Grazing cases happened in front of owner house

PUCHONG: grazing incident happened in front of her own house in a residential park in the afternoon.

Victims Ina, 34, who was driving alone when he came home from Putrajaya to Puchong around in at 1.00 pm.

"As soon as I parked the car at home when, suddenly, a motorcycle pulled up beside the passenger door, trying to break into my car mirror and then that time I placed the bag on the passenger seat."

Successfully broken the window of the car and pull of an incident occurred between her and snatching it in a while there until have the car and honked, maybe because it surprised two men on a motorcycle immediately fled the scene without being able to take the bag.

Ina has taken action to report the incident to the police at the nearest police station and the case is under investigation.

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The Global Gender Gap Report

The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress over time. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, education, health and political criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups. The rankings are designed to create global awareness of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities created by reducing them. The methodology and quantitative analysis behind the rankings are intended to serve as a basis for designing effective measures for reducing gender gaps.

            In addition, on average in the Report covered the 144 countries have closed 96% of the gap in health outcomes between women and men, unchanged since last year, and more than 95% of the gap in educational attainment, a slight decrease compared to last year.

However, the gaps between women and men on economic participation and political empowerment remain wide: only 58% of the economic participation gap has been closed—a second consecutive year of reversed progress and the lowest value measured by the Index since 2008—and about 23% of the political gap, unchanged since last year against a long-term trend of slow but steady improvement.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual report on the global gender gap across a range of different dimensions. The purpose of this global gender gap report is for countries to assess whether they are making progress towards reducing the gender gap in health and survival, economic opportunities, education and political empowerment.

India for the first time has nearly closed its tertiary education gender gap and succeeds in fully closing its primary and secondary education enrolment gender gaps for the second year running. In addition, it continues to rank fourth-lowest in the world on Health and Survival, remaining the world’s least-improved country on this subindex over the past decade.

For nine continuous years, Iceland is on the top, for being the country that most equitably distributes resources between men and women. India ranks at 108 overall while in South Asia, India ranks 3rd, well behind Bangladesh, which despite being a poorer country, has a rank of 47 and also behind Maldives (106).

In the table 3, India’s scores on specific indicators within each dimension. Across all indicators, the country scores way below the average scores in the report. For some indicators like sex ratio at birth, life expectancy, labour force participation and estimated earned income, the results are particularly poor.

India’s ranking on health and survival is the worst and we are in the bottom 3 at 141 because of our continued skewed sex ratio as well as poor indicators of maternal health including ante-natal care. There are 33 countries in the list which have reached parity for health and survival of which several of them are from Latin American countries.

For this particular index, only China and Azerbaijan do worse than us, the former because of decades of sex-selective abortions, which were worsened due to China’s one-child policy and the latter because of large gaps in life expectancy between men and women.

For economic opportunity, it rank at 139. There are just four countries which is Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Syria which fare worse. As the table indicates, 6.5 times, more young women are not in education or employment when compared to young men.

The existence of non-discriminatory laws, women constitute just 11% of the boards of publicly traded companies and form under 15% of the staff in Research and Development roles. Moreover, laws alone are inadequate in instituting reforms unless they are followed by concerted efforts on the parts of organizations to hire more women all across the board and especially in top leadership positions.

This is the fact that 65.6% of the work done by women in India is unpaid work in contrast to just 11.7% for men. Also, less than 43% of women have an account in a financial institution, almost 20% less than that of men. This figure for women is also likely to be much lower in the rural areas where financial inclusion for women in formal institutions is a serious problem.

For educational attainment, it fare slightly better at 112, having closed the gap in enrolment in primary and secondary education across most states in India. Further, as a country, India is slowly closing the gap in tertiary (higher) education.

While in many countries we see a gender difference in science graduation rates, this is not the case in India because15% of both men and women graduate with degrees in the Natural Sciences, perhaps the only sliver of good news in this report.

