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Road Hogging On Penang Bridge | Singaporeans Behaving Badly Overseas | BMW Car Club Singapore BCCS

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16 saman terhadap peserta konvoi halang lalu lintas

BATU KAWAN – Sebanyak 16 saman dikeluarkan terhadap sekumpulan pemandu kereta yang berkonvoi sehingga menghalang lalu lintas di Jambatan Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah (JSAHMS) pada 9 Jun lalu.

Ketua Polis Daerah Seberang… pic.twitter.com/jkpZZBPWf8

— MYNEWSHUB (@mynewshub) June 11, 2023

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16 summons against convoy participants blocking traffic

BATU KAWAN – A total of 16 summonses were issued against a group of car drivers who were in a convoy that blocked traffic on the Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah Bridge (JSAHMS) on June 9.

Seberang Perai Selatan District Police Chief, Superintendent Lee Chong Chern said, acting on information, he had detected all the drivers staying at a hotel in Batu Ferringhi.

“Investigating officers went to the hotel yesterday at about 2.12pm before asking all the drivers involved to come to the Seberang Perai Selatan District Police Headquarters for further action.

“Following that, a total of 12 drivers appeared today and we issued 16 summonses against all of them.

|”12 summonses were issued for the offense of obstructing traffic while the other four were issued for the offense of fancy registration number,” he said when contacted by MalaysiaGazette.

It is understood that those sued are local and Singaporeans. Yesterday, a 2.50-minute video recording went viral on TikTok showing more than 10 vehicles in a convoy in three rows even though JSAHMS only has two lanes.

Based on the video, the drivers of all the cars were not only disrupting the traffic but also using the emergency route. – MalaysiaGazette By Malinda Abdul Malik June 11, 2023

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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1990587634614079

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BMW Car Club S'pore Apologises After Getting Condemned for Blocking Penang Bridge With Convoy https://t.co/AJT5mdZpq9

— WORLD OF BUZZ (@WORLDOFBUZZ) June 12, 2023

World of Buzz

BMW Car Club S’pore Apologises After Getting Condemned for Blocking Penang Bridge With Convoy

Published 4 hours ago June 12, 2023

By Renushar

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Case in point, the BMW Car Club Singapore is now coming under fire for taking up the entire Penang Bridge with their convoy.

The We are Malaysians Facebook page recently shared a video of the convoy, where the car club can clearly be seen taking up not just the 2 lanes on the bridge, but also the emergency lane.
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We are Malaysians wrote, “BMW Car Club Singapore, Mega Meet at Penang. Blocking the whole bridge, causing traffic jam of 1 hour plus plus.”
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The Seberang Perai Selatan Police Headquarters shared in a statement that they have summoned the group.

“The police have received a report on this incident and an investigation paper has been opened under the Traffic Act 1959 under Section 16(1) LN 166/59 for obstruction of traffic. On June 11, 2023, at 12:10am, all the drivers involved were present at the Seberang Perai Selatan Police Headquarters and have been summoned,” they informed.

The BMW Car Club Singapore has also apologised for their actions. 
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Taking to their Facebook page, they wrote, “We, BMW Car Club Singapore are aware of some viral videos which consists of our Penang Drive lately. We sincerely apologise and acknowledge a mistake that was made on our part and to reassure everyone of our unwavering commitment to cooperate with the local authorities.”

“We have taken full responsibility for the recent oversight by working closely with the local authorities as soon as we heard of the news. Rest assured that we have rectified the situation and the investigation is now closed.”

https://worldofbuzz.com/bmw-car-club-sg-apologises-after-getting-condemned-for-blocking-penang-bridge-with-convoy/

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Sunday reading from FT .. He thinks TDM will bring down entire PN in #6PRN
He is esp sure MCA/MIC is heading for "egg" result. What do you think? Can Rocket retain 95%? #Malaysia #politics pic.twitter.com/63Ed9JVmeq

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Communications of the ACM

China’s Fake Science Industry: How ‘Paper Mills’ Threaten Progress

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By Financial Times
March 29, 2023
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Chinese researchers have become some of the world’s most prolific publishers of scientific papers. But experts say that China’s impressive output masks systemic inefficiencies and an underbelly of low-quality and fraudulent research.

