Promising an efficient and timely door-to-door garbage collection system, the Municipal Corporation had replaced cycle carts with two-bin vehicles nearly two-and-a-half years ago, but residents in many sectors lament there is no fixed time slot for lifting of household waste.
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The local Municipal Corporation is going to set up 50 more open air gyms, but residents are not impressed with the move. They say rather than increasing the number of gyms, the MC should focus on the quality of equipment, as machines in most of the parks have developed faults.
Syrian brothers claim trial to bribery charge 02 Mar 2021 / 14:49 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
ALOR SETAR: Two Syrian brothers today pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here to a charge of offering a bribe of RM10,000 to an Immigration officer in Langkawi in January last year.
The accused, Ali Esmail Hamed, 38, and his brother Alaa Esmail, 35, made the confession after the charge was read to them by an interpreter before Judge Murtazadi Amran.
According to the charge sheet, the two were accused of offering cash of RM10,000 to Langkawi branch Assistant Superintendent of Immigration Mohd Hazwan Othman at Yasmeen Express Restaurant Pantai Chenang at 12.50 am, on Jan 22, 2020.