Dear Friends, I am organising a fundraising dinner for my Service Centre in Seputeh constituency on 29 April 2017 (Saturday) AT SJKC Yoke Nam in OUG. The monthly expenses of my service centre is about RM16K and I don’t get any financial support from the Federal government for the running of my service centre. We…
SPM students with 9A+ eligible for PSD sponsorship
PSD director-general clarifies confusion arising among SPM students that only students who obtained A+ in all subjects eligible. PUTRAJAYA: Students who scored at least 9A+ in the 2016 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination can apply for the Public Service Department (PSD) 9A+ Sponsorship Programme. PSD director-general Zainal Rahim Seman said students who qualify would be…
Last-minute change to PSD scholarship criteria upsetting
KUALA LUMPUR: An abrupt move by the Public Services Department to award full scholarships only to SPM students who get the A+ grade in all subjects taken, no matter how many, may have left many of them in a lurch. The decision, announced recently on the department’s Human Resource Development web portal called eSILA, is…
MP raps gov’t over tightening of PSD scholarship criteria
Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has ticked off the government for the tightening of conditions to qualify for scholarships by the Public Service Department (PSD). “Under the old programme, full sponsorship was given as long as an Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM) student scored 9A+ and above. “Under the new programme, a new condition has been…
Call on the Cabinet to direct PSD to rescind the new condition imposed on scholarship for SPM scorers
According to the Public Service Department (PSD) esila portal, the Bursary Graduate Programme has been renamed as the National Sponsorship Programme. Under the old programme, full sponsorship was given as long as a SPM student scored 9A+ and above. Under the new programme, a new condition has been imposed whereby only those achieving A+ for…
Hwa Beng apologises to public after PKFZ scandal ends without culprit
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Former Port Klang Authority (PKA) chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng today apologised for launching investigations into the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal that today concluded without a single conviction. Lee, who was sacked by MCA in 2013, lamented that he only ended up “wasting public resources” in trying to…
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Refusal to gazette KL City Plan 2020 is shocking
Refusal to gazette KL City Plan 2020 is shocking. KL will be further messed up and will become the most unplanned and congested city in the world ================================================= Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Seri Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz has said that DBKL is not going to gazette KL City Plan 2020 but it will draft…