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Six injured in Johor Baru train derailment
Najib: Militant threat in Southeast Asia declining
Najib: Malaysians' expectations, demand have increased

Six injured in Johor Baru train derailment

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:03 AM PST

Published: Saturday January 26, 2013 MYT 9:12:00 PM
Updated: Saturday January 26, 2013 MYT 11:03:43 PM

JOHOR BARU: Six passengers were injured when four coaches of a passenger train from Kuala Lumpur derailed while heading to Singapore on Saturday.

Deputy Johor Baru (North) police chief Supt Beh Eng Lai said the mishap at 3.30pm occurred near Taman Impian Emas between the Kulaijaya station and Kempas Baru station. "The passengers sustained minor injuries and were taken to Sultanah Aminah Hospital for treatment," he said.

KTMB said in a statement that 200 passengers were onboard the train when the mishap occurred.

Following the derailment, the train's return trip from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and from Singapore to Kelantan have been cancelled.

"The affected passengers can get a refund for their tickets or reschedule their trips," the statement said.

Najib: Militant threat in Southeast Asia declining

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:56 AM PST

KUALA LUMPUR: The threat of Islamic militants in Southeast Asia has receded quite substantially due the efforts from other nations in the region, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

He said the cooperation between Malaysia and the other countries, including Indonesia and the Philippines, had helped to tackle Al-Qaeda-linked groups.

"I think most of them (the countries) are behind us. I think we've dealt with radical Islam," he told a CNN televised session entitled 'An Insight, An Idea with Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak' at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

In the 30-minute interview which was anchored by Fareed Zakaria, the Prime Minister also pointed out Malaysia's involvement in hosting peace talks between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and its deployment of troops to head an international truce-monitoring force in the region.

The Philippine government signed an accord last October with the MILF, who had been fighting for more than 40 years and had cost about 120,000 lives.

"This means that the whole potential of that area being radicalised, being linked up with Al-Qaeda directly or through the various groups, has been eliminated.

"That's a huge contribution towards peace and a more moderate form of Islam in Southeast Asia," Najib said.

He stressed that although in the past some form of military-type action was "unavoidable", the task was now to engage with fundamentalist Muslims and persuade them to embrace more moderate forms of Islam.

On his visit to Gaza, Najib said he had privately as well as in his speech told Hamas that he was there for humanitarian reason and with a mission in peace.

"I did not come to side with the Hamas. I did not come to interfere with the internal politics.

"I came with a mission and basically to tell them...look you have to be united and form a unity government.

"Once you have unity government, then you should negotiate with Israel," Najib said. - Bernama

Najib: Malaysians' expectations, demand have increased

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:54 AM PST

KUALA LUMPUR: People's expectations and demand of the government have increased, and this should be well understood to ensure Barisan Nasional's victory in the next general election, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

Najib, who is Barisan chairman, said having realised this, the government was determined to do things differently and work as hard as possible.

"We need to realise that people are not going to give their votes to you based on how much you've done in the past.

"But people would say, 'what can you do right now and for the future'," he told a CNN televised session entitled 'An Insight, An Idea with Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak' at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

Najib noted that nobody could deny the fact that Umno and BN had pursued an agenda for development after fighting for the country's independence.

On Barisan's failure to win a two-thirds majority in the 2008 general election, Najib explained one of the factors was that people had become more critical in tandem with advances in technology and communication, as well as the use of social media.

At the end of the interview, the prime minister was queried about his plans if given the mandate to rule by voters in the country's 13th general election.

He responded by saying that the government had stated publicly that it wanted to see Malaysia become a fully developed nation by 2020.

"And I'm committed to do everything and anything possible to make it happen and if I get my second term, that's exactly what I'll do."

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Sabtu, 26 Januari 2013