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152,000 students to lose loans due to poor results
PM to GLCs: Work with private sector for overseas markets
Four in family killed in accident

152,000 students to lose loans due to poor results

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT

Published: Friday June 24, 2011 MYT 7:01:00 PM
Updated: Friday June 24, 2011 MYT 9:02:18 PM

TEMERLOH: The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) has withheld loans to 152,000 students for scoring a Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) of 2.0 and below.

Its chairman Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said said the students, who obtained poor results, had received loans totalling RM632mil.

He said they used to excel in their studies but for some reasons their performance deteriorated and they failed to obtain above 2.0 SGPA in the second semester.

"But if they are able to get above 2.0 SGPA in the next examination, the loans will be released," he told reporters after presenting loans to 100 public and private universities students from the Kuala Krau parliamentary constituency in Jengka near here Friday.

Ismail said so far the PTPTN had approved loans amounting to RM38.69bil for 1.75 million students and waived loan repayments totalling RM277.99mil for 9,545 students who graduated with first class honours last year.

Of the 132,810 blacklisted students who defaulted on loan repayments, he said 12,400 had repaid loans amounting to RM113.9mil. - BERNAMA

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PM to GLCs: Work with private sector for overseas markets

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:54 AM PDT

Published: Friday June 24, 2011 MYT 8:12:00 PM
Updated: Friday June 24, 2011 MYT 8:54:15 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has suggested that government-linked companies (GLC) work more closely with the private sector to tap overseas markets.

Such cooperation, the Prime Minister said, could lead to new local growth sectors.

Najib, who was launching the GLC Open Day on Friday, said GLCs had not only showed good performance but expanded overseas.

"This is the transformation that we envisaged at this point of history of our nation," he said.

Visitors at the GLC Open Day, held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, can enquire about scholarships and career opportunities.

Organising secretariat Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar hoped the public would find the exhibition "educational as much as fun-filled".

"It is intended to reach out, touch and get feedback from our ultimate stakeholders - the rakyat," he said in his speech.

Exhibitors include Maybank, UMW Holdings Bhd, Sime Darby Bhd and Tenaga Nasional Bhd.

The event is open from 10am to 7pm Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday.

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Four in family killed in accident

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT

KULAIJAYA: Four members of a family were killed while two others seriously injured in a tragic accident at KM46.7 of the North South Expressway near Simpang Renggam Friday.

District police chief ACP Zulkefly Yahya said Wong Tong Hing, 66, his wife Fong Kum Ngoh, 60, his brother-in-law Fong Kum Kai, 59, and grandson Wong Jing Xuan, 18 months, died at the spot.

"Those injured were Wong's daughter Wong Ai Ling, 35 and their daughter-in-law Ng Chai Yuin, 21," he said.

Zulkefly said in the 9.45am incident, Wong, who was driving the Nissan Grand Livina, was believed to have lost control, hit the road divider and ran into a monsoon drain before hitting a pillar of an overhead bridge.

"All the victims were from Bandar Putra here and on their way to Malacca," he said.

Wong's neighbour Kam Yee Chin, 52, when met at the Kulai Hospital, said Kum Ngoh had told her that they (the deceased) had planned to go to Malacca before heading to Port Dickson.

"We have been neighbours and friends for the past 13 years," said Kam. - BERNAMA

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Jumaat, 24 Jun 2011