OH DUNIA!

Pesawat MH370 Ditemui Di 'Google Earth' Ada Kesan Peluru? Benarkah?

Photo B: Daily Star Online

MISTERI. Kali ini entah kali ke berapa dunia digemparkan dengan teori unik dan ganjil mendakwa penemuan pesawat Malaysian Airlines MH370 yang hilang pada 8 Mac 2014.

Dalam laporan media terbaharu, pesawat penumpang MH370 yang hilang didakwa telah dikesan di Google Earth dalam keadaan berlubang ditembusi peluru, menurut satu teori luar biasa.

Seorang jurutera mekanikal Australia, Peter McMahon yang mendakwa telah bekerja dalam siasatan nahas selama lebih dari 25 tahun menegaskan dia telah menemui pesawat tersebut, lapor Daily Star yang mana laporan tersebut turut dipetik oleh portal-portal lain seperti mirror.co.uk dan thesundaily.

McMahon, 64, telah meneliti imej NASA dan Google Maps sejak pesawat itu hilang dan telah 'ditunjukkan' ke Round Island, utara Mauritius.

Penerbangan itu yang membawa 239 orang penumpang dan anak kapal hilang, dipercayai di Lautan Hindi, ketika dalam perjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing pada 8 Mac 2014.

Australia, China dan Malaysia menamatkan pencarian yang menelan kos £115 juta pada Januari 2017.

Foto Sumber: Daily Star Online

Awal tahun ini, Malaysia bersetuju untuk membayar sehingga £50 juta kepada syarikat dari Amerika Syarikat, Ocean Infinity jika berjaya menjumpai pesawat itu sebelum Jun.

Dia percaya pesawat itu terletak 10 kilometer di selatan pulau itu, yang belum diterokai oleh penyiasat.

Dalam satu gambar yang diambil, terdapat garisan rangka kelihatan seperti sebuah pesawat di bawah permukaan air.

McMahon berkata dia telah menghantar penemuannya kepada Biro Keselamatan Pengangkutan Australia, yang mengesahkan ia berkemungkinan pesawat hilang tersebut.

Tetapi para pegawai Amerika dilaporkan mengarahkan mereka untuk terus melakukan carian di wilayah yang telah ditugaskan kepada mereka di Lautan Hindi.

McMahon memberitahu Daily Star Online bahawa empat orang Amerika telah dihantar ke Australia untuk melihat penemuan MH370 dan mendakwa mereka cuba menyembunyikan maklumat.

Selain bahagian utama, dia juga mendakwa telah menemui bahagian depan kabin di selatan Pulau Rodrigues, juga berhampiran Mauritius.

Ghyslain Wattrelos, yang kehilangan isterinya dan dua anak dalam tragedi tersebut, percaya pesawat itu ditembak jatuh.

Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two children in the tragedy, also believes the plane was shot down.

He believes Vietnam, Malayia and Thailand could be withholding vital information.

Ghyslain said: “All the military from these countries have seen the plane, if we believe that version. Why are they silent?

“I do not know, but there are also other countries that have information like England with Inmarsat, with Rolls-Royce, like the United States with Boeing and like the FBI who went the next day and took the pilot's flight simulator and never said anything to the investigators.

“Why this silence? There is something we do not want to say in this story.”

Daily Star Online has approached the Australian Government’s Joint Agency Co-Ordination Centre for comment.

SUMBER:
1. Daily Star Online
2. MStar Online

Fakta Syarikat Pengurusan Pelaburan Terbesar Miliki Dana RM279 Bilion

Foto Sumber: The Malaysian Reserve

BISNES: Memang pencapaian menakjubkan dan membanggakan. Setelah 40 tahun Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) ditubuhkan, syarikat pengurusan pelaburan terbesar di Malaysia itu kini memiliki dana dengan jumlah RM279 bilion.

Berikut adalah Fakta Menarik Berkenaan PNB:

1. Dengan jumlah dana sebanyak RM279 bilion, yang menariknya 98 peratusnya daripadanya dilaburkan di dalam negara untuk membantu mewujudkan lebih banyak peluang perniagaan dan peluang pekerjaan kepada rakyat Malaysia.

2. Sebanyak 70 peratus daripada dana tersebut turut dilaburkan dalam saham tersenarai atau public equity.

3. Pelaburan dalam saham tersenarai itu bernilai RM200 bilion merangkumi lebih 10 peratus daripada nilai modal pasaran syarikat yang tersenarai di Bursa Malaysia.

4. Ini termasuklah 10 syarikat strategik iaitu Maybank, Sime Darby Plantation, Sime Darby Berhad, Sime Darby Property, SP Setia, UMW Holdings, UMW Oil & Gas, CCM, CCM Duopharma dan MNRB.

PNB juga memiliki pelaburan dalam lebih 40 syarikat teras seperti TM, Axiata, MMC, TNB dan BIMB Holdings di mana PNB memiliki lebih 10 peratus ekuiti atau nilai pelaburan lebih RM1 bilion dalam syarikat tersebut.

