Wednesday 21 August 2013

British national charged with having US$489,600 in fake money


British national charged with having US$489,600 in fake money

A British national was today charged in the Sessions Court with having 4,896 pieces of US$100 counterfeit currency notes here early this month.

Billal Chanchi, 46, an engineer, pleaded not guilty to possession of the money, equivalent to RM1,591,200, at the Seri Lata Condominium in Jalan 4/125, Taman Desa Petaling, Cheras, on Aug 1.

He was charged under Section 489c of the Penal Code which provides for a jail sentence of up to 10 years upon conviction.

Judge Mat Ghani Abdullah set bail at RM900,000 with one Malaysian surety, ordered Billal's passport to be impounded and fixed Sept 20 for mention.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Haderiah Siri appeared for the prosecution while Billal was unrepresented.


- BERNAMA 

Utusan diberi 48 jam untuk buktikan dakwaan 'Father Augustus'

Utusan diberi 48 jam untuk buktikan dakwaan 'Father Augustus'
KUALA LUMPUR:  Utusan Malaysia hari ini diberi 48 jam untuk membuktikan tuduhan yang dilemparkan terhadap DAP mengenai pemilihan parti.

Ketua Biro Guaman Kebangsaan DAP, Gobind Singh Deo berkata surat tuntutan dihantar pagi tadi kepada Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd, editor Zukifli Jalil dan wartawan Kasthuri Jeevendran.

"Kami memberi Utusan peluang untuk menerangkan tuntutan mereka, jika tidak, kita terpaksa pergi ke mahkamah," kata Ahli Parlimen Puchong kepada pemberita hari ini.

Artikel pertama adalah berkaitan dengan kenyataan yang diterbitkan semula dalam risalah Laporan Ekuiti daripada penulis ‘rekaan’ Father Augustus Chen.

Rencana yang diterbitkan dalam Mingguan Malaysia pada 18 Ogos, “Kit Siang manipulasi Pemilihan CEC?” mengandungi pelbagai 'kepalsuan', katanya.

"Jika anda mahu untuk menerbitkan sesuatu, anda perlu mengesahkan maklumat tersebut. Siapa itu Father Augustus Chen? Adakah Utusan pernah bertemu dengan dia? Adakah mereka sahkan dakwaan-nya? "katanya.

Artikel satu lagi, “Akhirnya ‘drama’ dihentikan” yang diterbitkan pada 17 Ogos mendakwa bahawa setiausaha agung parti telah menolak untuk memegang CEC pilihan raya semula.

"Ini juga sangat serius untuk ia seolah-olah menyatakan Guan Eng telah menolak untuk memegang pilihan raya parti semula kerana dia tahu tentang kebenaran dakwaan-dakwaan ini. Menggambarkan Guan Eng seorang pemimpin yang berbohong.

Gobind berkata bahawa artikel itu mengulangi ‘pembohongan’ bahawa 753 perwakilan tidak diberi notis melalui pilihan raya dan terdapat 547 pengundi hantu.

Kepimpinan DAP akan di ibu pejabat esok membincangkan butir-butir daripada CEC pilihan raya semula.


- Astro Awani 

'Ryse: Son of Rome' trailer introduces multiplayer mode

'Ryse: Son of Rome' trailer introduces multiplayer mode
US: 
Roman empire action title "Ryse" waited until Gamescom to show off Gladiator mode, its spin on historical combat with a theatrical twist.

Previously presented as a glossy single-player experience, and one that made extensive use of split-second button prompt responses, the new "Ryse" trailer is a lot closer to "God of War."

Developer Crytek is better known for the graphically impressive first-person shooter series "Crysis," and its penchant for the spectacular continues into "Ryse."

The game, which at one point had been expected on Xbox 360 as a Kinect motion control showcase, features a dynamic coliseum arena, complete with baying crowd, and a raft of submerged surprises below its floor.

Tiles fall and drawbridges clatter into place, fiery pits gape, while statues, columns, glades, and barbarian camps are pushed to the surface.

Combat is based on the timing of blocks and attacks, with a selection of savage executions available to finish wounded enemies. Players swear fealty to a god at the start of each match, with associated benefits delivered in return, and shared among teammates should they maintain close contact.

With the Gladiator Mode trailer showing the sort of liberties Crytek is willing to take with historical accuracy, thoughts turn back to the single-player campaign.

Will protagonist Marius Titus face Medusa, the Gorgon and Pluto's hound Cerebus just as "God of War" antihero Kratos battles Greek gods and monsters?



Source: AFP RELAXNEWS 

Genting Highland bus plunge: 37 confirmed dead

Genting Highland bus plunge: 30 confirmed dead


KARAK: 

The authorities have confirmed that 37 people have died from the Genting crash where a bus plunged into a ravine at KM3, Karak Highway this afternoon.

As at 8.15pm, these numbers consisted of 24 men and 13 women.


The rescue teams have removed a total of 16 injured passengers from the vehicle out of the estimated 49 in the bus.

The accident involving the tour bus occurred at about 3 pm today.

At this time the rescue work is being carried by teams from the fire and rescue department and the other agencies.

