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  • Hotel Halal Pertama Thailand Dapat Sambutan Amat Menggalakkan

    Hotel Halal Pertama Thailand Dapat Sambutan Amat Menggalakkan

    Perniagaan Al Meroz Hotel, hotel empat bintang halal sepenuhnya yang
    pertama di Thailand, kini semakin pesat berikutan peningkatan jumlah pelancong Islam ke negara itu.

    Pengarah Urusan dan Pengurus Besarnya Sanya Saengboon berkata hotel dengan 242 bilik itu yang sudah mendapat pensijilan daripada pihak berkuasa dari Timur Tengah dan Thailand, mendapat sambutan yang amat menggalakkan.

    “Kadar penginapan hotel kami sekarang ialah pada 94 peratus. Ia sudah terlalu tinggi dan saya tidak tahu apa yang perlu dilakukan lagi (terhadap sambutan yang tidak pernah berlaku),” katanya kepada Bernama dalam satu temu bual baru-baru ini.

    Bagi menampung permintaan yang amat menggalakkan itu, beliau berkata hotel itu, yang menampilkan seni bina seperti masjid lengkap dengan menara, sudah mula merancang untuk menambah 150 bilik lagi.

    Rancangan pengembangan dilakukan sebulan selepas hotel itu, yang terletak di pinggir bandar Bangkok, Ramkhamhaeng, dilancarkan secara rasmi pada Februari tahun ini selepas menjalani operasi percubaan lebih setahun.

    BANGUNAN TAMBAHAN AKAN DITAMBAH

    Hotel berkenaan akan menambah satu lagi bangunan tambahan pada akhir tahun,
    menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan bilik kepada hampir 500, setiap satu dilengkapi dengan
    sejadah, Al-Quran dan arah kiblat.

    Ia juga mempunyai surau, kemudahan wuduk, tiga restoran, dewan, gimnasium dan kolam renang, dengan masa yang berlainan bagi lelaki dan wanita.

    Menurut Sanya, yang beragama Islam, walaupun hotel itu halal sepenuhnya, Al Meroz menerima campuran tetamu, Islam dan bukan Islam, yang menunjukkan bahawa orang bukan Islam sedia untuk menginap di hotel berstatus halal.

    “Sejak dibuka, kami telah menerima banyak pelanggan dari Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, China, serta negara-negara di Timur Tengah, Eropah dan Amerika,” katanya.

    Selain itu, hotel ini juga memenuhi keperluan pelancong Islam tempatan terutamanya dari bahagian selatan negara ini dan masyarakat yang tinggal di Ramkhamhaeng, antara penempatan orang Islam terawal dan terbesar di Bangkok.

    LIHAT PELUANG DALAM PELANCONGAN HALAL

    Sanya berkata Lembaga Pelancongan Thailand melihat peluang dalam pasaran
    pelancongan halal dan memulakan usaha bersepadu untuk menarik pelancong Islam dari seluruh dunia ke negara di Asia Tenggara itu.

    (Gambar-gambar: Laman Al Meroz Hotel)

    “Terdapat 1.6 bilion umat Islam di dunia dan ini merupakan satu peluang yang besar untuk negara,” katanya, sambil menambah bahawa usaha untuk menarik pelancong Islam sudah memberi faedah kepada Thailand, sebuah negara dengan majoriti penduduk beragama Buddha.

    Thailand sudah menyaksikan lonjakan pelancong dan pengunjung Islam sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini.

    Beliau berkata inisiatif ini melangkaui peluang pelancongan memandangkan rantaian halal meliputi industri-industri lain yang Thailand boleh memanfaatkannya.

    Mengimbas kembali bagaimana tercetusnya idea untuk membina hotel halal pertama Thailand itu, Sanya berkata ia adalah ilham Presiden dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya, Rausak Mulsap, yang melihat peluang luas dalam industri halal.

    Didorong oleh impian memiliki hotel halal di Thailand, Rausak memulakan pembinaan Al Meroz Hotel tiga tahun lalu dengan pelaburan sebanyak lebih satu bilion baht (S$40 juta).

    Source: BeritaMediacorp

  • Sengkang Cops’ Quick Thinking Helped Them Revive Two-Year-Old Boy

    Sengkang Cops’ Quick Thinking Helped Them Revive Two-Year-Old Boy

    Police Senior Staff Sergeant Mohamad Azhar Abdul Aziz, 30, was handling a complaint from a member of the public on March 18 when an elderly woman dashed into the Sengkang Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) carrying a boy, who was limp.

    The officer knew something was wrong after taking a look at the boy and that he needed to do something, or the child would die.

    Senior Staff Sgt Azhar and Sergeant Mohamad Adam Roslan, 26, were on duty at the NPC at about 2pm that Saturday.

    Speaking to The New Paper on Wednesday, Senior Staff Sgt Azhar said: “His head and legs were dangling as his grandmother carried him.”

