Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 11:14 | Report Abuse

Dear lord please help the starving africans - Done.

Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 11:15 | Report Abuse

FYI, They can sit on their lazy holes as usual and just open their mouths!

Posted by QuellingBlaster > 2020-07-06 11:16 | Report Abuse

HO ho HO An out of control breeding plague causing devastation in Africa...and locusts. CCP please help them,......eat all the problems up! HO ho HO

Posted by QuellingBlaster > 2020-07-06 11:16 | Report Abuse

Locusts are a very good form of nutrition so thats the end of famines Africa for now then

Posted by QuellingBlaster > 2020-07-06 11:16 | Report Abuse

HO ho HO

Posted by SweetMemoryLane > 2020-07-06 11:17 | Report Abuse

Something else for BLM to blame on whitey

Posted by DatoSriLuvGuru > 2020-07-06 11:17 | Report Abuse

Wonder if Mr.Gates will be "forced" to use the pesticides he now owns thanks to Mosanto.

Posted by FortunerLiew > 2020-07-06 11:18 | Report Abuse

I wonder if black lips matter will be making a donation to them

Posted by GothicRock > 2020-07-06 11:18 | Report Abuse

BLM, wow

Posted by gooddaymate > 2020-07-06 11:19 | Report Abuse

Yikes

Posted by FancyMe > 2020-07-06 11:20 | Report Abuse

Say what? BLM should ballk their kampung laaa

Posted by DatoSriLuvGuru > 2020-07-06 11:22 | Report Abuse

LOVE PEACE JOY

Posted by DatoSriLuvGuru > 2020-07-06 11:22 | Report Abuse

NAMASTE

Posted by AndyChin77 > 2020-07-06 11:25 | Report Abuse

Very interesting but at 75 million light-years it's not a recent event. The dinosaurs were still walking the earth when this happened.

Posted by SunnyWong > 2020-07-06 11:28 | Report Abuse

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

Posted by DoubleProsperity > 2020-07-06 11:29 | Report Abuse

You tried moving the telescope to the right a little?

Posted by QuellingBlaster > 2020-07-06 11:29 | Report Abuse

HO ho HO

Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 11:30 | Report Abuse

Could it be hiding behind the sun ? No silly, not the paper. That big orange thing in the sky.

Posted by MoneyMachineMaker发发发 > 2020-07-06 11:30 | Report Abuse

Perhaps its just gone !

Posted by MoneyMachineMaker发发发 > 2020-07-06 11:30 | Report Abuse

ha ha ha

Posted by XxXTripleXxX > 2020-07-06 11:31 | Report Abuse

its that Captain Carter at it again...

Posted by GothicRock > 2020-07-06 11:32 | Report Abuse

Perhaps it went to Tesco’s to buy sugar puffs...... yawn

Posted by FantasticBeast > 2020-07-06 11:33 | Report Abuse

There was doubt it was a star ,until it’s proven to be a black hole it’s been banned !

Posted by FantasticBeast > 2020-07-06 11:33 | Report Abuse

he he

Posted by ChineseKungFuMaster > 2020-07-06 11:47 | Report Abuse

Time to revise poverty line income

Experts say Malaysia can do better in how it measures how many Malaysians are officially considered poor by using higher benchmarks to match its current status as an upper middle-income nation.

When it comes to measuring poverty levels in Malaysia, the government currently uses two methods: Poverty Line Income (PLI) and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

The Ministry of Economic Affairs recently said the PLI — which is used to measure “absolute poverty” — is based on a household’s basic requirements to live healthily and actively.


Malaysia currently uses a PLI level of RM980 nationally, and at a higher level of RM1,020 for Sarawak and RM1,180 for Sabah (to factor in additional costs such as transportation costs), the ministry had said. (The RM980 monthly PLI would translate to slightly above RM8 per person daily based on a household of four.)

(In 2014, the PLI was RM930 for Peninsular Malaysia, RM990 for Sarawak and RM1,170 for Sabah.)

Households with monthly incomes below the PLI level are considered poor, which means there are officially 24,700 households (or a mere 0.4 per cent of total households) in Malaysia that are categorised as poor as of 2016.

Experts have said however that the PLI needs to be raised to present a more accurate indication of the poverty levels in Malaysia.

Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development research associate Derek Kok said Malaysia is currently an upper middle-income country and should at least set its benchmarks against other countries in the same income bracket, and not use lower-income countries as the benchmark.

“A lot of the government’s welfare and social assistance policies now already focus on B40 instead of just those below the defined poverty line — this is an implicit admittance that the poverty line is too low,” he told Malay Mail.

World Bank senior economist Kenneth Simler said the current PLI of US$1.90 (RM7.97) per person per day — under the World Bank’s standard for extreme poverty and United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) — is not suited as reference for Malaysia’s PLI benchmark, which should be higher.

“So for SDG purposes, Malaysia uses that, that’s appropriate across all countries in the world for extreme poverty. But it’s not really the PLI you want to use for developing domestic policies here,”

Posted by ChineseKungFuMaster > 2020-07-06 11:48 | Report Abuse

A former UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has claimed that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government is backtracking on the previous Pakatan Harapan administration's commitment to revise the national poverty line.

