Sunday 19 April 2015

'‎Nak sembelih mu'

KOTA BHARU - Seorang pengganggur menafikan tuduhan mengugut ibunya dengan berkata 'nak sembelih mu' ketika dia dihadapkan ke mahkamah majistret, di sini, siang tadi.

Tertuduh, Mohd Fahmin Mohamad Anipa, 29, didakwa melakukan ugutan jenayah itu dengan menimbulkan ketakutan terhadap Norfazilati Mat Zain, 46, di alamat Kampung Terusan Limbat, di sini, pada jam 3 petang, 14 April lalu.

Susulan pengakuan tidak bersalah tertuduh, pihak pendakwaan yang diwakili Timbalan Pendakwa Raya negeri, Nurliyana Md Zukri memohon tarikh sebutan lain untuk pengurusan kes.

Nurliyana pada prosiding itu juga tidak menawarkan jaminan ke atas tertuduh dengan alasan dakwaan tersebut serius dan tidak mahu tertuduh menganggu mangsa, jika dia dibebaskan.

Tertuduh dilihat bersahaja di dalam kandang pesalah dan hanya berdiam diri tanpa mengemukakan sebarang rayuan.

Tiada ahli keluarganya yang hadir ke mahkamah ketika itu.

Majistret Mohd Firdaus Zainal Abidin kemudiannya menetapkan jaminan RM10,000 terhadap tertuduh dengan seorang penjamin dan syarat jaminan itu hanya boleh dibayar oleh ibunya.

Kes ditetapkan untuk sebutan semula pada 5 Mei depan.

Tertuduh yang tidak diwakili peguam itu tidak menjelaskan wang jaminan terbabit dan dibawa ke penjara Pengkalan Chepa untuk ditahan sehingga kes disebut semula.

Video air berlumpur, berapi bukan di Johor


KUALA LUMPUR - Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) menjelaskan video fenomena air berlumpur dan berapi yang tersebar di laman sosial sejak Jumaat sebenarnya berlaku di Pingtung, Taiwan dan bukannya di Batu Pahat, Johor.

Penolong Ketua Urus Setia KPN (Komunikasi Korporat) PDRM, Asisten Komisioner Datin Asmawati Ahmad berkata, fenomena itu berlaku di daerah Pingtung di mana gunung berapi lumpur Wandan memuntahkan lumpur dan mengeluarkan gas asli sekali atau dua kali setahun.

Kebakaran pula berlaku akibat tindakan penduduk setempat yang membakar gas asli itu, kataya dalam kenyataan di sini, malam ini.

Sehubungan itu, beliau menasihatkan rakyat Malaysia supaya tidak menyebarkan berita-berita palsu sedemikian kerana ia boleh membangkitkan pelbagai spekulasi negatif.

Beberapa laman sosial baru-baru ini menyebarkan rakaman video mengenai fenomena air berlumpur dan berapi yang didakwa berlaku di Jirat Cina Batu 4, Jalan Kluang, Batu Pahat. 

- Sumber: Bernama

Khalid Samad buat laporan polis terhadap Ketua Polis Negara

Khalid Samad

SHAH ALAM - Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Abdul Samad telah satu membuat laporan polis terhadap Ketua Polis Negara (KPN), Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar bersabit penahanannya bulan lalu.

Abdul Khalid berkata, laporan polis tersebut dibuat di Ibu Pejabat Daerah Polis Shah Alam pagi tadi.

“Dalam laporan itu saya turut menamakan pegawai penyiasat (IO) yang menahan saya pada jam 2.30 pagi pada 29 Mac lalu,” katanya kepada Sinar Online.

Mengulas lanjut, Khalid berkata, penahannya sangat mengejutkan dan dibuat tanpa sebab yang munasabah.

“Ketika saya dibawa dari rumah pada jam 2.30 pagi, mereka tidak mengikut prosedur yang termaktub dalam Kod Prosedur Jenayah (CPC), contohnya membacakan hak saya, mengenalkan diri mereka, memberi sebab dan sebagainya.

“Sehingga kini, saya tidak pasti mengapa saya ditahan.,” katanya lagi.

AJK Pas Pusat itu ditahan berhubung dengan perhimpunan #KitaLawan di hadapan bangunan pusat beli belah Sogo.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Amuk: Pengambilan pengawal keselamatan ikut peraturan

JOHOR BAHARU: Majikan pengawal keselamatan, yang mengamuk di sebuah bank di Taman Molek di sini pada Jumaat, menjelaskan lelaki itu diambil bekerja mengikut peraturan ditetapkan.

Pengarah Urusan Safeguards G4S, Sharin Baba, berkata rekod pekerja menunjukkan lelaki itu mempunyai lesen untuk berkhidmat sebagai pengawal keselamatan mengikut undang-undang negara ini.

"Dia menjalani proses pemilihan, pengambilan dan latihan berkaitan dengan perkhidmatan yang diberikan mengikut undang-undang serta peraturan yang ditetapkan," katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini. 

Sharin berkata pekerja itu adalah warga Malaysia yang telah berkhidmat dengan syarikat itu lebih daripada setahun, dan syarikat juga tidak pernah menerima aduan berhubung tingkah lakunya atau berkaitan perkhidmatannya.

"Syarikat dengan ini mengesahkan bahawa pengawal keselamatan yang kini ditahan polis berkaitan satu insiden tragik di cawangan sebuah bank di Taman Molek di mana seorang pekerja bank maut dan seorang lagi cedera, adalah pekerja kami," katanya. 

Sharin berkata pihaknya simpati terhadap mangsa amuk itu dan akan memberi kerjasama sepenuhnya kepada Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM).

Dalam kejadian itu jam 3.30 petang, seorang pegawai bank, Ho Chin Tau, 33, maut ditikam manakala rakan sekerja wanitanya yang berumur 54 tahun cedera dilibas oleh pengawal keselamatan yang mengamuk secara tiba-tiba.

Suspek kemudian ditahan polis dengan bantuan orang ramai dan kini direman seminggu untuk siasatan mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan.

- Sumber: Bernama 

Yatt dan suami temui cinta baharu

YATT Hamzah (kanan) bersama suami, Abdul Mutalib Abdul Shukor (kiri) dan anak mereka, Suci Hanania Malika, 5, pada majlis kesyukuran sempena ulang tahun keenam perkahwinannya dan sambutan hari lahir anaknya di Casa Club, Kampung Batu Muda, di sini, hari ini. - Foto Nur Adibah Ahmad Izam

KUALA LUMPUR : Pelakon dan pengacara Yatt Hamzah berkongsi perkhabaran gembira yang beliau dan suaminya, Abdul Mutalib Abdul Shukor, menemui cinta baharu hasil lawatannya ke Syria, baru-baru ini bagi menjayakan misi kemanusiaan di sana.

