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Flowers all year round in Kuching Park

By ZORA CHAN
zora@thestar.com.my

THE annual Garden Show, one of the events of Kuching Festival, sees permanent features this time around so that the public can enjoy the scenic garden whole year round.

Located at one corner of Kuching Park within the Kuching City South Council’s (MBKS) ground, people from all walks of life will visit the Garden Show as they patronise the festival’s food and trade fair which is just next to it.

This year’s show is themed “Tropical Garden”.

The council’s landscaping officer, Winnifred Chin, said the theme was chosen to give visitors the feeling that they had just walked into the forest.


Gateway to paradise: The entrance to the annual Garden Show, one of the events held in conjunction with Kuching Festival in Kuching.

THE annual Garden Show, one of the events of Kuching Festival, sees permanent features this time around so that the public can enjoy the scenic garden whole year round.

Located at one corner of Kuching Park within the Kuching City South Council’s (MBKS) ground, people from all walks of life will visit the Garden Show as they patronise the festival’s food and trade fair which is just next to it.

This year’s show is themed “Tropical Garden”.

The council’s landscaping officer, Winnifred Chin, said the theme was chosen to give visitors the feeling that they had just walked into the forest.
Crowd attraction: Visitors busy tsking photos and enjoying the surroundings at the garden.



“In the past, we had themes like “Rock Garden”, “Flora Garden” and “Colourful Garden” but features in these garden shows were not permanent.

“We’ve decided to build permanent features like the water fountain and “baruk” (Bidayuh traditional meeting place) for this year’s show so that people can continue to view the garden daily even after the festival ends,” she told StarMetro.

Chin said plants at the garden show were mainly common tropical species like hibiscus, bougainvilla and canna, a variety of palm trees and non-flowering shrubs for easy maintenance work.

These plants were labelled with their common and scientific names for educational purposes among the public, she said.

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Publicist: Zsa Zsa Gabor has two blood clots removed

LOS ANGELES (AP): Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress has had two blood clots removed at a Los Angeles hospital.

Publicist John Blanchette says doctors at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Centre on Saturday removed the clots, the result of complications from a broken hip.

He said the 93-year-old Gabor was resting comfortably and was expected to go home either on Monday or Tuesday.

Gabor was hospitalised on Friday afternoon because she was bleeding and in a lot of pain.

She has been recuperating from a broken hip suffered on July 17. She had hip replacement surgery and had just returned home from the hospital on Wednesday.

Blanchette said Saturday was Gabor's 24th wedding anniversary with husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt, and the two were unable to have their traditional ice cream celebration.

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Aedes larvae found in homes of 50% of dengue death cases

KUALA LUMPUR: Aedes larvae were found in the homes of more than 50% of dengue death cases this year, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said.

"We must take a serious proactive approach in fighting dengue. It is important to be aware that our homes can be breeding grounds for the Aedes mosquitoes," he said Sunday after launching a blood donation campaign here.

So far, 95 people have died from dengue this year, with 30,350 cases recorded as of Saturday, an increase from the 67 deaths and 28,659 cases for the same period last year, he said.

There were 847 cases for the 32nd week alone with one death recorded in the Federal Territory, he said, adding that they were meeting dengue experts to find ways to combat the disease.

On the drug-resistant NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1) superbug identified in India and Pakistan, Liow said the Institute of Medical Research was conducting a study on the bacteria, which was not well-known.

"We are waiting for the results before making an announcement. We do not want to cause unnecessary alarm.

"We are concerned about this bug as any bacteria, especially super bacteria, can cause harm to the body. There are no details from WHO (World Health Organisation) yet," he added.

The superbug reportedly caused the death of a Belgian man and infected several from the United Kingdom, Australia and United States who had travelled to India for surgery. The Belgian man was reportedly infected by the bacteria after he was hospitalised in Pakistan for a leg injury, following a car accident.

According to the US’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, NDM-1 is an "enzyme that destroys many commonly used antibiotics, rendering them ineffective."

Earlier, Liow encouraged people to donate blood, especially during the festive season when the supply often ran low.

He added that 565,604 blood units were donated to the National Blood Centre last year, and 73% were repeat donors.

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