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  • Covid-19: Chow Kit market remains busy, but with close monitoring

    Covid-19: Chow Kit market remains busy, but with close monitoring

    Covid-19: Chow Kit market remains busy, but with close monitoring 1

    KUALA LUMPUR: The implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO) has not stopped people from visiting Chow Kit Wholesaler Market here although the authority has limited the number of visitors who can enter the market at a time.

    A check by Bernama found that customers start queueing up patiently lining-up in very early in the morning while monitored by the police.

    Dang Wangi district police chief ACP Mohd Fahmi Visuvanathan Abdullah said as of 10am today, about 700 visitors had already lined up to enter the market, which was allowed to operate from 6am until 1pm.

    The police divided them accordingly into groups of between 30 and 40 and gave them 20 minutes to enter the market to buy essential goods.

    “Customers need to register their names and undergo body temperature screening before they can enter the market. This is to ensure that they complied with the MCO,” he told reporters after monitoring the MCO implementation at the market today.

    He said the police also set-up a special lane for the elderlies.

    However, he regretted that some visitors did not practice one-meter social distancing or were not wearing face masks.

    Mohd Fahmi Visuvanathan also reminded the people not to visit Chow Kit Market after 1pm.

    “Action will be taken to those who refuse to comply,” he said.

    To date, no arrests have been made by the Dang Wangi District Police Headquarters in relation to MCO implementation.

    Meanwhile, several customers at the market described the entry limit as a good measure to break the Covid-19 infection chain.

    A homemaker Aminah Abdullah, 44, said the 20-minute limit to buy necessities would be sufficient if the customers made initial preparations by listing the items to be purchased.

    “I’m a regular customer in this market … so when I came to the market, I already know my way to the items I need,” she said.

    A civil servant, known as Amir, said he visited the market to buy necessities for his family.

    “I came to buy goods in large quantities for my family because I need to go to Johor afterwards. My wife and children stay in Kuala Lumpur,” he said.

    A worker in a private sector, Abdullah Sidek, 44, said as the head of his family he is taking over the task of buying groceries from his wife during the MCO period.

    “I didn’t encounter problems because my wife had prepared a good list of items she needed, everything is in this market,” he said. — Bernama

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  • How does Vanguard develop the Vanguard economic and market outlook (VEMO) and measure its accuracy?

    How does Vanguard develop the Vanguard economic and market outlook (VEMO) and measure its accuracy?

    In this excerpt, Joe Davis describes his approach to forecasting, how his team seeks to convey distribution of risk along with the most likely outcomes, and why they focus on longer term forecasts for the financial markets.
    How does Vanguard develop the Vanguard economic and market outlook (VEMO) and measure its accuracy?
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  • Wearable strain sensor using light transmittance helps measure physical signals better

    Wearable strain sensor using light transmittance helps measure physical signals better

    KAIST researchers have developed a novel wearable strain sensor based on the modulation of optical transmittance of a carbon nanotube (CNT)-embedded elastomer. The sensor is capable of sensitive, stable, and continuous measurement of physical signals. This technology, featured in the March 4th issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces as a front cover article, shows great potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.

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  • Google Analytics: The Top 3 Metrics Every Marketer Should Measure

    Growing competition has made it necessary for businesses to be available to their customers all the time. Official websites of the company are one of the most preferred ways in which consumers choose to connect with businesses. This makes it essential for businesses and marketers to understand how exactly their customers use their website and what it is that they are looking for. Getting into these details can help them to a great extent in improving their online presence as well as coming out with online marketing campaigns…

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  • Selangor Zakat Board allocates RM15m aid for hawkers and small traders

    Selangor Zakat Board allocates RM15m aid for hawkers and small traders

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    PETALING JAYA: The Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) has allocated RM15 million in emergency aid for the welfare for hawkers and small traders in the B40 category.

    “The special allocation is for traders and who are affected by the Movement Control Order (MCO) so they can continue to survive under the measure,“ the board’s CEO, Saipol Yazan M. Yusop said in a statement.

    He added that the allocation would also be channelled to meet medical equipment needs in hospitals handling Covid-19 patients as well food aid for Institute of Higher learning students.

    Affected parties can apply for the aid begining March 25 by contacting the LZS hotline at 1-300-88-4343 on working days 10am to 3pm.

    In the same development, Saipol that the board would bring forward payout date of its Monthly Financial Assistance to March 23 for existing recipients

    “Monthly financial aid will usually come in on the 25th day of the month, but this month, it will be brought forward to the 23rd day,“ Saipol said, further clarifying that other forms of assistance would be paid on the usual date.

