Sunday, July 5, 2009

MEMO From Sultanah Aminah Hospital

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Dear all Johorean.
Please take NOTE !!!
The Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) here has shortened visiting hours as part of its efforts to check the spread of Influenza A (H1N1).

The hospital's director Dr Daud Abdul Rahim, in a statement today, said the mid-day visiting hours, which was from 12.30pm to 2pm previously, had now been changed to 1pm to 2pm.

The evening visiting hours will now be from 4.30pm to 6.30pm as compared to from 4.30pm to 7pm previously.

Each patient will also be allowed to receive only two visitors at any one time and they must be above 12 years.Children 12 years and below are disallowed from entering the hospital except for treatment.HSA is the medical centre for Influenza A (H1N1), or also known as swine flu, in Johor.

More information can be obtained by visiting the Health Ministry's website at http://www.moh.gov.my.


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Monday, June 29, 2009

Radio Rosak Project

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JOHOR BAHRU, -- Exposure is what local independent or 'indie' bands need to become successful in the show business and that means doing more stage performances, says local Rock icon Amy Search.He said constant stage performances would serve as good practice for bands as it would assist them to improve themselves.
"Apart from helping them to overcome stage fright, performing on stage would help to promote their band among music lovers. The more people see them and appreciate their music, the more better to increase their album sales," said the rocker with almost three decades of experience in stage performances.Amy said the impact of performing live on stage was greater than having their songs played by radio stations because 'indie' bands could interact with their fans up close and personal.
He was met by reporters after performing with 'indie' band 'Projek Pistol' at 'Konsert Radio Rosak', a charity fund raising concert for Gaza at Pasir Gudang Indoor Stadium last night.The concert saw performances from favourite local rock bands such as Bunkface, Estranged, Radhi OAG, Triangle Music Centre, Secret Silence and Plague of Happiness.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Kembara Mahkota Johor 2009 Jelajah pedalaman

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JOHOR BAHRU, The Tunku Mahkota of Johor, Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Monday warned against illegal hunting and urged that the activity be stopped.Tunku Ibrahim said poaching did not benefit anyone and that the authority should impose a heavy penalty on poachers to ensure that wildlife, especially endangered species, did not become extinct.
"We cannot be like hunters in the olden days. We should instead protect wildlife, while the state must make serious effort to prevent the extinction of wildlife from poaching," he said.Tunku Ibrahim was speaking at the launching of the logo for the Kembara Mahkota Johor Jelajah Pedalaman 2009, a riding expedition on superbikes into Johor's interior, and a wildlife conservation project, here, today.
At the function, Tunku Ibrahim who is the patron of the Johor Wildlife Conservation Project, also witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the state government and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Universiti Sains Malaysia, the Wildlife Conservation Society and Aquawalk Sdn Bhd.The expedition from July 4 to 7 and led by the Johor Tunku Mahkota, will take the group of 150 riders on a 1,030km journey and into 11 Orang Asli villages and three Malay traditional villages.
The group which includes state leaders and heads of department, will focus on wildlife conservation projects by learning about the life of the Orang Asli as some of them have been helping poachers and traders of wildlife.Meanwhile, Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said the state government had taken a number of initiatives to protect and preserve the state's flora and fauna."Johor was the first state in the peninsula to have set up an agency specially to gazette and safeguard a protected natural forest, the Johor National Park."Since the Johor National Parks Corporation Enactment was enforced in 1989, the state government had gazetted 77,000 hectares of land including the mountain range, wetlands and the group of islands off Mersing as the Johor National Park," he said

Sunday, June 14, 2009

JPA3 To Help Enhance Unity

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KLUANG, The functions of the Civil Defence Department (JPA3) will be upgraded from that of a support service in disaster rescue operations, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.Set up during the emergency, he said JPA3 could help realise the 1Malaysia concept and ease the burden of the police in maintaining public order.

