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- Big crowd expected at carnival
- Desperate man seeks help
- Effort to breed mussels in Ledang will make the area known for the shellfish
| Big crowd expected at carnival Posted: 18 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST KUALA TERENGGANU: About 10,000 visitors, especially young people, are expected to attend the 1Malaysia Broadband Carnival at Jertih Souq, Besut. The three-day carnival from Jan 6 next year, is aimed at raising public awareness on the benefits of the broadband facility and to attract more users. Carnival manager Wong Ee Shen said the organisers hoped the carnival would help to achieve 75% target of broadband penetration in the country by 2015. "The carnival is not only to enhance awareness on the functions of broadband but also to help create an IT-savvy community," he added. Activities at the carnival will include online game contests, animation shows, clown performances, colouring contests and a karaoke competition. The carnival is organised by the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry with the cooperation of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Telekom Malaysia. – Bernama Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST JASIN: Every day a father of five from Kampung Tehel here makes his living out of scouring waste sites for recyclable items. Nordin Ahmad, 35, said he could get RM15 a day by selling cans, scrap metal, bottles or old newspapers from waste sites to support his wife and two of his children. Sometime he sells 'petai' (bitter pods) which he acquired from Senaling and Inas, Negeri Sembilan, to buy food for his family, he told reporters who visited him at his dilapidated hut here. "When it rains we collect water into pails as the canvas roof is leaking and we huddle close to each other to sleep," he said, adding that the canvas was donated by sympathetic villagers. Nordin is raising his oldest child, Muhammad Afiq, 12, who will be entering Form One next year, and another child from his new wife, while three of his other children are being looked after by his ex-wife. Afiq, who was hospitalised after he was scalded by petrol is having difficulty raising heavy objects because his skin has become tighter as he recovers. Nordin said he had sought aid from the Malacca Islamic Religious Council but has yet to get any response. – Bernama Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Effort to breed mussels in Ledang will make the area known for the shellfish Posted: 18 Dec 2011 05:14 PM PST TANGKAK: A mussel breeding programme using high technology will make Ledang a major mussel breeding and producing centre in the region. The project, on a plot along Sungai Muar near Parit Bunga here, is carried out by Flexible Tech Sdn Bhd and University Malaysia Terengganu's Tropical Aquaculture Institute. The institute's lecturer Associate Professor Dr Zaleha Kassim said the project was set up after a trial to breed mussels in the waters off Muar and Kesang, several years ago, failed. She said the coastal waters off Muar and Kesang as well Sungai Muar and Sungai Kesang had been badly polluted from industrial and plantation wastes. "We thought we could breed mussels in the coastal waters off Muar and Kesang and embarked on a project in 2005. "However, the project failed after comprehensive tests found the waters to be polluted at both areas," she said in Parit Bunga recently. Prof Zaleha said the institute then decided to produce mussel fry in special containers filled with treated seawater for breeding and as feed for fish fry. She said this process was important because the fish and shrimp fry in the waters had very little food to eat due to the polluted waters. She said the lack of food for the fry would hinder the growth of the fish and shrimps, and this would reduce the number of fish and prawns in the sea. Prof Zaleha said Flexible Tech operator Kamaruddin Jauhad decided to rent a plot of land along Sungai Muar near Parit Bunga to set up a hatchery to produce mussel fry. She said matured mussels were brought to the hatchery and induced to produce the fry or larvae for sale to aquaculture farms in the country. She said the farms could use the larvae as feed for smaller fish and shrimps or breed them in clean seawaters and harvest mussels when they grew bigger. She said mussels had great economic potential and were good for healthy bone growth, adding that New Zealand mussels were much sought after and expensive. She added, "New Zealand Mussels had become a brand name because seawaters around New Zealand was not polluted." Prof Zaleha said she planned to produce a similarly popular brand name for mussels produced from Parit Bunga in the Ledang district in the near future. Meanwhile, Kamaruddin said the hatching and breeding of mussel larvae was conducted inside two temperature-controlled building blocks. "We engaged a team which specialises in aquaculture farming to manage the project and hope to produce mussels as well as mussel fry soon. "We also want to produce better and healthier mussels to help improve the wild mussel in our coastal waters," Kamaruddin added. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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