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Shafie: Can’t

force PBS to

collaborate The widow of Darius Binion placing a wreath.

Larry Ralon ates Warisan’s interest to work with PBS in No let-up in finding closure
the coming 15th General Election, the old-
KOTA KINABALU: est multiracial party in Sabah chooses to Sherell Jeffrey He and the rest of Sabah, he added, are present at the commemoration.
Parti Warisan Sabah be totally committed to GRS. still waiting for the full release of the “The response I received from the Aus-
(Warisan) President KOTA KINABALU: The tragedy, which he believes has been de-
Datuk Seri Mohd “We in PBS value the political gesture of State Government will classified. tralia National Archive is that the report
Shafie Apdal (pic) Warisan and its President. But as a local continue pushing for will not be released in order to maintain
regrets Parti Bersatu seasoned multiracial party, we are fully the release of the full “There is no reason why the report Australia’s relationship with Malaysia.
Sabah’s (PBS) deci- committed and totally loyal as a founda- investigation findings should not be made public in its entirety.
sion not to collaborate but stay tion member of GRS and its partners,” said into the Nomad plane For the pleasure and peace of the people “If the Malaysian Government agrees to
loyal to Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Ongkili. tragedy in Sembulan of Sabah, particularly the families of the the report’s release, I don’t see the Aus-
(GRS) but predicts the coalition waters 46 years ago, which killed newly- victims, we request that a thorough and tralian National Archive having any rea-
may end up like what happened to The Minister in the Prime Minister’s De- elected Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens detailed report be released and an- sonable objections,” he said.
his Warisan-Plus Pakatan Harapan partment (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) and 10 others, including four of his minis- nounced,” he said.
State Government. added that the political struggle of GRS, as ters. Yong said the Federal Government
expounded by its Chairman Datuk Seri Ha- Former Chief Minister Datuk Seri Yong does not appear to be responding, noting
“We have stated our intention. But if jiji Noor at its launching last month, was “I mentioned this in Parliament last Teck Lee, who spoke about the issue dur- numerous speeches made by other Mem-
that is what they (PBS) want we cannot not only noble and timeless, but also year and received a letter from the Federal ing the last State Legislative Assembly ses- bers of Parliament on the subject in the
force them, it is up to them. I only want to rakyat-based. Government stating this matter will be dis- sion, said the current chief minister’s offi- past.
say that we want to align with a local cussed in the Cabinet,” said Deputy Chief cial response is that they will consider it.
party,” he told a press conference at “We invite Warisan and supporters to Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan “I hope the GRS-BN government in
Warisan headquarters in Kolombong, subscribe to the same goals to truly de- (pic), after the wreath-laying ceremony at “It’s just a simple question of the State Sabah will officially ask the Federal Gov-
Tuesday afternoon. velop Sabah and secure a prosperous and the Double Six Monument Memorial in Government informing the Federal Gov- ernment to tell the Australian Govern-
safe State, free from illegals.” Sembulan on Monday (top pic). ernment to disclose the report,” said the ment to release the report on behalf of the
He was commenting on PBS President Nominated Assemblyman, who was also people of Sabah,” he said.
Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili who said He added that any respected local po-
the party is and will remain loyal to the lo- litical party in Sabah can subscribe to the See Page 2, Col. 1
cal political coalition, GRS. goals and aspirations of GRS without seek-
ing to be a member of the GRS family. Express earns praise
Mohd Shafie said he sees GRS as only a
coalition of people of Sabah but led by “The need for such political collabora- for ground-breaking
Bersatu which is from Kuala Lumpur. tion and partnership has never been so ur-
gent than ever before, especially coopera- Double Six documentary
“So what does it mean? It is different tion and solidarity in political unity, not
from what is happening in Sarawak where only in Sabah but also with Sarawak as Kan Yaw Chong The Nomad airplane, similar to the one that
the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) are all well, i.e. Malaysian Borneo.
local parties. None of the parties in their KOTA KINABALU: A 45-mimute screening of crashed, still in service for aerial mapping.
coalition are registered in the peninsula. Mohd Shafie also said it is up to DAP if
it doesn’t want to talk to Warisan but ad- the June 6, 1976 crash generated rave reviews Put remaining Nomad
“Because we know if there is such a vised it to not be too arrogant.
coalition, it will be like what happened from prominent invitees and members of the
during our time in Pakatan Harapan. That “It should not be one way traffic. If want public at the Double Six Memorial Hall on
time, I asked that we bring up the 40 per to discuss, we discuss. There should not be
cent (revenue sharing formula) at a com- a condition set that you can only talk un- Monday. at site, urges Yong
mittee chaired by then Prime Minister Tun less and until you give the seats...that is “Simply excellent,” said former Chief Min-
Dr Mahathir Mohamad so it can be re- one way traffic.
turned to Sabah as enshrined in the Con- ister Datuk Yong Teck Lee on his impression of
stitution. “We cannot be too arrogant. Our pur-
pose is to win, so discuss it like previously the documentary, a joint effort by Executive Producer Dexter Yeh
“We all agreed on this at State-level, but before we faced the 14th State Election (pic) and Chief Editor James Sarda, who penned the script. James FORMER CM Datuk Yong (pic) said it will be rele-
when it reached Kuala Lumpur, we fol- (PRN14). We discuss to the best of our abil- vant and meaningful if Sabah Air’s remaining No-
lowed our respective party’s decision. ities on the seat distribution, our direc- also did most of the interviews, assisted by senior reporter mad aircraft – that was acquired by the then Usno
tion, our approaches...but not like this, just Sherell Jeffrey, while Dexter put everything together. Government in 1975 at the same time as the one
“We raised the matter (40 per cent) in by saying oh these three seats are ours,” he that crashed – is stationed at Sembulan’s Double
the said committee, but they all rejected it said, to DAP Sec-Gen Anthony Loke’s con- “I am looking forward to the full two-hour story and get more Six memorial site. He said the aircraft, probably the
and even suggested it be increased to dition. people to watch it on YouTube,” Yong said after the premiere. only one left in the world today that is still in one
RM56 million only, an increase of just piece, is still in service occasionally used for mapping missions.
RM30 million. Loke said DAP was willing to work with Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Agriculture, Datuk Seri
other Sabah parties as long as they re- Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, said: “I saw the aircraft fly a few years ago, and I understand it’s still
“When there is such a coalition, when tained the right to contest the three parlia- in good shape, but it’s probably not appealing to use for other
we raise something in the State Cabinet, mentary seats it holds, namely Tenom, “It was great. We saw many things we haven’t seen before and commercial purposes. I’ll propose to the Sabah Government and
we all agree at the State-level, but they fol- Sandakan and Kota Kinabalu. yet I hunger for the closure. There are many questions but it is Sabah Air that this remaining Nomad aircraft be parked at the
low their respective party when it reaches good at least we see many things.
Kuala Lumpur. “The big tent is not for the intention of
the big tent. It is important for us to pro- “Daily Express did a wonderful job,” said former Deputy Chief
“That is the problem. Even though they vide a choice to the people of this country.
are also Sabahans, because their parties We are having a leadership crisis in Minister cum Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Double Six Memorial Site.
are DAP, PKR and Bersatu, the party comes Malaysia, we need leadership who can Datuk Christina Liew.
first before the wishes of the people of bring our country forward, to help im- “It should be cordoned off so no one can enter. The goal is to
Sabah. prove our economy, to unite the people, “For the first time, they presented to the public the whole pic- give people a sense of what the aircraft looks like, and the major
especially in facing the impending eco- ture, from what happened the day before the crash as well as point is to demonstrate that the second Nomad aircraft of the same
“That is why GRS would only be in nomic crisis. post-crash.
name. We are aware and we know where make is still capable of flying after all these years,” he said.
its direction will be,” said Mohd Shafie. “I predict a world recession next year. “This is very meaningful to the people of Sabah because it is He believes it will have a greater meaning for everyone, espe-
And don’t tell that to Malaysia, where the the greatest, saddest tragedy in Sabah and most important to the cially the victims’ families and the future generation, as well as for
Ongkili had also said while he appreci- economy is so strong, that the impact will families of the victims who are talking about closure.
not be there. tourism and history buffs.

See Page 2, Col. 5 “If there is one, it would heal and life goes on and moves on. “Many members of the younger generation are unaware of the

Daily Express did a wonderful job.” Double Six tragedy; it is not in the school syllabus, and they only

Datuk Mohd Noor Mansor, former Finance Minister in the know about it on social media. It is gaining popularity in part be-

Berjaya Government, rated the documentary as “very good, cause young people use social media to ask questions, and in part

Court action against defectors something which we never learnt before.” because of mainstream media coverage, such as the Daily Express,

“I wasn’t there at the time, I was under the ISA (Internal Secu- which conducted a series of interviews with family members and

rity Act) remember? They (under Usno State Government) put others, and as a result, there is a growing interest in the subject.
me in jail for several months. That’s why what I gathered was “The Daily Express did an outstanding job the last year raising
SHAFIE said Warisan would need to build many had been trying to weaken it. what I heard only but this is very informative,” Mohd Noor said. awareness and attention about this issue, and I hope the State Gov-
its house after six elected representatives He reminded Rina that she only won He was released soon after Berjaya defeated Usno in the State ernment accepts the proposal to park this second Nomad aircraft
left, the latest being Kukusan assembly- at the memorial site, in time before the next Double Six Memorial
woman Rina Jainal who joined unknown with a majority of 10 votes in the last elec- election and rose to become a Deputy CM.
Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah on Sunday. tion, adding the party had helped her Dexter in his speech said it was his first attempt at film mak- event. Rather than just flying it as a mapping aircraft, it will add
painstakingly during the election as the ing. “Something of this nature is truly a huge test but very re- more value to the aircraft if it is parked here. After all, the Double
Others who have quit since the 2020 struggles of Warisan involved a lot of sac- warding in the end. Daily Express always believes that we should Six tragedy is part of our history,” he said.
Sabah State Elections were Lahad Datu MP rifices in order to bring changes to the dig deeper beneath the surface of a story to seek out the truth Daily Express understands that because the manufacturer had
cum Segama assemblyman Datuk Mo- people of Sabah and Malaysia. ceased decades ago, the remaining Nomad is relying on parts from
hamaddin Ketapi, Melalap assemblyman and being the only Sabahan-owned newspaper in the State, this unknown sources, making it risky for prolonged use.
Peter Anthony, Sebatik assemblyman Has- As the 15th General Election is ap- is a story for all Sabahans as told by Sabahans.
san A Gani Pg Amir, Sindumin assembly- proaching, Shafie urged the people to As for critical parts, it would need permission from both the
man Datuk Dr Yusof Yaacob and Limbahau bring drastic changes in the country so “It is the most ambitious project in the history of Daily Ex- Australian authorities to have them fabricated elsewhere based on
assemblyman Juil Nuatim. that they can put Malaysia in a reform sys- press,” Dexter said, adding it took years of going through docu- the original design as well as certified safe for use by Malaysian Avi-
tem. ments and evidence to put it together. It is also the first time that ation before being fitted into the aircraft.
“For the elected representatives that a Sabah paper made a documentary, let alone one on an issue
have left Warisan, we will take court action “Malaysia is a multiracial country, what that is major and complex. Australia’s Government Aircraft Factory (GAF) that built the
because they have signed an agreement is important is not race and religion, but twin-engine Nomads that were designed to even land in a football
and made a pledge with the party,” said the issues that are close to the people such Tracing what prompted the idea, Dexter said the entire proj- field ceased operations in 1995 following 19 crashes and 56 deaths
Shafie. as the prices of goods, health, education ect actually started from knowing that some of the Sembulan vil- in its 20-year history, mostly flight engineers and technicians who
and employment,” he said.
On Rina, Shafie said he was told that lagers who retrieved the first six bodies soon as the plane even labelled it “the Widow Maker”.
she had signed a document but had no These are the concerns of the people crashed, were still around and in their late 50s and 60s.
idea “how much she get” which they can- who are not interested on the political par- Among those who died in a test flight crash of an expanded pro-
not prevent. He said Warisan in Tawau, ties forming coalition or tents here and “Many people assumed it was the Bomba, firemen, or police totype in Australia – ironically two months after the Double Six
Kalabakan is still strong even though there, but no solutions to address coun- but actually it’s these water village kids then who were there that tragedy – were two of the four Australian experts who came to
try’s economy woes which is getting worse. actually kick-started the project.
Sabah to investigate the Double Six tragedy of June 6, 1976.
See Page 2, Col. 1
That crash occurred on August 6, 1976.

2 Local YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 dailyexpress

Scientific China can help reduce food imports: SUCCC

study on KOTA KINABALU: A trade, foreign investment and financial co- has good lands and can leverage on China’s showed China’s demand for palm oil is
recent meet between operation. advanced agricultural technology that will growing strongly, which makes Sabah’s
Taliwas China Foreign Minis- definitely reduce the dependence on the im- palm oil even more important to China.
ter He Wang Yi and “I hope the State Government can formu- port of planted food.
River to Deputy Chief Minis- late new ideas for bilateral cooperation soon “China and Sabah are already traditional
ter Datuk Seri Dr Jef- as possible, and lead each field to bring He said the re-import will become the friendly partners. In the face of major
promote area frey G. Kitingan may about a new economic outlook and great mainstream export, which will be more self- changes in the international situation, it also
see new ideas on mu- changes in the future and increase perform- sufficient, and improve the economic life of brings more new opportunities. We must
KOTA KINABALU: Yayasan Sabah Group tual benefits and ance,” he said. civilians. seize the opportunity,” he said.
(YSG) has stepped up its conservation ef- trade promotion,
forts by hosting a scientific exploration in said Sabah United Chinese Chamber of Andrew, who is also a member of the “During the meeting, Wang Yi men- He said the cooperation initiated by
the Taliwas River Conservation Area Commerce (SUCCC) President Tan Sri An- Sabah Economic Advisory Committee tioned that China is particularly interested China truly connects all countries and is mu-
(TRCA) to promote TRCA as a well-known drew Liew (pic). (SEAC), said this during the meeting be- in Sabah’s oil palm and is willing to explore tually beneficial.
research and tourist destination in Sabah. tween Wang Yi and Jeffery, here, on Friday. its investment opportunities.”
Liew said China has made great achieve- “It adheres to the principle of extensive
TRCA is 36km from Lahad Datu and ments in major fields such as international Andrew, who is also Vice President of the Liew also pointed out that China is one of consultation, joint contribution and shared
45km from the Danum Valley Conserva- Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce the world’s palm oil importers which Wang benefits, and seeks a sunny road for com-
tion Area’s eastern end. It includes the and Industry Malaysia (ACCCIM), said Sabah Yi mentioned in the meeting and this mon development,” said Liew.
Segama River Forest Reserve, which is next
to the Sepagaya Forest Reserve (containing Tribute to 2015 quake victims
Silam Hill) and the Dara Kawang-Gibong
Forest Reserve, and covers a unique low- Clarence Dol climbers,” he said. Family members of the earthquake victims taking turns in
land and ultramafic forest region of 9,546 Peter said the event was to give support
hectares. RANAU: The four mountain guides and 14 placing flowers at the memorial stone of the 2015 tragedy.
climbers who lost their lives in the earth- to family members who lost their loved
On May 10, 2012, this area was up- quake in 2015 were remembered in the 7th ones as a result of the disaster and then with boost and encouragement to continue their crease that has been agreed to,” he said.
graded to a Class I (Protection) Forest Re- Annual Mountain Kinabalu Earthquake Vic- them to pay tribute and commemorate
serve and added to the management area tims Commemoration Ceremony held here those who left us as the heroes of Mount excellent service. On behalf of the Board of Trustees of
of the Danum Valley Management Com- on Sunday. Kinabalu.
mittee. “However, before this increase is imple- Sabah Parks, Peter thanked all the family
During the event, Sabah Parks Trustee He said the ceremony was not meant to mented, the Malim Gunung Association members of the victims who spent time at
“Yayasan Sabah Group took the initia- Board Deputy Chairman Peter Lintar said the relive the sad event, but part of Sabah Park’s must prepare standard operating proce- the memorial and made the event more
tive to conduct this TRCA scientific explo- tragedy on June 5 was a black event that will commitment and responsibility to remem- dures (SOPs) for the management and oper- meaningful.
ration to study the biodiversity, natural re- not go away in the history of Sabah, espe- ber and appreciate the contributions of the ation of Malim Gunung services so that the
sources and potential of TRCA in order to cially around Mount Kinabalu. management team of all the Mount Kina- role and responsibilities of Malim Gunung Also present were Board of Trustees of
formulate development plans and conser- balu climbers. Sabah Parks member Gabriel Sinit, Sabah
vation activities in the area,” said Yayasan “The earthquake measuring 6.0 on the
Sabah Director and Innoprise Corpora- Richter scale left a huge impact that changed “They are the heroes of Mount Kinabalu are clearer and more transparent. Parks Director Dr Maklarin Lakim, heads of
tion Sdn Bhd Executive Chairman Dato’ Sri the natural landscape of Mount Kinabalu. who perished while trying to save the “The preparation of the SOPs is impor- State and Federal Government departments
Gulamhaidar @ Yusof Khan Bahadar. climbers from the disaster,” he said. and agencies, and family members of Malim
“The disaster affected the lives and econ- tant to ensure the quality of Malim Gunung Gunung who perished in the tragedy.
“This scientific exploration will take omy of many, including communities, He congratulated the Organising Com- services is commensurate with the wage in-
place from June 7 to 17 and will be divided traders, homestay and tourism operators, in- mittee of the Search and Rescue Simulation
into five primary topics: physical science, cluding Sabah Parks. (SAR) of Mount Kinabalu Series - 3 /2022 for
flora diversity, fauna diversity, social sci- being able to organise the brief ceremony.
ence and resource utilisation,” he said dur- “Among the most affected were the com-
ing the exploration’s flag-off ceremony at munities living around Mount Kinabalu, es- “The Sabah Parks management is aware
the Podium, Menara Tun Mustapha, here, pecially those who depended on Mount Kin- that the duties and responsibilities of Moun-
Tuesday. abalu climbing activities such as Malim Gu- tain Guides and Porters who always face un-
nung and Porter Gunung Kinabalu. expected risks.
“The information gathered during this
exploration is critical in developing TRCA’s “They had lost their source of income for “Thus, in appreciation of the contribu-
strategic management plan. Researchers, almost half a year when Mount Kinabalu tions and commitment of Malim Gunung
research assistants and YSG workers as climbing activities were halted. and Porter Gunung Kinabalu, the manage-
support staff made up a total of 166 partic- ment of Sabah Parks has basically agreed to
ipants in this investigation,” he said. “However, what is most sad and difficult increase the wages of Malim Gunung and
to forget is that the disaster had claimed the Porter in the hope that it will give them a
In other words, this scientific investiga- lives of four mountain guides and 14
tion is emphasising conservation and
preservation in order to improve the effec- The cargo boat detained.
tiveness of the country’s forest biodiversity
resources management, protection and Florence Boat loaded
development in a sustainable manner. The Male Efficient performing one of Justin’s songs.
with RM161,000
“I am convinced that this exploration 800 fans pack Justin tribute concert
will yield a number of noteworthy discov- goods detained
eries, including new species of flora and Jinni Juanis They almost could not accept the fact that he have contributed to the emergences of
fauna,” he said. is no longer around. When they finally Kadazan society and people of Sabah. Who in Tawau
KOTA KINABALU: Some 800 fans packed the learned to come to terms over his departure, knows, it will be a survival guide for our fu-
To ensure the smooth running of the Justin Stimol tribute concert on Sunday that the agonising question remains – what’s left? ture generations,” she added. Lagatah Toyos
programme, an organising committee was traced the life of the pioneer Kadazan
formed, with YSG as the main organiser, as crooner. She said Justin never stopped working, TME takes Justin’s songs to the next level TAWAU: Marine police detained a cargo
well as participation from various govern- even until the eve of his twilight age. through choral performances with a musical boat loaded with various controlled items
ment departments and non-governmental It began with a speech on how The Male- arrangement of three talents such as Beatrice and cosmetics, estimated to be worth
organisations such as the Sabah Forestry Efficient (TME) men’s choir was motivated to “There are still many unpublished poems, Anne, Fabian Philips and Juanita Tommy. RM161,000, in Sungai Melayu waters, here,
Department, Wildlife Department, WWF- hold the concert. Justin passed away on songs and musical notations that are well The conductors are Adsone Matthew and Monday.
Malaysia, Sabah Parks and educational in- March 26. preserved in his files. The work closest to his Mitty Gabu. They were also accompanied by
stitutions such as University Malaysia heart is the cultural, political and entertain- a group called Newborn which featured the Tawau Maritime Zone Director Mar-
Sabah and University Technology Mara. His widow Datin Florence recalled her 43 ment welfare channelled through his songs sound of Tuni Sundatang. itime Captain Shahrizan Raman said the
years with Justin. and music. boat’s 27-year-old local skipper was also de-
He expressed gratitude to the depart- All Justin’s songs were given new breath tained after he failed to produce a permit
ments and institutions that worked to- “He was a very special person who made “As a musician, lyricist and composer, all such as Aiso Pongusin, Hamid Doid Penam- for the goods he was carrying on the boat.
gether to make this exploration a success. an effort to include his family in all activities his ideas come, normally, at midnight and pang, Bimbizangan, Gambal Ku Kininis Nu, Oi
and events that he attended and performed. early in the morning. Most of the time, he Sadi, Sonsomido and Huguan Siou Za during He said a team on patrol duty detected
“We hope to continue working to- Ever since our children were still small, we goes to bed and wakes up early depending the performance. the suspicious boat heading towards Pu-
gether in the future.  We wish you success made sure to bring them together on tours on when ‘the muse’ calls,” she said. lau Sebatik from Batu 3.
in conducting research in this exploration and even for video recordings. Justin gained much recognition interna-
and generating a successful study,” he said She said Justin is a cultural agent who was tionally, especially in Hungary and the “A search on the boat found 50 LPG gas
to the participants. “Our family was like ‘belangkas’. We were devoted to this field for seven decades since United States. barrels, 2,400kg granulated sugar, 1,480kg
not easily separated. Inseparable at best. the 1950s. She hoped documentation of the frozen meat and more than 100 boxes of
Three former Wherever one goes, all will follow. Whether songs and lyrics that he composed as well as Proceeds from sponsorship and dona- various types of cosmetics,” he said.
family gatherings, events, shopping or sim- performances will be continued. tions obtained from the concert would be
CMs involved ply for makan-makan. We prayed together, channelled to the establishment of the He said the skipper along with the boat
especially in the last two years before his last “These documentations will help others Datuk Justin Stimol Gallery at their fam- and items were brought to the Tawau Mar-
in documentary breath,” she said. to learn the significance of their cultural and ily home in Kampung Hungab, Penam- itime Jetty for further investigations.
historical value through the language, text, pang.
From Page One She said the first 40 days of losing her influences, stories, music and videos that The case is being investigated under the
“They shared with us their experience husband were the most difficult and hardest. Customs Act 1967, the Control of Supply
in being the first at the scene and remov- Act 1961 and the Drugs and Cosmetics
ing the bodies off the plane. Ghapur tells MACC: Probe Rina’s case Control Regulations 1984.
“We are proud to tell their story, which
was one of the many untold stories sur- Lagatah Toyos “The act of jumping party is a betrayal of “I’m not saying she was being ‘bought’, but Meanwhile, Shahrizan said in the second
rounding the tragedy. The aim is to re- the people who voted for her in the last elec- the reason given was quite dubious and that’s quarter of 2022, the Tawau Maritime Zone
mind Sabahans now and in future not to TAWAU: Former Kal- tion. I ask the MACC to investigate if there is why we want an immediate investigation by made 36 arrests for various offences in 1,222
forget this tragic part of Sabah’s history. abakan Member of an element of corruption between the parties the MACC,” Ghapur said. routine inspections in Tawau waters.
“It is truly sad what the families had Parliament Datuk Seri involved.
gone through – wives lost their husbands, Abdul Ghapur Salleh Rina, who won with a majority of 10 votes He said enforcement duties to combat
children their fathers and some may not (pic) urged the “The reason given by Rina is irrelevant be- in the last State Election (PRN), announced law-breaking activities in the Malaysian
live to know the truth behind the crash.” Malaysian Anti-Cor- cause as an elected representative, she must her decision to quit Parti Warisan (Warisan) Maritime Zone, especially in the Eastern
Dexter praised Toh Puan Rahimah ruption Commission provide the best service in accordance with and join Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah (Hara- waters of Sabah (Esszone), would continue
Stephens, widow of the late Tun Fuad, (MACC) to investigate the given mandate. Does she mean that if she pan Rakyat) last Sunday. to be carried out from time to time.
who also passed away recently, for agree- the case of Kukusan does not jump, she can no longer serve the
ing to be part of the project. Assemblywoman best for the people in her constituency? She was reported to have said that his ac- Anti-Hop law
“She shared fond memories of her hus- Rina Jainal who hopped from one party to an- tion was because she wanted to focus more
band, the vision he had for Sabah as well other. “We don’t want that in every election. We on serving her constituency. From Page one
as his life as a journalist before he went can see candidates who are doing campaigns “The spill over from what is happening in
into politics,” Dexter said. He said an investigation needs to be done saying they want to defend and fight for the Parti Harapan Rakyat President Tan Sri Russia, Ukraine, what is happening in the
He said two former Chief Ministers to check if there is an element of corruption people, but when they win, they end up be- Liew Yun Fah was reported to have said that United States economy where inflation is
also supported the project through their that caused the elected representative to take traying the people, because they are easy to Rina’s participation in the party was deemed rocketing, look at the price of fuel globally,
participation, namely Tan Sri Harris such action. be bought. to give it new hope as it now has one seat in we cannot say in Malaysia we are happy be-
Mohd Salleh who succeeded Fuad and the State Assembly. cause the fuel prices are going up because
Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, who later was we are a oil-producing nation. Because this
sued by Harris in a defamation case relat- Many young interested in Double Six: Yong is revenue for the Government but what
ing to the incident. about the burden on the people,” he said.
Another former CM, Tan Sri Chong Kah From Page One He said silence has led to numerous specu- to the Chief Minister Datuk Abidin Madingkir. Mohd Shafie also urged Prime Minister
Kiat, provided encouragement as well as He said what they are hoping for is the lations and discussions over the exact cause of Also present were Johari Lok, the first Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to speed up
valuable technical advice. truth of what is in the report. “What is so sen- the crash. the Anti Hop Law Bill tabling in the Parlia-
He thanked Datuk Abidin Madingkir sitive that it cannot be released? grandson of the late Tun Fuad Stephens, Datuk ment saying the power is now in his hand
for representing Chief Minister Datuk Seri “Allow the facts to speak for themselves. He is pleased to see that many young peo- Gordon Leong who represented Datuk Salleh and no longer to the Parliament to pick the
Hajiji Nor and Datuk Mayor Norlza for al- The report was written in 1976-77, the facts ple are interested on the subject, noting the Sulong’s family, Datuk Donald Mojuntin the date to table the bill.
lowing Daily Express to use the Double were obtained in 1976, it cannot be backdated presence of the crash victims’ grandchildren son of Datuk Peter Mojuntin, Jonathan Chong “I will see that this will not only prevent
Six Gallery as the premiere venue. The or rewritten, and so the truth remains. The at the Double Six Memorial. representing Datuk Chong Thien Vun’s family party hopping but also there will be punish-
news reports on the series that were pub- facts are still there,” he said. and Datin Jikilin Binion widow to Datuk Dar- ment as a deterrent for those who still do it
lished in the Daily Express would be Meanwhile, officiating the Double Six ius Binion. in future,” he said.
placed at the gallery for the benefit of stu- wreath laying ceremony was Assistant Minister
dents, researchers and members of the
public.
Others who contributed to make the
premiere a success included Talent Shop
Sabah, Jason Jonathan, Ben Uzair and
Sutera harbour.

dailyexpress YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 Local 3

Khairy: Adequate supply of

medicines at govt facilities

Shahlemey (sixth right) and Zazali (sixth left) with the recipients of SKM’s SEPANG: There is an He had also asked the Ministry’s Secre-
development assistance at the State-level National Cooperative Day. adequate supply of tary-General, Datuk Harjeet Singh, to pre-
medicines at all gov- pare medium and long-term plans and
RM13.58m financing, ernment health fa- strategies in preparation to face a short-
cilities, said Health age in medicine supply in the MOH’s
aid for Sabah co-ops Minister Khairy Ja- health facilities.
maluddin (pic).
Anthea Peter while Koperasi Pembangunan Tanah cally ensure that cooperative legislations In a separate development, Khairy
Sungei Kelayak Berhad and Koperasi Jaya will always remain relevant to current eco- “So far, there is wanted the hospital directors and heads
KOTA KINABALU: Several cooperatives in Murni Beaufort Berhad received RM5 mil- nomic developments in and outside the no disruption, sup- of departments to report immediately if
Sabah received development assistance lion and RM6.5 million each. country,” he said during the launch of the ply of medicines is there was any shortage of manpower or
and financing facilities worth RM13.585 State-level National Cooperative Day, in always sufficient. We will continue to vacancies at their respective facilities to
million from the Malaysian Cooperative Community Development and People’s conjunction with SKM’s 100th Anniversary, monitor to ensure the stock level of med- avoid adding the workload of medical of-
Commission (SKM). Wellbeing Minister Datuk Ir Shahelmey here. icines at our facilities are sufficient,” he ficers.
Yahya, who represented Chief Minister told reporters after launching World Food
SKM Executive Chairman Zazali Haron Datuk Seri Hajiji Mohd Noor, handed over “In conjunction with the cooperative Safety Day, Tuesday. “I would not be satisfied if there is a
said six cooperatives received develop- the assistance in the form of mock movement’s 100 years of existence in complaint about the situation,” he said,
ment assistance worth RM645,000, the cheques to the recipients. Malaysia, SKM would like to see the move- Previously, the media reported that commenting on a complaint by a medical
highest being RM250,000, which was ment’s maturity to be more prominent in there was a shortage of supplies of officer who claimed his wife had to under-
awarded to Koperasi Kg Magatang With such facilities provided by the playing their role as one of the main lead- medicines and raw materials for take on-call duty daily for three months as
Keningau Berhad. Commission, Zazali urged more coopera- ers of driving the country’s socio econom- pharmaceutical products due to high de- her colleague had gone on maternity
tives in Sabah to leverage on the opportu- ics. mand following the post-Covid-19 pan- leave.
The other cooperatives that received nity to elevate their businesses. demic and resumption of economic activ-
the assistance were Koperasi Keluarga “With its own ecosystem and strength ities. Khairy said the Ministry was waiting
Ibrahim Abdullah Kota Kinabalu Berhad “Towards the era of cooperative trans- of more than seven million members, it for a report from a special task force that
(RM60,000), Koperasi Belia Lumadan formation, SKM has formulated strategies expected to assist the Government in im- Khairy, however, stressed that the situ- investigated allegations of a bullying cul-
Beaufort Berhad (RM70,000) and Kop- and action plans through the 2021-2025 plementing various programmes that can ation was reported to have occurred in ture in government hospitals to find solu-
erasi Wanita Lumadan Berhad Malaysian Cooperative Transformation ensure economic growth and that wealth private health facilities including phar- tions regarding work schedules, work
(RM80,000) Plan (TransKoM) that would stimulate de- can be distributed in a transparent, fair macies. ethic and on-call allowances.
velopment among cooperative entrepre- and equitable manner,” said Zazali.
The assistance was also extended to neurs. According to him, among feedback re- Khairy also urged all MOH medical of-
Koperasi Pembangunan Usahama Meanwhile, seven cooperatives were ceived by the Ministry during an engage- ficers to respond to the survey forms
Masyarakat Maju Sabah Berhad “These include students, youths and given awards for being the best coopera- ment session with pharmaceutical indus- emailed to them.
(RM85,000) and Koperasi Wawasan women, and it will be done in an inte- tive in their respective categories, while try players on June 2, were shortages in
Rakyat Sabah Berhad (RM10,000). grated and holistic manner, while Lumadan Assemblyman Ruslan Muharam medication for diarrhoea, fever, cold, flu, “The survey is important because there
strengthening human capital of the coop- received the State-level 2022 “Tokoh Kop- cough, antibiotics and vitamins, espe- are in-depth questions about the working
For the financing facility which is the erative moment. erasi” award and pocketed RM2,000 and cially vitamin C. environment in the MOH,” he said, adding
SKM Revolving Capital Fund (TMPSKM), a trophy. that so far, 40,000 MOH medical officers
Koperasi Usahawan Tawau Berhad was “SKM will also continue to improve the Khairy said he had instructed the phar- have completed the survey form.
granted financing worth RM1.4 million, Co-operative Societies Act 2007 to holisti- maceutical services division to work with
pharmaceutical associations in the coun- He targets some 60,000 medical offi-
try, including drug manufacturers, to look cers to participate in the survey to ensure
for alternative sources of medical supply accurate and comprehensive information
to tackle the shortage issue. was received by the special team, which
was set up last month. – Bernama

Only 10.5pc take-up Foreign
workers
rate for PeKa B40 issue to be
resolved
LABUAN: Only 10.5 per
soon
cent or slightly over

620,000 of the 5.9 million

Malaysians in the bottom

40 per cent income (B40) TAPAH: The issue of Amir (right) with Juniadah hearing out a grocer.
recruiting foreign
bracket have utilised the

PeKa B40 free health workers from three Spot checks on Labuan goods
countries is ex-
screening scheme as of pected to be re-

May 31 this year, accord-

ing to ProtectHealth Cor- solved soon, said Sohan Das essential goods and other problems dur-
Human Resource ing the month of Ramadan.
poration Sdn Bhd. Minister Datuk Seri LABUAN: The Labuan Food Price and Mon-
M. Saravanan (pic). itoring Committee led by its Chairman The period has now been extended till
In view of the low take- Dato’ Seri Amir Hussein made surprise in- Adiladha (July 10) and also due to the cur-
He said the final spections on a number of markets and rent unstable supply situation due to new
up, the Ministry of Health Shahlemey (sixth right) and Zazali (sixth left) process is being refined and they included grocery stores here to ensure goods are developments in the global market.
(MoH)-owned company with the recipients of SKM’s development assistance technical matters, recruitment procedures available and not overpriced.
will be conducting brief- and the signing of memoranda between Amir said the situation was stable and
ings nationwide in collab- at the State-level National Cooperative Day. the agencies or parties of all countries in- “Our mission is to make our presence under control.
volved. felt so that grocers would know that they
oration with State Health Departments to Malaysians are eligible for the scheme but are being watched and would not take ad- “There are some reasonable hikes in the
Saravanan was speaking to reporters af- vantage of the talks of inflation hitting the prices and these are inevitable. Our job is
raise awareness on the campaign. only 506 have undergone the free health ter presenting 100 laptops to B40 students country and unreasonably hike prices,” to ensure that the situation is not taken
to increase the marketability of graduates said Amir, who is also the Chairman of advantage of by traders.”
ProtectHealth Corporation Chief Exec- screening. and also to bridge the digital divide Labuan Corporation (LC).
among low-income earners. The team inspected several outlets to
utive Officer Datuk Dr Anas Alam Faizli said “In Labuan, we have seven private clinics Also in the committee are the Director compare prices of food items sold and
The TalentCorp’s corporate social re- of the Ministry of Trade Labuan Office, Ju- sought explanation from the groceries if
it was a great challenge to meet the target providing the PeKa B40 free health screen- sponsibility programme, among others, naidah Arbain, and representatives from their prices differed.
aims to ensure students are prepared for related agencies. It was established on an
of getting all the 5.9 million eligible ings. We hope those eligible would fully the post-Covid-19 work environment interim basis to overcome the shortage of “Our message here is clear, we are
through the contribution of digital learn- watching and monitoring the situation,”
Malaysians screened. utilise this scheme,” he said. said Amir.

“The PeKa B40 scheme was launched in Dr Anas said the benefits offered under

April 2019 but there is still a big gap be- the Peka B40 screening scheme include aid

tween the eligible number and the number to purchase medical equipment of up to

of those who have utilised the scheme,” he RM20,000, cancer treatment completion

said when briefing reporters at the Millen- incentive of RM1,000, and a maximum

nium Clinic, here, Tuesday. transport incentive of RM500 in Peninsular

He said Perlis, Kedah and Kelantan had Malaysia and RM1,000 in Sabah, Sarawak ing devices.
Elaborating further, Saravanan said so
recorded the highest screening rate at 17 and Labuan.
32-fold rise in HFMD casesfar,theMinistryhasreceivedover200,000
per cent, followed by Negeri Sembilan with Health screenings can be conducted at

14 per cent, Melaka and Sarawak (13 per health clinics and MoH hospitals and online applications for foreign workers KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 82,846 cases of Johor with 5,234 cases (6.32 per cent).
from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cambo- hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) “Most of the HFMD cases occurred
cent), Perak (12 per cent), Penang (11 per health clinics, and recipients of Bantuan dia for various sectors. were reported as of the last day of epi-
demiological week (ME) 22/2022 (June 4), among children aged six and below, at
cent) and Putrajaya (10 per cent). Prihatin Rakyat and their registered “The recruitment of workers from In- said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr 74,841 cases (90 per cent), followed by
donesia involves procedures between the Noor Hisham Abdullah. those aged seven to 12, at 6,520 cases (eight
States with take-up rates below 10 per spouses are eligible for the scheme. Ministry of Manpower and a related per cent) and those over the age of 12 with
agency in the neighbouring country. He said this showed a 32-fold increase 1,485 cases (two per cent),” he said in a
cent are Terengganu and Sabah (nine per Dr Anas said health screenings are im- compared to 2,485 cases recorded in the statement, Tuesday.
“The process involving workers from same period last year and a 1.7-fold in-
cent), Johor (seven per cent), Pahang (five portant for early detection of non-commu- Bangladesh has also been completed. crease compared to 30,489 cases reported Dr Noor Hisham said based on the sur-
There’s only one thing that I have not done in 2019. veillance, the three main viruses that
per cent), and Kuala Lumpur, Federal Terri- nicable diseases (NCD) that if not managed finalising is Malaysia’s agreement with caused the transmission of HFMD within
Cambodia to bring in Muslim maids. However, he said a total of 16,954 HFMD the community this year were Enterovirus
tory of Labuan and Selangor (four per could lead to an increase in cardiovascular cases were reported nationwide during 71 (EV71), Coksackie A6 (CA6) and Cox-
“I will be there in July and will most ME22/2022 week, a 9.3 per cent decrease sackie A16 (CA16).
cent). diseases, which would result in higher likely settle it. Apart from Indonesia, Cam- compared to 18,688 cases recorded in
bodia has a large number of domestic ME21/2022. He said to date, there were three HFMD
“We should be able to cover Labuan healthcare costs for individuals and the helpers from the Muslim community, ” he cases admitted to intensive care units
explained. Dr Noor Hisham said as of June 4, Selan- (ICU).
within this year as based on records, 12,631 Government. – Bernama gor contributed the largest number of
It was reported that the lack of workers HFMD cases, with 23,305 cases (28.13 per The first and second cases were admit-
M-cyclist falls into KB ravine is causing many business premises, includ- cent), followed by Kuala Lumpur and Pu- ted to the ICU due inflammation of the
ing restaurants, from operating 24 hours trajaya with 9,540 cases (11.52 per cent), brain (encephalitis) and were still under
R Gonzales despite being able to do so after the coun- Perak with 8,032 cases (9.70 per cent), Ke- close monitoring while the third case has
try entered the transition to the endemic lantan with 5,782 cases (6.98 per cent) and recovered and was allowed to go home on
KOTA BELUD: A man was phase. – Bernama May 31.

almost killed when he lost

control of his motorcycle

which fell into a five-metre

ravine in Kg Mandap, here,

Monday.

The 48-year-old victim,

known only as Josh, suf- Meanwhile, a total of 1,746 outbreaks

fered minor injuries in the SPM results out on June 16 were reported in Malaysia with three states
recording the highest number, namely
8.45am incident. Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya at 562 (32.2

Kota Belud District Fire

and Rescue Station (BBP) PUTRAJAYA: The results of the 2021Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) will be coming out per cent), followed by Selangor at 208 (11.9
next Thursday (June 16), said the Ministry of Education (KPM). per cent) and Sarawak at 206 (11.8 per
Chief Muhammad Syazwan cent).
Latun said seven personnel The firefighters removing the victim from the ravine area. KPM said candidates can obtain their examination results from their respective
schools at 10am, while SPM result slips will be sent by post to private candidates. “The majority of the disease outbreaks
rushed to the scene along before being sent in an ambulance to the occurred in nurseries, kindergartens and
In a statement Tuesday, KPM said school and private candidates can check their pre-schools with 1,059 outbreaks or 61 per
with a fire engine and a utility vehicle Kota Belud hospital for further treatment,” results via myresultspm.moe.gov.my from 10am on June 16 until 6pm on June 24. cent of the total cases, followed by private
homes with 605 outbreaks or 35 per cent
upon receiving an emergency call at he said. The results can also be obtained through short messaging service (SMS) by typing and also childcare centres with 56 out-
SPMNoKPAngkaGiliran and sending it to 15888. breaks (three per cent),” he said. –
8.51am. Fortunately, Syazwan said, the incident Bernama
The system will be activated from 10am on June 16, 2022 until 6pm on June 22. –
He said the victim was seen lying in the was noticed by other users as the location Bernama

ravine and was taken out using a Robinson is far from people’s homes.

stretcher. The cause of the incident is under inves-

“The victim was given early treatment tigation.

4 Local YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 dailyexpress

Sabah deserves lower road tax Loke: Utilise
completed

Winnie Kasmir Anthony in a group photo with other DAP leaders at the charity dinner event. S’kan runway

SANDAKAN: Former “It can easily be done if there is a desire Loke said the government should con- well as private vehicles. extension
Transport Minister to help; however, if the Government says it sider the plight of Sabahans who are un- “Due to bad road conditions, people in
Anthony Loke (pic) can’t be done today, it implies they have no able to enjoy decent roads and are bur- project
said the Govern- intention of assisting road users in Sabah,” dened by high living costs, including the Sabah must use high-powered cars. Al-
ment could reduce he said. cost of vehicle maintenance, which must though there is a decrease in revenue, I be- Winnie Kasmir
the road tax for pub- be performed more frequently due to the lieve it is not significant. The government
lic cars in Sabah if it The people of Sabah have previously ex- existing poor road condition. will undoubtedly be able to cover the THE runway extension project at San-
wants. pressed their dissatisfaction with the situ- shortage,” he said. dakan Airport, which has been completed,
ation, and the Sabah Works Minister said “While we wait for the Pan Borneo proj- needs to be fully utilised to develop the lo-
During his time that the road tax cut would be difficult to ect to be completed, I support reducing Also present were DAP National Vice cal economy and tourism sector.
as Transport Minister, for example, the accomplish due to a number of factors the road tax. In Sabah, this reduction is Chairman Nga Kor Ming, Sabah DAP
road tax for public commercial vehicles, that would affect revenue. critical for four-wheel-drive vehicles as Chairman Datuk Frankie Poon and San- DAP Secretary-General Anthony Loke
particularly lorries, was reduced according dakan MP Vivian Wong. said the runway extension would make it
to Sarawak rates, he said. easier for long-haul aircrafts such as from
Korea, China, Taiwan and Bangkok to land
Loke, who is also DAP Secretary-Gen- and take off from the field.
eral, said:
He said the government through the
“In February 2019, during the Pakatan Transport Ministry should be more proac-
Harapan government, we were able to tive in leveraging on the completed proj-
standardise the road tax rate for lorries in ect to increase the number of flights to
Sabah to match the Sarawak rate. This is Sandakan.
due to the fact that Sarawak has a cheaper
lorry road tax. “At the same time, the Tourism, Arts
and Culture Ministry needs to promote
“Yes, the Federal Government’s revenue Sandakan as a tourist destination to the
decreased by RM15 million per year. But Asian market so they can travel directly to
this is Pakatan Harapan’s method of assist- this district,” he said during a press confer-
ing the people of Sabah. I don’t think it’s a ence, here, Sunday.
question of what can be done versus what
can’t be done. He stressed that an idle runway would
not yield any benefit to Sabahans, espe-
Loke glad no elected DAP representative frogged cially in Sandakan.

David Thien We are the third generation leaders of His successor told East Malaysian Harapan lawmakers suing Putrajaya over Meanwhile, he also suggested airline
DAP,” Loke told the audience at the DAP youths and students to buy their tickets a Sabah’s constitutional 40 per cent rev- companies to invest in refrigerator or
DEMOCRATIC Action Party (DAP) Sec- 100 tables fund raising dinner at the year in advance to enjoy affordable air- enue share entitlement. freezer storage facilities at the cargo centre
Gen Anthony Loke is proud “none of Hakka Hall on Saturday. fares. as an added value to the facilities at San-
DAP’s MPs turned out to be political “Gabungan Rakyat Sabah claims to be dakan Airport.
frogs” despite being incentivised to do so He urged them “not to give up hope Loke called on voters to back DAP can- a local-based coalition but why are they
since Bersatu’s Sheraton traitorous move for a better Malaysia” and to keep voting didates in GE15, as Sabah is a very impor- not taking such an action? Is it because He said the district is famous for the di-
that toppled the Pakatan Harapan (PH) during elections despite political frogs’ tant state as with Sarawak in nation these parties have their bosses in Penin- versity and freshness of seafood which has
government after 22 months in power. shenanigans that betrayed the people’s building, as exemplary Malaysian com- sular Malaysia to answer to? great potential for national and interna-
mandate for personal gain and power. munities for West Malaysian leaders and tional exports.
Therefore, he said, people trust the The first generation was led by Lim Kit society to emulate as one united people “Regardless, it is more important that
party for its integrity and commitment to Siang, and the second by his son, Lim living in harmony. Sabahan leaders are willing to fight for “If there is a refrigerator or freezer facil-
struggle for a better Malaysia. Guan Eng. the rights of Sabahans,” Chan said. ity, it can attract more exporters to San-
Earlier, in his speech, Likas Assembly- dakan and make this district a seafood
“DAP Members of Parliament won 42 “DAP wants every successive genera- man Tan Lee Fatt claimed he was offered “That is why we need to get more par- hub,” he said.
seats during the 14th General Election in tion of its leaders to perform better than RM20 million to jump out of DAP. liamentary and state seats when we are
2018. their predecessors in serving Malaysians.” fighting hard for the people’s wellbeing.” For the record, the project involves an
Kota Kinabalu MP and central execu- extension from 2,133 meters to 2,500 me-
“None of them jumped to other parties He said as the previous Transport Min- tive committee member Chan Foong Hin DAP vice chairman Nga Kor Ming de- ters at a cost of RM80.9 million.
including Kota Kinabalu MP Chan, San- ister, he was able to get airlines to provide stressed it was wrong to assume that DAP cried Warisan’s six past attempts to cap-
dakan MP Vivian and Tenom MP Norita. more flights and lower fares during fes- being a peninsula party would ignore lo- ture seats held by PH coalition members, Meanwhile, Sandakan MP Vivian Wong
This is something to be proud of and it tive seasons to enable East Malaysians to cal issues in Sabah. instead of attacking BN or PN con- said she breathed a sigh of relief when the
proves people of Sabah can trust state return home to celebrate with their fam- stituencies in its forays in West Malaysia, project was completed as it was one of
DAP MPs.” ilies. “For example, today’s headlines of the and as a result losing all their election Pakatan Harapan’s big manifestos in the
newspapers are about Sabah Pakatan deposits. 2019 by-election.
“Political struggle is for the long-haul.
Therefore, Vivian hopes that the re-
Query over accident-prone sponsible minister will be able to carry out
his duties by bringing more flights to San-
dakan as one of the measures for the dis-
trict’s economic recovery.

KPLB optimistic

Penampang road safety The scene on addressing

Oswald Supi close to one another,” they said. of one food security
of the ac-
PENAMPANG: The combination of “Secondly, motorists joining the cidents SUNGAI PETANI: The Rural Development
poorly lit T-junction, two traffic lights that oc- Ministry (KPLB) is optimistic about address-
close to each other, a U-turn signage main highway from Putatan when turn- curred in ing the food security issues faced by the peo-
erected wrongly as well as the absence the area. ple via measures to further strengthen the
of reflective signboards are causing se- ing right will immediately enter the U- livestock industry through the Rubber In-
rious to fatal accidents at the Kg Ra- dustry Smallholders Development Authority
mayah junction to Putatan. turn holding lane thinking it’s the right (Risda) and Felcra Berhad.

Tony Henry Lojungin (former Chair- fast lane, only to end up climbing the Its Deputy Minister I, Datuk Seri Abdul
man) and Venantius Bosuin (present Rahman Mohamad said Risda and Felcra are
Chairman) of the Village Community kerb which is devoid of any reflective responsible for implementing a project to
Management when met by Daily Express expand poultry and cattle farms to ensure
on location are in agreement on this warning signs. the food supply from the RM80 million allo-
matter. cation to the Ministry will be channelled.
“Also, only at this location the U-
They said a pedestrian was hit and In this regard, he said KPLB gave an assur-
later died while crossing the road here turn sign is placed on the actual point ance to ensure that the poultry and cattle
as well as reports of head on collisions, breeding project will be implemented effi-
cars turning turtles and some climbing of turning while in other areas they are ciently and effectively so that the ministry
over the pavement at the U-turn loca- could achieve its objectives.
tion. placed several metres before as advance
“KPLB’s allocation of RM60 million will
The duo said they wrote to the Coun- notice. be channelled to Felcra for the expansion
cil on May 24 to address the matter but of the cattle farms while RM20 million is for
to no avail. “Thirdly, the visibility is bad at night Risda to expand poultry farms. We are tar-
getting 10,000 cows a year and 600,000
“The double traffic light is confusing with insufficient lighting for motorists chickens within 35 days.
at night because motorists can see
green lights at the actual junction but to make out the junction,” they said, “We know we cannot cover all, but at least
will miss the other lights turning am- we can help in terms of food security
ber just before the U-turn since they are adding that debris from recent acci- through Felcra and Risda’s efforts. We have

dents in the area can be seen there.

Both leaders wondered who were be-

hind the design of the traffic signages

and if they were even qualified to carry

out the work.

Tony Henry said the local MP had The
U-turn
raised these issues in the State Assem-
sign
bly before but the oft-used excuse is placed
at the
that a government agency is still wait- junction.

ing for allocation.

started and launched this project with a

poultry farm in Rompin (recently),” he said.

S’kan’s pastry chef star to be announced June 12Proposal to renew Abdul Rahman said this after the Warung
Desa Assistance@KPLB Kuala Muda District

M’sia-Japan SANDAKAN: Sandakan is waiting for its this platform to present their creations Assistance and Delivery Programme at the
The pastry competition is supported Tepi Sungai Kedah Regional Development

MoC on Info, next pastry star to be announced on for consideration as its next pastry by Majlis Perbandaran Sandakan and or- Authority (Keda) hall in Kota Kuala Muda

June 12. star. ganised by Taste Sabah Sdn Bhd with its near here Tuesday.

The Sandakan Pastry Competition The top four entries will get wide- partners Artlex Centre, Balin Rooftop Abdul Rahman was asked about the min-

Communication was first launched at the Sandakan Food spread publicity for their work and the Bistro, The Marketplace and Meinga istry’s plans in efforts to help the govern-

and Agriculture Festival 2019 and is set public demand will undoubtedly sky- Bakery. ment to ensure the food security crisis could

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has proposed to to become an annual event to encourage rocket for their pastries. The competition offers over RM1,500 be resolved as best as possible.
Japan that the Memorandum of Coopera- professional and amateur pastry chefs As the clock counts down to the judg- worth of cash and prizes. Apart from this, in a media report Yang
tion (MoC) on Information and Commu- to showcase their ideas.
nications between the two countries be re- ing date, the opportunity to present any Those interested to join the competi- di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ay-
newed by expanding the scope of cooper- Inspired by the unique UFO tart that new innovations in pastry-making is tion can go to the San Da Gen Kopitiam atuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said the food
ation, including in  filmmaking and cre- was created in the 1950s by a local pastry still open. official Facebook page for the digital security crisis must be addressed immedi-
ative industry. maker in Sandakan, the organisers also form or contact Anton Ngui at ately, especially in a world facing various
hoped fellow Sandakan people will use Registration for participation in the 0122071044. crises at this time. – Bernama
competition is free.

The matter was raised by Communica-

Ministry to meet music practitioners to resolve royalty issuestionsandMultimediaMinisterTanSriAn-

nuar Musa when he received a courtesy

call from Japanese Ambassador to BAGAN DATUK: The Ministry of Commu- velopment Corporation  (Finas) which sues would not arise. stage, it is my livelihood as I am born to
Malaysia Takahashi Katsuhiko at the min- nications and Multimedia (K-KOMM) will looks after the welfare of actors “For example, S. Atan had banned his entertain but in my current health condi-
istry here Tuesday. meet music creative industry practitioners tion, it is difficult for me to perform.
“I have asked the three bodies, songs from being played on radio over his
Annuar said he also proposed that the
to resolve problems such as the issue of namely, Music Authors Copyright Protec- dissatisfaction that  the ministry is  not “It depends, if God has decided that I
aspects of cyber security, personal data royalty before setting up the Music Indus- tion (MACP) Berhad, Public Performance looking after his welfare. So, this organi- can still sing, I  will sing, otherwise it is
protection, digital economy development try Corporation. Malaysia (PPM) Berhad and  Recording sation is for them,” he said. only up to here and I accept,” he said.
and cross-border digital collaborations be Performers Malaysia Berhad (RPM) to
prioritised in future cooperations. Deputy Minister of Communications arrange a meeting with us as soon as pos- Earlier, Zahidi visited the ‘Raja Gelek’ He said he had not received royalty
and Multimedia, Datuk Zahidi Zainul sible,” he said. of Malaysia, M Daud Kilau, 83, and also from the parties concerned for a long
Malaysia and Japan signed the MoC on Abidin said the meeting among others handed over contributions to the veteran time.
Information and Communications on Jan
17, 2017, to enhance cooperation in the in- was to ensure the welfare of industry play- He was speaking at a media conference singer who is suffering from diabetes, kid- “I did get royalty for my songs but not

formation  and communications sectors, ers is looked after. after visiting singer Datuk M Daud Kilau ney and unstable heart problem  at his once a year. Prior to this, I received RM300
especially in the field of broadcasting. “We are holding meetings with them at his house here Tuesday. house in Sungai Balai Baroh here. to RM400 but that was a long long time
ago and I have forgotten and did not take
“Apart from the usual areas of coopera- such as singers so that we can hear their According to Zahidi, K-KOMM intends According to M Daud Kilau, his health action, not my luck I guess.
tion, I ask for the creative industry and suggestions. Although they are paid roy- to set up a Music Industry Corporation to is still like before and he has to depend on
filmmaking to be included in the cooper- alties through three bodies, there is no ensure  the welfare of all artistes was medicines and  undergo regular health “But, I am grateful that there are those
ation between the two countries,” he told specific body looking after their welfare looked after so that disputes among asso- checks since 2016. who still remember me as well as donat-

reporters after the visit. – Bernama such as the Malaysian National Film De- ciations involving singers on royalty is- “It is not to say that  I am leaving the ing to me,” he added. – Bernama

dailyexpress YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 Local 5

Seven years’ jail for

repeat drug offender

Cynthia D Baga get a stroke of the cane for a similar offence. Najib arriving at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on Tuesday.
Heryanto Kamaruddin admitted to repeatedly taking drugs on
KOTA KINABALU: A man, who took drugs repeatedly, was sen-
tenced to seven years’ jail. Oct 22, 2021 after his testing positive at the police station here. He
also has several similar convictions.
Jiffrie Taib pleaded guilty before Sessions Court Judge Noor
Hafizah Mohd Salim to the charge against him on Tuesday. Heryanto was ordered to serve the jail sentence from the date
of his arrest.
He was found taking the drugs on May 18, 2021 and tested pos-
itive for drugs at the city police station. He has several similar con- After completing the sentence, both Jiffrie and Heryanto were
victions. ordered placed under police supervision for two years.

The offence, under Section 39C (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act
1952, provides for a jail term of between seven and 13 years and
whipping on conviction.

The court ordered Jiffrie to serve the jail sentence from the date
of his arrest.

