London Eyes

The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Also known as the Millennium Wheel, its official name was originally the British Airways London Eye, then the Merlin Entertainments London Eye, and since January 2011, the EDF Energy London Eye.
The entire structure is 135 metres (443 ft) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres (394 ft). It is currently Europe's tallest Ferris wheel, the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.5 million visitors annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture.

Niagara Falls, Canada

Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.

Pulau Perhentian

After less than an hour on a boat from the east coast of Malaysia, the laid-back atmosphere and the natural beauty of the Perhentian islands immediately transport you to a different world. The white sand is dotted with sun-worshipping holiday makers, some retreating to the shade for a glass of freshly squeezed juice. A group of scuba divers are boarding a boat to venture out into the turquoise waters and submerge themselves in the underwater wonderland. Later, as the sun sets, a quiet buzz of music and chatter fills the air, together with the thin wisp of smoke from the barbeque fire. The Perhentian Islands are two islands named Pulau Perhentian Kecil (Small Perhentian Island) and Pulau Perhentian Besar (Large Perhentian Island). The Malay name Perhentian is translated as “place to stop” and this is exactly what these two islands were for traders travelling between Malaysia and Bangkok in years gone by. These islands are still a gorgeous place to stop and rest today, albeit for tourists disconnecting from the stress and routine of everyday life and not for weary seafaring traders.

Sixty percent of Japanese support whale hunt

Tokyo (AFP) - Sixty percent of Japanese people support the country's whaling programme, but only 14 percent eat whale meat, a new poll showed Tuesday.
The survey comes less than a month after the United Nations' top court ruled the annual mission to the Southern Ocean by Japanese whaling vessels was a commercial hunt masquerading as science in a bid to skirt an international ban.
A weekend opinion poll conducted by the liberal Asahi Shimbun newspaper showed that 60 percent of 1,756 voters supported the "research" whaling programme, against 23 percent who opposed it.
Asked how often they ate whale meat, however, only four percent said they eat "sometimes" and another 10 percent said they eat it "fairly infrequently".
Nearly half (48 percent) said they have not eaten it for "a long time", while 37 percent of respondents said they never eat whale meat.
Although not difficult to find in Japan, whale meat is not a regular part of most Japanese people's diet.

Passengers praise MH192 pilot

SEPANG: Passengers of a Malaysia Airlines flight which had suffered a burst tyre were full of praise for its pilot Captain Nor Adam Azmi Abd Razak, whom they said had handled the situation professionally.
They commended him for carrying out text-book safety procedures to land the aircraft safely at KL International Airport.
In the incident on Monday night, the Boeing 737-800, flight code MH192, which was bound for Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, was forced to return to KLIA after a tyre in its right-hand landing gear burst during take-off.
The aircraft was carrying 159 passengers and seven crew members.
A passenger Eugene Chin, who was going for training at Bengaluru, woke up after an hour of sleep and noticed that the plane was still in an orbital pattern near Malaysia.
“I then overheard that something was wrong with the plane’s landing gear and that there was a possibility of an emergency landing,” said the 24-year-old Malaysian IT strategy analyst.
“We received constant updates. The captain did a good job and was very thorough with the safety procedures,” he added.

Selangor's free water scheme should be practical, says Yeo

IN LIGHT of the ongoing water crisis in Selangor, questions were raised on the practicality of the state’s free water scheme during yesterday’s state assembly sitting.
Yeo Bee Yin (DAP-Damanssara Utama) said the state must determine if the scheme was the most effective policy to adopt in view of the current situation.
She said the state had asked for an additional RM82.5mil for the scheme under the Additional Allocation Enactment, and this was unnecessary since the number of users had not increased drastically.
“This means RM165mil will be allocated for the free water scheme, which is 7% of the state’s yearly budget of RM1.85bil and the additional budget of RM491mil,” she said.
According to a written answer to a question from Yeo, RM77.5mil had been spent on free water and, with the additional allocation, Selangor would have spent RM1bil so far.
Yeo said a lot of residents had questioned the necessity of the free water scheme if they were deprived of water due to the water-rationing exercise.
Speaking to reporters after her speech, she said although the water problem had been caused by the weather, it has given the state an opportunity to review the money invested in the free water scheme over the long run.

Three-year-old boy killed in car crash

KUANTAN: A three-year-old boy was killed when the car he was in with his parents skidded and overturned at Km 3 Jalan Karak-Mentakab, near Temerloh on Monday.
According to Pahang Public Order and Traffic Department head Supt Mohamed Fauzi Abdul Rahim, S. Karshan died while receiving treatment for severe head and body injuries at the Mentakab Health Clinic.
In the 11.30am incident the father, in his 30s, is believed to have suddenly lost control of the car he was driving.
"The vehicle then hit a rock blocking the path causing the car to overturn," Mohamed Fauzi told reporters here on Tuesday.
The mother and father of the victim were not injured in the crash.

Burst pipe along Jalan Universiti sparks anger

PETALING JAYA: A burst pipe along Jalan Universiti yesterday afternoon not only caused traffic delays but sparked public anger over the amount of water being wasted.
A comment on the photo of this event uploaded on StarOnline by @dytia_aurinh sums up the feelings of most people:
“Dahlah air kena catu – pipe burst lagi what the hell” (Water is already being rationed and now a pipe bursts!).
Workers from Syabas, the company in charge of water distribution, were seen managing traffic at around 4pm.
According to an eyewitness, water was gushing out from the middle of the road and there had been no road works or any construction activity nearby.
Syabas put up a notice on their Twitter and Facebook accounts about the issue at around 5pm, saying that the incident would cause an unscheduled water disruption along Jalan Universiti properties, though they expect supply to resume in stages by midnight the same day.
Efforts to contact Syabas were unsuccessful.