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Najib umum minyak RON95 naik 20 sen tengah malam ini

Putrajaya hari ini mengumumkan langkah untuk menaikkan minyak petrol RON95 dan diesel kepada 20 sen seliter, kata Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak hari ini.

Najib, yang juga merupakan Menteri Kewangan, berkata kenaikkan tersebut akan berkuatkuasa mulai tengah malam ini.

"Selepas berbincang, saya mengumumkan kenaikkan RON95 sebanyak 20 sen seliter," kata Najib.

Kenaikan harga rumah sekurang-kurangnya 15% tidak
dapat dielakkan akibat ketidakcekapan
Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan

Oleh: Kevin Ivan

KOTA KINABALU : Pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) dikenal pasti antara penyebab utama kenaikan harga rumah mendadak di Sabah sehingga harga rumah di negeri ini menjadi kedua paling mahal di Malaysia sekarang.

Ini ditegaskan dalam ucapan Presiden Persatuan Pemaju Perumahan dan Hartanah Sabah (SHAREDA), Francis Goh, bagi mengulas banyak rungutan harga rumah terlalu mahal di Sabah sehingga hanya orang luar dan yang berada sahaja yang mampu memilikinya.

Dompok, MDP tahu projek bina masjid di Penampang

Oleh Percy Goliu

KOTA KINABALU: “Tidak timbul soal tidak mendapat kebenaran untuk membina masjid di Penampang dan kerajaan tempatan serta bekas pemimpin di daerah ini sudah lama maklum mengenainya,” kata jurucakap Wakaf Masjid Penampang (WMP) di sini.

Katanya, Majlis Daerah Penampang (MDP) juga meluluskan jalan raya sementara untuk memudahkan kerja-kerja menimbun tanah di tapak yang dicadangkan. Kerja-kerja ini tidak bersifat illegal (haram).

Menjelang Muktamar Pas Dan Pemilihan Tahun Ini

Oleh Khalid Samad

Sudah lama saya tidak menulis. Sepanjang Ramadhan saya hanya meletakkan tulisan orang lain serta beberapa video ucapan saya untuk tatapan pengunjung. Saya sedar ada banyak yang diperkatakan tentang saya, oleh mereka yang ingin ‘menyelamatkan PAS’ dan ‘menyelamatkan Presiden’ (kononnya) tetapi saya memilih untuk mendiamkan diri, buat seketika. Biarlah bulan Ramadhan diisi oleh usaha mentarbiyyahkan jiwa dan menundukkan nafsu. Bagi mereka yang merasakan diri mereka dijamin syurga, biarlah mereka teruskan dengan kerja memfitnah dan menabur dusta. Itu ‘hak’ mereka untuk menempah kemurkaan Allah sambil manusia lain berusaha mencari keredhaanNya.

In 2003 the Trends International Mathematics and Science
Study (TIMMS) ranked Malaysia as 10th out of
46 countries for Mathematics, now we are 36th.

By Winston Way

KUCHING: A baffled opposition here has questioned Education Ministry’s need to classify students’ SPM grades in Mathematics and Science subjects under the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen had written to the ministry seeking a breakdown of the grades for General Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English Language for the years 2006-2012 and was told that the information was “secret”

“I cannot understand why Mathemaics and Science grades are classified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). How can revealing the grades jeopardise national security?” he asked.

1st Singapore Chief Justice, Wee Chong Jin

The first, Wee Chong Jin was from Penang Free School. The second, Yong Pung How (nicknamed the "Hanging judge"?) was an ex-VI boy in KL.

And the third, Ipoh-born Chan Sek Keong, hailed from King Edward VII School in Taiping, and later the Anderson School in Ipoh.

Had they remained in Malaysia, they might have made it to the level of a Sessions Court judge, if they are lucky.

Our nation's loss is the little red dot's gain.

Note: CJ Chan wrote an average of 30 judgement a year, now compare that to Karpal's complaint that a Malaysian senior judge has yet to deliver his written judgement after 5 years

Hindraf calls on Prime Minister Najib to get cracking on the Hindraf BN MOU

By N.Ganesan, Hindraf National Adviser

The recent high pitched campaign by the police to address the rising crime rate in the country has helped to highlight the extent to which Indian youth are caught up in the whirlpool of crime. The fact that there is such a large involvement of the Indian young is a fairly recent phenomenon. This has not always been the case. This trend was set some 30 odd years ago in tandem with the massive forced displacement of Indian plantation workers out of their traditional abodes in the estates. This crime problem of the Indian young is only one of many, ailing the Indian community and is also only symptomatic of the more serious socio-economic problem.