He said as the country faced a new socio-political landscape, racial unity could still be threatened.
"So we need to see the challenge in a bigger context in order to enhance unity. This is not a rhetoric or merely empty talks and JPA3 could help enhance unity," he told reporters after launching a marriage enhancement programme organised by the Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) near Paloh here Saturday.Hishammuddin, who is also Member of Parliament for Sembrong, said the upgrading of the image would not burden JPA3 and efforts must be made to attract the younger generation to join the department.

On attempts to revive the Al-Arqam deviationist teaching through the internet, he said the ministry would not compromise on the matter in the interest of national security.
"However, we have to investigate the matter first and not rely entirely on what had been posted on the internet," he said when commenting on a newspaper report on news clips of former Al-Arqam leader Ashaari Muhammad in the Youtube.On fights between convicts and warders at the Sungai Buloh Prison on Wednesday, Hishammuddin said he was still waiting for a report on the investigation into the case.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

RM200 Million Needed For Sg Muar Flood Mitigation Project

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SEGAMAT, Implementation of the first phase of the Sungai Muar flood mitigation project to address flood problems in Segamat, which will be carried out under the 10th Malaysia Plan, requires an allocation of RM200 million, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Douglas Unggah Embas said.He said the amount did not include RM11 million which had been spent for a study carried out on the proposed project by a consultant appointed by the Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID).
He said the components involved in the proposed flood mitigation project would include building of a retention pond and a 1.5 km channel to divert water from Sungai Segamat to Sungai Genuang."If the federal government approves the fund, we will start the project under the 10th Malaysia Plan to overcome flood problems in Segamat town and the surrounding areas which have been badly affected by the floods in 2006," he told a press conference after being briefed on the proposed project by DID Flood Mitigation Director Zainorrahim Rahim here Friday.
He said DID was also conducting studies on a similar project to overcome flood problems at Sungai Batu Pahat, Mersing, Sungai Johor, Sungai Kluang and the Iskandar Development Region.


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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Kulim expand Operations In Solomon Islands

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JOHOR BAHRU, Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd has identified more than 10,000 hectares of land in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands for the development of new oil palm plantations, its chairman Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim said today.The company's aggressive expansion in the two countries will be undertaken by its subsidiary companies New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) and Ramu Agri-Industries Ltd.
"The group has identified a new plantation area of about 6,000 hectares in PNG, where planting is scheduled to take off end of this year."In the Solomon Islands, it has identified 4,100 hectares of land next to an existing plantation and planting here is expected to start on 1,000 hectares first," he told reporters after the company's annual general meeting here today.Currently, Kulim owns 83,000 hectares of plantation land in Malaysia, PNG and Solomon Islands and expects to double its hectarage in the two foreign countries in 10 years.
Muhammad Ali said following the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification, the company has started negotiations with several parties in Europe for the sustainable supply of palm oil.The company's new mill in Liverpool, United Kingdom is expected to start operations early next year and this is expected to boost market prospects for the company's product in Europe.Kulim also expects to open two more processing plants in PNG in 2010 and 2012, he said.
Earlier, Muhammad Ali announced that the company's pre-tax profit for the first quarter of 2009 had declined by 39.23 percent compared with the corresponding period of last year. He attributed the lower performance to the difficult operations for oleochemicals faced by its subsidiary, Natural Oleochemicals Sdn Bhd (NatOleo).However, although its pre-tax profit fell to RM129.32 million compared with RM212.79 million last year, its revenue went up 54.33 percent to RM463.46 million, Muhammad Ali said.NatOleo faced difficult operations in the first quarter, registering a loss of RM26.91 million."This was caused by the cancellation in contracts where the cost of the main raw material was high."
The situation is however expected to get better and NatOleo is expected to register profits in the second quarter of 2009, he added.Its subsidiary, KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd (KFCH) meanwhile has also received the greenlight from Yum! restaurant in India to open 12 KFC restaurants in Mumbai and Pune by end of next year.KFCH will spend US$10 million to open the restaurants in India.QSR Brands and KFCH are also expected to spend RM48 million to open up more KFC and Pizza Hut outlets nationwide in line with the growing demand in market, he added.


