
DAP to hold fresh party polls tomorrow
This is to comply with a directive from the Registrar of Societies and hopefully lay to rest the long-running dispute between the two bodies.





UPDATED 6.32PM Lawyers Latheefa Koya and Andrew Khoo mull the ambiguities of the wording, while Gobind Singh says it's still no right to trial.

The MCA divisions in Perak have expressed support for the party president to defend his post in the party polls in December.



Kedah Umno has proposed that candidates contesting in the upcoming party elections be allowed to meet delegates themselves.





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Ahmad Zahid Hamidi shrugs off the notion, saying the detention order can still be challenged in the High Court.

He has to bathe naked before others, claims Hindraf deputy secretary RN Raja, who likens conditions to a Nazi concentration camp.


De facto law minister Nancy Shukri points out that countries people always look up to had also carried out similar exercises.

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He ducks questions on detention without trial as inappropriate, ironically at a forum about 'serious crime'.

COMMENT
Twice recently the liberal ghosts of Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman returned to haunt the body politic in Malaysia.


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Bringing back detention without trial to tackle crime proves that the PM's transformation programme has failed.

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‘Hopefully this was not another movie made on taxpayers' money - that's all the average person cares about.'

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He insists it's a purely crime-fighting tool, and claims it in fact takes the power away from the minister.

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'This is obscene corruption. Cartoonist Zunar aptly described this land as Pirates of the Carry-bn.'


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'Even if the Utusan's apology is published in the front page, I am of the opinion that it is not sincere.'
