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- Five awarded RM4.06mil over unlawful detention under ISA
- There’s a ‘DAP ghost’ in Penang PKR
- Who is lying – Chin or Wong?
- Nazri: Large number of foreigners in Sabah not a threat
- Ex-wife claims Bekir has RM700mil in 111 accounts
- 'Soros must explain Suaram involvement'
- UK factory production lower as orders slump
- Britain's economy slows as firms' hiring, investment plans ease
| Five awarded RM4.06mil over unlawful detention under ISA Posted: 01 Oct 2012 11:18 PM PDT The 'Reformasi 6' who spent two years in Kamunting (The Star) - Five people, including Batu MP Tian Chua, have been awarded more than RM4.06mil in damages over their unlawful detention under the Internal Security Act in 2001. High Court judge Lau Bee Lan ruled on Tuesday that the detention of Tian Chua, Selangor PAS information chief Saari Sungib, activists Hishammudin Rais and Badaruddin Ismail and PKR supreme council member Badrulamin Bahron under Section 73 of the Internal Security Act 1960 was unlawful. The five had sued former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Norian Mai and two others for unlawful detention under the ISA and for defamation. (The award covers RM15,000 a day for the total number of days that they had been detained). Justice Lau also awarded Tian Chua, Hishammudin, Saari and Badrulamin RM60,000 in general damages and RM40,000 in aggravated damages in total based on grounds that the words uttered by Norian during a press conference in April, 2001 in relation to the detention was defamatory. She ruled that the detention was not based on the safety of the country but more towards political considerations.
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| There’s a ‘DAP ghost’ in Penang PKR Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:47 PM PDT This so-called 'ghost', claims a former PKR leader, has been feeding Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng with the details of PKR meetings in the state. Athi Shankar, FMT GEORGE TOWN: Internal leakage on details of Penang PKR meetings to outsiders, especially DAP, is not something new. "It has been happening since a year ago," alleged former Kedah PKR secretary Zamil Ibrahim. He claimed that the PKR state leadership was aware of it and suspected a local party leader close to DAP to be the culprit behind the sabotage work. Zamil said the politician had often been described by party insiders as a "DAP ghost in PKR mask." Based on internal information, he said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng would receive all information, including confidential details, from the suspect on goings-on in PKR meetings. He said Lim, who is also the Penang chief minister, would be informed by this "ghost" within five minutes after a meeting ended. "The leakage in Penang PKR is rampant and dangerous. It's not only an act of sabotage but an act of betrayal," Zamil told FMT. He was commenting on the public leaking of details of an internal casual meeting between the state PKR chief and Deputy Chief Minister I Mansor Othman with seven local Chinese members. Details of the meeting were published in verbatim in June postings of a blog called "Gelagat Anwar" while its audio recording was aired by TV3 on Sept 24. According to the leaked details, Mansor had, during the meeting, apparently described Lim as "cocky, arrogant and tokong", which was now been popularly termed as the "CAT" by critics. The CAT leak had now put Mansor in a politically awkward position as PKR conducts its internal investigation to nab the culprit. The seven who met Mansor in the closed-door discussion were state PKR deputy chief Law Choo Kiang, Bukit Bendera division deputy chief Felix Ooi Keat Hin, Bayan Baru vice chairman Tan Seng Keat, 2004 candidate for Bayan Baru federal and Batu Uban state seats – Raymond Ong Ting Cheow, Tanjung Youth chief Ng Chek Siang; Bayan Baru member Cheah Peng Guan and Mansor's special assistant John Ooh Sin Hwa. It is learnt that all seven members had so far denied being involved in the sabotage act.
