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[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Selangor’s Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has withheld consent for proposals to allow Friday prayers at shopping malls in the state.

MAIS said the decision was made over concerns the move could weaken the role of mosques as the primary centres of worship and create governance challenges.

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[bkktransit 🚈 🏳️‍🌈 @bkktransit]

hello KL, congrats on your new LRT line! here's a new transit map for the city :D 🇲🇾

no ai, just drawing things one line at a time. full map in replies! 🔽

[--i- -fz//m @alif_ifzam]

Teringat dulu kat NKVE, salah satu mercu ikonik adalah lampu yang menyuluh Batu Granit dekat Bukit Lanjan ni. Sekarang dah takde lampu yang menyala. Tak tahu kenapa.

Lampu yang asal lebih cantik, suluh dari bawah jalan ke atas berwarna kuning. Yang baharu berwarna warni. Tapi…

[SinarHarian @SinarOnline]

Kamera pengawasan kesan kelibat Jaslinda

Kamera pengawasan hidupan liar milik Jabatan Perlindungan Hidupan Liar dan Taman Negara (Perhilitan) di Gunung Batu Putih berjaya merakam imej pendaki wanita hilang, Jaslinda Saludin, 49, melintasi laluan tersebut jam 11.22 pagi pada 24 Mei lalu.

Kamera sama turut memaparkan kehadiran pasukan mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) masing-masing pada 25 dan 28 Mei melintasi kawasan pencarian.

Setakat Ahad, tiga rakaman kamera pengawasan telah dibuka bagi membantu operasi dengan satu daripadanya di Bukit Berapit 2, tidak menunjukkan sebarang imej mangsa.

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[Fakta Bukan Auta @FaktaBukanAuta]

29 Mei 1973 - Hari ini dalam sejarah P. Ramlee hembuskan nafas terakhir di sisi isterinya Salmah Ismail yg kita kenali sebagai Saloma.

Waktu upacara pengkebumian, talkin dibaca oleh M. Rajoli (dalam gambar pakai serban) yg ketika itu berusia 28 tahun & bertugas sebagai salah seorg imam di Masjid Kg Baru.

Nak dijadikan cerita, pada hari pengkebumian itu, Jins Samsudin (belakang M.Rajoli) tertarik dgn bacaan talkin tersebut lalu dia jemput M. Rajoli baca talkin dalam filemnya Esok Untuk Siapa (1982).

Al-Fatihah utk semua seniman kita.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

this is adorable

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The man behind this building is a sculptor. He was given 12 days to come up with a design. He had never designed a building. He won the contest. Every part of it, down to each feather, represents one date: August 17, 1945, Indonesia's independence day.

His name is Nyoman Nuarta, a sculptor from Bali. His most famous work is the giant Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue. It's 121 meters tall and took 25 years to finish. For the palace, Nuarta's idea was simple: take a 9-story office building, then wrap a giant copper bird around the whole thing. The bird is a Garuda, a mythical creature from Hindu stories that also sits at the center of Indonesia's national symbol. Five major architect groups in Indonesia signed a letter protesting the design. The government went with it anyway.

The wings carry 17 feathers, the tail 8, the base 19, the neck 45. Together: August 17, 1945. The body was designed to be 76 meters tall, chosen because 2021 was the 76th year of Indonesia's independence. The whole structure is a sculpture you can work inside.

The outer skin is made of 4,650 copper bars, each one weighing 300 kilograms, about the weight of a piano. Together that's around 1,400 tonnes of copper, roughly the weight of 1,000 cars, just on the outside of the building. Right now it looks bronze. Over the coming decades the copper will react with air and slowly turn bluish-green. That's the same effect that turned the Statue of Liberty green. It's already starting on Nuarta's earlier Bali statue.

The palace sits 1,200 kilometers (about 750 miles) from Jakarta, on the island of Borneo. Indonesia is building Nusantara, an entirely new capital, because Jakarta is the fastest-sinking major city in the world. Some neighborhoods in the north drop up to 25 centimeters (about 10 inches) every single year. Large parts of the city could be underwater by 2050.

The new capital was projected to cost $32 billion. State funding peaked at $2 billion in 2024. President Prabowo Subianto took office that October and cut the budget to $700 million the next year. The 2026 budget is $300 million, an 85% drop in two years. The full move-in date has slipped from 2024 to 2028. Only 4,000 government workers are scheduled to relocate there this year.

A building shaped like a bird, designed by a sculptor, marked with a date, slowly turning green. The capital it was built to anchor may never fully arrive.

[David (Hata.io) @hata_david]

I’ve been saying this for years, Malaysia is quietly becoming the regional hub for regional and global business due to Malaysias lower cost of talent that is equally competitive to Singapore

Malaysia Boleh 😬

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area.

Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free.

A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there.

Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video.

For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after.

Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion.

The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.

[Porkchop Express @Porkchop_EXP]

Malaysia dropped the banger “Malaysia truly Asia” 30 years ago and proceeded to do absolutely nothing about tourism ever since.

