Kanak-kanak dipercayai mangsa dera meninggal dunia

IPOH:   Kanak-kanak perempuan berumur lima tahun yang dipercayai didera oleh ibunya meninggal dunia di Unit Rawatan Rapi Paediatrik Hospital Permaisuri Bainun di sini hari ini.

Ketua Polis Daerah Ipoh ACP Sum Chang Keong ketika dihubungi mengesahkan kematian itu.

"Kita sedang menunggu maklumat daripada pihak hospital berhubung kematian kanak-kanak itu," katanya yang enggan mengulas lanjut.

Pada 15 Ogos lepas kanak-kanak malang itu dibawa ke hospital oleh bapanya dalam keadaan cedera pada bahagian kepala dan seluruh badannya akibat dirotan.

Choong Mee Chin, 30, ibu kepada kanak-kanak tersebut dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Majistret atas pertuduhan itu dan tidak mengaku bersalah pada 20 Ogos lepas.

Tertuduh didakwa melakukan kesalahan menganiaya kanak-kanak itu di kediaman mereka di Taman Wang, Menglembu pada pukul 9 pagi, 12 Ogos. - BERNAMA 

Derita isteri didera suami bergelar 'Datuk'

KUALA LUMPUR:  Keganasan rumah tangga berlaku di semua peringkat masyarakat kerana si pendera tidak mengenal pangkat, kedudukan atau status.

Namun, sikap malu dan takut menyebabkan ramai wanita yang terseksa itu hanya mampu mendiamkan diri.

Itu trauma yang mahu dikongsi seorang wanita mangsa dera, yang tidak lagi tahan menghadapi penderaan emosi dan fizikal yang dilakukan oleh suaminya yang bergelar ‘Datuk’.

Penderaan terhadap wanita yang hanya ingin dikenali sebagai Intan itu, bermula sejak awal perkahwinannya lebih 20 tahun lalu.

Intan mendakwa sering disepak, dipukul, dimaki hamun, malah pernah mahu dibunuh oleh suaminya.

“Saya dibelasah, dipukul dan diterajang serta kepala saya dihantuk ke dinding.

“Saya turut diacukan dengan parang. Saya mengalami tekanan emosi dan saya hampir bunuh diri. Kehidupan saya porak peranda dan tidak tentu arah,” kata Intan.

Tidak tahan didera, Intan mengambil keputusan untuk melarikan diri dan mendapatkan bantuan.

Susulan itu, Intan diceraikan suaminya dan hilang hak penjagaan terhadap enam orang anaknya.

Selepas kejadian itu, intan cuba meneruskan kehidupan dan mendapatkan khidmat kaunseling, walaupun masih mengalami trauma.

“Semasa saya berjumpa kaunselor di Jabatan Pembangunan Wanita, saya diberikan kekuatan mental dan fizikal.

“Saya mempunyai semangat tinggi bila jumpa kaunselor. Saya tidak gentar menghadapi apa sahaja cabaran,” katanya.

Intan merupakan salah seorang 1,353 mangsa keganasan rumah tangga yang dilaporkan dari Januari hingga April tahun ini.

Angka ini menunjukkan peningkatan berbanding 991 kes yang direkodkan oleh Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) bagi tempoh yang sama tahun lalu.

- Astro Awani 

Suami isteri maut dirempuh kereta ketika joging

IPOH:  Sepasang suami isteri maut akibat dirempuh sebuah kereta ketika sedang berjoging di Jalan Raja Dr Nazrin Shah di sini awal hari ini.

Mangsa Lee Woon Bin, 51, mati di tempat kejadian manakala isterinya Teh Siew Chhon, 47, disahkan mati di Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun.

Ketua Bahagian Ketenteraman Awam dan Trafik Daerah Ipoh DSP Wan Sharuddin Wan Omar berkata dalam kejadian 6.30 pagi itu pemandu kereta itu seorang diri dari arah bulatan berhampiran kediaman Menteri Besar, hendak pulang ke rumahnya.

"Kereta terbabit dipercayai dipandu laju sebelum terbabas dan melanggar mangsa lalu tercampak kira-kira 10 meter," katanya ketika dihubungi.

Katanya pemandu kereta itu dipercayai tidak nampak mangsa yang ketika itu sedang berjoging dari Taman Dr Seenivasagam.

"Semasa kejadian cuaca baik manakala keadaan jalan lurus dan satu jalan mempunyai lorong dua hala," katanya.

Pemandu berkenaan tidak mengalami sebarang kecederaan.

- BERNAMA 

'I want United return,' says Ronaldo

Photo: Reuters

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Cristiano Ronaldo tells Manchester United he wants to return to the club; Real Madrid will pay £183m for Gareth Bale; Chelsea seal Samuel Eto'o deal: it's our round-up of the papers.

