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  • 177 Bakal Jemaah Haji Indonesia Terkandas Di Filipina, Jadi Mangsa Penipuan Sindiket

    177 Bakal Jemaah Haji Indonesia Terkandas Di Filipina, Jadi Mangsa Penipuan Sindiket

    Gara-gara terpengaruh dengan tawaran satu sindiket untuk menunaikan ibadah haji menggunakan kuota haji Filipina, seramai 177 rakyat Indonesia kini ditahan di Depot Tahanan Imigresen negara itu.

    Media-media tempatan melaporkan kesemua warga Indonesia itu terpedaya dengan sindiket ejen haji sebuah syarikat tempatan yang ‘menawarkan’ khidmat membawa jemaah negara itu menerusi penerbangan dari Manila, Filipina.

    Sindiket itu dikatakan mengenakan bayaran sehingga AS$10,000 (S$14,000) bagi setiap bakal jemaah haji dan mereka berlepas dari Sulawesi Selatan ke Manila pada 19 Ogos lalu.

    Naib Presiden Indonesia Jusuf Kalla ketika mengulas kejadian itu berkata sebanyak 177 bakal jemaah haji itu ditahan pihak berkuasa Filipina kerana kesalahan menggunakan pasport Filipina.

    Beliau berkata kerajaan Indonesia sedang berusaha membantu mereka supaya tidak dikenakan hukuman.

    Menurutnya mereka adalah mangsa penipuan dan pemerintah Indonesia meminta supaya kesemua mangsa sindiket itu dibebaskan pihak berkuasa Filipina.

    Sementara itu, media-media online memetik jurucakap Kedutaan Indonesia di Filipina sebagai berkata bahawa mangsa sindiket haji itu secara berperingkat ditempatkan di Kedutaan Besar Indonesia di Filipina.

    “Walaupun dipindahkan ke kedutaan itu, mereka masih tidak dibenarkan pulang ke tanah air kerana perlu membantu siasatan.

    “Kedutaan telah memaklumkan kepada pihak berkuasa Filipina bahawa mereka adalah mangsa dan tidak mengetahui mengenai modus operandi ejen terbabit,” kata jurucakap itu.

    Kesemua mangsa ditahan di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Manila ketika hendak berlepas ke Jeddah setelah pihak berkuasa mendapati pasport mereka mencurigakan dan mereka tidak boleh berbahasa Tagalog iaitu bahasa kebangsaan Filipina.

    Setelah disiasat, kesemua 177 jemaah haji itu didapati bukan warga Filipina dan mereka memasuki negara itu sebagai pelancong sebelum diberikan pasport Filipina bagi tujuan menunaikan haji.

    Kuota Haji Filipina dikatakan tidak dipenuhi umat Islamnya setiap tahun. Sementara itu, Kerajaan Arab Saudi menetapkan kuota 168,000 jemaah haji dari Indonesia tahun ini.

    Bagaimanapun, waktu menunggu giliran haji di Indonesia kini adalah lebih 20 tahun ekoran jumlah yang mendaftar untuk menunaikan ibadah itu semakin meningkat setiap tahun.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Mosquito Control Operations To Begin At Potential Zika Cluster At Bedok North Ave 3

    Mosquito Control Operations To Begin At Potential Zika Cluster At Bedok North Ave 3

    The National Environment Agency (NEA) will begin mosquito control operations at a potential new Zika cluster at Bedok North Avenue 3, it announced at a joint briefing with the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (Aug 31). There are 115 confirmed locally transmitted Zika infections in Singapore, including the first pregnant woman to be diagnosed with the virus.

    The agency noted that vector control remains the mainstay in reducing the spread of Zika in Singapore. In a media statement, NEA said: “Our efforts will extend to other parts of Singapore. The National Environment Agency will be stepping up its vector control efforts to wider areas.”

    The potential new cluster at Bedok North Avenue 3 was identified after three cases were reported on Tuesday. One case has a link to Kallang Way, which is in the existing cluster, but the other two have no known links to the Sims Drive/Aljunied Crescent cluster, which suggests a possible new cluster, said authorities.

    The cluster comprises more than 6,000 premises, according to NEA. It called for residents to cooperate fully with NEA and allow its officers to inspect their premises for mosquito breeding and to spray insecticide to kill any mosquitoes.

