Monday, December 26, 2016

Berkahwin dan berhutang

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Till debt do us part
BY BOO SU-LYN

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 ― Dr Farah’s wedding celebration last year comprised three receptions costing a whopping RM95,000 that forced her to take a RM15,000 loan even after getting financial help from her family.

The 30-year-old doctor, who asked to speak using a pseudonym, said that her father had sponsored RM15,000 for the reception at his home state in Kelantan, while her husband’s family spent RM15,000 for their wedding dinner in Putrajaya.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Senarai nama mangsa nahas kemalangan bas ekspress, Muar Johor

(Utusan) Senarai 11 daripada mangsa maut kemalangan bas ekspres
24 Disember 2016 4:15 PM



Senarai 11 daripada 14 mangsa yang terlibat kemalangan di Kilometer 137.3, Lebuh Raya Utara-Selatan di Pagoh, dekat Muar, Johor, pukul 3.40 pagi ini.



1. Mohd. Hisham Wahab, 34
2.Nor Saidatul Akmal Idris, 21
3. Norfazillah Abu Bakar
4.Jasmine Kaur
5. G. Palanivelan, 32
6. V. Renugah, 26
7.Nur Amira Izzaty Mohd. Razip, 22
8.Abdullah Hadi Yusof
9.Wong Koh Chan, 32
10. Zakeer Zubir, 32
(pemandu bas)
11.Nur Natasya Zahara Zakeer
(anak pemandu bas)

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Sudah dua bulan, Muhammad Rizqi!

Pejam celik, pejam celik dah lebih 60 hari usia Rizqi. Hari demi hari nampak perubahan watak Rizqi yang makin cerdik dan mengenali dunia terutamanya interaksi dengan dia, senyuman dan manja!

Masa sebelum kahwin lagi aku ada wish untuk nak hidup macam orang lain especially hidup macam mak ayah aku yang membesarkan aku dan sekeluarga. Alhamdulillah, lepas hampir setahun jadi suami, Allah bagi rezeki anak, satu lagi tanggungjawab sebagai seorang bapa.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

PM Turnbull : Australia should be republic after Queen Elizabeth

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(Straits Time) SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has renewed his call for a republic, but only after Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, as he outlined a road map for breaking away from the British monarchy.

Turnbull - a staunch republican who led the cause before a failed referendum in 1999 - said his support for an Australian head of state stemmed from patriotism.

“The cause of the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) is a cause for Australia,” Turnbull said during a keynote address to the ARM on Saturday night (Dec 17).

“We do not diminish or disrespect the patriotism of those who take a different view, but we have no other motive, no other reason than love of country.”

The British crown’s power in Australia is seen as largely symbolic, and while the Queen is hugely popular Down Under, the monarchy is viewed by some as an anachronistic colonial relic.

Critics within Turnbull’s own conservative Liberal Party earlier in the week said his support for a republic would be damaging to the government.

But Turnbull said there was no appetite among Australians for another referendum during Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

“The less party political the republican movement is, the broader its base, the deeper its grassroots, the better positioned it will be when the issue becomes truly salient again,” the Australian leader added.

Opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten appeared to criticise Turnbull’s lack of action on Twitter following the speech.

“Climate change, marriage equality, housing affordability, now Republic too hard for Turnbull. Time for the PM to lead his party, not follow,” Shorten tweeted.

He also offered to “work together to deliver an Australian head of state”.

Support for a republic has wavered over the years, with a Fairfax-Nielsen poll in 2014 finding that 51 per cent of the 1,400 people surveyed favoured the status quo compared to 42 per cent supporting a republic.

Turnbull said question marks about how an Australian head of state would be elected - directly by the people or via a parliamentary appointment - had weakened support for a republic during the 1999 referendum.

He called for a two-stage voting process, with a plebiscite to determine the election model first before a referendum to decide on whether Australia should be a republic.

“We need to ensure that the Australian people feel they have chosen the model to be presented,” Turnbull said.

