92 penjenayah ditembak mati dari tahun 2011

Seramai 92 orang penjenayah telah ditembak mati sejak tahun 2011 hinggalah pada Ogos lalu dan dari jumlah itu, 56 adalah warga tempatan.

Selain itu juga, antara warganegara penjenayah yang ditembak mati sepanjang tempoh itu selain warga tempatan termasuklah dari Indonesia, Myanmar, Nigeria dan lain-lain lagi.

Dalam sidang Dewan Rakyat hari ini, Ahli Parlimen Kota Melaka, Sim Tong Him telah mempersoalkan mengenai jumlah individu yang telah ditembak mati oleh anggota polis ketika menjalankan penguatkuasaan dan penangkapan dan prosedur operasi standard (SOP) yang digunakan oleh pihak polis yang membolehkan mereka melepaskan tembakan.

Malah beliau, turut bertanyakan mengenai berapa banyakkah aduan kes pelanggaran SOP yang pernah disiasat dan diambil tindakan kemudiannya.

Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Dr Zahid Hamidi dalam kenyataan balasnya memberitahu, pihak polis tidak sewenang-wenangnya melepaskan tembakan dalam menjalankan tugas.

Pada tahun 2011, terdapat 22 kes dilaporkan dimana 30 orang penjenayah ditembak mati dan angka ini meningkat pada tahun berikutnya iaitu sebanyak 44 penjenayah dengan 23 kes jenayah dilaporkan.

Sehingga Ogos tahun ini pula, 18 individu penjenayah telah ditembak mati melibatkan 11 laporan kes jenayah dilaporkan.

“Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM) sentiasa mengingatkan semua anggotanya agar mengambil langkah-langkah keselamatan diri dan juga limitasi kuasa semasa menggunakan senjata api berdasarkan Perintah Tetap Ketua Polis Negara (IGSO) D222 dan juga Arahan Ketua Polis Negara (IG’s Order) N0 79,” kata Zahid.

Namun begitu, menurutnya lagi, kadangkala terdapat tindakbalas daripada penjenayah yang mana pertembungan ini membawa kepada kejadian tembak menembak atau anggota polis diserang dengan senjata yang berbahaya.

“Ini menyebabkan pihak polis terpaksa bertindak balas demi mempertahankan diri dan tindakan ini selaras dengan hak mempertahankan diri di bawah Seksyen 100 dan 103 Kanun Keseksaan,” beliau berkata.

Beliau menambah, sehingga kini dua naggota polis telah didakwa di mahkamah atas kecuaian melepaskan tembakan.

“Setiap kejadian tembak oleh anggota polis akan disiasat dengan rapi dan jika terdapat kecuaian atau salah laku anggota polis, PDRM tidak teragak-agak untuk mengambil tindakan tegas keatas mana-mana pegawai atau anggota tersebut termasuklah mendakwa mereka di mahkamah,” tegas beliau.

- ASTRO Awani 

PAFA syak pemain terima rasuah

Persatuan Bola Sepak Perak (PAFA) menggantung kesemua pegawai skuad liga super 2013 termasuk ketua jurulatih selama dua minggu berkuatkuasa hari ini berikutan wujud elemen sabotaj dan rasuah dalam kempen piala Malaysia.

Keputusan drastik itu diumumkan Timbalan Presiden merangkap pengurus pasukan, Khairul Azwan Harun selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat jawatankuasa darurat dan pengurusan di pejabat PAFA sebentar tadi.

Menurut beliau, satu jawatankuasa khas diketuai pengerusi jawatankuasa disiplin PAFA, Datuk Ismail Sapian diberi tempoh dua minggu untuk membuat siasatan dalaman berhubung kes itu.

Laporan Polis dan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) juga sudah dibuat.

Beliau juga menegaskan kesemua pegawai dan pemain dilarang meninggalkan Ipoh sepanjang tempoh dua minggu ini.

- ASTRO Awani 

Wanita temui otak dalam sos tomato

Objek pelik ini ditemui pada permukaan bawah bekas sos tomato terbabit.


LONDON - Seorang ibu kepada tiga anak terkejut selepas menemui 'otak' di dalam sos tomato ketika sedang menyediakan hidangan untuk keluarganya, minggu lalu.

Jullen Marter, 47, dari Worcester, Britain mendakwa ketulan objek pelik yang berukuran garis pusat 10 sentimeter itu ditemui terapung pada permukaan bawah bekas sos terbabit.

"Ia kelihatan seperti otak dan turut menyebabkan sos yang sepatutnya berwarna merah bertukar kehitaman," katanya lagi.

Susulan daripada penemuan mengerikan itu, Marter bertindak membuat aduan di bahagian talian khidmat pelanggan produk tersebut, namun ditertawakan oleh pekerja terbabit, laporan dipetik dari DailyMail.


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Polis telah menahan suspek utama kes pembunuhan pengasas AmBank

Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar hari ini memberitahu bahawa suspek utama kes pembunuhan pengasas AmBank, Hussain Ahmad Najadi telah ditahan polis malam tadi.

