KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): UOB KayHian Research expects the domestic market to trend up in August, underpinned by eventual loosening of lockdown restrictions and bright spots in the reporting season, the research house said in a note today. UOB KayHian opined that all the stocks are direct or indirect beneficiaries of the economic re-opening which would allow (in phases) the loosening of workforce restrictions and operational re-commencement. It has a "buy" recommendation for the stock with a target price (TP) of RM2.95. As for CIMB (TP: RM5.10), UOB KayHian expects the banking group “to stage the strongest earnings growth among peers” with an estimated two-year CAGR of over 100%. Meanwhile, UOB KayHian opines that markets may soon price in Yinson's (TP: RM7.25) winning chances for imminent PDB (Parque Des Baleais) and Pecan FPSO awards.

There is no voting by proxy as Article 62(5) states,” Members absent from a house shall not be allowed to vote. So the foundation for the House procedures is determined by Article 62 and cannot be suborned by a reading of Standing Orders. It is disingenuous to suggest that once Parliament has a sitting the business of the Session is wholly confined by what is appointed by the Prime Minister. To also suggest that the business of the House is merely to hear the presentation of the Covid-19 National recovery Plan is to castrate the exercise of Parliamentary democracy. Repeating extant case authorities where security issues are involved as applicable simpliciter does not clinch that legal position.

Lolita is the name of our family pet dog who is Shinese, a crossbreed between a Shih Tzu and a Pekingese. You can expect loud howling from her if we prevent her from going to the garden in the morning and evening. Lolita has a unique diet – she loves eating fruits besides the normal meat-based dog food that we provide her daily. Her favourite fruits are mango, apple and guava. If we were eating her favourite fruits, she would start jumping on our legs to remind us to leave her at least the last piece of the fruit.

She is the first South Korean to win more than two medals in a single Summer Games. She is also the first woman since 1904 to win three golds in archery at the same Olympics. The school team, newly formed at the time, was only for boys, but the young An insisted she also wanted to learn. At first, the school principal advised her to move to another school if she wanted to do archery, coach Kim Seong-eun told South Korean radio. But An would not cave in and eventually the school founded an archery team for girls because of her, said Kim.

LONDON (Aug 3): British finance minister Rishi Sunak said young people benefit from being in offices and he doubted the enduring professional relationships that he forged while starting out could be made in the same way over Zoom or Teams. The COVID pandemic has left many offices across the world deserted and some top CEOs have said that the way people work has changed forever, though some top banks have nudged staff back to the office in London and New York. Sunak, who was educated at Oxford and Stanford, said there would be a gradual return to the office though with some changes to working patterns. "I've spoken previously about young people in particular benefiting from being in offices: it was really beneficial to me when I was starting out in my career," Sunak, who worked at Goldman Sachs and then at hedge funds before entering politics, told LinkedIn News. "The mentors that I found when I first started my job, I still talk to and they've been helpful to me all through my career even after we've gone in different ways," he said.

From the provision of procurement, construction and commissioning services, it has moved into solar farm development and recently, came up with innovative cutting-edge technology-based products to become an integrated clean energy solutions provider. “The heart of Plus Xnergy is about helping people, and the current environment requires us to be agile in bringing clean energy solutions to the market. These are the characteristics he looks for when investing in small, local start-ups. He had plans for Plus Xnergy to expand regionally before the pandemic, but this has been put on hold. Ko is not investing in the local property market as he doesn’t see high-growth opportunities.

In recent years, Hsu has spent an increasing amount of time across the Taiwan Strait building her brand. Japanese actor Yuki Furukawa was similarly assailed online last week after asking his 4.5 million Weibo users whether they were watching the Olympics as Japan broke China’s 17-year gold-medal streak in mixed doubles table tennis. Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai was also targeted Monday after congratulating several of Taiwan’s athletes at the Olympics, with angry Chinese Internet users asking why she had failed to celebrate any Chinese competitors. Beijing views Taiwan as a part of its territory, even though it has never controlled the island. Oriental House, a Ningpo-based maker of traditional medicinal teas, said its had cancelled its contract with Hsu after her Instagram post.

