Sell bye bye Arbb, i will be missing you

Ok me too

Their toys are just fake ..
They just look pointy ...

All copy stuff

CCP is over. Paper tiger can not survive the real battle. How stupid is CCp regime!

I think America should hire 535 people to keep the President in check. Maybe even let those people pass laws. Maybe, just maybe, have the power to Veto the president. Haven’t figured out how to vote them in yet though. Any ideas?

hehehe

Annually it occurs in July/August.
This time, we are better prepared because of wearing masks (and we have them in stock in our own houses).
BUT wearing masks only doesn't mean we don't practice/remember about the 3S/3C and 3Ws.

DoubleProsperity can, rebound soon

LKL

Better wait for sarawak government announce

國安來了，
利益沒了，
垃圾不收，
拍板定案？
別說笑了

Harapan did not abolish the cma 233

Negligently

The pm was busy with 3 rd national car

And conference here and there

US just can't accept no for an answer, they feel rejected and unrespectful, because they think their command everyone must adhere. Right now the pandemic is escalating in the country, but they are busy politicking in other countries affair

(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to the lowest on record and warned of lingering downside risks to a economy reopening after months of lockdown against coronavirus.

The overnight policy rate was reduced to 1.75%, the lowest in records dating back to 2004, as 14 of 25 economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted. Four had forecast a 50 basis-point cut, while seven expected no change.

The rate cut “provides additional policy stimulus to accelerate the pace of economic recovery,” the central bank said in a statement. Policy makers “will continue to assess evolving conditions and their implications on the overall outlook for inflation and domestic growth.”

Bank Negara Malaysia’s fourth straight rate cut comes hours after the finance minister alluded to fiscal and monetary policy space to continue supporting the economy amid three straight months of deflation and the worst unemployment in decades. The economy began reopening May 4 after a lockdown to contain the pandemic shuttered businesses and left nearly a million people jobless.

Downside Risks

Recent indicators show activity picking up, but the pace and strength of recovery “remain subject to downside risks emanating from both domestic and external factors,” the central bank said. Risks include persistent weakness in the labor market and a tepid global recovery.

“The statement is dovish enough to expect more rate cuts but cautious enough to manage expectations, as it mentions economic recovery,” said Trinh Nguyen, a senior economist at Natixis SA in Hong Kong. “That means that we likely will have another 25 basis-point cut but not much more, as the ringgit remains weak.”

Benchmark three-year government bonds extended gains after the decision, with yields falling seven basis points to 2.09% as of 4:37 p.m. in Kuala Lumpur. The ringgit held the bulk of its gains, rising 0.1% to 4.2760 per dollar.

Malaysia’s chief statistician, Mohd Uzir Mahidin, has warned the economy is headed for recession. The government has announced 295 billion ringgit ($69 billion) in stimulus to cushion the effects of the pandemic, and is drafting a bill of economic recovery measures.

What Bloomberg’s Economists Say:

“Bank Negara Malaysia may pause its easing cycle for the remainder of 3Q, taking stock of its 125 bps of rate cuts and other measures so far this year, alongside nascent signs of recovery. Even so, the central bank sounds wary of prolonged economic weakness amid a highly uncertain recovery track. We expect another 25 bps rate cut in 4Q.”

Click here to read the full report

Tamara Mast Henderson, Asean economist

Consumer prices have been declining since March, dropping by a record-low 2.9% in both April and May on the back of falling transport costs. Bank Negara Malaysia, which previously forecast inflation in a range of -1.5% to 0.5% this year, said Tuesday full-year inflation is likely to be negative.

The central bank also warned of the potential for further virus outbreaks that might force authorities to restrict movement again. Tuesday’s decision came hours after a six-week lockdown was imposed in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, amid a fresh coronavirus outbreak, and as U.S. states consider tightening restrictions again amid a resurgence of cases.

Monetary Policy Committee members “remain guarded as to what the future may hold,” said Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid, chief economist at Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd. “The key message from the MPC is that BNM will go the extra mile in terms of monetary policy accommodation.”

你以为香港特区是外国人在政府吗？香港特区是中国人民的，中国应该出手處理香港亂來，什么什么的獨立。你看一下外国可以亂亂叫獨立吗？马上被捉去。

Yes AndyChin77 very Interesting event, maybe the light is blocked by something huge

But emerging technologies may hold promise for the future. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently partnered with the United Nations to repurpose technology used to track smoke plumes from fires to predict the migrations of locusts, the Scientific American reported. And in terms of locust extermination, Overson says biopesticides have untapped potential — although lots of research and development is still needed in the area.

Considering all of the other worldwide emergencies that have hit in 2020, aid resources are stretched thin. Pesticide deliveries have been delayed. But Cressman is hopeful that the needed funds will materialize. The FAO has already raised half of the $300 million it expects to need for this effort.

"The international community is very well committed and they're very much on board — even though there's a lot that's being asked of them for many other things at the moment," he says.

