Friday 31 October 2014

Final Piala Malaysia Sabtu ini - 'Ayuh kita nikmati'

'Ayuh kita nikmati final kali ini'

DEBARNYA makin terasa. Degup jantung pasti kian pantas bilangannya. Itu sudah pasti dirasai penyokong-penyokong pasukan Johor Darul Takzim (JDT) dan Pahang menjelang sepakmula perlawanan akhir OPPO Piala Malaysia, Sabtu ini.

Segala cerita persiapan kedua-dua pasukan sudah dipampangkan media. Segala kekuatan dan kelemahan sudah diperhalusi serapi mungkin, demi memastikan atur langkah memasuki padang di Stadium Nasional nanti berbekal keyakinan yang utuh dibina.

Ikhlasnya, saya lihat aksi kemuncak kali ini adalah pertemuan buku dengan ruas; pertentangan dua barisan setanding; percaturan merebut gelaran terunggul di antara barisan yang sudah membuktikan diri sebagai dua yang terbaik di kancah Liga Malaysia musim ini.

Bukan tugas saya untuk menjulang siapa barisan ada kelebihan. Bukan niat saya untuk mencipta suasana yang mampu mencipta riak bertelagah di antara ratusan ribu penyokong kedua-dua pasukan. Kerana baik JDT mahupun Pahang, kedua-duanya berhak menjengah pintu aksi final kali ini.

Inilah istimewanya Piala Malaysia. Inilah yang kerap kali dirujuk sebagai ‘magis’ kejohanan bola sepak terulung negara. Kerana kemampuan untuk mencipta ruang rasa teruja, menjelmakan kilauan semangat serba bernyala, meruntun jiwa, mengusik sanubari seluruh Malaysia.

Siapapun yang akan menjulang piala idaman pada lewat malam Sabtu ini, pemenang sebenarnya ialah bola sepak negara.

Biarpun mungkin skuad kebangsaan tidak memiliki pencapaian hebat untuk dibanggakan, gempita sorakan yang tak pernah gagal diciptakan kejohanan Piala Malaysia membuktikan betapa cinta dan sayang peminat kepada sukan nombor satu ini, tidak pernah terjejas.

Malah jika diimbas sepanjang musim, bahang sokongan mampu diakui sudah mencecah tahap yang mengesankan. Kerana makin sukar untuk melihat kerapnya stadium yang kosong ketika ribuan demi ribuan peminat sudah kembali hadir ke stadium pada saban minggu.

Kepada peminat dan penyokong yang memberi ‘nyawa’ kepada saingan Liga Malaysia musim ini, terima kasih kerana ghairah sokongan dan jitu semangat yang dihadirkan.

Ayuh kita nikmati final antara JDT dan Pahang malam Sabtu ini.

Kepada yang akan ke Stadium Nasional, ikuti nasihat pihak keselamatan dan hadirlah lebih awal. Nikmati suasana penuh warna warni di perkarangan stadium sebelum menikmati aksi di tengah padang yang akan dipertontonkan pemain-pemain sanjungan.

Kepada yang tidak berkesempatan ke stadium, jangan lupa ikuti siaran langsung di Saluran Astro Arena, baik di saluran 801 ataupun 802 berdefinisi tinggi.

Ini kemuncak kepada kancah aksi Liga Malaysia musim ini. Mari kita sama-sama raikannya!


- Sumber: Ahmad Khawari Mohd Isa, Ketua Staf Nadi Arena

Tempahan untuk Ford Fiesta ST dibuka - RM149,888



Keadaan menjadi semakin sukar buat seorang peminat kereta apabila Sime Darby Auto Connexion (SDAC) baru sahaja mengesahkan bahawa model Ford Fiesta ST sudah hampir dilancarkan, dan mengumumkan bahawa tempahan sudah boleh dibuat; harga jualan adalah RM149,888 seunit.

Kalau anda memang inginkan sebuah ‘hot-hatch’, ini lagi satu model yang cukup-cukup menggoda. Mana satu nak pilih?

Bagi mereka yang berminat untuk melihatnya bolehlah ke acara Asia Klasika ke-5 yang mula berlangsung hari ini sehinggalah November 2 di Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside Resort. Jangankan kata nak lihat, nak pandu uji pun boleh kata SDAC. Tiga buah model klasik Ford Mustang turut dipamerkan.


Fiesta ST dijana oleh unit enjin EcoBoost 1.6 liter yang menghasilkan 179hp dan 240Nm untuk tork yang mampu membuat pecutan 0-100 km/sj dalam masa hanya 6.9 saat. Kelajuan maksimum pula adalah 220km/sj. Beratnya yang tidak melebihi 1,200kg juga memberikan pengalaman pemanduan Fiesta yang terbaik. 



- Sumber: Astro Publication

Malaysia duduki tangga ke-18 ekonomi maju

Gambar hiasan
Bangunan berkembar Petronas di Kuala Lumpur. - Gambar hiasan

MALAYSIA menduduki tempat ke-18 dalam kalangan 189 ekonomi dunia berdasarkan Laporan Menjalankan Perniagaan 2015 oleh International Finance Corporation (IFC) Bank Dunia.

Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri (Miti), Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed Malaysia berkata, Malaysia naik dua anak tangga berbanding tahun lepas di tangga ke-20.

“Menerusi laporan tersebut IFC Bank Dunia menukar kaedahnya untuk menilai prestasi setiap negara dengan menggunakan Skor Jarak Kepada Peneraju (DTF) berbanding menggunakan peratus bagi menentukan kedudukan sebelum ini.

“Bank dunia berpendapat kaedah itu memberikan kejelasan terhadap penambahbaikan yang perlu dibuat oleh negara terbabit selain berdaya saing,” katanya.

Menurutnya, kaedah baharu itu turut menunjukkan Malaysia mencatatkan penambahbaikan dalam lima petunjuk.

Kedudukan terbaharu ini meletakkan Malaysia mendahului beberapa ekonomi maju seperti Taiwan yang berada di tempat ke-19, Switzerland (20), Thailand (26), Belanda (27) dan Jepun (29).

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Rumah bakal pengantin diserbu

Asmadi (kanan) menunjukkan botol berisi air ketum yang dirampas.
Asmadi (kanan) menunjukkan botol berisi air ketum yang dirampas.

KUALA LUMPUR - Sepasang kekasih yang bakal melangsungkan perkahwinan tidak lama lagi dicekup ketika sedang asyik memproses daun ketum di sebuah rumah di Taman Sri Rampai, di sini, kelmarin.

Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah Wangsa Maju, Deputi Superintendan A Asmadi Abd Aziz berkata, serbuan kira-kira jam 11 malam berjaya menahan pasangan berusia 44 dan 26 tahun itu.

