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Wines for summer sipping

Posted: 26 May 2013 07:08 AM PDT

Celebrating all things beef

By Eu Hooi Khaw

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 ― If a restaurant has been around for 10 years, it must be doing something right.Yes, Gyuniku has been in Desa Sri Hartamas for that long, and recently an offshoot called Gyuniku ... Read More
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Rosberg emulates his father with Monaco win

Posted: 26 May 2013 08:39 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

Mercedes Formula One driver Nico Rosberg of Germany steers his car during the Monaco F1 Grand Prix. — Reuters picMONACO, May 26 — Nico Rosberg won Formula One's showcase Monaco Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday, 30 years on from his world champion father Keke's triumph on the streets of the Mediterranean principality.

The pole-to-flag win, after two safety car deployments and a 25-minute stoppage caused by Pastor Maldonado crashing his Williams, was only the second of the German's career - as it was for his Finnish father in 1983.

Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel made it a German one-two to extend his championship lead to 21 points over Finland's Kimi Raikkonen - who finished 10th - after six of the 19 races.

Rosberg's success, on the familiar streets of a town that has been home since his early years, made him the first son of a Monaco Grand Prix winner to win the most glamorous race on the calendar.

"It's amazing. This is my home, I've grown up here all my life and it's really special," he said. "The whole weekend went perfectly.

"The car was really good, the tyres held on and that was the key to the victory. I am ecstatic."

Australian Mark Webber, last year's winner and Vettel's team mate, was third ahead of 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton in the other Mercedes.

Raikkonen scrambled to his 23rd successive scoring finish - one short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record - after making up three positions on the last lap just when it seemed his hopes had been dashed by a collision with McLaren's Sergio Perez.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso also fell back in the title challenge after finishing seventh, with Force India's Adrian Sutil fifth and Jenson Button sixth for McLaren.

Vettel has 107 points, Raikkonen 86 and Alonso 78.

TYRE PROTEST

The day had started with controversy, with Red Bull making an official protest after discovering that Mercedes had taken part in a secret tyre test with Pirelli in Spain last week, and uncertainty after the German team had failed to convert their previous poles into wins.

Rosberg was not letting that cloud his day.

"We've had such a difficult time in the last couple of races, and dropping back so much," he said. "That was a little bit in the back of my mind but it was okay. I hope this is going to last.

"Today, the team gave me a great car. It's really fantastic to see how much they have been able to improve in a short space of time. This track suited us anyway."

Hamilton had started alongside Rosberg, who had secured his third successive pole and Mercedes's fourth on Saturday, but lost two places when the safety car was deployed for the first time this season on lap 31.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa triggered the intervention when he crashed heavily at the Ste. Devote corner at the end of the pit straight in a repeat of his Saturday smash at the same spot.

The Brazilian was attended to by medical staff, who put him in a neck brace while marshals mended the energy-absorbing barriers.

The safety car, deployed for eight laps, came out at the wrong time for Mercedes, who had to bring in Rosberg and Hamilton - the main loser - at the same time while Vettel had already pitted.

Eight laps after normal racing resumed, the red flags came out when Maldonado and British rookie Max Chilton collided, pitching the Williams hard into the safety barrier at the harbourside Tabac corner.

Maldonado, who had pitted for a new front wing after a first-lap incident at the hairpin also involving Caterham's Giedo van der Garde, walked away from the impact that sent the plastic barrier spilling on to the track.

There were some brave overtaking moves on the tight and twisty circuit, where passing is to be savoured rather than expected and cars skim the metal barriers in a high-speed train for lap after lap.

The safety car was deployed for the second time on lap 63 when Frenchman Romain Grosjean's Lotus rammed into the back of Australian Daniel Ricciardo's Toro Rosso at the tunnel exit and left debris scattered across the track.

Frenchman Charles Pic was the first retirement when his Caterham caught fire as he pulled up at Rascasse near the pit-lane entry on the ninth lap.

China crush Korea to retain Sudirman Cup title

Posted: 26 May 2013 05:53 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

China's badminton team celebrate during the awards presentation ceremony at the Sudirman Cup World Team Badminton Championships in Kuala Lumpur. — Reuters picKUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — Badminton powerhouse China extended their Sudirman Cup hegemony on Sunday, crushing South Korea 3-0 to win their ninth title in 10 final appearances.