Meanwhile, another man was jailed five years and ordered to

10 penalised over drug-related offences 1MDB set up as a BN political

Jo Ann Mool cused’s respective urine samples tested Meanwhile, Faizal, Jastin, Peter Maj and fund, ex-Chief Sec tells court
positive for the drugs. Azumar was or- Azlin Johny admitted to having syabu.
KOTA KINABALU: Ten people were pe- dered to pay a fine of RM3,000 or 12 KUALA LUMPUR: Former Chief Secretary to ernment), which he added that according
nalised by the Magistrate’s Court here for months’ jail, Arbin, Rohana, Faizal, Faizul Faizal was fined RM3,100 or six months the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Has- to Najib, was considered low.
committing drug-related offences. and Shah were each fined RM2,000 or jail jail, Jastin was fined RM3,700 or 12 months san told the High Court here Tuesday that
sentence between four and seven months. jail. according to his understanding, strategic “When Datuk Seri Najib was Prime Min-
Eight of them Azumar Jafar, Arbin Jayri, investment company 1Malaysia Develop- ister, he once asked me about my salary as
Rohana Rasul, Azmin Perelim, Faizal Sani, Azmin was jailed one month from April Peter was fined RM2,800 or 12 months’ ment Berhad (1MDB) was set up as a polit- chief secretary to the government, and he
Jastin Mangangan, Faizul Bakar and Shah 11 and fined RM2,000 or six months jail, jail while Azlin was fined RM2,600 or nine ical fund for the ruling party then, Barisan felt that it was quite low,” Mohd Sidek,
Rizan pleaded guilty to taking syabu and while Jastin was handed seven months jail. months’ jail. Nasional (BN). who held the post of chief secretary to the
amphetamine at separate locations here government from September 2006 to June
and in Penampang between March and Taking drugs under Section 15(1) of the The four were charged under Section Mohd Sidek, 71, said as such, he had 2012.
April this year. Dangerous Drugs Act provides for a fine of 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 never asked former Prime Minister Datuk
up to RM5,000 or up to two years’ jail on which provides for a fine of up to Seri Najib Tun Razak or any party in 1MDB On his appointment as a member of the
The prosecution tendered the chemist’s conviction. RM100,000 or up to five years jail or both about the problems in the company. 1MDB Advisory Board, Mohd Sidek said it
reports which stated that the eight ac- on conviction. was made official through a letter issued
He said the issues that troubled 1MDB by Najib and dated August 30, 2012.
Power abuse: Senior assistant Fatal crash: were only known to him through the mass
media such as newspapers and the Inter- “Although I was appointed as a member
accountant pleads not guilty Researcher pleads net, adding that he was aware that they of the 1MDB Advisory Board, I have never
were related to allegations of misuse of been involved in any meetings or discus-
KUALA TERENGGANU: A senior assistant The offence was allegedly committed not guilty funds. sions on the company’s issues and had
accountant of a District Council in Tereng- on Jan 12, 2021, at the Marang District never been invited to attend 1MDB’s an-
ganu pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Council Finance Division. SEREMBAN: A utility company research of- “I was also aware from newspaper re- nual meetings. I had also never asked
Court here Tuesday to one count of abuse ficer pleaded not guilty at the Magistrates’ ports that investigations on 1MDB were be- Datuk Seri Najib or 1MDB to be appointed
of power. The charge was framed under Section Court here Tuesday on a charge of danger- ing conducted by local agencies such as as a member of this Advisory Board,” he
23(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption ous driving which resulted in the death of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commis- said.
Sazawati Salleh, 49, made the plea after Commission (MACC) Act 2009 and is pun- a 72-year-old  cyclist on June 1. sion (MACC), but I was never briefed or
the charge was read out to her before ishable under Section 24(1) of the same given further details on them. According to Mohd Sidek, he received
Judge Dazuki Ali. act. Munirah Stapah@Salleh, 26, made the an allowance of RM30,000 per month dur-
plea after the charge was read before Mag- “I can confirm that Datuk Seri Najib, as ing his initial tenure as a member of the
The accused was charged with using It provides for imprisonment for up to istrate Intan Syafinaz Ros’lin. Prime Minister (then) had never informed 1MDB Advisory Board.
her position as a senior assistant account- 20 years and a fine of five times the value me of issues in 1MDB, although I had been
ant in the Marang District Council for grat- of the gratification, or RM10,000, According to the charge, the accused appointed as a member of the 1MDB Board “After I retired as chief secretary to the
ification, namely by proposing a quota- whichever is higher, if convicted. had allegedly driven  a Perodua Axia at of Advisors. government, I was still receiving an al-
tion from Edaran Sepakat Trading, which high speed or recklessly which caused the lowance of RM10,000 per month until I no
her husband indirectly had interests in, to Dazuki allowed bail at RM5,000 with death of Khalid Mohd Isa in an incident at “I had also never asked Datuk Seri Najib longer held this position in June 2015,” he
carry out carpet installation work in the one surety and ordered the woman to sur- 8.25 am on Jalan Temiang-Pantai here on why there was no 1MDB Board of Advisors said.
office space and officer’s room of the render her passport to the MACC and to re- June 1. meetings held throughout my time as a
Marang District Council Finance Division port herself to the MACC office every member and (why) no 1MDB representa- Mohd Sidek said on June 2, 2016, he re-
worth RM10,640. month. The court set July 17 for mention. – The charge was submitted under Sec- tives had reported to me on operations ceived a letter from the 1MDB chief execu-
Bernama tion 41 (1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 and investments made by the company,” tive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy that
which provides for a maximum jail term of he said. 1MDB Advisory Board had been dissolved.
KPLB initiative records RM4m sales 10 years and a maximum fine not exceed-
ing RM50,000 upon conviction. Mohd Sidek said when reading his wit- “I was not informed through this letter
PUTRAJAYA: DesaMall@KPLB, the  Rural trepreneurs to participate in the initiative ness statement during examination-in- on the reasons why the 1MDB Advisory
Development Ministry’s (KPLB) initiative as it could help them improve the quality The prosecution was conducted by chief by Deputy Public Prosecutor Mo- Board was dissolved and I also did not
to help rural entrepreneurs market their of their products for online business. prosecution officer ASP M. Shanmugavel hamad Mustaffa P Kunyalam in Najib’s know either why it was dissolved. I also
products online, has recorded over while Munirah was not represented. trial over the misappropriation of RM2.3 did not ask Datuk Seri Najib and 1MDB
RM4.03 million in sales since it was intro- “No strict requirements...we will give billion in funds from 1MDB. why the Advisory Board was dissolved,” he
duced in October 2017 until April this priority to those who have been in busi- The court later allowed the accused bail said.
year. ness for at least six months and have their at RM3,500 in one surety apart from hav- Meanwhile, the 19th prosecution wit-
own products,” he said. ing her driving licence suspended. ness said he was of the opinion that his ap- Najib, 68, is facing four charges of using
KPLB  Deputy Secretary-General (pol- pointment as a member of the 1MDB his position to obtain bribes totalling
icy) Datuk Che Murad Sayang Ramjan said Meanwhile, Che Murad Sayang said the Remention of the case has been fixed Board of Advisors was only to supplement RM2.3 billion from 1MDB funds and 21
the figure was recorded through  3,567 Rural Entrepreneur Digitalisation pro- for June 21. – Bernama his income (as chief secretary to the gov- charges of money laundering involving
products marketed on e-commerce plat- gramme was implemented to help rural the same amount. – Bernama
forms such as Lazada, Shopee and eBay, entrepreneurs increase their productivity
involving 27,424 stock keeping units and efficiency in conducting online busi- Muslims advised not to insult other faiths
(SKUs). nesses.
KUALA LUMPUR: Muslims in this country (Yadim) in conjunction with the Kuala cotting products from India, Idris said the
“As of April, a total of 3,000 rural entre- “Participants can expand the use of must adhere to the principles and teach- Lumpur International Book Fair (PBAKL). matter would be discussed later.
preneurs have been trained under the De- digital technologies in managing their ings of Islam which prohibit its worship-
saMall@KPLB programme to market their business including in the preparation of pers from insulting and sowing the seeds Idris was asked to comment on the re- On the alleged superstitious practices
products on e-commerce platforms. balance sheets, stock management in of hatred against other religions. cent remarks by officials from India’s rul- which went viral on social media recently,
warehouses and shops as well as other ing party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that he urged the local authorities to investi-
“Online marketing through the  De- skills. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Depart- insulted Prophet Muhammad SAW and his gate and take appropriate action  as any
saMall@KPLB platform has increased the ment (Religious Affairs) Datuk Idris Ah- wife Saidatina Aisyah RA. matter involving religion is under the ju-
sales revenue of rural entrepreneurs by up “This is because they will be given ex- mad said as such, Muslims should refrain risdiction of the state government.
to 30 per cent,” he told reporters after of- posure in four modules, namely account- from reacting to any attempts to insult the The controversial remarks have sparked
ficiating at the Rural Entrepreneur Digi- ing and finance, point of sales system, religion. outrage among Muslims around the Meanwhile, five new books published
talisation programme. eWallet and connectivity operated by se- world, especially in West Asia, who con- by Yadim were Atlas Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah
lected KPLB strategic partners,” he said. “It is not good for us to behave like that demned the act, while some shopping Perjalanan Hidup Nabi Muhammad SAW’,
As such, he encouraged more rural en- – Bernama (insulting other religions). It should have malls have even removed India’s products ‘Melodi Iman Dalam Solat Lima Waktu’, ‘Fiqh
not happened to any religion at all,”  he from their shelves. Keluarga Syurgawi’, ‘Menelusuri 1,000 Tahun
said after the launch of books published Fiqh Syafii Alam Melayu’, and ‘Komik YADIM:
by Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia When asked whether Malaysia would Sahabah MISI Q3’. – Bernama
follow the steps of other countries in boy-

6 Local YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 dailyexpress

A quarter of women struggled to afford period products

RM35mil for NEARLY one in four people who menstru-
ate in the UK have struggled to afford pe-
State education riod products in the last year, new re-
search shows.
aid: Ministry burden of their caregivers once they start ing the first year of the pandemic.
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to menstruating. Some said they had to cut back on
Ahmad Apong Savings Scheme (SSPN) account through worsen, impacting millions of people
the National Higher Education Fund Cor- across Britain, a new study by WaterAid One student said making period prod- other essential items to be able to afford
BEAUFORT: Minister of Special Tasks, poration (PTPTN). has highlighted how this is impacting ucts cheaper, and subsequently more ac- period products, like food (30 per cent),
Datuk Dr Mohd Arifin Arif, said the State people on their periods. cessible, would improve her mental hygiene products like soap or toothpaste
Government invested RM35 million on ed- “This substantial spending is part of the health because she “wouldn’t have the (23 per cent) and clothing (39 per cent). –
ucation assistance, which covers a variety State Government’s continued efforts to A survey of 2,000 British people aged worry” of keeping money aside. The Independent
of programmes. ensure the development of human capital 14 to 50 found that almost one in three
in Sabah, particularly the successful imple- (32 per cent) are concerned they may not “I wouldn’t worry about the fact that
Sabah School Charity Assistance (Bis- mentation of Sabah children’s education,” be able to afford period products in the I might not be able to afford period
bah) is one of them and it provides infor- he said. future, while 24 per cent said they have al- products for my next period which
mation technology equipment for schools ready struggled to afford products in the would mean I would miss work and uni-
such as desktop computers, laptops, print- “In this regard, the State Government, past year. versity.”
ers and projectors. through the State Education Department
and the Ministry of Higher Education One in five women and girls (22 per In January 2021, the UK government
The school, particularly teachers, re- Malaysia in Sabah, will continue to assist cent) have relied on free period products abolished the so-called “tampon tax”,
quire these equipment in their daily work and collaborate with the Federal Govern- from work, school, a food bank or a char- which means that VAT no longer applies
of educating the youngsters. ment,” he said. ity while 24 per cent have missed social or to period products.
sporting activities because they could not
“The School Parents Teachers Associa- This year, RM15.5 million has been set afford adequate period products. A study published by Plan Interna-
tion Activity Assistance (Bagus) provides aside for Bisbah and Bagus assistance, tional UK in May 2021 found that more
financial assistance to Parents Teachers As- which will be delivered to all Sabah Aside from the impact period poverty than a third of girls aged 14-21, the equiv-
sociations (PTAs) in the amount of schools. is having on people’s mental wellbeing, it alent of more than one million, had
RM2,000 to enable each PTA to carry out is also putting their health at risk. struggled to afford period products dur-
relevant activities,” he said. He said that 102 schools in Beaufort and
Membakut will receive Bisbah and Bagus While 30 per cent of respondents said
He said this in the Beaufort Vocational assistance, with 66 schools under the Min- they are choosing cheaper brands, 26 per
College Hall last Saturday during the dis- istry of Education Malaysia and 37 schools cent are wearing period products for
trict-level 2022 Education Assistance, Za- through Jheains. longer than the recommended time in a
kat Assistance, and Baitulmal Assistance bid to cut costs.
ceremony. “A total of RM1,020,000 has been set
aside for this purpose. The Beaufort Edu- Additionally, 20 per cent reported us-
Aside from that, students in the B40 cation Office will also receive RM10,000 in ing makeshift materials such as toilet pa-
group can benefit from the Bantuan Ihsan Bisbah assistance,” he added. per or sponges in place of pads.
Komputer (Baik), which provides laptop
support. Four students from Beaufort and Mem- “I am using the cheapest toilet roll I
bakut each received Baik assistance in the can find to use for periods. It’s not hy-
The government has also channelled form of laptop computers to help them gienic or recommended, but it’s all I can
the institute of higher learning cash assis- continue their studies at their respective afford,” one anonymous respondent said.
tance registration programme (Budi), educational institutions.
which is a one-time RM2,000 help for stu- Ahead of Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28
dents who register to continue their stud- The Zakat Division of the Sabah Islamic May, WaterAid is calling on governments
ies to the first degree level, and RM1,500 Religious Council (Muis), according to to recognise menstrual health as a critical
for those who continue their studies to the Mohd Arifin, will also provide help. component of gender equality.
diploma level.
This year, the Muis Monthly Assistance The survey found that school-aged
Mohd Arifin added that each student Recipient Fund in Beaufort for 270 house- girls to be most affected, with two in five
from B40 family receives RM200 in Special hold heads, Asnaf, and fakir is admitting that they have missed school
Cash Assistance for Examination (Bakti). RM1,107,600, while the Muis Monthly As- or work because they could not afford pe-
sistance Recipient Fund in Membakut was riod products, while 41 per cent said they
The Sabah Education Excellence Award RM517,800. worried about adding to the financial
(Aksa), a financial incentive, is also
awarded as a token of appreciation and ac- Meanwhile, the Beaufort and Mem- Charcoal grill roasted pork belly
knowledgment for the success in making bakut received RM5,000 in dakwah and re-
Sabah’s name known on a national or in- ligious activities. HAVE you ever eaten pork belly grilled How do you make crispy pork skin? jessie_inthekitchen
ternational level. over hot charcoal? Have you ever stood in Pork skin has a lot of moisture. So, be-
The Sabah State Baitulmal Corporation line solely to purchase roasted pork fore crisping the skin, we need to dry it as jessiefoodinthekitchen.
All Malaysians from Sabah are also eli- also provided the Beaufort District Dak- grilled over hot charcoal? Have you ever much as possible. Before roasting, we blogspot.com
gible for the State Education Savings Assis- wah Body and the Membakut sub-district been disappointed when the stall owner need to sprinkle salt on the skin, allow
tance (Bistari), which entails a RM100 with RM2,000 in donations for dakwah said the roasted pork was sold out due to the salt to draw out some moisture, and ents, in a pot filled with cold water, and
commitment to the National Education and religious activities. a big line? What a tense situation. dry it in the fridge overnight before roast- turn on the heat to high. 10 minutes of
ing. blanching, remove it, and thoroughly
K’gau teachers’ ‘Omiyage’ project This charcoal-grilled meat is not exag- clean it. Dab dry with paper towels.
gerated. It was not like baking in the Why is it necessary to apply
wins GoAbroad Innovation Award oven. One of the meat meals I failed to vinegar to the pork skin? 3. Poke as many holes in the pork skin
create in the oven was the crispy roasted When you look up a recipe on- as you can using a meat tenderiser or a
KOTA KINABALU: A team of such as writing and presentation. pork. line, you will see that most of them fork.
teachers from the Some of the students have developed include vinegar. But I used key lime
Keningau Vocational Col- The flavour is not as wonderful as the juice instead because my husband’s 4. Turn the pork meat side up and sea-
lege won the 2022 their own artistic and academic work us- crispy pork roasted over charcoal. My grandfather used it to roast pork son it with the seasoning you made in
GoAbroad Innovation ing the elements of Japanese culture like husband and I decided to purchase a belly in the old days. The most com- step one. Rub all over the meat, so that
Award in the Innovative haiku poetry and elevator pitch in multi-functional charcoal grill at the end mon acids used to break down the everything gets down into the scores and
TEFL/Teach Abroad cate- pechakucha format. of 2019. meat are vinegar and key lime juice, but the meat. However, not on the skin. The
gory with their award-win- lime juice is also acidic enough to do the 5-spice powder will darken the skin oth-
ning project dubbed College Director Johari @ Jaibet Sabin, During that time, the country was also trick. Apply lime juice to the pork skin to erwise.
“Omiyage”. lauded the team’s creative project which on lockdown owing to a worldwide soften it and make it crispier, as well as to
enables the students to gain cultural pandemic. reduce the fishy scent. 5. Turn the pork skin side up. Sprinkle
The team made history awareness on foreign countries while en- Roasting at a high temperature is re- 1 tsp of salt thoroughly on the skin. I am
by becoming the first hancing their skillset and becoming more This is one of the better methods to quired. using kosher salt for this step. Allow for
Malaysian participants to confident and innovative in their endeav- spend the time when on lockdown. This To attain 200 degrees Celsius, the tem- 20 minutes of resting time. You will see a
make it to the final round ours. grill can cook three times the amount of perature must be monitored. A home lot of water drawn up out of the skin. Dab
of the competition and ul- meat specified in my recipe. oven, of course, can reach temperatures it dry and wipe off the remaining grains
timately win a category. of 200 degrees Celsius. Even though the of salt. Apply a layer of key lime juice on
Three textures should be present in a temperatures are the same, the tempera- the skin.
The team comprises four members, great roasted pork belly. The crispy skin ture of a charcoal grill is higher than that
namely Larry James, Alvinah Tony, Akmal will be the first thing you notice. Second, of an oven. When exposed to a sudden 6. Place the pork skin side up on a tray
Rosimun and Sirhajwan Idek. you will notice the fat is soft but not burst of high heat, the skin becomes and refrigerate uncovered. Allow it to air-
greasy, and third, you will notice the crispy and puffy. dry overnight in the fridge.
“Omiyage”, which means souvenir in sweetness of the lean meat.
Japanese, was inspired by Japanese tradi- How to slice the roasted pork belly 7. Remove the pork from the fridge
tions and trends. It tastes great. Isn’t it simple? I cannot This is very skillful. The meat must be and allow it to room temperature. Apply
stand the heat of the grill. My husband facing up and the knife must be lowered the key lime juice another time on the
The aim of the project is to guide stu- had to experiment three times before he vertically when cutting. When the knife skin before roasting.
dents to learn some selected aspects of figured out how to manage the grill’s reaches the skin, pat the back of the knife
Japanese social inventions and culture temperature. with your palm. 8. Preheat the charcoal grill until it
such as haiku, pechakucha, manga, keitai reaches 200 degrees Celsius. Hang the
shousetsu and daruma otoshi in order to He sat there for two hours to keep an What is the best way to pork on the grill and roast for 2 hours (for
improve their mastery of some basic skills eye on the temperature. After one hour of eat roasted pork belly? 1.7 kg pork) or until the skin has turned
grilling, the degree of charcoal burning For the crispiness, I prefer to eat it with golden brown with multiple blisters.
Man held over deaths of disabled fluctuates, need to add charcoal to the dipping chili sauce when it is fresh. A
grill. roasted pork burger, as described in my Hope you find this guide
MELAKA: A motorist  suspected to be On Monday, Melaka Traffic Investiga- steamed buns burger blog, is also an op- useful and happy roasting!!
drunk and who allegedly caused the death tion and Enforcement Department Even though it is a temperature-con- tion. Freshly roasted pork belly should be
of a persons with disabilities (PwD) couple chief Supt Amran @ Mohamad Zaki Omar trolled grill, controlling the grilled tem- consumed the same day. The skin will be-
in crash in Jalan Serkam Pantai in Merli- identified the PwD couple killed in the 7.45 perature is difficult. I am grateful to my come chewy and unsatisfactory the next
mau, Jasin Tuesday has been remanded for am crash as motorcyclist Ezuddin Moham- husband for helping me out to do the day. Leftovers stir-fried with dark soy
four days. mad, 50, and his wife Surayah Muhamat, grillwork. That is, of course, what makes sauce or vegetables are frequently a
48, who was riding pillion. a charcoal grill more enjoyable to oper- favourite of the elderly. It is also delicious
The remand order against the factory ate. with soup noodles.
operator was issued by Magistrate Nabi- He said the accident involved a car and Ingredients
hah Mohd Noor in Ayer Keroh here Tues- three motorcycles. The marinating method is the same To blanch the pork
day. whether the meat is oven-baked or grilled l 1.7kg of pork belly
He said preliminary investigations over charcoal. There are a few key meas- l Some spring onion,
The 24-year-old man is being held for showed that the car, believed driven by a ures that must be followed.
investigation under Section  44(1) of the drunk man, was travelling from Merlimau cut into 1-inch length
Road Transport Act 1987.  to Melaka. – Bernama Why is it necessary to blanch the pork? l 2 inches of ginger, sliced.
The blood and other impurities in the l 1 tbsp of cooking wine
muscles and bones can be removed by
blanching the meat. To season the meat
Blanching the meat should take no l 2 tbsp 5 spice powder
longer than 10 minutes, or else the nutri- l 1 tsp white pepper
tion and flavour will be lost. l 2 ½ tbsp Shaoxing wine
Furthermore, the pork must be cooked l 2 tsp salt for the meat
in cold water. The protein in the pork will l 1 tsp salt for the skin
coagulate if you boil it in boiling water. l 2 tbsp key lime juice
Blood and scents will not be able to es-
cape. Methods
It is crucial to tenderise the pork skin. 1. To combine the white pepper, salt,
The skin of the meat within the grill and 5 spice powder in a bowl, set aside
will pop like a “firecracker” throughout 2. To scrape away any impurities or
the roasting process. hair with a knife. Place the pork, along
Therefore, we need to use a tenderiser with the rest of the blanching ingredi-
to make as many holes in the pork skin as
possible.
This step is necessary to ensure that
the skin does not just pop and develop lit-
tle blisters, but also becomes crispy. How-
ever, it also aids in the escape of air from
the hole and the rendering of fat onto the
skin during roasting.

dailyexpress YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 Local 7

Double recognition for Bataras

Goh with his awards. KOTA KINABALU: Bataras Sdn Bhd, one of lished on Dec, 5, 1998 in the island’s Fed- ping, more and more shoppers are using munities, and businesses in practical
the leading supermarket in Sabah and eral Territory. their phones extensively. In light of this, ways.
Labuan, received international recogni- Bataras mobile application was released
tion from The World Brands Foundation Starting as a small-scale supermarket, on Nov 7, 2019, followed by its online The trophy of The BrandLaureate SMEs
and two awards at the BrandLaureate it soon became a hypermarket. Operating shopping platform for groceries in 202 BestBrands Awards 2022 reflects the
SMEs BestBrands Award 2022 gala night in the supermarkets and other grocery (called e-Store), providing customers with growth and journey of the winning SMEs.
recently. (except) convenience) stores industry, the product availability information; over and The cylindrical shaped trophy with its
wholesale and supermarket retail Brand above processing online orders. firm based extending upwards shows the
Bataras was awarded The BrandLaure- developed tremendously in the recent progress of the brand. Sitting on top of
ate SMEs BestBrands Award 2022 in Retail years. Omni-channel retail experiences, in- the trophy is the engraved The BrandLau-
– Hypermarkets category. cluding buying online and picking in- reate emblem, which signifies brand ex-
Initially there were 10 stores – eventu- store, are essential in today’s modern cellence.
Its Chairman,Goh Thian Teck –re- ally expanding to 24 (by incorporating shopping environment and by collaborat-
ceived-The BrandLaureate SMEs Best GCH Retails Sdn Bhd, (Giant) and Century ing with Morefun on MoShop, same-day The gold wrap around the trophy
Brands Entrepreneur Award 2022 in the Sdn Bhd) and currently boast over 30 grocery deliveries to doorsteps are made shields the brand from external forces
retail segment. stores throughout Sabah and Labuan. possible via one single app. and also protects the brand vision and
quest from being challenged.
Goh is actively involved in the inner- The pioneer store in Sabah opened in Bataras Hypermarket, Kolombong is
workings of the retail chain which offers Sembulan (followed by Ketiau and Pu- the first store with this exclusive collabo- The trophy specially designed for the
multifarious essentials and domestic tatan). The rapid extension also contin- ration. Award is 24k gold plated and has pewter
products like groceries, fresh and frozen ued in the west and east coast of Sabah, as its base, two very strong metals that sig-
food, soft line, hard line and home-brand with the Regional Office now located at Goh is exceptionally proud of his nify the prestige and credibility of The
products. Bataras Hypermarket, Kolombong. Brand’s many triumps and always does his BrandLaureate SMEs BestBrands Awards
utmost to support the surrounding com- 2022.
The Labuan based enterprisewas estab- With the popularity of online shop-

GPS installed on female jumbo Manggatal drainage finally done

LAHAD DATU: A Global Po- easier for us to regulate elephants, partic- % AFTER five months, the Drainage and
sitioning System (GPS) col- ularly those that enter the farm area.” Irrigation Department (DID) has finally
lar was installed on a fe- repaired a Manggatal drain and is ar-
male elephant by the Meanwhile, Jibius Dausip, the Super- ranging to have the structure cleaned.
Wildlife Department in intendant of the Borneo Elephant Con-
collaboration with the Bor- servation Centre, said the collar installa- The District Council, on the other
neo Elephant Conservation tion operation was done within three hand, has replaced some of the slabs cov-
Centre (pic). hours. ering the drains around a row of shop-
houses in Kunak and is weighing up the
The GPS collar was at- He said the operation went success- possibility of conducting major repairs of
tached to a female ele- fully, with the elephant’s collar being fas- these structures.
phant from a carefully se- tened in a short amount of time.
lected herd of elephants, This follows the observations made by
according to District “We were lucky in that we were able to a Taman Sepanggar homeowner and Ku-
Wildlife Officer Silvester attach the collar in three hours, as com- nak shop-operator about the damage to
Saimin. pared to past operations that required the drains in their respective areas.
days or weeks,” he said.
Before the elephants were shot with The former noticed that cracks had
sedatives to simplify the GPS collar instal- formed in the concrete wall for the huge
lation process, the Borneo Elephant Con- drain near Lorong Mempelam 3C, while
servation Centre selected mature female the latter was concerned about the pedes-
elephants that met other criteria, he said. trian hazards posed by the “holes” in the
pavements for the commercial centre, off
The collar, which was supplied by Lorong Taman Sri Idaman.
WWF Sabah, was installed in a small agri-
cultural area near the Ulu Segama Mer- A DID spokeswoman said it took a
suli Forest, according to Silvester. while for the Department to secure some
funds to attend to the Manggatal drain.
“The purpose of installing this collar
is to make it easier for us to track the ele- “One of our contractor’s fashioned an
phant herd’s movements.” outlet and patched up the other affected
sections of the drain towards the end of
He went on to say, “It’s also to make it May,” she said.

She said this seemed to be the most A mysterious cave suddenly appeared at this section of the Manggatal drain in December.
feasible solution as the agency was con-
Long-waited reunion for Kent alumni cerned about the condition of the homes
built closest to the structure.
KOTA KINABALU: Seventy five former Unit 841-846 with an RM5,000 donation. The contractor’s workers hard at work re- Damaged concrete slabs like this were a
trainees from the Kent Teacher’s Training Meanwhile, Organising Chairman “So far, these buildings remain intact. moving part of the existing concrete hazard to the public who went to
College in Tuaran gathered at the Palace We did not want to inadvertently damage wall for the Manggatal drain. this row of shophouses in Kunak.
Hotel for their Kent Family Reunion Unit Rabduneh Jalil said this is the fourth re- these properties because of the repairs.”
841 - 846 2022 on Saturday (pic). union organised, with the first taking tion had been taken to deal with the tor to go and clean the drain.”
place at Rest House Lohan Ranau, the sec- The spokeswoman said the structural structure. Meanwhile, the Kunak District Council
Harun Durabi, Sabah’s Assistant Minis- ond at Kent Teacher’s Training College, problems were most likely the result of
ter of Rural Development siad it was a the third at Hotel Tabung Haji, and the the “substantial ground movement” in The spokeswoman refuted the sugges- had new concrete slabs put in place of at
long-awaited reunion after decades of not fourth taking place at Hotel Palace in this part of Sepanggar. tion about the lack of maintenance car- the shophouses in Kg Simpang Empat in
seeing colleagues, particularly former Kota Kinabalu. ried out on the Manggatal drain, saying the first week of June.
Kent Teacher’s Training College trainees “Some of the back-fill holding up the that a contractor with the agency last at-
from 1984 to 1986. Rabduneh believed that this event will drain could to have been affected be- tended to the structure in September. A spokesman for the agency said it
improve friendships amongst Classes 841- cause of this, creating a hollowness in might consider upgrading the drainage
Harun, who is also a former trainee on 846, as well as allow them to exchange certain sections of the structure.” “The drain was de-sludged and any for around the building.
campus, is pleased with the achievements ideas and talk about the current education vegetation, which had formed, was re-
of his peers, many of whom have gone on and future ambitions. She explained that this had caused moved at this time,” she said. “However, we will only pursue this if it
to become dedicated educators. cracks in some sections, at the base the is warranted and provided our budget
“The goal of organising this ceremony concrete, while another section had “An excavator was used to facilitate permits us to do so,” he said.
“Thank you, well done, and congratula- themed ‘today we are friends, tomorrow fallen in on itself. this cleaning effort.”
tions to the members of the organising we are friends, and forever we shall be He explained that the developer had
committee for successfully putting this re- friends’ is to deepen the link of friendship, These conclusions were based on the She said the drain was unclogged handed over the commercial centre to
union together. Despite travelling across recall experiences together, and relax the findings of a site-inspection which was twice annually according to the Depart- the agency a few years ago.
the ocean and through the wilderness, and mind,” he said. carried out by DID engineers in January, ment’s maintenance schedule.
spending time and money to reconnect according to her. “A check of our records, however, re-
with friends who have been separated for Various events, such as’memories’ video “This has yet to be done this year. We veals that the building is located outside
decades, it is lovely to see them again. screenings, gift exchanges, fortunate When asked how often structural are in the process of getting our contrac- our rating area.”
drawings, and karaoke performances, maintenance was performed on the
“May we all arrive safely at our respec- were organised in addition to the leisurely drain, the spokeswoman said this was The Council’s contractor putting “Nevertheless we intervened on the
tive destinations and may we have space dining together. done as and when it was needed. a new slab in place at the commercial streetlight woes around the shophouses
and time together again,” Harun, a earlier this year.”
Bengkoka Assemblyman, said in a brief ad- Also present was the Deputy Chairman “Nevertheless, we have asked our per- centre in Kg Simpang Empat.
dress while officiating the Kent Family Re- and President of the Sabah Headmasters sonnel to periodically keep an eye on the SIMON of Kunak said many of the
union Council Unit 841-846 2022 here. Council and also member of the National structure so that any damage does not go slabs placed over the covered drains
Headmasters’ Supreme Council, Kasbulah unattended for long,” she said. around the building were either broken
He also presented the Kent Family Fund Mangun. or missing.
MALVIN, who lives in Taman Sepang-
Upgrading Food Safety and Quality Division gar, noticed that the concrete wall for the He said many of those that remained
drain was cracked in the second week of were chipped and did not sit properly on
SEPANG: The Ministry of Health (MOH) is preparation, sale and consumption of December. the pavements there.
looking into the need to upgrade the food, as well as related matters.
Food Safety and Quality Division (BKKM) “Parts of the concrete towards the base “Some unit-owners have placed
as the Food Safety Authority, said Health Khairy, meanwhile, encouraged have already been washed away,” he said. wooden planks over the holes in the five-
Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. home-based food entrepreneurs and foot ways for the shophouses to ensure
handlers to register their business with “There is also a hole near the top at an- that pedestrians do not unwittingly come
Speaking at a press conference after BKKM to enable them to be listed as other section where the concrete has to harm,” he said.
officiating the 2022 National World Food holders of home-based food provider caved in.”
Safety Day here today, Khairy said it was certificates recognised by the MOH. He decried the lack of maintenance
in line with the rapid development of Malvin feared for the safety of those carried out on the common areas around
technology and future needs of food “Although it is not compulsory, the homes situated at the side of the drain. the commercial centre.
safety and quality. certificates provide a guarantee of safety
for food products produced. “If more of parts of the wall collapse, a “The grass around the building is over-
“I would say it is a medium-term landslide might occur and damage the grown and there is rubbish strewn about
plan,” he said commenting on the pro- “Consumers can choose a certified foundation of the houses nearby. the place, even in some the drains.”
posal to upgrade BKKM. food provider through the BKKM
website. “They could very easily fall into the The spokesman urged those who lived
Khairy said the proposal was also part drain putting the occupants at risk.” and worked at the shophouses to write to
of the study on the amendments to the “This can protect consumers and en- the Council about these problems.
Food Act 1983 (Act 281) which was cur- sure that food providers comply with Despite having reported this problem
rently being carried out by the MOH. food preparation requirements,” he said. to the agency months ago, he said no ac- “Their letters will be tabled at a meet-
ing and we will have to discuss how best
“We need to review the existing legal On the registration process, Khairy Action was taken to transform ‘the cave’ to address their grievances,” he said. (SS)
structure from time to time to ensure it said every food provider had to submit into a proper drainage outlet in May.
is in line with the current needs,” he said. supporting application documents such
as registration slip of their premises,
Act 281 which came into force in anti-typhoid vaccination certificate, food
March 1983 was last amended in June handler training certificate from a recog-
2006. It aims to protect the public nised food handler training school and
against health hazards and fraud in the food label. – Bernama

8 Local YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 dailyexpress

Adapt to the

changes, Hajiji

urges co-ops Spicing up better fuel cells
TURMERIC, a spice found in most
KOTA KINABALU: Coop- kitchens, has an extract that could
lead to safer, more efficient fuel
eratives in Sabah are cells. Researchers at the Clemson Nano-
materials Institute (CNI) and their collab-
urged to be adaptable orators from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of
Higher Learning (SSSIHL) in India discov-
to changes especially ered a novel way to combine curcumin —
the substance in turmeric — and gold
with increasingly chal- nanoparticles to create an electrode that
requires 100 times less energy to effi-
lenging business envi- ciently convert ethanol into electricity.

ronments from the im- While the research team must do more
testing, the discovery brings replacing hy-
pacts of the Covid-19 drogen as a fuel cell feedstock one step
closer.
pandemic.
“Of all the catalysts for alcohol oxida-
Chief Minister Datuk tion in alkaline medium, the one we pre-
pared is the best so far,” said Apparao Rao
Seri Hajiji Mohd Noor (pic, overseeing some research in his lab)
CNI’s founding director and the RA
said this includes in- Shahelmey (middle) at the launch of the State-level Bowen Professor of Physics in the College
creasing their competi- National Cooperative Day, representing Hajiji. of Science’s.
tiveness, seizing avail-
Fuel cells generate electricity through
able economic opportunities and being cooperative portfolio to be placed in a a chemical reaction instead of combus-
tion.
proactive in making changes towards ministry under the State Government
They are used to power vehicles, build-
the State’s transformation. but the Government at that time had not ings, portable electronic devices and
backup power systems.
“Sabah is a State rich in natural re- taken the appropriate action.
Hydrogen fuel cells are highly efficient
sources. Cooperatives in Sabah should “Therefore, I will bring this matter to and do not produce greenhouse gases.
While hydrogen is the most common
be wise in utilising these resources to the State Cabinet Meeting for considera- chemical element in the universe, it must
be derived from substances such as natu-
carry out production activities or serv- tion,” he said. ral gas and fossil fuels because it occurs
naturally on Earth only in compound
ices that can yield lucrative returns. Hajiji added that existing strategic form with other elements in liquids, gases and making the fuel cell itself.” dustrial collaborator who can actually
or solids. The necessary extraction adds to The researchers focused on the fuel make the fuel cells and build stacks of
“The cooperative movement must al- collaborations between SKM and the De- hydrogen fuel cells’ cost and environmen- fuel cells for the real application,” he con-
tal impact. cell’s anode, where the ethanol or other tinued.
ways be prepared to adapt to rapid partment of Industrial Development and feed source is oxidised.
In addition, hydrogen used in fuel cells But the research could have broader
changes to ensure it can face challenges Research (DIDR) was a welcomed effort is a compressed gas, creating challenges Fuel cells widely use platinum as a cat- implications than improved fuel cells.
for storage and transportation. Ethanol, alyst. But platinum suffers from poison- The electrode’s unique properties could
within the business environment, espe- aligned with the Sabah Maju Jaya devel- an alcohol made from corn or other agri- ing because of reaction intermediates lend itself to future applications in sen-
cultural-based feeds, is safer and easier to such as carbon monoxide, Ventrapragada sors, supercapacitors and more, Ven-
cially after the Covid-19 pandemic. opment plan, in the aspect of stimulat- transport than hydrogen because it is a said. It is also costly. trapragada said.
liquid.
“I am confident that with the stan- ing economic recovery. The researchers used gold as a catalyst. In collaboration with the SSSIHL re-
“To make it a commercial product Instead of using conducting polymers, search team, Rao’s team is testing the
dard operating procedures (SOP) an- Additionally, he said an important as- where we can fill our tanks with ethanol, metal-organic frameworks, or other com- electrode as a sensor that could help iden-
the electrodes have to be highly efficient,” plex materials to deposit the gold on the tify changes in the level of dopamine.
nounced by the Government earlier on, pect in the successful development said Lakshman Ventrapragada, a former surface of the electrode, the researchers Dopamine has been implicated in disor-
student of Rao’s who worked as a research used curcumin because of its structural ders such as Parkinson’s disease and at-
Sabah’s economy will come back in full of cooperatives is the quality of leader- assistant at the CNI and is an alumnus of uniqueness. Curcumin is used to decorate tention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
SSSIHL. “At the same time, we don’t want the gold nanoparticles to stabilise them, When members of the research team
swing, giving relief to entrepreneurs, in- ship in administration and manage- very expensive electrodes or synthetic forming a porous network around the tested urine samples obtained from
polymeric substrates that are not eco- nanoparticles. healthy volunteers, they could measure
cluding cooperatives,” ment. friendly because that defeats the whole dopamine to the approved clinical range
purpose. We wanted to look at something Researchers deposited the curcumin with this electrode using a cost-effective
He said in his speech when officiating “Leaders of a cooperative need to plan green for the fuel cell generation process gold nanoparticle on the surface of the method compared to standard ones used
electrode at a 100 times lower electric cur- today, Rao said.
the State-level National Cooperative Day and evaluate appropriate investments rent than in previous studies.
“In the beginning stages of the project,
in conjunction with the 100th Anniver- that can bring returns to its members Without the curcumin coating, the we did not imagine other applications
gold nanoparticles agglomerate, cutting that gold-coated curcumin could sup-
sary of the Malaysian Cooperative Move- without neglecting its main goal, which down on the surface area exposed to the port. However, before the end of the alco-
chemical reaction, Ventrapragada said. hol oxidation experiments, we were fairly
ment at Centre Point Shopping Complex is to improve the services of its members. confident that other applications are pos-
“Without this curcumin coating, the sible,” Ventrapragada said.
here, Sunday. “I am confident that the cooperative performance is poor,” Rao said. “We need
this coating to stabilise and create a “Although we don’t have a complete
His speech was delivered by the Com- sector will be able to grow and move in porous environment around the understanding of what’s happening at
nanoparticles, and then they do a super the atomic level, we know for sure that
munity Development and People’s Well- line with other private business sectors job with alcohol oxidation. curcumin is stabilising the gold nanopar-
ticles in a way that it can lend itself to
being Minister Datuk Ir Shahelmey if it is managed efficiently, transparently “There’s a big push in the industry for other applications.”
alcohol oxidation. This discovery is an ex-
Yahya. and professionally,” he said. cellent enabler for that. The next step is to
scale the process up and work with an in-
Citing statistics from the Malaysia Co- Meanwhile, Hajiji said the coopera-

operative Societies Commission (SKM), tive movement in Malaysia had started

Hajiji said as of Dec 31 last year, Sabah in 1922, before the country achieved in-

had a total of 1,652 cooperatives with dependence. The movement marked its
100th anniversary this year.
some 339,000 members.

He said this involved a turnover of “In Sabah, cooperatives were first es-

RM470.8 million, an asset strength of tablished in 1959. There are still cooper-

RM887.1 million as well as shares and atives that have survived to this day,

fees of RM218.6 million. namely Koperasi Green Berhad which

“I was informed that SKM Sabah had was registered on Aug 18, 1959,” he said,

previously expressed the desire for the adding that it is a proud achievement.

Fashion designers’ creativity lauded

KOTA KINABALU:

Sabahan fashion de- Satellites, drones
roped in to save
signers creativity to pollinating insects

incorporate elements Urgent action is needed to safe-
guard pollinator species, including
of the state’s diverse many wild bees, as these insects
play an important role in their re-
indigenous cultures spective ecosystems.

into their designs is

laudable.

Tourism, Culture,

and Environment As- SATELLITES and drones can provide key
information to protect pollinators, re-
sistant Minister Datuk searchers say. A new study examines new
ways of using these technologies to track
Joniston Bangkuai Joniston (2nd left) presenting a prize to the winner designer of the availability of flowers, and says this
said individuals who the event A Night of Cultural Fashion while others look on. could be combined with behavioural
have an interest in studies to see the world through the eyes
fashion have a responsibility to help pre- dition. of insects.
The modern contemporary outfits spe-
serve culture. The flowers available to insects vary
“Sabah is home to more than 40 dis- cially tailored for the occasion were worn from day to day and place to place, and
tinct ethnic groups, each of which has its by 45 participants of the Bubazoi Tavan- human activity is changing landscapes
distinctive traditional attire and embroi- tang. in ways that affect all pollinators.
Joniston urged local designers to main-
dery styles. The University of Exeter research
“Our fashion enthusiasts can use these tain their inventiveness and to create a no- team, supported by the South Devon
as a source of inspiration to create a one- tion of contemporary traditional apparel Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
of-a-kind modern and contemporary ap- that can compete with the fashion sector (AONB), hope their approach can help
parel. This is how we can arouse curiosity outside of Sabah. us understand these changes, leading to
“It is our desire that contemporary de- Scorpions: Film’s theory checks out better conservation.
and keep the tradition alive by presenting
stories about our history and heritage signs of Sabah’s traditional features would “Recent advances in drone and satel-
be on exhibit not only in the country but lite technology have created new oppor-
through clothing,” he said. RESEARCHERS in NUI Galway have NUI Galway and senior author of the tunities,” said lead author Dunia Gonza-
Joniston, who also chairs the Sabah also overseas,” he said, encouraging de- shown, for the first time, that smaller study, said: “Outside of entertaining les, from the Centre for Research in Ani-
Tourism Board (STB), made the remarks signers to continue showcasing new ideas species of scorpions, with smaller pincers, movie trivia there are good evolutionary mal Behaviour at the University of Ex-
on Saturday during the A Night of Cultural in the field of fashion that can be applied have more potent venoms compared to reason to expect the results and impor- eter.
Fashion event, which was held in connec- in the future. larger species with robust claws. tant medical implications for such pat-
Also present were Deputy Permanent terns.” “Drones can now give us fine details
tion with the Buvazoi Tavantang or Mr The scientists tested the theory from of a landscape — on the scale of individ-
Secretary II of the Ministry of Tourism, Cul- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the The researchers highlighted that while ual flowers — and combining this with
Kaamatan 2022 competition. Crystal Skull, which warned of the dan- scorpions use both their venomous sting satellite imagery, we can learn about the
The event served as a platform for local ture, and Environment Alicia Sion; Sabah gers of small scorpions, and that “when it and their pinchers to capture prey and for food available to pollinators across a
fashion designers to demonstrate their tal- Cultural Board General Manager Mackey comes to scorpions, the bigger the bet- defence there is an evolutionary trade-off large area.
ents in creating contemporary formal Apison; and Mr Kaamatan 2022 Commit- ter.” between these weapons. Energy used to
wear for men that retained a sense of tra- tee chairman Casey Jovial, among others. make bigger pincers means less energy is “Along with behavioural studies of in-
While this may have simply been a available for its chemical arsenal. This re- sects, this will help us understand the
Penang Halal Expo July 1-13 throwaway movie line from the adventur- sults in larger scorpions which can use threats they face and how to design con-
ous archaeologist Indiana Jones, the re- their physical size are less reliant on ven- servation programmes.
GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Interna- Also present were Chief Minister search shows there is truth to it. oms, while smaller species have evolved
tional Halal Expo and Conference (PI- Chow Kon Yeow and state Trade, Industry more potent venoms. “With some pollinator species in de-
HEC) 2022 from July 1 to 3 is expected to and Entrepreneur Development Commit- The team of scientists at NUI Galway’s cline, including many wild bees, we ur-
receive 30,000 visitors. tee chairman Datuk Abdul Halim Hus- Ryan Institute put the quip to the test by Healy added: “When we look at the gently need this understanding to protect
sain. analysing 36 species of scorpions to show most potent, and dangerous, scorpion not just pollinators in general but also
Penang Halal International chief exec- that larger scorpions have less potent ven- venoms we find they tend to be associ- the great diversity of species that each
utive officer  Fazil Irwan Som said Fazil said PIHEC 2022 would bring to- oms and really are better in terms of ated with species such as the deathstalker play vital roles in complex ecosystems.”
the conference, among others, would fo- gether the best trade communities in the avoiding a nasty sting. The results of the which are relatively small. In contrast, the
cus on business coordination at the Southeast Asian region and serves as a research have published in the interna- biggest species such as rock scorpions Pollinators provide a range of bene-
global level in the post-pandemic era and platform to  attract foreign investors tional journal Toxins. It shows the small- have venoms that are likely to only cause fits (called ecosystem services), espe-
the comparison of the halal industry in to the state. est scorpions in their analysis, like the slight pain.” cially to humans by pollinating food
Southeast Asia. Brazilian yellow scorpion, where over 100 crops.
Meanwhile, Chow said the interna- times more potent than the largest species Alannah Forde, an NUI Galway gradu-
“The 11th edition of PIHEC, to be held tional expo would strengthen Penang’s they studied, such as the rock scorpion. ate student and lead author of the study, However, much about their behav-
at the Setia SPICE Convention Centre, will position as a business destination for said: “Not only did we find that bigger is iour and habitats — and the impact of
bring a new perspective on the halal sec- high-performing investors and leading The potency pattern was not just better — when it comes to people being climate and habitat change caused by
tor. There will be 161 booths from various investments in Malaysia. about body size, but also pincer size, with stung — we also found that bigger pincers humans — remains unknown.
business sectors in the halal industry. venoms found in species with the small- are better when it comes to assessing the
PIHEC 2022 will discuss post-pan- est pinchers, including the South African danger level of a scorpion. While species “Up to now, most research using satel-
“PIHEC 2022 is an effort to promote demic coordination issues such as digital thick-tail scorpion, which is more than 10 such as large-clawed scorpion might be lites has focussed on large-scale agricul-
halal not only as a brand for businesses adaptation in halal products, opportuni- times more potent compared to species small to medium in size, they mainly rely tural landscapes such as oilseed rape,
but also a good value that can be shared ties in mega-scale free trade agreements, with the largest and most robust pinch- on their large pincers instead of their rel- maize and almond farms,” Gonzales
together,” he told a press conference here challenges in the logistics sector due to ers, such as the Israeli gold scorpion. atively weak venom.” said.
Monday. high inflation and more. – Bernama
Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer of Zoology at

dailyexpress YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 Philippines & Indonesia 9

Unite under Marcos: Duterte

MANILA, Philippines: Outgoing President Duterte (left) and Marcos. their grievances. past speeches, calling him a “weak leader” 3.1m families
Rodrigo Duterte urged the public to Duterte also said his administration is and “spoiled.” He even hinted of a candi-
“unite” behind his successor president- is how we operate,” the outgoing presi- date who was addicted to cocaine—an al- experienced
elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. an echo of the dent. “both ready and eager to hand over the legation that presidential bets, including
latter’s campaign call — and called for no reins of government to our incoming lead- Marcos, swiftly denied. hunger
“politicking” to divide the country. But just as democracy has allowed the ers,” as he assured a smooth and peaceful
Filipino people to elect the leaders they transition. But as he prepares to “retire quietly,” SOME 2.2% of Filipino families, or an esti-
With less than three weeks in his term, want, the Philippine Constitution also Duterte said he only has one advocacy: To mated 3.1 million, experienced involun-
Duterte reiterated the call for unity behind states that “no law shall be passed abridg- The outgoing president again reiter- protect the next generation from drugs tary hunger, defined as being hungry and
the new leaders of the country. “We have ing the freedom of speech, of expression, ated his call for the public to support our and criminality. not having anything to eat, at least once in
no room for politicking or actions that are or of the press.” This includes protection of new leaders. the past three months, new survey results
divisive to the country. The people have those who criticise the government or air Marcos has earlier said he will pursue suggest (pic).
spoken. We now have leaders,” he said “We have no room for politicking or go Duterte’s “war on drugs” campaign but
partly in Filipino in a pre-recorded talk into a divisive exercise in whatever endeav- would add a different approach to it, in- The April 2022 hunger rate in the latest
that aired Monday night. ors that you can think of just to divide the cluding prevention, educating the youth Social Weather Stations survey is 0.4
country. Let us not do it,” he added partly of the ill-effects of drugs and improving points above the 11.8% or an estimated 3
Duterte said he will no longer say any- in Filipino. rehabilitation centers. million families in December 2021, and 2.2
thing, but stressed that he does not what points above the 10% (2.5 million families)
“politicking” or “just plain criticise this Up until the last minute of the cam- Marcos’ inauguration is set on June 30, in September 2021, though the 12.2% is still
new administration. You do not do that.” paign season, Duterte remained adamant as Duterte steps down from his post as 0.9 points below the 13.1% annual average
and did not endorse any presidential can- chief executive noon of that day. for 2021.
“President-elect Marcos would need the didate, despite his own party, PDP-Laban,
cooperation and help of everybody. We backing Marcos’ bid. Duterte’s daughter, Sara Duterte, mean- According to the survey results pub-
must give it to him. That’s democracy. That while will sit as Marcos’ vice and education lished late Monday night, the experience
The tough-talking president had not secretary. – PhilStar of hunger is highest in Metro Manila at
hidden his disdain for Marcos Jr. in his 18.6% of families, followed by Mindanao at
13.1%, Balance Luzon at 11.7%, and the
‘Next admin will do its very best to fight drugs’ Visayas at 7.8%.

DUTERTE believes the administration of pressed confidence that the police and force, but noted that the Philippine Na- “going to the extremes” in his adminis- Historically, SWS said, hunger has been
his successor, President-elect Ferdinand military would “maintain the momen- tional Police (PNP) is continuously tration’s crackdown on illegal drugs highest in Metro Manila after topping 23
“Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will “do its very tum” in the anti-narcotics campaign. cleansing its ranks of scalawags. while failing to investigate killings of out of 97 surveys since July 1998.
best” in continuing the fight against il- law enforcement officers and civilians
legal drugs (pic). “I place my full trust and confidence “I still trust the police. Mayroong mga under the hands of communists and ter- The survey results also include a dis-
on the two institutions that we have na scalawags, mayroon ring nasa droga rorists. tinction between moderate hunger, or
“Well, I trust that the next administra- iyon lang ang ating panglaban (that pero (There are some scalawags, there families who experienced hunger “only
tion will also do its very best to confront fight for us): it’s the police and the mili- are some involved in illegal drugs) — a “Is there any case pursued by the hu- once” or “a few times” in the last three
itong drug[s],” he said in a prerecorded tary. These are the institutions that few of them. And yet the police had to man rights, international or the local, to months. On the other hand, “severe
Talk to the People. would, I think, will not allow the drug police its own ranks and maraming pulis at least equalize the situation by also go- hunger refers” to those who experienced it
people to prevail,” he added. na nahuli nila (and many police officers ing after the terrorists who are crimi- “often” or “always” in the last three
Although he admitted that he is have been caught),” he said. nals?” he said. months.
“scared” that the drug industry would Duterte acknowledged that there are
proliferate when his term ends, he ex- some bad eggs in the country’s police He urged anew members of the PNP He castigated members of the Com- SWS said that the overall 12.2% hunger
to serve the country and people, regard- munist Party of the Philippines-New Peo- rate for April “is the sum of 9.3 percent
Indian politicians’ derogatory less of who the country’s leaders are. ple’s Army-National Democratic Front (est. 2.4 million families) who experienced
(CPP-NPA-NDF) for killing barangay (vil- Moderate Hunger and 2.9% (est. 744,000
remarks condemned “We are just passing by…You see I lage) captains and other local govern- families) who experienced Severe
used to be a mayor and it seems like only ment officials. Hunger.”
JAKARTA: In- yesterday when I passed in front of you.
donesia has But the organization of the Armed The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist or- In the last three months, did it happen
joined in the Forces and the police will be there al- ganization by the United States, Euro- even once that your family experienced
strong condem- ways. So you, I appeal to you to maintain pean Union, the United Kingdom, Aus- hunger and not have anything to eat? – In-
nation of the your reputation as police and military tralia, Canada, New Zealand, and the quirer
controversial re- who can be relied on to save the coun- Philippines. – PNA
marks against try,” he said. ISIS
Prophet
Muhammad by Duterte also reminded them to steer spokesperson
two Indian clear of involvement in the illegal drug
politicians trade. killed in
(pic).
“That is why you cops, if you really Maguindanao
“Indonesia love your country, stay away from drugs,
strongly con- the temptation of money,” he said. “I said A MAN WHO is supposedly the spokesper-
demns the un- it’s very corrosive to the values of a hu- son of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in
acceptable derogatory remarks against man being, the lure of money.” East Asia was killed Monday afternoon by
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon the military in an operation in Maguin-
him) by two Indian politicians,” the Meanwhile, Duterte criticized human danao, state television reported.
country’s foreign affairs ministry rights groups anew for accusing him of
tweeted on its official Twitter account. Aside from being a spokesperson, Abu
marks against Islam by the Indian politi- Archdiocese builds ‘Asia’s Huzaifah — identified in other reports as
Indonesia also conveyed the message cians. Abdulfatah Omar Alimuden — was also
to the Indian Ambassador in Jakarta, the first’ centre for exorcism supposedly in charge of financial transac-
tweet read. Indian ruling party, the Bharatiya tions of the Daulah Islamiyah – Philippines
Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday suspended THE MANILA archdio- to ISIS central.
The largest Muslim country in the its spokespersons, Nupur Sharma, who cese has begun the con-
world joined Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi made the insulting remarks in a televi- struction of a religious Reports did not provide any other de-
Arabia and other Muslim countries to sion debate, and Naveen Jindal over his structure that will serve tails on the death of Alimuden.
denounce the recent derogatory re- comments on social media. as a “centre for exor-
cism” which the prelacy According to Washington-based online
“The BJP strongly denounces insults said will be “the first of news magazine The Diplomat, the so-
of any religious personalities of any re- its kind in Asia (pic).” called East Asia province of ISIS spans In-
ligion,” the party said in a statement. – donesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thai-
Bernama The religious struc- land.
ture will be known as
US$150mil secured from the Saint Michael Cen- This ISIS branch is led by Abu Zacharia,
ter for Spiritual Libera- who is also known as Jer Mimbantas and
Islamic Development Bank tion and Exorcism, lo- Faharudin Hadji Satar, the chief of the ISIS-
cated in Guadalupe inspired Maute group that laid siege to the
JAKARTA: The Indonesian government Java,” Alfirman said, according to an of- Viejo, a neighborhood statement on Monday. city of Marawi in 2017. — Xave Gregorio
has signed a cooperation agreement ficial statement . in the city of Makati. For his part, Syquia said the Saint
with the Islamic Development Bank More jobs
(IsDB) for financing the construction of Through the development of new The by-invitation Michael Center “will minister to those in
the Trans South-South Road Infrastruc- roads along the southern coast of Java Is- only groundbreaking ceremony for the re- bondage to the devil who are therefore available
ture Phase 2 (TRSS-2). Director general of land, TRSS-2 can improve the efficiency ligious structure was conducted on May 27 the poorest of the poor and are usually
financing and risk management at the and safety of road users, Alfirman said. and was only announced on Monday. overlooked.” now abroad:
Finance Ministry, Luky Alfirman, who
signed the cooperation agreement, said As part of TRSS-2, toll road sections It was attended by Archbishop of The Saint Michael Center will also serve POEA
that the bank will provide 150 million US will be built in East Java and DI Yo- Manila Jose F. Cardinal Advincula Jr. as the headquarters of the Philippine As-
dollars out of the total construction cost gyakarta, with their length estimated at joined by Rev. Fr. Francisco Syquia, Direc- sociation of Catholic Exorcists (PACE), JOB opportunities abroad are opening up
of US$450 million for TRSS-2 under the 67.78 kilometers, including a bridge tor of the Archdiocese of Manila Office of which is under the Catholic Bishops’ Con- as more countries relax their Covid-19 re-
agreement, in accordance with Islamic spanning 443.1 meters. The roads will Exorcism, and other church officials and ference of the Philippines. strictions, the Philippine Overseas Em-
sharia principles. pass through the districts of Tulunga- staff. ployment Administration (POEA) said on
gung, Blitar, Malang, and Bantul. PACE is also affiliated with the Italy- Tuesday.
“The purpose of the TRSS-2 road infra- “A product of more than seven years of based International Association of Exor-
structure development is to encourage Infrastructure financing has also prayers, planning and fundraising, this re- cists. – Inquirer “Due to the reopening of the economy
sustainable economic growth and been obtained from the Asian Develop- ligious structure will be the first of its kind in different countries and the relaxing of
poverty alleviation throughout southern ment Bank (ADB) through a separate in Asia, if not the world,” the Archdiocese health protocols, the employment situa-
funding modality, Alfirman informed. – of Manila Office of Exorcism said in a tion is slowly picking up, “POEA Adminis-
Antara News trator Bernard Olalia said.

