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KUANTAN, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- More help is on the way for the orphans in Pahang with the latest project being the construction of Rumah Penyayang Anak-Anak Yatim Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah at Bandar Indera Mahkota here. The brainchild of Sultan Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah, the construction of the complex sprawled on a 0.92-hectare (2.38 acre) site took off with a ground breaking ceremony officiated by the Sultan himself, Monday. Scheduled for completion in early 2008, the complex will be equipped with 56 rooms in two blocks which can accommodate about 200 orphans. It will have an administration office, library, surau, dining hall and four warden quarters. The Project Coordinator, Datuk Hashim Abdul Wahab said the orphans housed at the complex would be brought up in an upright atmosphere through formal education, religious study and physical education as well as emphasising on good personal conduct.
The death of a landscape contractor in Bermuda struck by a large branch that fell from a tree he was helping to lop has brought renewed calls for stricter controls on the training and certification of workers involved in potentially dangerous jobs. The owners of two of the largest landscaping companies in Bermuda, along with a qualified tree care professional and trainer, say there needs to be proper regulation of the industry as happens in many other countries. The circumstances surrounding the death of the 34-year-old Portuguese man, believed to be a father-of-one with another child on the way, are still being investigated. He was killed while working on a casuarina tree in a garden. The tree was the last in a row that was being cut back by a team from Island Construction and Landscaping Services.
Lack of skilled workers is the biggest risk to the growth prospects of one of Australia's largest construction companies, the John Holland Group, forcing it to start projects later than it otherwise would have. But this is being offset by significant increases in productivity under new regulations governing the building industry and from changes to workplace laws, company executives say. With boom conditions in Western Australia and strong conditions in other parts of the country, the problem is not in finding projects, it is in finding people, says group managing director David Stewart. "We can go and buy as much equipment as we want, we can buy construction materials from all over the world, we don't have any shortage of clients in the current market, but we haven't got enough quality people," Mr Stewart said yesterday.
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