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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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Reducing air pollution
BLH holds emission test A staff from Denpasar Environment Agency testing the vehicle during emission test. Bali Post
DENPASAR - One of the causes of threat against air pollution in urban areas is the vehicle exhaust emissions. To know the vehicle exhaust emission, the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH), Tuesday (Nov 29) re-conducted an emission test on Jalan Mahendradatta. Previously, BLH also held similar activities at the closing of the Serangan Charm Festival.
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Division Head of Environmental Pollution Control and Waste Management in the Denpasar Environment Agency, AA Gede Risnawan, when met on the sidelines of the emission test revealed the
emission test was targeting cars and motorcycles. The vehicles passing through Jalan Mahendradatta were taken at random for the exhaust emission test. He said the random sampling
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was meant to reduce the queue of vehicles at the location of emission test. A car did not take too long time to undergo the emission test. Following the emission test, the result would be seen whether the
emission the approprii i was above b th i ate thresholds or standards set. “Tomorrow (Wednesday—Ed), we will conduct similar emission test on Jalan Raya Sesetan,” he said. According to him, the emission test was significant to be performed to minimize the air pollution produced by vehicles. On that account, his party hoped the general public to be aware of and take care of their vehicles on a regular basis.
MANILA — Philippine authorities captured an al-Qaida-linked bomber suspected in at least six attacks, including a 2002 karaoke bar explosion that killed an American Green Beret and a hotel blast that killed three people, officials said Wednesday. Police and military intelligence officers captured Hussein Ahaddin in a hide-out of the Abu Sayyaf rebel force in the southern city of Zamboanga late Tuesday. Ahaddin, who uses the guerrilla name Abu Tiih, belonged to an urban-based group of Abu Sayyaf fighters behind bombings and extortion, Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said. Ochoa, who heads the government’s
Anti-terrorism Council, said authorities have panned out in search of Ahaddin’s companions hiding in Zamboanga city, a bustling port city 540 miles (860 kilometers) south of Manila. The Abu Sayyaf was founded on Basilan in the early 1990s as an offshoot of a violent Muslim insurgency that has been raging for decades. U.S.-backed Philippine offensives have weakened the group, which is blacklisted by Washington as a terrorist organization, but it remains a key security threat. Ahaddin has been implicated in six attacks, the latest of which was a powerful blast that killed three people, wounded 27 others and destroyed the Atilano Pension House on Sunday near downtown Zamboanga city, he said. Continued on page 6
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A Philippine National Police Special Action Force member guards suspected bomber Hussein Ahaddin as he is presented to the media Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines.