Cancer patient turned away by 4 hospitals
Lau King Ngiuk, 71, and members of the family were informed by QEH doctors on Dec. 19 that she could not be treated with radiotherapy because the computer facility for radiotherapy planning was out of order.
However, QEH referred the patient to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for treatment with the reason that the hospital's one and only treatment planning system had broken down. She was recommended to undergo concurrent chemoradiotherapy.
US teachers died protecting pupils from gunman
NEWTOWN MOURNS: One shielded children with her body, two others executed when they confronted assailant
NEWTOWN (Connecticut) 16/12/2012: THREE teachers murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School all died heroes trying to save their students from a gunman who they recognised as the son of a kindergarten teacher there.
Authorities have identified principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47, school psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56, and Victoria Soto, a young first-grade teacher, as three of the eight adults found dead on Friday.
Culik sebab anak kelaparan, tiada wang
KERATAN Kosmo! 24 November 2012.
SEREMBAN 29/11/2012- Kehabisan wang, terdesak, anak kelaparan serta hilang kawalan merupakan alasan yang dibuat seorang bekas pekerja kedai makan di Mahkamah Majistret di sini semalam ketika mengaku salah atas tuduhan menculik tiga kanak-kanak dan melarikan sebuah kereta dekat Senawang 22 November lalu.
Rose Azrool Mohd. Arshad, 34, dijatuhi hukuman penjara lima tahun lapan bulan atas kedua-dua kesalahan tersebut bermula dari tarikh tangkapan oleh Majistret Mohamad Izwan Mohamed Noh.
"Saya mengaku salah. Saya bertindak demikian kerana terdesak, kehabisan duit, anak di rumah kelaparan dan hilang kawalan. Saya mohon mahkamah meringankan hukuman,"
Maut ditimpa durian 2 kilogram
NIBONG TEBAL – Seorang bayi lelaki berusia sebulan maut apabila dihempap sebiji durian seberat dua kilogram yang luruh ketika berada dalam dukungan ibunya di belakang rumah sewa mereka di Kampung Badak Mati, Jawi dekat sini kelmarin.
Muhd. Yusuf Zainal disahkan meninggal dunia di Hospital Sungai Bakap (HSB) pada pukul 5 petang akibat kecederaan parah di kepala.
Pelajar maut ditembak bakakuk rakan sendiri
(GH) RANAU 12/10/2012: Seorang pelajar tingkatan empat terbunuh setelah terkena tembakan rakan sendiri ketika asyik memburu binatang di dalam hutan berhampiran Kampung Balisuk di sini.
Insiden kira-kira jam 10 malam itu, mangsa Albarth Oboth,16, yang merupakan pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Matupang Jaya itu mati serta merta di tempat kejadian.
Dikatakan, mangsa mengalami kecederaan parah di bahagian kepalanya akibat terkena bedilan senjata buatan sendiri yang juga dikenali sebagai ‘bakakuk’.
Feri hangus, penumpang terkandas
ORANG ramai melihat kebakaran sebuah feri di Terminal Feri Labuan semalam.
LABUAN 3/10/2012– Beratus-ratus penumpang di Terminal Feri Labuan di sini gempar apabila sebuah feri yang mampu memuatkan hampir seribu penumpang tiba-tiba terbakar semalam.
OREGON (Amerika Syarikat) 3/10/2012: Satu siasatan dilancarkan selepas seorang petani dipercayai mati dimakan oleh babi peliharaannya.
Staggering dropout rate before SPM
KOTA KINABALU September 26, 2012: The Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad yesterday disclosed that a staggering number of youths had yet to attain their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) before they leave school.
“In public schools, between 2000 and 2010, we saw 500,000 pupils enrolling in Primary One annually. Out of that total, 8,000 left the education system before finishing their Primary Six studies, annually,” said Mohamad Kamal Haji Nawawi, general manager for Malaysian Talents Development of Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad.
“And between Form One and Form Five, out of the 400,000 students that enrolled in Form One, some 44,000 would leave school annually before completing their Form Five, or Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM),” he said.
Firefighters delayed by bridge crossing limit
FATAL: Three children burnt to death as firefighters rush back to get lighter vehicles to cross
Firefighters retrieving the remains of the children in Kampung Mokodu, Ranau yesterday.
KOTA KINABALU 08 September 2012: FIREMEN rushing to get to a fire scene in Kampung Mokodou, 60km from Ranau, yesterday had to turn back as their vehicle could not pass through a bailey bridge, the only access to the village, as vehicles weighing five tonnes and above were not allowed to cross it.
With sirens blaring, they drove back to Ranau, got into a four-wheel drive and rushed back to the scene with six firefighters, only to be involved in the grim task of retrieving charred remains of three children in one of the two houses that were razed to the ground.
Mother drowns, son missing as boat hits rock
NABAWAN September 2, 2012: A wedding trip ended in tragedy when a mother drowned while her five-year-old son went missing when the boat they were travelling in crashed into a large rock in Logonggon River in the Pagalungan Sub-District here on Thursday night.
Disclosing the 8.20pm tragedy here yesterday, Keningau district police chief, DSP Robert Salisip @ David said it happened when the mother and son were among a family of seven adults and children from Kampung Salung on the way to Kampung Inaka in Pagalungan to attend a wedding.
