31 ditahan ‘Occupy’ pejabat MB Pahang, 2 dicekik polis

Oleh Sidiqin Omar

KUANTAN 10 Julai: Seramai 31 penduduk Cameron Highland termasuk 12 perempuan dan enam kanak-kanak ditahan polis dalam bantahan ‘Occupy’ di hadapan Pejabat Menteri Besar Pahang, kira-kira jam 4.00 petang tadi.

Setiausaha Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) Cameron Highland, Suresh Kumar memberitahu, pembantu Ahli Parlimen Sungai Siput, S Nagendran dan seorang lagi dikenali Uthayakumar, dicekik Ketua Polis Kuantan, Jasmani Yusof ketika ditangkap.

Sidek’s daughter got ‘lion’s share’ of solar power deal, Pakatan MPs say

Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan retired as the Chief Secretary to the Government last
month and was immediately named as Petronas chairman. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Malaysia’s renewable energy authority must explain the award of nearly two-thirds of a lucrative feed-in tariff (FiT) solar-power contract to the daughter of Petronas’ new chairman Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan despite her inexperience in the industry, two Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers demanded today.

The DAP’s Tony Pua and his PKR ally Nurul Izzah Anwar highlighted records they said showed Suzi Suliana Mohd Sidek and her business partners were handed the “lion’s share” of the limited contract introduced last year to enable homeowners to feed electricity produced by solar panels onto the national power grid.

PR/BN in Sabah, S'wak should be invited to join UBA

By Joe Fernandez
KOTA KINABALU : The PR/BN chapters in Sabah and S'wak should be invited to join UBA on condition that these said chapters will achieve autonomy, if they don't already have, as soon as possible.

To avoid the Sapp kind of about-turns, those signing up with UBA should take a Public Pledge and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with all UBA members.

Bludgeoned natives to sue police

By Joseph Tawie of FMT

A father and son who were attacked by gangsters are planning to sue the police for not acting on their report and for detaining them instead.

KUCHING: A native landowner and his son who were bludgeoned by gangsters on Feb 14 last year while defending their property and who were later imprisoned by police for lodging a report on the incident, are now planning to sue the authorities.

Minggat Nyakin and his son Juan were badly beaten by the gangsters when they tried to block the thugs from extracting timber from their NCR land at Sungai Rotan and Sungai Penyaru Kuba, Sarikei.

According to Minggat, the gangsters had the intention to kill both of them, but since his son had managed to escape to seek help, they had to hurriedly left him unconscious and sprawled on the ground.

‘BN and Umno leaders pawning Sabah’

By  Queville To of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has denounced Kota Belud MP Abdul Rahaman Dahlan’s view that Sabah is just one of the 13 states in Malaysia.

SAPP supreme council member Peter Marajin accused Abdul Rahman of denying Sabah’s autonomy by twisting the history of the proclamation of Malaysia in Sept 16, 1963.

“The proclamation of Malaysia read by Donald Stephens at Padang Bandaran on that particular day that Sabah is one of the 13 states in Malaysia does not mean Sabah’s status is the same as Perlis or Kedah in Malaya at that time. It is only a question of convenience that such proclamation was pronounced.