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Lelaki serang bekas isteri dan mentua dibebaskan - Polis
Bernama | Diterbitkan pada September 16, 2019 05:47 MYT

Shafa'aton berkata kes berkenaan disiasat mengikut Seksyen 324 Kanun Keseksaan kerana mendatangkan kecederaan. - Gambar fail
KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang lelaki yang ditahan kerana didakwa menyerang bekas isteri dan bapa mentua yang tular di media sosial sejak Sabtu, telah dibebaskan dengan jaminan polis pada hari yang sama.

Suspek berusia 34 tahun itu, dibebaskan pada Isnin lepas atas faktor kesihatan selepas mengemukakan surat rujukan perubatan.

Ketua Polis Daerah Sungai Buloh, Supt Shafa'aton Abu Bakar berkata pihaknya menerima satu laporan daripada bekas isteri suspek pada 4 Sept lepas yang mendakwa diri serta bapanya dipukul suspek.
Beliau berkata suspek telah hadir memberi keterangan pada Isnin lepas dan dibebaskan pada hari yang sama selepas mengemukakan surat rujukan perubatan berkenaan.

"Hasil laporan penuh perubatan yang dikemukakan suspek telah diterima oleh pihak saya dan laporan kes ini akan dirujuk kepada kepada Timbalan Pendakwa Raya," katanya ketika dihubungi pada Ahad.

BACA: KKM siasat kes doktor pukul bekas isteri, bapa mentua
Shafa'aton berkata kes berkenaan disiasat mengikut Seksyen 324 Kanun Keseksaan kerana mendatangkan kecederaan.

Pada Sabtu, tular satu video berdurasi satu minit setengah memaparkan seorang individu didakwa memukul bekas isteri serta bapa mentuanya selain paparan gambar menunjukkan kedua-dua mereka mengalami kecederaan di bahagian kepala.

-- BERNAMA

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Selasa, 17 September 2019 | 9:38am | Berita Harian

Harga minyak terkawal tunggu reaksi selepas serangan Arab Saudi
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TOKYO: Harga minyak turun lebih daripada satu peratus hari ini ketika mana pasaran menunggu reaksi pasaran susulan serangan ke atas kemudahan pemprosesan minyak mentah Arab Saudi yang mengurangkan pengeluaran negara itu sebanyak separuh dan menyebabkan harga melambung ke paras tertinggi dalam beberapa dekad.

Serangan ini menimbulkan ketidakpastian dalam pasaran yang sudah agak lemah sejak beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini disebabkan kelembapan pertumbuhan ekonomi ketika mana perang perdagangan Amerika Syarikat (AS)-China semakin memuncak dan kini berhadapan risiko pengurangan bekalan dari Arab Saudi.

Harga minyak menokok Isnin ke paras tertinggi sejak Disember tahun lalu, dan aktiviti perdagangan menunjukkan pelabur menjangka harga yang lebih tinggi dalam beberapa bulan akan datang.

Minyak mentah Brent turun 77 sen, atau 1.1 peratus, pada AS$68.25 satu tong pada 0051 GMT, sementara West Texas Intermediate (WTI) susut 82 sen, atau 1.3 peratus, pada AS$62.08 satu tong.

Harga minyak mentah melonjak hampir 20 peratus pada Isnin kerana bertindak balas terhadap serangan Sabtu lalu, lonjakan terbesar dalam hampir 30 tahun, sebelum ia ditutup sekitar 15 peratus lebih tinggi.

Arab Saudi adalah pengeksport minyak terbesar di dunia dan, dengan kapasiti simpanan minyak yang besar, menjadikannya pembekal penting untuk beberapa dekad.

Serangan ke atas kemudahan pemprosesan minyak milik Saudi Aramco di Abqaiq dan Khurais mengurangkan pengeluaran sebanyak 5.7 juta tong sehari dan menimbulkan persoalan berhubung keupayaannya mengekalkan eksport minyak. - Reuters

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Supermarkets and hypermarkets in Malaysia going through consolidation
RETAIL
Tuesday, 17 Sep 2019


PETALING JAYA: Supermarket and hypermarket operators in Malaysia are going through a consolidation stage, Retail Group Malaysia managing director Tan Hai Hsin said.

“They expanded aggressively throughout the country during the 2000s. With the current economic condition that has not improved until now, it is not a surprise for them to close under-performing stores, ” he said.

“The closure is not expected to be worsened than this year, unless a recession occurred next year, ” Tan said.

On whether Malaysian consumers are turning to mini-markets instead of seeking bargains at hyper- and supermarkets, Tan said.

Malaysian consumers are not replacing hypermarket with mini-markets like KK Mart and 99 Speedmarts.

“Based on our observation, they are shopping lesser in hypermarket and buying more often in mini-market, ” he said.

Tan said the hypermarket format with 80,000 square feet and more was introduced to Malaysians with the arrival of Carrefour in 1994.

This format became very popular among Malaysian families because it was able to offer wide variety of goods under one roof.

They enjoyed hours of shopping at leisure pace in this super-large grocery store. It was a family outing, said Tan.

“In recent years, however, we believe Malaysian families are tired of spending hours in hypermarkets for basic necessities.

“They are still visiting hypermarkets for large quantity of purchases, but they are not going as often as 10 years ago.”

For purchases in small quantities, they are shifting to supermarkets and mini-markets.

“In addition, these small-format grocery stores are now able to offer very competitive prices as compared to hypermarkets. This trend has resulted in major hypermarket operators to open new grocery stores in smaller sizes, ” said Tan.

