CANNES, May 17 — Francis Ford Coppola shrugged off the vast fortune he personally risked on his highly polarising new film Megalopolis, as Emma Stone and Richard Gere prepared to light up the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival today. From “madly captivating” to “Megaflopolis”, reviews have gone in every direction for Coppola’s decades-in-the-making … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 — For most of the past year and a half, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has fielded questions from Wall Street analysts about his plans for artificial intelligence amid grumbling that the iPhone maker has no AI story to tell. After the company reported quarterly earnings yesterday, Cook insisted that Apple … Read more
APRIL 15 — As the recently collated data on Padu gets reviewed, targeted subsidies will replace blanket subsidies soon. While this saves the government lots of money, will it truly ease the financial burden on the rakyat? There’s an elephant in the room behind rising costs of living: our heavy reliance on personal vehicles. This … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — As of yesterday, the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry (KPDN) has issued 496 notices under Ops Kesan 2024 against traders found to have altered their selling prices. Minister Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said traders are required to respond to the notices within the specified period with proper justification … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 ― The increase in food prices at Ramadan bazaars is not due to the implementation of the sales and service tax (SST), but rather stems from the high rental cost of the bazaar lots, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said. Anwar said the high rental costs are partly due to … Read more
SHAH ALAM, March 23 — The government will have to bear at least RM2 billion a month for blanket petrol subsidies if it continues to delay the implementation of targeted subsidies, says Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli. He said as announced in the last Budget, the government needed to adhere to the scheduled restructuring of bulk … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 — The National Action Council on Cost of Living (Naccol) agreed today to allow the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) to develop new indicators to measure the cost of living standards down to the district level. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who chaired today’s meeting held at the Parliament building, … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 — Additional aid and subsidies from an additional amount of RM23 billion presented through the Supplementary Supply Bill (2023) 2024 show the government’s commitment to helping the people cope with the rising cost of living, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan. The bill involves the disbursement of an … Read more
KEPALA BATAS, March 16 — There is a local rice cartel involving four to five companies in this country which acted to control the buying and selling of rice, leading to a shortage of the staple food in the market and increase in prices. National Action Council on Cost of Living (Naccol) Task Force (Food … Read more
PUTRAJAYA, March 14 — The Deputy Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) Minister Fuziah Salleh today said that nine complaints have been lodged against Ramadan bazaar sellers so far on the third day of Ramadan. Of the nine, Fuziah said five of them were related to price displays and the remaining four were on … Read more
