KOTA KINABALU: Some 3,750 primary students from 132 schools in Sabah, and 200 from 17 schools in Labuan, have benefited from Yayasan Petronas’ Back To School (BTS) 2021 programme this year. The programme, under which recipients get new sets of school supplies and personal hygiene kits, kicked off last month. The last leg of the programme was at Nabawan district on Friday (April 16) where 120 pupils, including those from Sabah’s most remote primary schools, received the supplies. They are from SK Kampung Bahagia Nabawan, SK Salarom, SK Pekan Nabawan, SK Tetagas, SK Sibangali as well as SK Salilaran from Pensiangan district, said Petronas in a statement on Friday (April 16). Each student received two three-layer reusable face masks, a hand towel, box of soap, schoolbag, tumbler, student activity notebook, pencil case and stationery items as well as two sets of school uniforms and a pair of socks and shoes. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Economy) Datuk ... » Learn More about Almost 4,000 primary pupils in Sabah given supplies and hygiene kits under Yayasan Petronas programme
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Iran says production of 60% enriched uranium ‘underway’
Iran has begun producing uranium at 60 percent purity and is making nine grams per hour, the head of the Islamic republic's atomic agency said on Friday. "The enrichment of uranium to 60 percent is underway at the Martyr Ahmadi Roshan nuclear facility" in Natanz, Ali Akbar Salehi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said, quoted by Tasnim news agency. "We are now getting nine grams (almost a third of an ounce) per hour," Salehi said later on state television. Iran announced this week that it would boost its uranium enrichment to 60 percent purity in response to an attack Sunday on the Natanz nuclear facility that it blamed on arch-foe Israel. The move takes Iran closer to the 90 percent purity level needed for use in a nuclear weapon. The Islamic republic has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2018, when then US president Donald Trump withdrew from a multilateral deal and began imposing sanctions. The 2015 deal known formally as the Joint ... » Learn More about Iran says production of 60% enriched uranium ‘underway’
PH sets 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
THE Philippines has set a 75-percent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and avoidance target by 2030, according to the Department of Finance (DoF). In a statement on Friday, the DoF said the goal was set following President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval of the country’s first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which is part of the Philippines’ commitment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “The Philippines is submitting an ambitious NDC target of 75-percent reduction of GHG emissions by 2030 in the name of climate justice. The NDC will be our tool to upgrade our economy by adopting modern and low carbon technologies and approaches that would help mitigate the climate crisis and make our economy more resilient and our growth sustainable,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd was quoted as saying. Dominguez is also the chairman-designate to the Climate Change Commission, which facilitated the NDC formulation process. The finance department explained the NDC ... » Learn More about PH sets 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions