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Budget 2027: Higher wages to boost purchasing power, productivity, say experts

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Outlet
The Star (MY) (thestarmy)
Position
The top story
First seen
2026-10-11 01:50 UTC · 09:50 in Petaling Jaya
Last seen
2026-10-11 03:03 UTC · 11:03 in Petaling Jaya · 7 polls · on the page for 1 h 12 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/10/11/budget-2027-higher-wages-to-boost-purchasing-power-productivity-say-experts
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dcb9a4a665399c3e69d14c4709e222cc1849d9bda78776cbd71f5ba721567236

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  1. Budget 2027: Higher wages to boost purchasing power, productivity, say experts this headline the top story · → · on the page for 1 h 12 min
  2. Budget 2027: Higher wages to boost purchasing power, productivity, say experts slot 2 of the front page · → · on the page for 9 min

The front page

The Star (MY)’s front page, as this site’s machine pictured it from the page kept 2026-10-11 01:50 UTC · 09:50 in Petaling Jaya, with this headline (the top story) outlined in red

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Shown here until , then taken off this site and kept by the operator. A picture removed on request is deleted at once. SHA-256 3ed125a70fb1b9f0eb6e8f48acd45e51c5298361489bb1e18b0fee1287de08df, listed in manifest #1259 (the manifest, its receipt), timestamping in progress.

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dcb9a4a665399c3e69d14c4709e222cc1849d9bda78776cbd71f5ba721567236

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-dcb9a4a66539.json prints dcb9a4a665399c3e69d14c4709e222cc1849d9bda78776cbd71f5ba721567236. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-dcb9a4a66539.json and headline-dcb9a4a66539.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-dcb9a4a66539.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
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  4. If someone shows you this front page as it was, hash it: sha256sum prints 958ce4fa89eca7a170f70c6599d96bb32e698c63857eb3d76606adf9f1042114 for the page this site kept 2026-10-11 01:50 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1258, and the manifest's receipt will prove when it existed once it is confirmed in Bitcoin (usually a few hours).
  5. If someone shows you this site’s picture of that page (the Wayback Machine’s copy of this record page may hold it), hash it: sha256sum prints 3ed125a70fb1b9f0eb6e8f48acd45e51c5298361489bb1e18b0fee1287de08df. That hash is a line of manifest #1259, beside the hash of the page it pictures, and the manifest’s receipt proves when it existed.