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- All states to adopt e-Halal system by next year
- Negri Sembilan to have sea-spanning cable car
- S'gor MB Khalid tells Jais to submit report on church raid by September
| All states to adopt e-Halal system by next year Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:43 AM PDT PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysia Islamic Development Department (Jakim) is targeting use of the e-Halal system by all states by next year, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim said Wednesday. She said that only seven states would implement the system this year, led by Penang, Malacca, Negri Sembilan and Sabah, followed by Pahang, Sarawak and Johor at year-end. Mashitah told reporters here that the e-system would facilitate collaboration between Jakim and state religious departments and council to standardise procedures, certificates and logos. She said that the e-Halal system that Jakim introduced in 2007 enabled applications to be made on line and for anyone to check on the halal status of products and premises. - Bernama Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Negri Sembilan to have sea-spanning cable car Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:16 AM PDT SEREMBAN: A cable car spanning the sea is to be built in Negri Sembilan, linking Port Dickson to Pulau Arang about one kilometre away, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said Wednesday. The cable car is a project of local company TSR Ocean Park Sdn Bhd, which is developing the almost completed PD Waterfront new township. "The PD Waterfront and cable car project cost RM1.8bil. It will be built in two phases, with the cable car in the second phase. Phase one is almost complete," he told reporters after the weekly meeting of the state executive council. Mohamad is confident the cable car will become a major tourist attraction because it will be the first over the sea in the country. "Pulau Arang has a forest reserve with various species of trees and plants," he said. PD Waterfront is a 20.2ha new township, where the state government is proposing a duty-free zone besides a jetty, hotel and shopping mall, he added. Mohamad said he was confident the PD Waterfront project would be well received by investors considering that more than 1.5 million local and foreign tourists visited the Port Dickson beaches at the weekend. Under the second and third phases, PD Waterfront will have three- and four-star hotels as well as a medical centre, a theme park and a convention centre, he said. - Bernama Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| S'gor MB Khalid tells Jais to submit report on church raid by September Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:11 AM PDT SHAH ALAM: Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has asked the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) to submit a report on its raid on a multi-racial dinner at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church by September. Abdul Khalid said Wednesday he understood Jais was having difficulty getting information from the 12 Muslims who attended the dinner. "They are making 'legal excuses' through their lawyers not to speak to Jais," he told reporters after chairing a state executive council meeting here. He said his office itself had received a letter from the law firm representing 10 of the 12 Muslim diners. The state government was leaving it to Jais legal experts to give advise on the matter, he added. Khalid said Jais should be given time to complete the report which would be presented to Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah so he could advise the state government on the next course of action. He said the gag order on all exco members and government officers on discussing the issue openly remained.- Bernama Related Stories: |
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