Malaysia GE13: Nominations on April 20, polls on May 5, 2013

Marilah mari, pergi mengundi ♫ ♫

Jangan lupa kewajiban ♫

Pada negara. ♫ ♫

- sing your way to the ballot box!

The Election Commission (EC) has announced that the highly-anticipated 13th general election will take place on May 5, while the nomination of candidates will be held on April 20.

abdul aziz yusof ec spr chairman electionEC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof (right) announced the dates after a special meeting at the headquarters in Putrajaya today, exactly a week after Parliament was dissolved.

This provides for a campaign period of 15 days – the longest in over three decades.

Advance polling is fixed for April 30, for the police, armed forces and EC staff and their spouses to cast their ballots.

Voters can check details of their polling centre with effect from April 15.

The announcement was telecast ‘live’ by several television stations, which began the broadcast at 12.34pm.

State and parliamentary polls will take place simultaneously except in Sarawak, where the next state polls are not due till 2016.


Source: Malaysiakini2

Freak storm hits Ipoh

A one-hour freak storm caused roofs to fly off and uprooted a few trees!

A freak storm occured at Jalan Pasir putih around 4.30pm which had cause a havoc in Ipoh city.

IPOH: A one-hour freak storm caused roofs to fly off and uprooted a few trees that damaged power cables but, so far, no one was reported to have been injured.

Zinc roof on houses and shops around city centre and residential areas here were blown off.

The storm, which happened at about 4.15pm Tuesday, had affected at least eight houses in Kampung Baru Pasir Pinji and Hoover Park.

A few trees in the two housing areas had also been uprooted by the strong wind, with some damaging the power cables.

Ipoh City councillor Kevin Chang said he had alerted the Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) after receiving reports from residents.

"TNB sent technicians to visit the affected areas and carry out remedial works," he said. "We will be discussing with the welfare department to see how we can help the affected residents to fix their roofs," he said.

Meanwhile, on Jalan Leong Boon Swee and Jalan Yang Kalsom, several signboards and awnings installed outside the shophouses had collapsed.

A witness, who only wished to be known Chong, said he did not expect a freak storm to happen though he noticed that Ipoh had been experiencing heavy rain in the evenings for the past three days.

Chong, 35, said some of the roof tiles on his hardware shop were blown off.

"The broken tiles are scattered all over the road. I hope the pieces did not hurt anyone or scratch vehicles that passed by," he said.

Uprooted trees

Source: The Star