The Chinese shuttlers did not drop a single set in the final of the world mixed team championship in Kuala Lumpur against a Korean squad consisting mostly of debutants.

World number two Chen Long won the men's singles while China also claimed the mixed and men's doubles rubbers to dash whatever hopes Korea had of repeating their famous 2003 victory over the formidable Chinese.

The world number one mixed doubles pair Xu Chen and Ma Jin trounced Ko Sung-hyun and Kim Ha-na 21-13 21-15 to give China the perfect start before Chen stepped on the court to beat Lee Dong-keun 21-15 21-10 in 48 minutes and extend the advantage.

Liu Xiaolong then joined forces with Qiu Zihan to beat Ko Sung-hyun and Lee Yong-dae 21-19 21-17 in the men's doubles to seal China's fifth straight Sudirman Cup title. — Reuters

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Why China’s film makers love to hate Japan

Posted: 26 May 2013 02:44 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

A customer walks past behind a shelf displaying Chinese film "Tunnel Warfare", featuring a small town defends itself from Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and other anti-japan films at a DVD shop in Beijing. — Reuters picHENGDIAN, (China), May 26 — Shi Zhongpeng dies for a living. For 3,000 yuan (RM1,476) a month, the sturdily built stuntman is killed over and over playing Japanese soldiers in war movies and TV series churned out by Chinese film studios.

Despite his lack of dramatic range, the 23-year-old's roles have made him a minor celebrity in China. Once, Shi says, he perished 31 times in a single day of battle. On the set of the television drama "Warning Smoke Everywhere," which has just finished shooting here at the sprawling Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang Province, he suffers a typically grisly fate.

"I play a shameful Japanese soldier in a way that when people watch, they feel he deserves to die," Shi says. "I get bombed in the end."

For Chinese audiences, the extras mown down in a screen war that never ends are a powerful reminder of Japan's brutal 14-year occupation, the climax of more than a century of humiliation at the hands of foreign powers.

Japanese foreign-policy scholars say more than 200 anti-Japanese films were made last year.

This well-nursed grudge is now a combustible ingredient in the dangerous territorial dispute over a group of rocky islands in the East China Sea, the most serious row between the two Asian powers since Japan's 1945 defeat. It is debatable which side has the better case for ownership of the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The United States, Japan's security-treaty partner, refuses to endorse either claim, only insisting the dispute be settled peacefully.

But decades of officially sanctioned hatred for Japan in China means Beijing is now caught in a propaganda trap of its own making. It has little room to negotiate or step back now that forces from both sides are circling in a potentially deadly standoff. Nationalism in Japan also makes concessions difficult for Tokyo. But the stakes are potentially higher for China's ruling Communist Party under its new, strongly nationalistic leader Xi Jinping.

"It is going to be very hard for the current Chinese leadership if they want to compromise," said He Yinan, a professor at New Jersey's Seton Hall University who studies the impact of wartime memory on Sino-Japanese relations. "It will be rejected by the public, and the leaders know it."

The tensions and the propaganda go far beyond the current spat. Underneath it all lies a struggle for power and influence in Asia between China and Japan - and political struggles within China itself. Many China watchers believe Beijing's leaders nurture anti-Japanese hatred to bolster their own legitimacy, which is coming under question among citizens livid over problems ranging from official corruption to rampant environmental pollution.

Politics drives output

As sparring continues in the East China Sea, open hostilities rage on Chinese screens.

On the hilly, forested set of "Warning Smoke Everywhere" at Hengdian, the world's biggest film lot, lead actor Jing Dong plays a young Chinese sniper taking on the invading Japanese in a second television version of a 2011 action film of the same name. In one scene, Jing and his comrades scramble through a village to reach a new firing position. In an interview between takes, the actor rejected suggestions that politics drives the output of these TV dramas and films.

"It's a theme people have liked for a long time," he said, wearing his Chinese Nationalist uniform with its distinctive German-style, coal-scuttle helmet. "That's a fact."

The film original, starring veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka-fai, was also released for foreign audiences with the English title, "Cold Steel." Adapted from a popular Internet novel, it tells the story of Mu Liangfeng, a young hunter who is drafted into the Nationalist army for his marksmanship. He duels with a ruthless Japanese sniper, Captain Masaya, in a series of bloody encounters. Both marksmen are in love, Mu with a war widow and Masaya with a Japanese military nurse. But the film draws a clear distinction between the moral qualities of the two combatants.

