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| Temple, Thaipusam issues made me quit – PAS non-Muslim leader |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-25-2021, 02:04 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Kedah’s decision to demolish temples and not allow a state holiday for Thaipusam triggered the resignation of PAS Supporters Assembly (DHPP) secretary S Barathidasan, who left the party last week.
He said all his pleas on these issues to the PAS leadership fell on deaf ears, while Kedah menteri besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor ignored the sentiments of the Hindu community.
“This showed that we were merely being used as a front to show that PAS cares for the non-Muslims,” he told FMT.
Barathidasan, who is an IT engineer, claimed the DHPP wing was given lots of assurances before PAS became part of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government a year ago but things started changing after that.
“I am in the WhatsApp group which includes leaders like minister Takiyuddin Hassan. I had pleaded with them to stop Sanusi from bulldozing his way in Kedah as it was hurting the community.
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| Umno no longer a major force in politics? Rubbish, say analysts |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-25-2021, 11:12 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Political analysts have dismissed a PPBM leader’s remark that Umno is no longer a major force in politics.
Universiti Malaya socio-political analyst Awang Azman Awang Pawi said though there might be divisions within Umno’s leadership, the party was far from weak as it had the backing of the grassroots.
He was commenting on PPBM Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal’s remark that the era when Umno was dominant was over and that the current political scenario demanded that all parties work together.
Awang Azman said despite facing many challenges after the fall of the Barisan Nasional-led government in 2018, Umno had not crumbled. It had even grown stronger, he said.
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| Federal Court declares Selangor Shariah law criminalising ‘unnatural sex’ void |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-25-2021, 10:45 AM - Forum: Local News
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Federal Court unanimously declares Selangor Shariah law criminalising ‘unnatural sex’ void, unconstitutional
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 — The Federal Court's nine-judge panel today unanimously declared that a Selangor state law's provision which made unnatural sex a Shariah offence is invalid and having gone against the Federal Constitution, as such offences fall under Parliament's powers to make laws and not under state legislatures' law-making powers.
Reading out a summary of the unanimous judgment, Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the Federal Court granted the order sought by a Malaysian Muslim man who was challenging the constitutionality and validity of Section 28 of the Shariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995.
Section 28 makes it a Shariah offence for “any person” performing “sexual intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”, with the punishment being a maximum fine of RM5,000 or a maximum three-year jail term or a maximum whipping of six strokes or any combination.
The order sought by the man and granted by the Federal Court today is for a declaration that Section 28 is invalid on the ground that it makes provision with respect to a matter which the Selangor state legislature has no power to make laws and is therefore null and void.
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| Fitch unit: Putrajaya SPV for spectrum sale could drive 5G costs up |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-24-2021, 11:36 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment
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Fitch unit: Putrajaya SPV for spectrum sale could drive 5G costs up, deter adoption and development
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — The government’s move to use a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to auction off the 5G spectrum will raise adoption costs for companies and slow down development of the technology in Malaysia, said Fitch Solutions Country Risk & Industry Research.
The Fitch Group unit said the SPV was a departure from the usual mode of an open auction that has typically been used in other Asian countries for the rollout of the next-generation broadband cellular network.
Noting that the previous Pakatan Harapan administration had undertaken to use the open auction model, the Fitch Group unit said the current government’s decision could drive wholesale cost higher, hurt operator margins, and hurt the development of 5G services locally.
“Prior to the new government plans, operators had independently reached agreements with each other, as well as with telecoms vendors to jointly deploy networks and share infrastructure.
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| Umno’s time is over, says Bersatu Youth chief |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-24-2021, 11:32 AM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — The era where Umno used to be a force to be reckoned with is over, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia’s youth wing chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said.
He was reported saying in Utusan Malaysia that Umno now has to accept that it is no longer a powerful force in the country’s political landscape.
“The political situation now requires all parties to work together in order to ensure respective political agenda can be achieved.
“If we don’t work together, there is a possibility that we will all be at a disadvantage and lose out later,” he reportedly said in a site visit to a sports facility in Shah Alam yesterday.
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| NASA shares first video and audio, new images from Mars Perseverance rover |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-23-2021, 06:15 PM - Forum: Astronomy
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(CNN)During its harrowing descent to the surface of Mars last Thursday, NASA's Perseverance rover captured video that the agency is calling "How to Land on Mars." The video, along with other newly released footage, gives earthlings back home a better sense of the sights and sounds on the red planet.
Cameras on "Percy," as the rover is affectionately called at mission control, show for the first time the perspective of a spacecraft landing on Mars. The video begins 230 seconds after the rover entered the Martian atmosphere, with the inflation of the rover's parachute 7 miles above the Martian surface, and ends with the rover touching down on the surface.
The first audio of Mars was also picked up briefly by a microphone on the rover, which captured a few seconds of a Martian breeze and sounds of the rover operating once it reached the surface.
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| In fresh salvo against Muhyiddin, Pakatan likens Malaysia to Myanmar’s junta |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-22-2021, 06:35 PM - Forum: Politics
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In fresh salvo against Muhyiddin, Pakatan likens Malaysia to Myanmar’s junta for suspending Parliament
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders today repeated their call for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to lift the suspension of Parliament and again accused the prime minister of subverting democracy by imposing Emergency rule to stay in power.
Saying the nation needed to be “saved”, the Opposition coalition’s top leaders likened the suspension of Parliament to the power grab by Myanmar’s military junta that overthrew the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi who won a landslide victory and decimated an opponent seen as the army’s proxy in November 2020 general election.
They claimed Muhyiddin’s government was no different from the Junta because it too had used the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to impose autocratic rule as a way to divert attention from their failure to tackle the health and economic crisis effectively.
“The (Malaysian) government is trying to deflect responsibility for its failure to contain the Covid-19 pandemic by obtaining the (royal) assent to Emergency rule and suspending parliament,” PH leaders said in a statement.
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