LEBIH 49 RIBU PENJAWAT AWAM BERDEPAN RISIKO MUFLIS - CUEPACS !!

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LEBIH 49 RIBU PENJAWAT AWAM BERDEPAN RISIKO MUFLIS - CUEPACS


Pekerja Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam (Cuepacs) Datuk Azih Muda. Azih berkata penjawat awam terbabit didapati melakukan pinjaman peribadi daripada institusi kewangan yang melebihi kemampuan gaji mereka. "Hal ini saya lihat semakin serius dania terjadi kerana ada penjawat awam yang bertindak memalsukan slip gaji ketika membuat pinjaman," katanya kepada pemberita pada Seminar Hari Pekerja di sini 


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Lebih 49 ribu penjawat awam berdepan risiko menjadi muflis berikutan kegagalan mereka menguruskan hutang pinjaman. Sehubungan itu Presiden Kongres Kesatuan Pekerja Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam (Cuepacs) Datuk Azih Muda mencadangkan sistem bagi mengawal pinjaman di kalangan penjawat awam diperkenalkan.


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Permintaan syabu di kalangan anak peneroka Felda meningkat - Polis N.Sembilan !

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Permintaan syabu di kalangan anak peneroka Felda meningkat - Polis N.Sembilan

SEREMBAN 9 Mei - Permintaan terhadap dadah sintetik atau syabu dalam kalangan anak peneroka Felda di negeri ini menunjukkan trend peningkatan meskipun harganya lebih mahal berbanding dadah jenis heroin yang sebelum ini lebih popular di kawasan itu.

MUHAMAD ZAKI HARUN

Ketagihan kronik terhadap dadah yang mahal ini dikatakan turut menjadi antara penyumbang kepada berlakunya pelbagai kes-kes jenayah termasuklah pecah rumah, samun dan ragut, bagi membolehkan pelakunya memperoleh wang segera untuk membeli bekalan.

Timbalan Ketua Polis Negeri Sembilan, SAC Muhamad Zaki Harun berkata, permintaan dadah jenis syabu hampir menyamai permintaan dadah jenis heroin yang sebelum ini lebih popular di kawasan-kawasan Felda disebabkan sifat mahu mencuba dan merasa pelbagai jenis dadah.

"Untuk itu mereka memerlukan wang yang lebih banyak dan apabila tiada wang, inilah yang menyumbang kepada berlakunya kes jenayah di kawasan sekitar.

"Kita akui terdapat kaitan bahawa sekiranya ada penagih di sesuatu kawasan, maka akan berlakulah jenayah sampingan yang lain bahkan ada juga di kalangan penagih mencuri getah dan kelapa sawit untuk dijual memandangkan harga komoditi itu ketika ini agak mahal. Kiranya mereka akan melakukan apa sahaja jenayah asalkan mereka memperoleh wang untuk membeli bekalan," katanya.

Katanya, selain itu, pengambilan air ketum juga merekodkan permintaan tinggi ketika ini, bahkan polis turut menemui ladang ketum dan tempat memproses air ketum di daerah Jempol yang diusahakan oleh pihak tidak bertanggungjawab.

Lebih membimbangkan, pengedar ketum yang ditahan itu berasal dari kawasan Felda, sekaligus memudahkan lagi bekalan dadah diperoleh anak-anak Felda di kawasan berkenaan, katanya.

Muhamad Zaki berkata, berdasarkan statistik tangkapan berkaitan dadah di Felda di seluruh Negeri Sembilan bagi tempoh Januari hingga Februari tahun ini, menunjukkan peningkatan sebanyak 67 peratus berbanding tempoh sama tahun lepas.

“Operasi telah kita jalankan di kawasan Felda di daerah Kuala Pilah, Tampin, Jelebu dan Jempol dan mendapati kenaikan dari segi tangkapan pada tahun ini iaitu seramai 136 orang berbanding 81 orang dalam tempoh sama tahun lepas,” katanya.

Meskipun pelbagai usaha membanteras penyalahgunaan dadah dilaksanakan, beliau berkata, selagi ia mendapat permintaan, selagi itulah akan adanya bekalan dan bagi memastikan kegiatan kegiatan itu dapat dihapuskan secara holistik, elemen permintaan dan penawaran perlu diperangi habis-habisan. - BERNAMA

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Discrepancies at Some Religious Schools !!

COMMENTS:

There are a few discrepancies, at some religious schools or institutions, among others:

1- Its a tahfiz institution, an Islamic institution, the expectation is that it should be BETTER than the normal secular schools.

