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- PM launches new trust fund inheritance services under ASNB
- Lahad Datu: Autopsies done on 22 of 28 bodies of terrorists, says Hamza
- Philippines' Aquino calls for talks on Sabah
| PM launches new trust fund inheritance services under ASNB Posted: 17 Mar 2013 08:09 AM PDT SERDANG: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Sunday launched new trust fund inheritance services under the Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB), which will benefit over 11 million unit holders. The services, Hibah Amanah and Pengisytiharan Amanah, which are for Muslim and non-Muslim holders respectively, is also in conjunction with Permodalan Nasional Berhad's (PNB) 35th anniversary celebration. He said that registration for the two services will be available at all ASNB offices nationwide, starting Monday. "This new service will assist ASNB unit holders in planning their property related to the ASNB trust unit, so that it would be distributed to their descendants in a faster and easier process," said Najib during a dinner at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS). Hibah Amanah is a service in accordance with Syariah that applies the concept of "trust and grant" in the management of properties, while Pengisytiharan Amanah applies the concept of trust, said PNB in a statement. It said under the services, unit trust holders who have passed away will automatically have their assets transferred over to their family or loved ones. To register, holders must be aged 18 and above. Beneficiaries can be Malaysians or foreigners but must be directly related to the holder. |
| Lahad Datu: Autopsies done on 22 of 28 bodies of terrorists, says Hamza Posted: 17 Mar 2013 07:19 AM PDT LAHAD DATU: Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said post mortems had been conducted 22 of the 28 bodies of terrorists brought out from areas under "Ops Daulat". The bodies included that of a terrorist who was shot in a shootout in Kampung Tanjung Batu on Sunday, he told a media conference which was jointly held with Army First Infantry Division commander Major-General Datuk Ahmad Zaki Mokhtar at Felda Sahabat 16 near here about 5.30pm. Malaysia had given the Philippines three days, in line with the Geneva Convention, to claim the bodies of their citizens killed in the "Ops Daulat" offensive against Sulu terrorists who had intruded into Sabah on Feb 12. The deadline ended Sunday with no response from Manila. Hamza said he did not rule out the possibility that the terrorists had escaped to Pulau Tambisan, about 100 km from Felda Sahabat. However, he said, the security forces had tightened patrols at all strategic areas. He said he was optimistic that the operation to flush out the remaining terrorists in Kampung Tanjung Batu would be completed Monday, following which the security team would focus on areas in Tanjung Labian and Sungai Bilis. So far, 62 terrorists had been killed, 104 detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 and 241 people, including nine who were arrested Saturday and Sunday, for being in the "Ops Daulat" red zone area and other offences. - Bernama |
| Philippines' Aquino calls for talks on Sabah Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:47 AM PDT MANILA: President Benigno Aquino said Sunday that negotiations were the only way to resolve a Philippine sultanate's claim to Sabah as he criticised an armed incursion into the Malaysian state. Aquino also lashed out at unidentified conspirators whom he accused of sending the sultanate's followers to Sabah last month, saying they had endangered some 800,000 Filipinos living and working in the area. Speaking at the elite Philippine Military Academy, the president criticised anew the followers of the self-declared Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram III, whose incursion into Sabah has led to dozens of deaths. "There are problems that just beget more problems if you try to solve them with haste or force. We need sincere and deep discussion if we are to arrive at a correct solution," he told graduating military cadets. "We already know how complicated this issue is. Could any Malaysian prime minister so easily agree to let go of a land that for so long has been subject to their laws?" Aquino asked. More than 200 followers of Kiram, some of them armed, entered Sabah to reassert the sultanate's centuries-old claim to the area. Fighting with Malaysian security forces broke out on March 5 and according to Malaysian police figures, 61 of the intruders as well as eight police officers and a soldier have died. Authorities have arrested more than 100 people in Sabah on suspicion of having links to the militants. The Philippine Navy last week detained 35 suspected Filipino intruders as they tried to sail home. However Agbimuddin Kiram, the leader of the intruders and the younger brother of Jamalul Kiram III, was not among those detained. Aquino hinted that the Kirams had hidden backers, saying the incursion in Sabah must have cost a large sum of money. The spokesman for the Kiram family, Abraham Idjirani, said that the sultanate was forced to take action because the Philippine government would not act on their claim. He also denied anyone had financed the trip, saying the sultan's followers did so on their own. Idjirani said he had spoken to Agbimuddin Kiram by phone late Saturday and he was still in Sabah and unharmed. - AFP |
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