5. Keluarga PNB juga sebenarnya ramai dengan peringkat PNB dan Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB) sahaja ada lebih 1,500 orang.

Separuh daripada mereka merupakan anak muda di bawah umur 40 tahun dan kalau dicampur kesemua warga syarikat strategik, jumlahnya lebih besar melebihi 179,000 orang.

Separuh di Malaysia dan separuh lagi di luar negara. Dan 50,000 daripada mereka merupakan rakyat Malaysia.

6. Dari segi gender diversity, majoritinya adalah dari kalangan wanita. Syarikat strategik PNB mematuhi keperluan 30 peratus ahli Lembaga Pengarah dari kalangan wanita.

Malah tiga daripada 10 syarikat Strategik kami dipengerusikan oleh wanita, iaitu Datuk Mohaiyani Shamsuddin Pengerusi Maybank, Datuk Normala Abdul Samad, Pengerusi CCM dan Tan Sri Siti Sa'adiah pula Pengerusi CCM Duopharma.

Salah seorang daripada tiga Timbalan Presiden PNB adalah wanita iaitu Datin Paduka Kartini. Malah Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) wanita pun, kita ada iaitu Puan Nik Fazila, CEO CCM.

7. Pada November 2016, pelan strategik PNB 2017-2022 yang dinamakan 'Strive 15' yang menyasarkan PNB menjadi sebuah Firma Pelaburan Distinktif Bertaraf Dunia.

Kini, seluruh warga PNB bekerja dengan gigih melaksanakan kesemua 15 inisiatif strategik di bawah tiga teras strategik iaitu Meningkatkan Pulangan Secara Mampan, Pengurusan Pelaburan Yang Berkesan dan Memacu Kecemerlangan Operasi.

8. Kesemuanya berjalan lancar dan membuahkan pelbagai kejayaan, termasuklah peningkatan pendapatan yang membolehkan PNB membayar dividen dan bonus sebanyak 7.25 peratus serta bonus khas satu peratus untuk 10,000 unit pertama sempena ulang tahun PNB yang ke-40.

Ini melibatkan sejumlah RM14.4 bilion dividen untuk tahun 2017 dan lebih RM172 billion jumlah terkumpul dividen yang telah dibayar kepada para pelabur sejak PNB ditubuhkan.

9. Sempena menyambut ulang tahun PNB ke-40 ini, bakti dan pengorbanan barisan kepimpinan PNB yang lalu dihargai bermula dengan Allahyarham Tun Ismail Ali yang akan menjangkau usia 100 tahun ini sekiranya masih bersama hari ini.

Tun Ismail juga merupakan orang Malaysia pertama yang dilantik sebagai Gabenor Bank Negara Malaysia dan berkhidmat sebagai Pengerusi pertama apabila PNB ditubuhkan pada 17 Mac 1978 sehingga 17 Oktober 1996.

Selepas itu, Allahyarham Tun Ismail terus menjadi Penasihat kepada PNB sehingga beliau meninggal dunia pada 6 Julai 1998.

10. Pengerusi PNB yang kedua, Tun Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid dan semua Ketua-ketua Pegawai Eksekutif yang terdahulu iaitu Tan Sri Desa Pachi, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Dato' Sri Mohd Hilmey dan Tan Sri Hamad Kama Piah yang telah membina PNB sehingga menjadi sebuah institusi nasional yang berintegriti.

SUMBER: Kenyataan media Pengerusi Kumpulan PNB, Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar pada 18 MAC 2018

Lagi kes hospital terbakar, kali ini HKL!

Foto Sumber: Foto ihsan JBPM Kuala Lumpur

NASIONAL: Apabila kita mendengar khabar berita berkenaan kejadian hospital terbakar, tentunya ingatan kita masih lagi terimbau tragedi kebakaran Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA) di Johor Bahru pada 25 Oktober 2016 yang meragut enam nyawa.

Dalam kejadian terbaharu pada 17 MAC 2018 (12.30 Tengah Hari), satu kejadian kebakaran berlaku di Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) melibatkan sebuah bangunan dipercayai makmal patologi.

Media melaporkan Jurucakap Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Kuala Lumpur berkata, enam buah jentera dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat KLCC, Hang Tuah, Titiwangsa dan Setapak dikejarkan ke lokasi kejadian.

Menurutnya, seramai 40 kekuatan terdiri daripada pegawai dan anggota JBPM Kuala Lumpur terlibat dalam operasi itu.

Difahamkan, bilik rekod dan data di makmal patologi itu terlibat dalam kebakaran tersebut.

Foto Sumber: Foto ihsan JBPM Kuala Lumpur

Foto ihsan JBPM Kuala Lumpur

Sementara itu, Pengarah Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Datin Dr Nor Akma Yusuf, dalam satu kenyataan, memaklumkan pihak bomba berjaya mengawal kebakaran dari merebak dan seterusnya memadamkan kebakaran itu.