In the September 2019 Malaysia Retail Industry Report, Tan said supermarket and hypermarket sub-sector, which reported negative growth with closures of some stores, was the worst performer for the quarter under review.

This is the sub-sector’s eighth consecutive quarter of negative growth, the report said.

Two sub-sectors - pharmacy/personal care, and speciality stores - saw the strongest growth.

The department store sub-sector contracted 0.7%. This sub-sector has been facing slow growth for more than a year, the report said.

The department store sub-sector which comes with a supermarket, saw sustainable growth.

The fashion and accessories sub-sector saw a slowdown to 0.4% compared with the first quarter.


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Dua maut terkena renjatan elektrik
Vivi Sumanti, Astro Awani | Diterbitkan pada September 15, 2019 22:10 MYT

Kedua-dua mangsa disahkan meninggal dunia di lokasi kejadian dibawa ke Hospital Kuala Krai untuk dibedah siasat. - Foto ihsan polis

KUALA KRAI: Dua lelaki berusia 27 dan 50 tahun maut selepas terkena renjatan elektrik di Kompleks Perkayuan Kelantan (KPK) dekat Kuala Krai, kira-kira 6 petang Sabtu.

Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah Kuala Krai, Deputi Superintendan (DSP) Wan Fauzi Wan Ishak berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan mengenai kejadian itu pada jam 6.15 petang semalam.

"Kedua-dua mangsa disahkan meninggal dunia di lokasi kejadian dibawa ke Hospital Kuala Krai untuk dibedah siasat dan sudah dituntut oleh keluarga masing-masing.
"Kes diklasifikasikan sebagai mati mengejut," katanya ketika dihubungi, di sini, hari ini.

Sementara itu, seorang penduduk Nordin Zahari, 53, berkata, dia mengetahui kejadian itu selepas mendengar penduduk kampung yang berada di kedai makan riuh bercakap mengenai dua individu yang maut terkena renjatan elektrik.

"Sejurus selepas itu, saya bergegas ke Kompleks Perkayuan Kelantan yang berada tidak jauh dari tempat saya makan untuk mengesahkan apa yang berlaku.
"Sebaik sahaja sampai di pondok pengawal KPK, pengawal keselamatan memberitahu saya, anak dan isteri kepada salah seorang daripada mangsa yang meninggal dunia berada di lokasi kejadian," katanya.

Katanya, bimbang dengan keadaan itu, dia segera ke lokasi mayat kedua-dua mangsa itu ditemui kerana bimbang ada individu berdekatan cuba menyentuh tubuh badan si mati yang terkena renjatan elektrik.

"Kemudian saya menghubungi polis dan Klinik Kesihatan Dabong untuk memaklumkan kejadian yang berlaku," katanya.

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Selepas Port Dickson, 46 sekolah di Nilai ditutup kerana jerebu bertambah buruk

BEBERAPAjam selepas pihak berkuasa di Negeri Sembilan mengarahkan 63 sekolah ditutup di Port Dickson kerana keadaan jerebu yang bertambah buruk, sebanyak 46 sekolah di Nilai turut diarah tutup selepas bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) adalah 203 pada pukul 9 pagi Selasa.

Terdahulu, Jabatan Pendidikan negeri mengarahkan sekolah-sekolah di Port Dickson ditutup selepas bacaan IPU mencatatkan tahap sangat tidak sihat iaitu 203.

Setakat pukul 9 pagi Selasa, bacaan IPU di Port Dickson adalah 212.

Seramai 22,877 pelajar di Port Dickson terjejas akibat jerebu di Port Dickson, manakala lebih 15,000 pelajar di Nilai.

PengerusiJawatankuasa Bertindak Pelaburan, Perindustrian, Keusahawanan, Pendidikan dan Modal Insannegeri,Dr Mohamad RafieAbMalek berkata, guru-guru masih perlu hadir ke sekolah tetapi mengambil langkah berjaga-jaga termasuk memakai topeng muka.

Beliau menambah, Jabatan Pendidikan negeri akan terus memantau keadaan jerebu dan memberikan perkembangan terkini dari semasa ke semasa. -The Star

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Kes URTI, jangkitan mata di Negeri Sembilan meningkat akibat jerebu
Bernama | Diterbitkan pada September 18, 2019 05:03 MYT

Daerah Nilai mencatatkan IPU tidak sihat iaitu pada paras 206 manakala dua lagi kawasan iaitu Port Dickson dan Seremban masing-masing merekodkan bacaan 188 dan 170. -BERNAMA
SEREMBAN: Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sembilan memantau tiga penyakit melibatkan jangkitan saluran pernafasan (URTI), jangkitan mata dan asma di negeri ini berikutan jerebu yang sedang melanda ketika ini.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Bertindak Kesihatan, Alam Sekitar, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan Negeri S. Veerapan dalam kenyataan di sini, malam ini berkata berdasarkan pemantauan kes URTI di Klinik Kesihatan Nilai, terdapat peningkatan kes sebanyak 28.5 peratus pada minggu epid ke-37 berbanding minggu epid ke-36.

Katanya, berbanding minggu epid ke-36, kes pemantauan jangkitan mata juga meningkat sebanyak 33.3 peratus pada minggu epid ke-37.
Bagaimanapun, tiada peningkatan kes asma dilaporkan, katanya.

"Bagi pemantauan kes di fasiliti kesihatan di Port Dickson, tidak menunjukkan sebarang peningkatan kes jangkitan mata, URTI dan asma," katanya di sini.
Veerapan dalam pada itu turut menasihatkan orang ramai supaya mengurangkan aktiviti luar termasuk aktiviti fizikal dan menggunakan penutup hidung dan mulut sekiranya berada di luar premis.

