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Published on: Thursday, December 17, 2020 By: Bernama Kuala Lumpur: Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz (pic) on Wednesday urged Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributors to beware of scam activities and always protect their personal information. He said there were advertisements on social and online media that called for contributors to take out their savings to be invested in schemes that reeked of scam. This came after it was announced that application for EPF Account 1 w...

Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 08:56 PM MYT Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz tables Budget 2021 in Parliament November 6, 2020. ― Bernama pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 — Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz today urged Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributors to beware of scam activities and always protect their personal information. He said there were advertisements on social and on...

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead In Sumatra’s Riau province, 93% of known elephant habitat is in forests where commercial and industrial activity is permitted. In the past five years, at least seven elephants have been found dead in pulp and paper concessions controlled by affiliates of industry giants Asia Pulp & Paper and the APRIL group. Many of these elephants are believed to have been killed by poachers, who activists say can easily ent...

Malaysia winning pandemic war © Provided by New Straits Times The Covid-19 pandemic and the attendant economic tailspin are two major flashpoints that colour and dominate this year. - NSTP file pic, for illustration purposes only LETTERS: The year 2020 is drawing to a close. I am sure many Malaysians would want to put this annus horribilis behind them. The Covid-19 pandemic and the attendant economic tailspin are two major flashpoints that colour and dominate this year. With the benefit of h...

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) assistant governor Fraziali Ismail has warned against "unethical advice" encouraging members of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) who are not in financial distress to withdraw from their Account 1 to invest in investment assets that carry much higher risks, after the enhanced i-Sinar facility was announced by the fund. In his keynote address at the Malaysian Financial Planning Council — Professional & Ethics Forum 2020, he said this after sel...

IN his current job, Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Aziz seems to be cycling uphill against a strong headwind in the cold night. Formulating an expansionary budget with a tight fiscal position to lift the nation out of an unprecedented economic and health crisis is already a challenge for the former banker. An added hurdle is that the current government does not have a strong majority in parliament to enable the proposed budget to be passed and executed swiftly. The demanding job spec...

With 36 years of experience and nbc counter terrorism analyst, would this really fulfill the promise to end the endless wars. >> it would fulfill the presidents promise to get america out of those wars, and what this will do it exacerbate those wars just like we have seen in syria and afghanistan instead. the president has a very nar owe transactional view of what he thinks the arms forces are responsible for and what he should do. there is a very large lethal and growing counter terrorism opera...

It. they got caught red handed. >> the inspector general did not find political bias or improper motivations impacting the opening of the investigation. >> wray is clearly willing to stand up to the president on the truth here. >> he exposes the troouth for wt it is. hes an honest person in charge of an honest organization then thats what he has to say regardless of the fact it pits him against the president and maybe against the attorney general. the fact is the presidents position on this has ...

Then-president trump had a fund-raiser, which lef parnas came to it yk frsh and three weeks later parnas gives $325,000 to donald trumps political action committee. so this has been in the works for id say over a year. and bringing the sol ou that rashd the ap we still dont know really where it all is going to lead us. but it there as nar and this is just the end of the beginning in my view of this investigation. >> so let play on that. the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end.

The democrats are trying to convince a skeptical public that the president deserves to lose his job. also ahead, because surviving dinner, thanksgiving at least, wasnt hard enough, the weather threatening to tospl travel home for tens of thousands across the country. we begin with the latest developments out of london. the scene of a deadly terror attack. >> this is the moment a group of london residents confronted the man suspected of carrying out the attacks. do you see the one man there? re...