IPOH, April 26 (Bernama): A songkok maker, Hamzah Irzal, is one of the small traders who find it hard to eke out a living, as the country is still reeling in the fight against Covid-19, with only about 200 orders received for his traditional headgear thus far, with the Aidilfitri celebration just 16 days away.
This scenario is far from previous years, prior to the pandemic, when Hamzah, 52, of Pustaka Al Jilani, received orders in the thousands.
Hamzah who has made, supplied and sold songkok to wholesalers and individual customers since 2008, said that the wholesalers, especially those trading at the Ramadan bazaar sites, were reluctant to order the products in large quantities due to the possibility of the Movement Control Order (MCO) being implemented again.
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Perak police chief Comm Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said the police arrested 25 men during the raids.
“The raids were conducted in Ipoh, Taiping, Manjung, Kerian, Kampar, Perak Tengah and Kuala Kangsar.
“We believe that the syndicate was able to get about RM1.5mil a month, ” he said in a statement Friday (Feb 19).
Comm Mior Faridalathrash said the raids, joined by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), were conducted from Dec 1 last year until Thursday (Feb 18).
“The cryptocurrency mining premises had caused losses of about RM743,000 per month to TNB, due to electricity theft.
“Their modus operandi is to look for buildings without any occupants, and far away from residential areas before modifying the wiring and connecting the electricity illegally, ” he said, adding that the suspects are between 20 and 40 years old.
Published on: Thursday, February 18, 2021
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PETALING JAYA: The health ministry has detected 17 new Covid-19 clusters in the past 24 hours, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
In a statement, he said 14 of them involved workplaces,
FMT reported.
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Selangor and Johor reported five clusters each, while two were detected in Sabah, and one each in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Pahang, Terengganu, and Perak.
The 17 new clusters are:
Selangor:
Jalan Bukit Kemuning – a workplace cluster in Klang. The first few cases tested positive today after a targeted screening of employees at a services company in Shah Alam. Some 147 people were screened, 55 of whom tested positive.