Sehingga 10 malam ini, daerah Nilai mencatatkan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) tidak sihat iaitu pada paras 206 manakala dua lagi kawasan iaitu Port Dickson dan Seremban masing-masing merekodkan bacaan 188 dan 170.

-- BERNAMA

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Canteen operators left in the lurch when schools ordered closed
NATION
Thursday, 19 Sep 2019

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Early dismissal: SMK Convent Light Street students with their face masks walking out from school after being allowed to go home early due to the deteriorating API in George Town.

Reports by KAREN CHAPMAN, REBECCA RAJAENDRAM, JOSEPH KAOS, EDWARD RAJENDRA, KALAIVANI MURUGASAN, SHEILA SRI PRIYA, MICHELLE TAM, ALLISON LAI

GEORGE TOWN: The sudden order for all 51 schools in Penang’s southwest district to close due to the haze left many school canteen operators in the lurch.

Canteen operator Rohani Yahaya in Balik Pulau, who operates canteens in three schools, said they had already prepared food for the students when the order came in.

“We were lucky the principal let the students buy their breakfast first before going home. If not, all the food would be wasted.

“But I have friends running other canteens who had no chance to sell their food. They ended up just giving away a lot of it, ” she said.


All schools in Penang have been ordered to close today.

Earlier, 51 schools were ordered to close at about 8am yesterday as the haze became increasingly worse. At 10am, all 111 schools on the island were told to close at noon.

In Putrajaya, Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik said all schools in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Penang will be closed for the next two days, starting today and tomorrow.

They include residential schools and the Royal Military College, with students told to return home.

“Teachers have the option to work from home if their school is closed but school heads must be informed of this.

“The school management must take into account the welfare of teachers and ensure no meetings are held during this period.

“They can still be in contact with their students through Google Classroom, ” he said yesterday.

Maszlee said the closure in the four states include kindergartens while institutes of higher learning on the other hand have the autonomy to decide whether to close.

“All announcements with regard to the closure of schools will be done every day, the latest by 6pm.

“Headmasters and principals have the power to announce the closure of their schools if they feel the condition is worsening and based on the Air Pollutant Index (API) readings.

“They must then inform the state education departments and district education offices.

“Schools in these states will not have to replace the two days because the closure is categorised as a natural disaster (cuti bencana), ” Maszlee added.

If the announcement of closure comes after lessons have been conducted, he said students can remain in school and teaching and learning will continue as per normal.

“Parents however can collect their children from school if they want to, ” he said.

Maszlee said the school administration must follow the standard operating procedure as per the Education Ministry circular dated Jan 15,2019 on the haze.

In a separate statement, the ministry also said 939 schools involving 911,874 students in Selangor will be closed for two days.

These are 52 schools in Sepang, 129 in Hulu Langat, 72 in Kuala Langat, 104 in Gombak, 139 in Petaling Perdana, 86 in Petaling Utama, 68 in Hulu Selangor, 92 in Kuala Selangor, 64 in Sabak Bernam, and 133 in Klang.

The Kuala Lumpur Education Department said all schools in Kuala Lumpur will be closed

today, affecting a total of 328,004 students.

The department said this is based on API readings in the Petaling Jaya, Batu Muda and Cheras stations, which show unhealthy and very unhealthy readings.

This involves 296 schools overall, comprising 82 schools in Sentul, 66 in Keramat and 148 in Bangsar.


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I deserve more Ballon d'Or awards than Messi, says Ronaldo
FOOTBALL
Wednesday, 18 Sep 2019 2:22 PM MYT

(Reuters) - Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo said he deserves to end his soccer career with more Ballon d'Or awards than Barcelona counterpart Lionel Messi and hopes to establish himself as the greatest player of all time.

Ronaldo, 34, has won the renowned France Football magazine trophy for the world's best player five times - as many as Messi - but is eager for more as he moves into the twilight of his career.

"Messi's in the history of football," Ronaldo told broadcaster Piers Morgan in an interview with Britain's ITV on Tuesday. "But I think I have to have six or seven or eight to be above him," he said, referring to the Ballon d'Or awards.

"I'd love it, I think I deserve it."

The Portugal captain said he was no friend of the Argentine but credited his rival for helping push him further in his own career.

"My relationship with him is, we are not friends, but we have shared this stage for 15 years," Ronaldo said. "I know that he has pushed me to be a better player and I have pushed him to be a better player as well."

Ronaldo, who also played for Manchester United and Real Madrid, has five UEFA Champions League winners' medals and led Portugal to victory at the 2016 UEFA European Championship and 2019 UEFA Nations League tournaments.

"I don't follow the records, the records follow me. I'm addicted to the success, and I don't think it's something bad, I think it's good," Ronaldo said.

"It motivates me. If you're not motivated, it's better to stop."

(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)


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Jerebu: Semua sekolah di negeri Selangor ditutup selama dua hari
Astro Awani | Diterbitkan pada September 18, 2019 18:06 MYT

KUALA LUMPUR: Semua sekolah awam dan swasta di Selangor diarah tutup selama dua hari bermula esok (19 September) hingga Jumaat (20 September).

