Meanwhile, Baling Umno division secretary Abdullah Sani Mahmud said the Youth and Sports department would handle matters related to bringing the bodies of the death to Baling.

By M.K. Lim

    It's a Chinese New Year's tradition to  "Lou Sang" on the eighth day of the New Year in the Lunar Calendar. Lou Sang or Yee Sang means to mixed up all the Yee Sang ingredients and while mixing with the chopstick, the higher you carry the ingredients the better luck you have ahead for you.

     The ingredients for the Yee Sang is originally the Teochew-style raw fish salad, shredded vegetables and mixture of sauce. However, as the Earth evolved from Green Forest to Titanium buildings, the Yee Sang ingredients also evolved from normal shredded fish to fresh salmon sashimi. You can easily get one full set of Yee Sang from Sakae Sushi or Sushi King. If you are a more practical person, you can always get the vegetables from the morning market and cut them yourself.

By M.K. Lim

KUALA LUMPUR: A female who was waiting for a heart transplant died due to a stroke and most of her organs were donated to give lives to those who needs them.
   
     The heart patient Winnie Chen was kept alive on a mechanical heart device for two years and had never failed to had harbour hopes that a heart transplant will finally save her.
   
     As her condition is improving, doctors were planning to wean her off the mechanical hart device.
  
      However, she suffered a major stroke last Thursday and became brain dead at the age of 25.

     Chen’s family members had consented to donate her lungs, eyes, liver and kidneys to patients waiting for transplants.
     IJN, in a statement yesterday, praised Chen as a brave woman and described her as an inspiration to the IJN mechanical heart team.

     “IJN wishes to express our deepest condolences to Chen’s family and to thank them for their kind deed,’’ the hospital said.

     Chen, who suffered from idiopathic cardiomyopathy due to a viral infection, had worn the mechanical heart device since Aug 1, 2008.

     Doctors had also repaired her heart valves when they installed the mechanical heart device on her.

     In an earlier report, IJN heart and lung services clinical director Dr Mohamed Ezani Mohd Taib said the device was meant to assist a pa­­tient’s heart and to “buy time’’ while waiting for a heart transplant.  

     He was quoted as saying then that if there was a suitable heart donor for Chen, he would perform the transplant.

By M.K. Lim

SEREMBAN: A Delima Express bus, which was involved in an accident killed 12 people at KM223 of the North-South Expressway near the Simpang Ampat toll plaza on Sunday.

     The bus has been towed to the Rembau police station for investigations.

     Rembau police chief DSP Mizan Md Dom said the investigation process on the bus that was carrying 34 passengers would involve the police, Road Transport Department (JPJ), Road Safety Department (JKJR) and the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros).

     The accident had caused a major traffic for almost 5 hours.

     "Police will also carry out investigations to determine if the driver was driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs," he said when contacted Tuesday.

     Myanmar Embassy claimed three bodies who perished in the accident on Tuesday from the Malacca Hospital.

     The three deceased are Myanmar nationals, Pau Khan Tual, 21, Cin Thawa Tuang, 21, and Kam Khaw Tual, 19.

     "Only three of the 12 bodies have yet to be claimed by their families," Said Mizan.

      The owners of the bus,Kuala Lumpur Melaka Express Sdn Bhd, offered RM1,000 each to families of the deceased and RM500 to the injured passengers.
     The company's general manager Vincent Mah said families of the victims can contact 06-3371663 or 016-6621333.

     He added that the driver of the bus, R. Ramachandra, 52, who was killed in the accident, started working with the company in January 2007, and had no disciplinary problems.

     The Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board announce that there would be no temporary suspension of the service of the bus company and the decision will only be known after a special meeting was held, confirmed by the director Datin Naimah Ramli.

     "At the meeting, the investigation report will be tabled before a unanimous decision is made whether to take action against the bus company or otherwise," she said.      Naimah said the board visited the express bus company's office in Malacca on Tuesday and carried out the auditing procedure and inspection on the company's operations and looked at safety precautions for the passengers.

     Federal Traffic Police chief Datuk Abdul Aziz Yusof said the records showed that the bus company and the driver were clean and had never been involved in any serious accident before this.

By SANIQUE LIM

By Y.C. Lim

PENANG: Last night, 17 year old twins were killed in a fire at Kampung Pisang that burnt down five terrace houses and two shop lots.

     The Paya Terubong Voluntary Fire Bridgade responded to the fire and arrived at the scene within five minutes, but the fire had already spread beyond control.

     Preliminary investigation suggests that the fire was started by a gas leak and the twins, Mohamad Azal and Ali Azal, were unfortunate to be in the vicinity of the explsion and were unable to escape in time.

     Cause of the gas leak is still pending further investigation and at the mean time, survivors and victims of the fire will be temporarily relocated to a nearby school, said Fire Investigator, Abdullah Zamri.

     "There are suspicions of foul play as eye eitness saw two suspicious persons entered the house where the suspected gas leak occurs and left moments before the explosion that started the fire.

     "We have had our sketch artict working ewith the eye witness who also provided us with the number plate of the suspect's car,"said Chief Investigator Zamri Ali.

By M.K. Lim

PENANG : A 15-year-old female died in Sekolah Menegah Kebangsaan Seri Kemayan due to being gang raped by at least fifteen males two days ago.

     Siti Wan Mahsurin was attending her school'd prom night organised by the student committee.
While going to the restroom, she was forcefully stopped by two unknown men and they forcefully raped her along the hallway.

     "I've heard screams but i thought some students were just playing around.

     "Besides, i was already late for the prom so i did not check the origin of the noise," reported one of the students.

     More men was believed to later joined in the gang rape as more than 15 different semen were found all over Siti's body and private part.

     Some of the rapists caught were the students of the school.

     A female teacher who spotted Siti lying motionless on the hall quickly made a police report.

     However, Siti was dead before the ambulance arrived.

     Autopsy report showed that Siti died due to internal bleeding.

     Eight men were caught guilty of the rape but the rest of the rapists still remain unknown.