Yatt atau nama sebenarnya, Haryati Hamzah, 35, berkata beliau enggan menoleh dan mengulas berhubung kisah lalu kerana berpendapat pergolakan rumah tangganya sudah menemui noktah.

"Sehari selepas saya memfailkan perceraian, saya dan suami telah berlepas ke Syria selama 10 hari. Alhamdulillah kami berdua muhasabah diri dan diberikan cinta yang baharu. Keperitan hidup masyarakat di sana sedikit sebanyak membuka mata saya, yang mana kebanyakan wanita bergelar ibu tunggal bukan kerana bercerai tetapi kematian suami. 

"Banyak yang saya belajar sepanjang berada di sana dan muhasabah diri menjadi insan yang lebih baik. Pengalaman menjejakkan kaki ke sana tanpa jaminan hidup memberi semangat untuk mengajar banyak perkara," kata Yatt dalam nada sebak ketika ditemui pada majlis kesyukuran sempena ulang tahun keenam perkahwinannya dan sambutan hari lahir anaknya di Casa Club, Kampung Batu Muda, di sini, hari ini.

Pergolakan rumah tangga Yatt dan suaminya menjadi bualan hangat apabila tersebarnya perkhabaran Yatt memfailkan perceraian terhadap suaminya di Mahkamah Rendah Syariah Kuala Lumpur pada 24 Februari lalu.

Pasangan itu mendirikan rumah tangga pada 29 Mac 2009 dan dikurniakan seorang cahaya mata perempuan bernama Suci Malika Hanania, lima tahun.

Yatt berkata, beliau banyak bermuhasabah diri dan kini memperbaiki hubungan rumah tangganya.

"Doakan yang terbaik buat kami sekeluarga. Saya ingin tutup buku kisah pergolakan rumah tangga kami serta saya sedar hanya dia lelaki terbaik yang telah ditakdirkan untuk saya," katanya mengakhiri perbualan.

- Sumber: BH Online 

Aisyah Aziz berang nama diguna minta kredit prabayar


AISYAH Aziz ketika melalui karpet merah Malam Kemuncak Anugerah Bintang Popular BH 2014, di Arena of Stars Genting Highlands. - Foto Nur Adibah Ahmad Izam

KUALA LUMPUR : Penyanyi Aisyah Aziz berang apabila ada pihak yang menggunakan namanya bagi mengaut keuntungan dengan cara yang mudah. Lebih malang, ada mangsa yang tertipu itu bertindak memalukan Aisyah secara terbuka.

Gadis kelahiran Singapura itu menjelaskan bahawa ada individu yang menggunakan aplikasi WeChat untuk menyamar sebagai dirinya bagi mendapatkan wang kredit prabayar. 

"Ada individu yang menyamar sebagai diri saya di WeChat dan meminta bantuan ramai untuk duit 'top up' kerana saya kesempitan wang. Saya dimaklumkan oleh pengurus serta keluarga saya berhubung hal ini.

"Saya juga terkilan dengan mangsa yang tertipu itu kerana ada yang memaki hamun tanpa usul periksa. Memang saya kesian melihat diri mereka yang tertipu, tetapi kenapa tidak 'consult' secara baik.

"Saya ingin menegaskan bahawa saya tidak ada akaun WeChat dan hanya menggunakan aplikasi itu sewaktu berada dalam Akademi Fantasi dulu," kata Aisyah kepada BH Online.

Menurut Aisyah, beliau akan membuat laporan polis dalam masa terdekat berhubung isu ini bagi memastikan tiada lagi mangsa yang terpedaya. Beliau menyerahkan kepada pihak berkuasa bagi menyiasat serta mengambil tindakan undang-undang kepada pihak yang terlibat.

"Jika tiada tindakan yang diambil, saya takut individu yang menipu itu akan meneruskan tipu helahnya dan menipu orang lain pula. Jadi bagi memastikan masalah ini tidak terus menular bagi tindakan perlu diambil," tegas Aisyah.

Dalam perkembangan lain, Aisyah berkata single keduanya berjudul Pilihan Sejati karya Aizat Amdan sudah berada di pasaran. Beliau sedang dalam rangka promosi bagi memperkenalkan lagu berkenaan kepada orang ramai.

ANTARA taktik yang digunakan oleh individu terbabit untuk menipu.

- Sumber: BHOnline

Prince Harry gets airborne and into Australia's Outback

Prince Harry completes the first two weeks of a stint with the Australian Army on April 19, 2015, training in bush survival skills, spending time on helicopter duties and playing wheelchair Aussie Rules football. - AFP Photo/Ho/Australian Defence

SYDNEY: Prince Harry completes the first two weeks of a stint with the Australian Army on Sunday, training in bush survival skills, spending time on helicopter duties and playing wheelchair Aussie Rules football.

Captain Wales, as he is known in the British Army, is on a month-long attachment with his Australian Army counterparts ahead of retiring from the forces.

He spent the first fortnight in Australia's remote north and west, getting airborne in an Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Tiger. The prince has flown Apache helicopters for Britain.

"Captain Wales undertook flight simulation training, before heading out with members of the 1st Aviation Regiment on an ARH Tiger reconnaissance flight from Robertson Barracks, Darwin," the Australian Defence Force said.

He also trained in bush survival skills, including how to source food and water, before spending two nights camping out in the remote Kununurra region of Western Australia with the North-West Mobile Force.

Hundreds of well-wishers turned out to see the 30-year-old when he arrived in Canberra on April 6 at the National War Memorial -- his only public appearance -- before reporting for duty at Duntroon Military College.

He delivered a letter to the Australian Defence Force head, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, from Queen Elizabeth II, in which she wrote her grandson would "benefit greatly from spending time with the Australian diggers".

His movements have been off bounds to the media since then.

In an update, the defence force said Captain Wales met elders and children at the Wuggubun indigenous community in Kununurra, around 470 kilometres (290 miles) southwest of Darwin.

Building on his interest in veterans affairs, the prince also joined some of the army's wounded, injured and ill members to play wheelchair Australian Football League.

He is now breaking his embed to travel to Turkey for the Anzac Day dawn service at Gallipoli, marking the centenary since that World War I campaign before returning to units in Perth and Sydney.

Once back in Australia, his mission is expected to include a live-fire exercise.

"Designed to maintain combat readiness, the exercise will include a live fire collaboration between ground and air assets," the defence force said of Exercise Thunder Observer, for which he has been training.

The Australian Army attachment comes after Harry, a graduate from the elite Sandhurst military academy who served twice in Afghanistan, announced his departure from the British Army.