Ia berikutan cerapan bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) menunjukkan data bacaan tidak sihat dan sangat tidak sihat di beberapa kawasan di negeri itu.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bantuan dan Bencana negeri, Datuk Mohd. Amin Ahmad Ahya berkata langkah berkenaan diambil susulan kenyataan media yang dikeluarkan Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia pada Selasa yang memaklumkan bahawa jerebu yang melanda negara semakin teruk dan akan berterusan sehingga minggu depan.
Kenyataan media yang dikeluarkan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bantuan dan Bencana Negeri Selangor
Kenyataan media yang dikeluarkan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bantuan dan Bencana Negeri Selangor


"Sehubungan itu, Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bantuan dan Bencana Negeri Selangor dengan ini mengarahkan semua sekolah awam dan swasta ditutup pada tarikh dinyatakan.

“Pendedahan terhadap jerebu yang berpanjangan akan meningkatkan risiko terhadap kesihatan terutama kepada golongan berisiko tinggi seperti kanak-kanak, warga emas, pesakit jantung dan paru-paru serta wanita mengandung, katanya.
Jelasnya, arahan itu dikeluarkan setelah mengambil kira tahap pendedahan yang berpanjangan boleh menyebabkan masalah sistem respiratori dan keselamatan pelajar.

Mohd Amin berkata, Pihak Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Selangor dan Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah hendaklah memaklumkan kepada sekolah dan ibu bapa di kawasan masing-masing berhubung penutupan ini dengan kadar segera.

Katanya, penutupan sementara sekolah akibat cuaca jerebu ini adalah untuk memastikan tahap kesihatan murid tidak terjejas.

“Kerajaan Negeri Selangor sentiasa memantau perkembangan kualiti udara dan sentiasa berhubung dengan semua Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Daerah berkaitan tindakan dan langkah yang perlu diambil ketika cuaca negara sedang dilanda bencana jerebu,” katanya.

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Malaysian man who strangled nurse said he spent money on her but got 'nothing'
NATION
Friday, 20 Sep 2019 8:06 AM MYT

SINGAPORE (ANN): A man who strangled a 28-year-old nurse in a jealous rage and tried to have sex with her corpse told police after his arrest that he spent money on her for years but ended up with "nothing", the High Court heard on Thursday (Sept 19).

Boh Soon Ho, 51, is on trial for murdering Chinese national Zhang Huaxiang at his rented Circuit Road bedroom on March 21,2016, after she rejected his sexual advances and told him about her relationships with other men.

The Malaysian cafeteria worker considered Zhang, a former colleague, to be his girlfriend as they went shopping and had meals together, even though they had never been physically intimate.

He admitted in police statements that on the day he killed her, he became angry on hearing she was going out with another man and was still in contact with her former boyfriend in China with whom she had been physically intimate.

"I questioned myself why did I provide for her and spend money on her for the past four to five years and yet I ended up with nothing," he said in a statement recorded on April 5,2016, the day he was arrested after being brought back from Malaysia.

Boh said that as these thoughts were running in his mind, he took a blue towel hanging on the door, walked to the mirror and contemplated for a while.

"I told myself if I were to strangle Huaxiang, it would be the end of me," he said.

Boh said he then walked behind her, coiled the towel around her neck and strangled her while he looked away.

On Thursday, asked for his opinion on Boh's account to the police, Institute of Mental Health (IMH) forensic psychiatrist Stephen Phang said the accused was in a "cool, deliberate, contemplative" state of mind before he strangled the victim.

"He was considering options and exercising judgment," said Dr Phang, testifying on the second day of the trial.

Dr Phang, who interviewed Boh and others who knew him, said the accused was not suffering from any mental disorder or mental illness.

In the immediate aftermath of the killing, he was able to make plans to flee to his home town of Melaka, to phone his landlord to ascertain that he would not be coming to the flat that night, and to go out to buy a suitcase and to collect his salary.

Boh had described to the psychiatrist in graphic detail the acts he carried out on Ms Zhang after strangling her, saying he felt curious because he had never seen her body before.

"His self-confessed sexualised acts with the deceased's body are clearly indicative that he was purposeful in his pursuits for personal pleasure," Dr Phang said in his report to the court.

Boh repeatedly maintained to Dr Phang that he had acted in a moment of impulse and anger. "In layman's terms, he got angry, he lost his temper at that moment," the psychiatrist said.

Dr Phang said anger was a normal human reaction in the light of Zhang's revelations to Boh, against the backdrop of his assumption that she was his girlfriend.

Boh had also admitted lying to his landlord that he was married with two children because he was embarrassed to be single in his 40s. He was 47 at the time of the killing.

Justice Pang Khang Chau, noting that there seemed to be a consensus that Boh had been "mistaken" about the status of his relationship with Zhang, asked if this could mean he was delusional.

Dr Phang replied that there was no clinical basis for such a finding.

The trial continues.

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UM tops list for producing employable grads
NATION
Friday, 20 Sep 2019

By REBECCA RAJAENDRAM

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PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s top institution for producing employable graduates is Universiti Malaya (UM).

The oldest university in the country rose two bands and now features in the 141-150 position of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2020.

It was previously in the 161-170 band last year.

QS research director Ben Sowter said all Malaysian universities have either risen or remained in the same position as last year (see table).

“Nine Malaysian universities participated in this edition of the rankings, three more than last year, ” he said in a statement yesterday.

Just behind UM, though without moving up the rankings, is Taylor’s University, which sits in the 201-250 band.

UCSI University and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) are in the 251-300 band with UCSI moving up from the 301-350 band last year while UTAR was previously not ranked.

There are significant disparities between QS’ overall World University Rankings and this exercise, noted Sowter.

