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- IGP denies there’s a rise in shooting incidents
- Most flight, train and bus tickets are sold out
- RM169,000 in fines imposed in price enforcement in Selangor
| IGP denies there’s a rise in shooting incidents Posted: 23 Dec 2012 04:21 AM PST KUANTAN: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar has denied reports that there has been a rise in shooting incidents in the country. "This is a wrong perception. I do not agree that criminals are brandishing and discharging firearms blatantly. There are some cases but the situation is under control. "Do not give the wrong signals to the public," he said after conferring honorary police ranks to five people here on Saturday. Ismail said police had responded promptly to such cases and were also investigating several separate shooting incidents recently, which were believed to have been carried out by hardcore criminals. On a separate matter, Ismail said the police needed the co-operation of the people in facing a new era of policing and increasing challenges. Ismail commended the Pahang branch of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) for providing a fleet of 16 vehicles to be used in crime prevention rounds. |
| Most flight, train and bus tickets are sold out Posted: 23 Dec 2012 04:14 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR: Seats on public transport to most destinations in the country during the Christmas and year-end holiday seasons have been fully booked. A check by Bernama showed that flight, train and bus tickets to many destinations have been sold out. Many of the people rushing for tickets at several bus stations in the city were students from institutions of higher learning who wanted to return home for the holidays. At Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) ticketing assistant Nur Ashikin Baharom said only a few tickets for flights to Sabah and Sarawak on Monday were available. "For those who did not make early reservation, it is going to be tough to get tickets because generally most seats are fully booked," she said. KTM Intercity senior marketing manager Mohd Noordin Kimi said all train tickets up to Dec 31 for trips from Kuala Lumpur to the south, east coast and north had been sold out. "Tickets for travel dates up to Dec 31 were sold out as the Christmas holiday is during the school holidays, and prompted most city folk to book their tickets early to return to their hometowns and villages," he said. However, Mohd Noordin said, tickets were still available for the Electric Train Service (ETS) from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh. A Sani Express counter clerk at Pudu Sentral, Wajida Abu Hassan, said the express bus company had no plans to offer additional bus services though tickets for destinations in the north and east coast had been sold out. Passengers heading to the east coast can still get tickets on the Mara Liner and Shamisha Express at Hentian Putra while those heading north can still get tickets on Shamisha Express. - Bernama |
| RM169,000 in fines imposed in price enforcement in Selangor Posted: 23 Dec 2012 03:59 AM PST SHAH ALAM: The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry has imposed a total of RM169,000 in fines on 205 errant traders in price-control checks in Selangor, since early this year until Dec 1. The ministry's Selangor enforcement chief Othman Nawang said a total of 63 wet markets were among those inspected in operations carried out during the period, leading to various forms of seizures worth RM37,000. "Most of them were issued fines for various offences such as not displaying clear price signs and using weighing scales with calibration validity lapsed," he told reporters after a price monitoring operation in conjunction with Christmas at the Tesco hypermarket here on Sunday. The ministry has set maximum wholesale and retail prices for 13 price-controlled items to be enforced under the Festive Seasons Price Control Scheme in conjunction with Christmas 2012 from Sunday until Dec 27. - Bernama |
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