"After a decade of service, moving on from the army has been a really tough decision," he said last month, revealing he will quit in June.

"The experiences I have had over the last 10 years will stay with me for the rest of my life. For that I will always be hugely grateful."

Harry earned a reputation as a wild-child in his early 20s with his party-going high jinks, but has since tried to carve out a more mature role for himself, with his devotion to military service playing a major part. 

- Source: AFP

Iraqis unearth mass graves in city where Islamic State ruled

A member of the Iraqi security forces wearing protective clothes inspects a mass grave containing the remains of dozens of people believed to have been slain by Islamic State. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE

TIKRIT: Saddam Hussein's former palace complex here is seemingly idyllic, its gardens lined with lush palm trees and bursts of bougainvillea. But at the heart of the verdant compound, diggers are turning over the earth in search of evidence from what could be one of Iraq's worst atrocities in more than a decade.

Iraqi authorities say that the palace complex could contain the remains of hundreds of young soldiers slain by Islamic State militants last June. As many as 1,700 Shiite soldiers from nearby Camp Speicher were killed by jihadists, a massacre seared into the national consciousness.

Since Iraqi government teams started the excavation this month, they have uncovered more than 160 bodies of young men, most of whom had been bound, shot and then buried in mass graves.

For months, relatives have waited for news of their loved ones who went missing at Camp Speicher. Now the bodies exhumed in Tikrit, which are awaiting DNA testing at Baghdad's central morgue, offer some of the first concrete evidence of one of the most grisly crimes committed by a group already known for its shocking brutality. Officials say identification cards found on several of the bodies bear names that match reported victims from Camp Speicher.

"We gave our samples to the morgue, and now we are waiting to hear if they found my brother or not," said Abdullah Mohammed, who saw his younger sibling, Saad, gunned down in a video posted by the Islamic State to social media sites after the massacre. In a telephone interview from his home town in southern Iraq, Abdullah began to cry.

(Members of the Iraqi security forces work at the site of a mass grave containing the remains of people believed to have been slain by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group at the Speicher camp in the city of Tikrit, on April 12, 2015. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group executed hundreds of mostly Shiite recruits last June in what is known as the Speicher massacre, named for the military base near which they were captured. Thirteen grave sites have been found -- 10 in the palace complex and three outside, Haider Majid, an employee of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office working on the Speicher issue, said. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

"We've seen a lot of bodies," he said. "But we don't know if they are him. The government hasn't told us anything."

Iraqi forces backed by Shiite militias wrested Tikrit back from the Islamic State last month, after a weeks-long offensive supported by U.S.-led airstrikes. The jihadists had seized the city — which is Hussein's home town — last June. In the chaos of the assault, thousands of recruits from Camp Speicher donned civilian clothes and slipped away from the base in the hope they could escape.

But they soon encountered well-armed Sunni militants from the Islamic State, who separated the recruits by sect and hauled the Shiite solders off to the vast complex of riverside villas built by Hussein before he was overthrown in the 2003 U.S. invasion.

The jihadist gunmen spent the next three days in an industrial-scale killing spree that the United Nations says probably amounts to a war crime. The militants boasted about the bloodbath, saying they killed 1,700 soldiers, and circulated videos and photographs of the executions online. Later, through satellite imagery, New York-based Human Rights Watch estimated that as many as 770 people had been killed at various sites at the palaces on June 12 and June 13 last year.

Iraqi officials, even months after the assault, admitted that they did not know exactly what happened to the cadets.

Now, using shovels and scalpels, and taking short breaks for bread and sweet tea, dozens of government workers are toiling 12-hour days in the heat to get justice for these Iraqis.

Inside the palace complex, there are 10 locations officials have identified as possible mass gravesites. There are an additional three that they say they still need to test inside the city. The diggers, in bright blue scrubs and surgical masks to block the stench, have made gruesome discoveries: legs without torsos, tufts of hair and crumbled bones they collect in clear plastic bags.

On a recent afternoon, one worker who was digging deep inside a mound of earth and rocks had just found parts of what he believed was the same body. He struggled to shove a fibula — or calf bone — back into a tattered pant leg to keep what was left of the corpse intact. Another man with a mask and a clipboard walked in a circle around the newly discovered remains, methodically recording the morbid scene. On the gentle slope of dirt next to him, a severed pair of legs rested.

"This area now is the hardest type of mass grave to dig," said another Iraqi working at the scene, soil expert Ghanem Abdel Karim. The corpses "are buried at random, and they are under rocks and thick soil. We must make sure we are only digging up one body at a time, and make sure pieces of one body don't end up in the bag of another."

(An Iraqi man cries over body-bags containing the remains of people believed to have been slain by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group lie on the ground at the Speicher camp in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, on April 12, 2015. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Karim, who works for Iraq's human rights ministry, also helped uncover the mass graves left behind by Hussein's brutal regime. He and his team now search the palace grounds for dirt mounds and bullet shells, indications of possible burial places.

According to survivor testimony and confessions from militants arrested in the city, groups of scores of soldiers were killed and buried in different spots, officials said. Other cadets were shot and pushed into the Tigris River — whose banks in Tikrit are still stained with blood. Some of the bodies later floated downstream, where they were recovered.

At one site at the palace complex, workers exhumed 50 bodies that had been stacked on top of one another and then covered in dirt, officials said. Exhumations are now taking place at a second location: a dry riverbed that cuts through the palace compound.

Most of the victims have been found face-down, their hands tied and bullet holes in their heads, said Zaid Ali, the director of Baghdad's central morgue. He is sleeping at the palaces so he can rise each morning and resume supervision of the digging.

Workers have found bodies with identification cards, cellphones and small bills. One corpse was found with a tiny book of prayers.

But with decrepit forensic equipment — and with gunfire and explosions echoing from clashes nearby — the workers say the recovery of the bodies is a painstaking task that could take weeks or even months to complete.

"It's not secure; it's a war zone," Ali said of Tikrit, where Iraqi security forces are still battling the jihadists in isolated areas. "So this makes the work much more difficult."

"This is a historical moment," Mohammed al-Timimi, an official from the Iraqi prime minister's office, told the workers at the site. "There is no work more honorable than the work you are doing now." 

- Source: AFP

'Mysterious' disease kills 18 in Nigeria

The disease, whose symptoms include headache, weight loss, blurred vision and loss of consciousness, killed the victims within a day of falling ill, he said.

LAGOS: A "mysterious" disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 18 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said Saturday.

"Twenty-three people (were affected) and 18 deaths were recorded," the Ondo state health commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, told AFP.

The government spokesman for the state, Kayode Akinmade, earlier gave a toll of 17 dead.

"Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town," Akinmade told AFP by telephone.

The disease, whose symptoms include headache, weight loss, blurred vision and loss of consciousness, killed the victims within a day of falling ill, he said.

Laboratory tests have so far ruled out Ebola or any other virus, Akinmade said.

The World Health Organization meanwhile said it had information on 14 cases with at least 12 dead.

"Common symptoms were sudden blurred vision, headache, loss of consciousness followed by death, occurring within 24 hours," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP by email, adding that an investigation was ongoing.

Another WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, told AFP that according to a preliminary report, all those affected began showing symptoms between April 13 and 15.

Akinmade said health officials and experts from the government and aid agencies, as well as WHO epidemiologists, had arrived in Ode-Irele to search for answers.

The state's health commissioner, Adeyanju, told AFP that he and his officials had gone on a "field visit with the WHO, UNICEF, NCDC (Nigerian Centre for Disease Control)".

"This was basically a case search to unravel the cause (of the disease)," he said in a text message.

The WHO's Jasarevic said blood and urine samples had been taken from two victims and cerebrospinal fluid from another.

"All samples have been sent to Lagos University Teaching Hospital this morning, and results are still pending. Investigations are still ongoing," he said. 

- Source: AFP

Tun M tidak berjuang bersendirian, kata Muhyiddin

Muhyiddin Yassin.

KUALA LUMPUR - Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin memuji Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed kerana sentiasa berani untuk menegakkan kebenaran.

Beliau berkata prinsip diri bekas Perdana Menteri itu tidak pernah berubah terutama di dalam menyatakan kebenaran.

"Sikap Tun (Tun Mahathir) tetap serupa sejak beliau menjadi seorang doktor muda dan ahli Umno dahulu lagi.

"Hari ini saya ingin meyakinkan bahawa Tun M tidak bersendirian di dalam usaha untuk menceritakan kebenaran," kata Muhyiddin ketika berucap dalam forum anti pepeperangan di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putr (PWTC),di sini, hari ini.

Menurutnya, Dr Mahathir merupakan individu yang begitu aktif di dalam pergerakan memperjuangkan anti jenayah dan peperangan.

Kenyataan yang dikeluarkan Muhyiddin itu seolah-olah merujuk kepada keluhan Dr Mahathir bahawa beliau keseorangan ketika membangkitkan kritikan terhadap kepimpinan, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, baru-baru ini.

Sementara itu, Dr Mahathir yang ditemui selepas majlis itu berkata, kenyataan yang dikeluarkan Muhyiddin itu merujuk kepada tindakannya di dalam memerangi jenayah peperangan.

"Apa yang dia (Muhyiddin) maksudkan adalah kepada peperangan. Saya rasa dia menyokong saya di dalam usaha menyuarakan kebenaran di dalam jenayah peperangan," katanya.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

'Tun M, jadi bekas PM bukan lesen untuk hentam Najib' - Lokman Adam


LOKMAN ADAM

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dinasihat tidak menggunakan kedudukannya sebagai bekas perdana menteri untuk menghalalkan tindakannya menghentam Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dalam apa juga isu yang dibangkitkan akhir-akhir ini.

Panel Pemikir Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (Jasa) Lokman Noor Adam berkata, Dr Mahathir seharusnya dilihat membantu Najib sebagai perdana menteri dengan memberi tunjuk ajar selain mencurahkan semua pengalamannya membangunkan negara dan bukan menuduhnya dengan pelbagai isu.

"Generasi muda seperti saya mengharapkan orang tua, bekas perdana menteri dan seorang yang banyak berjasa seperti Dr Mahathir sanggup mengetepikan kepentingan peribadinya dan meletakkan kepentingan parti dan negara mengatasi segala-galanya.

"Sepatutnya Dr Mahathir gunakan ilmu, pengalaman dan kematangan yang dia ada untuk mengukuhkan parti, bukan dengan membiarkan kata-katanya dijadikan modal untuk dipenuhkan di laman utama portal dan akhbar milik pembangkang.

"Menjadi seorang bekas perdana menteri yang tua serta banyak berjasa tidak menghalalkannya untuk melanyak Najib hingga lumat kerana tidak mahu mengikut caranya," katanya kepada Astro AWANI di sini hari ini.

Lokman mengulas kenyataan Dr Mahathir mengenai kemaafannya kepada Najib atas kegagalan projek jambatan bengkok, sebaliknya mahu Najib menjawab isu berhubung kehilangan wang akaun 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Tegas Lokman, tiada pihak boleh menganggap Dr Mahathir seorang yang sempurna dan maksum selain tidak boleh ditegur dalam apa juga situasi.

"Jika ada yang beranggapan bahawa orang tua, bekas perdana menteri dan orang yang banyak berjasa itu maksum dan tidak boleh ditegur, maka berlaku adillah dan terimalah juga pandangan perdana menteri pertama, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj yang pernah kecewa terhadap Dr Mahathir.

"Jadi apa yang diluah Tunku Abdul Rahman sama dengan apa yang dialami Najib dan bekas perdana menteri, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi kini," jelasnya.

Dalam pada itu kata Lokman, nada Dr Mahathir juga dilihat berlainan apabila ditanya mengenai kemungkinan untuk kerjasama dengan Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim seperti yang dilaporkan di sebuah portal.

"Bekas menteri, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim mencadangkan Dr Mahathir bekerjasama dengan veteran UMNO, Tunku Razaliegh Hamzah dan Anwar untuk menjatuhkan Najib dan Dr Mahathir menjawab 'tidak tahu'.

"Bagaimana pula Dr Mahathir boleh jawab 'tidak tahu' sedangkan jawapannya sepatutnya adalah 'No way'," jelasnya.

Dr Mahathir pada Ahad dilaporkan tidak akan bekerjasama dengan mana-mana parti politik untuk menjatuhkan Najib.

Katanya, kebimbangannya pada masa kini adalah hala tuju UMNO terutamanya menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-14 yang akan datang.

Sebelum ni, Lokman meminta Dr Mahathir menghormati pentadbiran Najib dan tidak menghentam perdana menteri untuk mencari pengaruh serta populariti demi kepentingan keluarga sendiri.

Jelasnya, ‎pelbagai pertikaian Dr Mahathir kepada Najib disifatkan tindakan terdesak yang mempunyai maksud tersirat selain memenuhi impian politik peribadi. 

- Sumber: Astro Awani 

Tun M mahu lihat berapa majoriti PRK Rompin, optimis BN akan menang

Tun M mahu lihat berapa majoriti PRK Rompin, optimis BN akan menang

KUALA LUMPUR: Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad melihat Barisan Nasional (BN) bakal menerima sokongan daripada pengundi parlimen Rompin.

