KDN berhasrat naik taraf Rela kepada jabatan

KUALA LUMPUR 3 Julai — Kementerian Dalam Negeri bercadang menjadikan Rela sebagai sebuah jabatan, Dewan Rakyat diberitahu hari ini.

Proses bagi tujuan itu sedang dijalankan dan apabila lengkap ia akan diserahkan kepada Jemaah Menteri untuk kelulusan, kata Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Chor Chee Heung ketika menjawab soalan Ding Kuong Hiing (BN-Sarikei) yang ingin tahu sama ada Rela akan dijadikan sebuah jabatan memandangkan tanggungjawabnya semakin bertambah.

Chor bagaimanapun berkata kerajaan tidak bercadang untuk menambah kadar elaun anggota Rela yang menjalankan Operasi Tegas untuk menahan pendatang asing tanpa izin kerana kadar baru sudah diluluskan Mac tahun lepas. - Bernama

sumber: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2008&dt=0703&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Terkini&pg=bt_03.htm

Joint Ops antara Polis dan tenter, RELA nak upgrade jadi jabatan mcm PDRM emmm.....

Gordon Brown vs. Alex Salmond

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been accused of being "stuck in the Downing Street bunker" after it emerged he has not spoken to First Minister Alex Salmond since August.

A source close to Mr Salmond said all personal communication has stopped with the Scottish leader's phone calls going unanswered.

And it was claimed the Prime Minister has also failed to respond to a letter sent by the SNP leader more than four months ago asking him to look at restoring regular meetings with the devolved administration.

sumber: IcAyrshire
Lihat Juga: Blog KP Johor

Komen: Nampaknya sindrom Pusat dan Kelantan telah merebak ke United Kingdom la pulak, bilamana PM sesuatu buah negara tidak kamceng dengan ketua menteri sesebuah negeri yang bukan satu parti darinya

Malaysia snoop squad targets Ramadan rule breakers

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian state ruled by a hardline Islamist party has set up a snoop squad to catch Muslims who ignore a religious ban on eating, drinking and smoking during the fasting month of Ramadan.

Ramadan, which began last Thursday in Muslim-majority Malaysia, is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar. Practising Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex during daylight hours in a discipline intended to purify their souls.

Religious officials in the northeastern state of Kelantan, ruled by the opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS), have detailed 10 municipal officials in plainclothes to keep watch at food outlets, the New Straits Times newspaper said on Monday.

"This is the first time the council is taking action as we have received numerous complaints about those who eat openly during the fasting period," said Azman Mohamad Daham, a municipal spokesman in Kota Baru, the state capital.

People who fall foul of the religious law face a fine of 20 ringgit ($6), while the food vendor could be fined up to 500 Malaysian ringgit ($144), the paper added.

PAS wants to turn multi-religious Malaysia into an Islamic state. Muslims form about 60 percent of a population of 26 million, Buddhists about 20 percent, Christians 10 percent and Hindus about 6 percent

Sumber: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSKLR27379020070917

Gambar:
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Sungguh kurang sopan betul laporan Akhbar ni...

Islam + Zionis vs. Islam

US Menggunakan negara Islam untuk membantu pihak Israel menentang Iran... yang lebih dahsyat lagi, negara yang ketua negaranya digelar Khadam Dua Tanah Suci itu yang terlibat.

US promises Israel much more military aid - By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem

The United States will reinforce the military capability of Israel and Saudi Arabia in a strategy intended to deter Iran.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, confirmed yesterday that US military aid would rise by 25 per cent over the next decade, from £12 billion to £15 billion a year.

Meanwhile, US military sources reported that Saudi Arabia was on the verge of signing a deal to buy approximately £12 billion of arms and support equipment. The Saudi kingdom has an internal jihadist problem, yet Washington still values the support it gives for the mission in Iraq and for other policies across the Middle East.

Normally, Israel opposes US military links with Arab nations but on this occasion Mr Olmert said that he appreciated the need for beefing up the military capability of moderate states such as Saudi Arabia.

