Today sees the long-awaited opening of the Burj Dubai, not only the world’s tallest building but the world’s tallest building by some 1,000 feet. At 2,717 feet (828 metres) tall, it is the height of the current highest skyscraper, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, with the Eiffel Tower perched on top.

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Petrol RON97 dikurangkan daripada RM2.15 seliter kepada RM2 seliter;
Petrol RON92 dikurangkan daripada RM2.05 seliter kepada RM1.90 seliter; dan
Diesel dikurangkan daripada RM2.05 seliter kepada RM1.90 seliter

PUTRAJAYA: Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Liow Tiong Liow hari ini mewajibkan setiap syarikat pengeluar rokok memaparkan imej gambar amaran risiko merokok pada setiap paket rokok yang dikeluarkan bermula Januari tahun depan.

Selain amaran itu, kementerian juga telah memulakan satu siri berhubung langkah-langkah mensasarkan perokok termasul menyediakan minimum harga RM6 untuk sepaket rokok pada hujung tahun ini, memperbanyakkan premis-premis larangan merokok dan mengharamkan pengeluar menggunakan perkataan-perkataan seperti “low tar”, “light”, “ultra-light” dan “mild” pada paket jenama mereka berkuat kuasa serta merta.

Liow berkata, sebanyak 21 syarikat pengeluar dan pengimport rokok telah bersetuju dengan keputusan terbaru ini.

“Menjelang 1 Januari tahun depan, setiap jenama rokok mesti mempunyai sekurang-kurangnya dua daripada produk mereka yang mempamerkan amaran-amaran ini.

“Bagaimanapun, mungkin masih ada stok lama dalam negara ini menggunakan paket lama,” katanya kepada media di pejabatnya, di sini.

Liow berkata, menjelang Jun tahun hadapan setiap paket rokok wajib mempunyai dua logo yang ditetapkan itu.

“Selain daripada amaran berkenaan setiap paket juga perlu mematuhi arahan dengan tidak menjual rokok kepada mereka yang berusia 18 tahun ke bawah dan amaran mengenai rokok mengandungi 4,000 bahan kimia,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, terdapat enam set imej gambar amaran yang menasihatkan orang ramai supaya tidak merokok termasuk imej penyakit barah mulut, barah kerongkong dan kecacatan rongga hidung. Turut disertakan adalah nombor talian infoline kepada perokok yang mahu berhenti merokok.

Liow berkata, imej gambar yang ditetapkan bagi setiap paket rokok mesti meliputi 40 peratus bagi muka hadapan dan 60 peratus bagi belakang setiap paket rokok.

Dalam satu kajian yang dijalankan oleh Kementerian Kesihatan mendapati 21.5 peratus populasi orang dewasa atau tiga juta orang dewasa menghisap rokok, manakala 15 peratus menunjukkan golongan remaja telah mencuba untuk merokok dan 8 peratus lagi mengakui akan menjadi perokok tetap.

Lior berkata, dengan keputusan terbaru ini yang diambil kementeriannya itu, Malaysia akan menyertai 15 buah negara lagi yang telah mematuhi World Health Organisation Framework Convention mengenai Kawalan tembakau.

“Di Kanada, amaran-amaran ini telah menyebabkan separuh daripada perokok di negara itu ingin berhenti merokok dan di Thailand, 80 peratus perokok berpendapat gambar-gambar ini memberi kesan kepada mereka.

“Sejak 10 tahun yang lalu, kita telah berjaya mengurangkan jumlah perokok di Malaysia sebanyak 2% melalui pelbagai kempen-kempen yang telah dilaksanakan.

“Dengan jumlah yang sedikit seperti itu, sememangnya pihak kementerian tidak berpuas hati,” katanya.

Liow berkata, semua kem Latihan Khidmat Negara akan dijadikan sebagai kawasan larangan merokok dengan segera manakala perokok tidak akan dibenarkan lagi di kawasan sekitar koridor dan kompleks membeli-belah.

Ditanya mengenai harga minimum yang ditetapkan bagi paket 20 batang rokok, Liow berkata, harga yang ditetapkan akan disesuaikan setiap kali kerajaan mengumumkan cukai dan caj tambahan dalam bajet.

