Ammar Azlan

Fan of symbolism

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

In the Middle Ages, the Arabs of the eastern Mediterranean referred to all Europeans as ‘Franks.’

To facilitate Arab-European trade, they developed a language that everyone could understand, and it was known as the ‘Frankish language,’ or ‘lingua franca. '...

[zispoms @imzispoms]

2022 was an anomaly. the last entertaining final was in 2006 and only because Zidane assaulted someone

[The Futurizts @TheFuturizts]

UPDATE: Perkeso has a dedicated portal to "opt-out" of SKBBK.

It seems to be working fine for now.

You can register for an account and submit your decision here: https://t.co/r6Qc4LD7FM

[The Futurizts @TheFuturizts]

🚨 LATEST UPDATE: Perkeso’s SKBBK benefit is now voluntary.

You can choose to opt out. 👌

The decision was made after PM Anwar raised public feedback on the matter.

https://t.co/27E65JagP5

[The Futurizts @TheFuturizts]

PERKESO's recent communications made one thing clear:

👉 You’re going to pay for the new SKBBK benefit, whether you like it or not.

So, to get your money back, you need to be 100% aware of what you can claim.

I've read their 14-page FAQ.

Let me break it down for you. 🧵

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

RTM and Astro have agreed to restore access to RTM channels on Astro, after previously ending their nearly 30-year collaboration over a failed pricing agreement.

Under the new arrangement, RTM channels including Berita RTM, Sukan+ and its radio network will return to Astro’s platform in the near future.

TV1, TV2 and TV Okey will also continue to be available via Astro, NJOI and Sooka platforms.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

FAM has been found to have major governance, systemic and organisational weaknesses across nearly all departments.

A joint AFC and FIFA audit said the organisation operated in a "fear-based culture" that discouraged early escalation of issues and placed its organisational maturity at between 1.2 and 1.8 out of five.

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[That guy. @Shutabug]

My mayor.

[AnnieZaidi PhD @anniezaidi]

"Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies."
Yes, more or less this

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

LIFT IT UP ©️

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[Koshiek Karan @iamkoshiek]

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[Premier League @premierleague]

The wait is over.

@Arsenal are Premier League champions.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[OdenFujiyama wants hunting knife sale ban @FujiyamaOden]

The inevitable outcome of failed public transport policy is that tech companies reinvent “the bus”

[Gary Lamb @CNinety2]

The BEST reason for a match abandonment you will ever read

[Wilson is Running 🇲🇾 @wilsonyimby]

This is a long one so buckle up

So today, the Klang Valley flooded again.

NKVE Sungai Buloh exit came to a standstill. Shah Alam Section 13 underwater. Federal Highway near I-City backed up from Bukit Raja to Klang. Fallen trees at Jalan Ampang, Jalan Nagasari, Batu Caves.

Today's downpour was heavy enough that my Coros watch issued me a storm warning. So I went down a little hole finding out about our flood defence.

This is the story I found when I looked into it.

KL was designed to handle rain.

Kuala Lumpur sits in a valley and receives an average of more than 3000 mm of rain annually over the past five years. It is one of the most thunderstorm-prone cities on Earth. The city knew this and built a three-layer flood defence system called KLFM.

KLFM-A is the SMART Tunnel. 9.7 km long, 3 million cubic metres of flood capacity. Completed 2007. Still working (🙏)

KLFM-B is the Sungai Klang Basin Office. It diverts 275 cubic metres per second from Sungai Gombak and 150 cubic metres per second from Sungai Batu into the Batu Reservoir, which holds 4.5 million cubic metres.

KLFM-C is the network of flood retention ponds scattered across the city. This is where the story gets interesting.

KL originally had 15 flood retention ponds.

According to Berita Harian in 2022, only 9 remain.

The Auditor-General's Report 2019 Series 2 found that 6 retention ponds had been approved for development. They are Batu, Batu 4½, Delima, Nanyang, Taman Desa, and Taman Wahyu.

YB @hannahyeoh previously highlighted that from 2015 to 2020, KL experienced 48 flash floods. In the same period, the KL Mayor approved 943 development projects that were inconsistent with KL City Plan 2020.

Btw one of the ugliest ones yesterday and today was in Taman Tun which YB visited. And that involved Jabatan Landskap Negara's development on Bukit Kiara.

Former Department of Irrigation and Drainage DG Datuk Nor Hisham Mohd Ghazali stated publicly that the technical agency had recommended for retention ponds to be gazetted as flood reserves. The recommendations were rejected by the KL Land Executive Committee.

Think about that. The engineers responsible for flood mitigation told the land office to protect these ponds. The land office said no.

After public outcry in 2022, the then Federal Territories Minister promised no commercial development on the ponds. Two ponds, Taman Desa and Batu 4½, had their development approvals cancelled. Four others, Batu, Nanyang, Delima, and Taman Wahyu, would continue as dual-function flood and recreational ponds.

But development approvals had already been granted. Taman Wahyu had structures erected over the water, with piles driven into the pond itself.

One MACC-investigated pond had a cumulative water retention area of only 30 per cent remaining at the time.

Petaling Jaya has a different problem.

PJ Mayor Mohamad Zahri Samingon said in March 2026 that the on-site detention ponds built between 2022 and 2024 can only hold about one hour of heavy rain. Existing drainage systems cannot cope with current stormwater volumes.

The city council is now spending RM5.6 million on new water pumps at four PJ Selatan locations. Pumping as a last resort is a sign that upstream capacity is exhausted.

Shah Alam has the opposite problem. It was Malaysia's first planned city.

Yet Taman Sri Muda, Seksyen 13, Seksyen 17, Seksyen 18, and Seksyen 36 are well documented as high to very high flood risk zones.

