Lelaki selamatkan isteri dan anak dari perompak


MANGSA dimasukkan ke ambulans sebelum dibawa ke hospital ketika kejadian di Taman Indah Jaya, Batu Empat, Sandakan. - Foto Hazsyah Abdul Rahman
SANDAKAN: Tindakan berani seorang lelaki berjaya menyelamatkan isteri dan anaknya yang berada dalam kereta mereka dari dirompak oleh seorang lelaki di Lorong 62, Taman Indah Jaya dekat sini, hari ini.
Ketua Polis Daerah Sandakan, Zabidi Md Zain berkata, dalam kejadian kira-kira pukul 10.30 pagi itu tidak ada barang yang hilang dan mangsa adalah pasangan suami isteri berumur 35 dan 42 tahun.
Kejadian itu berlaku ketika si isteri hendak menghantar anaknya ke rumah pengasuh.
Menurutnya ketika masuk ke dalam kereta, seorang lelaki telah datang ke kereta wanita itu melalui sebelah penumpang bahagian hadapan dan bertanyakan di mana letaknya rumah seseorang yang ada disebut namanya.
Bila wanita itu menyatakan tidak tahu, lelaki itu masuk ke dalam kereta dan mengugut wanita itu supaya jangan berteriak kalau tidak mahu dicederakan, kata Zabidi.
Zabidi berkata si suami yang melihat kejadian dari rumah terus meluru ke kereta.
Lelaki itu bertindak memandu kereta itu untuk melarikan diri dengan wanita dan anaknya masih berada di dalam kereta.
Sebelum itu ia mengundurkan kereta dan melanggar pagar rumah hingga membolehkan wanita itu keluar dari kereta bersama anaknya.
Si suami kemudian bertindak memegang tengkok lelaki itu yang masih berada di dalam kereta, bagaimanapun lelaki itu dapat memandu kereta itu dan telah melanggar sebuah kenderaan lain yang di parkir di tepi jalan, katanya.
Beliau keluar dari kereta dan terus melarikan melarikan sebuah bas yang di parkir berdekatan.
Zabidi berkata polis yang bertindak selepas menerima laporan itu kemudian menemui bas berkenaan yang ditinggalkan di tepi jalan di Lorong 11 Taman Kenari di Batu 7.
Beliau berkata pasangan suami isteri itu mengalami kecederaan di beberapa bahagian badan dan dalam keadaan stabil.
Menurutnya polis telah melancarkan gerakan memburu lelaki itu yang dipercayai warganegara Filipina berdasarkan pertuturannya ketika cuba melakukan rompakan.
Zabidi meminta orang ramai yang mempunyai maklumat menghubungi polis atau Pegawai Penyiasat Kes, Inspektor Saiful Adli di talian 013-5190045. - BERNAMA

Polis Thailand gagalkan cubaan seludup ganja ke Malaysia

SONGKHLA: Polis di wilayah Songkhla, Thailand, berjaya merampas 320 kg ganja yang dipercayai cuba diseludup masuk ke Malaysia.
Mereka juga memburu dua lelaki yang disyaki warganegara Malaysia yang meloloskan diri selepas kereta yang dinaiki mereka terbabas semasa dikejar oleh polis anti-narkotik Thailand.

Kolonel Polis Suriya Panyamang, Ketua Polis Daerah Baan Kelam, Songkhla, berkata kereta yang dinaiki oleh dua lelaki tersebut tidak berhenti untuk pemeriksaan polis.
Polis pencegah dadah mengejar kereta tersebut sehingga ia terbabas ke dalam parit tepi jalan dan dua orang lelaki melarikan diri dengan bantuan daripada kawan mereka yang menaiki sebuah lagi kereta yang digunakan sebagai pemerhati keadaan.

Dalam kereta terdapat ganja berat 320 kg dalam lapan bungkusan. Setiap satu bungkusan besar mempunyai 40 bungkusan kecil seberat satu kg.
Suriya berkata ganja tersebut bernilai lima juta baht dan jika dapat dibawa masuk ke Malaysia nilainya akan meningkat lebih 10 kali ganda.
"Ganja tersebut akan di bawa ke sempadan Sadao-Bukit Kayu Hitam oleh kumpulan peniaga dadah merentas sempadan yang aktif di kedua-dua negara," kata beliau.
Kata beliau lagi, polis percaya kumpulan tersebut mempunyai rangkaian yang besar. - BERNAMA



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12 maut, polis bertempur dengan penunjuk perasaan di Nepal

KATHMANDU: Sekurang-kurangnya 12 orang termasuk lima anggota polis terbunuh apabila polis bertempur dengan penunjuk perasaan di Tikapur, di barat Nepal, kira-kira 800 kilometer di barat Kathmandu, hari ini.
Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Bamdev Gautaum berkata, dalam sidang Parlimen pada Isnin, beberapa perusuh yang tidak terkawal dan penjenayah menyerang polis atas nama bantahan di Tikapur menyebabkan beberapa orang termasuk beberapa anggota polis terbunuh.