"I want to marry a samurai, not a murderer," Nurse Ryoko tells Masaya after accusing him of massacring civilians.

In the remake, director Li Yunliang says he isn't trying to demonize the wartime enemy. "The Japanese soldiers in our drama also have emotions," he says. "It's the war bringing suffering to both China and Japan."

The Communist rulers in Beijing will still find much to like. Pre-publicity material suggests the new storyline will have a harder political edge, concentrating more on the martial qualities of Communist forces who formed a united front with the Nationalists.

War stories

Some film reviewers in China say that with the censors declaring so many other subjects off limits, it is only natural that the war dominates story-telling in a competitive market for viewers and advertising.

"Only anti-Japanese themes aren't limited," says Zhu Dake, an outspoken culture critic and professor at Shanghai's Tongji University. "The people who make TV think that only through anti-Japanese themes will they be applauded by the narrow-minded patriots who like it."

Zhu estimates war stories make up about 70 percent of drama on Chinese television. The state administrator approved 69 anti-Japanese television series for production last year and about 100 films. Reports in the state-controlled media said up to 40 of these were shot at Hengdian alone. State television reported in April that more than 30 series about the war were filming or in planning by the end of March.

On any given night, state-owned television channels bombard Chinese viewers with the heroics of the two major Communist armies in combat with the Japanese, the Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army. Elaborate plots tap the period's rich history of deception, betrayal and collaboration.

In January, a tense seminar in Hong Kong brought together opinion makers from both sides, including senior retired military officers. There, the role of wartime drama was singled out as a major factor in plunging ties between the two nations.

"Yes, the Nanjing massacre did happen," Yasuhiro Matsuda, a professor at Tokyo University and a former Japanese defence ministry researcher, told the seminar. "Yes, Japan did invade China. These are facts. But, when there are more than 200 movies coming out, you can imagine the negative effect."

When Tokyo nationalized the disputed islands last September, buying them from a private Japanese owner, it provoked sometimes violent anti-Japanese protests in cities across China. In a telling indicator of the hostile mood in China, demand for Japanese products is falling across the board. Japanese exports to China for the year through March dropped 9.1 per cent to 11.3 trillion yen, according to Japanese customs figures.

Out in the East China Sea, both sides are so far exercising restraint. The risk of conflict through accident or miscalculation, however, remains high. Under Xi, China has intensified an air and sea campaign that military experts believe is aimed at wearing down Japanese forces around the potentially resource rich islands.

Fashioning party lore

Anti-Japanese films were instrumental in fashioning some of the Communist Party's foundation myths.

In the early years of the People's Republic, these films showed Mao Zedong's patriotic Communist guerrillas leading a heroic resistance. In contrast, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were portrayed as corrupt, ineffective and aligned with treacherous foreign powers, principally the United States. A vast majority of Chinese born before the 1970s remember the black-and-white classics from this period.

One of them, "Tunnel Warfare," is the world's most-watched film, with an estimated 1.8 billion viewers by 2006, according the August First Film Studio in Beijing, the Chinese military production house that turned out the 1964 landmark and many others like it. In "Tunnel Warfare", Maoist guerrilla strategies inspire resourceful peasants to dig extensive tunnel networks beneath their village homes, from which they emerge to harass the occupying Japanese.

Regular screenings during an era of tight political control and virtually no alternative entertainment meant generations of viewers saw these movies many times. They are often crude, with voiceovers making sure viewers get the point. The brutality of Japanese troops toward Chinese combatants and civilians is a staple, but the films paradoxically avoided over-vilifying the invaders. Japanese characters are rarely developed. Plot lines concentrate on Mao's triumph in leading the resistance, rather than the clear battlefield superiority of the invaders, which had Chinese forces in retreat right up to the end of the war.

In this period, Chinese film makers conformed to a wider geopolitical strategy, where Beijing was anxious to avoid alienating Tokyo, historians say.

The Communist Party wanted diplomatic recognition from Japan and also sought to drive a wedge between Washington and its most important regional ally. Strict censorship ruled out researching or publishing material about Japanese atrocities. In a move that would be unthinkable today, Beijing treated convicted Japanese war criminals leniently at the 1956 war crimes trials it held in Shenyang and Taiyuan. None of the 51 prisoners who stood trial were executed or sentenced to long terms.