    The frantic woman went between Senior Staff Sgt Azhar and Sgt Adam to place the unconscious two-year-old on the counter.

    She was speaking in Mandarin in a panicked and shaky voice. Neither officer understood her, but both knew they had to act fast.

    As Sgt Adam called for an ambulance, Senior Staff Sgt Azhar checked the boy’s vitals. There were no signs of breathing or a pulse, so he applied cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

    EMOTIONAL

    Senior Staff Sgt Azhar, who has a daughter the same age as the boy, said: “I was worried because as I was trying to save him, doing the compressions, I was thinking of my daughter and I was quite emotional.”

    Cradling the boy in one arm, he performed chest compressions with his other hand.

    Just as he was about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he noticed the boy’s teeth were tightly clenched, indicating he was breathing again but experiencing fits

    At the time, Staff Sergeant Joshua Kwek, 27, was on the second storey of the NPC having food.

    When he heard of the case, he sprinted to the Sengkang Polyclinic next door.

    The polyclinic had closed for the day, but he found a doctor who had not yet left for home and told him about the boy.

    Staff Sgt Joshua ran back to the NPC to inform Senior Staff Sgt Azhar, and they rushed back to the polyclinic with Senior Staff Sgt Azhar carrying the boy.

    They took him into the doctor’s consultation room.

    A Singapore Civil Defence Force spokesman told TNP they sent an ambulance and that the boy was then taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

    The grandmother of the boy profusely thanked Senior Staff Sgt Azhar and his colleagues.

    Senior Staff Sgt Azhar told TNP: “I feel fortunate that he survived. I did not want a human being to die in my hands.”

    Assistant Superintendent of Police Muhamad Iskandar Abdul Kadir, the officer-in-charge of the community policing unit for Sengkang NPC, said: “I am proud of them, and they have done the police force proud.

    “I am glad they took the initiative to take the boy to the polyclinic instead of waiting for the ambulance.”

     

    Source: TNP

  • Commentary: Trend Melancong Bersama Bukan Trend, Tapi Biasa

    Commentary: Trend Melancong Bersama Bukan Trend, Tapi Biasa

    Saya sebenarnya tidak rase yang hal couple pergi holiday same-same ini boleh dikatakan “trending”. Mungkin sebab dalam zaman saya ini kelakuan seperti ini memang common sangat. ramai kawan-kawan yang pergi melancong bersama, ataupon ajak lagi kawan lain yang couple jugak. mereka semue belum kahwin lagi, ade yang dah tunang ade yang stakat dating aje.

    Actually nak cakap pasal travelling dengan pasangan ni kalau ikut segi ugama memang salah. tapi saya berpendapat yang ade jugak bende positive yang boleh kami belajar dari ini.

    Cuba fikir kalau kita pergi holiday dengan gf atau bf kite, kami semue dapat pergi explore dunia bersama. Experience bende baru bersama, mungkin bende-bende yang tidak boleh kami buat di Singapura. Dapat jugak melihat pasangan kita, perangai dia, suka tak suka dia. Bonding katakan.

    Lagi satu, sebagai couple yang masih membesar atau tengah sibuk kerje, mungkin kite susah nak dapatkan mase untuk spend time bersama. Atau ibubapa tidak suka kite kluar ngan pasangan selalu sangat. Dan macam-macam alasan lain aje lah. Jadi, holiday inilah satu jawabnya untuk spend quality time together. kalau satu minggu jumpa sekali, atau satu bulan jumpa setakat brapa jam aja. This is the chance. This the only way dapat escape bersama buat sementara.

    Lagipon kalau nak ikut batasan pon boleh dengan tidur berasing. Memang impossible jugak kalau dua orang melancong tapi nak spend duit sewa dua bilik, tak masuk akal. kalau betul nak boleh lah order single bed, dah macam lain. tido kat couch pon boleh biar perempuan tido kat katil. Ikut hati masing-masing juga.

    Last, kalau kita pergi mcm gini bersendirian tidak lah lain sangat dengan kalau pergi holiday dengan pasangan dan family dia. Ok memang ada parents control sebab parents ada, tapi niat kalau bukan jahat then tetap ok kan?

     

    Salam,

    T

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  • Imam Visits Synagogue To Apologise For Offensive Remarks

    Imam Visits Synagogue To Apologise For Offensive Remarks

    Imam Nalla Mohamed Abdul Jameel, 47, extended his unconditional apology for his offensive remarks and acknowledged that he must bear full responsibility for his actions.

    The visit came two days after he apologised at a gathering of leaders of various faiths.

    Yesterday, the imam also presented Rabbi Mordechai Abergel with a copy of the open statement of apology that he had delivered last Friday at the Harmony in Diversity Gallery in Maxwell Road.