In conclusion, women are over-represented in the Social Sciences, Journalism and Education and underrepresented in Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction subjects. According to the WEF Global Gender Gap Report 2017, on an average 66% of women’s work in India is unpaid, compared to 12% of men’s. In case of China, 44% of women’s work is unpaid, while for men the figure stood at 19%.

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Fake News Act will be repealed

KUALA LUMPUR: The Fake News Act will be repealed, which was gazetted in April, will be abolished, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

He said the proposal to abolish the act would be brought to the Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to enable the act to be abolished immediately.

"I have a list that we have to look into and I will have a press conference tomorrow to inform us specifically." As stated in the Pakatan Harapan manifesto, we will abolish this act.

"We will set a time frame, the first 100 days we have to fulfill but how much time will I need to discuss with my officer tomorrow, and I will do it and start working exactly 8.30am tomorrow," he said.

He said this when met after his oath of office and loyalty and secret oath of secrecy with 12 other Cabinet Ministers in the presence of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V, at Istana Negara, today.

As a new minister in the ministry, Gobind, 45, said media freedom was his main agenda and he was committed in that regard.

However, he said the matter should be made based on existing laws.

"Freedom of the media is my priority. Media makes news and publishing companies tied to existing laws, so we need to look in that sense.

"We have to find ways to increase the freedom of the press in the country. I will create a group of legislators so they can see the impact of the law, where there are weaknesses and we will try to improve," he said.

Among other things to be reviewed are several laws relating to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), involving complaints and investigations into several reported cases.

Additionally, the Puchong MP said he would also give serious attention to the overall aspect of news reporting and to find ways to local television system to compete with international media channels.

He said local media should learn from the international media to be more knowledgeable in delivering news.

Gobind, who is also the Deputy Chairman of DAP, holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Warwick Britain and Law Department from Lincoln's Inn.

He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1996 and continued his father's legacy, former DAP veteran leader, late Karpal Singh.

Gobind's involvement in politics began 10 years ago as a Member of the DAP Central Executive Committee to date and has been the deputy chairman of the Selangor DAP Committee from 2015 until last year.

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Water pollution (plastic bag recycle)

Water pollution is caused by deliberate or accidental release of toxic chemicals substances, waste of plastic bag, pollutants and harmful substances into water bodies such as rivers, lakes and sea.

Water pollution may also be caused by specific points or contributing factors such as large factories, oil refineries, construction sites, chemical waste management facilities, dump sites and other large scale operations that store produce large amounts of chemical or hazardous waste. It also cause of waste of plastic bags that human always throw everywhere. In addition, we need to recycle plastic bag in every place in our country to save our earth.

Plastic bags have some unique problems. Although the environmental costs they impose on society, the cost of plastic bags for retailers is relatively low. Made from ethylene, a by product of petroleum or natural gas, plastic bags are so cheap and flimsy that cashiers use it freely, using so many plastic bags to customers and it can be a source of wastage.

Even when disposed of properly, plastic bags are so lightweight and aerodynamic, they are easily taken and carried by the wind. It can escape from bins, recycling bins, garbage trucks, and landfills, and end up have a rubbish at the surrounding.

A Google search on “animals eat plastic bags” brings up hundreds of heart breaking stories and images from around the world. So many foraging cows in India have died from ingesting plastic bag litter that many of the states in that country have banned the distribution of plastic bags. In the United Arab Emirates, a veterinarian has documented images of camels, sheep, goats, and endangered desert animals dead because eating plastic bags.

Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products. Since plastic is non-biodegradable, recycling is a part of global efforts to reduce plastic in the waste stream, especially the approximately eight million metric tonnes of waste plastic that enter the Earth's ocean every year. This helps to reduce the high rates of plastic pollution.

Plastic recycling includes taking any type of plastic sorting it into different polymers and then chipping it and then melting it down into pellets after this stage it can then be used to make items of any kind such as plastic chairs and tables. Soft Plastics are also recycled such as polyethylene film and bags. This closed-loop operation has taken place since the 1970s and has made the production of some plastic products among the most efficient operations today.

