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About 200 mat rempit held a noisy demonstration at the historic Clock Tower near the Penang state legislative assembly building today, demanding a 'racing track' for their use. The group, led by Shahabuddin Ahmad - a representative of Pertubuhan Islam Gabungan Amal - lined the area with their motorcycles about 1pm and honked noisily for about 15 minutes before the police dispersed them. Their mission appeared political as most of the bikers were wearing yellow T-shirts with the words  ‘LGE racist’ - a reference to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng - and ‘Save Penang’. They also unfurled banners reading Mahu litar lumba (We want a racing track). Five protestors, including Shahabuddin, were detained by the police who had been trailing some members of the group from Komtar, the state's administrative building. It is learnt that the mat rempit had proceeded from Penang Road to the state legislative assembly building along Light Street. During the arrests, a mino...

Man says wife pushed, dragged and injured by police Posted on 20 October 2011 - 05:31am Tim Leonard newsdesk@thesundaily.com KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 19, 2011) : A 37-year-old businessman alleged that police pushed, dragged and injured his wife, a Chinese national, in an anti-vice raid after mistaking her for a prostitute. Loh Thean Soo, from Jalan Ipoh, claimed police dragged his wife for several metres 'like an animal’ around 11.30pm on Saturday. “I went to have dinner with my wife at a restaurant in Jalan Loke Yew and after dinner, my wife went to the car to get my cigarettes when a team of plainclothes police officers ambushed her and pushed her to the ground,” Loh said at a press conference called by DAP Klang legal bureau chairman Tan today. His wife Ming Daimei, 34, was also present at the press conference and showed the injuries she sustained on her leg. “After my wife fell, the...

KUALA LUMPUR--The ICT industry regulator has instructed local TV stations to remove a broadcast of a public service announcement encouraging all Malaysians to exercise their right to vote in the next elections, a local news portal has reported. According to The Malaysian Insider, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) earlier this week directed local broadcasters not to use a video produced by local musician, Pete Teo, just days after it was first aired on Sept. 16. The report cited an industry source to say that the MCMC e-mailed both Astro and Media Prima, the country's two largest broadcasters, instructing them that the video clip should not be aired because "Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah speaks about the country having 'many problems'" and it features opposition leaders. Razaleigh, a prince who hails from the north-eastern state of Kelantan, is a popular politician with the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional. Video urges M'...

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Johor DAP has claimed to have found thousands of registered voters in the Ledang parliamentary constituency who have either incomplete or no information at all in the databases of the Election Commission (EC) and National Registration Department (NRD). They include 417 voters whose names are missing from the NRD database. This latest flaw was exposed at a press conference called in Muar today by Bakri MP Er Teck Hwa (centre in photo) , who was accompanied by Johor DAP secretary Tan Chen Choon and Youth leader Ee Chin Li. They said a 17-member task force formed by the party had detected several flaws in the electoral roll of Ledang, a semi-rural constituency with some 60,000 voters: A total of 1,824 voters have no record in the online database of both the EC and NRD. A voter is listed as a permanent resident in the NRD database. A total of 2,195 voters have no address in the EC's database. The addresses of 35,064 or 59.14 percent of the voters in the electoral roll are ...

Former MCA president Ong Tee Keat today confirmed telling US diplomats that ethnic Chinese in the country were marginalised but reiterated that he was merely conveying the sentiments of the minority community. "It is worth reiterating that the comments purportedly made by me was largely my observation and assessment of the Chinese community's sentiment and perception pursuant to the statement of marginalisation by (Minister Mentor) Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore," he said. Lee had in September 2006 told journalists at the sidelines of a World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting in Singapore that ethnic Chinese in both Malaysia and Indonesia were marginalised - a provocative statement that resonated with a significant segment of the Chinese populace across the Causeway. "Our neighbours both have problems with their Chinese. They are successful. They are hardworking and, therefore, they are systematically marginalised," Lee was quoted as saying. ...