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Nov

Anwar lancar kempen anti-ISA Ahad ini

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Categories: Aktiviti, Anwar, Demokrasi and Sidenotes

Oleh Jimadie Shah Othman

Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan melancarkan kempen mansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) Ahad ini.

Majlis pelancaran tersebut akan berlangsung di Dataran Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya (MPAJ), Pandan Indah pada jam 9 malam.

Kempen tersebut adalah anjuran Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) bagi mendesak kerajaan memansuhkan akta tersebut serta membebaskan semua tahanan ISA tanpa syarat.

Acara kemuncaknya adalah perhimpunan besar-besaran di Kuala Lumpur Mac tahun depan.

Menurut Pengerusi GMI, Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh, selain Anwar, pemimpin parti anggota Pakatan Rakyat yang lain juga akan berucap di majlis tersebut.

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Nov

Pindah kes Anwar didengar 5 Feb

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Hebahan, Mahkamah and Sidenotes

Dari Malaysiakini

Permohonan untuk mengetepikan keputusan Mahkamah Sesyen bagi mengekalkan perbicaraan kes liwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim di mahkamah itu akan didengar pada 5 dan 6 Feb tahun depan.

Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah menetapkan tarikh itu selepas membenarkan permohonan peguam utama yang mewakili Anwar, Sulaiman Abdullah bagi penangguhan kerana beliau perlu mengendalikan kes lain di Mahkamah Tinggi Komersial hari ini.

Anwar dikecualikan daripada menghadiri pendengaran itu.

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Nov

Retreat sulung Pakatan di ibu negara hari ini

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Sidenotes

Dari Mstar Online

Oleh G.MANIMARAN

PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat, ikatan pembangkang yang ditubuhkan April lalu, mengadakan retreat - yang pertama sejak pilihan raya umum ke-12, di ibu negara hari ini.

Pertemuan informal itu yang disertai ahli-ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat, antara lain bertujuan membincangkan usaha merapatkan ikatan wakil-wakil rakyat pembangkang.

mStar Online difahamkan pertemuan ini bertujuan menyusun strategi Pakatan Rakyat untuk menghadapi beberapa isu semasa termasuk isu sasaran 16 September dijangka menjadi tumpuan.

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Nov

Damning report on Pempena’s dubious investments

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Categories: Analisis, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Sidenotes

From Malaysiakini

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid

An independent audit company’s probe into the controversy-ridden government tourism development company, Pempena Sdn Bhd, has shown that the company, despite its multi-million ringgit investments, has been performing poorly.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in its report, released to the press today, stated that as of June 2008, Pempena had invested a total of RM54.4 million in 24 companies but only four managed to generate profits.

The independent audit firm in its report also showed that Pempena had invested in five non-functional companies. PWC has proposed the company to pull out of these investments, a move that would incur “a loss of approximately RM20 million”.

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Nov

Karpal gives Zaki 7 days to quit

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Categories: Analisis, Demokrasi, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

From Malaysiakini

Veteran opposition lawmaker Karpal Singh has given Chief Justice Zaki Azmi a week from today to resign from his post for allegedly admitting to corrupt practices while in private practice.

This came after Karpal claimed for the first time today that there was an audio recording of Zaki’s confession made two weeks ago despite the CJ’s denial of making the remarks.

“Zaki cannot, and should not, deny that he had in fact uttered the words. There is a audio recording of what he said in Kuching,” Karpal, also DAP’s Bukit Gelugor MP, said in a statement today.

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Nov

A night to mark ‘change in the making’

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Hebahan and Sidenotes

From Malaysiakini
By Tony Thien

“We join tonight, tomorrow we start work.”

These were the words of PKR’s latest elected representative recruit Gabriel Adit Demong, 58.

Adit, who until two days ago was an independent state assemblyperson for Ngemah - a predominantly-Iban constituency in Sarawak’s central region - has on Saturday hosted a 330-table dinner in Sibu with PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim as the guest of honour.

Adit’s speech before a crowd of 4,000 people at Sibu Trade and Exhibition Centre was listened intently by his new boss Anwar, the recently-elected MP for Permatang Pauh and parliamentary opposition leader.

