THE Malaysian logistics industry must buck up and move up the value chain to stand a chance of becoming Asean’s next logistics hub, says PKT Logistics Group Sdn Bhd chief executive officer and managing director Datuk Seri Michael Tio.
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PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): Every Saturday at 9 pm, teacher Kamarulzaman Muhd Yunus will be ready with his drawing equipment to impart his knowledge on Visual Arts Education (PSV) and interact directly with students on Youtube
The teacher, who is known as Cikgu Melankolik Malaya”, likens the YouTube platform to an extra class for his students to learn the techniques of drawing to help them get excellent results in their examinations.
A teacher at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Maluri, Kuala Lumpur, Kamarulzaman used to be an examiner for the PSV Paper 2 subject in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination and now teaches the right techniques that students need to apply in their drawing.
When crime does pay Bernama
PETALING JAYA: In Malaysia, compounding a traffic offence by not paying the fine on time has its rewards. One eventually gets a discount.
Experts say such a policy leads motorists to throw caution to the wind and continue to commit traffic offences, such as speeding or beating the lights.
“We are just sending out the wrong message,” criminologist Datuk Akhbar Satar told
theSun.
“In countries such as the United Kingdom and Singapore, those who pay the fine early are rewarded. But in Malaysia, it looks like the longer you wait, the more likely you are to get rewarded (with bigger discounts),” said Akhbar, who is president of the Malaysian Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Varsity-bound: The students checking out from quarantine.
SIXTY-SEVEN international postgraduate students from Indonesia will be starting their studies in Malaysia after completing their seven-day quarantine.
The Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) Scholarship recipients were welcomed by Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS) during a briefing session at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on March 30.
The scholarship is an initiative to strengthen bilateral relations between Malaysia and Indonesia through education.
This is the largest number of international students sponsored by NTB since the pandemic hit, EMGS said in a press release.
Its chief executive officer Mohd Radzlan Jalaludin said EMGS would give its full support to ensure that the process for international students to study in Malaysia runs smoothly.