Museveni told Uganda's salon workers he's throwing 85 billion shillings their way through a revolving fund that drops 100 million per SACCO to about 850 groups nationwide. He announced the cash while kicking off the Federation of Uganda Salon Operators at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, and he hyped up the beauty industry for creating jobs while people get increasingly busy in cities.
The president basically said salon operators can grab one-year loans instead of the usual two-year setup that crop farmers deal with under the Parish Development Model, and they just pay back with minimal interest after using the money. He threw in some history about colonial times, making Africans think they weren't beautiful, but he said that mindset got...
Museveni sat down with some businesspeople from Sharjah who want to drop an inland cargo port somewhere in Uganda to make moving stuff around cheaper and faster. The UAE delegation pitched their plan at State Lodge in Nakasero, and their CEO guy from Gulftainer said they're already hashing out details with government officials and expect to lock down phase one within half a year.
The president told them to speed things up because infrastructure builds like this pump jobs into the economy and burn through electricity and water services while keeping local businesses fed. He mentioned dry ports should focus more on smooth logistics than on collecting taxes, and he promised to back the whole thing.
Negotiations keep rolling as both sides...
Malaysia's top cop is backing a new regulatory scheme where the communications commission automatically licenses big social platforms starting next year. Inspector General Mohd Khalid said the police force sees the move as necessary for cracking down on child exploitation material, scam operations, extremist propaganda, and other sketchy online behavior that's been running wild on these apps.
The licensing setup hits any platform with eight million users or more in the country, which means WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube all get swept into compliance obligations under local telecom law. Services can keep operating normally, but regulators are essentially forcing them onto the books as licensed providers to make enforcement...
Perak officials are rolling out a mobile app that maps where people feed strays across the state, and they're pushing mandatory microchipping for anyone trying to get a dog license. Housing committee chair Sandrea Ng said the feeder tracker goes live at the end of the month to help authorities figure out where to focus sterilization programs and clean up spots that turned into dumping grounds for strays.
Anyone who sits through the app briefing gets a subsidized sterilization voucher worth RM50 that works at four vet clinics. The microchipping mandate is still getting hammered out through legal review before it gets officially gazetted as a licensing requirement.
Malaysia just cracked open Seri Negara after keeping it shuttered for six years, and the whole restoration only took ten months when most heritage sites this old need like two full years of work. The colonial mansion from 1913 used to host Queen Elizabeth II and served as the spot where Malaya's founding fathers hammered out the constitution before independence, which makes it kind of a big deal for the country's origin story.
Khazanah Nasional handled the renovation under their heritage preservation program and managed to restore everything from the intricate architecture down to relocating the original wooden staircase back where it belonged decades ago. The building opens with four galleries covering pre-independence politics...
Malaysia's PM Anwar Ibrahim just confirmed that the emergency ASEAN foreign ministers' summit got shelved because Thailand and Cambodia keep asking for delays while their border war keeps getting worse. The whole thing was supposed to bring everyone together to stop the fighting that had already killed dozens and displaced over half a million people, but both governments basically told Anwar they needed more time, even though he stays in touch with them constantly.
Anwar managed to get them to agree on a ceasefire back at the summit, but that peace lasted like five seconds before both sides started accusing each other of breaking the deal. The conflict centers on disputed frontier areas with ancient temple ruins, and reports dropped...
Lawyers for the families of three guys gunned down by cops in Durian Tunggal are telling federal police brass to bench Melaka police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar or ship him elsewhere because his constant media appearances might be messing with the investigation. The legal team says if Bukit Aman really has a special task force on this case, as they claim, then Dzulkhairi running his mouth daily is straight-up interference, and they want actual transparency from federal investigators instead of getting everything filtered through one local commander.
A whistleblower dropped photos and a letter showing a tow truck driver spotted cops beating people and dragging them from a stalled Proton Saga on the highway around 1:25 am, which totally...
Malaysia pulled in almost half a trillion ringgit worth of potential deals from government trade missions and PM-led trips abroad over the past couple of years. Deputy Minister Liew Chin Tong broke down how 181 projects worth RM493.64 billion got lined up between 2023 and 2025, with 52 already greenlit for RM123.8 billion and another 38 getting finalized this year for RM48.9 billion.
The bulk of that money, around RM320.9 billion, won't actually materialize until somewhere between 2026 and 2028. Meanwhile, the Malaysian Investment Development Authority is getting a whole revamp to make sure foreign cash actually benefits local industries instead of just existing on paper.
The ministry is working on new legislation to tighten oversight...
Malaysia's government is passing on upgrades for the FT2 Federal Highway between Kuala Lumpur and Port Klang, even though traffic data shows the route is basically a parking lot. Works Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi told lawmakers the 34.59-kilometer stretch hit LOS F ratings, which is the worst congestion level possible, but fixing it would cost way more than it's worth because of insane land acquisition prices and the disruption it would cause to people living along the route.
Instead of widening FT2, authorities are eyeing a brand new highway to siphon off some cars, plus they're banking on the LRT3 rail line from Shah Alam hitting service before year's end. Same story for the MRR2 highway from Kepong to Sri Petaling, where the...