In individual nations, a lack of cash, competing priorities and domestic challenges make it hard to mount a long-range pest management strategy. Because locust numbers ebb and flow, Overson says it's been difficult for countries — such as Kenya, which hasn't seen an infestation in 70 years — to build up intermediate and long-term infrastructure to address outbreaks proactively. That's why so many governments are now scrambling to come up with solutions.

"It's hard to maintain funding and political will and knowledge and capacity building when you have these unpredictable boom and bust cycles that could play out over years or decades," he says. "The drama and spectacle of the outbreak right now is important to cover, but the more nuanced narrative involves the slow, ratchet method of building infrastructure: If you wait until it's reactive and forget about it until it happens again, we're going to be in this situation forever."

Right now, the most effective way to fight outbreaks involves mass aerial sprays of pesticides to kill locusts. Overson says that's not ideal, given the adverse effect such chemicals have on biodiversity and human health.

5. How are countries fighting locusts?

There's a slate of international institutions that coordinates locust management and response. The primary effort is conducted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which runs the Desert Locust Watch to surveil and track locust migration patterns and oversee regional response efforts.

4. How do locusts affect food security?

Locusts are ravenous eaters. An adult desert locust that weighs about 2 grams (a fraction of an ounce) can consume roughly its own weight daily. And they're not picky at all. According to the FAO, a swarm of just 1 square kilometer — again, about a third of a square mile — can consume as much food as would be eaten by 35,000 people (or six elephants) in a single day.

"When they do descend, they can have almost total devastation," Overson says. "They can cause 50 to 80% of crops to be destroyed, depending on the time [of year]."

The last large locust outbreak, which started in 2003 and lasted until 2005, resulted in an estimated $2.5 billion in crop damage. Studies found that the economic effect was largely felt by subsistence farmers. Children who grew up during the period were much less likely to go to school, and girls were disproportionately affected.

Making matters worse, many of the countries slammed with the worst infestations are already hobbling from protracted crises — recovering from recessions, fighting natural disasters, racked by conflict and now the coronavirus outbreak.

"We're talking about a corner of Africa that's really, really vulnerable," Cressman says. "They've had successive years of drought, and then this year, they've had heavy rains and floods. So even without the locusts, they're already in a precarious situation."

Now, Cressman says the potential hunger threat is tremendous in a region where 42 million were already slated to face acute food insecurity.

"The locusts are in your field for a morning, and by midday, there's hardly anything left in your field," he says. "It's just eaten."

3. How far can locusts travel?

Locusts are migratory, transboundary pests. They ride the winds, crisscrossing swaths of land until they find something they want to munch on. They especially love cereal grain crops, planted extensively across Africa.

"They are powerful, long-distance flyers, so they can easily go a hundred plus kilometers in a 24-hour period," Overson notes. "They can easily move across countries in a matter of days, which is one of the other major challenges in coordinated efforts that are required between nations and institutions to manage them."

In 1988, swarms originating in North Africa crossed the Atlantic Ocean and made it successfully to the Caribbean and South America. Even today, they routinely traverse the Red Sea — a distance of 186 miles. Projections show that current locust populations are poised to spread "all the way from eastern to western Africa by June or July," Overson says. "There's major concerns there."

Once they enter the gregarious phase, a generation of locusts can multiply twentyfold every three months. So when they boom, they do so exponentially, and things quickly get out of hand.

The swarms are gargantuan masses of tens of billions of flying bugs. They range anywhere from a square third of a mile to 100 square miles or more, with 40 million to 80 million locusts packed in half a square mile. They bulldoze pasturelands in dark clouds the size of football fields and small cities. In northern Kenya, Cressman says, one swarm was reported to be 25 miles long by 37 miles wide — it would blanket the city of Paris 24 times over.

Experts say the upsurge is likely to be tied to extreme weather events: According to Cressman, powerful cyclones in 2018 dumped water in Oman, Yemen and the Horn of Africa. The wet conditions have persisted, creating ideal bug breeding conditions.

2. Where are the locusts swarming, and how big are the swarms?

Swarms are most intense in East African countries, including Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, but data from the FAO's Desert Locust Watch documents steadily worsening infestations across Southwest Asia and the Middle East. Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uganda and Iran are among those afflicted.

"In Kenya, it's the worst outbreak they've had to face in the last 70 years," says Keith Cressman, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's senior locust forecasting officer. "In India or Pakistan, it's probably the worst they've had to face in the last quarter of a century."

The ability to change dramatically like this in response to environmental conditions is called phenotypic plasticity. Many species, such as some types of coral, exhibit it. Though scientists can't be certain why locusts developed the trait over time, many believe it's because they typically live in temperamental and harsh environments.

