1) Ringgit hari ini menjunam ke tahap RM4.34 berbanding US dolar. Adoi, apa sudah jadi?
2) RHB ingin mengurangkan pekerja mereka sebanyak 15 peratus (2,700 orang) melalui apa yang dinamakan “career transition scheme” (peluang keluar sukarela) dalam usaha mengurangkan kos. Sebelum itu CIMB dilapurkan berusaha mengurangkan pekerjanya sebanyak 11.1 peratus melalui “mutual separation scheme”. Label yang sungguh canggihnya semua ni… CTS, MSS, VSS. Tetapi akibatnya sama.
3) Kelmarin sahabat saya (seorang ahli Pas yang pro-Hadi!) menjemput saya menjamu selera di gerai nasi ayam. Kompleks gerai itu dinaik tarafnya oleh kerajaaan perseketuan semasa kempen pilihanraya ke-13 berjalan dengan rancak di kawasan Adun yang dipegang oleh wakil dari Umno.
Masih bersih dan nampaknya baru di sekitar kompleks gerai itu yang sekarang di bawah naungan JKKK perseketuan.
Gerai nasi ayam ini disewa RM200 sebulan oleh seorang berserban, dengan misai dan janggut halus berwarna kelabu. Beliau dulu bertungkus lumus kerja di sebuah kilang mengangkut guni dari lori turun ke setor. Semakin lama, semakin stress tulang belakangnya. Kerjanya teruk, tetapi gajinya rendah.
Maka beliau membuat keputusan untuk berhenti kerja dan membuka gerai makan sendiri. Nak berdikari. Nasi ayamnya memang boleh tahan juga.
Tetapi beliau masih risau. “Nampaknya orang ramai sekarang asyik menjimat wang; pelanggan pun kurang,” kata bos gerai.
Saya pun merenung, bukankah ini akibat GST yang membebankan orang ramai termasuk peniaga kecil?
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With the hot current issues in the country I feel that nothing to be proud of as a Malaysian. Only that Malaysians are nice people.
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Affin Hwang Capital had sent out an email to its staff recently informing them of an impending rationalisation and consolidation exercise.
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/en/article/affin-hwang-next-retrench
Bad news for all Apple fans.
Prices of iPads and iPhones have been increased.
Definitely because of falling ringgit!
Is this a beginning of another round of barang naik for consumer goods?
We can live without Apple gadgets, but price of vegetables has gone up!
Yesterday Astro AEC news reported that imported vegetables now cost 40-50% more at Penang markets. The local vegetables cost 10-20% more now as the fertilizers have gone up in price due to the diminished value of our Ringgit. Have more appreciation when you eat your kangkung.
Are you now writing in Bahasa Melayu to reach out to Malay readers, or is it because younger readers now cannot comprehend English?
I doubt your articles will ever appeal to the Malays.
Trying to reach a wider audience to include the Bahasa-speaking crowd. Never say never.
Bravo Anil, it was you writing in Bahasa, sangat pandai !!!
Thanks. Trying to improve my Bahasa. Please let me know if there are any corrections to be made.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Chua Tee Yong said:
“If only the Malaysian currency is dropping while the rest is not, then it will be alarming,”
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v8/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=1169146
Tee Yong suggest to save money spend locally like cuti2Malaysia, but some have reservation as some budget local accommodation may have probing camera to record activities inside the rooms.
Ringgit Hits New 1998 Low
At the money changer, 100 SingDollar now can get RM303..
From Day 1, critics said Najib was a phony, welcome to phony..
Those same critics said, if things don’t change now, this idea called Malaysia will be dead. So think about it..
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Lebih membimbangkan sekiranya kes ragut dan rompak semakin berleluasa ketika Menteri Dalam Negeri, Ketua Polis Negara dll. memberi tumpuan dan keutamaan kepada kes-kes yang melibatkan hanya kepentingan pihak pemerintah seperti perbuatan memijak gambar Najib bersama dengan Hadi Awang. Berbanding dengan kes-kes ragut dan rompakan yang berupaya membawa kepada kecederaan fizikal, kesan kepada Najib dan Hadi hanyalah lebih berbentuk kecederaan ego. Lebih-lebih lagi, memijak gambar pemimpin hanyalah satu bentuk kebebasan bersuara yang termaktub dalam perlembagaan; tiada perbezaan dengan perbuatan pembakaran effigy Lim Guan Eng atau pengoyakan gambar Koh Tsu Koon.
Apakah tindakan polis terhadap mereka yang menghantar kek berbentuk seperti najis manusia dan pakaian dalam wanita kepada Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng di pejabatnya di Komtar?
Janganlah polis mempraktikkan “double standard” dengan menyiasat mereka yang cenderung kepada pembangkang tetapi menutup mata jika penyokong pro-kerajaan melakukan sesuatu yang menyalahi undang-undang.
(Ramai) rakyat Pulau Pinang dah hilang kepercayaan kepada pihak polis yang mengamalkan sikap berat sebelah mengikut perintah orang atasan politik tertentu!
One dunggu, idiot anf pea brain blow horn, cow and water during a single day when ringgit went up against yankee dollar. He should consider overall.