    On behalf of the Jewish community here, Rabbi Abergel accepted the imam’s apology at the Maghain Aboth Synagogue.

    The rabbi said the Jewish and Muslim communities here have a “very harmonious” relationship, with strong bonds of friendship.

    “This sends a message that these bonds are not affected, and we share so much more than what divides us,” he added.

    In February, a video of the imam reciting a prayer in Arabic that said “God help us against Jews and Christians”, among other things, was circulated online.

    The imam clarified last Friday that the additional supplication he read was not from the Quran, but an old Arabic text originating from his village in India.

    Yesterday, Buddhist and Sikh leaders also joined in the synagogue visit.

    At a separate community event in Marsiling yesterday, Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob said the imam’s apology is a “positive move” that should be taken into consideration.

    “He apologised, he gathered together all the people from different faiths, and it was a great initiative on his part,” she said.

    REMORSE

    Last Friday’s meeting, where the imam apologised before leaders of various faiths, including Christian leaders, was organised at his request.

    He said he was “filled with great remorse for the inconvenience, tension and trauma that I have caused to this peaceful country”.

    After the controversial remarks surfaced, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said the Government will not tolerate preaching that encourages violence or seeks to pit one religion against another.

    On Saturday, Mr Shanmugam said the police have completed their investigations on the matter and submitted a report to the Attorney-General’s Chambers, adding that a decision is expected within a few days.

    The imam’s apology was welcomed by the Muslim community and leaders of other faiths, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim noted on Saturday.

    Yesterday, Madam Halimah said of the imam’s apology: “He realised what he did was a mistake.

    “He also realised that what he had lifted from his home town in India may not be so applicable here. Probably, he didn’t know, or quite understand, the context of Singapore society.”

    She added: “We are multiracial, multi-religious, and you need to understand that is important.”

     

    Source: TNP

  • Perkasa: Singapore Minister’s Remark An Insult To King, Government

    Perkasa: Singapore Minister’s Remark An Insult To King, Government

    Malay right-wing group Perkasa wants Wisma Putra to send a letter of protest to Singapore for comments attributed to a senior minister comparing Singapore Malays with Malaysian Malays.

    Singapore Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam had been reported as saying that Singapore Malays are better off in terms of education standing, skills and wealth than those of similar ethicnicity in Malaysia or Indonesia.

    Perkasa deputy chairman Sirajuddin Salleh said the statement made by Shanmugam was uncalled for.

    “I am concerned about the statement. It is not diplomatic and is an insult to the King and the government of Malaysia,” he told FMT when asked to comment on Shanmugam’s statement.

    Sirajuddin said Malaysia and Singapore were close neighbours and there should be greater diplomacy between both countries.

    “I hope Wisma Putra will issue a strong protest letter. To me, the remark is not good. I will not touch on the content because it is very subjective.

    “It is just like if he comes to my house and says something that is not nice. Whether he is right or not, that is subjective, but in this case, it is not very nice,” Sirajuddin said.

    Earlier Channel News Asia quoted Shanmugam as saying that “with a stable, strong political system, with a strong government, with a guarantee for the minorities … with this framework, we can become the community that Muslim societies in other countries look towards and say, this is the example.”

    Shanmugam had also suggested that Malay, Indian and Chinese PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) from Singapore were better off than those of the same race, respectively, in Malaysia.

    However, the minister had cautioned that while Singapore was doing better compared with many parts of the world, “within Singapore there is still a gap” and they were no longer just competing with Malaysia or Indonesia, but instead competing with the world.

    He said the proportion of Malay Primary 1 students who go on to post-secondary education had doubled from 45% in 1995 to 93% in 2015. Those who eventually receive polytechnic diplomas, professional qualifications or university degrees have “gone up over a five-year period to 21%.”

    Shanmugam added that the proportion of Malays working as PMETs increased to 28% in 2010 and their median real monthly income per capita had doubled since 1990.

    Nearly 90% of Malay households in Singapore own their own homes, according to Shanmugam.

    However, he singled out three challenges facing the Malay-Muslim community in the country – radicalisation, loss of jobs and the over-representation of Malays being caught for crimes and drug abuse.

    Citing a Pew Research Centre study which showed that 10% of Malaysian Malays had a favourable opinion of Islamic State (IS), and that nearly one-quarter were not prepared to come out and say that IS is wrong, Shanmugam said that Singapore Malays must not get to that level.

    “A key part of that depends on you, the leaders of the Malay community, and whether you can make sure that the right religious values are put forth. We have to work hard at this because the influences are on the internet,” Shanmugam reportedly told a seminar organised by the Association of Muslim Professionals in Singapore.

    On drug abuse, Shanmugam had said 53% of those arrested for drug abuse last year were Malays. This is an increase from 10 years ago when the proportion of Malays arrested for the same was 32%.

     

    Source: freemalaysiatoday

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