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- Third person surrenders to police over insulting Facebook postings
- Terengganu to propose gazetting of Setiu Wetlands as state park
- Pandikar to retain Dewan Rakyat speaker role
| Third person surrenders to police over insulting Facebook postings Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:17 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The third person who was sought by police to assist police into the investigation over a facebook posting for allegedly insulting the Yang di-Pertuan Agong surrended to the police. City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said she was among the four person was sought by police. He said she surrendered at Penang police headquarters yesterday morning. "We are in the midst of recording her statement," he said when contacted yesterday. SAC Ku said the fourth person who is overseas is expected to surrender to the police this Saturday. It was reported that police were investigating a woman for posting alleged insults against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah on her Facebook page. The woman who went into hiding was tracked down with the help of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. |
| Terengganu to propose gazetting of Setiu Wetlands as state park Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:02 AM PDT KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu government will propose the gazetting the Setiu Wetlands as a state park to the Forestry Department in order to preserve its ecosystem. State Science and Technology, Environment, Green Technology and Water Committee chairman Datuk Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman said the committee would seek views from the department and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) on various aspects to realise the plan. "We will look at the legal aspect and standards expected in order to gazette the area as a state park soonest possible and we hope that a resolution will be reached at the National Seminar on Conservation of Coastal Forests 2013. "The effort to ensure balanced and sustainable existence and development in the coastal areas is a challenging process and the state government is committed to this in the interest of many parties," he told reporters after opening the seminar at UMT, here. Also present were Natural Resources and Environment Ministry deputy secretary-general (Environment) Prof Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim and UMT deputy vice-chancellor (Research and Innovation) Prof Dr Mohd Effendy Abdul Wahid. The agreement to gazette the Setiu Wetlands followed the call made by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia (WWF) for the area to be gazetted quickly to preserve its uniqueness and ecosystem. WWF Malaysia chief executive officer, Datuk Dr Dionysis Sharma in a Setiu Wetlands: Nature's Jewel video launched recently, said the effort started in the 1990s in line with the state government's plan to set up a state park in Terengganu based on the East Coast Economic Region Master Plan. Ahmad Razif said the effort to gazette the wetlands as a state park was timely and Terengganu would promote the area as a tourist attraction which could improve the economy of the local residents. "The uniqueness of the Setiu Wetlands which has various natural features such as fresh water, brackish water and seawater ecosystems, swathes of paperbark tea-tree and a 14km lagoon, which is suitable as a sea terrapin habitat, making the place very special compared to other state parks," he said. - Bernama |
| Pandikar to retain Dewan Rakyat speaker role Posted: 11 Jun 2013 06:43 AM PDT PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia will continue as Dewan Rakyat speaker for the upcoming 13th Parliamentary term, sources say. Pandikar, a former Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, replaced Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib as Speaker in 2008. The Speaker for the upcoming session will have to be firm and respected by both sides, as there is a larger number of opposition MPs in the Lower House this time around. Pakatan Rakyat currently holds 89 seats, seven more than after the 2008 elections, the largest number of Opposition MPs in Parliament to date. Ruling coalition Barisan Nasional has 133 seats. Parliament will convene on June 24 and is expected to be extremely dynamic and fiery due to the Opposition's strong presence. Other names speculated for the role were Ramli, former Senate President Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Pawanteh and former Information, Communications and Culture Minister Tan Sri Rais Yatim. |
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