2- The school administrators and management who are 'amanah' (responsible) by the parents to take good care of their children, But it seems that the children well-being are not the priority.

3- It should also be expected that a few young children misbehave, but the punishment should never be too extreme - that lead to severe injuries and death !

4- The school administrators should also know that not all young children are "Hulk" that can take extreme punishment, some may have sickness and convulsions.

Convulsion (Malay: Sawan) - a sudden, violent, irregular movement of a limb or of the body, caused by involuntary contraction of muscles and associated especially with brain disorders such as epilepsy, the presence of certain toxins or other agents in the blood, or fever in children.  


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Sumber:
http://www.utusan.com.my/berita/mahkamah/ustaz-terlepas-hukuman-gantung-kes-kematian-murid-sekolah-agama-1.196510

Ustaz terlepas hukuman gantung kes kematian murid sekolah agama

PUTRAJAYA 2 Mac – Seorang bekas guru sebuah sekolah agama di Arau, Perlis hari ini diperintah menjalani hukuman penjara 20 tahun kerana menyebabkan kematian anak muridnya yang berusia tujuh tahun, lima tahun lalu.

Hanif Mohamad Ali, 32, dilihat menarik nafas lega apabila terlepas hukuman gantung setelah Mahkamah Rayuan membenarkan rayuannya untuk mengetepikan hukuman mati yang diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi pada 1 Mac tahun lalu.

Panel tiga hakim diketuai oleh Datuk Ahmadi Asnawi menggantikan hukuman mati di bawah Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan dengan penjara 20 tahun atas kesalahan membunuh tanpa niat mengikut Seksyen 304 (a) kanun yang sama.

Beliau yang bersidang bersama Tan Sri Idrus Harun dan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil memerintahkan hukuman penjara berkuat kuasa bermula tarikh tangkapan pada 31 Mac 2011.

Hanif disabitkan kesalahan menyebabkan kematian pelajar tahun satu, Saiful Syazani Saiful Sopfidee di antara pukul 6 petang dan 12 tengah malam di bilik warden asrama putera di Sekolah Rendah Islam Al-Furqan, Arau pada 31 Mac 2011.

Keterangan kes menyatakan, mangsa dipanggil ke bilik warden selepas disyaki mencuri wang RM1 sebelum tangannya diikat ke atas dengan tali rafia pada jeriji besi dalam keadaan berdiri manakala bibirnya ditumbuk dan lehernya dicekik.

Keterangan salah seorang pelajar sekolah itu menyebut, dia mendengar bunyi tangisan dari bilik warden ketika sedang mengambil wuduk untuk bacaan surah Yasin pada malam tersebut.

Sementara itu, salah seorang ustaz sekolah berkenaan ketika dipanggil ke bilik warden mengaku melihat Hanif memangku kanak-kanak tersebut yang ketika itu diserang penyakit sawan dalam keadaan tubuhnya menggigil dan gigi terkancing.

Laporan bedah siasat menunjukkan kanak-kanak tersebut meninggal dunia tiga hari kemudian akibat tekanan pada leher dalam jangka masa pendek sehingga menghalang bekalan darah yang membawa oksigen ke otak.

Hakim Ahmadi ketika membacakan keputusan itu berpuas hati bahawa terdapat merit dalam rayuannya kerana tiada keterangan bahawa perayu mempunyai niat mendatangkan kecederaan pada leher mangsa yang membawa kepada kematiannya.

Sebelum itu, peguam Ariff Azami Hussein yang mewakili Hanif berhujah, keterangan pihak pendakwaan tidak mencukupi bagi membuktikan anak guamnya mempunyai niat membunuh mangsa ketika menyebabkan kecederaan pada lehernya.

Beliau yang hadir bersama Azizzul Shariman Mat Yusof dan Muhamad Hafiz Leman berhujah, jika perayu mempunyai niat membunuh, mangsa akan menemui ajal serta-merta bukannya selepas tiga hari kejadian berlaku.

Bagaimanapun, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin berhujah, cara mangsa diperlakukan tidak menunjukkan dia sedang dihukum sebaliknya perbuatan guru berkenaan lebih menjurus kepada penderaan.

Beliau berhujah, mangsa yang bertubuh kecil dicekik untuk tempoh kira-kira empat minit.

“Sudahlah tiada bukti mencuri, tindakan terhadap mangsa hanya atas syak wasangka. Ini kes penderaan, bukan menghukum,’’ hujah Wan Shaharuddin.

Sementara itu, Ariff Azami memohon agar anak guamnya yang tidak mempunyai rekod jenayah diberi peluang supaya tidak dikenakan hukuman penjara yang panjang.

