Flat rate for DiGi prepaid users

SHAH ALAM: Effective Oct 16, From now on, all DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd’s prepaid mobile phone subscribers will pay one flat rate of 38 sen for calls.

The calls are to anyone on any network, anywhere in Malaysia, regardless of the time of day, if subscribers have used more than RM30 worth of calls in a month.

DiGi chief executive Morten Lundal said the new tariff structure was simple, fair, and good value, in keeping with what customers wanted.

"Since we introduced the first prepaid mobile service in 1997, more and more innovative prepaid services, rate plans and packages have been introduced, adding complexity to making a phone call," he said.

Currently, prepaid mobile services customers were charged one rate for calls within their network and another rate for calls that went outside it, Lundal said.

And they had to pay a premium for outstation calls that went through other cellular networks.But with the new price, there would be no such hidden costs, he promised.

"Additionally, customers on DiGi's Friends and Family package will be able to call six designated numbers at just 15 sen per minute per call and 1sen per SMS," he said.

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Frugal woman dies at 100, donates $35.6M

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - A 100-year-old woman who quietly amassed a vast fortune before her death last year left $35.6 million to local diabetes and cancer research.

Eugenia Dodson donated two-thirds of the money to the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute, the largest gift in its 35-year history. The rest goes to the university’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“She didn’t want any recognition in her lifetime, so she directed her lawyer to keep it confidential,” said Dr. W. Jarrard Goodwin, director of the Sylvester Center. “I told her people would be grateful. She said, ’No, I don’t want anyone to know.”’

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Longest undeveloped coastline gets protection

WASHINGTON - President Bush signed legislation Tuesday protecting more than 273,000 acres in Northern California, the state's biggest federal wilderness designation in more than a decade.

Areas protected include King Range, the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the contiguous United States; Cache Creek, home to the second-largest wintering bald eagle population in California; and portions of Eel River, which hosts 30 percent to 50 percent of the state's endangered summer-run steelhead trout.

Environmentalists cheered Bush's action on the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Act. The law protects some of the most remote and beautiful landscapes in California, including a long stretch of undeveloped beach and coastal bluffs in Humboldt and Mendocino counties.

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Auto sales down in September

PETALING JAYA: Automotive sales experienced another dismal month in September, with its total sales dropping 9.1% or 4,305 units month-on-month, compared to August.

According to figures released by the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA), total sales in September fell by 15.2% year on year to 42,884 units.

Out of these, 31,178 were passenger cars and 11,706 units were commercial vehicles.

National vehicles sales fell year on year by 12.3% with just 27,920 vehicles while non-national cars also dropped 19.6% at 13,964 units sold.

Production has also fallen by 23.8% at 39,587 cars.

There were 28,904 passenger car units and 10,683 commercial vehicles made in the month.

Production of national passenger cars dropped by 21.1%, with 23,849 units.

However, national commercial vehicles were fairly level from last year, at just a 0.4% rise with 3,789 units made.

As for non-national cars, 11,949 units were manufactured, which was a year on year drop of 33.5% compared to the corresponding period last year.

On its outlook for October, MAA said that sales volume are expected to be lower than that of September, due to the short working month as a result of the festive holidays

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U.S. at 300 million: 'Heaven on earth' to 'uncharted territory'

(CNN) -- Forty years ago, Elizabeth Heydanek lived in her "heaven on earth" -- Schaumburg, Illinois.

She chased lightning bugs in her back yard, filled buckets on the porch with tadpoles from a nearby creek, played tag with friends.

Elizabeth was 7 years old in 1967, one of 200 million Americans at the time. As she and her country grew -- the 300 millionth American will be born at 7:46 a.m. ET Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau says -- things changed in Schaumburg and the country.

Heydanek had moved to Illinois from New Jersey a year earlier in 1966, a trip made by train. If she and her family were moving now, they would be more likely to be moving to Florida, according to census figures. And they probably would be traveling by car -- there are 237 million vehicles on U.S. roads now compared with just under 100 million 40 years ago.

Intercity passenger train travel has dwindled -- just 0.2% of the amount of intercity travel done by car.

Heydanek said her little Illinois town began to change in 1972, just after the Woodfield Mall opened -- one she said was billed as one of the nation's largest at the time -- bringing in traffic and taking away some of the small-town charm.

Larger commercial properties have opened since, according to a study done at Eastern Connecticut State University, and their locations in Florida, California, Nevada and Virginia are indicative of where the U.S. population is growing and how the suburban sprawl Heydanek found in Illinois has taken over Sunbelt cities




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Yunus wins peace Nobel for anti-poverty efforts

OSLO, Norway - Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

Through Yunus’s efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.

The 65-year-old economist said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh, he said.

The food company, to be known as Social Business Enterprise, will sell food for a nominal price, he said.

“Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty,” the Nobel Committee said in its citation. “Microcredit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights.”

Yunus is the first Nobel Prize winner from Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken nation of about 141 million people located on the Bay on Bengal.

“I am so, so happy, it’s really a great news for the whole nation,” Yunus told The Associated Press shortly after the prize was announced. He was reached by telephone at his home in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

Grameen Bank was the first lender to hand out microcredit, giving very small loans to poor Bangladeshis who did not qualify for loans from conventional banks. No collateral is needed and repayment is based on an honor system


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Tens of thousands rally for Hamas leader

Palestinian prime minister repeats that Hamas will not recognize Israel

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas will not be edged out of power, accept compromise or recognize Israel, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told tens of thousands of banner-waving supporters at a rally Friday.

Haniyeh’s fiery performance was interrupted when he fainted onstage, seemingly overcome by the combined effects of heat and two weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. He resumed his speech after a few minutes.

The Hamas leader ruled out a proposal by members of his own Hamas movement to form a new government of technocrats as a way of winning international support and ending a seven-month aid freeze.

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Funeral services begin for Amish girls

Families urge forgiveness of gunman who killed five children

GEORGETOWN, Pa. - Horse-drawn buggies clip-clopped past roadblocks Thursday morning as Amish families gathered to bury four of the five young girls gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse.

All roads leading into the village of Nickel Mines, where a milk truck driver took 10 girls hostage and opened fire, were blocked off for the funerals.

The Amish families had asked for privacy as they pray at three homes before burying Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Marian Fisher, 13; and sisters Mary Liz Miller, 8, and Lena Miller, 7. The funeral for a fifth girl, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, was scheduled for Friday.

Five of their friends caught in the schoolhouse attack continued to fight their injuries, at least four of them still hospitalized.

Country coroner G. Gary Kirchner said he had been contacted by a doctor at Penn State Children¡¯s Hospital in Hershey who said doctors expected to take one victim off life support so she could be brought home.

Dr. D. Holmes Morton, who runs a clinic that serves Amish children, said Thursday that the reports that a 6-year-old had been taken off life-support and taken home to die were accurate ¡°as far as I know.¡±

¡°I just think at this point mostly these families want to be left alone in their grief and we ought to respect that,¡± Morton said.


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