Three major landslides cut off roads in Sarawak
MIRI: Areas in three different Sarawak districts were cut off by major landslides caused by incessant rain, the Star reported today.
MIRI: Areas in three different Sarawak districts were cut off by major landslides caused by incessant rain, the Star reported today.
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 18): Bangsar’s Jalan Abdullah residents have been worried about the slope adjacent to their homes for two years now.
PETALING JAYA (Oct 29): A landslip on a slope sited between the commercial and residential areas in Section 16, Petaling Jaya has become a cause of concern.
GEORGE TOWN (Sept 12): Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) called for the engineer and his firm to be sentenced to jail time over a fatal Penang landslide that killed 11 workers in 2017.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 14): The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) today said “massive landslides along the slopes of Bukit Persekutuan” may occur if a proposed mixed-development project on National Institute of Health (NIH) land is constructed, report Free Malaysia Today (FMT) The tract of 20ha located near KL Sentral was acquired by S P Setia in 2012 as part of a land deal in return for the building of a replacement facility for NIH in Setia Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor.
GEORGE TOWN (Nov 7): The contractor of the Bukit Kukus construction site has declared that the nine foreign workers which were killled in the landslide last month were not his.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): Studies done by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia revealed “21,000 hotspots throughout the country in which landslides may occur”, reported The Star today.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) today instructed the consultant of the Bukit Kukus paired road project to show cause over the deadly landslide last week, reported the Malay Mail.
KLANG (Oct 20): The Selangor Disaster Management Unit has advised all local councils in the state to set in place measures to prevent rain-related mishaps from occurring at construction sites.
GEORGE TOWN (Oct 20): The ongoing search and rescue operation for seven buried foreign workers at a construction site in Paya Terubong has led to information surfacing that reveals no construction sites in Penang are adhering to the soil erosion mitigation plan stipulated in their project approvals.