – extension of a longstanding culture
with viewers sometimes paying where idol and anime fans try to
hundreds of dollars to have a single support their ‘oshi’, or favourite, by
comment highlighted on a splurging on their merchandise,” he
livestream. told AFP.
“When I’m playing video games “It’s also a way of winning
on my channel and succeed at attention from their beloved and
something, my fans congratulate feeling superior to fellow fans.”
me” and pay tips “as a way to show
their support and appreciation”, Human ‘soul’
Iizuka told AFP. VTubers usually keep the person
The 26-year-old uses a laptop, behind the character – often
webcam and a motion sensor worn referred to as their “soul” – out of the
around her neck to appear on picture, and like many fans, Kazumi
screen as Yume, whose facial says his love is directed towards Mio
expressions are controlled by a the avatar, not whoever plays her.
producer. But the line between virtual and
With her squeaky voice, short real can become blurred.
skirt and huge purple eyes, Iizuka’s A Japanese court recently ruled
avatar follows a popular model for in favour of a VTuber actor who
“VTuber” characters, which often argued that online slander against
resemble the hyper-feminine her character amounted to an attack
heroines of Japanese anime. on her.
Since emerging about five years Virtual YouTubers can
ago, the VTuber world has grown “transcend gender, age or physique
quickly, with about 16,000 active TikTok and gaming site Twitch. and Zoe Kravitz even gave a recent Kazuma Murakami, a 30-year-old ... but what’s important is that
streamers globally, according to Regional governments in Japan interview to a top Japanese VTuber. car parts inspector, has been known there’s a real person there who is
data firm User Local, and growing have used them for promotion, and to spend 10,000 yen to get his speaking and reads the comments
fanbases on other platforms like The Batman stars Robert Pattinson Super Chat comments highlighted in red and in real life,” said Kazuhito Ozawa,
VTubers generate money in ways seen by his favourite VTuber. the plaintiff’s lawyer.
similar to traditional livestreamers, “I really want her to notice I’m For Iizuka, a professional voice
including through YouTube’s “Super here again, visiting her channel,” actress, making the rare decision to
Chat” system, where the more a fan Murakami told AFP. reveal her identity after four years of
shells out, the more attention is Another VTuber fan, who asked making videos as Yume was nerve-
drawn to their comments. to be identified only by his first wracking.
In fact, the world’s nine top- name, Kazumi, has adorned his tiny “Part of me was afraid that fans of
earning YouTube accounts for one-room apartment near Tokyo Yume, who has these big, shiny eyes
“Super Chat” last year were all with posters, framed pictures and and a perfect belly, might be
VTubers. keyrings featuring his favourite disappointed to find out what the
All nine are affiliated with one character, Mio Ookami. ‘real’ person inside looks like,” she
Tokyo-based talent agency, and The 30-year-old computer said.
each earned between US$700,000 engineer spends time after work and But “so far the response from fans
(RM3.07 million) and US$1.7 on weekends immersing himself in has been very kind”.
million (RM7.45 million) from the Mio’s videos and crafting digital And the more outspoken,
cash gifts, according to data analysis illustrations of the black-haired vivacious personality of Yume’s
site Playboard. “wolf girl”. virtual self is even gradually rubbing
Most fans spend only a few “I dedicate five, or maybe 10 off on Iizuka, she said.
hundred yen per comment, but the hours to thinking just about her,” he “I used to balk at speaking
most dedicated sometimes splurge said. publicly, but Yume is such an
50,000 yen (RM1,753) to post “She is like family to me.” experienced livestreamer that my
impassioned missives to their That devotion, and the identity as her has been helping me
Vtuber characters often resemble the hyper-feminine heroines of Japanese anime. – AFP virtual idols. willingness of fans to pay big money, speak more confidently.” – AFP

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Caught up in
Cannes glamour
o Mostly maskless Cannes zombie feature to reveal the behind-the-scenes
2022 opens with ‘bad’ French farce. French zombie movie Final Cut director Michel Hazanavicius and cast members pose on the Cannes
zombie movie red carpet. – REUTERS
“I am prepared to accept that some people
TUESDAY afternoon marked the return may boo during the first 20 minutes, then the Covid cases are surging. This year’s Official Selection spans a range of
of the Cannes Film Festival as men in audience [will] change their feeling about what Cannes handed out its honorary Palme d’Or films, including highly anticipated titles such as
tuxedos and women in ball gowns they saw,” says Hazanavicius. Top Gun: Maverick and Armageddon Time. – by
marched past bikini-clad locals on a to Forest Whitaker, who was celebrated with a Marietta Mu
blazing hot beach day in the South of France. Getting booed at Cannes has almost become tribute during the opening ceremony.
a right of passage for many of the best
Despite Covid-19 cases slowly lurking filmmakers, and even films that have won
upward in regions all over the world, the 75th Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or are not immune
edition of the most prestigious gathering of to audience jeers (like The Tree of Life and Wild
cinephiles brought Hollywood back to the at Heart).
French Riviera.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
This year, the festival partnered with digital- also appeared via video as a potent reminder of
native sponsors Brut and TikTok, and unveiled a the war in his country. “We will win in this war,”
hip French zombie movie, Final Cut directed by he added. “Glory to Ukraine.”
Michel Hazanavicius, on opening night.
The patrons on the red carpet and in the
The movie is a remake of the 2017 Japanese humid theatre were nearly mask-free, as if
cult favourite, One Cut of the Dead, which Covid-19 was a distant memory. To make
unspools as a low-budget zombie film initially matters worse, the water pressure inside the
and later pulls back to explore the lives of the bathrooms was so low that patrons couldn’t
director, crew members and actors behind that even wash their hands properly before the
ceremony began.

Festival officials note that the laissez-faire
approach to safety precautions reflects the cases
in France, which are declining. However, a
many attendees were based in cities where

Taylor Hawkins reportedly ‘burned out’ Simu Liu joined
A NEW report by Rolling Stone, titled “Inside Barbie at agent’s
Taylor Hawkins’s Final Days as a Foo Fighter,” A memorial set up by Hawkins’ fans following his death. – AP recommendation
makes the disturbing claim that the legendary
drummer was on the brink of exhaustion from profession that still play this intense, high- March 20, 2022. THE Barbie movie is receiving a lot of attention,
playing physically taxing, nearly three-hour energy ‘90s rock music,” Cameron explained Five days later, Hawkins was found dead in especially after the star of Marvel’s Shang-Chi
shows. to Rolling Stone. and the legend of the Ten Rings was announced
his Bogotá hotel room before the band was set to be joining the cast.
It also alleges that at the time of his death, Hawkins allegedly “had a heart-to-heart to headline the Estéreo Picnic Festival.
Hawkins was considering scaling back his with Grohl” and, told Cameron that he While many people felt it was a strange
Foos duties, or even quitting the band “couldn’t f***ing do it anymore” Since the Rolling Stone report came out, choice, actor Simu Liu stated one person
entirely. however, several of the musicians interviewed
The drummer’s final concert with the Foo have claimed that their comments had been influenced his decision to join
“Honestly, I think he was just so tired. Fighters was at Lollapalooza Argentina on taken out of context. – by Mark Mathen Victor the cast. Liu told British GQ
Tired of the whole game,” blues singer Sass that one of his team’s agents
Jordan, for whom Hawkins drummed in the suggested Barbie for his
‘90s, told Rolling Stone. next project, and hailed it as
“one of the greatest
Jordan also recalled Hawkins venting to screenplays” he ever read.
her, “Oh, my f***ing God. I can’t look at the “He literally said this
goddamn tour schedule. It gives me anxiety.” verbatim,“ Liu told the
outlet. “He was like, ‘If I
At that time, there were 62 dates on the Foo could stake my
Fighters’ calendar for 2022, throughout North career on any one
America, South America, Europe, and script, it’s the
Australia. Barbie script. I
really think you
Rolling Stone conducted more than 20 should do it.’”
interviews with Hawkins’s friends and Liu
colleagues, among them Jordan, Pearl Jam submitted a self-
drummer Matt Cameron, and Red Hot Chili taped audition
Peppers drummer Chad Smith. to director Greta
Gerwig, prior to
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and the an in-person
other surviving Foos declined to be meeting. He
interviewed for the piece; their publicist and said Gerwig told
management denied the allegations to the him how much
magazine’s four reporters, and have not yet she enjoyed
responded to media requests for comment. watching guys
dance, and Liu
“There’s only a handful of guys in our informed her
about his dancing
A promotional photo of Girls’ Generation. – ALLKPOP Comeback set for background with a
Girls’ Generation competitive hip-hop
team.
A much-anticipated comeback “She audibly guffawed,
announcement has shaken K-pop fans. On she giggle-screamed —
Tuesday, it was confirmed that Girls’ and then I got the part,” Liu
Generation will return to celebrate its 15th said.
debut anniversary in August 2022. Liu will be playing
opposite Margot Robbie,
Fans immediately expressed their surprise who stars as Barbie, and
and joy over the news, and shared their Ryan Gosling who plays
excitement through social media. Barbie’s lover Ken.
Barbie is set to be
The South Korean group debuted in 2008 released in theatres on July
with its Into The New World album and rose 21, 2023. – by Thashine
to international fame with the single Gee and Selvakumaran
other famous songs like Genie and Lion Heart.
Its second album Oh! was released in 2010 Liu has an undertermined
and the next year, they released a Japanese role in the Barbie movie. –
album. AFP

The group’s last album Holiday night was
released in August 2017, after which its
members have been on an extended break.