Menurut Khalid, lelaki yang dikenali sebagai Sei Ngan Chai itu ditahan kira-kira jam 12.30 tengah malam di Taman Larut Tin, Taiping, Perak.

Turut ditahan dalam kejadian itu ialah sepasang individu yang dipercayai melindungi suspek tersebut.

Pada 29 Julai lalu, Hussain, 75, mati manakala isterinya Chong Mei Kuen, 49, cedera parah apabila mereka ditembak dari jarak dekat di tempat letak kereta selepas keluar dari sebuah tokong Cina di Lorong Ceylon.

Dalam insiden jam 2 petang itu, Hussain terkena dua das tembakan di dada dan meninggal di tempat kejadian manakala isterinya cedera di pergelangan tangan kiri serta paha kanan.

Berikutan kejadian itu, polis telah menahan seorang pemandu teksi yang dipercayai telah memandu suspek yang terlibat dalam kes itu.

Pemandu teksi yang berumur 44 tahun itu ditahan di sebuah kedai kopi di Sri Petaling pada jam 9 malam oleh sepasukan polis.

Polis percaya selepas suspek penembak melepaskan beberapa das tembakan yang membunuh Hussain Ahmad Najadi, dia kemudiannya melarikan diri menggunakan teksi yang dibawa oleh suspek pemandu teksi.

- Astro Awani 

I-Pmart Lifestyle Link pelbagai fungsi dalam satu kad

Mart Tang (tengah) bersama selebriti sempena pelancaran IPmart Lifestyle Link di Kuala Lumpur. - Foto Sinar Harian


I-Pmart Lifestyle, memperkenalkan kad pelbagai fungsi, i-Pmart Lifestyle Link yang menawarkan pelbagai faedah dalam satu kad meliputi bayaran Touch n Go, perlindungan insurans, pendapatan hospital, diskaun, penebusan dan pelbagai faedah lain.

Pengarah Urusan i-Pmart Lifestyle Sdn Bhd, Mart Tang berkata, kad itu akan memberi kemudahan kepada pemegang kerana menggabungkan semua keperluan gaya moden dalam satu.

“Dalam keadaan ekonomi semasa menunjukkan permintaan terhadap produk teknologi maklumat dan gajet serta penggabungan dunia sosial dan realiti, sememangnya memerlukan kad ini.

“Dengan harga RM11.50 sebulan atau RM138 setahun, pengguna dapat menikmati insurans kemalangan peribadi berkumpulan sehingga RM30,000,” katanya.

Menurutnya, faedah lain ialah pengguna akan memperoleh pendapatan hospital RM60 sehari sehingga 30 hari, nilai RM10 Touch n Go yang diisi, baucar tunai dan baucar diskaun bernilai RM188.

Bermula semalam hingga 31 Oktober, kad i-Pmart Lifestyle Link boleh dibeli dengan RM99 di stesen LRT Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Pasar Seni, Wangsa Maju, Masjid Jamek, Bukit Jalil dan Ampang Park.


- Sinar Harian

Perry cemburui penampilan Rihanna

Katy Perry dan Rihanna tidak lagi bermusuhan.


Keakraban dua selebriti terkenal, Katy Perry dan Rihanna sering menjadi perhatian. Dalam diam, rupanya Perry sangat mencemburui setiap penampilan Rihanna.

Menurut Perry, dia sangat hairan bagaimana rakan baiknya itu dapat mengekalkan stamina kerana setiap masa Rihanna sering kelihatan ceria dan sangat aktif.

"Saya rasa dia ada sesuatu yang masih disembunyikan pada saya. Walaupun kami sudah berkawan lama, namun ia bukan jaminan untuk kami berkongsi dalam segala hal.

"Yang pasti dia tidak mengambil dadah," katanya sambil ketawa kecil.

- Sinar Harian

Artis Hollywood obses kurus!

Angelina Jolie

Memiliki tubuh badan yang cantik dan langsing merupakan idaman bagi semua pelakon wanita di Hollywood. Namun ada yang terlalu obses sehingga sanggup menjalani diet yang salah.

Hasilnya mereka kelihatan terlebih kurus dan cenderung menghidap penyakit anoreksia yang tak ubah seperti 'rangka hidup'. Jom kita tinjau selebriti yang pernah mengalami masalah tersebut.

Angelina Jolie

Setahun lalu, aktres berbibir seksi ini mengalami masalah penurunan berat badan yang ketara kerana tidak mempunyai selera makan. Bagaimanapun, selepas mengumumkan pertunangannya dengan Brad Pitt, Jolie sedaya upaya untuk menaikkan berat badan sehingga 10 paun. Malah dia turut meminta nasihat chef selebriti terkenal, Jamie Oliver, untuk mengatasi masalah itu.

