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FORMER prime minister Najib Razak cannot be prosecuted with abuse of power due to legal provisions that provide immunity to a public officer acting in the interest of a public body, lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told the court today.
Najib’s lead defence counsel submitted to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur that his client was a public officer, who represented the interests of SRC International, which was fully-owned by the government.
INTERVIEW | Companies in Thailand have adapted fast to changes in its narcotics law allowing for the use of cannabis for medical purposes.
Liu said he was merely reminding the Prime Minister to stick to the Pakatan Harapan agenda.
KUALA LUMPUR: Tiga individu termasuk bekas ahli DAP, Hew Kuan Yau dipanggil untuk memberi keterangan di Bukit Aman hari ini berhubung penerbitan komik yang didakwa berunsur propaganda.
Ketua Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Pendakwaan dan Undang-Undang D5 Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Bukit Aman, Mior Faridalathrash Wahid ketika dihubungi berkata Hew dan dua lagi individu akan hadir memberi keterangan petang ini.
“Dua lagi individu yang polis panggil mempunyai kaitan dengan penerbitan buku tersebut,” katanya.
Sebelum ini, Ketua Polis Negara Abdul Hamid Bador dilaporkan berkata polis mengambil keterangan pelukis komik bertajuk “Inisiatif Jalur dan Jalan Meraih Manfaat Bersama” pada Jumaat lepas.
Pada 18 Okt, Menteri Dalam Negeri Muhyiddin Yassin menyatakan laporan awal bahagian keselamatan kementerian mendapati terdapat perkara yang tidak betul dalam komik berkenaan, sekali gus wajar untuk tindakan tegas dikenakan terhadap mereka yang menerbit dan mengedarkan komik tersebut.
Baru-baru ini, media melaporkan komik itu dipercayai diedarkan di Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan (SMJK) dan Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK).
PARIS: The new 2024 Olympics logo is supposed to evoke French history but has instead earned ridicule online for its apparent resemblance to a stereotypical Parisian woman.
Unveiled on Monday, the design incorporates the art deco style in vogue the last time Paris hosted the Games in 1924, depicting an Olympic flame within a gold medal.
It also incorporates the lips and outline of Marianne, the personification of liberty and the French Republic since the revolution of 1789 – an addition that some mocked for adding an unnecessarily seductive character to the motif.
“The French Olympic logo tumbles out of bed on a Parisian morning,” wrote Paris-based journalist Megan Clement on Twitter.
“She tousles her messy bob, dons breton stripes and ballet flats and whisks down the stairs from her fifth-floor apartment to grab a baguette before enigmatically texting two men who are pursuing her romantically.
“(She) has an expresso and a cigarette for lunch. She hops on a vintage bicycle and pedals past the Eiffel Tower on her way to a cafe where she will sit and read Baudelaire with her fluffy white dog at her feet.”
Others compared the flame motif to the logo of dating app Tinder and suggested the silhouette of Marianne brought to mind the retro hairstyle made popular by Jennifer Aniston in the American sitcom “Friends”.
“The artist’s muse, the poet’s dream, and the girl your mother warned you about. She’s fashionably late for everything. She’ll make out with your husband at a party and then wonder why you’re mad,” said one Twitter user.
“I want to follow the French Olympic logo on Instagram,” wrote another.
Parisians got their first glimpse of the new logo when it was unveiled at the French capital’s famous Grand Rex cinema on Monday.
.JPG "DAP Socialist Youth chief Howard Lee (pic) said Liu’s remark saying that the Pakatan Harapan could form the government without Bersatu was narrow-minded and ridiculous. — Picture by Farhan Najib")
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 — DAP Socialist Youth chief Howard Lee expressed full support today for the move of the party’s national organising secretary to refer Sungai Pelek lawmaker Ronnie Liu for disciplinary action.
Lee said Liu’s remark saying that the Pakatan Harapan could form the government without Bersatu was narrow-minded and ridiculous.
“No one in Pakatan Harapan could call for any component parties, be it DAP, Bersatu, Amanah and PKR to leave the coalition.
“Calls to form a government without any component parties in Pakatan Harapan is narrow-minded and ridiculous. Each party has its own strength and brings special value in the country’s leadership,” the Pasir Pinji assemblyman said in a statement today.
On October 21, Liu wrote an opinion piece calling Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad a “paper tiger” and added that Bersatu would be the biggest loser in the event of a snap election as the other coalition partners could forego the party.
This morning, DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke said he was referring Liu to the party’s disciplinary committee for immediate action.
Loke disavowed Liu’s views as the latter’s own and denounced them as irresponsible.
Bersatu Youth chief Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman warned earlier today that his movement would openly attack DAP and its leaders unless they took action against Liu over this.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 ― The Health Ministry today stressed that it did not find any evidence or study which shows the usage of vape and electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is safe to treat smoking addiction.
Its Deputy Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said the ministry also did not receive any information that e-cigarette liquid is safe and did not give long-term effects on the lung.
“We understand the vape industry is important as it gives employment opportunities to youths. But we have balance it against its impact on health.
“If we look at the existing data, there is a possibility that vape is not safe as a replacement for cigarettes as claimed. But so far there is no proof that vape is effective to replace cigarettes,” he said during Oral Question and Answer Session at Dewan Rakyat today.
He was replying to a supplementary question by Mohd Shahar Abdullah (BN-Paya Besar) who wanted to know the government’s measures to curb sales of vape and e-cigarette especially to the younger generation.
Dr Lee said the ministry has set up a special committee in the effort to regulate the use of vape and e-cigarette in June to control the use of the device.
To the original question by Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin (PH-Masjid Tanah) who wanted the ministry to explain the measures to contain online sales of vape and e-cigarette, Dr Lee said the ministry is cooperating with social media administrators to block social media sites promoting e-cigarette.
“Various agencies including the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is mobilised under the Expert Working Committee to Strengthen Control on E-Cigarette.
“MCMC can block any websites selling e-cigarette liquid which contains nicotine when there applications by ministry officers who are authorised under the Poison Act 1952,” he said.
Dr Lee revealed that 300,000 students aged between 10 to 19 are vape users in the country and the data is obtained from “Tobacco and e-cigarette survey among adolescents in Malaysia”, a study carried out on students in public and private schools recently. ― Bernama
MALAYSIA is well-placed to benefit from international companies seeking to relocate their operations from China to avoid United States trade tariffs, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
In an interview with Oxford Business Group (OBG) recently, the prime minister also acknowledged that Asean member countries were being negatively impacted by falling demand from a slowing Chinese economy as the ongoing trade dispute with the United States begins to take a toll.
THE US has been awarded ownership of a North Korean cargo vessel that was seized for violating international sanctions, said the Justice Department.
Wise Honest – the first North Korean ship to be seized by the US for sanctions violations – was caught carrying a US$3 million (RM12.55 million) shipment of coal in Indonesian waters last year, and later handed over to the US.
Court rules that the aggrieved interest of the applicant, Sangeet Kaur Deo, had been remedied.