“Of course every member of the parliament is elected, but we cannot be blind to the levels of cynicism about politics, parliaments and governments. If anything they are greater today than they were back in 1999.”

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Sultan Muhammad V, Kelantan lafaz sumpah jawatan Yang di-Pertuan Agong ke 15

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(Utusan) KUALA LUMPUR 13 Dis. - Sultan Kelantan, Sultan Muhammad V hari ini me­lafaz sumpah memegang jawatan sebagai Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ke-15 dalam upacara penuh adat istiadat di Istana Negara, di sini.

Turut melafaz sumpah memegang jawatan ialah Sultan Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah sebagai Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Kedua-dua baginda dipilih oleh Raja-Raja Melayu pada Mesyuarat Majlis Raja-Raja Ke-243 (Khas) di Istana Negara, 14 Oktober lepas, bagi tempoh lima tahun bermula hari ini.

Anwar Ibrahim kekal dipenjara lima tahun

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(Utusan) PUTRAJAYA 14 Dis. - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim kekal dipenjara lima tahun kerana meliwat Mohd. Saiful Bukhari Azlan selepas Mahkamah Persekutuan hari ini menolak permohonan semakannya.

Bekas Ketua Pembangkang itu gagal mengetepikan sabitan dan hukuman penjara tersebut yang dikekalkan oleh satu panel lain pada 10 Februari tahun lalu.  Setakat ini, beliau telah menjalani hukuman  penjara setahun 10 bulan.

Panel lima hakim mahkamah tertinggi negara diketuai oleh Hakim Besar Malaya, Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin mencapai keputusan sebulat suara itu selepas mendengar penghujahan kedua-dua pihak pada 12 Oktober lalu.

Pada peringkat ini, keputusan tersebut menoktahkan perjalanan kes liwat II wakil rakyat pembangkang itu yang berlarutan selama lapan tahun bermula dengan laporan polis yang dibuat oleh bekas pembantu peribadinya pada 28 Jun 2008.

Yang turut bersidang  Hakim Besar Sabah dan Sarawak, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, Tan Sri Hasan Lah, Tan Sri Abu Samah Nordin dan Tan Sri Zaharah Ibrahim.  Bagaimanapun Hakim Malanjum tidak hadir hari ini kerana kematian ibu saudaranya.

Hakim Zulkefli ketika membacakan penghakiman itu antara lain menyatakan permohonan itu tiada merit dan tidak sempurna yang membolehkan mahkamah menggunakan budi bicaranya menyemak keputusan itu.

Anwar, 69, diwakili oleh pasukan peguam bela diketuai oleh Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram manakala Ketua Bahagian Perbicaraan dan Rayuan, Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md. Shahid mengetuai pasukan pendakwaan.

Beliau memohon menyemak dan mengetepikan keputusan panel terdahulu yang mengekalkan sabitan dan hukuman penjara lima tahun yang diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Rayuan pada 7 Mac 2014 kerana meliwat bekas pembantu peribadinya.

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Anwar disabitkan meliwat Mohd. Saiful Bukhari, 31, di Unit 11-5-1 Kondominium Desa Damansara di Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, di ibu negara di antara pukul 3.10 petang dan 4.30 petang pada 26 Jun 2008.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Istiadat keberangkatan balik Tuanku Abdul Halim penuh simbolik

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(Utusan Malaysia) KUALA LUMPUR 12 Dis. - Raja Berjiwa Rakyat, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah dan Tuanku Hajah Haminah menamatkan penggal pemerintahan sebagai Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Raja Permaisuri Agong hari ini dalam upacara penuh simbolik.

Tuanku Abdul Halim, 89, yang ditabalkan sebagai Yang di-Pertuan Agong ke-14 pada 11 April 2012, dan Tuanku Hajah Haminah berangkat meninggalkan Istana Negara dalam acara ringkas namun penuh istiadat diraja pada kira-kira pukul 8.20 pagi.