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- Online love scam ring busted
- Najib slams Opposition party for not practising democratic principles
- A wide range of uses for multirotor aircraft
| Posted: KUALA LUMPUR: A syndicate that specialises in online love scams couldn't charm its way out when police raided an apartment in Bukit Mandarin, Cheras. Police confiscated 10 bank cards, six passbooks believed to be from previous scams, and 1kg of methamphetamine stashed in one of the suspects' car. Four notebook computers and six mobile phones were also recovered during the operation at 10.30am on Thursday. Three Nigerian men, another from Lesotho and Malaysian women aged 29 to 32 were arrested. Their modus operandi involves gaining the trust of females online, and then asking them to bank in money to a Malaysian woman's account in order to pay for the "tax" on a parcel that they claim has been detained by the Malaysian Customs. The conmen would say the parcel contains lots of cash, and would then promise the girls a share of the cash as a reward. Investigations into the syndicate began in April after a 21-year-old college student was duped of RM1,630. She had reportedly befriended a British man named Richard Kickme on Facebook in January and fallen in love with the online Casanova. "On April 19, one of the suspects contacted the victim, saying he was planning to visit her. "He called her again the next day, claiming he had arrived but was held up at the airport for bringing in a parcel containing US$48,000 (RM135,000). "He said he would give her some of the money if she banked in the amount, which she did the same day," said Cheras OCPD ACP Mohan Singh, adding that she lodged a police report after the man did not show up. ACP Mohan said commercial crime officers were studying the bank cards and passbooks to help solve other similar cases. |
| Najib slams Opposition party for not practising democratic principles Posted: ALOR SETAR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has hit out at DAP for not practising democratic principles resulting in it having to hold fresh central executive committee (CEC) elections. The Prime Minister said the party had been promoting itself as a champion of democracy yet it failed to implement it when it involved its own party elections. "The question raised by the public is why a party that promoted itself as champion of democracy and anti-corruption, among others, failed to follow a rule that is clean from corruption?" "What the Registrar of Societies (ROS) had directed them to do is correct and according to regulations," he told newsmen after launching the national Settlers Day celebration at Felda Sungai Tiang in Pendang near here yesterday. Najib was commenting on DAP's move to hold fresh CEC elections after weeks of protest against the ROS' order. He said Umno had always been transparent and had never prevented members from taking part in party elections. "We have never received any objection about our elections. If ROS criticises us, we will correct it. "In fact Umno was once banned by the court. We accepted the decision, corrected the mistakes and rebuilt the party," he said. On Felda, Najib said the Government would need to find middle and long-term investments for Felda that could be used for new investment and re-investment purposes, as dividends and for social economic development for settlers. "We have huge funds. So we need to be prudent in our spending to make Felda a success and at the same time give high dividends to settlers and benefits in social economic programmes to settlers and non-settlers," he said. The Felda Integrity Plan that was also launched yesterday to help curb any wrongdoing and abuse of power in Felda. Among those who attended the event were his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Felda chairman Tan Sri Isa Abdul Samad and Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir. |
| A wide range of uses for multirotor aircraft Posted: Enthusiasts of radio-controlled model aircraft models driven by the fun and the "cool" factor are the main movers behind the emerging popularity of multirotor aircraft around the world. But there are a wide range of uses for them in the professional arena. Aerial photographers and videographers, and even movie makers, have found a low-cost method of practising their craft – one that allows them to fly much lower than commercial aircraft and without needing clearance from the Civil Aviation authorities. More elaborate versions are used by the military and police in surveillance and search and rescue work while mapping companies in some developed countries use them to conduct low level aerial mapping, including street views. Many are equipped with First Person View (FPV) systems, effectively putting the flyer in the cockpit of the aircraft. FPV allows the flyer to remotely pilot his aircraft from a first person perspective via an onboard camera, fed wirelessly to video goggles or a video monitor. The picture of the multirotor with Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong is one such system and shows the camera used to be a GoPro model, which is capable of High Definition broadcast quality images. It is equipped with a camera stabilisation system to reduce camera jitter during flight and has a pan-and-tilt platform which would allow the flyer to adjust the camera angles. Should the video goggles have a built-in gyroscope, it would allow the camera on the aircraft to follow the turn of the flyer's head, as if he was a real pilot looking out the window of a real aircraft. How far away could the person flying it have been? The picture of the model shows a 2.4ghz receiver being used for the aircraft control system which would typically have a range of 3-5km based on line of sight. But the range would ultimately be limited by the 5.8 ghz video transmission system. A circular polarised antenna is used, suggesting a range of at least 1km based on line of sight. Flight times are limited only by the size of the batteries and the maximum payload of the multirotor and could easily range from 5-30 minutes. Depending on one's budget, the sky is really the limit with the available options. GPS navigation and flight data, stabilisation systems, telemetry and autopilot devices are among them. With suitable hardware and software, some versions can be programmed to take off and fly and land fully autonomously to waypoints selected on Google Earth Pro equipped notebook. Flight control hardware and software for the multirotors commonly originate from China, with the name DJI Innovations from Shenzhen among the most popular in the world. Related story: |
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