Official portraits of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar and Tuanku Permaisuri Raja Zarith Sofiah will begin to be distributed tomorrow, said Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.
He said the Information Department (Japen), which is under his ministry, will receive the official portraits.
Then, other ministries and departments can get them tomorrow from the Communications Ministry.
“For members of the public who wish to get the official portraits free of charge, they can contact the state Japen office or their district officers,” he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
Road safety
Meanwhile, Fahmi said that in today’s cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim mentioned he met the chairperson of the Alliance for a Safe Community, Lee Lam Thye, yesterday.
He said the prime minister then called for awareness campaigns on road safety to be intensified.
“The prime minister… also called on parents who have young children aged 16 and above, to remind their children to always be vigilant when riding motorcycles,” he said.
Fahmi said this followed a report on the number of road accidents last year which reached 600,000 cases, with deaths mostly involving motorcyclists and pillion riders aged between 18 and 35.
Yesterday, Anwar received a courtesy call from Lee to discuss issues of road and workplace safety.
Both of them also expressed concern over the high accident rate among motorcyclists, mostly linked to weak law enforcement and road maintenance issues.
- Bernama
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