This is among the reasons provided in their applications for bail filed at the Ayer Keroh Sessions Court Registry last week.
Leicester break club record with 4-1 win at Villa
BIRMINGHAM: Leicester City set a club record of eight successive top flight wins after two goals from Jamie Vardy helped them to an impressive 4-1 Premier League victory at Aston Villa on Sunday.
The result left Leicester in second place in the standings on 38 points from 16 games, eight adrift of runaway leaders Liverpool and six ahead of third-placed champions Manchester City.
The league’s top scorer Vardy fired Leicester ahead with his 15th goal of the season and Kelechi Iheanacho made it 2-0 with a deft finish before Jack Grealish pulled one back for Villa on the stroke of halftime.
Centre back Jonny Evans restored Leicester’s two-goal advantage with a looping header from 10 metres shortly after the break, rising above his marker to meet a James Maddison corner.
The effervescent Maddison, who tormented the home team’s defence all afternoon, shaved the post with a shot from the edge of the area in the 67th minute as 2016 champions Leicester continued to dominate.
Vardy put the icing on the cake for the rampant visitors in the 76th minute after he raced clear of Matt Targett from the halfway line and drove the ball past goalkeeper Tom Heaton into the bottom right corner.
Netanyahu pushes annexation plan in bid to prevent polls
PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today touted his plan to annex a swathe of the occupied West Bank and Israeli settlements in a last-ditch effort to prevent another general election.
“It’s time to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, and legalise all the Judea and Samaria settlements; those that are in settlement blocs and those outside them,” he said, using the biblical term for the West Bank.
Sukan SEA 2019 mungkin penampilan terakhir jaguh lompat tinggi negara, Hup Wei
NEW CLARK CITY: Jaguh lompat tinggi negara, Lee Hup Wei tidak menolak kemungkinan Sukan SEA ke-30 di sini, bakal menjadi penampilan terakhirnya pada temasya sukan dwi tahunan itu.
Anak jati Selangor itu yang membuat penampilan sulung pada edisi 2007 di Korat, Thailand mendedahkan fokusnya kini adalah melayakkan diri secara merit ke Sukan Olimpik Tokyo 2020.
“Mungkin ya (penampilan terakhir Sukan SEA)…kita tengok selepas ini,” katanya ketika ditemui pemberita selepas acara berkenaan di Stadium Olahraga New Clark City, di sini, hari ini.
Terdahulu, Hup Wei memenangi pingat emas dalam acara itu walaupun rakan senegara Nauraj Singh Randhawa melakukan lompatan pada ketinggian yang sama iaitu 2.21m.
Hup Wei diisytiharkan sebagai pemenang selepas kiraan semula kerana beliau melakukan lompatan pada ketinggian itu dahulu, dan perak menjadi milik Nauraj, sementara atlet Thailand, Tawan Kaeodam terpaksa berpuas hati dengan kutipan gangsa setelah mencatat lompatan setinggi 2.15 meter.
Hup Wei yang mempunyai catatan peribadi terbaik, 2.27 meter, pernah meraih pingat emas pada 3 edisi terdahulu, iaitu 2007 di Thailand, 2009 di Laos dan 2011 di Indonesia.
Dalam pada itu, jaguh paralimpik negara, Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli berpuas hati dengan pingat perak yang dimenanginya dalam acara lontar peluru lelaki dengan lontaran sejauh 17.03 meter, sekali gus memperbaiki kutipan gangsa yang diraih pada Sukan SEA Kuala Lumpur 2017.
“Saya berpuas hati dengan kejayaan saya meraih pelbagai kejayaan pada musim ini, termasuk memenangi pingat perak pada Kejohanan Para Dunia, selain menjadi atlet paralimpik pertama memenangi pingat pada Sukan SEA,” kata anak jati Gombak, Selangor itu.
Strike cripples French public transport for 4th day
PUBLIC transport in France was crippled for a fourth day today as the government prepared to respond to anger over pension reforms that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets as workers embarked on open-ended protest.
President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and senior cabinet ministers are scheduled to hold a “working meeting” late today to discuss a government scheme which the country’s powerful labour unions claim will force many to work longer for a smaller retirement payout.
Aid for family members of NZ accident victims, says Sabah minister
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 8 — Assistance will be given to the family members of the New Zealand road crash victims, said Petagas assemblyman Datuk Uda Sulai.
Uda, who is also Sabah Law and Native Affairs Assistant Minister, said the aid would include funeral arrangement for the victims, expected to be buried in Christchurch tomorrow.
He said the Chief Minister would be kept informed on the matter if there were special allocation needed to help the family members.
“I am working on getting as much as I can from the assemblyman’s allocation, particularly from the eKasih, which we can hand out,” he told reporters when met at family’s house in Kampung Ulu Putatan here today.
In the road crash on State Highway 1, Kaikōura, New Zealand on Friday, Dr Rumihati Abd Hamid, 49, her husband, Adanan Jemain, 49, and her second daughter Maisarah Arifah, 13, were killed while another two daughters were seriously injured.
However, one of the injured, Nur Irfan, 15, who was the eldest, died at 6.30pm local time (1.30pm in Malaysia) today. — Bernama
Zuraida claims Anwar tried to convince her on Azmin sex video
UPDATED 11.35PM | PKR vice president rips into Anwar’s supporters and says she is ready to be sacked.
MB: Kedah plans incentives for ketum growers to switch crop
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ALOR SETAR, Dec 8 — The Kedah government is planning to give incentives to ketum growers in the state to switch to other crops.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir said the plan was discussed in the Drugs Eradication Action Council meeting today, following a meet up with 52 ketum growers from Kedah and Perlis last month.
Among others, he said, the incentives will include seed subsidy, loan grant, household living aid and marketing platform for these farmers to market their new crops.
“AADK (National Anti-Drugs Agency) has also suggested capacity building in form of training and courses for farmers, to develop alternative crops.
“The alternative crop programme can be a success if farmers can increase their knowledge in agriculture and latest technology, and with a more competitive alternative crop,” said Mukhriz in his speech while chairing the meeting here today.
Present was AADK director-general Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah.
Among others, the meeting also discussed the effectiveness of the National Anti-Drugs Agency (NADA) pilot projects carried out in Kota Setar, Lubuk Merbau, Padang Terap and Kuah in Langkawi for three months since July, which have resulted in lower crime rates in the said areas. — Bernama
PKR deputy uses sex allegations as examples in measure of loyalty
Azmin says he defended Anwar against sodomy allegations since 1998 but he did not receive similar support.
Thousands march in support of Suu Kyi ahead of genocide hearing
THOUSANDS rallied in support of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar today, the eve of her departure for the United Nations top court to defend the country against charges of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
The raucous rally in the capital, Naypyidaw, comes as China’s foreign minister arrived for a visit at Suu Kyi’s invitation.