– Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): After almost four decades serving Istana Negara, Rusli Asri, 60, has bid adieu to the palace with sadness and pride having served as
bentara (palace herald) under 10 Malaysian monarchs.
Rusli, who started his service at the age of 20 during the reign of the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ahmad Shah, ended his career serving under his son, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on March 30.
Rusli was truly sad to retire and was in tears as he left Istana Negara, the residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Raja Permaisuri Agong. This separation is very painful because 40 years is not a short period of time. I will be lying if I say I will not miss the palace. I am so accustomed to working here,” he said when met by Bernama at Istana Negara recently.
The University of North Carolina announced Thursday that Hall of Fame basketball coach Roy Williams is retiring after a 33-year career that includes three national championships,.
By Joe Wallace U.S. stocks resumed a familiar pattern Thursday, with tech shares rising sharply and outpacing the rest of the market. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.7%, following a 1.5% gain on Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up 0.8%, after the broad stocks gauge closed out a fourth consecutive quarterly advance on Wednesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2%. Many investors are hopeful that stocks will continue to climb in the second quarter. Their optimism is pegged to the prospect of a surge in economic growth amid widespread vaccinations and fresh spending programs from the Biden administration. Still, they point to risks stemming from rising bond yields, new lockdowns in Europe and signs of excess in corners of the market.
BY
April 01, 2021
Lately, do you feel like regulations are more like flipping a coin? Whether it’s salt in the wound caused by the Conflict of Interest Rule or the stop-and-go patterns of interim final rulings, the last few years Washington has our industry rubbernecking at woulda, coulda, shouldas.
Each new passage has us waiting for the change with bated breath. How will it impact our business? Our clients? Then we frantically read about the updates, news and coming-soon changes and we get ready. We arm our business with the necessary processes and procedures to operate in compliance. We seek out new vendor relationships that will comply with best practices. We attend hours of webinars and training. We intently alert our clients of what is happening and why they need to know. Then what? It stalls. Stops. Kaput. It’s gone.