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health protections from air pollution since passage of Clean Air Act version 2 in Malaysia?

Why should regulator impose more stricter standard for Malaysia Coal power plant operators before building new increase capacity by burning fossil fuel at

except from:

Prime Minister, Najib Razak tables RM 230 bil 10th Malaysia Plan - TheStar (June 10, 2010).

Under 52 high-impact projects have been identified for implementation which "Second: Two coal electricity generation plants at an estimated cost of RM 10 bil.",

Hazardousness material exhaled by Malaysian (location as table below: based on US EPA data) :

"In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks a year. The new proposed standards would also provide particular health benefits for children, preventing 120,000 cases of childhood asthma symptoms and about 11,000 fewer cases of acute bronchitis among children each year. The proposed standards would also avert more than 12,000 emergency room visits and hospital admissions and 850,000 fewer days of work missed due to illness." 

Economic Benefit Analysis:

"The proposed standards also ensure that public health and economic benefits far outweigh costs of implementation. EPA estimates that for every dollar spent to reduce pollution from power plants, the American public and American businesses will see up to $13 in health and economic benefits. The total health and economic benefits of this standard are estimated to be as much as $140 billion annually." 

via EPA,  03/16/2011

List of coal-fired plants in Malaysia

Plant	State	Coord.	MW	Type	Owner/operator
Jimah Power Station	Negri Sembilan at Lukut	2°35′11″N101°43′21″E	1,400	Thermal (2 ST)	Jimah Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Manjung Power Station	Perak at Manjung	4°9′44″N100°38′48″E	2,295	Thermal (3 ST)	TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd
PPLS Power Generation Plant	Sarawak in Kuching		110	Thermal (2 units)	PPLS Power Generation, a subsidiary of Sarawak Energy Berhad
Sejingkat Power Corporation Plant	Sarawak at Kuching		100	Thermal	Sejingkat Power Corporation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary ofSarawak Energy Berhad
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Power Station	Selangor at Kapar	3°7′1″N101°19′1″E	2,420	Thermal (6 ST), open cycle (2 GT), natural gas and coal with oil backup	Kapar Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Tanjung Bin Power Station	Johor at Pontian	1°20′3″N103°32′55″E	2,100	Thermal (3 ST)	Tanjong Bin Power Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malakoff

Note: ST - Steam Turbine unit(s).

Source: Wikipedia

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Japan Sendai Earthquake 8.9 Scala Richter

2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin[7]?, literally "Tōhoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake"[FN 1]) was a 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011.[2][4][8] The epicenter was reported to be 130 kilometers (81 mi) off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, Tōhoku, with the hypocenter at a depth of 32 km (20 mi).

via Wikipidea.





All my #praytojapan & other affected area in the regions.


- syawal.

Google landing in Malaysia

Google now opening sales & marketing office in Malaysia after 4 year opening office in Singapore. Now jobs for Malaysia office is available.

How does this effect local innovation:

Well as local supporter of Malaysia innovation, Malaysian has the opportunity to tap into Google. Below some innovation from Malaysia:

Consumer:

1. Hailer (created for brand-owners to build tribes. It is a place for you to create innovative services and build a following.)
2. Socialwalk (event ticketing).
3. Joukuu (cloud backup management). 
4. Foldees (greeting card) - company that sells designer created greeting cards. The greeting card designs are sourced through the website’s monthly vector-art contests, and royalties are paid when the cards are purchased, either through retail or via the site.
5. Stormreaders - Islamic online book store.
6. Jomsocial - white label social network for joomla.
7. Rseven - Mobile phone backup service.

Enterprise:

1. Objectiveworld (building lifecycle management solution that provides functionality from initial planning, feasibility study and conceptual design phase all the way through design and construction to facility maintenance and operations management
2. Opulens SA - Business Process Automation (BPA) IT solution specifically for maritime, shipping and oil & gas industry.
3. Inetmon - Enterprise network management system.
4. Info Valley - virtual autopsy.
5. Polarizone -  Research and Development of Low Probability of Exploitation ( LPE ) and Anti Jamming ( AJ ) wireless communication systems. Developing, and commercializing of intellectual property in the frontier areas of transmission security ( transec ), signal intelligence ( sigint ), and quantum cryptography.
6. Free Alliance - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Active RFID platforms and solutions
7. Eco Dream Venture -  High performance Surestreamer™ - 3 in 1 (booster, noise filter, lightning protection) device for powerline communication (PLC) products is compatible with Homeplug, Universal Powerline Association (UPA) , HD-PLC & G.hn standards.
8. Envisage - proprietary trading activities focus on active trading strategies applied primarily to electronically-traded products. 
9. Authentic Venture -  users can also view their tracking log anywhere in the world. When the laptop is stolen and the user allows the police to view and track the computer, the user will be able to view the progress of the recovery process.
10. Sentinel Technologies - Anti-piracy software for Optical Disc (CD/ DVD/ BlueRay). 

and many more.

Related articles

• Google Opens Malaysia Office (online.wsj.com)
• Google opens Malaysia office, aims to strengthen SEA presence (thenextweb.com)
• Groupon Acquires Malaysia's Groupmore (penn-olson.com)

Cool Cities, Cool Planet - with Art Rosenfeld

Wishing for comprehensive energy efficient program in Malaysia. Is the Malaysia budget 2011 enough for the program...?

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Malaysia - rocky's bru: In Malaysia, "Bloggers against Bullies" group formed

Why should we have our own Electronic Foundation Foundation (EFF) regarding rocky's bru: In Malaysia, "Bloggers against Bullies" group formed

Electronic Frontier Foundation (Malaysia)?!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States. Its stated mission is to:^[1]

• Engage in and support educational activities which increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in computing and telecommunications.
• Develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of legal and structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of these new technologies by society.
• Raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications media.
• Support litigation in the public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of computing and telecommunications technology.
• Encourage and support the development of new tools which will endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based telecommunications.

The EFF is supported by donations and is based in San Francisco, California, with staff members in Washington, D.C. They are accredited observers at the World Intellectual Property Organization^[2] and one of the participants of the Global Network Initiative.^[3]

EFF has taken action in several ways. It provides funds for legal defense in court, defends individuals and new technologies from what it considers baseless or misdirected legal threats, works to expose government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information, monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use, and solicits a list of what it considers patent abuses with intentions to defeat those that it considers without merit. (source: http://j.mp/97opsq)

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Legal Guide for Bloggers

Updated Feb 11 2009

Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.

Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.

The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers.

But here's the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn't use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That's why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.

To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.

Please note that this guide applies to people living in the US. We don't have the expertise or resources to speak to other countries' legal traditions, but we'd like to work with those who do. If you know of a similar guide for your own jurisdiction or feel inspired to research and write one, please let us know. (source: http://j.mp/cVx5Pu).

Novel & Innovative - Dean Kamen's vapor compression distiller "slingshot"

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Hope it can be commercialize soon.