Dari Malaysia Kini

Oleh Salhan K Ahmad & Andrew Ong

Semua pihak termasuk istana Perak diseru mengamalkan doktrin pemisahan kuasa bagi mengekalkan demokrasi di negeri tersebut yang kini terjerumus dalam kancah perebutan kuasa antara BN dan Pakatan Rakyat sejak awal tahun ini.

“Saya percaya selagi semua pihak mematuhi doktrin tersebut, sistem kerajaan di Perak akan menjadi amat bersih, selamat dan demokratik,” kata Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin, menteri besar Pakatan Rakyat sebelum digulingkan BN, Februari lalu. (more…)

From Malaysian Insider

By Clara Choii

One student is dead while two remain missing after a new suspension bridge collapsed near Kuala Dipang in Perak.

In initial reports 22 students were feared drowned in the mishap while about 20 others were said to have escaped in the incident which occurred at about 10.30pm last night, police said.

Nineteen students have been found safe. The dead student is believed to be a girl.

“We have so far managed to find one body, and hope to find all 22 of those missing as there are now more than 300 rescue personnel on site with the number increasing,” district police chief Superintendent Aziz Salleh had said earlier. (more…)