Textbooks from this time mentioned key events and battles but played down the scope and impact of Japan's occupation. Film makers avoided the dramatic potential of atrocities such as the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Some historians suggest the Communists were also determined to suppress movies or detailed historical accounts of major campaigns: Otherwise, attention would have been drawn to the role of the Nationalist armies, which bore the overwhelming brunt of fighting the Japanese. In the sacking of Nanjing, the Nationalists' capital, Communist forces played little or no role in defending the doomed city.

Japanese atrocities revisited

This changed in the early 1980s when Chinese film makers began to turn their cameras unsparingly on Japan's wartime behaviour. Beijing had already won diplomatic recognition from Japan in 1972, and when the disastrous Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping abandoned its ruinous economic policies and began experimenting with market reforms.

For a ruling party desperate to recover its prestige and stamp out demands for political change, revisiting Japanese atrocities provided a useful distraction, historians say. In contrast, the party still vigorously suppresses any effort to document or publicise the calamities of its own making, including the starvation of tens of millions following Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward.

The official desire to foster nationalism intensified after the 1989 Tiananmen protests shook the party to its foundations. "Maybe the leadership realized that a memory of collective suffering at the hands of an external enemy is more effective in bringing people together," said Kristof Van Den Troost, a film and history researcher at Hong Kong's Chinese University.

One of the best known films of the era, "Red Sorghum" from 1987, based on a novel by 2012 Nobel prize winner Mo Yan, launched the careers of actress Gong Li and director Zhang Yimou. It pulled no punches, switching from a rich love story set in rural China to a blood-drenched climax in which the Japanese order a local butcher to skin alive a prisoner. "Skin him," the Japanese interpreter screams at the butcher, who in an act of mercy stabs the prisoner to death and is immediately machine-gunned. The butcher's assistant is then forced to skin another live prisoner, later revealed to be a communist guerrilla.

As war museums and memorials opened all over China, film makers were free to explore the orgy of killing and rape at Nanjing. Chinese estimates put the Nanjing death toll at 300,000. Japanese and some other foreign estimates are lower.

Today, while hewing to the official anti-Japanese line, some of these films are more subtle than their forerunners. In the 2009 box office hit, "The City of Life and Death," director Lu Chuan controversially included a relatively sympathetic Japanese character. Sergeant Kadokawa, played by Hideo Nakaizumi, stands apart from his comrades amid the orgy of violence in Nanjing.

But film makers can go too far. Jiang Wen, the male lead in "Red Sorghum," ran afoul of the state film administrator with "Devils on the Doorstep," his second film in the director's chair. The film won the Cannes Grand Jury Prize in 2000 but was subsequently banned in China. It mocks the confusion of peasants in a village in northern China entrusted with holding a captured Japanese soldier and his translator. Though the movie ends in a bloodbath for the villagers, censors attacked it for its sympathetic treatment of the Japanese prisoner and failure to depict the Chinese as selfless patriots.

Ludicrous plots

While studios continue to pump out drama, there are now signs scriptwriters are scratching for material. Critics inside and outside the government have been scathing about the ludicrous and violent plots of some of the more recent productions.

Some directors have merged war dramas with semi-mystical, martial arts action where virtually unarmed Chinese slaughter platoons of hapless Japanese.

In the television series "Anti-Japanese Knight," an unarmed Chinese martial art expert tears a Japanese soldier in half from head to crotch, the divided corpse suspended in the air with a skein of blood connecting the pieces. In another scene from the same series, a Japanese soldier's intestines are wrenched out of his abdomen in a fight sequence.

Under the weight of ridicule and disgust, officials from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television this month ordered a crackdown, insisting studios make "more serious" dramas.

Even Shi, the busy stuntman, is tiring of his role as a Japanese victim.

"I'm not good-looking so I play a Japanese soldier," he said. "I would really prefer playing a soldier in the Eighth Route Army." — Reuters

Boards of Canada drop first track in seven years

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:37 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

Boards Of Canada's 'Reach For The Dead'. - AFP picLONDON, May 26 — Scottish electronic act Boards of Canada is causing a massive buzz across the indie music blogs after dropping "Reach For The Dead," the group's first original track since 2006's "Trans-Canada Highways EP."

Elsewhere on the Hype Machine's most blogged artists charts, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros enter in ninth position thanks to their brand new single "Better Days."

Scottish electro act Boards of Canada, which comprises Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, just dropped brand new track "Reach For The Dead," which is taken from forthcoming LP "Tomorrow's Harvests," due out June 11.