“Siasatan di rumah pasangan terbabit yang dipercayai sudah menyewa sejak empat bulan lalu didapati menjalankan aktiviti pengedaran dan pemprosesan air ketum sebelum diedarkan di sekitar Wangsa Maju.

“Hasil pemeriksaan polis menjumpai satu peti beku yang mengandungi 106 botol air ketum,” katanya pada sidang media di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Wangsa Maju, semalam.

Menurutnya, turut ditemui timbunan daun disyaki ketum yang belum dan sudah diproses seberat 68.5 kilogram, satu periuk besar, dapur gas dan tong gas yang digunakan untuk memproses barang terlarang tersebut.

Beliau berkata, siasatan lanjut mendapati daun tersebut diperolehi dari utara tanah air sebelum dihantar menggunakan khidmat pos laju dan bas ekspres. Malah, pihaknya percaya terdapat permintaan yang tinggi berdasarkan jumlah kuantiti daun ketum tersebut.

“Air ketum ini dijual dengan harga RM20 sebotol dan dipercayai ia mampu menghasilkan sebanyak 449 botol bernilai kira-kira RM8,970 berdasarkan jumlah rampasan daun berkenaan.

“Ujian air kencing didapati negatif. Pasangan tersebut kini direman enam hari dan kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 30(3)(5) Akta Racun 1952,” katanya.

Menurutnya, pihaknya memandang serius perkara berkenaan dan tidak menolak kemungkinan pembeli terdiri daripada golongan pelajar sekolah.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Prinsip Farrah Adeeba


Farrah Adeeba


BENARLAH kata pujangga, reda ibu bapa sangat penting dalam kehidupan anak-anak. Itulah prinsip yang dipegang 'kuat' oleh personaliti TV AlHijrah, Farrah Adeeba Mohamed Ashraf.

Dek prinsip itu juga, pengacara Assalamualaikum itu sanggup mengetepikan seketika minatnya terhadap dunia fesyen bagi meneruskan pengajian peringkat tertingginya dalam bidang undang-undang.

"Keluarga saya sangat tradisional dan lebih mengutamakan ke arah bidang profesional.

"Saya sebagai anak, sudah tentu mahu menjadi seorang anak yang mendengar kata agar hidup lebih diberkati kelak.

"Saya sentiasa percaya jika kita hendak berjaya, kita perlu mendapatkan keredaan ibu bapa. Itu sangat penting dalam hidup," tegasnya kepada Zass. 

Bagaimanapun, peluangnya mencuba nasib dalam bidang penyiaran menerusi pertandingan realiti, Pengacara Jemputan Nona (PJN) pada 2002 memberi laluan untuknya kembali aktif dalam bidang yang diminatinya itu.

"Selepas mendapat tempat kelima dalam PJN, jadual saya mulai sibuk sementelah banyak peluang pengacaraan yang saya terima seperti Wanita Hari Ini, Akademi al-Quran dan Cari Menantu.

"Minat saya dalam fesyen tidak pernah padam.

"Tugasan sebagai pengacara serta wartawan secara tidak langsung memberi laluan untuk saya mengukuhkan hubungan sesama pereka luar dan tempatan, di samping menambah kenalan yang turut terbabit dalam dunia fesyen," katanya.

Tambahnya, walaupun dia melalui proses yang panjang, perkara itu semua menjadikannya matang sekali gus membuka minda.

Atas kesabarannya itu, Farrah Adeeba kini mampu tersenyum lebar kerana sudah mempunyai butiknya sendiri.

"Saya kini lebih berfokus pada bisnes butik saya yang dikongsi dengan beberapa teman iaitu Najjah dan Falah Abiyana.

"Semua produk atas dua jenama ini direka sendiri dan sehingga kini kami sudah mempunyai lima cawangan di Kota Damansara, Mutiara Damansara Wangsa Maju, Puchong dan Shah Alam," katanya.

Selain butik tersebut, Farrah Adeeba juga adalah salah seorang pengasas kepada Women Of Jannah (WOJ) iaitu butik yang menghimpunkan pelbagai jenama Muslimah di bawah satu bumbung.

"Tujuan utama WOJ adalah untuk menjadi pusat sehenti kepada jenama Muslimah itu sendiri," katanya.


Tidak abai keluarga


Biarpun sibuk dengan pelbagai urusan, fokus utama Farrah Adeeba tetap kepada keluarga kecilnya.

Kata isteri kepada Muhammad Rafique Rashid Ali dan ibu kepada anak angkatnya, Mohammad Razique Abdullah, dia tetap akan cuba mencari masa bagi meluangkan lebih masa dengan mereka.

"Tidak dinafikan, saya sememangnya sentiasa sibuk dengan pelbagai perkara. 

"Tetapi itulah, hendak seribu daya, tidak hendak seribu dalih," katanya.

Katanya, hidup berkeluarga ini bagaikan bekerja dalam satu syarikat yang memerlukan kerjasama yang erat di antara pekerja-pekerjanya.

"Sebagai satu keluarga, kita perlu saling percaya-mempercayai dan sentiasa amalkan sikap bertolak ansur.

"Perkahwinan itu bukan sekadar pengorbanan sebaliknya perlu ada keseronokan dan usik mengusik, barulah akan bertahan lama selain sama-sama mendekatkan diri kepada-NYA," akhirinya.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Adele terima pujian lagi

Adele
Adele bersama trofi yang dimenanginya.

PROFIL

Nama : Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
Lahir : 5 Mei 1988
Asal : West Norwood, London
Pasangan : Simon Konecki
Tahun Aktif : 2006–sekarang

SEPANJANG penglibatan seni penyanyi hebat ini sejak 2006, lagu-lagu dendangannya sentiasa memenuhi selera pendengar khususnya peminat.

Sebut sahaja lagu, Rolling In The Deep, Someone Like You, Set Fire To The Rain, mahupun Rumour Has It, masing-masing memiliki kekuatan tersendiri.

Setelah berehat panjang pada tahun ini, Adele atau nama sebenarnya Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, 26, bakal tampil dengan album ketiganya tidak lama lagi.

Sebelum ini, ada yang memberitahu album berkenaan akan dilancarkan pada tahun ini, namun pihak pengurusan penyanyi kelahiran Tottenham, ini memberitahu bahawa album itu akan diperkenalkan pada tahun hadapan.

Turut disenaraikan sebagai pengkarya yang amat menitikberatkan soal kualiti dan mutu, perkara ini turut diakui oleh penulis lirik handal, Diane Warren ketika sama-sama terlibat dalam pembikinan album itu.

