New crackdown soon on tinted vehicles

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.

Darfur women describe gang-rape horror

on 28.05.2007

By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer

KALMA, Sudan - The seven women pooled money to rent a donkey and cart, then ventured out of the refugee camp to gather firewood, hoping to sell it for cash to feed their families. Instead, they say, in a wooded area just a few hours walk away, they were gang-raped, beaten and robbed.

Naked and devastated, they fled back to Kalma.

"All the time it lasted, I kept thinking: They're killing my baby, they're killing my baby," wailed Aisha, who was seven months pregnant at the time.

The women have no doubt who attacked them. They say the men's camels and their uniforms marked them as janjaweed — the Arab militiamen accused of terrorizing the mostly black African villagers of Sudan's Darfur region.

Their story, told to an Associated Press reporter and confirmed by other women and aid workers in the camp, provides a glimpse into the hell that Darfur has become as the Arab-dominated government battles a rebellion stoked by a history of discrimination and neglect.

Now in its fourth year, the conflict has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and rape is its regular byproduct, U.N. and other human rights activists say.

Sudan's government denies arming and unleashing the janjaweed, and bristles at the charges of rape, saying its conservative Islamic society would never tolerate it.

It has agreed to let in 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but not the 22,000 mandated by the
U.N. Security Council. It claims the force would be a spearhead for anti-Arab powers bent on plundering Sudan's oil.

RM22,500 fine for selling Milo at RM1.80

KUALA TERENGGANU: Traders had better think twice before raising prices following the recent pay rise for civil servants.

A mamak restaurant here, which charged RM1.80 for a glass of iced Milo – about 20sen to 30sen more than the usual price – has been hit with a RM22,500 compound fine.

As a deterrent to others, enforcement officers from the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry also seized food and drinks worth about RM750 and tore down the shop’s signboard.

State enforcement chief Abdul Ghani Harun said the fine was the maximum for the offence and the operator had 14 days to settle the summonses.

“This is the first time that the state enforcement squad had meted out the maximum penalty against a trader for failure to display the price of goods and for indiscriminately increasing the price,” he said.

In Banting, Selangor, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal said its enforcement officers had inspected 15,206 premises since the pay rise was announced.

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Please read this if you wear contact lens

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ATLANTA - Government officials are warning people to throw away a contact lens solution after an investigation linked it to a rare eye infection.

The warning concerns AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution, used for cleaning and storing soft contact lenses, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The solution seems to be a factor cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis, a painful eye infection that can lead to permanent vision loss or blindness

The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating 138 confirmed cases.

The solution is made by Advanced Medical Optics Inc., a publicly traded company based in Santa Ana, Calif. The company issued a statement Friday night saying it was “immediately and voluntarily recalling” the solution.

Toss it all, Center of Disease Control says
CDC officials said people should discard the solution, throw out their current contact lenses and toss the lens storage case. All of them may harbor the infecting amoeba, said Michael Beach, team leader in the CDC’s division of parasitic diseases.

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Making the ringgit go further

OSAKA: Conserve energy, use fuel efficiently and if possible, switch to green energy, such as using solar panels to harvest the power of the sun, as this can not only stretch the ringgit but also help protect the environment.

This is the message from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to all Malaysians.

“If we do this, we can cut down on our expenses. Try using less energy and buy cars that use less petrol. If we do this, we will be able to manage our expenses even without salary increases. If we do not learn how to cut costs, whatever we earn will never be enough,” he told Malaysian reporters on the last day of his five-day working visit to Japan here yesterday.

He pointed out that many Malaysians were now living in a “temperate condition” – driving air-conditioned cars, working in air-conditioned offices and living in air-conditioned homes.

Rebuilt lorries not ‘lori potong’

JOHOR BARU: Lorries rebuilt with parts from different manufacturers are not lori potong and are thoroughly tested for roadworthiness.

Commercial Vehicles Rebuilders Association president David Ngu said the confusion arose because some manufacturers marketed and distributed their vehicles using other brands.

“For example, a lorry made by Isuzu with the model number NPR71 is marketed under Nissan. So it carries the Nissan logo on the outside. But the engine is Isuzu’s.

“At the same time, you can also find the exact same model, which is fully Nissan, with the model number APR71,” he said.

He said the same applied to Hino and Daihatsu models.

