Jabatan Perikanan lancar kempen Laut Bebas Plastik
KUANTAN: Jabatan Perikanan Malaysia melancarkan kempen ‘Laut Bebas Plastik’ dalam usaha memastikan perairan negara ini bebas daripada bahan tersebut yang mampu menjejaskan jumlah dan kualiti tangkapan hasil laut nelayan.Ketua Pengarahnya Mohd Sufian Sulaiman berkata usaha itu dilaksanakan dengan kerjasama agensi berkaitan termasuk Jabatan Alam Sekitar, pertubuhan bukan kerajaan dan persatuan nelayan. “Kita perlu menyelamatkan hidupan […]
Tun M saman Zahid berhubung isu ‘kutty’
KUALA LUMPUR – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad memfailkan saman terhadap Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi atas dakwaan mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur fitnah berhubung isu ‘kutty’ membabitkan bekas perdana menteri itu. Dr Mahathir, 97, selaku plaintif memfailkan saman fitnah itu menerusi Tetuan Haidir & Co pada 20 Julai lepas di Mahkamah Tinggi di sini dengan menamakan […]
TCS Group secures RM108.38mil contract from IOI City Hotel
KUALA LUMPUR: TCS Group Holdings Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, TCS Construction Sdn Bhd, has secured a RM108.38 million contract from IOI City Hotel Sdn Bhd. In a statement today, TCS said the contract is for the construction and completion of one block of 19-storey main building works from the ground floor to the roof of the […]
Shell cuts output at German Rhineland refinery due to drought
FRANKFURT, Aug 19 — Oil major Shell on Thursday said it had to cut output at its German Rhineland refining facility, which makes fuels, heating oil and petrochemicals, citing low Rhine levels that have made the transport of goods via the river more challenging. “Due to the low Rhine water level we have reduced the […]
Zelensky discusses peace in Ukraine with UN chief, Turkish president
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday discussed prospects for ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict with visiting UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Xinhua quoted the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency report. At a joint press conference after their meeting in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, Zelensky said that Kyiv is ready […]
Humans are main culprits of wildlife extinction, not palm oil: MPIC
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (MPIC) has clarified that hunting by humans was a major contributor to the decline of Bornean orangutans over the last 200 years, long before significant oil palm development began in the 1970s. In conjunction with International Orangutan Day, which is celebrated every year on Aug 19, […]
China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops in extreme heatwave
SHANGHAI, Aug 19 — China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures across the Yangtze river basin. The national ‘yellow alert’, issued late on Thursday, comes after regions from Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the […]
Lawyers condemn DBKL’s lifetime ban on Crackhouse Comedy Club owners, say sets bad precedent for power abuse
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 — Lawyers have warned that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s (DBKL) ban on a popular comedy centre in Kuala Lumpur and its owners from opening any businesses sets a bad precedent that is tantamount to power abuse and infringing the right of life that is guaranteed to all, under the Federal […]
DBKL naik taraf penghadang laluan pejalan kaki mesra OKU
KUALA LUMPUR: Laluan pejalan kaki yang dipasang penghadang atau ‘rubber bollard‘ di ibu kota akan dinaik taraf secara berperingkat bagi memudahkan orang kurang upaya (OKU) menggunakan kemudahan tersebut. Langkah yang akan diambil Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) itu adalah sebagai maklum balas terhadap penularan sebuah video mengenai kesukaran orang awam ketika melalui penghadang sedia ada. […]
