Page 100 - Mco News Today

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Security Council (NSC) will be holding a special meeting today to discuss the possibility of extending the movement control order.

AFTER more than half a month of inactivity, traders in Kuala Lumpur are grateful that the ban on night markets has been lifted. However, while the AU2 Taman Keramat night market was abuzz, the once-popular spot of Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman was all quiet. Drinks trader Mimi Fazura Aziz Rahman, 39, said she was glad to be able to earn an income again at the Taman Keramat night market. The single mother-of-one said she had been operating by a roadside in Jalan Setiawangsa during the day but the f...

Help needed: Lim, feeding her cats, says she dipped into her EPF to help care for the strays. GEORGE TOWN: Local animal shelters are finding it hard to make ends meet after a drastic drop in donations due to the present movement control order. Meowy Cat Shelter Penang founder Pauline Lim, 56, said it was hard to pay the cost for her three shelters in Balik Pulau, Butterworth and George Town. “I need at least RM4,000 a month to pay for the shelters’ rental, and another RM4,000 for the food a...

MELAKA: A tranquil atmosphere prevails at the Melaka Zoo due to the movement control order. Without the daily intrusion of visitors, there is much-needed space for zoo animals to express their natural behaviour and interact freely with their kind. Its zoology unit head Azman Ghazali said when visitors were allowed in, the animals were often seen to be passive and would even shy away. Changes in the behaviour of the animals are evident now even in the mating behaviour of a group of six black pan...

Details 02 February 2021 Strategic Public Relations Group (SPRG) and Montieth & Company (M&Co) has co-launched a new agency in Hong Kong Montieth SPRG. The new agency offers a wide range of services including marketing communications and media relations, issues and crisis management and financial communications, and investor relations. Montieth SPRG will deliver key corporate initiatives that encourage audience engagement, raise or build brand awareness an...

PETALING JAYA: The National Security Council (NSC) through its daily meetings has "more or less decided the best decision in balancing lives and livelihoods", says a source.

Source: The clothing and homeware retailer is launching three new womens fashion brands over the next two years to sit alongside its core M&Co brand womens, mens and childrens wear offering to realign its business strategy and “capitalise on the marketplace trend” (box, below). They will join M&Cos premium womenswear brand, Sonder Studio, and casual womenswear brand, Khost, both of which launched in September 2019 and count Next and SilkFred among their stockists. The five womenswear an...

Slim pickings: Parents are travelling as far as they possibly can to look for school textbooks for their children. Many are complaining that shops have no stock of the books they need. — LOW LAY PHON/The Star PETALING JAYA: The new school year has begun but there is a lack of school textbooks being sold in bookshops. Parents are frustrated as their children are facing difficulty following their lessons. The problem is not new. It has been going on for several years. However, this year, the si...

Fortune noted, “companies that became even more essential during the pandemic were among the biggest movers.” According to Forbes the results are “based on our poll of some 3,800 corporate executives, directors, and analysts.” Although Fortune lists more than 300 companies, only the top 51 are ranked. After that, companies are simply listed alphabetically. Minnesota companies that landed on the list without being ranked were Best Buy Co. Inc., C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., Ecolab Inc., ...

Nightingales Niceties: Keeping it in the family Despite opening their shop only months before the first lockdown in March last year, Vicky Junor, and her mother, Claire Kidd, are already planning to expand. Family is at the heart of Nightingale’s Niceties – a craft and gift shop that launched in Spennymoor in 2019 – as it is named in remembrance of Vicky’s grandmother, whose maiden name was Nightingale. “My nana, my mam, and I had always talked about one day opening a tea shop ...