Mahathir yang optimis kemenangan BN di Rompin, bagaimanapun ingin melihat pecahan serta perbandingan majoriti parti yang telah bertapak di situ sejak sekian lama.

"Sekarang di Rompin, sokongan terhadap BN masih ada...agak menarik untuk tahu margin yang dapat kali ini," ujar Mahathir.

PRK Rompin diadakan berikutan kematian Allahyarham Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis yang juga pengerusi Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia (PR1MA) akibat nahas helikopter di Semenyih, Selangor pada 4 April.

Dalam Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 pada Mei 2013, Jamaluddin mengekalkan kerusi yang disandangnya hampir enam penggal setelah mengalahkan bekas ketua Dewan Muslimat PAS Nuridah Mohd Salleh dengan majoriti 15,114 undi.

Diminta mengulas berkenaan PRK di Permatang Pauh, Mahathir menyifatkan BN sukar menawan hati pengundi kawasan itu.

Ini kerana, majoriti pengundi Permatang Pauh telah fanatik dengan pengaruh Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan akan mengundi calon Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

"Agak sukar (untuk BN) sebab (pengundi) fanatik. Orang yang tidak sedar akan realiti, kebenaran tapi akan mengundi secara buta-buta," kata Mahathir.

Mahathir ditemui pada 'Forum Antarabangsa: Menjenayahkan Perang, Menjana Keamanan' anjuran Yayasan Menjenayahkan Perang Kuala Lumpur (KLFCW) di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC) di sini hari ini.

PRK Parlimen Permatang Pauh diadakan selepas kerusi itu diisytihar kosong apabila penyandangnya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hilang kelayakan sebagai Anggota Parlimen setelah Lembaga Pengampunan menolak petisyen bagi pengampunan diraja yang dipohon keluarga Anwar atas sabitan meliwat bekas pembantu peribadinya Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Anwar kini menjalani hukuman penjara lima tahun di Penjara Sungai Buloh, Selangor.

- Sumber: Astro Awani 

Lawak Ke Der gamatkan IB

Babak dalam Lawak Ke Der.

Barisan pelakon dalam Lawak Ke Der.

Babak dalam Lawak Ke Der.

BAGI Hans Isaac walaupun Lawak Ke Der kali ini adalah yang ke empat dipentaskan namun, dia tidak sangka ia merupakan yang terbaik yang pernah dipentaskan berbanding sebelum ini.

Menurut Hans, jika sebelum ini ada masanya penonton akan berhenti ketawa tetapi tidak pada pementasan kali ini.

"Apa yang saya lihat sambutan yang diterima sangat baik dan memberangsangkan. Bayangkan, mereka ketawa tidak henti-henti apabila setiap pelawak beraksi.

"Saya sendiri tidak sangka setiap pelawak juga menampilkan sesuatu yang berbeza daripada apa yang pernah kita lihat sebelum ini.

"Ini bererti konsep lawak segar dan nafas baharu menerusi Lawak Ke Der berjaya dikekalkan oleh pelawak terlibat," katanya pada sidang and media selepas pementasan Lawak ke Der 2015 dilakukan.

Tambah Hans, walaupun Afdlin, Dauglas dan Harith pernah membuat persembahan sebelum ini tetapi dia berbangga kerana mereka memberikan sesuatu yang baru kepada audiens.

"Ada yang kata mungkin mereka tidak berjaya menarik perhatian penonton kerana sebelum ini pernah tampil menerusi Lawak Ke Der.

"Namun dakwaan tersebut menyimpang sama sekali kerana lawak-lawak yang ditampilkan jauh berbeza," katanya.

Mengulas mengenai penampilan Bocey pula, akui Hans, dia tidak salah memilih kumpulan komedi yang sedang meningkat naik itu.

"Dengan menggunakan gaya dan personaliti tersendiri, Bocey telah membuatkan audiens ketawa sebaik sahaja mereka melangkah ke pentas.

"Saya berterima kasih kepada mereka kerana tidak mensia-siakan peluang yang diberi untuk beraksi di sini.

"Bagi saya, Bocey punya kelebihan dan kehebatan tersendiri. Saya yakin, penonton yang hadir pada malam ini jatuh cinta dengan persembahan mereka," katanya.

Tidak ketinggalan memuji Sherry, Hans memberitahu, penglibatan Sherry adalah sesuatu yang tidak diduga.

"Ini kali pertama saya menampilkan pelawak wanita, itu pun seorang yang masih baharu dalam bidang ini.

"Apabila bertemunya pada sidang media sebelum ini, saya tertarik dengan keletahnya, kerana itu saya meminta pandangan semua untuk membawa dia bersama walaupun sebelum ini saya pernah katakan tidak akan ada hos untuk Lawak Ke Der kali ini," katanya.

Akui Hans, X factor yang ada dalam diri Sherry membuatkan orang mudah tertarik dengannya.


Cabaran kekal momentum

Dalam pada itu, Achey mewakili Bocey berkata, pertama kali beraksi di pentas IB sememangnya membuatkan mereka teruja.

Namun, menjadi cabaran kepada mereka mengekalkan momentum yang ada ketika membuat pementasan di hadapan penonton.

"Bimbang juga lawak kami tidak menjadi. Lagipun kami tidak mahu penonton melihat lawak yang disampaikan klise," katanya.

Ditanya apakah mereka tidak gentar beraksi bersama pelawak otai, akui Achey, ia merupakan satu penghargaan bagi mereka.

"Bukan mudah untuk sebaris dengan mereka sementelah kami masih baharu dalam bidang ini.

"Tetapi peluang yang ada kami gunakan sebaiknya untuk membuka mata penonton mengenai kewujudan kumpulan ini, lagipun apabila mereka datang menyaksikan Afdlin, Harith dan Douglas, secara tidak langsung mereka akan melihat kami hari ini," katanya.

Pada pementasan tersebut, Bocey juga banyak mempamerkan aksi secara spontan dan di luar jangkaan penonton.

Mengulas mengenai perkara itu, kata Achey, ia memang bukan dalam perancangan mereka.

"Apa pun, kami gembira apabila mendapat respons positif daripada semua yang hadir malam itu," katanya.


Angkat kisah masyarakat

Sama ada dirancang atau tidak, bagi ketiga-tiga sahabat ini, mereka kelihatan selesa mengangkat salah satu topik berkenaan isteri masing-masing menerusi pementasan tersebut.

Bagaikan sengaja 'mengenakan' Hans yang masih belum berkahwin, baik Afdlin, Douglas dan Harith mempunyai persamaan apabila mengangkat topik tersebut.

