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PETALING JAYA: The Audit Bureau ofCirculations (ABC) has officially de-clared theSun as the fastest grow-ing national English newspaper inMalaysia in terms of the number ofcopies distributed daily for the pastsix years.
The ABC released its figures inThe ABC Report (Circulation figuresfor the period ending June 30 2008)at the ABC annual presentation atSime Darby Convention Centre onFriday.
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by Charles [email protected]
KUALA LUMPUR: About 2,000 residentswho were stranded in Bukit Antarabangsaafter Saturdays landslide cut off access totheir homes heaved the sigh of relief whenmilitary personnel opened a temporary road
about 300m long through jungles yesterdayevening.
The road, completed at about 6.30pm,will allow the residents to drive to the reliefcentres located about 2km away.
Several hundred residents, carrying basicnecessities and their valuables in luggagebags, had trekked down from their homesearlier with the help of the police and soldiers.
About an hour before that, TenagaNasional had restored electricity supply, cutoff by the landslide, to the homes.
Selangor police chief DCP DatukKhalid Abu Bakar, the ground commanderoverseeing the rescue operations at the sceneof the disaster, said police will work out atime-table for vehicles to go up and comedown using the road as it was only wideenough for one vehicle at a time.
There are some residents who had lefttheir houses and intended to return to salvagetheir belongings but we will give priority tothose wanting to come down from the areafirst, he said.
A steel bridge had been laid across amonsoon drain by the military to enableheavy machinery and lorries to reach the areawhere the road was being built.
Earlier, continuous rain since earlymorning hampered the search and rescueefforts when the soil softened and posed arisk to the rescuers, forcing them to call offthe search. It was resumed when the groundsettled.
Among those rescued by the police
from their homes in the inaccessibleareas were the ambassador of Romania
and his wife, both of whom escaped unhurt.Khalid said police were alerted early
yesterday about the disappearance of a SriLankan maid who worked for the family of
veterinarian Dr N. Yogeswari, who was killedin the tragedy.
A relative of the maid only lodged a policereport yesterday, saying the woman wasnot reachable and was last known to be inYogeswaris house.
Khalid said rescuers were looking for themaid, who had worked for the family for six
years.It was also learnt that several of theresidents who had returned to salvage theirbelongings and pet animals chose not toleave.
Although rumours were rife about certainpeople clad in Rela and military uniform seenlooting for valuables in the houses, Khalidsaid the claims were unfounded.
Those spreading these rumours shouldstop as it only causes more anxiety amongthe dwellers. Our initial probe shows it isuntrue. We are keeping a close watch over thesecurity in the area and it is safe, he said.
He said police had received 28 reports todate and only two were about items missingfrom two houses. The rest were about othermatters, including two reports of damagecaused to houses by the downstream thrustfrom a police helicopter during a rescuemission.
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Residents will be moved to safer areaspg4
Decision on hill safety in 10 days, says MBpg6 Expert: Most landslides can be preventedpg8
Militarypersonnelpave thetemporaryroad withMoby-mat.
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