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Human trafficking
Australia and Malaysia to revive refugee swap deal
Consumers
Inflation buster meals take off
0Government and society
1.4-billion ringgit welfare windfall
London riots
Anonymous website raises RM107,360 for battered Ashraf Haziq
An anonymous website, "Let's do something for Ashraf (+others)”, has raised more than 107,360 ringgit (£22,000) in three days for Mohd Ashraf (Asyraf) Haziq Rossli, the 20-year-old Malaysian accounting student who was assaulted and robbed at Barking in east London on Monday.
Government and politics
The king speaks
Malaysia's king Mizan Zainal Abidin clearly speaks for his people: the Bersih street rally is more bad than good and Najib Razak, his prime minister, has his support to deal with it.
Aviation
AirAsia must operate from KKIA terminal 1
AirAsia, Malaysia's budget airline, must move its flight operations to Terminal 1 of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) from the low-cost terminal in Tanjung Aru, the Business Times reports from Paris. It quotes Kong Cho Ha, the transport minister, as telling Malaysian pressmen that his government has decided so.
Malaysia-Africa forum
Najib says leaders must embrace change
Africa has much to learn from Malaysia. And Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister, told a gathering of African leaders including Zimbabwe's controversial President Robert Mugabe that good governance was vital to economic growth, AFP reported.
Business
13-billion-ringgit aluminium smelter for Sarawak
Abu Dhabi and Malaysia will jointly build a 12.7-billion-ringgit ($4.2 billion) aluminium smelter in Sarawak, according to the Business Times. The paper gave no details of the plant but said that Mubadala, an investment company of Abu Dhabi, and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), will bring in two other companies to build a rolling mill, a wire cabling plant, a wheel casting facility and 10 extrusion plants at a cost of about 5.4 billion ringgit. The companies were not named.
Labour
Economists welcome Malaysia’s amnesty move
Economists welcome Malaysia's plan to grant amnesty to illegal workers, saying that it would make Malaysia more attractive to investors because it would increase the legal labour pool, The New York Times has reported. The plan is to help the government keep track of foreign workers in the country which could improve national security, reduce human trafficking and increase tax revenues. The Times quotes Aekapol Chongvilaivan, an economist, as saying that Malaysia could learn from Singapore, which increased its competitiveness after legalizing some undocumented foreign workers in the 1960s. He is the joint coordinator of the Regional Economic studies unit at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies in Singapore.
Diplomacy
Najib says China is a friend, not an enemy
Najib Razak, the prime minister, says that Asian countries shouldn't have to choose between being allies of the U.S. or China and must avoid another Cold War-style polarization in the region, the Associated Press reported. "We must replace the old bilateralism of the Cold War, not with a new bilateralism, but with a multilateralism that can rise to the task ahead." The Star meanwhile reported Najib as saying that China is a friend and not an enemy. “It will be a mistake to see China as an adversary and if we treat China in a positive and constructive manner, they will also respond to us positively," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
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In pictures
Quotes of the Day
We are making Sabah not just a gateway for trade, investment and tourism but a modern, vibrant, prosperous and harmonious place to live.
Prime Minister Najib Razak speaking at the open day of the Sabah Development Corridor in Kota Kinabalu on February 16.
Posted on 28-10-2011, 4:56 pm