KUALA LUMPUR: The government has no plan to implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) this year and next year because it wants to focus on targeted s.
Kuala Lumpur: The government has no plan to implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) this year and next year because it wants to focus on targeted subsidies first, said Deputy Finance Minister I Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 Malaysia is the only country in the world that offers more subsidies to the rich compared to those who are impoverished, according to Deputy Finance.
• Martin Scorsese's alma mater, New York University, is establishing a film institute in his name after a gift from George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. The formation of the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts was announced Tuesday by NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The institute will include a virtual production center, the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies and support for student scholarships with tuition assistance for those selected as "Scorsese scholars." A large donation from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation the nonprofit run by the "Star Wars" filmmaker and his wife, Hobson, co-chief executive of Ariel Investments and chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation made the new institute possible. "This is such a singular and remarkable honor for me, and I thank my old, dear friend George Lucas, his wife Mellody Hobson and their remarkable foundation for this honor," Scorsese, 79, said in a statement. "Their genero