However, Mr Olmert described the US donation to his own country as proof that Washington wanted Israel to maintain a military advantage over its Arab neighbours.

"Other than the increase in aid, we received an explicit and detailed commitment to guarantee Israel's qualitative advantage over other Arab states," he said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has caused jitters across the region with a series of inflammatory speeches that allude to destroying Israel, a threat made more serious by Iran's ambitions for a nuclear programme. While some Israeli commentators have called for a pre-emptive strike, diplomacy has prevailed up to now.

But with President George W Bush increasingly distrustful of Iran and with US-led forces in Iraq finding more and more evidence of outside meddling in the insurgency, the likelihood of some sort of military confrontation is growing.

However, in an interview with the German magazine Focus, Iran's foreign minister dismissed the idea, saying that US forces were too stretched by conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US "is not in a position to get into a new military conflict", said Manouchehr Mottaki, adding that "a total of 170,000 American soldiers can guarantee neither their own safety nor the security of Iraq".

By boosting the military capability of both Israel and Saudi Arabia, Washington can be sure of having stronger regional allies in the event of combat.

Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Saddam Hussein's nascent nuclear programme back in the 1980s. But an attack today on Iran would have to be carefully co-ordinated with the US which controls Iraqi airspace through which Israeli jets would have to pass.

Military support has been the main pillar of US aid to Israel for many years and the increased assistance arrives in a form of financial credits that must be spent upon military technology and know-how. The US's annual donation makes Israel the recipient of the largest amount of aid per capita in the world.

Sumber: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/30/wmeast130.xml

Berita Ummah::State Clampdown on Radical Religious Groups (Kyrgyzstan)

Government plans to tighten legislation on religion are unlikely to restrict most religious organisations and will help prevent extremist activity, say NBCentralAsia experts.

On July 12, Toigonbek Kalmatov, director of the State Agency for Religious Affairs, announced that his agency is drafting five laws that tighten restrictions on religious activity.

Kalmatov told NBCentralAsia that the changes are aimed at preventing radical groups that act unlawfully and organisations which are banned in other countries from operating in Kyrgyzstan.

His agency will be given the authority to thwart unlawful organisations, halt their activity and expel religious extremists from the country.

Over 2000 religious organisations are currently registered in Kyrgyzstan. Most are Islamic but there are also 360 Christian groups, one Hindu, one Buddist and 14 new religious organisations.Kalmatov explains that there are around 400 unregistered groups whose charters are not in keeping with Kyrgyz law. The state will not bar them from registering, provided they change their manifesto.

Some accredited organisations are more radical in their activity than their charter suggests and the agency will take action against them, as well as underground groups.

Prominent Islamic figure and director of Dil Murogu Centre for Morality, Ethics and Culture Ozubek Chotonov does not believe that the changes will adversely effect religious groups that operate legally.

Under current legislation, some organisations “are not subject to controls at all”, and so “the activity of destructive sects [should be] curbed” along with political religious organisations, he says.

Ikbol Mirsaitov, a leading expert with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which is affiliated with the president, agrees that the rules should be tightened.

“The growth of radical religious organisations, the lack of control over them and their failure to abide by the law gives the state agency grounds for reviewing Kyrgyz legislation towards [them],” said Mirsaitov.

Nevertheless, a debate has been sparked in Kyrgyzstan about whether the agency should be a controlling force or “a bridge that links” the state with religious groups.

Kalmatov adds that “faith is freedom” and the constitution states that Kyrgyz citizens can join any religious organisation whose actions are lawful. The state does not have the right to interfere in this regard, he says.

Source: http://muslimuzbekistan.net/en/centralasia/featured/story.php?ID=12185

Dah kene daftar la pulak...

Menurut akhbar The Star versi web, melapurkan bahawa Timbalan Menteri Tenaga, Air dan Kommunikasi, Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansur bercadang untuk mewajibkan para blogger yang berdaftar pada host tempatan didaftarkan kepada kementeriannya.

