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- Man shows Malaysian pride aboard his trishaw
- MIC not willing to be renamed
- Cops record statement from late Customs deputy D-G's son
| Man shows Malaysian pride aboard his trishaw Posted: KUANTAN: Trishaw peddler Mat Osman cycles around town every day, covering about 5km in a day's work. The senior citizen, who takes pride in his job, also makes sure that the Jalur Gemilang is prominently displayed on his trishaw. "I want to help remind people about the coming Merdeka celebrations," said Mat, 62, who is married with two grown up children. Mat, who has been a trishawman for the past three decades, said he found it upsetting that not many people were now displaying the Malaysian flag. "Previously, I noticed that the buildings in town are full of the national flags, making Kuantan colourful. It does not seem to be this way anymore," he said. "Don't we have the spirit of celebrating Independence Day?" he asked. However, Mat said he would keep going although many of his friends had given up being a trishaw peddler. "Many of my them have retired due to old age. "Besides, it is no longer practical to pedal a trishaw on the streets of Kuantan due to the heavy traffic," he said. |
| Posted: PUTRAJAYA: MIC is not willing to be renamed if it is to merge with other Indian-based parties, says Deputy MIC president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam. He said although the party was willing to consider a merger with these parties, calling MIC by a different name was not an option. "One of the challenges is that some of the other parties don't want to lose their identities and they also have their own demands. "But if there is openness, we are quite prepared (to consider)," he said after launching the Malaysia Health System in Transition (HiT) Country Report yesterday. On some of the parties asking for a new party to be set up and not combined with MIC, Dr Subramaniam said that MIC would not "close shop". "The original idea was to have the parties merge with MIC, but some of them wanted to maintain their identities," he said. Moreover, he said that some of them wanted to maintain their positions and posts, but this would depend on MIC's ability to accommodate the request, he said. On whether MIC was prepared for structural changes, he said this would have to be discussed "but for us to call it a different name, that is not possible". On Sunday, Barisan Nasional secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor urged all Indian-based political parties under the coalition to merge into one entity in the best interests of the Malaysian Indian community. He said it was pointless for the parties to compete with each other when they could be better off working together. Tengku Adnan urged MIC, Makkal Sakti, Malaysian Indian United Party (MIUP), Indian Progressive Front (IPF) and the PPP to merge so that they could become a stronger entity. |
| Cops record statement from late Customs deputy D-G's son Posted: PUTRAJAYA: Police here recorded a statement from the son of slain Customs Deputy director-general II Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim yesterday and said they would investigate the matter. Putrajaya OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Razak Majid said the statement was consistent with his comments published in the media concerning his father's murder. Mohd Akhtar was reported to have said that his father was gunned down after investigating a car-smuggling syndicate in Langkawi. He had also alleged that his father had warned his bosses of corrupt officials, adding that Shaharuddin received a transfer letter soon after making the accusation. "We are aware of recent statements made by him (Mohd Akhtar) in the media," ACP Abdul Razak said yesterday. "He has cooperated fully and confirmed his statements in the media," he said. "The case is still under investigation but we are pursuing all leads," he said. Peninsular Malaysia Customs Officers Union president Ibrahim Ahmad had also confirmed that Shaharuddin was slated to be transferred a month prior to his murder. Described as "Mr Clean", the 58-year-old Negri Sembilan-born Shaharuddin, who headed the Customs and Internal Tax Unit division, was a year away from retirement when he was shot dead in his official vehicle at a Putrajaya junction on April 26. |
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