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- Campus polls: Pro-Aspirasi win big in 7 universities (Update)
- Hisham: Cops not manipulating crime index
- Four immigration officers jailed for taking bribes to let Indonesians in
| Campus polls: Pro-Aspirasi win big in 7 universities (Update) Posted: 25 Sep 2012 07:42 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The pro-establishment Pro-Aspirasi group has won big in campus elections held in eight of the 15 public universities on Tuesday. The universities are Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM); Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM); Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM); Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas); Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI); Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP); Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT; and Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM). A technical glitch invalidated results in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and this will see the campus election held again next week. Two student groups - Pro-Aspirasi, widely held to be pro-government, and Pro-Mahasiswa, seen as anti-establishment, - went for 454 seats in the 15 public universities nationwide. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, however, saw the Pro-Mahasiswa group retain their leadership of the student council when they won 18 out of the 28 seats. Meanwhile, Pro-Aspirasi had already picked up 150 out of 198 uncontested seats in six universities during the nomination process. At University Malaya, where all 43 seats were contested, conflicting reports have emerged about who has won. Pro-Mahasiswa claim they have won 22 seat but Pro-Aspirasi disagree. Two more seats are tied and another round of voting will be held, most probably on Wednesday, for these two seats. Penggerak Mahasiswa (UM's Pro-Aspirasi camp) chairman Marwan said that Pro-Mahasiswa had jumped the gun in declaring a win. "Of the 22 candidates they claim are theirs, two candidates are actually independent. We will leave it to these two candidates to see which side they'll be on," he said. The UM campus poll results are unofficial, subject to a 24-hour objection period, and a further 24-hour appeal period. The final results will be known on Thursday. At Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang, Pro-Aspirasi took 40 out of the 47 seats while Pro-Mahasiswa bagged the remaining seven. However, these are not confirmed as the university has specified sessions for protests and appeals. Official results will be released on Oct 1. At Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Pro-Aspirasi candidates won 34 out of 36 seats - seven out of the eight general seats and 27 out of 28 faculty seats. Twenty-two faculty seats were won unopposed by Pro-Aspirasi candidates during nomination day last week. Two independent candidates each won a general seat and faculty seat. More than 14,000 students cast their votes and UUM vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamed Mustafa Ishak, when announcing the result, said voter turnout had been 92%. At Unimas, all 12 seats went to Pro-Aspirasi candidates. They also won in UPSI (25 out of 29 seats), UMP (22 out of 24), UMT (18 out of 20) UPNM (all 14 seats). At International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), its deputy rector (Student Affairs) Datuk Dr Mizan Hitam said Tuesday the election results could not be formally announced due to a technical problem during the e-voting process. "The final tally shows that some votes were not captured due to incomplete encryption process," he said in a statement. Dr Mizan said that based on feedback from the university's technical committee, a re-election exercise would be conducted upon Senate approval and this was expected to be carried out in a week's time. As at 12 midnight, results had yet to emerge from Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM); Universiti Malaysia Sabah(UMS); Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). On Thursday, Pro-Aspirasi had won landslide victories in five universities - Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). Pro-Aspirasi swept all seats in UiTM (50), UniMAP (31), UTeM (28) and UniSZA (24). In UTHM, Pro-Aspirasi took 25 of the 27 seats contested. Related Stories: |
| Hisham: Cops not manipulating crime index Posted: 25 Sep 2012 04:47 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has dismissed allegations that the police had manipulated the crime index rate by classifying index crime as non-index crime. He said the statistics clearly showed that the total number of cases classified under the index crime was much higher than that for non-index crime. Hishammuddin said this in a written reply to Hee Loy Sian (DAP-Petaling Jaya Selatan) in the Dewan Rakyat. Hee had wanted to know whether the police had manipulated the crime index and the number of cases classified as index crime and non-index crime between 2007 and 2011. Index crime consists of, for example, homicide, arson, rape, burglary, theft or basically anything that is physically pursued by the person committing the crime. Non-index crime consists of non-physical confrontation such as drug possession, drug seizure, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and negligent manslaughter. Hishammuddin said that between January and August this year, 108,886 crimes were reported, with 101,313 of them being index crime and 7,573 non-index crime. "A total of 229,997 crimes were reported last year, 252,844 in 2010, 271,831 in 2009, 271,004 in 2008 and 252,324 in 2007," he said. - Bernama |
| Four immigration officers jailed for taking bribes to let Indonesians in Posted: 25 Sep 2012 04:32 AM PDT SHAH ALAM: Four immigration officers were found guilty by a Sessions Court here on Tuesday for taking bribes in exchange for allowing easy entry for Indonesian nationals into the country two years ago. Md Shahrizal Che Dan - convicted of 31 bribery counts totaling RM51,760 - paid the heaviest price of the lot when he was sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined RM361,400. The court ordered Md Shahrizal, 27, to serve additional 34 years and six months imprisonment if he failed to pay up. His colleague Mohamad Izuwansyah Samsuri, 26, was sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined RM261,950, in default 25 years and six months in jail. Mohamad Izuwansyah was found guilty of 25 bribery counts involving RM31,690. Two other officers Nor Shahazlina Sulaiman and Mohammad Huzzail Ahmad were each sentenced to three years in jail and fined RM14,500 (in default, one-year jail) and two years in jail and fined RM10,000 (in default, six-months jail) respectively. Nor Shahazlina, 26, and Mohammad Huzzail, 32, were found guilty of a charge each. They committed the offences at a house in Taman Palm Grove, a petrol station, and several Public Bank, Maybank and CIMB Bank branches around Klang between April 20 and Sept 25, 2010. All were charged under Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009. Judge Asmadi Hussin, in his ruling, said the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt in the prosecution's case. DPP Nik Haslinie Hashim asked the court to mete out a heavy deterrent sentence. "The public interest is far more important than the personal interest of the four accused. The country (at this time) is already facing an influx of foreign immigrants. They (as Immigration officers) were supposed to carry out their job honestly and responsibly," she said. The court allowed a stay of execution on the jail term but ordered the fines be paid. Lawyers representing the four accused were Aminuddin Mohd Ramli, Amir Khusyairi Mohamad Tanusi and Mohamad Fozi Md Zain. |
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