Compared with lucrative recycling of metal, and similar to the low value of glass, plastic polymers recycling is often more challenging because of low density and low value. There are also numerous technical hurdles to overcome when recycling plastic.

Recycling is important in today’s world if we want to leave this planet for our future generations. It is good for the environment, since we are making new products from the old products which are of no use to us. Recycling begins at home. If you are not throwing away any of your old product and instead utilizing it for something new then you are actually recycling.

When you think of recycling you should really think about the whole idea which is reduce, reuse and recycle. We have been careless up to this point with the way we have treated the Earth and it’s time to change, not just the way we do things but the way we think. We should recycle because to make environment clean, conservation of materials, to save energy and reduce garbage.

Recycling is good for the environment, in the sense, we are using old and waste products which are of no use and then converting them back to same new products. Since we are saving resources and are sending less trash to the landfills, it helps in reducing air and water pollution.

When you think of recycling you should really think about the whole idea; reduce, reuse and recycle. Think about it if you have to get it, get something that can be used again and if you get something that needs to be recycled by the professionals, put it in the recycle bin.

Conservation is an important part of recycling issue. In addition, when you produce less garbage it helps in reducing the landfills and also helps in giving the land back to the nature.

Recycling serve to two purpose that is first, it avoid landfills and helps in reducing air and water pollution and secondly, valuable material like aluminium cans and plastic and glass are reused in other forms and not wasted.

However, be mindful of what you do, pay attention to the items you buy and always check yourself to see if you really need use the plastic bags. Without we realize that we all can do our part and we will make a huge difference.

Throw away all the garbage in your house that is of no use to you or you think you can’t utilize it in some other way. If you don’t have these boxes, you can easily purchase a suitable container for each recyclable product, for example paper, plastic, and glass and then take these go to near your local recycling center.

What you can recycle depends on your area, not all materials may be recyclable. Check with your local recycle center to find out what you can and cannot recycle. Others thing that we can save our planet are separate the recyclable materials from garbage such as paper, plastic, aluminium cans, steel cans and glassware. All containers of coloured or clear glass including bottles, food containers, bottles of vitamins, cosmetics and similar containers can be recycled. Glassware should be put into the green recycling bins.

Then, all kinds of goods made from aluminium cans as beverage can recycling must be put in the red bins.

Next, all types of paper, whether coloured or colourless such as old newspapers, old magazines, books, catalogues, brochures, calendars, cards, envelopes and boxes are recyclable. All types of paper must be put in the blue bins.

Finally, all plastic coloured or colourless like shopping bags, supermarket bags, beverage bottles, mineral water bottles, food containers, soap containers, vitamins and similar containers can be recycled. Plastic-based items should be put into the recycling bins in yellow.

Try to avoid the use of plastic bag and plastic paper as much as possible. However it just not only pollute the environment but also helps in filling landfills. Also, when you shop try to look out for the products that have least packaging or bring the bag itself from home to the supermarket. It also can help to reduce the use of plastic bag.

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Farah is the Best Goalkeeper

KUALA LUMPUR: The national women's hockey squad finished fourth with Faru Ayuni Yahya crowned Asia Champions Trophy Champion (ACT) Best Goal in Donghae, South Korea on Sunday.

The award was the second consecutive for him when he was crowned the best Goalkeeper at ACT Singapore two years ago at the time Malaysia ended the final position between five participating teams.

The player, who is also the policeman, played a key role in the rise of the women's hockey squad and became the focus of a 2-1 victory over the top-ranked Italian team in the shoot-out penalties following Ireland qualifying for the World Hockey League Semifinal while playing in the Second Round of the World Hockey League in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia then tied Italy 2-2 and Farah's victory saved a shoot-out penalty meaningful enough to bring the country for the first time to the World Hockey League Semifinal stage.

The country's squad coach, Dhaarma Raj Abdullah, is expected to once again bet Farah to control the national goalkeeper in the Asian Games this August.

"He has always been a major asset of the country in every tournament because it saves goals and gives motivation to the whole team. At the Asian Games in Jakarta we still need his services to create a surprise to beat the top-ranked team.