"Ia satu tindakan jenayah untuk menyerang polis dengan senjata berbahaya dan kami semua mengutuk tindakan ini," katanya.
Bagaimanapun, penunjuk perasaan mendakwa pertempuran tercetus apabila polis melepaskan tembakan ke arah mereka yang mengadakan protes secara aman.

"Polis bertanggungjawab terhadap insiden itu kerana melepaskan tembakan ke arah penunjuk perasaan yang membuat bantahan secara aman," kata anggota Parlimen Ram Janam Chaudhari, yang bersimpati dengan penunjuk perasaan, ketika ditemuramah menerusi telefon.
Anggota polis yang terbunuh dalam insiden itu ialah superintenden Laxman Neupane, inspektor Balaram Bista dan tiga konstabel iaitu Ram Bihari Chaudhari, Lokendra Chand dan Keshav Bohara.
Penunjuk perasaan terdiri daripada penduduk etnik Tharu yang menuntut wilayah autonomi untuk masyarakat etnik Tharu di barat Nepal.
Tetapi kerajaan dan tiga parti utama menentang pemberian autonomi kepada penduduk etnik Tharu.
Kerajaan telah mengisytiharkan perintah berkurung untuk tempoh tidak ditentukan selepas insiden tersebut dan mengharamkan rapat umum dan perhimpunan di Tikapur dan kawasan bersebelahan. - BERNAMA



POLIS bertempur dengan penunjuk perasaan di Tikapur, di barat Nepal. - Foto ihsan http://www.dcnepalonline.com/

Najib arah Kementerian Pendidikan pastikan keselesaan murid SK Sungai Besi




PERDANA Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak meluangkan masa melawat SK Taman Sungai Besi Indah untuk meninjau kerosakan bangunan dan mendengar masalah mereka. - Foto ihsan Twitter Najib Razak
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengarahkan Kementerian Pendidikan supaya mengambil pelbagai langkah segera bagi memastikan murid Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Sungai Besi di sini, dapat belajar dalam keadaan selesa.
Perdana Menteri dalam blognya berkata, langkah itu perlu selepas beliau meninjau sendiri keadaan SK Sungai Besi yang kini ditempatkan di kawasan perindustrian Sungai Besi sementara waktu.
"Saya ingin melihat murid-murid di sini belajar dalam keadaan persekitaran yang kondusif dan selesa.
"Selepas mendengar taklimat dan melihat sendiri keadaannya, saya telah mengarahkan, dengan segera, @Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia untuk memastikan:
(i) keadaan lebih selesa di setiap bilik termasuk bilik perpustakaan.
(ii) kawasan lapang di pintu depan dilitupi 'awning' agar murid-murid dapat mengadakan aktiviti-aktiviti luar bilik darjah serta memastikan mereka dilindungi daripada sinar matahari terik dan hujan,
(iii) ditambahkan bilik air bagi keselesaan pelajar dan kakitangan sekolah," katanya dalam satu kenyataan menerusi blognya www.najibrazak.com, malam ini.
Berikutan itu, Perdana Menteri berkata, Ketua Setiausaha, Kementerian Pendidikan, Tan Sri Madinah Mohamad, akan melaksanakan kesemua di atas bagi keselesaan kakitangan dan murid-murid.
Katanya, Madinah akan melaporkan status kemajuannya kepada Perdana Menteri sehingga semua proses selesai.

Bersih 4 rally – cops say they may use tasers



Police might expand their anti-riot arsenal to include taser guns for this weekend's Bersih 4.0 rally if the situation warrants it.
Deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim said today protesters might be stunned with an electric charge if they riot, become violent or resist arrest.
"In any situation, the police will follow their standard operating procedure (SOP).
"If the situation needs to be controlled, police will use the tasers to stun the suspect, in line with their SOP," he said as reported by Oriental Daily.
Rashid said police have a small number of tasers at the moment and those authorised to use them have undergone professional training.
Police grade stun guns have a range of 35 feet.
It fires two hooks, which then deliver severe jolts of electricity to temporarily incapacitate the target.
Electoral reform movement Bersih is planning a mega rally called Bersih 4 to be held on Aug 29-30 in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.
The rally is to demand four things: 1. Clean elections; 2. Clean governance; 3. Saving the economy; and 4. Preserving the right to dissent.