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Nov

Anwar: Pakatan pertahan Islam dan hak istimewa Melayu

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Categories: Sidenotes

daripada Malaysiakini

Jimadie Shah Othman | Nov 17, 08 12:30pm

Ketiga-tiga parti anggota Pakatan Rakyat menerima kedudukan hak istimewa orang Melayu, bahasa Melayu dan agama Islam sebagai agama persekutuan sepertimana terkandung dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan, kata Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini.

Menurut beliau, isu berhubung perkara itu tidak perlu dirisaukan lagi kerana persefahaman mengenainya telah dibuat antara ketiga-tiga parti anggota Pakatan - PKR, DAP dan PAS.

Malah, tegas Anwar lagi, kenyataan bahawa kesemua pihak telah bersetuju mengenai perkara itu, telah dikeluarkan pada 8 September lalu.
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Nov

Sarawak state rep leads 12,000 into PKR

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Categories: Anwar, KeADILan, Media, Politik and Sidenotes

Malaysiakini | Nov 15, 2008

About 12,000 people in Sarawak, including 6,000 supporters of Ngemah state rep Gabriel Adit, have applied to join PKR.

Their application forms were submitted to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim at a huge dinner gathering in Sibu tonight which saw more than 4,000 people in attendance.

Also signing up with the opposition party is controversial former PRS Balleh division publicity chief, Beginda Minda.

He was forced to leave the state BN component party following his call on the chief minister and his deputy to step down.

Adit, 58, claimed that he had submitted the application forms for PKR membership from 6,000 of his supporters tonight.

The other 6,000 new applications were believed to be from former PRS members and non-party members.

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Nov

Bleak Times Ahead: How Deep Is The Hole?

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Categories: Analisis, Ekonomi and Sidenotes

From The Nut Graph
By Deborah Loh

YES, we are staring at the gathering clouds of an economic crisis. Sure, economic fundamentals are strong, as government ministers keep saying, but that’s only half the picture.

The other half is the financial scenario, as economic and financial principles are two different things. The sub-prime crisis that began in the US and western countries is essentially a financial problem. But in an interdependent world, a financial crisis in one place could result in an economic crisis in another.

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Nov

Anwar’s Case Adjourned

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Categories: Anwar, Hebahan, Mahkamah and Sidenotes

From The Star Online

By Lisa Goh

KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution has again tried to move the sodomy trial of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to the High Court.

The Sessions Court was to set a date for the trial yesterday after ruling against the prosecution’s application on Nov 7 to move the trial saying that the transfer certificate signed by Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail was invalid.

But Senior DPP Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden told Judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah that the proceedings should be adjourned pending further orders from the High Court following the prosecution’s application to revise her decision.

High Court Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah has set Nov 20 and 21 to hear the application for the revision.

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Nov

The economy sir, please!

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Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

From Malaysiakini
By Dzulkefly Ahmad

After the winding-up by the second finance minister on the budget debate at the committee level in the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 11, I felt compelled to write my two-cent worth of thought on our economy.

For a start, news about China’s stimulus package of US$586 billion, or RM2.1 trillion, not capable of counteracting the effect of the US-led slowdown and that the euphoric rally in the Asian bursas lasting only one day, which was Monday, are indeed very frightening.

The RM5 billion injection to shore up ‘undervalued stocks’ by ValueCap, as instructed by the finance minister, flies in your face and how much quicker, you thought, will it dissipate.

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Nov

Kes Anwar: Rayuan pindah kes didengar 20 Nov

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Categories: Anwar, Hebahan and Sidenotes

Dari Malaysiakini

Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menetapkan 20 November ini untuk mendengar rayuan pihak pendakwa bagi memindahkan perbicaraan kes liwat yang dihadapi oleh Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Sehubungan itu, Hakim S M Komathy Suppiah menangguhkan untuk menetapkan tarikh perbicaraan pada satu tarikh yang akan ditetapkan kelak.

Ketua Bahagian Pendakwaan Jabatan Peguam Negara, Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden memberitahu mahkamah bahawa pihaknya telah memfailkan rayuan dan semakan terhadap keputusan yang dibuat oleh Komathy menolak permohonan memindahkan kes tersebut ke Mahkamah Tinggi pada 7 November lalu.

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