Published on: Tuesday, May 25, 2021
By: Bernama
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PUTRAJAYA: The Festive Season Maximum Price Control Scheme (SHMMP) for the 2021 Kaamatan Festival and Gawai Day celebrations will be enforced in Labuan, Sabah and Sarawak for seven days, involving 11 items.
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi
(pic) said the categories of controlled price items consisted of chicken, eggs and pork.
He said the SHMMP for the Kaamatan Festival would take effect from May 27 until June 2, while for Gawai Day from May 28 until June 3.
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The Kaamatan Festival will be celebrated by the people in Labuan and Sabah on May 31, while the people in Sarawak will celebrate Gawai Day on June 1.
Compulsory Hallmarking Of Gold Jewellery Deferred By Two Weeks; To Begin From June 15
by Arun Kumar Das - May 25, 2021 05:20 AM
Inside view of a jewellery shop in Connaught Place New Delhi. (Pradeep Gaur/Mint via GettyImages)
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BIS (Hallmarking) Regulations were implemented from June 14, 2018.
The hallmarking of jewellery and artefacts is required to enhance the credibility of gold jewellery and customer satisfaction through third-party assurance for the marked purity and fineness of gold.
At present, only 30 per cent of Indian gold jewellery is hallmarked, leading to authenticity concerns.
Hallmarking of gold jewellery is set to begin from June 15 this year as in view of Covid, the government has accepted the request of stakeholders to give jewellers some more time to get prepared for implementation and resolve issues.
New Yorkers like mobile banking but have security concerns: study
New Yorkers like their smartphones and do not mind using them for banking, a study by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) reveals.
Virtually all (96 percent) of New Yorkers own a cellphone, with most of them (80 percent) being smartphones. That trumps the respective national averages of 87 and 71 percent. The underbanked, young (18-29), wealthy and people who moved to New York from other countries exhibit especially high smartphone usage.
The DCA partnered with the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), Capital One and the MetLife Foundation to to look at all aspects of how mobile usage can improve financial inclusion.
PETALING JAYA: It is impractical to enforce a two-hour limit for shoppers inside a mall, said the Malaysia Shopping Malls Association.
While it agreed that limiting the time shoppers spent would help enhance movement control in current circumstances, it said mall management personnel have no control of where shoppers visit and are unable to keep track of their movements.
“The only practical way is to put up signs at the entrance and common areas and to advise businesses to do similarly at their premises plus announcements (where applicable) to remind shoppers.
“Apart from this, we say that it is neither practical for anyone to stop a shopper asking to check his/her MySejahtera to audit the time of entry nor do we have the authority to do so. In the event enforcement authorities were to undertake this, it would be akin to a ‘police state’.