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The 8 Sarawakians rescued from Liberia were not there because of a job scam

Mar 05, 2019

The 8 Sarawakians rescued from Liberia were not there because of a job scam.

A local who was hoping to set up a logging camp there brought the men over last month, but abandoned them when his business deal collapsed. 

The Sarawakians were flown back to M'sia yesterday after the Foreign Ministry learned of their plight.

Separately, the police are still hunting down 3 more suspects who tricked 47 Malaysians into working for a gambling syndicate in Cambodia. 

They are believed to be the masterminds.

There is a need to set up a media council, says Kadir Jasin

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The Malaysian Media Council could be set up this year. 

The Prime Minister's special advisor on Media and Communications said he has been pushing for a faster implementation...

...but he clarified the government cannot have a hand in setting up the council, as that could be seen as interference.

 Anwar says technology will cause some job losses​Technology will cause some job losses, but Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim believes there's a bigger opportunity for growth...

Anwar says "there will be displacement, that's the fact. we have possibility of 800 thousand new jobs which would certainly settle most of the problem of our graduate unemployment."

The PKR president said that while launching the Digital Native Agenda yesterday.