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Li beats Sharapova to reach Roland Garros final Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:06 AM PDT Li Na of China reacts after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia during their semi-final match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 2, 2011. – Reuters pic PARIS, June 2 – China's Li Na overcame Maria Sharapova 6-4 7-5 today to reach the French Open final and boost her bid to become the first Asian to win a grand slam singles title. In the first set, Li raced into a 3-0 lead and broke three times as Sharapova, who took two games off the Chinese player's serve, struggled for rhythm in the wind. An awful double fault from Li early in the second let the Russian back in but the three-times grand slam champion wasted the advantage when she committed the same error for 4-4. Li, who lost in January's Australian Open final, sealed victory and a meeting with holder Francesca Schiavone or Marion Bartoli when her opponent double faulted again to the delight of millions of Chinese watching at home and a smattering in the stands. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Decision time for Bahrain will not be easy for F1 Posted: 02 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT LONDON, June 2 – Formula One must decide tomorrow whether to satisfy Bahrain's rulers and reschedule the country's postponed grand prix or side with the teams and human rights campaigners to keep it off the calendar. The outcome of the FIA's world motor sport council meeting in Barcelona is far from clear-cut, even if many Formula One insiders question whether the race can be reinstated into the current championship. Commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone (picture) has said he hopes the grand prix, originally scheduled as the March 13 season-opener, will happen and local organisers say they are ready to host it again after months of civil unrest. Ecclestone, 80, and Bahrain's Sheikh Abdulla bin Isa al-Khalifa who heads the FIA's karting commission, are both on the 26-man motor sport council headed by president Jean Todt. The biggest sticking point could be the calendar itself, rather than the risk of triggering outrage at the idea of racing in a country that has only just lifted emergency law after stifling bloody pro-democracy protests. It could also prove a useful face-saving device. To accommodate Bahrain, it has been suggested that the inaugural Indian Grand Prix be moved from its October 30 slot to December 11 – the latest finish to a season since 1963 and a date too far for hard-pressed teams. "It is getting too much," Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix last weekend. "Our guys have been working since January... and we are asking them to work into December and that means there is no time for a holiday before Christmas and that would mean getting straight back in to it in January. "So personally I think it is unacceptable and we've told Bernie that and he knows our opinion... our people cannot be expected to work in that environment and situation, so I think it is totally unacceptable." Other teams such as McLaren, who have Bahrain holding company Mumtalakat as their biggest shareholder, and Ferrari have made clear that they have no objection to racing in Bahrain but question the timing. Several long-standing paddock veterans suggested that the December 11 date could give Ecclestone and Todt the excuse needed to avoid insulting the Bahrainis while keeping the race off the calendar until 2012, when it would again be the season-opener. "I fear that they will try to reinstate it," said one source who did not want to be identified due to the political sensitivity of the subject. "But I think that given we are mid-season, the world motor sport council will narrowly reject it on grounds that there is insufficient time to change the calendar." Both Ecclestone and Todt will want to avoid any unpleasantness however, mindful that Bahrain carries clout both commercially and politically within the sport as major investors and firm supporters of Todt. Ecclestone said in February when the race was postponed that he had waived rights fees, estimated at around US$40 million, due from Bahrain and he will not want to jeopardise that relationship. He has said repeatedly that Formula One, which has never been overly squeamish about which countries it visits, is not involved in religion or politics and "we don't make decisions based on those things." The paddock source said Bahrain's ruling Khalifa family were major backers of F1 and the sport would not want to be seen slapping them in the face. "But if the calendar comes out tomorrow and Bahrain is re-instated, there will be an almighty outcry." There would also be the risk, as Ecclestone himself recognised last month, that the Bahrain Grand Prix would then become a prime target for protestors while the sport's image took another battering. "Nobody knows which way it is going to go," said another Formula One source of a meeting that also includes Force India's billionaire owner Vijay Mallya. "The teams have coded their language carefully and if