"Malaysia Hockey Confederation (MHC) has set a bronze medal target in Jakarta and I'm confident the players can do it. We will try to grab the opportunity and will try to earn a medal," he said.

The Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) has yet to announce the schedule but 10 teams will be divided into two groups at the Asian Games.

10 teams in action comprised Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, China, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Kazahkstan.

On paper Malaysia did not have a problem when it came down against Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Kazakhstan based on performances at ACT where they defeated Japan 3-2, lost to China (1-3), South Korea (1-3) and India 3-2) in the group stage action.

In the bronze medal match China only managed to win 2-0.

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RADIOACTIVE POISONING IN BUKIT MERAH, PERAK

Radiation poisoning happens when a radioactive substance gives off particles that get into a person's body and cause harm. Different radioactive substances have different characteristics. They can harm and help people in different ways, and some are more dangerous than others.

Normally, radiation occurs in a safe environment. Whether or not it becomes dangerous depends on how it is used how strong it is how often a person is exposed what type of exposure occurs how long exposure lasts. A dose of radiation from a single x-ray is not normally harmful. Nevertheless, the parts of the body that are not being x-rayed will be shielded with a lead apron to prevent unnecessary exposure.

The technician, meanwhile, will leave the room when taking the image. While one small dose is not dangerous, repeated small doses could be. A sudden, short, low dose of radiation is unlikely to cause a problem but extended, intense, or repeated doses can be. When radiation damages cells, it is irreversible. The more often a person is exposed, the greater their risk of health problems.

Moreover, radiation poisoning have signs and symptoms. Radiation sickness can be acute, happening soon after exposure or chronic, where symptoms appear over time or after some time, possibly years later.

The signs and symptoms of acute radiation poisoning are vomiting, diarrhea and nausea loss of appetite, malaise or feeling unwell headache rapid heartbeat symptoms depend on the dose, and whether it is a single dose or repeated. A dose of as low as 30 rads can lead to loss of white blood cells nausea and vomiting headaches. A dose of 300 rads dose may result in temporary hair loss damage to nerve cells damage to the cells that line the digestive tract.

In addition, to understand why there is so much opposition to the Lynas rare earth plant, we have to look at the sad history of Bukit Merah New Village, just a few kilometres south of downtown Ipoh.

Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium, a rare earth, from monazite.

Within a few years, the villagers began noticing physical defects in their new born, and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases, turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia victims have since died.

Equally heartrending is the parallel story of the villagers’ attempt to stop the ARE operations. It was a saga that ran for more than two decades, and it pitted the villagers, helped by various civic organisations, against big business and powerful state authorities. An exercise to decommission the ARE plant finally began in 2003, but the work to decontaminate the area is still going on and is estimated to cost RM300 million. The New York Times called it “the largest radiation clean up yet in the rare earth industry”.

ARE was a collaboration between Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd (35%), Beh Minerals (35%), Lembaga Urusan dan Tabung Haji (20%) and several Bumiputera businessmen (10%). The company was incorporated in 1979.

The Penang Consumer Association has compiled a chronology of events in the Bukit Merah tragedy to help us appreciate the tenacity of Malaysians who rose to act to protect their health and environment against a government that placed profit before the people’s welfare.

Eight men which is a welder, a shoemaker, a general worker, a pensioner, a barber, a tractor driver, a crane-operator and a cancer victim who was to die shortly sued Asian Rare Earth in 1985 on behalf of themselves and 10,000 other residents of Bukit Merah and the environs in Perak. They wanted to shut down this rare earth plant in their village near Ipoh because its radioactive waste was endangering their lives.

 When the Mitsubishi joint venture plant opened over 1982, the villagers soon began complaining of the factory's stinging smoke and bad smell which made them choke and cry. Worse was to come. Their health began failing, indicated not only by frequent bouts of coughs and colds, but a sharp rise in the incidence of leukaemia, infant deaths, congenital disease and lead poisoning. For the first time in Malaysian legal history, an entire community has risen to act over an environmental issue, to protect their health and environment from radioactive pollution.

