KUALA LUMPUR 15 Sept. - Selepas turut mengalami gegaran akibat beberapa siri gempa bumi yang melanda Indonesia, mungkin sudah tiba masanya Malaysia juga mengambil langkah tertentu bagi menghadapi kesan bencana alam itu.

Ini kerana, menurut Ketua Kajian Kejuruteraan Gempa Bumi dan Struktur, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Prof. Madya Dr. Azlan Adnan, tidak ada satu pun bangunan di negara ini direka bentuk tahan gempa bumi.

Laluan dua lorong hubungkan lebuh raya Persekutuan, Bangsar, Penchala Link siap 2004 belum dibuka 

KUALA LUMPUR: Kemudahan jalan raya yang dibina sepatutnya menjadikan pergerakan kita lebih lancar, apatah lagi jika projek itu dibina di tengah kota dan kawasan tumpuan orang ramai. 

Namun, jika kemudahan yang dibina dengan kos jutaan ringgit tidak digunakan dan terbiar begitu saja, ia bukan saja merugikan masyarakat, malah menyebabkan pemanduan menjadi tidak lancar kerana kesesakan lalu lintas. 

SUNGAI SIPUT: Kementerian Kerjaraya belum menerima sebarang laporan berhubung struktur bangunan yang  retak atau rosak di Lembah Klang akibat gegaran gempa bumi di Indonesia yang turut dirasai  beberapa kawasan di Semenanjung.

Menterinya,Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu berkata ketika ini Jurutera Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) masih memantau bangunan tinggi di negara ini khususnya di Lembah Klang dari semasa ke semasa semasa  berikutan kejadian gempa bumi yang berterusan di negara itu.

SUNGAI SIPUT: The Work Ministry wants engineers to incorporate tremor-resistant designs in high-rise buildings, Minister Datuk Seri S. Vellu said.

He said the ministry would ask the Board of Engineers to consider such a feature as tremors were occurring in the country quite frequently.

"We cannot keep quiet. We have to think of Penang, Port Klang and all the west coast towns that might be affected by the tremors," he said.

IPOH: Two more sinkholes have appeared within 12 hours of each other in Kampung Manjoi. 

The first sinkhole, measuring 4m wide and 2m deep, "swallowed" a villager, when it suddenly appeared at Jalan Baginda at 6.30pm on Sunday. 

The villager known only as Jawa and a group of friends were chatting in front of a workshop parking lot, when he sank into the soft ground up to his knees. 

"No one was hurt and we quickly moved our cars away from there," said Jawa's friend Mizi Ismail yesterday. 

SEREMBAN 18 Sept. - Hanya selepas 49 hari beroperasi secara rasmi, Kompleks Penyiaran Negeri Sembilan yang serba caggih dan bernilai RM38.51 juta mula berdepan dengan masalah siling bocor.

Kejadian siling bocor di aras 1 dan 2 kompleks tersebut yang mengakibatkan banjir kecil disedari oleh kakitangannya yang masuk kerja kira-kira pukul 8 pagi hari ini.

Sumber mendedahkan, kesan-kesan lembap pada bahagian siling akibat kebocora yang dipercayai perpunca daripada system pendingin hawa itu telah dikesan sebelum kompleks berkenaan beroperasi.

PUTRAJAYA: The Works Ministry is formulating a new scheme for future toll concessions. 

Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the new scheme would provide equal benefits to highway concessionaires, financiers, the government and, more importantly, consumers.

He said the new scheme would further enhance the government's privatisation policy.

SEREMBAN: The Government might slap a penalty against the main contractor whose negligence caused damage at the newly completed RTM RM38mil-complex near here. 

A leak at the air-condition vent caused flooding at the ground floor of the building. The complex was opened on Aug 1. 

Information Ministry secretary-general Datuk Kamarudin Siaraf said the contractor's lackadaisical attitude towards maintenance had affected the ministry's image. 

KUALA LUMPUR: The Eastern Corridor Economic Region (ECER) will cost RM112bil of which 40% will be spent to build roads to spur development, said Petronas president Tan Sri Hassan Merican. 

"Enhancement of transportation connectivity and economic linkages with the Western Corridor, the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) and the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) are key factors needed for the ECER to succeed," he said. 

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government is formulating a new scheme for future toll concessions, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said. 

He said the scheme would provide equal benefits to consumers, concession companies, financiers and the Government. 

"The new scheme, which is being worked out, will further enhance the country's privatisation policy," he said in Paris yesterday, where he was leading a 16-member delegation to the five-day World Road Congress.