TAIPING: Some 52,000 poverty stricken families have successfully applied for welfare aid under Projek Cari programme of the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.
Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said each family would receive RM100 to RM450 a month.
She said some 40,000 applications received since the programme started in October were rejected because they [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Of the 14,700 workers retrenched between October and last month, half are women, says Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.
As women comprised only 37% of the nation’s labour force, she said the figure was “very high”.
However, Ng said they were not retrenched because of their gender but [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: It is time for men to stand up to men, and the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) is not talking about fist fights here.
Rather, it is against men who batter their wives, says WAO executive director Ivy Josiah.
“I’m inspired by the ‘Ring The Bell’ campaign organised by Breakthrough (a human rights organisation) in India,” [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Demeaning or belittling your spouse will soon be a crime when the Government adds a clause on emotional violence to the Domestic Violence Act.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said her ministry was working hard to speed up the amendment and hoped to get it through Parliament [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has never been politicising aid for target groups including in states ruled by the opposition alliance, Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said.
She said the disbursement of aid was done according to the ministry’s procedure.
“We don’t even slow down our aid in Penang. So, don’t [...]