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Errant teachers face the sack
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:32
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KUALA T ERENGGANU – Dismissal is on the cards for teachers who have completed their training but fail to report for duty on time.
Deputy Education Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said that although these were isolated cases, a warning was necessary to overcome the shortage of teachers, especially in the remote areas of Sabah and Sarawak.
"Most of the teachers have not declined to go, but there are a few who refused when asked to go to these remote areas. The shortage of teachers is caused by teachers who have opted to teach certain subjects," he said here today.
 Firm blocking firemen from putting out bushfires, says Chan
MIRI – Deputy Chief MinisterDr George Chan today said that a private company here was alleged to have refused to allow firemen from extinguishing bushfires on its land.
Without naming the company or the location of the land, he said that a complaint he received recently alleged that the company deliberately blocked an access road into its land.  he offence.
Lift firecrackers ban, says DAP man
KUCHING – Sentosa state assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen urged the Home Ministry to lift the ban on firecrackers, saying terrorism, the reason for imposing the firecracker ban, was no longer a threat in the country.
The DAP man said a photograph in a Chinese newspaper today showing central SUPP vice-president Lily Yong lighting firecrackers for a function was proof that using firecrackers was unofficially sanctioned by the government.
He said a BN politician had shown proof that the ban on fireworks should be lifted.
Chief secretary to the government's contract extended for a year
PUTRAJAYA – Mohd Sidek Hassan was re-appointed Chief Secretary to the Government on a contract basis for a year from June 24, 2010 to June 23, 2011, the Prime Minister's Office announced today.
It said in a statement here that the appointment had received the consent of of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Mohd Sidek, 58, was appointed Chief secretary to the Government on Sept 3, 2006, and held the post until his compulsory retirement upon turning 56 on June 23, 2007.
Couple held of baby's death gets show of support
PETALING JAYA – Fifty residents of Pangsapuri Seri Ara, Damansara gathered in the court complex compound here today in support of a couple detained over the death of an 18-month-old baby.
They arrived as early as 8am and gathered for 45 minutes to find out whether the remand order on the 33-year-old lorry attendant and his 23-year-old wife was extended or not.
Magistrate Ho Kwong Chin extended remand on the couple for four days starting tomorrow.
Dog adoption drive
SUBANG JAYA – Canine welfare project Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better’s will be holding its adoption drive here on March 14, offering around 40 puppies and dogs for adoption.
The monthly adoption drive would be held as usual near the Starbucks entrance.
For further details, call 019-3576477 or 012-3739007 or go to www.malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com.
Police bust drug lab in house
SEREMBAN – Police have uncovered a drug processing laboratory producing metamphetamine and seized processing equipment worth RM200,000 during a raid on a house at Ladang Staffield, Pajam, near here yesterday.
"We believe the house was turned into a 'kitchen lab' to process the drug for markets in the Klang Valley and Seremban," said state Narcotics CID Chief, Supt VR Ravi Chandran
He said three foreigners were among the five men and a woman arrested in the raid. — Bernama/Malaysian Mirror
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