Nation needs clear policies on nuclear energy Marcos P623mil spent for There are jobs available for seafarers as
many cruise ships have resumed their op-
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s nu- presidential campaign erations, Olalia said.
clear energy development
plans will need to be sup- important; energy (resources) that can MARCOS JR. declared before the Commis- into personal funds to mount his campaign Aside from this, healthcare workers
ported with the drafting of minimize carbon, reduce fossil combus- sion on Elections that he spent over P623 to Malacañang. such as nurses and caregivers are also
policies and clear guide- tion, and maximize new renewable en- million for his winning campaign to sit in needed in the UK, Germany, New Zealand,
lines, the National Research ergy are being sought. (Thus), nuclear Malacañang. Bulk of cash spent for his campaign came Canada, and Australia.
and Innovation Agency power is an option that must be started,” from contributions totalling to
(BRIN) has said (pic). he said. According to his Statement of Contribu- P371,795,856.59, while expenses incurred us- Olalia said no placement fee is required
tions and Expenditures filed Tuesday, Mar- ing in-kind contributions amounted to for jobs made available under a govern-
“In the field of nuclear Meanwhile, nuclear expert and ob- cos spent a total of P623,230,176.68 of the P623,230,176.68. ment-to-government agreement.
energy, sufficient prepara- server Adiwardojo explained that to P624,684,320.09 that he received from his
tion and support are build a nuclear power plant (NPP), a party, Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, and Presidential candidates are only allowed He said that for skilled workers in Euro-
needed, such as policies, study of the nuclear energy system is “other sources.” to spend P10 per registered voter, which pean countries, the placement fee should
human resources, and facil- also necessary. amounts to around P674 million. not be higher than the monthly salary for
ity infrastructure, as well as This means that Marcos still has the job.
how to utilize Indonesia’s natural re- “If it is supported by the right regula- P1,454,143.41 in unspent contributions. It is Meanwhile, the Office of the Ombuds-
sources, which can be used as nuclear tions and infrastructure, we must create not immediately clear what the president- man has indicted dozens of Bureau of Im- Olalia also warned job applicants
fuel,” BRIN’s Development Policy Deputy a study program to ensure sustainabil- elect plans to do with this. migration officials and staff over the “pastil- against transacting with illegal recruiters.
Mego Pinandito explained . ity,” he said. – Antara News las” bribery scheme, where foreigners were
All cash contributions amounting to allegedly whisked past airport counters in He also reminded them that the pay-
He stressed that the development of P373,250,000 to Marcos’ campaign came exchange for money. ment of placement fees should be done in
nuclear energy in Indonesia requires from “other sources,” who are not immedi- the later part of the recruitment process. –
careful preparation. According to him, ately identified as of writing, as the PFP did The scam was the subject of hearings at GMA News
the country needs the latest energy con- not give cash and instead gave the Senate, which looked into whether it
version technology with high efficiency P247,234,320.09 of in-kind contributions. had been used for sex trafficking and for let-
and safety. ting Philippine Offshore Gambling Opera-
Marcos also received P4,200,000 worth tions workers into the Philippines. President
Currently, nuclear power has become of in-kind contributions from “other Rodrigo Duterte summoned the immigra-
a clean energy option amid the emer- sources.” tion officials to Malacañang for a dressing
gence of global policies for tackling cli- down and incorrectly claimed at his last
mate change, Pinandito noted. The incoming chief executive, who won State of the Nation Address in July 2021 that
the presidential race with an overwhelming they had already been fired. PhilStar
“Net-zero emission (NZE) has become 31 million votes, declared that he did not dip

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Battle for Severodonetsk changing ‘every hour’

KYIV (Ukraine): Street fighting raged A Ukrainian serviceman gets out of an underground makeshift mate change, has triggered stark warn- miles) away with precision-guided rock-
Tuesday for control of Ukraine’s flash- bunker after a shelling at a field camp near the front line at an ings of global food shortages. ets, double the reach of standard battle-
point city of Severodonetsk, with the situ- undisclosed location in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. field artillery.
ation changing “every hour”, an official Moscow has blockaded the key black
said, as Kyiv warned its troops were out- but at the same time there’s enough forces Days earlier, officials said the Russians sea port of Odessa, and Zelensky said The announcement came after Putin
numbered by Russian forces. and resources to repel attacks,” said controlled more than 70 percent of the Ukraine had up to 25 million tonnes of had warned that Moscow would hit new
mayor Oleksandr Striuk on Monday. city but then Moscow’s forces were grain that could not be exported. targets in Ukraine if the West supplied
Just days ago, Moscow seemed close to pushed back, and see-saw battles have Kyiv with such weapons—but did not
taking the strategic industrial hub in the “We have hope, we have faith in our been raging since. “In the autumn that could be 70 to 75 specify which targets.
east but Ukrainian forces have managed armed forces, no one’s going to abandon” million tonnes,” said the president, whose
to hold out. Severodonetsk, he added. The US-based Institute for the Study of country was the world’s fourth biggest Russian forces pressed their offensive
War said the Ukrainians’ successful coun- grain exporter before the war. on several other fronts in the east of
“Our heroes are holding their positions Zelensky warned Ukrainian forces in terattacks highlighted “the declining Ukraine, with Kyiv saying it had repulsed
in Severodonetsk. Fierce street fights con- the key city were outnumbered and the combat power of Russian forces in In Washington, US Secretary of State seven attacks around Donetsk and Lu-
tinue in the city,” Ukrainian President Russians “are stronger,” speaking to jour- Ukraine”. Antony Blinken added his voice to the gansk.
Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video ad- nalists after visiting frontline positions in criticism.
dress late Monday. Lysychansk, across the river from The Russian invasion of Ukraine, com- The Russian defence ministry said its
Severodonetsk. bined with supply chain snarls and cli- “Right now a Russian naval blockade in aircraft had hit three arms depots and a
Concerns about a global food crisis the Black Sea is preventing Ukraine’s fuel storage facility near the village of
also grew as Zelensky warned of tighten- crops from being shipped to their normal Kodema, in the Donetsk region.
ing grain supplies—Ukraine is a top pro- destinations,” he said.
ducer of the commodity—due to what On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister
Washington described as a Russian strat- Blinken said it was a deliberate strategy Sergei Lavrov hit out at European coun-
egy of “blackmail”. by Putin to force the rest of the world “to tries that prevented his plane passing
give in to him,” and eliminate sanctions through their airspace, forcing him to
Thousands of civilians have been killed on Russia. cancel a visit to ally Belgrade.
and millions forced to flee their homes
since President Vladimir Putin ordered “In other words, quite simply put, it’s Serbian daily Vecernje Novosti re-
Russian troops into Ukraine on February blackmail,” Blinken said speaking at a ported that Nato-members Bulgaria,
24. State Department conference on food se- North Macedonia and Montenegro had
curity issues arising refused access to their airspace.
After being repelled from other parts
of the country, including Kyiv, Russia has from the invasion of Ukraine, he also At a meeting of the UN Security Coun-
concentrated its assault on the eastern described as “credible” reports that Russia cil, the United States and Europe urged
Donbas region and had been making slow has stolen grain from Ukraine for resale. Russia to stop alleged sexual violence by
but steady progress. its army and proxies in Ukraine, allega-
Britain followed the United States by tions that Moscow denounced as “lies.”
Severodonetsk—the largest city still in announcing Monday it would supply
Ukrainian hands in the Lugansk region of longer-range, mobile missile launchers to And in Washington, officials accused
the Donbas—has been the focal point in Ukraine’s forces, which could improve Russia of trying to “intimidate” American
recent weeks, and officials described a Kyiv’s fight against Russian firepower. correspondents in Moscow, who were
fast-changing situation on the ground. summoned by the Russian foreign min-
The British defence ministry said it istry and threatened with reprisals be-
“The situation is changing every hour, would be supplying track-mounted M270 cause of US sanctions. – AFP
multiple rocket artillery units, which can
strike targets up to 80 kilometres (50

Ukraine opposes IAEA visit to Johnson presses on despite Tory rebellion

Russian-occupied nuclear plant LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris John- controversy over lockdown-breaking premierships were ter-
son (pic) convened his cabinet on Tues- events at Downing Street, which caused minally damaged.
KYIV (Ukraine): Ukraine said on Tuesday lying again,” Energoatom said. day, vowing to “get on with the job” after public outrage and saw him become the
that it opposed any visit by the head of the “We consider this declaration a new at- surviving a confidence vote of Conserva- first serving UK prime minister to have Johnson has stead-
UN’s nuclear watchdog to its nuclear plant tive MPs that has left him severely weak- broken the law. fastly refused to resign
at Zaporizhzhia while it is under Russian tempt to gain access to the Zaporizhzhia ened. over “Partygate” and
occupation. power plant to legitimise the presence of Johnson, 57, needed the backing of 180 shows no sign of doing so now.
the occupiers and approve their actions.” The beleaguered leader has claimed of the 359 Conservatives MPs to survive the
The head of the International Atomic that Monday evening’s dramatic ballot, vote. Defeat would have meant the end to “Today, I pledge to continue deliver-
Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said It added that communication between which saw 211 Tory party lawmakers sup- his time as party leader and prime minis- ing,” Johnson said before the cabinet
on Monday his agency was preparing an the plant and the IAEA was lost after the port him remaining prime minister but ter. Most of Johnson’s cabinet publicly meeting.
expert mission to the Zaporizhzhia nu- Russians took over the site in March, and 148 vote against, was a “decisive result”. backed him in the secret ballot, but more
clear plant, the largest in Europe and now that server data would be given to the than 40 percent of the parliamentary “We are on the side of hard-working
occupied by Russian forces. IAEA when the Ukrainian operator is in But most critics and commentators dis- party—and almost certainly a majority of British people, and we are going to get on
charge again. Russia threatened on May 19 agreed, arguing his authority has been backbenchers—did not, with the rebels with the job.”
Grossi said on Twitter the visit was to cut Ukraine off from the Zaporizhzhia hugely undermined and his days in coming from various Tory factions.
arranged after Ukraine had “requested” it. plant unless Kyiv paid Moscow for the elec- Downing Street are numbered. Johnson has spent months fighting for
tricity produced. Under current party rules he cannot be his political survival after a series of con-
But Ukraine’s nuclear agency, Ener- The Times called him “a wounded vic- challenged again for a year, which leaves troversies culminated in the “Partygate”
goatom on Tuesday accused Grossi of lying In 2021 — well before Russia’s invasion tor” while his former employers at the little time for any new leader to emerge saga. Various opinion polls have shown
and said it did not greenlight the visit. of Ukraine—the Zaporizhzhia plant repre- Daily Telegraph branded it “a hollow vic- before the next general election due by the public think he lied about the scandal
sented 20 percent of Ukraine’s annual elec- tory that tears Tories apart”. 2024. and should resign.
“Ukraine did not invite Grossi to visit tricity production and nearly half of all nu-
the Zaporizhzhia plant and refused to let clear power produced in Ukraine. The vote—just over two years after the In previous Tory confidence ballots, His Tories have lost several once-safe
him make such a visit in the past. The visit Brexit architect won a landslide general Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May seats in by-elections and scored dismally
to the plant will only become possible Russian forces took control of the plant election victory—was brought after a scored better than Johnson yet despite in recent local elections.
when Ukraine takes back control of the in southern Ukraine at the beginning of string of scandals that have left the Con- narrowly winning their votes, both ulti-
site,” Energoatom wrote on Telegram. March, soon after Moscow’s February 24 servative party’s standing in tatters. mately resigned after deciding that their They are expected to lose two upcom-
invasion. – AFP ing by-elections later this month, includ-
“IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi is Chief among them was the “Partygate” ing one in a previously rock-solid Conser-
vative constituency. – AFP

Countries submit motion to censure Iran to UN nuclear watchdog Sweden avoids

VIENNA: The United States, Britain, France It is a sign of growing Western impa- on Monday after opening the board meet- told state TV on Monday that Iran would political crisis with
and Germany have submitted a motion to tience after talks to revive the 2015 land- ing that he hoped “to solve these things reject the resolution, saying it would have
the UN atomic energy watchdog to cen- mark nuclear accord with Iran stalled in once and for all”. “a negative impact both on the general di- last-minute deal
sure Iran over its lack of cooperation with March. rection of our cooperation with the IAEA
the agency, two diplomats said Tuesday. The negotiations to revive the accord and on our negotiations”. STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s government said
The vote is likely to happen on Thurs- started in April 2021 with the aim of bring- Tuesday it had clinched a last-minute deal
“The text was submitted overnight” day during the week-long meeting of the ing the United States back into the deal, China and Russia—who with Britain, to ensure its justice minister would survive
from Monday to Tuesday, a European IAEA’s 35-member Board of Governors, one lifting sanctions and getting Iran to scale France and Germany are parties to the Iran a no-confidence vote in parliament, avert-
diplomat told AFP. A second diplomat of the diplomats said. In a report late last back its stepped-up nuclear programme. nuclear deal—have warned that any reso- ing a political crisis.
confirmed the news. month, the IAEA said it still had questions lution could disrupt the negotiation
that were “not clarified” regarding traces The deal—promising Tehran sanctions process. The deal stems from winning the sup-
The resolution urging Iran to cooperate of enriched uranium previously found at relief in exchange for curbs in its nuclear port of an independent lawmaker who is
fully with the International Atomic Energy three sites, which Iran had not declared as programme—started to fall apart in 2018 “Russia will not associate itself with determined that Stockholm does not cave
Agency (IAEA) marks the first time since having hosted nuclear activities. when the then US president Donald such a resolution,” Russia’s ambassador to into Turkish conditions for supporting
June 2020 when a similar motion censur- Trump withdrew from it. Iranian foreign the UN in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said in Sweden’s bid to join Nato.
ing Iran was adopted. IAEA head Rafael Grossi told reporters ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh a tweet late Monday.– AFP
The potential crisis comes just three
LAGOS: Gunmen using explosives killed Gun attack on church in Nigeria leaves 21 dead months ahead of general elections and
at least 21 people, including children, in less than a year after the Social Democratic
an attack on a Catholic church in south- the gunmen disguised as congregants, Gunmen killed government was toppled and then re-
west Nigeria, local officials said, in vio- while other armed men who had posi- at least 21 turned to power within weeks.
lence that drew widespread international tioned themselves around the church people,
condemnation. premises from different directions, fired including The no-confidence vote was launched
into the church,” the police statement by the far-right Sweden Democrats who
The bloodshed at St. Francis Catholic said. children, in an accuse Justice Minister Morgan Johansson
Church in Owo town during a Sunday attack on a of failing to stem rising gang violence.
service was a rare assault in Nigeria’s usu- Fragments of explosives and three un-
ally safer southwest and shocked a coun- exploded improvised devices were found Catholic church Sweden has struggled to reduce the
try grown used to jihadist attacks and at the scene. in southwest shootings and bombings that have
mass kidnappings in the north. Nigeria, local plagued the country in recent years, usu-
Richard Olatunde, spokesman for the officials said. ally due to gangland rivalries or organised
Blood still stained the church floor Ondo State governor’s office, told AFP 21 criminals battling over the drug market.
and debris lay scattered around a day af- people died after gunmen detonated dy-
ter the attack that Ondo State governor’s namite inside the church before opening “We have reached a point where the
office said killed at least 21 people. fire. National Emergency Management single most important crime policy meas-
Agency local representative Olanrewaju ure is to give Morgan Johansson an early
Gunmen hid among the worshippers Kadiri said 22 people were killed, includ- retirement,” Sweden Democrat MP Henrik
inside the church and also opened fire on ing several children, with another 40 peo- Vinge told parliament last week.
the congregation through the windows ple wounded. – AFP
from outside. The conservative Moderate Party along
with the Liberal Party and the Christian
“Investigations revealed that some of Democrats had announced that they
would support the motion.
RIO DE JANEIRO: A British journalist and a UK journalist, indigenous expert missing in Brazil
Brazilian indigenous expert have gone miss- Those four parties control 174 seats in
ing in a remote region of the Amazon rain- said in a statement. local authorities on the search effort. It added When the community leader did not ar- parliament but they needed one more vote
forest after receiving threats, authorities and The men had “received threats in the that Pereira was on leave from the agency “to rive, the men decided to continue to Atalaia for the motion to pass.
indigenous-rights groups said, raising fears pursue personal interests.” do Norte, about a two-hour trip, they said.
for their safety. field” last week, said the groups, the Union of If parliament were to vote against Jo-
Indigenous Organizations of the Javari Valley Phillips and Pereira had travelled to the They were last sighted shortly after near hansson, he would have lost his job.
Veteran foreign correspondent Dom (Univaja) and the Observatory for the Hu- region around a Funai monitoring base, and the community of Sao Gabriel, just down-
Phillips, 57, went missing while researching man Rights of Isolated and Recently Con- reached Jaburu lake Friday evening, Univaja stream from Sao Rafael. Andersson made it clear last week that
a book in the Brazilian Amazon’s Javari Valley tacted Indigenous Peoples (OPI). and OPI said. she would resign if a no-confidence vote
with respected indigenous expert Bruno The pair were travelling in a new boat passed against Johansson, saying all gov-
Pereira, said The Guardian newspaper, where They did not give further details, but They started the return trip early Sunday, with 70 litters of gasoline—“sufficient for the ernment decisions are made collectively.
Phillips has been a long-time contributor. Pereira, an expert at Brazil’s indigenous af- stopping in the community of Sao Rafael, trip”—and were using satellite communica-
fairs agency Funai with deep knowledge of where Pereira had scheduled a meeting with tions equipment, the groups said. With one vote missing, the situation
The pair had travelled by boat to Jaburu the region, has regularly received threats a local leader to discuss indigenous patrols hinged on parliamentarian Amineh Kak-
lake, in the northern state of Amazonas near from loggers and miners trying to invade iso- to fight the “intense invasions” that have The federal prosecutors’ office said it had abaveh, a former Left Party member sitting
Brazil’s border with Peru, and were expected lated indigenous groups’ land. been taking place on their lands, the groups dispatched police to investigate and acti- in parliament as an independent since
to return to the city of Atalaia do Norte by said. vated a search operation, to be led by the 2019.
around 9:00 am Sunday, two rights groups Funai told AFP it was collaborating with Brazilian navy. – AFP
Kakabaveh, who is of Iranian-Kurdish
origin, has become a focal point in
Swedish politics over Turkey’s opposition
to Stockholm’s bid to join Nato. – AFP

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JAKARTA: Asean Parliamentarians for Hu- Asean MPs alarmed by planned executions of Myanmar political prisoners
man Righs (APHR) urged Asean and the in-
ternational community to take action to death in Jan 2022. direction,” said Charles Santiago, Member versal Declaration of Human Rights. believed to be a collaborator working for
stop the Myanmar junta from executing “Asean and the international commu- of Parliament from Malaysia, and APHR If the death sentences are carried out, it Yangon.
four political prisoners. Chairperson.
nity must use every means at their disposal would be the first known judicial execu- Ever since the coup in February last year
APHR in a statement released on its to prevent these executions from taking APHR calls on each and every member tions in the country since 1988, according that ousted the democratically elected gov-
website said Parliamentarians from South- place. If they are carried out they will be state of Asean, as well as its Dialogue Part- to Amnesty International, which considers ernment, Myanmar has seen a drastic surge
east Asia were alarmed by the Myanmar nothing less than cold blooded political as- ners, to urgently demand an unconditional Myanmar as “Abolitionist in Practice”, as it in the number of people sentenced to
junta’s announcement to carry out the sassination. and immediate stay of execution and re- retains the death penalty in law, but has not death with at least 86 people, including mi-
death sentences handed down to the four lease of the four detainees by the junta. applied it for decades. nors who were under 18 at the time, the
political prisoners. “These executions would further con- statement said.
tribute to prevent the already remote pos- APHR also unreservedly supports the re- Media reported the Myanmar junta as
The four include prominent former sibility of a sustainable political dialogue, cent United Nations Secretary General’s saying last week that appeals by Phyo Zeya According to the Assistance Association
member of Parliament, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, as prescribed over one year ago in the Five- statement reminding Myanmar’s military Thaw and Yu against their death sentences for Political Prisoners (Burma), some 14,018
and well-known pro-democracy activist, Point Consensus agreed by Asean member that the death sentences are a blatant vio- had been rejected. people have been detained while 1,905 oth-
Kyaw Min Yu aka Ko Jimmy, both convicted states and Min Aung Hlaing’s junta, which lation of the right to life, liberty and secu- ers have been killed by the junta since the
on charges of terrorism and sentenced to has not made any effort whatsoever in that rity of the person, as per Article 3 of the Uni- The two other men were reportedly sen- coup. – Bernama
tenced to death for killing a woman they

Largest HK national Brunei makes early Cabinet reshuffle

security trial begins BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei’s Sultan as the country’s Prime Minister, Minister
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah announced an early of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Defence, and
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s largest na- ing applications from defendants and nance. reshuffle of Cabinet ministers on Tuesday Minister of Finance and Economy.
tional security case was sent to trial on journalists for them to be lifted. The one outstanding defendant will afternoon in a special speech broadcast
Tuesday, after lingering 15 months in pre- nationwide. Brunei’s government was last reshuf-
trial procedures during which most of the Family members and legal representa- join the cohort later after further proceed- fled in January 2018. At that time, veteran
47 defendants were denied bail. tives have told AFP that the opaqueness ings before the magistrate. Effective from Tuesday, Brunei’s Minis- ministers including Lim Jock Seng, Minis-
has made the defendants “frustrated and ter of Home Affairs Haji Awang Abu Bakar, ter at the Prime Minister’s Office and Sec-
Under the security law, which Beijing depleted”, and allowed the prosecution to Hong Kong faces scrutiny over whether Minister of Primary Resources and ond Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
imposed in 2020 following huge, some- “move the goalposts”. its legal system can maintain its independ- Tourism Haji Ali, and Minister of Develop- and Mohammad Yasmin, Minister of En-
times violent democracy protests, the pro- ence as China cracks down on dissent with ment Haji Suhaimi have been replaced, ergy and Industry Department at the
democracy figures are charged with “con- After a three-and-half-day hearing that the security law. Xinhua reported. prime minister’s office, were replaced. –
spiracy to subversion” for organising an began Wednesday and Thursday last week Bernama
unofficial primary election. and finished Tuesday, all but one of the 47 More than 180 people have been ar- The Sultan himself retains the top posts
defendants were committed to a senior rested over the past two years since the se-
Subversion is one of the four major court by Principal Magistrate Peter Law, curity law came into force—the bulk of Parents wait outside school as students sit for the first day
crimes under the security law and can one of the national security judges. them activists, unionists and journalists— of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known as
carry a punishment of up to life in prison. and 115 have been prosecuted.
Last Wednesday, Law announced that “gaokao”, in Huaian in China’s eastern Jiangsu province.
The defendants, aged between 24 and seventeen defendants had been commit- Three men have been convicted and
66, include democratically elected law- ted for trial. sentenced to jail for 43 months to nine China’s ‘epidemic generation’ sits
makers and district councillors, as well as years. One of them sought to appeal his
unionists, academics and others, whose They included veteran activists “Long 69-month sentence on Tuesday, with the high-stakes college entrance exam
political stances range from modest re- Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, barrister court reserving judgement until early Sep-
formists to radical localists. Lawrence Lau, and journalist-turned-ac- tember. BEIJING: High school seniors across China happy since there’s no need to go to
tivist Gwyneth Ho. lined up on Tuesday to sit the gruelling school,” Zhao Dong, whose daughter is sit-
The case was first brought to court in The 47 defendants form the largest “gaokao” college entrance exam under the ting the gaokao this year, told AFP.
March 2021, when most of the 47 were de- Twenty-nine others—including legal group in one single case under the law. shadow of Covid-19.
nied bail after a four-day marathon hear- scholar Benny Tai, who was also one of the “But as time went by, looking at her
ing before a judge handpicked by the gov- leaders of the “Occupy Central” movement Authorities say the security law has suc- The class of 2022 are the first to have computer for a whole day of class became
ernment to try national security cases. in 2014 — were committed on Monday and cessfully returned stability to the financial had all three years of China’s high school quite difficult.”
Tuesday. hub, which was upended for seven straight curriculum disrupted by the pandemic,
Most of the pre-trial hearings over the months by large and sometimes violent bouncing between online and offline Students taking the exam in Beijing this
past 15 months, though held in an open Defendants who submit a non-guilty protests in 2019. classes and adapting to frequent Covid year must wear masks, show proof of a
court, have been subject to reporting re- plea are committed for trial, and those tests and sudden closures. negative virus test from the past 48 hours
strictions—with the court repeatedly refus- who plead guilty committed for sentenc- But critics say it has eviscerated civil lib- and pass a temperature check.
ing, according to the Magistrates Ordi- erties and the political plurality the city The constant uncertainty has com-
used to enjoy. – AFP pounded the already intense stress of the Local governments across the country
three-day gaokao, which can determine a have similar requirements. Authorities in
US, S Korea fly warplanes after North’s missile tests teenager’s life path in China’s highly com- China are committed to a zero-Covid strat-
petitive academic and job environment. egy—using rapid lockdowns, mass testing
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States South Korean warplanes, Un’s regime is preparing to carry out a and strict travel restrictions to eliminate
flew warplanes including stealth fighter including F-35 stealth fighters, fresh nuclear test. “These kids haven’t had it easy,” Jin Li- even the smallest outbreaks.
jets over waters around the Korean penin- and US F-16 jets flying in tactical juan, mother of a gaokao candidate, told
sula Tuesday in a fresh show of force fol- formation in airspace over South Korea. US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy AFP outside a high school in Beijing. In Shanghai, where 25 million residents
lowing recent missile tests by the North, Sherman, in Seoul on a three-day visit, are gradually emerging from two months
Seoul said. utes—one of its largest-ever tests, analysts warned there would be a “swift and force- Anxious parents offered words of en- in lockdown, authorities have delayed the
said. ful” response were Pyongyang to go couragement to their children and took exam by a month.
Sixteen South Korean warplanes, in- ahead with what would be its seventh photos outside the school as students
cluding F-35 stealth fighters and four US The nuclear-armed country has carried such test. shuffled through its gates, some cram- A record 11.93 million people registered
F-16 jets, formed an attack squadron over out a blitz of sanctions-busting weapons ming last-minute. for this year’s gaokao, state news agency
the West Sea—also known as the Yellow tests this year, including firing an inter- “Any nuclear test would be in complete Xinhua said on Tuesday, with teens in
Sea—to “respond to the enemy threat,” continental ballistic missile at full range violation of UN Security Council resolu- Police officers guided traffic around the some locked-down neighbourhoods tak-
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a state- for the first time since 2017. tions,” she told reporters after meeting campus. Signs near the school asked driv- ing the tests in individual hotel rooms.
ment. with her South Korean counterpart. ers not to honk. Tuesday was the first time
US and South Korean officials have in weeks that many students had seen “This generation of kids entered high
The allies “demonstrated their strong been warning for weeks that Kim Jong The entire world will respond in a their classmates, as the Chinese capital school in 2019... so the entire second se-
ability and will to strike quickly and accu- “strong and clear manner,” she said, had closed schools and offices to try and mester of their first year was done at
rately against any provocation from adding: “We are prepared.” eliminate a coronavirus outbreak. home,” Zhao said.
North Korea,” it added.
Sherman said the United States was “At the beginning, my kid was very “They are like an ‘epidemic genera-
The air manoeuvres, which involved still willing to engage in dialogue with tion’.” –AFP
some 20 warplanes, come a day after the the North, saying that Washington “har-
allies fired eight ballistic missiles into the bours no hostile intent towards” Py-
Sea of Japan in the wake of Pyongyang’s ongyang.
Sunday weapons tests.
Tuesday’s air manoeuvres are the third
On Sunday, North Korea fired eight such joint show of force by the allies un-
short range ballistic missiles from four der South Korea’s hawkish new President
different locations in the space of 30 min- Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed a tougher
stance against Pyongyang. – AFP

Beijing slams jet encounter ‘disinformation’ Thais to assess lifting face mask mandate

BEIJING: Beijing on Tuesday accused Aus- “China resolutely opposes actions that puted Paracel Islands—known as Xisha in BANGKOK: Thailand will conduct a de- urged to continue wearing hygienic face
tralia and Canada of “spreading disinfor- threaten China’s state sovereignty and se- China—on May 26. tailed assessment on the Covid-19 situa- masks and observe all other preventive
mation” over allegedly dangerous ma- curity under any pretext.” tion before making any decision to lift the measures,” he said in a statement here
noeuvres by Chinese military pilots in in- The aircraft “approached for reconnais- face mask mandate. Tuesday.
ternational airspace. The Canadian aircraft were deployed in sance, ignoring repeated warnings from
Japan for a multinational effort to enforce the Chinese side”, said defence ministry Government spokesperson Thanakorn Earlier, Bangkok Governor Chadchart
Canadian Prime Minister Justin United Nations sanctions against North spokesman Tan Kefei. Wangboonkongchana said Prime Minister Sittipunt said he will propose to CCSA to
Trudeau a day earlier hit out at “irrespon- Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballis- Prayuth Chan o-cha has instructed the Cen- make wearing face mask outdoors op-
sible and provocative” actions by Beijing’s tic missile programmes. The People’s Liberation Army organised tre for Covid-19 Situation Administration tional as new Covid-19 infections are de-
air force after Canadian aircraft deployed naval and air forces to identify the military (CCSA) to conduct the assessment in line creasing.
in Japan narrowly avoided a collision with They were forced to quickly modify aircraft, “issuing a warning to drive it with the country’s economic recovery plans
Chinese jets late last month. their flight path to “avoid a potential col- away”, Tan added. and as people’s lives return to normalcy. At present, the public in the capital city
lision with the intercepting aircraft”, the is required to wear face masks when out-
The incident has again heightened ten- Canadian military said. “The Australian military plane seriously “The relaxation of Covid-19 measures doors including in schools and work-
sions between Beijing and Ottawa, just as threatened China’s sovereignty and secu- could not be implemented arbitrarily. places.
a lengthy crisis over Canada’s 2018 arrest In a separate row, Australia claimed last rity, and the measures taken by the Chi- CCSA has to make a thorough assessment,
of a Chinese tech executive subsides. week that Chinese fighter planes inter- nese military were professional, safe, rea- taking into account the (latest) Covid-19 Over the last 24 hours, Thailand
cepted one of its jets over the South China sonable and legal,” he said. situation in each area and people’s health recorded 2,224 new Covid-19 cases and 20
China responded to Trudeau’s com- Sea during a routine operation. and safety. deaths, bringing the total infections in the
ments by calling on Canada to “respect the Tan accused Australia of spreading kingdom to 4,471,179 and 30,218 fatalities.
facts (and) stop spreading disinforma- Australia argued it is not unusual for it “false information” and called the actions “For the time being, everyone has been –Bernama
tion”. to undertake surveillance flights over the of the Australian pilots “dangerous and
strategic waterway, which Beijing insists provocative”. Man sentenced to death for
“Canadian fighter jets’ enemy recon- comes under its domain despite a 2016
naissance of China is out-and-out irre- Hague ruling that dismissed its claim. In February Canberra accused the Chi- Indian holy city bombings
sponsible and provocative behaviour,” nese military of shining a military-grade
said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Li- But China said earlier Tuesday that an laser at one of its defence planes over wa-
jian at a press briefing Tuesday. Australian P-8A anti-submarine patrol air- ters north of Australia, labelling it an “act
craft came near the airspace of the dis- of intimidation”. – AFP

Cambodia, China deny secret naval base reports LUCKNOW (India): An Indian court has sen- will be hanged until death,” the trial judge
tenced a man to death over deadly bomb said in a court order released late Monday.
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia and Beijing on network of military outposts. belled the reports “concerning”. blasts that rocked the Hindu holy city of
Tuesday denied a report that they are Phnom Penh rejected the report, say- “We encourage Beijing to be transpar- Varanasi, in a trial that took 16 years to reach Khan was arrested just weeks after the
building a secret naval facility for the Chi- a verdict. blasts, but the trial was delayed after lawyers
nese fleet, as Australia’s new prime minis- ing the base’s development was “not a se- ent about its intent and to ensure that its in Varanasi refused to represent him,
ter voiced concern and called for trans- cret”. activities support regional security and Wasiullah Khan was convicted on mur- prompting the Allahabad high court to
parency. stability,” he told reporters, saying Cam- der and terrorism charges last week over the transfer the case to Ghaziabad city.
“Cambodia won’t allow the Chinese bodia had assured Canberra that no for- 2006 attacks, which targeted an ancient
The Washington Post, citing unnamed military to use it exclusively or to develop eign military would be given exclusive ac- temple packed with worshippers and a The death sentence will need to be ap-
Western officials, said a new facility at the site as its military base,” government cess to the Ream base. nearby railway station. proved by the Allahabad High Court before
Cambodia’s Ream base—strategically lo- spokesman Phay Siphan told AFP. it is confirmed.
cated on the Gulf of Thailand—was being Australia has grown increasingly wor- Around 20 people were killed in the
built for the “exclusive” use of the Chinese The Cambodian defence minister and ried about Beijing’s growing influence in blasts while dozens more were injured. Nearly 500 people are on death row in
navy. China’s ambassador will be attending a the Pacific region. India, and capital sentences for murder and
ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday Other unexploded bombs were also terrorism convictions are common, but ex-
The base has been a running sore spot for new facilities at Ream, including a A leaked draft of a Soloman Islands- found and disarmed by police including at ecutions are rare.
in US-Cambodian relations for years, with boat repair shop and a pier. China pact in April raised concerns that it the bustling Dashashwamedh Ghat, a pop-
Washington long suspecting it is being would allow Chinese naval deployments ular riverside prayer site where large num- India has executed only four men in the
converted for use by China as it seeks to But Australia’s new Prime Minister An- to the Pacific island nation—less than bers of Hindu pilgrims gather each evening. last seven years, all of whom were convicted
buttress its international influence with a thony Albanese, in Indonesia for a visit to 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) from Aus- of the notorious 2012 gang-rape and mur-
shore up diplomatic ties to counter grow- tralia. – AFP “The accused has been found guilty of der of a woman on a Delhi bus that sparked
ing Chinese assertiveness in the region, la- murder and has been fined Rs 50,000. He huge nationwide protests. – AFP

12 World YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 dailyexpress

Huge revelations likely at NY State raises age to buy

US Capitol assault hearings semiautomatic weapons

HOUSTON: The state of New York

has raised the age for buying

semiautomatic weapon from 18

WASHINGTON: The committee investigat- to 21 in echoing with US President
ing last year’s assault on the US Capitol
launches public hearings Thursday, prom- Joe Biden’s wish after mass shoot-
ising explosive revelations as it lays out in
granular detail the story of the deadly siege ings tragedies.
and assesses Donald Trump’s culpability.
“Thoughts and prayers won’t
In the first of six made-for-TV presenta-
tions, the panel of lawmakers will aim to fix this, but taking strong action
demonstrate that the president and his in-
ner circle committed felonies in a criminal will,” Anadolu Agency reported
conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election de-
feat to Joe Biden that culminated in the vi- New York Governor Kathy Hochul
olence of January 6, 2021.
said as she signed the bill raising The Uvalde shooting rampage is the second
Democratic panel member Jamie Raskin the age of buying a semiauto- worst school shooting in US history. (AFP)
said at a recent event at Georgetown Uni- matic rifle in the state to 21.
versity in Washington that the hearings
would “tell a story that will really blow the “It just keeps happening. Shots ring School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 stu-
roof off.”
out, flags come down and nothing ever dents and two teachers.
“No president has ever come close to do-
ing what happened here in terms of trying changes, except here in New York,” she Another 18-year-old gunman gunned
to organise an inside coup to overthrow an
election and bypass the constitutional or- continued. “We will do that in the name down 10 people at a Tops supermarket in
der,” Raskin said.
of the lives that have been lost, for the Buffalo, New York.
“And then also (to) use a violent insur-
rection made up of domestic violent ex- parents who will no longer see their chil- It added that in addition to raising the
tremist groups, white nationalist and racist,
fascist groups in order to support the coup.” dren stepping off the school bus.” age for buying semiautomatic rifles to 21,

As key witnesses testify in public for the Under the new law, New Yorkers un- the state’s new gun control measures also
first time, lawyers will exhibit texts, photo-
graphs and videos to shine a light on vari- der the age of 21 will not be allowed to include requiring microstamping in new
ous schemes by the Trump White House
that began to gestate before the election. buy semiautomatic assault-style firearms, which could help investigators

At the first hearing, in the 8:00 pm firearms, making New York one of the solve gun-related crimes.
(0000 GMT) prime-time slot on Thursday,
the panel said it will “present previously un- Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in first states to enact major gun control New York is also revising its “red flag”
seen material documenting January 6... and Washington, DC in January of 2021. One year on, Americans still await a reckoning
provide the American people a summary of on the unprecedented challenge to the country’s democracy. laws following a rash of deadly mass law, which allows courts to temporarily
its findings about the coordinated, multi-
step effort to overturn the results of the shootings in the US. take away guns from people who might
2020 presidential election and prevent the
transfer of power.” Two of the most recent deadly shoot- be a threat to themselves or others.

After Thursday, the Democrat-led com- “Electoral College.” physical violence incited by rogue actors.” ings involved gunmen under the age of “In New York, we are taking bold,
mittee, which has interviewed more than They will also lay out an authoritarian The question of whether Trump broke
1,000 witnesses, is expected to hold 10:00 21. strong action. We’re tightening red flag
am hearings on the June 13, 15, 16 and 21, fol- plan to seize voting machines and the al- the law has already been answered in some
lowed by a final hearing in prime time on leged plot to delay the certification of respects. Federal judge David Carter ruled An 18-year-old gunman went on a laws to keep guns away from dangerous
June 23. Biden’s win through the violence at the in March that it was “more likely than not
Capitol, which was linked to five deaths and that President Trump corruptly attempted shooting rampage at Robb Elementary people,” said Hochul. – Bernama
The committee will run through several the wounding of more than 100 police offi- to obstruct the joint session of Congress on
unlawful plots it says were devised by the cers. January 6.” Two-yr-old shoots father dead in Florida
Trump White House to keep the defeated
president in power, including a scheme to Investigators want to get to the bottom “The illegality of the plan was obvious,” MIAMI: A two-year-old boy accidentally Both parents were on parole at the time
use fake “electors”—the people appointed of a 187-minute delay before law enforce- he said. shot and killed his father in Florida after after multiple offences of child neglect and
to vote for president in the state-by-state ment was beefed up to protect the Capitol his parents left a loaded gun unattended, drug use, the sheriff said.
and learn why there is a gap of almost eight The committee faces a challenge, how- local authorities said.
hours in White House logs of Trump’s calls ever, in building up a compelling and dra- “Gun owners that do not properly se-
as the violence played out. matic narrative, as much of the evidence When police officers, alerted by a 911 cure their firearms are just one split second
has already been aired in public. call, arrived at the victim’s home near Or- away from one of these tragedies happen-
One of the main aims though will be to lando on May 26, they found the child’s ing in their homes,” Mina said.
draw a straight line from the alleged con- Among the biggest leaked revelations is mother Marie Ayala providing CPR to her
spiracy to overturn the election, Trump’s a trove of 2,319 text messages obtained by husband, Reggie Mabry. “Now these young children have effec-
rally speech encouraging the mob to march CNN that show Trump’s family and his al- tively lost both of their parents. Their fa-
on Congress and the ensuing violence. lies in Congress and the media imploring Law enforcement initially believed the ther is dead. Their mother is in jail, and a
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows 26-year-old, who died shortly afterward in young child has to live their life knowing
“If such a relationship can be estab- to get the then-president to call off the mob hospital, had shot himself, but the eldest that he shot his father,” the sheriff added.
lished, it will have a profound and reverber- attacking the Capitol. of the couple’s three children later told in-
ating effect on our ability to impose legal vestigators that the trigger was pulled by Such tragedies are not uncommon in
consequences on incitement,” Gerard Filitti, The texts, which Meadows handed over his two-year-old brother, Orange County the United States.
a senior counsel for New York-based Jewish voluntarily before ending his cooperation Sheriff John Mina said.
civil rights group The Lawfare Project, told with the probe, also show Ginni Thomas, In August 2021, another two-year-old
AFP. wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence The gun was in a bag that Mabry had child found a gun that had been left in a
Thomas, pushing for the will of millions of left on the ground and the child came Paw Patrol backpack and fatally shot his
“And in upholding the rights of minority voters in swing states to be overturned. – across it and shot his father in the back mother in the head while she taking part
communities to live free of the threat of AFP while he was playing a video game on a in a video conference.
computer, court documents said.
Mexico snub throws Americas summit into disarray The latest accident also comes as the de-
The five family members, including a bate over gun regulations rages in the
five-month-old girl, were in the same country, after several deadly mass shoot-
room at the time of the incident. ings in a supermarket, hospital and pri-
mary school, among others. – AFP

LOS ANGELES: President Joe Biden’s plan But she noted that Lopez Obrador was US cops watch homeless man drown
to reboot US engagement with Latin set to visit Washington in July and said
America—especially on critical topics like Obrador Biden Biden had not been blindsided. “He was WASHINGTON: A homeless man drowned and instead offers a transcript of the au-
migration—took a hit after key partner aware” ahead of the Mexican president’s in the US state of Arizona while three po- dio.
Mexico snubbed a regional summit in Los “hegemony” and “lack of respect for na- announcement, she said. lice officers watched, according to a video
Angeles to protest Washington’s exclusion tions.” and transcript released to the public this “So what’s your plan right now?” asks
of three far-left countries. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro week. one of the officers, according to the tran-
Although Foreign Minister Marcelo said that the US decision to exclude three script. “I’m going to drown. I’m going to
What was meant to be a week-long Ebrard will represent Mexico instead, the nations’ leaders from the summit was “an The officers have been suspended drown,” said Bickings.
showcase of cooperation risks becoming a leftist populist leader’s absence will dimin- act of discrimination.” pending the results of multiple investiga-
display of division, underlining diminish- ish the impact of a summit where US-Mex- tions into the incident, according to a “No, you’re not... go to the pylon and
ing US clout over a region where Washing- ico relations are at the heart of major im- In Havana, the communist Cuban gov- statement by the city of Tempe. hold on,” another officer responds.
ton’s long-time economic and diplomatic migration and trade issues. ernment issued a statement calling its ex-
influence faces a growing Chinese chal- clusion “anti-democratic and arbitrary.” On May 28, police responded to a “re- “I can’t. I can’t” said Bickings.
lenge. The White House downplayed the spat, ported disturbance” between the man, 34- “Okay, I’m not jumping in after you,”
saying Biden was sticking up for princi- Biden, who flies to Los Angeles on year-old Sean Bickings, and his partner, said the second officer.
A senior White House official con- ples, but that there was no bad blood be- Wednesday, will be announcing numerous who were near an artificial lake, the state- According to the transcript, the officers
firmed that Cuba, Nicaragua and tween the neighbors. “deliverables” at the summit, Jean-Pierre ment said. again tell the homeless man to swim,
Venezuela were barred from the Summit said. while trying to control his partner’s in-
of the Americas due to “lack of democratic “We do not believe that dictators Video footage released by the city creasingly frantic behaviour.
space and the human rights situations.” should be invited,” Press Secretary Karine The agenda on Wednesday will focus shows officers speaking to his partner, “Can you hear me?” are the last words
Jean-Pierre told reporters. on regional economic and health issues, then Bickings, who after a few minutes attributed to Sean Bickings in the tran-
In response, Mexican President Andres then climate change on Thursday. climbs over a fence and slowly wades into script.
Manuel Lopez Obrador said he too would the lake. One of the police officers later notes
stay away. Friday will be devoted to the surge of that Bickings “hasn’t surfaced in about 30
migration to the United States—a major The officers tell him swimming in the seconds.” His body was later recovered.
“You cannot have a Summit of the concern for US voters and an area where lake is not allowed, but he continues to The city said it intends to make more
Americas if you do not have all the coun- Republican opponents see Biden as vul- swim out and under a pedestrian bridge. videos from the the officers and cameras
tries of the Americas attending,” Lopez nerable in upcoming midterm elections. in the area public in the coming days. –AFP
Obrador announced, complaining of US The video then stops, with the city
As the summit kicked off, another thou- claiming the remainder is too “sensitive”
10,000 migrants head towards US
sands-strong migrant caravan departed
MEXICO CITY: A new caravan with more crease in irregular migratory flows. southern Mexico for the US border, with Germany opens probe on deadly rail crash
than 10,000 migrants has left southern Luis Garcia Villagran, an activist with some chanting “Freedom!” and “We want
Mexico with the aim of reaching the US visas!” as they started the 3,000-kilometer BERLIN: German police said Tuesday they Public broadcaster Bayerischer Rund-
border, organisers and local media re- the Centre for Human Dignity who is coor- (1,860-mile) journey. had opened an investigation on suspicion funk (BR) said investigators probing the
ported. dinating the caravan, told local media that of criminally negligent homicide against cause of the accident were focusing on pos-
the aim of the action is to show continen- State Department spokesman Ned Price three railway employees following a train sible technical defects in the undercarriage
The largest contingent so far this year, tal leaders that “migrant women and chil- insisted that Lopez Obrador’s absence did derailment last week that cost five lives. of some of the cars, as well as the railway it-
made up of Central American, South dren, and migrant families are not a bar- not doom the summit, praising Mexico as self.
American and Caribbean migrants, de- gaining chip for ideological and political “an important hemispheric player.” The Upper Bavaria police department
parted from the city of Tapachula in the interests,” and that “the southern border is said prosecutors in the state capital of Mu- German media reported at the weekend
Mexican state of Chiapas on the border nobody’s backyard”. The Biden administration said it had nich had ordered the criminal probe over that Deutsche Bahn had planned mainte-
with Guatemala, said Xinhua. secured the presence of key regional play- the crash of the packed regional train on nance work on the route beginning on
Throughout 2021 and in the past ers, including Argentina’s left-leaning Al- Friday. The accident occurred near the June 25. The company declined to com-
Many of its members have been waiting months, several migrant caravans have set berto Fernandez and Brazil’s Jair Bol- Alpine resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen, an ment. The crash killed four adult women—
for months to regularise their immigra- out from Tapachula, but most have been sonaro. area gearing up to host the G7 summit in two Germans and two Ukrainians—as well
tion status in Mexico and legally transit to broken up by Mexican authorities. late June. as a German teenager.
the US border. Biden will have a bilateral meeting with
In recent months, Mexico has offered Bolsonaro, a senior US official told re- The investigation is targeting “three More than 40 passengers were hurt, one
The caravan coincides with the start of some migrants the possibility of regular- porters. The far-right Brazilian leader was (national railway company) Deutsche of whom is still in a critical condition, po-
the ninth Summit of the Americas, where ising their migratory status in states that previously close with Biden’s predecessor Bahn staff members on suspicion of of- lice said. The accident occurred just after
heads of state and government will meet are less congested than Chiapas, where Donald Trump, who attempted to over- fences including criminally negligent midday on Friday as school holidays were
in the US city of Los Angeles on June 6-10 migrants continuously converge. – turn his election defeat in 2020. homicide”. Police provided no further de- starting in the two southern German re-
to address several issues such as the in- Bernama tails on the case against the suspects. gions Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria.
Uruguay’s President Luis Lacalle Pou
was due to attend the summit, but can- 4.3 tonnes cocaine Police said the regional train was “very
celled after contracting Covid-19, he crowded” with about 140 people on board
tweeted. – AFP seized at Italy port as a new nine-euro ($10) monthly public
transport ticket valid across Germany also
Alleged leader of international child sex ring nabbed ROME: Italian finance police said they have boosted demand.
pulled off one of Europe’s biggest-ever
MEXICO CITY: Mexican police have ar- authorities. consular assistance to “safeguard his drugs impoundments, seizing 4.3 tonnes The train had just left Garmisch-
rested a Dutch citizen accused of being the The group “had information that Nel- rights as a foreigner,” Godoy said. of cocaine in the port of Trieste. Partenkirchen for Munich when the acci-
leader of an international paedophile ring, dent took place in the Burgrain district.
Mexico City’s attorney general said. son ‘N’ was in our country, possibly in or- After arresting the suspect, authorities Italian news agency (Ansa) reported In-
der to expand his human trafficking and searched the place where he was believed vestigators said the criminal gangs that From June 26-28, heads of state and gov-
The man, identified only as Nelson ‘N’, child pornography network,” Godoy said. to be staying in the north of the city and bought the narcotics paid around 96 mil- ernment including US President Joe Biden
was caught “in flagrante delicto,” said At- said they found photographs featuring lion euros for it and it would have been are due to meet at Schloss Elmau — 11 kilo-
torney General Ernestina Godoy, adding The investigation observed his “modus child pornography, as well as computers, sold on the Italian market for a total of metres (seven miles) from Garmisch-
that he is the “possible leader of an inter- operandi and location” and made it possi- hard drives, memory cards and two Dutch around 240 million euros. Partenkirchen.
national association of paedophiles cre- ble to determine his routines, aimed at passports.
ated in 1982.” getting in touch with other possible pe- It added that in last week’s operation, BR quoted Bavarian interior minister
dophiles, the authorities said. According to the investigation, the sub- coordinated by DDA anti-mafia investiga- Joachim Herrmann as saying there was “no
The arrest was the result of a “broad in- ject had, between 2014 and 2021, pro- tors, saw 38 suspects arrested. indication” that the accident could have
vestigation” by prosecutors in collabora- “A covert operation was carried out that moted various publications on social me- been caused by an attack on the rails by G7
tion with the NGO Operation Under- allowed him to be detained in flagrante dia that advocated the legalisation of sex Around two million euros in cash was protesters in the run-up to the summit.
ground Railroad (OUR), Godoy said in a delicto” at a public transportation station with children. impounded too. – Bernama
video posted on social media. near the central Bosque de Chapultepec “We can’t rule anything out entirely but
park, Godoy added. Nelson “N” had been arrested several based on the investigation so far, nothing
The NGO, dedicated to combating the times in the Netherlands, the prosecutor points in that direction,” he said. – AFP
sexual exploitation of children, reported The prosecutor’s office is working on said, but had been on the run since at least
the Dutchman’s presence in Mexico to the the investigation, which will be presented February of this year. –AFP
before a judge, and it has also requested

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14 Lanka urgently seeks $6b to keep economy afloat 15 Forest conservation in M’sia among growing investible space in SEA

Rubber industry

players need to

diversify into

non-med area

KUALA LUMPUR: financial evaluations on research proposal On Tuesday, the ringgit opened at 4.39 versus the US dollar. (Bernamapic)
Rubber industry papers that meet the requirements of the
players need to funding program. HSBC expects ringgit to stabilise against US dollar
diversify into the
non-medical area to Zuraida said GFRI’s main objective is to KUALA LUMPUR: HSBC expects the ringgit rate (OPR) after lifting its policy rate by “We forecast global GDP growth to
continue to be encourage the generation of ideas, to stabilise against the US dollar in the 25bp recently. decelerate to 3.4 per cent in 2022 and 2.9 per
among the main innovations and inventions for rubber second half of 2022 (2H 2022), cent in 2023, down from 5.8 per cent in
contributors to the products and technologies with high strengthening to 4.28 by the end of the year. He also said Malaysia is on a solid 2021.
economy moving commercialisation viability to attract growth path and expects the country’s
forward, Minister of investment in the Malaysian rubber HSBC global private banking and wealth gross domestic product (GDP) growth to be “We expect global energy shock and
Plantation Industries and Commodities industry. chief investment officer for Southeast Asia, at 5.5 per cent this year, attributed to good supply chain challenges to push up global
Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin (pic) said. James Cheo said the ringgit will strengthen manufacturing and higher commodity inflation to 7.5 per cent in 2022 before
“Industries, universities and research when global market sentiment improves. prices. moderating to 5.1 per cent in 2023,” Fan
She said during the Covid-19 pandemic, institutions are the nation’s best mind said.
Malaysia emerged among the top global centres that have a pool of experts from “The beginning of the first half of this Cheo said the Malaysian economy
exporters of medical rubber gloves due to various fields,” she said. year has been volatile and we believe the expanded by five per cent year-on-year in She added that the world has faced
the country’s ability to meet the growing ringgit will stabilise to move towards 4.28 the first quarter of 2022 to pre-pandemic several structural shocks and investors need
demand. Therefore, she said researchers from by the end of the year when the market levels and with the impact of pandemic to reposition their portfolios to adapt to
various organisations played an important sentiment globally improves,” he said restrictions receding, private consumption these challenges.
“During the Covid-19 time, our role in generating innovations that could during the HSBC 2H 2022 Investment bounced back and investment stabilised,
commodities are doing well, whether its contribute to economic prosperity. Outlook online press conference. though this led to import growth “The Covid-19 crisis, Russia-Ukraine war
palm oil, rubber, timber, pepper and outpacing exports. and sustainability revolution are
others. Our rubber gloves production “In this regard, Malaysia can use On Tuesday, the ringgit opened at 4.39 disrupting supply chains, labour markets,
become the number one in the country technical expertise from developed versus the US dollar and it had hit 4.40 “Domestic demand should accelerate energy sources and infrastructure.
because of the pandemic. countries such as the United States, against the US dollar on May 19, 2022, further this quarter and next, supported by
Europe and Japan which has the potential marking the lowest rate since March 2020. a tightening labour market,” he added. “These structural changes will require
“But now, the pandemic is over, to drive rapid technological significant investments that will
probably we can diversify a bit and move development,” she said. Cheo said HSBC observed that equity Meanwhile, HSBC global private ultimately help boost growth, but this will
into the non-medical area,” she said at the inflows from foreign investors have banking chief investment officer for Asia, also push up costs and cause inflation to
launch of the Global Funding for Rubber She said the ministry would continue to continued to trickle in year-to-date, in view Fan Cheuk Wan expects the global become stickier than witnessed in the past
Innovation (GFRI) here. support rubber product development of Malaysia’s growth recovery and re- economic cycle to continue but at a slower decade.
innovations that have the potential to opening for tourism. rate while inflation to ease gradually.
She said the Malaysian Rubber Council drive the country’s economic growth as Therefore, we expect the investment
(MRC), through GFRI, is providing a start- well as be committed to ensure that the In another note, Cheo said he expects The United States rate hike expectations outlook for risk assets to gradually improve
up fund of RM10 million as research rubber industry continued to remain Bank Negara Malaysia to increase the policy will be moderating in 2H 2022 despite in 2H 2022 with support of a soft-landing
grants. competitive in the global market. rate by another 50 basis points (bp), ending lingering energy shock and supply chain for the global economy and easing
the year at a 2.5 per cent overnight policy disruptions, she said. stagflation fears,” she added. – Bernama
“This research fund is open to all local She added that Malaysia’s rubber
and foreign researchers from various products are now exported to 189
public and private research institutions, countries with a growth of 50.6 per cent to
universities, institutions of higher RM61.7 billion in 2021 from RM40.1 billion
learning and companies based in and in 2020.
outside Malaysia,” she said.
Themed “Fostering Ideas for the Rubber
She said a special committee Industry Globally”, GFRI is an initiative by
comprising industry and technical experts MRC to create a complete ecosystem to
from the public and private sectors has support the development of the rubber
been established to conduct technical and industry in related fields such as research
and development (R&D). – Bernama

bursa closing report OPR to gradually normalise

Bursa ends at intraday low to 31.5 sen, and Sapura Energy eased half-a- KUALA LUMPUR: RAM Rating Services Bhd necessitating the realignment or
sen to five sen. (RAM Ratings) expects the overnight consolidation of various operating
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia ended at Meanwhile, key regional indices ended policy rate (OPR) to normalise gradually expenditure items.
the day’s low, extending its losses for the mixed with markets swinging between On the index board, the FBM 70 shed to end the year at 2.25 per cent in line with
fourth consecutive day amid persistent gains and losses as investors remained 51.91 points to 13,272.28, the FBM ACE the pace of economic recovery, as “This may have implications for some
selling pressure in selected heavyweights as concerned whether the Federal Reserve’s slipped 22.07 points to 5,249.88, the FBMT secondary inflation risks remain limited federal government-led support
weak sentiment prevailed in the region, rate hikes could cool inflation that was 100 Index lost 73.17 points to 10,629.56, the at present. programmes,” RAM Ratings said.
dealers said. running at a four-decade high without FBM Emas Index dropped 71.36 points to
tipping the US economy into recession, he 10,941.58, and the FBM Emas Shariah Index The rating agency said that while It said inflation is expected to pick up
At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa said. tumbled 87.70 points to 11,276.79. increasingly widespread, the extent of in 2022 as the effects of ongoing global
Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) closed at 1,525.93, price increases is currently less severe supply chain disruptions are transmitted
down 11.90 points, or 0.77 per cent, from last “As for the local bourse, investors seemed Sector-wise, the Industrial Products and than that seen in previous rapid to Malaysia’s consumer prices.
Friday’s close of 1,537.83. reluctant to make more significant moves Services Index trimmed 2.64 points to 197.13, inflationary episodes.
due to the absence of buying catalysts. the Financial Services Index declined 72.01 “The nature of the cost-push inflation
The index, which opened 0.91 point points to 16,546.78, and the Plantation Index “At the same time, second-round price limits the effectiveness of conventional
better at 1,538.7, moved as high as 1,541.43 “We expect the FBM KLCI to consolidate dipped 124.71 points to 7,786.92. The Main effects or a wage-price spiral is not monetary policy while the government’s
during the day. further, hence anticipating it to trend Market volume rose to 1.71 billion shares immediately evident as labour market various price control efforts will impose
sideways within the range of 1,520 to 1,540 worth RM1.56 billion from 1.57 billion shares conditions have yet to fully recover,” it an exorbitant fiscal cost,” it added.
On the broader market, losers thumped for the week with immediate support at worth RM1.51 billion last Friday. said in a statement.
gainers 592 to 365, while 395 counters were 1,520 followed by 1,500 while resistance is at Meanwhile, the prices of raw
unchanged, 903 untraded, and nine others 1,570,” he told Bernama. Warrants turnover jumped to 412.99 Nevertheless, RAM Ratings said rising commodities and their derivative
suspended. million units valued at RM75.26 million food prices is a policy concern as at least products have escalated significantly.
Regionally, Singapore’s Straits Times versus 157.99 million units valued at
Total turnover was higher at 2.62 billion RM20.56 million. Given the nature of current price

units worth RM1.78 billion compared with Index eased 0.06 per cent to 3,224.78, Japan’s The ACE Market volume slipped to 20 per cent of the expenditure of most pressures, RAM Ratings said, a near-term

