Nato chief Rutte discusses ‘global security’ with Trump Posted on 23/11/2024 Donald Trump’s thumping victory to return to the US presidency has set nerves jangling in Europe. (AP pic) BRUSSELS: Nato chief Mark Rutte held talks with US president-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the “global security issues facing the alliance”, a spokesman said today. The meeting took place yesterday in Palm Beach, Nato’s Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement. In his first term Trump aggressively pushed Europe to step up defence spending and questioned the fairness of the Nato transatlantic alliance. The former Dutch prime minister had said he wanted to meet Trump two days after Trump was elected on Nov 5, and discuss the threat of increasingly warming ties between North Korea and Russia. Trump’s thumping victory to return to t he US presidency has set nerves jangling in Europe that he could pull the plug on vital Washington military aid for Ukraine. Nato allies say keeping Kyiv in the fight against Moscow is key to both European and American security. “What we see more and more is that North Korea, Iran, China and of course Russia are working together, working together against Ukraine,” Rutte said recently at a European leaders’ meeting in Budapest. “At the same time, Russia has to pay for this, and one of the things they are doing is delivering technology to North Korea”, which he warned was threatening to the “mainland of the US (and) continental Europe”. “I look forward to sitting down with Donald Trump to discuss how we can face these threats collectively,” Rutte said. News
99% of SPM candidates attended oral tests, says education minister Posted on 03/12/2024 Students in Rantau Panjang and Gual Tinggi, Kelantan, being moved to hostels for them to take the SPM oral tests recently. (Bernama pic) KUALA LUMPUR: Despite severe flooding in several states, education minister Fadhlina Sidek says 99% of candidates attended their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) Bahasa Melayu oral tests, as… Read More
Flood situation in Johor, Pahang improves, unchanged in Perak Posted on 14/12/2024 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 — The flood situations in Johor and Pahang continue to improve, with the number of evacuees at relief centres in both states declining this afternoon, while there is no change in Perak. In JOHOR, the number of flood victims slightly decreased to 36 people from 11… Read More
CM: Unreliable water supply, pricey land, traffic jams hurting Penang’s pull with investors Posted on 22/11/2024 GEORGE TOWN, Nov 22 — Irregular supply and low water pressure for industrial use in Penang could have affected investors’ confidence, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow tod the state legislative assembly today. He said land scarcity and higher industrial land price in the state were also challenges that the state… Read More