they (the council) need a reason (not to reinstate the race), it's been handed to them on a plate." – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Iraqi refugees abroad flock home from turmoil Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:37 AM PDT There may not be much to come home to, but physician Haider Farid feels "like a fish back in water" hearing the Iraqi dialect. — Reuters pic BAGHDAD, June 2 — Five years ago, Iraqi goldsmith Samir Razaq sold all his belongings and fled the sectarian warfare engulfing his homeland to begin a new life in Syria. But in the past few days, he has returned to Iraq, this time looking for sanctuary from violence and instability threatening Syria and other states in the Middle East and North Africa. Officials in Baghdad say hundreds of Iraqis, former refugees from years of turmoil and sectarian conflict at home, have been flowing back this year from Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria as popular uprisings demanding reforms sweep the region. Razaq came home with his wife, leaving his two sons in Syria to finish their exams. He returned to fix his house, still scarred by the destruction from the communal violence that ravaged his southern Baghdad neighbourhood in 2006-07. As Iraq's internal conflict has eased comparatively, he preferred now to be at home rather than in Syria. "The situation is unbearable, Syria is no longer a safe haven, and it will witness the same kind of violence that Iraq experienced after the regime change in 2003," he said, while carrying a new mattress to refit his house. Syria has a 600-km border with Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees fled across the border following the US-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein and triggered years of bloody sectarian strife. Salam al-Khafaji, a deputy minister of migration and displacement, said hundreds of Iraqis were returning from abroad, and he expected the numbers to increase as turbulence in Syria and other troubled nations in the region increased. "There are a lot of Iraqis stuck in those countries and we seek to evacuate them but our problem is we don't have offices in those countries, and there are weaknesses in coordination between the respective ministries," Khafaji said. He said Iraq's government had sent planes to bring back a total of 3,734 Iraqi nationals from Egypt, Yemen and Libya this year after they asked to be evacuated. "Many times more refugees have returned to Iraq on their own, and without informing us," Khafaji said. Buses coming back full from Syria The level of violence has eased in Iraq from the 2006-07 peak of the sectarian conflict that pitted rival Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims against each other, although bomb and gun attacks against officials and security forces still occur daily. Nevertheless, the government is trying to encourage Iraqi refugees abroad to return by offering free transport and an incentive of 4 million Iraqi dinars (RM10,400) per family. Haider Farid, a physician, returned to Iraq last week from Yemen on a plane sent by the Iraqi government. "My family and I decided to return home because the situation in Yemen is worsening," he told Reuters. "We left Iraq seeking safety and now as there is no security in Yemen, we made up our minds to come home," said Farid, who was visiting the Migration and Displacement Ministry to file the documents needed for him to receive the returnee grant. The return of the Iraqi refugees from abroad has boosted the business of travel companies, which have increased the number of trips they offer from Syria. The price of a bus ticket from Damascus to Baghdad is around US$30 (RM90). "We had about 700 passengers travelling on our buses in the past week, mostly returnee families with their belongings," said Muafaq Mohammed, the owner of a travel company in Baghdad. "We send almost empty buses to Syria and they drive back full." Returning Iraqis said they were pleased and relieved to be home, and they hoped the security situation in their country would continue to improve. "Being abroad took a heavy toll on us," said Farid. "I feel good when I hear the Iraqi dialect; I feel like a fish back in water." — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Iraqi youth tired of war fret over scarce jobs Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:31 AM PDT BAGHDAD, June 2 — Like most Iraqi university students, Dalia Muthanna is more concerned about finding a job than worrying about bomb attacks or a return of sectarian fighting in her homeland. More than eight years after the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein, young people are weary of war and more interested in discussing how the country is going to get back on its feet and rebuild its battered infrastructure. Their biggest worry and frustration is finding jobs. "Any student you talk to will tell you that he or she dreams of graduating and getting a job, or travelling," said Muthanna, a 20-year-old computer studies student at Baghdad's Mustansiriya University. "But talking about the wars and sectarian issues we went through, they won't discuss them. "We