Sunday, 31 Jan 2021 11:49 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur March 17, 2018. ― Picture by Zuraneeza Zulkifli
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 Lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla today questioned the reported excerpts of Tan Sri Tommy Thomas’ memoir on the latter’s two-year tenure as attorney general, stressing that those who have served as the government’s top legal adviser should never publicly disclose the advice they had provided unless allowed under the law.
Haniff, who has in the past acted as Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s lawyer in some court cases, said he has yet to read the full contents of Thomas’ newly-released book
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1): The government s termination of the integrated immigration system that was in the process of development by Prestariang SKIN Sdn Bhd has resulted in irreparable damage to Prestariang Bhd group of companies that in turn resulted in destruction of shareholder value and created financially stress.
Prestariang Bhd is now known as AwanBiru Technology Bhd (AwanTec). SKIN is the Bahasa Malaysia s abbreviation of the Sistem Kawalan Imigresen Nasional (SKIN) project that was awarded in 2018 just before the 14th general election (GE14).
The company s counsel Datuk Lim Chee Wee in a continuation of his opening statement over the suit filed in 2019 said that the expropriation by the government resulted in the company undergoing tremendous reputational loss and this continued till today.
LETTER | Time to reconsider ‘privatised massive surveillance’
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LETTER | The first cases of Covid-19 in the country were detected on Jan 25 last year. By Dec 14, the total number has risen to 84,846 in 324 days or an average of fewer than 262 cases per day.
Alarmingly, 85,196 Covid-19 cases had been recorded in the first 28 days of this year or an average of over 3,042 per day. Clearly, existing measures are not enough, and radical methods must be introduced to save lives and livelihoods.
But do we have the political will? As far as I know, this has been lacking for the past 18 years.
WHILE big plans for upskilling Malaysia’s workforce are being rolled out starting this month, the majority of low-skilled workers do not know where to go to get trained, a survey of young people targeted by such schemes shows.
Over RM19 billion has been allocated for various training programmes in Budget 2021, including RM3.7 billion for the Employment Generation Guarantee Scheme (JanaKerja), which aims to create 500,000 new jobs that involve upgrading skills and retraining.
However, a survey by The Centre policy institute among non-graduate gig workers shows that while 78% of respondents indicated an interest in reskilling, 68% have never undertaken a skills development or training programme before. Furthermore, over half of them claimed not to know where or how to access courses relevant to them (see Chart 3).