AS a goodwill gesture in conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations, Kuala Lumpur City Hall( DBKL) has given several retail stores in the city a two-month grace period to sell hard liquor.A DBKL spokesman said that due to overwhelming appeals received from retailers, they would allow retailers to sell liquor from Jan 15 until March 14. The spokesman added that based on consultation with the Kuala Lumpur Excise Licencing Board, DBKL is allowing the sale so retailers can clear the

LONDON: Europe is taking a big gamble as it moves to ban Russian coal, potentially leaving itself vulnerable to shortages and rolling blackouts while the rest of the world contends with surging prices. Russia is Europe’s top supplier of thermal coal, used to fuel power stations.... There are also logistical complications when it comes to quickly pivoting to new suppliers.... Coal stored in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp harbors remain at the lowest for the season in at least six years, accor

Indonesia saw the number of new daily cases rise sharply to 56, 757 on July 15.... He said many companies had already been forced to give employees unpaid leave, and some had terminated contract employment.... By the end of the year, Moody’s estimated, Indonesia’s NPL could reach 3.5%, increasing the asset risk at banks across the country....

PETALING JAYA: Muhammad Fathy Rashad, an undergraduate student from Universiti Teknologi Petronas( UTP), made the varsity proud when he successfully published a conference paper at The American Society of Mechanical Engineers( ASME) 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. His paper titled CreativeGAN: Editing Generative Adversarial Networks for Creative Design Synthesis was published together with Assistant Prof Faez Ah

LAS VEGAS--Hard Rock International said Monday it wants to see how a guitar-shaped hotel will play at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip.In what MGM Resorts International CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle called “ a significant milestone for MGM Resorts and for Las Vegas, ” the companies announced MGM Resorts will sell operations of The Mirage to Hard Rock International in a cash deal worth almost$ 1.1 billion.In a statement, Hard Rock Chairman Jim Allen said the Florida-based hospitality and ente

？ Federal budget with outlay of Rs9. 5tr presented？ Govt employees’ salaries up 15pc, no tax on those earning up to Rs100, 000/ month？ Subsidies on sugar, wheat flour proposed？ Taxes on cars over 1, 600cc to be increased？ Pensioner tax reduced to 5pc from 10pc？ Advance withholding tax to be collected from those sending remittances abroad？ Tax on banking sector increases to 42pc？ Families with income below Rs40, 000 to be given Rs2, 000？ Households using fewer than 200 units of electricity to be

PETALING JAYA: Seafood distributor Kiu Wee Jen opened his shop just two months ago in Shah Alam, selling seafood, poultry and frozen ingredients. And then the floods struck. The water damaged the electrical appliances in his shop and also left him without power supply.“ We need electricity to store our frozen food.... But when the flood hit us, there was no electricity for four days and our food was spoiled.“ We suffered losses of more than RM120, 000, ” said Kiu, 35.He had bought insurance tha

MELBOURNE( Reuters)-Sydney will enter a hard two-week lockdown on Saturday night as authorities try to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant in Australia's largest city, the state premier said. More than a million people in downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs were already under lockdown due to the outbreak, but health authorities said they needed to expand that after more COVID-19 cases were recorded, with exposure sites increasing beyond

COLOMBO: In suburban Colombo, queues for fuel run for a couple of kilometres, at any given time of the day.... Two more diesel shipments are to arrive under the Indian credit line, he said, while Sri Lanka must secure$ 75 million over the next couple of days to ease the queues.... “ For over 40 days, three ships with crude oil and furnace oil have been anchored within the maritime zone of Sri Lanka....

WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Email Messenger This post has been read 2392 times!... Some contractors refused to implement contracts that they had signed at the beginning of the year but did not start implementing due to reasons related to the issuance of licenses or considerations related to either party.... They justified this with compelling reasons related to an unprecedented increase in the prices of construction goods....