According to sources, the bus plunged into a 50 meters deep ravine. According to initial reports, the first victim is a woman who was removed from the crash site about 3.30pm.

A total of 30 ambulances were on site to take the victims to a nearby hospital.

It is understood the families involved are waiting at Selayang and Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Victims are sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital Emergency Department, however the source declined to elaborate.

In 2012, two Indian tourists were killed while 22 others were injured when a  bus they were traveling in skidded and overturned at kilometer 4.5, at Genting Highlands Highlands-Kuala Lumpur road.

Meanwhile in 2010, seven passengers were killed while 21 others were injured in the deadly tragedy accident where a  tour bus skidded and overturned  at KM38 Genting Sempah.


Genting Highlands

A snapshot of the Genting-KL jam caused by the tragic accident this late afternoon.



Source: Astro Awani 

Kabinet tolak cadangan PTPTN senarai peminjam bawah CCRIS

Kabinet tolak cadangan PTPTN senarai peminjam bawah CCRIS

KUALA LUMPUR:  Jemaah Menteri yang bermesyuarat hari ini menolak cadangan Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) untuk menyenaraikan peminjam ingkar di bawah Sistem Maklumat Rujukan Kredit Pusat (CCRIS).

Keputusan itu dimaklumkan oleh Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Khairy Jamaluddin melalui satu kenyataan di akaun Facebooknya selepas mesyuarat kabinet hari ini.

"Baru selesai mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri. Alhamdulillah, PTPTN tidak akan meneruskan cadangan untuk menyenaraikan peminjam dibawah CCRIS. Terima kasih pada PM & Menteri-menteri Pendidikan kerana mendengar suara-suara orang muda," kata Khairy.

Menteri Pendidikan Kedua, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh pada Isnin mengumumkan cadangan berkenaan yang bertujuan mahu menggalakkan peminjam PTPTN membayar balik kemudahan pembiayaan pendidikan yang mereka terima bagi membolehkan faedah itu dinikmati oleh orang lain.

CCRIS ialah sistem pangkalan data Bank Negara yang menyimpan maklumat kredit peminjam seperti yang dilaporkan oleh institusi kewangan. Melalui sistem itu, mana-mana peminjam PTPTN yang ingkar membayar semula akan berdepan masalah untuk mendapatkan kelulusan permohonan pinjaman yang lain termasuk perumahan, kenderaan, sewa beli dan lain-lain.

Cadangan Idris itu bagaimanapun mendapat bantahan banyak pihak termasuk daripada Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO.

Khairy dalam satu kenyataan media berkata, kerajaan sepatutnya mengguna pakai segala mekanisme kutipan serta mengambil tindakan yang sedia ada ke atas peminjam-peminjam yang ingkar.

“Bahkan,  keutamaan hendaklah diberi kepada tindakan bersepadu yang juga mengambil kira pemberian insentif bayaran balik serta kaedah pembayaran anjal yang mengambil kira situasi semasa peminjam.

“Ini kerana pinjaman PTPTN amat berbeza dengan pinjaman-pinjaman lain seperti  pinjaman kad kredit atau kenderaan.

“Pinjaman PTPTN bersifat keperluan kerana kerajaan tidak menawarkan pendidikan percuma sepenuhnya di institusi pengajian tinggi dan keperluan memiliki kelulusan samaada Diploma mahupun ijazah adalah penting bagi pembangunan kerjaya dan intelektual seseorang anak muda,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Ketua Penerangan Pemuda Umno Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican turut membantah langkah ini dan berkata ia perlu dilihat dengan lebih teliti.

Reezal Merican turut mencadangkan Agensi Kaunseling dan Pengurusan Kredit (AKPK) dijadikan rakan strategik jangka panjang kepada PTPTN.

Di pihak pembangkang, PAS dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) turut menyatakan bantahan terhadap cadangan yang dikemukakan Idris itu.

Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar berkata PAS kesal dengan pengumuman tersebut dan mendesak kerajaan supaya tidak terus menekan rakyat yang sudah banyak dihimpit kesusahan akibat pentadbiran yang lemah.

Katanya, sepatutnya kerajaan melihat permasalahan yang menyebabkan pemimjam tidak dapat membayar kembali pinjaman PTPTN bukan menghukum mereka dengan menyenarai hitamkan di Bank Negara.

PKR menyifatkan pengumuman sebagai satu lagi kegagalan mempertahankan pendidikan sebagai hak asasi rakyat.


- Astro Awani 

Bas persiaran terhumban: 30 disahkan maut setakat 8.15 malam

Bas persiaran terhumban: 30 disahkan maut

KARAK:  Seramai 30 orang disahkan maut setakat 8.15 malam dalam kemalangan bas persiaran yang terhumban ke dalam gaung di KM3, Lebuh Raya Karak menghala Kuala Lumpur kira-kira jam 3 petang tadi.

Daripada angka tersebut, 18 dipercayai lelaki dan 12 lagi perempuan. Sehingga kini seramai 41 mangsa telah dikeluarkan.

Pada masa ini kerja-kerja oleh anggota bomba dan penyelamat sedang dijalankan untuk mengeluarkan kira-kira tujuh lagi penumpang.

