The 17 initiatives include a drop-in centre offering meals, showers and counselling, a programme matching single rough sleepers with compatible co-tenants to help them access public rental housing sooner, and micro-jobs and apprenticeships to gain work experience and become more financially stable.
Homeless youth will also get more support, including mentoring, family mediation, and vocational guidance. Another project will develop a tool to identify people at risk of homelessness so they can receive help earlier.
Two-thirds of Malaysian parents say they are spending more on their children each month than they expected, with food and daily necessities now almost level with education fees and tuition as their biggest expenses, according to a survey by Malaysian fintech company Versa.
More employers are emphasising AI literacy and are willing to pay more for graduates with the relevant skills, analysts say
After years of concern over students using artificial intelligence to cut corners, Singapore’s universities are embracing the technology, driven not just by changes in the classroom but by pressure to prepare graduates for an economy that increasingly prizes AI literacy.
Luke, an interventional radiologist, and Lay Hui, a housewife, did not plan for such a "large family".
While their large family is out of the norm, Lay Hui shared that they have recently found families who also have nine or ten kids.
Close relations with both US and China mean the latest AI models are easily accessible in the city-state
Singapore Inc hopes its ability to access the most advanced AI models will help hold back a tide of investment managers leaving for Hong Kong, which is introducing sweeping tax cuts.
Asia’s two biggest financial hubs have long competed for international white-collar workers and to attract the world’s biggest investment companies and banks.
More Singapore users at Moomoo, Tiger Brokers and Longbridge are tapping artificial intelligence to help them interpret market swings, uncover investment opportunities and make more informed trading decisions.
Such brokerage firms offer AI-powered features ranging from in-app assistants to integrations with external AI services such as ChatGPT and Claude, helping investors digest news and headlines, analyse earnings data and gain insights into their portfolios.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday (Aug 18) the government was considering reforming its consumption tax regime to make it more progressive and efficient, including potentially reintroducing aspects of a broad-based goods and services tax (GST).
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He said mosques had a significant role to play in the tourism industry by becoming part of tourists' journey to discover the history, culture and Islamic civilisation in Malaysia.
Ahmad Zahid, who is also Bagan Datuk MP, said the time had come for more mosques nationwide to organise programmes such as NMOD as they provided opportunities for people from various backgrounds, ages and religions to engage with mosque institutions in a harmonious environment.