Langkah ini bertujuan untuk mengawal dan memantau para blogger supaya tidak menyebarkan khabar angin atau fitnah di dalam blog - blog mereka.

Aku tertarik akan kata - kata YB Lim Kit Siang (DAP), ketika membidas cadangan Timbalan menteri terbabit, katanya;

“They should be educated on the vast benefits of blogging, which will help them to interact more with the people. Many politicians overseas already have their own blogs,”

Semetara itu, Marina Mahathir pula menambah;

“is just going to make Malaysia look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.”

Sumber: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/5/nation/17357132&sec=nation

Feed back from TheStar: http://feedback.thestar.com.my/view/default.asp?fid=21

Keadilan Islam

Inilah dia yang dinamakan KEADILAN dalam ISLAM...

Ahmadinejad says UK sailors pardoned, to be freed

TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday announced that 15 British sailors captured more than two weeks ago had been pardoned and would be freed imminently.

"While insisting on our rights, these 15 sailors have been pardoned and we offer their freedom to the British people," Ahmadinejad said in a dramatic announcement at a news conference in Tehran.

He said that they would be freed after the press conference and taken straight to the airport.

His declaration came even after the hardline president lashed out at Britain over its handling of the 13-day crisis and decorated a Revolutionary Guards commander who had seized the Britons
Earlier, Iran had applauded a "change of tone" from Britain after talks with a top advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, raising hopes of a solution to the crisis that has further damaged ties between Tehran and the West already frayed by the nuclear standoff.

"London's action in changing its propaganda tone regarding the issue of the arrest of the British sailors in our territorial waters is appropriate," Iran's parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel had said. "The effective measures taken by the British in the past few days make the tone of their rhetoric more logical and instead of controversy they are inclined toward negotiations," he added. "This is a more appropriate action."

His comments came after Iran's top security official Ali Larijani held talks with Blair's chief foreign policy advisor Sir Nigel Sheinwald late Tuesday.

Iran had insisted that the key to resolving the crisis was an admission from Britain that the sailors and marines did intrude into Iranian territorial waters when they were seized March 23.

"The British should confess that they made a mistake and they should no longer commit such moves," Hadad Adel had said.

Britain maintains that the group was carrying out routine anti-smuggling operations in Iraqi waters but Iran says that the sailors' Global Positioning System (GPS) devices show that they intruded on Iranian waters.

The latest dramatic developments coincided with the release in Baghdad of an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq in early February. Iran had blamed US forces in the country for the abduction.

Iranian state media also said that five Iranian officials captured by US forces in northern Iraq in January and accused of seeking to stir trouble were expected to receive their first visit by an Iranian diplomat.

Asked if the five Iranians should be freed to favor a possible release of the Britons, US President George W. Bush insisted there should be no "quid pro quos."

New still images were released Tuesday of the detained sailors and marines, showing them "relaxing" in tracksuits and playing chess, a change from the previous string of video "confessions."

The crisis has come at a perilous time for Iran's relations with the West, with the United States refusing to rule out military action over the Iranian nuclear program and the United Nations imposing tough new sanctions.

In a separate affair, local officials denied US reports that a missing former US FBI agency had disappeared while on a private visit to Iran's southern resort island of Kish, state media reported.

Source: http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070404-092618-5960r

Adun BN Ijok meninggal dunia, SPR umum pilihan raya kecil

KUALA LUMPUR, 4 Apr (Hrkh) - Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR dijangka akan membuat pengumuman tarikh pilihan raya kecil akibat kematian Anggota Exco Kerajaan Negeri Selangor dan Adun Ijok, Dato' S. Sivalingam akibat sakit jantung di Chennai, India.

Harakahdaily difahamkan berdasarkan tarikh angkat sumpah anggota-anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor pada 22 April 2004, maka kematian Adun Ijok hari ini belum mencukupi tempoh tiga tahun beliau menjadi Adun.

