Day: August 28, 2024

CYBERJAYA, The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is dedicated to fostering a secure, innovative, and inclusive digital ecosystem that benefits all users. The licensing requirement for social media and Internet messaging service providers (Service Providers) with a threshold of eight (8) million users was decided based on the need to regulate Service Providers with significant impact on the Malaysian digital ecosystem. The formulated class license application threshold applies to the Service Providers and no registration is required by the end users. Source: BERNAMA News Agency

KUALA LUMPUR, The search and rescue (SAR) operation for the victim of a sinkhole at Jalan Masjid India here resumed this morning, after being postponed at 7.30 pm yesterday, due to heavy rain. A Bernama survey at the location at 8 am found that the SAR team consisting of the police, fire brigade, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the Civil Defence Force (APM) are already at the scene of the incident early morning. The SAR operation, which entered its sixth day today, is understood to begin with discussions on the techniques, methods and assigning tasks besides the survey work

KUALA LUMPUR, Another sinkhole has been reported on Jalan Masjid India here, about 50 metres from where the ground suddenly collapsed, swallowing a woman pedestrian last Friday. The latest incident is said to have occurred at around 2.30 am today, believed due to the heavy rain and storm last night. However, checks at the location show that the sinkhole area has been completely cordoned off by the security team to prevent any untoward incidents. In last Friday’s incident, a woman tourist, Vijayaletchumy, 48, from Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, India, fell into an eight-metre-deep hole and disappeared. The search and rescue operation

It was just a day like any other when Associate Prof Rahimah Ibrahim received a call from her mother telling her that her 77-year-old father had fallen and had to be hospitalised. It was as if a switch had flipped. One day everything seemed normal and the next, the director of the Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing at Universiti Putra Malaysia and her siblings had to face the fact that their parents were becoming more frail. With that, came several questions. Can their parents still live on their own? Would living with one of their children be better for them

KLUANG, Two policemen from the Bomb Disposal Unit (UPB) of the Johor police contingent headquarters (IPK) who were buried while attempting to dispose of an old bomb, in Jalan Tabah, Taman Sri Lambak, here, yesterday, are in stable condition. Kluang district police chief ACP Bahrin Mohd Noh said the two personnel who were previously treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Enche’ Besar Hajjah Khalsom Hospital (HEBHK) here have been transferred to a normal ward. He said the two policemen are Corporal Abdul Halim, 39, who reportedly fractured the hip bone and three left ribs, while Corporal Muhammad Faruuqi