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Muzium lilin pertama Asia Tenggara akan dibuka di i-City
SHAH ALAM: Orang ramai berpeluang menyaksikan secara dekat ikon terkenal dunia apabila muzium lilin yang pertama di Asia Tenggara yang bakal dibuka di negara ini. Red Carpet @ i-City bakal menampilkan 100 patung lilin ikon terkenal dalam pelbagai bidang termasuk sukan dan pemegang rekod dunia. Berkeluasan...
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20th June 2013 11:34pm
Jerebu: Indonesia dakwa Singapura 'kebudak-budakan'
INDONESIA: Indonesia hari ini mendakwa aduan Singapura berhubung keadaan jerebu yang teruk akibat pembakaran hutan di Kepulauan Sumatera sebagai 'kebudak-budakan'. "Singapura tidak seharusnya bersikap 'kebudak-budakan' dengan terus melontarkan rungutan," menurut Menteri yang bertanggungjawab dalam hal...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
20th June 2013 10:34pm
Time is now ripe to implement GST
I agree. In the situation that I'm currently in, I'm all for the implementation. According to PricewaterhouseCooper, except for Malaysia and Myanmar, all the countries in Asia had implemented the Good Services Tax (GST). Two things: (1) protect the poor through special mechanism and, (2) do up public...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
20th June 2013 4:55pm
Kereta pelancong Hong Kong dirempuh kereta api di Kota Kinabalu
KOTA KINABALU: Tiga pelancong Hong Kong cedera manakala seorang lagi terselamat apabila kereta yang mereka naiki dirempuh kereta api di Jalan Lintas berhampiran jejambat Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu (KKIA) dekat sini, hari ini. Dalam kejadian pukul 5.35 petang itu, kereta sewa jenis Hyundai...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
19th June 2013 10:37pm
The Miracle Pine in Japan
While flying on Malaysia Airlines today, I saw this on its inflight magazine and I thought it's worth sharing. I have little doubt that, if we have one here, it would definitely be a popular spot for the superstitious four-digit punters. The Miracle Pine. Image: Malaysia Airlines - Going Places Proud...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
19th June 2013 9:43pm
Operasi mencari dan menyelamat di Jalan Macalister dihentikan
GEORGE TOWN: Operasi mencari dan mengesan mangsa yang dikhuatiri tertimbus dalam kejadian penebat kilat jatuh dan menghempap jalan di Jalan Macalister di sini Khamis lepas, dihentikan pada pukul 8 pagi hari ini.Ketua operasi Datuk Lim Kok Khong berkata keputusan itu diambil kerana pihak berkuasa bimbang...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
17th June 2013 9:29pm
Is kelp a viable Biofuel?
According to Norway's Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES), the strange, foul-smelling brown kelp macroalgae could offer an almost unlimited global supply of commercial-quality ethanol or bio-methane. Image credit: Renewable Energy World. (find the link below) What is kelp Kelps are large seaweeds...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
17th June 2013 7:17pm
Privatisation of SESB a failure?
You have to read this and take it with a pinch of salt. At face value, it is a serious allegation but if you read the whole article, you will begin to understand why he/she said what he/she wrote. I reproduced it from Daily Express weekend readers' submission. What do I think about it? I think we still...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
16th June 2013 11:01pm
FOTO WANITA HINA YANG DI-PERTUAN AGUNG DIDEDAHKAN!
Individu terakhir yang dikehendaki polis berhubung kes menghina Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Halim Mu'adzam Shah menyerah diri di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Dang Wangi di sini. Timbalan Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah, Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Kuala Lumpur, Asisten Komisioner Abdul Aziz Zakaria...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
16th June 2013 6:35pm
Sarawak Chief Minister's salary is RM39,000 - higher than Prime Minister's
Sarawak ministers and assemblymen will get an astronomical pay hike of 200% with the approval of the Remuneration, Pension and Gratuities Bill 2013.Sarawak ministers, assemblymen get three-fold pay hike The state’s ministers and assemblymen have approved a whopping 200 per cent raise for themselves and...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
16th June 2013 12:25am
Novelis Malaysia menangi anugerah Walter Scott
KUALA LUMPUR: Penulis Malaysia, Tan Twan Eng diumumkan penerima Anugerah Walter Scott. Anugerah yang memberikan penghargaan kepada penulis-penulis fiksyen sejarah itu ditujukan kepada novel pasca Perang Dunia Kedua beliau bertajuk 'The Garden of Evening Mists'. Tan yang berasal dari Pulau Pinang, merupakan...
