@KLBullTrade Thanks for the link. Now you are contributing something positive rather than keep criticizing. Salute!

@a610why Are you sure Kanger is dealing with solar? I am not aware about that

@Imapotato KLBullTrader is a hypocrite. One moment bash me, next moment confident to buy in. Its either he is a hypocrite or having bipolar disorder. You pick one.

Parliament wont be dissolved this year only next year.

If budget approved this thursday hopefully, vaccine counters will fly.

@aiyooo ...........

@aiyooo zzzzzz.......

Kanger slow and steady...yeah

Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

@eyeHunter KYY already sold AT Systematization. Don't trust this fella. He is a market manipulator.

Publish date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 7:27 PM

AT Systematization is losing support - Koon Yew Yin

This morning before the stock market opens, I WhatsApp to all the people on my contact list that I will be selling my AT shares to buy Supermax. My purpose of writing this article is to forewarn all my readers to be careful because the company has not produced any glove yet and it has been losing money in the last 7 quarters.

https://klse.i3investor.com/blogs/koonyewyinblog/2020-11-17-story-h1536465913-AT_Systematization_is_losing_support_Koon_Yew_Yin.jsp

@LongTermInvestor8 Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

@LongTermInvestor8 Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

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The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

Regardless, the budget for Covid-19 Vaccines is secure. Hence, nothing to worry for Covid-19 vaccine related counters.

@LongTermInvestor8

The MPs told Malaysiakini that in the event Budget 2021 was not passed, ARTICLE 102 of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION could be invoked to table a separate bill to authorise essential spending.

Essential spending could include civil servant emoluments and HEALTHCARE EXPENSES needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/551768

FROM POOR MAN’S TIMBER TO GREEN GOLD: A LETTER TO CHINA

https://www.inbar.int/from-poor-mans-timber-to-green-gold-a-letter-to-china/

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PRESS: BAMBOO – THE GREEN GOLD

https://www.inbar.int/press-bamboo-green-gold/

Bamboo is no longer "poor man's timber" but is considered as 21st century "Green Gold".

https://www.sentinelassam.com/editorial/bamboo-wood-industry-dark-horse-in-ne-economy-511693

Uncovering the unspoken short term side effects of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines PLUS the
theoretical long term side effects of mRNA vaccines ie mRNA vaccines may possibly cause autoimmune disease or make it worse due to the nature of mRNA vaccines (This theoretical long term side effects will need to be observed during the phase IV postmarketing studies to see if it occurs or not. As of now this question remains unanswered as mRNA vaccine is a new vaccine technology/ platform).

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Fever, aches from Pfizer, Moderna jabs aren’t dangerous but may be intense for some

This summer, Luke Hutchison, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology–educated computational biologist, volunteered for a trial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. After he got the second injection, his arm immediately swelled up to the size of a “goose egg,” Hutchison says. He can’t be sure he got the vaccine and not a placebo, but within a few hours, the healthy then-43-year-old was beset by bone and muscle aches and a 38.9°C fever that felt, he says, “unbearable.” “I started shaking. I had cold and hot rushes,” he says. “I was sitting by the phone all night long thinking: ‘Should I call 911?’”

He says the public should be better prepared than he was, because a subset of people may face intense, if transient, side effects, called reactogenicity, from Moderna’s vaccine. Some health experts agree.

Both vaccines consist of a snippet of genetic code directing production of the coronavirus’ spike protein, delivered in a tiny fat bubble called a lipid nanoparticle. Some suspect the immune system’s response to that delivery vehicle is causing the short-term side effects.

Fewer than 2% of recipients of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines developed severe fevers of 39°C to 40°C. But if the companies win regulatory approvals, they’re aiming to supply vaccine to 35 million people globally by the end of December. If 2% experienced severe fever, that would be 700,000 people.

That’s a higher rate of severe reactions than people may be accustomed to. “This is higher reactogenicity than is ordinarily seen with most flu vaccines, even the high-dose ones,” says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

“We suspect the lipid nanoparticle causes the reactogenicity, because lipid nanoparticles without mRNA in them do the same thing in animals,” Weissman says. “We see production, in the muscle, of inflammatory mediators that cause pain, [redness], swelling, fever, flulike symptoms, etc.”

Twelve hours after receiving his second injection in May, Haydon got chills as well as “headache, muscle ache, fatigue, nausea,” and had a fever of 39.6°C. He went to urgent care, and later vomited and fainted before the symptoms receded, roughly 24 hours after they started, he says.