2.23 billion units worth RM1.67 billion last Nikkei 225 gained 0.10 per cent to 27,943.95, 494.63 million shares worth RM138.17 Malaysian households goes towards food. normalisation of inflation conditions is
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.56 per million from 499.67 million shares worth Further, the impact of the rising cost of not expected.
Friday.
A dealer said Bursa Malaysia opened cent to 21,531.67, South Korea’s KOSPI RM140.63 million previously.
necessities is disproportionately felt by “Domestic supply-side policies, such as

higher this morning, taking the cue from decreased 1.66 per cent to 2,626.3, and Consumer products and services the more marginalised segments of the improving domestic logistics and
overnight positive performance on Wall China’s SSE Composite Index rose 0.17 per counters accounted for 324.66 million economy.
shares traded on the Main Market, production capabilities, favourable trade
industrial products and services (334.17
Street, but turned into negative territory at cent to 3,241.76. million), construction (60.69 million), It said the fiscal cost of managing agreements with suppliers of key
mid-morning to end lower, succumbing to Among the heavyweights, Maybank and technology (109.30 million), SPAC (nil), subsidies and mitigating price pressures commodities, and streamlining
selling pressure on selected heavyweight financial services (51.59 million), property is substantial and higher oil-and-gas- administrative bottlenecks, will be key in
stocks while tracking the mixed CIMB lost four sen each to RM8.84 and (154.89 million), plantation (42.16 million), related revenues would be insufficient to managing inflationary pressures this and
performance of regional peers. RM5.06, respectively, Public Bank declined fully offset the fiscal strain, thus next year,” it added. – Bernama
six sen to RM4.52, Petronas Chemicals fell 13
Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd vice-president of sen to RM9.86, and IHH Healthcare was flat

equity research Thong Pak Leng said Wall at RM6.50. REITs (5.86 million), closed/fund (6,000), M’sia records 57.8m cyberattacks in Q1

Street ended broadly higher yesterday but Of the actives, ACE Market debutant Yew energy (369.10 million), healthcare (69.0

well off earlier highs as investors continued Lee Pacific Group added one sen to 29 sen, million), telecommunications and media KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded a total around the globe, according to Fortinet.
to fret about inflation and rising interest Green Packet and G3 Global edged up half- (134.76 million), transportation and of 57.8 million virus attacks during the first Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs security
rates, while also speculating about whether a-sen each to 7.5 sen and five sen, logistics (25.71 million), and utilities (27.85 quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022) which accounted strategist Jonas Walker said the number of
this year’s selloff may have touched bottom. respectively, Kumpulan Jetson rose 6.5 sen million). – Bernama

for 1.14 per cent of the total cyber attacks botnet detection in the country stood at

57.2 million, representing 1.19 per cent of

Budget 2023 RHB Research keeps ‘overweight’ call on banking sector global threats.
Meanwhile the exploit detection in

may be earlier Malaysia in Q1 2022 saw 3.96 billion attacks
KUALA : RHB Research has maintained its expectations of a further 25bps increase in profit/net profit growth for the sector of which translated to 0.95 per cent of the
“overweight” rating on the banking sector, the second half of 2022 (2H22), Malaysian just 2 per cent/1 per cent in 2022.
total global detections.
supported by its steady performance in the banks turned a little more positive on the “Two areas from which earnings could
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is first quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022). financial year 2022 net interest margins surprise positively are from better NIMs, for “A virus attack is something like a file
expected to table Budget 2023 earlier as (NIMs) we have imputed just one rate hike this year which needs to be executed in a website or
general election is likely to be around the In a note, it said while underlying (our economics team expects another rate gets downloaded into your system, while
corner, said CGS-CIMB. momentum is healthy going into Q2 2022, “There are signs of a pickup in deposit hike in 2H22), and lower credit costs, as an exploit is just a simple command that
banks struck a cautious tone on business competition as some banks are loans continue to roll off repayment can be used against the system connected
It said in a note that an expansionary growth and asset quality, reflecting the undertaking fixed deposit campaigns to assistance,” it said. to the Internet.
election budget is expected to be released, sector’s relatively defensive attributes and lock in longer tenure deposits ahead of
with issues such as the Goods and Services the country’s gradual economic recovery. further hikes in the OPR. On expectations of better margins and “Botnet is a malware attack similar to a
Tax (GST) likely to be tackled post-election stable non-interest income (NOII) into virus which is installed in the system and
by the new government. “We forecast sector earnings improving “This would also see a moderation in the 2023, Maybank IB expects cumulative waiting for a command or control server to
by 5.4 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2022, current account savings account (Casa) operating profit to expand 6 per cent y-o-y, send certain actions,” he said at a media
“The pre-budget statement came early relatively unchanged post-Q1 2022 results, growth. Our sensitivity analysis points to a while cumulative net profit is projected to briefing.
this year on June 3 versus Aug 31 last year, with return on equity (ROE) stable at 9.4 cumulative 2 per cent uplift to sector
reiterating the government’s plans for According to Walker, the trends of
more targeted subsidies although the per cent. earnings from a 25 bps OPR hike over a 12- rebound 18 per cent y-o-y in the absence of cyber attacks are increasing in Malaysia as
“With headwinds from rising inflation, month period,” it added. Cukai Makmur, as credit costs continue to the threat actors are continuously
details are yet to be released.
“The pre-budget statement did not geopolitical tensions, and the lingering Meanwhile, Maybank Investment Bank taper off.
scanning and immediately adapting to the
mention the prospects of reimplementation COVID-19 pandemic, banks maintained (IB) Bhd said there is upside potential to “Yet again, we have not factored in any latest development around the globe.

of GST. Given the sensitivity, we do not their guidance for 5-6 per cent loan growth forecast in the sector with a positive rate hike into 2023 (our economics team “They are monitoring very closely what

expect the government to commit to GST in 2022,” RHB Research said. outlook in 2023 as margin expansion if the expects a 75 bps hike in 2023), while the is happening in the real world which you

although chances are that we may see a It also said that given the earlier-than- OPR continues to rise and lower credit costs potential writeback in pre-emptive might be interested in, and try to put this

return of the tax in one form or another,” it expected 25 basis points (bps) hike in the as pre-emptive provisions are written back. provisions provides room for positive information into a phishing campaign to
said. – Bernama overnight policy rate (OPR) and The bank forecast a subdued operating earnings surprise. – Bernama
get your attention,” he added. – Bernama

14 Business Y OU R LOCAL V OICE I W E D NE S D AY, JUNE 8 , 2 0 2 2 dailyexpress

Lanka urgently

seeks $6b to keep

economy afloat

COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on He said a meeting under IMF auspices

Tuesday asked the International Monetary with China, Japan and India, Sri Lanka’s

Fund to arrange a creditor meeting for $6 three biggest bilateral lenders, would be a

billion in loans to help keep the country “great strength” in helping source more

afloat during its unprecedented economic loans.

crisis. Sri Lanka is already in talks with the IMF

Months of daily blackouts, long queues for a bailout and has appointed interna-

for petrol and record inflation have made tional experts to help restructure its debt,

daily life a misery in the South Asian island about half of which is in international sov-

nation of 22 million people. ereign bonds.

The government has already defaulted Wickremesinghe again warned the Holiday travelers transit through Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia. (AFPpic)

on its $51 billion foreign debt, and a criti- country was heading for serious food

cal shortage of foreign currency has left shortages and said the United Nations had US launches plan to bring back foreign tourists
traders unable to import adequate sup- agreed to issue an urgent appeal on Thurs-

plies of food, fuel and other essential day to raise humanitarian funds.

goods. A disastrous ban on agricultural chem- WASHINGTON: In an effort to win back Prior to the pandemic, travel and the statement said.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ical imports, introduced by President billions of dollars in tourism revenue tourism generated a $53.4 billion trade The five-year National Travel and
Gotabaya Rajapaksa last year, dramatically lost during the Covid-19 pandemic, the surplus and supported a million US jobs,
said the country needed $5 billion for its curtailed crop yields and led to protests by US government launched a plan to at- the statement said. Tourism Strategy will focus on increas-
daily needs in the next six months, along farmers. tract 90 million international travellers ing promotion of US destinations, espe-
with another billion to stabilise Sri Lanka’s a year. In 2019, nearly 80 million interna- cially to underrepresented sites, and im-
rapidly depreciating rupee. The policy was reversed months later, tional travellers visited the country and proving communication about health
but Sri Lanka is now out of foreign cur- The five-year plan aims to add jobs contributed almost $240 billion to the status and requirements.
“We call on the International Monetary rency to import fertiliser, pesticides and and bring in an estimated $279 billion a US economy, but that dropped by more
Fund to hold a conference to help unite other much-needed farming chemicals. – year in spending by visiting tourists, the than half in 2020. It also will offer help for local author-
our lending partners,” the premier told AFP Commerce Department said. ities to improve infrastructure at tourist
parliament. With widespread availability of vac- sites, and offer more green travel op-

Argentina seeks special tax on “The impact of Covid-19 has taken a cines, monthly overseas arrivals have in- tions, as well as using technology to
toll on our national and local creased to more than two million in smooth travel in areas such as security

economies, but it also has presented us April 2022, up from roughly 775,000 in and screening, according to the plan.

Ukraine war windfalls with a unique opportunity to mouled a October 2021. “Our new strategy leverages the best

more inclusive, equitable, sustainable That means international travel has of what the US public and private sectors

and resilient travel and tourism industry generated a trade surplus in each of the offer, which will promote jobs, recover
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s President vowed repeating his plan for a once-off special tax than ever before,” Commerce Secretary past five months, a positive indication lost revenues, and inspire unforgettable
to pursue a special tax on company profits in 2022 on some companies with taxable Gina Raimondo said in a statement.
boosted by the war in Ukraine, a phenome- profits of more than a billion pesos (some $8 the sector is trending toward recovery, experiences,” Raimondo said. – AFP

non he described as an “immorality” given million.) German industrial orders fall again Aussies hike

the inflationary pressure on poor house- Argentina has a poverty rate of about 37

holds. percent, and a projected inflation rate of 60 FRANKFURT: German industrial orders fell previous month, according to figures pro- interest rates
While millions were feeling the pain of percent for 2022. for the third month in a row in April, offi- vided by the economy ministry. to rein in
cial data published showed, as Russia’s war inflation
rising food prices, the war also “benefits the Fernandez did not say which sectors in Ukraine dampened the outlook for Eu- The renewed drop was “primarily due
few... who are gaining a lot,” Alberto Fernan- would be targeted for the tax, but cited the rope’s largest economy. to the escalation of the Ukraine conflict”,
dez said in an address. rise in wheat, sunflower and maize prices in the ministry said in a statement.
recent months, all products of which Ar- New orders fell by 2.7 percent over the
“This is an immorality, an indecency, gentina is a major exporter, along with beef. Overall, incoming orders were 6.2 per-
which as the State we cannot allow,” he said, cent below their level of a year ago, when
the coronavirus pandemic was weighing
foreign closing report more heavily on industry.

Markets mixed as rate hike woes offset China tech hopes The fall was seen particularly in capital SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank raised in-
goods, used in production, which de- terest rates more than expected Tuesday and
creased 4.3 percent compared with the warned of more increases as officials try to

HONG KONG: Stock markets struggled Europe. the worries about higher rates and the im- previous month. rein in “significantly” high inflation.

Tuesday on long-running worries over Tokyo rose, helped by a softening of pact of the Ukraine war. Orders for consumer goods were down Governor Philip Lowe said the Reserve

surging inflation and rising interest rates, the yen to a two-year low owing to expec- But market-watcher Louis Navellier 2.6 percent, while those of intermediate Bank’s main lending rate would go up half a

which overshadowed hopes that China tations the Bank of Japan will not tighten warned there was still plenty more volatil- goods dipped 0.3 percent. percentage point to 0.85 percent, surprising

would ease off its regulatory drive against monetary policy just as US rates climb. ity to come. Within Germany, the incoming volume analysts who had tipped a quarter point lift.
the country’s beleaguered tech giants. Manila and Jakarta also edged up but “If history repeats, we could be down of orders fell by 0.9 percent, while those He also said “extraordinary” support for
from abroad fell by four percent, with de-
A spike in US Treasury yields took the there were losses in Seoul, Singapore, tomorrow, then up on Wednesday, then mand from the eurozone suffering in par- the economy via low rates would continue
wind out of the sales for Wall Street, with Mumbai, Bangkok, Wellington and Taipei. down on Thursday, and possibly up on Fri- ticular, down 5.6 percent. to be unwound.
focus now on the release of inflation data day,” he said in a commentary. “So just get
from the United States and China at the Sydney dropped more than one per- used to these up-down, up-down oscilla- Some sectors saw their volumes in- The move comes as inflation has seen the
end of the week. cent after the Australian central bank tions because they are going to continue. crease despite the overall downwards price of lettuce increase 300 percent and
announced a bigger-than-forecast half- trend, with orders in mechanical engineer- sent already sky-high house prices in major
Analysts are tipping the Federal Re- point rate hike to quell inflation. “I want to remind investors to not get ing up 3.8 percent. cities soaring by a quarter since the start of
serve to lift borrowing costs by half a too excited when the market rallies be- the pandemic.
point at its next three meetings as officials Hong Kong fell and Shanghai ticked cause it is going to continue to oscillate. By contrast, Germany’s flagship auto in-
try to get a grip on runaway prices. slightly higher, even as heavyweights Al- There is just too much uncertainty out dustry struggled, with orders down 8.6 “While inflation is lower than in most
ibaba and JD.com led a rally among tech there.” percent month-on-month. other advanced economies, it is higher than
But that is causing discomfort on trad- firms following a report that China was earlier expected,” Lowe said.
ing floors as investors fret over the impact close to ending a painful crackdown on Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 0.1 percent at Industry continued to have “full order
on economic growth and firms’ bottom ride-hailing app Didi Global and restore 27,943.95 (close) Hong Kong - Hang Seng books” despite the recent slowdown, the “Global factors, including Covid-related
lines. its main apps this week. Didi’s US-listed Index: DOWN 0.5 percent at 21,552.23 ministry said. disruptions to supply chains and the war in
notes soared more than 20 percent. Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.2 percent at Ukraine, account for much of this increase
“Inflation concerns are not going any- 3,241.76 (close) The outlook for the economy was, in inflation,” he added, while warning that
where fast,” Fiona Cincotta, at City Index, The Wall Street Journal added that nonetheless, “weaker in the coming “domestic factors are playing a role too.”
said. “Rising crude oil prices and a strong probes into two other firms, Full Truck Al- London - FTSE 100: UP 0.1 percent at months”, it said.
labour report have lifted bets that the Fed liance and recruitment platform 7,611.56 The governor cited a tight labour market
may need to act aggressively to rein in in- Kanzhun, fanning optimism for the sec- In late April, the German government and widespread floods as local reasons help-
flation.” tor’s outlook after a long period of hefty Brent North Sea crude: UP 0.8 percent cut its forecast for growth in 2022 to 2.2 ing inflation rise to 5.1 percent.
selling pressure. at $120.41 per barrel percent from its previous estimate of 3.6
And SPI Asset Management’s Stephen percent. – AFP The pandemic forced Australia’s econ-
West Texas Intermediate: UP 0.7 per- omy into its first recession in a generation,

Innes added: “Investors are hyper-focused “This was seen as a signal that the reg- cent at $119.38 per barrel US fund sues and the recovery has been patchy.
Rate rises hit hard in a country where
on inflation, economic growth, and future ulatory crackdown on Chinese tech firms Dollar/yen: UP at 132.73 yen from 131.88

Fed policy. was starting to end... as China focuses on yen London Metal debt levels from pricey mortgages are par-
ticularly high.
“Most assume the worst and think a fi- stabilising the economy following Covid Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.0686 from

nancial tsunami will hit the US and global restrictions,” said National Australia $1.0699 Lowe said the bank would be looking

markets thanks to the quorum of US- Bank’s Tapas Strickland. Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2468 from Exchange over closely to see if that dual shock causes con-
sumption to decrease more than expected.
based bank CEOs that have given the London opened slightly higher but $1.2528

gloomy growth narrative their impri- Paris and Frankfurt fell. Euro/pound: UP at 85.70 pence from nickel trade halt He also warned that there were concerns
about the global outlook, with Russia’s war
matur. Anything less than that outcome is Markets have seen some levelling out 85.37 pence

going to surprise a lot of folks.” in recent weeks as the easing of lockdown New York - Dow: UP 0.1 percent to in Ukraine pushing energy and agricultural

Equity markets were mixed in Asia and measures in China helps to offset some of 32,915.78 (close) - AFP LONDON: A US investment firm has filed a prices higher.
$456-million lawsuit against the London “There are also ongoing uncertainties re-
Ryanair under Cybersecurity spend Metal Exchange for suspending nickel
trading during a huge surge in prices in lated to Covid, especially in China,” the bank
said. – AFP

fire over exceeds US$226b by 2027 March, the two sides said. Starbucks
Afrikaans tests The prices for the metal, used in stain- boss pushes

less steel and electric vehicle batteries,
jumped on March 8 to a then-record high
of $101,365 per tonne on a bad bet from a

LONDON: Irish budget airline Ryanair is KUALA LUMPUR: A new study from Juniper Research’s Competitor Chinese billionaire after Russia’s invasion departure
being accused of discrimination after it Juniper Research has found the value of Leaderboard provides an independent of Ukraine.
admitted that it required South Africans enterprise cybersecurity spend will assessment of the market standing of the to 2023
flying to Britain and Ireland to fill out a exceed US$226 billion in 2027; up from leading cybersecurity players. It includes The LME subsequently decided to can-
questionnaire to test their knowledge of US$179 billion in 2022. (US$1 = RM4.395) a robust and transparent assessment cel all trades made that day and temporar- NEW YORK: Longtime Starbucks boss
Afrikaans. methodology, including heatmap ily halted trading. Howard Schultz is delaying his second de-
This growth of 26 per cent over the analysis and a thorough explanation of parture from the coffeehouse chain until
“Due to the high prevalence of fraudu- next five years reflects the increasing each company’s market position. That left nickel’s record high at $48,002 late March 2023 rather than this fall as orig-
lent South African passports, we require maturity of the cybersecurity market, per tonne, set on March 7. inally announced, the company said in a
passengers travelling to the UK to fill out a which continues to evolve as new threats The new research, Cybersecurity: Key statement.
simple questionnaire issued in Afrikaans,” emerge. Trends, Competitor Leaderboard and The turmoil prompted fierce investor
the carrier said in a statement. Market Forecasts 2022-2027, found criticism of LME management, and UK fi- Having stepped down four years earlier,
The report identified a rising remote working and cloud computing nancial regulators launched a review into in 2018, Schultz returned in April to serve as
“If they are unable to complete this awareness of vulnerabilities, alongside being implemented by businesses, from the matter. interim CEO during the search for a new
questionnaire, they will be refused travel emerging threats, including ransomware small to multinational, which increases leader.
and issued with a full refund.” and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack vectors available to cybercriminals. The US investment firm, Elliott Man-
as key drivers behind the increasing agement, considers that by cancelling He said at a quarterly results presentation
Critics point out that Afrikaans is only spend. The report identified machine nickel trades, the LME either “acted unlaw- in early May that he intended to leave the
one of 11 official languages in South Africa learning as a key requirement within fully” by exceeding its powers or exercised post at the end of this year.
and played a controversial role in the op- According to a statement, Juniper cybersecurity solutions; improving them “unreasonably and irrationally” by
pression of black citizens during Research’s Competitor Leaderboard for response times and combatting evolving “taking into account irrelevant factors”, a But the company said in a statement
apartheid. The languages of Zulu and the cybersecurity market has identified tactics of cybercriminals. spokesman for the fund said. Monday that the board of directors has
Xhosa are the first and second most widely the five leading market vendors as reached an agreement with the 69-year-old
spoken languages in the country. follows: 1. AWS; 2. IBM; 3. Cisco; 4. Oracle; In response, cybersecurity vendors LME’s owner, Hong Kong Exchanges for him to stay on as the company’s head un-
5. Sophos. must form strategic partnerships with and Clearing Limited, said in a statement til the end of March 2023.
In response to the uproar on social me- smaller, specialised cybersecurity vendors that Elliott Management’s claim is “with-
dia, Britain’s ambassador in South Africa Research co-author Damla Sat to acquire new data sources and point out merit and the LME will contest it vig- Schultz, who first joined the company in
took to Twitter to clarify that such lan- explained: “Cloud computing has been solutions, and offer services, such as orously”. 1982, grew Starbucks from a small Seattle
guage and general knowledge tests were transformative for businesses, so it is no unified threat management, in order to coffee chain into a global juggernaut. – AFP
“not a UK government requirement” for surprise that two of the biggest cloud maintain relevance in this highly The LME said in a separate statement
South Africans entering the United King- computing vendors, AWS and IBM, also competitive market. – Bernama that it had cancelled trades to “take the
dom. -AFP lead in the cybersecurity space.” market back to the last point in time at
which the LME could be confident that the
market was operating in an orderly way”.

dailyexpress Y OU R LOCAL V OICE I WE D NE SD AY, JUNE 8 , 2 0 2 2 Business 15

n 10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS Forest conservation

TURNOVER HIGH LOw L/dONE UP/dOwN
(UNITS) (SEN) (SEN)
COUNTER (SEN) (SEN)
6.0 5.0
SAPNRG 204,794,400 30.0 28.5 5.0 -0.5 in M’sia among SAHAM AMANAH SAbAH
yEwLEE 162,380,500 8.0 7.0 29.0 +1.0 growing investible (MANAGER’S PRICES fOR JUNE 03)
GPACKET 119,294,200 6.0 4.5 7.5 +0.5
G3 111,315,200 32.0 25.0 5.0 +0.5 space in SEA bUyING: 0.2899
JETSON 53,039,800 9.0 8.5 31.5 +6.5 SELLING: 0.2899
yONGTAI 50,639,500 128.0 124.0 9.0 UNCH NAV: 0.2899
TOPGLOV 44,882,600 36.5 30.5 125.0 +1.0
HSI-CQw 41,891,000 5.5 5.0 32.5 +2.5 n gold prices
TECHNAx 41,527,300 12.0 11.0 5.0 -0.5
SERbAdK 39,451,700 11.5 UNCH THE physical price of gold as at 5pm stood at
RM252.43 per gramme, down RM2.05 from
n bURSA SCOREbOARd RM254.48 at 5pm last Friday. – Bernama

UP dOwN UNCHANGEd TRAdEd KUALA LUMPUR: Forest conservation is a Vietnam. The statement said this is n CLOSING INdICES
growing investible space towards especially for two-wheeler electric
CONSUMER PROd & SERV 66 63 47 176 emission reduction in Southeast Asia vehicle (EV) manufacturing and sales FBMEMAS 10,941.58 ( - 71.36 )
INd-PROd & SERVICES 69 102 75 246 (SEA), particularly in Indonesia and due to strong automotive manufacturing
CONSTRUCTION 11 27 24 62 Malaysia, according to a report by global expertise in these markets. FBMKLCI 1,525.93 ( - 11.90 )
TECHNOLOGy 6 31 12 49 consultancy Bain & Company and
SPAC 0 0 Singapore’s state investment firm On the built environment segment, it CONSUMER PRODUCTS 584.83 ( + 2.26 )
fINANCIAL SERVICES 9 0 11 0 Temasek Holdings Ltd. said the most attractive opportunity can
PROPERTy 25 11 33 31 be found in efficient cooling solutions, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 197.13 ( - 2.64)
PLANTATION 10 38 9 96 The segment is the largest carbon with a large potential for green building
REIT 7 15 4 34 abatement lever in the region and will materials and products. CONSTRUCTION 161.31 ( - 0.94 )
CLOSEd ENd fUNd 1 6 0 17 represent a US$20 billion (US$1=
ENERGy 9 0 9 1 RM4.395) investment opportunity by According to the statement, more FINANCIAL SERVICES 16,546.78 ( - 72.01 )
HEALTH CARE 5 13 4 31 2030, the companies said in a joint than US$15 billion in cumulative
TELECOMMUNICATIONS/MEdIA 4 6 6 15 statement. sustainability investments have flowed ENERGY 801.96 ( - 8.85 )
TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS 6 8 7 18 into the region since 2020, with 45 per
UTILITIES 5 15 3 28 This is based on their report cent being deployed in the last three TELECOMMUNICATIONS 589.43 ( - 4.20 )
STRCwARR 91 5 66 13 “Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2022: quarters.
ACE-MKT 36 187 84 344 Investing behind new realities”, which HEALTH CARE 1,879.28 ( + 0.58 )
bONd&LOAN 0 57 1 177 also saw contributions from Microsoft “Of all investor types, corporate
ETf 2 2 0 3 Corporation. investors have been the main engine TRANSPORTATION 855.22 ( + 2.24 )
LEAP-MKT 2 5 0 7 driving 70 per cent (US$11 billion) of
2 4 Besides forest conservation, the report total investment. PROPERTY 673.35 ( - 6.90 )
395 identifies four other priority levers that
593 1,352 offer concrete investible opportunities “The strong uptick in capital flow PLANTATION 7,786.92 ( - 124.71 )
today that will drive 60 per cent of the signifies that regional investors remain
region’s — renewables (solar and wind), optimistic about the investment FBMSHA 11,276.79 ( - 87.70 )
electric mobility, sustainable farming, potential in Southeast Asia green
and built environment. economy, although the investment scale FBMACE 5,249.88 ( - 22.07 )
of sustainable projects remains a key
“Renewables (solar and wind) concern,” it said. TECHNOLOGY 68.83 ( - 0.88)
represent a US$30 billion opportunity by
364 2030, of which solar represents US$20 Diving deeper, it said the potential n INTERbANK RATES
billion,” the statement said. investment for tangible returns and
n bURSA dERIVATIVES ExCHANGE climate impact is closely linked to three KUALA LUMPUR INTERbANK
It noted that corporate investment in sectors, namely energy, nature, and OffER RATES: JUNE 7
KUALA LUMPUR COMPOSITE INdEx fUTURES renewable energy solutions is agriculture which capture 90 per cent of
CONTRACT CLOSING: JUNE 7 accelerating in the region and accounted the region’s carbon budget. 1M 2M 3M 6M 9M 12M
for at least US$6.6 billion in corporate 2.15 2.24 2.27 2.42 - 2.53
CONTRACT VOLUME OPEN OPEN HIGH LOw LAST SETTLE green investment since 2020. Temasek chief sustainability officer Dr
Steve Howard said with its vibrant and
MONTHS INTEREST TRAdEd PRC On sustainable farming, the statement dynamic digital-fuelled economy, SIbOR (S$) SIbOR (US$) HIbOR (HK$)
said precision agriculture and farmer Southeast Asia has tremendous potential 1M 0.24810
Jun-22 8,725 37,833 1540.0 1542.5 1522.5 1524.5 1524.5 service platforms present a large to make a long-term, meaningful impact 2M 0.50810
Jul-22 77 211 1541.0 1541.0 1523.5 1525.0 1525.0 potential opportunity to drive yield in the global green transition. 3M 0.89923
Sep-22 34 468 1522.0 1522.0 1516.0 1517.5 1517.5 improvements and reduce emissions. 6M 1.67232
dec-22 22 80 1529.0 1529.0 1516.5 1516.5 1516.5 “The opportunities are immense, but 12M 2.56976
“Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are it will take collective will, unprecedented
3-MONTH KLIbOR fUTURES CLOSING: JUNE 7 most attractive due to infrastructure collaboration and meaningful financing
readiness and strong regulatory to unlock the full potential of
MONTH OPEN HIGH LOw SETTLE VOL OPEN support,” it said. decarbonisation levers across all green
PRICE investment asset classes,” he said.-
POSITION Meanwhile, e-mobility looks poised to Bernama n RINGGIT wATCH
take off in Indonesia, Thailand, and
JUN-22 -- - 97.23 - - THE ringgit ended lower against the US dollar
JULy-22 -- - 97.23 - - Boustead Plantations signs RM45m green on Tuesday as the US federal Reserve (fed) was
AUG-22 -- - 97.23 - - financing with China Construction Bank set to maintain its course on monetary tighten-
SEP-22 -- - 97.23 - - ing, said an analyst.
dEC-22 -- - 97.23 - - KUALA LUMPUR: Boustead Plantations represented by its executive vice president
MAR-22 -- - 97.23 - - Bhd (BPB) has sealed a RM45 million green Wang Shaoqiang. At 6 pm, the local currency declined to
JUN-22 -- - 97.23 - - financing agreement with China 4.3935/3960 against the greenback from friday’s
SEP-23 -- - 97.23 - - Construction Bank (M) Bhd (CCBM) to Zainal Abidin and CCBM chief close of 4.3870/3910.
dEC-23 -- - 97.23 - - facilitate its sustainable replanting executive officer Wang QiJie witnessed the
MAR-23 -- - 97.23 - - exercise as part of its commitment ceremony. The market was closed on Monday in con-
JUN-23 -- - 97.23 - - towards environmental, social and junction with the yang di-Pertuan Agong’s of-
SEP-23 -- - 97.23 - - governance (ESG) efforts. According to the statement, BPB’s debt- ficial birthday.
dEC-24 -- - 97.23 - - to-equity ratio has improved in recent
MAR-24 -- - 97.23 - - BPB, one of Malaysia’s major palm oil years owing to its strong financial bank Islam Malaysia bhd chief economist dr
JUN-24 -- - 97.23 - - companies, seeks to leverage financing to performance, with gearing at 0.28 times as Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid said the US
SEP-24 -- - 97.23 - - maximise its ongoing accelerated at March 31, 2022 from Dec 31, 2021’s 0.37 federal Open Market Committee members
MAR-25 -- - 97.23 - - sustainable replanting programme, times. were set to meet next week on June 14 to 15,
JUN-25 -- - 97.23 - - particularly for its plantation assets in with a 50-basis point hike in its policy rate being
SEP-25 -- - 97.23 - - Sabah, from this year until 2024. BPB said all its land area comes under almost a given outcome.
dEC-25 -- - 97.23 - - the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil
MAR-26 -- - 97.23 - - “The green financing agreement would certification, while six of its palm mills, “The US Consumer Price Index for May will
JUN-26 -- - 97.23 - - allow BPB to complement its ongoing certified under the Roundtable on also be announced this week with inflation rate
plantations performance improvement Sustainable Palm Oil, have been accredited expected to remain on the high side. The 10-
TOTAL OPEN INTEREST : NIL CTRS TOTAL TURNOVER : NIL LOTS programme by optimising the potential of with the Supply Chain Certification year US Treasury yield has surpassed the 3.0 per
its plantation assets in Sabah,” its chief System. cent mark, signaling that inflation premium re-
bURSA MALAySIA dERIVATIVES ExCHANGE: JUNE 7 executive officer Zainal Abidin Shariff said mains highly invisible,” he told bernama.
THE CRUdE PALM OIL fUTURES CLOSING (ALL PRCS ARE IN RM/MT) in a statement. There is zero burning and its palm
biomass is recycled. Meanwhile, the ringgit was traded higher
dEL OPEN HIGH LOw LAST SETTLE VOLUME OPEN The financing agreement was signed against a basket of major currencies.
MONTH (RM) (RM) (RM) by BPB director Ahmad Shahredzuan CCBM is a subsidiary of China
JUN-22 6750 6813 6750 6759 (RM) POSIITON Mohd Shariff and its company secretary Construction Bank Corporation, a The local note rose against the Singapore
JUL-22 6686 6790 6620 6743 Affendi Mohd Yob, while CCBM was commercial bank with presence in 31 dollar to 3.1936/1957 from friday’s close of
AUG-22 6423 6574 6406 6520 countries with its headquarters in Beijing.- 3.1947/1981, and appreciated against the british
SEP-22 6230 6390 6230 6329 Bernama pound to 5.4963/4994 from 5.5171/5221 previ-
OCT-22 6126 6278 6126 6217 ously.
NOV-22 6089 6220 6080 6148
dEC-22 6050 6180 6050 6137 It also strengthened against the euro to
JAN-23 6026 6150 6022 6100 4.6892/6919 from 4.7143/7186 on friday, and in-
fEb-23 6009 6122 6009 6079 creased vis-a-vis the Japanese yen to 3.3109/3130
from 3.3728/3759. – bernama

N/A 101 2,479

N/A 1,809 25,630 n COCOA n ExCHANGE RATES

N/A 20,813 73,064 dAILy dEALER PURCHASE PRICE Of COCOA ExCHANGE RATES ISSUEd by MALAyAN bANKING bHd: JUNE 7
bEANS QUOTEd by THE MALAySIAN COCOA
N/A 9,153 49,549 SELLING bUyING bUyING
bOARd ON TUESdAy, JUNE 7 2022 TT/Od TT Od
4.4620
N/A 5,565 24,305 SMC 1 SMC 2 SMC 3 1 US dollar 3.2190 4.3260 4.3160
1 Australian dollar 3.2350 3.0900 3.0740
N/A 4,093 25,889 HIGH LOw HIGH LOw HIGH LOw HIGH LOw 1 brunei dollar 3.5390 3.1400 3.1320
1 Canadian dollar 4.7740 3.4420 3.4300
N/A 2709 14,979 TAwAU 125 125 7100 7000 6900 6850 – – 1 Euro 2.9010 4.6170 4.5970
– – 1 New Zealand dollar N/A 2.7930 2.7770
N/A 1499 17,836 TENOM 120 120 7100 7000 6900 6850 – – 1 Papua N Guinea Kina 3.2350 N/A N/A
– – 1 Singapore dollar 5.5930 3.1400 3.1320
N/A 857 4,784 MUAR –– – – –– – – 1 Sterling Pound 4.5790 5.4130 5.3930
– – 1 Swiss franc 122.8900 4.4710 4.4560
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TOTAL TURN OVER : 47,924 LOTS – – 100 bangladesh Taka 67.0000 4.6250 4.4250
MARKET TONE : HIGHER RAUb – – 7400 7400 7200 7200 100 Chinese Renminbi 65.7800 64.4000 N/A
100 danish Krone 57.4700 60.5000 60.3000
KUCHING – – 6600 6500 6400 6350 100 Hongkong dollar 5.8300 54.5900 54.3900
100 Indian Rupee 0.0319 5.4700 5.2700
NOTE : PRELIMINARy PRICES UP TO 4.30 P.M. NT – SARIKEI – – 6600 6500 6400 6350 100 Indonesian Rupiah 3.3770 0.0289 0.0239
NO TRANSACTIONLOCAL MALAySIA CPO 100 Japanese yen 16.2000 3.2690 3.2590
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100 Norwegian Krone 2.2700 44.6300 44.4300
JUN JUL AUG LOwER CPO PROdUCTION AMId HIGHER PALM 100 Pakistan Rupee 8.5600 2.1200 1.9200
OIL ExPORTS IN MAy AS wELL AS STRONGER 100 Philippine Peso 123.2200 8.0600 7.8600
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bOARd Of TRAdE (CbOT) ANd CHINA’S dALIAN 100 Saudi Riyal 29.8900 114.1400 113.9400
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100 Sri Lanka Rupee 46.9400 1.1400 0.9400
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Rbd P. OIL (fOb) NT NT NT

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Rbd P. STEARIN (fOb) NT NT NT

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SMR 20 721.50 / 167.00
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Paramount sued over Kore-eda aims to break prejudice
against mothers who give up kids

‘Top Gun’ copyrights SEOUL: Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-
eda’s new film “Broker” does not hide the
T HE family of the Israeli writer whose Tom Cruise walks to the red carpet after riding a helicopter to the world key question that the director wants to ask Japanese director Hirokazu
article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick”. (Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) the audience: Should mothers take all the Kore-eda. (Pic: CJ ENM)
movie Top Gun is suing film studio blame for abandoning their children in
Paramount Pictures for copyright in- lots. “Maverick” picks up the story of now- “baby boxes”? “Song Kang-ho suggested cutting out
fringement over its sequel. It gave Hollywood superstar Cruise his graying US Navy test pilot Pete “Maverick” some of the lines that his character says. I
Mitchell (Cruise) as he trains young avia- “At the beginning of the movie, Soo-jin tried cutting it out accordingly and it was
They claim the studio did not have the first $100m (£80m) opening weekend at tors for a mission to attack a nuclear facil- (played by Bae Doo-na) says ‘if you are go- indeed a whole lot better. But it is really
rights to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 story “Top the box office. His previous biggest open- ity in a rogue state. ing to abandon a newborn, you should rare for an actor to ask the director to cut
Guns” when it released the sequel Top ing weekend came in 2005 with War of the not have given a birth to him.’ This shows out his own lines. In fact, it was the first
Gun: Maverick last month. Worlds, which raked in $64m (£51m). Holding in second place was Disney’s that there is a kind of prejudice toward time,” he said. “That was when I realized
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Mad- mothers. The film starts from there,” the that Song Kang-ho is the actor that truly
The film earned $548m (£438m) glob- Meanwhile, “Top Gun: Maverick” has ness,” at $9.3 million for the Friday- director said during an interview with a cares about creating a better film.”
ally in its first 10 days of release. soared to a second huge weekend showing through-Sunday period. The global take group of local reporters at a cafe in Sam-
in North American theaters, taking in an for the Benedict Cumberbatch film has cheong-dong, central Seoul. “The film Kore-eda also shared his recent partic-
Paramount says the claim was “without estimated $86 million, industry watcher surpassed $750 million in its five weeks shows how much Soo-jin’s prejudice ipation in the 75th Cannes Film Festival at
merit” and vowed to contest it. Exhibitor Relations reported. out. changed.” which Song won the best actor award for
his role in “Broker.”
Top Gun: Maverick sees Cruise reprise That “sensational” number for Para- 20th Century’s animated “Bob’s Burgers Kore-eda said he found out about the
his role as US navy pilot Pete “Maverick” mount’s long-awaited Tom Cruise sequel Movie,” based on a popular television prejudice while talking with a man who “It is the eighth time that I was invited
Mitchell from the original 1986 film. placed it among the top 10 highest-gross- show, held tight in third place, taking in grew up in an orphanage that had har- to Cannes and every time it is different,”
ing second weekends in domestic box of- $4.5 million. boured some resentment toward his he said. “The most evident difference that
It had the fourth biggest opening week- fice history, Variety reported. It took in $151 mother. I have noticed this time was that there
end of any film in the Covid-era, behind million last weekend. In fourth, up one spot from last week- were billboards for ‘Broker’ everywhere,
the best-selling Spider-Man: No Way end, was Universal’s family-friendly ani- “He said he had contemplated the which made me realize the power of CJ
Home, second-place Doctor Strange in the Boosted by its gripping visuals and un- mation “The Bad Guys,” at $3.3 million. question: Did my mom want me to be ENM. I was proud, but at the same time it
Multiverse of Madness and then The Bat- usually positive reviews – especially for a born?” Kore-eda said. was a lot of pressure seeing the poster of
man. sequel – the Paramount/Skydance film has Focus Features’ “Downton Abbey: A my work hung at the hotel I am staying at.
earned $257 million abroad, the latest sign New Era,” based on the wildly popular It was at that moment that it occurred I did take photos with it though,” Kore-
The lawsuit - filed at the Los Angeles of Hollywood’s recovery from a bleak pan- British series, slipped a spot to fifth place, to Kore-eda that the blame should not be eda said jokingly.
federal court by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, demic period. earning $3 million. – BBC/AFP solely on mothers, and that society should
Ehud’s widow and son - alleges that Para- also share the responsibility. When asked to talk about the decline
mount failed to reacquire the rights to of the Japanese film industry in the global
Ehud’s magazine article after it was termi- Kore-eda’s “Broker” centers on rela- standing, Kore-eda carefully said that he
nated under the US Copyright Act. tionships formed through baby boxes in- did not want to compare the current situ-
stalled at churches or institutions in Korea ation with the heyday of the Japanese film
They are seeking unspecified damages where desperate parents can leave their industry.
from the film studio, including profits newborns anonymously.
from Top Gun: Maverick. “It is the same with the Italian and
The fictional story begins with So- French film industries, there can be ups
According to the lawsuit, Paramount’s young (IU) leaving her baby in a box in and downs, so I do not take it as a negative
Top Gun franchise would not have existed front of a church. Sang-hyun (Song Kang- phenomenon,” Kore-eda said.
without Ehud’s “literary efforts and evoca- ho) and Dong-soo (Kang Dong-won) se-
tive prose and narrative”. cretly steal the baby to sell him to a family “But it is true that the Japanese film in-
who cannot legally adopt. dustry is stagnant when looking at it from
The lawsuit said that in 2018, the Yonays an outsider’s perspective. I know that
informed Paramount that its rights to So-young, who returns to the church there are a lot of talented actors and cre-
Ehud’s article would be terminated two the next day to retrieve the baby, finds out ators who are willing to do something
years later. that Sang-hyun and Dong-soo have taken fun. I think it is the old production envi-
her child. Soon, So-young and the two ronment that is making them difficult to
It added that the studio lost the copy- men are looking for the right parents for take on challenges. There is not enough
right for the piece in January 2020. the baby. capital to develop something new so orig-
inal works are rare. There are things that I
“Much as Paramount wants to pretend Meanwhile, police officer Soo-jin is in- learned while working in Korea and
otherwise, they made a sequel to Top Gun vestigating the two men. France. I learned what we have to work on,
after they lost their copyright,” lawyer so I want to go back to Japan and make
Marc Toberoff, who is representing the The 60-year-old director said he heard some improvements.”
Yonays, told the BBC. negative feedback on some lines that were
deemed “too direct” in conveying another Kore-eda worked with French actors
Paramount said in a statement: “These underlying theme of cherishing life, such and staff for his previous project, “The
claims are without merit, and we will de- as a scene when So-young says, “Thank Truth.” – The Korea Herald
fend ourselves vigorously.” you for coming into this world,” to every-
one in the room. But this was intentional,
Mitra Ahouraian, a Los Angeles-based he emphasized.
entertainment attorney, told the BBC that
Paramount’s plans to produce Top Gun: “I also strongly believed that my film
Maverick in 2018 and release it in 2019 should look at every human’s life posi-
were delayed because of the Covid-19 pan- tively,” he said.
demic.
During the interview, the Japanese di-
“Timing is going to be very important rector also revealed how he created the
in this case because the notice of termina- framework of the new film.
tion was sent... to have an effective date of
2020,” Ahouraian explained. “I created this film with three boxes,”
Kore-eda said. “The first box is the small-
The sequel sees Maverick return to the est one that the baby is being abandoned
Top Gun flying academy as an instructor in in, and then the second box is the van that
charge of training a new generation of pi- brokers in the film travel in with the baby.
The last box is symbolic and invisible—the
Judge lets sex Musk accuses Twitter of withholding society that surrounds the baby.”

assault suit go data, says may withdraw bid Since Kore-eda cannot speak Korean,
he noted that he got some help from vet-
on against Spacey NEW YORK: Elon Musk (pic) threatened to eran actor Song. Kore-eda highlighted
withdraw his bid to buy Twitter, accusing that there was a particular moment when
it of failing to provide data on fake ac- the star impressed him the most during
counts, in the latest twist in the Tesla bil- this process.
lionaire’s push to acquire the social net-
NEW YORK: A sex-as- work.

sault civil lawsuit Twitter has breached its “obligations
under the merger agreement and Mr.
against actor Kevin Musk reserves ... his right not to consum-
mate the transaction,” according to a doc-
Spacey (pic) can ument filed with securities regulators.

proceed in federal The filing marks an escalation of Musk’s
prior statements that have highlighted
court in New York fake accounts as a threat to his proposed
$44 billion deal to take over Twitter.
City, a federal
The mercurial Musk agreed a deal in
judge ruled. late April to purchase Twitter.

Judge Lewis A. But the proposed sale has stoked
protest from critics who warn his steward-
Kaplan said in a ship will embolden hate groups and disin- terms.”
formation campaigns. Musk has said that the real number of
written ruling that
US securities regulators have also bots may be four times higher than Twitter
the allegations that ac- tor pressed Musk for an explanation of an ap- estimates.
parent delay in reporting his Twitter stock
Anthony Rapp brought against buys. Bots can be used on social media to
spread false news or create a distorted im-
Spacey established an issue of material Musk began making significant noise pression of how widely information is be-
about fake accounts in mid-May, saying on ing consumed and shared.
fact as to whether Rapp sufficiently alleges Twitter he could walk away from the trans-
action if his concerns were not addressed. Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal
that Spacey acted to gratify sexual desire has said that fewer than five percent of ac-
Some observers have seen Musk’s ques- counts active on any given day at Twitter
during an encounter at a Manhattan party tioning of Twitter bots as a means to end are bots, but that analysis cannot be repli-
the takeover process, or to pressure Twitter cated externally due to the need to keep
in 1986 when Rapp was 14. into lowering the price. user data private.

The judge noted that Rapp has alleged Musk’s latest statement on bots signi- But Musk has been dismissive of Twit-
fies he is “looking to walk away from deal,” ter’s responses and reiterated that stance
that Spacey placed a clothed Rapp on a Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Monday on in Monday’s filing.
Twitter, noting that there is a $1 billion
bed and briefly put his own clothed body breakup fee in the Twitter-Musk transac- Musk’s attorney, Mike Ringler, said
tion. Twitter had failed to respond to Musk’s
partially beside and partially across Rapp’s valid inquiry about fake accounts, accord-
“We continue to believe that Elon is ing to the filing.
before Rapp “wriggled out,” got up, and playing hard ball... to gain leverage/op-
tions to either reduce his offer price or in- “Mr. Musk has made it clear that he
left the premises. deed completely walk away if he gets cold does not believe the company’s lax testing
feet,” said CFRA Research’s Angelo Zino. methodologies are adequate so he must
In his lawsuit, Rapp seeks compensa- conduct his own analysis,” Ringler said.
Twitter on Monday defended its re- “The data he has requested is necessary to
tory and punitive damages for what he al- sponsiveness, and vowed to complete the do so.”
deal.
leges was assault, battery and intentional To execute the deal, Musk “must have a
“Twitter has and will continue to coop- complete and accurate understanding of
infliction of emotional distress. eratively share information with Mr. the very core of Twitter’s business model –
Musk,” a spokesperson said. “We intend to its active user base,” said the filing.
Rapp testified at a deposition that there close the transaction and enforce the
merger agreement at the agreed price and “Mr. Musk believes Twitter is transpar-
was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching ently refusing to comply with its obliga- Test your logic skills with the Su Do Ku puzzle. The rules are simple: each of the smaller grids
tions under the merger agreement.” should contain the number 1 to 9, and in the large grid each row and column should contain the
under clothes and no sexualized state-
Later Monday, Texas Attorney General number 1 to 9. These puzzle vary in difficulty and this is an easy one.
ments or innuendo during an encounter Ken Paxton announced a civil probe of
Twitter “for potentially false reporting
that lasted no more than two minutes, the over its fake bot accounts in violation of
the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.”
judge said. (Solution below) QUOTABLE QUOTES
Shares of Twitter fell 1.5 per cent to
Spacey denies the allegations. $39.56. – AFP

Kaplan did dismiss a common law as- solution ‘A ruffled

sault allegation, saying the claim was not

included in those revived by a Child Vic-

tims Act in New York state that in 2019 mind makes

temporarily allowed individuals to make

claims in instances in which the statute of

limitations would normally have barred a restless

them.

The ruling comes two weeks after

British prosecutors said they had autho- pillow’

rised police to charge Spacey with four

counts of sexual assault against three men.

The alleged incidents occurred in London

between 2005 and 2013. – AP – Charlotte bronte

Peter Saghir, a lawyer for Rapp, de-

dailyexpress Y OU R LOCAL V OICE W E D NE SD AY, JUNE 8 , 2 0 2 2 People & Places 17

In Iraq, centuries- aries Mar 20 - april 19

old black ALL too often, others scold you for not planning
ahead. However, as a quick-thinking Aries,
community still you’re at your best when making decisions and
even dealing with crises at the last minute. At
on the margins Adnan Abdelrahman, 56, a member of Iraq's black community, beats the moment, however, it’s about capitalising on
a "tar" hand drum at his home in the southern city of Zubair. the remarkable ideas or offers coming your way.
The secret? Explore absolutely everything.
ZUBAIR (Iraq): Adnan Abdelrahman simple cement houses. explaining that his uncle sang and his fa- ers are black and added that he does not
shows off the drums he learned to While activists denounce the commu- ther played the drum. “If someone dies, his feel discrimination. “Racism is something taurus apr 20 - May 20
play at age 12. He belongs to Iraq’s son takes his place so that the art doesn’t we have never seen,” he said.
centuries-old black minority, guardians of nity’s marginalisation, talk of racism or disappear.” THERE’S a New Moon in your sign every year.
musical traditions but relegated to the discrimination offends Zubair’s inhabi- But many activists within the black However, eclipses are far rarer. While the recent
margins of society. tants, who prefer the euphemism “dark Equipped with darboukas, tam- community disagree, among them 32- one took place on 30 April, you’re still dealing
skin” in Arabic to the word “black”. bourines and large goat skin drums, musi- year-old Majed al-Khalidy. with the sudden insights, changes and break-
Centred in the city of Zubair, near Basra cians liven up weddings by leading the throughs it triggered. Take your time exploring
in the far south of Iraq, the community has Abdelrahman, 56, is a member of one of “zaffa”, a procession of song and dance to “Those with dark skin are fifth-class cit- these. While they all offer insights, a few are in-
its origins in East Africa. the popular music troupes that have made celebrate the bride and groom. izens, not even second-class,” said Khalidy, troducing exciting opportunities.
Zubair famous throughout the country who works for an oil company in Basra.
Like other remote parts of Iraq, Zubair and in Kuwait, only 30 kilometres (20 Abdelrahman, who has played for four geMini May 21 - Jun 20
is a place of poverty and decaying public miles) away. years in a heritage group sponsored by the “Since the establishment of the Iraqi
services, where dusty roads are lined with culture ministry, said the majority of play- state, we have not seen anyone from the YOU thrive on discoveries of every variety, from
“It’s a profession you inherit,” he said, community occupy a senior position in exploring intriguing ideas or offers, to learning
the state. We have not seen a governor, a about others’ activities. It doesn’t matter if these
POPEYE minister or a lawmaker.” are impossible in practical terms. Now, how-
ever, the line between what’s wise or reasonable
BLONDIE He said the community faces a high is increasingly unclear, prompting you to takes
drop-out rate from school, poor job op- chances. Do so. It’s unlikely you’ll regret it.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN portunities and offensive language, even
from religious clerics, with many people cancer June 21 - Jul 21
still using the Arabic term “slave” to desig-
nate a black person. OTHERS are rushing to get things done, and ex-
pect your help with what are really their plans
The minority numbers 250,000 to two or passions. The problem? Saying a firm ‘no’.
million people, according to a wide range It isn’t easy. Any less, however, and they’ll still
of informal estimates. Their ancestors expect you to put their plans and needs first. The
came from Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, solution? Explain you’ve other, more pressing,
said historian Ibrahim al-Marashi of Cali- commitments. End of discussion.
fornia State University.
leo Jul 22 - aug 22
They are centred in Iraq’s southern
Basra region, where black slaves were EVERY once in a while, you forget that certain
brought from East Africa “for the back- individuals don’t really enjoy having fun. How-
breaking work of draining the salt ever, reflect a bit and you’ll begin to realise the
marshes” east of the city, said Marashi. fact is, their idea of fun differs from yours. Actu-
ally, they enjoy quiet moments, if not time on
“In the historical record, the first men- their own, in a way you do all you can to avoid.
tion of the community is in 869 CE when
they revolted” against the Abbasid Virgo aug 23 - sep 22
Caliphate, he said. Today “black Iraqis con-
tinue to face systematic discrimination AS a cautious and painstaking Virgo, you prefer
and marginalisation”, according to the Mi- to make an arrangement once, and stick with
nority Rights Group International. it. However, with so much in transition now and
over the coming weeks, that variety of stability
The London-based MRG says in an on- could hold you back. Actually, you’re in a period
line report that Iraq’s black community that’s about being inventive, if not taking
suffers disproportionately high illiteracy chances.
and unemployment rates and that “many
cannot find employment other than as libra sep 23 - oct 22
labourers or domestic workers”.
YOU don’t think of it, but while your talent for
In a recent sign of progress, a state-run sidestepping clashes comes in handy, and in
TV news channel hired a young black all sorts of situations, at the moment it could re-
woman, Randa Abdel Aziz, as a presenter sult in problems. Certain tricky issues need to
– but such steps remain rare. More change be discussed, and soon. This means overcom-
is needed, said Khalidy, the activist. ing your tendency to sugar-coat tensions but,
instead, to be as frank as possible.
In a multi-faith, multi-ethnic country,
he demanded the inclusion of his commu- scorpio oct 23 - nov 21
nity in the quota system which reserves
parliament seats for certain minorities, in- ONLY days ago, you’d have fought to keep cer-
cluding Christians and Yazidis. tain arrangements going as they were planned.
However, not only have times changed, so have
“To claim your rights, you have to be your priorities. As a result, you’ll be focusing
close to the decision-makers,” he said less on these and more on new, and far more
about a political system where lawmakers intriguing, ideas or options. For now, explore
can open the doors to all kinds of state your options.Decisions can wait.
largesse, especially public sector jobs.
sagitarius nov 22 - dec 20
Saad Salloum, an expert on religious
and ethnic diversity, agreed that “discrim- FOR ages you’ve intended to explore certain
ination is seen at all levels” against black new ideas, activities or study something you re-
Iraqis. gard as thrilling. However, events have always
prevented you taking things further. Now it’s the
“Politically, they have no representa- reverse. The planetary setup isn’t just encour-
tion. Socially, certain stereotypes remain aging you to explore these, the odds are good
rooted in the dominant culture. Economi- you’ll soon commit to those new plans.
cally, the majority live below the poverty
line.” capricorn dec 21 - Jan 19

The group MRG recalled that after the IT’S not that you distrust good fortune. It’s just
fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein, when the actual circumstances you’re dealing
“black Iraqis began to organise and de- with improve suddenly, as is increasingly the
velop a political consciousness for the first case, you’re wary. While at times in the past
time”. – AFP that caution would have been wise, what’s
coming your way now isn’t just timely, events
crossword ACROSS 28. Threw away 54. Act human, they say could seem just plain miraculous.
1. Verge 32. Food that’s 37-Across backward 55. Came back from behind
start sMall 5. Already in a relationship 33. Excelled 57. Sports ___ (gym garment) aquarius Jan 20 - feb 17
10. Instagram and Snapchat, e.g. 37. What aptly bookends “Memorial 58. Saltimbocca meat
14. Sweet sandwich? Day” 60. Angsty people, traditionally AS an Aquarius, you’re inquisitive by nature,
15. Word after “mental” or “mirror” 38. Online business 61. Biblical gift givers and often the first to learn about exciting new
16. Apple variety 41. “Bravo,” in Barcelona 62. New Age singer from Ireland ideas or intriguing events. Yet, over the coming
17. Singles 42. Opposite of oblivious 63. Put into law week or so, even you are in for some surprises.
18. Boatload, literally 44. Quick-witted casino employee? 64. Tech support caller This is the result of sudden changes in circum-
19. Very funny person 47. What to do after giving someone 65. ___ area (road trip stop) stances and, because of that, equally sudden
20. Doesn’t stop smiling smugly? a hand? 66. They should be tough to crack ideas or offers.
23. “Little piggies” 48. They’re read at slams 67. Cleaning challenge
24. Sensible 50. “Oh, go away” pisces feb 18 - Mar 19
25. Not as important 52. Cram for an exam
LONG ago you realised that, sooner or later,
DOWN 49. Voltage spikes you’d have to disentangle yourself from either
1. Whisper sweet nothings 50. Slot machine arm, essentially one particular relationship or, perhaps, a group
2. Coffee dispensers 51. Justice Kagan of people. Whatever the case, they make con-
3. Appear 52. Because stant demands, yet are never thankful. On the
4. Puts forward 53. Couples contrary, they expect more. There’s only one ap-
5. Scrolling graphics on CNBC 56. Loose-___ paper propriate response. A blunt ‘no’.
6. Pile up 59. Long.’s counterpart on a GPS
7. Go-___ (kid’s vehicle) 61. Ornamental flower, for short Birthday Today
8. Popular waffles
9. Fresh delivery? solution to today’s crossword Being ruled by inquisitive Mercury, you’re
10. Matches grammatically interested in everything and everybody.
11. Annoyance However, turning that into activities and al-
12. Walk heavily liances that profit you is another matter.
13. Prepared for a meeting? This birthday is about exactly that, noting
21. Sturgeon eggs where you ignore or, possibly, are lazy
22. “Double Fantasy” singer Yoko about making the effort required to reap
25. Soapmaking ingredient those benefits. This could involve your dis-
26. Scarf down like in dealing with dull practicalities or,
27. Go overboard in a cafeteria food fight? equally, tedious facts and figures. Whatever
29. Fawning constituency? the case, getting accustomed to focusing on
30. Pointy part of an elf these is a small price to pay for the amazing
31. Turn red, perhaps benefits your efforts would yield, now and
34. In great demand in the future.
35. Antiquated
36. Originally named
39. Muslim leader
40. Magic Johnson, once
42. Not silently
43. A gardener pulls it up
45. Incentives at car dealerships
46. H.S. student’s challenges
47. Tranquil

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English-language students swerve UK post-Brexit

EDINBURGH: At the top of Calton Hill Non-EU students living in France are While a BETA poll showed Britons

overlooking Edinburgh and the North Sea, suddenly facing visa costs of £100 (118 eu- favoured relaxing the post-Brexit travel

a visiting English language student from ros, $126), whereas before Brexit they rules, Lowy argued that overcoming the

France is in no doubt about the view: could travel on a collective travel docu- new negative perception was “potentially

“Amazing!” he exclaims. ment. a long-term issue”.

