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  • Damanhuri Abas: A United Malay Community Will Bring Out The Best In The Community Itself

    Damanhuri Abas: A United Malay Community Will Bring Out The Best In The Community Itself

    In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A blessed gathering in a blessed month during the most blessed period on the night of the last 3rd of the month of Ramadan.

    A simple graceful event bringing cross party representatives of the Malay community exploring collaboration and synergy to offer alternative and complementing approaches in addressing economic, educational and social challenges faced by the Malay community in Singapore. A pledge of commitment to serve the interest of the Malay community and celebrate the community’s strength in full cognizant of a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious Singapore. So much potential and opportunity when we focus on what unify us and our inherent strength within, rather than adopt a partisan antagonistic attitude.

    The Malay community today is blessed with many capable and talented groups and individuals from all strata of the community and the wider society eager to come forward to contribute towards the growth and prosperity of the community. Several have already begun and made amazing contributions and sacrifices to help the vulnerable and lesser off in the community.

    A vision of a strong and vibrant Malay community with deep rootedness to our culture and history yet progressive, embracing the diverse talents from all segments of the community from the Professionals, the Small businesses, to the Youth, the people in Arts and all ranks and file of the community. Harnessing the best within to produce the best the community can offer itself and the wider Singapore society. Majulah Singapura untuk Semua.

     

    Source: Damanhuri bin Abas

  • Morocco: Jews, Christians, And Muslims Help The Poor In Ramadan

    Morocco: Jews, Christians, And Muslims Help The Poor In Ramadan

    In what sounds like a page ripped out of novel, several dozen Muslim activists, a group of Jewish teens and a rabbi joined forces on Sunday in a number of Moroccan cities to supply 1,500 underprivileged Muslim families with food staples for the daily meal that marks the end of each daily fast during Ramadan.

    The food packages were a three-way partnership organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, founded and directed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein; Chabad-Lubavitch of Morocco; and the Mimouna Association, an organization of Moroccan Muslim students who work to preserve and promote the unique heritage of Morocco’s ancient Jewish community.

    “We are privileged to help support Moroccans in need celebrate the holy month of Ramadan,” said Eckstein. “This inspiring joint initiative serves as a shining model of bridge-building between Christians, Jews and Muslims, and shows that the world’s faith communities can unite around shared values to make a difference for good.”

    Rabbi Levi Banon of Jeunesse ChabadMorocco led a group of teens from the local Chabad and volunteers from Mimouna to the poorest areas in the cities of Kenitra, Rabat and Sale to distribute the food.

    “This is a beautiful display of how people from different faiths can get together to do something positive,” said Laziza Dalil, a member of Mimouna. “We are now two weeks into Ramadan, and some of these families may not have the most basic supplies with which to break the fast.”

    Each box contains dates, tea, lentils, chickpeas and other food staples with which Muslims traditionally break their Ramadan fasts each evening.

    This year’s distribution follows the successful pilot program last year, in which 250 packages were delivered. According to Dalil, some of the recipients were taken aback to discover that the gift was brought to them by people outside of the Muslim faith, but “they really did not care. They were touched by the human gesture of caring, and the fact that people thought about them and their families.”

    “It was such a wonderful gesture that really brought out the best in people,” noted Banon. “It is touching to see that charity that has been done in other parts of the world though the IFCJ is now being felt in the Muslim world, especially beginning in Morocco, a country of tolerance and peace.”

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    Source: Muslimvillage.com

  • Putus Kaki, Tangan Digilis Kereta Api Bagi Pasangan Yang Bercumbu Di Landasan

    Putus Kaki, Tangan Digilis Kereta Api Bagi Pasangan Yang Bercumbu Di Landasan

    Sepasang belia yang sedang hangat bercinta maut dilanggar kereta api semasa mereka sedang berasmara.

    Dalam insiden yang berlaku di Kecamatan Lubuk Kilangan Kota Padang, Sumatera Barat, pasangan itu dilanggar kereta api yang mengangkut simen pada sebelah pagi semalam (26 Jun).

    “Insiden itu berlaku sekitar pukul 5.30 pagi. Jalam masih gelap dan pemandu kereta api tidak dapat melihat ada orang di landasan maka terus memandu laju setelah melanggar mereka,” kata seorang saksi, Masril, seperti yang ditukil Antara.

    Kedua-dua mangsa sudah dibawa ke hospital.

    Akibat pelanggaran itu mangsa lelaki, berusia 17 tahun, putus sebelah kaki sementara mangsa wanita pula, berusia 16 tahun, putus sebelah tangannya.

    Menurut Masril, sejak tiga hari lalu, beliau sudahpun mengingatkan pasangan kekasih berkenaan supaya tidak berdua-duaan sedemikian dalam bulan Ramadan, lebih-lebih lagi mereka sering bertemu pada waktu subuh.

    “Saya sudah mengingatkan mereka namun tidak diendahkan sehingga mereka ditimpa kemalangan seperti ini,” ujar Masril.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • MOH Pantau Kes Salmonella Yang Meningkat, Lebih 1,000 Kes Dilapor

    MOH Pantau Kes Salmonella Yang Meningkat, Lebih 1,000 Kes Dilapor

    Apabila Cik Chia mula mengalami sakit perut, beliau menyangka ia tidak serius. Beliau memakan ubat penghilang kesakitan, dan berfikir rasa sakitnya itu akan hilang.

    Bagaimanapun, beliau muntah sebanyak dua kali dan mengalami cirit birit sehingga 10 kali sehari.