“It is like how you find Mitsubishi engines in Proton cars.

Duo ordered to pay 50 times the value of loot

JOHOR BARU: Two odd-job workers paid a heavy price for stealing RM50 worth of metal window railings – they were hit with a fine amounting to 50 times the value.

Magistrate Rasidah Roslee ordered Rosli Ahmad, 39 and Zamri Osman, 32, to pay a RM2,500 fine for the offence.

Both the accused, who were unrepresented, pleaded guilty to stealing 13 window railings worth RM50 from businessman Tian Choon Ming, 45, at a house in Taman Masai at 11.45am on May 24.

Rasidah said the accused would be jailed for eight months if they could not pay the fine.

At the same court, a 40-year-old jobless man pleaded guilty to drug possession.

Rasidah fined Khoo Kay San RM6,000 or in default eight months imprisonment.


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System to completely disable stolen handphones

on 25.05.2007

CYBERJAYA: Handphone thieves and their fences may soon be out of business.

A national database for lost and stolen handphones will be set up and any handphone reported lost will be completely disabled. This means a stolen handphone cannot be sold to anyone to be used even with a new SIM card, said Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chairman Datuk Dr Halim Shafie.

Similar schemes launched in Britain and Australia had proven to be successful. Statistics in Britain had shown that in the first six months following the launch of the programme in November 2002, almost 500,000 lost or stolen mobile phones were blocked.

In Australia, there was a 23% drop in mobile phone thefts within 12 weeks of the launch of the scheme.

Dr Halim said the Government was setting up the database to curb the alarming increase in handphone thefts in the country. Last year, some 100,000 handphones were reported lost; the actual figure could be much higher than that as most Malaysians are reluctant to report the loss of items like handphones.

The move will also incorporate a nationwide handset blocking service, meaning that those who lose their handphones will be able to render the devices useless upon reporting their loss to the database operators.

Police cripple car and house break-in syndicates

KUALA LUMPUR: Two syndicates specialising in car and house break-ins as well as motorcycle thefts have been crippled by the Sentul police since May 14.

Sentul OCPD Asst Comm K. Kumaran said 10 people were arrested at various places in the Klang Valley.

He said the first syndicate carried out car and house break-ins and was smashed when police nabbed three men in front of a shop on May 14.

The arrest led police to nab another two members of the syndicate hours later.

They also seized seven laptops, and 21 mobile phones.

Fujian couple caught with fake DVDs

KUALA LUMPUR: Looking at their passports and seeing the number of Malaysian immigration stamps on them, you would think they were just tourists who fell in love with the country.

But yesterday, a husband and wife from Fujian, China, were caught red-handed peddling pirated DVDs in Cheras here.

City commercial crime chief, Asst Comm Mohd Aris Ramli said the 25-year-old woman, who was toting a bag with 303 DVDs, was arrested at a restaurant in Taman Maluri.

“Half an hour later, a team led by Chief Insp Rasha Azwadi Shafii raided a disused mechanic shop in Taman Maluri and found a 29-year-old man there, with 4,682 DVDs of the latest English and Chinese movies.”

ACP Mohd Aris added that the couple has been in and out of the country no fewer than three times this year and 11 times since 2005.

Woman driver survives plunge from car park

PENANG: A 27-year-old woman miraculously survived when her Proton Iswara plunged from the sixth floor of Mutiara Heights multi-storey car park in Jelutong here.

Clerk Jenny Tan, who broke her left arm, was said to have been negotiating a sharp turn at her flat's car park at about 8.15am yesterday when she lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into a wall. The car landed on its top, with both the front and rear badly damaged.

Tan's 32-year-old husband, who declined to be named, said his wife could have accidentally stepped on the accelerator or the brakes might have failed.

A housewife said she was on her way home after a morning walk when she suddenly heard a loud crash.

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Court complex hit by calamity again

KUALA LUMPUR: Yet another calamity hit the brand-new Jalan Duta court complex yesterday when a faulty pipe burst, causing the cafeteria floor to be flooded.

At about 9.15am yesterday, a burst pipe end cap caused water to gush out from a service room at the basement cafeteria, resulting in much of the floor being covered in 7cm of water.

The incident was the latest in a series of major incidents in less than a month to hit the RM290mil complex, touted as the world's second-largest court complex.