Cate Blanchett

Kemunculan Blanchett di sebuah majlis berprestij, ternyata mengejutkan ramai peminatnya. Tampil dengan baju yang terdedah di bahagian bahu, bintang Elizabeth ini kelihatan sangat kurus. Menafikan dia berdepan dengan masalah penurunan berat badan, Blanchett, bagaimanapun lebih menyalahkan pemilihan bajunya ketika itu.

Kate Bosworth

Selepas hubungannya dengan pelakon kacak, Orlando Bloom, berakhir, aktres ini kelihatan semakin kurus. Meskipun Bosworth menafikan perubahan itu berpunca dari perpisahannya dengan aktor itu, namun media banyak melaporkan dia sebenarnya sangat tertekan ditinggalkan Bloom.

Lindsay Lohan

Pengambilan dadah dan ketagihan arak menjadi punca pelakon Mean Girl ini mengalami penurunan berat badan secara mendadak. Pub begitu Lohan menafikannya dengan memberitahu dia sebenarnya mengalami masalah kesihatan.

Mary Kate Olsen

Berhadapan dengan masalah anoreksia sejak berusia 18 tahun lagi, Olsen berusaha keras untuk mengatasi masalah itu. Walaupun mempunyai harta melimpah ruah, namun dia tidak dapat lari dengan masalah tersebut sehingga terpaksa berhenti belajar.

Miley Cyrus

Putus cinta dengan tunangnya, Liam Hemsworth, membuatkan Cyrus sentiasa dalam keadaan tertekan. Selain hilang selera makan, dia juga berubah semakin sosial. Maka tidak hairanlah bintang Hannah Montana ini kelihatan semakin kurus sejak akhir-akhir ini.

Nicole Richie

Bintang realiti ini sering kali menafikan bahawa dia terlalu mengamalkan diet. Bagaimanapun, setelah berat badannya turun mendadak, Richie sedar ia tidak normal dan berusaha mendapatkan berat badan ideal.

Tori Spelling

Mengamalkan diet melampau menyebabkan ibu kepada empat orang anak itu menderita anoreksia. Tanpa pengetahuannya, diet selepas bersalin itu telah membuatkannya semakin kurus.

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Sumber: Astro Awani | September 20, 2013

Angelina Jolie hidup tiga tahun lagi?

Betul ke ni?


Angelina Jolie


Selain cantik dan berbakat, Angelina Jolie dikenali sebagai artis yang sangat cerewet dalam menjaga kesihatan.

Umum sudah tahu, kekasih Brad Pittini sanggup membuang payudaranya untuk mencegah kanser yang diwarisi dari keturunannya.

Malah dalam masa terdekat ini, dia juga bakal menjalani pembedahan rahim bagi mengatasi masalah sama. Bagaimanapun, ada yang lebih mengejutkan apabila majalah antarabangsa, Globe melaporkan, jangka hayat Jolie hanya tinggal tiga tahun saja lagi.

Menguatkan dakwaan itu apabila aktres ini bertindak menolak banyak tawaran lakonan, termasuk sekuel filem Salt.

"Angelina sedar dia tidak punya banyak masa dan ingin memanfaatkan masa yang ada untuk membuat rawatan.

Dia sangat sayangkan Brad dan anak-anaknya, maka kerana itu, dia harus kuat untuk menghadapinya," kata sumber.


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Mechanical gears: insects got there first

When it comes to engineering, humans are an innovative bunch.

 

But sometimes, it turns out that the natural world got there first. Scientists have discovered that a certain type of plant-hopping insect boasts mechanical gears that are astonishingly similar to those in our bikes and car gearboxes.

Scanning electron micrograph image of the tiny insect gears (image credit: Malcolm Burrows)

 

 

Researchers in the UK made the discovery after filming high-speed videos of the Issus coleoptratus nymph as it jumped. They noticed that the young insects sported curved strips of gear teeth on their hind legs.

 

Before leaping forward, the baby planthoppers lock together these tiny gears. The researchers say that this ensures both legs move simultaneously - within a fraction of a second of each other - propelling the insect powerfully from leaf to leaf.

 

"We usually think of gears as something that we see in human-designed machinery," said Gregory Sutton at the University of Bristol, "but we've found that this is only because we didn't look hard enough."

The baby plant-hopping Issus coleoptratus (image credit: Malcolm Burrows)

 

 

Interestingly, the gears are only found in the nymph stage of the insect – they disappear when the insect undergoes its final moult to become an adult. It’s not known why they vanish, but it may be because any damage to the gear teeth during adulthood would reduce the mechanism's effectiveness.

 

These incredible gears are the very first example of a functional cog mechanism in nature – proof that evolution is perhaps the best engineer of all.

Source: Science Focus

Datsun unveils $9,000 family car

Datsun Go+. Image by FoxNews

Just two months after it introduced the $7,000 Go hatchback, the recently resurrected automaker has unveiled its second model, the aptly named seven-passenger Go+.

