Radio Free Sarawak 's Peter John Jaban was today taken away by three unidentified men in Miri, soon after the anti-Taib radio station presenter flew into the northern Sarawak town.  However, his lawyer Alan Ling said Miri police have denied taking away the presenter with the London-based radio station that has been highly critical of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud's administration. Ling, who is also DAP's Piasau assemblyperson, told  Malaysiakini that the three men took Jaban ( left ) away  in a Proton car.  Jaban was with Miri PKR chairperson Dr Michael Teo and on the way to Teo's clinic in the town centre after arriving at Miri airport at about 10.30am.  The men in the Proton car stopped Teo and Jaban as they were on their way to town. "As I understand it, no force was used... that the men whispered something to Jaban and he left with them. We still don't know who the men are or Jaban's location," Ling said.  He said Jaban has not contact...

A highly-classified document - the Royal Malaysian Navy's evaluation of the Scorpene-class submarines to be purchased by the government - were allegedly "bought" by a French defence company. French lawyer Joseph Breham, who is acting on behalf of human rights NGO Suaram, revealed that the company paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, ostensibly for "commercial engineering" works. Breham ( right ) said French investigative judges probing the case lodged by Suaram against Paris-owned shipmaker DCNS for alleged corruption inquired what those payments were for and demanded reports of financial transactions from the company. "They (the inquiry judges) were given information thqat is already available in the Internet and newspapers, except for this one document," Breham told a press conference in Bangkok yesterday. "It was a secret document by the Malaysian Navy - an evaluation for the order of the submarines, which...

May 31, 2012 Shahrizat cleared by MACC: That's a Foregone Conclusion It pays to be a Member of UMNO Kleptocracy of Good Standing Former Women and Family Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has been cleared of having had a hand in awarding the multi-million ringgit National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) project to her family members. "We found that Shahrizat was not involved in the process – in awarding the project to the company and the RM250 million loan," Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) operations review panel chief Hadenan Abdul Jalil said today. The NFC has been accused of mismanaging the loan. Shahrizat's husband Mohamed Salleh Ismail is the company's chairperson with her children its directors. Speaking on the matter briefly, Hadenan said the panel has decided to wrap up the matter. Shahrizat relinquished her ministerial post on the expiry of her senatorship on April 8, but decided to continue as the Wanita UMNO Head and Wani...

Former women and family development minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has been cleared of having had a hand in awarding the multi-million ringgit National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) project to her family members. "We found that Shahrizat was not involved in the process - in awarding the project to the company and the RM250 million loan," Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) operations review panel chief Hadenan Abdul Jalil said today. The NFC has been accused of mismanaging the loan. Shahrizat's husband Mohamed Salleh Ismail is the company's chairperson with her children its directors. Speaking on the matter briefly, Hadenan said the panel has decided to wrap up the matter. Shahrizat relinquished her ministerial post on the expiry of her senatorship on April 8, but decided to continue as the Wanita Umno head and Wanita Barisan Nasional (BN) head. She has repeatedly claimed she had nothing to do with the controversies surrounding the company and its ma...

About 70 journalists of the Canberra Times newspaper in the Australian capital walked off the job this morning and will stay on strike until Friday because of proposed job cuts at two regional newspapers owned by the Fairfax newspaper chain. Journalists at Australia's largest-circulating newspapers The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, [...] Read More @ Source More » Barisan Nasional (BN) | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) | Sociopolitics Plus | 大马社会政治

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The public transport company claimed to suffer nearly RM150,000 in damages following the violence that erupted in Kuala Lumpur on April 28. KUALA LUMPUR: The chaos that erupted during the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally seems to have cost public transport company RapidKL a total of RM146,417. According to a source familiar with RapidKL, this was divided into property damages (RM21,700) and the loss in revenue for RapidKL's buses (RM124,717). The source told FMT that the loss of revenue for RapidKL's Ampang and Kelana Jaya Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines were not included in this amount. This total was also listed, the source said, in a May 4 police report made by RapidKL's legal department against Bersih 3.0′s leaders at the Dang Wangi police station. When asked if the company would sue Bersih's organisers, the source said: "We will let the police finish their investigations before any civil action starts. We haven't done anything yet." ...