Friends of Lee Nian Ning, a medical student who died in a bus accident on Jan 25, have set up a website to seek signatures for a petition on express bus safety that they will send to the Transport Ministry after Chinese New Year.
There is also an online forum at the website to discuss bus [...]
She had the world at her feet but death robbed medical student Lee Nian Ning of a brilliant future.
The straight As student, former state swimmer and accomplished Girl Guide was on the double-decker express bus from Penang to Kuala Lumpur which crashed near Slim River on Friday.
Nian Ning, 21, a Public Service Department (PSD) scholar [...]
The new eKesihatan scheme was introduced to plug loopholes in the current system, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said.
He said the system, which would be phased out by the end of this month, had many leakages including chits being falsified.
“A lot of commercial vehicle drivers, including express bus drivers, are unfit to [...]
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy has denied allegations that the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project is a failure. In a written answer to Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) in the Dewan Rakyat (Parliament) today, he said despite the PKFZ having only begun operations last Nov 1, it had attracted 30 investors [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )The Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) management is confident of reaching 80% occupancy by 2012.
General manager (business development) Chia Kon Leong said this would mean attracting 650 to 700 companies to invest in the 404ha PKFZ.
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“In 2010, PKFZ is expecting a total revenue of RM40mil and it would be a self-sustaining company by then,” he [...]
The original cost of the project had ballooned from RM2 billion to RM4.6 billion because of, among others, overvalued land costs.
Despite all the investment poured into the PKFZ, what it has to show are rows of unoccupied buildings, an incomplete four-star hotel and kilometres of pothole-ridden roads.
Documents obtained by theSun revealed that the falling [...]
Responding to comments that the ministry only reacted after disasters occurred, Chan said the ministry had already begun executing its five-year road safety plan last year.
“For example, discussions on the safety, health and environment regulations that were announced yesterday had started two months ago,” he said.
As for the Kejara demerit points system that currently [...]
The findings on the three light rail transit (LRT) train incidents in the past three months will be made public.
The Railway Department and an independent engineer are investigating the incidents.
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He said this was decided at his meeting with the department here yesterday.
On Aug 23, about 5,000 Putra LRT commuters were stranded for [...]
Commercial vehicle drivers must attend mandatory refresher courses annually, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said.
“I want this to be implemented immediately,” he told reporters after visiting survivors of the Super Express bus crash at the hospital here.
Source: The Star
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Chan Kong Choy and Port Klang Free Zone, a MYR4 billion white elephant ?
Chan [...]
The Transport Ministry has admitted there are weaknesses in the demerit points penalty system that allows drivers to escape amassing “negative points” if they do not settle their summonses.
Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said the demerit points system, or Kejara, was currently the weakest link in terms of enforcement.
“We are looking into it [...]
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