Thursday, 18 December 2025

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Naim organises public talk on special voluntary disclosure programme

KUCHING: Naim Group of Companies will hold a talk on the Budget 2019 special voluntary disclosure programme (SVDP) for tax. The talk is open to members of the public, particularly those who are interested in the recently announced tax amnesty programme under Budget 2019.  It will be held tomorrow (Dec

NZ military braces for climate change battle

WELLINGTON: The New Zealand Defence Force identified climate change as one of its biggest security challenges yesterday, warning that responding to global warming will increasingly stretch its resources. The NZDF said the impact of climate change in the neighbouring Pacific islands promised to be so extreme that providing humanitarian assistance

Proposed car park project will change Kapit landscape

KAPIT: Bukit Goram assemblyman Jefferson Jamit Unyat attended a site progress meeting for the proposed Kapit District Council multi-storey car park project, held at the conference room of the council building yesterday. “The proposed construction of the multi-storey car park is very important as it was discussed in the council

Satellite images show activity at N. Korean missile base

WASHINGTON: North Korea has expanded a key long-range missile base in the months since a summit between the country’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, according to satellite images published by CNN on Wednesday. The two men met in Singapore in June and signed a vaguely worded

Mukah District Council intensifies stray dog catching

MUKAH: The catching of stray dogs in the area has been a routine operation for the local authority here, said Dalat/Mukah District Council (MDDM) walikota Kadir Jamil. “It is an ongoing operation for the council and is done based on requests that the council received,” he said yesterday. Efforts have

Entrepreneur hub launched in Sibu

SIBU: Hock Peng Group (HPG) has launched the Entrepreneur Hub @ Pulau Li Hua (EHPLH), here to encourage more young people become entrepreneurs. It is also in response to the state government’s call to create more business and job opportunities and to spearhead the new wave of business and economic

Mukah District Council intensifies stray dog catching

MUKAH: The catching of stray dogs in the area has been a routine operation for the local authority here, said Dalat/Mukah District Council (MDDM) walikota Kadir Jamil. “It is an ongoing operation for the council and is done based on requests that the council received,” he said yesterday. Efforts have

Simulated ‘riot’ breaks out in KIA

KUCHING: Malaysia Airports remains vigilant in ensuring the highest levels of security and safety at its airports after successfully completing the acts of aggression full scale exercise that was held in collaboration with the National Security Council (MKN) and Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) at Kuching International Airport (KIA) yesterday. The

Australia passes cyber snooping laws with global implications

SYDNEY: Australia yesterday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications of suspected terrorists and criminals, as experts warned the “unprecedented powers” had far-reaching implications for global cybersecurity. There has been extensive debate about the laws and their reach beyond Australia’s shores in what is

M’sia’s Oct exports hit record high RM96.38 bln

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s exports in October breached the RM90 billion mark for the first time to hit a record high of RM96.38 billion, registering a jump of 17.7 per cent from RM81.86 billion in the same month last year, says the Malaysia External Trade Statistics report. The report, released by