"Locusts tend to live in areas where resources that they need are very unpredictable," Overson explains. The Horn of Africa, for instance, is known for being arid, going for years without heavy rain until slammed suddenly by powerful downfalls. "The strongest hypothesis is that these crazy, unpredictable dynamics select evolutionarily for this ability to go through these dramatic changes, to respond when you can capitalize on a rare opportunity and also have capacity to migrate."

When locusts swarm like this, they ravage agriculture, devouring practically anything in sight.

Though they have teeth, locusts don't bite humans. (Unless you, you know, jammed a finger into its mandible; it would maybe bite you then, Overson says.)

The timing of this varies, and the shifts are pretty irregular, but for years, locusts can live like this – alone, biding their time.

But when environmental conditions are right — usually when there's a lot of rainfall and moisture — something dramatic happens: "They increase in numbers, and as they do so, they sense one another around them," says Overson.

This is what biologists call the "gregarious phase" of the locust.

The creatures undergo a remarkable transformation. "They change their physiology. Their brain changes, their coloration changes, their body size changes," Overson says. "Instead of repelling one another, they become attracted to one another — and if those conditions persist in the environment, they start to march together in coordinated formations across the landscape, which is what we're seeing in eastern Africa."

As Overson explains, there are hundreds of species of grasshoppers, "but only a small handful of those are what we consider locusts."

That raises a question: What makes a locust a locust? According to Overson, it comes down to a superpower possessed by locusts that enables them to go through a remarkable switch in development.

Most of the time, locusts exist in their "grasshopper phase" — they lead solitary lives, they're green and pretty unremarkable.

"Nobody really notices them," Overson says.

1. What is a locust?

There can be a lot of confusion about what exactly a locust is. To the average eye, it's easy to mix up the critters with cicadas and crickets. The simple answer, though, explains Rick Overson of Arizona State University's Global Locust Initiative, is that locusts are a very special kind of grasshopper.

If the 2020 version of these marauders stays steady on its warpath, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says desert locusts can pose a threat to the livelihoods of 10% of the world's population.

The peril may already be underway: Early June projections by the FAO are forecasting a second generation of spring-bred locusts in Eastern Africa, giving rise to new, powerful swarms of locust babies capable of wreaking havoc until mid-July or beyond.

Here are five things you need to know about locusts to understand the current crisis and why the tiny invaders are such a big deal.

Locusts Are A Plague Of Biblical Scope In 2020. Why? And ... What Are They Exactly?

Titanic swarms of desert locusts resembling dark storm clouds are descending ravenously on the Horn of Africa. They're roving through croplands and flattening farms in a devastating salvo experts are calling an unprecedented threat to food security. On the ground, subsistence planters can do nothing but watch — staring up with horror and at their fields in dismay.

Locusts have been around since at least the time of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, 3200 B.C., despoiling some of the world's weakest regions, multiplying to billions and then vanishing, in irregular booms and busts.

Welcome back to school kids

And He made China looks worse than a third world country!

so true guys, xi always looking for a scape goat.

Swine flu ,likely new pandemic ,i think china is too polluted because lack of cleanliness due to too many people.

FortunerLiew 房产信托比较稳定有股息，也不用担心波动性太大！

Liihen, homeriz, Hevea....

各种家私股

Yeap my bill came up to MR 1980.00

i prefer them to pay for the other they infected as well

if school is not opened, what chances you think tuition center will be opened?

Would like to know when the govt dental departments are going to open...dental doctors are giving the excuse..we dont do fillings...dentures...and so on...only emergency cases are treated..in spite of all the bonuses and allowances given to them during covid (they deserve it by the way)...however its time to start their duties as there is a backlog..and we senior citizens need to do our dentures as we cant eat properly..come on ..give us a date...most of the dental drs and nurses are sitiing there playing with their phones and gossipping....come on health minister ...do something.

Why should the hard working ones and thosw ho had been very careful in life , not having splashed on BENZes, BMW's, expensive restaurants and overseas holidays but keeping funds in FD should be asked to pay for the follies of greedy idiots and businessmen!

This is daylight robbery!

I wonder if he is going to maul Dewan rakyat

Young Malaysians voters must lead the country by voting out all the frogs and traitors. Only then will politicians realise they are not the king but the rakyat who voted them in.

So long as the largest majority can't get rid of the insecurities and wake up to the reality, there be no end to this saga.
The argument for I am more this and that... Will continue.

Very unfortunate the bogeymen they created are far from reality.

Go figure.

Wayang only lah. Pretending another word.

I will not answer but If got chance try ask TRD, he have all the answer in his DREAM!

Did you see PN, all quietly hiding inside BIG PLC COMPANY, A.K.A one in Ageson!

Polo speciallist trading= Agong

CEO =? Go do your homework!

Ageson sand deal 10000% confirm........

WellingtonSky

1. against corruption
2. be accountable
3. be fair to all Malaysians
4. reject extremism
5. respect minority rights

This will not happen IN UMNO! NEVER!

Aiseh man this is another wayang statement by UMNO lah