news picked on 28.05.2007
PETALING JAYA: The kinks have been ironed out, new equipment has arrived and a minor adjustment in law is now in the works. Then, the Road Transport Department (JPJ) will go on a nationwide blitz against cars with heavily-tinted windscreens and windows.
The JPJ have acquired new light transmission measuring meters that can be used even at night.
However, they are awaiting a minor amendment to the law governing tinted windscreens before the crackdown.
“Once the amendment is done and endorsed by the Transport Minister, we will conduct the operations nationwide,” JPJ director-general Datuk Ahmad Mustapha Abdul Rashid told The Star.
He said the JPJ had bought 150 Autolight Plus meters from Melbourne-based Autotest Products Pte Ltd. They took delivery of the equipment, worth about RM1mil, from the Australian company last month.
Unlike the previous light transmission meters, the new device has its own light source that can calculate the light penetration level through tinted glass even at night.
“This means we can carry out the operations round-the-clock,” he said.
He said the JPJ would come down hard on owners whose cars have heavily tinted windscreens and windows.
He said in the last four years, JPJ had scaled down such operations and there were many vehicles on the road with heavily tinted windscreens and windows.
“Heavily-tinted windscreens and windows can pose a hazard to other road-users, especially during rainy days or at night. Hopefully, these motorists will be wise enough to remove the heavy tint from their windscreens before we act against them,” Ahmad Mustapha said.
Under the Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Certain Types of Glass) Rules 1991, the level of light penetration should be at least 70% in the front windscreen and 50% on the rear windscreen and side windows.
Car owners face a RM300 fine if the tint is too dark.
The rules can be relaxed on VIP vehicles and those with official exemptions, such as for safety or health reasons. To be eligible for an exemption, car owners need to obtain an official letter from JPJ.
Autotest Products export manager Paul King said their device, which had been in the market for the last two years, is used by the police forces, road transport regulators and garages in Australia, the South Pacific islands, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore.
Seriously i think anyone with a healthcondition which require the car to be heavily tinted, he or she must be need a bed more than a tinted car...
AirAsia to start flights to Chinese city from July 15
PETALING JAYA: AirAsia will finally be flying to China starting with daily flights to Shenzhen from July 15.
The low-cost airline's commercial executive vice-president Kathleen Tan said: “For the first time, we will be flying to one destination from two of our hubs – Bangkok and the KLIA LCCT – on the same day.
“Shenzhen will act as our initial gateway to the mainland. At present, our only China destination is Macau which has proven to be very popular,” she said in an interview.
She said the airline would also be flying to Guilin, Xiamen, Haikou and Kunming. Previously, AirAsia had been operating charter flights to some Chinese cities like Guilin.
Tan expected the flights to Xiamen to start in the next three months. AirAsia is considering a four-times-a-week schedule for this flight from Kota Kinabalu.
At present, the only international destination for the airline from Kota Kinabalu is Macau, on a daily basis.
As for the other cities, Tan said AirAsia expected to start services there by the end of the year.
“We are quite used to Guilin and Haikou because of the charter flights. The Kunming sector will probably start in the last quarter of the year,” she added.
Tan said that, at the moment, AirAsia was still looking at Chinese cities within four to four-and-a-half hour flight time.
“We will have quite an extensive network in China when our long-haul operations under AirAsiaX rolls out later this year. Then we will look at cities all over China including Tianjin, Hangzhou, Chengdu and even Chongqing,” she added.
Tianjin is a city about two hours from Beijing while Hangzhou is about an hour from Shanghai.
AirAsiaX, which is expected to start operations in September, is a franchise of AirAsia that is to be operated by FAX. The two airlines share common directors.
Great job done again by the airasia.... wish the MAS guy can learn from them more....
Marketing exec dies in collision
SUBANG JAYA: A Chinese daily marketing executive died in a collision involving two cars at Jalan Puchong, near here.
Her family said the incident occurred while Yek Yow Ngan, 50, was on the way to report an earlier accident.
Her son Alan Yew, 24, said she had left her home just before midnight on Saturday to buy some food at a nearby stall at the 12th kilometre of Jalan Puchong.
However, her Perodua Kancil collided with a motorcyclist who demanded she pay for damage to his machine.
Yek allegedly ignored his demand and continued to proceed to the stall to buy her meal.
When she returned to where she had parked her vehicle, Yek found the back windscreen and her right rear window smashed.
Yew, a hawker in Ampang, said she returned home and called him at 3am yesterday.
“I arrived there with my girlfriend and a friend. We saw five men inside a parked Datsun behind my mother’s Kancil,'' he said when met at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary.
However, the men left after a while and Yek decided to go to the Puchong police station to lodge a report.
Subang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Rashid said police were investigating the case.
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