“As they were travelling in the Logonggon River, the boat broke apart and sank after hitting a rock,”
Body of girl swept away by water found
KOTA KINABALU August 30, 2012: The body of the three-year-old girl who was reported missing after she and a 40-year-old man were swept away by swift current in Ranau, was found yesterday morning.
Elsey Charles’s remains was found around 8am yesterday near Kampung Kagasaran, about 40 meters from where she was reported missing.
Search effort is now being carried out for the second victim, identified as Marudin Limboy, 40, who was also reported missing in the 7pm incident on August 25.
Fire and Rescue Services Department public relations officer Mohd Affendy Ramin when contacted, said the victim’s body was found by villagers.
RANAU 28 August 2012: A 3-year-old girl and a man went missing after their four-wheel-drive vehicle was swept away by strong currents at Sungai Kaingaran, near here, on Saturday.
During the 7pm incident, they were on their way to Kampung Kiawayan with seven other passengers.
The driver was trying to cross the river when it suddenly swelled.
He then lost control of the vehicle and it was dragged downstream by the waters.
A search has been launched for the missing two, identified as Elsey Charles, 3, and Marudin Limboy, 40.
Fire and Rescue Department public relations officer Mohd Affendi Ramin said the other passengers managed to save themselves.
"The survivors were two men and five women, aged 15 to 60."
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RANAU: Seorang lelaki dan seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia tiga tahun dikhuatiri lemas apabila kenderaan pacuan empat roda dinaiki mereka bersama tujuh penumpang lain dihanyutkan arus deras ketika menyeberang sungai dalam kejadian di Sungai Kaingaran, di sini, kelmarin.
Long-time Sembulan residents recall what they saw
June 25, 2012: SIRAD Hj Tugimin @ Tony Sid, now a pensioner aged 66, was returning home to Sembulan Tengah with his family from the cinema when he spotted a big crowd in the distance on June 6, 1976.
It was between 4.30pm and 5pm. At first, he thought a house was on fire but there was no smoke billowing. Or was it a fighting incident?
"I stopped my car and asked the people 'What's wrong?'
When plane was finally opened up, they were all dead
June 25, 2012: Not a single newspaper report on the Double Six tragedy carried any account of how the Fire Department personnel went about their work.
Only the tragedy was announced.
Razaleigh, Yaacob were walking in circles
June 25, 2012: DE: If the weight problem merits consideration, then it must have factored at the last stage when most of the fuel had burned up, making the plane lighter and imbalance to creep in due to cargo at the back becoming heavier.
J: The approach configuration was at a lower speed than normal cruising speed.
Likely Nomad forced to make a steep descent
June 17, 2012: CAPT Mohd Jawid Noorul-haq, 60, is the only person today intimately connected to the Double Six tragedy of 6.61976 that claimed the lives of newly-elected CM Tun Fuad Stephens and State Ministers Datuk Salleh Sulong, Datuk Chong Thien Vun, Datuk Peter Mojuntin and Asst Minister Darius Binion.
The others among the 11 who also died in the crash in low tide at Sembulan where the memorial now stands were Datuk Wahid Peter Andau (Finance Ministry Perm Sec), Dr Syed Hussein Wafa (Sabah Economic Planning Unit Director), Isak Atan (Tengku Razaleigh's Private Sec) Cpl Said Mohd (Fuad's bodyguard), Capt Gandhi Nathan (pilot) and Johari Stephens (Fuad's eldest son).
Villagers hit by landslip plead for candles
Kota Belud May 13, 2012: Some 500 residents in Kg Kiau Teburi, Kg Kiau Nulu and Kg Kiau Bersatu directly affected by the recent landslide there, have appealed for the public to provide them with candles.
Nabalu Natural Disaster Committee member, Sindih Taliban, said they are in desperate need of candles while waiting for their electricity supply - which had been totally cut off by the landslide - to be restored.
Tiada guru, sekolah terpaksa ditutup
Bung Moktar ketika meninjau keadaan SK Balat kelmarin.
KINABATANGAN May 4, 2012: Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Inarat yang terletak di pedalaman negeri Sabah telah ditutup hampir dua minggu ekoran ketiadaan guru di sekolah berkenaan.
Sehubungan itu, Ahli Parlimen Kinabatangan, Datuk Bung Moktar Radin meminta Kementerian Pelajaran dan Jabatan Pelajaran Sabah supaya melihat pelantikan guru-guru yang berasal dari Kampung Inarat itu sendiri untuk berkhidmat.
“Kampung ini memang terpencil dan sekiranya menggunakan kenderaan melalui jalan darat, mengambil masa tujuh hingga lapan jam perjalanan untuk sampai ke sana,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas mengadakan lawatan ke sekolah terbabit.
TRAGEDI...ahli keluarga membawa mayat mangsa keluar dari bilik mayat Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, semalam. Gambar kecil, Jaswant maut.
SIASAT...anggota forensik memeriksa mayat bayi yang ditanam dua remaja.
SUNGAI PETANI: Seorang pelajar perempuan yang bakal menduduki peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) dipercayai mencekik dan melemaskan bayi lelaki yang dilahirkannya dalam baldi berisi air Ahad lalu, sehari sebelum menanam mayat bayi itu dalam semak berhampiran kawasan kilang di Taman Ria Jaya di sini, keesokannya dengan bantuan teman lelakinya berusia 17 tahun.
