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  • POPULAR Perkenal Buku Melayu Di 7 Cawangan Tahun Depan

    POPULAR Perkenal Buku Melayu Di 7 Cawangan Tahun Depan

    Selepas lebih 90 tahun dalam industri penjualan buku-buku Cina dan kemudiannya Inggeris, kedai buku POPULAR kini mahu membuat kehadiran lebih ketara dalam penjualan buku-buku bahasa Melayu pula.

    Menjelang pertengahan tahun depan, POPULAR akan mengedarkan buku-buku bahasa Melayu di tujuh cawangannya di serata negara.

    Ini bermakna, lagi tiga cawangannya akan menjual buku-buku Melayu iaitu di pusat beli-belah Tampines Mall, Lot 1 dan Northpoint, selain daripada empat cawangan yang sudahpun berbuat demikian tahun ini.

    POPULAR yang juga merupakan gedung menjual alat tulis menyatakan, langkah tersebut merupakan sebagain usaha untuk menggalak kedwibahasaan di kalangan para pembaca.

    Ia kini mempunyai koleksi buku Melayu di empat cawangannya, iaitu One KM Mall, Bedok Mall, Causeway Point dan Jurong Point.

    SUDAH ‘POPULAR’, TAPI MAHU LUASKAN JANGKAUAN PASARAN

    POPULAR sebenarnya hanya mula menawarkan buku berbahasa Melayu lebih dua tahun lalu, menerusi buku masakan Chef Wan.

    Sekarang ini, mempunyai sekitar 700 tajuk buku Melayu merangkumi genre masakan, novel, agama dan kanak-kanak di empat cawangannya di One KM, Bedok Mall, Causeway Point dan Jurong Point.

    Selain menambah cawangan yang mengedarkan buku-buku bahasa Melayu, POPULAR juga akan menambah lebih banyak tajuk buku Melayu, terutama bagi genre masakan dan novel.

    Menurut POPULAR, sambutan yang menggalakkan dari para pembeli Melayu yang mendorong kedai buku itu untuk meluaskan jangkauannya dalam pasaran Melayu.

    JUALAN BUKU MELAYU NAIK 23%

    Tahun ini sahaja, ia menyaksikan peningkatan 23% penjualan buku bahasa Melayu berbanding tahun lalu.

    Perincian itu didedahkan di acara pelancaran POPULAR Bookfest@Singapore pagi tadi yang dirasmikan Menteri Perhubungan dan Penerangan merangkap Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim.

    Dalam ucapannya Dr Yaacob berharap dengan langkah POPULAR menambah bahan bacaan dalam bahasa Ibunda, lebih ramai pembaca akan memupuk minat membaca buku-buku dalam bahasa Ibunda mereka.

    “Saya juga gembira bahawa memandang ke hadapan, POPULAR akan meluaskan sayapnya dalam sektor buku-buku Melayu. Menerusi usaha sebegini, kami berharap lebih ramai akan meneroka menjangkaui buku-buku bahasa Inggeris dan memupuk minat dalam bahasa Ibunda mereka sendiri. Siapa tahu anda mungkin berminat untuk mempelajari bahasa ketiga dan budayanya.” kata Dr Yaacob.

    Beliau juga mahu menggalak agar lebih banyak penerbit dan kedai buku menyumbang kepada matlamat mewujudkan budaya membaca yang aktif di Singapura.

    POPULAR BOOKFEST 2016 TAWAR AKTIVITI MESRA KELUARGA & PELBAGAI PRODUK

    Tahun ini, acara Bookfest yang merupakan acara buku dan alat tulis terbesar dari segi saiz yakni seluas 130,000 kaki persegi di Suntec Convention Hall menampilkan lebih banyak jenis barangan.

    Ini termasuk produk perkakas elektrik, kanak-kanak dan makanan.

    Buat pertama kalinya juga, POPULAR Bookfest@Singapore menyediakan pelbagai acara untuk dinikmati seisi keluarga termasuk acara memasak.