rarely speak of these issues, as we talked about them in the past, and we have suffered enough because of them. We try not to speak about issues like war," she said. Iraq's official unemployment rate stands at 15 per cent although the real figure is believed to be around 30 per cent. Around 60 per cent of the population relies on a government national food ration programme. The high level of unemployment fuels concerns about frustrated young people turning towards militias and insurgent groups, which remain capable of lethal attacks in Iraq, although overall violence has subsided from the peak of sectarian warfare in 2006-7. The country needs massive investment in every sector. Private industry remains relatively small compared with state-owned enterprises, and the government is still the biggest employer. Iraq depends on oil exports for 95 per cent of government revenues. Mehdi al-Alak, a deputy planning minister and head of the statistics office, has said at least 25 per cent of Iraqis aged 16-29 are unemployed. 'More open to outside world' Some Iraqi students said there was evidence of influence and recruitment by insurgents' groups at universities. But they said most young Iraqis saw campus as a place where they could escape from sectarian issues and violence and talk more about the latest fashion and art. "After the fall of the (Saddam Hussein) regime, there was the influence of a certain Islamic sect on the university," said oil engineering student Ammar Naiem, 22. "There are some who join it for benefits and some join it because of their beliefs. But they can't divide the students . . . Religion should be out of the university campus in general." Naiem declined to name the sect concerned, saying he feared retribution. In the still charged sectarian atmosphere of Iraq, religious and political groups compete for supporters among the country's disgruntled and restless youth. Dr Qassim Shakir, head of the geography department at Mustansiriya's Arab and International Studies centre, said Iraqi youth were able to move away from the past by making connections with other countries and their young people through Facebook and the Internet. "Most of them (students) are liberal. They are not conservative," he said. "The Internet has become a connecting point between the youth of the world. The young men learn a lot from other people's cultures and civilisations. "Now the university student spends at least 3-4 hours a day surfing on the Internet to acquire information . . . They are now more open to the outside world," Shakir said. Like the rest of the Arab world this year, Iraq has not been immune to popular protests that have mainly been organised through social media platforms such as Facebook. Although Iraqis have not called for a complete overhaul of their democratically elected cross-sectarian government, many have voiced frustrations over a lack of basic services and jobs. Iraq's five-year economic development plan, which aims to create three to four million new jobs by 2014, has done little to ease such concerns. Critics say the ambitious job-creation goal seems to exist only on paper, and shows little sign of becoming reality. For example, they say, the ongoing expansion of the oil sector has not yet created the surge in jobs for Iraqis that was promised. "The problem we, the youth, suffer is that when we graduated we don't get a job," said 21-year-old Muhammad Sameer Abbas, a second-year arts student studying French. "What is the government doing?" — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Oscar-winning Morricone heads Rome film festival jury Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:38 AM PDT ROME, June 2 – Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, author of the film scores for "Spaghetti Westerns" starring Clint Eastwood in the 1960s, will head up the jury for the Rome film festival, organisers said yesterday. Morricone, 82, who started out as a jazz trumpeter, has also worked with celebrated directors Brian De Palma and Giuseppe Tornatore and has received two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes in a career spanning half a century. The Rome festival, which runs from October 27 to November 4, is a relatively new addition to the film festival scene starting out in 2006. Organisers said in a statement that the jury would include Roberto Bolle, a ballet star and lead dancer at the Teatro della Scala in Milan. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Cotillard, Phoenix and Renner cast in ‘Low Life’ Posted: 01 Jun 2011 11:21 PM PDT French actress Marion Cotillard will star with Jeremy Renner and Joaquin Phoenix in 'Low Life.' — AFP pic LOS ANGELES, June 2 — Oscar winners Marion Cotillard (Inception) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) will appear in Low Life with Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line), who teams up again with director James Gray after they collaborated on Two Lovers and We Own the Night. Set for release in 2012, this period drama follows a woman whose dream of immigrating to America from Poland turns into a nightmare when she must trade sexual favors for medicine and food for her ailing sister, according to Deadline. Cotillard is currently seen in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and next she costars with Matt Damon, Jude Law and Kate Winslet in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and then in Christopher Nolan's upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. Renner is in production on Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with Tom Cruise, set for a December release, then The Avengers with Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, and for 2012 he stars in The Bourne Legacy with Rachel Weisz. Joaquin Phoenix is shooting The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights). — AFP-Relaxnews Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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We are better than what they say Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:06 PM PDT JUNE 2 — It was bright summer on the lawns of Sydney University, days into the new millennium. It was Open Day, so all sorts of teenagers and parents roamed about as big decisions were being made about futures. The university in a separate part of the campus, but simultaneously, was hosting the World University Debating Championships, so wiser minds decided to show the students the type of opportunities the student union offered; by putting on a debate since there were hundreds of top debaters in the vicinity. So for obvious reasons they made it Australia versus the rest of the world. The world team was made of two former world champions from Britain and a Malaysian, me. The Australian team had a former world champion and best speaker. The other was an ex-Sydney Union debater — an inspirational speaker and now Australia's minister for sustainability, environment, water, population and communities. It was a debate about multiculturalism. But topics don't matter, neither do reputations, as we have a saying — you are only as good as your last debate. So old hacks hacked away. My joke about kebab sellers in Parramatta went down fairly well and a good time was had by all. So far I am following the script, a Malaysian happy about being associated with high achievers. But that has never been my intention. For me, it is the fear of being the token. It is the fear I have carried all my life, of being insignificant. I want those in the room to feel the same level of respect sharing the space with me. We are colleagues. Their finest and ours together, as a natural occurrence — that is the objective. I want to be competitive and relevant. It does not matter who is in the room, it is important I am trying to shine, to do what I can. And that is what I hope for my countrymen. To believe they are worth more than just deciding who is more deserving inside Malaysia. The thing is, I know how it feels to be intimidated. And in situations like the above and other occasions, I've had to rise to the occasion. Self-pity and other emotional withdrawals do not help. Sometimes you have to show up. A reader commented about my lofty expectations of our nation and its people, saying we have to manage expectations as after all, we are just Malaysians. But as a country, mediocrity only leads us down the path of average. Decent politicians will do, forget great. Win the Asean Cup every 20-odd years and sate our football appetites by catching the Champions League. Build stadias and facilities so the truly great can fly in and perform in them. Let us settle for opportunities to be near legends. A brush with immortality. I've never bought that, I do not accept a reality where a permanent pecking order exists, with us behind indefinitely. That is not living. A nation must believe in its own greatness and endeavour to scale to the summit. Caution: I'm not advocating for a set of obscure and awkward achievements like the most number of teh tarik on a large field, or for more state-funded and heavily politicised climbing teams to Everest. Those are silly preoccupations. To set our own conditions to success, that is a cop-out. Eventually we will meet the world on its terms. We need to. In a world where nation-states are the default, nations which preach mediocrity are asking for a fall. There are low levels of confidence in this country. Nothing is proof of our insecurities more than how quickly we turn on each other. Let's engage the challenge. Seeking excellence as a national culture is not about winning everything in sight. Competition helps provide shape and measure of excellence, but it in itself is not excellence. Global conquest is not the goal, the goal to is deny the belief we are two steps behind anyone. The Japanese and Germans surrendered at the end of the Second World War. They apologised for their fascism which ran contrary to the rights of many across the world and resulted in their defeat. They did not, unsurprisingly, apologise for their national pride. Their sense of excellence was kept intact. Within 40 years of losing the war; they turned their military industries into, well, industries. No one remembers Mitsubishi as the maker of fighter planes. They've returned their countries to being high-income nations. They hosted