Public Works Department (PWD) director-general Datuk Dr Judin Abdul Karim said the incident was caused by a pipe end cap at a T-joint.

“The end cap was made of UPVC material which is different from the T- joint which was made from ABS class 15. The end cap has been replaced with an ABS elbow class 15 as per the original specification,” he said in a written statement.

Boob job gone wrong

KUALA LUMPUR: Believing that big is beautiful, a 31-year-old woman went for a boob job. The result devastated her.

The woman, who wants to be known only as Tay, said she went for plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts in November 2005 at the advice of a beautician.

After a month, she felt an excruciating pain where the so-called surgeon had injected her.

She had paid RM6,400 to beautify her assets and received half the money back after she went back to the Taiwanese surgeon to complain about her condition.

He promised to refer her to a “specialist,'' saying that the other surgeon would remove whatever substance was causing the pain in her breasts.

The doctor, who claimed to have dozens of certificates from all over the world, went missing after six months and the “specialist” he promised never surfaced.


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Double high

on 23.05.2007

KUALA LUMPUR: Shares on Bursa Malaysia surged to a new high yesterday as investors welcomed the pay increase announced by the Prime Minister for the nation's 1.6 million civil servants and pensioners as a big boost to the economy.

At the close, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) soared 20.34 points, or 1.5% to a record 1,367.51.

Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said yesterday the pay increase would add as much as half a percentage point to the country's economy and accelerate growth in the second half of this year.

Meanwhile, the ringgit continued to strengthen yesterday and hit 3.382 against the US dollar. The currency had risen 4.1% year-to-date.

Ministry suspends school milk programme

PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry has suspended its school milk programme nationwide following several cases of food poisoning in schools around the country.

Schools Division director Noor Rezan Bapoo Hashim said the temporary suspension took effect from Monday.

The ministry, she said, wanted all relevant parties to seriously look into the school milk programme.

“It has directed that all milk found to be contaminated must be returned to the factories. Replacement stock supplied to schools must have quality verification from Sirim,” she added in a statement on Tuesday.

Noor Rezan said the suspension would only be lifted when Sirim gave the green light.

Samy Vellu told to stop passing the buck

on 22.05.2007

TOKYO: Stop blaming others. It is your duty, so just do it, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told Works Minister Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu today.

Abdullah was commenting on the issue of the lack of maintenance of the Parliament building resulting in its leaking roof and faulty wiring.

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Govt servants get big raise

on 21.05.2007

Govt servants get big raise

PUTRAJAYA: Government servants will get a pay raise of between 7.5% and 35%, effective 1 July, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced Monday.

The cost of living allowance will also be increased by 100%, he said.

Members of the police and the armed forces will receive 20% over and above the announced increase in pay.

Penang monorail project to kick off early next year

PENANG: The RM1.2bil Penang monorail project will be implemented early next year, Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said.

He said the state was now actively working out the project details with Syarikat Prasarana Nasional Berhad (SPNB) and hoped to complete them by December.

"Three local companies have so far submitted their proposals to carry out the monorail project in Penang.

"But, we want to first determine the monorail alignment before picking the company to do the job," he told reporters at the fourth sitting of the 11th state legislative assembly here Monday.

Dr Koh said SPNB was still negotiating with the state and federal governments on the project alignment and the necessary stations.

To my beloved Avanza.....

A tribute to my car.....

on the 21.05.2007 morning, approaching 9am my car is hijacked right in front of my house and its driven away by one Indian guy.

Tell you the truth, from that days onwards, Indians is not even the lowest kind of people in my list, in my thoughts they should be exterminated, kapish from the surface of this earth....

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Mechanic killed in armed attack by group of 20

2007.05.19

KOTA BARU, FRI.: A 24-year-old motorcycle mechanic was killed while three of his relatives were injured in an attack by about 20 people armed with iron rods, hammers, sickles and hockey sticks last Wednesday.
Mohamad Ramzi Ibrahim, the eldest of seven children, died 10 hours after he was admitted to the Hospital Universiti Sains (HUSM) in Kubang Kerian. His 47-year-old father Ibrahim Harun, his 17-year-old brother Mohamad Ramzan and a cousin identified only as Zulhilmi received outpatient treatment after the attack at the family’s food stall.

Ibrahim believes the attack was in retaliation for his decision to complain to the school authorities that his 15-year-old son was being bullied. He claims some of the students who were bullying Mohamad Shafai took part in the attack.

