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CNY 2023 : Lorry Ban + Court For Traffic Offenders!

CNY 2023 : Lorry Ban + Court For Traffic Offenders!

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Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke just announced a lorry ban, and that seven major offences will be non-compoundable this Chinese New Year!

 

CNY 2023 : Traffic Offenders Will Be Sent To Court!

On Wednesday, 17 January 2023, the Transport Minister of Malaysia, Anthony Loke, announced that seven traffic offences will be non-compoundable throughout the Chinese New Year festive season.

Motorists who commit these seven offences will no longer be allowed to just pay a fine, but will instead be referred to the courts.

  • Cutting queue
  • Overtaking on double lines
  • Running the red light
  • Driving over the speed limit
  • Using mobile phones while driving
  • Not wearing a seat belt or helmet
  • Driving on the emergency lane

The seven major traffic offenses are cutting queue, overtaking on double lines, disobeying the red light signal, driving over the speed limit, use of mobile phones while driving, not wearing a seat belt or helmet and driving on the emergency lane.

There will be no compound issues for these offences. Offenders will be referred to court.

To ensure stricter enforcement this year, about 2,000 JPJ enforcement officers will be deployed this Chinese New Year to reduce accidents and deaths.

Recommended : CNY 2023 : No Highway Tolls On January 20-21!

 

CNY 2023 : Lorries + Heavy Vehicles Banned!

He also announced that lorries and other heavy vehicles will be banned from the roads during the Chinese New Year festive season to reduce traffic congestion. The ban on heavy vehicles will last four days:

  • two days from January 20 to 21
  • two days from January 24 to 25

This prohibition is intended to avoid the risk of road accidents due to mixed traffic flow between heavy vehicles and light vehicles on the road, highways, apart from avoiding traffic jams.

 

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CNY 2023 : No Highway Tolls On January 20-21!

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The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, just announced that there will be no highway tolls on January 20 to 21 for Chinese New Year 2023!

 

CNY 2023 : No Highway Tolls On January 20-21!

On Wednesday, 18 January 2023, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, announced that there will be no highway tolls on January 20 to 21 in conjunction with Chinese New Year 2023!

In a short public announcement, he said that the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Works took the initiative to discuss the matter with the highway concessionaires across Malaysia, and they agreed not to impose any highway tolls for two days.

The toll-free travel will apply to all types of vehicles travelling on all highways in Malaysia. The toll-free period will begin at 12:01 AM on January 20, and end at midnight on January 21, 2023.

The expected financial implication of these two days of toll-free travel is estimated to be about RM40 million (US$9.2 million).

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The Minister of Works and the Minister of Transport took the initiative to discuss with the concessionaires, who agreed to eliminate the toll charges for the 20th and 21st (of January).

We hope that by waiving the toll charges for the two days, it will allow all Malaysians to enjoy travels during the Chinese New Year. My advice to road users is to obey the law and be safe on the road.

But please be warned that during the Chinese New Year festive season, seven traffic offences will be non-compoundable, and will be referred to the courts.

Read more : CNY 2023 : Lorry Ban + Court For Traffic Offenders!

 

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2023 Public + School Holidays For Malaysia!

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To help you plan your holidays in the new year, here is a summary of the public and school holidays in Malaysia for 2023!

 

2023 Public Holidays For Malaysia

Here are the public holidays for Malaysia in the year 2023. Some of these days may be subject to change.