Menurut sumber, bas itu terhumban ke dalam gaung sedalam 50 meter.

Difahamkan, seorang wanita menjadi mangsa pertama dikeluarkan dari lokasi kemalangan kira-kira pukul 3.30 petang.

Sebanyak 30 ambulan difahamkan bersiap sedia untuk membawa mangsa ke hospital berhampiran.

Difahamkan keluarga mangsa terlibat menunggu di Hospital Selayang dan Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur.

Mangsa difahamkan sudah mula dihantar ke Jabatan Kecemasan Hospital Kuala Lumpur namun sumber enggan mengulas lanjut.

Pada 2012, dua pelancong india maut manakala 22 lagi cedera apabila bas persiaran yang mereka naiki terbabas dan terbalik di kilometer 4.5, jalan genting highlands-kuala lumpur

Sementara pada 2010, 7 maut manakala 21 lagi penumpang cedera dalam tragedi maut bas pelancongan yang terbabit dalam kemalangan setelah terbabas lalu terbalik di KM38 genting sempah.


Sumber: Astro Awani , 21 Ogos 2013

Nokia Lumia 625 to be available in Malaysia next week, priced at RM939

The new Nokia Lumia 625 is expected to be available in stores starting from next week onwards for RM939. The release will start in Klang Valley first.


Nokia Lumia 625


Barely a month after the device was first revealed to the world, we are currently at Nokia Malaysia’s headquarters for the official launch of the new Nokia Lumia 625. As you might have expected, the company have just revealed the release date of the new device as well as its price tag just moments ago.


Nokia Lumia 625 Specifications and features

The new Nokia Lumia 625 is generally positioned as an affordable LTE device and it is also the biggest Lumia to date thanks to its 4.7-inch IPS display although the graphic resolution is not that high at 800×480.

Other hardware that are included in the device are Gorilla Glass 2 for its display, 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8930, 512MB RAM, 8GB internal storage, and the support for up to 64GB MicroSD card.

It is also equipped with 2000mAh battery, 5-megapixels rear camera that is paired together with a LED flash, and a front-facing VGA camera. We obviously expect Nokia Malaysia to reveal the price and general availability date for Lumia 625 at the launch next week, so stay tuned.


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Brazilian woman 'saws off husband's penis'

A woman has reportedly sawn off her husband's penis with a bread knife after catching him cheating on her with another man.

The man is in a stable condition, but his penis could not be saved.
The man is in a stable condition, but his penis could not be saved. Photo: SHOTSHOP GMBH/ALAMY
The Brazilian man and his penis were rushed to hospital but the organ could not be saved.

The woman is believed to have waited several days before exacting revenge on her 28-year-old husband, who did not know she had found him in bed with a man at their home in Santos, southeast Brazil.

Then on Wednesday night she suggested the couple play out a sexual fantasy in which she would tie him up on the bed, which he readily agreed to, friends of the woman told Brazil's Globo G1 website.

But when he was completely immobilised, she took a bread knife from the kitchen and began to saw. The man was rushed to hospital, where doctors on Friday described his condition as stable.



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70-year-old Australian man 'lodges fork in penis'

70-year-old Australian man 'lodges fork in penis'
Doctors in Australia have removed a dining fork that became stuck inside a 70-year-old man's penis after a bizarre sexual accident. Photo: ALAMY/The Telegraph


In a case considered so unusual it was written up in a medical journal by the three operating doctors, the man inserted a four-inch steel fork into his urethra in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification.

But the fork became stuck and was not visible when the man presented to doctors hours later.

The doctors could feel the utensil and observed it on X-rays. They then extracted the fork free using forceps and "copious lubrication" while the patient was under a general anaesthetic.

The case was written up in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports two weeks ago in a paper titled "An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body".

The doctors said they wrote up the case "given the great management challenge faced by the oddity and infrequency with which a fork is encountered in the penile urethra".

“It is apparent that the human mind is uninhibited let alone creative," they wrote.

“Autoerotic stimulation with the aid of self-inserted urethral foreign bodies has been existent since time immemorial and have presented an unusual but known presentation to urologists."

The Canberra Times newspaper said the paper reports other strange objects which have been found inside the body, including needles, pencils, toothbrushes, light bulbs, thermometers, leeches, snakes, cocaine and glue.

The paper also notes that many patients tend to be embarrassed and try to extract the objects themselves but this can cause further injuries. Other patients are embarrassed and delay seeking medical assistance but then risk infections which can lead to death.


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PPIM lapor polis individu hina Sultan



KUALA LUMPUR: Satu laporan polis telah dibuat berhubung video seorang penceramah bebas di laman Youtube kerana didakwa mengandungi penghinaan terhadap Sultan serta ancaman menghapuskan institusi Raja-Raja Melayu.

Laporan polis itu dibuat persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) terhadap Wan Ji Wan Husein di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Dang Wangi.

Penasihat PPIM Tunku Azwil Tunku Abdul Razak menggesa agar pihak polis segera melakukan siasatan dan mengambil tindakan tegas ke atas individu tersebut.

- Astro Awani