Covid has meant that the number of “I had to give up because I am Russian,” For those students who have managed

foreign students on such visits to the UK said Elisabeth Shpak, left out of the Scot- to travel to Scotland, the experience is cel-

has fallen sharply. land trip because of the fees involved. ebrated, especially coming out of Covid re-

But Britain’s departure from the Euro- The British Educational Travel Associa- strictions.

pean Union is not helping the recovery, as tion, whose members help organise such “There have been no trips, everything

post-Brexit administrative requirements visits, estimates that Brexit could cost the has been cancelled because of lockdowns,”

have raised travel costs. sector up to £3 billion annually. said 13-year-old Aaron Schaetzel.

About 50 college students from Having spoken to stakeholders in the The UK authorities say they can already

France’s Alsace region have taken advan- sector, they felt voyages would be 60 to 70 offer students a so-called “collective pass-

tage of the lifting of UK Covid restrictions. percent down compared to before Brexit port”.

Others, however, have opted to learn Eng- and the pandemic, said Steve Lowy at But this document – the product of a

lish in EU nations such as Ireland or Malta BETA. 1961 European treaty – has not been signed

– or simply sign up for language courses at Before Britain’s EU exit, Britain wel- by all current EU members.

home. comed “well over one million” such stu- As for the French travel sector, it is wait-

Teacher Sarah Lepioufle, accompanying dents per year, he said. ing on its own government’s guidance re-

her college’s Edinburgh trip, said the Now “there is a perception of us not be- garding use of the collective passport for

Supyar Devi (centre) mourns for her three married daughters and two changes introduced since Brexit – the extra ing welcoming, and not open to people the first time.
grandchildren, who were found dead in a well in Dudu village on May paperwork involved – had made applying from Europe. And that is a harder thing to The UK government, meanwhile, cites
28, at the family home in Chhapya village of India’s Rajasthan state. for courses an “obstacle course”. overcome”.
security risks for some students now need-
ing individual visas, something Lowy finds

Death of sisters hard to accept.
“Youth travel is low risk,” he insisted.
“These students and their teachers are

here for cultural and educational pur-

poses, and that is only good for the UK –

not just the initial revenue they bring but

spotlights India for the long-term impact.”
On Calton Hill, tour guide Marilyn

Hunter passionately tells the French stu-
dents about Scotland’s landscape, its his-

tory and major exports whisky and

dowry violence salmon.
But Brexit seems to have spoiled the op-

portunity for some EU-based students to
visit the UK.

The previous week, a group visiting

J AIPUR (India): Before the three sis- Local news outlets regularly report on from Germany had been forced to leave
ters and their children were found marital property disputes that end in behind four students who had not ob-
dead in a well, they left a message murder. tained their visas in time. – AFP

blaming the family they had married Last year, a man in the southern state California man,

into. of Kerala was jailed for life after using

Kalu, Kamlesh and Mamta Meena were venomous snakes to murder his wife and A member of the four middle-aged men unit "Ojiqun", shows 78, gets high
victims of a dispute over dowries, the of- take sole control of their property, which members of the group dancing while wearing neckties and coloured
ten hefty sums Indian parents pay to included a new car and 500,000 rupees school diploma
marry off their daughters. ($6,500) provided by her family as belly warmers in Wake town, western Okayama prefecture.
dowry. 6 decades later
The sisters had wed brothers from the Dancing ‘old heart-throbs’ become
same household and lived under the Courts have also been punitive in their TikTok sensation in Japan PASADENA (Calif.): For 60 years, Ted Sams
same roof, but suffered constant violence treatment of dowry harassment, last regretted missing his high school gradua-
from their husbands and in-laws, accord- month jailing a man in Kerala for 10 years TOKYO: Showing off their awkward moves of Wake, in western Japan’s Okayama re- tion.
ing to the trio’s grieving relatives. after his payment demands were blamed in shirts, ties and brightly coloured belly gion, back on the map.
for driving his wife to suicide. warmers, four men in their 50s and 60s Now 78, Sams can finally call himself a
They were abused constantly, they say, have become Japan’s latest TikTok sensa- “We wanted to come up with some- graduate after donning a cap and gown
including when their father failed to A pervasive taboo around divorce – tion. thing that would revitalise our ageing and receiving his diploma Friday with the
meet demands for more money. only one in 100 Indian marriages end in countryside community, which is suffer- class of 2022 at Southern California’s San
dissolution – has kept married women The group’s mission? To promote their ing from population decline with fewer Gabriel High School.
All three were found dead last month from contemplating escape from abusive small countryside town, whose population and fewer children,” he said.
near their marital home, a village on the situations.
outskirts of Jaipur, along with Kalu’s
four-year-old son and infant child. Both For the Meena sisters, leaving was

Kamlesh and Mamta were pregnant. never seen as an option, even though is in decline, through dance routines to Wake currently has around 14,000 res- Back in 1962 when he was a high school

“We don’t wish to die but death is bet- their relatives were aware of the violence. pop tunes that fans call “adorable”. idents, and Shirase said his old primary senior, Sams got in trouble and was sus-

ter than their abuse,” read a message on “Once they were married, we thought Since their first post in February, the school has closed due to lack of demand. pended five days before the end of the

WhatsApp left by one of the sisters after they should remain in their marital videos, filmed in choice locations from A local shopping mall has also disap- school year. He said he missed a crucial fi-

their disappearance, a cousin said. homes, to maintain the dignity of the playgrounds and shrines to municipal peared, while some annual festivals are no nal exam and had to make it up over the

“Our in-laws are the reason behind family,” Sardar said. buildings, have been viewed more than 16 longer held in the town. summer.

our deaths. We are dying together be- “If we had gotten them remarried in million times. But with more than 34,000 TikTok fol- “When I went back with my grade, they

cause it’s better than dying every day.” another home, and if that situation The four call themselves “ojiqun” – a lowers, “we hope to encourage people to wouldn’t give me my diploma because I

Authorities are investigating and cur- turned out to be worse, then what will we slang word used by young people that come to Wake, either as tourists or as new owed $4.80 for a book,” Sams told KABC-
mixes “ojisan”, which means “old men” in residents,” Shirase said.
rently treating the deaths as suicides, a do? We’ll lose face.” TV. “And so I just walked away and said for-
India’s National Crime Records Bureau Japanese, and “kyun”, meaning “heart-
senior police officer in Jaipur told AFP. throb”. Ojiqun’s latest post, “centipede dance”, get it.”
They wear suit trousers, smart shoes
The sisters’ distraught father, Sardar recorded nearly 7,000 dowry-related shows the four men doing a goofy Mad- The school still had Sams’ original
Meena, said life had been a living hell for killings in 2020 -- around 19 women and belly-warmer bands in different ness-style walk in single file in front of a diploma locked away in an old filing cabi-
his daughters, whose husbands banned every day. colours – blue, green, yellow and red – and concrete building to a rendition of “House net. He beamed as he walked across the
them from pursuing their education and keep a straight face even when they strug- of Fun”. graduation stage at the Rose Bowl in
constantly harassed them for more pay- The same agency reported that more gle to stay in time. Pasadena and received the diploma.
ments. than 1,700 women killed themselves that Fans have peppered the comments un-
year over “dowry-related issues”. One of the members, 52-year-old der each video with heart symbols, calling “Over the years, I complained to my
“We had already given them so many Takumi Shirase, runs an IT firm and a gar- them “splendid” and “adorable”. kids a number of times about how $4.80
things, you can see them in their home,” Both figures are dependent on reports dening company when not on TikTok. kept me from having my diploma,” he
he told AFP, counting off the beds, televi- to police, and experts say the actual num- “I laughed again and again,” said one said.
sion sets and refrigerator he provided to ber of cases is much higher, as with other He told AFP he had created ojiqun with recent comment.
the family. data on family violence. three friends to try and put the rural town Sams said he plans on hanging the
“I have a peaceful smile, for the first diploma on a wall at his home. – AP
“In an hour, some 30 to 40 women are time in a long while,” said another. – AFP

“I am the father of six girls, there is a victims of domestic violence... and these

Company to Las Vegas chapels: No more Elvis-themed weddingslimit to how much I can give,” added Sar- are just documented (cases), so it must
dar, who earns a meagre income as a be much more than that,” Kavita Srivas-
farmer. “I had educated them and just tava, an activist with India’s People’s LAS VEGAS: Las Vegas chapels of love that Chapel of Hearts with her husband. “That’s leather jacket, jeans and a fedora for a
doing that was difficult.” Union for Civil Liberties, told AFP. use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find our bread and butter. I don’t get it. We “rock ‘n’ roll” themed ceremony, the Re-
themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels. were just hitting our stride again through view-Journal reported.
Police have arrested the three hus- Srivastava said the dowry dispute in- Covid, then this happens.”
bands, their mother and a sister-in-law volving the Meena sisters was just one The licensing company that controls Graceland Wedding Chapel, which per-
on charges of dowry harassment and part of their tormentors’ efforts to con- the name and image of “The King” is or- Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya, who led a forms 6,400 Elvis-themed weddings per
spousal abuse. trol their lives and restrict their inde- dering Sin City chapel operators to stop marketing campaign promoting Las Vegas year, has not been served a warning yet, ac-
pendence. using Elvis in themed ceremonies, the Las as a wedding destination, said the order for cording to manager Rod Musum.
AFP’s attempts to contact the men’s Vegas Review-Journal reported. Authentic chapels to stop using Elvis couldn’t have
family were unsuccessful. The fundamental cause, she added, Brands Group sent cease-and-desist letters come at a worse time for the sector. In the cease-and-desist letter, the com-
was a widespread social acceptance of in early May to multiple chapels, which are pany said it will halt unauthorized use of
India outlawed the practice of paying domestic violence in India that leaves expected to be compliant by now. The city’s wedding industry generates “Presley’s name, likeness, voice image, and
dowries more than 60 years ago, and ha- women feeling trapped in oppressive $2 billion a year, and officials say Elvis- other elements of Elvis Presley’s persona in
rassment or extortion over the payments and violent relationships. With Elvis so closely tied to Vegas’ wed- themed weddings represent a significant advertisements, merchandise and other-
is a criminal offence. ding industry, some say the move could number of the ceremonies performed. wise.”
“If even one woman has to kill herself decimate their businesses.
But the custom persists, particularly in because her marital life seems like the “It might destroy a portion of our wed- The letter also said “Elvis,” “Elvis Pres-
rural areas, undergirded by social con- end of the road,” she said, “I feel the In- “We are a family-run business, and now ding industry. A number of people might ley,” “and “The King of Rock and Roll” are
ventions that treat women as an eco- dian state has failed for those women.” – we’re hanging with the big dogs,” said lose their livelihood,” Goya said. protected trademarks.
nomic burden and demand compensa- AFP Kayla Collins, who operates LasVega-
tion for accepting them as brides. sElvisWeddingChapel.com and the Little One chapel last weekend had its Elvis In a statement, Authentic Brands Group
impersonator change instead into a said it has strong relationships with Elvis

Royal workshop: Brazil gets first cricket bat factory tribute artists and fan festivals. There is
“no intention to shut down chapels that
offer Elvis packages in Las Vegas.”

POÇOS DE CALDAS (Brazil): In a workshop eters in Brazil, thanks mainly to the orga- his new company. “We are seeking to partner with each of
with a stunning view of the mountains of nization’s 63 community youth programs, From a YouTube video on crafting these small businesses to ensure that their
southeastern Brazil, self-taught carpenter and the women’s national team have won use of Elvis’ name, image and likeness are
Luiz Roberto Francisco is chipping at a four of the past five South American cham- cricket bats, he learned he would need to officially licensed and authorized by the
piece of pine and turning it into a rare ar- pionships. apply two tonnes of pressure to the wood estate, so they can continue their opera-
tifact for this football-mad country: a to bring it to the right density. tions,” Authentic Brands Group said. “Elvis
cricket bat. But that all ground to a halt when the is embedded into the fabric of Las Vegas
Covid-19 pandemic hit, leaving those “There was no machine in Brazil to do history.”
Francisco, 63, is the proud owner of spreading the gospel of cricket without that,” says the bespectacled woodworking
Brazil’s first cricket bat factory, based in one key import: bats. whiz, giving a tour of his tidy shop. The licensing company oversees the es-
the small city of Pocos de Caldas in Minas tates of big names like movie star Marilyn
Enter Francisco, a retired electrician at “So I tried some different things, and
ended up inventing one myself.”
He wasn’t sure what kind of local wood Monroe and boxer Muhammad Ali and 50
Gerais state, population 170,000. the local Alcoa aluminum plant who is
Not coincidentally, the leafy spa city is known around Pocos de Caldas as a deft would work best, so he started picking up consumer brands.
The order should not translate into le-
also the headquarters of Cricket Brasil, an or- handyman and ingenious problem solver. scraps and branches anytime he came
across them. After months of trial and er- gal action against Elvis-themed stage
ganization headed by Matt Featherstone, an Featherstone sought him out.
“He told me he needed someone to ror, he and Cricket Brasil settled on pine. shows in Las Vegas such as “All Shook Up”
English ex-cricketer who has set the ambi-

tious goal of getting 30,000 Brazilians play- make cricket bats, and asked me: ‘Are you Francisco can now churn out a bat in because impersonating someone for live

ing the sport he loves in the next three years. up to the challenge?’” Francisco says. about five hours. They cost about 100 reais performances such as shows is considered

Since Featherstone, 51, retired from pro- “I told him, ‘I accept!’” (about $20) apiece – roughly 70 times less an exception under Nevada’s right of pub-

fessional cricket and moved here with his Francisco had never held a cricket bat than a premium bat imported from overseas. licity law, according to Mark Tratos, a local

Brazilian wife in 2000, he and Cricket in his life. But he used a combination of As cricketing culture continues to spread, attorney who helped write the statute.

Brasil’s 19 staff have managed to grow the YouTube videos, trial and error, and sheer Francisco is expanding his product line. “An Elvis show is a performer essentially

sport exponentially. gumption to turn the woodworking shop He now makes wickets and foldable entertaining others by re-creating that

Francisco shapes a cricket bat in a workshop. There are now more than 5,000 crick- on the porch of his house into Royal Bats, cricket chairs, as well. – AFP person onstage,” Tratos said. – AP

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(FOR SALE) Mempunyai Lesen GDL Mercer Investments V Pri- SYARIKAT 2016
Sila Hubungi Tel: FORMATION OF yang kurang semangat belajar. DAN DALAM PERIHAL
1) Semporna (Behind JKR) 088-491 436 vate Ltd.
CL7acs @ RM4.9mil 013-874 5611 NEW SDN. BHD. Darjah 1 - Tingkatan 5. 23 (No. Syarikat LL03206) BERKAITAN
2) KK Menggatal (Roadabout) 013-865 0320 (In Member’s Voluntary Mercer Investments
NT0.49 @ RM2.38mil One-top Services tahun mengajar. Inanam.
3) Papar Kawang (Pan Borneo ----------------------- Winding Up) V Private Ltd.
Highway) NT6acs @ IMMEDIATE VACANCY Popular Management 019-8327019 (No. Syarikat LL03206)
RM1.68mil 1. Admin Clerk - 2 Posts NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
2. Account Exe. - 1 Post Tel: 219055/216576 pursuant to Section 131(1) of (PENGGULUNGAN
WhatsApp: Location: Inanam the Labuan Companies Act SYARIKAT SECARA
019882-8733 (Tan) Contact: 088-386897 B1201, 12th Flr, 1990 applying Section 459 of
the Companies Act 2016, SUKARELA)
REN11919 VACANCY W.Merdeka Phase 2, KK THAT the final meeting of the
Facebook: Jegan’s Realty 1) 3 TON LORRY DRIVER member of the Company will NOTIS ADALAH DENGAN
(STRICTLY NO BROKER) - Lesen E (GDL) ----------------------- be convened by way of Mem- INI DIBERI menurut Seksyen
- Salary RM1,300 (Basic) ber’s Resolution in Writing pur- 131(1) Akta Syarikat Labuan
- Socso & EPF FORMATION OF suant to Article 47 of the Arti- 1990 diguna pakai bersama
2) CASE OPERATOR cles of Association of the Com- Seksyen 459 Akta Syarikat
- Salary RM1,500 (Basic) NEW SDN. BHD. pany on 11st day of July, 2022 2016, BAHAWA mesyuarat
- Socso & EPF for the following purposes: terakhir bagi ahli Syarikat akan
One-Stop Services 1. To receive the Liquidator’s diadakan melalui Ketetapan
Please call Rajah @ Statement of Accounts showing Bertulis menurut Artikel 47
019-4245129 Popular Management the manner in which the winding Perkara Persatuan suatu
up has been conducted and to Syarikat pada 11 Julai 2022,
Tel: 234598/260020 hear the explanations that may untuk tujuan yang berikut:
be given by the Liquidator. 1. Untuk menerima penyata
11-2, Blk B, Damai IV, KK 2. To approve the Liquidator’s akaun daripada Penyelesai
remuneration. yang menunjukkan bagaimana
----------------------- proses penggulungan dijalankan
Yap Wai Bing dan seterusnya mendengar
ASIA PLUMBING Liquidator penjelasan yang akan diberikan
ALL: 0040 oleh Penyelesai.
SERVICE Dated this 2. Untuk meluluskan saraan
Penyelesai.
0168877738, 0178287898 8 day of June, 2022
Yap Wai Bing
088-768288 Ahmad Penyelesai
ALL: 0040
Pakar mengubahsuai rumah, Bertarikh pada
8 haribulan Jun, 2022
VACANCY buat pagar, gate grill, man-
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Requirements:
* Male pump, water heater, paip air,
* Pet Lover
* Age: 18 - 30 years old preferably membaiki atap bocor, tandas
* Minimum SPM
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* Have own transport
Vehicles * Good working attitude & Re- lain-lain
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Jobs SELL YOUR OLD
* VACANCY resume to WhatsApp:
* Driver (GDL License) Elsie 016-8047918 BANKNOTE, COINS
* General Work
* Penampang Area Ah Cheong Auto Parts CD, Records For CASH
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Tel: Asia City Complex
088-725117/088-724791 ADMIN CLERK
- At least 2 years experience in re- Big B Collectable Shop
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JOB VACANCY - Able to communicate in Man- G64
darin, English and Bahasa
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VACANCY Requirements:
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- Kitchen Chef * Good working attitude & Responsible NOTIS Hardware Sales Executive
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tion.
• Review terms and conditions of tender / contract
documents.
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• Involve in purchasing of materials and tools for
project.

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20 Sport YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 2022 dailyexpress

Ice skating raises

minimum age to 17

BANGKOK: Ice skaters will have skaters physically and mentally, and help extend their
to be at least 17 to take part in careers.
senior competitions after the
sport’s governing body voted “I feel as administrators of the sport of skating it is
Tuesday to raise the minimum your moral obligation and duty to provide these
age from 15. young skaters with the opportunity and time to de-
velop... the skills they require in order to be successful
The decision by the Interna- at the senior level,” Dr Jane Moran from the body’s
tional Skating Union (ISU) con- medical commission said.
gress in Phuket, Thailand, came
months after a Beijing Winter “They have the right to develop themselves as peo-
Olympics drugs scandal involving then-15-year-old ple during their adolescent age... They don’t need us
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva (pic). to be forcing them to compete.”

“It’s a very historic decision,” ISU president Jan A medical report said the change would allow jun-
Dijkema said, after 100 countries voted to support the ior athletes time to reach skeletal maturity.
measure, with only 16 opposed.
“The concern is that during a period of known
Valieva failed a pre-Games drugs test but was al- skeletal vulnerability, the adolescent athlete may be
lowed to compete and then broke down after falling exposed to excessive training and competition loads
multiple times during her performance, with the associated with high-level competition, which places
global spotlight on her. the athlete at greater risk of injury,” the medical re-
port said.
She finished outside the medals with questions
swirling about the influence of her entourage follow- It also warned that some elite adolescent athletes
ing a tense and tearful post-routine encounter with could experience a puberty delay for an average of
her coach. two years as a result of the physical demands of train-
ing and inadequate energy intake.
The ISU said that raising the age limit was on its
agenda well before the Valieva case and acknowl- It noted some were at greater risk of developing
edged it had a duty of care to elite adolescent ath- eating disorders.
letes.
The athletes’ commission surveyed close to 1,000
The change will be phased in gradually over the athletes and coaches and 86 percent were in favour of
coming years, reaching age 17 in the 2024/25 sea- lifting the age limit.
son.
Some representatives from smaller countries ar-
Ahead of the vote ISU director general Fredi gued the changes would have an negative impact on
Schmid acknowledged the body had faced media their talent pool of skaters and ability to send athletes
pressure and a “major attack” in the wake of the to elite competitions.
Olympics and reminded delegates the sport’s reputa-
tion was at stake. But other smaller skating nations such as Iceland
and Ireland argued the focus should be on protecting
“The moment of truth is obviously today because youngsters.
the credibility of the ISU will also be scrutinised. The
media and the public will watch us very closely so “We have to remember they are children first and
don’t forget this,” he said. athletes second,” Ireland’s representative in Phuket
said.
The skating body’s medical advice backed raising
the age limit to 17 arguing it would benefit young An amendment to raise the minimum age to 16
and then wait until after the 2026 Winter Olympics to
revisit the issue was rejected. – AFP

Vuillermoz caps NZ Rugby makes public

comeback with apology to female player

Dauphine stage WELLINGTON: New Zealand Rugby publicly apologised on Tues-

and race lead day to Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate, whose criticism of the envi-
ronment in the women’s national team led to a scathing review

and overhaul of its coaching staff.

BRIVES-CHARENSAC (France): Alexis The experienced hooker had accused management of oversee-

Vuillermoz, a veteran who feared for his life ing a culture that failed to support player wellbeing on their un-

after a crash last season, capped his recov- successful tour of Europe last year, during which she said she suf-

ery by winning a frantic sprint on Monday fered a mental breakdown.

to take the overall lead in the Criterium du The 30-year-old’s social media post in December highlighting

Dauphine. her treatment including accusations that coach Glenn Moore

The 34-year-old Frenchman broke a made disparaging remarks to her sparked an independent re-

kneecap in 2020 and then crashed badly in view.

the Tour of Switzerland last June. The review backed up Ngata-Aerengamate’s claims and found

“A year ago, I fractured my pelvis. The staff made culturally insensitive comments to the country’s top

doctors said it was the end of my career. I players and indulged in favouritism and body-shaming.

was even afraid for my life, I ended up in in- Moore stood down in April, within a week of the review’s re-

tensive care,” he said at the finish on Mon- lease, and was replaced by former All Blacks coach Wayne Smith,

day. six months out from the World Cup being staged in New Zealand.

“It’s amazing. After two years of NZR had previously accepted the review’s findings and apolo-

hardship... I could have stopped my career. gised privately to Ngata-Aerengamate. – AFP

But despite everything I wanted to come

back.”

Vuillermoz started the season strongly,

with half-a-dozen top-ten finishes.

“All that was missing was the victory.

This is the icing on the cake,” he said.

Vuillermoz was part of a small, early,

breakaway in the 170km second stage to

Brives-Charensac.

He was not supposed to join the escape,

“to save strength for the next stage.”

“But the break went off and I said to my-

self ‘we’ll see, never mind tomorrow’,” he

added.

“That’s the attacking bike racing I like.”

The five riders built a lead of nearly four

and a half minutes before nursing their

shrinking advantage over the final kilome-

tres.

With the charging peloton closing in,

Frenchman Olivier Le Gac of Groupama

seemed to catch out the other breakaway

riders with an early surge for the line.

But Vuillermoz, riding for TotalEnergies,

and Norwegian Anders Skaarseth of Uno-X

gave chase and passed inches from the line.

“The sprint was a bit messy,” said Vuiller-

moz.

“I saw Olivier launch the sprint from very

far away at 300 metres, he opened a small

gap. I didn’t think I would be able to come

back, but I saw that he got stuck a little bit

at the 50 metres.”

The long sprint gave the winner an

asthma attack. – AFP

SABAH, MALAYSIA
DI PEJABAT PENOLONG PEMUNGUT HASIL TANAH

TAMBUNAN
SIASATAN TANAH PPHT TAMBUNAN

NO. 21 TAHUN 2022
SCHEDULE XXIV (Section 120)
NOTICE OF LOSS OF DOCUMENT OF TITLE
Application having been made to the Collector at
TAMBUNAN by FAUSTINUS BENEDICT for a certified
copy of N.T. 143012122 in the district of TAMBUNAN on
the ground that KAMOI BINTI SALIDANG is the registered
owner thereof and that the issue document of title has been
lost / destroyed.
In accordance with the provisions of Section 120 of the
Land Ordinance, notice is hereby given that, unless within
THREE months of the date of publication of this notice
good cause be shown to the Collector of Land Revenue for
refusing this application, the certified copy applied for will,
subject to the provisions of the said section, be issued.
Dated at Tambunan 24th of May, 2022

Adabi Sabah Distribution Sdn Bhd

dailyexpress YOUR LOCAL VOICE I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 21

In Loving Memory

PUAN SRI HELEN JAYASURIYA

3RD APRIL, 1931 ~ 5TH JUNE, 2022

PUAN SRI HELEN JAYASURIYA was born Helen Sanderson Platt in Mossley,Greater Manchester in 1931. Friends and family both at
home and abroad are mourning her passing this week.

Puan Sri would speak fondly of riding her bicycle as a child, along undulating country roads near her childhood village of Hayfield.
Reflecting on her childhood, she would say, “I can still feel the wind against my face and in my hair.”

Puan Sri attended the University of Manchester and graduated with a degree in English Literature. She met the love of her life, Thomas
Jayasuriya, while he was studying law in London. She was a true romantic and undertook what in those days was a true leap of faith
to travel to Sabah. The couple were married at Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1957. Puan Sri taught history and geography at LaSalle sec-
ondary school in Tanjung Aru. She had a love of literature and Shakespeare, and always had a witty quote from a famous poet or
writer ready for any occasion.

Several of her students have gone on to become well-known Sabah identities. Sometimes, without revealing who, she would remark
about how messy a past student’s handwriting was in school.

Puan Sri was a loyal and devoted partner to Tan Sri Thomas throughout his legal, political and diplomatic career. She was a pillar of
society and also worked tirelessly on charitable causes. Many sought her opinion on personal matters because she invariably cut
through the details to provide a common-sense solution. Through all her activities, she had the admiration of the leading figures in
Kota Kinabalu society.

Puan Sri was past president of the Inner Wheel Club of Kota Kinabalu and director of the Seri Mengasih Centre, which seeks to raise
the hope and dignity of the intellectually and developmentally disabled. When Tan Sri Thomas was appointed Malaysian High Com-
missioner to Canada, Puan Sri devoted herself to furthering Malaysia’s international interests. With her easy charm, she hosted guests
ranging from foreign dignitaries to Malaysian students at the High Commissioner’s residence in Ottawa. Later, she helped bring the world to Sabah as part of the Inner Wheel Club of Kota
Kinabalu committee that organized the Inner Wheel International Convention in 2009.

Puan Sri was a great advocate for women and a generous mentor. Her friends and family will deeply miss her strong and gracious character. She was a woman with impeccable integrity,
always maintaining the highest standards. She was kind, caring, humble, and resilient. She was also amazing at crossword puzzles and spent countless hours tending her orchids in her
garden in Penampang.

Puan Sri is survived by her ninety-six-year-old husband Tan Sri Thomas Jayasuriya, and her children, Richard, Catherine, and Helena and grandchildren Sara, Dusty, Lucas, Gabriella,
and Jack.

May her sweet soul rest in eternal peace.

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy
rod and thy staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23)

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PUAN SRI WILL BE HELD 9:00 AM, 11TH JUNE, 2022 AT FOOK LU SIEW FUNERAL PARLOUR (2ND FLOOR ROOM 3D) AND THEREAFTER WILL
PROCEED TO NIRVANA MEMORIAL PARK, MILE 17, OFF TUARAN ROAD WHERE PUAN SRI WILL BE LAID TO REST. THERE WILL BE A REFRESHMENT LUNCH AFTER.

Donations can be made in honour of Puan Sri to the Seri Mengasih Centre and the Palliative Association of Kota Kinabalu.

Sabah Clubs and Tel: 088-430 727 Fax: 088-424 600 24 Hour FREE Ambulance Service. Also providing First-Aid Training services to support women and girls who face domestic violence,
to the public and Mobile Health Service to the rural areas. Call: 088- rape, sexual harassment and other gender-based violence. Call:
Non-Governmental Organisations Please note that due to space constraints, 319699. 088-280200. Mon-Fri, time: 9am-5pm
Sabah Week will only feature the immediate events Malaysian Red Crescent Kota Kinabalu City Chapter is providing D-Dash Compact Car Club Welcomes all Perodua and compact car
May 22 (Sunday) Ambulance Services from 8pm to 6am (weekdays only), providing owners to join in the club membership. For more info on club weekly gathering
Sabah Indian Association (SIA) Annual General Meeting (AGM). Time: due to take place for the next three days. Patient Transfer Services (daily), providing Basic First Aid and CPR and events contact martin 019-8036019 or d-dashclub.fotopages.com.
3.30pm. Venue: SIA Hall. All relevant documentation for this AGM has The usual brief on the NGOs, Courses (Certificate Courses) – every 2nd week of the month and Sabah Government Pensioners’ Association Membership recruitment ex-
been dispatched to all members via email and is also available on the also providing Emergency First Aid Standby Services (any events). ercise & pensioners’ problem 9.30am to 1pm (Mon – Fri, except public hol-
SIA web portal at https://sites.google.com/view/sia-portal/home. Mem- voluntary organisations and their activities Details: 232718 (O), 232718 (Fax) or email: [email protected] idays) at Maksak Complex, Likas. Details: 211282 Lucy.
bers who somehow have not received same are to contact the Hon. will appear on Sunday. or [email protected] Agriculture Institute of Sabah Alumni Association Membership drive. In-
Secretary, lr. Andrew Amaladoss at 0198526708 soonest. Current Kinabalu Breast Cancer Support Association (Kinabalu Pink Rib- formation to obtain membership forms from various district near you, contact
SOPs in relation to the Movement Control Order will be applicable, es- planned Pregnancy Careline: 088-210358. Facebook: Sabah bon) Offering emotional, social & material support to women with Maidah 019-8414088 or Leong 019-8515893 or email
pecially the wearing of face masks. Family Planning Association. Email: [email protected] breast cancer (before/during/after treatment) and their families. [email protected].
Gerak Kasih Recycling Collection waste paper – newspapers, Careline: 016-8038553. Office: 216237 or Fax: 253679. FB: Kent Teachers College Alumni Association Membership drive. Membership
Regular Events cardboard, boxes, magazines, books, paper bags, soft toys, www.facebook.com/kinabalupinkribbon. forms are available at all district education offices in Sabah. Details: Tajuddin
clothing, plastic bottles, aluminium tins. Every Friday, Saturday Email: [email protected]. 787581, 019-537-1178 or Eddy 016-8223757.
Sabah AZ (Sabah Alzheimer’s Disease Support Association: and Sunday. Time: 10am to 3pm. Venue: Rumah Titian Kasih, Sabah Mental Health Association PKJS Day Care Centre is open Kota Kinabalu City Bird Sanctuary Resources Library is free for public to
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive brain dis- Lot 168, Lot 17, Lorong Kerapu, Rumah Murah Kg Likas Phase to suitable candidate and it carries out several activities on week- use. Details: 246955 or fax: 247955.
order that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventu- 3, 89400 Likas. Details: Nooraisah 014-8586350 or Salina days. Details: 248197. Sandakan Toastmasters Club Platform to improve effective communication
ally, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. Sabah AZ conducts 012-8449139. Alamesra Youth-PREP Centre Provides a place for youths to seek and leadership skills on every 2nd & 4th Thursdays of every month. Venue: In-
Talks & Seminars, support, comfort families / caregivers / AD suf- Sabah Natives Land Owners Association (SANLODA) is dedicated assistance and support on issues such as education, relationships, corporated Society of Planters office, Taman Utama, Zone 3, Jalan Utara. De-
ferers. Bi-Monthly Memory Café sharing-session by caregivers/car- to promoting optimum utilisation and preservation of native lands work, family and financial stability. Legal aid and counselling serv- tails: Alex 013-8803622 or Jerry 012-8616743.
ers. Details: [email protected], www.sabahaz.org, FB:@Saba- in Sabah. Membership Drive: Information for membership from var- ices are free and are on appointment basis. Venue: Ground Floor, Kota Kinabalu Advanced Toastmasters Club – Communication and lead-
halzheimer. Kent 019-8811030 (10am-6pm). ious districts can be obtained from Datuk Stephen 0138658333, Lot 25, Block E, Phase 2, Alamesra, Jalan Sulaman. Opening ership training meeting. Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at 7.30pm.
Sabah State Administrative Centre Galleria Artisan PPNS is open Datuk George 013-851500, Petrus 0198529299 or Datuk Yusof Hours: Weekdays 9am to 5pm. Tel: 395632 or fax: 485372. Venue: Meeting Room 1, 1st Floor, Wisma Wanita, Jalan Tuaran. Those in-
to public from Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm. Our gallery 012-8331950. Email: [email protected] terested are welcome to attend. Details: Irene 019-8211985 or Jess
boasts an array of local handicrafts from all over Sabah as well as Malaysia Blood Donors Society Daily Blood Donation Drive. Invit- Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/youthPREPCentreAlamesra. 0168302717.
locally made Sabah Batik. All local entrepreneurs are welcome to ing all NGO to collaborate and also calling members of the public The Sabah Australian Alumni Association (SAAA) invites all Grad- Kiwanis Down Syndrome Foundation KK Centre Open to all, accept children
promote their products through this avenue. Come visit us: PPNS , to join its membership. Details: 012-8222779, 016-3551987 or uates from any Australian Institutions of higher learning to join as with Downs Syndrome below the age of 7. Details: Raneh 219809, Fax:
Menara Tun Mustapha and Sabah Handicraft Centre, Keningau. De- 014-7342886. members of SAAA. Details: Omar 019-8110125 or Khalilul 019- 219808.
tails: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/galleria.artisan/ or Af- Sabah Cheshire Home & Asian Tourism International College Ba- 8113777. Email: [email protected]. Consultancy Services & Training Centre For Consumerism, Environmen-
nansyah Agimin at 088-332186 ext: 1501. sic Pastry Skill Lesson for the physically disabled individuals aged The Kota Kinabalu AIDS Support Services Association (KASIH) tal & Human Rights Seminar / talks consumer issues-your rights as con-
Parkinson Association of West Coast Sabah (PAWS) Conducts between 17 – 28. Details: 438202. Fax: 434570. help line & free voluntary HIV screening tests, except sun & public sumer, how to complain and get effective results, know about consumer
monthly outdoor activities, hold regular fellowship and meetings for Taska Mesra Cheshire Early Education for children with physical holidays. Office hours. Time: 9am to 5pm. Fri: 6pm to 9pm. Sat: laws, tribunal for consumer claims, environmental, human rights & civil
people with Parkinson’s disease (PWP). Carers and volunteers are disabilities aged below four-years-old. Open Mon to Fri. Details: 4pm to 7pm. provide confidential / free voluntary HIV screening test society. Except Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday. Tel/fax: 234616
welcomed to participate. The fellowship provides opportunity for Sabah Cheshire Home 438202. (rapid test) during office hours, Mon to Fri. result available 10 to Datuk Patrick Sindu (JP) 019-811-7369, 016-8007369 or datuk-
PWP to network, share experiences / info and also enjoys the vari- School of Psychology and Social Work, UMS is offering Coun- 15 minutes. Details: 712914 or email: [email protected] [email protected].
ous complementary therapies such as body balancing, dancing, selling Service, Speech Therapy, Music Therapy, Sensory Integration National Stroke Association of Malaysia Sabah Club Wisma United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) Of-
voice and music therapy, physiotherapy. Details: 016-8303888 Therapy and Applied Behaviour Analysis Session. The services are Pandu Puteri, Kompleks Badan-Badan Sukarela, km 4, Jalan Tu- fer opportunities to the public to voice their complaints on various issues
Pat, 014-6706118 JC or 019-8126196 James. on appointment basis. Time: 9am to 5pm. Details: Nurul Fatiha aran, KK. Centre’s opening Hours: 9am to 5pm. Mon to Fri, closed and offer advice to the complainants on how to go about their grouses.
Sabah Law Society a weekly Free legal consultation and advice 019-8114573, 320000 Ext: 8833 or on Sat, Sun & Public holidays. Details: 261568. Monday to Friday. Call: 721722 & 721723 or
session for the public on Saturdays from 9am to 12.30pm (except [email protected] Federation of Private Medical Practitioners Association of homepage:www.upko.org.my
the first Saturday of the month). Members of the public who are in- EXTOL is a non-profit youth club focusing on developing youths in Malaysia (FPMPAM) the public can obtain medical opinions, refer- Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting. Help available for those with alcohol related
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Late penalty rescues Croatia against France

SPLIT (Croatia): Andrej the World Cup.” right, with Aurelien Tchouameni’s long- France’s Antoine Griezmann fights for the ball
Kramaric scored a late France and Croatia have just one point range drive punched away by the Croatia with Croatia’s goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic.
penalty as Croatia sal- goalkeeper.
vaged a 1-1 draw at apiece in League A, Group 1. France were
home to world champi- beaten 2-1 by Denmark in their opening Rabiot broke the deadlock when he was
ons France on Monday game at home last week, while Croatia played in by a superb ball from Wissam
that left both teams still crashed to a 3-0 loss to Austria. Ben Yedder, sweeping clinically inside the
chasing a first win in near post for only his second international
the Nations League. Denmark top the section on six points goal.
after defeating Austria 2-1 in Vienna in a
Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot fired game that was delayed Monday by an hour Substitute Antoine Griezmann saw a
France ahead on 52 minutes in Split as and a half because of a power outage. shot repelled by Livakovic shortly before
coach Didier Deschamps selected an inex- Croatia were awarded a penalty following
perienced side without star forwards On a night Luka Modric earned his 150th a VAR review after it was initially overruled
Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema. cap for Croatia, Deschamps handed a for offside.
number of fringe players the chance to
Croatia equalised seven minutes from make an impression before the World Cup Mike Maignan saved at the feet of Luka
time when Andrej Kramaric won and con- starts in Qatar in November. Sucic, but Jonathan Clauss caught Kra-
verted a spot-kick. maric from behind, the Hoffenheim
But it was experienced defender Presnel striker calmly rolling in from the spot after
“We did some good things taking into Kimpembe who raced back to block as a lengthy wait to review the incident.
account all the changes. We were ahead Ante Budimir hesitated to shoot with
and we could have got the second goal. It’s team-mate Lovro Majer also in position for Nikola Vlasic threatened to snatch a
a shame we gave them the equaliser with a tap-in. first win for Croatia over France in nine at-
the penalty,” Deschamps told M6. tempts, but Maignan got down sharply to
Christopher Nkunku, coming off a bril- turn behind.
“Of course the result doesn’t fully satisfy liant season with RB Leipzig, dinked the
me. But there’s tiredness to factor in and ball home over Dominik Livakovic but was Griezmann was then unable to take ad-
with all the other matches I’m forced to adjudged offside on the half-hour. vantage of a miskick by Josip Juranovic in
make changes. It’s an ideal preparation for the closing moments as he dragged wide.
Moussa Diaby was then denied by Li- – AFP
vakovic as he burst towards goal down the

Mancini asks Qatar to put Zidane headbutt statue back on show
for ‘no pressure’
DOHA: Qatar is aiming to put a controver- and the importance of dealing with issues
on young sial statue of Zinedine Zidane’s notorious of mental health.”
gun Gnonto 2006 World Cup final headbutt on display
for this year’s tournament, authorities said Museum officials said they hoped to
MILAN: Roberto Mancini said Monday that has had game time and played an impor- Monday. at the 3-2-1 museum. Zidane is a great have the statue on display again by the
Wilfried Gnonto (pic) shouldn’t have pres- tant role in the team winning their first friend of Qatar and he’s a great role model start of the 2022 World Cup on November
sure put on him despite the teen attacker’s Swiss league title in 13 years. The five metre (16 feet) high bronze for the Arab world. 21.
Italy debut exciting fans still reeling from showing the French legend in confronta-
failing to qualify for the World Cup. The first most Italian fans would have tion with Italian defender Marco Mater- “One of the things we’re trying to teach The statue sculpted by Algerian-born
heard of Gnonto would have been when azzi was put up for less than four weeks on and empower people through art is facts French artist Adel Abdessemed offended
FC Zurich forward Gnonto set up he came on for Matteo Politano in the 65th the Doha seafront in 2013 when protests about life. So with the Zinedine Zidane conservatives in the Muslim emirate after
Lorenzo Pellegrini’s goal after coming on minute in Bologna, setting up Pellegrini that it breached Islamic rules on idolisa- sculpture, we’ll be talking a lot about the it was put up in 2013. A social media cam-
as a substitute in Saturday’s 1-1 Nations five minutes later after some neat foot- tion led to it being taken down. stress on athletes under big tournaments paign saw many people condemn it as a
League draw with Germany and looked at work on the right flank. flagrant violation of religious tenets.
home in a new-look Azzurri side not fea- The statue will now be at the centre of
turing many of those who won Euro 2020. Mancini didn’t say whether Gnonto an exhibit at Doha’s new international Al Thani said that there was often oppo-
would feature on Tuesday but promised “a sports museum on the impact of high level sition to art. “At the start they criticise it
And coach Mancini says Gnonto needs few changes” in Cesena as Italy look to sport on “mental health and dealing with but then they accept it.”
to be left in peace to develop after an ex- build a new team. stress”, said Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint
plosion in interest in the 18-year-old ahead Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the head of Qatar, which has spent hundreds of
of Tuesday’s clash with League A, Group 3 They were dumped out of the World Qatar Museums. millions of dollars on new museums and
leaders Hungary. Cup following a stunning qualification art over the past two decades, plans a vast
play-off defeat to North Macedonia. – AFP “It was nothing against public art, it campaign for the World Cup when 1.4 mil-
“He’s only 18 and he shouldn’t have too was more that it felt that was not the right lion people are expected to visit.
much pressure put on him, he needs to be location and it’s going be reinstalled,” Al
left alone to develop,” Mancini told re- Thani told a press conference. The landmark Museum of Islamic Arts,
porters. which has undergone a huge refurbish-
“We’re actually planning to reinstall it ment, is to reopen in October, Al Thani
“For his age he knows how to play foot- said. – AFP
ball like few others and he is very quick. If
he develops without too much pressure, ‘Mentality’ boosts Brazil’s World Cup chances, says Tite
he can show us what quality he has.”
TOKYO: Brazil manager wards Richarlison and Vinicius Junior had “We fought well, the players stuck at it
Gnonto was born in Verbania in north- Tite (pic) said his team’s clashed in training on Saturday as “fake and they never forgot to go for goal or at-
ern Italy to Ivorian parents and was picked “mentality” can make news”. tack,” said Moriyasu, whose team has also
up by Inter Milan as a nine-year-old, but he the difference at the qualified for the World Cup and will face
didn’t sign a professional contract with the World Cup, after they The pair were filmed being separated Germany and Spain in Qatar.
three-time European champions. broke down a stubborn by team-mates — a clip that Richarlison
Japan in a 1-0 friendly later posted on his Instagram page — but “It’s a great pity we couldn’t get the re-
Instead he moved to Zurich where he win in Tokyo on Mon- it was not clear whether the incident was sult.”
day. serious or a joke.
Injured Salah led Egypt to Brazil arrived in Tokyo fresh off a 5-1
Neymar broke the deadlock from the “There is a lot of fake news in the world, thrashing of South Korea in Seoul last
victory after defying Liverpool penalty spot in the 77th minute, but only af- and people reporting that the players were week, where Neymar scored twice to take
ter Japan had frustrated Brazil with a fighting are telling lies,” Tite said. his international goal tally to 73.
JOHANNESBURG: Injured Liverpool star “that will be done now”. dogged defensive effort.
Mohamed Salah defied his club and cap- Egypt face Ethiopia on Thursday in Richarlison came off the bench to win His penalty against Japan took him to
tained Egypt to a 2023 Africa Cup of Na- Tite expects to encounter similar resist- Brazil’s penalty when Japan midfielder 74 – just three short of the legendary Pele’s
tions qualifying victory over Guinea in Malawi capital Lilongwe because their op- ance at the World Cup in Qatar and he Wataru Endo clattered into him from be- record 77 goals for Brazil.
Cairo at the weekend, according to na- ponents do not have any international- took heart from the way his team contin- hind.
tional coach Ehab Galal. standard stadiums. ued to plug away against Japan. Brazil assistant manager Cesar Sampaio
Brazil looked like they were going to be said the team’s two-game tour of Asia had
“Salah was hit by an injury, but played Two-time African Footballer of the Year “It was a very high-level game, both in for an easier night when Lucas Paqueta been a good “simulation” for the World
through it,” said Galal following his debut Salah has experienced two major disap- teams showed their quality and it was very hit the post in the second minute, follow- Cup.
after Portuguese Carlos Queiroz quit be- pointments with record seven-time Cup of competitive,” he said. ing a cheeky back-heel flick from Neymar.
cause he could not agree terms for a new Nations winners Egypt this year. “Korea are more physical and have
contract. “I said yesterday that this would be a Instead, the home side steadied the more movement than Japan, and Japan are
They lost the Cup of Nations final to game played at the same level as the World ship and began to create chances of their very technical and good in defence,” he
Galal told a press conference that Salah Senegal on penalties in February and the Cup, especially when it comes to mental- own, with platinum blond winger Junya said.
rejected a Liverpool request to have a pre- following month fell to Senegal again in a ity. We were determined to score and we Ito causing problems down Brazil’s left
match scan on the undisclosed injury, but shootout, this time in a 2022 World Cup kept looking for a goal, and that’s what got flank. “Moriyasu has built a very good mech-
play-off. – AFP us the win.” anism for his team. They hadn’t lost for
Goalkeeper Shuchi Gonda bailed Japan eight games so he is doing a great job.”
Tite shot down suggestions of a rift in out several times and manager Hajime
the Brazil camp, branding reports that for- Moriyasu was disappointed to take noth- Moriyasu said there was “a lot to praise”
ing from the game. in his own team’s performance, days after
beating Paraguay 4-1. – AFP

UK MP demands retraction of Fallen football chiefs Blatter and Platini face fraud trial
‘smears’ against Liverpool fans
LAUSANNE: Sepp Blatter and Michel Pla- payment to Platini was made without a le-
LONDON: UK ministers must press Uefa and the most hostile policing environ- tini, once the chiefs of world and Euro- Blatter Platini gal basis. This payment damaged Fifa’s as-
and the French government to “retract the ment at a sporting event I have ever wit- pean football, face trial on Wednesday sets and unlawfully enriched Platini,” the
attempts to smear” Liverpool fans over the nessed,” he said. over a suspected fraudulent payment that Platini and retired Swiss football ad- federal prosecution alleges.
chaotic scenes at the Champions League fi- shook the sport and torpedoed their time ministrator Blatter were banned from the
nal, lawmakers heard on Monday. “I watched children getting pepper- at the top. sport at the very moment when Platini The men insist that they had, from the
sprayed and pensioners getting tear- seemed ideally-placed to succeed Blatter outset, orally agreed to an annual salary
European football’s governing body gassed, turnstiles and exits shut while Former Fifa president Blatter, 86, and at the helm of world football’s governing of one million francs.
Uefa last week apologised to spectators thousands queued for hours waiting to at- Platini, 66, start a two-week trial at body.
over their “frightening” experience before tend the blue riband football occasion of Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in “It is outstanding salary, owed by Fifa,
the match in Paris and has also commis- the season. the southern city of Bellinzona, following The two allies became rivals as Platini under oral contract and paid under con-
sioned an independent review. a mammoth investigation that began in grew impatient to take over, while Blat- ditions of the most perfect legality. Noth-
“We were treated like animals for want- 2015 and lasted six years. ter’s tenure was brought to a swift end by ing else! I acted, as in all my life and ca-
Thousands of Liverpool fans with tick- ing to watch a game of football and then, a separate 2015 Fifa corruption scandal in- reer, with the utmost honesty,” Platini
ets had to wait for hours to enter the shamefully, the smears and lies straight The pair are being tried over a two mil- vestigated by the US Federal Bureau of In- said in a statement.
ground on May 28, with police using tear from the Hillsborough playbook were lion Swiss franc ($2.08 million) payment vestigation.
gas and pepper spray on the crowds. used by the authorities to avoid accounta- in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge As a civil party, Fifa wants to be reim-
bility (for) the horrific events.” of European football’s governing body In the Bellinzona trial, the defence and bursed the money paid in 2011 so that it is
Some supporters said they feared being Uefa. the prosecution agree on one point: Pla- “returned to the one and only purpose for
crushed after small openings were used to A coroner’s inquest found in 2016 that tini was employed as an adviser to Blatter which it was intended: football”, said its
filter the queues in the run-up to the the victims at Hillsborough were unlaw- They are accused of having, to the between 1998 and 2002. They signed a lawyer Catherine Hohl-Chirazi.
match, which Real Madrid won 1-0. Uefa fully killed. The inquest’s jury concluded detriment of Fifa, illegally obtained the contract in 1999 for an annual remunera-
and French officials initially blamed late that policing decisions “caused or con- payment, plus social security contribu- tion of 300,000 francs. Joseph “Sepp” Blatter joined Fifa in
arrivals and fans with fake tickets or with- tributed” to the deaths, and amounted to tions of 229,126 francs, in favour of Platini. 1975, became its general secretary in 1981
out tickets for the chaos at the game. “gross negligence”. “The compensation agreed in accor- and the president of world football’s gov-
The former French football great “sub- dance with this contract was invoiced by erning body in 1998.
MPs demanded ministers put further Byrne asked the government to make mitted to Fifa in 2011 an allegedly ficti- Platini on each occasion and paid in full
pressure on Uefa and the French govern- representations to Uefa for a “full and truly tious invoice for a (alleged) debt still ex- by Fifa,” said the OAG. He was forced to stand down in 2015
ment, with sports minister Nigel Huddle- independent inquiry” into the events out- isting for his activity as an adviser for Fifa and was banned by Fifa for eight years,
ston pledging to raise concerns with his side the Stade de France on May 28. in the years 1998 to 2002,” according to However, more than eight years after later reduced to six, over ethics breaches
French counterpart this week. the court. the end of his advisory role, the former for authorising the payment to Platini, al-
He also asked Huddleston whether he France captain “demanded a payment in legedly made in his own interests rather
Opposition Labour MP Ian Byrne, who would “call on the French government and The defendants are both accused of the amount of two million francs”, the than Fifa’s.
represents a Liverpool constituency, told Uefa to retract the attempts to smear Liv- fraud and forgery of a document. Blatter OAG alleged.
the House of Commons he was at the game erpool Football Club supporters without is accused of misappropriation and crim- Platini is regarded among world foot-
in Paris and also at Hillsborough in 1989, any verifiable evidence produced to sub- inal mismanagement, while Platini is ac- “With Blatter’s involvement, Fifa made ball’s greatest-ever players. He won the
where a crush led to the deaths of 97 Liver- stantiate the claims”. cused of participating in those offences. a payment to Platini in said amount at the Ballon d’Or, considered the most presti-
pool fans. He said without the “magnifi- beginning of 2011. The evidence gathered gious individual award, three times – in
cent efforts” of Liverpool supporters, the Huddleston welcomed Uefa’s commis- The indictment was filed by the Office by the OAG has corroborated that this 1983, 1984 and 1985.
chaos could have led to a disaster worse sioning of an independent investigation of the Attorney General of Switzerland
than Hillsborough. and their apology to fans, adding that the (OAG). The trial will conclude on June 22, Only Lionel Messi (seven) and Cris-
French minister for sport had also com- with the three judges delivering their ver- tiano Ronaldo (five) have won more Bal-
“Last Saturday in Paris I witnessed first- missioned a review of the delivery of the dict on July 8. lons d’Or than Platini.
hand the shambolic stadium management event. – AFP
The defendants could face up to five Platini was Uefa’s president from Jan-
years’ imprisonment or a fine. uary 2007 to December 2015.