Jelas Warren, Adele sangat teliti dan memastikan hasil kerjanya dalam album ketiga ini benar-benar bagus dan memenuhi selera peminat.

"Saya terbang ke London untuk mengadakan perbincangan dan mencapai persetujuan untuk album ini dengan Adele pada akhir tahun lalu.

"Ketika itu juga, kami turut merakam beberapa lagu dan hasil rakaman itu, saya percaya, dia telah melakukan latihan yang cukup sebelum ini. Malah, saya yakin, Adele adalah pemuzik yang luar biasa hebatnya," jelas Warren lagi.

Sebelum ini, Warren pernah bekerjasama dalam pembikinan album untuk penyanyi terkenal, Beyonce Knowles, Sir Elton John dan Whitney Houston.

Makin kurus

Walaupun bentuk badannya tidak seramping selebriti terkenal yang lain, namun sebenarnya Adele berusaha untuk menurunkan berat badannya secara berperingkat.

Pernah tampil di majlis hiburan dengan penampilan yang kurang memuaskan, Adele turut menanam hasrat untuk muncul dengan tubuh yang lebih kurus.

Setelah lama menyepi dan menyembunyikan diri, akhirnya Adele memuat naik foto dirinya di laman sosial, Twitter, untuk tatapan peminatnya.

Apa yang jelas, ada perbezaan yang digambarkan dalam foto berkenaan berbanding satu ketika dahulu. Dalam foto itu, Adele kelihatan jauh lebih kurus dengan bentuk wajahnya yang turut berubah.

Bersama foto berkenaan, kekasih hati Simon Konecki ini turut meninggalkan kata-kata yang tertulis, 'Bye bye 25... Jumpa lagi'.

Kemungkinan besar, kemunculan Adele dengan album barunya nanti turut dikejutkan dengan penampilannya yang lebih anggun dan elegan!

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Hidung, telinga, bibir wanita dikerat

Surat ancaman yang pernah ditulis Huang kepada teman wanitanya.


TAIPEI - TAIWAN . Gara-gara cemburu kerana menyangka teman wanitanya mempunyai hubungan dengan lelaki lain, seorang warga emas di Taiwan bertindak memotong telinga, hidung dan bibir wanita itu dengan pisau pemotong buah.

Media Central News Agency melaporkan, selepas memotong bahagian anggota badan Zhu, 47, suspek dikenali sebagai Huang, 79, membuangnya di dalam mangkuk tandas.

Ketika serangan, Huang dikatakan mengikat kaki dan tangan wanita itu dengan tali semasa tidur sebelum memotong anggota berkenaan.

Polis tempatan memaklumkan, apabila mangsa menjerit kesakitan, Huang menyumbat mulut Zhu dengan tuala dan terus melakukan kekejaman tanpa rasa belas kasihan.

"Dia kemudiannya membuang anggota tersebut dalam mangkuk tandas sebelum menghubungi ambulans. Mangsa dibawa ke Hospital Changhua Christian dan kini berada dalam keadaan stabil,"menurut polis.

Difahamkan, Huang pernah mengancam teman wanitanya dengan nota amaran bahawa akan berlaku pertumpahan darah jika dia dapat menangkap teman wanitanya makan dengan lelaki lain, dipetik dari laporan Straits Times.

- Sumber: Central News Agency

Pengasas Android tinggalkan Google


PENGASAS perisian mobile Google’s Android dilaporkan meninggalkan syarikat gergasi Internet itu bagi memulakan projek inkubator dalam pembinaan produk perkakasan teknologi.

Memetik laporan The Wall Street Journal, perkara itu disahkan Google dan Andy Rubin sendiri.

“Saya harap Andy berjaya dengan apa yang dia buat selepas ini. Dengan Android, dia telah mencipta sesuatu yang benar-benar luar biasa, ditambah dengan lebih satu bilion pengguna. Terima kasih,” kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Google, Larry Page dalam satu kenyataan.

Andy Rubin merupakan salah seorang pengasas syarikat Danger Inc. sebelum beliau meletakkan jawatan pada tahun 2003 untuk menubuhkan Android Inc yang kemudiannya telah dibeli oleh Google, dua tahun kemudian.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Babysitter charged with abusing 3-year-old child

BUTTERWORTH: A babysitter was today charged in the Magistrate's Court here with abusing a three-year-old child under her care last Tuesday.

Noor Faezah Rahman, 39, is alleged to have committed the offence at her house in Block A-8-19, Seri Pinang Flats, here, at about 10am on Oct 28.

According to the charge sheet, the victim was found with his hands tied behind his back with a belt and his legs bound with a string.

When the charge was read out to her the first time, Noor Faezah pleaded guilty but after the court stood down for about an hour and the charge read to her the second time, she remained silent.

No plea was recorded before Magistrate Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Wahab who fixed Dec 5 for mention of the case to allow the accuse to find a lawyer.

Nor Faezah was charged under Section 31 (1) (a) of the Child Act 2001 which provides for a jail sentence of up to 10 years and a fine upon conviction.

Earlier, when pleading for a lesser bail, she said she had eight children to look after and asked the court for leniency.

Magistrate Muhammad Firdaus set bail at RM8,000 in one surety.

The accused was unrepresented while deputy public prosecutor Khairul Fairuz Rahman appeared for the prosecution.

- Source: Bernama

It's a big bad scary world out there

Malaysia is ranked seventh on the list of most dangerous transport systems for women

So we made it again on the global top ten list, for all the not-so-good reason.

We ranked seventh on the list of most dangerous transport systems for women by Thomson Reuters Foundation.

See. This is why I don’t take the train or public bus anymore.

I was once a constant commuter. The last time I took a train was 10 years ago.

That day, I took the train from Sentral to Bukit Jalil to go to work. In the train, I sat across two gentlemen who looked polished in their office attire.

And then, at one of the stops, came in two Indonesians – males and in their late twenties. One of them has long hair and the other, short hair, afro.

I remember that day very vividly. The man with long hair sat on my left and the other on my right. They were talking and laughing at each other with me in the middle trying to ignore their halitosis.

Suddenly and very briefly, the long haired guy closed his eyes, as if pretending to sleep and leaned his head on my shoulder. I pushed his head away and yelled “excuse me!” and as soon as I turned, the other man groped the side of my boob. I yelled again and they both hurried away happily to the next coach.

It was nightmare on a broad daylight.

As I sat back again, continuing my train ride, fighting back tears, I looked across of me and saw those two polished gentlemen staring blankly at me.

I looked at them and I said ‘thanks for nothing’. I cried my way to my stop.

At the station, I looked for any form of authority to state my case. I found a security guard at his post. I told him what had happened in the coach and he was unresponsive.