    Pada acara Bookfest tahun hadapan, POPULAR juga berhasrat untuk menyediakan lebih banyak aktiviti dalam bahasa Melayu termasuk Pertandingan Membaca Secara Kreatif Melayu Kebangsaan.

    Ini merupakan tahun ke-10 acara POPULAR Bookfest@Singapore diadakan.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Jabatan Agama Malaysia Buka Siasatan Kes Alas Kaki Disental Helaian Al-Quran

    Jabatan Agama Malaysia Buka Siasatan Kes Alas Kaki Disental Helaian Al-Quran

    Jabatan Hal Ehwal Agama Terengganu (JHEAT) membuka satu kertas siasatan bagi mengenal pasti pihak yang bertanggungjawab meletakkan helaian ayat al-Quran di dalam alas-alas kaki yang dijual di negeri itu.

    Pesuruhjaya Hal Ehwal Agama Negeri, Datuk Wan Mohd Wan Ibrahim berkata setakat ini pihaknya mendapati sebuah pasar raya di daerah Dungun menjual alas-alas kaki berkenaan menerusi satu aduan daripada seorang pembeli.

    Katanya, Bahagian Penguatkuasa Syariah serta Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) akan mengadakan operasi bersepadu untuk mengambil tindakan, termasuk merampas barangan itu dalam masa terdekat.

    Ptg tadi ad smpai wasap pasal als kaki ad ayt Quran… Balik rmh cek.. Rupanya ada jgak… Astaghfirullah…. Sapelah punya angkara…

    Posted by Kamariah Ali on Tuesday, 29 November 2016

     

    DIJUAL PADA RM2, HINA KESUCIAN QURAN

    “Selepas menerima aduan tersebut kita telah membuka kertas siasatan untuk mengenal pasti perkara ini…jika pengeluar produk berkenaan dari negeri lain, JHEAT akan memanjangkan perkara ini kepada pihak berkuasa di negeri berkenaan dan jika di Terengganu kita akan ambil tindakan berdasarkan peruntukan undang-undang sedia ada.

    “Alas kaki berkenaan dibeli dengan harga RM2 (S$0.64) dari sebuah pasar raya…ianya menghina kesucian Islam apabila menjual alas kaki mengandungi ayat suci al-Quran,” katanya kepada pemberita hari ini (1 Dis).

    Menurutnya tindakan mengikut Enakmen Kesalahan Jenayah Syariah Takzir Terengganu 2001 boleh dikenakan kepada mana-mana orang yang mempersendakan ayat al-Quran dan hadis.

    Katanya jika disabitkan kesalahan, pihak berkenaan boleh dikenakan denda tidak melebihi RM5,000 (S$1,600) atau tiga tahun penjara atau kedua-duanya.

    PEMBELI DIGESA SERAHKAN ALAS KAKI UNTUK DILUPUSKAN

    Datuk Wan Mohd turut menasihatkan kepada pembeli alas kaki yang mengandungi ayat suci tersebut supaya menyerahkannya dengan kadar segera kepada Bahagian Penyelidikan JHEAT untuk dilupuskan.

    “Alas kaki yang mengandungi ayat suci ini tidak boleh digunakan demi menjaga kehormatan dan kesucian al-Quran…saya amat kesal dengan pihak pengeluar produk ini kerana tidak menjaga sensitiviti umat Islam di negara ini dan saya berharap mereka yang terlibat akan dikenakan tindakan yang sewajarnya,” katanya.

    Beliau berkata pihaknya tidak menolak kemungkinan pengeluar alas kaki berkenaan mendapatkan kertas yang mengandungi ayat al-Quran itu daripada syarikat kitar semula bagi menghasilkan alas kaki dengan kadar harga yang murah.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Focus On Resolving Difficulties In Rakhine Rather Than Exaggerating Them, Says Suu Kyi

    Focus On Resolving Difficulties In Rakhine Rather Than Exaggerating Them, Says Suu Kyi

    Amid international accusations that the Myanmar military is leading a crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said she wants to make the situation better.