Netizens are waiting with bated breath for
the new album, which all eight members are
reported to be currently working on. – by S.
Tamarai Chelvi

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█ BY MARIETTA MU

THE new HBO Original series
The Time Traveler’s Wife is a
love story that extends
beyond time, adapted by
Steven Moffat from the bestselling
novel by Audrey Niffenegger.
Directed by David Nutter, the six-
episode show tells the tale Clare and
Henry’s marriage, which is
complicated by time travel.
Henry DeTamble is played by
Theo James, known for his role as
Tobias Four Eaton in the Divergent
films, and Rose Leslie – who
portrayed Ygritte in the HBO fantasy
series Game of Thrones – stars as
Clare Abshire.
Nutter directed for HBO’s Game of
Thrones and Moffat is best known for
his work as writer of the science
fiction television series Doctor Who
and the contemporary crime drama
television series Sherlock, which is
based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
classic Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Time Traveler’s Wife is
available for streaming on HBO GO
now.
To get an in depth view of the
show, we heard from the show’s main
leads, Leslie and James, as well as
scriptwriter Moffat and director Rose Leslie and Theo James have amazing on screen chemistry with each other. – HBO GO
Nutter during a recent press event.
What makes the television show so brother, or even as a son, you know?
different compared to the movie? It’s all a bit of a metaphor for the
Moffat: “The big advantage of the preciousness of memory and how we
look back on ourselves and how we
A timeless romancelongerrunoftelevisionisamatterof look back on the people that we love
emphasis. By having by having a situation, she has never turned bitter and how it forms the people we
longer run, we can restore the o The creators and cast of The Time Traveler’s or been full of self-pity despite the become.”
emphasis of the book, which is more Wife reflect upon love in the series
about Claire in a way, than Henry, difficult wave she had to endure.
cause it’s about the time traveler’s Knowing that she’d commit herself to In the show, Henry becomes naked
wife. It takes us about three episodes a life of uncertainty and the kind of every time he time travels. How did
to absolutely nail down the rules of acceptance that she began to feel is it feel to be naked so often?
the time travel. That’s three hours you a chance to establish the reality of everyone could relate to that in some admirable.” James: “For me, the nudity was such a
before you’ve got that.” the world and we wanted to treat this respects will make them more James: “For me, it’s the scene where key part of the story from the
Nutter: “The longer form also offers as real, as possible in a world that connected to the material.” older Henry meets younger Claire. beginning. The conceit is that time
The idea of a relationship, whether it’s travel is an ailment and it is
Do you think that romance films a marriage or a long-term something that he has to live with and
require a longer format to articulate relationship, is about live through. The rules
the whole story? the evolution of both are that he has a
Moffat: “The most interesting thing of you within the Scan the QR defective chromosome
about a relationship is the length that framework of being code to and he can only take his
endures. Most of the time, movies together. You might watch the atoms with him.
end at the altar or they start again not be the same trailer
“He’s not going to
when somebody dies or if there’s a person and what I like take his jumper or his
divorce or an affair. What we rarely do about the show is the growth of a bag, and so the idea is that he is very
is tell the big love story of how many relationship over time.” vulnerable. He has no clothes and no
decades you’re perfectly happy with way of defending himself. No wallet,
each other. Now, Audrey gave us this How did you guys recreate the roles no food, no nothing. In the show, we
device to mix all those years and of your characters meeting each created this idea that time travel is
decades and moments in the wrong other in different stages of life? painful for him and it’s a massive
order to remind us that love is James: “The basis of the book and the exertion on his body. He is being
inextricably linked to loss.” show is about love out of time and depleted by it and so to me, the
about how you remember someone. nudity was about danger really, and
Since the show is about love, That’s the poignancy of it. These making it as dangerous as possible.
relationships and marriage, what people interact with different It’s like a spectre, a dangerous
about the story stood out for you? versions of themselves at different shadow that’s forever looming over
Leslie: “What stood out to me was times, including Henry interacting him and his impending death and we
how Clara reacted to the whole with his own young self as an eight- wanted to make that as real as
Love at first sight ... Henry meets Clare for the first time. – HBO GO situation. Despite her extraordinary year-old, almost like a younger possible.”

Swiss seeks Netflix to rejuvenate film industry
WHEN it comes to internationally help Swiss cinema gain more platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and A boost obligation will hike subscription
renowned cinema, Switzerland may international traction. Blue, which rake in hundreds of If Lex Netflix passes, the sector can prices.
not be the first country that millions of dollars in Switzerland add an additional 18 million francs to
immediately springs to mind, but a “Swiss cinema has become much each year, have not been asked to its coffers each year, it said. The culture ministry has rejected
law being voted on this Sunday seeks more international. This new step pitch in. The platforms that argument, pointing to France,
to change that by forcing streaming will allow it to go even further,” said If approved, will also have to where it says that introducing an
services to invest in local Swiss director Lionel Baier, whose the amended law ensure obligation to invest up to 25 percent
moviemaking. movie Continental Drift has been will submit them European-made of proceeds had entailed no price
selected for this year’s Cannes Film to the same rule. films or series increases.
The so-called “Lex Netflix” Festival. The make up at least
referendum looks set to pass by a Raise the bar streaming 30% of the Swiss film library chief Frederic
narrow margin, according to recent “It will raise the bar in terms of quality services would content available Maire insisted the reform would “give
opinion polls. and ambition,” he told AFP, adding it be given the in Switzerland, as Swiss cinema a boost” thanks to
would push Swiss directors to choice either to they are already additional funds but also the promise
Under Switzerland’s famous direct “imagine that the series or film you p a r t i c i p a t e And action! Swiss seek Netflix required to do in of more distribution of Swiss-
democracy system, voters will decide are making will be seen on platforms directly in Swiss rejuvenation for film industry. – AFP the European produced content.
on an amendment to the Film the world over”. film and series Union.
Production Act adopted by production or pay a substitute levy Right-leaning opponents of the “This can only be beneficial,
parliament last October. In a bid to prop up the costly aimed at financing movie promotion. amendment, who forced the issue to because ... more production means
business of film production, Cinema production in Switzerland a referendum, have slammed that more interesting works and thus, over
The change takes into account the domestic television broadcasters has in recent years received 105 quota, warning that the likes of time, maybe more prizes and more
dramatic shift in how audiovisual have since 2007 been obliged to million Swiss francs (RM466 million) Spotify and Apple Music could soon visibility for Swiss cinema,” he told
content is consumed, requiring invest four percent of their turnover in annual financing on average, be subjected to a similar rule. AFP.
global streaming platforms like in Swiss film-making. according to the culture ministry. They also warn the investment
Netflix to help finance Swiss film The reform’s defenders say it
production. But until now, global streaming would make it possible to shoot more
movies in Switzerland, which would
The aim is to boost innovation and benefit local economies. – ETX Studio

FASHION & BEAUTY

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theSun LYFE x
Bernard
Cassiere
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Bernard Cassiere is giving away 3
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COLD CREAM (50ml) worth RM419
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Several weeks ago, I was given the chance naDteulircailoguosodness
to try two products from Bernard Cassiere’s o Bernard Cassiere’s Muesli Nutri-Sensitive care range
Muesli Nutri-Sensitive care range – the is like breakfast for your skin
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The cold cream contains shea butter, which
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might consider cream products to be a bit heavy
for our tropical environment, for those working
in dry, air-conditioned rooms, the cream
provides just the right balance of hydration. You
can also apply it in the middle of the day, if your
skin is feeling a dry and in need of a refresh.

In addition, I also discovered that the cream
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rubbed all over the face and eyes is enough to
remove most make-up products, while still
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Puffy eyes may
be the result of
a lack of sleep,
crying, or
dehydration. –
123RF

Placing cucumbers on the eyes soothes puffiness
and reduces dark circles on the skin. – LIFEHACK

█ BY THASHINE SELVAKUMARAN Easy remedies
for puffy eyes
MILD swelling or puffiness around
the eyes is typical, particularly as oThese nine home remedies for puffy eyes will
you get older. Puffy eyes might make diminish your puffy eyes completely in mere minutes
you appear sleepy and dull, but they
can also indicate a handful of health risks. The
problem is that the under-eye region is highly
sensitive due to the fact that the skin around it is
the thinnest on the body. Lack of sleep and
stress are the most common causes of bags
under your eyes; however, allergies, too much
salt, which promotes fluid retention, and
rubbing your eyes excessively can all create
puffy eyes. While it is important to analyse the
reason of your puffy eyes, you can all agree that
it is also necessary to cure them if you wish to
look fresher. Here are some home treatments to
relieve your puffy eyes.