I repeated myself and before I could finish, he said “Cik nak aku buat apa?” (what do you want me to do?)

I didn't say much. In fact, I didn't say anything. I just walked away. I felt violated and helpless and invisible.

At this point i began to believe that there's nothing I can do about it because there's nothing anyone can do to help me.

I took a deep breath and I took a cab to my office, praying real hard that the taxi driver won’t go all psycho on me.

I reached the office safely.

Speaking of psychos, the reason why I didn’t take the public bus anymore is because during my final year in Convent Klang, year `96, a psycho who sat beside me on my way back home from school masturbated underneath a sheet of newspaper.

Yes! Unbelievable, right? But, believe me it really happened.

Well at least, at that time I got help. The bus conductor threw him out of the bus. Nonetheless, it was traumatizing.

If it happened to me, I am sure it could have happened to any woman in this country. I am not sure which is more traumatizing though - the fact that I was groped or the fact that there were people witnessing the whole ordeal but unwilling to lend a hand.

It is a scary world out there for women and it gets scarier every single day and night especially.

And that’s a true scary story for you this Halloween. I am sure you have one too.

So, what's your horror story?

- Source: Astro Awani

Former factory worker freed of murdering baby

Nurul Syuhada, now a housewife and from Parit Buntar, Perak, was charged with murdering the newborn between 3 am and 7 am on Dec 3, 2009, in the women's toilet at the Jabil Circuit Factory, Bayan Lepas.

GEORGE TOWN: A former factory worker who was earlier fined for secretly disposing off her newborn in a toilet five years ago, was today acquitted and discharged by the High Court on a charge of killing the baby girl.

Judge Datuk Zamani Abdul Rahim ordered Nurul Syuhada Shamsudin, 24, to be freed after finding that the defence had succeeded in raising doubts against the prosecution case.

"Having carefully considered and reviewed both the evidence from the defence and prosecution, I am more inclined to accept the accused version, which may reasonably be true, that the baby was dead before full expulsion from the accused vagina.

"As such, there has been no offence of murder of Section 300 of the Penal Code. I am therefore of the considered view that the defence has succeeded in casting a reasonable doubt on the prosecution case.

"As a result, the prosecution has failed to proof this case beyond a reasonable doubt.

"I am, therefore, accordingly ordered the accused to be acquitted and discharged from the charged of murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code," he added.

Nurul Syuhada, now a housewife and from Parit Buntar, Perak, was charged with murdering the newborn between 3 am and 7 am on Dec 3, 2009, in the women's toilet at the Jabil Circuit Factory, Bayan Lepas here.

The charge, under Section 302 of the Penal Code, carries the death sentence upon conviction.

On Jan 25, 2011, the Penang High Court had acquitted and discharged her of the murder charge.

The prosecution subsequently, filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal.

On March 6, 2013, the Court of Appeal convicted and fined Nurul Syuhada RM3,000 after she pleaded guilty on a substituted charge of secretly disposing her baby. She paid the fine.

The prosecution then appealed to the Federal Court, which then ordered Nurul Syuhada to make her defence on the original charge of murdering the baby.

The facts revealed that the body of the baby was found protruding from the hole of a toilet bowl when a cleaner was trying to clear a clogged toilet.

The prosecution was represented by deputy public prosecutor Siti Fatimah Talib, while Nurul Syuhada was represented by lawyer E. Gunasegaran.

- Source: Bernama

Ultraman turun ke Malaysia


BERMULA 27 Oktober hingga 9 November 2014, karakter adiwira terkenal Jepun, Ultraman dan watak jahat siri tersebut, akan membuat penampilan khas di Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, sempena persembahan ‘Ultraman Live in Genting 2015’ di Resorts World Genting pada 19 Februari 2015 nanti.

'Roadshow' selama dua minggu ini akan menampilkan ahli keluarga terbaru Ultraman yang baharu menyambut ulang tahun ke-50 siri terbitan Tsuburaya Production, iaitu Ultraman Ginga.

Selain itu, dua lagi karakter siri tersebut, Ultraman Zero dan Ultraman Tiga akan turut serta sebagai satu pasukan untuk beramah mesra bersama peminat.

Sepanjang 'roadshow' berlangsung, peminat boleh menonton siri kegemaran mereka itu di skrin plasma yang disediakan.

Malah, peminat berpeluang mengambil gambar bersama karakter siri berkenaan di lokasi terpilih Pavilion pada masa yang ditetapkan.

Selain itu mereka juga berpeluang menyertai peraduan yang menawarkan pelbagai hadiah menarik.

Persembahan ‘Ultraman Live in Genting 2015’ yang bakal berlangsung pada 19 Februari hingga 22 Mac 2015 itu membawa keseluruhan produksi daripada Jepun.

Malah akan menampilkan ramai lagi watak Ultraman termasuk Ultraman Seven, Taro, Mebius dan Cosmos, serta dua raksasa kaiju.

Peminat siri ini boleh mendapatkan tiket untuk menyaksikan persembahan tersebut semasa road show itu nanti. Harga tiket bermula daripada RM48 sehingga RM88, dan pembeli terawal akan menerima diskaun sehingga 30 peratus.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Ellie dinobat pengarah harapan


Timbalan Menteri Komunikasi dan Multimedia, Datuk Jailani Johari (empat, kiri) bergambar bersama sebahagian pemenang pada Majlis Perasmian Festival Filem Malaysia (FFM) ke-26 di Kuala Lumpur, malam tadi.

PENGARAH filem 'Penanggal', Ellie Suriati dinobatkan sebagai Pengarah Harapan pada malam perasmian Festival Filem

Malaysia ke-26 (FFM26) anjuran Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia (Finas) di Kuala Lumpur, malam tadi.

Festival berkenaan yang bertemakan Transformasi Sinema Malaysia itu dirasmikan oleh Timbalan Menteri Komunikasi dan Multimedia (KKMM), Datuk Jailani Johari.

Sebanyak 11 anugerah diberi kepada penggiat seni belakang tabir, iaitu Anugerah Poster Terbaik yang dimenangi oleh Primeworks Studios (Grand Brilliance) menerusi filem bertajuk 'Kil', manakala Anugerah Penataan Seni Terbaik disandang oleh Nazrul Asraff menerusi filem 'Penanggal'.

Anugerah Pereka Kostum/ Busana Terbaik dijuarai oleh Hasnan Yaccob dan Fadzilah Abdullah menerusi filen 'Tanda Putera', manakala Sharon Paul menjadi pemenang bagi Anugerah Skor Muzik Asal Terbaik menerusi filem yang sama.