    Asked if the problem is intractable, she said no. “We have managed to keep the situation under control and to calm it down,” she stated.

    “But I would appreciate it so much if the international community would help us to maintain peace and stability and to make progress in building better relations between the two communities instead of always drumming up calls for, well, for bigger fires of resentment, if you like.”

    Speaking in an exclusive interview with Channel NewsAsia’s Lin Xueling on Friday (Dec 2) during her official visit to Singapore, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate called for understanding from the international community and explained that the issue is a highly sensitive and delicate one.

    “It’s not just Muslims who are nervous and worried. The Rakhine are worried too, they are worried about the fact that they are shrinking as a Rakhine population percentage-wise, and of course, we cannot ignore the fact that the relationship between the two communities has not been good and we want to try to make it better.

    “But it doesn’t help if everybody is just concentrating on the negative side of the situation in spite of the fact that there were attacks against police outposts which began on Oct 9.”

    The attacks were blamed on “terrorists” although the government had previously pointed at the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, and since then, troops have poured into an area along the border with Bangladesh, which is largely home to the Rohingya minority.

    Thousands have fled their homes as security forces hunt down more suspects who may be in hiding. Myanmar’s army has denied reports from activists that civilians have been killed, gang raped or had their homes torched.

    When it was put to her that it is not solely the international community that is the root of the problem, Ms Suu Kyi said: “I know that. I’m not saying there are no difficulties, but it helps if people recognise the difficulty and are more focused on resolving these difficulties rather than exaggerating them so that everything seems worse than it really is.”

    ASSESSMENT OF HER ADMINISTRATION

    One result that Myanmar’s de-facto leader is satisfied with is “the fact that the ministers are not corrupt”, Ms Suu Kyi said when asked about what she is most pleased with in the nine months since her administration took over. She noted, however, that “some of the junior officers are still not quite what we would wish them to be”.

    Ms Suu Kyi expressed hope that things can be improved, as she drew inspiration from Singapore’s example: “When I went to meet your corruption investigation bureau, they gave me a piece of paper, on which one of the things they said was that corruption is a fact of life, not a way of life. I like that very much, because this is how it is in our country. People accept it not as a way of life, although they recognise that is the fact of life, which means that the practice of corruption has not become embedded in our culture and that is very encouraging.”

    On Myanmar’s journey from half a century of military rule to a democratically-elected civilian-led government, Ms Suu Kyi, despite being one of the world’s most prominent democracy icons, made it clear it is not driven by her alone.

    “I have to keep reminding people that I was under house arrest for 15 years and they’ve (the military) only managed to retain public support during that period, and we managed to keep our party going in spite of the great difficulty. So, you must not underestimate the ability of many, many ordinary members of our political party, and our members are really the public, and we are very close to the public.”

    She is optimistic that Myanmar, and whoever succeeds her, will be able to stay on the path of democracy. “How successful I am, as a leader, will be decided by how dispensable I can make myself, and I hope that I’ll be able to make myself totally dispensable, that they will not need me to go on, neither my party, nor my country.”

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Indonesia VP Blames Foreign Countries For Destroying Forests

    Indonesia VP Blames Foreign Countries For Destroying Forests

    Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has blamed foreign countries for destroying Indonesia’s forests, and wants them to pay to help restore the damaged land.

    “What happens here is not only our problem. The foreign people also destroyed our forests,” said Kalla when officiating the Indonesia Forest Congress in Jakarta on Wednesday (Nov 30).

    Kalla said he has brought up this point at various international forums, and is angry with those who accused Indonesia for not managing its forest well.

    “During a big conference in Tokyo, someone said that Indonesia has forests, but they are damaged and should be restored,” said Kalla. “I became angry in front of thousands of people. I said, ‘this is a chair, this is a door, this is a window from my country. You take, and pay $5, and you bring it here, and sell for $100. Indonesian companies just get $5’.