"Pengungsian atau evakuasi pesakit, kakitangan dan pelawat dari bangunan berdekatan dijalankan mengikut prosedur. Setakat ini tiada kemalangan jiwa atau kecederaan dilaporkan.

"Perkhidmatan di HKL tidak terganggu dan berjalan seperti biasa. Punca kebakaran serta kerosakan masih dalam siasatan pihak berwajib," katanya.

Tambah beliau, sebarang perkembangan lanjut akan dimaklumkan dari semasa ke semasa dan Dr Nor Akma turut meminta orang ramai jangan membuat spekulasi atau menyebarkan maklumat tidak tepat mengenai perkara itu.

Keadaan kebakaran di HKL. Foto Sumber: BERNAMA

Suasana di HKL. Foto Sumber: BH ONLINE

Bomba: Litar pintas dipercayai punca kebakaran stor IFPN HKL

KUALA LUMPUR 17 MAC: Kebakaran di stor penyimpanan peralatan Makmal Jabatan Patologi di Institut Forensik Perubatan Negara (IFPN) Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) hari ini dipercayai berpunca daripada litar pintas.

Pengarah Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Kuala Lumpur Khirudin Drahman berkata stor penyimpanan yang terbakar melibatkan peralatan bedah siasat yang diperbuat daripada plastik.

Beliau berkata kebakaran pada kira-kira 12.15 tengah hari itu menyebabkan dua petugas yang berada di dalam stor di tingkat bawah bangunan berkenaan terperangkap, namun kedua-duanya sempat naik ke tingkat atas sebelum diselamatkan anggota bomba.

“Susulan itu, pihak HKL telah mengambil tindakan dengan menutup suis elektrik di makmal itu termasuklah membawa keluar kira-kira 150 tong oksigen ke tempat selamat.

“Selain itu, bomba juga mengalihkan bahan kajian HKL yang diletakkan di dalam peti sejuk dan mengalihkan 19 mayat dari bilik mayat ekoran suis peti sejuk ditutup,” katanya pada sidang akhbar di IFPN di sini.

Khirudin berkata, stor berkenaan terbakar 100 peratus tetapi kebakaran tidak merebak ke bahagian lain kerana api berjaya dikawal pihak bomba dalam masa setengah jam.

“Pengoperasian HKL berjalan seperti biasa kecuali di makmal stor penyimpanan itu yang ditutup sementara untuk siasatan forensik kebakaran.

“Pihak bomba menerima panggilan kecemasan pada kira-kira 12.20 tengah hari dan tiba di lokasi 10 minit kemudian bersama lima jentera bomba antaranya dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat Titiwangsa dan KLCC dengan jumlah keanggotaan sebanyak 31 anggota serta lapan pegawai,” katanya.

Beliau turut mengucapkan tahniah kepada petugas HKL kerana memanggil pasukan Emergency Response Team HKL sebelum ketibaan pasukan bomba di tempat kejadian.

Tiada kemalangan jiwa atau kecederaan dilaporkan dalam kebakaran itu.

SUMBER: BERNAMA

HERO OF THE DAY

KUALA LUMPUR: The engineering team from Hospital Kuala Lumpur prevented a larger disaster from happening when they removed 163 oxygen tanks from storage close to the room where a fire had broken out.

The 12.20pm fire on Saturday, which was mainly contained to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine storage room where it started, could have been much worse if it had spread to 163 oxygen tanks stored in another room nearby.

City Fire and Rescue Department director Khirudin Drahman said the quick action of the hospital's engineering team to move the tanks and shut off the electricity and the oxygen pipelines avoided a larger disaster.

He added that a short circuit is believed to have sparked off the fire at the storeroom.

"It was fortunate that today is also Saturday so only two people were working in the building – a technician and a cleaner.

"During the fire, the two women, both in their 40s, went up to the roof as smoke was blocking their exit.

"We managed to get to them via an external staircase that was padlocked. They were not hurt," he said when met at the scene.

Patients and staff were evacuated from nearby buildings in an orderly fashion.

"The patients in these buildings are not critical so most were able to walk out.

Some who couldn't were wheeled out on beds and wheelchairs," he said.

Normal hospital operations resumed shortly after the fire was put out at around 1.30pm.

"We are now working to restore electricity and oxygen supply.

"Some biochemical materials, including 19 cadavers were also moved during the fire as the storage freezers had been shut off," he said, adding that the morgue suffered some slight smoke and heat damage.

The fire is believed to have started in the storeroom on the ground floor where equipment such as surgical gloves and cotton used in post-mortems were kept.

"The materials are easily flammable so it spread quickly and the prayer room above the storeroom was also razed.

"However the rest of the building remained largely unscathed with some smoke and heat damage," he said.

The fire brought the main hospital in the city to a brief standstill as an alarm rang throughout the facility shortly after midday.

A total of 39 firefighters, including eight officers from four fire stations were involved in the operation, along with four fire engines and a hazmat vehicle.

A full investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire.