Bagaimanapun, bukan keseluruhan cerita sebaliknya sebagai pelengkap pementasan tersebut sahaja.

Namun, di sebalik kisah isteri masing-masing, mereka masih ada topik lain yang mempunyai mesej hebat untuk disampaikan.

Diaju pertanyaan mengenai topik tersebut, kata Douglas, ia sekadar untuk hiburan semata-mata.

"Tiada niat lain, saya cuma mahu memberi hiburan kepada audiens. Lagipun, saya rasa topik tersebut punya sesuatu yang berkait rapat dalam kehidupan masyarakat," katanya yang turut mengangkat topik mengenai GST.

Berbalik kepada Afldin, dia mengambil kisah Abam yang ditegur Kevin Zahari kerana menggunakan trademark gemuk is awesome.

Sementara itu, Harith telah mempertaruhkan lawak laman sosial yang sangat rapat dalam kehidupan kita hari ini.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Isteri baru mengandung selepas lima tahun kahwin

Mohd Mokhtar berkata sesuatu kepada salah seorang ahli keluarga mangsa.

JOHOR BAHRU - "Kami mahu keadilan," itu permintaan Brian Tan, 36, yang juga abang ipar Pegawai Bank HSBC, Taman Molek yang mati ditikam pengawal keselamatan dalam kejadian petang kelmarin.

Keluarga mangsa, Ho Chin Tau, 33, yang baru tiba dari Sabah juga mengakui terkejut selepas mengetahui kejadian menimpa mangsa dan terus bergegas ke Johor Bahru untuk menuntut mayat di Hospital Sultan Ismail.

Isteri mangsa, Tan Li Yan, 34, yang kini hamil lima bulan enggan ditemu ramah kerana terlalu sedih apabila suaminya tidak sempat menatap wajah anak pertama mereka.

Pasangan ini dimaklumkan telah lima tahun mendirikan rumah tangga namun isteri mangsa baru hamil anak pertama.


Ketua Polis Johor, Datuk Seri Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff berkata, kejadian terbabit memberi jaminan siasatan akan dijalankan secara terperinci.

"Suspek sedang direman selama seminggu untuk membantu siasatan dan hasil siasatan awal lelaki berkenaan tidak mempunyai rekod jenayah selain tidak di bawah pengaruh dadah.

"Satu pasukan khas akan ditubuhkan bagi menjalankan siasatan selain turut memanggil syarikat keselamatan tempat suspek bekerja," katanya ketika ditemui selepas menziarahi keluarga mangsa di Tampoi.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Hadi jawab 'rahsia' Khalid bersamanya ke Jakarta

  • Hadi jawab 'rahsia' Khalid bersamanya ke Jakarta
  • Presiden Pas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang ketika ditanya mengenai kehadiran Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim pada sidang media hari ini.

AMPANG - "Kebetulan, beliau ada kawan dekat sana,” demikian respons ringkas Presiden Pas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang ketika ditanya mengenai kehadiran Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim di Jakarta bersamanya sehingga timbul khabar angin yang mengatakan 'pertemuan' itu diadakan bagi membincangkan mengenai penggantian Menteri Besar Selangor, Mohamed Azmin Ali.

Mengulas lanjut, Abdul Hadi berkata, dalam pertemuan itu, perbincangan mengenai Abdul Khalid ingin menduduki semula kerusi nombor satu di Selangor itu tidak timbul.

"Saya lawat Indonesia berjumpa dengan Speaker dan Timbalan Speaker Dewan Perwakilan Indonesia, Pengerusi Pertamina serta kalangan cendekiawan termasuk Muhammadiah, ulama dan golongan akademik untuk membincangkan perpaduan ummah di Asia Tenggara. 

"Kita tidak mahu apa yang berlaku di Asia Barat berlaku di sini walaupun kita berbeza pandangan dalam kalangan kumpulan Islam dan pemerintah sendiri. Kita tetap pilih demokrasi berparlimen walaupun ada kelemahan yang kita tak setuju tapi tak sampai jadi macam Asia Barat yang ada campur tangan asing.

"Kita tak mahu campur tangan asing berlaku di negara kita, itu sebenarnya. Kita bincang itu saja tak timbul isu nak kembalikan Khalid Ibrahim‎," katanya kepada pemberita pada majlis Kongres Profesional Muslim SeMalaysia, di sini, hari ini.

Terdahulu tersebarnya sekeping gambar yang telah dimuat naik di Twitter Abdul Khalid sendiri yang memaparkan pertemuan beliau bersama-sama Abdul Hadi, Setiausaha Politiknya, Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar dan Ahli Parlimen Kuala Nerus, Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali At-Takiri di Jakarta.

Sementara itu, turut tersebar di media sosial, mengenai perbincangan mengenai lima Adun Selangor dari PKR yang akan mengumumkan untuk ‘melompat’ sekali gus menyatakan sokongan terhadap Abdul Khalid. 

Ekoran khabar angin yang tersebar itu, Mohamed Azmin menafikan perkara itu dan menganggap perkara itu hanya cerita dongeng semata-mata.

- Sumber: Sinar Harian 

Eden Hazard drives Chelsea closer to title against Manchester United

April 19, 2015: Premier League, Stamford Bridge - Chelsea 1 (Hazard 38’) Manchester United 0

Eden Hazard gave Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Manchester United, and probably the Premier League title.

United dominated in possession and territory for much of the first half but created almost nothing with it. Chelsea were happy to stand off their opponents, and Kurt Zouma’s marking job on Marouane Fellaini meant that Manchester United were not able to open up sides down the left or with the high ball like they had most of their recent rivals.

Wayne Rooney went closest for United early on when he clipped a shot just wide of the near post when he had time to do better, but it was Chelsea who scored the only goal of the half. Chris Smalling fired in a pass to Radamel Falcao who was tackled firmly by John Terry. The ball was swiftly worked to Hazard down the left of the box and he finished calmly past David de Gea.

In the second half, chances were again at a premium as Chelsea sat back and United struggled to create, but the hosts almost doubled their lead when Hazard hit the bar, and Falcao sliced a shot high.

Ander Herrera tried to win a penalty with a dive in the last few seconds, but was rightly turned down.

- Source: Eurosport 

Lionel Messi's 400th goal boosts Barca title bid in Valencia win


La Liga, Camp Nou - Barcelona 2 (Suarez 1 Messi 90+4) Valencia 0


Barcelona's Lionel Messi hit his 400th career goal for the La Liga leaders deep into stoppage time to seal a 2-0 win over Valencia.

It took Luis Suarez just 54 seconds to break the deadlock as he completed a great team counter-attack, latching onto Messi’s pass before slotting the ball past Diego Alves.