Mengikut peruntukan undang-undang, sesebuah kawasan yang kematian wakil rakyatnya melepasi tempoh tiga tahun, maka pilihan raya kecil tidak perlu diadakan.

Pada Pilihan Raya Umum tahun 2004, Sivalingam mengekalkan kerusi Dun Ijok dengan memperolehi 5213 undi menewaskan calon Keadilan, Abdol Rahman Moharam yang mendapat 3564 undi serta calon bebas Mohamed Shariff Nagoorrani memperolehi 313 undi.

Sivalingam yang juga Pengerusi MIC Selangor menang dengan majoriti 1649 undi.

Berdasarkan statistik pilihan raya lepas Ijok mempunyai 12,404 pengundi yang terdiri daripada Melayu 50.63 peratus, India 28.28 peratus, Cina 20.85 peratus dan lain-lain 0.24 peratus. - mr

Tsunami hits Solomons; 8 reported dead

By EVAN WASUKA, Associated Press Writer

HONIARA, Solomon Islands - A powerful undersea earthquake Monday in the South Pacific sent a tsunami several yards high crashing into the Solomon Islands, devastating at least one village, officials and residents said.

Police and residents said a wave about 10 feet high struck the western town of Gizo, inundating buildings and causing widespread destruction. A man who answered the telephone at the Gizo police station said there were initial reports that eight people, six of them children, had been killed by the tsunami but they were still unconfirmed. The phone cut out abruptly before the man gave his name.

Gizo resident Judith Kennedy said water "right up to your head" swept through the town.
"All the houses near the sea were flattened," she told The Associated Press by telephone. "The downtown area is a very big mess from the tsunami and the earthquake," she added. "A lot of houses have collapsed. The whole town is still shaking" from aftershocks.

The
U.S. Geological Survey' said the quake measured magnitude-8.0 and struck at 7:39 a.m. about 6 miles beneath the sea floor, 217 miles northwest of the capital, Honiara.

The Pacific region from Australia to Hawaii went on high alert for several hours after the quake struck between the islands of Bougainville and New Georgia, though officials canceled a region-wide tsunami warning after the danger period passed.

Gizo, a regional center, is just 25 miles from the earthquake's epicenter.

Another witness in the town, dive shop owner Danny Kennedy, estimated the height of the wave at 10 feet.
"I'm driving down the street — there are boats in the middle of the road, buildings have completely collapsed and fallen down," he said in a telephone interview.

"We're just trying to mobilize water and food, and shelter for people at the moment because ... in the town alone there's going to be between 2,000-3,000 homeless. It's not a very good scene at the moment."
Harry Wickham, who owns a waterfront hotel in Gizo, said the damage was widespread.

"The waves came up probably about 10 feet and swept through town," he told Australia's Nine Network television by telephone. "There's a lot of water damage and a lot of debris floating around," he added.
"Ten feet of water washing through town — you can imagine what damage it has done here."

Julian McLeod of the Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office said there were unconfirmed reports that two villages in the country's far west were flooded.

"Two villages were reported to have been completely inundated," McLeod told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "We have received reports of four people missing."

A town in the west, Munda, was believed to be badly damaged, officials and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp. said, but communications were difficult and details were not confirmed.

The Hawaii-based Pacific
Tsunami' Warning Center reported the quake at magnitude 8.1, and said a temblor of that strength could cause a destructive tsunami and issued a warning bulletin for the Solomon Islands and neighboring Papua New Guinea.
It ordered a lower-level "tsunami watch" for other places, including most South Pacific countries, but later canceled the alert. The center said a 6-inch wave had been reported in Honiara.

Police Sgt. Godfrey Abiah said in Honiara that police in Gizo had received warning about a possible tsunami and were helping people leave the town for higher ground when the wave hit.

"We have lost radio contact with the two police stations down there and we're not getting any clear picture from down there," he told The Associated Press by telephone.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, Deli Oso, said the quake was felt in Honiara but there were no reports of any damage

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070402/ap_on_re_as/south_pacific_earthquake