Cucumber To try this procedure, moisten two tea bags, set eyes. Staying hydrated is an easy way to prevent the
Cucumber has been used to treat skin issues for them on your eyes for 15 to 30 minutes, and Cotton dipped in cold milk dreaded puffy eyes syndrome – 123RF
ages. Cucumbers’ calming characteristics, such then chill them for 20 minutes. Another icy solution to your puffy issue. Simply especially this one. Water contributes for about
as botanical antioxidants, help relieve dab your eyes with a cotton swab dipped in cool 60% of your body weight, and dehydration
inflammation and moisturise fatigued skin, Applying cool spoons under the eyes can help milk. The cold milk not only cools your eyes, but might be a major cause of your under-eye bags.
minimising under-eye puffiness. Cucumber reduce puffiness because the cool temperature it also lessens the obvious tension on them. In Drinking water is one of the finest home
decreases puffiness by acting similarly to a cold constricts blood vessels. – GFCAT addition, the natural lauric acid in milk aids in treatments for swollen eyes.
compress due to its high-water content. To try Cold spoons the reduction of swelling around the eyes. Get good amount of sleep
this, place a thinly sliced, chilled cucumber over The classic cold spoons method never fails. Egg whites The most significant factor to swollen eyes is a
your eyes for 10 to 15 minutes while reclining. Simply grab a glass of cold water and four All you have to do is whisk two egg whites until lack of sleep. When you don’t get enough sleep,
Aloe vera gel stainless steel spoons and begin the procedure. creamy and apply them under your eyes. Once your water-regulating hormones might become
There’s practically nothing that fresh aloe vera Chill the spoons in water before placing one dry, wash. Egg contains exceptional astringent altered. This might result in swollen eyes as a
gel can’t fix, and this is no exception. This is one over each eye. As soon as the spoons begin to characteristics that help tighten the skin and result of water retention or dehydration. Sleep
of the simplest home remedies for puffy eyes warm up, swap them for the two in the water reduce puffiness around the eyes. seven to nine hours a night to avoid swollen
since all you have to do is apply the gel around and continue the process 4-5 times for puff-free Use an eye roller eyes. The problem can be fixed with a small
your eyes and let it for 5-10 minutes. Aloe Vera There are several eye roller choices on the alteration and attention to your
gel includes important vitamins and market that may help decrease puffiness, dark
antioxidants that not only decrease puffiness circles, and provide anti-aging effects. Rollers
but also the presence of dark circles. are often constructed of metal and can be used
Tea bags to administer eye cooling gels through a
Tea is not just for drinking. Caffeinated tea bags rollerball. Eye cooling gels used with a metal
can be used under your eyes to help with dark roller ball can also help reduce irritation. The
circles and bags. Caffeine is included in most tool cools the region and massages the under-
forms of black tea and has the ability to enter the eye area, which improves circulation.
skin, reduce puffiness, and promote circulation. Stay hydrated
Tea contains anti-inflammatory qualities and is Drinking plenty of water will fix your problems
high in antioxidants, which combat free
radicals, which are known to degrade skin cells.

Teabags ease puffiness and make the blood vessels near your eyes smaller. –EMEDIHEALTH Aloe vera gel improve circulation to flush out the fluids and reduce swelling. – SUPERSMART

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Google Maps will soon offer a ‘flyover’ view of London in 3D. – GOOGLE MAPS 3D

Google presents its latest augmented reality AMONG the many Going 3D district. other
glasses concept, capable of displaying real-time announcements made Among
translations during a conversation. – GOOGLE during the Google I/O announcements concerning
conference in Mountain Maps, Google plans an update
AR glasses that display View is one that will delight Maps for eco-friendly routing and
real-time translations users. It will soon be possible to itineraries that are more fuel-
navigate above some of the efficient. This service, available
AMONG the many new products unveiled at world’s major metropolises oGoogle Maps will give users a real now in the United States and
the Google I/O conference, the American tech rendered digitally in 3D. In bird’s-eye view of major cities Canada, will expand to other
giant caused a stir with a short video featuring a addition to driving through the regions, including Europe. The
pair of glasses capable of displaying, in streets with Street View, you will aim is to contribute to a
augmented reality, the real-time translation of be able to ‘fly’ over them like a significant reduction in CO2
words spoken by another person in a foreign drone with Immersive View. and London. This feature, called interest. emissions and help drivers save
language. Currently still a prototype, this project Immersive View will be available Of course, the classic on fuel expenses.
already appears much more tangible and Google Maps counts more in 2022, on all types of devices. Finally, Live View, a
potentially interesting than Google Glass, which than a billion users worldwide. More cities should follow in 2023. information and tips from technology that allows people to
has been a long time coming. These users will soon have a Google Maps are superimposed be guided in augmented reality
chance to check out a new To achieve this immersive 3D on these images to provide a with arrows and practical
With this new concept, Google is seeking to feature that is both useful and bird’s-eye view from above, comprehensive picture. Some instructions embedded in the
bring its transcription and translation pleasurable. The feature brings in Google used artificial intelligence establishments (such as screen, will be made available to
technologies directly into its users’ field of maps that are much more to skilfully mix billions of satellite shopping malls, restaurants...) developers. Startups will be able
vision. The idea is that these glasses transcribe, immersive and intuitive. In the photos and Street View. This new can even be visited from the to use it within their apps in order
in the wearer’s language, what someone says to coming months, it will become feature will allow viewers to inside in the same way, as if a bird to help their customers get to
them in a language that they don’t understand. possible to, in essence, ‘fly’ over better understand the layout of equipped with a camera was their homes or to their own
the streets of New York, Los these cities, their monuments entering the place before flying services. – ETX Studio
The strong point of this system is that the Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and their various points of out and heading to another
text is displayed without distracting the
wearer’s attention away from the person they’re ASMR exhibition for the curious
talking to. Until now, there have been earpieces ASMR is an acronym that stands for
capable of translating conversations almost Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. The “Weird Sensation Feels Good” exhibition immerses visitors in the history of ASMR through a
instantaneously, but the use of glasses promises These rather complicated terms refer to a series of 40 audio, visual and tactile works. – THE DESIGN MUSEUM
to be even more comfortable and requires less trend that emerged on the internet in the
concentration. Moreover, the device early 2010s. As a movement, it allows us to understand videos.
complements what Google already offers another side to the Internet: one that is slow, For their part, scientists at Northumbria
through its instant text translation tool in Lens. It essentially involves YouTubers filming gentle, and centered on selfcare,“ the
With a smartphone and these glasses, travelers themselves producing light or soft sounds, exhibition organizers explain. University observed that such content can be
could hope to be perfectly at ease anywhere in but recorded very closely, so that the viewer a powerful anti-stress ally... in some people.
the world -- or almost -- assuming that they will has the impression that they’re being made While the discipline’s devotees say they
one day be able to handle the 133 languages just a few centimeters from their ear. find it a source of well-being, no scientific Specifically, the study, published in the
now recognized by Google’s translation service. study provides certainty regarding the journal Plos One, suggests that “ASMR-
These videos provoke powerful supposed benefits of these videos of people experiencers also have greater
For the moment, these glasses remain at sensations in some internet users, and whispering, tapping or even chewing. predisposition for baseline state anxiety,
prototype stage, and nothing suggests that annoyance in others. It is this strange which can be alleviated by watching ASMR
they will come to the market anytime soon. The phenomenon that the Design Museum is According to a 2018 study from the videos.”
concept video is nevertheless impressive. And, exploring in its exhibition, Weird Sensation University of Sheffield, researchers found a
in addition to translation, Google could very Feels Good (May 13-Oct 16, 2022). reduction in heart rate and increased Let’s hope the Design Museum’s Weird
well integrate other, easily adaptable services, relaxation in those who watched ASMR Sensation Feels Good exhibit in London has
such as Live View to follow a route in Visitors will be able to immerse the same effect on them. – ETX Studio
augmented reality via Google Maps. themselves in the history of this
psychological oddity through a series of 40
The Google I/O event also saw the tech firm audio, visual and tactile works.
showcase the new Pixel 6a and Pixel Buds Pro. It
also unveiled future products, starting with the Among them are creations by Tobias
Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, expected in the fall, plus Bradford, Julie Rose Bower, Marc Teyssier
a brand-new tablet and smartwatch, scheduled and Bob Ross.
to land a little later. – ETX Studio
The latter became a hit among the
Hawaiian Airlines will offer high-speed Starlink younger generation thanks to the smooth
internet connectivity. – HAWAIIAN AIRLINES voice with which he presented his show, The
Joy of Painting.
Mile high internet
Although the show ran until 1994, Bob
HAWAIIAN Airlines and JSX have decided to Ross’s popularity was revived with the rise of
partner with SpaceX to bring the firm’s Starlink ASMR.
high-speed satellite internet access to their A scientific mystery
passengers. With a stable and fast connection, The “Weird Sensation Feels Good” exhibition
flyers will be able to stream movies on their also features contributions from a dozen
computers, or work and share files stress-free, content creators specialising in ASMR,
for example. Delta Airlines is reportedly commonly called “ASMRtists.”
currently testing the potential of this satellite
internet system. They give their own definition of this
phenomenon, which divides internet users
Today’s in-flight WiFi services are already and questions scientists. “ASMR injects the
provided by satellite connections, but by internet with softness, kindness, and
systems in geostationary Earth orbit, more than empathy.
30,000 km from Earth. Starlink’s services are
deployed in low Earth orbit, at an altitude of
only about 550 km, which helps provide much
faster connection speeds. Starlink’s fleet already
includes nearly 2,000 satellites, covering most of
the Earth – and this is just the beginning.