Peguam bela berhujah, Hanif sedang mengikuti projek perintis program tahfiz di Penjara Tapah, Perak sebagai tenaga pengajar yang menunjukkan anak guamnya masih boleh menyumbang kepada masyarakat.

Namun demikian, Wan Shaharuddin mencadangkan hukuman penjara tidak kurang 20 tahun dengan memberi pertimbangan terhadap cara jenayah dilakukan yang membawa kepada kematian mangsa manakala kelakuan perayu selepas kejadian tidak wajar diambil kira.

Artikel Penuh: http://www.utusan.com.my/berita/mahkamah/ustaz-terlepas-hukuman-gantung-kes-kematian-murid-sekolah-agama-1.196510#ixzz4fvf5JuqO
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Orang Asli menang 
kes saman RM37 juta

SEBAHAGIAN daripada Orang Asli suku kaum Jakun dari Kota Tinggi menunjukkan tanda bagus setelah Mahkamah Tinggi memutuskan mereka layak menerima semula pampasan berjumlah RM37 juta dalam prosiding di Ipoh, semalam. BERNAMA

ROKIAH ABDULLAH

23 Disember 2016 12:51 AM

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IPOH 22 Dis. - Sekumpulan Orang Asli dari Johor Bahru menangis kegem­biraan apabila Mahkamah Tinggi hari ini memerintahkan 10 defendan termasuk dua beranak yang merupakan bekas peguam supaya memulangkan wang pampasan dan membayar ganti rugi berjumlah RM37 juta kepada Tabung Amanah Linggui Valey Orang Asli (Jakuns) Trust dan 78 masyarakat Orang Asli selepas mereka didapati menyalahgunakan dana tabung tersebut.

Hakim Datuk Samsudin Hassan dalam keputusannya berkata, jumlah itu termasuk RM5 juta bagi ganti rugi teladan manakala RM1 juta sebagai kos dengan RM500,000 dibayar kepada 78 plaintif manakala RM500,000 lagi kepada Penerima dan Pe­ngurus untuk dimasukkan dalam tabung amanah.

Keputusan itu dibuat oleh beliau dalam kes saman di Mahkamah Tinggi Johor Bahru yang bersidang di sini kerana beliau baru bertukar ke Perak. Keseluruhan prosiding perbicaraan kes itu sebelum ini didengar beliau di Johor Bahru.

Dalam kes saman tersebut, plaintif terdiri daripada Saling Lau Bee Chiang bersama 77 penduduk Orang Asli dari Kampung Sayong Pinang, Kampung Semangar dan Kampung Pasir Intan di Kota Tinggi.

Pihak defendan pula termasuk firma guaman Khana & Co., bekas peguam, S. Kanawagi dan anak­nya, K. Dinesh serta Batin Adong Kuwau dan Batin Daud Kadir yang sudah meninggal dunia.

Hakim Samsudin dalam keputusannya berkata, mahkamah mendapati pihak defendan selaku pemegang amanah telah menyalah guna, salah tadbir dan urus serta salah pakai wang pampasan yang dibayar oleh Kerajaan Negeri Johor kepada penduduk Orang Asli yang tanah mereka diambil alih bagi pembinaan Empangan Linggui.

Beliau berkata, pihak defen­dan juga tidak jujur dan amanah, gagal memaklumkan perkara sebenar, tidak konsisten, mengemukakan dokumen yang boleh dipertikaikan, tidak memberi kerjasama memberi maklumat diminta plaintif serta melengah-lengahkan kes tersebut.

“Mahkamah mendapati defendan memperkayakan diri de­ngan cara tidak sepatutnya.

“Penerima dan Pengurus juga menemukan defendan menggunakan sebahagian wang tabung amanah berkenaan untuk membeli 27 apartmen di Kuala Lumpur di bawah nama Kanawagi dan kemudian wang sewa unit berkenaan digunakan pula untuk membeli 30 lagi unit apartmen menggunakan nama Dinesh,” kata beliau.

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Police reel in 2 loan sharks offering services

Comments:

Police must arrested ALL illegal Loan Sharks and fined them, and put them in jail. Their illegal money earned must be confiscated.

This is to deter other Loan Sharks from offering their illegal services to the public in the future!

We have laws in Malaysia - lets used it to bring peace and harmony - and rid it of illegal Loan Sharks and gangsters.