New video: Vexed Umno man losing sleep over 1MDB



Top leaders in Umno may appear united over Putrajaya's handling of the 1MDB controversy, but the same cannot be said about those on the ground.

A new video has surfaced on the Internet depicting a Merbok Umno delegate delivering a scathing speech on the matter.

He also urged Putrajaya to form a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the company and to "kill off the issue, once and for all".

The delegate had listed out several problems with 1MDB, in particular the decision to take on RM42 billion in debts via questionable ventures.

"1MDB's motives were pure. They had taken away ownership of electricity producers from the Chinese and the Indians and handed it to the Malays. This is good. I support 100 percent.

"But the implementation was bad. We (1MDB) had a capital of RM1 million.

“We borrowed RM42 billion. It is a big sum of money. What kind of business model is this? It's a failed model," he said during the recent division annual meet.

Losing sleep

The delegate argued that 1MDB had acquired two independent power producers for RM9.7 billion but inherited RM6 billion in debts from the deal.

In view that the contracts for the two companies would expire next year, he said the acquisition should have taken place later at a cheaper price.

"I am losing sleep over this. When I read about it I was so angry," said the delegate, who claimed to be a former banker.

Earlier, another delegate Abdul Karim Ali, who contested for the Umno Youth post in 2013, urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to step down. This courted applause from those present.

At the time of writing, the video had been viewed more than 5,000 times.

This is the second video depicting a speaker at an Umno divisional meeting in recent weeks.

The first video to make waves involved Anina Saaduddin speaking at the Langkawi Umno divisional meeting, where she claimed Najib "cheated" more than three million Umno members.

When contacted, Merbok Umno division head Tajul Urus Mat Zin said the video had depicted the debate on the motion to support Najib as party president and prime minister.


"The motion was passed unanimously. Abdul Karim is the only person who made statements of that nature," said Tajul Urus.


