Special Education Students Sweat it Out at Futsal Tournament

The special education students showing their skills.

Some 150 special education students from various schools around Batu Pahat took part in a futsal tournament today at Parit Raja. The one-day tournament was organised by the Special Education Unit of Batu Pahat District Education Office.

Some of the spectators watching the games

The tournament which was held at Futsal Raja Parit Raja was divided into two categories; senior level and junior level. Among the teams under the senior level were SMK Permata Jaya, SMK Dato Syed Esa, SMK Banang and SMK Semerah. SK Pintas Raya, SK Bandar and SK Ayer Hitam were competing in junior level. More than 20 schools took part in this tournament. According to Mr. Zakaria of SMK Permata Jaya, many of the students were slow learners. Some deaf students from SMK Teknik Batu Pahat were also taking part.

SK Ayer Hitam team beating SK Bandar by 2 - 1

Deteriorating road condition

The Kembara Mahkota Johor Phase II is just around the corner, as someone who utilizes the Kluang -Batu Pahat so called highways, I noticed that nothing much has been done. In fact, many users cannot access directly and easily from Parit Karjo to Air Hitam since a U-turn was made. It would be an advantage if the U-turn is the safest way to the motorists from being involved in accidents, however certain precautions had to be made like how far is the U-turn and even the condition of the road. It's been nearly a year, and NOTHING has been done to put up lamp posts along the road. This is very dangerous especially to motorcyclists.....I just hope nothing bad will happen when the Kembara Mahkota Johor entourage passed along the road.

RnI Fest Update 1

Parit Raja Daily has been receiving some thumb-ups from the visitors to its booth during this festival. Some prominent academicians in the University namely Assoc. Prof Dr Hussain Othman and Prof. Dr. Zarar Mohd Jenu expressed their confidence that the news portal will be a hit especially among the locals. The latter also jokingly suggested that to increase traffic, the portal should contain 'juicy' and controversial news such as scandals, secret love affairs etc. Well, Prof. the news team can take that into consideration.

Parit Raja Daily: An Overview

Parit Raja Daily is a blog-based news portal for the residence of Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. The portal serves as a platform for school children, university students, school teachers, university staff and lecturers, government and private agencies as well as the public at large to share news that take place around the Parit Raja area. In other words, the portal is an example of the practise of community journalism for this place. It also aims to provide a space and encourage writing in English language among the locals about this small but rapidly developing town.

Community journalism is locally oriented, news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news.

Community tend to cover subjects which usually larger and established news media do not, such as students on the honour roll at the local schools, school sports, crimes such as vandalism, zoning issues and other details of community life. Sometimes dismissed as "chicken dinner" stories, such "hyperlocal" coverage often plays a vital role in building and maintaining neighborhoods. As such, Parit Raja Daily aims to provide a platform for the locals to write in English language and therefore creating a ‘local-flavoured’ information source written in the language.

Potential partnerships can be forged with many parties especially around the localities. These include businesses that want to advertise their products and services, industries that want to advertise job vacancies and learning institutions that want to inform the public about their activities. Government agencies such as the Police Department and Health Department can also convey the information through this news portal.

Parit Raja Daily: Writers Required

Welcome to Parit Raja Daily. This is a news portal on daily happenings around this small but busy Parit Raja town in Batu Pahat, Johor. The contributors to this portal are all of YOU. However, contributors will be chosen through invitations. If you are interested to be part of the news team, please email us at myazmial@gmail.com or zainals@gmail.com and we will invite you to be one of the writers. Welcome aboard.

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Research and Innovation Festival 2010

UTHM will be organising the Research and Innovation Festival 2010 on 3-5 August at the Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail and Dewan Terbuka UTHM. The festival will showcase researches and innovations by UTHM academic staff and students. Admission is free.