Both Fifa and Uefa are headquartered Platini appealed against his initial
in Switzerland, in Zurich and Nyon re- eight-year suspension at the Court of Ar-
spectively. bitration for Sport, which reduced it to
four years. – AFP

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Mickelson joins Saudi-backed golf series

WASHINGTON: Phil understanding that I’m able to play.” happened to Jamal Khashoggi is awful,” Last week, former world number one nary action.
Mickelson (pic) con- Mickelson told SI he will keep his US Mickelson told SI on Monday. Dustin Johnson joined the money-spin- Several PGA Tour golfers had requested
firmed on Monday ning new series, whose tournaments will
he has signed to PGA Tour membership, unlike some who “But I have seen the good that game of offer among the richest purses in golf his- releases to play this week’s LIV event,
play in the lucrative joined LIV Golf, but has not spoken with golf has done throughout history. And I tory. which clashes with the PGA’s Canadian
Saudi-backed LIV PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan or really believe that LIV can be good for the Open, but were refused.
Golf Invitational Se- long-time rival Tiger Woods. game of golf as well.” This week’s event teeing off at Centu-
ries, saying he also rion Club at St Albans, north of London, Mickelson denied he turned to LIV due
plans to play major “I’m uncertain how I will play given Mickelson, a 45-time winner on the will have a $25 million purse — almost to gambling debts, telling SI, “My family
events, including that I haven’t played in a few months,” PGA Tour, apologised when his original double that of any major, with $4 million and I are, and have been, financially se-
next week’s US Open. Mickelson told SI. “But I’m optimistic.” remarks were made public and took some going to the winner. cure for some time.”
“desperately needed time away” from golf,
The six-time major winner will be in Mickelson has not played since the skipping the Masters and PGA Champi- The Washington Post reported Monday Mickelson said his gambling had be-
the field of 48 at the controversial new publication of comments in February onship during his self-imposed exile. that LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman come “reckless and embarrassing” and
tour’s inaugural event in London this where he criticised the PGA Tour and LIV said 15-time major winner Woods turned said he has addressed it for several years
week. Golf ’s Saudi backers. “There’s a lot of things I regret,” Mick- down a “mind-blowingly enormous” LIV and in therapy.
elson told SI. “I made a lot of mistakes. I overture.
“I am ready to come back to play the In an interview with author Alan Ship- hurt a lot of people and I’m really sorry.” “It isn’t a threat to me or my financial
game I love but after 32 years this new nuck, the 51-year-old American left-han- “We’re talking about high nine digits,” security,” he said. “It was just a number of
path is a fresh start,” Mickelson wrote in a der said the Saudi-funded LIV Golf was an Mickelson said in his statement that he Norman said. poor decisions.”
statement posted on Twitter. opportunity to gain leverage over the PGA remains in therapy.
Tour. Woods said last month he supported Mickelson became the oldest major
Mickelson later Monday told Sports Il- “Time away and self-reflecting has been the US PGA Tour, noting its legacy to such winner at age 50 by capturing the 2021
lustrated that he plans to play all eight LIV However, Mickelson described the new very humbling,” Mickelson said. “I still icons as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. PGA Championship and in 2012 was
Golf events and compete in majors after venture’s backers as “scary” with a “horri- have a long way to go but I am embracing inducted into the World Golf Hall of
talks with major sanctioning bodies. ble record on human rights,” noting the the work ahead.” Others going to LIV Golf include Euro- Fame.
death of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi in pean Ryder Cup stars Ian Poulter, Lee
“I’m looking forward to playing the US a Saudi consulate. During his absence, however, LIV Golf Westwood and Sergio Garcia. “Phil Mickelson is unequivocally one of
Open,” Mickelson told SI. “I’m under the has torn at the fabric of world golf, with the greatest golfers of this generation,”
“I certainly do not condone human dozens of household names joining the Players opting into LIV Golf have done Norman said. “We are grateful to have
rights violations. And addressing what new tour. so despite PGA Tour warnings of discipli- him.” – AFP

MGA launches Women in Golf Charter Sedco Golf

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Golf Asso- positive action to encourage women to Challenge
ciation (MGA) has launched the Women in pursue careers connected with the golfing on June 25
Golf Charter with the aim of boosting the industry.
participation of women and girls in the GL Oh Haizar (seated centre) with organising chairman Yahyah
sport, apart from increasing working op- She said MGA also wants to implement Sidek (left), Mordiana (right) and other committee members.
portunities for them in the golf industry. internal strategies to enhance gender bal- KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Economic De-
ance at every level in the workplace and velopment Corporation (Sedco) Golf Chal- (nett), three for individuals (gross), and RM2,000 per team of four (4) players and
The Chairperson of the Women in Golf within the golfing industry as a whole. lenge 2022 held in conjunction with their novelties (longest drive, nearest to pin, it includes green fees, buggy fees, breakfast,
Charter Subcommittee, Tunku Puteri 50th anniversary celebration will be staged nearest to line), there will also be goodies lunch and goodies on the tournament day.
Datuk Seri Jawahir Tuanku Ja’afar, said Tunku Jawahir said 35 golf clubs across at the Dalit Bay Golf & Country Club on and lucky draw prizes including air tickets
MGA wants to inspire an industry-wide Malaysia have agreed to come on board June 25. from MASwings who are the co-sponsor of Closing date is on June 9 and more in-
commitment in developing a more inclu- and adopt the charter, which requires the event. formation is available from organising sec-
sive culture within golf to help women them to build on current initiatives and The annual event organised by Sedco’s retary, Mordiana Abdullah at 088-427111 or
maximise their potential at all levels develop new projects. sports and social club is open to both Entrance fee is RM500 per person or 017-8141403.
through the charter. teams and individuals and will be played
“The future plan is to get all the clubs in under System 36, Stableford points.
The main objectives of the charter are the country to sign the charter but the dif-
to advocate and support all measures to ficult thing is to get corporate clubs. We Group general manager cum club’s pa-
increase the number of women, girls and have to try to persuade them for the future tron Haizar Razif Hisyam Ajaz Nabijan said
families playing golf, and support calls for and let working women be included in a the objectives of the competition is to fos-
golf sport. – Bernama ter and promote goodwill and interaction
Raducanu amongst the participants comprising those
Raducanu from Sedco group of companies, govern-
reflects on ment and agencies, companies and associ-
ations in and around Kota Kinabalu as well
‘surreal’ year as to raise fund for the club.

LONDON: US Open champion Emma Rad- According to him, the attractive prizes
ucanu admits her life has been “surreal” to be won include hole-in-one with cash
over the past 12 months as she returns to worth RM1,000 sponsored by Kelab
the scene of her first WTA Tour appearance Kumpulan Sedco , one unit of 55” LED TV
this week. sponsored by Cement Industries (Sabah)
Sdn Bhd and more to be announced soon.
The teenager, fresh from completing
her end-of-school exams, made her senior Apart from the three top winning prizes
debut in the first round of last year’s Not- for the team (nett), five for individuals
tingham Open, where she was beaten in
straight sets by fellow Briton Harriet Dart. Murray awed by Nadal’s ‘incredible’ French Open record Bolitotok

After catching the eye during a run to STUTTGART (Ger- “Alcaraz is 19 now, so he would have to “(When) that happened, we changed and Kondiu
the fourth round at Wimbledon, she be- many): Before con- win it every single time (until age 33) to the gun laws and there have been no
came a global star by winning the US Open tinuing his grass achieve that. I just don’t see that happen- more mass shootings in the UK. make finals
in September. court preparations, ing.”
Andy Murray (pic) “There have been more than 200 mass KOTA KINABALU: Bolitotok and
“To come back 12 months later full cir- on Monday did the Murray, who reached the Roland Gar- shootings in the US this year. They should Kondiu have made it to the finals of the
cle knowing what happened is pretty sur- maths on Rafael ros final in 2016, was also impressed by probably do something to change that Masters and Grandmasters categories
real,” she said on Monday. Nadal’s latest feat Iga Swiatek, who extended her singles culture.” in the 2022 Mimpaagat Cup tourna-
on clay. winning streak to 35 matches as she won ment sponsored by Sabah Credit Cor-
“It is where it started over for me and I the women’s final. Murray said that while he would love poration after their respective semi-fi-
am proud of what I have achieved over the The 36-year-old to play doubles with Britain’s US Open nal victories at the Penampang Sta-
last 12 months. Spaniard on Sunday routed Norway’s “It was just an incredible achievement champion Emma Raducanu at Wimble- dium last Saturday (June 4).
Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in the final at for Rafa – and Iga Swiatek,” said Murray. don, the odds were against it unless he
“It signifies the start of a journey for me. Roland Garros to extend two records. It suffered an early singles loss. In the masters category, Bolitotok
It wasn’t the most positive week results- was not only his 22nd Grand Slam title but The Scot is making his debut at the defeated Kondiu 3-1 with two goals
wise but I learned a lot and it definitely set also his 14th French Open. ATP event in Stuttgart after moving onto “British tennis fans would enjoy that from Joannes Johnny who is now the
me in good stead for the rest of the season. the lawns last week at the Challenger level but I don’t know if it’s going to happen. category’s top scorer with eight goals
I felt I built on that every single week.” “Winning 14 Grand Slams at the same event in Surbiton, London, where he to his credit.
place is incredible,” said Murray in reached the semi-finals before losing to “Only if the singles don’t work out. It’s
Raducanu’s rise to prominence is Stuttgart. American Denis Kudla. tough enough for me to play the singles Bolitotok took a two-goal lead in
shown by the fact she was asked to send right now,” said Murray, who has been be- the first half with the first goal from a
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II a message for “There’s hardly any players on the Tour The former world number one, who is set by injury problems in recent years, es- close range effort by Sylvester Sindih in
the just-concluded Platinum Jubilee cele- who will get the opportunity to play ranked 68th, will take to the lawns of the pecially to his hip. the 34th minute followed by an angled
brations. Roland Garros 14 times, much less win it.” Weissenhof Club on Tuesday when he shot from Joannes.
faces Australian qualifier Christopher Murray will be playing his 45th event
The British player, who is still only 19, Nadal won his first French Open title O’Connell. on grass but only the second on the sur- Although Kondiu managed to pull
says there have been challenges after in 2005. In the 17 seasons since then, he face outside of Britain. one back at the restart through Eddy
achieving success so early in her career. has lost just three matches at Roland Gar- “I beat him in a very close match in Limbangin the 48th minute, their joy
ros and been forced out once by a wrist Dubai, it’s going to be difficult,” Murray He said the Stuttgart lawns – originally was short lived as Joannes managed to
Her failure to settle on a long-term injury. said. curated by Wimbledon experts prior to score his second of the match to re-
coach, fitness issues and results come un- the first edition in 2015 – play differently store their two-goal advantage.
der constant scrutiny but she said she was Murray used the sport’s latest prodigy, The 35-year-old, who survived a mass than last week in Surbiton.
not being “so hard on myself ” as she set- Nadal’s compatriot Carlos Alcaraz, for shooting at his primary school in Dun- Meanwhile, in the Grandmasters
tles into life on the tour. comparison. blane, Scotland, when he was nine, again “Those were old-school courts, lower category, Kondiu edged an under-
spoke about gun violence. bounce, very fast. But it was a good start, strength Sosovitan side 2-1.
“I’m trusting what I’m doing and the hopefully I can continue it here.” – AFP
work I’m doing,” said the second seed, who Despite their dominance, Kondiu
plays Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic in Celtics hope homecoming sparks NBA Finals boost were unable to break the solid defen-
her opener at the grass-court tournament sive play by their opponents and only
on Tuesday. BOSTON: Desperate to reduce turnovers Jaylen Brown is ready to forget such things. Boston forward Jayson Tatum stresses managed to score one goal by Jastin
and avoid third-quarter slumps, the “We’ve got to come out and play our cutting down on turnovers. Midin in the 21st minute.
“I’m still 19 and I’ve already won a Boston Celtics hope coming home will
Grand Slam so I can take my time and put spark a revival in their NBA Finals per- best version of basketball,” Brown said. “They got a lot of points off our Their missed opportunities almost
things in place because I know my motiva- formance. “We can’t let stuff that’s happened in the turnovers. That’s something we’ve got to cost them dearly as Linius Dusimin’s
tion isn’t any less. past affect our mindset going forward. be better for next game,” he said. spectacular left footer in the 65th
The Celtics and Golden State Warriors “Throughout the playoffs, the games we minute levelled the score and a swift
“It is still as much but it isn’t always go- are deadlocked 1-1 in the best-of-seven “We’ve just got to come out and do a have high turnovers result in a loss. tactical move from the Kondiu’s bench
ing to be smooth sailing where you just championship series entering game three better job taking care of the basketball.” allowed them to restore the lead
clean up every week. I trust what I do.” Wednesday at Boston Garden. “That’s definitely a point of emphasis. within four minutes when substitute
The Celtics need to avoid falling into We’re a really good team when we take Francis Tunggolou delivered a cross for
The 11th-ranked player said: “I don’t After an epic fourth-quarter rally deep holes in the third quarter as they care of the ball. But we have those lapses Jickol Taguah to head in the winner.
think anyone would say, ‘I wish I didn’t brought Boston a game one triumph, the have in the first two games in San Fran- where — snowball effect — we pile on
wish a Grand Slam at 18’ because that is Warriors took advantage of 33 points off 19 cisco as well. turnovers and dig ourselves into a hole.” According to Ostar Bedion who is
what I set out to do when I started playing turnovers and a big third quarter for a 107- head of the tournament’s technical
tennis — and I did that. 88 victory in game two on Sunday. “We’ve got to come ready to play, come Tatum says the intensity of road games committee, the second semi-final
ready to meet that physicality on both helps the Celtics play better, but they will matches for the two categories will be
“For that to happen very soon definitely “Didn’t give ourselves a chance with a ends,” Brown said. “We’re not a perfect have that same urgency at home in the played on Saturday (June 11) at Penam-
comes with a lot of challenges but manag- lot of those turnovers,” Celtics coach Ime team, but we’ll figure it out going forward. Garden now. pang Stadium. – GL Oh
ing, learning and growing through the ad- Udoka said. “We weren’t strong with the We’ve just got to play for 48 minutes.
versities that I have faced, I would much ball. For us that was a little disappointing.” “Just playing with a sense of urgency,”
rather have that, learn from those experi- “We know the Warriors are a third- Tatum said. “Human nature plays a part
ences and keep building and progressing. The Celtics are 5-4 at home in the play- quarter team. We talked about it. They still when you go on the road. It’s a tough en-
offs, while going 8-3 on the road, but star came out and were able to go on a run. vironment. – AFP
“I am doing the work from that because We’ve just got to be able to answer.”
I did it a bit backwards.” – AFP

Confident Pakistan seek West Indies rout to boost World Cup hopes

MULTAN (Pakistan): High-flying Pakistan A 3-0 win will lift the Babar Azam-led ter winning 3-0 in the Netherlands, but after the series to secure direct passage. months ago, and skipper Azam is hoping
aim to boost their chances of qualifying team to third from their current 10th have just six of their 24 qualifying ODIs Hosts India and the top seven teams for a similar display of intensity from his
for next year’s World Cup with a clean place in the 13-team World Cup Super remaining. side.
sweep against an inexperienced West In- League, the qualification process for 2023 will qualify automatically, while the re-
dies side when their three-match one-day World Cup. Defeat in the oppressive heat of Mul- maining five will have to battle for the “As a team, as a captain, you go into
international series starts in Multan on tan will put West Indies in danger of last two berths later this year. the series thinking about a clean sweep,
Wednesday. The West Indies, led by wicketkeeper- needing to play in the qualifying round, whoever the opponent is,” said Azam. –
batsman Nicholas Pooran, are fourth af- while Pakistan have a further nine ODIs Pakistan’s confidence is sky high after AFP
a 2-1 home series win over Australia two

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Rhinos stun top Indonesian side

GL Oh went on to score the equaliser. “We made some individual mistakes Ong (right) and Baddrol during the press conference.
However, Park Taesu was able to re- but managed to score the winner and
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah FC shocked In- overall, I am very satisfied with the team’s
donesian top tier side Persija Jakarta 2-1 store Sabah’s lead in the 62nd minute un- performance and I hope they can main-
in an international friendly held at the til the full time whistle, when he was tain their momentum against
packed Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium, given the time and space to score with his Bhayangkara FC in the second friendly on
Bekasi last Sunday evening. head courtesy of Baddrol Bakhtiar’s pin- Tuesday,” he said after the match.
point delivery from a corner kick.
Neto Pessoa opened the scoring in the He expected the players will be at their
4th minute after good work from Taiki Rhinos head coach Datuk Ong Kim best even though the match was to be
Katayama who delivered a defence split- Swee said playing on the big stage with played without spectators on Tuesday
ting ball for Tommy Mawat to make the some 70,000 crowd inside the stadium evening.
cross that allowed Neto to slot in at the had driven the players to produce their
far post. best. “Our objective against Bhayangkara
FC is the same and the players must take
Taiki had a chance to put himself on “The experience of playing on the in- the responsibility to try to win the
the score sheet later in the first half but ternational stage has raised the perform- match.
his volley was blocked by the goalkeeper ance of the players, and the win is very
at point blank range in the 33rd minute. important for the team after the long rest. “It doesn’t matter who will be fielded
but they must learn from the experience
Sabah’s custodian Khairul Fahmi Che “Persija Jakarta as expected put us un- of playing abroad with a foreign team
Mat then made a horrible mistake in the der a lot of pressure with the advantage and be able to apply it when the season
59th minute when his attempt to make a of playing in front of their own support- resumes for the match against Sri Pa-
routine clearance just outside the box ers even though they were behind earlier hang,” he added.
was intercepted by Taufik Hidayat who on.

M’sia has the upper hand, says Pan Gon

Tingka JR emerged champions of the tournament. PETALING: National head coach, Kim Pan good and also this camp (training camp) will be the target for his team to collect
Gon felt his team has the upper hand to we have done very good session with two the first three points.
‘Tandek needs a sports complex’ clinch a victory over Turkmenistan in their good official as well as one unofficial
first match of the 2023 Asian Cup Quali- matches. I think we had a very good “If you want to go to the final stage of
KOTA MARUDU: Kota Marudu Parliamen- entertaining final to emerge champions fiers Group E campaign at the National preparation and we are all prepared at Asian Cup, we must get seven points and
tary Star Sabah Coordinator Dr Paul of the tournament which ended on Sun- Stadium in Bukit Jalil, today (Wednesday). this moment,” he said at a pre-match press we will try our best to achieve our target,”
Porodong has called on the relevant min- day. conference here, Tuesday. he said.
istries at the State and Federal levels to de- Pan Gon said Turkmenistan’s lack of
velop a sports complex in Mukim Tandek. Tingka Jr’s Mohd Eshan Azman who competitive matches is an advantage to For the record, Turkmenistan lost 0-1 to In the meantime, defender Dion Cools
scored the winning goal was named the his side although based on the world Thailand last month in their first compet- refused to take into account Turk-
Paul made the call in his speech when best player in the final. ranking ‘The Greens’ is higher at 134th itive match since June 2021 while Malaysia menistan’s ability but hoped that his
inaugurating the Togudon Tandek Open place compared to the 154th Harimau recorded three wins in four games this teammates could stick to the team’s plan
Nine-a-side Football Championship. “Mystic FC finished third followed by Malaya squad. year, most recently a 2-0 win against Hong today to achieve success.
Tarangkapas FC in fourth place,” said Or- Kong at the National Stadium.
According to Paul, the construction of ganising Chairman Ir Ts Jovilis Majami. However, the 53-year-old coach from “We just want to play our style of foot-
the sports complex would enable Tandek South Korea also admitted that Turk- Meanwhile, Pan Gon once again reiter- ball and be dominant on the pitch, maybe
to produce more athletes as two of the According Jovilis, the third-place menistan still has its own strength and ated his target to collect seven points it can be a physical game maybe not, that
country’s top football players are from match between Mystic FC and Tarangka- thus hoped that his team can give the best overall in the qualifying campaign which is something we will see tomorrow, so we
there. pas FC was a tight affair that was decided performance as demanded. sees the Harimau Malaya set to lock horns just need to stick to our own plan,” said
through penalty kicks with the former with Bahrain and Bangladesh on June 11 the 26-year-old Malaysian-Belgian player.
They are former captain of the na- winning 3-2. “That point (lack competitive matches) and 14 respectively which will also be
tional women’s Under-16 football team, is our advantage but generally we cannot played at the National Stadium after to- The FC Midtjylland player, who is on
Hellma Emily Joinin and former Sabah The well-attended tournament saw the say anything, they have their own condi- day’s clash with Turkmenistan. loan to Zulte Waregem, said that after a
team captain, Rawilson Batuil. participation of 14 teams which also in- tion but I’m not looking for their condi- year in the national squad, he was more
cluded Togudon A FC, Tagudon B FC, tion except ours. He said today’s match, the first meet- comfortable with his teammates and his
Meanwhile, the championship organ- Gana FC, Talantang FC, Camelia FC, ing between Malaysia and Turkmenistan confidence level was also improving in
ised by Kota Marudu Sabah Star Party saw Tidong FC, Bukit City, Ranger FC, Minigot “Last time in Singapore I think we did every match. – Bernama
Tingka Jr defeating Ginarana FC 1-0 in an FC and Three FT.
KUFC rest player linked to police case until further notice

KOTA BHARU: Kelantan United FC (KUFC) “KUFC supports the country’s laws and was arrested recently near Jalan Pantai Ca-
has confirmed that one of its players is does not condone nor compromise with haya Bulan here following a report lodged
linked to an ongoing police case and has any immoral acts by anyone associated to against him over the alleged rape of an 18-
been rested from participating in team the club,” he said. year-old girl.
training sessions and Premier League
matches until further notice. The club also stated that it stood by the Kelantan acting police chief Datuk
principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’, Muhamad Zaki Harun said that the player
KUFC chief operating officer Wan Mohd and action would be meted out in accor- was released on police bail after his re-
Zul Ikman issued a statement confirming dance to legal provisions and contractual mand ended on June 3 and that they were
the matter, and stressed that the club had terms if the case was proven. completing the investigation papers be-
full confidence in the authorities and was fore submitting them to the deputy public
waiting for a full report on the case. The club was addressing viral claims re- prosecutor. – Bernama
garding a local football league player who

Sandakan Birmingham contingent
dominate
second leg size to be known next week

KOTA KINABALU: Sandakan captured The Sandakan team with their parents and officials. KUALA LUMPUR: was scheduled for Sept 10 to 25 has been
seven titles at the second leg of the Sabah The actual size of postponed to an undetermined date fol-
Tennis Juniors tournament held at the title and Under-10 singles title through and Kota Kinabalu came second with six ti- the Malaysian con- lowing the rise of Covid-19 cases in
Keningau Sports Complex over the week- Braylen Odell Johannes and Bradley Oscar tles followed by Tawau with two and one tingent to the 2022 China.
end. Johannes respectively in addition to the for Keningau. Birmingham Com-
boys Under 14 doubles won by Shawn Alfie monwealth Mohamad Norza said currently they
They dominated the Under-18 cate- Silvester and Braylen. Sabah Tennis Association President Games, from July have yet to receive a new date from the
gories by taking both the boys and girls Johnson Koh who was present at the clos- 28 to Aug 8, will be Asian Olympic Commitee and China.
singles and doubles events through A total of 84 players from six districts ing ceremony praised the parents for sup- known next week,
Rishigeswaran Vigneswaran in the boys took part in the three-day competition porting their children. – GL Oh with around 130 Meanwhile, Mohamad Norza said
singles and Jashnavissri Vigneswaran in national athletes expected to take part in OCM will soon discuss with the govern-
the girls singles as well as Rishigeswaran the Games. ment the concept for hosting the SEA
and Asyahmie Suhaili in the boys doubles Games in 2027.
and Jashnavissri with Chow Yi Ling in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM)
girls doubles. president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Za- He said the biennial games could be
karia (pic) said the matter would be de- staged just in and around the federal
They also won the boys Under 14 singles cided after the selection committee capital as was done previously or be
meeting on June 14, followed by a work- shared with other states as co-hosts.
Former world No. 1 Johnson quits PGA tour shop with team managers two days later.
He said the details on how to organise
ST ALBANS (United But he has now quit, following a similar at Whistling Straits last year. “We received a quota of 92 athletes, the games could only be decided after a
Kingdom): Former decision by veteran US golfer Kevin Na, who “Hopefully I will get a chance to do that we have to work toward it to select sports meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri
world number one is also in the field for the event in St Albans. we really want to send. We also have Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Youth and
golfer Dustin Johnson again, but I don’t make the rules.” some athletes who have qualified Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal
(pic) confirmed on Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson The former Masters and US Open cham- through qualification tournaments,” he Azumu.
Tuesday he has re- confirmed on Monday he has also signed said after the OCM executive board
signed his member- up to play in a major coup for the organis- pion said he was exempt to play in the ma- meeting at Wisma OCM, Tuesday. “Our country has that kind of com-
ship of the US PGA ers. jors due to his record. plete facilities (to host SEA Games), but
Tour to play in the The number of athletes that have whether we want to bring it outside (of
breakaway LIV Golf Invitational Series. “I’m very thankful to the PGA Tour and Graeme McDowell, whose Ryder Cup el- qualified through such tournaments in- KL) and assist those states to develop in-
everything that it’s done for me... but this igibility is tied to membership of the DP clude 13 from rugby, eight from table frastructure, that’s a combination be-
The decision effectively rules the US two- is something I felt was best for me and my World Tour (European Tour) said he had tennis, seven from weightlifting, and tween federal and state level (decision).
time major winner out of participating in family and I’m very excited about playing,” not felt the need to resign from the PGA nine para athletes, along with two addi-
the Ryder Cup, which pits the United States said Johnson. Tour, although he admitted he did not tional slots for national divers Jellson Ja- “Some states may say that they also
against Europe. want to get involved in a “legal situation” billin and Nur Dhabitah Sabri. have existing facilities that can be refur-
The 37-year-old said it was difficult to with the organisation. bished and bring it to SEA Games level,”
Johnson was speaking at a press confer- predict the consequences of his decision to The Malaysian contingent will be he said.
ence at Centurion Club, near London, play in the breakaway series. “The players that are here this week have smaller than the average of 170 athletes
ahead of the opening event of the Saudi- done a great amount for the Ryder Cup previously, as the hosts have reduced the Mohamad Norza said OCM also
backed breakaway tour, which starts on “Right now, I’ve resigned my member- product and it would be a shame to see number of events contested, including needed to work out preparations for the
Thursday. ship from the Tour,” he added. those guys not invited back,” said McDow- removing shooting and archery. Malaysian contingent to ensure the
ell, who holed the winning putt at Celtic country could perform well in the re-
The world number 15 said in February he “I’m going to play here for now and Manor in 2010. In addition, the men’s hockey squad gional games.
was committed to playing on the PGA Tour, that’s the plan. did not join the Commonwealth Games
which has refused releases for members to Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia and Ian this year as they wanted to focus on the Malaysia have hosted the SEA Games
play in LIV Golf’s opener. “The Ryder Cup is unbelievable and has Poulter are also among the 48-man field for Asian Cup in Jakarta and the 2022 six times, including when it was known
definitely meant a lot to me,” said Johnson, the $25 million event at Centurion Club. – Hangzhou Asian Games, both offering as the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games
who won all five of his matches in the AFP berths to the 2023 World Cup and the (SEAP) – 1965, 1971, 1977, 1989, 2001 and
United States’ record 19-9 win over Europe 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 2017 – with all held in Kuala Lumpur.

Unfortunately, the Asian Games that Meanwhile, Mohamad Norza said so
far there were no doping cases involving
Malaysian athletes at the SEA Games in
Vietnam from May 12 to 23. – Bernama

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Warisan kesal keputusan PBS

Larry Ralon “Kita tidak boleh terlalu angkuh. Tu-

KOTA KINABALU: Presiden Parti juan kita untuk menang, maka bin-
Warisan Sabah (Warisan) Datuk Seri
Mohd Shafie Apdal kesal keputusan canglah seperti sebelum ini sebelum
Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) yang tidak
mahu bekerjasama dengan partinya kita menghadapi Pilihan Raya Negeri
dan kekal setia kepada Gabungan
Rakyat Sabah (GRS) tetapi berkata Ke-14 (PRN14). Kami berbincang sebaik
gabungan itu akan berakhir seperti apa
yang berlaku kepada kerajaan Pakatan mungkin mengenai pembahagian
Harapan Warisan Plus.
kerusi, hala tuju kami, pendekatan
“Kami telah menyatakan hasrat
kami. Tetapi jika itu yang mereka (PBS) kami...tetapi bukan begini, hanya den-
mahu kita tidak boleh memaksa
mereka, itu terpulang kepada mereka. gan mengatakan oh, tiga kerusi ini mi-
Saya cuma nak cakap kita nak sejajar
dengan parti tempatan,” katanya pada Shafie Ongkili lik kami,” katanya ketika diminta men-
sidang media di ibu pejabat Warisan di
Kolombong di sini petang Selasa. gulas mengenai syarat Setiausaha

Beliau diminta mengulas mengenai atas namanya tetapi kita sedar dan kita Agung DAP Anthony Loke bahawa DAP
Presiden PBS Datuk Seri Dr Maximus tahu ke mana hala tujunya,” kata Mohd
Ongkili yang dalam satu kenyataan se- Shafie. sanggup bekerjasama dengan parti
belum ini berkata parti itu dan akan
kekal setia kepada gabungan politik Ongkili juga berkata walaupun be- Sabah yang lain asalkan mereka
tempatan, GRS. liau menghargai minat Warisan untuk
bekerjasama dengan PBS pada Pilihan mengekalkan hak bertanding di tiga
Mohd Shafie berkata beliau melihat Raya Umum ke-15 akan datang, parti
GRS hanya sebuah gabungan rakyat berbilang kaum tertua di Sabah itu kerusi parlimen yang disandangnya
Sabah tetapi ia dipimpin oleh Bersatu memilih untuk komited sepenuhnya
yang berasal dari Kuala Lumpur. kepada GRS. iaitu Tenom, Sandakan dan Kota Kina-

“Jadi apa maksudnya? Ia berbeza “Kami di PBS menghargai sikap poli- balu.
dengan apa yang berlaku di Sarawak tik Warisan dan Presidennya Datuk Seri
yang mana Gabungan Parti Sarawak Shafie Apdal untuk bekerjasama dan Mohd Shafie berkata: “Kalau kita
(GPS) semuanya parti tempatan. Tiada berkolaborasi untuk pilihan raya
satu pun parti dalam gabungan mereka umum akan datang. Tetapi sebagai bertanding di Semenanjung, kacau
didaftarkan di Semenanjung. parti berbilang kaum berpengalaman
tempatan, kami komited sepenuhnya (mereka kata kita
“Oleh kerana kita tahu jika ada dan setia sepenuhnya sebagai ahli asas
gabungan sebegitu, ia akan menjadi GRS dan rakan kongsinya,” kata Ongk- menceroboh)...(tetapi) untuk (Kedua dari kanan ke kiri) Johari, Donald, Jikilin, Abidin, Yong, Gordon, dan
seperti apa yang berlaku semasa kita ili. Jonathan, mengabadikan kenangan bersama keluarga dan mereka yang hadir
dalam Pakatan Harapan. Pada masa itu, mengambil kerusi kita yang tidak
saya meminta kita membawa 40 pera- Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri selepas majlis meletakkan kalungan bunga di Tugu Peringatan Double Six.
tus (formula perkongsian hasil) pada (Hal Ehwal Sabah dan Sarawak) menceroboh?
jawatankuasa yang dipengerusikan menambah bahawa perjuangan politik Tragedi pesawat Nomad:
oleh Perdana Menteri ketika itu Tun Dr GRS, seperti yang dihuraikan oleh “Ia adalah trafik sehala. Mereka tidak K’jaan Negeri terus desak
Mahathir Mohamad supaya ia boleh Pengerusinya Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor laporan penuh dikeluarkan
dikembalikan ke Sabah seperti yang pada pelancarannya bulan lepas, bercakap dengan kami, terpulang
termaktub dalam Perlembagaan. bukan sahaja mulia dan abadi, tetapi
juga berasaskan rakyat. kepada mereka,” katanya, sambil
“Kita semua bersetuju mengenai
perkara ini di peringkat Negeri, tetapi Setelah berkata demikian, Ongkili menambah Warisan telah melakukan
apabila sampai ke Kuala Lumpur, kita menambah: “Kami menjemput
mengikut keputusan parti masing- Warisan dan penyokong untuk bahagiannya dengan bekerjasama den-
masing. melanggan matlamat yang sama untuk
benar-benar membangunkan Sabah gan Pakatan Harapan.
“Kita bangkitkan perkara itu (40 dan menjamin sebuah Negeri yang
peratus) dalam jawatankuasa tersebut, makmur dan selamat, bebas daripada “Khemah besar bukan untuk niat
tetapi saya lihat mereka semua meno- pendatang asing tanpa izin.”
laknya malah hanya mencadangkan di- khemah besar. Adalah penting untuk
naikkan kepada RM56 juta sahaja, iaitu Tambahnya, mana-mana parti poli-
peningkatan hanya kira-kira RM30 tik tempatan yang dihormati di Sabah kita memberikan pilihan kepada rakyat
juta. boleh melanggan matlamat dan aspi-
rasi GRS tanpa ingin menjadi ahli kelu- negara ini. Kita sedang mengalami kri-
“Jadi saya lihat apabila ada gabun- arga GRS.
gan seperti itu, apabila kita bangkitkan sis kepimpinan di Malaysia, kita Sherell Jeffrey harapkan ialah kebenaran berhubung
sesuatu dalam Kabinet Negeri, kita se- “Keperluan untuk kerjasama dan apa yang terkandung dalam laporan
mua bersetuju di peringkat Negeri, perkongsian politik sebegini tidak per- memerlukan kepimpinan yang boleh KOTA KINABALU: Kerajaan Negeri akan itu.
tetapi kemudian mereka ikut parti nah begitu mendesak berbanding se- terus mendesak agar laporan penuh
masing-masing apabila sampai ke belum ini, terutamanya kerjasama dan membawa negara kita ke hadapan, tragedi pesawat Nomad di perairan “Apa yang sensitif sehingga tidak
Kuala Lumpur. perpaduan dalam perpaduan politik, Sembulan 46 tahun lalu didedahkan, boleh dilepaskan?
bukan sahaja di Sabah tetapi juga den- membantu meningkatkan ekonomi yang mengorbankan Ketua Menteri
“Itulah masalahnya. Walaupun gan Sarawak, iaitu Borneo Malaysia. Sabah yang baru dilantik Tun Fuad “Biarkan fakta bercakap sendiri. La-
mereka juga orang Sabah, kerana parti kita, untuk menyatupadukan rakyat Stephens dan sepuluh yang lain, ter- poran itu ditulis pada tahun 1976-77.
mereka DAP, PKR dan Bersatu, ia men- Sementara itu, Mohd Shafie berkata masuk empat menterinya. Fakta diperoleh pada tahun 1976, ia
jadi parti dahulu sebelum kehendak terpulang kepada DAP jika tidak mahu terutama dalam menghadapi krisis tidak boleh diundur atau ditulis sem-
rakyat Sabah. bercakap dengan Warisan tetapi jan- “Saya ada menyebut perkara ini di ula, maka kebenaran itu kekal. Fakta
gan terlalu angkuh. ekonomi yang bakal melanda. Parlimen tahun lepas dan menerima masih ada,” katanya.
“Jadi itulah sebabnya, GRS hanya surat daripada Kerajaan Persekutuan
“Ia bukan hanya trafik sehala. Kalau “Saya meramalkan akan berlaku menyatakan perkara ini akan dibin- Beliau juga berkata terdapat banyak
nak ada mesyuarat maka ada cangkan dalam Kabinet,” kata Tim- spekulasi dan perbincangan mengenai
mesyuarat, kalau nak bincang, kita bin- kemelesetan dunia tahun depan. Dan balan Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Dr Jef- punca sebenar nahas itu. Dia gembira
cang. Tetapi tidak sepatutnya ada syarat frey Kitingan selepas majlis mele- melihat ramai anak muda berminat
yang ditetapkan bahawa anda hanya jangan beritahu itu kepada Malaysia, di takkan kalungan bunga di Tugu dengan subjek itu, dengan meny-
boleh berceramah melainkan dan se- Peringatan Double Six di Sembulan, Is- atakan kehadiran cucu mangsa nahas
hingga anda memberikan tempat mana ekonominya begitu kukuh, ba- nin lepas. di Tugu Peringatan Double Six.
duduk...itu adalah trafik sehala.
hawa kesannya tidak akan ada. Beliau dan seluruh Sabah, tambah- Beliau juga mencadangkan agar pe-
nya, masih menunggu pelepasan sawat Nomad Sabah Air yang tinggal
“Limpahan daripada apa yang penuh tragedi itu, yang beliau percaya ditempatkan di Tapak Tugu Peringatan
telah didedahkan. Double Six di Sembulan.
berlaku di Rusia, Ukraine, apa yang
“Tiada sebab mengapa laporan itu Menurutnya, pesawat Nomad itu
berlaku dalam ekonomi Amerika tidak perlu didedahkan secara masih dalam perkhidmatan dan
menyeluruh. Demi kesenangan dan kadangkala digunakan untuk misi
Syarikat di mana inflasi melonjak, lihat keamanan rakyat Sabah, khususnya pemetaan.
keluarga mangsa, kami memohon agar
harga bahan api secara global, kita laporan yang teliti dan terperinci “Saya melihat pesawat itu terbang
dikeluarkan dan diumumkan,” beberapa tahun lalu, dan saya faham ia
tidak boleh katakan di Malaysia kita katanya. masih dalam keadaan baik, tetapi ia
mungkin tidak menarik secara komer-
gembira kerana harga bahan api Bekas Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri sial untuk digunakan bagi tujuan
Yong Teck Lee, yang bercakap menge- komersial lain.
meningkat kerana kita adalah negara nai isu itu semasa sidang Dewan Un-
dangan Negeri lepas, berkata maklum “Saya akan mencadangkan kepada
pengeluar minyak. Kerana ini hasil un- balas rasmi ketua menteri semasa ialah Kerajaan Sabah dan Sabah Air supaya
mereka akan mempertimbangkannya. pesawat Nomad kedua diletakkan di
tuk Kerajaan tetapi bagaimana pula Tapak Tugu Peringatan Double Six.
“Ia perkara mudah iaitu Kerajaan
dengan bebanan rakyat,” katanya. Negeri memaklumkan Kerajaan Pusat “Ia mungkin boleh dikepung supaya
untuk mendedahkan laporan itu,” kata tiada sesiapa boleh masuk. Matlamat-
Terdahulu, Mohd Shafie menggesa Adun Dilantik itu yang turut hadir di nya adalah untuk memberi orang ra-
Tugu Peringatan Double Six. mai gambaran tentang rupa pesawat
Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri itu, dan perkara utama adalah untuk
“Maklum balas yang saya terima menunjukkan bahawa pesawat Nomad
Yaakob supaya mempercepatkan pem- daripada Arkib Negara Australia ialah kedua dengan buatan yang sama
laporan itu tidak akan dikeluarkan masih mampu terbang selepas beber-
bentangan RUU Anti Lompat Law di Par- demi mengekalkan hubungan Aus- apa tahun,” katanya.
tralia dengan Malaysia.
limen dengan berkata kuasa kini di tan- Beliau percaya ia akan memberi
“Sekiranya Kerajaan Persekutuan makna yang lebih besar untuk semua
gannya dan bukan lagi kepada Parlimen Malaysia bersetuju dengan pengelu- orang, terutama keluarga mangsa dan
aran laporan itu, saya tidak nampak generasi akan datang.
untuk memilih tarikh untuk memben- Arkib Negara Australia mempunyai se-
barang bantahan yang munasabah,” “Ramai generasi muda tidak menge-
tangkan rang undang-undang itu. katanya. tahui tragedi Double Six; ia tidak ter-
dapat dalam sukatan pelajaran seko-
“Saya akan melihat bahawa ini Yong berkata, Kerajaan Persekutuan lah, dan mereka hanya mengetahuinya
nampaknya tidak bertindak balas, den- di media sosial.
bukan sahaja menghalang lompat gan menyatakan banyak ucapan yang
dibuat oleh Ahli Parlimen lain menge- “Ia semakin popular sebahagiannya
parti tetapi juga akan ada hukuman se- nai perkara itu pada masa lalu. kerana orang muda menggunakan me-
dia sosial untuk bertanya soalan, dan se-
bagai penghalang kepada mereka yang “Saya berharap kerajaan GRS-BN di bahagiannya kerana liputan media arus
Sabah secara rasmi meminta Kerajaan perdana, seperti Daily Express, yang
masih melakukannya pada masa hada- Persekutuan memberitahu kerajaan menjalankan beberapa siri wawancara
Australia untuk mengeluarkan laporan dengan ahli keluarga dan lain-lain, dan
pan,” katanya. itu bagi pihak rakyat Sabah,” katanya. hasilnya, terdapat minat yang semakin
meningkat dalam subjek itu.
PBS kekal komited, terus setia bersama GRS Beliau berkata apa yang mereka
Lihat muka 2
KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah tik Warisan dan Presidennya Datuk kepentingan rakyat Sabah dan Ahli
(PBS) kekal komited dan akan terus se- Mohd Seri Shafie Apdal untuk beker- Parlimen Semporna itu mengulangi
tia bersama Gabungan Rakyat Sabah jasama serta berkolaborasi bagi meng- pendiriannya semalam bahawa parti
(GRS), kata Presidennya Datuk Seri Dr hadapi pilihan raya umum akan itu sedia bekerjasama dengan PBS
Maximus Ongkili. datang. Bagaimanapun, sebagai parti pada PRU15.
berbilang kaum tempatan yang
Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri berpengalaman, kami komited Ongkili juga berkata mana-mana
(Hal Ehwal Sabah dan  Sarawak) itu sepenuhnya dan benar-benar setia se- parti politik tempatan di Sabah boleh
berkata perjuangan politik GRS, bagai ahli asas GRS serta rakan berpegang kepada matlamat dan aspi-
seperti diperinci  oleh Pengerusinya kongsinya. rasi GRS tanpa perlu menyertai gabun-
Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor yang juga Ketua gan itu.
Menteri semasa pelancaran gabungan “Kami menjemput Warisan dan
politik tersebut bulan lepas, bukan sa- penyokongnya untuk berpegang Beliau berkata langkah men-
haja mulia dan tak lapuk dek zaman kepada matlamat yang sama untuk be- gadakan kerjasama dan kolaborasi
tetapi juga berpaksikan rakyat. nar-benar membangunkan Sabah politik sedemikian tidak pernah be-
serta menjadikan ia sebagai sebuah gitu mendesak berbanding sebelum
Beliau berkata  PBS menghargai negeri yang makmur, selamat dan be- ini terutama dari segi kerjasama dan
hasrat Parti Warisan (Warisan) untuk bas daripada pendatang tanpa izin,” solidariti dalam perpaduan politik
bekerjasama dengan PBS pada Pilihan menurutnya dalam kenyataan pada bukan hanya di  Sabah tetapi juga di
Raya Umum Ke-15  (PRU15) namun Selasa. Sarawak iaitu Borneo Malaysia.
parti berbilang kaum tertua di Sabah
itu memilih untuk kekal bersama GRS Pada 11 Mei tahun lepas, Mohd Mohd Shafie pada sidang media di
dan perjuangan gabungan politik Shafie dilaporkan berkata Warisan pejabat parti itu hari ini pula berkata
tersebut. berhasrat menjalin kerjasama dengan terpulang kepada PBS yang menolak
PBS dalam semangat memperjuang untuk bekerjasama dengan Warisan. –
“PBS menghargai gerak isyarat poli- Bernama

2 Tempatan SUARA TEMPATAN ANDA I RABU, 8 JUN, 2022 harianekspres

Musim Haji 1443H

Program lawatan ke lokasi

bersejarah mampu perkuat ketakwaan

DR JOACHIM (depan, kesembilan dari kanan) dan Foo (depan, ke-14 dari kiri) bersama semua Penasihat Kehormat SME dan ahli majlis. MADINAH: Program lawatan anjuran mad yang menyaksikan baginda men-
Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) ke tempat galami cedera teruk serta 70 tentera Is-
ISB boleh bantu bersejarah untuk jemaah haji Malaysia lam gugur syahid” katanya.
dilihat mampu mengukuhkan lagi ke-
pelabur: Dr Joachim takwaan mereka kepada Allah. Beliau juga berkata Perang Uhud jelas
menunjukkan bahawa tarikan dunia,
Jonathan Nicholas Taklimat yang sama juga telah diatur aha sama anda. Ustaz Wafa Abdul Jabbar, mutawif sikap tamak dan mengingkari perintah
dengan Kementerian Pertanian dan “ISB adalah pusat sehenti untuk memu- yang bertanggungjawab  membawa Rasul akhirnya hanya membawa kepada
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah mempunyai pelu- Perikanan hari ini. rombongan ziarah luar, berkata rata- kebinasaan. Pasangan suami isteri Ishak
ang pelaburan besar yang hanya me- dahkan pelaburan di Sabah dari awal rata jemaah yang tiba di sini sejak dua Hasan dan Siti Yulina Baharon pula
nunggu untuk diteroka sepenuhnya, kata Acara itu merupakan petanda baik hingga operasi. Malah pasca operasi jika hari lepas teruja untuk menziarahi be- berkata lawatan ke Bukit Uhud memberi
Timbalan Ketua Menteri merangkap dengan rancangan pembangunan Hala ada keperluan untuk bantuan lanjut, berapa lokasi bersejarah. kesedaran kepada mereka mengenai
Menteri Pembangunan Perindustrian Tuju Sabah Maju Jaya (SMJ) 1.0 (2021 – pelabur masih boleh menghubungi ISB,” kewibawaan serta kehebatan Nabi
Datuk Dr. Joachim Gunsalam. 2025) yang memfokuskan kepada tiga sek- katanya. “Kota Suci Madinah mempunyai pel- Muhammad.
tor ekonomi utama iaitu pertanian, bagai kelebihan dan keistimewaan di
“Saya mengenali ramai ahli perniagaan perindustrian dan pelancongan, serta Mengucapkan tahniah kepada Pen- samping dapat menghayati perjuangan Bagi Hapiz Ab Majid, 50-an, yang per-
yang berjaya, yang datang dari Semenan- modal insan dan kesejahteraan rakyat, gasas PKS Sabah merangkap Presiden Prof Rasulullah SAW serta para sahabat den- tama kali menjejak kaki ke tanah suci,
jung Malaysia seawal tahun 1970-an. Seba- dan infrastruktur hijau serta rangkaian ke- Foo Ngee Kee, yang turut hadir, dan per- gan rasa takwa dan berusaha bersung- berkata penerangan mutawif ketika
hagian daripada mereka datang sebagai lestarian. satuannya atas kejayaan penganjuran guh-sungguh menyebarkan agama Is- ziarah itu sangat baik dan jelas terutama
pekerja serta memulakan perniagaan ke- acara itu, Dr. Joachim berkata PKS Sabah lam ke seluruh dunia, “ katanya kepada dalam mengetengahkan kepentingan
cil-kecilan ketika mereka mula-mula tiba Dr. Joachim berkata Sabah sering diru- akan membantu Kerajaan Sabah dalam pemberita di dataran Masjid Quba. mematuhi arahan seorang ketua.
di Sabah. juk sebagai permata yang tidak digilap usaha membangunkan ekonomi Sabah
dan menunggu untuk ditemui. dan mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan dan Beliau berkata sebanyak tujuh bas di- Menerusi program sama, jemaah haji
“Selepas beberapa tahun, mereka ber- peluang perniagaan untuk rakyat Sabah. gunakan untuk membawa jemaah ke turut dibawa menziarahi Masjid Qi-
jaya sebagai usahawan dan terus men- “Di sini tempat-tempat pelancongan Masjid Quba yang merupakan masjid blatain (yang pernah berkiblatkan
jadikan Sabah rumah mereka. Saya yang indah telah pun mendapat perhatian “Saya pasti banyak hubungan pernia- pertama didirikan pada tahun pertama Baitulmaqdis) dan Masjid Tujuh iaitu
katakan ini kerana ini adalah bukti seluruh dunia dan Sabah merupakan des- gaan, kerjasama dan usaha sama boleh di- penghijrahan Nabi Muhammad dari tempat berlakunya peperangan Khan-
potensi Sabah sebagai destinasi pelaburan tinasi pelancongan yang sangat popular asaskan daripada peluang rangkaian per- Makkah. daq serta ladang kurma bagi mem-
dan perniagaan,” katanya pada Majlis untuk pelancong China dan Korea. niagaan yang diwujudkan malam ini oleh bolehkan mereka membeli buah tangan
Makan Malam Jalinan Perniagaan anjuran PKS dari Semenanjung Malaysia bertemu Jemaah haji juga  dibawa menziarahi untuk keluarga apabila pulang ke tanah
Persatuan Perusahaan Kecil dan Seder- “Tetapi peluang hiliran yang PKS dari Sabah, termasuk ada yang datang kawasan Bukit Uhud dan Makam air kelak.
hana Sabah (PKS Sabah) di Likas di sini, Is- berpotensi menggunakan sumber asli dari jauh Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu, Syuhada Uhud yang merupakan tapak
nin lepas. Sabah seperti kayu, minyak dan gas, Keningau. , Ranau dan bahagian lain di sejarah mengenai peristiwa kekalahan Seramai 1,309 daripada 14,306 je-
makanan laut dan hasil pertanian masih Sabah,” kata Dr. Joachim. tentera Islam ketika menentang tentera maah haji Malaysia selamat tiba ke Mad-
Acara itu dihadiri 250 PKS dari lebih 20 belum diketahui secara meluas. bani Quraisy. inah dengan kumpulan pertama pada 4
persatuan perdagangan di Sabah untuk Turut hadir ialah Pengerusi dan Ahli Jun lepas yang dijadualkan bertolak ke
mencari peluang padanan perniagaan “Jadilah orang yang awal dan ambil Majlis Majlis Penasihat Ekonomi Sabah “Tewasnya tentera Islam ketika itu Makkah pada 9 Jun bagi melaksanakan
dengan 60 perwakilan dari Semenanjung peluang selepas anda mendengar taklimat (SEAC), Tan Sri David Chu dan Datuk John disebabkan keingkaran sebahagian ten- ibadat umrah. – Bernama
Malaysia. anjuran MID dan Invest Sabah Bhd (ISB) Lo Thau Fah; Pengerusi POIC Datuk Seri tera Islam dengan arahan Nabi  Muham-
esok (Selasa). Yong Teck Lee; Setiausaha Politik kepada
Pada Selasa, terdapat taklimat menge- Ketua Menteri, Datuk Dr Roland Chia; Se- Sunduvan lancar kempen tandatangan
nai peluang pelaburan oleh pelbagai “Buat penilaian dan keputusan anda tiausaha Tetap MID Thomas logijin, Tim-
agensi di bawah Kementerian Pembangu- dengan cepat supaya boleh mendapatkan balannya Benedick Bisoni; serta presiden Jonathan Nicholas berlaku kepada pemimpin asal kita.
nan Perindustrian (MID) di Pusat Konven- tawaran terbaik dengan harga dan sumber semua cawangan PKS. “Empat puluh enam tahun sudah
syen Antarabangsa Sabah (SICC) di sini. terbaik untuk pengeluaran anda dan KOTA KINABALU: Kumpulan aktivis Orang
rakan kongsi tempatan terbaik untuk us- Asal, Sunduvan Sabah, sedang memulakan berlalu sejak peristiwa yang membawa na-
kempen petisyen dalam talian untuk sib itu dan kami masih belum menemui
memaksa kerajaan Australia mendedahkan penutupannya,” katanya pada majlis mem-
hasil siasatannya ke atas tragedi Double Six. peringati di Sembulan, Isnin.

Kembali selepas dua tahun akibat pan- Insiden 6 Jun 1976 telah menyebabkan
demik Covid-19, presidennya Aloysius banyak spekulasi dan syak wasangka ker-
Danim Siap berkata kumpulan itu ana 46 muka surat penemuan dikate-
menyasarkan untuk mengumpulkan seber- gorikan sebagai diklasifikasikan oleh Arkib
apa banyak tandatangan yang mungkin. Negara Australia.

“Ini bukan untuk kepentingan peribadi Aloysius berkata sepanjang tempoh
kami tetapi untuk rakyat Sabah secara ke- sedekad, Sunduvan telah menarik lebih
seluruhan. Kita semua mempunyai hak un- 600 ahli daripada semua peringkat umur
tuk mengetahui apa yang sebenarnya dan tidak akan berputus asa dalam isu itu.