Kota Kinabalu: Sabah must assert and celebrate its independence on 31st August as independence day is the most important milestone of any nation and more so when 2013 marks its 50th anniversary of independence” said Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR Sabah, in a press statement released today.

The people must know that Sabah gained independence on 31 August 1963 and was 16 days before being rushed into forming Malaysia with 3 other independent nations, Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore. The correct history needs to be re-written and thought to our young that Malaya gained independence on 31 August 1957 while Sarawak and Singapore gained theirs on 22 July 1963 and 3 June 1959 and that Malaysia was formed as a new nation on “Malaysia Day”, 16 September 1963.

Egypt today; the challenges for the democratic popular movement

SAMIR AMIN August 24

ONE:
Too much is written on Egypt, which is understandable, even when coming from people whose knowledge of the Arab world is limited.

Too many are absorbing the info given by the mainstream western media, which is in that case as well as it is with respect to Venezuela for instance, almost always systematically distorted and even often completely false.

Many are also simplifying the issue , the alternative being : "respect of elections’ results - we say in Egypt rightly of so called elections - or support to a military power".

The verdict on the two former policemen illustrates
the failure of the system, says Lawyers for
Liberty's N Surendran, who is also a PKR leader.

PETALING JAYA: Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) has termed the release of the two policemen involved in the Altantuya Shaariibuu case as a ‘national embarrassment’.

LFL member and PKR vice president N Surendran labelled the Court of Appeal ruling this morning as such and said the verdict was expected.

“We expected this from the beginning since it was a set-up to hide the truth and protect the guilty,” he said.

“The bottom line is, she was murdered in the most gruesome and brutal manner and after so many years, no one has been held accountable or found guilty,” said the Padang Serai MP.

Penan communities have been complaining for years
that their families are being abused by in-commers
and that many of their children are the product
of rape – this girl spoke out to Sarawak Report

PETALING JAYA: Independent online portal, Sarawak Report, alleged that migrant workers at the Murum Dam were being treated like slaves, with the state agency in charge hardly paying their wages.

In addition, the portal also claimed that Penan women are still being exploited sexually by travelling salesmen linked to the dam work camps, with no action taken against the perpetrators.

According to the report, several workers from the dam project, who managed to escape from the site revealed the shocking details to its reporters.

The workers are mainly Chinese, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Burmese.

Sebelum ini Salleh 'menembak' sekurang-kurangnya dua
kementerian persekutuan yang kebetulan diterajui
dua pemimpin Umno Sabah sendiri.

Oleh Jurle Sagayong

KOTA BELUD: Kebelakangan ini Timbalan Ketua Perhubungan Umno Sabah, Datuk Salleh Said Keruak ada beberapa kali membuat gesaan atau lebih tepat “teguran” kepada beberapa kementerian persekutuan berhubung Sabah.

Yang terbaru ialah gesaannya supaya Kementerian Pendidikan pusat memberikan lebih kuasa autonomi kepada Jabatan Pelajaran Sabah dalam perancangan dan pelaksanaan projek pembangunan pendidikan di negeri kedua terbesar itu.

Sebelum ini Salleh, yang juga Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri, juga “menembak” sekurang-kurangnya dua kementerian persekutuan yang kebetulan diterajui dua pemimpin Umno Sabah sendiri.

They say all’s fair in love and war. But in Taib Mahmud’s case let me add politics. No one can grudge Sarawak’s top man his political strategy.

Taib’s a savvy politician, on his toes and ahead of his enemies.

He knows that in Sarawak, he is not the enemy, Putrajaya and Umno is.

And so he embraces Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion which states that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”.

Shaari being transferred to
Medical Center

By Kochava Rozenbaum

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah took part in assisting the heaviest man alive, Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, who weighs 1,345 pound (610kg), to the country’s capital Riyadh for medical treatments.

The obese young man had to be fork-lifted from his apartment bedroom to an airlift heading to the King Fahd Medical City, reported CNN yesterday.