two Olympics and one World Cup. Their cities are global icons. Nicol David is our shining light. I just wonder about the mental strength that girl carries. She has for more than half a decade captivated global squash in a competition where only the Caucasian girls triumph. It is a pretty tough, physical and enduring sport, with no one in this country ever being where she is. No one. And she has kept on, I mean not as just someone who has won a few titles but as the undisputed champion of global female squash for that long. No one from her country is in this league, no one from her continent is actually. In a short while, no one ever. How must it be for her on the tour. To not have anyone familiar near her, just cities and competitors — all out to beat her, because your reputation on the circuit is built on beating her — and to go on without fuss. At the end of the year she goes home for Christmas, shares the presents and is back on the tour to make history this country will bask in for decades. That is just wow. I taught a course in Terengganu in 2006 and saw a female participant with a paper file with a large poster of Nicol stuck to it. I asked her, and she said that she saw so much in her, and in return so much in herself. That is Nicol's legacy to our country. Even if she loses every match she plays from now on. That is my hope for my country, to be a nation of competitors. Not to eat into each other's success as vultures, jackals and simpletons. 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Reducing the political cost of liberalisation Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:49 PM PDT JUNE 2 — A price-control mechanism has its economic cost, on top of that associated with the current subsidy regime in place in Malaysia. There are also some political costs to the control. In tight times when commodities are becoming dearer, any government that dares to reset retail prices upwards invites public wrath. There was talk of an early general election, but the rumour machines now suggest that the election will be held only later. The Barisan Nasional-led federal government needs room to manoeuvre before renewing its mandate. The prime minister is under pressure to seek a mandate of his own. One has to remember that Datuk Seri Najib Razak is running on the 2008 mandate secured by the highly-unpopular Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Not only that, the prime minister also needs Barisan Nasional to do better than it did in the last general election. He must get the two-thirds majority in Parliament to prove that his government is better than the one led by his predecessor. That is one of the ways the political cost matters. The political cost can affect cold but rational economic calculations. This is especially relevant for those whose conviction is measured by their appetite for adventure, or lack of adventure rather. That makes it important to reduce the political cost of liberalisation lest the liberalisation agenda, however dissatisfyingly incomplete it is in its current form, be left high and dry. The local political cost that exists is unfortunate because global economic reality largely ignores local political reality. In many cases, the increase in retail prices is inevitable amid rising world prices of various commodities. The factors fuelling the hike are real: growing population, growing affluence and therefore growing demand. That is the current long-term trend. Mere business cycles neither erase nor change long-term trends by much. There are some institutional issues affecting local retail prices as well. Without hurting the trustworthiness of the government, these problems have to be solved. Liberalise the market instead of granting monopoly power to specific firms. Make the market open instead of having deals made in the shadows. Stop signing contracts that are grossly lopsided at the expense of public money. All that can lessen the degree of the hikes in the long run. Yet, local issues just like short-term fluctuations are unlikely to drown out long-term trends. Until new technology, new culture and new alternatives prevail over old ones — or if total world population drops — prices will generally go up to clear the markets. Because of the dissonance between local political and global economic realities, the political cost should be reduced so that both run parallel to each other. The political cost is a disincentive to good economic policy. Democracy coupled with entitlement culture is a recipe for irresponsible populism. This is especially true for the fuel subsidy regime where the subsidy fixes the price ceiling and in effect subsidises everything between retail prices and world prices. Under this arrangement, the government risks hypothetically unlimited expenditure. The higher the world prices, the larger the subsidy bill. So, how does one reduce the political cost? The government can stop being the fall guy. To do so, the government needs to stop managing prices. Relax the control. Let prices float. Let the market take charge instead. Let those closest to the ground — the actual buyers and sellers — determine the prices. Using the fuel subsidy as an example, the relaxation can exist together with fixed per unit subsidy regime rather than the current unfixed per unit subsidy. In this way, the subsidy burden shouldered by the government will remain constant given a consumption level. Any increase or decrease in retail prices will be due to market forces only. This particular arrangement will reduce the political cost faced by a liberalising government by making the link between prices and primary market participants clearer. Prices will no longer be linked to the government. With the government out of the way, then perhaps the government will receive less flak. The question of subsidy reduction itself will not even surface because increase in world prices will not increase the subsidy bill given the level of consumption. Indeed, a typical model will suggest that an increase in world prices might actually decrease the total subsidy bill due to decreased consumption. In the end with less flak, perhaps the liberalisation agenda can go farther down the road without unnecessary undue erosion of political capital. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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PRU-13: Pemuda PAS tuntut kerusi MP, Adun lompat parti Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:32 AM PDT SHAH ALAM, 2 Jun – Dewan Pemuda PAS mahu rakan komponennya dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR) menyerahkan kerusi-kerusi yang wakil rakyat mereka telah melompat parti agar rakyat terus yakin dengan perikatan itu pada pilihan raya umum ke-13. Wakil dari Negeri Sembilan Mohd Fairuz Mohd Isa berkata, jika keyakinan rakyat merosot, dikhuatiri ia akan menyebabkan PR goyah semasa menghadapi pilihan raya umum. "Kerusi-kerusi seperti Changkat Jering (di Perak), Kulim-Bandar Baru (di Kedah) perlu diberikan kepada PAS untuk bertanding, jika tidak kita khuatir keyakinan akan merosot, jangan sampai Pakatan Rakyat goyah," kata beliau ketika membahaskan ucapan dasar ketua Pemuda PAS pusat pada muktamarnya hari ini. Selain PAS, PR dianggotai oleh DAP dan PKR. Sejak pilihan raya umum 2008, PKR dan DAP kehilangan sejumlah kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri dan Parlimen. Kerusi-kerusi itu membabitkan negeri Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak dan Selangor. Pada pilihan raya umum 2008, PR menafikan majoriti dua pertiga di Parlimen dan menawan empat negeri tambahan iaitu Selangor, Perak, Kedah dan Pulau Pinang. Negeri Kelantan kekal ditadbir sejak ia dikuasai pada 1990. Ekoran tindakan tiga Adun masing-masing dua dari PKR dan satu melibatkan DAP keluar parti, Perak diambil alih oleh Barisan Nasional (BN). Tahun lalu, DAP juga kehilangan satu lagi kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri di Perak. Dalam pada itu, perwakilan dari Sarawak Wan Husni Wan Osman mengkritik partinya kerana tidak sanggup untuk meminta lebih banyak kerusi ketika pilihan raya negeri Sarawak April lalu. "Kita terlalu lemah sehingga terpaksa menunggu sehingga dua hari sebelum hari penamaan calon untuk membuat persiapan dan memutuskan calon-calon kita," katanya. PKR meletakkan 49 calon pada pilihan raya negeri Sarawak tetapi hanya memenangi tiga kerusi manakala DAP yang bertanding di 15 kawasan menang sebanyak 12 kerusi. PAS tidak memperoleh kemenangan di kesemua lima kerusi yang ditandingi. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Polis syor inkues siasat kematian Sarbaini, Peguam Negara setuju Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:43 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Jun – Polis akan mengesyorkan agar satu inkues diadakan bagi menyiasat punca kematian penolong pengarah Kastam Diraja Malaysia, Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamad, kata ketua Jabatan Siasatan Polis Kuala Lumpur hari ini. Laporan The Star Online memetik Asisten Komisioner Datuk Ku Chin Wah berkata Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail juga telah bersetuju dengan cadangan itu. Baru-baru ini, keluarga Allahyarham Ahmad Sarbaini (gambar) mahu polis mendedahkan perkembangan terbaru hasil siasatan kematiannya dua bulan lalu di pejabat SPRM Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. Ini kerana, menurut sumber yang rapat dengan keluarga Ahmad Sarbaini, sehingga kini masih tiada perkembangan, menyebabkan keluarga itu tertanya-tanya status sebenar hasil siasatan tersebut. Tambah sumber itu, perkembangan terakhir yang diketahui pada 4 Mei lalu di mana kertas siasatan kematian Ahmad Sarbaini akan dihantar semula ke Jabatan Peguam Negara. "Kami nak tahu apa status terkini sekarang, kami tertanya-tanya apa yang berlaku dan perkembangan kes ini. "Saya sendiri tertanya-tanya apa status kes ini sekarang, sebab saya lihat macam tidak ada apa-apa yang berlaku... senyap begitu sahaja," katanya kepada The Malaysian Insider. Semalam, pemimpin-pemimpin PKR menyerahkan memorandum kepada Ketua Polis Negara menggesa diadakan siasatan lanjut ekoran dakwaan wujud bukti baru, yang dikemukakan oleh balu Allahyarham Ahmad Sarbaini bulan lalu. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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