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Two-bus collision causes 10km jam at Penang Bridge

GEORGE TOWN: Four factory workers were hurt when their bus collided with another bus at Tun Dr Lim Choon Eu Expressway here.

The factory bus, with 30 workers from Bayan Lepas industrial area, was rammed from behind while waiting at the traffic lights at 6.15am Thursday


A police officer taking measurements after the accident

Police said the crash caused a 10km traffic congestion from Penang Bridge to Bayan Lepas industrial area

One of the factory workers suffered a fractured leg while three others were admitted at Penang Hospital.

Groom-to-be found dead

JOHOR BARU: A 32-year-old businessman who was supposed to be married next month was found dead in a pool of blood in his bathroom in Taman Pelangi Indah here.

The body of Chua Yong Chuan was discovered at about 8.30am yesterday by his mother who had gone to check whether he was awake.

His throat and wrist were slit.

Chua's future father-in-law, who only wanted to be known as Choo, said that they were supposed to meet at 9am yesterday to go over the wedding plans.

“He was supposed to marry my youngest daughter next month and both families had arranged to meet,” he told reporters here.

Choo said he last saw Chua on Tuesday and noticed that he looked unusually tired.

“He was a quiet man and respectful.

“He would always greet us whenever he came to our house to pick up my daughter,” he said.

Chua's fiancee and family were too distraught to speak to reporters when met at the Sultan Ismail Hospital mortuary here.

Meanwhile, Johor Baru (South) OCPD Asst Comm Zainuddin Yaakob said that the case had been classified as sudden death and ruled out foul play.

He said the deceased had slit his wrist and throat with a kitchen knife.

The body has been sent for a post-mortem.

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Driving licence expiry on birthdays next month
By LIM WEY WEN
wwen@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Motorists can have their driving licence expiry dates synchronised with their birthdays from mid-November.

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, who announced this yesterday, said the Cabinet had approved the move.

“In the past, there were many cases of motorists only realising their driving licences had expired when they were stopped by the police or after getting into an accident.

“Now they have no excuse to forget the expiry date anymore,” said Kong at a press conference at Wisma MCA yesterday.

Under the new initiative, motorists whose licences expire after mid-November will be able to extend the validity to cover the period in between their licence expiry date and their date of birth.

For example, if their licence expires in December 2011 and their birthday is in July, a one-year renewal of their licence will give them a new licence that is valid for a year and seven months, from December 2011 until July 2013.

After that, they will be required to renew their licence in July.

Under the initiative, motorists whose birth dates are less than six months away from the expiry date of their licences will not be charged for the extra period of validity.

However, motorists who have birth dates that are the same or more than six months from the expiry date of their licence, will be charged a maximum fee of six months.

About 20,000 motorists who were born on Feb 29 will have their driving licences synchronised to March 1.

“No one will lose out in this initiative as we plan to implement this exercise over a period of six years.

“So, even those who have renewed their licences for five years will still be eligible,” Kong said.

He said the fees for driving licences remained unchanged, adding that currently there were about 10 million active driving licence holders.

The Transport Ministry estimates the exercise will cost the Government RM70mil in uncollected revenue.

Kong also stressed that this did not mean that all motorists should rush to renew their licences in November as it was an ongoing exercise until all driving licences in Malaysia were synchronised.

He said the ministry would announce the exact date of implementation soon.

MasterChef Malaysia Episode 1

Dalam episod pengenalan ini memaparkan 3 juri professional iaitu Chef Jo, Chef Priya dan Chef Yahaya mengalu-alukan kedatangan 40 peserta teratas Masterchef Malaysia (Top 40) di Bootcamp. Para peserta kemudiannya melalui Ujian Kemahiran yang pertama iaitu memotong dadu bawang kuning. Sekiranya gagal menepati kualiti dan standard yang ditetapkan, mereka perlu mengulangi ujian tersebut sehingga para juri berpuas hati. 30 peserta terselamat, manakala 10 peserta yang tercorot haruslah melalui Ujian Ciptarasa. Siapakah yang bakal diundang untuk mengadili para peserta didalam Ujian Cipta Rasa? Jangan ketinggalan untuk menonton episod pertama MasterChef Malaysia.

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