More of a 5+2, the stretched subcompact gets a larger cargo area fitted with a set of small folding jump seats and a price tag of just $9,000.

That would be approximately RM28,600 in Malaysia.

Powered by a tiny 1.2-liter four cylinder, it’s not exactly fit for the Autobahn, and not meant to be as it will initially be built and sold in Indonesia, where it should be more than adequate for the nation’s extremely crowded city streets.

But while it would likely be just fine for budget minded commuters in L.A. or Manhattan, too, Datsun is not coming back to the United States.

At least not yet.

“The level of passion and memories for Datsun in the U.S. is amazing, so it is kind of heartbreaking for me to say that there is no plan to bring Datsun to the U.S. at this time,” the brand’s corporate vice president, Vuincent Cobee, recently told the Los Angeles Times. But he added that “we never say never,” which is surely enough to keep the flames of the faithful alive.

In the meantime, they can move to India, Russia or South Africa, which are additional target markets for the brand’s expansion.

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Meninggal kerana tersedak susu

Bayi lelaki berusia tujuh bulan yang meninggal dunia selepas mengalami muntah darah di sebuah pusat asuhan di Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, Khamis lalu, disahkan akibat tersedak susu.

Ketua Polis Daerah Sentul, Asisten Komisioner Zakaria Pagan berkata, laporan bedah siasat yang diterimanya kelmarin mendapati bayi itu mati akibat tersedak susu dalam paru-paru.

“Kes diklasifikasikan sebagai mati mengejut,” katanya.

Ketika kejadian, bapa kepada bayi, Muhamad Qhaliff, Muhamad Norman Rosman, 26, hanya mengetahui kematian ketika mendapat rawatan di sebuah klinik berdekatan.

Dia mendapati keadaan kepala anaknya terkulai serta muka dan bibirnya kebiruan sebaik menempatkannya di kerusi bayi, ketika mengambil Qhaliff di pusat asuhan itu pada jam 5.30 petang.

Sebaik melihat keadaan anak keduanya itu, beliau bergegas semula ke pusat asuhan berkenaan untuk mengetahui perkara sebenar yang menimpa bayi terbabit.

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'Bigfoot' undang wartawan National Geographic

Kakitangan Jabatan Perhilitan Jempol memberi penerangan kepada Daniel.


KUALA PILAH – Berita tapak luar biasa ditemui di Kepis Hilir di sini, yang disiarkan di media pada Jun lalu, mendorong wartawan National Geographic dari Kanada mengunjungi lokasi penemuan.

Daniel Antal berkata, dia teruja untuk datang ke Kepis Hilir setelah membaca artikel di laman sesawang berhubung tapak luar biasa yang dikaitkan dengan bigfoot itu.

“Apabila membaca artikel itu, saya tertarik untuk datang ke Malaysia bagi melihat sendiri tapak tersebut malah ingin mengkaji kewujudan binatang berkenaan.

“Bagaimanapun, selepas diteliti secara terperinci, saya melihat tapak binatang tapir yang bersaiz besar bukan seperti digembar-gemburkan di dalam laman sesawang.

“Berkemungkinan saiz tapir ini besar malah kedudukan tanah lembut juga menyumbang kepada tapaknya yang bersaiz luar biasa,” katanya.

Daniel yang menetap di Thailand berkata, sungguhpun begitu, dia tidak berasa hampa sebaliknya berpuas hati kerana berjaya mendapatkan cerita sebenar.

“Artikel yang dibaca itu memang betul di kampung ini tetapi gambar lakaran tapak bersaiz besar bukannya dari kampung ini sebaliknya dari Johor Bahru berdasarkan kepada penelitian sebenar.

“Mungkin, individu itu sahaja buat gempar untuk menarik perhatian ramai kerana kemunculan bigfoot masih menjadi tanda tanya.

"Tiada sesiapa tahu kewujudan bigfoot ataupun Orang Mawas di Endau Rompin. Hanya orang mempercayai tetapi tiada bukti kukuh kewujudan ‘binatang’ tersebut," katanya.

Kakitangan Jabatan Perhilitan Jempol turut memberi penerangan kepada Daniel berhubung kewujudan Tapir di kampung itu.

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Sedih - DJ majlis kahwin maut digilis lori

Seorang juruacara majlis perkahwinan maut digilis lori selepas terjatuh dari motosikal ditunggangnya di Jalan Lubuk Redan, Kampung Ujong Padang di Masjid Tanah, petang kelmarin.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 5 petang, mangsa, Nik Firdaus Nik Abd Kadir, 29, melanggar lembu yang melintas sebelum terjatuh dan dirempuh lori.

Mangsa yang cedera parah di kepala dan badan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian.

Menurut sumber, mangsa gagal bangun semula selepas terjatuh menyebabkan sebuah lori yang datang dari Kampung Jeram tidak sempat mengelak lalu menggilis sebahagian badannya.

“Kaki mangsa dipercayai tersepit pada motosikal menyebabkan dia gagal bangun semula sebelum lori tersebut melanggarnya,” katanya.