Sementara itu, Anugerah Penataan Bunyi Terbaik disandang Syamsul Yusoff dan Hisham Jupri (KL Gangster 2), Anugerah Lagu Tema Asal Terbaik pula dimenangi Tomok dan Rafidah Abdullah (Istanbul Aku Datang).

Anugerah Penggiat Belakang Tabir dimenangi oleh Ali Husin manakala Anugerah Pelakon Kanak-kanak Terbaik dimenangi oleh Rykarl Iskandar (Ajiboy), dan Anugerah Filem Pendek Terbaik dimenangi Reservoir Production Sdn Bhd menerusi filem 'Jahit'.
Anugerah Filem Animasi Terbaik pula tidak mempunyai pemenang.

Acara kemuncak FFM26 akan diadakan pada Sabtu ini di Kompleks Penyiaran Tuanku Muhammad, Sungai Gadot, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. 

- Sumber: Bernama

India court upholds booze ban in Kerala tourism state

The Kerala government had planned for all hotels to close, although shops selling liquor would be phased out over 10 years.

NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Thursday upheld a ban on alcohol served in most bars in the southern tropical state of Kerala popular with tourists, in a major blow to hoteliers.

The Kerala High Court backed the state government's plans to introduce almost complete prohibition in a bid to tackle the area's drinking problem.

Justice K. Surendra Mohan said "the challenge made against the policy" by hoteliers "fails", rejecting arguments that the move would drive away tourists seeking some booze with their beach holiday.

However the court made some concessions, ruling that hotels with a four-star and heritage ranking could stay open.

Hotel owners warned that hotels would close as a result of the ruling -- although not as many as originally feared. 

"It is a very unfortunate order as it will shut around 200 of the 312 bars in the state," G Sudhiesh Kumar, a hotelier and president of the local Bars Association said.

"We will definitely go in for an appeal," he told the NDTV network.

Owners had been hopeful of overturning the ban after the country's top court ordered a stay in September on introducing the policy until the Kerala High Court had ruled on the petitions.

The Kerala government had planned for all hotels to close, although shops selling liquor would be phased out over 10 years and five-star places exempt from the ban except on Sundays.

With its sweeping coastline, riverboats and emerald tea plantations, Kerala has become a leading tourist draw in India, promoting itself as 'God's Own Country'.

But behind the paradisiacal slogan, the state has a damaging drinking problem among its 34 million population, leading the government to opt abruptly for almost complete prohibition. - AFP 

How Halloween is celebrated around the world

Halloween celebration varies across different continents, some with its own customs and history.

KUALA LUMPUR: Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in the West. As it is a celebration for all things scary and spooky, both kids and adults alike flock to the nearest store in search of the most outrages, witty and frightening costumes and decorations.

History has it that Halloween is known as All Saints’ Eve - celebrated on the eve of All Hallows’s Day - and is a celebration dedicated to remembering the dead.

These days, Halloween is more known forhow it is celebrated: trick-or-treating, costume parties, carved pumpkins, telling scary stories and watching horror films.

The celebration is as popular as ever. The International Council of Shopping Centers reported that the expected total expense for American families spending on Halloween will reach $11.3 billion.

In the United States, Halloween is the second most popular holiday after Christmas, with trick-or-treating the most popular among children and teenagers.

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have in past years hosted some 2,000 children at the White House to mark Halloween.

Children have fun trick-or-treating in the United States during Halloween. - EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo

Halloween wasn’t always about trick-or-treats, parades, bobbing for apples or other family-friendly activities.

The ancient origins of Halloween go back some 2,000 years ago in Ireland, to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which means November.

It was also the end of summer and the Harvest season in the Celtic calendar, where the last great feasts were held outdoors before the cold months came.

However the Celts also believed that on Samhain, the veil between the living and the dead was dropped for one day, and the spirits of the living could intermingle with the spirits of the dead.

The people would leave food and wine on their doorsteps to keep roaming spirits at bay and wear masks when they left their homes so they would be mistaken for fellow ghosts.

Other would light large bonfires in the hopes of guiding the spirits of their loved ones to their resting place by providing them with a path to the ‘otherside’.

In the 8th century, the Christian Church turned Samhain to All Hallows’ Eve, a day just before Christians celebrated their own feast of the dead in All Souls' Day.

All Hallows’ Eve was later shortened to Halloween.

Fast forward to the present, Halloween is celebrated differently across continents — some with its own customs and history.


Halloween is known as 'Teng Chieh' in China, a day to pay homage to the dead. - AFP Photo/Ed Jones
For example, Halloween is known as “El Dia de los Muertos”, which translates to English as the Day of the Dead in Latin America. The celebration begins on the eve of October 31 although the official commemoration happens on November 2.

In France, Halloween was relatively unknown until 1996. Without the significance of honouring the dead or ancestors, it is simply known as an American holiday.

Known as “Yue Lan” or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Hong Kong, it is believed that spirits roam the world for 24 hours. People offer food and gifts for the spirits, to placate angry ghosts seeking revenge.

Yue Lan takes place on the seventh moon, 15th day of the Chinese Lunar calender, when there is a full moon, thousands of people across the city give offerings, burn paper money - with fires and bonfires visible in the streets, empty lots and playgrounds - creating an eerie and wondrous spectacle.

People give offerings and burn paper money for the spirits. - AFP Photo/Richard A. Brooks

In ancient Chinese tradition, the gates of Hell burst open, unleashing the spirits of the restless dead, or "hungry ghosts", and offerings such as these are given for the departed.

The Taoist belief in the afterlife is also celebrated on the same day in Malaysia. Throughout the country, the Chinese community go all out to feed and entertain the roaming ghosts.

Song stages known as getai are set up, and Chinese opera (phor thor) and puppet shows held for both the living and the living and the dead. The first row in the audience, however, is left empty to accommodate the spirits.

In modern times, karaoke and dance contests are held on these stages, presumably for the spirits of the more recently deceased.

In Japan, the festivity dedicated to the dead is call the ‘Obon Festival’ which is generally celebrated from the August 13th to 15.

The period of Obon is also the primary summer vacation season in Japan, when many factories and offices close and workers go back to their hometowns where they place floating paper lanterns onto a river.

The floating lanterns are believed to send the departed ancestors back to Buddhist paradise.

In the Philippines, Halloween is known as All Saints' Day and is followed by All Souls' Day on Sunday.

Traditionally, a group will go house to house and offer a song in exchange for money or food. However this tradition is slowly being replaced by the popular trick-or-treating.

From Asia, Europe to Latin America, we take a look at how Halloween is celebrated in various parts of the world.Click here to view the photo gallery.

- Source: Astro Awani

Police gun down two men believed to be Sulu rebels


A police team intercepted a vehicle in which the two men were travelling. The duo tried to resist and the police were forced to open fire.