“The rankings clearly demonstrate that there is no perfect parallel between an outstanding reputational and research university, and an outstanding nurturer of student career outcomes, ” he added.

This is seen as Taylor’s University outranks UCSI University in this exercise although, in the World University Rankings, it is below UCSI University.

Taylor’s University is in the 551-520 band while UCSI University is at 442 in the QS World University Rankings 2020.

The other Malaysian institutions in the ranking are Management and Science University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara (see table).

Globally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is No.1 and retains the dual honour of being both world No.1 in the QS World University Rankings 2020, and for employability.

Stanford University is second and University of California, Los Angeles, is third.

The QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020 offer data regarding the relationship between university choice and career outcomes.

To explore the university-employability relationship, QS uses a unique five-metric method that captures each institution’s regard among 44,000 employers worldwide, alma mater data from 29,000 highly successful individuals, institutional industry partnerships, employer presence on campus, and location-adjusted graduate employment rate.

Sowter said there were 36 new entrants within the Top 500.

There were 758 institutions included in the final evaluation of the rankings with 682 institutions ranked.

Out of that, only 501 institutions were featured in the rankings.


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Pesakit disyaki dapat penyakit akibat jerebu meningkat 40 peratus
Bernama | Diterbitkan pada September 22, 2019 22:35 MYT

Gunalah topeng mulut dan hidung jika berada di luar dan kerap basuh muka dan bahagian tubuh lain yang terdedah kepada jerebu. - Gambar fail

LABUAN: Jumlah pesakit yang mendapatkan rawatan akibat konjunktivitis, asma dan ruam di kulit meningkat kepada 40 peratus susulan jerebu yang berpanjangan pada masa ini.

Ketua Pengarah Kementerian Kesihatan, Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah berkata, peningkatan dalam penyakit bawaan jerebu ini dicatatkan di seluruh negara setakat ini.

"Peningkatan dalam jumlah kes berkenaan berbeza-beza di stesen yang berbeza. Stesen yang mencatatkan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (API) yang lebih tinggi menyaksikan jumlah kes yang lebih banyak bagi jangkitan pernafasan, mata merah (konjunktivitis), dan ruam kulit," katanya kepada pemberita selepas majlis penyerahan sijil penghargaan kepada pencapaian cemerlang Jabatan Kesihatan Labuan di sini, hari ini.
Dr. Noor Hisham menasihati orang ramai agar duduk di rumah dan kurangkan aktiviti fizikal di luar semasa jerebu ini.

"Gunalah topeng mulut dan hidung jika berada di luar dan kerap basuh muka dan bahagian tubuh lain yang terdedah kepada jerebu.
Sementara itu, Pengarah Jabatan Kesihatan Labuan, Dr. Ismuni Bohari menyatakan bahawa pulau ini mencatatkan kurang lima peratus bagi penyakit akibat jerebu, yang dianggap tidak begitu serius.

"Setakat ini API di Labuan kekal pada tahap sederhana dengan bacaan antara 70 and 80.

Bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) antara 0 dan 50 dikategorikan baik, 51 hingga 100 (sederhana), 101 hingga 200 (tidak sihat), 201 hingga 300 (sangat tidak sihat) manakala 300 ke atas berbahaya.

-- BERNAMA

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Put down your phone and be here now
TECH NEWS
Monday, 23 Sep 2019

By Vicki Larson

As much as technology can connect us, it can disconnect us, from ourselves and others. — 123rf.com

A few months ago, I arrived at work and realised I left my smartphone at home. I panicked.

How would my kids get in touch with me? Did I have a dermatologist appointment that day? What if that cute guy from a dating app texted me to see if I was free that night?

I was cut off from the world. Maybe you know the feeling.

Except I wasn't. The world was right in front of me – my co-workers, my computer, my notes, my coffee mug. That was really all I needed in the moment.

When the anxiety lessened, I went about my day. Funny, but after a few hours without my phone, it felt, well, liberating.

Remember when it was like that all the time? When you told your mom you'd be home by dinnertime and you were – without her tracking you?

When you could read or eat or play with your dog or do just about anything without alerts and beeps and dings and buzzes demanding your immediate attention? When you had to entertain yourself when you were bored? When you had nothing with you that tempted you to look at it obsessively?

I do. But I, like so many others, have become somewhat of a slave to my phone. Tiffany Shlain would like to help us.

Yes, that Tiffany Shlain, the Internet pioneer who founded the Webby Awards, which has honoured the best websites since 1996, and who was dubbed by Newsweek magazine as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century." She's been in tech from the beginning.

And yet in her new book, 24/6: The Power Of Unplugging One Day A Week, the Mill Valley resident and award-winning filmmaker makes a case for taking a day off – a Tech Shabbat, she calls it – which she, her husband, who also works in tech, and their two daughters have done for 10 years. Every Friday night, they put their phones away for 24 hours and ... do what, exactly? Things they love.

They have friends over for dinner. They play games. They cook and bake. They read. They play music. They take walks. They laugh. They engage with each other. And they have the best sleep of the week.

At 5pm Saturdays, they plug in again. But life is different.

"Every week I get to recalibrate and remember what it's like off the screens, so the other six days I am more aware and intentional of how I use them," she writes.

"If life itself is a balancing act, this one day a week reminds me where the centre of gravity is."

It sounds nice, doesn't it?

But it's more than just recalibrating and finding gravity's centre. Our phone obsession is affecting our mental health and relationships. It's greatly reducing the eye contact we have with others, she notes.

