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- S'gor MB no show at Chua's debate, Pakatan entourage stages walkout
- PM: Evidence Act amendment to protect people
- Council: Three-quarters of country's HIV-infected in 18-40 age group
| S'gor MB no show at Chua's debate, Pakatan entourage stages walkout Posted: 12 Sep 2012 10:23 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The presence of suspected troublemakers armed with concealed weapons did not stop Datuk Chua Tee Yong from going ahead with holding a debate on the Talamgate controversy. Police had found four youths behaving suspiciously outside the debate venue at the International Youth Centre at Bandar Tun Razak here Wednesday night. Cheras OCPD ACP Mohan Singh said they found two retractable rods, a knife and a large bangle on the youths. They were arrested shortly after the Pakatan Rakyat entourage staged a walkout minutes before the start of the debate. Chua, the MCA Young Professionals Bureau chief, said even before the debate began, banners highlighting the event between him and Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim were slit, splashed with paint and brought down. He added Khalid's absence at the debate was anticipated as the latter had not been able to give straightforward answers to the questions raised over the questionable debt-recovering exercise involving Talam Corporation Bhd. "And he conveniently escaped to Thailand to avoid a showdown," said Chua, who initiated the event. Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua said the Pakatan team had walked out in protest, pointing out that Chua had not wanted to debate with them, on behalf of Khalid. Khalid had appointed Batu MP Tian Chua, his political secretary Faekah Hussin, Kuala Selangor MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and Selayang MP William Leong as his spokesmen to counter the Talam issues. Chua had said Khalid was the best person to debate with on the matter as he had all the details. At the unilateral debate, Chua highlighted the questionable deals where the Selangor government had agreed to acquire a range of Talam properties, said to be over-valued by RM397mil. He said Khalid failed to keep to his promises to table a White Paper report on the Talam debt-recovery exercise and to provide explanation at the state assembly. "His threat to sue MCA is merely to gag us. And his promise to get five independent auditors was reduced to one. Until today, Khalid keeps mum over questions whether the KMPG report was an audit report, an advisory, or mere review," Chua said. In July, Chua questioned how an exercise to recover the RM392mil debt owed by Talam to state-linked entities ended up in deals worth more than RM1bil. The RM1bil deal includes Talam assets acquired by the Selangor government at RM676mil to offset the debt and a RM392mil grant obtained by Mentri Besar Incorporated to facilitate the debt-recovery exercise. |
| PM: Evidence Act amendment to protect people Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The Evidence Act amendment is a modern and forward-looking legislation aimed at protecting the people from Internet-based crimes such as cyber bullying, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Wednesday. "As a government, it is our responsibility to ask: how do we ensure that online reporting is responsible? "How do we ensure that people do not become the victims of intimidation and cyber-bullying? How do we ensure that freedom co-exists with respect? "It was with these questions in mind that we amended the Evidence Act. Perhaps it wasn't explained clearly enough what this meant for web-users in Malaysia. And I believe that it is a modern and forward-looking piece of legislation," he said at the National Press Club (NPC) Awards 2012 here. The amendments to the Evidence Act 1950, including the introduction of Section 114A, became controversial especially in cyberspace when it was gazetted on June 31. Section 114A was argued to be lopsided as it can liberally bring to court those who publish and replicate or post seditious and defamatory contents in the Internet, regardless of whether or not the material originated from them. - Bernama |
| Council: Three-quarters of country's HIV-infected in 18-40 age group Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:24 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Youths aged between 18 and 40 make the highest percentage of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the country. Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) executive director Roswati Ghani said they numbered 69,747 or 76% of the total number of people living with HIV in this country as recorded at the end of 2010. "In 2011, one in every four new cases of HIV is a youth aged between 13 and 29," she told reporters at the MAC Charity Open House here Wednesday, which was also attended by celebrities Fahrin Ahmad and Dayang Nurfaizah. Roswati said among the factors that contributed to the statistics were the fact that majority of people in that age group were leading unhealthy lifestyles. Hence, she said MAC had, on Sept 6, taken an initiative to launch its very own Red Ribbon Youth Club to tackle the spread of the virus among youth. "The club can be the best platform to promote healthy lifestyles and disseminate accurate information about HIV and AIDS among youths," she said. At the open house, the Malaysian AIDS Foundation also received a donation of RM28,297 from the KL Tower management. - Bernama |
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