{"id":5633,"date":"2020-08-24T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:31:50","slug":"palm-oil-kl-selangor-border-issues-among-highlights-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5633","title":{"rendered":"Palm oil, KL-Selangor border issues among highlights in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug&nbsp;24&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;The impact of&nbsp;palm oil promotional activities&nbsp;carried out by the&nbsp;Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry&nbsp;overseas,&nbsp; will be among matters to be raised at the Parliament&nbsp;sitting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Order of the Meeting on the Parliament official website, the issue will be raised during the\u00a0Question\u00a0for Oral Answer session, through a question from\u00a0Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim (GPS-Batang Lupar) to the\u00a0Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"palm oil\" class=\"wp-image-5438\" width=\"474\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-186x100.jpg 186w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-350x188.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-800x430.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohani&nbsp;wants to know what impact the&nbsp;promotion had on the nation\u2019s palm oil industry following visits abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be a question&nbsp;from Datuk Johari Abdul (PH-Sungai Petani)&nbsp;on measures&nbsp;taken by the&nbsp;ministry, to solve the problem of shortage of workers in the plantation&nbsp;and commodities sector, after&nbsp;foreign workers\u2019 services were terminated&nbsp;following COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp; Khalid Abdul Samad (PH-Shah Alam) will ask the Federal Territories Minister on the latest in resolving Kuala Lumpur, Selangor border issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate on the&nbsp;Temporary Measures&nbsp;For&nbsp;Government Financing&nbsp;Coronavirus Disease &nbsp;2019&nbsp;(Covid-19)&nbsp;Bill 2020&nbsp;is also scheduled to continue today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Dewan Rakyat sitting, which is from July 13 until Aug&nbsp;27, is held in a new normal by abiding to the prescribed&nbsp;standard operating procedures (SOP) to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1872878\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug&nbsp;24&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;The impact of&nbsp;palm oil promotional activities&nbsp;carried out by the&nbsp;Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry&nbsp;overseas,&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",1102,593,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-300x161.jpg",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-768x413.jpg",640,344,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d-1024x551.jpg",640,344,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",1102,593,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",1102,593,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",1102,593,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",1024,551,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8748eff27ad09520f67ee27228b5f3e55eb3e4270965d.jpg",720,387,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}