Note that this unique WiFi provision in the
airline market could be offered free of charge to
Hawaiian Airlines passengers – with no need to
connect to a dedicated portal – on the airline’s
transpacific flights between the Hawaiian
Islands and the continental US, Asia and
Oceania. Both airlines are hoping to offer
passengers the world’s best connectivity
experience in the air. – ETX Studio

21theSUN ON THURSDAY | MAY 19, 2022

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302 Jobs NOTIS JUALAN SECARA LELONG AWAM IN THE MATTER OF THE IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF
Akta Pemegang Pajak-Gadai (81) 1972 COMPANIES ACT 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016
WE ARE HIRING Sandaran-sandaran yang tidak ditebus Pemegang Pajak Gadai yang tersebut
AND AND AND AND
ADVERTISING SALES & dibawah ini IN THE MATTER OF VILA IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF
MARKETING Akan Di-jual Dengan Lelong Umum PROPERTY SDN. BHD. ELITE MESRA SDN BHD KITARAN BUDI SDN BHD BENUA IMPIAN SDN BHD
[201801023429 (1285449-A)] (199401004491 (290170-V)) (199701016250 (431747-T)) (199201013784 (245287-W))
1)ASSISTANT MANAGER / MANAGER Di-12 Tingkat 1 Lorong 1 Taman Ria Pada Hari 01hb JUN 2022, (In Members’ Voluntary (In Members’ Voluntary
2)EXECUTIVE / SENIOR EXECUTIVE 08000 Sungai Petani Waktu 11.00 pagi (In Members’ (In Members’
Winding-Up) Voluntary Winding-up) Voluntary Winding-up) Winding-up)
Job Description: NEGERI KEDAH Notice is hereby given that the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
Final General Meeting of the pursuant to Section 439(2) of the pursuant to Section 439(2) of the pursuant to Section 439(2) of the
• Building and sustaining strong working relationships with NAMA PAJAK GADAI ALAMAT PAJAK GADAI members of the company will be Companies Act, 2016, the Special Companies Act, 2016, the Special Companies Act, 2016, the Special
advertising clients. held at the office of the Liquidator, Resolutions as set out below were Resolutions as set out below were duly Resolutions as set out below were
Pajak Gadai EMJ Sdn Bhd 12 Lorong 1 Taman Ria 08000 Sungai Petani Suite 2110, 21st Floor, Plaza duly passed by the members of ELITE passed by the members of KITARAN duly passed by the members of BENUA
• Plan and executive new, creative, exciting and innovative Permata, No. 6, Jalan Kampar, MESRA SDN. BHD. (199401004491 BUDI SDN. BHD. (199701016250 IMPIAN SDN. BHD. (199201013784
marketing campaigns for the company Pajak Gadai Kah Yuit Sdn Bhd 15 Taman Cenderawasih Jalan Kelang 50400 Kuala Lumpur on 20th June (290170-V)) on 12 May 2022:- (431747-T)) on 12 May 2022:- (245287-W)) on 12 May 2022:-
Lama 09000 Kulim 2022 at 3.00 pm for the purpose of 1. THAT the Company be wound up 1. THAT the Company be wound up 1. THAT the Company be wound up
• Develop and continuously improve marketing materials, receiving the accounts and report voluntarily pursuant to Section voluntarily pursuant to Section
product/service presentations and proposals. Min Seng Pawnshop 7 Jalan Raya 09300 Kuala Ketil of the Liquidator in relation to the 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act, 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act, voluntarily pursuant to Section
winding up of the company, and 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act,
• Passionate in serving client accounts to improve sales revenue Pajak Gadai San Heng Loong Sdn Bhd LC 1203 Jalan Baling 09400 Padang Serai that pursuant to Section 518(3) of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling
(b) of the Companies Act 2016, the Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2,
Requirements: Pajak Gadai Sin Yit Foh Sdn Bhd 23-B Main Road 06300 Kuala Nerang books and papers of the Company 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak,
and of the Liquidator that are hereby appointed as the liquidator hereby appointed as the liquidator 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is
• Minimum Diploma/Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, Pajak Gadai Sing Lee Seng S/B 5 Jalan Semiling 08100 Bedong relevant to the affairs of the of the Company for the purpose of of the Company for the purpose of hereby appointed as the liquidator
or any other related field. Company at or subsequent to the such winding up. such winding up. of the Company for the purpose of
Pajak Gadai Sin Seng Huat Sdn Bhd 57 Jalan Sungai Emas 08500 Kota Kuala Muda commencement of the winding 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the such winding up.
• Assistant Manager/Manager: minimum 5 years of experience in up of the Company be destroyed Company’s Liquidator, be and is Company’s Liquidator, be and is 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the
sales and marketing in media industry Sandaran-sandaran tersebut boleh diperiksa dengan Pemegang Pajak Gadai berkenaan diatas pada on the expiry of three months hereby authorised to distribute hereby authorised to distribute Company’s Liquidator, be and is
23hb MEI 2022 sehingga 25hb MEI 2022, pukul 10.00 pagi sehingga 4.00 petang sebelum tarikh jualan from the date of lodgement of either in cash, specie or in kind any either in cash, specie or in kind any hereby authorised to distribute
• Executive/Senior Executive: at least 2 years of sales and lelong itu. final return and accounts with surplus assets of the Company as surplus assets of the Company as either in cash, specie or in kind any
marketing experience in media industry the Registrar of Companies and she shall think fit to the contributory she shall think fit to the contributory surplus assets of the Company as
Iklan Bertarikh 19-05-2022 CHONG KIAN CHONG Official Receiver. of the Company in accordance with of the Company in accordance with she shall think fit to the contributory
• Good communication, presentation, problem solving and Pelelong Berlesen CHOONG SIEW KAY their respective rights and interests their respective rights and interests of the Company in accordance with
organizational skills 04-5792628 Liquidator therein. therein. their respective rights and interests
Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Ahmad Zaed Bin Saleh Hamdi Azman Hanafi Bin Abdullah therein.
• Possess own transport and willing to travel IN THE MATTER IN THE MATTER OF Proxies Director Director Mohd Azri Bin Hashim
• Able to start work immediately. OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 A member of the company entitled Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Director
to attend and vote at the above Dated this 19th day of May 2022
DIGITAL MARKETING AND AND meeting may appoint a proxy or IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF
IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF proxies to attend and vote on his THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 IN THE MATTER OF
EXECUTIVE / SENIOR EXECUTIVE TIMANG MAYANG SDN BHD RED STREAM MULTIMEDIA SDN behalf and such proxy need not THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016
(199301006842 (261579-H)) BHD (199701037673 (453173-V)) be a member of the company. AND AND
Job Description: The instrument appointing a proxy IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF AND
(In Members’ (In Members’ or proxies must be deposited ELITE MESRA SDN BHD KITARAN BUDI SDN BHD IN THE MATTER OF
• Design and develop online marketing strategies, digital roadmap Voluntary Winding-up) Voluntary Winding-up) at the office of the Liquidator at (199401004491 (290170-V)) (199701016250 (431747-T)) BENUA IMPIAN SDN BHD
and creative campaigns that aligned with the business goals and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT least 48 hours before the time (In Members’ Voluntary (199201013784 (245287-W))
directions. pursuant to Section 439(2) of the pursuant to Section 439(2) of the appointed for holding the meeting (In Members’ (In Members’ Voluntary
Companies Act, 2016, the Special Companies Act, 2016, the Special or adjourned meeting. Voluntary Winding-up) Winding-up)
• Provide creative ideas for content marketing. Resolutions as set out below were duly Resolutions as set out below were NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Winding-up)
• Manage all digital marketing channels passed by the members of TIMANG duly passed by the members of RED IN THE MATTER OF THE Creditors of the abovementioned Creditors of the abovementioned NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the
• Plan and manage social media platforms. MAYANG SDN. BHD. (199301006842 STREAM MULTIMEDIA SDN. BHD. COMPANIES ACT, 1965. Company, which is being wound up Company, which is being wound up Creditors of the abovementioned
• Able to create content & produce graphics for social media (261579-H)) on 12 May 2022:- (199701037673 (453173-V)) on 12 voluntarily, are required, to send in voluntarily, are required, to send in Company, which is being wound up
1. THAT the Company be wound up May 2022:- AND their names and addresses on or their names and addresses on or voluntarily, are required, to send in
postings. voluntarily pursuant to Section 1. THAT the Company be wound up IN THE MATTER OF before 19 June 2022, with particulars before 19 June 2022, with particulars their names and addresses on or
• Prepare copywriting for the marketing campaign. 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act, voluntarily pursuant to Section MAIDEN PROPERTIES SDN. BHD. of their debts or claims and the names of their debts or claims and the names before 19 June 2022, with particulars
2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act, Company No. 199301028579 and addresses of their solicitors (if and addresses of their solicitors (if of their debts or claims and the names
Requirements: of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling any) to:- any) to:- and addresses of their solicitors (if
Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, (283317-D) any) to:-
• Diploma/Degree in Marketing, Digital Marketing or equivalent. 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, (In Members’ Voluntary The Liquidator The Liquidator
• At least 2 years of experience in implementing digital marketing hereby appointed as the liquidator 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is ELITE MESRA SDN BHD KITARAN BUDI SDN BHD The Liquidator
of the Company for the purpose of hereby appointed as the liquidator Liquidation) (199401004491 (290170-V)) (199701016250 (431747-T)) BENUA IMPIAN SDN BHD
strategies such winding up. of the Company for the purpose of NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING SOHO Suites @ KLCC (199201013784 (245287-W))
• Excellent understanding of digital marketing concepts and 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the such winding up. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Block A2, Level 32-3A SOHO Suites @ KLCC
Company’s Liquidator, be and is 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the pursuant to Section 272 (2) of Block A2, Level 32-3A SOHO Suites @ KLCC
best practices. hereby authorised to distribute Company’s Liquidator, be and is the Companies Act 1965, that the No. 20, Jalan Perak Block A2, Level 32-3A
• Required Skill(s): Google Adwords, Google Analytics, SEO/SEM, either in cash, specie or in kind any hereby authorised to distribute Final Meeting of the Members of 50450 Kuala Lumpur No. 20, Jalan Perak
surplus assets of the Company as either in cash, specie or in kind any the above-named Company will and, if so required by notice in writing 50450 Kuala Lumpur No. 20, Jalan Perak
social media marketing and optimization. she shall think fit to the contributory surplus assets of the Company as be held at Unit C-6-5, 6th Floor, from the said Liquidator, or by their and, if so required by notice in writing 50450 Kuala Lumpur
• Team player of the Company in accordance with she shall think fit to the contributory Block C, Megan Avenue II, No. solicitors or personally, to come in and from the said Liquidator, or by their and, if so required by notice in writing
• Great interpersonal and communication skills their respective rights and interests of the Company in accordance with 12, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, 50450 prove their debts or claims at such solicitors or personally, to come in and from the said Liquidator, or by their
therein. their respective rights and interests Kuala Lumpur on 20th June 2022 time and place as shall be specified in prove their debts or claims at such solicitors or personally, to come in and
Office based in Petaling Jaya (5 days a week) Filhanezar Bin Mohd Razali therein. at 10.00 a.m. for the following such notice, or in default thereof, they time and place as shall be specified in prove their debts or claims at such
Closing date - 31 May 2022 Director Filhanezar Bin Mohd Razali purposes:- will be excluded from the benefits of such notice, or in default thereof, they time and place as shall be specified in
Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Director (1) To receive and consider any distribution made before such will be excluded from the benefits of such notice, or in default thereof, they
Send in your CV with your photo via email to : Dated this 19th day of May 2022 the Liquidator’s Statement debts and claims are proved. any distribution made before such will be excluded from the benefits of
IN THE MATTER OF of Receipts and Payments Chong Ai Ling debts and claims are proved. any distribution made before such
[email protected] THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 IN THE MATTER OF showing the manner in which Liquidator Chong Ai Ling debts and claims are proved.
THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 the winding up of the Company Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Liquidator Chong Ai Ling
