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| Atasi kesesakan lalu lintas di Bukit Bintang, kata Ng Yen Yen Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:50 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Dis — Pemain industri pelancongan di Bukit Bintang-KLCC perlu memberi cadangan dan pilihan untuk mengatasi kesesakan lalu lintas di kawasan tersebut, kata Menteri Pelancongan Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. Beliau berkata beliau bersedia mendengar idea kepada penyelesaian masalah tersebut seperti survei yang dibuat oleh rangkaian berita global CNN baru-baru ini. "Seperti yang kita semua tahu, pengangkutan awam kita tidak mendapat kedudukan baik dalam ranking CNN, yang keadaannya akan menjadi bertambah buruk dengan projek pembangunan yang sedang dilaksanakan sekarang," katanya semasa melancarkan program memasang lampu Krismas di Plaza Low Yat di sini hari ini. Ng berkata sistem pengangkutan awam yang lebih baik dan kurang kesesakan lalu lintas menawarkan keselesaan kepada orang ramai untuk membeli-belah terutama di sekitar Bukit Bintang dan Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). Beliau berharap isu tersebut dapat dibaiki tahun depan sempena kempen Tahun Melawat Malaysia 2014. — Bernama |
| Israel raids Palestinian NGO offices Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:46 AM PST  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the foreign media in Jerusalem December 10, 2012. — Reuters pic Entering before dawn, troops wrenched open the doors of the Women's Union, the Palestinian NGO Network and Addameer, an advocate for Palestinians in Israeli jails, confiscating five computers from the latter group. The sweeps were the first of their kind in a Palestinian city since the West Bank government won an initiative at the United Nations General Assembly on November 29 which recognised a de facto Palestinian state, stoking tensions with Israel. "This comes in the context of the UN's decision," Allam Jarrar of the Palestinian NGO Network told reporters this morning, "boycott Israel" leaflets strewn on the floor of the raided office. "This a message by the Israelis to the Palestinians, saying that when they take decisions or form patriotic organizations to seek their freedom, the occupation will use aggression to try and stop us," he said. The Israeli military said the targeted offices were associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small leftist faction with an armed wing in Gaza but engaged in peaceful civil activism in the West Bank. The West Bank has seen mounting clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protestors, leaving two Palestinians dead since the launch on November 14 of an eight-day Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Nighttime arrests of Palestinians Israel suspects of militant activity have awoken small towns throughout the West Bank in the last week, provoking exchanges of gunfire by troops and stones heaved at them by increasingly defiant locals. The secular, Western-backed Ramallah government coordinates closely with Israel's security forces, despite Palestinian officials accusing Israel of trying to punish them and their people for their achievement at the United Nations. "The Israeli government decided to dock our money as a punitive measure and announced its intention to build thousands of settlement units in and around Jerusalem," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the Turkish parliament on Monday. "This was a threat to us not to seek protection for our people and our land and our holy places through specialized international organizations," he said. Israel says it will withhold US$200 million (RM611 million) in customs duties it collects on the Palestinians' behalf and has announced a large expansion of Jewish settlements around the West Bank's Jerusalem hub, to the dismay of European countries. Palestinian leaders have warned they might retaliate by pursuing resolutions censuring Israel in the U.N. Security Council or filing complaints against Israel at the International Criminal Court. _ Reuters |
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