Experts to be engaged to check floods


Technology driven: Najib giving the thumbs up for the MyCEV, an electric car developed by a Universiti Teknologi Malaysia student, at Menara UTM. — Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian experts will be engaged by the Government to determine the causes of recent floods and how to mitigate them in future, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“The issue has been raised in the Cabinet and we have decided we must know the factors that caused the disaster,” said Najib at the official launch of Menara Razak at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) here yesterday.

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