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- Participants attend Hijau rally (Update)
- Kedah Umno supports deputy mentri besar post
- Nik Aziz: Shameful act to step on pictures of national leaders
| Participants attend Hijau rally (Update) Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:50 AM PDT RAUB: Organisers and participants of the Himpunan Hijau broke through police barriers and marched to the Raub Australian Gold Mine Sdn Bhd premises 3.5km away in Bukit Koman to deliver a memorandum on Sunday. The group, having marched for about 1km, was stopped from continuing when Raub OCPD Supt Wan Mohd Samsudin Wan Osman intervened. Supt Wan Mohd Samsudin reminded the participants that one of the 16 conditions imposed on the organisers was that they should not march. He later arranged for a representative of the company to receive the memorandum at a junction of the road leading to Bukit Koman. After negotiations with the police, the organisers ordered the group to disperse at about 4.35pm. The crowd, including representatives from environmental NGOs, carried placards and banners assembled at the field. Opposition members present included PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, and DAP leaders Tan Kok Wai, Dr Tan Seng Giaw, Ronnie Liu, Ng Suee Lin and Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh. Representatives of groups from Bukit Merah, Pengerang, Rawang, Cameron Highlands and the orang asli community gave speeches urging the people to fight for their rights, welfare and future of the next generations. Many were clapping and chanting slogans and blowing air horns. Police were stationed at strategic locations to assist in traffic flow but no roads were closed. Related Stories: |
| Kedah Umno supports deputy mentri besar post Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:41 AM PDT ALOR SETAR: Kedah Umno will support any move to amend the state constitution in order to create the post of deputy mentri besar, said its chairman Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah. He said he viewed the move positively in assisting Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak, who has to be on frequent medical leave due to his poor health. "Kedah Umno will support if the state government wants to create the post in the interest of the people," he told reporters after opening the Alor Star Umno division delegates' meeting. A total of 510 delegates from 98 branches in the division attended the meeting. It is understood that Azizan will hold a state executive council (exco) meeting this Wednesday at a private hospital where he is undergoing treatment since Aug 14. The last exco meeting he chaired was on Aug 5. - Bernama |
| Nik Aziz: Shameful act to step on pictures of national leaders Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:40 AM PDT KOTA BARU: PAS spiritual leader and Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has described the action of a few people who stepped on the pictures of the nation's leaders on the eve of the Independence Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur as a very shameful and saddening act. He said the act did not reflect the culture of Malays and Muslims. "This is not the work of Malays and Muslims. They are neither Malays nor Muslims. "This is very shameful and saddening, the photograph that I saw was not of a Malay (the perpetrators of the act). "We Muslims are taught not to disturb others. If others do it to us, we will get angry," he told reporters when attending an Aidilfitri gathering on Sunday. He was commenting on the rude actions of a number of participants of the "Janji Bersih" illegal assembly held in Dataran Merdeka in the Federal Capital on the eve of Independence Day Aug 30. They had stepped on the pictures of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor at the protest gathering. Nik Aziz also did not agree with the action of the participants of changing the Malaysian flag with a new flag which was red and white, colours akin to the Singaporean flag. "It not easy to replace (the national flag), have to discuss for years. What is our intention of changing the flag, our flag has already been accepted by the world, there is no need to smear to our flag," he said. - Bernama |
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