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- Rat population in Sabah poses menace to tourism
- Good news for sports development in Sabah
- Malacca hopes to obtain allocation from World Heritage Fund soon
| Rat population in Sabah poses menace to tourism Posted: 12 Jun 2011 06:51 PM PDT KOTA KINABALU: The multiplying population of rats in the city will pose a menace to the tourism industry, the state's main income earner. Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir said the presence of the vermin might give an impression of a community that does not care for cleanliness or ignorant of diseases spread by rats. "The average number of rats caught by city hall every month at the central market is 160 compared to 80 a month last year. This rat control campaign is a continuity of previous and ongoing programmes by DBKK (Kota Kinabalu City Hall) albeit more intensively and aggresively," he said at the launch the city's rat control campaign here. He viewed the situation as worrying in regard to facts that rats are linked to leptospirosis and carry 230,000 salmonella germs in their droppings, which can cause food poisoning and bubonic plague, Aujesky's Classical Swine Fever and rat bite fever. Abidin said the campaign themed 'No food leftovers, no rat', is targeted at food and drinks operators, hawkers, shopping centre management corporations, as well as departments and government and private agencies. Abidin said the DBKK would introduce a food-leftover isolation system as a pilot project for its rat control programme. – Bernama. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Good news for sports development in Sabah Posted: 12 Jun 2011 06:50 PM PDT KOTA KINABALU: Efforts to develop sports programmes in Sabah received a shot in the arm thanks to an allocation of nearly RM20mil by the Sabah government this year. "Together with a grant of over RM22mil for the development of sports complexes in Sabah's main districts under the 10th Malaysian Plan, this allocation proves the state is serious in elevating its sporting capabilities," said Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman. Annual grants, added Musa, were also given to state sports associations to help them organise and participate in sporting events at state, national and international levels, and as incentives to triumphant athletes and sporting bodies. "Sabah is blessed to have many facilities that are not only used for sporting and recreational activities but also used by top-performing athletes for their training," he said. Musa commented on this at the launch the fifth Sabah Games (Saga) at a sports complex in the interior district of Keningau, some 135km from here. "The Saga tournament is intended to discover new talents as well as churn out promising athletes." The expansion of the tournament format to include six zones involving 25 districts, he added, was also meant to widen the talent pool search. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Malacca hopes to obtain allocation from World Heritage Fund soon Posted: 12 Jun 2011 06:49 PM PDT MALACCA: The government has asked the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and National Heritage Department to pay out the remaining funds from the World Heritage Site Fund, amounting to RM30mil which was promised to the state. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the government had so far received RM3.4mil, of which RM2.2 million was allocated to the Malacca Historic City Council and RM1.2 million to the state Museum Corporation. "I appeal to the National Heritage Department and EPU to give us the money, not only for Malacca but also for the country, because without it many interrelated programmes cannot be executed," he told reporters after launching a seminar in conjuction with the Melaka River Festival here. A total of RM30mi from the fund was allocated for Malacca, while RM20mil was for George Town, Penang, after the two cities were selected as World Heritage Sites by Unesco on July 7, 2008. On the seminar, Mohd Ali said the government had planned to conduct an international seminar and exhibition on rivers each year with participants from countries that had managed their rivers well. He added that Malacca is ready to become a research centre for river management because the quality of the state's rivers had exceeded those in Venice, Italy and San Antonio, Texas. On average, the water quality of Malacca's water categorised as moderately polluted with a Water Quality Index reading of 75, Mohd Ali said Malacca has107 rivers with a total length of 678 kilometres. In a related matter, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Unggah Embas said that under the 10th Malaysia Plan, the Drainage and Irrigation Department would carry out phase two of a river cleaning and beautification project which was a continuation from the Hang Jebat bridge to the Batu Hampar tide gates in Peringgit, here, involving an allocation of RM285mil. He said the ministry had allocated RM321.5mil for the first phase of the project from Taman Rempah, here, until the river mouth which was successfully completed last year. – Bernama. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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