322 Notices AND has been conducted and to Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Liquidator
IN THE MATTER OF AND receive any explanations IN THE MATTER OF Dated this 19th day of May 2022
In the Matter of the Companies 322 Notices TIMANG MAYANG SDN BHD IN THE MATTER OF thereon. THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 IN THE MATTER OF
Act, 2016 (199301006842 (261579-H)) RED STREAM MULTIMEDIA SDN (2) To resolve, pursuant to Section THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 IN THE MATTER OF
and IN THE MATTER OF (In Members’ Voluntary BHD (199701037673 (453173-V)) 284(3)(b) of the Companies Act AND THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016
THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 1965, that the books, accounts IN THE MATTER OF AND
In the Matter of Winding-up) (In Members’ and records of the Company be PETROFIELD SELATAN SDN BHD IN THE MATTER OF AND
SEE HONG ENGINEERING SDN. BHD. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Voluntary Winding-up) destroyed after the expiration (200801023702 (825025-W)) RINGGIT MASHYUR SDN BHD IN THE MATTER OF
IN THE MATTER OF Creditors of the abovementioned NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the of three (3) months from the (199401004398 (290077-H)) EDISI DUPLEKS SDN BHD
197701002083 (33110-D). PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD. Company, which is being wound up Creditors of the abovementioned date of filing of the Return by (In Members’ (200401032966 (671474-M))
(In Members’ Voluntary Winding Up) [199501018268 (347471-A)] voluntarily, are required, to send in Company, which is being wound up Liquidator relating to Final Voluntary Winding-up) (In Members’ (In Members’ Voluntary
Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) their names and addresses on or voluntarily, are required, to send in Meeting. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Voluntary Winding-up)
439(2) of the Companies Act, 2016 that the At an Extraordinary General Meeting duly before 19 June 2022, with particulars their names and addresses on or ONG LAI @ ONG KONG LAI pursuant to Section 439(2) of the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Winding-up)
Special Resolutions set below were duly convened and held at Suite #8-13-6, Mutiara of their debts or claims and the names before 19 June 2022, with particulars Companies Act, 2016, the Special pursuant to Section 439(2) of the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
passed by the members of the Company Bangsar, 8 Jalan Liku, 59100 Kuala Lumpur and addresses of their solicitors (if of their debts or claims and the names WONG CHAM MEW Resolutions as set out below were Companies Act, 2016, the Special pursuant to Section 439(2) of the
on 11-05-2022. on Thursday the 12th day of May, 2022 the any) to:- and addresses of their solicitors (if (LIQUIDATORS) duly passed by the members of Resolutions as set out below were duly Companies Act, 2016, the Special
“That the Company be wound up following Special Resolutions were duly any) to:- PETROFIELD SELATAN SDN. BHD. passed by the members of RINGGIT Resolutions as set out below were
voluntarily pursuant to Section 439(1)(b) of passed :- The Liquidator c/o ONG & WONG, Chartered (200801023702 (825025-W)) on 12 MASHYUR SDN. BHD. (199401004398 duly passed by the members of EDISI
the Companies Act, 2016 and that Mr Teo i) It was resolved that the Company be wound TIMANG MAYANG SDN BHD The Liquidator Accountants (AF0241) May 2022:- (290077-H)) on 12 May 2022:- DUPLEKS SDN. BHD. (200401032966
Mong Nguan NRIC No. 490423-01-5197 up voluntarily pursuant to Section 439(1) (199301006842 (261579-H)) RED STREAM MULTIMEDIA SDN 1. THAT the Company be wound up 1. THAT the Company be wound up (671474-M)) on 12 May 2022:-
from Advance Management Services Sdn. (b) of the Companies Act, 2016 and that BHD (199701037673 (453173-V)) Unit C-20-5, Block C, 20th Floor, voluntarily pursuant to Section voluntarily pursuant to Section 1. THAT the Company be wound up
Bhd. 197901008899 (53183-M), be and Cynthia Geraldine Peris (NRIC No. 621103- SOHO Suites @ KLCC Megan Avenue II, 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act, 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act,
is hereby appointed as Liquidator of the 10-7428) of A-17-02, Sunway Palazzio, Block A2, Level 32-3A SOHO Suites @ KLCC 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling voluntarily pursuant to Section
Company for the purpose of such winding- Jalan Sri Hartamas 3, Taman Sri Hartamas, Block A2, Level 32-3A No. 12, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2, 439(1)(b) of the Companies Act,
up at a fee to be approved by the Director. 50480 Kuala Lumpur, W.Persekutuan (KL) No. 20, Jalan Perak 50450 Kuala Lumpur. Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak, 2016 and that Ms. Chong Ai Ling
That the said Liquidator be empowered be appointed liquidator for the purpose of 50450 Kuala Lumpur No. 20, Jalan Perak Dated: 19th May 2022 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is of SOHO Suites @ KLCC, Block A2,
to distribute part or the whole of the such winding up. and, if so required by notice in writing 50450 Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur hereby appointed as the liquidator hereby appointed as the liquidator Level 32-3A, No. 20, Jalan Perak,
Company’s assets either in cash, specie or ii) It was resolved that the Liquidator be and from the said Liquidator, or by their and, if so required by notice in writing of the Company for the purpose of of the Company for the purpose of 50450 Kuala Lumpur be and is
in kind in pursuant to Section 456 of the is hereby authorised to distribute either in solicitors or personally, to come in and from the said Liquidator, or by their NOTE: such winding up. such winding up. hereby appointed as the liquidator
Companies Act, 2016. cash, specie or in kind the whole or any prove their debts or claims at such solicitors or personally, to come in and 1. A member entitled to attend 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the of the Company for the purpose of
That the said Liquidator be indemnified by part of the assets of the Company amongst time and place as shall be specified in prove their debts or claims at such Company’s Liquidator, be and is Company’s Liquidator, be and is such winding up.
the Company against all costs, charges, the contributories of the Company in such notice, or in default thereof, they time and place as shall be specified in and vote at the General Meeting hereby authorised to distribute hereby authorised to distribute 2. THAT Ms. Chong Ai Ling, the
losses, expenses and liabilities incurred accordance with their respective rights will be excluded from the benefits of such notice, or in default thereof, they is entitled to appoint a proxy to either in cash, specie or in kind any either in cash, specie or in kind any Company’s Liquidator, be and is
or sustained by him in the execution and and interests therein. any distribution made before such will be excluded from the benefits of attend and vote in his stead. surplus assets of the Company as surplus assets of the Company as hereby authorised to distribute
discharge of his duties in relation thereto.” CYNTHIA GERALDINE PERIS debts and claims are proved. any distribution made before such 2. A proxy may but need not be a she shall think fit to the contributory she shall think fit to the contributory either in cash, specie or in
Dated : 19-05-2022 Chong Ai Ling debts and claims are proved. member of the Company. of the Company in accordance with of the Company in accordance with kind any surplus assets of the
Loh Ah Kow Director Liquidator Chong Ai Ling 3. The instrument appointing a their respective rights and interests their respective rights and interests Company as she shall think fit to
Director Kuala Lumpur Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Liquidator proxy must be deposited at therein. therein. the contributory of the Company
Dated this 19th day of May, 2022 Dated this 19th day of May 2022 the Company’s Liquidators’ Azman Hanafi Bin Abdullah Muhammad Bin Mohd Taib in accordance with their respective
In the Matter of the Companies Office at Unit C-20-5, Block C, Director Director rights and interests therein.
Act, 2016 IN THE MATTER OF 20th Floor, Megan Avenue II, Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Dated this 19th day of May 2022 Hasnol Hadi Bin Md Khaidzir
And THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 No. 12, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, Director
50450 Kuala Lumpur not less IN THE MATTER IN THE MATTER OF Dated this 19th day of May 2022
In the Matter of AND than 48 hours before the time OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016 THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016
SEE HONG ENGINEERING SDN. BHD. IN THE MATTER OF for holding the meeting or any IN THE MATTER OF
PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD. adjournment thereof. AND AND THE COMPANIES ACT, 2016
197701002083 (33110-D). [199501018268 (347471-A)] IN THE MATTER OF IN THE MATTER OF
(In Members’ Voluntary Winding Up) (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) PETROFIELD SELATAN SDN BHD RINGGIT MASHYUR SDN BHD AND
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors (200801023702 (825025-W)) (199401004398 (290077-H)) IN THE MATTER OF
of SEE HONG ENGINEERING SDN. BHD. of the Company which is being voluntarily EDISI DUPLEKS SDN BHD
197701002083 (33110-D) which is being wound up, are required on or before 18th (In Members’ (In Members’ (200401032966 (671474-M))
voluntarily wound up are required on or day of June, 2022 to send in their names Voluntary Winding-up) Voluntary Winding-up) (In Members’ Voluntary
before 19-06-2022 to send their names and addresses with particulars of their debts NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the
and addresses with particulars of their or claims, and the names and addresses of Creditors of the abovementioned Creditors of the abovementioned Winding-up)
debts and claims, and of any security held their solicitor (if any) to the undersigned, Company, which is being wound up Company, which is being wound up NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the
by them, and the names and addresses of the liquidator of the Company, and, if so voluntarily, are required, to send in voluntarily, are required, to send in Creditors of the abovementioned
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22 theSUN ON THURSDAY | MAY 19, 2022 Djokovic all fired-up
SPORTS
Serb braced for Alcaraz and Nadal challenge at Roland Garros
NOVAK DJOKOVIC admits he will be
fired up by the fiasco of his high- It was his 38th Masters triumph, two more Carlos Alcaraz, just 19, has rocketed to six in French Opens in 2005 but he made his mark at
profile deportation from Australia than Nadal at the top of the all-time list. the world on the back of four titles – three on the 2021 tournament where he came through
when he targets a record-equalling clay – in 2022. qualifying to reach the third round.
21st major on his Grand Slam return at the He did not drop a set in Rome as he finished
French Open. a memorable week with a final victory over He won a second Masters title in Madrid, Djokovic has been responsible for two of
Stefanos Tsitsipas, the man he defeated from sweeping Nadal, Djokovic and third-ranked only three losses suffered by Nadal in Paris.
World No. 1 Djokovic captured a second two sets down in the 2021 French Open title Alexander Zverev on the way.
Roland Garros title in 2021 followed by a sixth match. One of those came in a bruising semifinal 12
Wimbledon to move to 20 majors alongside “He definitely is special,” admitted Djokovic months ago, the most recent clash of the pair’s
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. With 13-time French Open champion Nadal of Alcaraz who also claimed the prestigious epic 58-match rivalry.
suffering a recurrence of a foot injury, another Miami Masters earlier in the year.
However, his unseemly exit from Melbourne Spaniard is likely to be Djokovic’s biggest Nadal comes into Paris with major question
following his refusal to be vaccinated opened headache in Paris. Alcaraz was ranked 97 this time last year. He marks over his ability to lift a 14th title.
the door for Nadal to claim a second Australian was only two when Nadal won the first of his 13
Open and 21st Grand Slam crown. A rib injury in March was followed by the re-
May 22-Jun 5 emergence in Rome of his chronic foot injury
“It’s something that I never faced before,” Paris where he limped to defeat in the last-16.
said Djokovic, who turns 35 on Sunday, the
opening day of the French Open. Roland Garros 2022: The 35-year-old Spaniard is due to practice
Men’s preview at Roland Garros for the first time today where
“The amount of pressure and everything that he will have his own doctor on hand to assess
I was feeling in the first few months of the year, A Spanish sensation is dominating his fitness.
as much as I’ve felt pressure in my life and my headlines on the eve of Roland
career, that was something really on a whole Garros – and it is not clay “I am a player living with an injury; it is
different level.” court king Rafael Nadal. nothing new,” said Nadal, now ranked fifth in
The meteoric rise of the world.
Djokovic has played only five tournaments Carlos Alcaraz makes
in 2022 but arrives in Paris buoyed by a sixth him one to watch “Since I came back, the foot has been tough.
Italian Open title, becoming just the fifth man to PLAYERS TO WATCH It’s tough for me to be able to practice the
win 1,000 career matches in the process. proper way.” – AFP

