(Reuters) - Former Apple executive Pete Distad will be the CEO of the sports streaming joint venture formed by Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Fox Corp, the media companies said on Friday.
JOHOR BARU: A special team has been formed involving three Johor executive council members to clean up the city here of vagrants and drug addicts.The exco members involved are state health and environment committee chairman Ling Tian Soon, Johor women, family and community development committee chairman Khairin Nisa Ismail and state housing and local government committee chairman Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor.
Ling said he recently participated in a raid by authorities at the city centre with Khairin Nisa and Mohd Jafni. Accompanying them were agencies under their respective portfolios. “These homeless individuals have been utilising public facilities like parks for their recreational activities. “These people usually work in Singapore by day, and when they return to Johor Baru, it is already late at night. So they will just spend a few hours sleeping on the streets before doing it all over again the following day.
The relevant agencies had also recorded personal information of the homeless people for appropriate actions to be taken, such as sending them to the Anjung Singgah transit shelter, he added. Meanwhile, Ling said the Johor National Anti-Drugs Agency had picked up a total of 377 suspected drug users as of March 6 this year, bringing the daily average to about 5.7 people.
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