‘Daily Express lakukan tugas cemerlang’

Rina tidak dapat Karier Dari muka depan jarah kita,” katanya.
sebarang imbuhan: Liew “Saya percaya Daily Express telah Sementara itu, merasmikan majlis pele-
politik Rina melakukan tugas yang cemerlang pada
TAWAU: Presiden Parti Harapan Rakyat bercakap saja maka dia layak ditegur dan tahun lepas meningkatkan kesedaran dan takan kalungan bunga di Double Six ialah
Sabah (Harapan Rakyat) Tan Sri Liew Yun fitnah bahawa dia masuk Harapan berakhir: perhatian tentang isu ini, dan saya Pembantu Menteri kepada Ketua Menteri,
Fah meminta semua pihak berhenti Rakyat kerana mahu kaut keuntungan berharap kerajaan menerima rancangan Datuk Abidin Madingkir.
memfitnah Ahli Dewan Undangan itu betul,” katanya.  Sarifuddin untuk meletakkan pesawat Nomad kedua
Negeri (Adun) Kukusan Rina Jainal yang di tapak peringatan, terutama sebelum Hadir sama, Johari Lok, cucu pertama
kononnya menerima imbuhan untuk Sementara itu, Rina berkata beliau su- Lagatah Toyos acara Peringatan Double Six akan datang. Allahyarham Tun Fuad Stephens, Datuk
menyertai parti tersebut.  dah bersedia berdepan tohmahan dan “Daripada sekadar menerbangkannya Gordon Leong yang mewakili keluarga
rintangan selepas membuat keputusan TAWAU: Ketua Warisan Bahagian Kal- sebagai pesawat pemetaan, ia akan Datuk Salleh Sulong, Datuk Donald Mo-
Liew berkata Rina yang keluar dari- untuk beralih kepada sebuah parti tem- abakan, Sarifuddin Hata menyifatkan menambah nilai kepada pesawat itu jika juntin anak kepada Datuk Peter Mojuntin,
pada Parti Warisan (Warisan) dan meny- patan yang kecil, namun bertumpu tindakan Adun Kukusan, Rina Jainal ia diletakkan di sini. Lagipun, tragedi Dou- Jonathan Chong mewakili keluarga Datuk
ertai Harapan Rakyat tidak menerima se- kepada isu di Tawau.  melompat keluar dari Parti Warisan ble Six adalah sebahagian daripada se- Chong Thien Vun dan Datin Jikilin Binion
barang imbuhan daripada mana-mana Sabah (Warisan) untuk menyertai Hara- yang merupakan balu kepada Datuk Dar-
pihak. “Saya sedar saya orang baharu pan Rakyat, disifatkan sebagai pen- ius Binion.
berpolitik dan Warisan adalah perjuan- gakhiran karier politik pemimpin muda
“Bagi saya Rina seorang yang berani gan awal saya tetapi perjuangan itu saya itu apabila ‘meninggalkan kapal besar Lebih banyak perlu dibuat tarik
kerana menyertai parti saya sebuah parti teruskan bersama Harapan Rakyat dan untuk menaiki kapal kecil’.
kecil dan diterajui pemimpin Cina, saya saya memperjuangkan ‘Sabah for Saba- pelancong ke pantai timur: Anil
telah ingatkan dia (Rina) akan di- han’,” katanya.  Mengakui terkejut dan kecewa
tohmah dan difitnah nanti,”  katanya dengan tindakan Rina, Sarifuddin Ibrahim Tabir dua tahun lepas.
pada sidang media bersama Rina di sini Beliau menjelaskan, penyertaan mendakwa tindakan pemimpin muda Katanya, Lembaga Pelancongan Malaysia
Isnin lepas. dalam Harapan Rakyat walaupun ia parti itu mengkhianati mandat dan KUNAK: Lebih banyak perlu dilakukan bagi
yang kecil dibuat kerana melihat gerak kepercayaan pengundi serta penyokong menarik pelancong untuk berkunjung ke bersama Kementerian Pelancongan Seni
Menurut Liew, Rina perlu diberi pelu- kerja membantu rakyat lebih mudah parti yang mengangkatnya menjadi pantai timur Sabah yang kaya dengan kein- dan Budaya (Motac), Lembaga Pelancongan
ang untuk membuktikan kepada rakyat disebabkan presiden parti itu tinggal di Adun. dahan pulau-pulau serta dasar laut yang Sabah (STB), Kementerian Pelancongan
bahawa beliau seorang wakil rakyat yang Tawau. menarik, khazanah hutan hujan semulajadi Sabah dan agensi berkaitan lain akan terus
bekerja dan menjaga dengan baik “Tindakannya itu dikatakan kerana yang kaya dengan keindahan flora dan fau- berusaha membawa lebih ramai pelancong
kawasan Kukusan. Rina berkata pelbagai program yang masalah dalaman. Apa masalah dala- nanya. ke negeri ini daripada pelbagai negara ter-
dirancang sebelum ini untuk kawasan mannya? Kalau (Warisan Kalabakan) masuk negara jiran.
“Beri dia tempoh tiga bulan, jika Rina Kukusan akan diteruskan dari semasa ke ada masalah dalaman, YB Ma’mun (Su- Timbalan Pengerusi Lembaga Pelancon-
tidak boleh bekerja, hanya tahu semasa. – Bernama laiman - Ahli Parlimen Kalabakan) su- gan Malaysia, Dato’ Sri Anil JS Sandhu Mengenai jangkitan cacar monyet yang
dah lama lari. berkata, Semporna sudah diakui sebagai dikesan di Singapura baru-baru ini, Anil
Siasat kes lompat parti destinasi pilihan ramai pelancong terma- berkata Malaysia sentiasa memantau
“Beliau juga tidak pernah kata akan suk tempatan dan antarabangsa kerana perkembangan semasa berkaitan kes
Adun Kukusan: Ghapur lompat parti. Kalau dia minta nasihat keindahan pulau-pulaunya dan khazanah seperti itu dan yakin Kementerian Kesi-
saya, mungkin saya boleh nasihatkan dasar laut yang menarik. hatan Malaysia (KKM) punya pendekatan
Lagatah Toyos lompat parti, dia tidak lagi boleh jika memang tidak boleh lagi bertahan untuk meningkatkan tahap kawalan yang
berkhidmat dengan terbaik untuk rakyat (dan ingin keluar parti). Selain tumpuan di Semporna, daerah sewajarnya berkaitan sesuatu kes penyakit-
TAWAU: Bekas Ahli di kawasannya?”  pantai timur seperti Tawau, Lahad Datu dan berjangkit.
“Sekurang-kurangnya sertailah parti Kunak juga memiliki beberapa tarikan
Parlimen Kalabakan, “Kita tidak mahu setiap kali pilihan lain yang lebih besar, mungkin Bersatu tersendiri yang wajar diketengahkan untuk “Setakat ini, belum ada kes spesifik dike-
raya, datanglah calon-calon yang atau Umno atau BN. Dia pula berlayar menarik kedatangan pelancong. san di Sabah dan Malaysia amnya. Kita yakin
Datuk Seri Abdul berkempen kononnya mahu membela dari kapal besar kepada kapal kecil. Bagi KKM akan buat yang terbaik bagi menan-
rakyat, tapi apabila menang, akhirnya saya, karier politiknya sudah “Aktiviti seperti jungle trekking an- gani jangkitan kes cacar monyet”, katanya.
Ghapur Salleh (gam- mengkhianati rakyat kerana mudah di- terkubur,”katanya lagi. taranya boleh dilakukan”, katanya merujuk
beli. kepada khazanah hutan hujan semulajadi Terdahulu, Anil yang juga Ketua Pen-
bar) menggesa Su- Menurutnya, semasa ADUN Sebatik, yang ada di pantai timur seperti Lembah erangan Pemuda Umno Lahad Datu meras-
“Saya tidaklah pula katakan beliau ‘di- Hassan A Gani Pg Amir lompat parti, Danum di Lahad Datu. mikan Program Santunan Berkhatan Per-
ruhanjaya Pencega- beli’,  tapi alasan yang diberikan agak Rina paling kuat mengkritik tetapi ingkat Daerah Kunak dalam fasa endemik
meragukan dan sebab itulah kita mahu akhirnya beliau juga melakukan perkara Menurut Anil, di Kunak juga memiliki anjuran Jabatan Hal Ehwal Agama Islam
han Rasuah Malaysia siasatan segera dilakukan oleh SPRM un- sama. beberapa pulau yang sesuai dibangunkan Sabah (Jheains) dengan kerjasama beber-
tuk mengetahui perkara sebenar,” tam- oleh pelabur. apa NGO dan agensi kerajaan terlibat.
(SPRM) supaya bahnya. “Saya tidak tahu apa yang beliau
fikirkan tapi kita ucap tahniah kerana “Di Kunak terdapat lapan buah pulau. Program berkhatan dua hari itu
menyiasat kes lompat parti Ahli Dewan Rina yang menang dengan majoriti 10 menjadi (dilantik) Timbalan Presiden Dikatakan ada yang boleh dibangunkan”, menyasarkan 100 kanak-kanak lelaki den-
undi pada Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) lalu Harapan Rakyat dan Ketua Wanita,” katanya kepada media pada Selasa. gan program khatan percuma yang dibiayai
Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Kukusan, Rina mengumumkan keluar Parti Warisan katanya. oleh beliau. Ibubapa turut menemani anak
Sabah (Warisan) dan menyertai Parti Mengambil contoh, sebuah pulau di mereka dalam program tersebut. 
Jainal. Harapan Rakyat Sabah (Harapan Rakyat) Beliau yang juga ADUN Merotai daerah itu yang sering dijolokkan sebagai
Ahad lepas. bagaimanapun menyatakan tindakan ‘Pulau Pasir’ kerana memiliki jaringan pasir “Program berkhatan ini bagi membantu
Menurutnya, siasatan perlu di- Rina itu tidak sedikitpun menggugat yang timbul dan panjang serta boleh dilalui golongan ibubapa yang kurang berkemam-
Beliau dilaporkan berkata, tindakan- kekuatan Warisan, khasnya kawasan Kal- dengan berjalan kaki acapkali semasa air puan dari segi penyediaan kos bagi anak-
lakukan bagi mengenal pasti jika nya itu adalah kerana ingin lebih fokus abakan yang mempunyai 20, 000 laut surut. anak mereka yang perlu dikhatankan
berkhidmat di kawasannya. keahlian, apatah lagi tiada seorangpun mengikut usia kanak-kanak itu. Saya juga
berlaku unsur rasuah sehingga menye- ahli, termasuk rakan baiknya sendiri Selain pulau, Gua Madai, gua sarang bu- menyeru anggota masyarakat atau mereka
Presiden Harapan Rakyat, Tan Sri Liew menyertai beliau. rung terbesar di Kunak antara tempat yang yang mempunyai kelebihan untuk
babkan wakil rakyat tersebut mengambil Yun Fah pula dilaporkan berkata, peny- turut menjadi pilihan pelawat yang datang menyokong dan membantu usaha murni
ertaan Rina ke dalam parti itu disifatkan “Hanya dia seorang… Tiada seorang- ke Kunak. ini”, kata Anil.
tindakan sedemikian.  memberi harapan baharu buat parti apa- pun Wirawati ataupun penyokong dan
bila kini mempunyai satu kerusi di De- pengundinya menyertai beliau. Malah Blue Ring Hole di kawasan terumbu Sementara itu, Pegawai Tadbir Jheains
“Tindakan melompat parti ini adalah wan Undangan Negeri (DUN). ramai penyokongnya menghubungi karang Tingkayu juga antara khazanah Kunak, Asmuni Ali berkata, program seperti
saya menyatakan kecewa ditipu,” semulajadi di lautan yang menarik untuk itu akan dijadikan sebagai Takwim tahunan
satu pengkhianatan kepada rakyat katanya dalam sidang media di Pejabat penerokaan dasar laut oleh penggemar ak- oleh Jheains Kunak dengan kolaborasi yang
Warisan Kalabakan, Taman Semarak tiviti selaman. dijalin dengan beberapa pihak termasuk
yang   memilihnya pada pilihan raya pada Selasa. NGO dan pemimpin setempat.
Anil turut menyatakan, Sabah mula
lalu… Saya minta SPRM buat siasatan jika menerima pelancong Korea Selatan “Kami mengalu-alukan kerjasama dari-
bermula pada 26 Mei lepas melalui pener- pada mana-mana pihak seperti NGO, swasta
berlaku unsur rasuah di antara pihak-pi- bangan terus dari Incheon (Seoul) ke Kota mahupun pemimpin setempat untuk
Kinabalu. berkolaborasi melalui program seumpama
hak terlibat,”katanya. ini”, kata Asmuni.
Penerbangan pertama itu telah meran-
Ghapur dalam kenyataan medianya cakkan semula aktiviti sektor pelancongan
selepas terkesan akibat pandemik Covid19
pada Selasa berkata, alasan yang

diberikan Rina adalah tidak relevan ker-

ana sebagai wakil rakyat dipilih, beliau

sememangnya harus memberi khidmat

terbaik sesuai mandat diberi.

“Adakah bermaksud kalau dia tidak

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Pelan antirasuah bagi Jabatan

Perikanan, tiga agensi

BOT kargo dengan barang kawalan yang dirampas. KOTA KINABALU: Ke- Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (gambar) berkata, yang tinggi,” katanya ketika berucap meras-
menterian Pertanian dan OACP tersebut adalah lanjutan kepada mikan Minggu Integriti kementerian di sini,
Maritim Tawau tahan bot bawa barang kawalan Perikanan melancarkan OACP untuk kementerian itu yang dilancar- pada Selasa.
Pelan Pencegahan Rasuah kan pada 27 Ogos tahun lepas.
Lagatah Toyos cubaan untuk menyeludup keluar barang Organisasi (OACP) bagi Ja- Beliau menggesa semua kakitangan ke-
kawalan tersebut ke negara jiran berikutan batan Perikanan dan tiga “Usaha berterusan kementerian untuk menterian, dan jabatan serta agensi di
TAWAU: Sebuah bot kargo tempatan yang kedudukan Pulau Sebatik yang hampir den- agensi di bawah kementer- membangunkan dokumen antirasuah bawahnya, sentiasa menjaga integriti
sarat dengan muatan pelbagai barangan gan sempadan Malaysia-Indonesia. ian itu, Selasa. sendiri di semua peringkat menunjukkan dalam pengurusan organisasi dan pelak-
kawalan dan kosmetik dianggar bernilai komitmennya untuk berkhidmat kepada sanaan program dalam projek pembangu-
RM161,000, ditahan di perairan Sg Melayu “Tekong beserta bot dan muatan ditahan OACP ialah dokumen asas pencegahan rakyat dengan lebih berkesan dan lebih nan.
sekitar jam 9.45 malam Isnin. serta diiring ke Jeti Maritim Tawau untuk rasuah di peringkat organisasi untuk mem- telus.
siasatan lanjut, sementara kesemua bendung kelemahan dan isu berkaitan tad- Jeffrey turut mengucapkan terima kasih
Pengarah Zon Maritim Tawau, Kepten barangan disita termasuk bot kargo, enjin bir urus, integriti dan antirasuah dalam “Pada masa sama, OACP ini mencer- kepada pejabat SPRM Sabah dan Unit In-
Maritim Shahrizan Raman berkata, ke- bot dan barangan dengan nilai keseluruhan sesebuah organisasi. minkan kementerian, serta jabatan dan tegriti dan Tadbir Urus Sabah atas sokongan
jayaan itu dilakar menerusi rondaan Ops dianggarkan RM161,000,” katanya. agensi di bawahnya, sebagai organisasi be- dan bantuan dalam penganjuran majlis
Sejahtera/Ops Pluto Timur 2/13 dan Ops Ce- Menteri Pertanian dan Perikanan Datuk bas rasuah yang mempunyai nilai integriti tersebut.
gah Pati Selatan yang mengesan pergerakan Tambahnya, kes disiasat di bawah Akta
bot tersebut. Kastam 1967, Akta Kawalan Bekalan 1961 MRS cadang GULAMHAIDAR melaksanakan acara pelepasan eksplorasi tersebut.
dan Peraturan Kawalan Dadah dan Kos-
“Pergerakan mencurigakan bot kargo itu metik 1984. guna lagu etnik KYS anjur Eksplorasi Saintifik Sungai Taliwas
dikesan dari arah perairan Batu 3 menuju ke
Pulau Sebatik dan pemeriksaan awal ke atas Mengulas lanjut, beliau berkata, bagi Sabah dalam KOTA KINABALU: Kumpulan Yayasan pengurusan strategik TRCA. Seramai 150
bot mendapati bot dikendalikan tekong suku tahun kedua tahun ini, Zon Maritim Sabah (KYS) merancakkan usaha konser- orang peserta menyertai eksplorasi ini
warga tempatan berusia 27 tahun. Tawau melaksanakan 36 kes tangkapan pel- majlis K’jaan vasi dengan menganjurkan Eksplorasi yang terdiri daripada penyelidik, pem-
bagai kesalahan dengan 1,222 pemeriksaan Saintifik di Kawasan Konservasi Sungai bantu penyelidik serta staf Kumpulan
“Semasa proses pemeriksaan dokumen- rutin di perairan Tawau. Negeri Taliwas (TRCA) untuk mempromosikan Yayasan Sabah sebagai staf sokongan,”
tasi, tekong bot gagal mengemukakan per- TRCA sebagai pusat kajian dan ekopelan- tambahnya.
mit berkaitan barangan yang dibawa dan “Pihak kami akan terus memperkasakan KOTA KINABALU: Music congan yang terkenal di Sabah.
bot juga disyaki membawa barang kawalan tugas penguatkuasaan bagi membanteras Rights Sabah (MRS) Beliau berkata demikian semasa majlis
secara berlebihan,” katanya lagi. aktiviti-aktiviti perlanggaran undang-un- Berhad telah men- TRCA terletak 36km dari Lahad Datu pelepasan eksplorasi pada Selasa di
dang di Zon Maritim Malaysia, khususnya di gadakan kunjungan hor- dan 45km dari bahagian timur Kawasan Podium, Menara Tun Mustapha, di sini.
Shahrizan berkata, penggeledahan perairan Timur Sabah (Esszone),” katanya. mat ke pejabat Timbalan Konservasi Lembah Danum.
menyeluruh ke atas bot kargo menemukan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Dalam konteks lain, eksplorasi sain-
sejumlah 50 unit tong gas LPG, 2,400 kilo- Beliau meminta kerjasama orang ramai Datuk Dr Joachim Gun- TRCA terdiri daripada kawasan hutan tifik ini adalah penekanan berterusan ke
gram gula pasir, 1,480 kilogram daging untuk menyalurkan sebarang salah laku je- salam (gambar) di Wisma pamah dan ultramafik yang unik dengan atas aspek-aspek pemeliharaan dan
beku dan lebih 100 kotak barangan kos- nayah yang berlaku di sekitar perairan Kewangan, pada Selasa. saiz seluas 9,546 hektar. TRCA pemuliharaan dalam mempertingkatkan
metik pelbagai jenis. Tawau ke talian Pusat Operasi Zon Maritim merangkumi Hutan Simpan Sungai keberkesanan pengurusan, pemeliharaan
Tawau 089-752116 dan talian kecemasan Kunjungan MRS yang diketuai oleh Segama yang bersebelahan dengan dan pembangunan sumber kepelbagaian
Katanya, Zon Maritim Tawau akan mem- 999. Pengarah Urusannya, Asmin Mudin Hutan Simpan Sepagaya (termasuk Bukit biologi hutan negara secara berkekalan.
buat siasatan lanjut tentang kemungkinan berserta empat pegawai lain pelbagai Silam) dan Hutan Simpan Dara Kawang -
seksyen, bertujuan bagi memberi pen- Gibong. “Saya yakin, melalui eksplorasi yang
70 sukarelawan MyChampion erangan berkenaan fungsi dan tang- dilaksanakan ini, pelbagai penemuan
gungjawab MRS kepada Dr Joachim. Pada 10 Mei lalu, kawasan ini dinaik yang signifikan bagi flora dan fauna akan
jadi ejen kesihatan di Kunak taraf dan diwartakan sebagai Hutan Sim- direkodkan,” katanya.
Antara lain adalah memohon sokon- pan Kelas I (Perlindungan) dan dima-
Ibrahim Tabir perkukuh kerjasama serta berusaha menda- gan cadangan mewajibkan penggunaan sukkan sebagai salah satu kawasan pen- Sehubungan itu, bagi memastikan
patkan komitmen semua rakan strategik lagu etnik Sabah sebanyak 40 peratus gurusan Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Lem- program ini berjalan dengan lancar, satu
KUNAK: Seramai 70 sukarelawan MyCham- dan sukarelawan bagi melindungi komu- dalam mana-mana majlis anjuran Kera- bah Danum. jawatankuasa penganjur ditubuhkan
pion di sini akan bertindak sebagai ejen ke- niti daripada ancaman penyakit,” katanya jaan Negeri, selain mengharapkan ke- dengan Kumpulan Yayasan Sabah sebagai
sihatan di lapangan bagi membantu kera- ketika merasmikan Kursus Kepimpinan dan menterian menyokong lagu-lagu etnik “Kumpulan Yayasan Sabah mengambil penganjur utama serta kerjasama dari-
jaan memasuki peralihan fasa endemik. Pelancaran MyChampion Peringkat Daerah Sabah. inisiatif untuk mengadakan eksplorasi pada pelbagai jabatan kerajaan dan
Kunak di Dewan Masyarakat di sini, Ahad. saintifik TRCA ini untuk mengkaji kepel- badan bukan kerajaan seperti Jabatan
Mereka akan bersama Kementerian Kesi- Dalam pada itu, Dr Joachim yang juga bagaian bio, sumber asli dan potensi Perhutanan Sabah, Jabatan Hidupan Liar,
hatan Malaysia (KKM) untuk menyokong MyChampion terdiri daripada Menteri Pembangunan Perindustrian TRCA untuk merangka pelan pembangu- WWF-Malaysia, Taman-taman Sabah dan
inisiatif promosi kesihatan dan pe- sukarelawan Community Behavioral Impact Negeri Sabah, memberi maklum balas nan dan aktiviti konservasi di kawasan daripada institusi pendidikan iaitu Uni-
merkasaan komuniti demi kesejahteraan (Combi), Komuniti Sihat Perkasa Negara positif terhadap pengoperasian MRS dan tersebut,” kata Pengarah Yayasan Sabah versiti Malaysia Sabah dan Universiti
kesihatan rakyat. (Kospen), Panel Penasihat Klinik Kesihatan berharap ia dapat membantu merangkap Pengerusi Eksekutif Inno- Teknologi Mara.
(PPKK), Duta Kenali Ubat Anda, ikon Gigi meningkatkan produktiviti serta kreativi prise Corporation Sdn Bhd, Datuk Seri
Pemimpin Pembangunan Masyarakat dan sukarelawan rakan strategik/agensi para penggiat seni untuk terus berkarya Gulamhaidar @ Yusof Khan Bahadar. “Terima kasih saya ucapkan kepada ja-
(PPM) Kunak, Hussin Mohd Rais berkata, berkaitan. bersesuaian dengan Hala Tuju Sabah batan dan institusi yang telah memberi
peranan sukarelawan ini bertepatan seba- Maju Jaya. “Eksplorasi Saintifik ini dijalankan kerjasama dalam menjayakan eksplorasi
gai tanda aras tertinggi dalam usaha mem- Turut sama dalam majlis itu, Ketua Peno- pada 7 hingga 17 Jun, dan terbahagi ini.
perkasa peranan MyChampion dalam ko- long Pengarah Kanan (Promosi Kesihatan), Dr Joachim turut melahirkan tanda kepada lima topik utama iaitu sains
muniti, seterusnya menyelaras khidmat Ab Razak Md Noh dari Jabatan Kesihatan sokongan kepada MRS untuk mencapai fizikal, kepelbagaian flora, kepelbagaian “Semoga kerjasama yang terjalin ini
ejen kesihatan di bawah satu platform bagi Negeri Sabah, dan Pegawai Jabatan Kesi- matlamat mereka mendapatkan royalti fauna, sains sosial dan penggunaan sum- akan berterusan pada masa hadapan.
melaksanakan semua aktiviti budaya hidup hatan Daerah Kunak, Dr Izaidi Salman Yazid. yang setimpal dengan usaha kreativiti ber,” katanya. Kepada para peserta, semoga maju jaya
sihat dan kelestarian persekitaran. mereka. dalam menjalankan kajian dalam eksplo-
Hussin berkata, sebagai petugas “Maklumat yang diperoleh hasil ek- rasi ini dan menghasilkan penyelidikan
“Saya berharap kewujudan MyCham- barisan hadapan di kawasan masing-mas- MRS merupakan badan pemungut splorasi ini penting bagi merangka pelan yang berjaya,” katanya kepada peserta.
pion sebagai satu entiti sukarelawan dalam ing, sukarelawan MyChampion turut dan pengagih royalti tunggal bagi lagu-
pembudayaan hidup sihat dan kelestarian berperanan membantu agensi berkaitan lagu etnik tempatan di Sabah dan WP
persekitaran yang menyokong kesejahter- dalam melaksana aktiviti pemantauan Labuan yang telah diberi pengiktirafan
aan kesihatan merentasi pelbagai ke- dan pematuhan prosedur operasi stan- oleh kerajaan persekutuan sejak Januari
menterian, agensi, institusi swasta dan dard (SOP). 2022.
badan bukan kerajaan (NGO).
Ia juga memberi nasihat, peringatan, te- Bintang
“Kita sentiasa menyokong dalam mem-
pastri baharu
Bahasa sumbang buku, bahan
Sandakan
bacaan kepada SK Labuan Haji
diumum
KOTA KINABALU: Badan Bahasa
12 Jun
dan Sastera Sabah (Bahasa)
Mardinah Jikur
pada Isnin menyumbangkan
SANDAKAN: Sandakan menanti bintang
pastri seterusnya diumumkan pada 12 buku dan bahan bacaan hasil
Jun.
karya penulis Sabah, yang
Pertandingan Pastri Sandakan per-
tama kali dilancarkan pada Pesta bernaung di bawah badan
Makanan dan Pertanian Sandakan 2019,
dan bakal menjadi acara tahunan untuk Bahasa, kepada Sekolah
menggalakkan cef pastri profesional
serta amatur mempamerkan idea Kebangsaan (SK) Labuan Haji,
mereka.
Kenapa negara lain semakin Semporna.
Diilhamkan oleh tart UFO unik yang
dicipta pada tahun 1950-an oleh pem- Majlis penyerahan buku itu
buat pastri tempatan di Sandakan, pihak
penganjur juga berharap warga San- diadakan di Rumah Bahasa di
dakan akan menggunakan platform ini
maju berbanding kita untuk mempersembahkan ciptaan Kota Kinabalu oleh Presiden
mereka untuk dipertimbangkan sebagai
bintang pastri seterusnya. Bahasa, Datuk Jasni Matlani,

NEGARA seperti China, India dan Jepun tengah, membelanjakan berbilion dolar Empat penyertaan terbaik akan men- kepada wakil sekolah JASNI dan Abd Karim menyerahkan sebahagian
untuk yuran pengajian dan perbelanjaan dapat publisiti meluas untuk hasil kerja berkenaan, Nunhati Malizaman, sumbangan kepada Nunhati sebagai gimik
menghantar sarjana terbaik mereka un- lain. mereka dan permintaan orang ramai yang turut dihadiri oleh Naib penyerahan buku di majlis itu.
pasti akan melonjak untuk pastri mereka. Presiden 1 Bahasa, Abdul Karim
tuk bekerja dan belajar di seluruh dunia. Fikirkan tentang apa dan bagaimana
wang rakyat telah dibelanjakan untuk Memandangkan waktu semakin ham- Gullam. pihak sekolah,” kata Jasni.
Pelajar-pelajar ini terbang ke luar negara pelajar di luar negara di bawah biasiswa pir ke tarikh pengadilan, peluang untuk
JPA. Dua isu penting ialah; adakah pelajar- mempersembahkan sebarang inovasi ba- Bercakap kepada wartawan selepas Menurut Jasni, ini juga merupakan
untuk mempelajari teknologi baharu dan pelajar ini dipilih berdasarkan merit atau haru dalam pembuatan pastri masih ter-
kaum? buka. majlis itu, Jasni berkata, ia adalah sumbangan pertama Bahasa kepada pihak
sentiasa berfikir mengenai pembaharuan.
Tambahan pula, apakah tujuan kita Pendaftaran untuk menyertai per- sumbangan berbentuk buku cerita dan sekolah sejak negara dilanda masalah
Secara asasnya, pelajar-pelajar ini akan menghantar mereka ke universiti seperti tandingan adalah percuma.
Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, dll? bahan bacaan lain bagi menambah koleksi penularan virus Covid-19 bermula 2020
berfikir bagaimana untuk membawanya Pertandingan pastri itu disokong oleh
Untuk membangunkan negara Majlis Perbandaran Sandakan dan dian- lalu.
pulang ke negara mereka untuk pemban- bersama, kita memerlukan kepercayaan jurkan oleh Taste Sabah Sdn Bhd bersama pusat sumber sekolah berkenaan.
dan keyakinan semua rakyat kita tidak rakan kongsinya Artlex Centre, Balin
gunan. kira siapa mereka dan apa latar belakang Rooftop Bistro, The Marketplace dan “Buku cerita dan bahan bacaan itu juga “Namun sebelum itu, Bahasa juga
mereka. Kalaulah kita telah menghantar Meinga Bakery.
Negara-negara ini sangat fokus pada pelajar cemerlang kita ke luar negara nanti boleh dimanfaatkan guru dan pelajar pernah menyumbangkan buku-buku
untuk pembangunan masa depan kita, Pertandingan ini menawarkan wang
apa yang mereka mahukan untuk pem- saya amat percaya bahawa sejak dahulu tunai dan hadiah bernilai lebih RM1,500. dalam memantapkan lagi penguasaan kepada beberapa sekolah di Sabah, sebagai
lagi, kita boleh mengalahkan sebuah ne-
bangunan masa depan, khususnya gara kecil seperti Singapura di rantau Mereka yang berminat untuk menyer- bahasa, ilmu berkaitan sastera dan budaya, bantuan sosial Bahasa sesuai dengan
ini. tai pertandingan ini boleh layari laman
kemahiran baharu dalam automotif, per- Facebook rasmi San Da Gen Kopitiam un- serta bidang lain. tanggungjawab badan ini untuk
Amat menyedihkan, hakikatnya kita tuk borang digital atau hubungi Anton
ancangan bandar, dan banyak lagi, terma- sedang bersaing dengan negara dunia Ngui pada talian 0122071044. “Seterusnya membantu usaha mengimarahkan ilmu, dan menanam
ketiga seperti Vietnam dan Laos.
suk sains roket dan satelit untuk melahirkan generasi baharu yang cinta minat masyarakat, khususnya dalam
Generasi muda kita memerlukan kera-
teknologi telekomunikasi terkini. jaan yang stabil dengan dasar yang adil ilmu, melalui amalan membaca yang amat kalangan generasi muda yang menyukai
tentang pendidikan, peluang pekerjaan
Di Malaysia, persoalannya, adakah kita dan pembinaan negara. bermanfaat,” kata Jasni. bidang sastera dan penulisan,” kata Jasni.

cukup fokus kepada apa yang kita Pappa Raidu Veraman Jasni yang juga penerima Anugerah SEA Menurut Jasni lagi, sebahagian besar
(Suara India Malaysia- MIV)
mahukan untuk negara kita pada masa Write 2015 berkata, sebagai sebuah buku yang disumbangkan itu adalah hasil

hadapan? persatuan penulis, Bahasa bukan hanya karya penulis ternama yang mendapat

Berapa ramai sarjana terbaik yang kita bekerjasama dalam bentuk kolaborasi pendedahan luas dalam bidang penulisan

hantar untuk tujuan tersebut? Adakah program Sastera seperti bengkel dan melalui badan Bahasa dan pelbagai agensi

kerajaan benar-benar memberi tumpuan ceramah sastera dengan pihak sekolah, kerajaan berkaitan.

kepada pelajar-pelajar ini yang boleh tetapi juga memberikan sumbangan “Antaranya Siti Rahmah G. Ibrahim, Juri

membawa kembali ilmu yang berharga kepada sekolah memerlukan, dalam bentuk Durabi, Abd Karim Gullam, James Taling,

untuk pembangunan kita? buku yang mengetengahkan pelbagai cerita Nim Yorza, Norhayati Tasif, Aminah

Sebaliknya, mereka masih menarik kepada pelajar sekolah. Sambion, Salvia Rose dan ramai lagi.

menekankan kuota berasaskan kaum un- “Ada antara cerita itu mengetengahkan “Sebahagian mereka juga pernah

tuk memilih dan menghantar mereka un- kisah berkaitan dengan kearifan tempatan memenangi Hadiah Sastera Sabah dan

tuk mengaji kursus kurang bermanfaat, dan ada juga cerita yang diolah daripada Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia, serta

atau hanya berminat dengan penyelidik pergolakan masyarakat global yang boleh pelbagai hadiah dan anugerah prestij lain,”

agama dan menghantar mereka ke timur dimanfaatkan guru-guru, pelajar dan kata Jasni.

4 Tempatan SUARA TEMPATAN ANDA I RABU, 8 JUN, 2022 harianekspres

1MDB ditubuhkan sebagai dana politik BN: Bekas KSN Penagih dadah

KUALA LUMPUR: Bekas Ketua Setiausaha memberitahu saya berkenaan isu-isu yang yang memegang jawatan KSN daripada dijel 7 tahun
Negara (KSN) Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan berlaku dalam 1MDB, walaupun saya dilan- September 2006 hingga Jun 2012.
pada Selasa memberitahu Mahkamah tik menjadi seorang daripada Ahli Lem- Cynthia D Baga dipenjara lima tahun dan dikenakan se-
Tinggi di sini bahawa mengikut pema- baga Penasihat 1MDB. Menjelaskan mengenai pelantikan se- batan kerana mengambil dadah secara
hamannya syarikat pelaburan strategik bagai Ahli Lembaga Penasihat 1MDB, KOTA KINABALU: Seorang lelaki yang berulang.
1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) di- “Saya juga tidak pernah bertanya Datuk Mohd Sidek berkata ia dibuat secara rasmi mengambil dadah secara berulang, di-
tubuhkan untuk dijadikan dana politik Seri Najib kenapa tiada sebarang melalui satu surat bertarikh 30 Ogos 2012 jatuhi hukuman penjara tujuh tahun. Heryanto Kamaruddin mengaku men-
kepada parti kerajaan ketika itu iaitu mesyuarat Ahli Lembaga Penasihat 1MDB yang dikeluarkan oleh Najib. gulangi kesalahan mengambil dadah
Barisan Nasional (BN). diadakan sepanjang tempoh saya men- Jiffrie Taib mengaku bersalah di hada- pada 22 Okt 2021 selepas air kencingnya
jawat jawatan itu dan tiada mana-mana “Walaupun saya dilantik menjadi Ahli pan Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen Noor didapati positif dadah di balai polis di sini,
Mohd Sidek, 71, berkata oleh sebab itu, wakil 1MDB melaporkan kepada saya ten- Lembaga Penasihat 1MDB, saya tidak pernah Hafizah Mohd Salim kepada pertuduhan dan dia juga mempunyai beberapa rekod
beliau tidak pernah bertanya kepada bekas tang operasi dan pelaburan yang dibuat terlibat dalam sebarang mesyuarat atau terhadapnya pada Selasa. sabitan kerana mengambil dadah itu.
Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun oleh pihak syarikat tersebut,” katanya. perbincangan mengenai isu-isu syarikat itu
Razak atau mana-mana pihak dalam 1MDB dan tidak pernah dijemput hadir ke Dia didapati mengambil dadah itu Heryanto diperintahkan menjalani
berkenaan masalah yang berlaku dalam Beliau berkata demikian ketika memba- mesyuarat tahunan 1MDB. Selain itu, saya pada 18 Mei 2021 selepas air kencingnya hukuman penjara itu dari tarikh dia di-
syarikat tersebut. cakan pernyataan saksinya pada pemerik- juga tidak pernah meminta Datuk Seri Najib disahkan positif dadah di balai polis ban- tangkap.
saan utama oleh Timbalan Pendakwa Raya atau pihak 1MDB untuk dilantik menjadi daraya, dan dia juga mempunyai beberapa
Menurutnya, isu-isu yang melanda Mohamad Mustaffa P Kunyalam dalam Ahli Lembaga Penasihat ini,” katanya. rekod sabitan mengambil dadah itu. Selepas hukuman penjaranya selesai,
1MDB hanya diketahuinya melalui media perbicaraan kes rasuah dan pengubahan Jiffrie dan Heryanto diperintahkan dile-
massa seperti surat khabar dan bacaan di wang haram dana RM2.3 bilion milik 1MDB Menurut Mohd Sidek, beliau menerima Kesalahan mengikut Seksyen 39C (2) takkan di bawah pengawasan polis selama
internet dan beliau mengetahui isu itu yang dihadapi bekas perdana menteri itu. bayaran elaun sebanyak RM30,000 sebu- Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 itu mempe- dua tahun.
berkaitan dakwaan salah guna dana. lan dalam tempoh lantikannya sebagai runtukkan hukuman penjara antara tujuh
Sementara itu, saksi pendakwaan ke-19 Ahli Lembaga Penasihat 1MDB. hingga 13 tahun, dan sebatan, jika sabit ke-
“Saya juga tahu bahawa adanya penyi- itu berkata beliau beranggapan pelan- salahan. Mahkamah memerintahkan
asatan oleh agensi tempatan seperti Su- tikannya sebagai Ahli Lembaga Penasihat “Selepas saya bersara sebagai KSN, saya Jiffrie menjalani hukuman penjara itu dari
ruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia 1MDB hanyalah untuk menambah penda- masih menerima pembayaran elaun se- tarikh dia ditangkap.
(SPRM) ke atas 1MDB melalui pembacaan patannya sebagai KSN yang dianggap banyak RM10,000 sebulan sehingga
saya di surat khabar tempatan, namun saya tidak setimpal oleh Najib. jawatan saya dalam 1MDB ditamatkan Sementara itu, seorang lagi lelaki
tidak pernah ditaklimat atau diberitahu pada Jun 2015,” katanya.
secara lanjut apakah butiran penyiasatan “Ketika Datuk Seri Najib menjadi per-
ke atas 1MDB. dana menteri, beliau pernah bertanyakan Tambah Mohd Sidek, pada 2 Jun 2016
kepada saya tentang gaji yang saya terima beliau menerima surat daripada Ketua Pe-
“Saya sahkan Datuk Seri Najib selaku selaku KSN dan beliau merasakan gaji saya gawai Eksekutif 1MDB, Arul Kanda Kan-
perdana menteri (ketika itu) tidak pernah selaku KSN adalah agak kecil,” katanya dasamy berhubung pembubaran Lembaga
Penasihat tersebut. – Bernama

Kesalahan dadah: 10 dipenjara, didenda Pegawai penyelidik nafi

Jo Ann Mool positif dadah tersebut. tahun, jika sabit kesalahan. sebabkan kemalangan maut
Azumar diperintahkan membayar Sementara itu, Faizal, Jastin, Peter Maj
KOTA KINABALU: 10 orang dijatuhi huku- SEREMBAN: Seorang pegawai penyelidik dan melulu sehingga menyebabkan kema-
man oleh Mahkamah Majistret di sini ker- denda RM3,000 atau penjara 12 bulan, dan Azlin Johny mengaku memiliki syabu. sebuah syarikat utiliti mengaku tidak tian Khalid Mohd Isa, 72, dalam kejadian
ana melakukan kesalahan berkaitan Arbin, Rohana, Faizal, Faizul dan Shah Faizal didenda RM3,100 atau penjara bersalah di Mahkamah Majistret di sini, pada pukul 8.25 pagi di Jalan Temiang-
dadah. masing-masing didenda RM2,000 atau Selasa, atas pertuduhan memandu kereta Pantai di sini pada 1 Jun.
penjara antara tujuh bulan dan empat bu- enam bulan, Jastin didenda RM3,700 atau secara berbahaya sehingga menyebabkan
Lapan daripada mereka iaitu Azumar lan. penjara 12 bulan. kematian seorang penunggang basikal Pertuduhan dikemukakan mengikut
Jafar, Arbin Jayri, Rohana Rasul, Azmin warga emas, pada 1 Jun lepas. Seksyen 41 (1) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan
Perelim, Faizal Sani, Jastin Mangan, Faizul Azmin dipenjara sebulan mulai 11 April Peter didenda RM2,800 atau penjara 12 1987 yang memperuntukkan hukuman
Bakar dan Shah Rizan mengaku bersalah dan denda RM2,000 atau enam bulan pen- bulan manakala Azlin didenda RM2,600 Munirah Stapah@Salleh, 26, membuat penjara maksimum 10 tahun dan denda
mengambil syabu dan amfetamin di jara, manakala Jastin dijatuhkan penjara atau penjara sembilan bulan. pengakuan itu selepas pertuduhan diba- maksimum RM50,000, jika sabit kesala-
lokasi berasingan di sini dan di Penam- tujuh bulan. cakan di hadapan Majistret Intan Syafinaz han.
pang antara Mac dan April tahun ini. Keempat-empat mereka didakwa Ros’lin.
Mengambil dadah mengikut Seksyen mengikut Seksyen 12 (2) Akta Dadah Pendakwaan dilakukan Pegawai Pen-
Pihak pendakwaan mengemukakan la- 15(1) Akta Dadah Berbahaya memperun- Berbahaya 1952 yang memperuntukkan Mengikut pertuduhan, Munirah di- dakwa ASP M. Shanmugavel manakala Mu-
poran kimia yang menyatakan contoh air tukkan hukuman denda sehingga hukuman denda sehingga RM100,000 dakwa memandu Perodua Axia secara laju nirah tidak diwakili peguam.– Bernama
kencing lapan tertuduh masing-masing RM5,000 atau penjara sehingga dua atau penjara sehingga lima tahun, atau ke-
dua-duanya, jika sabit kesalahan.

SEBUAH “gua” tiba-tiba muncul di bahagian parit ini di Manggatal, pada Disember lalu. TINDAKAN diambil untuk menjadikan gua ini PEKERJA kontraktor menanggalkan sebahagian
sebagai saluran keluar parit pada Mei. tembok konkrit sedia ada bagi parit Manggatal itu.
Parit di Manggatal,
Kunak dibaik pulih

% SELEPAS lima bulan, Jabatan Pengairan paling sesuai kerana agensi mengambil lenggaraan struktur dilakukan ke atas rumah berhampiran. traktor kami untuk membersihkan parit
dan Saliran (JPS) akhirnya membaiki satu kira keadaan rumah-rumah paling ham- parit itu, jurucakap itu berkata ini di- “Rumah-rumah boleh runtuh ke dalam itu.”
parit di Manggatal dan sedang mengatur pir dengan struktur itu. lakukan jika dan bila ia diperlukan.
untuk membersihkan struktur tersebut. parit dan menyebabkan penghuninya Sementara itu, Majlis Daerah Kunak
“Setakat ini, bangunan-bangunan ini “Namun begitu, kami telah meminta menghadapi risiko.” telah memasang bidur konkrit baharu di
Sementara itu, Majlis Daerah Kunak kekal utuh. Kami tidak mahu merosakkan kakitangan kami untuk memantau struk- deretan rumah kedai di Kg Simpang Em-
telah menggantikan beberapa bidur hartanah ini secara tidak sengaja kerana tur itu secara berkala supaya sebarang Walaupun sudah melaporkan masalah pat pada minggu pertama Jun.
penutup parit di sekitar satu deretan pembaikan tersebut.” kerosakan tidak terbiar terlalu lama se- ini kepada agensi beberapa bulan lalu, dia
rumah kedai di pekan itu dan sedang belum ditangani,” katanya. berkata tiada tindakan diambil untuk Seorang jurucakap agensi itu berkata
menimbang kemungkinan untuk Jurucakap itu berkata masalah struktur menangani struktur itu. ia mungkin mempertimbangkan untuk
melakukan pembaikan besar-besaran itu berkemungkinan besar berpunca dari- MALVIN, yang tinggal di Taman Sepa- menaik taraf perparitan di sekitar bangu-
bagi struktur ini. pada “pergerakan tanah yang ketara” di nggar, menyedari tembok konkrit parit Jurucakap itu menafikan cadangan nan itu.
bahagian Sepanggar ini. itu retak pada minggu kedua Disember tiadanya penyelenggaraan dilakukan ter-
Ia susulan pemerhatian seorang pemi- lalu. hadap parit di Manggatal itu, men- “Bagaimanapun, kami hanya akan
lik rumah di Taman Sepanggar dan pen- “Sesetengah timbunan belakang yang gatakan kontraktor agensi itu kali ter- meneruskannya jika ia wajar dan dengan
gusaha kedai di Kunak mengenai menyokong parit boleh terjejas kerana “Sebahagian konkrit berhampiran akhir menyelenggara struktur itu pada syarat bajet kami mengizinkan kami
kerosakan parit di kawasan masing-mas- ini, mewujudkan ruang kosong di baha- dasarnya telah pun dihanyutkan,” September lalu. berbuat demikian,” katanya.
ing. gian tertentu struktur.” katanya.
“Parit itu telah dibersihkan dan mana- Jelasnya, pemaju telah menyerahkan
Pengadu pertama memperhatikan ba- Dia menjelaskan bahawa ini telah “Terdapat juga satu lubang berhampi- mana tumbuh-tumbuhan yang tumbuh, pusat komersial tersebut kepada agensi
hawa retakan telah terbentuk di tembok menyebabkan retakan di beberapa baha- ran sebelah atas di bahagian lain di mana dibuang pada masa itu,” katanya. itu beberapa tahun lalu.
konkrit bagi parit besar berhampiran gian, di dasar konkrit, sementara baha- konkritnya telah runtuh.”
Lorong Mempelam 3C, manakala pengadu gian lain telah runtuh. “Sebuah jengkaut telah digunakan un- “Semakan rekod kami, bagaimanapun,
kedua bimbang mengenai bahaya yang di- Malvin bimbangkan keselamatan tuk memudahkan kerja pembersihan ini.” mendedahkan bahawa bangunan itu ter-
hadapi pejalan kaki akibat “lubang” di Kesimpulan ini dibuat berdasarkan rumah-rumah yang terletak di tepi parit letak di luar kawasan penarafan kami.”
laluan pejalan kaki bagi pusat komersial hasil pemeriksaan tapak yang dijalankan itu. Dia berkata parit itu tidak dibersihkan
di luar Lorong Taman Sri Idaman. oleh jurutera JPS pada Januari, menurut- dua kali setahun mengikut jadual penye- “Bagaimanapun kami telah pun cam-
nya. “Jika lebih banyak bahagian tem- lenggaraan Jabatan. pur tangan untuk menangani masalah
Seorang jurucakap JPS berkata, Jabatan boknya runtuh, tanah runtuh mungkin lampu jalan di sekitar rumah kedai itu
itu mengambil sedikit masa untuk men- Ketika ditanya berapa kerap penye- berlaku dan merosakkan dasar rumah- “Ia masih belum dilakukan tahun ini. awal tahun ini.”
dapatkan sejumlah dana bagi membaik Kami dalam proses mendapatkan kon-
pulih parit di Manggatal itu. SIMON dari Kunak berkata banyak
KONTRAKTOR bidur yang diletakkan atas parit bertutup
“Salah seorang kontraktor kami mem- Majlis Daerah di sekeliling bangunan itu sama ada su-
buat saluran keluar dan menampal baha- dah pecah atau hilang.
gian lain parit yang terjejas menjelang memasang bidur
akhir Mei,” katanya. baharu di pusat Dia berkata kebanyakan bidur yang
komersial di Kg tinggal telah pun meretak dan ke-
Katanya, itu nampaknya penyelesaian Simpang Empat. dudukannya tidak betul di laluan pejalan
kaki di situ.
BIDUR konkrit rosak seperti ini mengundang risiko kepada orang
ramai yang berkunjung ke deretan rumah kedai ini di Kunak. “Sesetengah pemilik unit memasang
papan kayu di atas lubang-lubang di kaki
lima untuk rumah kedai untuk mencegah
pejalan kaki daripada menghadapi ba-
haya,” katanya.

Dia mengecam kekurangan penye-
lenggaraan yang dilakukan di kawasan
umum di sekitar pusat komersial itu.

“Rumput di sekeliling bangunan itu
sudah semak dan terdapat sampah bersel-
erak di sekitar tempat itu, malah di dalam
beberapa parit.”

Jurucakap itu menggesa mereka yang
tinggal dan bekerja di rumah-rumah
kedai itu untuk menulis kepada Majlis
mengenai masalah ini.

“Surat mereka akan dibentangkan
dalam mesyuarat dan kami perlu mem-
bincangkan cara terbaik untuk menan-
gani rungutan mereka,” katanya. (SS)

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PM Britain terselamat TENTERA
Ukraine
undi tidak percaya
bertempur
di wilayah
Donetsk. –

Foto
Reuters

LONDON: Perdana Menteri Britain, Boris Antara isu utama ialah kontroversi langan sokongan daripada ramai Ahli Pertempuran sengit di
Johnson, pada Isnin memenangi undi ‘Partygate’ membabitkan penganjuran Parlimen partinya sendiri, dan sama ada
percaya oleh Ahli Parlimen Konservatif, majlis yang melanggar ketetapan perin- menteri kanan sedia ada akan meletak jalanan Sievierodonetsk
namun kedudukan beliau dilihat se- tah berkurung bagi mengekang penu- jawatan.
makin lemah berikutan sejumlah besar laran Covid-19, di Downing Street. KYIV: Tentera Ukraine bertempur sengit makin buruk selepas pasukan Ukraine da-
mereka enggan menyokongnya. Dua Perdana Menteri sebelum ini, dengan pasukan Rusia di jalanan bandar pat menghalang tentera Rusia yang dili-
Kontroversi itu mencetuskan kemara- Margaret Thatcher dan Theresa May, perindustrian, Sievierodonetsk, dalam us- hat hampir mencapai kemenangan pada
Johnson menyifatkan hasil pengun- han awam, sekali gus menyaksikan John- akhirnya meletak jawatan walaupun aha Kremlin untuk menguasai wilayah hujung minggu lalu.
dian 211-148 oleh Ahli Parlimen parti be- son menjadi Perdana Menteri United memenangi pengundian Tory, kerana Donbas, kata Presiden Ukraine,
liau itu sebagai ‘keputusan penentuan Kingdom (UK) yang pertama didakwa menyifatkan imej kepemimpinan Volodymyr Zelensky. Isnin lepas, Kementerian Pertahanan
dan meyakinkan’. melanggar undang-undang ketika masih mereka ‘terjejas teruk’. Ukraine turut melaporkan tentera Rusia
dalam perkhidmatan. Perkembangan terkini menyaksikan semakin mara ke Sloviansk yang terletak
“Sebagai kerajaan, kita boleh terus Johnson bertegas enggan meletak Sievierodonetsk menjadi sasaran utama kira-kira 85 kilometer (km) ke barat
mengorak langkah dan memfokus Untuk memenangi pengundian itu, jawatan susulan kontroversi ‘Partygate’, tentera Rusia dalam serangan di Donbas Sievierodonetsk.
kepada perkara yang benar-benar pent- Johnson, 57, memerlukan sokongan sebaliknya mempertahankan rekod us- yang meliputi wilayah Lugansk dan
ing,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas sekurang-kurang 180 Ahli Parlimen – aha beliau dalam pelaksanaan Brexit, Donetsk. “Barisan hadapan berdepan serangan
keputusan pengundian itu yang menye- dengan majoriti satu undi – dalam kalan- memerangi pandemik Covid-19 serta berterusan. Musuh turut melancarkan
belahi beliau. gan 359 wakil rakyat Konservatif di Parli- sokongan Britain kepada Ukraine yang “Pertempuran sengit berterusan di serangan berhampiran Lyman dengan
men. Kekalahan dalam pengundian itu diperangi Rusia. jalanan bandar itu. Tentera Rusia lebih ra- sasaran untuk memusnahkan kedudukan
Pengundian itu – selepas hanya lebih akan mengakhiri kepimpinan beliau mai dan lebih berkuasa, namun pasukan pertahanan kita dan menawan Sloviansk
dua tahun Johnson melakar kemenan- dalam parti dan sebagai Perdana Menurut sumber parti, Johnson mem- Ukraine mempunyai ‘setiap peluang’ un- serta Kramatorsk. Selain itu, Svyatohirsk
gan besar pada pilihan raya umum lalu – Menteri. beritahu Ahli Parlimen Tory: “Kita telah tuk melawan balik,” katanya dalam uca- juga diserang dengan sasaran sama,” kata
diadakan susulan rentetan skandal men- mengharungi waktu sukar sebelum ini pan melalui video, Isnin malam. Gabenor Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
jejaskan Konservatif yang juga dikenali Kini, berlegar pula spekulasi sama ada dan saya berupaya membina semula
sebagai Parti Tory. Johnson mampu bertahan selepas kehi- kepercayaan.” – AFP Kementerian Pertahanan Ukraine men- Sementara itu dalam langkah dise-
dakwa Rusia mengerahkan ramai tentera laraskan bersama Amerika Syarikat (AS),
Kanak-kanak 2 tahun New York dan menghantar kelengkapan perang un- Britain mengumum akan membekalkan
tuk menawan bandar terbesar yang masih Ukraine dengan sistem roket pelbagai
tertembak ayah sendiri naikkan had dikuasai Ukraine di Lugansk itu. pelancar yang berupaya menyerang
sasaran sejauh 80km. – Reuters
MIAMI: Polis mengesahkan seorang lelaki bak diri sendiri. umur beli senjata Terdahulu, Gabenor Lugansk, Serhiy
maut apabila anaknya yang berusia dua Namun, beliau berkata siasatan kemu- Gaidai, dilaporkan berkata keadaan se-
tahun secara tidak sengaja tertembak separa automatik
mangsa sehingga meninggal dunia. dian mendapati anak sulung pasangan itu Thai teliti situasi Covid-19 sebelum
mengaku bahawa picu pistol ditarik oleh HOUSTON: Had umur untuk membeli sen-
Tragedi berlaku ketika kanak-kanak adiknya. jata separa automatik di New York di- tarik balik pemakaian pelitup muka
lelaki itu bermain-main dengan senjata naikkan daripada 18 kepada 21 tahun pada
terbabit di kediamannya, di Orlando, Menurut dokumen mahkamah, pistol Isnin susulan tragedi pembunuhan bera- BANGKOK: Thailand akan menilai secara apabila kehidupan rakyat kembali nor-
Florida, akhir bulan lalu. itu berada di dalam beg yang diletakkan mai-ramai baru-baru ini, lapor Agensi terperinci situasi Covid-19 sebelum mem- mal.
Mabry di atas lantai sebelum kanak-kanak Anadolu. buat sebarang keputusan untuk menarik
Menurut pihak berkuasa tempatan, pis- terbabit ternampak senjata berkenaan balik peraturan pemakaian pelitup muka. “Melonggarkan langkah-langkah
tol yang dipenuhi peluru itu diambil lalu menembak bapanya di belakang se- “Hanya tindakan tegas akan menyele- pencegahan Covid-19 tidak boleh dibuat
kanak-kanak terbabit selepas ia diting- masa mangsa sedang bermain permainan saikan masalah ini,” kata Gabenor New Jurucakap Kerajaan Thanakorn Wang- sewenang-wenangnya. CCSA perlu mem-
galkan ibu bapa mereka tanpa pen- video di komputer. York, Kathy Hochul, ketika menandatan- boonkongchana berkata Perdana Menteri buat penilaian dan pertimbangan yang
gawasan. gani rang undang-undang itu. Prayuth Chan o-cha sudah mengarahkan teliti, dengan mengambil kira situasi
Ketika kejadian, semua ahli keluarga Pusat Pentadbiran Situasi Covid-19 (CCSA) Covid-19 (terkini) di setiap kawasan serta
Dalam kes itu, polis bergegas ke rumah mangsa termasuk anak bongsunya yang Di bawah undang-undang baharu itu, untuk membuat penilaian selari dengan kesihatan dan keselamatan rakyat. –
mangsa selepas menerima panggilan 911 berusia lima bulan berada di dalam bilik mereka di bawah umur 21 tahun tidak lagi pelan pemulihan ekonomi negara dan Bernama
dan mendapati ibu kanak-kanak terbabit, terbabit. dibenarkan membeli senjata api separa
Marie Ayala, sedang memberikan bantuan automatik, menjadikan New York antara
pernafasan kepada suaminya, Reggie Menurut Mina, pasangan itu berada negeri pertama menggubal undang-un-
Mabry. dalam parol atas beberapa kesalahan ker- dang terhadap kawalan senjata api di
ana mengabaikan kanak-kanak dan peng- Amerika Syarikat (AS).
Polis Orange County, Sherif John Mina, gunaan dadah sebelum ini.
pada sidang media, berkata pada mulanya Dua kejadian tembakan terbaharu
pihak berkuasa percaya mangsa berusia 26 “Pemilik pistol yang tidak menyimpan melibatkan individu bersenjata di bawah
tahun yang kemudiannya meninggal senjata api dengan betul berisiko berde- umur 21 tahun. – Bernama
dunia ketika menerima rawatan, menem- pan tragedi seperti ini di rumah sendiri
dalam sekelip mata saja. – AFP

PPKM Tahap 1 Sanggup beli
telur ayam

dikuatkuasa di retak sebab

seluruh wilayah: harga naik

Kementerian SERANG: Harga telur ayam di Pasar Pama- KISAH Lutfi Haryono, pengemis yang mempunyai
rayan, Kabupaten Serang, Banten, wang simpanan 490 juta rupiah tular di laman sosial.
JAKARTA: Kerajaan Indonesia menetap- hingga 4 Julai. meningkat daripada 25,000 rupiah
kan sekatan aktiviti awam tahap 1 (RM7.60) kepada 30,000 rupiah (RM9.10)
(PPKM) akan dikuatkuasakan di seluruh Tambahnya, kerajaan wilayah menilai sekilogram. Lutfi si pengemis yang kaya
negara kecuali di satu kabupaten di
Papua Barat yang tidak layak untuk sta- lanjutan PPKM berdasarkan kadar penu- Lapor Tribunnews, peniaga, Susi Aniati
tus itu. berkata, sebahagian pembeli terpaksa be-
laran komuniti mengikut pelarasan pen- ralih mencari telur ayam yang retak ker-
“Kita mesti bersyukur selepas dua ana harganya lebih murah.
tahun bertungkus-lumus menguruskan jagaan kesihatan awam dan penunjuk
pandemik Covid-19, keadaan bertambah “Ramai mengadu kerana harga telur
baik, apabila kita melanjutkan arahan sekatan sosial ditetapkan oleh Kementer- ayam naik. JAKARTA: Seorang pengemis di Indone- itu adalah miliknya.
menteri (mengenai pengendalian pan- sia didakwa memiliki wang simpanan “Menurut Lutfi, dia suka memaksa
demik Covid-19). ian Kesihatan. “Disebabkan itu, ada yang mencari mencecah 490 juta rupiah (RM149,069).
telur pecah. Tetapi kalau beli telur yang penduduk untuk mendapatkan wang.
“Semua (128) wilayah di pulau Jawa “Dengan hampir semua di bawah pen- kulitnya rosak, mungkin tidak banyak Tribunnews melaporkan kisah itu tular “Soal siasat dilakukan juga mendapati
dan Bali kini berada di bawah PPKM hanya dalam dua ke tiga biji dan akan dig- dan menjadi bualan netizen di laman
tahap 1,” kata Ketua Pengarah Kemajuan guatkuasaan PPKM tahap 1, aktiviti awam oreng terus,” katanya. sosial selepas gambar dua buku sim- Lutfi sudah mengemis lebih 13 tahun,
Pentadbiran Wilayah di Kementerian panan Bank Mandiri dan Bank Sulutgo iaitu selepas berpisah dengan isterinya.
Dalam Negeri (KDN) Safrizal di sini, Se- di banyak sektor (di rantau ini) boleh Menurut Susi, kenaikan harga telur miliknya tersebar.
lasa, seperti dilaporkan Antaranews.com. ayam disebabkan oleh kos makanan hai- “Lutfi menggunakan wang hasil
disambung semula tanpa sekatan kapa- wan yang tinggi. Pengemis berkenaan, Lutfi Haryono, mengemis untuk keperluan peribadi
Beliau berkata, daripada semua 385 47, menetap di bandar Gorontolo. seperti membina rumah,” katanya.
kabupaten dan bandar di luar Jawa dan siti,” kata Safrizal. Katanya, dia tidak berani menyimpan
Bali yang turut berada di bawah pen- bekalan telur ayam yang banyak kerana Susulan kisah tular itu, Lufti dipanggil Menurutnya, Lutfi mengaku, wang itu
guatkuasaan PPKM tahap 1, hanya Teluk Di sebalik kelonggaran itu, beliau pembeli semakin berkurangan sejak polis untuk memberi keterangan di Balai bukan sepenuhnya hasil mengemis ker-
Bintuni di Papua Barat kekal di bawah harga naik. Polis Lurah Ipilo bandar Gorontalo 2 Jun ana pernah bekerja di sebuah kedai
PPKM tahap 2. menggesa penduduk untuk lalu. makan.
“Pembeli juga semakin berkurang dan
“Tiada kota dan kabupaten di Jawa, mengekalkan protokol kesihatan, terma- yang biasa beli sekilogram sekarang hanya Jurucakap polis, Bripka Romi berkata, Lutfi juga berhasrat untuk berhenti
Bali, atau di luar wilayah Jawa dan Bali beli separuh kilo sahaja. dalam keterangannya, Lutfi mengaku mengemis dan akan berniaga di warung
berada di bawah PPKM tahap 3,” katanya. suk memakai pelitup muka, dan terus wang simpanan dalam kedua-dua bank serta berjanji tidak akan mengulangi
“Saya harap kenaikan harga telur ayam perbuatan itu. – Agensi
Beliau berkata berikutan situasi pan- berwaspada terhadap potensi jangkitan ini tidak terlalu lama dan segera kembali
demik yang semakin baik di Indonesia, normal kerana memberi kesan kepada
kementerian itu mengeluarkan peratu- Covid-19. pendapatannya,” katanya.
ran baharu mengenai PPKM di wilayah
Indonesia yang berkuatkuasa dari 7 Jun Selain itu, sekatan kemasukan bagi Dua tahun lalu, terdapat dua barangan
komoditi yang harganya naik mendadak
pengembara yang tiba dari perjalanan iaitu telur ayam dan cili.

antarabangsa turut dilonggarkan, Berdasarkan tinjauan detik.com di Pasar
Jatinegara, Jakarta Timur, harga telur
katanya, sambil menambah kelonggaran ayam boleh mencecah sehingga 30,000
rupiah bagi setiap sekilogram.
itu juga termasuk penetapan ruang
Harga telur ayam di seluruh negara
udara yang dibuka untuk pengembara juga dilaporkan naik dengan harga paling Pesara guru diarah pulangkan gaji
mahal ketika itu adalah di wilayah Papua
haji Indonesia yang akan menunaikan iaitu 42,100 rupiah (RM12) sekilogram. –
Agensi
ibadah haji di Arab Saudi tahun ini.