5460/2022 18/05/2022 (WED)

4397 DrawDate:18/05/22(Wed) DrawNo:5407/22 Venue: PERAK TURF CLUB
6840
9722 Novak Daniil Rafael Carlos
Djokovic Medvedev Nadal Alcaraz
0926 7477 3291 0525
4645 1723 1856 8663 Two-time winner Quarter-finalist Targeting 14th Enjoying stellar 4317
5426 7834 3762 4580 returns to Grand in 2021 but lack Paris crown but breakthrough
3799 3454 1809 7634 Slam action of clay court chronic foot season, including 7499
4093 8777 1459 6115 after missing practice could pain could Masters titles
Australian Open cause problems affect tilt at in Miami and 5671
over visa row in early rounds 22nd major Madrid 6101 + 8420
5155 + 2192 3116 + 4788
10,514,633.28 PLAYER RECORD Djokovic Medvedev Nadal Alcaraz 5003 + 1122 5506 + 6801
6840 4397 8411 + 3062 3214 + 7304
4397 6840 9722 4397 2022 win-loss 12-4 16-5 23-3 28-3 0410 + 1959 5660 + 7534
4397 9722 9722 6840 8567 + 7528
6840 9722 167,055.02 2022 titles 1034

Career titles (total) 87 13 91 5

Career titles (clay) 18 0 62 4

Grand Slams 20 1 21 0

Swiatek heavy favouriteELITE RIVALS: After surprise defeat to RM2,879,811.00
Alcaraz in Madrid semi-final, Djokovic
4397 became only fifth man to notch up 1,000 4317 + 7499 7499 + 4317
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for second French titleATP Tour wins en route to victory in 7499 + 5671 5671 + 7499
9722 Rome – his first trophy of 2022
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1,068 four WTA 1000 titles in a season. 394 317 + GOAT RM1,843,333.30

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04602 and made a seamless switch to clay – 417 499 + DOG RM3,385,381.20
4602 her triumph in Rome came after she
602 beat in women’s tennis. skipped Madrid to rest following
45024 02 The Pole hasn’t lost since falling to another victory in Stuttgart. 355 671 + SNAKE RM1,400,000.00
19649 another former Roland Garros “Honestly I’m going to do the same

