The unemployment rate in 2020 may range from 4% to 4.5%, up from the baseline of 3% to 3.5%, due to the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) in March and April, said RAM Rating Services Bhd.
The new completion date for the Sabah portion of the Pan Borneo Highway will be announced after the tabling of the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP), which is scheduled for early next year, said Deputy Works Minister Datuk Eddin Syazlee Shith
Shahrol had previously claimed, during his testimony in October last year, that he was removed from 1MDB as CEO after voicing concerns over the unreasonably rushed financial transactions of the company involving up to billions of ringgit.
No new deaths were reported today, resulting in the death toll from the pandemic in Malaysia remaining at 125 cases or a fatality rate of 1.36%.
Ministry of Health director-general (D-G) Datuk Noor Hisham Abdullah said as a result of today’s new cases, positive cases from the Tawar cluster now stand at 33 cases.
23 of the new cases were locally transmitted while three were imported.
MEF executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan said requiring foreign workers to have a valid work permit in order to be re-employed would defeat the overall purpose of redeployment.
“There will not be many foreign workers who would be able to be redeployed based on this requirement as the existing employers would only release the foreign workers after the term of their permit had expired,” he said.
Testifying at Ahmad Zahid’s corruption and money laundering trial, lawyer Muralidharan Balan Pillai, who is a partner at Messrs Lewis & Co, said he was told by Ahmad Zahid that the funds he was receiving via the cheques were for charity and religious purposes, and that the origin of the money was legitimate.
Of the 20 new cases, 13 were local transmissions while the remaining seven cases were imported
Besides the suit against Kulasegaran, Zakir has also suits against Penang chief minister II Dr P Ramasamy and several other elected representatives and a former diplomat.
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