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- Poor orang asli students in Labis receive school goodies
- Encouraging response to new ruling by JPJ
- Aid welcomed by the public
| Poor orang asli students in Labis receive school goodies Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:21 AM PST LABIS: A total of 270 Orang Asli children from eight Asli villages in the Labis constituency were given schoolbags and stationery supplies. Labis MP Datuk Chua Tee Yong said the donation was to reach out to poor students in rural area. "We hope to lessen the financial burden of the families and encourage the children to go to school," he said after presenting the schoolbags to pupils at SK Kudong in Bekok last week. Chua said the school supplies were worth more than RM25,000, where RM12,600 of stuff were sponsored by Muamalat Bank and the rest was allocation under his constituency. He said education is very important for the future of the children and the government was doing its best to ensure all Malaysian children received proper education. The efforts including stationary supplies, comfortable school building and hostels and various other facilities to ensure condusive learning evironment for students regardless in urban or rural areas, he added. At the event, Tok Batin Asoi Lim Tian Chin said in his speech that he hoped the government would provide clean water and repair the access road to Kampung Kudong. Located about 20km from the main road, Lim said only four-wheel drive vehicles could reach the village. Chua said he had brought up the water supply issue to Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal. "Five Orang Asli village here need clean water supply. They are depending on underground water currently. "They need clean and quality water," he said, adding that the water from underground is not enough for supply sometimes. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Encouraging response to new ruling by JPJ Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:03 AM PST JASIN: Some 260,000 motorists have made adjustments to synchronise their driving licence expiry dates with their birthdays, said Road Transport Department (JPJ) deputy director-general Datuk Ismail Ahmad. As of Dec 5, he said that a total of 158,467 motorists have come forward to make adjustments at post offices nationwide with the rest at JPJ offices at all states. "Another 662 have opted to do so via online e-government services portal MyEG", he said after attending a joint operation at the Bemban rest area along the North-South Expressway here recently. He said Johor have recorded 11,718 people, the highest number of motorists making the adjustment on their driving license, followed by Selangor (11,089) and Sarawak (9,808). "Motorists, he added, need not rush as adjustments could be made during their next license renewal." On another matter, Ismail has called on back seat passengers to instil the habit of buckling up as the ruling takes effect from Jan 1 next year. He said many still take it for granted that failure to wear their seat belts would induce the risk of serious injuries and death by 50% in an accident. "Our enforcement officers will be always on the lookout for offenders.We will not hesitate to issue the offender a non-discountable compound of RM300 if the passenger does not put on the seat belt", he said, adding enforcement officers would patrol on the road and at roadblocks checking on motorists and passengers all the time. Meanwhile, he noted that 583 summons have been issued throughout the one-week Pre-Chinese New Year joint operation held by the department with 12 other agencies in Malacca. He said the operation from Dec 1 to Dec 7 targeted all vehicles including public transport vehicles like express buses and tour buses. "The department would conduct massive operations nationwide one week before and after Chinese New Year festive season to reduce accident rate", he added. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:03 AM PST JOHOR BARU: The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) office was visited by thousands of applicants after they started distributing the forms for the RM500 one-off assistance here yesterday. The one-off assitance was announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when tabling the 2012 Budget on Oct 7 and would be given to households with an income of RM3,000 and below. Eager applicants had started queuing at the office along Jalan Padi Emas from 7am with crowds reaching the hundreds by 9am causing traffic congestion along the area. Single mother Nur Farhashayraein Mohamed, 36, said that she had arrived at around 11pm and was thankful that she did not have to wait long to receive the form and register herself for the assistance. "I travelled here by bus with my son 9-month-old son Amjat Shaymi Firdaus Ismadi as we are in dire need of some financial aid. "My husband and I recently separated and it has been a struggle to make ends meet," said the factory worker who explained that she was thankful to the government for thinking of the lower income group. Another applicant, Wong Su Pen, 61, said that he had travelled about 40 minutes from Saleng in Senai to the IRB office as his son wanted to apply for the aid. "We were not sure about the procedures or the documents needed to apply for the one-off assistance so we decided to make a special trip here. "Although we initially had to wait in a long queue, the IRB staff helped us to fill in the forms and we are in the process of applying now," he said adding that it was also a much appreciated initiative by the government. Meanwhile, a spokesperson from the IRB office said that they had more than 20 counters and 50 staff on standby to address the needs of the applicants. "We are also opening our office next weekend (Dec 17 & 18) to distribute forms and register applicants," she said adding that they expected 300,000 people to pick up the forms until the applications close on Jan 10 next year. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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