Timbalan Ketua Polis Daerah Alor Gajah, Deputi Superintendan Abd Rahman Jid berkata, sebelum kejadian, mangsa menunggang motosikal jenis Honda EX5 menghala Kampung Jeram.

“Apabila tiba di lokasi, mangsa gagal mengawal motosikal selepas melanggar lembu yang melintas jalan lalu terjatuh ke laluan bertentangan sebelum dilanggar sebuah lori dipandu lelaki berusia 44 tahun.

“Mangsa yang meninggal dunia dibawa ke Hospital Alor Gajah untuk dibedah siasat bagi kes di bawah Seksyen 41(1) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987,” katanya.

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Pelajar 13 tahun menipu demi seks

Kuala Kubu Bharu. - Gara-gara kemaruk seks, seorang pelajar 13 tahun sanggup menipu ahli keluarganya dengan alasan mahu bermalam di rumah rakan, sebaliknya dia menuju ke sebuah surau menanti lapan lelaki untuk menidurinya.

Walaupun diperlakukan seperti pelacur, pelajar tingkatan satu di sebuah sekolah menengah, masih tidak kesal dengan perbuatannya dan cuba menyembunyikan daripada keluarga.

Bagaimanapun perkara itu dihidu seorang lelaki yang kebetulan berada di kawasan surau dan ternampak remaja itu membersihkan pakaiannya.

Setelah mendapat tahu perkara sebenar, lelaki terbabit yang tinggal di perumahan dalam bandar itu menyampaikan hal tersebut ke pengetahuan keluarga gadis tersebut sebelum laporan polis dibuat.

Seorang penduduk yang enggan dikenali berkata, pelajar perempuan terbabit dilaporkan sering ponteng sekolah dan kurang mendapat perhatian keluarganya.

Menurutnya, ibunya yang sudah bercerai dengan bapanya sudah kembali ke Indonesia dan kedua-duanya sudah berkahwin lain.  Sementara itu, Timbalan Ketua Polis Daerah Hulu Selangor, Deputi Superintendan Zulkifli Bedin berkata, siasatan awal

mendapati kejadian itu dipercayai berlaku pada pagi 20 September lalu di sebuah rumah kosong kira-kira 100 meter dari surau berkenaan.

“Pelajar itu dilaporkan ponteng sekolah pada 19 September dan tidak pulang ke rumah sebaliknya tidur di surau dalam taman perumahan di bandar itu.

“Sebaik perempuan itu sedar keesokannya, rakan-rakan lelakinya sudah menunggu sebelum mengikuti mereka ke sebuah rumah kosong,” katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian, semalam.

Menurutnya, bertindak atas laporan keluarga mangsa, polis menangkap kelapan-lapan suspek dan direman untuk siasatan lanjut.

"Enam suspek berusia 14 tahun manakala dua lagi berusia 12 tahun.

“Pelajar perempuan tersebut dibawa ke Hospital Selayang untuk pemeriksaan lanjut. Kes disiasat berkait rogol kerana mangsa masih di bawah umur," katanya.

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Usaha untuk menghalang kucing di jadilah juadah di Peru

Ahli kongres Peru menyertai kumpulan aktivis negara itu dalam usaha menghalang haiwan kucing dijadikan juadah bagi satu acara keagamaan tahunan negara itu.

Menurut aktivis, sekurang-kurangnya 100 ekor kucing akan dikorbankan bagi sambutan Festival Santa Efigenia di La Quebrada.

Antara yang hadir memberikan sokongan, ahli kongres Juan Urquiza dan Yehude Simon yang mahu mendapatkan sokongan agar satu undang-undang menghalang kucing dijadikan makanan dapat digubal.

Sementara itu, salah seorang aktivis Corrine Schirmer mendesak orang ramai agar memboikot festival berkenaan.

Bagaimanapun, penduduk La Quebrada rata-rata mempertahankan amalan itu dengan hujah hanya kucing yang dibiak secara khusus dijadikan korban pada festival itu. - Astro Awani 

Tarikh kematian Chin Peng, bukan 16 September 2013?

Akhbar Mingguan Malaysia membuat spekulasi bahawa tarikh kematian bekas Setiausaha Agung Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM), Chin Peng atau nama sebenarnya Ong Boon Hua bukan pada 16 September seperti yang dilaporkan media sebelum ini.

Memetik sumber, akhbar itu melaporkan tarikh sebenar kematian Chin Peng di sebuah Hospital di Bangkok ialah pada petang 15 September, sehari sebelum sambutan Hari Malaysia.

Sumber tersebut dilaporkan memberitahu kematiannya telah dilaporkan pada awal pagi Isnin (16 September) di mana ketika rakyat negara ini menyambut Hari Malaysia pada hari tersebut.

