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- Train tickets to East Coast sold out
- Pos Malaysia offers one flat rate for festive cards
- Banting murders: Statement of key witness not admissible, defence submits
| Train tickets to East Coast sold out Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:23 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Tickets for the KTM Intercity service to the East Coast between Aug 26 and 29 have been sold out, KTM Berhad (KTMB) announced Tuesday. In a statement, KTMB said it would consider having additional coaches for the route and that any announcement on the matter would be made in the middle of this month. It said tickets for the North, South and central sectors were still available. There are 62,304 tickets available for trips between Aug 20 and 30, of which 27,990 tickets had been sold until 2pm Tuesday, it added. KTM said the remaining 34,314 tickets could be bought at any KTM Intercity counters. It also said tickets for certain routes on certain dates were also sold out. They are for the Kuala Lumpur-Hatyai (Ekspres Senandung Langkawi No 20) for travelling on Aug 26 to 28; Hatyai-Kuala Lumpur (Ekspres Senandung Langkawi No 21) for Aug 25-26 and Kuala Lumpur-Tumpat (Ekspres Senandung Wau No 28), for Aug 25 to 29. For the Singapore-Tumpat route, tickets for the Ekspres Sinaran Timur No 14 on Aug 25 to 29 and the Ekspres Sinaran Timur No 26 for travelling on Aug 24 to 29 are also sold out. - Bernama Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Pos Malaysia offers one flat rate for festive cards Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:19 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia is introducing a special rate of 50 sen for the postage of festive greeting cards to all destinations in the country, effective Aug 1 to Jan 31, 2012. The flat rate is applicable for all sizes of festive greeting cards weighing below 50gms, to any destination within Malaysia. "This special rate offers you great savings on postage for Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Deepavali, Christmas and Chinese New Year," said Pos Malaysia Berhad's group managing director and CEO Datuk Syed Faisal Albar. "Though the rapid development information and communication technology has resulted in greetings sent via electronic mail, short messaging services or electronic greeting cards, the conventional method still remains a preferred choice among many," he said in a statement Tuesday. He added that Pos Malaysia hoped the one rate initiative would encourage more people to send greetings cards through the post. However, festive greeting cards to international destinations will be charged as per normal surface or airmail postage, he added. - Bernama Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Banting murders: Statement of key witness not admissible, defence submits Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:12 AM PDT SHAH ALAM: A statement by key witness U. Suresh under Section 112 of the Evidence Act 1950 should not be made admissible, the High Court here heard Tuesday. Defence counsel Manjeet Singh Dhillon, in his submission, said recording officer ASP Ong Seng Keong had used a laptop and a USB pendrive when taking down the statement from Suresh. "Nobody else has seen what was on the laptop. The recording officer (ASP Ong) did not say at any point in time that whatever was on the laptop was saved on a pen drive," he said. Manjeet further submitted that ASP Ong left the interrogation room, went to someone else's computer, and returned with a printed document containing the statement purportedly by Suresh. "There was no evidence on how the document was produced," he added. Manjeet was submitting at the end of a trial-within-a-trial to determine the admissibility of a statement by Suresh, who is a key witness in the trial of former lawyer N. Pathmanabhan, 42, and three of his farm hands, T. Thilaiyalagan, 20, R. Matan, 21, and R. Kathavarayan, 31. The four are charged with the murder of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, 47, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44, bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38 and lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, on Aug 30 last year. Another defence counsel, Gurbachan Singh opined that the statement under Section 112 must be taken by an independent officer but admitted there was no provision under law to support this opinion. To this, counsel Amer Hamzah Arshad concurred with his colleague on the absence of a provision but raised the court's objective with the trial-within-a-trial. "What is our intention here? We need to ascertain whether Suresh really did give the statement. As of now, there are allegations that answers made are tampered by the recording officer (ASP Ong) or interpreter (Detective Sergeant Kamaluddeen Abd Kareem). "That is why we need independent officers. The questions posed to the witness were leading questions, and the witness only had to answer yes or no. "The interpreter must ensure what was typed or written in the statement was the same with what the witness was saying. This could not be ascertained by the prosecution because the interpreter had admitted to not taking down any notes," he said. Deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Ishak Mohd Yusoff, however, submitted that there were no restrictions under the law in posing "leading questions" to a witness when taking down a statement. "He (ASP Ong) had explained he prepared the interrogation questions based on pictures, newspaper reports, a briefing by investigating officer ASP Mohd Ishak Yaakob and a police report by interrogating officer Chief Insp N. Govindan," he said. DPP Ishak submitted that Suresh was not an accused person, but a witness. "He (Suresh) has the evidential burden to prove that it was not his statement when he had already signed the statement," he added. Justice Akhtar Tahir said he would deliver the decision of the trial-within-a-trial at a later date The hearing continues Wednesday. Related Stories: |
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