THE STAR

SEJARAH HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR

Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur atau Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) ialah sebuah hospital besar utama di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Hospital ini mempunyai 38 buah jabatan dan unit-unit lain. Ini termasuk Jabatan Pentadbiran dan Kewangan, Jabatan Farmaseutikal, Latihan dan Penyelidikan, 23 buah jabatan klinik dan 11 buah klinik perkhidmatan sokongan.

Hospital Kuala Lumpur kini ialah sebuah hospital terbesar di bawah Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia dan dianggap salah satu yang terbesar di rantau Asia.

Ia adalah sebuah hospital kerajaan berujukan tinggi, terletak di tanah perdana berkeluasan 150 ekar dengan 81 buah wad dan 2 502 buah katil.

HKL mempunyai pekerja besar dengan 7 000 orang pekerja dengan hampir 100 buah pekerjaan dalam pelbagai bidang dan disiplin-disiplin.

Selain jumlah bilangan kakitangan, terdapat kira-kira 200 orang perunding dan pakar-pakar, 500 orang pegawai perubatan dan pendaftar, 10 orang matron, 100 orang saudara perempuan (pengurus-pengurus wad), 1 600 orang jururawat berdaftar, 750 orang pembantu jururawat terlatih dan 40 orang bidan-bidan terlatih. Baki kakitangan adalah ahli farmasi, tutor, penolong ahli farmasi, pembantu perubatan, kakitangan pentadbiran dan pengiring-pengiring hospital.

SEJARAH AWAL:

1870: Ia dimajukan sebagai sebuah hospital daerah mengandungi 3 buah wad iaitu Wad Tai Wah, Wad Choudry dan Wad Melayu.

1920: Dinaik taraf kepada 25 buah wad (Kelas pertama di Bangsar, Kelas kedua dan kelas ketiga.

1962: Pembangunan HKL daripada Fasa I hingga fasa ke-IV. Pembangunan pelbagai fasa adalah seperti berikut:

Fasa I (1962-1968)- Hospital Bersalin, Blok Wad Utara, Jabatan Radioterapi dan asrama untuk pekerja-pekerja telah dibina.

1968-1972 (Fasa II): Blok Wad Selatan, Institiut Neurologi, Blok Pembedahan, Blok Radiologi, Pusat Pemindahan Darah Negara dan lebih banyak asrama dibina.

1972-1973 (Fasa III): Klinik-klinik pakar, Jabatan Pesakit Luar dan asrama doktor telah dibina.

1973-1974 (Fasa IV-A): Asrama pelatih jururawat dan rumah kelab ditambah.
1975 (Fasa IV-B): Institiut Ortopedik, Institiut Urologi, Pusat Anggota Tiruan dan Blok Radiologi dibina.

1973: HKL mula berfungsi sebagai hospital belajar untuk pelajar perubatan UKM.

1986-1988: Membaikan dan mengubahsuaikan bangunan lama (Blok Kayu) telah dijalankan.

1989-1992: Institiut Pediatrik telah dibina.

1994-1997 (Fasa II)- Menaik taraf Institiut Radioterapi dan Ubat Onkologi dan Nuklear.

PEMBANGUNAN:

HKL telah dikurniakan Kualiti Status Akreditasi Kesihatan Rakyat Malaysia dari 23 Julai 2006 hingga 22 Julai 2008.

Menteri Kesihatan Malaysia berkata tidak mudah untuk HKL memenangi anugerah sebegini. Dengan 64 buah perkhidmatan dan 7,000 orang kakitangan, HKL menghadapi kekangan berlambak dengan struktur dan ruang.

HKL adalah hospital terbesar di rantau Asia Tenggara (ASEAN). Ia merakam 700 806 orang pesakit di klinik pesakit luar pada tahun 2006 dengan 124 570 orang pesakit dimasukkan ke dalam wad.

SUMBER:
1. ASTRO AWANI
2. BERNAMA
3. WIKIPEDIA
4. BERITA HARIAN

Malindo Air tawar Ipoh - Medan serendah RM169 sehala, 4 kali seminggu

Foto Sumber: Travel Trade Journal

INFO TRAVEL: Berita baik untuk kepada pengguna syarikat penerbangan dan pengembara. Kini syarikat penerbangan hibrid Malaysia, Malindo Air mengadakan semula penerbangan dari Ipoh ke Medan, Indonesia.

Yang lebih menarik kali ini adalah harga tambang yang ditawarkan oleh Malindo Air ialah serendah RM169 sehala, namun harga itu akan berubah dari semasa ke semasa.

Penerbangan dari Ipoh ke Medan pada pukul 10.05 pagi manakala penerbangan dari Medan ke Ipoh pada pukul 11.20 pagi.

Pada tahun 2014, Malindo Air pernah melancarkan penerbangan Ipoh-Medan-Ipoh, namun ia tidak bertahan lama atas sebab tertentu.

