In his budget 2025 speech, Prime Minister Anwar said that a mandatory contribution to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) will need to be made for foreign workers. Along with a higher minimum wage, requiring EPF contributions for foreign workers may spark inflationary pressures. Combined with the withdrawal of subsidies, Malaysians may be forced

Ukrainian troops who have engaged North Korean forces have said that Pyongyang’s fighters are far more disciplined than most of their Russian counterparts. The Ukrainian Special Forces Command’s X account recently posted the diary of an elite North Korean fighter who was killed in action in the Russian region of Kursk. His writings reveal a bra

Increases in urban density tend to push up land values. Housing, therefore, gets costlier and out of reach for the lower-middle-class and the urban poor. The American Community Survey (ACS) for 2019 busted the argument that the densification of urban areas would result in better housing affordability. It establishedthat higher urban densities are a

The different visions of Syria’s future also color the new rulers’ effort to reconstitute the military from myriad rebel groups that agreed last month to lay down their arms and become part of a force capable of ensuring domestic security. The rebels would be joined by some Assad-era conscripts. Like Syrian Kurds, Hekmat al-Hijri, the spiritual

In response, MORA boosted its religious moderation campaign in 2019 to challenge the movement’s growing influence.[51] As discussed in the next section, certain initiatives such as the HijrahFest subsequently adjusted their strategies to re-align with the broader societal narratives while simultaneously reinforcing its underlying exclusive Islami