Date Day Holiday States
1 Jan Sun New Year’s Day All states except Johor, Kedah,
Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu
2 Jan Mon All states except Johor, Kedah,
Kelantan and Terengganu
14 Jan Sat YDPB Negeri
Sembilan’s Birthday		 Negeri Sembilan
22 Jan
23 Jan		 Sun
Mon 		Chinese New Year All states
24 Jan Tue All states except Johor, Kedah,
Kelantan and Terengganu
1 Feb Wed Federal Territory Day Kuala Lumpur, Labuan,
Putrajaya
5 Feb Sun Thaipusam Johor, Kuala Lumpur,
Negeri Sembilan, Penang,
Perak, Putrajaya and
Selangor
6 Feb Mon Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan,
Penang, Putrajaya and Selangor
18 Feb Sat Israk and Mikraj Kedah, Negeri Sembilan,
Perlis and Terengganu
19 Feb Sun Terengganu
4 Mar
5 Mar		 Sat
Sun		 Accession Anniversary
of Terengganu Sultan		 Terengganu
23 Mar Thu Awal Ramadan Johor, Kedah and Melaka
Johor Sultan’s Birthday Johor
7 Apr Fri Good Friday Sabah and Sarawak
8 Apr Sat Nuzul al-Quran All states except Johor, Kedah,
Melaka, Negeri Sembilan,
Sabah and Sarawak
9 Apr Sun Kelantan and Terengganu
15 Apr Sat Declaration of Melaka
as a Historical City		 Melaka
22 Apr
23 Apr		 Sat
Sun		 Hari Raya Aidilfitri All states
24 Apr Mon All states except Johor + Kedah
26 Apr Wed Sultan of Terengganu’s
Birthday		 Terengganu
1 May Mon Labour Day All states
4 May Thu Wesak Day All states
17 May Wed Raja of Perlis’
Birthday		 Perlis
22 May Mon Hari Hol Pahang Pahang
30 May
31 May		 Tue
Wed		 Harvest Festival Labuan and Sabah
1 Jun
2 Jun		 Thu
Fri		 Hari Gawai Sarawak
5 Jun Mon YDP Agong’s Birthday All states
18 Jun Sun Sultan of Kedah’s
Birthday		 Kedah
28 Jun Wed Arafat Day Kedah and Terengganu
29 Jun Thu Hari Raya Haji All states
30 Jun Fri Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis
and Terengganu
7 Jul Fri Georgetown World
Heritage City Day		 Penang
8 Jul Sat Penang Governor’s
Birthday
19 Jul Wed Awal Muharram All states
22 Jul Sat Sarawak Day Sarawak
30 Jul
31 Jul		 Sun
Mon		 Sultan of Pahang’s
Birthday		 Pahang
23 Aug Wed Hari Hol Almarhum
Sultan Iskandar		 Johor
24 Aug Thu Melaka Governor’s
Birthday		 Melaka
31 Aug Thu Merdeka Day All states
16 Sep Sat Malaysia Day All states
17 Sep Sun Kelantan and Terengganu
28 Sep Thu Prophet Muhammad’s
Birthday		 All states
7 Oct Sat Sabah Governor’s
Birthday		 Sabah
14 Oct Sat Sarawak Governor’s
Birthday		 Sarawak
3 Nov Fri Sultan of Perak’s
Birthday		 Perak
11 Nov Sat Sultan of Kelantan’s
Birthday		 Kelantan
12 Nov
13 Nov		 Sun
Mon		 Sultan of Kelantan’s
Birthday		 Kelantan
12 Nov Sun Deepavali All states except Sarawak
13 Nov Mon All states except Johor,
Kedah, Kelantan, Sarawak
and Terengganu
11 Dec Mon Sultan of Selangor’s
Birthday		 Selangor
24 Dec Sun Christmas Eve Sabah
25 Dec Mon Christmas Day All states
26 Dec Tue Christmas Holiday Sabah

 

2023 School Holidays For Malaysia

The COVID-19 pandemic has thoroughly screwed up the school term and holidays. Instead of starting in January and ending in December, the new term now starts in March and every year will have two “academic years”.

This is quite confusing for many of us parents, so here is a quick summary of the school holidays for the year 2023.

Read more : 2023 / 2024 Malaysia School Term + Holiday Calendar!

Group A Schools

Here are the school holidays for Group A states of Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

Holiday Start End Days
2022 Year End Holiday 17 Feb 18 Mar 30
2023 Mid-Term 1 Holiday 21 Apr 29 Apr 9
2023 End-Term 1 Holiday 26 May 3 Jun 9
2023 Term 2 Holiday 25 Aug 2 Sep 9
2023 Term 3 Holiday 15 Dec 1 Jan 18

In addition, the government also announced an extra holiday for Chinese New Year in 2023.

Festival Holidays Group A Notes
Chinese New Year 22 to 24 January 2023 1 extra day

Group B Schools

Here are the school holidays for Group A states of Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.

Holiday Start End Days
2022 Year End Holiday 18 Feb 19 Mar 30
2023 Mid-Term 1 Holiday 22 Apr 30 Apr 9
2023 End-Term 1 Holiday 27 May 4 Jun 9
2023 Term 2 Holiday 26 Aug 3 Sep 9
2023 Term 3 Holiday 16 Dec 1 Jan 17

In addition, the government also announced an extra holiday for Chinese New Year in 2023.

Festival Holidays Group B Notes
Chinese New Year 20 to 24 January 2023 1 extra day

 

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The U Mobile Partnership With Ed Sheeran & Other Music Festivals!

