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Retail diesel subsidies end
DAP citizenship 'conspiracy'
Malaysiakini bags the Kajai
Retail diesel subsidies end
Private diesel vehicle users - except those in Sabah and Sarawak - will now pay market rates when they fill the tank.
Diesel prices increased from the subsidised RM2.15 on Sunday, to RM3.35 today.
Prices will be updated weekly like RON97.
Instead of blanket subsidies, the government is banking in RM200 to eligible users monthly.
Applications for the target diesel subsidy handout remain open.
There are separate subsidy initiatives for the agriculture, fishing, public transportation, and logistics sectors.
The government argues that since most affected industries are covered by subsidy initiatives, there is no reason for the price of goods to go up.
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DAP citizenship 'conspiracy'
A programme by a Johor DAP assemblyperson to educate about statelessness has caused a storm.
This is after some interpreted Andrew Chen's programme as an attempt to help foreigners gain citizenship.
The brouhaha likely arose over the initial title of the programme, which read: “Program Permohonan Kewarganegaraan (Citizenship application programme).”
The Stulang assemblyperson, however, clarified that he was only trying to help educate Malaysian families dealing with statelessness on how to navigate the system.
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Malaysiakini bags the Kajai
Malaysiakini won its first Kajai Award, in addition to two gold prizes at the MPI-Petronas Malaysian Journalism Awards 2023.
The Kajai - the top journalism award in Malaysia - was for Malaysiakini’s three-part series that started with “Baby snatching: How stateless mums lose their infants in Sabah hospital”
The series' lead journalist, S Vinothaa, also won first place for Best Investigative Journalism for her report titled “Exposed: Shackles of rampant modern-day slave trading”.
The Kini News Lab team also won first place for Best Multimedia Journalism with its interactive report titled “State polls: How far can the ‘Green Wave’ go?”.
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