Ronaldo wants United return:

Daniel Taylor writes in the Observer this morning that Cristiano Ronaldo has informed Manchester United that he does want to come back to Old Trafford – though not this summer. 

United have received indications from their former hero that he wants to end his career with them, and as such a move next summer is being contemplated by the United hierarchy.

Paper Round’s view: 

Taylor is one of the most respected scribes out there – especially on the subjects of United and Ronaldo – and this will be a well sourced report. From Ronaldo’s perspective, it’s handy to keep his options open and he may well want to come back to England. 

We will have to wait and watch to see what happens.

Source: EUROSPORT

RM1 reward for each rat caught in KL - DBKL

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is offering a reward of RM1 for each rat caught in the city in its effort to tackle rat-borne diseases, especially leptospirosis.

Its director-general Datuk Salleh Yusup said DBKL was allocating RM50,000 annually for the purpose, including making available rat traps to the public for free.

"DBKL has given the Pest Control Unit under its Public Health and Environment Department a target of ridding the city of 50,000 rats annually with the allocation," he told reporters after launching a community programme under the "Rid KL of Rodents 2013" initiative here Saturday.

He said last year, DBKL succeeded in getting rid of 51,110 rats while in the first seven months of this year, the figure was 32,769 (rats).

On another matter, Salleh said DBKL, for the first time, was also offering a reward to the individual flying the biggest and brightest "Jalur Gemilang" (National Flag) in conjunction with the 56th Merdeka Day.

"DBKL will crown the champion at the Merdeka celebration in the city on Aug 31. However, the prize has not been decided yet," he said. - BERNAMA 

No problem with inquest on shooting of gangsters, says Nancy

KUALA LUMPUR:  Family members of the five gangsters killed in a shootout with police early Monday morning can ask for inquests to be held, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri.

She said the government will not set aside the right to defend oneself even if it involved criminals.

"If there is a need to hold an inquest, they (families) could request for it. It is just that the case is still under police investigation. After the investigations, they could then make a presentation to the Attorney-General's Chambers for an inquest.

"There is no problem in holding an inquest as we have agreed that each state has a court coroner to handle such cases," she told reporters after an attending an Aidilfitri celebration organised by the Penang Bar Committee here last night.

She was commenting on calls by several parties which wanted an inquest to be held to enable the families of the five men to look into what actually happened during the shootout. - BERNAMA 

Tee does it again!

I cherish every opportunity I get to discredit, counter, disprove, disagree and slam our great Associate Professor Dr. Ridhuan Tee Abdullah.

And so I am thankful for every time the good doctor produces an article that reflects his thoughts and tickles my fancy, just like his most recent writing in Utusan Malaysia.

His recent column in the newspaper dated 16th August 2013 was actually on something that I would really not have any beef with. It wasn’t really hard-hitting or ground-breaking at all.

The good doctor criticised Singapore’s former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew’s, latest book, One Man’s View of the World.

More specifically, he criticised Lee Kuan Yew’s criticism of Malaysia’s affirmative action for Malays, and that it is driving local talent away from the country.

Although I do have a problem with affirmative action in this country (as I have stated many times in my many writings), I don’t have a problem with the good doctor’s rant about it. It’s his right to say so, anyway.

How does that saying go again? 'I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it', right? I think it was said by someone named Voltaire.

But when the good doctor starts harping on about going to war with another country, now that’s where I have to stop calling him the good doctor anymore.

Of course he has a right to say it. But here I am, with my right to say that he is wrong in saying that if he were the Prime Minister, he would declare war on Singapore.

War is not something that can be played a fool with, I have witnessed war and the ravages of it. Nothing to laugh about at all. Trust me. It's not even fair to suggest it at all.

The not so good doctor may be a lecturer at the National Defence University, but I doubt that he has ever been to war. How could he have if he can so non-chalantly say what he did.

Dangerous words and statements he is playing with. But thank God he is not the Prime Minister or a cabinet minister. Or else Malaysia would be in deeper trouble.

As incompetent, illogical, irrational and insensitive as some of our ministers and politicians are, I'm glad none of them has ever suggested we go to war with any country.

As it is, this writing by the not so good doctor is appearing in one of the Malaysia's most widely read newspaper (for the life of me, I don't understand why). And, like it or not, does wield an enormous amount of influence.

He needs to be mindful that he is responsible for what he writes and the consequences of it. Be careful what you wish for, not so good doctor. It can come back and bite you in the ass.

In this day and age, there is no justification for an educated, civilised and religious individual to ever make a call to the public that we need to resort to violence.

But then again, that is for individuals who are educated, civilised and religious.

Source:
Zan Azlee @Astro Awani
August 22, 201

Satu lagi mayat mangsa nahas bas dikenal pasti

dentiti mayat seorang lelaki mangsa nahas bas di Genting Highlands yang sebelum ini menjadi misteri, hari ini dikenal pasti sebagai Lai Kuan Peng, 53.

