Archive for June, 2008
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took refuge at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday after police began probing an allegation that he sodomized his male aide, reprising a sex scandal that led to his imprisonment a decade ago.
Anwar, 60, dismissed the accusation, made in a police complaint filed by the 23-year-old aide on Saturday, as “a complete fabrication.”
The dramatic developments that began to unfold a little before midnight Saturday will likely further roil Malaysian politics, which have been in turmoil since March 8 elections handed the governing National Front coalition its worst-ever result.
A three-party opposition coalition led by Anwar made spectacular gains, winning an unprecedented 82 seats in the 222-member Parliament and the legislatures of five states. Anwar has threatened to engineer defections from the National Front to bring down the government by September.
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Popularity: 30% [?]
I am issuing this statement from within the embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Kuala Lumpur.
I was transported to the embassy earlier this morning fearing that my personal safety was in danger. I thank all those who offered to assist me in this time of need and am grateful to the Turkish ambassador for extending an invitation to seek refuge within the embassy.
Since the March 8 election, numerous credible sources from within the government and military intelligence have advised me that certain agents from within Barisan Nasional leadership have initiated plots to cause harm to me or my family or my supporters.
I have been told that my assassination has not been ruled out as means to subvert the people’s will and bring an end to the transformational changes taking place in Malaysia.
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Popularity: 19% [?]
The police report lodged against me earlier today is a complete fabrication. I believe we are witnessing a repeat of the methods used against me in 1998 when false allegations were made under duress. This is clearly a desperate attempt by the Barisan Nasional regime to arrest the movement of the Malaysian people towards freedom, democracy and justice.
The report has been organized by interested parties to attack me in retaliation for evidence I have recently obtained implicating IGP Musa Hassan and the AG Gani Patail in misconduct including fabrication of evidence in the cases launched against me in 1998-1999. This vile attack will not prevent me from releasing this dossier to the public.
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Popularity: 17% [?]
Satu laman web Warkah Untuk PM telah dilancarkan sebelum Pilihan Raya ke 12 yang lalu. Laman web ini mempelawa orang ramai untuk mengemukakan maklumbalas tentang sokongan, harapan, cadangan dan aduan terhadap prestasi dan ikrar kerajaan serta kepimpinannya dalam menjamin keselamatan, keamanan dan kemakmuran rakyat dan negara.
Di Warkah Untuk PM ini disediakan satu borang maklumat untuk memudahkan mereka yang ingin memberi maklumbalas kepada Perdana Menteri dalam bentuk sokongan, aduan, harapan dan cadangan berkaitan prestasi dan ikrar Perdana Menteri serta kepimpinan Negara dan Kerajaan Negeri untuk kemajuan rakyat dan Negara. Borang ini disediakan dalam empat bahasa utama di Malaysia.
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Popularity: 43% [?]
Raja Petra Kamarudin has made a statutory declaration alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Najib’s wife was at the murder scene of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Najib and Rosmah have repeatedly denied they are linked to the killing of Altantuya, describing the widely-known allegations was nothing more than ‘slander and concocted stories’.
Raja Petra said he did not lodge a police report on the latest allegation because there was no action over a police report he had lodged in a separate case in 2001 when he was allegedly beaten up by a high-ranking policeman.
Raja Petra was called in for police questioning early last month over an article titled ‘Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell’ in which he implicated Najib and Rosmah in the high-profile murder case.
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Popularity: 32% [?]
Higher Education Department director-general Prof Datuk Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi who announced the results for the 2008/2009 intake into public universities said that 40,184 STPM and equivalent candidates, out of the 67,143 who applied, were offered places in the 20 public universities.
The breakdown of successful candidates was 62.19% bumiputra, 30.97% Chinese and 6.84% Indian. Successful female applicants made up 64.5% of the total number, in line with the past few years’ trend.
Not everyone who scored a 4.0 CGPA in the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) or equivalent got his/her first choice when applying for a place in degree programmes in public universities. There are 1,963 candidates who applied for places had a CGPA of 4.0.
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Popularity: 12% [?]
