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- PM: GST implementation after GE
- Iranian syabu connection busted, 183kg seized
- Banting murders: Court accepts testimony of IO
| PM: GST implementation after GE Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:08 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The government would introduce the goods and services tax "when the time is right", Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. He said this was necessary eventhough Malaysia has a 12 million workforce and only 1.2 million paid taxes. "I guess when the time is right, in the near future, probably after the next general election, we will introduce the GST. "We need to explain this to the people and there is a growing acceptance that this is the way forward for Malaysia," he said in a dialogue session with Forbes Media editor-in-chief Steve Forbes. Najib said affirmative action to help the bumiputras would remain with a shift where opportunities would be created to help them grow. The move was different compared to the New Economic Policy introduced in the 1970s where quotas were impose or percentage of shares or certain amount of contracts be set aside for the bumiputras. "What we are trying to do now is to shift that. Affirmative action remains but it should be more on the basis of merit where we create opportunities for them to grow than imposing quotas on others," he said. |
| Iranian syabu connection busted, 183kg seized Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:36 AM PDT NILAI: Customs officers made the biggest seizure of syabu this year when they seized 183kg of the drug worth RM46mil smuggled in two shipments through the KL International Airport, Sepang. A 29-year-old Iranian man, who took possession of part of the shipment, was arrested in Ampang Jaya. Customs assistant director-general Datuk Zainul Abidin Taib said the drug seizures were made at a house in Taman Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur at 8.40pm Tuesday and at a house in Ampang Jaya, Selangor at 1.30pm on Aug 27. He said the drug was concealed in 25 boxes declared as handicraft vases and glassware. "The suspect had entered the country three times as a tourist, of which two of them were through Indonesia and stayed in the country between five and 30 days," he said. Zainul said the suspect allegedly received the "goods" sent as air freight by an individual from Iran on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha, Qatar. On the Ampang Jaya's seizure, Zainul said the drug in 10 boxes weighing 94kg and worth RM24mil was sent as air freight from Tehran. BERNAMA. |
| Banting murders: Court accepts testimony of IO Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT SHAH ALAM: The High Court has accepted the testimony by a police officer on evidence found at several locations based on directions of two accused persons in the murders of cosmetic millionairess Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others. Judge Datuk Akhtar Tahir made the decision after finding that T.Thilaiyalagan and R.Kathavarayan, the second and fourth accused in the case, were not forced by the police to do so. "In this case, I did not see any element of oppression that brought to the finding of the evidence. Therefore, I allow the information given by Chief Inspector N.Govindan be tendered as evidence in court," he added. Akhtar said this in his oral judgment in a trial-within-a-trial to determine whether there was any element of oppression or force used on the two accused which led to them to give the information leading to the discovery of the exhibits. C/Insp Govindan, 45, the interrogating officer, had told the court that following directions given by the two accused, police found several evidence, including bone fragments, blood stains, as well as burnt wood and zinc sheets which were allegedly used to burn the victims. Govindan was the 32nd prosecution witness called to testify in the trial of former lawyer, N.Pathmanabhan, 42, and three farm workers, Thilaiyalagan, R.Matan and Kathavarayan, who are charged with murdering Sosilawati, 47, her driver, Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 47, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abd. Karim, 32, and bank officer Noorhisham Mohamad, 38. More in The Star Wednesday. |
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