News In Brief: A college girl killed herself after her parents banned her from surfing social media sites on her smartphone, Tamil Nesan reported. The incident in Mumbai took place on Wednesday night after the 17-year-old girl had an argument with her parents for using Facebook and chatting online for hours when she should be studying. The paper said the girl then went to her room, wrote a note and hanged herself. ********************************************** The shooting and robbery incident in AmBank that cost the life of its officer has angered many netizens across the board. Monies of banks are insured for mishaps but no amount can ever bring back Norazita Abu Talib. She was practically shot at point blank with a pump gun by the bank’s security guard in what looked like a well-planned scheme. Having served an organisation for nearly half her life, no amount of condolences will ever be able to pacify the anger and astonishment of her family. And rightfully too! It is just unimaginable to lose a loved one in such horrifying and unforgiving manner. ********************************************** So far, DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo (Puchong MP) and M Kulasegaran (Ipoh Barat MP) and MIC’s Dr S Subramaniam (Segamat MP) and G Palanivel (Cameron Highlands MP) have spoken up on this issue but where is the greater voice of the Indian public pertaining to the same? There should be a loud hue and cry from the Indians because this recent incident was not the first time. This shows that the Indian voices previously were not strong enough to halt the practice this year. More Indians must come forward to protest against the use of the school compound for cow-slaughtering. ********************************************** The BN government will surely play up the fact that it is a prudent government that is managing its finances well, with its projection in Budget 2014 that the annually growing budget deficit will be reduced to RM37 billion or 3.5% of GDP in 2014. However, this ignores an extremely worrying problem of a huge increase in the deficit position of the companies that are owned or controlled by the government and statutory bodies - or non-financial public enterprises (NFPEs). ********************************************* As 104 countries took their turns to grill Malaysia on its human rights record in Geneva on Thursday, one common theme was Malaysias lack of engagement with human rights instruments. A delegation of local NGOs attending Malaysias Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights in the Swiss city said during the review, many countries called on Malaysia to sign and ratify six core human rights conventions. ********************************************* Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razaks Budget 2014 speech comes as no surprise: Post-GE13, pretty much the entire population would be taxed and forced to go cold turkey on various subsidies. More pain than gain for the middle-class ********************************************** PKFZ is like Altantuya case.. no one is found guilty of any crime. MAGIC ********************************************** Putrajaya’s decision to finally introduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a regressive move that would largely hurt poor and debt-ridden Malaysians, say economists. While they lauded the governments move to abolish the Sales and Services Tax (SST) for the GST, the economists argued that the consumption tax of 6% effective April 1, 2015 would in fact do more harm than good in the long run. “This is a regressive tax where the poor would be taxed more than the rich,” said Lim Mah Hui, from the Socio-economic and Environment Research Institute (SERI). ********************************************** The government has proposed employers to implement the Flexible Work Arrangement (FWA) to give flexibility in terms of duration, place and working hours at the workplace. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, when tabling the 2014 Budget, said the FWA could be implemented through compressed work week, flexible hours and weekend work. To encourage more Malaysians companies to adopt FWA as the norm, the government proposes that training expenses and consultancy fees incurred by employers in implementing FWA be given further tax deduction, he added. He said at present, there were 13,000 registered employers who contributed a levy of 1% of the monthly wages of workers to the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF), which is used to train and upgrade the skills of workers. HRDF will provide RM400 million for registered companies to give opportunities to employees to enrol in upskilling and re-skilling programmes, he said, adding that the allocation could also be used by the companies concerned to train apprentices and future workers. ********************************************** https://facebook/MalaysianIndiansMustUnite Feel Free To Like This Page ✔ Tag your friends ✔ Share with everyone ✔
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