BERNAMA melaporkan, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pelancongan, Kesenian Kebudayaan, Komunikasi dan Multimedia negeri Datuk Nolee Ashilin Mohammed Radzi berkata kekerapan penerbangan dari Ipoh ke Medan adalah empat kali seminggu iaitu pada hari Isnin, Rabu, Jumaat dan Ahad.

Beliau berkata dengan adanya laluan penerbangan ini diharap dapat menambah bilangan pelancong melalui Lapangan Terbang Sultan Azlan Shah (LTSAS).

“Kita lihat pada tahun 2016 kita terima bilangan ketibaan pelancong sebanyak 269,601 manakala pada tahun lepas sebanyak 273,713," katanya ketika sidang media selepas menyambut ketibaan penerbangan pertama Malindo Air dari Medan ke Ipoh di LTSAS di sini pada Jumaat.

Foto Sumber: www.malindoair.com

Mengulas lanjut, Nolee Ashilin berkata dengan kembalinya penerbangan itu ia merupakan peluang terbaik kepada penggiat industri pelancongan di Perak untuk memasarkan produk mereka ke negara itu.

Katanya, penggiat industri pelancongan Perak perlu mempelbagaikan pakej dan perkhidmatan pelancongan bagi merancakkan lagi industri tersebut di negeri ini.

“Potensi untuk kita kembangkan industri pelancongan khasnya kepada pelancong negara jiran amat besar, jadi kita harapkan semua pihak sama ada dari agensi swasta dan kerajaan memainkan peranan dengan menyediakan pakej dan perkhidmatan yang lebih kreatif untuk kita pasarkan.

“Kali ini sasaran kita kepada pelancongan perubatan dan hiburan keluarga. Jadi padanan perniagaan ini akan disertai oleh hospital di Perak yang menerima pelancong kesihatan serta pemilik produk yang akan memastikan penerbangan Medan/Ipoh ini akan membawa lebih ramai pelancong dari negara jiran itu," katanya.

SUMBER: BERNAMA

NASA beri amaran asteroid gergasi hentam Bumi 2135

Foto Sumber: CNNET.COM

SEBUAH asteroid gergasi dijangka akan terhempas ke bumi pada tahun 2135, itu amaran para saintis National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Asteroid gergasi yang diberi nama Bennu itu berkelebaran lima buah padang bola dengan anggaran berat 79 bilion kilogram dan dikatakan 1,664 kali lebih berat daripada Titanic, menurut METRO News.

Para saintis telah meramalkan asteroid tersebut akan memberi 80,000 kali lebih impak berbanding bom Hiroshima, menurut The Sun.

Foto Pixabay

NASA mempunyai kapal angkasa yang diberi nama Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) direka khas untuk mengubah arah atau menghancurkan asteroid supaya tidak terhempas ke bumi.

Kapal Angkasa HAMMER ini juga mampu menghancurkan asteroid menggunakan bom nuclear, tetapi tidak disarankan kerana berkemungkinan memberi kesan buruk pada bumi.

Namun begitu, saintis telah memutuskan bahawa sebuah HAMMER tidak mencukupi dan tidak mampu mengubah arah Bennu.

Seorang ahli fizik di Makmal Kebangsaan Lawrence Livermore, Kirsten Howley berkata,"menggunakan kapal angkasa HAMMER yang kecil boleh memberi 'akibat buruk' pada bumi.”

HAMMER hanya berukuran 9 meter tinggi dengan berat hampir 9 tan.

SUMBER: AGENSI

Fresenius Medical Care Continues To Set The Benchmark For Excellence In Australian Dialysis Clinics

Logo: Fresenius Medical Care

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Media OutReach - 15 March 2018 - The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), Australia's leading independent authority on healthcare, has recognised the high standard of care that Fresenius Medical Care provides to patients by awarding accreditation to the company's network of 16 dialysis clinics, with clinics achieving the highest possible rating 'Met with Merit' in five important areas.

Full accreditation against the ten National Safety and Quality in Healthcare Standards as well as the five EQuIPNational Standards was awarded by ACHS in December 2017.

In 2015, Fresenius Medical Care was the first healthcare organisation in Australia to achieve nationwide accreditation under the EQuIPNational Day Procedure Centres program.

The 2017 accreditation, which will continue until 2020, demonstrates the company's culture of continuous quality improvement and the consistently high standard of care that all patients can expect.

Fresenius Medical Care Vice President and Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Margot Hurwitz said EQuIPNational is a rigorous, consumer-focused program that measures how effective a healthcare organisation is in terms of patient care.

"ACHS accreditation sends a clear message to the community that Fresenius Medical Care is committed to excellence in healthcare", added Mrs Hurwitz.
"Importantly, this means that our patients can expect the same quality of care at our clinics, whether they are located in the city, regional, or even remote settings."

In addition to meeting all fifteen standards, Fresenius Medical Care achieved the highest possible Met with Merit level of recognition in five areas, including orientation and ongoing training programs for both staff and patients, infection control and medication management.

