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Petrol stations will not run dry next month!

Dec 27, 2018

Petrol stations will not run dry next month!

The govt has slammed such rumours, saying there will always be sufficient supply of gasoline and diesel for sale as they are controled items under the law. 

Image:The Star

Bumiputera Petrol Dealers Association of Malaysia had claimed there will be a shortage next year, as petrol station operators are not willing to increase storage in their tanks. 

This comes as the govt announced RON 95 will be placed on a weekly float system from next Tuesday amid the change in global oil prices. 
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Socso paid out close to 94 million ringgit in compensation for commuting accidents between January and October this year. 

The amount was for temporary disability benefits that averaged out to about 3,700 ringgit per person. 
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Labuan's bomba were kept busy on Christmas Day when they were called to catch an 11 foot long, 100 kilogram phyton.
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Indonesians are crowding outside hospitals with photos of their loved ones and taking DNA tests, to find out if the people they're waiting for are laying in the hospital's morgues.

Image:Fauzy Chaniago/AP

Officials are trying to help in the identification process, but say the task is being made difficult with multiple relatives making duplicate reports of missing people. 

At the moment, the death toll from the devastating Sunda Straits tsunami remains stagnant at 430.
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And about 30 people have been injured in an earthquake in Sicily, triggered by Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna. 
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