10-month-old boy chokes to death on a fish ball

Thursday April 15, 2010

TAMPIN: A 10-month-old baby boy choked to death on a fish ball at a nursery yesterday.

Wan Nur Alif Wan Arif Fadhla was having breakfast, which was prepared by the nursery, with other children at about 9am when the incident happened.

The baby was said to have collapsed and turned blue and was sent to the Tampin Hospital, where he was confirmed dead on arrival.

His father, Wan Arif Fadhla Wan Yusof, 41, said his wife called him at about 11.15am to tell him that their son had been sent to the hospital.

“I went to the hospital and was informed that my son had choked on a fish ball,” said the Rembau district information officer, who then lodged a police report.

Wan Arif said his son’s body would be brought back to his wife’s hometown in Marang, Terengganu, for burial.

Tampin police chief Supt Wooi Hooi Cheng said that police would

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Utusan Malaysia Online - Terkini

Utusan Malaysia Online - Terkini

KUALA TERENGGANU 29 Mac – Seorang buruh warga Bangladesh maut, manakala empat lagi rakannya cedera apabila para besi bagi pembinaan bangunan Institut Oseanografi dan Institut Akuakultur, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) runtuh dalam satu kejadian petang ini.

Pengarah Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Terengganu, Pauzan Ahmad berkata, buruh terbabit tertimbus dalam konkrit simen yang masih basah dan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian.

Katanya, empat rakan mangsa dilaporkan cedera termasuk seorang cedera parah akibat dihempap dan terjatuh dari para besi yang runtuh ketika kesemua mangsa sedang melakukan kerja-kerja pembinaan konkrit tangki air dan membancuh konkrit di bangunan itu pada kira-kira pukul 5.10 petang.

Bagaimanapun, identiti kesemua mangsa belum diperolehi, katanya kepada pemberita di tempat kejadian.

"Ketika sedang melakukan kerja-kerja menyiapkan tangki air di tingkat empat bangunan itu iaitu di ketinggian lapan meter, para besi yang diduduki beberapa pekerja tiba-tiba runtuh bersama konkrit tangki air yang masih belum keras.

"Konkrit bersama para besi itu kemudian menimpa beberapa orang lagi pekerja Bangladesh yang sedang melakukan kerja-kerja membancuh simen di bawah,” katanya. – Bernama

A floor in a UMT building collapses, killing a Bangladeshi

A floor in a UMT building collapses, killing a Bangladeshi

Water pollution kills millions of children

Waste water kills millions of children, pollutes sea

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Human beings are flushing millions of tonnes of solid waste into rivers and oceans every day, poisoning marine life and spreading diseases that kill millions of children annually, the U.N. said on Monday.

"The sheer scale of dirty water means more people now die from contaminated and polluted water than from all forms of violence including wars," the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said.

Boys sit in front of a polluted canal in Jakarta March 21, 2010 Human beings are flushing millions of tonnes of solid waste into rivers and oceans every day, poisoning marine life and spreading diseases that kill millions of children annually, the U.N. said on Monday. (REUTERS/Supri)

In a report entitled "Sick Water" for World Water Day, UNEP said the two million tonnes of waste, which contaminates over two billion tonnes of water daily, had left huge "dead zones" that choke coral reefs and fish.

It consists mostly of sewage, industrial pollution, pesticides from agriculture and animal waste.

The report said a lack of clean water was killing 1.8 million children under five every year. Much of the waste came from developing countries, which dump 90 percent of their wastewater untreated.

Diarrhoea, mostly from dirty water, kills around 2.2 million people a year, it said, and "over half the world's hospital beds are occupied with people suffering from illnesses linked with contaminated water."

The report recommends water recycling systems and multi-million or multi-billion dollar water sewage treatment works".

It also suggests protecting wetlands, which act as natural waste processors, and saving animal waste to use as fertilizer.

"If the world is to ... survive on a planet of six billion people heading to over nine billion by 2050, we need to get smarter about how we manage wastewaters," said UNEP director Achim Steiner. "Wastewater is quite literally killing people."

