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KUALA LUMPUR - Tempahan jualan Proton pada Ekspo Permotoran Antarabangsa Thailand mengatasi kereta keluaran Korea dan Eropah sekali gus meletakkannya sebaris jenama dari Jepun.

Proton dalam satu kenyataan semalam menjelaskan, pembuat kereta nasional itu menduduki tempat keenam berdasarkan jumlah tempahan kereta yang bermula 2 hingga 13 Disember di Bangkok baru-baru ini.

Proton memperoleh 1,388 tempahan daripada keseluruhan 25,220 unit.

Mendahului senarai ialah Toyota dengan 7,230 tempahan, diikuti Honda (4,239), Isuzu (2,539), Mazda (2,277) dan Mitsubishi (1,518).

Prestasi Proton yang melancarkan Exora MPV pada pameran itu mengatasi jenama lebih terkenal seperti Toyota, Isuzu dan Mitsubishi.

"Ini menunjukkan sokongan dan keyakinan pelanggan Thai terhadap jenama Proton yang menawarkan kenderaan boleh dipercayai serta menawarkan nilai untuk wang," tambah kenyataan.

Exora merupakan model Proton paling laris setelah mendapat 825 tempahan yang menyumbang hampir 60 peratus daripada 1,388 unit Proton yang terjual pada pameran itu.

TAIPING: The Heritage Commission plans to nominate Lenggong Valley to Unesco as a world archaeological heritage site.

KUALA LUMPUR: Just days after his Syariah Court win over his estranged wife, the Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra is back in the courts again.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 -- Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Lee Chee Leong has proposed that Malaysia and Kuwait encourage more exchanges of high-level visits and expand bilateral economic ties.

PETALING JAYA: Aktres jelita putih gebu, Zizie Ezette dikatakan telahpun bernikah dengan Ahli Parlimen Kinabatangan, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, minggu lalu tetapi Bung dalam reaksi segera, menafikannya.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 - Malaysian banks are poised to make an unprecedented regional impact, via acquisitions and foreign listings, next year after having stood firm in 2009.

KUALA LUMPUR: The results of the 2009 Penilaian Menengah Rendah examination will be announced on Dec 24, Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said on Thursday.

PETALING JAYA: Over 7,000 nationwide activities along with over 2,000 projects and 100 programmes identified for the six National Key Result Areas were showcased to the public at a two-day Government Transformation Programme Open Day which kicked off on Thursday.

The company said the affected workers from its plant in northern Penang state would leave Dell between January and June next year, through a voluntary separation scheme (VSS), the Star and New Straits Times reported.

The move will see Dell's workforce in Malaysia reduced to 3,800. The company has another support centre in Cyberjaya, a high-tech hub south of Kuala Lumpur.

Spokeswoman Jasmine Begum said the layoffs were a result of the Penang plant stopping production of notebooks for Latin America, Canada and US markets, the reports said.

The company will continue making products for South Asian and Australian markets.

Affected workers "will be given competitive VSS packages. We will also provide them with career counselling and outplacement services," the Dell official told the Star.

Company officials could not be reached for comment.

In 2007, it launched its first global IT support centre outside of the US in Cyberjaya.

SHELL Malaysia has appointed Mohd Anuar Taib as its chairman with effect from Jan 1, 2010.

Rabu, 16 Desember 2009 | 16:26 WIB

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Perusahaan maskapai penerbangan PT Garuda Indonesia berhasil mendominasi raihan sejumlah kategori penghargaan dalam acara penganugerahan Majalah Angkasa Award 2009, di Graha Niaga, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, Rabu (16/12/2009).

Ajang penghargaan bagi perusahaan maskapai penerbangan sipil ini merupakan kali kedua yang diselenggarakan oleh majalah Angkasa yang merupakan bagian dari media pria kelompok Kompas Gramedia. Tahun ini PT Garuda berhasil memborong tiga kategori dari tujuh kategori yang diberikan oleh majalah Angkasa. Garuda berhasil meraih kategori Awak Kabin Terbaik (Best Cabin Crew), Ketepatan Waktu Terbaik (Best On Time Perfomance), dan Maskapai Terbaik (Airline of The Year).

Dalam sambutannya, PT Garuda yang diwakili oleh Direktur Teknik Garuda, Adinoto, mengucapkan terima kasih atas apresiasi yang diberikan oleh masyarakat dan media massa atas kinerja Garuda selama setahun belakangan. Ia juga mengingatkan bahwa dengan kerja keras dari seluruh elemen industri penerbangan, maka larangan terbang yang dilakukan Uni Eropa kepada sejumlah maskapai di Indonesia beberapa waktu lalu, akhirnya berhasil dicabut.

Sementara Chief Editor Majalah Angkasa, Adrianud Darmawan mengatakan pihaknya sangat menghargai upaya kerja keras dari industri penerbangan di Indonesia untuk mengatasi berbagai masalah yang banyak mendera dunia penerbangan nusantara selama setahun belakangan ini. "Kita dilarang (terbang) oleh Eropa akibat tingginya angka kecelakaan penerbangan. Namun ini akhirnya menjadi momentum industri penerbangan untuk meningkatkan kinerja dan perbaikan secara menyeluruh," kata Adrianus.

Berikut para peraih penghargaan dalam Angkasa Award: -Website Terbaik (Best Website): AirAsia Airline. -Awak Kabin Terbaik (Best Cabin Crew): Garuda Indonesia Airline. -Tarif Domestik Terfavorit (Best Domestic Fare): Lion Airline. -Ketepatan Waktu Terbaik (Best On Time Performance): Garuda Indonesia Airline. -Pelayanan Kelas Ekonomi Terbaik (Best Service Economy Class): Mandala Airline. -Favorit Pilihan Penumpang (Most Favorite): Lion Airline -Maskapai Terbaik (Airline of The Year): Garuda Indonesia Airline Good Luck to Garuda!

Less than three hours in the comfort of an electric train. That is what it will take to travel from Ipoh to Seremban when KTMB begins its electric train service in April.

Kira-kira 20,000 penduduk kampung meninggalkan rumah mereka semalam apabila Gunung Mayon di Filipina memuntahkan lahar dan asap ke udara, kata pihak berkuasa.

KOTA KINABALU: Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd expects to launch its WiMAX service in East Malaysia as early as July next year.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 15 -- Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said some bloggers, unlike local journalists, do not adhere to the rules and ethics of journalism in their bid to garner popularity.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 -- Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said he has accepted Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abdul Taib's resignation as Deputy Tourism Minister on personal grounds and that it would be effective from Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here on Monday acquitted and discharged a primary school senior assistant of two counts of offering bribes in the Raub Umno division elections.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is to accelerate economic and political reforms in his Southeast Asian nation in a bid to woo back investment and regain political support.

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saat bertemu dengan Presiden Komisi Eropa Jose Manuel Durao Barroso mengharapkan pencabutan larangan terbang bagi maskapai Indonesia secara penuh bisa dilakukan pada 2010.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 -- The government does not decide the rate charged by Astro for its direct-to-home satellite pay television services rendered to its subscribers.