Pencuri Raya pertama mandi darah kena belasah penduduk kampung

Ezra Haganez

KOTA KINABALU : Seorang lelaki yang dikhuatiri rakyat asing tetapi memiliki kad pengenalan Malaysia yang cuba memecah masuk dua buah rumah di Kampung Kopungit dekat sini pada Hari Raya Aidilfitri pertama bermandi darah dibelasah penduduk kampung yang berang dengan tabiat pencuri itu.

Abdul Malik, 36, dari Lorong 12, Kampung Sembulan, di sini, juga terpaksa bermalam di tempat tahanan balai polis Tanjung Aru untuk menunggu pendakwaan.

‘Syabu killed my only son’

By Thomas Pi

LAHAD DATU: Salomah Hamad, 30, is the heartbroken mother of 7-year-old Haikal who was slain by his father last week inside the living room of an unnumbered wooden house belonging to her adopted parents in Kampong Ipil.

During an interview, Salomah, holding a small photo of her son taken when he was aged two, said her 35-year-old husband was a drug addict. She believes that syabu caused him to lose his mind to the extent of slitting the throat of their only son and then allegedly drinking his blood.

“Syabu killed my son … my only son!” she cried.

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: A political scientist in Sabah believes it would be better for the two Sabah Umno leaders, currently being propped to vie for Umno’s vice presidency, to work together.

In contention for one of the three coveted Umno vice-president posts are Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman and federal Minister of Rural Development, Shafie Apdal.

Shafie is an incumbent to this seat. The other two incumbent vice presidents are federal ministers Hishamuddin Hussein and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

KUCHING: Timbalan Menteri dalam Negeri Datuk Dr. Wan Haji Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar berkata Kementerian dalam negeri (KDN) bertindak seperti satu badan payung yang akan memantau pihak polis kalau mereka sudah mengambil tindakan.

Beliau berkata di dalam perlembagaan negara sangat jelas menggariskan apa yang boleh dan apa yang tidak boleh, mengkritik sesiapapun jika bercanggah dengan perlembagaan, itu adalah satu kesalahan.

The page has been successful in using religion to divide
Malaysians, with many users using Islam and
Christianity as subjects of their arguments.

By Lisa J. Ariffin
PETALING JAYA: An anti-East Malaysia fan page which was previously shutdown has resurfaced on Facebook and is spewing racial and religious slurs.

The “Semenanjung (Peninsular) Malaysia Anti Sabah & Sarawak” fan page has garnered 321 ‘Likes’ since it resurfaced on the social-networking site on Aug 5, a far cry from the 4,870 ‘Likes’ it had before it was removed from Facebook.

Sabah cracks down on ‘opposition’ villages

By Joseph Bingkasan

KOTA KINABALU: Village chiefs in various district in Sabah where the opposition made inroads in the May 5 general election are starting to feel the anger of the Barisan Nasional government.

Several of them have received notices of termination of their services particularly in the Kadazan Dusun Murut (KDM) majority villages.

They believe that their dismissals are malicious and a form of revenge for the drop in support for the BN in the respective constituencies.

Insecurity – Greatest Failure of Federation Of Malaysia – Dr Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu: “The insecurity felt by Malaysians in Sabah is the greatest failure of the Federation of Malaysia and the reality is now turning into a nightmare even for lawmakers from the Barisan Nasional”, said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to the statement by YB. Datuk Seri Bung Mokhtar that he fears for his life to the extent he fears that he will be shot dead the moment he step out of Parliament House.”

The recent daily killings and violent crimeswere not confined to the Peninsular but has also spread to Sabah and with the rising crime rate, Malaysians are now living in fear.

Tanah sawah di Penampang dijual seekar RM1.7 juta

Oleh Percy Goliu
PENAMPANG: Segala-galanya adalah mengenai wang. Dan wang mengubah segala-galanya. Tidak hairanlah ramai pemilik sawah padi di Penampang menjadi ‘jutawan mini segera’ selepas menjual seekar dua tanah nenek moyang mereka kepada orang tengah yang kemudian membangunkan tanah itu untuk tujuan komersial.

Sawah padi di Kampung Kodundungan-Goliput, Jalan Pintas Penampang di sini, dikatakan dijual pada harga di antara RM1.5 juta dan RM1.7 seekar. Kawasan ini yang 10 tahun yang lalu masih aktif ditanam dengan padi, kini ditumbuhi dengan pelbagai bangunan komersial dan infrastruktur.