KUALA LUMPUR: The police shot dead two men, suspected to be members of the Sulu Rebel Army and the 'driving force' behind the recruitment of new members, in the vicinity of a shophouse in Penampang Baru, Sabah yesterday.

Initial police investigations revealed that the duo, in their 30s and 50s, had arrived from Kota Kinabalu and attempted an armed robbery in the area.

In the 5pm incident, a police team intercepted a vehicle in which the two men were travelling. At that juncture, the duo tried to resist and the police were forced to open fire, killing them on the spot.

According to a police source, police surveillance on the two men, about a few weeks ago had revealed they tried to recruit new members, spread the so-called Sulu Sultanate ideology in Sabah, as well as preach elements of violence.

"The suspects, who came from Kota Kinabalu were also attempting to commit an armed robbery in the area.

"The police are now tracking down the remnants of this group and they are also believed to be getting active off the east coast of Sabah," he said when contacted by Bernama.

In February last year, the country was stunned when armed Sulu rebels from southern Philippines, intruded into Lahad Datu and Semporna in Sabah's east coast, which saw 10 members of the national security forces killed.

However, through a joint army and police operation, dubbed 'Operasi Daulat', the rebels were routed. More than 100 rebels were killed and hundreds of their followers captured in the state.

Following the incident, the Malaysian Government set up a security shield to thwart violations, kidnapping and smuggling in Sabah, named ESSZone (Eastern Sabah Security Zone) and ESSCom (Eastern Sabah Security Command).

Meanwhile in PENAMPANG, Sabah, residents panicked when they heard gunshots in the business district of Penampang Baru.

A man in his 30s, who declined to be identified said he was busy at work in a food store when he heard a loud thud.

"I rushed out of the shop and saw a group of armed men wearing ski-masks and firing shots in the direction of some occupants in a four-wheel drive vehicle," he said.

The food store employee who was hiding in the vicinity said he also spotted a group of policemen arriving at the scene, about 15 minutes later and inspecting the bodies of two men who were earlier, gunned down in the vehicle.

He said he also saw the police take the bodies away in two black plastic bags.

A Bernama survey found that the police had cordoned off two business blocks to prevent the public from entering the area.

- source:Bernama

UM identify nine students who participated in illegal gathering

UM's media and corporate unit head Izzad Zalman Abd Kader said among the nine students was PMUM President Fahmi Zainol.

KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya (UM) yesterday said nine students have been identified as suspects who had participated in the illegal gathering during a programme with PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim" on Oct 27, at the Dataran Dewan Tunku Canselor.

UM's media and corporate unit head Izzad Zalman Abd Kader said among the nine students was Universiti Malaya Undergraduates' Association (PMUM) President Fahmi Zainol.

He said UM had identified Fahmi as the organiser of the programme, based on (CCTV) recordings.

"Fahmi who is a final year student in Social Science and History will face the UM Disciplinary Board soon," he told Bernama when contacted.

He added that the actual number of students involved on that day was still being investigated while CCTV recordings have been sent to other institutions as well for identification purposes.

"For students from UM, we will carry out an internal investigation," he said.

Meanwhile, Brickfields police chief ACP Muhammad Azlee Abdullah said police were in the process of identifying those involved in the illegal rally by viewing CCTV recordings on that day.

During the incident on Oct 27, about 300 youth, believed to be students from Higher Learning Institutions had charged into the UM gate at 9.20pm for the "Pidato Anwar Ibrahim" at Dewan Tunku Canselor.

The programme was deemed illegal by the UM and the UM security had locked the main gates

- Source: Bernama

Selepas lapan bulan, keluarga MH370 mulakan saman terhadap MAS

Selepas lapan bulan, keluarga MH370 mula saman kerajaan - Gambar fail

KUALA LUMPUR: Selepas kejadian hitam kehilangan pesawat malang MH370 8 Mac lepas, dua anak kepada seorang penumpang pesawat MH370, hari ini memfailkan saman di Mahkamah Tinggi di sini terhadap terhadap kerajaan Malaysia dan Malaysia Airlines (MAS).

Saman itu difailkan Jee Kinson, 14, dan Jee Kinnland, 11, melalui firma guaman, Tetuan Rusman Arun & Associates.

Dengan jumlah ganti rugi yang tidak dinyatakan, kedua-dua mereka selaku pihak plaintif membawa tindakan tersebut melalui ibu mereka, Ng Pearl Ming.

Mereka menuntut ganti rugi atas kehilangan sokongan, ganti rugi tambahan dan ganti rugi teladan selepas MAS didakwa gagal mendaratkan pesawat itu di Beijing, China tanpa sebarang butiran pengakhiran mengenai pesawat tersebut sehingga kini.

Plaintif juga menamakan MAS, Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam, Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Imigresen, Panglima Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia dan Kerajaan Malaysia masing-masing selaku plaintif pertama hingga kelima.

Penerbangan MH370, yang membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal, dipercayai telah berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi, di barat Perth, Australia, berdasarkan analisis data satelit oleh pakar daripada United Kingdom.

Misi pencarian MH370 masih diteruskan tetapi setakat ini tiada petunjuk ditemui berhubung pesawat itu.

Sebelum ini, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein berkata, negara-negara yang terlibat dalam pencarian MH370 sehingga kini tidakpernah membuat sebarang tuntutandaripada Malaysia walaupun pencarian melibatkan aset-aset ketenteraan.

- Sumber: Astro Awani

12 nelayan ditahan menangkap ikan di kawasan Zon A Pahang

Kes itu disiasat mengikut Seksyen 8 (b), Akta Perikanan 1985 kerana melanggar syarat lesen menangkap ikan - Foto Fail

KEMAMAN: Tindakan sekumpulan nelayan tempatan Kelas B, yang mengambil jalan mudah dengan menangkap ikan di kawasan yang tidak dibenarkan, membawa padah selepas diberkas Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia (APMM) Daerah Maritim 8 Pahang, pada Rabu.

Ketua Penguatkuasa Daerah Maritim 8 Kapten Maritim Mamu Said Alee berkata dalam kejadian kira-kira 6 pagi itu, kesemua nelayan berusia lingkungan 30-an itu, yang menaiki tiga buah bot, didapati menceroboh kawasan menankap ikan Zon A, kurang lima batu nautika dari Sungai Miang, Pahang.

Hasil pemeriksaan lanjut ke atas bot kelas B itu, pihaknya mendapati mereka sedang menangkap ikan di pesisir pantai itu.

"Menyedari kehadiran kami, ketiga-tiga bot itu cuba melarikan diri dan kami terpaksa mengejar mereka kira-kira tiga jam sebelum semuanya diberkas," katanya kepada pemberita di sini, pada Khamis.