"Dipercayai tarikh (kematian) pada hari Isnin itu dipilih supaya Chin Peng diingati oleh penyokongnya yang secara kebetulan jatuh pada hari penting buat seluruh rakyat Malaysia menyambut hari pembentukan negara Malaysia.

"Pihak kami mendapat maklumat ini merupakan agenda terancang pihak-pihak tertentu kononnya mahu mengaitkan kematian Chin Peng sebagai semangat nasionalisme," kata sumber tersebut kepada Mingguan Malaysia.

Namun akhbar tersebut tidak membuat sebarang rujukan dengan pihak Hospital Bangkok untuk mendapatkan pengesahan tentang tarikh sebenar kematian pemimpin kanan PKM itu.

Akhbar tersebut hanya melaporkan sumber itu berkata akan cuba bekerjasama dengan hospital di Bangkok bagi mendapatkan kesahihan maklumat yang diterima mengenai tarikh sebenar kematian pemimpin kanan PKM itu.

The Bangkok Post pada 16 September melaporkan Chin Peng telah meninggal dunia pada 6.20 pagi hari yang sama di sebuah Hospital di Bangkok.

- ASTRO Awani 

Manchester City jinakkan Red Devils

Argh! Tension betul aku baca tajuk berita ni!

Gergasi bolasepak BPL, Manchester United tunduk 1-4 kepada seteru utama, Manchester City dalam perlawanan Liga Inggeris lewat malam tadi.

Luka The Red Devils bermula seawal minit ke-16 apabila City menerusi jaringan cantik pemainnya, Sergio Aguiero.

City menambah luka United dengan jaringan kedua pada masa tambahan dalam babak pertama hasil sepakan sudut yang disudahkan oleh Yaya Toure.

Bermula separuh masa kedua, Sergio Aguero menjaringkan gol ketiga City pada minit ke-47, dan Samir Nasri menambah gol keempat selang tiga minit kemudian.

Wayne Rooney bagaimanapun menghadiahkan gol saguhati kepada skuadnya pada saat perlawanan berbaki tiga minit.

Dalam beberapa perlawanan lain, tuan rumah, Arsenal menang selesa 3-1 ke atas Stoke City, manakala Tottenham menang tipis 1-0 di tempat lawan, dan Cardiff City tumpas 0-2 kepada Swansea City.

- ASTRO Awani 

Government urged to reduce subsidy for sugar

The government has been urged to reduce subsidy for sugar as a means to discourage people from using sugar in their food and drinks daily, thus reducing the danger of diabetes among Malaysians.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said a reduction in subsidy for sugar, in stages, can reduce the consumption of sugar in their daily meals.

"The number of diabetic patients in the country has increased to 2.6 million or 15 percent of the total population. This is partly due to lack of control in the intake of sugar," he told reporters after opening a diabetes awareness campaign in the Segamat Parliamentary constituency at the Buloh Kasap

Multi-purpose hall, here, on Sunday.

He added that the figure (2.6 million) was not including about two million people who have not undergone medical checkup at government hospitals and clinics.

Dr Subramaniam said diabetic patients were also vulnerable to other diseases, including kidney ailments and eye sight.

He said based on statistics, there were 16,000 kidney patients in the waiting list for kidney transplant because there are only 40 to 50 organ donors a year.

- BERNAMA 

Somali rebels kill 39 in Nairobi shopping mall bloodbath

NAIROBI: Masked gunmen stormed a packed upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday, killing 39 people and wounding 150 more in a massacre claimed by Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.

Kenyan officials said "major operations" were underway in the early hours of Sunday as troops were engaged in an apparent final bid to put an end to the 14-hour-long battle. They said the heavily-armed attackers were still holding hostages inside the complex.

The rebels said the carnage was in direct retaliation for Kenya's military intervention in Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address to the nation that he had "personally lost family members in the Westgate attack", but said the country had "overcome terrorist attacks before, and we will defeat them again."

"Our security forces are in the process of neutralising the attackers and securing the mall," he said.

"They want to cause fear and despondency in our country, but we will not be cowed," Kenyatta said, adding: "Terrorism is a philosophy of cowards."

Kenyan police described the attackers as a well-organised "terror gang" numbering around 10.

The Westgate mall, popular with wealthy Kenyans and expatriates and part Israeli-owned, was packed with around 1,000 shoppers when the gunmen marched in at midday, tossed grenades and sprayed automatic gunfire.

After hours of sometimes ferocious gun battles, security sources said police and soldiers had finally "pinned down" the gunmen and managed to evacuate hundreds of shoppers and staff -- some of whom had spent hours in hiding.

"We will free all those inside and stop this, of course we cannot give details of the operations except to say that everything that can be done is being done," an armed Kenyan plain clothes security officer told AFP at the scene.

One teenager recounted to AFP how he played dead to avoid being killed.

"I heard screams and gunshots all over the place. I got scared. I tried to run down the stairs and saw someone running towards the top, I ran back and hid behind one of the cars," he said from his hospital bed at MP Shah Hospital, where he was nursing burns to his hands and chest.

