Archive - 6 August 2016

The Penang Women’s Development Corporation (PWDC) stands in solidarity with the position taken by Women, Family and Community Development Minister, YB Rohani Abdul Karim, as well as with women’s groups across the country in condemning the recent dropping of statutory rape charges by the Kuching High Court against 22-year-old Ahmad Syukri Yusuf, accused of statutory rape of his 14-year-old victim, on the grounds that he had married her.

The burial date of Sept 18 was agreed during the family’s meeting with President Duterte.

UPDATED 7.55PM | He does not believe that M’sia will cease to be respected should he continue to lead.

Pokémon Go has generated storms of customers and subscribers all around the world with its augmented reality Pokémon catching system which manages to harmoniously allow users to stick to their precious smartphones while at the same encouraging them to leave their chairs and sometimes even homes just to catch that Charizard that they have always wanted.

This follows a report lodged by two crew members of the boat yesterday.

State DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen asks if Rafizi's call against quotas for West M'sians is shared by the party.

Five women and man sustained leg and waist injuries in the 11pm incident in Subang Jaya.

This comes a day after Indonesian police arrested six men on the island of Batam.

The decision was to protect the Muslim population from being corrupted by the game.

Najib says the decision would be made public during the tabling of the 2017 Budget.

Ironically, it is the Umno Youth chief and Youth Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, who has refuted Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s statement on Indonesian television yesterday that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit does not involve him, the Malaysian government or 1MDB directly.

The Penang DCM is commenting on the former premier's use of the word 'keling' to describe Indians.

A DAP lawmaker asks the minister to swiftly instruct Finas to cancel the recently announced nomination process.

Multi-cornered fights will be the acid test for Pakatan Harapan in GE14, the Penang DAP chief says.

COMMENT | The Indian Malaysian community can be fooled sometimes, but not all the time.

MP SPEAKS | How far are we taking all this race-based criteria under the guise of controlling language usage?  

UPDATED 2.24PM | Ahmad Razif is confident the state assembly will proceed without incident despite the crisis.

Edry Faizal ticks the film fest off for using Article 152 to justify segregation of film awards based on language.

Singaporean lawmakers should scrap proposed legislation on what constitutes contempt of court in news reporting and public commentary, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said today. The draft law’s penalties for violations, including possible prison terms for criticising the judiciary, threaten to entrench more self-censorship in Singapore’s constrained media environment.

Razlan Rafii says cops should question the Umno Youth deputy again over the police report.

With more than 600 million people, Asean is set to be an important node in the global market, the MP says.

This is over the move by national film corporation Finas to segregate major awards like best film by language.

UPDATED 16.34PM | Tony Pua ticks him off saying the US justice dept is merely doing its job as prosecutor.

UPDATED 3.25PM | A police report has been lodged against the ex-PM over the matter.

KINIGUIDE | Malaysiakini takes a look at the desperate and costly fight to push back the advancing years.

The Sarawak Reform Party (Reform) has questioned the Sarawak government’s practice of celebrating Aug 31 (831) every year as the date did not have any particular significance to Sarawak and its history.

Khairy says Mahathir’s party aims to pull support from Umno.

Nur Jazlan says proactive measures were continuously taken by the Home Ministry.

YOURSAY | ‘You’ve heard it from the IGP - making a false police report is no longer an offence.’

He makes this challenge in order for the people to actually know about 1MDB.

‘The words used (by DOJ) showed as though Malaysia and the government are guilty.’

FFM says it is justified to have awards in national language and non-national language categories.

Md Nor cites 'racist elements' as reason for pulling out of the prestigious awards.

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines that you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

YOURSAY | ‘With this new security law, Najib doesn't need any other laws.’

Convincing the folk black is white, wrong is right.

The issue seems more pressing than ever before.