Kes itu disiasat mengikut Seksyen 8 (b), Akta Perikanan 1985 kerana melanggar syarat lesen menangkap ikan.

Mamu Said berkata aktiviti pencerobohan bot nelayan Kelas B dan C akan menjejaskan sumber pendapatan nelayan pantai.

Bagi mengekang kegiatan itu, APMM meningkatkan pemantauan dan rondaan di kawasan perairan Zon Maritim Malaysia khususnya dari kawasan Kuantan hingga ke Rompin, katanya.

Beliau berkata orang ramai boleh menghubungi pusat operasi DM8 di talian 09-5717345 untuk aduan kesalahan di laut.

- Sumber: Bernama

Kanak-kanak mati terjerut tali buaian

Kejadian kira-kira 3.40 petang itu berlaku ketika Isma Umairah sedang bermain buaian itu seorang diri di bahagian dapur. - Gambar fail

JEMPOL: Seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia lima tahun ditemui mati terjerut tali buaian di rumah datuknya di Felda Lui Muda dekat sini, hari ini.

Kejadian kira-kira 3.40 petang itu berlaku ketika Isma Umairah Radzuan sedang bermain buaian itu seorang diri di bahagian dapur.

Ketua Polis Daerah Jempol Supt Hamzah Alias berkata kejadian itu disedari bapa saudaranya setelah mendapati kanak-kanak itu tiba-tiba senyap.

"Ketika bapa saudaranya pergi ke dapur, dia mendapati mangsa dalam keadaan tergantung dengan lehernya terjerut pada tali buaian.

"Bapa saudara mangsa segera memotong tali buaian itu sebelum membawa kanak-kanak itu ke Klinik Kesihatan Lui Muda. Namun, doktor yang melakukan pemeriksaan mengesahkan kanak-kanak itu sudah meninggal dunia," katanya ketika dihubungi.

Menurutnya mayat Isma Umairah dihantar ke Hospital Jempol dan kes itu diklasifikasikan sebagai kematian mengejut.

- Sumber: Bernama

CEO Apple, Tim Cook bangga mengaku gay

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Apple itu mengatakan yang pengakuan ini adalah sebahagian daripada perjuangan peribadinya untuk membela golongan minoriti.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Apple, Tim Cook bangga mengakui dirinya merupakan seorang homoseksual atau gay.

Cook yang membuat pengakuan itu pada Khamis berkata, dirinya sering memperjuangkan persamaan hak antara gender sama ada secara peribadi atau dalam perniagaannya.

Ketua rangkaian teknologi gergasi itu turut menyebut bahawa seksualitinya tidak pernah menjadi rahsia di syarikat itu dan mengakui mengenai perkara berkenaan adalah lebih penting daripada privasinya.

"Biar saya jelaskan saya bangga menjadi gay dan saya anggap menjadi gay adalah antara anugerah terhebat dari tuhan kepada saya" kata Cook dalam satu kenyataan di Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

"Saya bernasib baik kerana bekerja di sebuah syarikat yang mementingkan kreativiti dan inovasi serta menerima perbezaan antara setiap orang. Tidak semua orang bernasib baik" katanya.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Apple itu mengatakan yang pengakuan ini adalah sebahagian daripada perjuangan peribadinya untuk membela golongan minoriti.

"Sebahagian daripada kemajuan sosial adalah dengan memahami bahawa seseorang itu tidak dihakimi berdasarkan hanya dengan seksualiti, bangsa atau jantina seseorang” katanya.

"Menjadi gay telah memberi saya pemahaman yang lebih mendalam bagaimana rasanya berada dalam cabaran yang dihadapi setiap hari. Kami akan terus memperjuangkan nilai-nilai etika dan saya percaya bahawa mana-mana Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif syarikat ini turut menerima sesiapa tanpa mengira bangsa, jantina atau orientasi seksual seseorang itu.

Dan saya sendiri akan terus melakukan advokasi untuk kesaksamaan untuk semua kaum sehingga akhir hayat” katanya lagi yang mengagumi ikon pejuang hak asasi manusia Martin Luther King dan Robert Kennedy.

Cook mengambil alih sebagai ketua Apple pada tahun 2011 selepas kematian Steve Jobs.

Beliau telah dikritik kerana tidak mempertahankan kemegahan Apple selepas kematian Jobs yang disebut peminat sebagai seorang yang berpandangan jauh.

Namun, sejak perlancaran iPhone 6 populariti Apple kembali melonjak.

Cook berkata menjadi gay hanya sebahagian daripada identitinya selain turut menggambarkan dirinya sebagai "seorang jurutera, seorang ‘pakcik’, pecinta alam dan ahli sukan.”

- Sumber: Agensi

Court dismisses application to suspend damages payment to 'Johan Raja Lawak'

The payment was for damages awarded to the comedian, whose real name is Mohammad Yazid Lim Mohamad Aziz (left) and his wife.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here today dismissed an application by a drama and film director and his company for a stay of a court order compelling them to pay RM170,000 in damages comedian 'Johan Raja Lawak'
and his wife.

The payment was for damages awarded to the comedian, whose real name is Mohammad Yazid Lim Mohamad Aziz and his wife, in a defamation suit filed by the couple against the director and his company over injuries sustained four years ago.

Judge Su Geok Yiam dismissed the application in chambers, in the presence of lawyers Suhaimi Saad, representing Johan, and Baljit Singh for Mohd Javed Mohd Nizar and Juara Filem Production Sdn Bhd.

Suhaimi told reporters that the court dismissed the application with costs of RM5,000, and ordered Mohd Javed and his company to pay the damages within 31 days from today.

On July 7, Su ordered Mohd Javed and his company to pay damages of RM100,000 to Mohammad Yazid for the permanent scars on his face, RM100 for medical report and medication, at five per cent interest from the date the suit was filed until its disposal.

The court also ordered both the defendants to pay damages of RM20,000 to Johan's wife, Rozlinawaty Ismail, for the trauma she suffered.

Mohd Javed and Juara Filem Production Sdn Bhd were also ordered to pay legal costs of RM50,000 to the couple.

On July 18, 2010, Johan, 29, and his wife, also known as Ozlynn Wati, 32, failed a suit of RM1 million against the two defendants claiming that Mohd Javed had assaulted and hurled a drinking glass at Johan, which caused him to suffer an injury on the forehead.

In the statement of claims, Johan stated that Mohd Javed flipped their table out of anger and that he (Johan) was also punched in the eye by a production crew known only as Halim.

Johan also claimed that Mohd Javed and Halim continued to hit and kick him, and when his wife tried to stop them, she also had her share of their brutalities.

