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Derita M Daud Kilau dapat perhatian Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat KEADAAN penyanyi veteran, M. Daud Kilau ketika ditemui wartawan Utusan di kediamannya di Sungai Balai Baru semalam.  (Gambar ihsan dari UTUSAN/ AIN SAFRE) Akhbar Utusan Malaysia semalam menyiarkan berita penderitaan kesihatan yang dialami penyanyi veteran M Daud Kilau . Mengidap kencing manis, kebas kaki dan beberapa komplikasi, Raja Gelek Malaysia memberitahu Utusan mengenai kehilangan pendapatan sejak empat tahun lalu atas sebab kesihatan. Malaysiakini turut menyiarkan kisah M Daud Kilau  hari ini. Portal itu menarik perhatian penyanyi berusia 82 tahun itu mengharapkan sesiapa atau mana-mana pihak dapat meminjamkan kepadanya sebuah kerusi roda elektrik.  Menambah sebak, penyanyi lagu hits Sireh Pinang dan Cek Mek Molek itu berkata pemilik kerusi roda yang dipinjamkan kepadanya boleh mengambil kembali kerusi roda tersebut selepas beliau meninggal dunia. Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Jabatan Kebajikan M...

Mohamed Azmin Ali, Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri yang berstatus Menteri Kanan (Gambar ihsan dari FMT) WALAUPUN semakin ramai orang kurang yakin dengan dakwaan presiden PKR Anwar Ibrahim bahawa beliau sudah mempunyai sokongan majoriti selesa hampir dua pertiga di parlimen — membolehkan beliau membentuk kerajaan Malaysia yang baharu, ini tidak bermakna ahli parlimen Port Dickson itu tidak mempunyai peluang sama sekali untuk menggantikan perdana menteri sedia ada, Muhyiddin Yassin. Kita sedia maklum, dalam suasana Politik Kelas Kambing yang sedang menular di Malaysia, seseorang ahli parlimen boleh menafikan di hadapan media. Tetapi di masa dan lokasi berlainan, orang yang sama boleh membuat pengakuan yang berbeza. Anwar Ibrahim dan isteri, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (Gambar ihsan dari Malaysiakini) Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan begitu yakin mengadakan sidang media pada Rabu 23 September 2020 di Le Meridien Hotel Kuala Lumpur memaklumkan beliau menerima sokongan majoriti dari seba...

Tax collection 2020 target has been revised downwards due to Covid-19 pandemic situation The IRB had submitted the new tax collection target for 2020 to the finance ministry based on the Covid-19 pandemic situation.  (Picture courtesy of FMT) In PUTRAJAYA, Bernama reported the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) is revising downwards its tax collection target for 2020 from the RM154 billion projected in January, prior to the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO). Deputy CEO (tax operations) Mohd Nizom Sairi  said the IRB had submitted the new tax collection target for 2020 to the finance ministry based on the Covid-19 pandemic situation. “The reduction is just an estimate. I can say it is a significant reduction but the taxes collected will be more than RM100 billion,” he told reporters after a dialogue session at the Second Malaysia Tax Policy Forum here yesterday. He said this year’s tax collection level would determine the forecast and strategy for next year. Nizom s...

Love and Romance Meeriam Rosaline Edward Paul.  Picture courtesy of NST In KUALA LUMPUR, NST reported that a woman who claims to be the wife of former long-time Works Minister S Samy Vellu is again seeking to intervene in a suit filed against the latter by his son. The suit was filed by Samy Vellu's eldest son, Vell Paari , who is seeking a declaration that his father is mentally unfit. Vell Paari is claiming that his father's mental health had deteriorated since 2017. The suit was filed by Samy Vellu’s eldest son, Vell Paari, who is seeking a declaration that his father is mentally unfit. - Picture courtesy of NST In December, last year, Meeriam Rosaline Edward Paul , 59, filed her first bid to be an intervenor in the suit on grounds that relevant evidence could be adduced to show that Samy Vellu's mental state was fine. However, on 11 September 2020, the High Court dismissed her application. The court had on the same day allowed Vell Paari's application for his fath...

A Singapore-based Channel News Asia , published yesterday, Monday 28 September 2020, an analysis written by Professor James Chin , Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania and Senior Fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia. In his write-up, James Chin agreed that the Sabah State Election results on 26th September, 2020, were dramatic and different from predictions made by most political analysts. It was an upset decision made by the people of Sabah. Mohd Shafie Apdal who combined Sabah nationalism with a tag line "not a particular race or religion" lost to GRS '  Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Barisan Nasional (BN) , both Malay-centric alliances preaching Malay supremacy. Among factors of Warisan losing include bread and butter, immigrant issues, Shafie as a Bajau and not Kadazandusun. Over-confidence is another important factor. James Chin highlighted that Malaysian prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin as another reason for the failure on the pa...