Compiled by ALLISON LAI, GERARD GIMINO and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE price of pork has gone up for the seventh time this year and is now at RM1,300 per 100kg, reported Kwong Wah Yit Poh.
The Penang Pig Slaughtering Association confirmed the price increase, which took effect on Monday.
The latest price adjustment was a RM60 increase from that of RM1,240 per 100kg on May 16.
The price of pork reportedly skyrocketed and is expected to go up even further.
A butcher association chairman reportedly said there had been monthly negotiations with pig farmers to cap the price of pork but to no avail.
The association said business had dropped by up to 70% for some pork sellers following the price increases.
> China Press reported that some 200,000 yuan (about RM132,000) kept in a cardboard box in Jiangsu, China, almost ended up in the trash.
During the incident in Wuxi last Tuesday, the box was sold to a recycler by a woman, whose daughter had kept the money inside.
When the daughter, known only as Pu, found out, she alerted the police, who sent men out on patrol while others combed through CCTV footage of the streets.
Luckily, authorities traced the recycler to a nearby town with the trash items, including the box, untouched.
> Oriental Daily reported that cases of discrimination had been reported against former Covid-19 patients as well as hospital volunteers in Shanghai.
Local media in the cosmopolitan city reported spotting job listings by companies stating conditions that they would not hire former patients or those who had previously volunteered at the Covid-19 temporary hospitals.
Chen Feng, 28, from Hubei, who was a volunteer as well as a Covid-19 patient, said he could not rent a room or find a job.
“I lived on the streets for a month. Whether it’s a job as a security guard or sorting parcels, they all rejected former Covid-19 patients and volunteers,” said Chen, adding that his friends also faced similar problems.
Some job placement agencies said a few companies, such as Shanghai Disney, Foxconn and Daikin, even stated the same conditions.
However, the agencies could not state a clear reason why the employers listed such conditions.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
