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KPM junjung titah Raja Permaisuri Agong wujudkan persekitaran selamat di institusi pendidikan

KPM junjung titah Raja Permaisuri Agong wujudkan persekitaran selamat di institusi pendidikan

PUTRAJAYA - Kementerian Pendidikan (KPM) menjunjung titah Raja Permaisuri Agong, Raja Zarith Sofiah berhubung keperluan mewujudkan persekitaran yang selamat di semua institusi pendidikan.Dalam kenyataan pada Rabu, KPM memaklumkan bahawa titah Seri Paduka Baginda menjadi peringatan penting kepada seluruh warga kementerian untuk menangani isu salah laku seksual yang memberi implikasi besar kepada masyarakat dan negara."KPM komited melaksanakan kempen kesedaran menyeluruh di semua institusi pendidikan, menilai keberkesanan modul Tindak Demi Anak Kita (TinDak), serta bekerjasama dengan Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) bagi menjalankan kajian mengenai pengaruh media sosial terhadap murid seperti yang dititahkan Seri Paduka Baginda."Keprihatinan Raja Permaisuri Agong yang menzahirkan pandangan berhubung isu sosial dan langkah menanganinya menjadi panduan kepada KPM untuk terus memperkukuh aspek keselamatan di institusi pendidikan," menurut kenyataan itu.Pada Selasa, Seri Paduka Baginda bertitah agar KPM menilai keberkesanan modul kempen TinDak dalam usaha memperkukuh persekitaran sekolah yang lebih selamat dengan penglibatan aktif ibu bapa.Titah tersebut dizahirkan susulan kejadian rogol di sebuah sekolah di Alor Gajah, Melaka baru-baru ini yang dipandang serius oleh Seri Paduka Baginda.Dalam masa sama, Seri Paduka Baginda turut bertitah agar sekolah sentiasa peka terhadap perkembangan semasa termasuk penggunaan Internet dan media sosial dalam kalangan murid serta menilai semula pendekatan sedia ada supaya seiring dengan perubahan zaman. - Bernama

Dua apartmen diserbu, dadah bernilai RM5.33 juta dirampas

Dua apartmen diserbu, dadah bernilai RM5.33 juta dirampas

JOHOR BAHRU – Sindiket pengedaran dadah bernilai RM5.33 juta yang menjadikan apartmen berpagar dan mempunyai pengawal sebagai pusat penyimpanan dadah tumpas selepas empat lelaki tempatan ditahan dalam tiga serbuan berasingan sekitar bandaraya ini pada minggu lalu.Ketua Polis Johor, Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad berkata, serbuan dijalankan oleh Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Narkotik (JSJN) IPK Johor pada 10 hingga 11 Oktober lalu hasil risikan berterusan.Jelas beliau, serbuan pertama di sebuah apartmen di Taman Delima membawa kepada penahanan dua lelaki serta rampasan pelbagai jenis dadah termasuk serbuk MDMA seberat 10 kilogram dan pil ekstasi dua kilogram."Serbuan kedua pula di tepi jalan kawasan Taman Sri Tebrau pula membawa kepada tangkapan seorang lagi lelaki bersama syabu seberat 1.44 gram."Manakala serbuan ketiga di sebuah apartmen di Jalan Larkin berjaya menahan suspek keempat dan merampas sejumlah besar dadah pelbagai jenis termasuk serbuk MDMA (15.31 kg), serbuk ekstasi (3.46 kg), pil ekstasi (3.49 kg), pil Erimin 5, ganja, ketamin dan syabu."Secara keseluruhan, polis merampas 37.62 kilogram dadah, jumlah yang mampu merosakkan 115,948 individu jika dipasarkan," katanya.Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang akhbar di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Johor pada Rabu.Menurut Ab Rahaman, sindiket dipercayai aktif sejak Mac lalu dan menyewa apartmen berpagar sebagai tempat penyimpanan sebelum diedarkan ke pasaran tempatan terutama pusat hiburan."Kesemua suspek berusia 35 hingga 54 tahun itu ditahan reman tujuh hari bermula 11 hingga 17 Oktober ini. Ujian saringan air kencing mendapati mereka positif methamphetamine."Siasatan mendapati dua suspek mempunyai rekod jenayah lampau, termasuk kesalahan di bawah Seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952," katanya.Tambah beliau, selain dadah, polis turut menyita tiga buah kereta dan pelbagai barangan kemas bernilai RM123,200, menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan rampasan dan sitaan sebanyak RM5.45 juta."Kes disiasat di bawah Seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952. Orang ramai boleh menyalurkan maklumat ke Hotline JSJN di 012-208 7222," ujarnya.

Selangor Government Launches Its All-In-One App Nine

Selangor Government Launches Its All-In-One App Nine

The Selangor government has just released its own all-in-one app called Nine. This comprehensive “super app” is said to combine various essential services and smart features that Selangor residents need for a more “efficient lifestyle”. With the app, users can pay for parking, access municipal and local government services, and use it as their main […] The post Selangor Government Launches Its All-In-One App Nine appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Pas gesa Singapura henti tuduhan, kaitkan dengan politik dalaman

Pas gesa Singapura henti tuduhan, kaitkan dengan politik dalaman

KUALA LUMPUR: Pas menolak sebarang campur tangan Singapura yang cuba mengaitkan parti itu dengan isu politik dalaman negara tersebut. Setiausaha Agung Pas, Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan berkata, Singapura sebaliknya perlu menangani masalah domestik sendiri tanpa menjadikan pihak luar sebagai kambing hitam. “Pas tidak akan membiarkan naratif palsu yang menggambarkan pandangan rentas sempadan sebagai ancaman keselamatan ... Read more The post Pas gesa Singapura henti tuduhan, kaitkan dengan politik dalaman appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

