The Star Online: Metro: South & East
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- Locals urged to acquire skills to reduce Government’s dependence on foreign labour
- Three illegal gambling outlets shut down
- Encouraging Internet usage
| Locals urged to acquire skills to reduce Government’s dependence on foreign labour Posted: 07 Nov 2012 06:08 PM PST MUADZAM SHAH: The Government's target of 3.3 million skilled labour among locals by the year 2020 will reduce some 70% of the country's dependence on foreign labour. However, deputy Human Resources Minister Senator Datuk Maznah Mazlan said, it would depend on how serious locals are in acquiring high skills in whatever field as only quality and competent labour will have the opportunities of securing jobs. Maznah said various skills training institutions of both government and private colleges are available to provide the opportunities for Malaysians. "However, whether they are fully skilled or otherwise after attending the courses would still depend on the individual," she said. Maznah added that both local and foreign companies would definitely hire highly-skilled and competent workers for productivity and good return of investment. "They are not to be blamed if locals failed to meet the criteria and open the job markets to foreign workers. Currently, there are 380 government skills training institutions while some 580 others are run privately which are authorised to provide skills training in colleges throughout the country. "However, only serious participants or students will gain high-skilled knowledge but those without would find themselves difficult to be employed," Maznah said after presenting 1Malaysia netbooks to some 800 students in Muadzam Shah constituency here recently. She said there were complaints of some students who were given jobs not according to their scope of skills that they have gained from the courses attended. This has resulted in them losing interest and neglecting their jobs and finally they quit to look for jobs more suited to the skills that they have acquired. Maznah said these groups should forward their complaints to the relevant authorities so that the government could investigate on why they were not employed according to their skills. "We cannot blame the related companies on this matter because the students involved may not have performed or their skills are not needed in that particular companies. "However, we can check on the actual situation once the complaints reach us for further action," she said. Maznah said currently out of 138,000 jobs being offered through various government and companies, some 40,000 of those employed are graduates. "Graduates could increase their knowledge in skills by attending courses in skill training institutions to be more competent and productive," Maznah said. |
| Three illegal gambling outlets shut down Posted: 07 Nov 2012 06:09 PM PST TEMERLOH: Police scored another success in their on-going war against illegal gambling with the closing down of three more outlets in Mentakab. Acting on tip-off and own surveillance, a team led by Asst Supt Shaharudin Abdul Wahab raided the outlets in Jalan Mok Hee Kiang and Jalan Besar one after the other. Acting Temerloh OCPD Supt Zundin Mahmood said three caretakers and 12 customers, aged between 20 and 50, who were engrossed in gambling activities were detained for questioning. Supt Zundin said a total of 38 computer sets were seized, in addition to three modems, other paraphernalias and RM614 in cash. "We believe the outlets were operating as gambling dens under the guise of cyber cafes. "The suspects have been released on police bail after having their statements recorded," he said. Supt Zundin said the case would be investigated under Section 4B(a) of the Common House Gambling Act 1953, which carries a minimum fine of RM10,000 for each machine seized or up to five years in prison. He said investigations would also be carried out under Section 4(1)(b) of the Entertainment Enactment 1993 against owners of the premises. "We take a serious view of such illegal activities as it would result in a host of social ills including family, moral decadence and addiction. "I urge the public to continue providing us with information so that more raids would be carried out to cripple such syndicates and operators," he said. Supt Zundin said since Sept 1, his officers had carried out 43 raids in the district which saw the arrests of 44 caretakers and 196 customers including women. He said total worth of seizures amounted to RM197,825, including 626 computer sets and RM10,025 in cash. |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2012 06:09 PM PST MARAN: Parents too can benefit from the 1Malaysia netbook for students as their children can teach them on the Internet communications services. Maran Member of Parliament Datuk Ismail Abd Muttalib said there are parents who run the small scale businesses and they could benefit from the Internet services by marketing their products via the services. Ismail said while their children were provided with the netbooks from the Government's initiative of increasing the communication technology development among them, they too could guide their parents on the netbook usages. He said the parents who live in remote areas or in villages while earning a living by selling items such as keropok lekor, ikan pekasam or tempoyak and others perhaps have limited marketing networking. "It is just like killing two birds with one stone by both parties – parents and children. "Their children have the netbooks, learn on surfing the Internet at schools and develop the knowledge from time to time. "At the same time they could teach their parents on the Internet communications technology and parents who run small scale businesses could sell their products via the Internet which they had learned from their children," Ismail said after presenting 370 netbooks to students in the Maran Parliament constituency. Ismail said both parties who are to benefit from the netbooks will also find out that the computers would not necessarily be harming the users as long as it is correctly used. "We could not control the way of making use of the netbooks by the students. "By now they should already know how to use it in positive ways and one of the methods of monitoring them is by roping in parents to use their children's netbooks for learning purposes and the same time have their own computers for their business purposes. "By making it as the tool to check on their children's activities via Internet or netbooks, the parents could develop their business networking," Ismail said. He said the positive manner of handling the computers for whatever purposes should be at all times guided by parents and the children's moral values and thinking. |
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