586079 champion, Jelena Ostapenko, in Dubai way I’ve done here, also at other 716 101 668 420 803 116 954 788
in February. Her winning streak is the tournaments,” said Swiatek. 315 155 342 192 075 506 586 801
longest on the WTA tour since Serena “I’m going to try to do step by step, 595 003 861 122 773 214 087 304
58607 86079 Williams won 34 matches in a row in just think of the next match as I did in 208 411 063 062 495 660 807 534
5860 6079 2013. these tournaments. 610 410 561 959 328 567 097 528
586 079 “It’s pretty hard to describe it because “If I’m going to treat it as any other
58 79 all these tournaments that I’ve won tournament, I think it’s going to be fine
seem pretty surreal right now,” Swiatek and I’m going to be able to keep it that
said after defending her Rome crown. way.” – AFP

4 16 26 31 35 57 Medvedev downplays chances in Paris 317 499 671
12,158,829.70

6 13 18 31 35 36 WORLD NO. 2 Daniil Medvedev has the tie-break… it’s disappointing but RM675,088.20
5,035,253.60 downplayed his chances of mounting a I’ve had tougher losses in my career.” 317 + 499 + 671 499 + 671 + 317
serious challenge at the French Open 317 + 671 + 499 671 + 317 + 499
8 26 29 32 40 45 4 after the Russian went down to Richard The 26-year-old said his body 499 + 317 + 671 671 + 499 + 317
Gasquet at the Geneva Open on struggles to handle clay and that he
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100,000.00 hernia surgery. to pose a threat to the likes of Rafa
Nadal and Novak Djokovic at the major,
Toto 4D Jackpot 1 (i-System) The US Open champion, who last which gets underway on Sunday.
played at the Miami Open at the end of
RM426,481 March, was beaten 6-2, 7-6(5) by “Clay for my body is the most
Gasquet at the ATP 250 claycourt event. dangerous surface. For me it’s clay
Toto 4D Jackpot 2 courts – every time, every year I have
“I don’t play my best tennis on clay some problems where I cannot be
RM296,959 courts,” he told reporters. “I know that 100%,” said Medvedev, who reached the
I’m capable of making some good quarterfinals at last year’s Roland
Toto 4D Jackpot 2 (i-System) results, as I did in the past. But for this I Garros.
kind of need to be in the zone.
R M 1 5 , 4 4 8 won on 15/05/2022 ! “I’m not a favourite… but I do want
“I don’t feel as confident on clay as to play well. If I can find my level again, I
on other surfaces, that’s why I lost 7-5 in can be dangerous.” – Reuters

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█ PHIL CASEY Tiger marks territory

TIGER WOODS has likened Woods confident he can how much range of motion I’ll Spieth and Rory McIlroy in the first two
playing in last month’s Masters to scale another mountain ever get back. But sure is a hell of rounds at Southern Hills, with Spieth
climbing Everest ahead of his and win PGA Championship a lot better than it was 12 months seeking the victory he needs to complete
return to action in the US PGA ago.” the career grand slam which eluded
Championship. body. I’ve won with a broken leg before. McIlroy once more at Augusta.
“The thing that I was frustrated with is Woods will partner Jordan
Woods, who won his 13th major title Tiger Woods chips to a World No. 1 and Masters winner
the last time Southern Hills staged the US (that) it deteriorated as the week went on. green during a practice Scottie Scheffler is joint favourite for the
PGA in 2007, finished 47th in the year’s “I got more and more tired and more round prior to the start of title with US Open champion Jon Rahm,
first major in his first top-level event the 2022 PGA Championship while Woods is rated a 75-1 outsider.
since suffering severe leg injuries in a car fatigued. I didn’t have the endurance that at Southern Hills Country
accident in February 2021. I wanted. However, the 46-year-old
Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma responded in typical
The 46-year-old admitted the “I mean, I shouldn’t expect it yesterday. – AFPPIX
aftermath of his efforts “was not fun” but because I didn’t earn it. I hadn’t done fashion when asked if he
believes he will find it easier to play the work but we were able to put in a thought he could be the
courses which are not as undulating as little bit more work and it’s going to one lifting the
Augusta National. get better as time goes on. As the Wanamaker Trophy
months pass it’s going to get better.” once more on Sunday.
“The first mountain we climbed was “I feel like I can,
Everest, it’s only going to get flatter and Asked how close he is now to the definitely,” Woods said. “I
better,” Woods said in his pre- peak level of fitness he will be able to just have to go out there and
tournament press conference in Tulsa. achieve, Woods added: “That’s a great do it. I have to do my work.
question. I don’t know. Starts on Thursday and I’ll be
“Things are not going to be as easy as ready.” – The Independent
people think but I’m having more days “There’s a lot of hardware in there
that are better, more positive, and I’m (the right leg) and there’s going to be No love lost
able to practice longer.” limitations to what I’m going to be able to
do, but I’m going to get stronger.
Woods carded an opening 71 in the
Masters before understandably fading as “I don’t know how much that is or
the week wore on, the 15-time major
winner carding a 74 on Friday and back-
to-back 78s over the weekend.

“It was hurting but I pushed through
it,” he added. “It was more mind than

Scheffler still has major hunger ABSENCE has not made Tiger Woods’ heart
grow fonder for Phil Mickelson.
TOP-RANKED Masters champion Scottie Tour victory.
Scheffler doesn’t feel any different in his He won his first PGA title in February at Woods ripped Mickelson yesterday at the
first major start as a major winner, just PGA Championship over support for upstart LIV
hungry to keep his hot streak going at the the Phoenix Open, his second in March at Golf, citing the US PGA Tour legacy of Jack
PGA Championship. Bay Hill and his third at the WGC Match Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer while branding
Play before capturing the green jacket at Mickelson’s comments “polarising” and divisive.
The 25-year-old American has won four Augusta National to claim the world
times in his past eight starts and will be number one ranking. Mickelson, who became golf’s oldest major
paired alongside two other reigning major champion when he won last year’s PGA at age
champions when the showdown at But, Scheffler notes, the green jacket is 50, withdrew from defending his crown last
Southern Hills starts today. in his closet at home this week and that week and hasn’t played since controversial
ultimate ranking, while “a tremendous comments about LIV Golf were made public in
Scheffler will play the first two rounds honour”, won’t gain him a stroke on the February.
alongside reigning US Open champion Jon PGA field.
Rahm and Collin Morikawa, last year’s “Phil has said some things that I think a lot of
British Open winner, in a traditional PGA “I don’t get any extra shots this week,” us who are committed to the tour, and
feature threesome. he said. “It’s nice to have the ranking, but at committed to the legacy of the tour, have
the end of the day when I show up at a pushed back against,”Woods said.
“I don’t feel any different,” Scheffler said. tournament, I don’t have any advantages
“When I show up to tournaments, it’s a over the field. “He has taken some personal time and we all
little bit different. There’s more people understand that. But I think that some of his
hollering at me when I’m playing a practice “My game feels like it’s in a good spot. views on how the tour could be run, should be
round. But I kind of stay in my own little I’ve been on a pretty good run here run, been a lot of disagreement there.
bubble. recently.
“The viewpoints that Phil has made, with the
“I want to win this tournament as bad as “It took me a while to win the first one tour and what the tour has meant to all of us,
any other one. For me not much changes.” and I guess I’ve been on a stretch now. have been polarising,”Woods said.

A lot, however, has changed about his “But being in contention and winning “I just think that what Jack and Arnold have
place in golf. When the year began, golf tournaments is the most fun. The more done in starting the tour… I just think there’s a
Scheffler was still chasing his first US PGA nerves you feel, that’s the more fun stuff for legacy to that. I still think that the tour has so
me.” – AFP much to offer, so much opportunity. I
understand different viewpoints, but I believe in
legacies.” – AFP

Koepka late for practice PIN HIGH
after locking keys in car Ignorance is bliss for McIlroy

Brooks Koepka plays a shot from a bunker on the FOUR-TIME major winner Rory McIlroy says ignorance is bliss
16th hole during a practice yesterday. – AFPPIX when it comes to being unfamiliar with Southern Hills, where
the 104th PGA Championship tees off today. The 33-year-old
from Northern Ireland had never seen the par-70 layout before
a Monday practice round, but with his game on solid form, he
is not worried overly about the course’s challenges.
“Sometimes not knowing where the trouble is, ignorance is
bliss in some ways,” McIlroy said yesterday. “For me I’ll take
execution over preparation any day. If you’re executing the
shots and you’re hitting the ball well and the ball is going
where you’re looking, that’s more than half the battle. I feel like
I’m executing well.”