“Seperti yang dinyatakan sebelum ini, SOLO: Seorang guru di sebuah sekolah layak menerima wang pencen.
rendah di Negeri 2 Jetis, Sragen, Jawa Ten- Tidak berpuas hati dengan nasib yang
kami kini sedang menyusun strategi un- gah diarahkan memulangkan semula gaji
yang diterimanya sejak dua tahun lalu, se- diterima, Suwarti mengajukan masalah
tuk mara ke peringkat endemik Covid-19. lepas difahamkan tidak pernah lagi men- tersebut kepada Agensi Pembangunan
gajar dalam tempoh tersebut. Sumber Manusia.
Justeru itu, semua pihak akan berusaha
Lapor Kompas.com, Suwarti, 61, yang be- Namun, usaha tersebut menemukan
untuk merealisasikan matlamat ini,” kata rasal dari Kampung Belimbing, Sambirejo jalan buntu apabila rekod data menun-
sudah bersara dari profesion keguruan se- jukkan wanita itu adalah pendidik dan
Safrizal. – Agensi jak Julai tahun lalu. bukan seorang guru.

Indonesia kutuk kenyataan ahli politik India hina Nabi Bagaimanapun, sehingga sekarang “Mereka kata saya memasuki profesion
wanita itu belum menerima sijil persaraan pendidikan bukan sebagai guru dan sebab
JAKARTA: Indonesia mengecam kenyataan tahan berhubung perkara itu,” ciap Ke- Janata (BJP) pada Ahad menggantung ju- rasmi. itu saya dikatakan tidak layak bersara.
kontroversi dua ahli politik India baru- menterian Hal Ehwal Luar di akaun Twitter rucakapnya, Nupur Sharma yang didakwa
baru ini yang didakwa telah menghina rasminya. membuat kenyataan menghina dalam de- Guru yang sudah berkhidmat selama 35 “Ini kerana saya tidak mempunyai sijil
Nabi Muhammad. bat televisyen dan Naveen Jindal atas tahun itu memberitahu dia diarahkan diploma dan ijazah berkaitan perguruan,
Indonesia bersama-sama Qatar, Kuwait, komennya di media sosial. memulangkan semula gaji yang diterima tetapi saya mempunyai sijil pendidikan,”
“Indonesia mengutuk sekeras-kerasnya Iran, Arab Saudi dan negara Islam lain dua tahun lalu sebelum bersara berjumlah katanya. Suwarti pernah bergraduasi
kenyataan menghina Nabi Muhammad mengutuk kenyataan ahli politik parti pe- “BJP mengecam sekeras-kerasnya 160 juta rupiah (RM48,600). dalam pendidikan agama atau setaraf dan
(saw) oleh dua ahli politik India. merintah India baru-baru ini yang di- penghinaan terhadap mana-mana per- tempoh kerjanya adalah sehingga berusia
dakwa menghina Islam. sonaliti mana-mana agama,” menurut Wanitu itu bahkan dimaklumkan tidak 58 tahun. – Agensi
“Indonesia turut memanggil Duta In- kenyataan parti itu. – Bernama
dia di Jakarta dan menyerahkan surat ban- Parti pemerintah India, Parti Bharatiya

6 Hiburan SUARA TEMPATAN ANDA I RABU, 8 JUN, 2022 harianekspres

PERSEMBAHAN lagu pertama oleh The Male Efficient, Onu Pongusin.

Konsert amal Datuk Justin
Stimol meriah, penuh emosi

Jinni Juanis baik hati. akan terus dilakukan seperti yang sedang FLORENCE menerima cek sumbangan daripada TME yang diserahkan oleh Jahid.
“Dia adalah insan yang amat istimewa. dilakukan oleh beberapa pihak.
KONSERT penghormatan julung
kali diadakan Datuk Justin Stimol Dia mahukan semua keluarganya untuk “Dokumentasi sebegini akan mem-
pada Ahad lalu, dijayakan dengan ikut serta dalam semua kegiatan dan bantu orang lain mempelajari nilai bu-
bertenaga melalui persembahan kumpu- acara yang dihadirinya. Sejak anak-anak daya dan sejarah mereka melalui bahasa
lan koir lelaki The Male-Efficient dan uca- kami masih kecil, mereka semua dibawa dan teks, pengaruh, cerita, muzik dan
pan penuh emosi isteri mendiang, Datin bersama dalam tour atau rakaman video. video yang telah menyumbang kepada
Florence George Kiloh. kemunculan masyarakat Kadazan dan
“Pendek kata, keluarga kami macam rakyat Sabah. Mana tahu ia akan menjadi
Hampir 800 peminat dan artis-artis belangkas. Tidak mudah dipisahkan. Seo- panduan hidup untuk generasi akan
Sabah yang tidak asing lagi datang rang pergi di sana, semua harus ikut. Se- datang,” katanya.
menyaksikan konsert ini manakala bagai keluarga, kami berdoa bersama
tetamu kehormat Ketua Menteri Datuk terutama sejak dua tahun yang lalu se- Persembahan TME membawa lagu-
Seri Hajiji Noor, diwakili oleh Menteri hinggalah di saat-saat terakhir nafasnya,” lagu Justin ke tahap lebih tinggi
Pembangunan Luar Bandar Datuk Jahid katanya sebak. menerusi paduan suara koir dengan
Jahim tiba bersama isteri, Datin Malianah susunan muzik tiga bakat iaitu Beatrice
Ugau. Malianah adalah antara rakan baik Menurut Florence, 40 hari pertama Anne, Fabian Philips dan Juanita Tommy.
kepada mendiang Justin. kehilangan mendiang adalah saat-saat Konduktor pula ialah Adsone Matthew
yang paling sukar bagi mereka sekelu- dan Milty Gabu.
Konsert amal ini menyentuh perasaan arga. Yang tinggal hanyalah barang-
apabila perjalanan seni mendiang barang dan hasil tulisan seni mendiang Lagu yang dinyanyikan dalam nafas
dikongsi oleh ahli keluarga dan sahabat- yang masih ada dan akan menjadi ke- baru ialah Aiso Pongusin, Hamid Doid Pe-
nya melalui tayangan montaj. Gambar- nangan yang akan disimpan dan dipeli- nampang, Bimbizangan, Gambal Ku Kininis
gambar lama beliau ketika masih remaja hara. Nu, Oi Sadi, Sonsomido, Sinding Bavang
dan gambar menyanyi di RTM juga di- Babagon dan Huguan Siou Za.
tunjukkan kepada hadirin. Katanya, Justin tidak pernah berhenti
berkarya. Masih banyak puisi, lagu dan Justin digelar ‘ikon penggiat seni dan
Majlis dimulai dengan ucapan notasi muziknya yang belum pernah budaya’ mendapat banyak pengiktirafan
bagaimana The Male-Efficient (TME) diterbitkan tersimpan baik dalam fail dalam Malaysia dan antarabangsa
tergerak hati untuk mengadakan konsert kerjanya. Kerja yang paling dekat den- khususnya di Hungary dan Amerika
ini yang pada mulanya dinamakan kon- gan hatinya ialah kebajikan kebudayaan, Syarikat.
sert penghargaan atas sumbangan Justin politik dan hiburan yang disalurkan
dalam muzik tetapi bertukar kepada menerusi lagu dan muziknya. Datuk Justin Stimol, legenda Muzik
konsert penghormatan selepas ikon seni Sabah meninggal dunia pada 26 Mac
itu meninggal pada 26 Mac yang lalu. “Sebagai pemuzik, penulis lirik dan tahun ini. Pemergiannya merupakan satu
komposer semua ideanya datang pada kehilangan yang besar dalam industri
Sebagai penghormatan dan mem- waktu tengah malam dan waktu dinihari. muzik negeri.
peringati mendiang, hadirin berdiam Kebanyakan masa dia tidur dan bangun
diri selama seminit sebelum konsert awal bergantung kepada bila ‘panggilan Hasil daripada tajaan dan kutipan
bermula. idea’ itu datang,” katanya. derma yang diperolehi daripada konsert
ini akan disalurkan kepada penubuhan
Dalam ucapan penuh emosi, Datin Florence mahu Justin dijadikan seba- Galeri Datuk Justin Stimol, di rumah
Florence berkata, selama 43 tahun gai agen kebudayaan kerana dia keluarga mereka di Kampung Hungab,
bersama mendiang, ada banyak perkara mengabdikan diri dalam bidang ini se- Penampang.
yang tidak diketahui oleh orang ramai lama tujuh dekad sejak tahun 1950an
mengenai Justin iaitu beliau adalah bapa dan berharap dokumentasi lagu-lagu Turut menyumbang dalam penganju-
yang penyayang dan suami yang amat yang digubah, lirik dan persembahannya ran konsert ini ialah Majlis Belia KDCA
dan KupiKupi FM.

K-KOMM akan bertemu penggiat seni sebelum tubuh badan muzik Gelang akses

KEMENTERIAN Komunikasi dan Multi- ZAHIDI (kanan) berbual dengan M Daud Kilau (kiri) ketika melakukan Ziarah Kasih ke turut menyampaikan perbicaraan
media (K-KOMM) akan mengadakan kediaman Raja Gelek Malaysia itu di Kg Sungai Balai Baroh, Selasa. – fotoBERNAMA sumbangan kepada penyanyi veteran
pertemuan dengan penggiat industri yang menghidap kencing manis, sakit Depp, Heard
kreatif muzik bagi menyelesaikan M Daud Kilau di Bagan Datuk, Selasa. Sebelum ini dilaporkan komposer pinggang dan jantung tidak stabil di
masalah berbangkit seperti isu royalti Menurutnya, K-KOMM berhasrat dan penulis lirik S Atan telah meminta rumahnya di Sungai Balai Baroh di dijual RM22,000
sebelum penubuhan Perbadanan Indus- kepada MACP supaya kalau ada stesen Bagan Datuk.
tri Muzik. menubuhkan Perbadanan Industri Muzik televisyen atau radio yang gagal mem- MESKIPUN perbicaraan kes saman fitnah
bagi memastikan kebajikan semua anak bayar royalti beliau supaya tidak Munurut M Daud Kilau, kesihatan be- antara bintang Hollywood terkemuka,
Timbalan Menteri Komunikasi dan seni terbela supaya tiada berlaku lagi menyiarkan lagu-lagunya. liau masih seperti dahulu dan perlu Johnny Depp, 58, terhadap bekas is-
Multimedia Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin perang mulut di dalam kalangan persat- bergantung dengan ubat-ubatan selain terinya, Amber Heard, 36, sudah be-
berkata perjumpaan itu antara lain bagi uan membabitkan artis nyanyian menge- Terdahulu, Zahidi menziarahi Raja perlu menjalani pemeriksaan kesihatan rakhir, namun, tumpuan masyarakat ter-
memastikan kebajikan penggiat indus- nai isu royalti sebelum ini. Gelek Malaysia, M Daud Kilau, 83, dan yang berkala sejak 2016. hadap pasangan kontroversi itu tidak be-
tri terbela serta tidak timbul isu rakhir.
pengabaian hingga menjejaskan periuk “Keadaan kesihatan saya ketika ini
nasi mereka. kalau mahu menyanyi semula memang Menerusi portal New York Post, seo-
jauh lagi rasanya, hendak kata rang penjual menerusi laman eBay yang
“Kita melakukan perjumpaan dengan tinggalkan pentas tidak, itu rezeki saya menggunakan nama ‘gibeachhead’ seba-
mereka seperti penyanyi supaya dapat yang dilahirkan sebagai penghibur. gai identiti, menjual gelang tangan biru
mendengar cadangan mereka. dengan bidaan bermula $4,999
Walaupun mereka dibayar royalti Terserah jika Allah SWT sudah tetap- (RM21,950).
melalui tiga badan, tetapi tiada badan kan dan masih boleh menyanyi,
khusus yang menjaga kebajikan mereka menyanyilah kalau tidak, setakat ini sa- Penjual itu memberitahu, gelang tan-
seperti Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Na- jalah saya reda,” katanya. gan biru itu sebagai akses memasuki ru-
sional Malaysia (Finas) yang menjaga ang persidangan kes perbicaraan Depp
kebajikan pelakon. Beliau turut mengakui sudah lama melawan Heard yang diadakan di Fairfax
tidak menerima bayaran royalti dari- County, Virginia.
Saya telah meminta ketiga-tiga badan pada pihak bertanggungjawab.
iaitu Music Authors Copyright Protec- “Ia adalah hari pertama dalam
tion (MACP) Berhad, Public Performance “Royalti lagu memang dapat juga minggu terakhir perbicaraan dan salah
Malaysia (PPM) Berhad dan Recording tapi hendak kata setahun sekali pun satu, hari paling sibuk. Saya berada di
Performers Malaysia (RPM) Berhad un- tiada. Sebelum ini adalah dapat RM400 sana dan ingin mendapatkan berita
tuk mengatur perjumpaan secepat hingga RM300 tapi itu sudah lama saya sahih.
mungkin dengan pihak kami,” katanya pun sudah lupa kerana saya tidak ambil
pada sidang media selepas menghadiri tindakan, bukan rezeki saya. Tapi saya “Ini juga saya anggap sebahagian se-
Ziarah Kasih di Rumah Seniman Datuk bersyukur masih ada yang masih ingat jarah budaya selebriti,” katanya.
pada saya termasuk juga memberi sum-
bangan,” katanya. – Bernama Ia merujuk kepada 23 Mei lalu iaitu
hari ke-20 perbicaraan yang berlangsung
Syor MoC M’sia-Jepun diperluas rangkumi industri kreatif, penggambaran filem selama enam minggu.

MALAYSIA mencadangkan kepada Annuar berkata beliau juga men- menjadi keutamaan kita. dahan Malaysia kepada dunia. Penjual memaklumkan, hari berke-
Jepun agar Memorandum Kerjasama cadangkan keselamatan siber, perlin- “Selain daripada bidang yang biasa Menurutnya, ia mempunyai potensi naan juga antara detik terpanjang di
(MoC) Malaysia-Jepun dalam bidang dungan data peribadi, pembangunan mahkamah dari 9 pagi hingga 5.30
penerangan dan komunikasi diperba- ekonomi digital dan kerjasama digital bekerjasama, saya meminta industri serta mampu memberi impak besar petang.
harui dengan memperluaskan skop ker- rentas sempadan turut menjadi kreatif dan penggambaran filem di- kepada industri pelancongan negara se-
jasama dengan memasukkan industri keutamaan dalam kerjasama akan jadikan satu lagi skop untuk dima- lain usaha menarik pelaburan asing dan Depp mengemukakan saman fitnah
kreatif dan penggambaran filem. datang. sukkan dalam kerjasama antara kedua- syarikat luar negara untuk melabur di menuntut tidak kurang AS$50 juta
dua negara,” katanya kepada media se- Malaysia. (RM219 juta) terhadap Heard yang di-
Perkara itu disuarakan Menteri Ko- Malaysia dan Jepun memeterai MoC lepas menerima kunjungan itu. dakwa memfitnah apabila bekas is-
munikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia Tan pada 17 Januari 2017 bagi kerjasama dua Annuar berkata beliau juga menggu- terinya itu dalam satu artikel mendakwa,
Sri Annuar Musa ketika menerima kun- hala antaranya dalam sektor informasi Dalam pertemuan itu, Annuar nakan peluang daripada kunjungan itu beliau adalah figura awam mewakili
jungan hormat Duta Besar Jepun ke dan komunikasi sejagat terutamanya berkata beliau juga mempelawa pen- untuk mendapatkan sokongan Jepun keganasan rumah tangga.
Malaysia Takahashi Katsuhiko di ke- dalam bidang penyiaran. garah dan penerbit filem dari Jepun un- bagi  pencalonan Malaysia dalam Majlis
menteriannya di Putrajaya pada Selasa tuk datang ke Malaysia membuat Kesatuan Telekomunikasi Walaupun artikel dikeluarkan pada
dalam perbincangan dua hala bagi “Saya minta dalam kerjasama akan penggambaran serta mengambil pelu- Antarabangsa  (ITU) Rantau E (Asia dan 2018 itu tidak menyebut bintang Pirates
memperkukuhkan kerjasama dalam datang, aspek berkaitan keselamatan ang menyertai program seperti “Film In Australasia) pada Persidangan Of The Caribbean itu, Depp berkata, ia
bidang komunikasi. siber, perlindungan data peribadi, Malaysia Incentive” (FIMI), yang secara Plenipotensiari di Romania dari 26 Sept sangat mempengaruhi kerjayanya. –
rentas sempadan dan ekonomi digital tidak langsung mempromosikan kein- hingga 14 Oktober depan. – Bernama Agensi

harianekspres SUARA TEMPATAN ANDA I RABU, 8 JUN, 2022 Rencana 7

Tingkatkan akses rawatan

asma kategori teruk – Pakar

KESEDARAN masyarakat terhadap rawatan yang berbeza. “Rawatan awal dan tepat, diikuti PESAKIT yang menghidap asma teruk bukan sahaja terpaksa berdepan
ancaman pelbagai penyakit tidak “Pesakit asma teruk memerlukan rawatan susulan yang kerap dan masalah dan gangguan tidur setiap hari malah keupayaan mereka
berjangkit (NCD) kronik boleh pematuhan kepada rawatan lanjutan untuk melakukan aktiviti harian juga terhad. – Gambar hiasan
dikatakan semakin meningkat, namun perhatian khas kerana mereka lebih adalah antara aspek penting dalam
menurut pakar, rata-rata masih cenderung mengalami serangan asma penjagaan asma yang baik,” tegasnya. keupayaan diagnosis, pengurusan pihak berkepentingan merentas sistem
menganggap asma sebagai penyakit yang lebih kerap walaupun sudah penyakit dan sistem rujukan pakar untuk penjagaan kesihatan bagi membentuk
“biasa” yang tidak memerlukan rawatan mempunyai kemahiran menggunakan Menurutnya, penyakit asma yang penghidap asma teruk di seluruh negara. dan membaiki hasil penjagaan kesihatan
segera. inhaler yang betul. Hal ini disebabkan tidak diuruskan dengan baik boleh pesakit asma.
oleh faktor-faktor lain yang menjejaskan kualiti hidup pesakit, Ia juga sedang berusaha mencapai
Hakikatnya, penghidap penyakit asma menyumbang kepada keadaan asma terutamanya jika tidak dikesan lebih kata sepakat dalam kalangan pakar Di Malaysia, PRECISION Severe Asthma
tidak terkawal dan tidak mendapatkan teruk mereka, antaranya tahap sel darah awal oleh doktor. tempatan bagi membimbing proses Working Group menumpukan usaha
rawatan sewajarnya berisiko menemui putih dalam badan yang terlalu tinggi. penubuhan klinik yang menyediakan kepada mempercepat sistem rujukan
ajal. “Kebiasaannya asma boleh rawatan khusus dan berkualiti untuk kesihatan untuk membolehkan
“Pesakit yang menghidap asma teruk mengganggu tidur sehingga pesakit asma yang teruk. penyampaian penjagaan yang lebih
Di negara ini, kira-kira dua juta rakyat bukan sahaja terpaksa berdepan dengan menyebabkan pesakit berasa letih dan berkesan, mengembangkan keupayaan
menghidap penyakit itu dengan 90 masalah dan gangguan tidur setiap hari, lesu di siang hari. Ini boleh menjejaskan Selain sebuah klinik khusus membuat diagnosis tepat, meluaskan
peratus daripada mereka malah keupayaan mereka untuk prestasi di tempat kerja dan kehadiran diwujudkan di Hospital Raja Perempuan keupayaan merawat asma yang teruk dan
diklasifikasikan sebagai kes tidak melakukan aktiviti harian juga terhad. pelajar di sekolah, selain meningkatkan Zainab II bagi merawat kes asma yang meningkatkan kesedaran tentang asma
terkawal dan berisiko tinggi untuk Mereka turut dibebani kebergantungan risiko kemalangan. teruk, satu kerjasama rapat juga sedang teruk sebagai penyakit serius yang
mengalami tahap kesihatan yang buruk terhadap ubat yang memberikan dijalankan dengan sebuah kumpulan memerlukan lebih perhatian daripada
serta jangka hayat yang pendek. kelegaan segera seperti inhaler dan “Ini juga boleh menjejaskan ekonomi merangkumi pakar perubatan penggubal dasar.
steroid oral (OCS) setiap hari dan untuk kerana produktiviti kerja yang terjejas respiratori; pakar telinga, hidung dan
Malah, negara ini merekodkan kes jangka panjang,” kata Dr Mat Zuki dan kehilangan pendapatan, selain tekak (ENT) serta pakar-pakar lain yang Memandangkan Malaysia antara
maut akibat komplikasi asma sekitar kepada Bernama baru-baru ini. peningkatan kos penjagaan kesihatan biasa merawat pesakit asma. destinasi utama pelancongan kesihatan
empat angka saban tahun dengan kira- untuk rawatan atau kemasukan ke di rantau Asia Pasifik, kemajuan
kira 1,700 kes dicatatkan pada 2014. Beliau bagaimanapun berkata hospital,” tambah beliau. “Pesakit yang dirujuk kepada kami (di ekosistem penjagaan kesihatan melalui
penggunaan OCS untuk tempoh yang klinik berkenaan) termasuklah mereka fasiliti berkualiti tinggi, kelancaran
Angka ini mungkin dianggap kecil lama boleh membawa kepada pelbagai Cabaran diagnosis yang dalam rawatan OCS jangka panjang, proses untuk pesakit serta peningkatan
jika dibandingkan dengan punca risiko kesihatan seperti kencing manis, Dalam pada itu, beliau berkata mereka yang pernah mendapatkan dalam aspek kesediaan perkhidmatan
kematian lain, namun menurut pakar, penyakit tulang rapuh (osteoporosis), pesakit asma di Malaysia berdepan rawatan kecemasan di hospital dan yang berdedikasi untuk penyakit asma
kebanyakan kes kematian akibat asma penyakit jantung dan peningkatan berat cabaran untuk mendapatkan diagnosis dimasukkan ke unit rawatan rapi (ICU) teruk, akan terus menaikkan nama
boleh dielak jika penghidap mendapat badan. dan rawatan yang tepat. akibat asma, serta mereka yang Malaysia sebagai antara hab utama
rawatan awal dan sewajarnya. Menurutnya, biarpun pakar menggunakan tiga atau lebih inhaler penjagaan asma.
Ilmu urus penyakit menyedari ada kemajuan dalam pelega dalam tempoh setahun lepas,”
Tingkat kesedaran Berpendapat pesakit asma perlu teknologi dan kemudahan diagnostik jelasnya. “Oleh itu, dengan segala usaha kita
Pakar perubatan berpandangan mempunyai ilmu dan kesedaran kendiri asma di Malaysia, kemudahan itu tidak untuk terus memantapkan semua fasiliti
langkah proaktif perlu dilaksanakan mengenai penyakit mereka, Dr Mat Zuki diagihkan secara sama rata, sekali gus Kerjasama rentas sempadan kesihatan yang diperlukan bagi merawat
segera bagi meningkatkan tahap berkata ketiadaan dua perkara itu boleh mengehadkan akses pesakit terhadap Sementara itu, berkongsi mengenai kes asma tidak mengira tahap akan
kesihatan dan mengurangkan kadar mengakibatkan pengurusan yang diagnosis yang komprehensif. kerjasama berkenaan, Presiden Negara membuatkan Malaysia terus dilihat
kematian “tidak perlu” akibat penyakit kurang efektif dalam kebanyakan kes “Selain penambahbaikan akses AstraZeneca Malaysia Dr Sanjeev Panchal sebagai destinasi pilihan yang dipercayai
asma. asma, sekali gus menghalang kepada diagnosis, akses kepada rawatan berkata Program PRECISION adalah satu untuk pelancongan kesihatan dengan
Menurut Pakar Perunding Kanan peningkatan tahap kesihatan pesakit. dan ubat-ubatan terkini yang disyorkan inisiatif global, iaitu AstraZeneca adanya ekosistem penjagaan kesihatan
Perubatan Respiratori Hospital “Pakar mendapati ramai pesakit asma juga perlu diperluas, terutama bagi bekerjasama rapat dengan pelbagai yang holistik,” ujar beliau. – Bernama
Perempuan Zainab II di Kota Bharu, tidak cukup motivasi untuk mengawal mereka yang menghidap asma yang
Kelantan, Dr Mat Zuki Mat Jaeb, penyakit mereka. Ada sesetengah pesakit teruk,” katanya, menambah pesakit yang
pengelasan tepat adalah langkah yang menggunakan asma sebagai alasan tinggal di luar bandar berdepan
pertama yang perlu diambil bagi untuk tidak melakukan aktiviti fizikal halangan dari segi kos dan jarak untuk
merawat dan mengurus penyakit itu seperti bersenam atau mengelak mendapat rawatan perubatan yang baik.
secara berkesan. daripada pergi ke sekolah atau bekerja. Dalam usaha menambah baik
Beliau berkata penyakit asma “Walaupun wujud sikap tidak ambil rawatan penyakit asma teruk di
diklasifikasikan mengikut tiga tahap peduli dalam kalangan pesakit, masih Malaysia, Dr Mat Zuki mengetuai
iaitu ringan, sederhana dan teruk penting untuk memperkasa pendidikan PRECISION Severe Asthma Working
dengan penilaian dibuat berdasarkan, sebegini supaya mereka boleh terlibat Group dengan kerjasama AstraZeneca
antaranya, jenis dan dos ubat yang lebih aktif dalam pengurusan penyakit. Malaysia yang turut melibatkan pakar
diperlukan oleh pesakit bagi mengawal Pesakit perlu dibimbing untuk perubatan respiratori terkemuka dan
asma. memahami tanda-tanda dan gejala asma ahli profesional kesihatan daripada
“Tahap kesedaran orang ramai bagi membantu mengenal pasti masa institusi awam tempatan.
bahawa asma wujud dalam tiga tahap yang tepat untuk mendapatkan rawatan Kumpulan ini bakal menyiapkan satu
keterukan yang berbeza masih rendah. perubatan. rangka kerja bagi meningkatkan
Setiap tahap memerlukan pendekatan

Sukan

Maloney mahu terus bersama skuad Bayern tingkat
tawaran

B-23 sehingga Olimpik Paris 2024 untuk Mane

KUALA LUMPUR: Ketua jurulatih skuad beliau akan terus menjadi jurulatih akan melihat pemain bergilir untuk dipamerkan pemain-pemain negara itu. LONDON: Bayern Munich menaikkan
Bawah 23 (B-23) kebangsaan Brad Maloney pasukan berkenaan dan membuat perlawanan seterusnya,” katanya. Dalam pada itu, Presiden Persatuan tawaran mereka kepada 30 juta pound
(gambar) akan terus mengemudi skuad persiapan untuk kejohanan seterusnya. (RM164.9 juta) untuk penyerang Liverpool
berkenaan menghadapi kelayakan Sukan Ditanya mengenai kekalahan skuadnya Bolasepak Malaysia (FAM) Datuk Hamidin Sadio Mane selepas tawaran pertama
Olimpik Paris 2024 selagi khidmatnya Skuad B23 kebangsaan tewas 1-4 kepada Thailand, Maloney berkata anak Mohd Amin berkata beliau akan mereka ditolak.
diperlukan. kepada juara bertahan Korea Selatan pada buahnya mempamerkan persembahan menunggu laporan penuh daripada
Khamis lepas sebelum dibenam 3-0 oleh memuaskan pada 20 minit pertama Maloney susulan kegagalan pasukannya Liverpool mengharapkan harga sekitar
Ini selepas prestasi hambar skuad Thailand, malam Ahad lalu. permainan sebelum gagal mengekang gol melepasi peringkat kumpulan Kejohanan 42.5 juta pound (RM233.5 juta) untuk
berkenaan yang tersingkir daripada pendahuluan Thailand pada minit ke-23. Piala Asia B-23 2022, sebelum menentukan penyerang 30 tahun itu bagi
Kejohanan Piala Asia B-23 2022 di Pengendali dari Australia itu masa depan pengendali Australia itu. membolehkan mereka mendapatkan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan setelah tewas dalam mempunyai kontrak sehingga Disember “Saya rasa beberapa pemain kita juga pemain 22 tahun Benfica Darwin Nunez
dua perlawanan Kumpulan C menentang 2023. letih daripada perlawanan pertama dan “Bukan peminat sahaja kecewa, malah sebagai pengganti.
Korea Selatan dan Thailand. seperti yang saya katakan, kita mengejar saya paling kecewa namun biarlah saya
Sementara itu, Maloney berkata beliau permainan dan perlu membuat beberapa komen lebih lanjut selepas dapat laporan Manchester United, Newcastle dan Paris
“Ya, saya rasa begitu. Terlintas di fikiran akan melakukan rombakan bagi skuad perubahan untuk mencuba dan daripada Maloney nanti. Saint-Germain turut berminat dengan
saya, sesuatu yang jelas mungkin perlu sedia ada bagi menghadapi perlawanan mendapatkan sesuatu daripada pemain muda Uruguay itu yang meledak
berbincang dengan pihak pengurusan pelengkap Kumpulan C menentang permainan,” katanya yang mengakui “Kita akan buat tindakan sewajarnya 34 gol dalam 41 penampilan musim ini.
sebaik sahaja kembali nanti,” katanya Vietnam pada Rabu ini untuk sekurang- skuad Gajah Perang sememangnya layak demi bola sepak negara selepas ini,”
dalam sidang media selepas ditanya jika kurangnya membawa pulang satu mata. mendapat tiga mata dengan aksi katanya menerusi satu audio dikongsi Kontrak penyerang Senegal, Mane
FAM kepada media. – Bernama berbaki 12 bulan di Anfield dan dia
“Kita akan menilai semula dan pasti memberi bayangan yang masa depannya
mungkin di tempat lain. – Agensi

Penalti Kramaric Bolitotok, Kondiu mara ke final kejohanan Piala Mimpaagat 2022

selamatkan Croatia gl oh kategori itu dengan lapan gol. kelebihan dua gol mereka. perubahan taktikal yang dilakukan
Bolitotok mendahului dengan dua gol Sementara itu, dalam kategori Kondiu membolehkan mereka
SPLIT, Croatia: Andrej Kramaric KOTA KINABALU: Bolitotok dan Kondiu mengembalikan kelebihan empat minit
menyempurnakan sepakan penalti pada mara ke final kategori Master dan pada separuh masa pertama menerusi Grandmaster, Kondiu menewaskan kemudian apabila pemain gantian
lewat permainan ketika Croatia mengikat Grandmaster dalam kejohanan Piala jaringan jarak dekat Sylvester Sindih pada Sosovitan 2-1. Francis Tunggolou melakukan hantaran
juara dunia Perancis 1-1 di laman sendiri Mimpaagat 2022 yang ditaja oleh minit ke-34 disusuli jaringan pertama lintang untuk Jickol Taguah menanduk
dalam aksi Liga Negara-Negara UEFA, awal Perbadanan Pinjaman Sabah, selepas Joannes pada perlawanan itu. Walaupun mendominasi, Kondiu masuk gol kemenangan.
pagi Selasa. kemenangan masing-masing di semi final gagal menembusi pertahanan lawan
yang diadakan di Stadium Penampang Walaupun Kondiu berjaya merapatkan mereka dan hanya berjaya menjaringkan Menurut Ostar Bedion yang
Pemain tengah Juventus, Adrien Rabiot Sabtu lalu. kedudukan pada separuh masa kedua satu gol menerusi Jastin Midin pada minit merupakan ketua jawatankuasa teknikal
meletakkan Perancis di hadapan pada menerusi Eddy Limbangin pada minit ke- ke-21. kejohanan, satu lagi perlawanan semi
minit ke-52 di Split ketika pengendalinya Dalam kategori Master, Bolitotok 48, kegembiraan mereka tidak final untuk dua kategori itu akan
Didier Deschamps menurunkan skuad menewaskan Kondiu 3-1 dengan dua gol berpanjangan apabila Joannes berjaya Kegagalan mereka memanfaatkan diadakan pada Sabtu (11 Jun) di Stadium
kurang berpengalaman tanpa kelibat daripada Joannes Johnny yang kini menjaringkan gol keduanya pada peluang hampir membawa padah apabila Penampang.
Kylian Mbappe dan Karim Benzema. merupakan penjaring terbanyak dalam perlawanan itu untuk mengembalikan rembatan kaki kiri Linius Dusimin pada
minit ke-65 menyamakan kedudukan dan
Croatia menyamakan kedudukan tujuh
minit sebelum perlawanan tamat apabila Tingka Jr ungguli Kejohanan Bola Sepak 9-Sebelah Terbuka Togudon Tandek
Kramaric mendapat sepakan penalti dan
menyempurnakannya. KOTA MARUDU: Tingka Jr menewaskan FC, Talantang FC, Camelia FC, Tidong FC, TINGKA JR juara kejohanan.
Ginarana FC 1-0 di final untuk muncul Bukit City, Renjer FC, Minigot FC dan
“Kami melakukan banyak perkara yang sebagai juara Kejohanan Bola Sepak 9- Three FT.
baik walaupun dengan semua pertukaran Sebelah Terbuka Togudon Tandek
itu. Kami berada di hadapan dan hampir anjuran Parti Star Sabah Kota Marudu Sementara itu, semasa majlis
mendapat gol kedua. Malangnya kami yang berakhir pada Ahad lalu. perasmian, Penyelaras Star Sabah
memberikan mereka gol penyamaan Parlimen Kota Marudu Dr Paul Porodong
dengan penalti,” kata Deschamps Pada perlawanan itu, kedua-dua meminta kementerian berkaitan di
memberitahu M6. pasukan saling berbalas serangan peringkat negeri dan persekutuan agar
sebelum Tingka Jr meraih kemenangan membina kompleks sukan di Mukim
“Sudah tentu keputusan ini tidak tipis menerusi jaringan Mohd Eshan Tandek.
menggembirakan saya sepenuhnya. Tetapi Azman yang dinobatkan sebagai pemain
ada faktor keletihan dan disebabkan terbaik kejohanan. Mystic FC menduduki Menurut Paul, pembinaan kompleks
perlawanan lain saya terpaksa melakukan tempat ketiga selepas menewaskan sukan itu mampu melahirkan lebih ramai
pertukaran. Ia persediaan terbaik untuk Tarangkapas FC 3-2 menerusi penentuan atlet dalam pembangunan sukan negara
Piala Dunia.” sepakan penalti pada perlawanan seperti dua pemain unggul bola sepak
penentuan tempat ketiga. negara berasal dari Tandek iaitu bekas
Perancis dan Croatia baru mengumpul ketua pasukan bola sepak wanita
satu mata dalam saingan Liga A, Kejohanan terbuka itu disertai 14 kebangsaan bawah 16 tahun, Hellma
Kumpulan 1. Perancis tewas 2-1 di tangan pasukan dan pasukan lain yang terlibat Emily Joinin dan bekas ketua pasukan
Denmark pada perlawanan pembukaan ialah Togudon A FC, Tagudon B FC, Gana Sabah, Rawilson Batuil.
minggu lalu, manakala Croatia dibenam
3-0 oleh Austria. – AFP

SUKAN harianekspres Tingka Jr ungguli 8
Kejohanan Bola Sepak
SUARA TEMPATAN ANDA I RABU, 8 JUN, 2022 9-Sebelah Terbuka
Togudon Tandek

Sabah FC benam Persija Jakarta dalam aksi persahabatan antarabangsa

GL Oh dipintas oleh Taufik Hidayat yang berjaya “Kami melakukan kesilapan individu
menjaringkan gol penyamaan.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah FC mengejutkan tetapi berjaya menjaringkan gol
pasukan liga utama Indonesia, Persija Bagaimanapun, Park Taesu berjaya
Jakarta 2-1 dalam perlawanan mengembalikan kelebihan Sabah pada kemenangan dan secara keseluruhan, saya
persahabatan antarabangsa yang minit ke-62 apabila dia diberi masa dan
diadakan di Stadium Patriot ruang untuk menjaringkan gol dengan amat berpuas hati dengan persembahan
Chandrabhaga, Bekasi, petang Ahad lalu. tandukan daripada sepakan sudut
Baddrol Bakhtiar. Kedudukan itu kekal pasukan dan saya harap mereka dapat
Neto Pessoa membuka jaringan pada sehingga wisel penamat.
minit ke-4 susulan gerakan menarik mengekalkan momentum menentang
daripada Taiki Kagayama yang melakukan Ketua jurulatih Badak, Datuk Ong Kim
hantaran yang mengelirukan pertahanan Swee berkata bermain di pentas besar di Bhayangkara FC dalam aksi persahabatan
untuk Tommy Mawat, yang seterusnya hadapan kira-kira 70,000 penonton di
melakukan hantaran lintang untuk Neto, dalam stadium mendorong pemain- kedua pada Selasa,” katanya selepas
yang mudah melakukan tolakan ke pemain memberikan yang terbaik.
gawang lawan. perlawanan itu.
“Pengalaman bermain di pentas
Taiki berpeluang mencetak nama antarabangsa meningkatkan prestasi Beliau menjangkakan pemain-pemain
selaku penjaring pada separuh masa pemain-pemain, dan kemenangan itu
pertama tetapi sepakannya dihalang oleh sangat penting untuk pasukan selepas akan berada di tahap terbaik walaupun
penjaga gol ketika situasi satu lawan satu rehat yang panjang.
pada minit ke-33. perlawanan akan diadakan tanpa
“Persija Jakarta seperti yang dijangka
Penjaga gol Sabah Khairul Fahmi Che memberikan tekanan dengan kelebihan penonton pada petang Selasa.
Mat kemudian melakukan kesilapan pada bermain di hadapan penyokong sendiri
minit ke-59 apabila cubaannya untuk walaupun mereka ketinggalan di awal “Objektif kami menentang
mengeluarkan bola dari luar kotak penalti permainan.
Bhayangkara FC adalah sama dan pemain-

pemain mesti mengambil tanggungjawab

untuk cuba memenangi perlawanan itu.

“Tidak penting siapa yang akan

diturunkan tetapi mereka mesti belajar

daripada pengalaman bermain di luar

negara menentang pasukan asing dan

dapat menggunakannya apabila musim

bersambung untuk perlawanan

menentang Sri Pahang,” tambahnya. ONG dan Baddrol semasa sidang media.

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sambutan ulang tahun ke-50 mereka berlalu sejak Malaysia membuat kemenangan di tempat lawan masing-
akan diadakan di Dalit Bay Golf & penampilan terakhir pada pentas dan Bahrain yang membuat masing menentang Myanmar dan KUALA LUMPUR: Jumlah sebenar anggota
Country Club pada 25 Jun. pusingan akhir kejohanan bola sepak Thailand bulan lepas, Malaysia dijangka kontinjen Malaysia ke Sukan Komanwel
Piala Asia ketika menjadi tuan rumah penampilan pada pusingan akhir edisi berdepan saat sukar dalam misi Birmingham 2022 bermula 28 Julai hingga
Acara tahunan anjuran kelab sukan bersama pada edisi 2007. membawa pulang sekurang-kurangnya 8 Ogos ini, akan diketahui pada minggu
dan sosial Sedco itu terbuka kepada ke- 2019 di Emiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) satu mata. depan dengan kira-kira 130 atlet negara
dua-dua berpasukan dan individu dan Ketika itu, penantian semua pihak bakal beraksi di temasya berkenaan.
akan menggunakan format Sistem 36 untuk melihat Malaysia beraksi di selepas masing-masing muncul naib Pertembungan terakhir kedua-dua
Stableford. pentas kejohanan berprestij bola sepak pasukan pada Mei tahun lalu yang Presiden Majlis Olimpik Malaysia
Asia akhirnya tercapai selepas pasukan juara dan juara kumpulan pusingan menyaksikan skuad tuan rumah (MOM) Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria
Pengurus besar kumpulan negara gagal melayakkan diri secara bimbingan Helio Sousa itu pula berjaya berkata perkara itu akan diputuskan
merangkap penaung kelab itu, Haizar merit sejak edisi 1980 di Kuwait. kelayakan dengan Bahrain juga menundukkan Malaysia 2-0 yang ketika selepas mesyuarat Jawatankuasa
Razif Hisyam Ajaz Nabijan berkata ob- itu di bawah kendalian bekas ketua Pemilihan pada 14 Jun, diikuti bengkel
jektif pertandingan itu adalah untuk Namun sehingga saat ini Malaysia konsisten layak ke Piala Asia sejak edisi jurulatih Tan Cheng Hoe. bersama pengurus pasukan dua hari
memupuk dan mempromosikan per- masih memburu tiket ke pusingan kemudian.
sahabatan dan interaksi dalam kalan- akhir Piala Asia dengan perjalanan 2004. Bahrain yang diberi jolokan
gan peserta yang terdiri daripada mereka yang sering terhenti di ‘Dilmun’s Warriors’ adalah pasukan “Kita menerima kuota sebanyak 92
kumpulan syarikat Sedco, kerajaan pusingan ketiga kempen kelayakan Bagaimanapun, kekurangan pilihan untuk menjuarai saingan atlet, kita harus membuat keputusan dan
dan agensi, syarikat dan persatuan di meskipun ketua jurulatih bersilih ganti. Kumpulan E. memilih sukan-sukan yang kita mahu
dalam dan sekitar Kota Kinabalu, serta perlawanan kompetitif Turkmenistan hantar. Kita juga mempunyai beberapa
untuk mengumpul dana untuk kelab. Bermula hari ini, pasukan negara Dalam pada itu, meskipun menjadi atlet yang telah layak melalui kejohanan
sekali lagi akan mencuba dengan dan rekod jaringan dicipta Malaysia pasukan di kedudukan ranking lebih kelayakan,” katanya.
Menurut beliau, hadiah menarik giliran jurulatih dari Korea Selatan, Kim rendah, Bangladesh berupaya
menanti pemenang termasuk pukulan Pan Gon menggalas tanggungjawab dalam beberapa aksi persahabatan memberikan kejutan kepada pasukan Antara sukan yang telah melayakkan
selubang dengan hadiah tunai bernilai membimbing skuad Harimau Malaya negara selepas berjaya mengikat naib diri menerusi kejohanan kelayakan adalah
RM1,000.00 ditaja oleh Kelab Kumpu- untuk berdepan ‘tembok halangan’ antarabangsa sebelum ini, dilihat juara Piala AFF 2020, Indonesia, tanpa ragbi yang merangkumi 13 atlet, ping
lan Sedco, satu unit LED TV 55” ditaja yang gagal dilepasi lebih 40 tahun. jaringan pada aksi persahabatan di pong (8), angkat berat (7) serta sembilan
oleh Cement Industries (Sabah) Sdn memberi kelebihan kepada pasukan Indonesia, awal bulan ini. atlet para, selain dua slot tambahan untuk
Bhd  dan lebih banyak akan diu- Diundi dalam Kumpulan E, Malaysia atlet terjun negara iaitu Jellson Jabillin
mumkan nanti. akan memulakan misi ke Piala Asia tuan rumah untuk meraih tiga mata Mengikut statistik, Malaysia dan Nur Dhabitah Sabri.
2023 bertemu Turkmenistan esok mempunyai rekod bersih berdepan
Selain daripada hadiah tiga peme- diikuti Bahrain (11 Jun) dan Bangladesh pada pertembungan itu. Bangladesh apabila melakar tujuh Kontinjen Malaysia kali ini sedikit
nang teratas untuk berpasukan (nett), pada 14 Jun dengan kesemua aksi kemenangan dan dua seri sepanjang 10 berkurangan berbanding purata 170 atlet
lima untuk individu (nett), tiga untuk berlangsung di Stadium Nasional di Turkmenistan yang diberi jolokan pertemuan dengan kali terakhir kedua- sebelum ini, memandangkan tuan rumah
individu (gross) dan hadiah novelti Bukit Jalil. dua pasukan berentap adalah pada mengurangkan jumlah acara dipertan-
(pukulan terjauh, terdekat dengan pin, ‘The Greens’ tewas 0-1 kepada Thailand 2012 yang menyaksikan perlawanan dingkan termasuk mengenepikan acara
terdekat dengan baris), terdapat juga Berdasarkan ranking, Malaysia ke- persahabatan berakhir dengan menembak dan memanah.
hadiah cabutan bertuah termasuk tiket 154 dunia dijangka berdepan cabaran pada perlawanan kompetitif pertama keputusan seri 1-1.
penerbangan daripada MASwings yang sengit dalam dua aksi pertama apabila Selain itu, skuad hoki lelaki tidak
menjadi penaja bersama acara itu. bertemu Turkmenistan (ke-134) dan mereka sejak Jun 2021, hujung Mei Untuk layak secara merit ke Piala menyertai Komanwel kali ini kerana mahu
Bahrain (ke-89) sebelum berdepan Asia 2023, Malaysia perlu menjuarai memberikan tumpuan kepada Piala Asia
Yuran penyertaan ialah RM500 seo- lawan di ranking lebih rendah, lepas, sementara Malaysia mencatat Kumpulan E atau muncul antara lima di Jakarta baru-baru ini dan Sukan Asia
rang atau RM2,000 sepasukan empat Bangladesh yang berkedudukan ke-188 naib juara terbaik dalam kempen Hangzhou 2022, yang masing-masing
pemain dan ia termasuk yuran green, dunia. tiga kemenangan dalam empat aksi kelayakan kali ini. – Bernama menawarkan tiket ke Piala Dunia 2023 dan
yuran buggy, sarapan dan makan ten- Sukan Olimpik Paris 2024.
gah hari pada hari kejohanan. terakhir, terbaru menang 2-0 ke atas
Namun, Sukan Asia yang dijadualkan
Tarikh tutup adalah pada 9 Jun dan Hong Kong di Stadium Nasional Bukit bermula 10-25 September ini, ditangguh
untuk maklumat lanjut boleh sehingga satu tarikh yang akan
menghubungi setiausaha penganjur Jalil. diputuskan kelak berikutan peningkatan
Mordiana Abdulah di 088-427111 atau kes Covid-19 di China. – Bernama
017-8141403. – GL Oh Pemain sayap berpengalaman,

MGJA-UiTM rancang Arslanmyrat Amanow berusia 32 tahun

tubuh Akademi antara pemain taruhan Turkmenistan

Golf Malaysia dengan beliau kini hanya tiga jaringan

SHAH ALAM: Persatuan Golf Junior dipisahkan daripada menyamai rekod
Malaysia (MGJA) berhasrat untuk
mewujudkan kerangka program Akademi penjaring terbanyak pasukan yang
Golf Malaysia Universiti Teknologi Mara
(UiTM) dalam usaha Melahirkan pemain dipegang Vladimir Bayramov dengan
berkualiti dalam bidang sukan dan
akademik. 16 gol.

Presidennya Datuk Seri Dr Irmohizam Berdasarkan rekod, perlawanan
Ibrahim berkata kerjasama antara MGJA
dan Fakulti Sains Sukan dan Rekreasi (FSR) bertemu Turkmenistan bakal menjadi
UiTM itu termasuk menggunakan
kemahiran serta kepakaran yang dimiliki pertemuan pertama kedua-dua
oleh persatuan itu untuk diketengahkan
kepada pemain di peringkat muda dalam pasukan di pentas antarabangsa.
usaha melahirkan pemain golf
profesional. Sementara itu, berdepan Bahrain

“Namun perincian lanjut berhubung yang hanya mencatat satu kekalahan
penubuhan akademi itu masih dalam
peringkat perbincangan antara MGJA dan Turkmenistan kurang perlawanan, kelebihan buat Malaysia – Pan Gon
FSR untuk diperhalusi,” katanya pada
pemberita selepas majlis menandatangani PETALING JAYA: Pasukan persembahan terbaik. kemenangan daripada empat perlawanan Dion Cools enggan memikirkan tentang
perjanjian persefahaman (MoU) antara “Ia (kurang perlawanan kompetitif) tahun ini, terbaru kemenangan 2-0 ke atas keupayaan Turkmenistan namun
persatuannya dan fakulti tersebut. negara dilihat mempunyai Hong Kong di Stadium Nasional. berharap rakan sepasukannnya akan
adalah kelebihan buat kita tetapi secara bermain seperti yang dirancang bagi
MoU itu dimeterai oleh Irmohizam dan kelebihan untuk mengatasi amnya kita tak boleh buat jangkaan, Sementara itu, Pan Gon mengulangi meraih kejayaan.
Timbalan Presiden Mohd Zurie Harun mereka mempunyai kondisi tersendiri kenyataannya untuk mengumpul tujuh
mewakili MGJA manakala UiTM diwakili Turkmenistan dalam tetapi saya hanya menumpukan pada mata keseluruhan dalam kempen “Kami hanya mahu bermain corak
Naib Canselor Professor Datuk Dr Roziah kondisi kita. kelayakan itu dan skuad negara turut permainan kami dan menguasai padang,
Mohd Janor serta Dekan FSR Profesor Dr perlawanan sulung kempen dijadualkan menentang Bahrain dan mungkin ia akan menjadi permainan
Mohad Anizu Mohd Nor. “Ketika di Singapura saya rasa kita Bangladesh, masing-masing pada 11 dan yang bersifat fizikal, mungkin tidak, itu
Kumpulan E pusingan bermain dengan baik dan juga kem 14 Jun ini di venue sama. akan kita lihat esok, kami hanya perlu ikut
Sementara itu, Roziah berkata latihan ini kita telah melakukan sesi yang strategi yang telah dirancang,” kata
penubuhan akademi tersebut dijangka kelayakan Piala Asia 2023 di amat baik dengan dua perlawanan rasmi Tiga mata pertama, katanya, disasarkan pemain kacukan Malaysia-Belgium
dilaksanakan dalam tempoh dua tahun serta satu tidak rasmi. Saya rasa kita telah pada perlawanan esok, yang juga berusia 26 tahun itu
selepas mendapat ketetapan daripada Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil, malam ini. membuat persediaan yang baik dan buat merupakan pertemuan pertama Malaysia
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi serta masa ini kita telah bersedia,” katanya pada dan Turkmenistan Pemain FC Midtjylland itu yang
Kementerian Belia dan Sukan. Meskipun Turkmenistan menduduki sidang media praperlawanan pada Selasa. dipinjamkan ke Zulte Waregem, berkata
“Jika ingin ke peringkat akhir Piala selepas setahun dalam skuad negara,
“Namun setakat ini belum ada ranking ke-134 dunia berbanding Turkmenistan tewas 0-1 kepada Asia, kita mesti mendapatkan tujuh mata beliau kini lebih serasi dengan rakan
perbincangan (berhubung akademi itu) di Thailand bulan lepas dalam perlawanan dan kita akan cuba yang terbaik untuk sepasukan dan lebih berkeyakinan dalam
peringkat Majlis Eksekutif UiTM. Kami akan Harimau Malaya pada kedudukan ke-154, kompetitif pertama mereka sejak Jun 2021, mencapai matlamat itu,” katanya. setiap perlawanan. – Bernama
bawa hasrat ini melalui satu kertas kerja manakala Malaysia merekodkan tiga
daripada FSR untuk dimajukan kepada ketua jurulatih kebangsaan Kim Pan Gon Dalam pada itu, pemain pertahanan
majlis tersebut,” katanya. – Bernama
(gambar) berkata pasukan itu kurang

menjalani perlawanan kompetitif.

Bagaimanapun jurulatih dari Korea

Selatan itu, mengakui pasukan dengan

jolokan ‘The Greens’ itu mempunyai

kekuatannya tersendiri, justeru berharap

anak buahnya akan memberikan

Sandakan ungguli pusingan kedua Kejohanan Tenis Remaja Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Sandakan merangkul tujuh gelaran pada PEMENANG-PEMENANG pasukan Sandakan bersama ibu bapa dan pegawai.
pusingan kedua Kejohanan Tenis Remaja Sabah yang diadakan di
Kompleks Sukan Keningau pada hujung minggu lalu.

Mereka mendominasi kategori bawah-18 dengan memenangi
acara perseorangan dan beregu lelaki dan perempuan menerusi
Rishigeswaran Vigneswaran dalam acara perseorangan lelaki,
Jashnavissri Vigneswaran dalam perseorangan perempuan,
Rishigeswaran dan Asyahmie Suhaili dalam beregu lelaki dan
Jashnavissri bersama Chow Yi Ling dalam beregu perempuan.

Mereka juga memenangi gelaran perseorangan lelaki bawah
14 dan bawah-10 menerusi Braylen Odell Johannes dan Bradley
Oscar Johannes, serta beregu lelaki bawah-14 yang dimenangi oleh
Shawn Alfie Silvester dan Braylen.

Seramai 84 pemain dari enam daerah mengambil bahagian
dalam kejohanan tiga hari itu dan Kota Kinabalu menduduki
tangga kedua dengan enam gelaran disusuli Tawau dengan dua
dan satu untuk Keningau.

Presiden Persatuan Tenis Sabah, Johnson Koh yang hadir pada
majlis penutupan memuji ibu bapa atas sokongan mereka kepada
anak-anak mereka. – GL Oh