News about sia

PETALING JAYA (Oct 4): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Act may be amended, instead of being repealed, because the country needs to curb the spread of false information.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 3): Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran will meet with all rubber glove makers tomorrow to explain the repercussions of forced labour in their operations after the US banned the import of disposable rubber gloves of WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said it made another RM43.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Only disposable rubber gloves produced by one company in Malaysia are banned from the US, clarified the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association (Margma).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): The US has banned the import of disposable rubber gloves produced in Malaysia by WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, which is alleged to have manufactured these items using forced labour.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Indonesia has identified six Malaysian-linked companies operating estates in Indonesia out of 56 companies that are responsible for the open burning which is causing the region-wide haze.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 2): The Department of Valuation and Property Services (JPPH) under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia and the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to foster public and private strategic alliances with each other.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2): Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi told the High Court here that he had meetings with former Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Seri Hasan Arifin after attending a PAC hearing in 2015 to be briefed on the contents of the report that was to be tabled in Parliament.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): The former chief executive officer of the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM), Datuk Zahrah Abd Wahab Fenner, together with her son, will be charged for corruption tomorrow (Oct 2).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 1): A woman was injured when an escalator malfunctioned at the KL Sentral LRT station yesterday.