Day: September 25, 2024

MELAKA, Two motorcycles will be up for grabs for participants in the Melaka Explorace 2024 treasure hunt on Oct 5 and 6, said Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ab Rauf Yusoh. He said these prizes will be offered in the lucky draw held during the prize-giving ceremony on Oct 6. “Apart from motorcycles, various other attractive prizes including electrical items will be up for grabs in the lucky draw,” he told Bernama at Seri Negeri here today. Melaka Explorace 2024 offers a cash prize of RM10,000 for the top team in the Open category, while RM5,000 each will go to

JOHOR BAHRU, Johor is hopeful that the Federal Government will approve the RM900 million flood mitigation projects (RTB) for Sungai Mengkibol and Sungai Melantai in Kluang as a long-term solution to the flood problems faced by the local community. State Public Works, Transport, Infrastructure and Communications Committee Chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said the RM700 million Sungai Mengkibol RTB will benefit some 14,000 residents, and the RM200 million Sungai Melantai RTB, meanwhile, will benefit 2,000 residents living along the respective rivers. “Insya-Allah, if the federal government approves two RTBs worth 900 million, maybe we can solve this problem (flooding) in

JAKARTA, The Malaysian delegation’s participation in the Indonesia International Book Fair (IIBF) 2024, which will be held for five days from today (Sept 25-29), will be the best platform to internationalise Malaysian works abroad. Malaysian Institute of Translation and Books (ITBM) chief executive officer Sakri Abdullah, who is also head of the Malaysian delegation to IIBF 2024, said it is also an opportunity for the institute to establish strategic collaborations with Indonesian and other international publishers. Sakri said in addition to that, ITBM can also take advantage of the IIBF, which is themed ‘Internationalising Manuscripts of the Archipelago’ this year,

IPOH, Police have classified the case of a man killed in a house fire in a residential area in Sitiawan, Manjung, as murder. Manjung district police chief ACP Hasbullah Abd Rahman said they were informed of the fire at about 2.30am. He said after the Fire and Rescue Department brought the fire under control, a check of the house uncovered the charred remains of a man lying face down, in the living room. According to Hasbullah, the investigation found that a witness had seen a male suspect enter the house and heard a disturbance in the living room. “The suspect

KUCHING, Patience and perseverance. These are the two attributes Mohd Zulkiffli Mazeri learnt being the eldest of seven siblings. And it’s also thanks to these two attributes that he managed to overcome the tragic road accident that left him partially paralysed in 2014. He was only 19 then. That and the support of his family ensured he did not continue to feel sorry for himself for long as he realised that he had to come to terms with his condition. Little did he know too that when his family sent him to a rehabilitation centre in Melaka in 2016, it