We need to create more opportunities to bring people together, face-to-face, without screens, the author believes. — 123rf.com

"Eye contact is the first and last form of communication we have. It's fundamental. And I worry we're losing it," she writes.

"Nothing is more effective for increasing empathy than in-person, face-to-face eye contact. We look up. And open our eyes."

And we don't fully know what other negative impacts our phone obsession might be doing to us.

True, we're adults, with one foot in tech and the other in the old days; we can get by with a phone left at home for a few hours or unusable on a weekend wilderness backpacking trip.

Today's kids – Shlain's are 10 and 16 – however, are growing up entirely online. And they're suffering because of it – it's making them unhappy, it's causing more family conflict, it's impacting their ability to focus at school, it's blunting their emotional development, she says. And just when it seems like we need more empathy in the world than ever before, we are raising children to be less empathetic.

As much as technology can connect us, it can disconnect us, from ourselves and others. We're not really being present, despite all the yoga, meditating and mindfulness self-help books many of us partake in.

Shlain spent many years trying to get people to connect online. Now, she wonders how to get people offline routinely so they can live better lives.

It's going to take a mindshift.

"Let's evolve how we think, live and work. We have to start viewing rest as a strength, not a weakness, and reward people for taking care of their bodies and minds, as well as creating infrastructures that support this across socioeconomic strata," she writes.

"We need to create more opportunities to bring people together, face-to-face, without screens, and we have to offer time and space for that to happen. Because the alternative is living as though technology invented us to serve its needs rather than the other way around."

Amen.

When I got home that phoneless day, sure enough there were texts from friends and a few voicemails. I answered them all that evening. No one was angry that it took so long for me to get back to them. There wasn't one "Where r u?"

Sadly, there also wasn't a message from that cute guy from the dating app. Despite all that smartphones can do, they can't always give you what you want. – The Marin Independent Journal/ Tribune News Service

Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/ ... TEcm1HkYjgORHCD0.99

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Rising demand for childcare providers due to hazy weather
NATION
Monday, 23 Sep 2019

PETALING JAYA: There is an increase in demand for childcare providers as schools remain closed due the haze, but some are also concerned with overloaded childcare centres.

Childline Foundation honorary project director Datin Wong Poai Hong says that while directives have been issued to close schools, childcare centres are left to decide on their own.

“Children up to four years old are the most vulnerable to haze exposure but childcare centres have not been told to close.

“So far, the centres have only received advice from the Welfare Department to discuss with parents on the next course of action,” she said.

Wong said some childcare centres could be overloaded if parents approached them to also care for older siblings.

“Some operators may take pity on working parents as they have no other options to send their children.

“However, this may be a problem, especially as childcare providers are not trained or equipped to look after older children.

“With older children in the centre, there is more risk of injury or abuse towards younger ones as the ratio of staff to children will be stretched,” she said.

Kiddocare disclosed that there has been a 20% to 30% increase for its on-demand babysitting services when schools were closed.

“Having on-demand babysitting service, with the flexibility to choose their own time and location, allows parents to continue with their daily routine while ensuring their kids are well taken care of,” she said.

Wong said some parents also sought their service to accompany their children to hospital.

“Some children fall ill due to the haze and parents cannot take leave, so they seek our service knowing that their children can be taken care of.”

Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/ ... 26Kph3lFawFIEOlb.99

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Jerebu: Peratusan penyakit asma, konjuntivitis meningkat
Astro Awani | Diterbitkan pada September 23, 2019 12:24 MYT

Kesan daripada jerebu yang melanda negara telah mengakibatkan penyakit asma dan konjuntivitis mencatatkan peningkatan kes di seluruh negara. - Gambar BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR: Kesan daripada jerebu yang melanda negara telah mengakibatkan penyakit asma dan konjuntivitis mencatatkan peningkatan kes di seluruh negara.

Kes penyakit asma mencatatkan peningkatan sebanyak 3.5 peratus daripada 1,222 kepada 1,265 kes sepanjang tempoh 15 hingga 21 September berbanding minggu sebelumnya.

Menurut Ketua Pengarah Kementerian Kesihatan,  Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, sepanjang tempoh itu juga, penyakit konjuntivitis meningkat kepada 403 kes atau 51.4 peratus daripada 266 kes.
"Bagaimanapun, penyakit jangkitan saluran pernafasan (URTI) menunjukkan penurunan sebanyak 9.6 peratus (8,258 kepada 7,465 kes), pada tempoh yang sama," kata Dr Noor Hisham dalam satu kenyataan di sini hari ini.

Beliau berkata, Kementerian Kesihatan sentiasa memantau penyakit berkaitan jerebu di 33 Fasiliti Sentinel Jerebu dan menasihatkan orang ramai terutama golongan berisiko tinggi dan mereka yang mengalami penyakit seperti asma, bronkitis, radang paru-paru, sakit jantung dan alahan mengambil langkah berjaga-jaga bagi mengurangkan kesan kesihatan akibat jerebu.
Dr Noor Hisham juga menyarankan orang ramai boleh mendapatkan langkah-langkah pencegahan untuk mengurangkan kesan kesihatan akibat jerebu dengan melayari laman sesawang kementerian http://www.moh.gov.my/index.php/pages/view/183.

Selain itu, bagi mengikuti perkembangan semasa jerebu dan menyemak bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) di lokaliti masing-masing orang ramai juga boleh melayari portal Jabatan Alam Sekitar (JAS) di http://apims.doe.gov.my/ dan mengikuti saranan pihak berwajib bagi setiap julat bacaan IPU.