Valencia missed a golden chance to equalise in the 10th minute when Dani Parejo's penalty was saved by Claudio Bravo after Gerard Pique had barged into the back of Rodrigo Moreno.

The visitors dominated the remainder of the first-half but couldn’t find a leveller. Paco Alcacer narrowly missed the goal on 19 minutes before striking the post just past the half-hour mark.

Barcelona held on to the break and emerged the stronger side from the restart. They went close to doubling their lead on 63 minutes when Messi’s free-kick effort hit the woodwork.

Pedro saw a late effort saved as Barca looked to put added gloss on an already polished performance but Messi scored in stoppage time to ensure Barca moved five points at the top of the table.

- Source: Reuters

Keputusan Liga Super 2015 - (18 April 2015)



BERIKUT keputusan perlawanan bola sepak Liga Super, malam ini:

Johor DT 3 Kelantan 1

Selangor 4 Lions XII 0

Sarawak 1 ATM 1

Terengganu 1 Felda United 3

Sime Darby 1 PDRM 4

- Sumber: Bernama

Samsung removes logo on smartphones in Japan



Samsung provided no reason why it kept the logo off in Japan.

SEOUL: Samsung has removed its corporate logo from its new smartphones sold in Japan, a company spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

The name Samsung is missing on both the Galaxy S6 and its curved-edge variant, the Galaxy S6 Edge.

These models are presented as Docomo Galaxy and au Galaxy, carrying the names of its associated Japanese telecom service providers.

Samsung provided no reason why it kept the logo off in Japan.

A leading smartphone maker globally, Samsung has however been struggling in the Japanese market, where archrival Apple is dominant, followed by key Japanese makers such as Sony, Sharp and Fujitsu.

The firm rolled out its new smartphone in South Korea last week.

Samsung, labouring under the burden of successive quarters of plunging profits and booming sales of Apple's iPhone 6, is hoping that new phone will reverse the company's fortunes.

- Source: AFP 

Malaysia's challenge at China Masters end

A file photo of Hoo and Woon in action. The pair suffered a shock loss to Tang Jinhua dan Zhong Qianxin, 23-21 and 21-9 in 39 minutes.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's challenge at China Masters Badminton Championship in Changzhou, China ended after two representatives lost their semifinal matches today.

Top women's doubles of Vivian Hoo and Woon Khe Wei suffered a shock loss to Tang Jinhua dan Zhong Qianxin, 23-21 and 21-9 in 39 minutes.

The unfancied Chinese pair will meet their compatriots, Bao Yixin and Tang Yuanting in the final match tomorrow.

Hoo and Woon were the 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medalist and also the top seed in this tournament.
Bao and Tang, who are the third seed, beat their teammate Chen Qingchen and Jia Yi Fan 21-17 and 21-16, also in 39 minutes.

Malaysia's mixed doubles pair of Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying put up a strong fight before losing 21-17, 17-21 and 21-17 to China's Liu Cheng and Bao Yixin, the top seed.

Liu and Bao will meet the Indonesian pair of Edi Subaktiar and Gloria who beat Wang Yilv and Tang Yuanting of China 21-17 and 23-21.

The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) did not send women's singles players to the Grand Prix Gold tournament which offers overall prize money of US$250,000 (RM926,990).

- Source: Astro Awani 

IS claims responsibility for deadly Afghan bombing

A person purporting to be an IS spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack in a call to AFP and in an online posting, although the claims could not be immediately verified.

KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) group claimed to have carried out a deadly suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan Saturday that killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said, in what, if verified, would be the first major attack claimed by the jihadist group in the country.

"Who claimed responsibility for horrific attack in Nangarhar today? The Taliban did not claim responsibility for the attack, Daesh (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack," President Ghani said on a visit to northeastern Badakhshan province.

A person purporting to be an IS spokesman said in a call to AFP that the group claimed responsibility for the bombing outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.

An online posting allegedly from the group made the same claim, which could not be immediately verified.

"Thirty-three dead bodies and more than 100 wounded were brought to the hospital," Dr Najeebullah Kamawal, head of the provincial hospital, told AFP.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a provincial government spokesman, confirmed the attack -- the deadliest since November.

"The explosion happened outside the bank when government employees and civilians were collecting their monthly salaries," he told AFP.

The UN gave a higher toll, saying 35 people had been killed.


President Ghani strongly condemned the attack, which saw children among those killed, his office said in a statement.

"Carrying out terrorist attacks in cities and public places are the most cowardly acts of terror by terrorists targeting innocent civilians," President Ghani said.

The scene of the attack showed the gruesome scale of the carnage with people lying in pools of blood and body parts scattered across the ground.

The bombing comes as Afghanistan braces for what is expected to be a bloody push by the Taliban at the start of the fighting season.

However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied responsibility.

The militants have stepped up attacks on government and foreign targets since Washington backpedalled on plans to shrink the US force in Afghanistan this year by nearly half.

The Taliban have seen defections to IS in recent months, with some insurgents voicing their disaffection with their one-eyed supreme leader Mullah Omar, who has not been seen since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The Afghan government has also raised the ominous prospect of IS making inroads into the country, though the group that has captured swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan.

- Source: AFP 

Gender segregation at live shows: "why only now?" - Jennifer Thompson

The second edition of the guideline was released by Jakim last week after being approved by the 107th National Fatwa Committee Conference recently.

KUALA LUMPUR: “We have not done it before, so why should we do it now?”

Local concert organiser, Jennifer Thompson raised the question as a response to a set of guidelines by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) for artistes and entertainers to perform in the country.

The veteran industry player stressed such ruling should be extensively discussed with the responsible quarters first before it being implemented.

“We need to place sufficient and coherent thoughts before its implementation. There should be an open discussion especially when we live in an open multi-cultural and multi-religious society,” she said when contacted by Astro AWANI Saturday.

The second edition of the guideline was released by Jakim last week after being approved by the 107th National Fatwa Committee Conference in February.

Part of the rules includes the segregation of male and female audiences and performers at 'live shows' held in the country.

“We need to place sufficient and coherent thoughts before its implementation ”- Jennifer

Jakim also stressed that music and lyrics should not boast any elements of “worships” which are considered sacred to believers of other religions. 

Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) when contacted said a meeting with take place to discuss the new guideline pertaining to the gender segregation.

President Norman Abdul Halim said the meeting will by organised by RIM and involve other music associations.

“The meeting will discuss the Jakim guideline where we will decide on the next course of action,” said Norman.

The President and Group Chief Executive Officer of KRU Records, however refused to issue a personal stance on the matter citing that the body responsible for giving out licences to stage concerts in Malaysia is the Central Agency for the Application for Filming and Performance by Foreign Artists (Puspal).