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5th May 2017 – U Mobile, driven by their customers’ passion for music, has created Unlimited Ideas for customers to groove right through the year. The Unlimited Ideas Groove Calendar kicks off with Urbanscapes 2017, the quintessential music, arts and culture festival that starts tonight and will run every weekend throughout the month until 21st May 2017. Other highlights include the intimate Upfront concert series, Good Vibes Festival and the highly anticipated Ed Sheeran’s Malaysia Tour.

 

U Mobile Urbanscapes

Presented by U Mobile, this year’s Urbanscapes’ theme is #RediscoverKL. In its 15th year, Urbanscapes will be packed with music and performance art, as well as art installations. In addition, this much anticipated festival will also feature talks, thematic markets, workshops, experiential and interdisciplinary events headlined by home-grown, regional and international artists including Clean Bandit, Mew, Yellow Fang and Kyoto Protocol.

At the festival, U Mobile customers will get an exclusive experience through these exciting benefits:

  1. Early bird ticket prices

U Mobile customers can enjoy early bird ticket pricing for select shows at Urbanscapes. This exclusive promo can be redeemed by customers on the MyUMobile app.

  1. Exclusive U Mobile x Urbanscapes 2017 merchandise
    U Mobile customers will receive the merchandise whilst stock lasts.
  2. Grab Discounts

U Mobile customers will receive RM15 off Grab rides to and from key Urbanscapes locations like Urbanscapes House @ 2 Hang Kasturi, KL Live and The Bee, Publika. Each customer can redeem up to two (2) rides daily from 5th May – 21st May 2017 to and from the three aforementioned venues. Customers can claim this super promo by downloading a unique code from the MyUMobile app.

  1. U Mobile Charging Station & Photo Wall

Urbanscapes attendees have a dedicated charging station to recharge their phones and also a photo wall for them to snap wefies, selfies and #OOTDs against.

  1. U Munchies

U Mobile customers will get to enjoy F&B promos whenever they see the “U Munchies” sign displayed at various venues and from various merchants taking part in Urbanscapes 2017. To redeem the U Munchies deal, customers need to download the voucher code from the MyUMobile app.

 

U Mobile Upfront

Presented by U Mobile, Upfront features established and up-and-coming acts from around the globe in the intimate space of The Bee, Publika – bringing fans closer to their favourite musicians for an unforgettable live experience. The next show on 19th July 2017, will feature London-based duo, Oh Wonder. Previously, Upfront has featured The Temper Trap, Grimes and The Vaccines.

For Upfront shows, U Mobile customers will get to enjoy:

  1. Early bird ticket prices throughout the ticket sales period
    This exclusive promo can be claimed by U Mobile customers on the MyUMobile app.
  2. Grab Discounts

U Mobile customers will receive RM15 off Grab rides to and from The Bee, Publika on the event day. Customers can claim this super promo by downloading a unique code from the MyUMobile app.

  1. U Mobile Charging Station & Photo Wall

Upfront attendees have a dedicated charging station to recharge their phones and also a photo wall for them to snap wefies, selfies and #OOTDs against.

  1. U Munchies

U Mobile customers will get to enjoy F&B promos whenever they see the “U Munchies” sign displayed at The Bee, Publika. To redeem the U Munchies deal, U Mobile customers need to download the voucher code from the MyUMobile app.

 

Good Vibes Festival 2017

Launched in 2013, Good Vibes Festival has drawn a loyal following of music enthusiasts with their showcase of international, regional and local music acts. With a past line-up that included alternative rock idols The Smashing Pumpkins, electronic music stars Disclosure and indie rockers The 1975, Good Vibes has cemented its reputation as one of the best events the country has to offer.

This year, Good Vibes is scheduled to take place on 12th and 13th August 2017. U Mobile customers can look forward to:

  • Exclusive ticket giveaways
  • Special U Mobile price for festival tickets
  • Backstage passes where one can meet and greet the artists and catch their performances from the side of stage.

 

Ed Sheeran’s Malaysia Tour

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The ÷ (Divide) Tour is the third world concert tour by English singer-songwriter and musician, Ed Sheeran, in support of his third studio album, ÷ (Divide).

The tour will celebrate the tremendous success the Grammy-winning singer has had with his third LP, including the number 1 Billboard Hot 100 debut of “Shape of You,” which has topped the chart for six weeks so far, while second single “Castle on the Hill” entered at number 6, making Ed the first artist to ever have two singles make simultaneous top 10 debuts in the chart’s 58-year history. , ÷ (Divide) also broke the 1 billion YouTube views mark just two days after its release.

Full benefits for the upcoming major music events such as Good Vibes Festival and Ed Sheeran’s Tour in Malaysia will be unveiled on the U Mobile website in June 2017.

 

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