“Pejabat Peguam Negara ketika ini sedang dalam proses untuk mewartakan harga minumum bagi sekotak rokok,” katanya sambil menambah sesiapa yang gagal untuk mematuhi keputusan terbaru boleh didenda sehingga RM10,000 atau dipenjara selama dua tahun atau kedua-duanya sekali.

Menurutnya, pada tahun ini sahaja, Kementerian Kesihatan telah mengkompaun 2,622 orang perokok dengan jumlah denda yang diperoleh sebanyak RM564,000 dan seramai 1,946 perokok telah dihadapkan ke mahkamah atas pelbagai kesalahan.

Sumber : mstar

CELCOM

DiGi

MAXIS

Mana satu pilihan hati?. Yang pasti aku dah switch over ke CELCOM, memang ‘undisputed network’ seperti yang  diwawarkan berbanding dengan MAXIS yang dah semakin teruk ‘line coverage’. Setakat nie aku berpuas hati dengan CELCOM yang ada 5+1, semua free. Anda bagaimana ?

Mesyuarat Majlis Raja-Raja ke-215 yang berlangsung di Istana Maziah di Kuala Terengganu hari ini mengeluarkan satu kenyataan akhbar khas berhubung beberapa perkara yang terkandung dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan…

2.Umur kelayakan mengundi 21 tahun kekal [mstar]

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan belum bercadang untuk mengurangkan umur kelayakan mengundi daripada 21 tahun kepada 18 tahun.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, K. Devamany berkata, kerajaan berpendapat umur matang bagi seseorang warganegara Malaysia adalah 21 tahun dan sebelum umur tersebut, terdapat sebahagian rakyat Malaysia yang masih lagi di peringkat persekolahan dan kemudiannya terlibat dalam pengajian tinggi…

3.Krisis ekonomi global tanda gagal sistem kapitalis [harakahdaily]

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Okt (Hrkh) - Presiden PAS, Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang menyifatkan krisis ekonomi global sebagai tanda kegagalan sistem kapitalis yang selama ini didewa-dewakan oleh negara Barat.Kesan dari krisis ekonomi global ini, kata Ustaz Hadi memaksa negara seperti Amerika Syarikat mengeluarkan dana yang besar untuk membantu syarikat yang hampir muflis..

4.Demand for OpenOffice 3 crashes site [thestar]

Following the availability of OpenOffice 3.0 on Monday, the OpenOffice.org website crashed due to “unprecedented demand” at about 7pm Malaysian time when it was released.

Since the crash, the site has been replaced with a stripped-down page with just download links and an apology explaining the reason for the disappearance of the main site. OpenOffice is a cross-platform office suite originally derived from StarOffice developed by Sun Microsystems.

This could possibly be the first spyshots of the new Proton MPV and it’s all thanks to reader the_king, who snapped them on the highway near the Prai Industrial Estate. We previously saw the car’s drivetrain being tested in a test mule based on the Toyota Wish..

2. Minyak turun lagi – Penurunan kali ketiga 10 hingga 20 sen seliter [berita harian ]

PUTRAJAYA: Kerajaan semalam mengumumkan penurunan kali ketiga harga runcit petrol dan diesel antara 10 sen hingga 20 sen seliter, berkuat kuasa hari ini.

Harga petrol RON97 dikurangkan 15 sen seliter daripada RM2.45 kepada RM2.30, petrol RON92 turun 10 sen seliter daripada RM2.30 kepada RM2.20, manakala diesel sebanyak 20 sen seliter daripada RM2.40 kepada RM2.20..

3. PAS beralih angin – kini yakin ’16 Sept’ [malaysiakini]

PAS akhirnya yakin sepenuhnya dengan “projek 16 September” Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dengan menghantar lima pemimpin berprofil tinggi parti itu menyertai mesyuarat pembentukan kerajaan baru dengan PKR dan DAP…

4. Umno lancar Tabung Azan hanya sekadar gimik politik – Nik Aziz [harakahdaily]

KOTA BHARU, 14 Okt (Hrkh) – Tindakan Umno melancarkan Tabung Azan bersama Utusan Malaysia kononnya bagi memperjuangkan kebebasan melaungkan azan di masjid dan surau di negara ini disifatkan sebagai gimik politik.