In December 2021, Taman Sri Muda recorded 14 deaths during the worst Klang Valley floods in 50 years. (Remember Abang Viva?) The township was entirely flooded. Fifty residents sued ten government agencies for RM3.7 million in compensation.

And then there's the bigger sponge that got shrunk.

Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve is a peat swamp forest in southern Selangor. Peat swamps are nature's flood buffer. They absorb and release water slowly.

It was gazetted in 1927 at 7,247 hectares. By 2020, only 957.6 hectares remained, 13 per cent of the original.

In 2021, the Selangor state government degazetted 536.7 hectares of what was left for mixed commercial development. 45,423 written objections were submitted. A state assembly motion in November 2020 unanimously called for preservation.

The degazettement was reversed after sustained civil society pressure. But the pattern is clear. Every decade, the sponge gets smaller. Every decade, the city gets more concrete.

So why does KL flood even when we have SMART tunnels.

Salmah Zakaria, former NAHRIM director-general, said the Sungai Klang basin has become so densely paved that a large portion is covered by concrete or tar. This increases overland runoff.

SMART Tunnel's own operator said in 2022 that the tunnel serves a limited area. Kuala Lumpur needs a holistic flood mitigation solution for the northwestern catchments of Sungai Gombak and Sungai Bunus, which SMART does not cover.

In simpler terms. The infrastructure we have is good. The infrastructure we have is not enough. And the infrastructure we were supposed to have is being developed over.

What this actually means.

KL has invested more in urban flood infrastructure than most Southeast Asian capitals. SMART Tunnel alone is a genuine engineering achievement. The RM990 million Selangor allocation in 2026 for 13 flood mitigation projects is real.

But every retention pond we approve for development, every forest reserve we degazette, every OSD pond that only holds an hour of rain, is a small bet against the next thunderstorm.

Today's flash flood may be freak weather. But the defences are being quietly chipped away while we assume they still work.

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

In a next level scheme at Tunku Azizah Hospital (HTA) in KL, a 28-year-old N1 admin assistant (pembantu tadbir or PT) allegedly scammed at least 187 housemen in the paediatric department of the government hospital out of more than RM47,000 over the past two and a half years from Sept 2023 to March 2026.

The female junior PT's alleged con was two-pronged: collecting an RM900 "refund" by falsely claiming that the government "overpaid" emoluments and a “fee” of RM40 to RM45 for a compulsory course, the neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP), that was actually free of charge.

Payments by 187 known victims – all doctors during housemanship postings to HTA’s paediatric department – were either banked into the admin asssistant's personal account or physically paid to her in cash, totalling RM47,210 over the past 30 months.

The 187 people paid the PT either RM45 or RM40 each, except one who paid RM120, under the NRP scam, totalling RM8,210. Forty-two of them were additionally hoodwinked by the salary scam, with 40 housemen getting cheated of RM900 each, one of RM1,200, and another of RM1,800, totalling RM39,000.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews with a dozen victims this week, most, if not all, of the deceptions and financial transactions in the admin assistant’s alleged criminal fraud occurred in their workplace at HTA.

The junior doctors said they didn’t think much about making payment to the PT’s personal account at the time, citing a heavy clinical work burden and trust in “Kak S*****”, whom they relied heavily on for human resource responsibilities.

“She showed me the QR code and said it was her personal account. I never hesitated and I never doubted because I never thought of being scammed by her since she’s the admin. Whatever she said, I fully trusted her. So I straight away banked it to her," a houseman told CodeBlue.

RM900 Salary Scam: Forged Document

The PT allegedly used a forged document to convince house officers to pay her a "refund" of RM900, supposedly because the government "overpaid" their RM300 monthly Imbuhan Tetap Khidmat Awam allowance.

Her alleged modus operandi (MO) involved setting up one-on-one meetings in her office on Level 6 of HTA with her victims, during which she falsely claimed to junior doctors that the government had “overpaid” their emolument for the first three months of housemanship by RM900. She gave them a form to sign.

The fake document titled “Bayaran Balik Emolumen Terlebih Bayar PPS”, which had the doctor's name and IC number, was actually a forgery of a genuine Gantian Cuti Rehat document.

The PT gave housemen two options to pay the RM900 "refund": by cash in an envelope that they could submit to Unit Gaji themselves or via QR code to her personal account. Her victims all chose to directly bank in the money to her.

RM45 NRP Scam: Housemen Batches on Orientation Day

If the admin assistant's MO for her alleged RM900 salary scam was individual shakedowns during personal meetings in her office, her alleged RM45 NRP hustle defrauded entire groups of house officers during orientation at the MOH hospital.

Being the sole PT in charge of trainee doctors in HTA’s paediatrics department, she conducted briefings alone for housemen on the first day of their posting to the department, without anyone else present in the room.

Housemen were told varying accounts of the RM45 payment for the compulsory NRP course: a fee, or for books or certification, but these were actually free of charge.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews, the admin assistant wouldn’t let the trainee doctors leave the room until everyone paid her RM45 there and then, either via QR code to her personal account or cash.

End of 30-Month Scam

Two of the PT's victims ended her 30-month scam last March 27, after the house officers went to Unit Gaji and the human resource department and discovered that the RM900 form was a fake document.

At least 13 police reports have been filed.

CodeBlue understands that the admin assistant, who is reportedly a contract staff under the government's MyStep programme, has since been terminated.

When contacted, the PT told CodeBlue that she was “cooperating” to resolve the “financial issues”, adding that she hoped “this issue can be resolved privately and not published in an article”.

In a WhatsApp message to a houseman, the 28-year-old woman claimed that this was the "first time I did something like this" and that her family was in debt with loan sharks.

HTA and MOH Putrajaya declined comment, citing the ongoing police investigation.

Read more: https://t.co/u88iTmYfE7