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Source:
http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/03/216388/police-reel-2-loan-sharks-offering-services-pahang#cxrecs_s

Police reel in 2 loan sharks offering services in Pahang

By T. N. ALAGESH - March 1, 2017  - March 1, 2017 @ 2:53pm

KUANTAN: Police nabbed two men believed to be loan sharks in front of a fast food outlet near Taman Tasik Abu Bakar in Pekan here last week.

State Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Superintendent Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said the suspects aged 22 and 24 years old respectively, were nabbed by a team of policemen at about 11.45am on Feb 23 for behaving suspiciously.

“We have been monitoring their activities and checks in their car led to the discovery of banners, handphones, chains and padlocks. They have been operating since early this year and offer services at four districts in Pahang.

“The men led police to a house in Bukit Setongkol here where we seized some 15,000 banners, which is meant to be displayed to promote their activities,” he told reporters during a press conference today.

Wazir said investigations revealed the men usually target customers with fixed monthly income and offer weekly interest up to 30 per cent for each deal.

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Dr Zakir Naik a Security Threat ?!

COMMENTS:

How is Dr Zakir Naik a security threat ?

1-    Because he has fire-arms in his possession? No, he has no fire-arms.

2- Because he is a world martial artist in self-defense? No, he does not know any Kungfu.

3-    Because he is a great scholar? Because he is a huffaz and learn the Quran by heart? That is no crime for that.

4-    Because he know more of the Hindu texts than any great Hindu preacher? So what is wrong with that.

5-    Because he know more of the Bible texts than any great Christian preacher? So what is wrong with that.

6-    Because in his talk, a few Hindus and Christians and non-believers converted to Islam?  So what, have you ever heard of the concept “Freedom of Religion”. That means any person can convert to any religion he/she wants.

7-    Don’t be a sole loser and opportunist, and rid a great scholar (Dr Zakir Naik) – just because you are a no body). Just admitted it that Dr Zakir Naik is a great scholar !! 

8-    Millions of people (Muslims and non-Muslims) supported him, and are big fans of Dr Zakir Naik – So do not banned him just because a few people are sole losers and jealous !!!  The courts and government must NOT listen and entertain this kind of few people.  

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Source:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/activists-file-civil-suit-demanding-zakir-naiks-arrest

Activists file civil suit demanding Zakir Naik’s arrest

BY ZURAIRI AR

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — A group of 19 human rights activists filed a civil suit against the Malaysian government today, accusing it of failing to protect the country from controversial televangelist Dr Zakir Naik.

The suit, among others, sought a government declaration that Dr Zakir was a threat to national security, called for a ban to prevent him from entering the country, and for him to be arrested and deported immediately.  

The group, comprising plaintiffs from different religious and ethnic backgrounds, said Dr Zakir was an "undesirable person" and "a preacher of hate" who was currently roaming free in Malaysia.

“This application is not meant to insult or question the teachings of Islam and/or insult the feelings of any parties whether Muslim or not, Zakir Naik’s fans, or observers of his speeches,” the group’s spokesman, P. Waytha Moorthy, read to the press from an affidavit.

“There’s nothing on Islam, we’re strictly going on the issue of national security. Strictly on that,” added Waytha Moorthy, who is also chairman of the Hindu Rights Action Force, or Hindraf.

Besides Waytha Moorthy, the 19 plaintiffs included academic Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Sabah lawmaker Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, lawyers Siti Kassim and Asiah Abd Jalil, and Sarawak activist Peter John Jaban.

Other reliefs sought by the plaintiffs include a declaration that Dr Zakir is a threat to country’s security, unity as well as the peaceful and harmonious co-existence of its various faiths and races.

Among the evidence the group included to support its case was the involvement of three Bangladeshi students involved in the July 2016 Dhaka bombings, who were students of Monash University between 2012 and 2015.

At least two of the five attackers had publicly said they were inspired by Dr Zakir’s teachings, and the group pointed out that the preacher had conducted eight public speeches in Malaysia between 2012 and 2016.

Although the application called for an order for Dr Zakir to be arrested and deported, the group did not provide any proof that the preacher is currently residing in Malaysia, save for his recent public appearances such as in Shah Alam and Perlis.

The four defendants named in the suit were Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the Immigration Department director-general, the National Registration Department director-general, and the Government of Malaysia.

Although a fugitive in India, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the controversial Islamic preacher is free to travel in Malaysia because he is not on any security watch list here.