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| Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:35 PM PDT If ROS had declared the SUPP presidential election in December 2011 valid, why didn't Peter Chin show it to Wong Soon Koh? (FMT) - KUCHING: The most prominent issue that has surfaced from the weekend meeting of Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) is an alleged letter issued by Registrar of Society (ROS) on March 26. Following the meeting of the contentious central working committee (CWC), SUPP president Peter Chin said the party had received a letter declaring the controversial triennial delegates convention (TDC) and its presidential elections in December 2011 as valid. He claimed the letter, dated March 26, was addressed to the party's secretary-general and had also indicated that the CWC was a valid entity. But Chin's claims have sparked doubts over his sincerity in wanting to consolidate SUPP at state level. A looming general election appears to have little bearing on Chin, who is seen as out to drown his former rival for the president's post, Wong Soon Koh. Wong, who is backed by by Chief Minister Taib Mahmud, is also the former party's deputy secretary-general. A party insider from Wong's Sibu branch questioned Chin's silence over the March 26 letter and over issues between his faction and Wong's. Wong, who is Bawang Assan assemblyman, had lodged the report with ROS last year over the branch-level election irregularities. "This [letter] is a big issue. If there was a letter dated March 26, why didn't Chin show it to us before? Why was Chin silent all this while? "Isn't it to his benefit to tell everyone of ROS' decision and move towards uniting the factions?" asked the insider, referring to the deeply divided party facing political extinction. According to the insider, ROS had sent both Chin and Wong a letter dated April 3 notifying them that investigation into the party's alleged election irregularities was still ongoing. It was this letter which Wong and his team of six assemblymen had been adhering to. The letter also instructed SUPP to only carry out ordinary businesses, thus making last Saturday's CWC meeting called to discuss two motions – disciplinary action against Wong and calls for the party to pull out of BN – questionable. Said Bengoh assemblyman Dr Jerip Susil, who is also in Wong's 'camp: "If indeed the secretary-general of SUPP had received a letter from ROS, stating the TDC is valid, we should be notified without further delay." He said as far Wong and the other elected representatives were concerned, the issue was simply the "validity of the TDC". "We love the party and our concern is that the party be administered with transparency, fairness, and a sense of justice…" he said in a statement.
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| Nazri: Large number of foreigners in Sabah not a threat Posted: 01 Oct 2012 03:41 PM PDT
(The Star) - The presence of 889,770 legal and illegal foreigners in Sabah is not a threat to the country or the state's security and order, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz. He said that while national population growth was 2.5% annually, the growth in Sabah was higher. "The population growth rate is higher in Sabah compared to Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia for several reasons, including the presence of illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries," he said in response to a question by Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing (Tuaran) on whether the presence of 800,000 foreigners in Sabah posed a threat to national safety and security. He said the relevant authorities, including police, immigration, national registration and the Chief Minister's department was constantly monitoring the situation. On June 1, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the setting up of the RCI to investigate the long-standing problems related to illegal immigrants in Sabah, as the government was committed to resolving the issue. Sabah reportedly has more than half a million illegal immigrants, mostly Filipinos and Indonesians. Due to the influx of immigrants since the late 1960s, the state recorded a 410% population growth in 40 years from 648,000 in 1970 to 3,309,700 in 2010.
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| Ex-wife claims Bekir has RM700mil in 111 accounts Posted: 01 Oct 2012 02:51 PM PDT
(The Star) - The Syariah High Court here heard on Tuesday that Datuk Seri Mahmud Abu Bekir, a Group Deputy Chairman of Cahaya Mata Sarawak (CMS), has 111 accounts totalling more than RM700mil. His ex-wife Shahnaz A. Majid, 48, testified that the accounts were located in several banks overseas, which includes United States of America, Europe and the Carribean. Shahnaz, who is the sister of jazz singer Datuk Sheila Majid, is claiming 50% of all assets owned by Mahmud Abu Bekir such as luxury cars, houses in various locations, land in Sarawak and shares. She said Mahmud Abu Bekir, 49, the son of Sarawak chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, had the capability to also pay her RM100mil in gifts to enable her to start her life afresh. The couple were married on Jan 9, 1992 and divorced on May 11 last year. Shahnaz was testifying in a trial for her application to get RM300mil in matrimonial property and RM100mil in gifts (mutaah) as a divorce settlement.