Correct Evaluation of the standard-bearer of mother tongue education

Contributions by Tan Lark Sye towards the
establishment of Nanyang University

- An article in commemoration of Tan Lark Sye to be published in conjunction of the memorial gathering to be held by Nanyang University (Nantah) Alumni Worldwide in Ipoh

正确评价民族教育旗手陈六使创办南大的功劳

Tan Seng Hin (from the 6th Batch, Economics Faculty)

(This text is translated by Sahabat Rakyat Working Committee Editorial Board from the original Chinese version released in July 2013)

“Since Perak Nanyang University Alumni Association is organising the memorial gathering for the late Tan Lark Sye in Ipoh on Saturday and Sunday, 7 - 8 September, I would request that a resolution “that the revocation of Tan Lark Sye’s citizenship is an unjust political act, and the Singapore government must reinstate Tan’s citizenship” or words to that effect, be adopted at the gathering.

Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew (pic) has a sober message for those counting on Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to usher in a new era of race relations in Malaysia: get real.

And the chance of Malay special privileges dismantled by PR in the event that the pact captures Putrajaya? Next to nothing.

To begin with, he said, the chance of the opposition coming to power in the near future was a very long shot. And then there were also the structural problems with the coalition of PAS, DAP and PKR.

Not Malay Dilemma, Not Chinese Dilemma...
Its All About Mahathir's Own Dilemma

by Dato Din Merican

Dr. Mahathir has yet to deal with the ghosts of his past deeds. Here no one can help him but he himself.

This is indeed tragic for a once formidable leader of our country who is advancing in years (born in 1925). He just cannot let go and now he has taken upon himself the task of interpreting history.

It is not Malay or Chinese Dilemma. It is Dr Mahathir’s.

He is unwilling to come to terms with himself.

Pemilik Facebook hina Kristian & Jesus dikesan

Gary Louis Supi
4:02PM Ogos 6 2013

Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi Datuk Dr Ewon Ebin berkata, pemilik laman sosial Facebook yang menghina agama Kristian dan Jesus sudah dikesan.

Anggota Parlimen Ranau itu berkata, identiti pengendali itu dikesan setelah pihaknya mengambil maklumat penuh profilnya di Internet daripada Cyber Security, agensi pakar keselamatan siber kementerian.

The Barisan Nasional's election petition succeeds, and a full
trial has been ordered for the Klias state seat in Sabah.

KOTA KINABALU: The Barisan Nasional has succeeded in its election petition for the Klias state seat in Sabah with the Election Court deciding to have a full trial to hear the case.

The court’s decision in allowing the first GE13 election petition, could pave way for an by-election, the second since the May 8, 13th general election.

The decision is likely to court protest by the opposition pact Pakatan Rakyat, whose election petitions so far have been dismissed with high costs.

Musa juga tahu kumpulan yang hendak menjatuhkannya
itu mungkin mereka yang berpura-pura menyokongnya

Oleh Jurle Sagayong

KOTA KINABALU : Ketua Menteri Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman, yang mula dicanang sesetengah kumpulan dalam Umno Sabah, sebagai calon naib presiden Umno, tahu benar ada pihak yang mahu sangat jatuhkannya dari tampuk kekuasaan di negeri di bawah bayu itu.

Musa juga tahu kumpulan yang hendak menjatuhkannya itu mungkin mereka yang berpura-pura menyokongnya, termasuklah untuk bersaing dengan Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, seorang lagi pemimpin Umno Sabah, untuk jawatan naib presiden.

KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Musa Aman is an ideal candidate to run for one of the three Umno vice-president posts in the coming party elections, said Sabah Umno liaison deputy chief Salleh Said Keruak.

Sabah Umno deputy liaison chief Salleh said Musa, who is the state Umno liaison chief and state Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman, is a visionary and experienced leader with good leadership qualities.

Keningau: The government should take serious action on the two bridges situated near the Tamu Ground and Sasaie Bingkor bypass for the convenience of the people. Bingkor Assemblyman, Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan said this to told reporters on Wednesday after visiting the two bridges.

The bridges, especially that one near the Tamu Ground, have been neglected for 17 years after Typhoon Greg hit Keningau.

Muslim punches face of nurse

Why didn't they go to their Muslim hospital to give birth in the first place? This is the reward for Western tolerance and Fanatical Muslim intolerance.

LONDON: A muslim in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife's veil during childbirth.