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  • Facebook Comes out with Auto-play for Paid Video Ads

    As it?s quite well known, Facebook once in a while tweaks something on its social networking site by bringing in new features or by making certain changes to their current set up to keep their loyal users hooked. In one such measure, they have introduced a feature starting right away which will play video ads on your news-feed automatically once your cursor is over the video…

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    http://www.associationofmarketing.org/articles/view.php?article_id=14247

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  • (Video) Time for tough action against those flouting MCO

    (Video) Time for tough action against those flouting MCO

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    PETALING JAYA: Faced with the deadly Covid-19 virus, the government implemented the movement control order (MCO) as a lesser measure to contain the pandemic.

    The MCO was favoured to a full lockdown as the latter might cause deep inconvenience to the people.

    While the move, as a preliminary measure to counter the spread of the disease, was welcomed by the majority, it is not the case with a segment of obstinate Malaysians who are not adhering to the MCO and are going about their daily lives as usual, totally unperturbed by the pandemic.

    Members of the police force are at their wits end.

    Since the MCO came into force on Wednesday, it has been a gruelling task for personnel nationwide who are “chasing” those who continue to treat the order lightly. These selfish and stubborn individuals are taking to the outdoors without any concern for their own safety, that of their families and others who come in contact with them.

    Should they become infected with the feared virus from their careless behaviour, these irresponsible individuals are a threat to the health of other Malaysians including those who abide by the MCO.

    Law-abiding Malaysians viewed with utter disgust several videos which went viral since yesterday, showing a number of people who are turning the MCO into an outdoor leisure-seeking break.

    One video taken in Johor Baru showed more than 50 adults and children passing their time at a playground in a residential area, playing basketball or idling away.

    A police car arrives at the scene with its sirens blaring and beacons switched on but the crowd does not budge.

    When a personnel makes an announcement with a hailer urging the people to return indoors in accordance with the MCO, it falls on deaf ears.

    It was not until an exasperated policeman steps out of the patrol car and walks towards the people does the crowd decide to disperse.

    Another video showed a group of men who were playing checkers in the open at an unnamed location in Selangor being advised to head indoors by police.

    In Alor Star, police cars arrived at a house to advise its dwellers to call off a large kenduri they were holding.

    Dozens of other videos of people enjoying meals, gathering, loitering and setting up food stalls, all outdoors, are making the rounds.

    With the reckless behaviour of such Malaysians, perhaps it is time they face the full brunt of the law.

    Laws of the Penal Code and Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 should be invoked and police be given consent by the higher-ups to arrest and prosecute those who fail to adhere to the MCO.

    This will not simply serve as a lesson to those who flout the law but also a deterrent to the rest.

    This should be done at the soonest to further counter the pandemic and in honour of the sacrifices our frontliners who put their lives on the line – the hundreds of medical personnel caring for over 900 infected patients battling the disease and the thousands of police personnel upholding the MCO.

    (Video) Time for tough action against those flouting MCO
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  • Petronas evacuates employees from Iraq amid Covid-19 pandemic

    Petronas evacuates employees from Iraq amid Covid-19 pandemic

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    KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas has safely evacuated all 80 of its Malaysian employees from Petronas Carigali Iraq Holding B.V. (PCIHBV), located at the Garraf Contract Area in Iraq’s Thi Qar province in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    The move is a precautionary measure to ensure the health, safety and well-being of its employees, it said.

    “This is certainly an unfortunate and unforeseeable event that is not within PCIHBV’s control. PCIHBV had accordingly issued the necessary notice in accordance with the provisions of the development and production service contract and engaged with the host authority prior to the suspension of operations and evacuation of our employees,” it said in a statement, here today.

    Operations at the Garraf Contract Area are now temporarily suspended until further notice, Petronas said.

    “We are also closely monitoring the situation,” it added.

    According to news reports, Iraq has recorded 164 Covid-19 cases, with 12 deaths. – Bernama

    Petronas evacuates employees from Iraq amid Covid-19 pandemic
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  • Radar safety system protects only 7 per cent of UK smart motorways

    Radar safety system protects only 7 per cent of UK smart motorways

    The UK government has pledged to make smart motorways safer by rolling out a radar detection system within the next three years, but New Scientist can reveal that just 7 per cent of the roads are protected by the measure today
    Radar safety system protects only 7 per cent of UK smart motorways
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  • Tax on internet ads gets traction in Maryland

    Tax on internet ads gets traction in Maryland

    A measure to make Maryland the first state in the nation to tax companies like Facebook and Google for money they make from digital ads on the internet is making steps forward in the state’s legislature.

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