Mursyidul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Dato’ Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat berkata, usaha mereka mewujudkan Tabung Azan bagi membantu akhbar Utusan Malaysia sesuatu yang tidak rasional…

Permintaan Umno supaya “Yang di-Pertuan Agong campurtangan bagi menangani penghakisan hak-hak keistimewaan bumiputera” (Utusan Malaysia, 8 Julai 2008) ibarat mengesahkan satu perkara sahaja iaitu Umno yang telah mengangkat kedua-dua belah tangan.

Dia sendiri telah secara muktamad mengesahkan kegagalan parti itu sebagai pembela orang Melayu. Sudah selama 50 tahun dia membela(?).

Nasib orang Melayu menjunam dalam hampir semua pentas; agama, bangsa, tanah dan air.

seterusnya…

Petronas ke-8 paling untung di dunia

PETRONAS berada pada kedudukan kelapan syarikat paling untung di dunia tahun lalu dalam senarai Fortune Global 500 majalah perniagaan Fortune.

Di Asia pula, ia muncul syarikat paling untung, mengambil tempat pengeluar kereta terbesar dunia, Toyota Motor dari Jepun, yang mendahului senarai itu pada 2006.

seterusnya…

Pak Lah undur 2010

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menamatkan spekulasi berhubung proses peralihan kuasa dalam kepimpinan parti dan kerajaan apabila mengumumkan akan melepaskan jawatannya pada pertengahan 2010 dengan menamakan Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebagai penggantinya.

seterusnya…

Hadi akui rundingan PAS-Umno, ulas impak isu dakwaan meliwat Anwar

PETALING JAYA: Dalam temu bual yang dilihat sebagai pendirian terbuka dan tegas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang sambil mengakui PAS telah mengadakan perbincangan dengan Umno bagi menerokai kerjasama masa depan menegaskan, parti itu “berhak” berbuat demikian sambil menegaskan peranan PAS yang telah membawa kejayaan Pakatan Rakyat tidak harus “diketepikan” begitu sahaja.

seterusnya..

Malaysia’s two oldest cities — George Town and Malacca — have finally been listed as World Heritage sites after seven years of campaigning at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), which gave the status yesterday

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of the 7 of July. With these inscriptions, Papua New Guinea and San Marino enter the World Heritage List for the first time.

The new sites inscribed are:

Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca (Malaysia) have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible. With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch periods beginning in the early 16th century. Featuring residential and commercial buildings, George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. The two towns constitute a unique architectural and cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.

Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) consists of 116 ha of swamps in the southern highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation worked almost continuously for 7,000, and possibly for 10,000 years. It contains well-preserved archaeological remains demonstrating the technological leap which transformed plant exploitation to agriculture around 6,500 years ago. It is an excellent example of transformation of agricultural practices over time, from cultivation mounds to draining the wetlands through the digging of ditches with wooden tools. Kuk is one of the few places in the world where archaeological evidence suggests independent agricultural development and changes in agricultural practice over such a long period of time.

Stari Grad Plain (Croatia) on the Adriatic island of Hvar is a cultural landscape that has remained practically intact since it was first colonized by Ionian Greeks from Paros in the 4th century BC. The original agricultural activity of this fertile plain, mainly centring on grapes and olives, has been maintained since Greek times to the present. The site is also a natural reserve. The landscape features ancient stone walls and trims, or small stone shelters, and bears testimony to the ancient geometrical system of land division used by the ancient Greeks, the chora which has remained virtually intact over 24 centuries.

Fortifications of Vauban (France) consists of 13 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. They represent the finest examples of the work of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV. The serial property includes towns built from scratch by Vauban, citadels built on plains, urban bastion walls, bastion towers and a residence. There are also mountain forts, sea forts, a mountain battery and two mountain communication structures. This property is inscribed as bearing witness to the peak of classic fortifications, typical of western military architecture. Vauban also played a major role in the history of fortification in Europe and as far away as the American continent, Russia and East Asia.