Kota Kinabalu:“Sabah should celebrate and commemorate its independence on 31st August as it marked the day Sabah was freed from the yoke of Colonialism and became an independent and free Nation”, said Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of the Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF).

For Sabahans and Sarawakians, their Independence is even more significant than Malaysia Day because its signifies self-rule and would have been theirs even if Malaysia did not materialize.

Kota Kinabalu: “The Federal and Sabah governmentsmust find long-term solutions to the diesel shortage problems in Sabah so that it does not recur again and stop providing piece-meal patch-work solutions”said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to the request for an additional 8 million litres of diesel to Sabah’s normal July quota of 74 million litresby the Domestic Trade, Cooperative, and Consumerism Ministry (MDTCC) Sabah office.

First and foremost, the diesel shortage is chronic and crippling may factories and interrupting the daily lives of many Sabahans and may even have jeopardized the lives of some.

Recognize Sabah as Nation for Better Security, Development - Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu: “PM Najib must do more for Sabah and Sarawak and recognize both entities as nations in Malaysia and not just do piece-meal patching to resolve long standing security, development and welfare issues. Just like patching up the pot-holes of the roads in Sabah, it will not be sustainable and will not resolve the problems in Sabah”said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to the PM’s focus on the three aspects announced over the weekend in Kota Kinabalu.

Explain ‘slow’ Pan Borneo highway

TAWAU: A Sabah state assembly representative has called on the federal government to stop giving excuses and to expedite the construction of the Pan Borneo Highway.

The construction of the 2,239 km highway spanning from Sematan Serudong Sarawak to Sabah, is being carried out in stages, starting from 2011 to 2025.

Bekalan diesel semakin meruncing

Oleh Kevin Ivan

KOTA KINABALU: Kira-kira tiga minggu lalu, FMT telah menyiarkan keluhan beberapa aktivis Sabah mengenai ketiadaan bekalan diesel di ibu negeri, namun hari ini keadaan semakin meruncing sehingga kabinet negeri Sabah pun naik rungsing.

Semakin ramai pengguna kenderaan diesel di sekitar bandaraya ibu negeri mengeluh dan marah atas ketiadaan bekalan diesel di seluruh kawasan.

PETALING JAYA: The Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Pristana in Sungai Buloh has come under fire from netizens after a parent posted photos on Facebook of non-Muslim students having their meals in the school’s shower area, next door to the toilets.

It shows students eating food on makeshift tables and benches placed in the shower area, ostensibly a decision made by school because of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Kevin Ivan

KOTA BELUD : Ahli Parlimen Kota Belud, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, yang menyokong seruan Presiden Perkasa, Datuk Ibrahim Ali untuk membakar Al-Kitab (Bible versi Bahasa Indonesia) yang mengandungi perkataan “Allah” dikecam hebat di kalangan penduduk Sabah.

Para pengundi Kota Belud dari kalangan Kristian dalam senyap membidas kenyataannya kelmarin sebagai kurang ajar dan biadap serta “kacang lupakan kulit” terhadap sokongan masyarakat Kristian di Kota Belud.

Rahman launches broadside against DAP MP

PETALING JAYA: Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan went on Twitter tirade against DAP MP Tony Pua today over reports that the former had defended Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali on the Malay bible-burning remark.

“YB ( Pua) , your ignorance of the issue is understandable but I must say your daily ritual to please your boss Lim Guan Eng is legendary,” said Rahman in his tweet.

Recently, Rahman had defended Ibrahim’s calls last year to burn Malay-language Bibles that contained the word “Allah’ in it.

The planned Borneo Heritage Foundation's activities to commemorate Sarawak independence day on 22 July 2013 is a welcome step forward in the long march for Sarawak independence.

The question is: Was this real independence or was it only a brief illusion?

Sarawak was an independent kingdom ruled by the English Brooke family from 1841 to 1941. Its statehood and identity as a sovereign country was first recognised by the USA in 1850 and then Britain in 1863, long before Malaya's independence in 1957.

"Ini kerana orang Islam yang ingin bakar Bible dan menghina anutan orang Hindu tidak didakwa
sehingga kini," kata MP PAS Sepang.

PETALING JAYA: Ahli parlimen PAS kawasan Sepang, Mohamed Hanipa Maidin meminta kerajaan tidak mendakwa pasangan Alvin Tan, 25, dan Vivian Lee, 24 di bawah Akta Hasutan kerana akta itu telah banyak menzalimi rakyat negara ini.