'We warned Kenya'

A spokesman for Shebab said the attack was a response to Kenya's nearly two-year-old military presence in war-torn Somalia in support of the internationally-backed government.

"We have warned Kenya of that attack but it ignored (us), still forcefully holding our lands... while killing our innocent civilians," Shebab's spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage said in a statement.

"If you want Kenya in peace, it will not happen as long as your boys are in our lands," the statement said.

The group also issued a string of statements via Twitter.

"The Mujahideen entered #Westgate Mall today at around noon and are still inside the mall, fighting the #Kenyan Kuffar (infidels) inside their own turf," the group said, before the account was suspended by Twitter.

The group said Muslims inside the centre had been "escorted out by the Mujahideen before beginning the attack."

The gunmen were "holding their ground. All praise is due to Allah!", the group said.

The attack was the worst in Nairobi since an Al-Qaeda bombing at the US embassy killed more than 200 in 1998.

Shoppers executed

Shocked people of all races could be seen running away from the mall clutching children while others crawled along walls to avoid stray bullets.

A shop manager who managed to escape said at one point "it seemed that the shooters had taken control of all the mall".

"They spoke something that seemed like Arabic or Somali," said a man who escaped the mall and gave his name only as Jay. "I saw people being executed after being asked to say something."

Kenyan troops could be seen moving around and inside the shopping centre while special forces had joined the operation. Foreign security officials -- from Israel, the United States and Britain -- were also seen at the complex.

An AFPTV reporter said she saw at least 20 people rescued from a toy shop. Dozens of wounded, some of them bleeding children, were taken away from the mall on stretchers.

Police at the scene said a suspect wounded in the firefight had been detained and taken to hospital under armed guard, but that he later died of his injuries.

Kenneth Kerich, who was shopping when the attack happened, described scenes of panic.

"I suddenly heard gunshots and saw everyone running around so we lied down. I saw two people who were lying down and bleeding, I think they were hit by bullets," he said.

An eyewitness who survived the assault said he saw the body of a child being wheeled out of the mall.

"The gunmen tried to fire at my head but missed. I saw at least 50 people shot," mall employee Sudjar Singh told AFP.

Vehicles riddled with bullet holes were left abandoned in front of the mall as the Red Cross appealed for blood donations and police instructed Nairobi residents to stay away.

Security agencies have regularly included the Westgate shopping centre on lists of sites they feared could be targeted by Al Qaeda-linked groups.

Paris confirmed that two French citizens were among those killed in what it condemned as a "cowardly" attack. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said two Canadians, one of them a diplomat, were also among the dead.

The United States said its citizens were reportedly among those injured and the White House condemned the "despicable" act.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that there were "undoubtedly British nationals caught up in this so we should be ready for that".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was following the attack "closely and with alarm", a statement from his office said.

- AFP/div>

Kembar dalam mulut bayi

BANDUNG - INDONESIA. Seorang bayi yang berusia kurang seminggu di Bandung, Indonesia mengejutkan banyak pihak apabila wujud seketul daging di dalam mulut yang didakwa ‘kembar siam’ ketika dilahirkan.

Menurut doktor yang merawat bayi pasangan Aep Supriatna dan Yani Mulyani ini, daging di mulut anak lelaki itu adalah kembarnya.

Bayi diberi nama Ginan Septian Nugraha itu tidak boleh menutup mulut kerana ukuran kembar dalam mulutnya itu agak besar.

Kembarnya itu melekat di dalam rongga mulut bahagian atas dan menjulur keluar.

"Setelah diteliti doktor, kembar itu menyerupai bayi kerana ada kaki dan ada alat kelaminnya, tapi kepalanya tidak ada.

“Yang keluar dari mulut itu ada satu tangan, dua kaki, dan mempunyai alat kelamin lelaki," kata Aep dipetik dari Kompas.

Bayi yang melekat dalam mulut Ginan itu disahkan tidak bernyawa dan Aep berharap agar pihak hospital dapat menyelamatkan nyawa Ginan.

Sumber: Sinar Harian

Bon Jovi thrills crowd at Rio gig

US rock group Bon Jovi wowed more than 90,000 fans during a stirring overnight performance at the Rock in Rio festival.

The New Jersey rockers, who are on a "Because We Can" Latin American concert tour to promote their chart-topping new album "What About Now", were the star attraction on the fifth day of the week-long festival.

"Obrigado (Thank you in Portuguese), Rio De Janeiro," lead singer Jon Bon Jovi told the crowd.

The band launched into "You Give Love A Bad Name" and the entire crowd joined in as they belted out such classics as "Livin On A Prayer", "Dead or Alive" and "Always".

In the middle of a raucous "Who Says You Can't Go Home", Jon Bon Jovi dragged a female fan onto the stage and surprised her with a smooch on the mouth.

The band also paid tribute to the Rolling Stones with a rendition of "Start Me Up".

