Daily round-up, Sep 13: Najib’s 1MDB trial postponed over his medical condition; AETOS auxiliary officer who copied StanChart robbery jailed

Daily round-up, Sep 13: Najib's 1MDB trial postponed over his medical condition; AETOS auxiliary officer who copied StanChart robbery jailed

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A four-day work 7 days may work well for a bit of employers and staff members but not others, said  Minister of Assert in the Manpower Ministry Gan Siow Huang in Parliament according to a question on whether its feasibility had been studied.

Your own said the ministry “strongly encourages businesses and employees to become open to flexible get the job done arrangements in all its different forms to identify and also adopt those that best suit their unique business needs and their workers’ needs”.

Citing pilots in other countries, she said that although four-day work months saw productivity developments in some cases, this depend upon which sector and employment type.

Master of science Gan added the ministry does not expect impose formulas just for flexible work arrangements on the public industry.

Najib Razak’s 1MDB corruption tryout has been postponed while the former prime minister has been hospitalised ever since Monday. His legal professional told the High Judge on Tuesday the fact that Najib’s blood pressure may be fluctuating and he is required to undergo several testing, which could take a couple of days.

His 1MDB trial was initially scheduled to take place from Wednesday to Thursday immediately. The deputy people prosecutor did not thing to the postponement, as well as judge fixed Friday afternoon for bring up to get an update about Najib’s condition.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin also rejected allegations that Najib’s medication had been made, saying he was provided with the generic choice of the same formulation.

S$72. 3 million was spent on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two fiscal years, said 2nd Minister for Loans Indranee Rajah throughout Parliament.

It was lower than the initial amount of S$100 billion that Government committed,   Ms Indranee says.

First, the federal government had set aside bank loan capital in FY2020 in anticipation of a tight finance market, but this was not necessary eventually. Secondly,   resources set aside relating to public health capacity weren’t fully utilised, simply because safe management steps and the cooperation in Singaporeans helped for you to avert severe public welfare outcomes.

Ms Indranee also noted that  this under-utilisation in funds seemed to be offset by the different support packages that have been introduced over the enhanced alerts and stabilisation phases from May to November 2021.

The Ministry of Finance happens to be auditing COVID-19-related procurement and expenditure due to earlier this year, she added in.  

A former AETOS auxiliary expert has been sentenced in order to 16 and a half years’ jail and 20 strokes of the cane, after he  pleaded guilty to three charges of robbery, unlawfully carrying an enredar and unlawful possession of ammunition.

Confronting mounting debts, Mahadi Muhamad Mukhtar thought they would rob a moneylender and took his or her loaded revolver with the help of him while having been supposed to be covering a colleague’s shift.

He decided to duplicate the approach taken by Standard Chartered robber James Roach, composed a note saying he had a gun and telling his demands, and  handed it into the credit loan officer on duty.  

Fearing for her everyday living, she hit the panic button under the table before making sure that you comply and putting the big money inside his tricing bag.

Assessing the case with the Standard Chartered robbery, often the prosecution said that Cockroach was bluffing, when he had no weapon on him, yet Mahadi was not bluffing.

The judge said  he uncovered that the harm revealed in this case was large, given that Mahadi experienced armed himself with a loaded revolver ready inflicting serious injury on others.