Sehingga 8 pagi ini hanya satu lokasi di negara ini mencatat bacaan kualiti udara sangat tidak sihat iaitu 213 di Johan Setia, Klang, Selangor.

Sementara di Sri Aman, Sarawak, yang sebelum ini terjejas teruk dengan jerebu terus menunjukkan penurunan kepada bacaan IPU sejak semalam dan kini merekodkan bacaan 134 (tidak sihat) berbanding 203 (sangat tidak sihat) semalam.

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Messi, Rapinoe Pemain Terbaik FIFA
Berita Harian | 24 September 2019

MILAN: Lionel Messi memenangi anugerah Pemain Lelaki Terbaik FIFA awal pagi tadi manakala Megan Rapinoe memenanginya bagi kategori wanita untuk meraikan tahun bersejarah buat ikon Piala Dunia Amerika Syarikat itu.

Kejayaan penyerang Barcelona, Messi di Milan adalah kejutan apabila dia mengatasi Virgil Van Dijk, yang menang anugerah Pemain Terbaik UEFA bulan lalu selepas membantu Liverpool di Liga Juara-Juara musim lalu.

Penyerang Juventus, Cristiano Ronaldo juga disenarai pendek tetapi tidak hadir pada majlis di La Scala Opera House ketika dia tewas kepada pencabar utama itu.

Messi, 32, dan Van Dijk, 28, kini pencabar utama Ballon d’Or yang akan diumumkan pada 2 Disember.

Rapinoe menewaskan pemenang Piala Dunia Alex Morgan dan pemain England, Lucy Bronze untuk gelaran wanita manakala jurulatih Amerika Syarikat Jill Ellis menang anugerah jurulatih terbaik.

"Saya berterima kasih kepada mereka yang membuat keputusan memberikan saya pengiktirafan ini," kata Messi.

"Perkara paling penting buat saya ialah anugerah berpasukan, tetapi hari ini juga sangat istimewa buat saya."

Ini adalah kali pertama Messi menang anugerah Pemain Terbaik FIFA yang diperkenalkan pada 2016. Ronaldo menang pada 2016 dan 2017 manakala pemain Croatia, Luka Modric muncul pemenang tahun lalu.

Messi adalah penjaring terbanyak Liga Juara-Juara musim lalu dengan 12 gol sebelum Barcelona disingkirkan Liverpool pada separuh akhir, Barca melepaskan kelebihan tiga gol pada pusingan pertama apabila tewas 4-0 di Anfield.

Pemain Argentina itu juga menang Kasut Emas Eropah selepas menjaringkan 36 gol, menang gelaran La Liga bersama Barcelona dan membantu Argentina meraih gangsa pada Copa America 2019. - AFP

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Penjara tersalah bebas 12 banduan
Sinar Harian | Diterbitkan pada September 24, 2019 09:35 MYT

Hakim Daerah Bexar, Nelson Wolff menggesa Syerif Javier Salazar (gambar) untuk menjadi ketua yang lebih baik. - Foto Sinar Harian

TEXAS: Seorang syerif di Texas, Amerika Syarikat (AS) dikecam selepas penjara di bawah kendaliannya tersalah bebas 12 banduan tahun ini.

San Antonio Express-News melaporkan, Hakim Daerah Bexar, Nelson Wolff berkata, penjara terbabit berdepan 'krisis' selepas dua banduan tersalah dibebaskan dalam tempoh 12 jam Khamis lalu.

Wolff turut menggesa Syerif Javier Salazar supaya menjadi ketua yang lebih baik.
"Dia memaklumkan sedang melakukan segala yang mampu untuk menangani isu tersebut. Saya percaya dia sedang mencuba namun insiden dalam tempoh beberapa bulan ini tidak sepatutnya berlaku.

"Sudah tiba masa perubahan drastik dilakukan," kata Wolff.

Hakim berkenaan turut mencadangkan Salazar mengupah pentadbir penjara profesional bagi membendung kesalahan seumpama itu dan difahamkan, Salazar akan mempertimbangkan cadangan terbabit.
Dalam satu sidang media, Salazar berkata, meskipun siasatan dijalankan selepas setiap pembebasan salah, dia gagal menemukan punca masalah.

Menurut Salazar, belum masa untuk menuding jari namun dia tidak menolak kemungkinan beberapa banduan dibebaskan dengan sengaja. - Agensi

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Suami isteri didakwa pecah amanah wang pelajar maahad tahfiz
Oleh Siraj Mohd Zaini
siraj@bh.com.my

KLANG: Pengerusi dan pengetua sebuah maahad tahfiz didakwa di dua Mahkamah Majistret, di sini, hari ini, atas tiga pertuduhan pecah amanah iaitu penyalahgunaan wang pelajar untuk melanjutkan pengajian ke Turki berjumlah RM50,600 di antara November 2018 hingga Februari tahun ini.

Kedua-dua tertuduh yang juga pasangan suami isteri, Ahmad Shukri Ghazali, 47, dan Zunairah Awang, 38, bagaimanapun mengaku tidak bersalah atas semua pertuduhan yang dibacakan di hadapan Majistret Solehah Noratikah Ismail dan Majistret Roslizi Sulaiman.

Mengikut semua pertuduhan, mereka didakwa bersama-sama sebagai pengerusi dan pengetua maahad tahfiz dengan curangnya menyalahgunakan harta iaitu wang pembayaran tujuan pembelajaran tiga pelajar iaitu RM17,000, RM16,800 dan RM16,800.

Perbuatan itu didakwa dilakukan di antara 14 November 2018 hingga 11 Februari tahun ini di dua bank berasingan di daerah Klang.

