Restricted Residence Act is repealed because it is outdated - PM

Restricted Residence Act is repealed because it is outdated - PM


Restricted Residence Act is repealed because it is outdated - PM

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT

The government decided to repeal the Restricted Residence Act 1933 (Act 377) because the legislation is outdated and no longer relevant with current needs, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

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Muhyiddin acknowledges country was once colonised

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:46 AM PDT

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today acknowledged that the country was once colonised by the British, but said that the concept was different.

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Fed Court dismisses Anwar's appeal on third bid to recuse judge

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:06 AM PDT

The Federal Court here today dismissed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal to set aside the refusal of High Court judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah to recuse himself from hearing the opposition leader's ongoing sodomy trial.

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PM announces release of 125 held under Restricted Residence Act

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:55 PM PDT

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today announced the immediate release of 125 people held under the Restricted Residence Act 1933 and the cancellation of more than 200 warrants yet to be served.

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Model house, a challenge to creativity

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:51 PM PDT

Would you like to challenge your artistic talent? Would you like to step into a dream of fairy tale? If yes, you should then try to make a model house of your own.

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Jackson doctor ordered gallons of killer drug

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:13 PM PDT

Michael Jackson's doctor faced mounting scrutiny Wednesday after a pharmacist said he had ordered over 250 vials of a powerful sedative in the two months before the star's 2009 overdose death.

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Money distribution politics

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:11 PM PDT

Regardless of the BN or the Pakatan Rakyat, they should propose policies to revive the economy and drive growth instead of emptying the Treasury while making the people to become more dependent on subsidies.

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VIDEO: UN resolution on Syria is vetoed

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:53 PM PDT

China and Russia have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria over its crackdown on anti-government protesters.


Democrat narrowly wins West Virginia governor’s race

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:06 PM PDT

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Oct 5 — Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin held on for a slim victory in the West Virginia governor's race yesterday, narrowly preventing a third state special election embarrassment for President Barack Obama. Longtime politician Tomblin, the acting governor, defeated mining engineer Bill Maloney, who has never held elected ...



UN resolution on Syria fails as Turkish pressure looms

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:39 PM PDT

AMMAN, Oct 5 — Russia and China have handed President Bashar al-Assad a diplomatic victory by vetoing a European-drafted UN Security Council resolution against Syria, after six months of a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Pressure, however, loomed from Syria's powerful neighbour Turkey, which has given refuge to a Syrian colonel who ...



French political spat over checks on would-be first lady

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:34 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist presidential favourite Francois Hollande asked France's conservative government on Tuesday to explain reports that police ran secretive checks on his partner, drawing the would-be first lady into a pre-election spat.



Protests born on Wall Street spreading across US

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:34 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protests that took shape in New York weeks ago, prompting hundreds of arrests, have spread across the United States with one organizer saying their message had "captured everyone's imagination."



No opposition accord yet on Sarawak parliamentary seats

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:17 PM PDT

After two rounds of talks, the PKR-DAP-PAS opposition pact has yet to reach a consensus on the allocation of the parliamentary seats each of the parties will contest in Sarawak in the next general election, according to party insiders.

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South Korea's cartoon penguin sparks paternity suit

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:13 PM PDT

Pororo, South Korea's friendly blue cartoon penguin beloved by children worldwide, has become the subject of a paternity suit in the land of his birth.

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S. Korea urges China not to repatriate refugees

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:11 PM PDT

South Korea's foreign minister urged China Wednesday not to repatriate a group of 35 North Korean refugees rounded up by Beijing last week.

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Bill Clinton aide confirmed as Haitian prime minister

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:10 PM PDT

Haiti's Senate late Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Garry Conille, an advisor to former US president Bill Clinton, to be the country's prime minister.

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British home gets Sistine Chapel makeover

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:09 PM PDT

A retired British decorator has transformed his home by covering its interior in renaissance-style murals to emulate the Sistine Chapel after being inspired by a book about the Vatican.

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Micro-breweries take on local flavour in China

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:06 PM PDT

In a poky room in a backstreet of Beijing, self-taught brewer Carl Setzer uses spicy Sichuan peppercorns, oolong tea leaves and cinnamon to invent beer flavours suited to Chinese tastebuds.

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Poets lead running for Nobel Literature prize

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two poets, one Swedish and the other Syrian, are leading the betting to win the 2011 Nobel Literature prize, a bookmaker said on Tuesday, though past prizes have often defied the predictions.



Iraq's Maliki wins backing for U.S. trainers, but no immunity

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:33 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday won more backing from the political blocs in his power-sharing government to negotiate on plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq as military trainers, but without granting them immunity if they commit crimes.



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