(Reporting by Tim Cocks; editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Where is the safest place for the most valuable item?

Loss and Found Counter is needed urgently !
Stolen jet engine 'tip of the iceberg'

(above: The missing jet fighter engine is the powerplant of one of the four F-5E Tiger II fighters in the Malaysian air force.)

By Alang Bendahara

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA - The armed forces has launched a full audit of its assets following the loss of a jet fighter engine from the Royal Malaysian Air Force air base in Sungai Besi here.
Armed forces chief Gen Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin said the stolen jet engine might just be the "tip of the iceberg", as initial investigations showed that other equipment might have gone missing from as far back as 2007.

"We have tightened all our procedures, especially at the logistics department, and also introduced new security procedures to prevent attempts to steal and sell sensitive military equipment," he told the New Straits Times after attending the national-level Maal Hijrah celebration at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre yesterday.

It is learnt that the armed forces had already taken disciplinary action against those responsible for the missing jet engine.

Sources said the engine, which was still operational, was transported in a military container from the air force's Butterworth base to the Sungai Besi base for a routine maintenance service last year.

The jet engine was stored at the Sungai Besi warehouse while its service and maintenance record was kept in a safe in an office on the base.

Air force officers found the jet engine missing in January when they sent a private contractor to Subang to service the engine.

They also discovered that the service and maintenance record was missing.

Both the air force and police were investigating the possibility that the engine was sold on the black market to either illegal arms traders or countries still flying the F-5E Tiger II and RF-5E Tigereye.

The stolen engine is the powerplant for one of the four F-5E Tiger II fighters and two RF-5E Tigereye reconnaissance jets still in active duty at the air force's 12th Squadron (Scorpion) at the Butterworth air base.

Runtuh @ Collapsed

Runtuh@collapsed

1. RUNTUH! It is common and synonym term for Malaysian."stadium runtuh, masjid runtuh, sekolah runtuh, stesen bas runtuh, tanah runtuh & durian runtuh"
   
2. Even Malaysia is free from earthquake or typhoon, something or somewhere will be collapsed.
3. Is it due to insufficient maintenance? or due to negligence during design/construction stage?
4. What happen if we get some minor earthquake? The damage will be catastrophic. Nauzubillah.
   

Ministry restricts sale of imported dried fruits due to high lead content

THE STAR By LESTER KONG


KUALA LUMPUR: The sale of 18 types of dried plum and prune from China, Taiwan and other Asian countries has been restricted by the Health Ministry after high degrees of lead was detected.

The foodstuff - known as asam or jeruk in Malay and kiam sui tee (salty, sour and sweet) in Hokkien which are immensely popular as tidbits among Malaysians - has been put on Level 5 alert by the ministry’s Food Safety and Quality Division under its Food Information System of Malaysia.

This means that the division would hold the products for testing and would only release them for sale if they pass the test.
 

The highest alert level of 6 involves an immediate rejection of a product.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said for the moment, dried fruit products by other manufacturers and distributors would be permitted to be sold locally.

“If these 18 products are found in the local market, they will be seized and sampled for lead analysis,” he told reporters after launching the ministry’s management conference here yesterday.

Lead, in cumulative amounts over time, causes nervous system disorders and distorts brain development, especially in children.

Liow said the monitoring began following a US Food and Drug Administration report on Oct 1 that alerted consumers over the dried fruit sold by the 15 manufacturers due to lead contamination.

“If a product by a manufacturer or distributor is found to contain more than the permitted two parts per million (ppm), legal action will be taken under the Food Regulations 1985,” Liow said.

The 18 products apparently had lead levels of up to 30 ppm.
 

Asked if any of the 18 products were being sold locally, the minister said the division was checking on this.

Meanwhile, Liow announced that former International Trade and Industry Ministry deputy secretary-general Datuk Ooi Say Chuan had been appointed Malaysian Health Tourism Council chief executive officer.

He said the council, to be launched in December by the Prime Minister, would focus on consolidating private and Government efforts in promoting Malaysia as a health tourism destination.

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