The new track is causing a buzz, with We All Want Someone To Shout For describing it as "a stunner of a song that marks their return in a beautiful fashion" and Stereogum describing the track as "an ominous, humming instrumental drone-piece with just a few hints of the sad nostalgia that the group used to radiate."

Elsewhere on the Hype Machine's chart, US band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are causing a stir with the release of their track "Better Days," the lead single from their forthcoming self-titled studio album, due out July 23.

The 405 describes the track: "A soul-tinged and easy listening song, 'Better Days' is packed with 60s girl group styled backing vocals, rolling percussion and optimistic lyrics; making for an attractively raw yet incredibly warm single."

Surviving The Golden Age calls it "a soulful mid-tempo number complete with church choir backing vocals and a tribal beat." – AFP-Relaxnews

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A surprising way owning a dog may be good for you

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:41 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

Scientists say households with canines are home to more types of bacteria and that may be good for your health. — AFP/Relaxnews picRALEIGH, May 26 — Your loveable pooch is likely bringing a world of germs into your home, but don't fret. Exposure to a wide variety of microbes may be good for us, research finds.

A new US study from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado shows that households with canines are home to more types of bacteria than dog-free dwellings. You'll find particularly high concentrations of dog-related microbes on television screens and pillows.

"We wanted to know what variables influence the microbial ecosystems in our homes, and the biggest difference we've found so far is whether you own a dog," says Dr. Rob Dunn, co-author of the study. "For example, there are bacteria normally found in soil that are 700 times more common in dog-owning households than in those without dogs."

The researchers gave 40 families a home-sampling kit and asked them to swab nine locations within the home: a kitchen cutting board, a kitchen counter, a refrigerator shelf, a toilet seat, a pillowcase, a television screen, the main door's exterior handle and the upper trim on both an interior door and an exterior door.

The researchers then collected DNA to see which organisms were present. All told, the 40 homes harboured 7,726 different types of bacteria, with each location harbouring its own unique bacteria. "We leave a microbial 'fingerprint' on everything we touch," Dunn says. "Sometimes those microbes come from our skin, sometimes they're oral bacteria and — as often as not — they're human faecal bacteria."

Dunn and his colleagues then looked for variables that would alter bacterial communities from home to home, such as cats or children. The only one they found that made any difference was whether or not the family had a dog.

According to the findings, pillowcases and TV screens of dog-owners had 42 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively, more microbial groups compared to those of non-dog-owners. 

But all those extra microbes may be good for your health, the scientists say. Prior research has found that women who have a dog in the home when pregnant are less likely to have children with allergies. Researchers suspect this is likely to due to the boost the immune system gets from being exposed to greater numbers of microbes. — AFP/Relaxnews

150 years after Gettysburg, drummer to recreate reunion march

Posted: 25 May 2013 11:56 PM PDT

May 26, 2013

Jim Smith (left), 70, of Hempfield, leads members of the Grand Army of the Republic Post 88, Pittsburgh, and the Armbrust Veterans and Civil War Re-enactors, for a ceremony at the graveside of Peter Guibert, a Union Civil War drummer boy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 24, 2013. — Reuters picPITTSBURGH, May 26 — Fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the US Civil War, a survivor of that fight marched 320 km from Pittsburgh to the site of the battle for a reunion attended by both Union and Confederate veterans.

Today, another veteran, Jim Smith, 70, of Hempfield, Pennsylvania, will start out on the same trek as part of the observation of Memorial Day, when Americans honour their war dead. By a stroke of luck, Smith will be carrying the same drum — a throaty field snare — played by his spiritual forebear, Union Army veteran Peter Guibert.

"Getting Peter's drum was a fortuitous happening," said Smith, a US Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and a retired mechanical engineer.

Smith, a drummer and hobbyist who restores musical instruments, was profiled by a Pennsylvania newspaper about 30 years ago when he started a fife and drum crops in western Pennsylvania.

That story caught the attention of Betty Mower, now 87, whose uncle, Otto Guibert, had recently died. Mower had inherited a relic from her uncle's attic, which she knew only as "Grandpa Peter's army drum," she recalled at a Friday memorial service for Peter Guibert.

Mower had considered throwing away the drum, which she had not been allowed to touch as a child, but thought it would interest Smith and got in touch with him.