But Bon Jovi was without its famous drummer Tico Torres, who awaited bladder surgery and was replaced by Rich Scannella.

On September 11, 59-year-old Torres underwent emergency appendectomy surgery in Mexico City, forcing the band to postpone scheduled concerts in Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

Saturday night, Americans Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer were to get star billing at what is one of the world's largest music events.

The festival, which features 127 bands and artists, was opened last Saturday by US diva Beyonce and French DJ David Guetta. - AFP

Washington gunman stalked his victims like a hunter: FBI

The gunman who slaughtered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard stalked his victims like a "hunter," officials said Thursday in the chilling first portrait of how the carnage unfolded.

FBI Director James Comey told reporters that former Navy sailor Aaron Alexis had roamed the offices and corridors of the Navy Yard's 197 building, blasting victims at random with a sawed-off shotgun before being shot dead.

Alexis, 34, was killed in a gun battle with police after being cornered following Monday's bloody spree.

Comey's account of the rampage came after analysis of security camera footage taken inside the 197 building.

The FBI chief said that after driving into the naval installation in the heart of the US capital early Monday, Alexis had headed into building 197 and gone into a fourth floor restroom, carrying a bag.

He came out of the the restroom moments later holding a sawed-off Remington 870 shotgun and began blazing away at anyone who crossed his path, Comey said.

"He emerged from the bathroom a few minutes after 8:00 am with the shotgun and almost immediately started to shoot folks on the fourth floor in a way with no discernible pattern," Comey told reporters.

"It appears to me that he was wandering the hall like hunting people to shoot."

After shooting people on the fourth and third floors of the building, Alexis went down to the ground floor, shot dead a security guard and seized the man's weapon -- a semi-automatic Beretta pistol.

He then returned to the third and fourth floors and continued shooting from the shotgun until he was out of ammunition.

Alexis then began shooting with the slain security guard's gun.

"That continued until the first responders arrived and then our team arrived and cornered him and sustained exchanged fire with him and he was downed and obviously killed at the scene," Comey said.

Comey said Alexis appeared to be selecting his victims at random.

"From the video... he appears to be moving without particular direction or purpose, his movements don't appear, at least to me, as if he was looking for a particular person or a particular group," the FBI chief said.

"When you look at the folks who were shot and the folks who are alive, they're all people from different backgrounds, from all over the building."

US officials acknowledged Wednesday missing "red flags" about the deeply troubled Alexis that may have averted the rampage.

It has emerged that Alexis had a security clearance that granted him access to the Navy Yard despite a record of misconduct in the Navy and run-ins with the law, including two shooting incidents and a Rhode Island police report showing he suffered from severe delusions.

- AFP

Sebastian Vettel won Singapore Grand Prix, marches towards title

Sebastian Vettel delivered a masterful performance to win the Singapore Grand Prix and move closer to his fourth consecutive world title.


Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel cruised to a third straight Singapore Grand Prix victory on Sunday and moved 60 points clear of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso after a dominant drive under the floodlights at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.

The German led from pole to flag and lapped on average almost two seconds quicker than his rivals to finish 32.6 seconds clear of Alonso and take another big step towards a fourth successive title with six races remaining.

Kimi Raikkonen shrugged off back pain to climb from 13th on the grid to third for Lotus in a challenging race that was held up by one decisive safety car period when Daniel Ricciardo crashed his Toro Rosso into the barriers on lap 26.

"Yes, yes, that's what I call in control," Vettel shouted over the team radio after chalking up his seventh win of the season and 33rd of his career.

"The car felt absolutely fantastic. This is absolutely a team effort."

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said Vettel, who was again booed on the podium from some in the crowd below, had been in a league of his own after "one of his best ever drives".

Vettel was challenged briefly by fellow-German Nico Rosberg, who was second on the grid, on the run to the first turn but once he held off the Mercedes, he controlled the race.

Alonso again used a charging start and brilliant strategy to climb from seventh on the grid and keep his title hopes alive. He gambled on pitting for a change of tyres during the safety car period and nursing his Ferrari all the way to the flag on medium tyres.

"We knew we didn't have the pace today so we had to invent something with a different strategy from the other teams," said the Spaniard.

"It paid off at the end. We are in a position in the championship where we have nothing to lose."

Raikkonen, who will join Alonso at Ferrari next season, duplicated the Spaniard's strategy and was able to hold on for third place from the fast-charging Mercedes duo of Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, who opted to stay out behind the safety car. Alonso's Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa finished in sixth place with McLaren's Jenson Button and Sergio Perez claiming the next two spots ahead of Nico Hulkenburg's Sauber and Adrian Sutil in a Force India.

Vettel's team mate Mark Webber briefly climbed up to fourth place in the closing stages but his Red Bull lost power on the last lap and he slipped out of the top 10. There was also disappointment for Romain Grosjean, who started third on the grid but retired on lap 33 after his Lotus suffered a pneumatic system failure and was called in by his team to retire in the pits.


- Eurosport