FOUR-TIME major winner Brooks the car was locked,” Koepka said. … but rethinks LIV Golf’s future
Koepka arrived late at Southern “I don’t know how the keys
Hills yesterday for his practice RORY MCILROY, who wrote off the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series as
round ahead of the PGA locked inside the car. It boggles “dead in the water”in February, said yesterday it instead will“shape
Championship after locking his me. I didn’t think a car was the future of professional golf.”The controversial rival to the US PGA
keys and clubs in his running car. supposed to do that, but and DP World tours guided by Australian legend Greg Norman was a
apparently it does. That’s why I’m major topic of conversation at Southern Hills ahead of today’s start of
The 32-year-old American, an hour late.’” the PGA Championship. McIlroy said in February that LIV Golf would
who hasn’t played since missing be little more than a glorified 50-and-over tour, saying,“It’s dead in the
the cut at last month’s Masters, A spare key eventually solved water in my opinion. I just can’t see any reason why anyone would
lamented his fate in a video social the problem but it was one of go.”With LIV Golf’s first event next month in London set to pay a
media posting, trying to push the those moments for Koepka, who record US$25m (RM108m), McIlroy’s tune has changed even with no
blame to putting coach Jeff recently ran out of gas in his own players so far committed to the upstart series.“I might have been a
Pierce. car at home. little presumptuous at that point,“ McIlroy said.“It seems like it’s still
going. Greg and everyone behind it are very determined. Guys are
“I watched him unlock the car, “Only me, man,” Koepka said. going to make decisions. Honestly it’s going to shape the future of
start the car, then he grabbed the “It’s like a theme of car troubles. professional golf one way or another, so I think we’re just going to
bag, put it in the trunk, shut the Run out of gas and then this. I’m have to see how it all shakes out.”
trunk, and I went in and grabbed just glad it didn’t happen on
a hat, walked right out, and then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or
Sunday.” – AFP

THURSDAY • MAY 19, 2022 QUOTE OF THE DAY

The first mountain we climbed was
Everest, it’s only going to get flatter
and better. Things are not going to be as easy as
people think but I’m having more days that are
better, more positive, and I’m able to practice
longer.”

Tiger Woods

Ugly scenes spoil Forest’s Championship playoff semifinal win

NOTTINGHAM POLICE have confirmed the revealed the incident left 36-year-old Sharp needing
arrest of a 31-year-old man following a stitches.
sickening and shocking assault on Sheffield
United captain Billy Sharp. “We’ve seen one of our players attacked,” said
Heckingbottom, post-match. “He’s shook up, bleeding,
The Blades skipper was knocked to the ground angry.
after being attacked by a Nottingham Forest “Bill was minding his own business off the pitch,
supporter in the aftermath of Brice Samba’s penalty- trying to get our players away. He was blindsided, it
shootout heroics that booked Steve Cooper’s side’s was cowardly. He was knocked to the ground (and
place at Wembley – where they will meet Huddersfield required) stitches, he was shaken up.”
next Sunday (11.30pm Malaysian time) for a place in He later added: “How can you come to your place
the Premier League. of work and mind own business and be assaulted in
Television footage of the celebratory scenes and that fashion? It’s bang out of order and everything
pitch invasion provided clear evidence of the incident, that’s wrong.
which has left both clubs appalled following a “You hear too many times that people condemn it,
pulsating night of play-off drama. but nothing is done and we are the ones who suffer. It
Sharp, who did not feature in the match due to is upsetting for many reasons but it will be dealt with.”
injury, was alongside some of his teammates watching Sharp spent a season on loan at Forest during the
on from the Sheffield United dugout when the 2012/13 season, which makes the inexcusable attack
supporter charged and head-butted him, completely even more bewildering.
unprovoked. Forest have since outlined their intentions to ban
The incident soon went viral, sparking a manhunt the individual for life.
before Chief Inspector Paul Hennessy of “Nottingham Forest Football Club are appalled to
Nottinghamshire Police confirmed an arrest. learn that our former player, Billy Sharp, was assaulted
“A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion leaving the pitch after tonight’s match at The City
of assault in connection with this incident. He remains Ground,” a club statement read.
in custody and will be questioned by officers. “The club will work with the authorities to locate
“Our enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the individual in order they are held to account for
the incident are ongoing. We have spoken to the their actions, which will include a life ban from
player concerned and we are working with both clubs Nottingham Forest.
who are supporting us with our investigation.” “The club would also like to apologise to Billy
Sharp later released a statement, writing on Twitter: personally and to Sheffield United Football Club.”
“One mindless idiot ruined what was an unbelievable Sheffield United had taken the game to extra-time
night of football. Congratulations to Nottingham after two second half goals from Morgan Gibbs-White
Forest on their victory and good luck in the final. and John Fleck.
“As an ex-Forest player, I will not let one scumbag Yet the sides could not be separated after 210
ruin my respect for the Forest fans. Incredibly proud to minutes of gruelling action but the night would
be captain of this group of Sheffield United players, belong to Forest goalkeeper Samba, who denied
Nottingham Forest’s they gave their all and can hold their heads up high. Blades attacker Iliman Ndiaye in the final minutes of
Brice Samba (left) “We will be back and go again. Thanks for all your extra-time, before saving three penalties from Oliver
and Brennan messages and support after the incident.” Norwood, Conor Hourihane and Gibbs-White to win
Johnson celebrate Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom the shootout. – Express Newspapers
after reaching the ‘Ferraris in the
Championship garage’ Klopp hails Liverpool’s squad
playoff final after strength after Southampton win
beating Sheffield takes title race to final day
United on aggregate
at The City Ground
yesterday. –
REUTERSPIX

RESULTS & STANDINGS

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE: South-
ampton 1 (Redmond 13) Liverpool 2
(Minamino 27, Matip 67).

P W D L F A Pts █ ED ELLIOT
Man City 37 28 6 3 96 24 90 Harvey (Elliott), I’m not sure the last time he are talking about Wolves like they are not there. It
Liverpool 37 27 8 2 91 25 89 JURGEN KLOPP hailed his “Ferraris in the played, Curtis (Jones) no rhythm, he has only is possible, not likely but possible. That is enough.”
Chelsea 36 20 10 6 73 31 70 garage” after much-changed Liverpool took played from time to time, Takumi Minamino, it is
Tottenham 37 21 5 11 64 40 68 the Premier League title race to the final day a crime he is not playing more often. Goalkeeper Alisson Becker and defender
Arsenal 37 21 3 13 56 47 66 of the season by coming from behind to beat Ibrahima Konate were the only men retained
Man Utd 37 16 10 11 57 56 58 Southampton 2-1. “(Alex) Oxlade-Chamberlain did not even play from Saturday’s penalty shoot-out success at
West Ham 37 16 8 13 59 48 56 and he is in outstanding shape. It is really tough Wembley, during which Van Dijk and Salah were
Wolves 37 15 6 16 37 40 51 Reds boss Klopp opted to make nine changes for the boys sometimes. forced off with knee and groin problems
Leicester 36 13 9 14 57 57 48 at St Mary’s following Saturday’s gruelling FA Cup respectively.
Brighton 37 11 15 11 39 43 48 final win over Chelsea and was without a host of “Whatever happens this year happens because
Brentford 37 13 7 17 47 54 46 star names, including Sadio Mane and injured of this group. They are exceptional and they have Liverpool lost Joe Gomez to injury on the south
Newcastle 37 12 10 15 42 61 46 duo Virgil Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah. showed that again.” coast but his manager was upbeat about the issue.
Crystal Palace 36 10 15 11 47 43 45
Aston Villa 36 13 5 18 49 50 44 Nathan Redmond’s superb solo effort Liverpool, who remain in contention for an “I hope we are lucky – Joe himself has pain but
Southampton 37 9 13 15 42 63 40 threatened to hand the title to Manchester City unprecedented quadruple, will welcome Wolves not too much,” said Klopp.
Everton 36 10 6 20 39 59 36 but the visitors battled back and moved within a to Anfield on Sunday, hoping Steven Gerrard’s
Leeds 37 8 11 18 40 78 35 point of the leaders thanks to goals from Takumi Aston Villa can do them a major favour away to “He got a real shock to the system but he’s
Burnley 36 7 13 16 32 50 34 Minamino and Joel Matip. Manchester City. sitting in the dressing room and when I spoke to
Watford 37 6 5 26 33 75 23 him he was in a good mood. I think we probably
Norwich 37 5 7 25 23 79 22 “Making nine changes, if it hadn’t worked out Having already lifted the Carabao Cup and FA were lucky but we have to figure that out.”
Note: Top four qualify for Champions it would have been 1,000% my responsibility,” said Cup, Klopp will hope to welcome back some of his
League; Europa League and Europa Klopp. star men for the tantalising weekend climax Defeat for 15th-placed Southampton was an
Conference League; bottom three rele- before turning his attentions to the Champions eighth in 11 League games.
gated. “Now it worked out and it’s 1,000% the boys’ League final with Real Madrid on May 28.
responsibility because I can ask for a lot, the boys Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: “We have
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF (Semifinal, have to do it and I thought they did it The German retains hope of overhauling Pep played against a good team that made a lot of
2nd leg): Nottingham Forest 1 exceptionally well. Guardiola’s reigning champions. changes but still has a lot of quality up front, you
Sheffield United 2 – aet (3-3 on agg, could see it.
Forest win 3-2 on penalties). “I am so happy about the performance. It was “If I was in the other situation, then I don’t feel
a bit touching, honestly. You think: ‘Wow, these like I am champion already, that is how it is,” he “We took with the ball a lot of risks today – it
boys.’ It is like having Ferraris in the garage. said. looked sometimes a little bit scary, to be honest.

“You let them out and they do it like this. “From my point of view in second you are “When you have 40 points and you have
thinking that of course City will win that game. But nothing to lose, what do you want to do?
it is football.
“In the end, we know that we try to get better
“We have to first win our game. It is not like we and we have a lot of things to do in the summer to
get better.” – The Independent

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