Radiation are dangerous because radiation dosage can measured in various ways. Some of the units used are Grays, Sieverts, rems, and rads. They are used in a similar way, but 0.1 rad is equal to 100 Gray.

Below 30 rads it can be mild symptoms will occur in the blood, from 30 to 200 rads can be the person may become ill. From 200 to 1,000 rads, the person may become seriously ill. Over 1,000 rads, this will be fatal.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), radiation sickness, or acute radiation syndrome (ARS) is diagnosed when a person receives over 70 rads from a source outside their body. The dose affects the whole body, or most of it, and is able to penetrate to the internal organs.

The effect of these radiation is different doses are different effects which is the risk of illness depends on the dose. Very low doses of radiation are all around us all the time, and they do not have any effect. It also depends on the area of the body that is exposed. If the whole body is exposed to, say, 1,000 rads within a short time, this could be fatal. However, far higher doses can be applied to a small area of the body with less risk.

After a mild dose, the person may experience symptoms for just a few hours or days. However, a repeated or even a single, relatively low dose that produces few or no visible symptoms around the time of exposure may cause problems later on. A person who is exposed to 3,000 rads will experience nausea and vomiting, and they may experience confusion and a loss of consciousness within a few hours. Tremors and convulsions will occur 5 to 6 hours after exposure. Within 3 days, there will be coma and death.

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Are we scientifically literate?

Science is the concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the history of the natural world and how the natural world works with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge.

          A literate person mostly can read and write because to be able use and understand some existing models. Also understand the limitations of science or build a mathematic theory.

          Most of us are science illiteracy because of rarely read a book and it can give us less of knowledgeable about science while science actually can help us in take care of our health, in terms of food and the importance of sleep care.

          Scientific literacy is vital because science is a part of so many aspects of our lives.  Climate change, space exploration, the advancement of computers, its none of these would be possible without advances in science and knowing more about basic scientific principles makes you better able to understand the world around us and make better choices in our everyday life.

          Most of us will have to help a family member with health issues at some point in our lives, if not our own health. Understanding basic biological principles such as how cells multiply and about genetics allows us to better understand the treatments for diseases like cancer or conditions like autism.

          Understanding the fundamentals of chemistry can play a role in medications, and when we are putting different medicines into our body, we definitely want to know what effect the medicine are going to have.

          The way to increase scientific literate is education. Education is one way. Instead of having a system that mainly rewards fact memorization, students who has the capacity to use those facts to solve problems and develop critical thinking skills should be rewarded.

          The actual goal of public science education is to identify and prepare students who down the line, can successfully compete for jobs that require science and technology skills, and who at the more advanced levels, can either contribute to the economic goals of the science and technology industry or within academic and can produce original research that is perceived as making a relevant contribution within a scientific field.

          In addition, in school can do some pop quiz and students have to involve. Also, for those students who are get highest score, will get present from school or certificate for appreciate what students have done for their performance.

Science is uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. Science is useful to us and the knowledge generated by science is powerful and reliable. It can be used to develop new technologies, treat diseases, and deal with many other sorts of problems.

Scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed. It means that a person has the ability to describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena because of they understand science.

Science is important for society even if society does not realise it. But don't let us fall into the old position. Scientists fully convinced of the relevance of their work and their helping to society but in the eye of society where their scientific work seems to be irrelevant.

Few people would support that Science has brought many advances to society. Moreover, modern life could not be imagined without Science. In every activity, in every field, science is everything. Technology is driven by science, both Science and Technology can changed a lot of people perspective.

We are surrounded by science, so understanding science means understanding the world around you. However, with knowledge of science, we able to analyze an important part, which is can help a person think about problems in their lives in a more effective and systematic way.

Science teaches us how to think about problems in a systematic way, from identifying the underlying issues behind a problem to teaching us how to logically think of solutions. Also, science we can relate with everything such as like electronic. Science not only about human body, medicines and cells but can use for other things.

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