气象局预测东北季风期间 东海岸砂西部高雨量
东北季风的来临，将使马来半岛东海岸和砂拉越西部出现可引发水灾的高雨量。
气象局预测，马来半岛东海岸州属和砂拉越西部，将在本月起至明年1月的东北季风期间，出现可引发水灾的高雨量现象。
科学、工艺与革新部长拿督斯里威弗烈丹敖指出，在这期间，我国将发生4至5次的强降雨，可造成大水灾。
他说，在马来半岛吉兰丹和登嘉楼所展开的天气预测，本月和12月的雨量料达约700毫米，彭亨和柔佛东部的雨量，预测将在下月和明年1月高达400毫米。
“这个情况可导致水灾，尤其是在河谷和低洼地区。”
他今天在国会下议院回答巫统巴力士隆区国会议员拿督诺莱妮博士的提问时，这么指出。
~以上新闻转自光华日报~
涉嫌贿赂海事执法员 2越南舵公笑着延扣
反贪会人员押著2名被告（左2起）到法庭申请延长扣留令。
涉嫌贿赂大马海事执法机构驻丰盛港官员的2名越南籍舵公，昨日被押往居銮地庭申请延长扣留令，获法庭主簿官批准延扣7天。
遭扣留的舵公是阮巴禄（译音，28岁）和胡文毕（译音，27岁），他们于昨早约10时，被居銮反贪会人员押往居銮地庭，主簿官诺阿丝拉批准延扣他们7天，直至本月19日。
2名越南籍舵公本月11日在丰盛港附近的海域，遇上值勤官员时，企图用1万令吉贿赂对方，以求脱身，结果遭逮捕。
根据调查，舵公付出1万令吉，是希望官员不取缔他们所拥有的渔船。
根据调查，2艘渔船都没有合法执照、2名船员也没有合法护照，同时船上也发现一些拖网工具等。
2名被扣留的舵公，据知在之前也分别以500令吉及800令吉，贿赂同一名官员，以换取官员不取缔违法的渔船。
2名嫌犯的行为违反2009年反贪委员会法令第17（b）条文，一旦被控罪成，可被判处监禁最高20年及罚款贿款的5倍或1万令吉，视何者为高。
2名被扣留的舵公步入法庭时，竟脸带笑容。
～中国报～
Nasi Lemak
No visitors will leave Malaysia without tasting our very own Nasi Lemak. Hot cooked rice with pandan aroma steamed with coconut cream goes heavenly well with sizzling spicy sauce or “sambal”.
Generous sprinklings of roasted peanuts and salty dried anchovies with a hard boiled egg perfect this dish.
A platter of everything good all wrapped up in banana leaves to further enhance its unique taste. Nasi Lemak is truly a national heritage of Malaysia.
~Courtesy of Tourism Malaysia~
Expect more rain until January, says weatherman
The start of the northeast monsoon today will bring more rain to the east coast of the peninsula and parts of Sabah and Sarawak.
The wet season is expected to last until January.
MetMalaysia director-general Alui Bahari said the northeastern winds from the South China Sea will mark the start of the monsoon season.
“Right now, the winds are still from the southwest, they are variable, but by tomorrow, they will persist from the northeast,” said Alui when contacted yesterday.
He said an episode would range between three and four days of moderate to heavy rain.
This monsoon season is expected to see four to five such episodes.
MetMalaysia has its own colour coding for rainfall, with yellow indicating heavy rain is expected within the next one to three days, and if there is continuous rain, it will not last for more than six hours and the rainfall will be less than 60mm.
Meanwhile, orange indicates continuous heavy rain that will exceed six hours and rainfall collection of at least 60mm while red shows continuous heavy rain exceeding 240mm a day.
Alui said the department would also be monitoring wind speeds and wave heights, as monsoon winds could whip up waves.
For the day’s weather forecast, log on to www.met.gov.my/in/web/metmalaysia/forecasts/general/country.
~News courtesy of The Star~