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15th June 2013 11:44pm
Serpihan kereta dijumpai semasa kerja-kerja pembersihan
GEORGE TOWN: Pasukan petugas kerja-kerja pembersihan di kawasan runtuhan penebat kilat Menara Umno di Jalan Macalister di sini hari ini menjumpai serpihan bangkai sebuah lagi kereta yang dipercayai tertimbus dalam lumpur. Anggota Exco Kerajaan Negeri Phee Boon Poh berkata, beliau dimaklumkan serpihan...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
15th June 2013 10:41pm
Solar jokes Saturday: rooftop panels
New heat-trap on your roof, Billy? Image credit: US solar institute
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
15th June 2013 6:47pm
Teck Guan launches bio-ethanol project
Being the largest producer of crude palm oil in the country, there is certainly potential for a large scale production of bio-ethanol in Sabah. Someone has finally took the first step towards achieving that. The setting up of a plant in Tawau, Sabah is a wise move by palm oil planter Teck Guan. It says...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
15th June 2013 5:48pm
Japan PV manufacturers turning to domestic market
In 2005, Japanese PV makers dominated global PV production — Sharp, Kyocera, Sanyo (now part of Panasonic) and Mitsubishi Electric represented about 50% of global production. When German and other European markets expanded quickly, a great number of companies in Europe and Asia, specifically China,...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
14th June 2013 11:50pm
FAM is not an army batallion - Annuar
KUALA LUMPUR:Kelantan Football Association (KAFA) advisor Tan Sri Annuar Musa chided Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) Datuk Azzuddin Ahmad for running the administration of the national body like an army general.The former FAM deputy president said the problems within the FAM was because the...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
14th June 2013 8:59pm
Solar cell that supplies energy and self-charge simultaneously
The reason solar power is expensive is partly due to the need for energy storage (battery). The cost of storage battery in a solar PV system is said to be as much as 40% of the total system installation cost. So, when a group of research team from the University of Wisconsin in Madison demonstrated the...
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floyd via The Green Mechanics™
13th June 2013 9:46pm
Jangan kacau kampung kami!
KUALA LUMPUR: MENINJAU nasib saki-baki penduduk Kampung Chubadak Tambahan di Sentul, saya terkenang suasana kampung yang aman damai.Siapa sangka di tengah kepesatan ibukota (kira-kira tujuh kilometer dari pusat bandaraya), masih ada sebuah kampung yang mengekalkan tradisi kehidupan di desa, rumah-rumah...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
13th June 2013 1:00pm
Lionel Messi berdepan tuduhan penipuan cukai
BARCELONA: Pemain sensasi Barcelona, Lionel Messi bakal berdepan dengan undang-undang kewangan Sepanyol apabila pihak pendakwa jenayah kewangan negara itu telah memfailkan aduan penipuan cukai bernilai empat juta Euro (USD5 juta) terhadapnya. Menurut laporan AFP yang memetik dari media Sepanyol, aduan...
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floyd via BW NewsWire
12th June 2013 11:45pm
Motosikal dirempuh babi hutan: Pembantu pejabat maut
ROMPIN: Seorang lelaki terbunuh manakala isteri dan tiga anaknya cedera selepas motosikal yang dinaiki mereka dirempuh seekor babi hutan di KM21.5 Jalan Ibam-Rompin, dekat Rompin, malam tadi. Mangsa, Syed Abdullah Syed Ali, 32, pembantu am pejabat dari Perumahan Mardi, Muadzam Shah di Rompin meninggal...
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12th June 2013 8:13pm