Mohamad Shafai later said his schoolmates would hit him if he refused to give them money.

Mohd Ramzi’s mother Rohana Seman said he rushed from their home next to the stall in Jalan Kebun Sultan and and tried to fend off the attackers. She said she recognised relatives of the schoolmates who had been bullying Mohd Shafai.
"They turned on abang (Mohamad Ramzi) and hit him on the head with a hammer. I saw him fall down with blood on his head," the 42-year-old said, adding that the attackers fled when police arrived.

Kelantan Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Mazlan Lazim said the incident is being investigated as a murder.

No arrests have been made at the time of this report.

Jasin MP denies making ‘bocor’ comment

Wednesday May 16, 2007

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Mohd Said Yusof, one of the two Barisan Nasional MPs, who uttered sexist remarks against women in Parliament, refused to say if he would apologise or not.

The Jasin MP even denied making such statements saying that the media had blown it out of proportion.

This is despite Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil’s plan to bring up the matter in today’s Cabinet meeting to see if it is possible to amend the Standing Orders to include a requirement that the language used in Parliament be gender sensitive.

Shahrizat also said on Monday that it would be an honourable thing for the MPs to apologise.

When asked if he would apologise, Mohd Said said: “Let it be. The press exaggerated it. I didn’t say it. I don’t want to comment anymore.”

Mohd Said said he would issue a statement on the matter in Parliament today .

Last week, Mohd Said and Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin uttered a sexist remark against Fong Poh Kuan (DAP – Batu Gajah) while they were in a heated argument over the ceiling leakage in the Parliament building.

Both of them said: “Mana ada bocor? Batu Gajah pun bocor tiap-tiap bulan juga (Where is the leak? The Batu Gajah MP leaks every month too.)”

A video footage of the incident is posted on YouTube. The footage, which received four-and-a-half star rating, was viewed more than 18,000 times.

Bung Mokhtar could not be reached.

Tangga Batu MP Datuk Idris Haron, who earlier reportedly said that the remark should not be seen as a gender issue and accused Fong of using it to get publicity, said if the remarks truly intended to hurt women at large, it would be wise for Mohd Said and Bung Mokhtar to apologise but it was up to them to do so.

Idris said MPs had to be accountable for what they said.

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Dr M's lungs congested, but he's recovering

2007.05.18

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed was diagnosed with lung congestion associated with a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and chest infection (basal bronchitis) by the attending consultant cardiologist Datuk Dr Nasir Muda on Thursday.

The former Prime Minister was admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) on Tuesday after having breathing difficulties while in Langkawi.

His son Datuk Mokhazani Mahathir said that Dr Mahathir was still not talking much, but his appetite has continued to grow and he had asked for "Maggie Tom Yam" instant noodles for lunch.

A statement released by IJN said that Dr Mahathir’s medication has been tapered down as he continued to show positive response to chest physiotherapy and light exercise.

He will remain at the cardiac care unit for continuous monitoring and treatment.

Visitors are only allowed in the waiting area but doctors have advised him against receiving anyone apart from close family members.

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对不同职业的信任度

对不同职业的信任度

1 消防员 97%

2 药剂师 96%

3 飞行员 95%

4 护士 94%

5 医生 91%

6 老师 83%

7 警察 74%

12 汽车推销员 8%

13 政客 7%

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Leadership failures found in GIs' murders

Updated: 11:08 a.m. ET May 17, 2007

2 officers lose commands for not properly protecting slaughtered soldiers


WASHINGTON - Three U.S. soldiers slaughtered in a grisly kidnapping-murder plot south of Baghdad last June were not properly protected during a mission that was not well planned or executed, a military investigation has concluded.

Two military officers have been relieved of their commands as a result of the litany of mistakes, but neither faced criminal charges, a military official familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

A report on the investigation said the platoon leader and company commander — whose names were not released — failed to provide proper supervision to the unit or enforce military standards.

A seven-page summary of the investigation provided to the AP also said it appears insurgents may have rehearsed the attack two days earlier, and that Iraqi security forces near the soldiers’ outpost probably saw and heard the attack and “chose to not become an active participant in the attack on either side.”

“This was an event caused by numerous acts of complacency, and a lack of standards at the platoon level,” said the investigating officer, Lt. Col. Timothy Daugherty, in the summary.