    “Saya tidak tahu apa yang saya makan, kerana Singapura amat bersih dan saya hanya makan makanan biasa seperti di pusat penjaja, dan saya langsung tidak ke luar negara,” katanya.

    Cik Chia dimasukkan ke hospital keesokan harinya dan disahkan dijangkiti gastroenteritis salmonella atau radang perut dan usus salmonella pada 8 Mei.

    Keadaan beliau itu disebabkan oleh patogen yang dibawa oleh makanan yang boleh menyebabkan cirit birit, muntah-muntah, sakit perut dan demam.

    Cik Chia antara 1,042 orang yang dijangkiti salmonella sejauh ini pada 2016. Menurut maklumat yang dikeluarkan Kementerian Kesihatan (MOH) di lamannya, bilangan orang yang dijangkiti meningkat saban tahun.

    Sejak 2012, jumlah kes meningkat sekitar 30 peratus kepada sekitar 2,000 pada 2015. Trend ini nampaknya akan berterusan, dengan jumlah kes yang dilaporkan pada 2016 melebihi 779 sejauh ini berbanding jumlah kes yang dilaporkan antara Januari hingga 20 Jun tahun lalu.

    Dalam kenyataan kepada Mediacorp, jurucakap MOH berkata salmonellosis yang dijangkiti manusia biasanya ada kaitan dengan makan daging ayam itik, daging dan telur yang tercemar.

    Jurucakap itu menambah bahawa MOH sedang bekerja rapat dengan Penguasa Pertanian Makanan dan Ternakan (AVA) dan Agensi Sekitaran Kebangsaan (NEA) untuk memantau situasi dan memahami lebih baik sebab mengapa kes itu meningkat.

    BAGAIMANA SALMONELLA DIRAWAT?

    Dr Desmond Wai, pakar gastroenterologi di Hospital Mount Elizabeth Novena, berkata bakteria itu tidak dibawa oleh udara namun menarik perhatian ia boleh menular menerusi najis dan oral.

    “Pesakit yang dijangkiti salmonella akan mempunyai bakteria pada najis mereka. Jadi jika mereka tidak membasuh tangan betul-betul, menyentuh objek lain, menyiapkan makanan untuk orang lain, mereka boleh menyebabkan jangkitan menular kepada orang lain,” kata Dr Wai.

    Beliau menambah bahawa salmonella boleh terdapat pada daging mentah ayam itik dan telur, dan boleh menular menerusi perhubungan sesama manusia.

    “Salmonella terutamanya boleh masuk ke ovari ayam. Jadi dalam kuning telur itu, mungkin ada bakterianya. Mereka yang makan telur separuh masak atau telur mentah boleh dijangkiti,” kata Dr Wai.

    “Jika anda membasuh ayam yang mengandungi salmonella, tangan kita atau air yang disimbah pada sink mungkin mengandungi bakteria,” jelasnya.

    Di Singapura, AVA menjalankan pemeriksaan secara kerap untuk memastikan makanan yang diimport bebas daripada jangkitan. Produk-produk juga mesti mematuhi piawai dan peraturan keselamatan makanan tempatan, kata jurucakap AVA kepada Mediacorp.

    “Ujian-ujian sampel kami meliputi pelbagai bahan cemar dan bahan mikrobiologi yang mendatangkan bahaya seperti antibiotik dan hormon serta bahan mikrob yang berbahaya seperti Salmonella,” kata jurucakap itu, sambil menambah produk-produk yang tercemar tidak dibenarkan dijual dan akan dimusnahkan.

    Meskipun Pemerintah mengambil langkah berhati-hati untuk mengelak makanan tercemar dari diimport ke Singapura, orang ramai juga harus memainkan peranan seperti menerapkan amalan kebersihan yang baik, seperti membasuh tangan dengan air dan sabun sebelum makan, kata Dr Wai.

    Bagi Cik Chia, yang masih beransur pulih dari jangkitan salmonella, beliau kini menumpukan lebih banyak perhatian kepada amalan kebersihan.

    “Selain membasuh tangan dengan sabun dengan lebih kerap, saya juga menggunakan bahan cuci tangan untuk pakar bedah sebelum makan,” ujarnya.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Guan Eng Arrested For Corruption

    Guan Eng Arrested For Corruption

    Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has issued a warrant for the arrest of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

    Penang Agriculture, Agro-based Industry, Rural Development and Health Committee chairman Dr Afif Bahardin tweeted at about 5.50pm Wednesday that Lim would be taken to the MACC office soon.

    “Arrest warrant has been issued to Chief Minister by MACC officers, he will be taken to MACC HQ anytime soon #penang,” Dr Afif said.

    DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang in a tweet said “Guan Eng arrested by MACC on two charges of corruption and will be produced in court tomorrow morning.”

    Earlier, The Star Online reported that officers from MACC were at the Penang Chief Minister’s office in Komtar while Lim was chairing a meeting of the state executive councillors.

    At 4.55pm, five to eight officers arrived at Lim’s office on Level 28. They entered a meeting room and waited inside.

    It is learnt that the weekly state exco meeting was still going on at press time and there is a possibility that the officers are waiting to arrest Lim, who is DAP secretary general.

    In a statement on May 25, the MACC said it has completed its probe into Lim’s Pinhorn Road bungalow purchase and submitted the investigation papers to Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali.

    The MACC had also said appropriate legal action would be taken if the A-G was satisfied with the explanation given by the anti-graft body in its investigation papers.

    It was reported that Lim has been under investigation by the MACC for alleged corrupt practices involving the purchase of the bungalow on July 28 last year.

     

    Source: The Star

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