{"id":28187,"date":"2014-11-27T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=28187"},"modified":"2014-11-27T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T23:29:25","slug":"terengganu-urged-probe-nyt-report-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/terengganu-urged-probe-nyt-report-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Terengganu Urged to Probe NYT Report on Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Terengganu MP Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah has warned Terengganu Menteri Besar, Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, against downplaying his link to a Li Yang, featured recently in a New York Times (NYT) article alleging an iron ore mine in the state was plagued by corrupt deals and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Li Yang heads a local unit of China-based CAA Resources which runs the mine. He\u2019s listed in the Companies Commission of Malaysia databank as a director of Capture Bukit Besi Sdn Bhd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Raja-Bahrin1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17352 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Raja-Bahrin1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Raja Bahrin1\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe Menteri Besar has a lot to answer,\u201d said Raja Kamarul who urged the Terengganu Government to investigate the NYT report. \u201cState Government officials made frequent trips to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One result of these trips is that Eastern Steel from China does its iron mining and processing, an environmental no no, in Terengganu. Some of their personnel in Terengganu resigned recently over unsatisfactory waste management practices at their plant, Raja Kamarul added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to high pollution levels in China, they are setting up plants elsewhere,\u201d he said. \u201cChina is a big importer of iron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Australia and Brazil, two of the biggest exporters of iron in the world, don\u2019t allow in-situ processing due to environmental concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terengganu, he stressed, should not allow these processing plants as they pollute the rivers and create other environmental concerns in the long-run.-FMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Terengganu MP Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah has warned Terengganu Menteri Besar, Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, against downplaying his link to a Li Yang, featured recently in a New York Times (NYT) article alleging an iron ore mine in the state was plagued by corrupt deals and environmental concerns. Li Yang heads a local unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":21921,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"U","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":376,"file":"2014\/04\/bukit-besi5.jpg","filesize":169509,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"3.4","credit":"","camera":"EK-GC100","caption":"?????????????","created_timestamp":"1397229616","copyright":"","focal_length":"9.2","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.0008","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":21915,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bukit-besi5.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}