June 12, 2008

Procedure To Claim Rebate

Vehicle owners are required to bring along their original identity card or MyKad or police/army identity card to claim for cash rebates at 683 post offices nationwide starting Saturday.
Claimants are also required to fill in details like their full name, identity card number and vehicle registration number on the prescribed form available at the post [...]

June 12, 2008

Online Application For PTPTN Loan Can Be Made Today

Students who are accepted for enrolment in semester one in public institutions of higher learning will be able to apply online for the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) study loan.
PTPTN said in a statement that the form could be obtained from its website at http://epinjaman.ptptn.gov.my or http://202.184.125.150.
For students pursuing studies at public institutions of [...]

June 12, 2008

Ministers’ entertainment: a 75% cut more like it

Letter from Malaysiakini

Yow Lop Siaw | Jun 12, 08 4:15pm
 

The initiative to cut the entertainment allowances of ministers by 10% and other costs such as restricting paid overseas travel by families of ministers and so on is just an eyewash and a way of pleasing the people. The 10% cut is peanuts as most of [...]

June 12, 2008

Don’t Ignore “duit kopi” corruption… Catch the small fishes first…

Transparency and accountability is what we need now… despite of cost cutting plans, our dearest prime minister should take a look on Malaysia’s Corruption Index.
“Grand corruption is misleading (us into thinking that small corruption is non-existant). There are big fishes but there are many small fishes too,” said Transparency International Malaysia president Ramon V Navaratnam. [...]