Longer term side effects of mRNA vaccines remain theoretical. They include the possibility that people with lupus, whose disease is driven by antibodies against their own genetic code, could experience flare-ups because of the revved up immune response induced by the vaccines, says Sarfaraz Hasni, director of lupus clinical research at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

But there’s no evidence currently that mRNA vaccines cause autoimmune disease or make it worse, says Betty Diamond, an immunologist and rheumatologist at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research of Northwell Health. “At the moment there’s every reason to suggest that people with autoimmune diseases ought to get either of these vaccines when they get rolled out.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/fever-aches-pfizer-moderna-jabs-aren-t-dangerous-may-be-intense-some

@Orlando Thanks i have added the link to the info you shared below :

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9kUcgNB8D04J:https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2020/11/21/the-race-for-a-vaccine+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=my

Just for general knowledge.

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Childhood vaccine linked to less severe COVID-19, cigarette smoke raises risk

People whose immune systems responded strongly to a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may be less likely to become severely ill if they are infected with the new coronavirus, new data suggest.

People with the highest mumps antibody titers had asymptomatic COVID-19. More research is needed to prove the vaccine prevents severe COVID-19. Still, the new findings "may explain why children have a much lower COVID-19 case rate than adults, as well as a much lower death rate," coauthor Jeffrey Gold, president of World Organization, in Watkinsville, Georgia, said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-science/childhood-vaccine-linked-to-less-severe-covid-19-cigarette-smoke-raises-risk-idINKBN2802LL

Hopefully tomorrow will gap up

Pfizer's Vaccine Is Out of the Question as Indonesia Lacks Refrigerators: State Pharma Boss

https://jakartaglobe.id/business/pfizers-vaccine-is-out-of-the-question-as-indonesia-lacks-refrigerators-state-pharma-boss

BEIJING: Leaders of the 20 biggest economies on Saturday vowed to ensure a fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world and do what was needed to support poorer countries struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2020/11/22/g20-leaders-seek-to-help-poorest-nations-in-post-covid-world/

Pharmaniaga on track to distribute Covid-19 vaccine

https://www.nst.com.my/business/2020/11/642883/pharmaniaga-track-distribute-covid-19-vaccine

18KHarmoni Near soon kanger to start produce bamboo flooring which is world the biggest producer. This income is much earlier than a vaccine. The share price should be better due to the bamboo flooring rather than a vaccine

18KHarmoni Share price shld go higher when the factory started the production in dec2020, with or without vaccine

Finally, we agree on something. Yes, once Kanger's new bamboo processing plant and R&D centre in Jingzhou, China goes into full production in the fourth quarter of 2020, Kanger will be on track to become the WORLD'S LARGEST producer of bamboo products.

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Kanger International poised to be world’s largest producer of bamboo products

Kanger International Berhad is closer to its aim of becoming the world’s largest producer of bamboo products when its new bamboo processing plant and R&D centre in Jingzhou, China goes into full production in the fourth quarter of 2020.

The new factory and R&D centre is part of a public private arrangement with the local Jingzhou government on a 70:30 basis, and was built at a total investment cost of RM121 million.

Kanger’s executive director Steven Kuah Choon Ching said, “Armed with the support from our strategic partner, the local government of Jingzhou, we are in a strong position to significantly upscale our bamboo processing business to become one of the world’s largest integrated bamboo producers in the world with both upstream (plantation) and downstream (processing, manufacturing and distribution) capabilities.

“The commencement of our new plant represents a key turning point for the Group. One major advantage of relocating our bamboo plant to Jingzhou is the ready availability of raw bamboo there. By partnering with the Jingzhou government, they will inject a bamboo plantation concessiontotalling an estimated 20,833 acres over three phases.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2020/09/08/kanger-international-poised-to-be-worlds-largest-producer-of-bamboo-product/1901354

Snap polls will power KLCI to 1,800 in 2021, says asset management firm

Inter-Pacific Asset Management Sdn Bhd CEO Nazri Khan (DDNK) said investors have been anticipating a snap election as early as January next year due to optimism over the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccine, along with expectations of the removal of the conditional movement control order (CMCO).

“Many investors believe that the Covid-19 vaccine is likely to be available in the country around March 2021.

“Many of them expect once the pandemic is stabilised and the CMCO removed, the snap election can happen as soon as January 2021,” he said.

“This (snap election) will be one of the biggest catalysts for the market’s BULLISHNESS next year,” he told Bernama.

On the external front, DDNK said US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is expected to have a positive impact on global equity markets, especially that of China, as well as other Asian and emerging markets.