The ACHS surveyor was particularly impressed by the clinics' partnerships with patients, which ensure that they are active participants in their own care and health outcomes, noting that:

"Fresenius Medical Care has tailored their orientation and training for consumers (patients and carers) to suit the cultural group that the clinic is serving, going beyond the normal education that occurs for consumers".

For example, in the Northern Territory, where many patients are unable to speak, read or write English, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) primary healthcare group and interpreters who speak the different indigenous dialects, work together with Fresenius Medical Care to provide information and pictorial descriptions of treatment, ensuring that all patients understand the orientation.

In addition, partnerships formed by Fresenius Medical Care in the Northern Territory help locate patients and provide a transport service to them. Without this, these patients would otherwise not be able to attend their dialysis sessions.

Mrs Hurwitz reinforced the importance of these partnerships with patients: "We know that patients today demand high standards in their healthcare, and we are tremendously proud that Fresenius Medical Care dialysis clinics have been recognised for not only meeting this expectation, but exceeding it in five areas of vital patient care. This is a true testament to our culture of continuous quality improvement and putting our patients at the centre of everything we do."

About Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care is the world's largest provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases of which around 3.2 million patients worldwide regularly undergo dialysis treatment.

Through its network of 3,752 dialysis clinics, Fresenius Medical Care provides dialysis treatments for 320,960 patients around the globe. Fresenius Medical Care is also the leading provider of dialysis products such as dialysis machines or dialysers.

Along with the core business, the company focuses on expanding the range of related medical services in the field of Care Coordination. Fresenius Medical Care is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FME) and on the New York Stock Exchange (FMS).

About The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS)

ACHS is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare in Australia through continual review of performance, assessment and accreditation, with a specific focus on safety, quality and performance.

About EQuIPNational Day Procedure Centres

EQuIPNational Day Procedure Centres is a three-year accreditation program for day hospitals, day surgeries and day procedure services that ensures organisations meet the necessary requirements to meet the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.

In addition, it offers accreditation against further five standards that focus on the performance of non-clinical systems: service delivery, provision of care, workforce management, information management, and corporate governance and safety.

Twitter Introduces 9 New Premium Video Sports Content Partnerships To Asia Pacific Advertisers

Astro Malaysia (including FIFA World Cup™), Asian Tour Golf, International Table Tennis Federation, BallBall, TV One and Eleven Sports Singapore among others will feature new In-Stream Video programming on Twitter

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 15 March 2018 - Twitter, the first place to see what's happening, will unveil this morning a robust slate of premium video sport content deals at Sportel Asia.

Nine new collaborations will be announced, adding to the hundreds of sporting hours of live original programming, live games, highlights, and events to the platform. The announcement includes extensions of existing regional deals and brings even more opportunities for advertisers in Asia Pacific to align their brand with premium sports video content.

Twitter's Head of Sports Partnerships for Asia Pacific, Aneesh Madani (@aneeshmadani), will present the video content offerings to conference attendees, as well as brand and agency partners, at a special Twitter workshop at Sportel Asia.

He will be joined by guest speakers Simon Barnett (@SiBarnett), Ball Ball, Ashwin Sridhar (@ashwinsridhar), Fox Sports and Mohit Lalvani (@mohitlalvani), Eleven Sports, to discuss how sports federations, broadcasters and can make the most of combining OTT services and Twitter to grow their audiences and revenue.

"Twitter is the best destination for sports video content because it's an extension of what fans already expect from our platform -- the live sports conversation unfolding on Twitter," said Aneesh Madani, Head of Sport Partnerships, Asia Pacific, Twitter.

"Asia Pacific is a growth engine for Twitter and we could not be prouder to extend our success with more In-Stream premium video content from both headline events, and exciting underserved content, from sports leagues across the region."

He added: "Digital video consumption in Asia Pacific is growing rapidly. Introducing these new in-stream video sponsorship deals for sports to advertisers in Asia Pacific will strengthen the success of our partners in the region, and give fans an easy way to keep up with the sports they care about most."

Nine new premium video sports collaborations to be announced on stage include the following:

Asian Tour (@AsianTourGolf): Fans will have access to clips and highlights coming from major golf events on the Asian Tour.

Astro Malaysia (@StadiumAstro): Fans in Malaysia will have access to clips and content from FIFA World Cup™, EPL, F1, MotoGP, PGA and Asian Tour, Grand Slam Tennis, AFC CL and Cup.

BallBall (@BallBall_ID): Fans in Indonesia will have access to clips and game highlights coming from the top European football leagues.

Eleven Sports (@ElevenSportsSG): Fans will have access to clips and game highlights coming from Serie A, FA Cup and more in Singapore.

FOX Sports Asia (@FOXSportsAsia): Fans will now have access to clips and content from Bundesliga, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, AFC Champions League and Cup.

International Table Tennis Federation (@ittfworld): Fans will have the chance to watch highlights of matches and other clips in almost real time from the best tournaments in the world.