"When it had been up in the attic, it got encrusted with coal dust and it looked pretty decrepit," Smith said. "It sat for quite a while, but I eventually got around to restoring it."

Smith became curious about the drum's owner, and after scouring military and civilian records, learned about Guibert's journey to Gettysburg.

He plans to recreate the march with Ray Zimmerman, 65, another Vietnam veteran. The men aim to arrive in Gettysburg in time for ceremonies to mark the 150th anniversary of the battle, which was fought from July 1-3, 1863.

Some 50,000 soldiers from the North and South died at Gettysburg, which is regarded as a turning point in the war that preserved the United States as a single country and also led to the abolition of slavery. — Reuters

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MIC bincang cadagan bergabung dengan PPP, IPF, Makkal Sakhti

Posted: 26 May 2013 01:00 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Mei — MIC akan duduk semeja dengan parti-parti politik mewakili kaum India atau mempunyai ramai anggota dari kaum itu seperti Parti Progresif Penduduk (PPP), Barisan Kemajuan India Malaysia (IPF) dan Makkal Sakthi dalam waktu terdekat untuk membincangkan kemungkinan kesemua parti berkenaan bergabung.

Presiden MIC Datuk Seri G.Palanivel berkata penggabungan tersebut bertujuan membolehkan kerjasama terjalin di antara kesemua parti politik yang terlibat demi kepentingan dan pembangunan masyarakat India di Malaysia bagi menghadapi  pilihan raya umum ke-14 (PRU14).

"Cadangan untuk menggabungkan kesemua parti ini dibangkitkan pada mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Kerja Pusat (CWC) MIC Jumaat lalu.

"Cadangan berkenaan akan saya kongsi bersama parti politik mewakili kaum India yang lain dalam waktu terdekat," katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan Mesyuarat Agung Persatuan Penulis Tamil Malaysia Ke-51 di sini, hari ini.

Palanivel yang juga Menteri Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar menjelaskan cadangan tersebut perlu dibincangkan dulu bersama parti-parti politik terlibat sebelum sebarang keputusan diambil.

Mengenai Persatuan Penulis Tamil Malaysia, Palanivel berkata Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bersetuju memberikan peruntukan berjumlah RM100,000 kepada persatuan berkenaan.

"Buat masa ini persatuan ini hanya menunggu peruntukan tersebut mendapat kelulusan," katanya.

Setiausaha persatuan tersebut A.Gunanathan berkata persatuan akan mengadakan sambutan jubli emas pada tahun ini.

Persatuan Penulis Tamil Malaysia mempunyai 1,500 anggota di seluruh negara.  – Bernama 

Warga emas maut jatuh dari jejambat

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:58 AM PDT

May 26, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Mei — Seorang warga emas maut selepas terhumban jatuh dari jejambat Lebuhraya Baru Pantai (NPE) ke atas Jalan Klang Lama di sini pagi ini setelah motosikalnya dirempuh sebuah kereta.

Ketua Trafik dan Ketenteraman Awam Polis Kontinjen Selangor Supt Zulkifli Joned berkata dalam kejadian kira-kira 7.40 pagi itu, Hassan Mohd Jani, 66, yang bersendirian menunggang motosikal jenis vespa, mati di tempat kejadian akibat cedera parah di bahagian kepala.

"Hassan dipercayai baru pulang dari Pasar Pudu menuju ke rumahnya di Kampung Medan dilanggar sebuah kereta Nissan Sentra, mengakibatkan mangsa jatuh dari jejambat NPE, dengan ketinggian kira-kira 20 meter ke Jalan Klang Lama," katanya ketika dihubungi Bernama.

Beliau berkata mayat mangsa dihantar ke Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya untuk bedah siasat.

Kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 41(1) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987 yang membawa hukuman penjara maksimum 10 tahun dan denda maksimum RM20,000. – Bernama

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Khairy Jamaluddin: Cerita tentang manusia dan mimpinya

Posted: 25 May 2013 04:34 PM PDT

[unable to retrieve full-text content]26 MEI — Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengambil langkah yang bijak dan betul kerana memilih Yang Berhormat (YB) Khairy Jamaluddin sebagai sebahagian orang penting dalam kabinetnya. Beliau telah dipilih sebagai Menteri Belia dan Sukan dalam usia yang masih muda, 37 tahun (lahir pada 10 Januari 1976 ) dan semua mereka samada musuh atau ...
    


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