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SHAH ALAM -- The Kota Raja PAS Youth Movement (DPPKR) today questioned the move by the party last Saturday, which had been used as a platform to urge PAS voters to vote for the BN candidate in the by-election for the Sungai Kandis State seat this Saturday.   Its deputy head, Mohd Najib Arshad said the gist of the speech had openly been made by several party leaders at the Selangor state and federal level at the program called 'Bangkit', which appeared not to be in line with the official statement by PAS Secretary-General Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan, regarding the by-election last July 22.   He said he also felt that the call contradicted the spirit of the PAS Constitution,  Clause 82 (g) which stated, all PAS members including the leadership should control themselves from committing any action that went against or was detrimental to the party's interest.   "The DPPKR is of the view that the decision (call) was policy in nature and thus had ignored the powers of...

KUALA LUMPUR -- The Customs Department expects to automatically migrate companies that have registered under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to the Sales and Service Tax (SST) beginning tomorrow and will alert them via email, Customs director-general Datuk Seri Subromaniam Tholasy said.   He said the department has identified between 70,000 to 80,000 manufacturing companies to be listed under this SST 2.0, from 472,000 companies listed during the six per cent GST regime.   "During the GST implementation process, other than manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers also had to register.  "But with the move to reinstate the SST, only manufacturers and service providers that reach a threshold value of RM500,000 a year will be taxed," he told reporters during a briefing on the transition from the GST to the SST here.  The event was organised by Salihin Consulting Group Sdn Bhd and the Malaysian Association of Tax Accountants.  Bernama report, Su...

KUALA LUMPUR -- The air traffic controllers on duty when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014 will face action for not following standard operating procedures in dealing with the disappearance of the jetliner, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke.   He said an internal committee would be formed immediately by the Transport Ministry to determine the type of action that can be taken against them.   "I have instructed the Transport Ministry's secretary-general to set up the committee and the decision on the form of action that will be taken (against the ATCs concerned) will be made known in about a month," he told reporters at Parliament's lobby today.   According to him, some of the ATCs concerned who at the time were staff of the Department of Civil Aviation were now with the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM).   Not complying to the SOPs were revealed in the report on MH370 released by the Malaysian International Civil Avi...

KOTA KINABALU -- The talks between the Sabah and the Federal governments on the oil royalty will be conducted like a family discussion to arrive at an agreement amicable to both the parties, Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said today.   He said the team approach was important so that the issue of the oil royalty, which was very close to the hearts of the Sabah people, could be thoroughly discussed and implemented.   "We will work together as a team and as a family to resolve the problem. What is important is for us to find a solution," he said to reporters after attending the state Warriors' Day celebration here.   Mohd Shafie said the state government was aware that the apportioning of the oil royalty was in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) manifesto and, as the chief minister, he would continue to bring up the matter as it concerned the interests of the people of Sabah.   This included setting up a special body to fine-tune discussions with th...

KUALA LUMPUR -- The government has given assurance that Malaysia will not become the world's solid waste bin after China banned imports of solid waste from developed countries and refused to recycle more of the world's trash.  As such, Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said the government had taken a drastic step by introducing new sets of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and regulations for the application of solid waste import license and revoking the 114 existing licences with immediate effect.  He said the licence were issued by the National Solid Waste Management Department under the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.  "The licence holders need to re-apply the licence and meet the new SOP and criteria to ensure that there will be no violation of standards and regulations,"  He said this in reply to Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali (Independent-Bagan Serai) who wanted to know what the government would ...

KUALA LUMPUR -- Menteri Pengangkutan Anthony Loke hari ini menjelaskan Laluan 3 Aliran Transit Massa (MRT3) tidak dibatalkan dan hanya ditangguhkan untuk mengurangkan bebanan hutang kerajaan. Menurut beliau, kabinet akan menentukan bila proses menyambung semula pembinaan MRT3 akan dibuat namun menegaskan projek utama seperti MRT3 akan diberi keutamaan sekiranya kedudukan kewangan negara pulih. "Sebarang keputusan besar sebegini, perlu mendapatkan keputusan kabinet. "Tetapi sekarang priority (keutamaan) kerajaan ialah mengurangkan kadar hutang negara terlebih dahulu, tetapi untuk projek penting seperti MRT3, apabila kedudukan kewangan negara pulih, sudah tentunya ia akan diberi keutamaan untuk dikaji semula," katanya pada persidangan Dewan Rakyat hari ini. Beliau menjawab soalan Khairy Jamaluddin (BN-Rembau) yang meminta kementerian menyatakan rasional dan implikasi daripada pembatalan projek pengangkutan awam seperti MRT3. Menurut Loke, kerajaan tidak menaf...