NetTV (@netmediatama): Fans in Indonesia will have access to clips and game highlights coming from MotoGP

SportsFix TV (@SportsfixTV): Fans in Malaysia will have access to clips and game highlights coming from Malaysian League, Thai League and Serie A
TV ONE (@tvOneNews): Fans in Indonesia will have access to clips and game highlights coming from Liga Satu, Martial Arts leagues and more.

Each of these partners will utilise Twitter's In-stream Sponsorships to enable the publisher partners to monetise their video content, while making it easy for advertisers to reach engaged audiences and sponsor exclusive content.
The premium sports video content shared on Twitter will include a short pre-roll ad from content sponsors.

These new deals are in addition to a range of existing, previously announced ones which are also currently available to APAC advertisers, including:

ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship): Twitter will be the exclusive live stream platform for every single event of ONE Championship in 2018. All preliminary matches and two bouts of the main card can be streamed via @ONEChampionship.

National Basketball Association (NBA): Basketball fans in the Asia Pacific region will have a lot to look forward to with clips featuring highlights, behind-the-scenes content and more throughout the season as well as Periscope live streams of press conferences and interviews. They will be able to view this content on @NBA_AU, @NBA_Philippines, @NBAIndia and of course the @NBA account on Twitter.

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA): As announced earlier in 2017, basketball fans in Asia will be able to watch 20 WNBA regular season games in 2018 and 2019 live on Twitter at wnba.twitter.com and @WNBA. They will also be able to catch up with highlight clips every week.

"The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the planet, and this new partnership with Twitter gives us a major opportunity to leverage excitement about the tournament beyond the TV screen," says CK Lee, VP Sports Content at Astro.

"Alongside our broadcast all 64 matches of the World Cup, Twitter will help amplify the most exciting moments from Astro's coverage, and immerse fans in the 'world game' even further through expert analysis and fun, creative live and highlights video content from Russia."

Chatri Sityodtong, Chairman and CEO of ONE Championship, stated: "I am thrilled with ONE Championship's partnership with Twitter as it allows us to further showcase the beauty of martial arts to a global audience.

This partnership signifies the two companies' commitment to developing martial arts in Asia and extend the reach of our exciting live and digital content.

We're excited that martial arts fans, particularly those on the Twitter platform, can now enjoy free ONE Championship bouts while engaging in real-time conversation."

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Join the open conversation. Watch live streaming events. Available in more than 40 languages around the world, the service can be accessed via twitter.com, an array of mobile devices, and SMS.

For more information, please visit about.twitter.com, follow @TwitterSG, and download both the Twitter and Periscope apps at twitter.com/download and periscope.tv.

TIBCO Extends Global Partnership with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

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Success in 2017 Leads to Expanded Collaboration for Enhanced Performance

Palo Alto, CA, March 15, 2018 - TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced it has extended its global partnership with four-time consecutive FIA Formula One™ World Constructors’ Champions Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport.

This partnership will continue to equip the team with advanced TIBCO® solutions throughout the 2018 season, supporting strategic decisions based on data collected from the brand-new Mercedes-AMG F1 W09 EQ Power+ race car.

The 2018 challenger is improved in every area over its predecessor and will become the fastest Mercedes Formula One car in history. As the most advanced machine ever created by the organization, the W09 is the product of an advanced digital development ecosystem, created with the help of TIBCO.

“Formula One as a sport is a combination of the highest performance, sharpest technology, and most collaborative teamwork. As such, it is similar to what many of our customers need to embrace for a successful digital transformation,” said Thomas Been, chief marketing officer, TIBCO.

“The nature of data and digital are continuing to change the Formula One sport, from design and collaboration, to strategy and real-time decisions. This sets a great example for any company looking to transform and lead with digital technology.

We’re very proud to empower the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team with our TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud platform, helping them leverage unique insights to make critical decisions that improve all aspects of their operation.”

TIBCO technology allows the team to access and visualize gigabytes of live and historical data, which are crucial in making live-time strategic decisions.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is collaborating with TIBCO on advanced analytics to glean insights from TIBCO’s visualizations, helping them make informed decisions, both at the factory and during the race.

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The TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud platform provides the foundation for this analysis, with the help of a team of TIBCO data scientists, through its Systems of Insight solutions.

“Winning a Formula One race takes more than a fast car; it is man and machine working together,” said Toto Wolff, team principal and chief executive officer, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport.

“We continuously find ourselves driven by each other as a team, whether that’s the motivation of the drivers to win on track, our engineers working in the factory to test every possible race scenario, or innovative partners like TIBCO who take our work to the next level with advanced technology.
TIBCO’s sophisticated solutions provide our team with visual data about the car’s performance that clearly distinguishes relevant information from the rest. We’re excited to expand our partnership and are motivated to keep winning in 2018, on and off the track.”

Be sure to follow our journey this season via Twitter, LinkedIn, and FaceBook; and follow the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

About TIBCO

TIBCO fuels digital business by enabling better decisions and faster, smarter actions through the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. From APIs and systems to devices and people, we interconnect everything, capture data in real time wherever it is, and augment the intelligence of your business through analytical insights.

