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• Sarawak has been chosen to host the national-level Malaysia Day 2023 celebration at the Perpaduan Stadium here on September 16.
• Among the performances scheduled for the day are a special musical titled Segulai, Sejalai as well as shows featuring Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

Deputy Chief Minister Shahelmey Yahya says the Sabah Water Department will send water directly to affected premises.

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/213184

It sounds like he's not sure what's the full extent of his medical condition. In the meantime there's a fund you can donate to (announced at end of vid).

Vocational college student Nurul Nazieha Jasnie is in the running for the RM455,000 prize that comes with the award by the Varkey Foundation in the UK.

They really have the balls doing this brazenly in this country. Salute.

Caretaker MB Amirudin Shari says this is because the state government is not satisfied with the proposal, especially when taking into account the impact assessment report.

Back in Malaysia, concertgoers have already been lamenting that so many international artists skip over the country during their international tours, a trend the fracas over Matty Healy looks likely to exacerbate. Meanwhile, observers and activists warn that with upcoming state elections in August, conservative-leaning politicians are likely to piggyback on the incident to promote their anti-LGBT agenda. Conservative leaders have even publicly made peace with the idea that their principles may come at the cost of being able to host shows and events like the Good Vibes Fest. But it’s more than just concerts that the country risks losing out on.

The division under the Malaysian Medical Association says Putrajaya cannot deny doctors the right to make the transfer claims after being posted to Sabah and Sarawak

Highlight

• “The Cabinet has agreed in principle for the Sedition Act 1948 (Act 15) to be reviewed to ensure this law is used only to protect the institution of Rulers from any provocation,” she said in a statement today.
• “Other aspects regarding provocation involving religion and race will be scrutinised, including enacting new laws if necessary regarding national harmony and unity by taking into account the institution of the Rulers as the head of the religion of Islam, and international best practices and principles.

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• “Users from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan are directed to exit at the West Bentong intersection and re-enter at the East Bentong intersection,”

By BENJAMIN LEE Tuesday, 25 Jul 2023

PETALING JAYA: Eight years ago, seven Orang Asli students who ran away from a boarding school in Kelantan were lost in a dense forest for 47 days, and only two were found – barely alive and badly emaciated.

Five others died in the ordeal.

Yesterday, their families found closure.

The government has agreed to a RM1.41mil settlement for the case, which saw the children, from SK Tohoi in Gua Musang, run away from the school hostel in August 2015 as they feared punishment. (...) Siti, who was supposed to be the trial’s first witness, said the settlement included RM60,000 in legal costs as well as another RM160,000 from insurance companies.

Found the longer backstory from the BBC back when the story broke: The runaway children Malaysia failed to save:

They decided to leave, they say, because some older children had been beaten by one of the teachers for swimming in the river and they feared they would be next. Norieen, her seven-year-old brother Haikal, Miksudiar, and four other girls aged between seven and nine all ran into the forest on the morning of 23 August.

The children chewed leaves but couldn't find much else to eat. The only fruit they could reach proved hard and indigestible.

Then Norieen's brother, Haikal, fell into the river as he was trying to drink and the other children were too weak to help him. "He just floated away," says his mother, Midah Angah. "Most likely he quickly drowned."

Meanwhile a seven-year-old girl, Juvina, broke her leg and could no longer walk. One evening she begged for food and the next morning Norieen woke up to find her lying dead next to her. Norieen took the younger girl to one side and covered her with leaves.

"She watched what happens to a dead body over a few days," says Midah. "Flies landing on her eyes and mouth, her hair falling out and maggots crawling out of her. She saw so many terrible things."

Ika, a nine-year-old girl, died of her injuries after she was impaled by bamboo in a fall from a steep river bank.

Linda, aged eight, somehow ended up in the water and it was this that eventually helped searchers find the survivors.

Just off the muddy track that leads from the school to the village, overlooking the Sungai Perias river, is one of those rare spots in the rainforest where you can get a mobile phone signal, and here, on 7 October - 45 days after the children disappeared - a logging truck driver pulled up to make a call.