    “There is Mitsubishi from Japan, Hyundai and others, they finished what we have. I told them, ‘you have to pay, if not we will cut down all the trees, and let the world feel the heat’. So, the world must also be responsible.”

    He added that Indonesia’s peatland restoration efforts should not be funded by the state, instead contributions should come from the international community.

    Indonesia set up the Peatland Restoration Agency after the massive forest fires last year. The agency’s goal is to restore some two million hectares of damaged peatland, and it needs at least US$1 billion in funding over five years.

    In 2010, Norway pledged US$1 billion for the Reducing Emissions and Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) programme. But the funds have yet to be released because Indonesia has not put in place any REDD programmes.

    Norway’s climate and environment minister visited Indonesia earlier this year to see the progress for himself. Despite the lack of progress, Norway said the funding is still being made available for Indonesia.

    KALLA REMINDS MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR FRESH AIR

    Kalla also reminded Indonesia’s neighbours not to complain when there is haze in the region. He said: “Malaysia and Singapore get angry because of the forest fires. It’s so easy to say, but you think we also don’t feel it? We feel it even more. Secondly, if you get fresh air from Sumatra, Kalimantan, you don’t say thank you. So, if you get the haze, why should I apologise?

    “The world has to pay for all of this. Don’t always accuse Indonesia. I never want to be accused. Even if we are wrong, why do we still give out so many permits (for land)?”

    Forest fires in Indonesia has been an annual problem, resulting in haze that blankets and choke parts of the country and the region. The fires are caused by farmers and corporations using the slash-and-burn method, which is the easiest, and cheapest, to clear the land for plantation.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Thousands Gather For Protest Against Jakarta Governor

    Thousands Gather For Protest Against Jakarta Governor

    Thousands of white-clad Muslims streamed towards a central Jakarta park on Friday, gathering for a rally expected to draw more than 100,000 Indonesians demanding the arrest of the capital’s governor, a Christian accused of insulting the Koran.

    National news agency Antara said 22,000 police personnel would be deployed to avoid a repeat of the violence that flared at the end of a protest led by hardline Islamists last month when more than 100 people were injured in clashes with police.

    Muslim groups accuse Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama – nicknamed “Ahok” – of insulting the Koran, though they have pledged that Friday’s demonstration will be peaceful.

    Protesters began moving from the hulking Istiqlal mosque towards the National Monument in the centre of the city at around 5am, after morning prayers.

     

    “We are expecting more than 100,000 participants,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said late on Thursday. “There is enough security so the public need not worry. We hope everything will proceed according to the agreement with the protesters.”

    Indonesia has the world’s biggest Muslim population but recognises six religions and is home to dozens of ethnic groups, some of which follow traditional beliefs.

    Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, is being investigated over comments he made about his opponents’ use of the Koran in political campaigning. He denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the remarks.

    Police on Thursday handed over their investigation dossier to prosecutors, who are expected to take the case of alleged blasphemy to court in coming weeks.

    Simmering religious and ethnic tension last month prompted President Joko Widodo to rally top military, political, and religious figures in a sign of unity amid fears of attempts to undermine the stability of his government.

    Police helicopters last week dropped leaflets over the capital warning residents of harsh penalties if the upcoming rally turned violent.

    Tens of thousands participated in military-led rallies in several cities this week calling for unity and celebrating Indonesia’s diversity.

    The Jakarta government has also put up billboards on major roads calling for national unity and displaying pictures of independence heroes who fought against colonial rule.

    The Australian foreign ministry and the US embassy in Jakarta issued security notices urging nationals to avoid the demonstration.

    Purnama is running for re-election in February against two Muslim candidates. The governor, who is popular with many for pushing through tough reforms to clean up the teeming city, has slipped into second place in the race, opinion polls showed this week.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

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