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Germany). The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive socially, politically and culturally. The property is an outstanding example of the building reform movement that contributed to improving housing and living conditions for people with low incomes through novel approaches to town planning, architecture and garden design. The estates also provide exceptional examples of new urban and architectural typologies, featuring fresh design solutions, as well as technical and aesthetic innovations. Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner and Walter Gropius were among the leading architects of these projects which exercised considerable influence on the development of housing around the world.

Mantua and Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows the renewal and extension of an existing city, while 30 km away, Sabbioneta represents the implementation of the period’s theories about planning the ideal city. Typically, Mantua’s layout is irregular with regular parts showing different stages of its growth since the Roman period and includes many medieval edifices among them an 11th century rotunda and a Baroque theatre. Sabbioneta, created in the second half of the 16th century under the rule of one person, Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, can be described as a single-period city and has a right angle grid layout. Both cities offer exceptional testimonies to the urban, architectural and artistic realizations of the Renaissance, linked through the visions and actions of the ruling Gonzaga family. The two towns are important for the value of their architecture and for their prominent role in the dissemination of Renaissance culture. The ideals of the Renaissance, fostered by the Gonzaga family, are present in the towns’ morphology and architecture.

San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano (San Marino) covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the historic centre of the city which dates back to the foundation of the republic as a city-state in the 13th century. San Marino is inscribed as a testimony to the continuity of a free republic since the Middle Ages. The inscribed city centre includes fortification towers, walls, gates and bastions, as well as a neo-classical basilica of the 19th century, 14th and 16th century convents, and the Palazzo Publico of the 19th century, as well as the 18th century Titano Theatre. The property represents an historical centre still inhabited and preserving all its institutional functions. Thanks to its position on top of Mount Titano, it was not affected by the urban transformations that have occurred from the advent of the industrial era to today.

The Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area (Slovakia) inscribed on the World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three Greek Orthodox churches built between the 16th and 18th centuries in small, poor villages in an area formerly known as Upland Hungary. The property presents good examples of a rich local tradition of religious architecture, marked by the meeting of Latin and Byzantine cultures. The edifices exhibit some typological variations in their floor plans, interior spaces and external appearance due to their respective religious practices. They bear testimony to the development of major architectural and artistic trends during the period of construction and to their interpretation and adaptation to a specific geographical and cultural context. Interiors are decorated with paintings on the walls and ceilings and other works of art that enrich the cultural significance of the properties.

During the morning session, the Committee also approved the extension of the Mountain Railways of India with the inscription of the Kalka Shimla Railway, a 96km long, single track working rail link built in the mid-19th century to provide a service to the highland town of Shimla.

Source : UNESCO

Kempen berterusan dan himpunan-himpunan rakyat secara teratur untuk membantah kenaikan harga minyak perlu diadakan. Ia adalah sebagai cerminan sebenar kemarahan rakyat kepada ketidakpedulian BN terhadap beban hidup yang terpaksa ditanggung rakyat akibat kenaikannya. Di atas rasa peduli dan prihatin terhadap permasalahan rakyat ini pemuda pakatan rakyat bersesama dengan pelbagai NGO anak muda iaitu antara lain Anwar Ibrahim Club (Anwar Ibrahim Club), Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia (PKPIM) telah menggerakkan satu kempen secara bersepadu dan tersusun di bawah nama Gerakan Rakyat Anti Manipulasi Minyak (GERAMM).

GERAMM mempunyai peranan khusus sebagai enjin pemasaran dan penggemblengan massa untuk satu protes besar-besaran di ibunegara. Untuk merealisasikan hasrat ini, laman web GERAMM.ORG antara lainnya dibangunkan untuk menjadi pusat himpunan maklumat mengenai segala aktiviti, ceramah umum dan “hub” kepada jaringan blog dan laman web yang menyokong GERAMM.

Layari : Geramm.org

Pluto’s years-long identity crisis just got more complex today.

The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term “plutoid” as a name for Pluto and other objects that just two years ago were redefined as “dwarf planets.”

The surprise decision is unlikely to stem ongoing controversy and confusion, astronomers say.

Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU’s decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes almost two years after it stripped Pluto of its planethood and introduced the term “dwarf planets” for Pluto and other small round objects that often travel highly elliptical paths around the sun in the far reaches of the solar system.

Source : Space.com