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Police investigating don for remarks on Selangor Sultan's decree
DPM: First report on education system review by year-end
School principal says Guan Eng's son transferred out on his own

Police investigating don for remarks on Selangor Sultan's decree

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:13 AM PDT

Published: Wednesday October 19, 2011 MYT 9:32:00 AM
Updated: Wednesday October 19, 2011 MYT 11:13:33 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: Law expert Professor Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, who expressed his views over the decree made by Selangor Sultan over the Damansara Utama Methodist Church "visit" by Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais), is to be investigated under the Sedition Act.

The International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) lecturer is expected to give his statement to police Wednesday.

The media quoted him as saying the Sultan's action of intervening in the issue was "unconventional".

The Sultan had issued a statement last week that there were attempts to proselytise Muslims, but that no group would be prosecuted over the controversial church search in August.

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DPM: First report on education system review by year-end

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT

Published: Wednesday October 19, 2011 MYT 9:20:00 PM

PUTRAJAYA: The first report on the review process of Malaysia's existing education system is expected to be ready by year-end, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

He said the report will be submitted to the Cabinet, which will study and endorse a special team to look into the whole process, including implementation of the country's education policies.

"We will look at what we have been doing so far in terms of implementing our education policies and what needs to be done looking forward for the next 10 to 20 years. But this will take time," Muhyiddin said.

He was speaking at a press conference after the 23rd Implementation Council Meeting and 14th MSC Malaysia International Advisory Panel, here Wednesday. Both meetings were chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Education was among the focus areas under the Digital Transformation Programme or called Digital Malaysia, which will be led by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Among the initiatives of the Digital Malaysia is to inject greater creativity and promote thinking skills throughout the education system. - Bernama

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School principal says Guan Eng's son transferred out on his own

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:13 AM PDT

GEORGE TOWN: A school principal here has expressed surprised over allegations which surfaced online involving Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's 16-year-old son and a female student in the same school.

SMK Heng Ee principal Goh Boon Poh said he needed to clarify the issue to preserve his school's reputation, after the allegations, including photographs, went viral on the Internet.

Goh said Lim's son had transferred out of the school on Jan 3, this year.

"It was the boy's choice. There was no pressure or disciplinary issue here. He was a prefect who also performed well in his PMR examination at our school. He just wanted to be in another school."

The boy had enrolled in the school in 2009 when he was in Form One, Goh said Wednesday.

The principal also noted there had been no allegations involving the boy at the school.

"I am surprised by the allegations made. I am not taking sides but I need to protect my school and its students. I have no intention to hurt anybody here."

Goh also stressed that the photographs of two persons uploaded on certain blog sites, indicating both perpetrator and victim, were not of students of the school.

Lim had refuted the allegations Tuesday, issuing a strongly-worded statement on the issue, describing it as a form of "gutter politics."

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Rabu, 19 Oktober 2011