Jika mereka didakwa di bawah Akta Hasutan kerana menghina Islam tidakkah pasangan remaja ini juga akan merasa bahawa ada diskriminasi dan ketidakadilan ke atas mereka, kata beliau.

Former ISA detainee Jeffrey Kitingan told the Sabah
RCI panel that the legalised illegals in Sabah had
made their way into the electoral rolls

KOTA KINABALU: Bingkor assemblyman Jeffrey Kitingan told the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah that a National Registration Department (NRD) officer had shown him a list of some 60,000 foreigners who obtained Malaysian identity cards (ICs) in the 1990s.

Kitingan, a former detainee under the now defunct Internal Security Act (ISA), said he brought the matter up with his former political party, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), and a police report was lodged by the party’s then secretary-general Radin Malleh.

Independence Walk route

The 22 July 2013 is a day that should stand proud in the history of this state. It is a day that should be celebrated with all the pomp and circumstance of any key moment in the history of Sarawak. In fact, in the modern era, this date stands with only a handful of others as a key turning point in the history of our state and ultimately our nation. And yet there will be no official fanfare of any kind - nor has there been for the past 50 years. Even worse, many citizens will be totally unaware that this date holds any significance whatsoever.

46 groups sent memo to Pandikar on TPPA

MEMORANDUM KEPADA

YB Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Pandikar Amin Haji Mulia

Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat

Parlimen Malaysia, Bangunan Parlimen ,

Jalan Parlimen, Kuala Lumpur.

Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’Seri Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak

Perdana Menteri Malaysia

Pejabat Perdana Menteri di Parlimen Malaysia

Usaha mencari sedang giat dijalankan di kawasan
tanah runtuh seluas lebih seekar

Oleh Kevin Ivan
KUNDASANG : Seorang budak perempuan dikhuatiri tertimbus dalam satu kejadian tanah runtuh di kampung Mesilou, Kundasang, yang berlaku pagi tadi.

Jurucakap Bomba Ranau, ketika dihubungi FMT, berkata budak perempuan dari suku kaum Dusun itu yang belum dipastikan umurnya itu didapati hilang apabila sebuah pondok kebun milik keluarganya runtuh dan tertimbus dalam kejadian awal pagi tadi.

Politicians protecting illegal Indonesian school, district officer tells RCI

By Lee Shi-Ian
July 15, 2013
Political interference and patronage from certain parties led to the establishment of an illegal Indonesian school and the rise of squatter colonies in Papar, said its district officer Iman Ali.

Iman told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into illegal immigrants in Sabah that the illegal school followed the Indonesian education syllabus and its students wore the uniform colours of that country, red and white.

PETALING JAYA: Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari today questioned the Education Ministry on the purchase of Chromebook laptops at a higher-than-market price for the 1Student 1Device programme.

He also questioned the need to buy so many Chromebooks when it is not user specific.

“I would now like to question the cost-efficiency of the proposed purchase of Chromebooks, which are laptops based on cloud computing, meaning that each unit is not user-specific.

A Tale Of Two Popes And The Sainthood

LAST week, history was once more made in the Catholic Church following Pope Francis approval of the miracle needed to canonize Pope John Paul II and waiving Vatican rules to honour Pope John XXIII. The candidates have rightly been described as two of the 20th century’s most influential Popes; having closely identified with the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the Catholic Church into modern times.

(Reuters) - Pope John Paul II, the globe-trotting pontiff who led the Catholic Church for nearly 27 years, and Pope John XXIII, who called the reforming Second Vatican Council, will be declared saints, the Vatican said on Friday.

The Vatican said Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to John Paul, a Pole who was elected in 1978 as the first non-Italian pope in 450 years and died in 2005. His progression to sainthood is the fastest in modern times.

DOSSIER. Africa's youngest state marks second anniversary of independence while facing a number of challenges · A number of secessionist movements are on track to emulate the South Sudanese · Marginalization by the central government and differences rooted in history are usually argued by pro-independence partisans

South Sudan marks today the second anniversary of its independence, which was achieved after a decades-long war that ultimately led to an interim autonomous status and a referendum on secession. The "yes" vote reached more than 99% of the ballots, casting no doubt over the preferences of South Sudanese for full independence.

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