    NEA added that to ensure any breeding habitats are destroyed quickly, it may need use force to enter premises inaccessible to its officers after serving notice on the owners.

    OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE AT SIMS/ALJUNIED CLUSTER

    It added that it is continuing with vector control operations in the Sims Drive/Aljunied Crescent cluster, which now covers about 7,000 premises in Aljunied Crescent, Sims Drive, Paya Lebar Way and Kallang Way.

    It added that NEA officers have inspected about 5,500 premises in the cluster. 45 breeding spots – comprising 26 in homes and 19 in common areas and other premises – have been found and destroyed.

    NEA said it has also served notices on more than 500 premises that were inaccessible to its officers. Owners of these premises are required to contact NEA to arrange for an inspection, failing which NEA will proceed with forced entry.

    The agency added that between Aug 27 and 30, it has deployed more than 300 personnel per day to the cluster to carry out vector control operations and outreach efforts. These comprise NEA officers, contractors and volunteers.

    NEA officers and grassroots volunteers have completed two rounds of outreach efforts to distribute Zika information leaflets in the cluster, it added. They have also commenced outreach in the expanded cluster areas in Paya Lebar Way and Kallang Way.

    “We will continue with outreach to raise general awareness of Zika, reiterate the need for source reduction to prevent mosquito breeding and advise residents to apply repellent as a precaution,” said NEA in a media statement.

    NEA added that it has activated partner agencies of the Inter-Agency Dengue Task Force to step up localised search and destroy efforts in their respective areas to help reduce the risk of the virus spreading further.

    “In NEA’s approach to tackling Zika cases, besides conducting checks for mosquito breeding habitats based on Zika cases, we also take a preventive and risk-based approach through pre-emptive checks in areas assessed to be at higher risk, even in the absence of Zika cases. Residents should also do their part to prevent mosquito breeding in their homes,” it said.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Sarong Fighting For Life, Wicked Aura Asks For Prayers

    Sarong Fighting For Life, Wicked Aura Asks For Prayers

    Jaffar Sariban aka Sarong is a giant among men. Artistic, courageous, witty, spiritual, infectious personality, and a big beautiful heart to boot.

    Give a little thought and save a little prayer for my Wicked brother who’s now fighting for his life in the hospital.

    He never liked the attention but I’m breaking my silence about the cancer that’s been eating him for the last year.

    Thoughts and prayers for my brother.

     

    Source: Idham Budiman

  • Khairudin Aljunied: When Change Is Not Possible, What Do You Do?

    Khairudin Aljunied: When Change Is Not Possible, What Do You Do?

    There is a limit to how far human beings can change a long established system.

    At a certain point, change is not at all possible.

    The more logical thing to do is to move to another site with a totally different system, work with it, build it until it becomes so strong that it will change the system that was previously left behind.

     

    Source: Khairudin Aljunied

  • Jaguh Silat Dunia Sheik Farhan Terima Anugerah Jauhari Harapan

    Jaguh Silat Dunia Sheik Farhan Terima Anugerah Jauhari Harapan

    Anugerah Jauhari Harapan 2016 pula diberikan kepada juara silat dunia, Sheik Farhan Sheik Alau’ddin.

    Bagi Sheik Farhan, 18 tahun, anugerah itu menjadi pencetus semangat baginya untuk terus meniti tangga kejayaan.

    Bagaikan ‘di mana tumpahnya kuah kalau tidak ke nasi’, Sheik Farhan yang menjuarai Kejohanan Pencak Silat Dunia tahun lalu, menyifatkan ayahnya yang merupakan pesilat mapan, Sheik Alau’ddin sebagai sumber inspirasi.

    “Saya nampak yang terbaik dalam silat ialah bapa saya dan untuk menjadi terbaik saya harus ikut yang terbaik,” katanya.

    Farhan berharap anugerah tersebut dapat dijadikan sandaran terutamanya kepada atlit-atlit muda supaya dapat memartabatkan lagi arena sukan Singapura.

    Beliau menambah: “Untuk golongan muda, ia memberitahu bahawa mereka boleh mencapai apa yang mereka mahu tidak kira usia dan saya rasa mereka harus tidak takut untuk mencapai cita-cita.”

    Anugerah Jauhari disampaikan buat tahun ke-18 malam tadi (30 Ogos).

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

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