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| 'Soros must explain Suaram involvement' Posted: 01 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT
(NST) - A former Parti Keadilan Rakyat leader Ng Lum Yoong said yesterday currency speculator George Soros should shed some light on allegations that he financed Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) to "attack" the French defence industry. "Soros should explain to Malaysians and to the French why he had used Suaram to attack the French defence industry," he said in a statement. New York-based Open Society Institute, which was founded by Soros, had allegedly paid human rights watchdog Suaram RM774,000 (between 2008 and last year). "Why did Soros make use of illegal entities such as Suaram to hire two French lawyers, William Bourdon and Joseph Breham to fight the case?" Ng said Soros should have hired the litigators himself. "Soros should have paid the lawyers directly from America since the French are competing with the Americans for defence contracts all over the world." Ng, who was one of the founder members of PKR, also said that it was unfair for Soros to interfere with the Malaysian government's decision to purchase two French-made Scorpene submarines. "Since Soros is involved, it's no wonder why Suaram and Pakatan Rakyat strongly oppose the purchase the subs." |
| UK factory production lower as orders slump Posted: 01 Oct 2012 02:05 PM PDT
(Reuter) - Activity in the British manufacturing sector shrank more than expected in September as export orders fell and costs soared, a survey showed, raising the risk that the economy will falter after rebounding in the past few months. The CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell to 48.4 from an upwardly revised 49.6 in August, dipping further below the 50 mark which separates growth from contraction. The latest signs of renewed weakness in manufacturing will support the view that the recovery is fragile and that the Bank of England will extend its quantitative easing asset purchases once the current round is completed in November. Manufacturers cut production for the third month in a row, with all major sectors seeing a contraction. "Overseas sales continue to be hit by the ongoing deterioration in global economic growth, with the eurozone the UK's largest export market at the epicentre of the weakness," said Markit chief economist Chris Williamson. "In this global economic environment, manufacturers look certain to struggle and the sector is unlikely to act as a driver of economic growth," he added. Manufacturing production jumped 3.2% in July, posting the sharpest monthly rise in 10 years.
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| Britain's economy slows as firms' hiring, investment plans ease Posted: 01 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT
(Reuters) - Britain's economy has lost momentum over the past few months, with firms scaling back investment and hiring plans, business lobby BCC said on Tuesday, in another sign that a meaningful economic recovery remains elusive. The quarterly survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) also showed that domestic and export demand slowed as the government's austerity drive and the euro zone debt crisis weighed. "Economic growth is weak and businesses are less confident and less likely to invest than they were at the beginning of the year," BCC Director General John Longworth said in a statement. The BCC stuck to its long-held view that the economy has avoided recession, contradicting data from the Office for National Statistics, because the 7,593 firms surveyed continued to report growth rather than contraction in output. "While the official assessment that the UK was in technical recession for three consecutive quarters is still too gloomy in our view, it is clear that the economy has been stagnant for too long," BCC chief economist David Kern said. The BCC now predicts growth of 0.5 percent in the third quarter. Most economists reckon official data will show that Britain posted some economic growth in the third quarter, rebounding after an extra national holiday in the previous quarter and helped by sales of tickets for the London Olympics and Paralympics. But a vigorous return to health is seen as unlikely despite the Bank of England's efforts to boost the economy with a total of 375 billion pounds worth of asset purchases. The BCC's survey provided little reason for optimism. Manufacturers and service firms reported slower sales growth and falling orders in Britain, the BCC said. Export demand and orders growth also weakened. "Fewer firms are looking to invest in training and plant and machinery, and confidence in future turnover and profit has fallen to levels last seen at the end of 2011," the BCC said. Manufacturers as well as services firms also cut back their hiring plans. The labour market has been one of the few bright spots in Britain and employment has risen over the past 12 months despite the weak economy.
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