The two plaintiffs demanded RM1 million in general damages, together with special damages, costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.

- Source: Bernama

Polis tembak mati dua lelaki dipercayai anggota pemberontak Sulu

Menurut sumber polis, pihaknya telah membuat intipan beberapa minggu lalu mengenai aktiviti kedua-dua pemberontak terbabit.

KUALA LUMPUR: Polis menembak mati dua lelaki, yang dipercayai anggota pemberontak tentera Sulu dan menjadi antara penggerak utama merekrut anggota baharu, di kawasan rumah kedai, Penampang Baru, Sabah, pada Khamis.

Dalam kejadian pukul 5 petang itu, sepasukan anggota polis telah mengepung kenderaan dinaiki kedua-dua lelaki tersebut sebelum kedua-dua mereka cuba melepaskan tembakan dan pihak polis terpaksa melepaskan tembakan bagi mempertahankan diri.

Menurut sumber polis, pihaknya telah membuat intipan beberapa minggu lalu mengenai aktiviti kedua-dua pemberontak terbabit dan mendapati mereka cuba merekrut anggota baharu dan menyebarkan ideologi kesultanan Sulu di seluruh Sabah serta mengajar elemen keganasan.

"Suspek berusia 30-an dan 50-an berasal dari Kota Kinabalu. Mereka juga sedang cuba melakukan samun bersenjata di kawasan kedai itu. Polis kini sedang mengesan saki baki kumpulan ini dan mereka juga dipercayai mula aktif di luar kawasan pantai timur Sabah," katanya.

Pada Feb 2013, negara dikejutkan dengan pencerobohan pemberontak bersenjata tentera Sulu dari Selatan Filipina di Lahad Datu dan Semporna di perairan Pantai Timur Sabah yang menyaksikan 10 anggota pasukan keselamatan negara terkorban.

Bagaimanapun negara berjaya mematahkan tindakan pemberontak itu melalui operasi bersama pasukan tentera dan polis yang dinamakan Operasi Daulat dengan membunuh lebih 100 pemberontak itu dan menangkap ratusan lagi pengikutnya di negeri tersebut.

Susulan insiden itu kerajaan telah menubuhkan perisai keselamatan bagi mengawal insiden pencerobohan, penculikan dan penyeludupan di Sabah, yang dinamakan ESSZONE (Zon Keselamatan Pantai Timur Sabah ) dan ESSSCOM ( Kawasan Keselamatan Khas Pantai Timur Sabah).

Sementara itu, di PENAMPANG, Sabah, penduduk pekan itu panik seketika dengan insiden berbalas tembakan di kawasan perniagaan Penampang Baru itu.

Saksi kejadian seorang lelaki berusia dalam lingkungan 30-an yang tidak ingin dikenali, mendakwa beliau mendengar tembakan dilepaskan di kawasan perniagaan itu.

"Saya tengah bekerja, terdengar bunyi seperti barang jatuh dan saya keluar dari kedai ternampak sekumpulan lelaki bersenjata memakai topeng melepaskan tembakan bertalu-talu ke arah penumpang sebuah kenderaan pacuan empat roda.

Pekerja kedai makanan itu berkata beliau bersembunyi di kawasan kedai itu dan sempat melihat sekumpulan anggota polis tiba di tempat kejadian kira-kira 15 minit kemudian dan melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap mangsa yang ditembak mati.

Beliau juga berkata melihat anggota polis membawa masuk dua plastik hitam dipercayai mayat mangsa yang ditembak.

Tinjauan Bernama mendapati polis menutup dua blok perniagaan dengan memasang tali kuning bagi melarang mana-mana pihak memasuki kawasan itu.

Sementara itu, satu sidang media khas mengenai perkara itu akan diadakan esok oleh Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah.

- Sumber: Bernama

Jaguar F-Type Coupe launched

Strong, powerful with a design that comes alive, the F-Type Coupe is here to shine.

Turning on the Jaguar F-Type Coupe is like the car is coming alive. With the push of a button and you get a fierce loud growl that would give the unsuspecting by-stander a good shock, as if it were really a cat! That was what happened when they turned on the car hidden behind the darkened glass: everyone jumped a foot in the air. I don’t think I need to elaborate on the reaction it received when the car was revved to show off the soundtrack.

The design is based on the stunning Jaguar C-X16 concept sports coupe that was debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The slick side panels and high bottom end that emits the growling soundtrack, the Jaguar F-Type Coupe is a looker indeed. We have heard too many praises of the “bottom” of the car, but we have to admit that the “bottom” is the best angle of the coupe.

A good-to-know fact about the F-Type Coupe’s body side is made of a single piece of aluminium pressing resulting in a lightweight yet extremely strong bodyshell for the car. This gives the shapely coupe a good balance yet lightweight feel when racing through the empty highway.



Jaguar suspects that the F-Type Coupe’s aluminium pressing is probably the most extreme cold-formed aluminium body side in the automotive industry, this eliminates the need for multiple panels and cosmetic joints.

There are two variants to choose from, the S variant and the R variant. The lower spec-ed S (not really) is powered by a 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol engine. The S produces a maximum power output of 375bhp and a torque of 460Nm giving the car the ability to make the century sprint 4.9 seconds. Top speed? 275kph. 
If that is impressive than take a look at the R variant’s spec sheet. It has Jaguar’s 5.0-litre supercharged V8 that produces a colossal 543bhp power output and a 680Nm of torque. Make that century sprint in 4.2 seconds and reaches a top speed of 300kph. But this is the electronically limited record, imagine what the car is capable of when it isn’t! 

If you want that satisfying growl go for the R and remember to turn off the “Silent Exhaust” option!



Both the F-Type R and F-Type S features Jaguar’s eight-speed close-ratio Quickshift transmission which is optimised for sporting performance. The transmission has a full manual sequential control from the central Sportshift selector or steering wheel-mounted paddles. 
Jaguar also took this opportunity to introduce their “How alive are you?” Brand Friends. The campaign revolves around the seductive and emotional appeal of Jaguar cars and speaks of Jaguar’s confidence and their progressive spirit.

For the Malaysian leg of the campaign, Jaguar has got art gallerist and collector Lim Wei-ling, visionary entrepreneur Dato’ Steve Day and singer songwriter Yuna. All personalities Jaguar has chosen are dedicated to perfecting their unique talents and refining what it means to be truly “alive”.

The F-Type S variant retails at RM899,888 (OTR without insurance) in Peninsular Malaysia and the F-Type R is priced at RM1,158,888 on-the-road excluding insurance in Peninsular Malaysia. There sure are a lot of eights in the price!



- Source: Astro