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Anak Terengganu pertama masuk Oxford

KUALA TERENGGANU 28 Dis. - Mohd. Firdaus Samsudin @ Mustapha, 27, anak Terengganu pertama yang ditawarkan tempat di salah sebuah universiti paling berprestij di dunia, Universiti Oxford, kini bergelar Doktor selepas menamatkan pengajian di peringkat doktor falsafah (PhD) dalam jurusan Biokimia.

Beliau yang berasal dari Kampung Kemat, Hulu Terengganu bakal memulakan tugas sebagai Felo Penyelidik Kimia di University of Southampton, United Kingdom pada 1 Februari tahun hadapan.

Penerima Anugerah Pelajar Cemerlang Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) peringkat kebangsaan pada 2005 itu dijangka menjalankan penyelidikan bagi menghasilkan ubat-ubatan baharu bagi menangani jangkitan bakteria Psuedomonas yang biasanya berlaku dalam kalangan mereka yang berada di hospital dan mempunyai sistem imunisasi lemah.

“Saya ditawarkan pekerjaan di sana (University of Southampton) dan dalam masa sama akan men­yertai kumpulan penyelidik lain untuk menghasilkan antibiotik khusus yang pertama seumpamanya di dunia bagi menghalang jangkitan kuman di hospital.

“Dengan pengalaman yang diperoleh kelak, insya-Allah akan diaplikasikan untuk berkhidmat di Terengganu pada masa hadapan. Kejayaan saya adalah untuk semua dan saya akan terus menjaga nama baik keluarga, rakyat Terengganu dan Malaysia,” katanya.

Sumber : Utusan Online

50 stranded in Langkawi after ferry tickets sell out

LANGKAWI: About 50 Malaysian and foreign tourists were stranded when ferry tickets back to the mainland were sold out on Saturday.

Many of them would have had to spend the night along the five-foot ways of the closed Jetty Point Complex if not for a group of Good Samaritans who arrived at 11pm and offered them hotel rooms.

Kuah assemblyman Nor Saidi Nanyan, who organised the aid, said ferry tickets to Kuala Kedah and Kuala Perlis on the mainland were sold out since 10am on Saturday.

“I think nearly a thousand tourists were caught off-guard. These 50 were stuck at the ferry complex as they had checked out of their hotels and handed in their rented cars.

“They bought ferry tickets for the next day and remained at the Jetty Point Complex,” he said.

Nor Saidi called several hotel managers and they were gracious enough to provide free rooms.

“We gave priority to children and senior citizens. We also provided meals,” he said, adding that suitable places for all the stranded tourists were arranged by 2am yesterday.

Source : The Star Online