Berikutan itu, mereka didakwa mengikut Seksyen 403 Kanun Keseksaan dibaca bersama Seksyen 34 Kanun Keseksaan.

Jika sabit kesalahan boleh dikenakan hukuman penjara tidak lebih lima tahun dan sebatan serta denda.

Pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Nor Suhaili Abu Bakar, manakala tertuduh diwakili peguam Nor Azri Mohd Arif.

Dalam pada itu, Nor Azri memohon jumlah jaminan sebanyak RM4,000 dikenakan kepada setiap tertuduh dengan alasan kedua-dua mereka kini tidak mempunyai pekerjaan tetap selepas maahad tahfiz berkenaan ditutup selain terpaksa menyara tujuh anak serta ibunya berusia 80 tahun.

Katanya, Zunairah juga kini sedang sarat mengandung anak kelapan dan bakal melahirkan cahaya mata pada awal November ini.

“Selepas kes ini tular sejak tahun lalu, ramai ibu-bapa tidak menghantar anak mereka ke maahad tahfiz terbabit sehingga ia terpaksa ditutup,” katanya.

Kedua-dua majistret kemudiannya menetapkan jumlah jaminan sebanyak RM18,000 setiap seorang serta kedua-duanya perlu melaporkan diri ke balai polis berhampiran setiap bulan selain pasport diserahkan kepada mahkamah.

Tarikh sebutan semula dan penyerahan dokumen ditetapkan pada 16 Oktober ini.

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Apa anda perlu tahu tentang siasatan baharu ke atas Trump
Nailah Huda, Agensi | Diterbitkan pada September 25, 2019 06:59 MYT

Trump ketika menghadiri mesyuarat dua hala bersama Perdana Menteri India Narendra Modi di Perhimpunan Agung PBB di New York, 24 September 2019. REUTERS
SPEAKER Dewan Perwakilan Amerika Syarikat (AS) Nancy Pelosi pada Selasa umum akan menubuhkan satu siasatan rasmi ke atas Presiden Donald Trump susulan kontroversi berkomunikasi bersama Presiden Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

Siasatan itu yang semakin banyak mendapat sokongan daripada ahli kongres Parti Demokrat akan menjadi penentuan masa depan Presiden Trump sebagai pemimpin White House.

Dakwa Parti Demokrat, Trump boleh dipecat atas sebab telah berkomunikasi bersama Presiden Zelensky menerusi panggilan telefon pada 25 Julai lalu.

“Tindakan oleh pentadbiran Trump itu mendedahkan bahawa beliau telah mengkhianati sumpah yang diangkatnya sebagai Presiden, serta keselamatan negara dan integriti pilihan raya,” kata Pelosi dalam satu ucapan ringkas di Capitol.

“Justeru, hari ini, saya umumkan Dewan Perwakilan akan meneruskan dengan siasatan rasmi untuk memecat Presiden.”

Enam ahli Kongres Demokrat akan membentangkan usul mereka dalam masa terdekat dan meneruskan siasatan mereka menerusi satu badan baharu.

Apa tindak balas Trump?

    They never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019


Susulan itu, Trump meluahkan rasa tidak puas hati menerusi Twitter dan menggambarkan siasatan itu sebagai ‘memburu ahli sihir’.

Tambahnya, ia satu cubaan untuk merendahkan dan mencuri perhatian daripada kejayaannya ketika menghadiri Perhimpunan Agung Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di New York.

    Such an important day at the United Nations, so much work and so much success, and the Democrats purposely had to ruin and demean it with more breaking news Witch Hunt garbage. So bad for our Country!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019


Trump turut berjanji akan mendedahkan transkrip panggilan telefon itu dalam masa terdekat.

    Secretary of State Pompeo recieved permission from Ukraine Government to release the transcript of the telephone call I had with their President. They dont know either what the big deal is. A total Witch Hunt Scam by the Democrats!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019


Apa yang dibincangkan bersama Presiden Ukraine?
Pada hujung minggu lalu, Trump mengakui kepada panggilan telefon tersebut yang membincangkan tentang isu rasuah yang berlaku di Amerika, terutamanya yang membabitkan bekas Naib Presiden Joe Biden dan anaknya, Hunter.

“Kami adakan satu perbualan yang hebat,” kata Trump. “Perbualan itu kebanyakannya untuk mengucapkan tahniah, serta mengenai semua rasuah yang berlaku.”

“Terutamanya, kami tidak mahu orang seperti (bekas) Naib Presiden Biden dan anaknya menambah kepada isu rasuah di Ukraine, yang sedia ada terpalit dengan banyak masalah.”

Dakwaan terhadap Biden itu adalah berdasarkan pengalaman anaknya, Hunter Biden ketika memegang jawatan di lembaga sebuah syarikat tenaga Ukraine.

Namun, anggota Parti Demokrat menolak dakwaan itu dan setakat ini masih tiada pengesahan dibuat mengenai sebarang rasuah yang dilakukan oleh bekas Naib Presiden itu.

Biden daripada Parti Demokrat merupakan saingan Trump dalam pilihan raya umum 2020.

Menurut laporan The Wall Street Journal, Trump, menerusi panggilan telefon itu, meminta Zelensky sebanyak lapan kali untuk menyiasat Biden dan apa-apa sebarang kaitannya di Ukraine.

Komunikasi antara Trump dan Zelesnky itu pertama kali dilaporkan oleh pemberi maklumat kepada pihak berkuasa perisikan AS pada minggu lepas.