Philip Alston, who previously made headlines for suggesting that actual poverty is much higher than the national 0.4 percent rate, said his current view is based on PN's response to the final report of findings from his trip to Malaysia last August.

Posted by FortunerLiew > 2020-07-06 11:50 | Report Abuse

Did Dr M keep to anything he said in the 22 months

Oh Yes, he said Zakir nakharam no need to be deported and kept his word

Posted by LOVE IS IN THE AIR..... > 2020-07-06 11:51 | Report Abuse

PN's management of poverty is simple and effective. Just inform the B40 Malays that the Chinese are causing the poverty that they are suffering from and PN is trying to rectify the issue like what UMNO has been doing for the last few eons before PH came to power. In short, PN needs to make the Chinese poor and automatically the Malays will become rich. As for the non Malay B40's, well the have learned not to rely on the gov't for help so they will not disturb the gov't for help. Simple! Poverty problem settled.

Posted by RAMPAGE GODLIKE ! > 2020-07-06 11:51 | Report Abuse

What utter bollocks.Tun never cared about the poor. His idea of the poor is that they're poor because they're all lazy, always dependent on government's assistance. But assistance for rich cronies are fine.

Posted by Zoologist > 2020-07-06 11:52 | Report Abuse

It is not so much that PN is backtracking, it is more to the fact that they have not done anything! What is there to back track if no action is forthcoming? The government is one of deep slumber and inaction, perhaps observing Covid-19 MCO to the fullest.

Posted by WellingtonSky > 2020-07-06 11:52 | Report Abuse

Yeah guys, It's such an oxymoron predicament trying to address poverty in the current political standoff. A race and religion based political, social and economic hegemony, promoted by PN ( and by Mahathir) versus an integrated citizenry based policies, that PH, a government elected by people, pursued albeit without diminishing the special privileges of the Bumiputras.
Science is politicians enemy, since science relies on facts, hypothesis and field results to make its points and which must be peer reviewed. Politicians don't like any of this.
Thus U.N. approach in measuring poverty in Malaysia and the recommendations thereof will not augment with PN, a backdoor government, who does not represent the will of the citizenry but rather a political establishment that manipulates race and religion to gain political dominance against minorities.
In the prevailing toxic and devisive political environment, poverty is defined relatively against citizens' colour and creed.
While the citizens world over, in as many ways trying to find a just world for all, Malaysia under PN, is moving backward into a tribal culture, where fear against unknown creates unity.

Posted by ChineseKungFuMaster > 2020-07-06 11:53 | Report Abuse

lolz

Posted by Kenny Chua > 2020-07-06 11:54 | Report Abuse

Pls dont mention that old heck. He is culprit in keeping all these folks poor so they will toe umno line. It is him also that keep these folks illiterate so they forever obey to umno.

Posted by MoneyMaker168 > 2020-07-06 11:56 | Report Abuse

Talk about equality/ races while ELDER MAN & FAMILY loot from rakyat.

Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 11:57 | Report Abuse

when BD goverment busy with too much of politic and no time for rakyat....

Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 11:57 | Report Abuse

SEE guys After they in power, everything no longer important

Posted by XxXTripleXxX > 2020-07-06 11:58 | Report Abuse

Well ask him to them how to be millionaires like his son? Sweet deal like Najib n sons?

Posted by Zoologist > 2020-07-06 11:59 | Report Abuse

Dr M is the greatest con job in history of Malaysia. While he is talking about shared prosperity vision 2030, he is keeping silent about the billions his family have made from government contracts

Posted by QueenElizebeth IV > 2020-07-06 11:59 | Report Abuse

Zoologist as if none from umno does the same.

Posted by FOOK YOU FOOK ME > 2020-07-06 12:00 | Report Abuse

Yet still so revered and supported by so many. Says a lot.

Posted by Zoologist > 2020-07-06 12:00 | Report Abuse

TSM has done more to Sarawak than what Dr M did in the last 50 years.

Posted by Zoologist > 2020-07-06 12:01 | Report Abuse

Hope you hear me clear QueenElizebeth IV !

Posted by SweetiePie > 2020-07-06 12:02 | Report Abuse

Without poor people how can Malay politicians ply their rhetorics?

Posted by QueenElizebeth IV > 2020-07-06 12:02 | Report Abuse

hahaha

Posted by Kenny Chua > 2020-07-06 12:03 | Report Abuse

Arbb iot machine lai lai lai +++ UP UP UP!

Posted by ChinaDragon > 2020-07-06 12:04 | Report Abuse

Wow, so fast ah?

Posted by RangeRover222 > 2020-07-06 12:04 | Report Abuse

Not bad lo! Lets go!

Posted by FancyMe > 2020-07-06 12:05 | Report Abuse

Feeling excited, waiting for good news.....

Posted by Kenny Chua > 2020-07-06 12:07 | Report Abuse

Abothen?! Still slow slow ah? Race against time !!!!!

Posted by Kenny Chua > 2020-07-06 12:07 | Report Abuse

Lets do this!!!!