20/11/08 2 comments
Dari Malaysiakini
Permohonan untuk mengetepikan keputusan Mahkamah Sesyen bagi mengekalkan perbicaraan kes liwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim di mahkamah itu akan didengar pada 5 dan 6 Feb tahun depan.
Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah menetapkan tarikh itu selepas membenarkan permohonan peguam utama yang mewakili Anwar, Sulaiman Abdullah bagi penangguhan kerana beliau perlu mengendalikan kes lain di Mahkamah Tinggi Komersial hari ini.
Anwar dikecualikan daripada menghadiri pendengaran itu.
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19/11/08 0 comments
Dari Mstar Online
Oleh G.MANIMARAN
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat, ikatan pembangkang yang ditubuhkan April lalu, mengadakan retreat - yang pertama sejak pilihan raya umum ke-12, di ibu negara hari ini.
Pertemuan informal itu yang disertai ahli-ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat, antara lain bertujuan membincangkan usaha merapatkan ikatan wakil-wakil rakyat pembangkang.
mStar Online difahamkan pertemuan ini bertujuan menyusun strategi Pakatan Rakyat untuk menghadapi beberapa isu semasa termasuk isu sasaran 16 September dijangka menjadi tumpuan.
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19/11/08 0 comments
From Malaysiakini
By Syed Jaymal Zahiid
An independent audit company’s probe into the controversy-ridden government tourism development company, Pempena Sdn Bhd, has shown that the company, despite its multi-million ringgit investments, has been performing poorly.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in its report, released to the press today, stated that as of June 2008, Pempena had invested a total of RM54.4 million in 24 companies but only four managed to generate profits.
The independent audit firm in its report also showed that Pempena had invested in five non-functional companies. PWC has proposed the company to pull out of these investments, a move that would incur “a loss of approximately RM20 million”.
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19/11/08 0 comments
From Malaysiakini
Veteran opposition lawmaker Karpal Singh has given Chief Justice Zaki Azmi a week from today to resign from his post for allegedly admitting to corrupt practices while in private practice.
This came after Karpal claimed for the first time today that there was an audio recording of Zaki’s confession made two weeks ago despite the CJ’s denial of making the remarks.
“Zaki cannot, and should not, deny that he had in fact uttered the words. There is a audio recording of what he said in Kuching,” Karpal, also DAP’s Bukit Gelugor MP, said in a statement today.
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17/11/08 7 comments
From Malaysiakini
By Tony Thien
“We join tonight, tomorrow we start work.”
These were the words of PKR’s latest elected representative recruit Gabriel Adit Demong, 58.
Adit, who until two days ago was an independent state assemblyperson for Ngemah - a predominantly-Iban constituency in Sarawak’s central region - has on Saturday hosted a 330-table dinner in Sibu with PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim as the guest of honour.
Adit’s speech before a crowd of 4,000 people at Sibu Trade and Exhibition Centre was listened intently by his new boss Anwar, the recently-elected MP for Permatang Pauh and parliamentary opposition leader.
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17/11/08 12 comments
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Jimadie Shah Othman | Nov 17, 08 12:30pm
Ketiga-tiga parti anggota Pakatan Rakyat menerima kedudukan hak istimewa orang Melayu, bahasa Melayu dan agama Islam sebagai agama persekutuan sepertimana terkandung dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan, kata Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini.
Menurut beliau, isu berhubung perkara itu tidak perlu dirisaukan lagi kerana persefahaman mengenainya telah dibuat antara ketiga-tiga parti anggota Pakatan - PKR, DAP dan PAS.
Malah, tegas Anwar lagi, kenyataan bahawa kesemua pihak telah bersetuju mengenai perkara itu, telah dikeluarkan pada 8 September lalu.
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16/11/08 56 comments
Malaysiakini | Nov 15, 2008
About 12,000 people in Sarawak, including 6,000 supporters of Ngemah state rep Gabriel Adit, have applied to join PKR.
Their application forms were submitted to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim at a huge dinner gathering in Sibu tonight which saw more than 4,000 people in attendance.
Also signing up with the opposition party is controversial former PRS Balleh division publicity chief, Beginda Minda.
He was forced to leave the state BN component party following his call on the chief minister and his deputy to step down.
Adit, 58, claimed that he had submitted the application forms for PKR membership from 6,000 of his supporters tonight.
The other 6,000 new applications were believed to be from former PRS members and non-party members.
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15/11/08 5 comments
From The Nut Graph
By Deborah Loh
YES, we are staring at the gathering clouds of an economic crisis. Sure, economic fundamentals are strong, as government ministers keep saying, but that’s only half the picture.
The other half is the financial scenario, as economic and financial principles are two different things. The sub-prime crisis that began in the US and western countries is essentially a financial problem. But in an interdependent world, a financial crisis in one place could result in an economic crisis in another.
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15/11/08 4 comments
From The Star Online
By Lisa Goh
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution has again tried to move the sodomy trial of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to the High Court.
The Sessions Court was to set a date for the trial yesterday after ruling against the prosecution’s application on Nov 7 to move the trial saying that the transfer certificate signed by Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail was invalid.
But Senior DPP Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden told Judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah that the proceedings should be adjourned pending further orders from the High Court following the prosecution’s application to revise her decision.
High Court Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah has set Nov 20 and 21 to hear the application for the revision.
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14/11/08 4 comments
From Malaysiakini
By Dzulkefly Ahmad
After the winding-up by the second finance minister on the budget debate at the committee level in the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 11, I felt compelled to write my two-cent worth of thought on our economy.
For a start, news about China’s stimulus package of US$586 billion, or RM2.1 trillion, not capable of counteracting the effect of the US-led slowdown and that the euphoric rally in the Asian bursas lasting only one day, which was Monday, are indeed very frightening.
The RM5 billion injection to shore up ‘undervalued stocks’ by ValueCap, as instructed by the finance minister, flies in your face and how much quicker, you thought, will it dissipate.
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14/11/08 3 comments
Dari Malaysiakini
Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menetapkan 20 November ini untuk mendengar rayuan pihak pendakwa bagi memindahkan perbicaraan kes liwat yang dihadapi oleh Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Sehubungan itu, Hakim S M Komathy Suppiah menangguhkan untuk menetapkan tarikh perbicaraan pada satu tarikh yang akan ditetapkan kelak.
Ketua Bahagian Pendakwaan Jabatan Peguam Negara, Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden memberitahu mahkamah bahawa pihaknya telah memfailkan rayuan dan semakan terhadap keputusan yang dibuat oleh Komathy menolak permohonan memindahkan kes tersebut ke Mahkamah Tinggi pada 7 November lalu.
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14/11/08 4 comments
From Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 - The newly-elected chairman of the Parliamentary Caucus on the Integrity and Independence of the Judiciary wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi to include the promotion of judges among the key responsibilities of the soon-to-be-formed Judicial Appointments Committee (JAC).
“What we want is not only the appointment of judges… but also the promotion of judges, especially in light of the appointment of Tan Sri Zaki as Chief Justice,” said Karpal Singh, its first chairman.
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13/11/08 3 comments
From Malaysiakini
By Rahmah Ghazali
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has announced the formation of a parliamentary caucus on the integrity and independence of the judiciary.
Speaking at a press conference in Parliament today, Anwar, who is also Permatang Pauh MP, said that the caucus will be established “notwithstanding the initiatives forwarded by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to set up a judicial commission”.
“We have yet to see the papers (on the judicial commission) and I think it is appropriate for the caucus to elaborate on this issue,” he said, adding that the caucus will hold its first meeting tomorrow.
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