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- Keng Yaik to miss Gerakan conference due to illness
- Cambodia stops its citizens from working as maids in Malaysia
- Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah of Kedah is the next King (Update)
| Keng Yaik to miss Gerakan conference due to illness Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:15 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Former Gerakan president Tun Dr Lim keng Yaik is going to give the party's National Delegates Conference (NDC) this weekend a miss as he has been hospitalised due to an illness. Contacted by Bernama, Dr Lim, who headed the party for 28 years before stepping down in April 2007, said he will not be chairing the Gerakan Life Members Council (LMC) meeting on Saturday or attend the opening ceremony of the NDC by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Sunday. "I'm still in the hospital. I have been here since last week. Most likely the party president (Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon) will chair the LMC meeting," he said. Dr Lim become LMC chairman after resigning as party adviser in October 2010. This will be the second time he will be missing the Gerakan NDC since stepping down as party president. The first time was Gerakan annual conference in September 2007 as he just undergone a minor surgery. BERNAMA Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Cambodia stops its citizens from working as maids in Malaysia Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:43 AM PDT PHNOM PENH (Reuters): Cambodia has banned its citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids, its prime minister said on Friday, following a series of horrific reports of beatings and rapes. The order follows a similar ban imposed by Indonesia on its citizens from taking new jobs as domestic workers in Malaysia, where maids are common in middle class households, thanks in part to a large migrant labour pool. "I would like to congratulate the prime minister for the suspension," Cambodia opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party told Reuters after the decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Cambodia's Community Legal Education Center, which is working with abused domestic workers, said there had been reports of three maids who were killed in Malaysia, and two were raped and kept in isolation, their passports held from them. An Bunhak, president of the Association of Cambodian Recruiting Agencies, said it would uphold the order from the government to stop sending people to work as maids in Malaysia. More in The Star on Saturday Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah of Kedah is the next King (Update) Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:50 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The Sultan of Kedah, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, will serve as the 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong for five years from Dec 13, becoming the only ruler to serve as the King for a second time. The special meeting of the Conference of Rulers, which elected Sultan Abdul Halim, 83, also elected the Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Muhammad V, as the next Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong, said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office. The Kedah ruler had served as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong from Sept 21, 1970 to Sept 20, 1975. Sultan Abdul Halim, who is now Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong, will succeed Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, the Sultan of Terengganu who completes his term of office in December. Sultan Abdul Halim, born on Nov 28, 1927, at Istana Anak Bukit in Alor Setar, ascended the Kedah throne on July 14, 1958, following the death of his father, Sultan Badlishah. He graduated from Wadham College, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, with a degree in social science and public administration. He joined the Kedah Civil Service in the 1950s. Meanwhile, 42-year-old Sultan Muhammad V was proclaimed the 29th Sultan of Kelantan on Sept 13 last year. The sultan, who is chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, was born in Kota Baru on Oct 6, 1969. BERNAMA Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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