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Thu, Feb 23, 2012

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Horror genre films victimised - David Teo

Posted on 23 February 2012 - 05:24am
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 02:28pm

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): Horror of horrors!

Cuepacs proposes RM700-RM2,500 increment

Posted on 23 February 2012 - 05:24am
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 02:28pm

Hemananthani Sivanandam
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 22, 2012): The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) has proposed a salary increment of between RM700 to RM2,500 for civil servants.

Its president Datuk Omar Osman said the increment should come under the Malaysian Remuneration Scheme (SSM) before it is converted to the New Public Service Remuneration Scheme (SBPA).

He said sh

Guilty of illegal assembly

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 08:23pm
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 11:35am

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): Sixteen people who took part in an anti-ISA rally three years ago were found guilty of illegal assembly today.

Eleven were sentenced to a day in jail and fined RM2,000 each in default one week's imprisonment by sessions court judge Ainul Shahrin Mohamad.

Mat Sabu's application to set aside criminal defamation case rejected

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:17pm
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 11:35am

GEORGE TOWN (Feb 22, 2012): The High Court here today rejected an application by PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu to set aside a criminal defamation charge against him regarding the Bukit Kepong communist insurgency issue.

Justice Mohd Amin Firdaus Abdullah made the decision after evaluating the defence's submission and counter-submission by the prosecution.

The judge also reje

Five Malaysians held for working illegally in Australia

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:21pm
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 11:35am

MELBOURNE (Feb 22, 2012): Five Malaysians and two Chinese nationals are under detention by the immigration authorities for working unlawfully in Australia.

They were picked up overnight in Adelaide by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Diac) officers following a tip-off that they were working illegally in the construction industry.

A Diac spokesman said the seven men

Mounting pressure against Lynas

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 08:05pm
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 11:35am

Karen Arukesamy
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): Four more gatherings will be held on Sunday in four states in conjunction with the Green Assembly 2.0 in Kuantan against the controversial Lynas Corporation rare earth plant.

Apart from Kuantan, the other gatherings will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Perak and Sabah at different times to urge the government to stop the plant in Gebeng, from operati

Anson Wong walks out a free man today

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 08:13pm
Last updated on 23 February 2012 - 11:35am

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 22, 2012): International wildlife trader Anson Wong Keng Liang walked out a free man today after the Court of Appeal here allowed his appeal to reduce the jail sentence imposed on him for illegally exporting boa constrictor snakes without a permit.

Justice Datuk Wira Low Hop Bing, chairing a three-member panel, reduced Wong's jail term from five years to 17 and a h

Giving credit to Penangites

Posted on 23 February 2012 - 05:30am

Himanshu Bhatt
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

GEORGE TOWN (Feb 22, 2012): The Penang government gave credit to all 1.6 million Penangites for a "historic feat" after the state recorded the highest manufacturing investments in the country, for the second year running, last year.

"This is a marvellous and incredible achievement for the second smallest state in Malaysia without any natural resources," Chief Minister Lim Guan En

Children's book banned

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:08pm
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 08:23pm

PETALING JAYA (Feb 22, 2012): The Home Ministry has decided today to issue a prohibition order and ban the imported book titled "Where Did I Come From?" by Peter Mayle.

The action was taken under Section 7, Subsection 1 of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 which prohibits materials deemed offensive or morally prejudicial.

EC allows postal voting for media personnel

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:07pm
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 08:18pm

Hemananthani Sivanandam
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

PUTRAJAYA (Feb 22, 2012): The Election Commission (EC) has agreed to allow postal voting for media personnel to ensure they are given the opportunity to exercise their rights as voters.

EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said this is allowed under the Election (Postal Voting) Regulations 2003, but noted that the application to become postal voters could only be done after nominations and i

Nik Aziz: PAS will never recognise Israel

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 04:30pm
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 08:06pm

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): PAS Spiritual Leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (pix) has reiterated that the party will never recognise "the forbidden state of Israel".

He said it is an appropriate stand considering that Israel came about by way of the denial of the rights of Muslims and deprivation of the rights of the Palestinian people.

High Court dismisses Kashgari habeas corpus bid (Update)

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 11:12am
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 04:33pm

Tan Yi Liang
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): The High Court has dismissed the habeas corpus application filed by lawyers for Saudi columnist Hamza Kashgari (pix).

The application was dismissed today by Judge Datuk Rohana Yusof after preliminary objections were raised by the A-G's Chambers, represented by Senior Federal Counsel Kamaluddin Md Said.

Speaking after the hearing in chambers, Hamza's

Ministry to study viability of compulsory rotavirus vaccination

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:21am
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 12:24pm

Pauline Wong
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

PETALING JAYA (Feb 21, 2012): The Health Ministry will study the viability of making rotavirus vaccination compulsory, in light of the outbreak of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in Perak recently.

Its minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said he would direct director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman to study the seriousness of the situation of rotavirus-related AGE in the coun

Children's book pulled off shelves

Posted on 21 February 2012 - 06:22pm
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 12:18pm

PETALING JAYA (Feb 21, 2012): The Home Ministry has pulled copies of the children's book, Where did I come from? from the shelves, pending further investigation.

M'sia win four gold medals at international invention competition

Posted on 22 February 2012 - 05:27am
Last updated on 22 February 2012 - 11:15am

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21, 2012): Malaysia won four gold medals at the International Youth Invention Exhibition (IYIE) 2012 held at Far East University in Taiwan from Feb 10 to 13.

According to a Ministry of Education statement today, the 10 countries which took part in the competition included Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, Vietnam and Malaysia.