“Biden seems to be less confrontational, less US-centric and more market-friendly. Many believe he will welcome more free trade and a liberal global trade system moving forward.

“This is expected to IMPROVE the US-CHINA trade relations and I believe Bursa Malaysia is likely to BENEFIT from that,” he said.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/local-business/2020/11/21/snap-polls-will-power-klci-to-1800-in-2021-says-asset-management-firm/

So China can only donate if it is from a state owned company like Sinopharm. They cannot force private companies like Sinovac and Cansino to donate to Malaysia.

Take note : It is stated in the article below : "MALAYSIA (DONATION)". China will be donating the Covid-19 vaccines to Malaysia. Not only do we get priority from China, we get it for free as well.

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Why China's vaccines are gaining international momentum

Some are also being donated via a subsidized program, COVAX via the WHO. Countries that have ordered Chinese manufactured vaccines so far include Indonesia, Sao Paulo province in Brazil (despite disruptions from the central government), Mexico, Malaysia (donation), Turkey and the Philippines. The scope of countries to receive donations from Beijing is also likely to be ramped up as China intensifies its multilateral cooperation to fight the COVID-19.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-21/Why-China-s-vaccines-are-gaining-international-momentum--VzBUexLNAI/index.html

China pledges to help developing countries achieve affordable COVID-19 vaccines

China aims to become the first country in the world to produce a large-scale vaccine against COVID-19

The president of China, Xi Jinping, assured that his country “will fulfill its commitment to help developing countries to make the vaccinations against him COVID-19 accessible and affordable public goods for all ”.

Four vaccines from three Chinese companies are now in the third phase of testing: Sinovac, two of SINOPHARM and another of CanSino Biologics.

https://www.explica.co/china-pledges-to-help-developing-countries-achieve-affordable-covid-19-vaccines/

@Chua Joe Beng,

For both Moderna and Pfizer vaccine, we still do not know how long immunity will last as volunteers will have to be followed for much longer time before that can be answered. The released results was only interim results and many questions are still unanswered.

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-long-will-vaccines-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus-41588

@Chua Joe Beng,

Once Pfizer vaccine has been thawed, it requires dilution prior to injection whereas Moderna vaccine does not require dilution.

Pfizer vaccine : Once thawed, undliluted vial can be stored in a refrigerator for only 5 days and the diluted vial can only be kept for 6 hours.

Moderna vaccine : Once thawed, vial can be stored in a refrigerator for up to 30 days and at room temperature for up to 12 hours.

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"Each vial of the Pfizer vaccine holds five doses when diluted. Once thawed, the undiluted vial can be kept in a refrigerator for only five days. A diluted vial can be kept for only six hours before it must be discarded."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/17/covid-vaccines-what-you-need-to-know/?arc404=true


"The Moderna vaccine has been shown to last for up to 30 days in household fridges, at room temperature for up to 12 hours, and remains stable at -20C - equal to most household or medical freezers - for up to six months.

The company claims mRNA-1273 can be distributed using widely available vaccine delivery and storage infrastructure - with no dilution required prior to vaccination."

@Chua Joe Beng

Pfizer vaccine : Once thawed, it can be refrigerated for only 5 days
Moderna vaccine : Once thawed, it can be refrigerated for up to 30 days

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Right now, Pfizer says its vaccine needs to be kept at minus 70 degrees Celsius and can last in a specialty freezer for up to six months. The specialty shippers can hold up to five "pizza box" trays of vials and be refreshed with dry ice every five days for up to 15 days to keep the vaccine at the right frozen temperature.

Even that presents challenges, though — a Pfizer scientist told a CDC advisory council in August that it's not supposed to be opened more than twice a day and needs to be closed within one minute of opening. Once it's thawed, the vaccine can be refrigerated for five days.

Moderna says its vaccine candidate is stable at regular freezer temperature — minus 20 degrees Celsius — for up to six months, and after thawing it can last in the refrigerator for 30 days. It can also be kept at room temperature for up to 12 hours. This, explains Kristensen, is useful for health care workers in the field, "because now the vaccine doesn't need to go in and out of the refrigerator each time it's administered."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/935563377/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica

Coronavirus: Eleven vaccine trials now in their final phase

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/141756/coronavirus-eleven-vaccine-trials-now-in-their-final-phase/

Lol i like this article.