Three 101st Airborne Division soldiers were killed in the June 16 attack. Spc. David J. Babineau, of Springfield, Mass., was found dead at the scene. Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston and Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Ore., were abducted; their mutilated bodies were found three days later, tied together and booby-trapped with bombs.

Details of the attack and what led up to it came as thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces were scouring the same area near Youssifiyah, in what’s called the Triangle of Death, for three soldiers believed to have been abducted last Saturday by an al-Qaida-related group

Placing yourself in a war is bad enough, and yet these soldiers are sent to a mission no more than facing their own death

I shall not blame the wrong tactic or foul play if any by the officers but, still make less war and more friends seem to be a better choice than what you have now ....


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New Jersey blaze blackens 20 square miles

2005.05.17

• Fire started when military jet drops flare on bombing range
• 2,500 homes evacuated; three homes burned
• Blaze on Florida-Georgia 50 percent contained

(CNN) -- Firefighters in New Jersey kept an anxious eye on the weather Wednesday as they battled a massive wildfire that had consumed more than 20 square miles of brush after a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range.

With the dry conditions, strong wind gusts quickly fanned the blaze through the Warren Grove Gunnery Range about 25 miles north of Atlantic City.

No deaths or injuries had been attributed to the fire, but it forced the evacuation of about 2,500 homes along the border between Ocean and Burlington counties. Lt. Col. James Garcia, a spokesman for the New Jersey Air National Guard, said the fire was believed to have been started Tuesday afternoon with a flare dropped from an F-16 fighter jet.

The same range had been involved in 2004 when a National Guard jet accidentally strafed an elementary school with large-caliber rounds during a training exercise.

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Nicolas Sarkozy takes over as France's president

France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with his son Louis (L) as his wife Cecilia (C), his step-daugther Jeanne-Marie Martin and his son Pierre applaud after the handover ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 16, 2007. REUTERS/ Charles Platiau

PARIS (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded Jacques Chirac as French president on Wednesday, promising to usher in an era of change while holding up wartime sacrifices as an inspiration for the new France he wants to build.

In a day of high pageantry and symbolic gesture, Sarkozy made his inaugural speech under the chandeliers of the Elysee Palace, which will be his home for the next five years.

"I will defend the independence of France. I will defend the identity of France," said the conservative leader, who is the first French head of state to be born after World War Two

"There is a need to unite the French people ... and to meet commitments because never before has (public) confidence been so shaken and so fragile," he said in an apparent dig at Chirac, a former political mentor with whom he now has strained relations.

Sarkozy, who scored a comprehensive election victory on May 6, also pledged to put the fight against global warming and the defense of human rights at the heart of his foreign policy.

His first act after his speech was to greet family members, including his wife, Cecilia, who has hardly been seen in public this year, fuelling speculation about their marriage.

Following a private lunch, Sarkozy rode in an open-top car up the Avenue des Champs Elysees, escorted by the mounted Republican Guard, and rekindled the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

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Datuk Soh Chee Wen was fined RM6 million

2007.05.15

SHAH ALAM: Datuk Soh Chee Wen was fined RM6 million yesterday — the highest in recent years — after admitting to two counts of making false statements to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange 10 years ago.

The 45-year-old businessman paid RM2 million hours later with the rest to be settled before July 16.

Soh had pleaded guilty to two alternative charges of conspiring to provide false statements to the KLSE. He also faced a third alternative charge.

He admitted to conspiring with Datuk Tony Tiah Thee Kian in providing false statements to the stock exchange pertaining to 44,592,000 shares of Omega Holdings Bhd, between Sept 2, 1997 and Jan 12, 1998.

Sessions Court judge Azimah Omar fined him RM3 million, in default 30 months’ imprisonment, on each charge.

Soh also admitted guilt to the second of two principal charges of defrauding the now-defunct Omega Securities Sdn Bhd of RM95,972,375. The other charge involved RM424,930,597.50.

Azimah took Soh’s admission of guilt in the alternative charges and the principal charge in sentencing.

Earlier in mitigation, his counsel, Ng Aik Guan, had urged the court to impose a non-custodial sentence besides applying for the fines to be paid in three instalments within six months.

He said Soh had shown remorse as he had pleaded guilty at an early stage of the trial.

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