Ia disahkan adik mangsa, Lai Kuan Yong, 52, yang datang ke bilik mayat Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) di sini pada kira-kira 3 petang ditemani isteri, Chong Sooi Ngan, 43, dan adik lelakinya, Lai Chi Meng, 45.

Kuan Yong berkata beliau mengenal pasti mayat itu adalah abangnya melalui gambar baju dan kunci kereta yang disiarkan sebuah akhbar berbahasa Cina semalam.

"Abang saya yang tinggal bersama ibu bapa kami di Rawang sudah tiga hari tidak pulang ke rumah. Oleh kerana tiada sebarang maklumat seperti nama disiarkan di akhbar, saya tidak menyangka dia terlibat dalam kemalangan itu," katanya kepada pemberita.

Beliau berkata mendiang bekerja sebagai penyelia kilang besi milik Chi Meng serta kerap berulang-alik ke Genting Highlands dan meletak kenderaannya di Rawang sebelum mengambil perkhidmatan bas untuk ke pusat peranginan itu.

Kuan Yong berkata abangnya ke Genting Highlands bersama rakan baik mendiang, Chan Ah Hua, 62, yang turut maut dalam nahas itu.

Kali terakhir beliau bertemu abangnya yang masih bujang itu ialah kira-kira dua minggu lepas.

"Ibu bapa saya telah diberitahu mengenai perkara ini dan mereka kini dalam perjalanan dari Pahang kerana ada urusan kerja," katanya sambil menambah mayat mendiang akan dibawa ke tanah perkuburan Cina Persatuan Kwong Tong Kuala Lumpur untuk disemadikan.

Terdahulu, HKL menyatakan 28 mayat mangsa nahas terbabit telah dituntut anggota keluarga masing-masing manakala baki sembilan belum dituntut, termasuk dua yang masih gagal dikenal pasti.
Berikutan perkembangan terbaharu ini, kini tinggal seorang lagi mangsa -- seorang wanita dipercayai berbangsa Afrika -- yang belum dikenal pasti identitinya.

Nahas bas yang terjunam 60 meter ke dalam gaung itu meragut 37 nyawa, termasuk pemandu, serta mencederakan 16 yang lain.

- BERNAMA 

Train ride to married life

It is indeed a special way for a lecturer and his wife to start their journey to wedded bliss onboard a slow-moving intercity train before holding a reception on the platform of Kuala Lumpur station yesterday.

Mohd Izwan Mohd Zaki, 29, of Universiti Teknologi Mara, and his wife, Maizatul Akmam Muhamad Takir, 23, both agreed that it was an unforgettable experience for them, especially after their wedding planner transformed two KTM intercity train coaches into possibly the best wedding venue around.

The whole wedding process was also completed according to the traditional Malay customs, including in the exchange of wedding gifts and the ‘bersanding’ ceremony after the bride and groom walked in procession and sat on the decorated dais heralded by the beats of kompang.

“We’re so excited to have this golden opportunity to tie the knot onboard a train like this,” Maizatul Akmam said.

Meanwhile, Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) Senior Marketing Manager KTMB) Mohd Noordin Kimi said the wedding package was part of KTMB’s efforts to promote its services.

“It is hoped that the traditional wedding package will attract local and foreign tourists in conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2014.

“KTMB welcomes couples who want to have an unforgettable wedding day to try our ‘Bring Back Romance To The Train’ package to experience its uniqueness,” he said.

The package, which was launched early this year, is available at a minimum cost of RM15,000, including food catering and dais decoration, he added. - BERNAMA 

Lajim Ukin dilantik Ketua PKR Sabah

KOTA KINABALU:  Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Klias Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin dilantik Ketua PKR Sabah menggantikan Ahmad Thamrin Mohd Jaini.

Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata keputusan itu dibuat selepas mengambil kira beberapa faktor, termasuk pandangan pemimpin PKR peringkat negeri.

"Pelbagai langkah akan diambil untuk memperkukuh parti di Sabah, termasuk mewujudkan Majlis Penasihat yang dianggotai Pemimpin Kanan PKR negeri seperti  Thamrin," katanya kepada pemberita sebelum mempengerusikan mesyuarat PKR peringkat negeri pada Sabtu.

Pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 pada 5 Mei lepas, Lajim menewaskan calon Barisan Nasional Isnin Aliasnih dengan majoriti 179 undi bagi kerusi DUN Klias.

Anwar berharap kerajaan akan menimbang kemungkinan menjemput pemimpin pembangkang bagi membincangkan isu yang berkaitan demi kepentingan rakyat dan negara, termasuk peningkatan kadar jenayah serta isu ekonomi.

- BERNAMA