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Teoh Beng Hock case to be reinvestigated
Shuttlers storm into semi-finals
Fahmi accuses Ambiga of exaggeration
Teoh Beng Hock case to be reinvestigated
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has promised that the police will reopen their investigations into the death of former political aide Teoh Beng Hock.
“I guarantee the investigation this time will be conducted fairly and transparently without interference from any party.
“In particular, it will consider the Court of Appeal’s views on this case on Sept 5, 2014,” he said after meeting Teoh’s family.
The Court of Appeal had found that Teoh’s death in 2009 was caused by one or several unknown persons including MACC officers.
Teoh died at the age of 30 on July 16, 2009. He was found dead on the fifth-floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after being questioned overnight on the 14th floor of the then-Selangor MACC headquarters.
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Shuttlers storm into semi-finals
Both the Malaysian men’s and women’s doubles pairs stormed into the badminton semi-finals at the Paris Olympics in search of the first gold medal for the nation.
Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik defeated India’s former world number one Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty 13-21, 21-14, and 21-16.
In the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Chia and Soh won the bronze medal.
Earlier, Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan defeated South Korea’s world number 10 Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong in their quarter-final match to clinch a spot in the last four.
A total of nine out of Malaysia’s 13 Olympic medals in the past have come from badminton, with two more each in diving and cycling.
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Fahmi accuses Ambiga of exaggeration
Government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil has accused former Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan of exaggeration with regard to her crowning the current administration as the “most dictatorial”.
Recalling the crackdown under the Internal Security Act in 1987 when Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister, he said: “This is not a government that launches ‘Ops Lalang’. It’s a hyperbolic statement (from her).”
Fahmi also pointed to a recent demonstration against Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, where participants were not punished but instead given water to drink along with some bread.
A day earlier, Ambiga’s successor in Bersih, Muhammad Faisal Abdul Aziz, also expressed his disagreement.
He said while her frustration with the slow pace of reforms is understandable, calling the government “most dictatorial” was “quite extreme”.
Ambiga had made the statement over the government’s move to impose new licensing laws for social media operators.
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