Seoul sends team to Cambodia over scam centre kidnappings

Seoul sends team to Cambodia over scam centre kidnappings

SEOUL: South Korea will send a special team to Cambodia on Wednesday to discuss cases of fake jobs and scam centres involved in kidnapping dozens of its nationals, officials said a day after Seoul vowed to bring them all home. The team, headed by the vice foreign minister, will depart Wednesday evening, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. South Korea’s presidential office said Tuesday that 63 South Koreans were believed to have been detained in Cambodia, among 80 reported missing, and the government was “committed to bringing all South Korean nationals back home”. Between January and August this year, 330 South Koreans were reported missing or detained against their will while in Cambodia, according to Seoul’s foreign ministry, with the safety of about 80 yet to be verified. The government plans to “make every diplomatic effort to secure Cambodia’s cooperation”, the presidential office said, while “coordinating with relevant ministries to strengthen the embassy’s response capacity -- including by increasing the number of police officials at the South Korean embassy in Cambodia”. The response team includes officials from the police and South Korea’s spy agency, according to the presidential office. South Korean police are set to “discuss with Cambodian authorities the repatriation of detained South Koreans” and conduct a joint investigation into the recent death of a South Korean college student, the presidential office has said. The recent death of a Korean college student in Cambodia -- reportedly kidnapped and tortured by a local crime ring -- has shocked South Korea. Police investigations and an autopsy showed the student, whose body was found in a pickup truck early on August 8, “died as a result of severe torture, with multiple bruises and injuries across his body”, according to a Cambodian court statement. Three Chinese nationals were charged with murder and online fraud on August 11 and remain in pre-trial detention, the court said. Many Korean victims of such crimes in Cambodia are said to have been lured by fraudulent job offers promising high pay, according to the South Korean government. According to Amnesty International, abuses in Cambodia’s scam centres are happening on a “mass scale”. There are at least 53 scam compounds in the country where organised criminal groups carry out human trafficking, forced labour, torture, deprivation of liberty and slavery, according to the organisation. - AFP

Cuaca lembap dan ribut petir dijangka berterusan

Cuaca lembap dan ribut petir dijangka berterusan

PETALING JAYA: Beberapa negeri di utara serta Pantai Timur Semenanjung diramal berdepan hujan dan ribut petir pada hari ini berdasarkan ramalan cuaca yang dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Meteorologi (MetMalaysia). Menurut MetMalaysia, kejadian ribut petir pada waktu pagi meliputi beberapa tempat di negeri Kedah, kawasan pantai di Pulau Pinang serta beberapa kawasan di Tawau dan Sandakan di ... Read more The post Cuaca lembap dan ribut petir dijangka berterusan appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

Ethiopia’s weavers struggle to keep garment tradition alive

Ethiopia’s weavers struggle to keep garment tradition alive

ADDIS ABABA : Behind the looms of a workshop in the heart of Addis Ababa, dozens of weavers deftly repeat the same motions to craft traditional dresses -- a centuries-old skill now threatened by Ethiopia’s economic hardships. For generations, the “habesha kemis” -- long white cotton dresses often adorned with colourful embroidery -- have been handwoven. Their elaborate designs serve as attire for festivities and religious ceremonies. It takes a week to weave the simplest dresses, and twice as long for those adorned with intricate embroidery -- a meticulous, painstaking craft, several artisans say in a workshop where the steady clink of looms fills the air. “The work is exhausting... we live day by day,“ said Asefaw Yemu, 45, a weaver with three decades of experience who earns between 10,000 and 15,000 birr ($68-102) a month, before deducting the cost of raw materials. In the dimly lit room, men hunch over their looms, shuttling cotton threads back and forth as their feet work a complex pedal system that never seems to rest. Asefaw said he works nine hours a day, six days a week -- but with inflation hovering around 21.5 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, demand has slowed sharply. - ‘No Future’ - About 39 percent of Ethiopia’s 130 million people lived below the poverty line -- less than $3 a day -- in 2021, a figure the World Bank projected will rise to 43 percent this year. At the same workshop, Getu Derza, 48, carefully embroiders colourful silk threads into intricate patterns. “What we produce with so much effort can now be made instantly by machines in factories... It affects our income,“ said Derza, who began the craft at the age of 14. An influx of cheaper machine-made habesha kemis from China years ago undercut Ethiopia’s traditional weavers. Government restrictions came too late for many, who had already turned to other jobs. In this struggling economy, Derza said what was once a skill passed down from generation to generation now “ends with us”. At 23, Abush Dubule, the youngest among the weavers, is already considering a career change “There’s no future,“ he said. “The economy isn’t what it used to be... it’s not just Chinese products. People are buying less overall.” - ‘Special moment’ - A habesha kemis can cost several hundred euros -- a considerable sum in Ethiopia. Belhu Belta, 48, runs a small shop selling traditional dresses and scarves. He said he struggles to attract customers but stays in business, hoping there are still those who value handmade garments. “If the market continues like this, the craft might disappear,“ Belhu said. Adanech Daniel, 50, was shopping for a wedding dress and refused to compromise on quality -- representing the kind of customer who keeps Belta optimistic. “When you wear these traditional clothes together as a family or couple, it brings vibrance and joy to the occasion,“ she said. “It’s beautiful, it shines and makes the moment special.” - AFP