Never been to a country less concerned with attracting tourists than Malaysia. They are so self-sufficient (also economically) they just don’t care. No one is simping for tourists, just generally friendly, soft-spoken, relaxed, and polite people. Incredibly underrated country.

[Ooi Beng Cheang @luxentX]

Sad to hear the passing of a legend in the newsroom. Karam is one of those people you will remember meeting. He always wore the tv3 vest and had a beard. The one thing I've always admired about him was his technical skills.

In the newsroom, he was the only reporter who edited his own story. Mind you, in early 2000's this was done on a Sony beta editing deck. This was not an easy technical skill to learn, I literally had reporters under me cry when I asked them to do it. Reporters would just write the script then leave it to the visual editors to put the visuals together. For Karam, he knew his visuals best and insisted on editing it.

Seeing him doing it gave me the confidence to do it too. It was passable enough so that the editors let me edit my own stories eventually. I've always loved the production part and editing visuals the old school linear way was hard but rewarding.

He would wear wellington boots for protection and comfortable clothes (hence the t-shirt and vest). Sometimes he would come back from assignments and I remember him walking past my place with his boots covered in mud.

The TV3 vest back then was actually quite useful in storing all those large beta tapes and my notebook I had to carry around. Over time, the tapes became sd cards and we didn't need it.

My one regret was not taking up his offer to go for drinks. Thanks for the lessons Datuk Karam.
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[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The size of an airplane crossing the ocean versus one flying within the country.

[Asrul Muzaffar🇲🇾 @asrulmm]

Dengan arahan WFH ni, aku mungkin boleh save hampir RM800 sebulan untuk petrol, makan, maintenance kereta, rugi masa sebab stuck dalam trafik, stress sebab stuck dalam trafik + segala yang berkaitan.

Kos elektrik kediaman sama ada aku WFH atau WIO, tetap sekitar RM150 sebulan. Makan di rumah lebih murah, obviously. Komputer di rumah lebih canggih + laju dari yang assigned by office. Internet di rumah pun umumnya lebih laju dari ofis. Zoom meeting? No problem. Ada kamera 4K.

Kena 'check in' every 1 hour? No problem.

For all that, syukran DS @anwaribrahim

[Šhawwāl | ندى الكلمات ​🌱 @mdsyaha]

People need to stop looking down on them since they haul trash to make a living. They actually making huge favor to the environment by keeping them clean and helping you to get rid of your trash everyday or else you need to go to the dump yourself.

They deserve better pay.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The rainfall of Namibia, where millions of water lilies bloom all at once
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[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Malaysia Airlines has suspended all flights to and from Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Jeddah, & Madinah until Mar 4 due to regional security concerns.

All other flights, including those to and from London (LHR) and Paris (CDG), remain on schedule and are operating via alternative routes.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

This is Dubai burning on camera tonight.

Not a war zone. Not a conflict state. Dubai. The city that every sovereign wealth fund, every tech billionaire, every luxury brand on earth chose as the safest address in the Middle East. Fires rising between residential towers. Smoke columns visible from the Marina. Exclusive footage from the ground showing what Iranian ordnance looks like when it meets the most expensive real estate on the planet.

These images are not from a military briefing. They are from people's phones. Shot from apartments. Shot from hotel balconies. Shot by residents who moved their families and their capital to Dubai specifically because this was never supposed to happen here. Every frame is already being forwarded to every group chat, every boardroom, every family WhatsApp thread of every expat who chose the UAE over Singapore, over London, over Zurich. The calculation that built modern Dubai is being repriced in real time by people watching their skyline burn through their bedroom windows.

Dubai spent three decades engineering the most successful city brand in human history. Zero income tax. World-class infrastructure. The implicit promise that geography could be overcome by architecture. That you could build a global financial center 150 kilometers across the Gulf from Iran and it would never matter because stability was the product Dubai sold. Tonight that product is on fire.

There are 3.5 million expatriates in Dubai. They represent 85 percent of the population. They have no citizenship. No permanent right to stay. They are there because the math worked: safety plus returns plus lifestyle. When the math changes, they leave. They do not protest. They do not negotiate. They book flights. Except tonight there are no flights. Both airports are closed. The expatriates who power Dubai's entire economy are watching fires from their windows in a city they cannot leave.

Iran did not need to hit a single building to achieve this. The interceptions may have been perfect. The air defenses may have worked exactly as designed. It does not matter. What matters is that tonight, on every screen on earth, Dubai looks like a war zone. And Dubai's entire value proposition was that it would never look like this.

Three decades of brand building.

Thirty seconds of missile flight.

The skyline is still standing. The illusion is not.

[ka @dockassia]

This is a matter of legs structure caused by genetics or external factors.

Normal: the leg is basically straight. This is the most physiological shape because your body weight is distributed evenly.

Valgus: knees tilt inward toward each other. Caused by childhood obesity, ligament alterations, growth patterns and/or injuries.

Varus: the legs curve outward. Caused by bone shape, obesity in adults, childhood development and/or growth trauma.