Activists speak to members of the media at a press conference after filing a civil suit on Dr Zakir Naik at the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex March 1, 2017. — Picture by Zurairi AR - 



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Source:  24 June 2017  
http://m.utusan.com.my/berita/mahkamah/didakwa-halang-tugas-pegawai-jawi-1.496339

Didakwa halang tugas pegawai Jawi

Siti Kasim berdepan hukuman penjara, denda maksimum RM10,000

KUALA LUMPUR 23 Jun - Peguam dan aktivis, Siti Kasim mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Majistret di sini hari ini atas pertuduhan menghalang tugas pegawai penguat kuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi), tahun lalu.

Siti Zabedah Kassim

Pemilik nama sebenar Siti Zabedah Kasim, 54, didakwa menghalang tugas Siti Nor Jihan Saleh @ Md. Ghazali, 36, daripada menjalankan tugasnya di dewan tingkat dua, sebuah hotel di sini pada pukul 10.30 malam, 3 April 2016.

Wanita tersebut didakwa mengikut Seksyen 186 Kanun Keseksaan yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga dua tahun atau denda maksimum RM10,000 atau kedua-duanya, jika sabit kesalahan.

Pendakwaan dikendalikan oleh Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Siti Hajar Mohd. Ashif manakala Siti Kasim diwakili peguam-peguam Roger Chang Weng Keng dan Rajsurian Pillai.

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Kira-kira 30 individu dipercayai penyokong peguam itu hadir dan berkumpul di lobi mahkamah se­awal pukul 8.45 pagi sebelum naik bersama tertuduh.

Tahun lalu, satu klip video wa­nita itu memarahi beberapa pegawai Jawi menjadi tular selepas pasukan penguatkuasa berkenaan dipercayai menyerbu satu majlis yang turut dihadiri tertuduh.

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King Salman’s Asia tour is so significant in the Face of USA uncertain Foreign Policy & Discrimination

Source:
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/why-king-salmans-asia-tour-is-so-significant

Why King Salman’s Asia tour is so significant

Sholto Byrnes

February 28, 2017

There was no mistaking the arrival of King Salman of Saudi Arabia and his entourage in Malaysia on Sunday morning. Traffic stood still for 30 minutes as we waited for the 600-strong royal party to make their way from the airport to the centre of Kuala Lumpur – a near endless stream of limos, lorries, outliers and ambulances, sirens screaming.

This is King Salman’s first trip to South East Asia and the region since ascending the throne in 2015. As the destination for umrah and the Haj, his country has a very special place in the hearts of the Muslim-majority countries he will be visiting, which also include Indonesia, Brunei and the Maldives. But the king’s actual presence is something different – something rare, momentous and significant in a number of ways.

On a practical and quantifiable level, the Asian tour is about trade. In Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Malaysia’s Petronas signed a deal for Saudi Aramco to invest $7 billion (Dh25 bn) into an oil and petrochemical refinery in the southern state of Johor. Other agreements and opportunities for businesses in both countries will also be announced, and Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak has already used this to hit back at critics who accused him of "selling" the country by securing massive investment from China on his visit to Beijing in November.

The Saudi deals show the level of confidence other countries such as the kingdom have in Malaysia, he has said. Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo will make a similar claim if, as expected, $25 billion worth of Saudi investment in his country is unveiled when the touring party moves on to Jakarta.

The king’s visit and the huge amount of new trade being generated around it are also very public votes of confidence in the economic reform programmes in the two South East Asian nations.

Both have undertaken measures to improve long-term resilience and competitiveness, such as the rationalisation or removal of subsidies. Malaysia has also introduced a goods and services tax to widen the tax base. But neither of these moves have been popular – who likes paying more for anything? – and opponents have been quick to try to exploit discontent at their impact.

The arrival of King Salman draws attention to the fact that his government has been undertaking almost the exact same reforms, removing or cutting key subsidies last year, and agreeing in January to impose a new 5 per cent value added tax – in essence, the same as GST. If Saudi Arabia now deems it wise to emulate the reforms of the Malaysian and Indonesian governments, that is an even greater vindication than the plaudits of the IMF and World Bank officials who have already commended the moves.

It is also an acknowledgement that the "new normal" of lower growth and a need to broaden sources of revenue affect a wide range of countries, Saudi Arabia as well as Malaysia, Indonesia and China, which King Salman is also to visit.

At a time when the United States has been sending mixed – and sometimes distinctly unfriendly – signals to many countries, including allies, the Saudi King’s tour also suggests that links in Asia need to be strengthened and may prove more reliable than with the "America First" of Donald Trump.

Militarily, Saudi Arabia’s Muslim counterterrorism coalition may well receive a boost, with several countries likely to offer more concrete participation than thus far. All states on the tour have vested interests in sharing domestic and international counter-radicalisation and deradicalisation programmes, in which Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have particular expertise.

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