Absolutely correct guys!

Yeah, Arb iot machine is a very high tech one.....

Elaine Tan,You aren't addressing the argument on his conversion to a certain religion paving the way for his success. Instead you are listing out his successes. Perhaps you do not understand the point of contention.

Many of Orang Asli could only rise thru w Govt's help and this help is only channeled thru if they were Muslims.

Just look at the first MP for Orang Asli, his rise in PDRM was facilitated cos he is a Muslim!

Thus, I hope that you would work to uplift all of them regardles of religion and pay special attention to the bright ones, whose only failure is lack of funds and guidance!

I hope to read a greater inspiring stories of any other Natives whom you could and would assist to succeed!

He is a Muslim I presume.

wah brunch bo jio =c

Kennychua, Hope this frog does not make it as Dewan Negara president. PH must reclaim the Federal Government.

Few kaki besar also invest in Arb, don't miss out.
You snooze you lose.

The luckier ones, who work in the formal sector, would benefit from the Employment Insurance Scheme, which will pay them a monthly stipend on a reducing scale for the next six months.

But those in the non-formal sector or those returning from overseas will not have the benefit of this scheme and will be in dire straits by the middle of June.

Malaysians all over the nation rallied to collect money and arrange emergency rations to families in need over the past two months. This is laudable and it shows there is an underlying spirit of solidarity among the people.

But private initiative will not be enough to tackle need at the scale we will witness. The government has to step in and implement a comprehensive income support scheme for all those families who find themselves without a job.

PSM believes that a modified UBI as sketched out above is the best way forward, and we hope more Malaysians will come forward to lobby for this and other programmes that flesh out the principle that we should handle the Covid-19-induced recession on the basis of solidarity and ensure no one is left behind.

We need a separate programme to handle the issue of rent for families in cases where breadwinners are laid off. (The Socialist Party of Malaysia or PSM statement released on 30 April 2020, sketches out the features of a rent support programme.) We also need to consider a rebate for the first RM30 of the water bill and the first RM100 of electricity charges.

This UBI scheme will pump in RM2-3bn into the Malaysian economy every month. The families assisted would tend to buy foodstuffs with low import content (as they are cheaper) and this will expand the market for the food supply chains in the country.

This in turn will help preserve the jobs of Malaysian farmers, workers in Malaysian factories processing food, workers involved in the transport and distribution of food, and petty traders in our markets and night markets. The UBI will serve not only as an emergency lifeline to retrenched workers and their families but will also help arrest the fall in employment.

How we deal with widespread unemployment isn’t an abstract academic issue that can be debated in a leisurely manner. The Bantuan Prihatin Negara scheme paid out RM1,000 to close to four million families from the bottom 40% of households in April and another RM600 to these families in May. It was a great help to the families which received it.

But this scheme ends with the RM600 payment. June is only two weeks away and many families are staring at the prospect of retrenchment of their wage earner(s) in June.

Their predicament is due to a failure of the market economy. And those who lose their jobs will find it difficult to land alternative jobs until the world economy emerges from the recession, and that will take one or two years.

We cannot let them and their families go hungry or be unable to avail of the healthcare they need. A caring society with a slogan of “shared rosperity” must make sure that no one is left behind. It’s high time to walk the talk!

The UBI scheme should also be extended to all single individuals above 21 using the same exclusion criteria outlined earlier. These singles eligible for UBI could be paid RM300 per month. This isn’t a huge sum, but would help these individuals manage in these difficult times until they get a job.

A UBI payment of RM1,000 per month for a family is just enough to buy provisions for a simple diet for the family. But it may not be enough to meet other basic needs such as rent.

These criteria are to screen out (exclude) families which have at least one parent who is from any one of the following categories – person for whom a company is contributing to the Social Security Organisation (Socso), civil servants, the 1.8 million individuals who paid income tax in 2019, and civil service pensioners with a pension of more than RM1,000. These are persons with an adequate and stable income who do not require the assistance of the UBI to meet essential needs.

The rationale for income support is this: none of the two or three million people who are going to end up unemployed can be held personally responsible for their predicament. It is not because they are lazy or that they refused to go to work.

Implement a modified universal basic income scheme urgently

We cannot let those who are laid off and their families go hungry or be unable to avail of the healthcare they need!

Liew Chin Tong, a good friend of mine, is one on the very few Pakatan Harapan leaders who is turning his mind to the economic challenges the country will be facing for the remainder of 2020.

In his opinion piece in Malaysiakini on 12 May 2020 “A post-Covid 19 economic agenda for Malays”, Liew identifies the various sectors of the global economy that will be affected adversely by the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact this will have on Malaysia. He surmises, correctly, that unemployment will be a huge problem in Malaysia, but then goes on to suggest a solution that is somewhat off the mark.

