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'Premium' Salaries For TVET Grads

Sep 24, 2024

The National TVET Council has reached an agreement with some private companies, to have them offer technical and vocational graduates a premium salary of between 2,500 and 4,000 ringgit.

This is above the national minimum wage of 1,500 ringgit.

The Deputy Prime Minister adds that this is to attract more TVET graduates to work in related sectors.

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In a related development, the government will establish a national Cyber Security Academy to help meet demand, amid a shortage of 26 thousand workers in the Cybersecurity field.

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The IGP says police have rescued four children in Perak, who were seen in viral videos being allegedly abused at GISB welfare homes.

Police have also frozen over 150 bank accounts connected to the organization and seized assets including vehicles, jewelry, horses, and even peacocks.

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Cops are investigating a viral video showing a group of people allegedly lowering the Malaysian flag from a flagpole in Australia and replacing it with the Sabah and Sarawak flags.

35 police reports have been lodged over the incident.

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Nearly 500 people have been killed in intense Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, in what was the deadliest day of conflict there in almost 20 years.