MELAKA: The oldest dragon boat race in the state, which was first organised in 1983, will be turned into a significant event for Visit Melaka Year 2024 (TMM 2024) in a bid to lure international participants and boost the tourist arrival figures, says Datuk Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman.
MELAKA: There are sufficient hotel rooms available to host tourists during the Visit Melaka Year 2024 (TMM 2024) said Melaka tourism, heritage, art and culture committee chairman, Datuk Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman.
A file photo of Abdul Razak in 2005, holding pictures of the Hiroshima bombing. The Star
On a sunny Sunday on June 28,1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were riding in a horse cart. When their motorcade came near the Miljacka River, which was about 100m away from where they started at the city hall, a bomb exploded.
It was thrown at the horse cart by N. Cabrinovic, a member of the “Black Hand” secret military group from Serbia, but he missed the target. The Archduke was lucky to have narrowly cheated death.