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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

LEDANG Furniture City Complex

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TANGKAK, A RM300 million furniture city complex will be built near the proposed site for the new administrative centre for Ledang district in Jalan Muar-Bukit Kangkar, here, soon.Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said the creation of the furniture city was to support development efforts in the new administrative centre.

The 220,000 sq metre-complex is to promote Johor as a major furniture producer in the country.
"Although the complex is called furniture city, 15 per cent of its size will be allocated for the textile business, in line with Tangkak being known as textile town."The state government plans to turn the area around the new district administrative centre into a commercial area," Ghani told reporters after visiting storm victims from the affected villages in Serom, here, today.

He said the building of the new administrative centre would also be accompanied by projects to build 'honeycomb' homes where each house would share a compound.In the storm two days ago, 50 houses in Kampung Serom Lima, Serom Enam, Serom Lapan, Parit Pulai and Kampung Melayu Raya were damaged, while electric cables snapped and telephone lines got disconnected.
Ghani, who is Umno Ledang division chief, said assistance would be given to the affected villagers.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Johor-Singapore Third Link Proposal

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KOTA TINGGI, Local residents welcome the building of a third bridge linking Johor and Singapore from the east side of the state as proposed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as it will spur economic growth in Pengerang and Desaru."Hopefully, with the bridge, more foreign tourists will come to Pengerang and Desaru," Pengerang Fishermen's Association acting chairman Abu Bakar Mohamad told Bernama Friday.

He said the arrival of more tourists especially to Desaru, known for its beautiful, long beach, would boost the tourism industry in this part of Johor.
According to Abu Bakar, Pengerang, although not as well-known as Desaru, was popular with Singaporeans for its fresh seafood, especially lobsters.

Najib at a press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday that Malaysia had proposed to the republic to build a new bridge linking east Johor with the island republic.
The new bridge, according to Najib, would further facilitate the movement of people, goods and services between the two countries.Najib who arrived in Singapore last evening for a two-day official visit, said the new bridge would also spur development in east Johor like Pengerang and Desaru which had big economic potential.


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Monday, May 18, 2009

Singapore Tanker Catches Fire

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JOHOR BAHRU, A tanker carrying about 2,000 tonnes of used oil caught fire about 3.3 nautical miles off Pengerang, Kota Tinggi, near here Monday.Region II Marine Operations Force Head of the Intelligence Division DSP Rosman Ismail said 15 of 17 crewmen were rescued in the 11am incident.
Five of them are seriously injured while two Indonesian crew identified only as Mustakim and Salehuddin, are still missing."The fire caused oil spill but it is not serious," Rosman said.
The crewmen, comprising 15 Indonesians and two Chinese nationals jumped into the sea when the tanker owned by a Singapore company caught fire.Ten of them were rescued by the Marine Operations Force at about 11.10am while five others were rescued by the Singapore coast guard several minutes later.Heavy rain doused the fire on the ship which was registered in San Lorenzo, Argentina.The ship was carrying used oil from Indonesia to Singapore and had moored there since four days ago.Explosions were heard during the fire.


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Sunday, May 17, 2009

New Ferry Services from Johor to Singapore

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KOTA TINGGI, New routes for the ferry services between Johor Tenggara and Singapore which officially began Saturday would help boost tourism activities in Johor, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.He said the new routes which were approved on March, helped link the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal in Singapore with the Tanjung Pengelih Ferry Terminal and Public Marina Complex in Pengerang and the Stulang Laut Ferry Terminal in Johor Baharu.

Ong said the new routes would also complement the existing ferry services between Changi in Singapore and Tanjung Belungkur, Johor."The opening of the new routes will definitely boost the economic activities in Johor Tenggara and its nearby areas especially in the tourism field," he told reporters after the launch of the Tanjung Pengelih Ferry Terminal and Public Marina Complex, here.

The construction of the complex started in Jan 2008 and was fully completed early last year involving a cost of RM39 million.With an integrated system involving the Marine, Immigration, Customs and Health Departments as well as a 20-berth marina with landing ramp which can accommodate various size of yachts and recreational boats, the complex is expected to become a major attraction for yachting activities and marine tourism.


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