The police arrested a 40-year-old man at the wheel of a Lexus car which crashed into six vehicles on the Bukit Jalil highway last Saturday after he was found to be driving under the influence of drugs. https://t.co/lhXfHF1yHA
Bukit Jalil six-vehicle pile-up: cops arrest driver under influence
Report says local man driving Lexus crashed into six vehicles stopping at traffic light
Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 06 Mar 2023 12:00PM
KUALA LUMPUR – The police arrested a 40-year-old man at the wheel of a Lexus car which crashed into six vehicles on the Bukit Jalil highway last Saturday after he was found to be driving under the influence of drugs.
Cheras district police chief Zam Halim Jamaluddin said in the incident, which occurred at about 10.30am near the Lumba Kuda Roundabout, the local man lost control of his car and crashed into six other vehicles that had stopped at the traffic light before overturning.
“However, the accident only caused damage to the vehicles and no one was injured,” he said in a statement here today.
He said the 40-year-old man was taken to the Kuala Lumpur traffic police station and a urine test conducted on him found that he was positive for marijuana.
He added that the driver is now under arrest and the case is being investigated under Section 42 of the Road Transport Act 1987 for reckless and dangerous driving. – Bernama, March 6, 2023
KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 — The police have arrested a 40-year-old man who was at the wheel of a Lexus car which crashed into six vehicles on the Bukit Jalil Highway last Saturday after he was found to be driving under the influence of drugs.
Cheras district police chief ACP Zam Halim Jamaluddin said in the incident, which occurred at about 10.30am near the Lumba Kuda Roundabout, the man, who is a local, lost control of his car and crashed into six other vehicles that had stopped at the traffic light before overturning.
“However, the accident only caused damage to the vehicles and no one was injured,” he said in a statement here today.
He said the 40-year-old man was taken to the Kuala Lumpur traffic police station and a urine test conducted on him found that he was positive for marijuana.
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden’s population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this report, we try to understand why, using a narrative approach to evaluate the Swedish COVID-19 policy and the role of scientific evidence and integrity. We argue that that scientific methodology was not followed by the major figures in the acting authorities—or the responsible politicians—with alternative narratives being considered as valid, resulting in arbitrary policy decisions. In 2014, the Public Health Agency, after 5 years of rearrangement, merged with the Institute for Infectious Disease Control, with six professors leaving between 2010 and 2012 going to the Karolinska Institute. With this setup, the authority lost scientific expertise. The Swedish pandemic strategy seemed targeted towards “natural” herd-immunity and avoiding a societal shutdown. The Public Health Agency labelled advice from national scientists and international authorities as extreme positions, resulting in media and political bodies to accept their own policy instead. The Swedish people were kept in ignorance of basic facts such as the airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission, that asymptomatic individuals can be contagious and that face masks protect both the carrier and others. Mandatory legislation was seldom used; recommendations relying upon personal responsibility and without any sanctions were the norm. Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives. If Sweden wants to do better in future pandemics, the scientific method must be re-established, not least within the Public Health Agency. It would likely make a large difference if a separate, independent Institute for Infectious Disease Control is recreated. We recommend Sweden begins a self-critical process about its political culture and the lack of accountability of decision-makers to avoid future failures, as occurred with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Swedish response to this pandemic was unique and characterised by a morally, ethically, and scientifically questionable laissez-faire approach, a consequence of structural problems in the society. There was more emphasis on the protection of the “Swedish image” than on saving and protecting lives or on an evidence-based approach. A strategy was never discussed among all relevant parties, and never implemented nor communicated to the public. In addition, there was an unwillingness and incapacity to admit any failures at all governmental levels; or to take any responsibility for the clearly detrimental outcomes for Swedish society. There were even attempts to revise history by changing, or deleting official documents, communication, and websites, and gaslighting the public. The Swedish authorities involved were not self-critical and did not engage in any official and open dialogue and misled the public by withholding correct information and even spreading misleading information. A small group of so-called experts with a narrow disciplinary focus received a disproportionate and unquestioned amount of power in the discussion, nationally and internationally. There was no intellectual/scientific discussion between stakeholders (including independent experts from different disciplines), and the international advice of WHO, ECDC and the scientific community was ignored and/or discredited.
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Mar 8: Hong Kong actor + 🇨🇳 CPPCC National Committee member Donnie Yen (甄子丹) says during the Two Sessions in Beijing he’s been telling his friends overseas that China is the safest country in the world… [left video]
Donnie Yen has both Chinese and American citizenships: Hong Kong (1963–1974, 2009–present)United States (1974–2010)
Donnie Yen is now a member of the National Committee of the CPPCC
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2. Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen’s Oscar invitation sparks backlash, petition https://t.co/xp58xlmy6W
Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen’s Oscar invitation sparks backlash, petition
As of Monday afternoon, an online petition calling for the cancellation of Donnie Yen’s invitation to present an award at this year’s Oscars has garnered over 31,000 signatures.
In a letter attached to the petition, Yen was called “a supporter of the Chinese Communist regime” who “has made several remarks in support of the Chinese government’s policies, including supporting the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong and accusing Hong Kong protesters of being rioters.”
The letter said Yen’s remarks violated “the spirit of freedom of speech” and denied Hongkongers’ rights to fight for freedom and democracy.
“If the Oscars Committee continues to invite such a person as a guest presenter, it will damage the image and reputation of the film industry and cause serious harm to human rights and moral values,” the letter reads.
In a recent interview, Yen, who starred alongside Keanu Reeves in the latest John Wick movie, told a GQ reporter that Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill unrest in 2019 were not protests. “It was a riot,” he said.
Protests erupted in June 2019 over a since-axed extradition bill. They escalated into sometimes violent displays of dissent against police behaviour, amid calls for democracy and anger over Beijing’s encroachment. Demonstrators demanded an independent probe into the police conduct, amnesty for those arrested and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
Saying that he did not wish to get political, Yen added that he expected some people would be upset by his stance, “but I’m speaking from my own experience.”
He said that China’s progress in modernisation stunned him, but international media was not fair to China: “The BBC, CNN, they never talk about that. They never mention the true side of it. But I’m there, you know?”
Donnie Yen is a supporter of the Chinese Communist regime and has made several remarks in support of the Chinese government's policies, including supporting the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong and accusing Hong Kong protesters of being rioters. 1/2 https://t.co/vRN90Qw6OT
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