“We will refer to PUSPAL to ensure the new guideline does not breach the current rules,” he said.

The guideline can be downloaded on Jakim’s website. The incident involving a K-pop group and a group of fanatic female fans during a KL concert in January have drawn brickbats from religious bodies.

The fans – who donned the headscarves – on stage was heavily criticised as their action were deemed “un-Islamic”.

- Source: Astro Awani 

Hyundai Veloster Turbo launched in Malaysia, RM148k


We’ve heard about it for so long, and seen the car at KLIMS 13, JPJ and testing on the road, so with a big shout of “Finally!” we welcome the Hyundai Veloster Turbo to Malaysia. Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) officially revealed the coupe (or hatchback, depends on how you see it) at its new Bangsar showroom this morning.

The Veloster Turbo is making its debut here in mildly facelifted form, along with a non-turbo version. But let’s focus on the more interesting proposition. Our Veloster Turbo is powered by a 1.6 litre T-GDi (turbocharged gasoline direct injection) four-cylinder engine with 186 PS and 265 Nm of torque from 1,500 to 4,500 rpm. 0-100 km/h is done in 8.0 seconds while top speed is 214 km/h. 

If you’re wondering, 186 PS/265 Nm is also what Europe gets, a slightly lower state of tune than the domestic South Korean market’s 204 PS and 270 Nm. 

For the first time, the twin-scroll turbo motor is paired to a dual-clutch automatic gearbox. Introduced with the facelift, the seven-speed DCT is also found in the Sonata Eco in the USA as well as facelifted versions of the i30 hatchback and i40 sedan/wagon. Steering wheel paddle shifters are provided for manual override. 

The 132 PS/158 Nm 1.6 MPI naturally aspirated Veloster carries on with a six-speed torque converter automatic gearbox without the shift paddles. 

The Malaysian Veloster range will now have three variants – 1.6 Premium, Turbo and Turbo Sport. All Velosters ride on 18-inch alloys with 225/40 rubber, front McPherson struts, rear torsion beam suspension, front ventilated discs and rear discs. The steering system is electric, or motor driven in Hyundai-Kia speak. Six airbags, ABS, ESC and hill start assist are standard across the board.


Also standard for all are LED daytime running lights, panoramic sunroof, Supervision cluster, seven-inch touch screen stereo with AUX/USB/Bluetooth, keyless entry with push start button, Flex Steer, auto air con, auto headlamps, leather seats and reverse camera. 

The Turbo model adds on paddle shifters, HID headlamps, ECO guide, powered driver’s seat and “pure leather” seats with grey “Turbo” side trim. Turbo Sport has all of the above, plus racing decals and orange side “Turbo” trim for the seats. Five colours are available, including the factory matte black “Young Gun” in the and Sunflower yellow. 

The CBU imported from South Korea range starts from RM129,067 for the Veloster 1.6. The Turbo is priced at RM148,119, and the Turbo Sport RM151,746, all on-the-road with GST, without insurance. As usual with HSDM, buyers get a five-year or 300,000 km warranty.

- Source: paultan.org

GST: 10,882 aduan diterima

GEORGETOWN: Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan (KPDNKK) menerima 10,822 aduan daripada pengguna di seluruh negara sejak sistem Cukai Barang dan Perkhidmatan (CBP) dilaksanakan 1 April lalu.

Ketua Setiausahanya, Datuk Seri Alias Ahmad, berkata setakat semalam, sejumlah 4,672 aduan dibuat menerusi portal e-aduan manakala laman Facebook dan Twitter rasmi KPDNKK merekodkan 6,150 aduan.

"Dalam tempoh dua hari iaitu 16 dan 17 April, kami dapati secara purata aduan yang diterima menurun sebanyak 29 peratus berbanding waktu mula-mula pelaksanan CBP dahulu," katanya kepada pemberita selepas Operasi Antipencatutan (Ops Catut) CBP di sekitar Batu Ferringhi, di sini, hari ini.

Beliau berkata, kesedaran orang ramai dilihat semakin meningkat dengan 81,257 pengguna didapati memanfaatkan aplikasi 'My Kira GST' untuk menyemak perbandingan harga sebelum dan selepas CBP.

"Selain itu, sejak pelancaran aplikasi Ez-ADU Khamis lalu, sejumlah 1,819 pengguna telah memuat turun kemudahan itu di telefon pintar mereka dan ini satu perkembangan baik," katanya.

Alias berkata, 47 peratus aduan adalah mengenai kenaikan harga barang, 28 peratus membabitkan pelaksanaan CBP terhadap kad prabayar, 12 peratus membabitkan pengusaha tidak mempamerkan nombor pendaftaran CBP, lapan peratus mengenai caj perkhidmatan dan lain-lain kes, lima peratus.

Beliau berkata, susulan itu pihaknya menjalankan 114,467 Ops Catut di seluruh negara dengan purata 6,500 hingga 7,000 premis diperiksa setiap hari. 

Katanya, setakat ini, KPDNKK telah mengeluarkan 614 notis di bawah Seksyen 21 Akta Kawalan Harga dan Antipencatutan 2011 kepada peniaga yang didapati menjual barang pada harga tidak munasabah.

"Peniaga terbabit diberi tempoh tiga hari untuk mengemukakan dokumen berkaitan dan menyatakan sebab kukuh mereka menaikkan harga sebelum tindakan penguatkuasaan diambil," katanya.

Beliau berkata, sejumlah 339 fail siasatan dibuka dengan 18 daripadanya telah lengkap dan diserahkan kepada Pejabat Peguam Negara untuk tindakan lanjut. 

- Sumber: Bernama | 18 April 2015

Denggi: 36,611 kes dengan 119 kematian dicatat di seluruh negara

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Sebanyak 36,611 kes demam denggi direkodkan di seluruh negara bagi tempoh Januari hingga semalam berbanding 27,177 kes dalam tempoh sama tahun lalu.

Timbalan Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya, berkata ia membabitkan 119 kematian berbanding 94 kematian untuk tahun sebelumnya.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, kes denggi mula menunjukkan penurunan apabila 1,600 kes dicatatkan dalam tempoh dua bulan ini iaitu pada Mac dan April berbanding 3,500 kes dalam tempoh sama tahun lalu.

"Selangor masih kekal menjadi negeri tertinggi mencatatkan kes denggi diikuti Perak, Johor dan Pulau Pinang," katanya pada program 'Jom Ganyang Aedes' dengan melawat dari rumah ke rumah pesakit yang pernah menghidap denggi di Taman Guar Perahu Indah, dekat sini, hari ini.

- Sumber: Bernama | 18 April 2015