Dr Jeffrey has joined Sarawak party, Star

By Ezra Haganez

KOTA KINABALU: It is official ! Maverick Dr Jeffrey Kitingan who had been partyless since he left Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) one year ago has now joined a Sarawak reactivated party, Sarawak Reform Party, or in short Star.

Star president, Dr Dripin Sakoi, presented Kitingan a membership card and document empowering him to lead a Sabah chapter of the party. Four other pioneers, all Kitingan's men, of the party in Sabah who received their membership cards today (Dec 16) were Guandi Kohoi, Rubin Guribah, Jeffrey Telado and James Aik.

UK-based Human Rights Foundation proposes a TOR for RCI on illegals in Sabah

By Daniel John Jambun

My committee set-up under a United Kingdom-based Human Rights Foundation Malaysia to study Sabah problems especially in regards to issue of sovereignty, disenfranchisement and the Malaysia Agreement has come up with a comprehensive proposal for both the Federal Government of Malaysia and the Malaysian Parliament to consider as term of reference (TOR) for the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the large presence of illegal immigrants, dubious Malaysian identity cards and phantom voters in Sabah.

Our proposal is for the TOR to reflect on the following concerns or points :

An interesting view on GE13 by Sakmongkol AK47

By Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz

DEC 14 — About my having big time grudges or even hating Anwar Ibrahim, let me say this: Just how do you arrive at that judgment?

Because I don’t write good things about him? Some of these PKR diehards must have a short memory. If they go into my archives, they will see that Umno people are accusing me of being pro-Anwar.

One of them must also be the vermin who insisted that I hate Anwar whenever I wrote something unflattering or not advantageous to Anwar. I advise them, if they want to see the real hate writings on Anwar, to go visit the extreme pro-Umno bloggers.

BN Government is Giving us Rubbish

By Burak S. Sem

I learned a long time ago that a thing called ignorance fosters poverty. In the midst of the impoverished times I grew up in boarding school throughout my years in primary and secondary schools, many times I would ask myself: "how come the Dayak people (orang asal) have it so hard?" "Why do Dayak people struggle so much?"

Did not know this is a deadlly fruit -- is it ?

Star Fruit Can Kill

This fruit can end your life! This is not an April Fool Joke. But a stern reminder to all my readers. We were advised to have a few servings of fruits a day in order to reap the benefits of fruits, right? But obviously this is one big no-no fruit to be excluded from your fruity feast!

In Shenzen, more than 10 people who consumes the star fruit had died. And now a 66-year-old, Malaysian who has been suffering from kidney ailment fell into coma after eating the star fruits.

Dr Devi Shetty, a reknown heart surgeon speaks on heart attacks...

Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is a reknown cardiac surgeon and philanthropist. After he trained in cardiac surgery in UK, he returned to India to work and subsequently started the Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore. In 2001, he founded Narayana Hrudayalaya, one of the largest paediatric heart hospitals in the world. He has performed over 15,000 heart operations.

This chat with Dr.Devi Shetty was arranged by WIPRO for its employees. The transcript of the chat, given below, is useful for everyone.

Q: What are the basic rules to care for one's heart?

Most Islamic countries in the world are non-Muslim

What makes a good Islamic country? Is it one where the people dress conservatively (or even severely in the case of women), adhere strictly to the rituals of Islam, where shariah laws apply?

Or is a good Islamic country one that keeps to the substantive teachings of Islam, more concerned with the content rather than the form of the religion? Where fairness, justice, honesty are the cornerstones of government policies and of its citizens' daily dealings.

DAP meet: Leadership spat buries national issues

The Penang DAP convention yesterday barely discussed any issue of state or national interest, for it was overshadowed by arguments over the spat among the party's top leaders.

Several Indian Malaysian delegates who spoke had to be reined in by security personnel as they touched on "very sensitive" issues that had plagued the party over the past week.

‘Restrictions unjustifiable under global law’

By Luke Rintod of FMT

PETALING JAYA: A group of United Nations independent experts in a joint statement warned that the newly-passed Peaceful Assembly Bill in Malaysia may “arbitrarily and disproportionately restrict the right to assemble peacefully.”

The restrictions range from a ban on street protests and a prohibition on non-citizens and citizens under 21 years of age to assemble peacefully, to conditional access for media to public gatherings.

Foreigners join rush for RM500 aid forms

Tawau: Foreigners were among the thousands who turned up to obtain the 1Malaysia People's Assistance (BR1M) forms distributed by the Inland Revenue Board entitling those who qualify for RM500 assistance from the Government.

Police had to be called in to control the situation getting out of hand here.