Wee Jeck Seng

The export value of cocoa beans and cocoa-based downstream products is expected to continue to increase this year.

The government will monitor the development of the palm oil industry after Indonesia announced that it has scrapped its export levy for all palm oil products until August 31, 2022.

The subsidised cooking oil quota of 55,000 metric tonnes per month or 660,000 metric tonnes a year has been sufficient so far, said Datuk Seri Dr Wee Jeck Seng.

Wee Jeck Seng said the halt in operations would affect existing stocks and have a negative impact on smallholders.

Indonesia's move to ban exports of its palm oil starting Thursday next week is expected to have a massive impact on the global edible oils and fats market.

An estimated RM1 billion in additional allocation will be required annually if the PHP for scrap rubber under the Rubber Production Incentive (IPG) is raised to RM3.50 per kg.

The aid would be given for two months to some 300,000 smallholders who own rubber estates of less than 2.5 hectares.

SIRIM STS will finance 80 per cent of the participation fees for participants of this programme while the balance will be funded by the MTC.

Among the solutions is by assisting such entrepreneurs to deal directly with buyers from abroad.

Today's Dewan Negara news in brief.

The government has introduced two solutions to address the negative impact of the shortage of foreign workers in the plantation sector.

The government is cooperating with major rubber producing countries, under the ITRC to strengthen and stabilise the price of rubber.

About 0.8 per cent of the country's current total rubber production was used in the construction of roads using rubber-based technology Cuplump Modified Bitumen (CMB) in 2019.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said the matter was being studied comprehensively by reviewing all the existing laws.

Datuk Wee Jeck Seng called for herbal-based traditional medicines and complementary therapies and treatments to be exempted from GST.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.

Malaysia's international reserves rose to US$118.0 billion as at Nov 15, 2024, up from US$117.6 billion on Oct 30, 2024.

The findings announced are part of a years-long study of the history of the cosmos focusing upon dark energy.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) wishes to offer the following clarifications to the issues raised.

The Online Safety Advocacy Group (OSAG) stands united with people in Malaysia in the fight against serious online harms.

Malaysia's inflation rate for October 2024 has increased to 1.9 per cent, up from 1.8 per cent in September this year.

For the first time, Saudi Arabia is participating in the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition held recently in Zhuhai.

The coronation of Britain's King Charles cost taxpayers GBP72 million (US$90 million), official accounts have revealed.

A married couple and a man were charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with trafficking 51.974 kilogrammes of Methamphetamine.