The world’s scientific publishers are becoming increasingly alarmed by the scale of fraud. An investigation last year concluded: “The submission of suspected fake research papers . . . is growing and threatens to overwhelm the editorial processes of a significant number of journals.”

Bernhard Sabel at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg is one of many journal editors calling for “swift global action to restore the health of the scientific record and to prevent the erosion of trust in science.”

Estimates of the extent of fake scientific output vary from 2 percent to 20 percent or more of published papers.

From Financial Times
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https://cacm.acm.org/careers/271440-chinas-fake-science-industry-how-paper-mills-threaten-progress/fulltext

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Premiered Aug 1, 2022 #fakeDegree#chinaeducation

Recently, the “introduction of quick PhDs in universities” has become a hot topic on Chinese social media. First, the news that Shaoyang College in Hunan Province spent more than 18 million RMB to bring in 23 PhDs from Adamson University in the Philippines sparked public attention, and then “Xingtai College hired 13 female PhDs from South Korean universities” hit the top of Weibo’s trending search list. The media investigation found that “quick doctorate” has become an industry in China.

On July 25, “Xingtai College hired 13 female PhDs from South Korea” was again on the top of Weibo’s trending search list. According to the mainland media, in February this year, Xingtai College announced a list of candidates for 2021, a total of 13 people, all of whom are PhDs from Korean universities. A netizen who checked the list found that the seemingly public recruitment was actually all for the current teachers at Xingtai College .

These 13 PhDs graduated from three Korean institutions, namely Woosuk University, Jeonju University and Wonkwang University, with doctoral majors including education, Chinese studies, business administration, cultural management and landscape architecture engineering. What is absurd is that they are Chinese students who went to Korea for their doctoral degrees and even majored in Chinese studies. In the current Chinese society, many companies and institutions make education as one of the priority requirements when recruiting. Many basic positions require a graduate degree or higher to apply.

In actual work, whether it is title rating or job promotion, education is one of the necessary conditions for assessment, and this phenomenon is more serious in civil servants and state-owned enterprises. Under such a social environment, various kinds of academic falsifications, such as “accelerated doctorate”, have been created.

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Financial Times

China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress

Eleanor Olcott in Hong Kong and Clive Cookson and Alan Smith in London
March 28 2023

The country has become a prolific producer of academic research but fraudulent studies risk serious real-world consequences
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But experts say that China’s impressive output masks systemic inefficiencies and an underbelly of low-quality and fraudulent research. Academics complain about the crushing pressure to publish to gain prized positions at research universities. “To survive in Chinese academia, we have many KPIs [key performance indicators] to hit. So when we publish, we focus on quantity over quality,” says a physics lecturer from a prominent Beijing university. “When prospective employers look at our CVs, it is much easier for them to judge the quantity of our output over the quality of the research,” he adds. The world’s scientific publishers are becoming increasingly alarmed by the scale of fraud. An investigation last year by their joint Committee on Publication Ethics (Cope) concluded: “The submission of suspected fake research papers . . . is growing and threatens to overwhelm the editorial processes of a significant number of journals.”

https://www.ft.com/content/32440f74-7804-4637-a662-6cdc8f3fba86

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Caixin Global

Mar 29, 2022 08:29 PM

Hundreds of Fake Medical Research Papers Published in Recent Months, Authorities Say

By Peng Leyi, Huang Huizhao and Wang Xintong

China has named and shamed more than 600 medical workers linked to some 520 faked papers since June 2021, as part of an ongoing crackdown on plagiarism and other misconduct in the medical community that has dented the country’s scholarly reputation.

The faked papers were revealed in a string of statements published from last June to March this year on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Investigations into research at more than 240 medical and educational institutions found that the production of the papers involved illegal activities such as trading, ghostwriting and falsifying research processes and data, according to the statements.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-03-29/hundreds-of-fake-medical-research-papers-published-in-recent-months-authorities-say-101862975.html

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Nature

• NEWS FEATURE
• 23 March 2021

The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science

Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the ‘paper mill’ problem — and how editors are trying to cope.

• Holly Else &
• Richard Van Noorden

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00733-5

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