Our boatmen can now speak Japanese

An initiative by our electrical power supplier, Tenaga Nasional, in promoting Malaysia as the prime holiday destination. They are the boatmen who earn a living by taking tourists to see the famous fireflies of Kampung Kuantan.

A Japanese language teacher was brought from Japan specifically for this purpose. According to her, the boatmen learning process are progressing very well. One of the boatmen mentioned that they understand the important of learning the language as majority of their current tourists are from Japan.

They are planning to introduce Arabic and English classes soon.

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"I hope that this initiative will be expand to other tourist front liner too, such as taxi drivers, melaka trishaw, boatmen to islands, bus drivers and others. Anyway, this is a good start."

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Malaysia airlines imposes limit on liquids

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) announced that they will follow United States, Britain, European Union nations, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and the Philippines, in carrying out the recommendation by International Civil Aviation Organisation, to impose restriction limit on liquids for all international flights departing from Malaysia. This is announced by Department of Civil Aviation director-general.

They plan to use a transparent resealable plastic bag as the carrier for a maximum one-litre capacity. The transparent plastic bag must be taken along by the passenger and presented to security personnel at the security checkpoint for separate X-ray screening.

The exemption is only given to those who were carrying infants with them. They would be able to bring baby formulae onboard.

The implementation date will be announced later. In the meantime, the relevant agencies such as Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd, airlines and retail shops are getting ready for it. I will update again when it is implemented.

News are also covered by : Channel New Asia; ANTARA; and The Star

Update:
This rule has been implemented effective from today, 22 May 2007 for all international airport i.e. KLIA, LCCT, Penang, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching.

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Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary, Pahang

Elephant ride

Visitor feed elephant

A visit to this elephant sanctuary will surely leave you feeling awe-struck. Elephants located here are rescued from the wild and taken for rehabilitation to teach them to co-exist peacefully with man. Children enjoy bathing with elephants; the experience starts with a ride on the pachyderm's back before plunging into the cool river. These creatures are well trained, very gentle and obedient.

Other activities include feeding and grooming these magnificent animals. Showers and toilets are on hand and rustic wooden houses are available as picnic and relaxation spots.

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5 most endangered species in Malaysia

I'm very very sad to hear about this new. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International released that tiger, Asian rhinoceros, elephant, a red and pink jewel-like coral species, Corallium borneense and orang utan are included in as most endangered species in the world.

Among the main reasons for their extinct are poaching, illegal trade, loss of habitat, forest conversion, over-harvesting and the destruction of entire colonies by bottom trawlers and dredges.

All these are caused by human, which is us. Thus, we can change this. Stop buying these animal as pets or for their horn or for their meat. We need to make that our children will be able to see these animals. What will left to them in the future?

Full story at New Straits Times


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