PUTRAJAYA -- Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, who became a familiar face among the public following the MH370 and MH17 aviation tragedies, is calling it quits as the chairman of the  Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM).   He sent in his letter today for the resignation to take effect on Aug 14.   Azharuddin's notice of resignation comes a day after the Malaysian ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 released the MH370 Safety Investigation Report.   "It is with regret and after much thought and contemplation that I have decided to resign as the CAAM  chairman effective 14 days from the date of the resignation notice which I served today," he said in a statement, Bernama report.   Over the past four years, Azharuddin said, he tried his level best to assist in the search for the ill-fated Flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. ...

KUALA LUMPUR -- Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu said the people should be able to differentiate between  independence fighters and the communist movement.  "It is difficult to equate communist terrorists as freedom fighters in our history books. If it was the people's struggle to gain independence, that is a different question.  "The were some freedom fighters branded as communists like Dr Burhanuddin Helmi, Ibrahim Yaacob and Pak Sako (Ishak Muhammad). I don't think they subscribed to communist ideology. We have to separate the two (freedom fighters and communist terrorists)," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby, Bernama report.  He was commenting on a forum organised by Imagined Malaysia to discuss the role by played by the communist movement in the country and whether the government should rewrite the history of the Emergency years the country faced.  The Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought against communist terrorists in pre- and pos...

KUALA LUMPUR, 31 Julai (Bernama) " Benarkah warga emas yang masih sihat dan aktif bekerja menjadi punca yang menghalang generasi muda untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan atau kenaikan pangkat? Golongan yang berusia 60 tahun ke atas dan masih berada dalam dunia pekerjaan kerap dijadikan isu oleh masyarakat khususnya orang muda. Dan, sekiranya timbul ura-ura untuk meningkatkan lagi umur persaraan, pasti ada pihak yang 'bising' dan membantah cadangan tersebut. 'Dah tua, tak reti nak berehat ke?' 'Bilalah orang tua ni nak pencen, tengok muka pun dah bosan' - antara kata-kata negatif yang sering kedengaran apabila ada warga emas menyatakan kesediaan untuk terus bekerja. Itulah yang dialami anggota-anggota Persatuan Pembelajaran Sepanjang Hayat Warga Emas Universiti Era Ketiga (U3A) Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor (PSHWE/U3A) dan dikongsikan mereka pada setiap aktiviti diskusi anjuran persatuan itu. Menurut Presidennya, Shu...

sumber: www.quora.com KUALA LUMPUR -- Kumpulan pengganas Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) yang bertanggungjawab dalam pertumpahan darah selama lebih tiga dekad di Sri Lanka diketahui telah beberapa tahun ditewaskan pasukan keselamatan negara itu. Bekas Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Musa Hassan berkata kepada Bernama menerusi temuramah eksklusif di sini, baru-baru ini, namun ideologi kumpulan itu dan penyokongnya tetap wujud di seluruh dunia serta mampu memberi ancaman kepada mana-mana negara, termasuk Malaysia. LTTE yang diketuai V. Prabhakaran mencetuskan pemberontakan pemisah untuk mewujudkan wilayah autonomi Tamil Eelam di utara negara pulau itu apabila golongan majoriti Sinhala menindas masyarakat Tamil, iaitu kumpulan minoriti . Kempen keganasan LTTE menerima sokongan moral dan pembiayaan daripada ramai pihak termasuk diaspora Tamil yang bersimpati dengan nasib masyarakat Tamil di negara itu. Musa berkata a...

JAKARTA -- Jenazah Allahyarham Siti Nur Ismawida Ismail yang terkorban dalam kejadian gempa bumi di Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Indonesia pada Ahad lepas, hari ini diterbangkan dari Lombok ke Jakarta, sebelum dibawa pulang ke Malaysia.     Jenazah  Siti Nur Ismawida, 30 tahun, dibawa ke Jakarta menggunakan pesawat Garuda GA0435, berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Lombok pada jam 9.40 pagi ini ke Lapangan Terbang Soekarno Hatta, Jakarta.     Menurut Bernama Timbalan Duta Besar Malaysia di Indonesia, Zamshari Shaharan, berkata jenazah akan dibawa ke Kuala Lumpur dalam penerbangan Garuda GA0816 dari Jakarta pada jam 1.40 petang ini dan dijangka tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA)  jam 5 petang (waktu Malaysia).     "Jenazah diiringi suami mangsa,  Mohd Hafiz Mohd Kassim dan saudara kepada suaminya, Saiyid Abdallah  Syahir Aledrus," katanya.     Difahamkan, selepas tiba di  KL...