News about air

家中的隐形健康杀手不少，当中最厉害的要数无色无味的甲醛（formaldehyde），这是一种各种形态存在且无所不在的隐形杀手，让人防不胜防！ 被广泛使用在各类产品中的甲醛，能够以气体或液体的形态存在，这个化学成分多出现在木制家具、肥料、纸张、刨花木家具、消毒剂、衣物、保养品与化妆品，甚至在食物中。 2018年9月间，BBC新闻报道中国杭州一名男子在搬入一间租房三个月后，因长期曝露在高甲醛的环境中而罹患血癌，并且在2018年7月撒手人寰。 他的太太愤而提告租房应用程式Ziroom，并声称先生在2018年1月份的身体检查结果显示健康无病，但在同年4月份从北京搬迁到杭州的租房就患上绝症。 而环境检测结果显示，相关租房的室内甲醛浓度是每立方米0.

Time to pay attention to the air we breathe indoors, as there is more to it than meets the eye.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 14): The former prime minister had been asked to explain why the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) had sold a prized plot to Finance Ministry special purpose vehicle, Aset Tanah Negara Bhd (ATNB) instead of directly to the ultimate buyer, by MRB chairman Sankara Nair.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 11): The second installment of the bee saga at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) came to a bee-utiful conclusion today when a second swarm found at the main airport terminal was humanely dealt with.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 9): Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) said it is aware that a swarm of bees has congregated at Bay Q4 of klia2, but stressed that such sights are pretty common and that the insects usually pose no harm to anyone.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 8): Former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak has chided Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) chairman Sankara N Nair for taking the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to task after the fund claimed innocence over a land sale which allegedly caused losses of nearly RM800 million to the MRB.

HULU LANGAT (Jan 6): Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali today called on property developers to be more opened to “disruptive technology” to transform the industry.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 3): After serving S P Setia Bhd for almost a decade, Tan Sri Dr Wan Mohd Zahid Mohd Noordin has resigned from his post as non-independent and non-executive chairman of the group to pursue other interests.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 3): PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali was named the economic affairs minister to ensure that the Malay community would not be upset at having Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pic, right) take charge of both finance and economic affairs, the prime minister has revealed.