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Azizan: I will contest in GE if people want me and I am still strong
DPM: PWD to monitor hillslope development nationwide
Journalist assaulted after covering event in Penang

Azizan: I will contest in GE if people want me and I am still strong

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 04:27 AM PST

KUALA NERANG: Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak wants to contest in the upcoming general election.

Azizan, who is Kedah PAS commissioner, said he would make a decision on defending his Sungai Limau state seat.

"We will see...if the people want and the headquarters nominates and I am still strong, I will continue to contest.

"If Nik Aziz (party religious advisor Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat) wants to contest, I will also want to contest," he told reporters when asked to comment on the preparation of Kedah PAS.

He was approached during a working visit to a fruit estate project in Charok Genting Bunga, Pedu near here Sunday.

Azizan said age did not matter in politics as it is about ambition, strategy and planning.

He said Kedah PAS has prepared its list of candidates for the general election.

He said the candidates selected to contest would only be announced after receiving the greenlight from PAS central headquarters at the appropriate time.

DPM: PWD to monitor hillslope development nationwide

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 04:01 AM PST

Published: Sunday December 30, 2012 MYT 6:33:00 PM
Updated: Sunday December 30, 2012 MYT 8:01:23 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Works Department has formed a taskforce to monitor hillslope developments nationwide.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said such a team was necessary in light of the collapse of the embankment wall at Bukit Setiawangsa on Friday.

"The taskforce will monitor and review all hillslope developments nationwide to prevent such a disaster from occuring.

"The landslide at Bukit Setiawangsa is unexpected but the department as well as other relevant authorities must stay vigilant," he told reporters when visiting Bukit Setiawangsa on Sunday.

Muhyiddin said he was satisfied with the early measures taken by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) as well as other relevant authorities in evacuating the residents.

Journalist assaulted after covering event in Penang

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 02:37 AM PST

GEORGE TOWN: A journalist with a Chinese newspaper was injured after he was assaulted by four men after covering an event at an apartment in Jalan Perak here Sunday.

Ang Kean Siang, 32, of the Guang Ming Daily, said the incident occurred at about 1.30am when he went to the apartment to cover an incident in which a woman was found dead, believed to have fallen from the building.

He claimed that while taking several pictures of the scene, a man approached and scolded him and told him to leave the premises.

"Afraid of creating a scene there, I left and as I was leaving a man on a motorcycle offered to give me a ride," Ang said when met after he lodged a report at the Timur Laut District police headquarters here.

He claimed that the motorcyclist took him to an area at Lorong Perak, which was being used as a beat base by the Volunteer Patrol Team (PPS) and left him there. "Then came the man who scolded me earlier, together with three other men.

One of them took my camera and smashed it on the ground," he added.

He claimed that the four men also punched and kicked him.

Ang, who has been a journalist for 10 years, sought treatment at the Penang Hospital before going to Loh Guan Lye Hospital.

Timur Laut District police chief ACP Gan Kong Meng confirmed the incident and said police was investigating. - Bernama

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Ahad, 30 Disember 2012