Longtime soap opera actor Jay Pickett has “passed away suddenly” while filming a movie in Idaho, the United States. Pickett, 60, was on the Treasure Valley set when he died Friday (July 30), director Travis Mills said Sunday (Aug 1) in a statement online. “Everyone present tried as hard as they could to keep him alive,” Mills wrote. He was one of the best actors I ever worked with and it was an honour to collaborate with him,” Mills wrote. “He was doing what he loved: acting, riding horses, making movies,” Mills wrote.

The number of reported Covid-19 cases in Malaysia exceeded one million last Sunday. Covid-19 vaccination is perhaps the last throw of the dice to get some measure of control over the pandemic. Factors for hesitancyThe reluctance or refusal to accept vaccination despite the availability of a vaccine is termed vaccine hesitancy. The personal drivers of vaccine hesitancy are:Confidence (or lack thereof)ComplacencyConvenience (or constraints)Calculation of risk, andSense of collective responsibility. Likewise, social media users have to be responsible and avoid spreading falsehoods that could contribute to vaccine hesitancy.

They are the millennial founders of successful tech companies who made their wealth in the past decade. Both companies are among the most well-funded tech start-ups in Malaysia. Undoubtedly, more funding from venture capitalists and investors for tech start-ups is available now as well. The way tech start-ups grow is also different from traditional businesses. Tech start-ups, meanwhile, tend to be more asset-light and aim to grow aggressively.

In most ways, Jalue Dorje is a typical American teen – he grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis, loving football, Pokémon and rap music. The annual ceremony, which was suspended last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, pays homage to Guru Rinpoche, the Indian Buddhist master who brought Tantric Buddhism to Tibet. The Dalai Lama cut a lock of Jalue’s hair in a ceremony. He then attends school, followed by football practice, and returns home for tutoring lessons on Tibetan history and Buddhism. "He knows he’s Tibetan.

HAWKERS in the capital city are warned not to place their wares on the road as this could obstruct traffic, not to mention posing a nuisance to passers-by. This happened to ten hawkers in Setapak and Wangsa Maju, who learned their lesson the hard way when the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) officers confiscated their wares in an operation on Monday (Aug 2). In a statement on Tuesday (Aug 3), DBKL said 14 enforcement officers confiscated and brought the items to its storage facility in Cheras. "Seven confiscations were made under the Local Government Act 1976 Section 46(1) for placing business items on the road and a parking lot. DBKL pledged to conduct such operations from time to time, subject to the standard operating procedure.

Apparently, the son, wife and their young son visit the couple almost every weekend although the movement control is still in full force. "One cannot go to any other person’s house during the MCO. As a matter of fact, statistics show that more than 90 percent of new infections being reported these days consist of category 1 and category 2 cases. Category 1 comprises asymptomatic cases and category 2, cases with mild symptoms. Be cautiousBeginning last month, the Health Ministry (MOH) started issuing data on daily new Covid-19 cases in accordance with the category of the disease they were in.

Face-to-face interaction between teacher and student has been forfeited and they have had to resort to online classes. For example, let the first day of school this year be on Sept 1 with the year ending on Aug 31, 2022. This is, of course, easier than repeating the entire school year. We are in essence just adding several “bonus” months of learning done so far this year and beginning anew with the actual school term in September. At every level, from Year One to upper secondary, we must not ignore the effect of lost face-to-face learning time.

THE newly built Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre (PJPac), has been converted into a full-fledged industry vaccination centre (PPVIN) prioritising the immunisation of retail employees and mall frontliners. The venue, which began serving as a PPVIN on July 27, is located at 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Petaling Jaya and is in line with the government’s aim to accelerate the retail industry vaccination programme (RiVAC). “We are hoping to vaccinate 21,000 retail and mall employees from 1 Utama and surrounding malls by the end of this period,” said the mall’s operations general manager Samantha Lee. “We hope that efforts through the RiVAC programme can ensure a return to normality for the retail and shopping mall industry so we can finally welcome shoppers back to our premises,” she added. The initiative is in collaboration with the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry and National Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force and is specifically for those working in the retail industry.