Germans reign as Brazil thrills the world


Bastian Schweinsteiger of Germany leads team-mates in celebration
This always promised to be a special FIFA World Cup™. Hosted by a nation that has come to represent the very best of football, edition number 20 of the beautiful game's greatest spectacle was never likely to be just like the others. And we were not disappointed. Brazil 2014 proved extraordinary in all sorts of ways, with packed stadiums and passionate crowds treated to thrills, upsets and a record number of goals.
It also witnessed Germany reclaim in style a Trophy they had won three times before and, in the process, become the first European team to triumph in the Americas. Joachim Low's side were worthy and impressive winners, although for the third World Cup in succession it required extra time to decide the Final, with Mario Gotze this time assuming the role that Andres Iniesta had occupied in 2010.
The substitute's brilliant 113th-minute winner also maintained Europe's grip on the World Cup, with the continent having now produced a record three consecutive champions. It was a goal that very nearly lifted the roof off Rio de Janeiro's iconic, incomparable Maracana, and which provided a fittingly inspiring conclusion to a truly unforgettable tournament.
Defining moments
Kings dethroned Few teams have defined an era quite like the Spain side that, between 2008 and 2012, won three successive major tournaments. But all good things must come to an end and, for La Roja's golden generation, the curtain came down at Brazil 2014. It was a brutal, humbling conclusion to a captivating football story, with Vicente del Bosque's side consigned to early elimination after comprehensive defeats to the Netherlands and Chile. “In this World Cup, we have all failed," was Del Bosque's candid verdict. "Blame it on all of us."
Ticos lead lesser lights Brazil 2014 may have ended with a battle for supremacy between Europe and South America, but this was a tournament in which other, less decorated continents also made history. Africa sent two teams through to the knockout stage for the first time in history, with Algeria in particular impressing - giving even the Germans a major scare - thanks to their quick, high-intensity style. But not even Les Fennecs could rival Costa Rica for the title of Brazil 2014's surprise packages. Los Ticos earned the hearts of neutrals everywhere, finishing ahead of England, Italy and Uruguay in a group in which no-one had given them a chance, before a valiant quarter-final defeat on penalties to the Netherlands.
Glory to the goalies A high-scoring World Cup might suggest that the standard of goalkeeping was less than spectacular. Far from it. This was a tournament marked by outstanding performances from the men between the sticks, with the saves of men like Tim Howard, Keylor Navas, Guillermo Ochoa, Manuel Neuer and Sergio Romero as memorable as the goals of their outfield colleagues. Special mention should also go to Tim Krul, who came off the bench to inspire the Netherlands to shoot-out success in the quarter-finals, and Colombia's Faryd Mondragon, who became the oldest man to play at the World Cup three days after celebrating his 43rd birthday.
Hero to villain The build-up to Uruguay's tournament was dominated by fears over Luis Suarez's fitness and, as soon as he took to the field, the striker showed why there had been such a fuss. Suarez was brilliant against England, scoring two outstanding goals to revive La Celeste's campaign after a defeat to Costa Rica in which his absence had been a telling factor. The next game, however, showcased the darker side to this hugely talented player, as Italy's Giorgio Chiellini became the latest player to fall victim to a Suarez bite. The consequences were predictably dire, with the player banned for nine matches and four months, and Uruguay - minus his dynamic influence - falling at the next hurdle against Colombia.
Skill and sportsmanship Vision, trickery and spectacular goals ensured that, throughout his involvement in Brazil 2014, James Rodriguez was a joy to watch. And even when that involvement came to a tearful end against Brazil, it became apparent that the Colombia No10 had not only captivated the fans, but earned the esteem of his peers. After all, in one of the most touching gestures of the tournament, David Luiz made a point of comforting his crestfallen rival and calling for the Fortaleza crowd, who readily responded, to acclaim a unique talent.
Seleção's dream becomes a nightmare This was meant to be the World Cup in which Brazil banished ghosts of 1950 and the infamous Maracanazo. As it was, they merely succeeded in creating fresh, even more painful memories by losing successive home matches for the first time since 1940. And these were no ordinary defeats, with Germany inflicting a 7-1 semi-final thrashing - equalling A Seleção's heaviest-ever defeat - before the Netherlands cruised to a 3-0 win in the Play-off for Third Place. It left the Brazilians, who had never conceded more than 11 in any of their previous World Cups, with 14 in the goals against column, ensuring that they became the first hosts to end with the tournament's worst defensive record.
Glory for GotzeBrazil's 2014 campaign might have ended in ignominy, but only they can now claim to have won more World Cups than Germany, who equalled Italy's tally of four titles with their Rio de Janeiro triumph. But the margins by which Die Nationalmannschaft returned to the summit were predictably slim, with Argentina left to rue a trio of missed opportunities. Gonzalo Higuain, Lionel Messi and Rodrigo Palacio all found themselves clean through on goal at different stages, and all three failed to find the target when a goal seemed likely. Gotze, by contrast, made the very most of what can best be described as a half-chance, providing a lesson in finishing to his Albiceleste counterparts and serving up a strike worthy of winning any Final.
Stat of the tournament
16 - The number of World Cup goals on which Miroslav Klose ended Brazil 2014, securing for himself the status of the tournament's all-time leading scorer. The 36-year-old found the net twice to eclipse the record set by Ronaldo at Germany 2006, and those goals - topped off by Gotze's Maracana winner - helped make this the joint-highest-scoring World Cup in history, equalling the record of 171 set at France 1998.

Malaysia's anti-graft unit to ask Najib to explain 2.6 billion ringgit donation

Malaysia's anti-graft unit said in a statement on Wednesday it would ask Prime Minister Najib Razak to explain a 2.6 billion ringgit (£428.3 million) donation that was deposited into his private bank account.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said it had verified the sum was given by a donor from the Middle East but could not disclose the donor's identity.
The MACC said it had confirmed this with the donor and through documents obtained from the bank that showed the money had been deposited into Najib's account. But it said the donation had no connection to troubled state fund 1MDB [TERRN.UL].
A spokesman for the Prime Minister's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that investigators looking into allegations of graft and financial mismanagement in 1MDB found that nearly $700 million was deposited into Najib's private bank account. Reuters has not verified the report.
1MDB has debts of more than $11 billion (£7 billion) and Najib is the chairman of its advisory board.
The MACC said it had been advised by the attorney-general to announce its findings on its own and not through the task force set up to probe 1MDB . The MACC will continue its own internal investigation into the donation.

(Reporting By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah and Praveen Menon)