"There has been much news of late concerning Covid-19 vaccine progress from the two big American pharmacy firms, Pzifer and Moderna. It is hardly a surprise that the mainstream media behave as if these are the only two vaccine options available in the world and give them preferential coverage."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hGuUD3hw7SQJ:https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2020/11/22/why-china039s-vaccines-are-gaining-international-momentum+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=my

@eyehunter Sinopharm vaccine storage temperature is the standard storage temperature for most other approved vaccines in the world ie 2-8C. This is in contrast to Oral polio virus, Pfizer's mRNA vaccine and Moderna's mRNA vaccine which requires storage at subzero temperatures.

It is a good thing that Sinopharm chose to conduct phase III clinical trials of the vaccine in UAE. I have no doubt that the clinical trial is conducted according to international good clinical practices and standards.

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In 2019, the UAE was ranked first in seven global health indexes, according to the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, FCSA.

The UAE is ranked first globally in terms of number of accredited health facilities, including hospitals, of which 85 percent are internationally accredited, in accordance with the standards of the Joint Commission International, JCI.

https://wam.ae/en/details/1395302855391#:~:text=The%20UAE%20is%20ranked%20first,the%20Joint%20Commission%20International%2C%20JCI.

Sinopharm chose the United Arab Emirates to conduct their phase III clinical trial of the Covid Vaccine because there are around 200 different nationalities residing there and UAE has a focus on medical research and fighting the pandemic. This is great because that would mean that the results of the phase III clinical trial will be applicable to all races. As we know, different races have different genetic traits and makeup which can potentially make a vaccine more effective and safe in one race but less effective and safe in another race.

This is precisely the reason why a bridge clinical trial is required by the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for pharmaceutical products (including vaccines) which are approved abroad but do not have data to show that ethnic differences can affect their efficacy and safety. The commencement of the clinical trial for Pfizer's mRNA vaccine in China is a good case in point.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-vaccine-idUSKCN24H14T

It is great to know that the World Health Organization (WHO) is overseeing the phase III clinical trials of Sinopharm vaccine. This will ensure that once the phase III trials are complete and the vaccine obtains approval from National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), China, the vaccine will also stand a high chance of successfully obtaining prequalification from WHO. Obtaining WHO prequalification of vaccines is a great achievement as it would mean that the vaccine meets internationally recognized standards of quality, safety and efficacy.

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UK Ambassador To UAE Receives Latest Update On COVID-19 Vaccine From SEHA

As part of the briefing, the British Ambassador and delegation toured SEHA’s specialised centre for conducting the clinical trials at Abu Dhabi Exhibition Centre, which is managed by the network’s expert medical practitioners. Developed by SINOPHARM CNBG and G42 Healthcare, a subsidiary of G42 Group, the inactive vaccine’s clinical trials are a collaboration between the Department of Health - Abu Dhabi and SEHA.

The clinical trials are part of a global effort to combat COVID-19 and were OVERSEEN by the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO) and the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention. Abu Dhabi, which is the key host of the clinical trials, is aligned with the UAE government’s prominent role in international efforts to find a solution to this century’s greatest health challenge.

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/middle-east/uk-ambassador-to-uae-receives-latest-update-o-1092476.html

Yes agreed, vaccine euphoria and positive sentiment will be the main catalyst for the price in the short to medium term . For long term of course profit and eps plays a more important part.

Pray for the best next week

@Noobie123 Actually sky is the limit. I am just providing a more conservative TP so that we dont get our hopes up too high and be disappointed if the TP is not reached.

Short term TP 0.32, Mid term TP 2.00, Long term TP 3.00-5.00

*GMP certified

@purple_rain No no, that is not going to happen anytime soon. Malaysia will have to import vaccines as a finished product first because vaccine fill and finish will take time to train personnel and for the technology transfer. I foresee vaccine fill and finish might only commence 3rd or 4th quarter of 2021. So far no local manufacturers have ever conducted fill and finish of vaccines in Malaysia. Currently only Pharmaniaga and Duopharma has the fill and finish facility for vaccine certified by NPRA but they have not yet commenced any fill and finish activities for any vaccines yet. As for Solution group, their fill and finish facility for vaccines is still undergoing inspection by NPRA (not yet approved) and they are targeting to commence vaccine F&F facility by 2Q 2021 (Refer to this link https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/solution-group-targets-commence-vaccine-ff-facility-2q-2021)

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/content/news-pharmaniaga-prepared-vaccine-race

Yes it is possible that Pharmaniaga might act as the Bumi Agent , so if you are interested you can also buy some Pharmaniaga shares.

Okok peace

urple_rain LOL You can go ahead an invest in Mahsing if you truly believe they will be involved in vaccines. As for me i will stick to Kanger.