Thousands of customers around the globe rely on us to build compelling experiences, energize operations, and propel innovation. Learn how TIBCO makes digital smarter at www.tibco.com.

About Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is the works Formula One Team of Mercedes-Benz, competing at the pinnacle of motorsport – the FIA Formula One™ World Championship.

Formula One is like nothing else in the sporting sphere. It’s a demanding technical and human challenge, combining cutting-edge technologies and innovation, high-performance management and elite teamwork.

During the course of a grueling calendar, which spans 21 countries in as many Grand Prix events from March to November, teams battle it out to be crowned World Champions.

At Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, a team of nearly 1,500 passionate, determined people works across two world-class technology campuses, designing, developing, manufacturing and racing the cars and Hybrid Power Units driven by four-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton and race-winning team-mate Valtteri Bottas.

The team has set a new benchmark for F1 success during the sport’s current Hybrid era, winning the Constructors’ and Drivers’ World Championships in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. During those four Championship-winning seasons, the team has scored 63 wins, 122 podiums, 71 pole positions, 43 fastest laps and 35 one-two finishes from 79 race starts.

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DHL Express Launches Inaugural Passenger-to-freighter A330-300

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- The Penang-Ho Chi Minh-Hong Kong flight will bear 33% more load capacity per flight that runs 6 times a week

- DHL Express to deploy at least three more A330-300s as regional and global e-commerce volumes grow

SINGAPORE: DHL Express, the world's leading international express services provider, has deployed its first ever Airbus A330-300 in its air network, servicing the fast-growing markets of Malaysia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong with 33% more freight capacity per flight.

The aircraft is the first of four A330-300s to join the DHL Express fleet under a new passenger-to-freighter (P2F) deal with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a joint venture between Airbus and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, flying six times a week.

DHL Express launches inaugural passenger-to-freighter A330-300 as part of rapidly-growing Asia Pacific air network

With a gross payload of 61 metric tons, the A330-300 will provide additional high-volume, lower-density capacity in Asia Pacific, catering specifically to regional e-commerce activity which, in 2017, accounted for 40% of global e-commerce sales.[1]

Following its conversion from passenger to freight use, the A330-300s feature a range of upgrades including reinforcements to its fuselage, floor structure, and door frame shell; newly-installed safety barrier nets; and a powered cargo loading system.

"E-commerce is expected to generate US$1.365 trillion in total retail sales Asia-wide this year, a number that will more than double to $3 trillion by 2021,[2]" said Ken Lee, CEO, DHL Express Asia Pacific.

"The introduction of the passenger-to-freight A330-300 marks a significant step forward in enhancing our service standards to match the evolving needs of our customers, e-commerce merchants and other businesses tapping into intra-Asia trade growth."

The first A330-300 will serve markets with particularly high e-commerce trade volumes, including Malaysia with a compound annual growth rate of nearly 18% from now to 2022;[3] and Vietnam, where the local e-commerce market is growing at 35% per annum.[4]

Subsequent A330-300s slated for deployment later this year will also focus on intra-Asia connections as the region's middle-class -- and its consumption rates -- continues to expand. [5]

"Rising income levels and Internet access have powered a veritable e-commerce revolution in Asia's cross-border trade," said Sean Wall, Executive Vice President, Network Operations and Aviation, DHL Express Asia Pacific.

"Yet there's still immense upside despite the amount of growth so far. The new A330-300s will provide the cost-efficiency and high-volume capacity -- carrying more than 20% extra cargo than other mid-range cargo aircraft -- needed for businesses to take advantage of these intra-Asian opportunities."

The A330-300 deployments form the latest stage of DHL Express' ongoing investments in its air freight infrastructure, with future planned deployments of the A330-300s aiming to increase payload capacity by up to 50% compared to current aircraft.

"As a pioneer in P2F aircraft conversions since 1997, DHL continually looks to bolster the strength of its dedicated air network in Asia Pacific with a combination of new investments and design innovation," Wall said.

"As our maiden A330-300 cargo service arrives in our high-traffic Penang Gateway, we expect many more such services to transform our Asia Pacific network in the near future."

DHL -- The logistics company for the world

DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL family of divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management.

With about 360,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global trade flows.

With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, energy, automotive and retail, a proven commitment to corporate responsibility and an unrivalled presence in developing markets, DHL is decisively positioned as "The logistics company for the world".

DHL is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of more than 60 billion euros in 2017.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/southeast-asias-set-for-explosive-e-commerce-growth-2017-5/

[2] https://www.emarketer.com/Report/Asia-Pacific-Retail-Ecommerce-Sales-eMarketers-Estimates-20162021/2002091

[3] https://www.statista.com/outlook/243/122/ecommerce/malaysia#

[4] http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/192252/vietnam-s-e-commerce-market-booming.html

[5 http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/nielsenglobal/apac/docs/reports/2014/Nielsen-ASEAN2015.pdf