Liew’s suggested solution is to “create jobs that pay decently. Everything else flows from here. All other objectives should be subjected to this primary objective. The creation of decently paid jobs should be front and centre as far as economic discourse is concerned.”

I disagree. Job creation is of course an important objective and most of Liew’s 10 suggestions to create jobs have their merits and should be explored within the limits of our financial capacity.

But we have to be realistic. We are not going to be able to create enough jobs for the two or three million people who are going to lose their jobs in the next few months. These will include workers employed in aviation, the airports, hotels, the tourism sector, workers in factories whose overseas orders have been slashed, Malaysians working abroad who return to Malaysia because they have lost their jobs, construction sector workers, oil and gas sector workers and helpers in night bazaars that have either closed or downsized because of the need for social distancing.

While the creation of well-paying alternative jobs is a valid long-term goal, the primary objective currently should be to ensure that no family is left without an income sufficient to procure the essentials – food, shelter, basic utilities and healthcare – during this recessionary period. Other needs may be postponed but the above four cannot be, and we have to, as a society, ensure that every family has the means to get the essentials. We cannot compromise on this.

The best way of ensuring that no family is short on food is by implementing a modified universal basic income scheme or UBI, which would pay RM1,000 monthly to the households listed in the Bantuan Prihatin Negara (National Caring Assistance) scheme which meet the eligibility criteria.

A unity of idiots?

Give us a break from this endless flood of political bull designed specifically to satisfy the selfish needs of a collection of unemployables

There is not one person in Malaysian politics with any level of leadership skills. That is because there is not one person with any vision beyond personal goals

As the song says “ If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true”

And Malaysian politics is totally devoid of any dream that includes the Malaysian people

No dream means nothing that party members can aspire to. Means no loyalty. Means chronic party hopping in the pursuit of self interest

Malaysian politics in its present format, regardless of how the idiots are arranged or in whichever way they coalesce are a bunch of useless idiots

Back to old UMNO govt way that is in total control.

TalkNumberOne is right, SCUMO is for malay only!

Is Shahril in damage control mission and making the case for the current acquittals ? All related to UMNO Putras!

UMNO’ image cannot be rewritten , the warlords and senior party members being used to easy money cannot change . When you have a President facing Court trial , it also reflects members ‘ appetite for a corrupt organisation and indifference to integrity The comparison with PH’s LGE’s corruption withdrawal case is no reference point . The Rakyat will equally not forget PH for this as they preached Rule of Law - however weak the case , let Courts decide . That is history to be remembered .

The world is unfair. It's for the evil, corrupt and narcissists. For Backstabbers and those with twisted unnatural lifestyle like Asssmin Ali.

For these people, they have no religion, no fear of higher power. The end justifies the means. Most of them are muslims only by name.

The election will be rigged in their favor for sure. Blackouts, Missing boxes, phantom voters, will be back. This time they will be extra careful cause they lost the last GE.

If former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is sincere this time around, he will not think of anyone else other than Anwar Ibrahim to be the prime minister. Anyone other than that, he is not being sincere.

That means he would rather for Perikatan Nasional (PN) to continue ruining the country and for us to all suffer together.
Remember what is happening today is all Mahathir’s doing – his greediness and selfish attitude. He hijacked Pakatan Harapan to fulfil his needs and not to serve the rakyat who voted Harapan in.

His actions subsequently testified to that. Of course, there was also the role of the traitor within PKR.

Mahathir thinks this country belongs to him and everyone else must bow down to him. To me, this is the failure of leadership. A good leader will ensure that there is continuity.

They would have trained someone to take over and then willingly pass over the baton. Having done that, they would stand solidly by that person to make sure the new person succeeds.

Mahathir has done none of that. He is thus a very bad leader. Let us not beat around the bush and for once call a spade a spade if we sincerely want to turn things around.

He must be talking about UMNO-PAS GDP growth.

Yeah! Time to confront institutional racism..high time. 60 over years in the making. Sad state of affairs.

One type of discrimination leads to another type of reaction by those affected, deepening the divide and on to a slippery slope going down forever.

All should reflect on this. Our past ministries of national unity were completely hopeless.

"Enforcement personnel are believed to have been working hand in glove with syndicates smuggling migrants in and out of the country." And as if we didn't know this! This isn't new information at all!

Sekali-sekala police kena buat drama, bro.

if HK acknowledges and listen to Big brother Xi i guess all the economists fanning these fears will be out of a job soon.

haha

Make his and family’s assets part of the judgement too. Political funds or his funds to be assessed.

well well fancy fancy me!

If jalan at least 0.60-1.00...

Please measure when we are opening our borders compared to other countries. Measure why some countries do not even have MCO while we do? Measure how many other countries accepting Malaysian citizen to go to their country without quarantine ( Singapore is allowing China and soon Japanese and Korean visitors and yet they do not accept Malaysians without quarantine ).

Measure why so many hotels closing in Malaysia while other countries still surviving. Measure why all our schools are not open yet while many others already open.

These are more tangible measures which are affecting everyone lives.

No point bragging recovery rate or low positives number if country dare not even have SOP to open up economy.

Fancy me fancy you!

Chinese nationals in the US and UK should also leave and go back to China. I'm sure the "sea turtles" would be most welcome back in the mainland.

And these black terrorists are patronizing UK, most of the bad deeds are made by them and scapegoat those whites, rob rape hurt by lethal weapons, especially those refugees, they are the worst!

FantasticBeast ,Because some of them deserve IT!

Perhaps, China should carry this as a badge of honour. Trump is insane, throwing anyone and everyone under the bus to get himself re-elected. Who knew that the Xi would look like the sane, level headed one. Times, they are a changing.
That being said, should I invest more in the Euro zone? I have no faith in the dollar, they’ve been printing money like crazy.

Particularly right after eight years of an intelligent, accomplished gentleman, and racial minority, president. Wall Street itself has wanted nothing to do with Trump for years, except for a single bank that he's defaulted on more than once.

He's not only a liar, he's evil. I call it evil when he fires inspectors general for doing their job--keeping 78 government departments honest--and hollows out the Environmental Protection Agency while deliberately promoting air pollution. I could go on for several book lengths. Just remember the title of James Clapper's book: "Everything Trump Touches Dies." A truer word was never spoken.

lclwyp, no worries. I'm going to use Arb iot sanitizer machine first 1st, YES YES YES, Arb finally this time have product already! YES YES YES

Wah, if this Year end Arb special dividends distribute lets say in between lah 40cents per share, OMG kaw kaw untung!

Thanks ceres22, we will try out the that iot machine first then!

Agreed, Deal! See ya guys tomorrow.

ceres22 and lclwyp how bout you 2?

ON la, tomorrow 12th floor 3pm meet! I like to eat at their malay store 12th or 13th floor i guess.

ceres22 wah 1 say got special dividend and 1 say dont have.....1 of you really good actor, lol......but anyway i pray for dividend la of course......i hope the fancyme not BS here, lol
21/05/2020 10:32 AM

ceres22 and lclwyp how about we make an appointment with Dato Liew today, meet him in person and ask about special dividends.

Especially you lclwyp, you say you ask Dato Liew personally right, lets go Qsentral and ask Dato Liew personally, and prove that am i the one who is acting or BS! Tomorrow iot sanitizer machine arrived, i want to try it out also, gam gam!

Hi hwl5211, my wife is the one who ask Dato Liew personally today, special dividend will be distributing this year end or early next year.... by the way you guys did not attend Agm?

Yes guys Arb confirm this year distribute special dividend.....I think more 5cents pershare!

Yes guys, Arb special dividend is not those 1cent or 2 cents cheap dividend, it's more than that a lot! Happy.......

THEREALDEAL your dream cun cun leh, Arb today's agm Dato liew got mention about special dividend! Wah Lao eh, your dream sure come true!

We all hope it stays down. We have to wait till 1 month after full lifting of MCO with SOPs in place. If during that period we can keep our numbers down than we can say we are in control.
Full lifting of MCO is when the schools open, all businesses are back to normal and travel restrictions are lifted. This probably is going to take sometime.
The other important criteria will be the status of other countries. So for now we have to get the message across that we have to be diligent on our social practices, especially living with lots of caution. All this comes down with sacrifices, patience and most important acceptance that life is going to be challenging for many.
To get through this depends very much on the socio-economic well being of the people. It needs a lot of effort to keep people a little happy. How do we keep people mentally ready for this? It is going to take a lot. Now is the time to activate this part of the action going. This is not even the post pandemic phase yet. Are the nation and its leaders ready for this? Looking at things not so. Why, because there is too much political bickering, instead of full focus on getting out of the most pressing issue.
The very fact that full parliamentary democracy is not seen to be happening is of a big set back. This means the Ministers have nobody to answer to. Zero accountability and just having a laid back life, till things get back to "normal". All current issues and decisions are managed by the various ministerial heads. However these heads have limited power. On the other hand how much expertise or creative ideas to manage the current situation is again questionable, despite being in these departments for years.
Everything is a collective and inter dependent effort and approach. With the present mind set and looking at the overall picture it is not up to the mark.
So looking at just numbers can be deceiving. I do understand that gov duty is to achieve that and have done well so far.

Pity, Allow them to come in freely. Catch them and victimise them ,then deport them or bribe them to stay on syndrome.
What nonescence . Ever realise how they came in. The sole inefficiency of the PDRM and immigration .
If this country is free of migrants zakir naik included it will mushroom and prosper like a true Malaysian Malaysia,

Then chinadragon! Patrick Teoh should have joined ISIS & returned!

Except Patrick Teoh?