Category: General

BUTTERWORTH, Penang Port Sdn Bhd is expected to exceed a container handling capacity of 1.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) by the end of this year, said its chief executive officer Datuk Sasedharan Vasudevan. He said the target was slightly higher than last year’s 1.44 million TEUs despite the company facing various challenges such as geopolitical crisis and shortage of containers throughout the year. ‘The Red Sea crisis came to light post-April and it made a huge impact on us as we lost about 20,000-70,000 containers during that period,’ he told reporters in a presentation here today, adding that Penang

KUALA LUMPUR, Police arrested a foreign national who is believed to have deliberately rushed at and jumped on several moving vehicles, causing an accident in Bandar Sungai Long, Kajang, last Tuesday. Kajang District Police chief ACP Naazron Abdul Yusof said the man, an illegal immigrant, was nabbed at the residential area at 6 pm today. He said the arrest was made after police detected a 14-second viral video on Facebook belonging to “DashCam Malaysia” which showed the incident. “The incident is believed to have happened on Sept 17 at 11.53 am. The suspect, who only suffered minor injuries, left the

SERDANG, Over 85,000 seedlings were sold during the Malaysian Agriculture, Horticulture, and Agrotourism (MAHA) 2024 exhibition, enough to utilise a total land area of 839 hectares. Agriculture Department director-general Datuk Nor Sam Alwi said that the figure represented a 17 per cent increase compared to the sales value of seedlings at MAHA 2022. ‘This includes sales from the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) and the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI),’ he told reporters after the closing ceremony of MAHA 2024 today. He noted that the seedlings sold included Musang King and Black Thorn durians, pearl rambutans, and cempedak,

IPOH, The water quality in Sungai Bernam, Selangor, remains in good condition, with no oil traces or abnormal odours detected as of early this morning, says the Selangor Water Management Authority (LUAS). In a post on its official Facebook page, LUAS shared the update following a diesel oil spill incident in the upper reaches of Sungai Slim in Perak, which was reported to them last night. “LUAS and Air Selangor teams conducted continuous monitoring throughout the night along Sungai Slim, Sungai Bernam, and the Bernam River Headworks (BRH) water treatment plant intake, where water quality, including odour levels, was analysed

PUTRAJAYA, Educational institutions under the Ministry of Education (MOE) affected by floods and designated as relief centres (PPS) will continue the learning process using the home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) method. The ministry said that schools would notify the parents or guardians of the affected students regarding this matter. ‘For students at relief centres within school premises, the state education departments (JPN) and district education offices (PPD) have mobilised the Smart Support Team (SST) and Academic Support Team (AST) to assist students with counselling and learning,’ it said in a statement today. As of yesterday, five primary schools and one