Siti Aishah happy in Britain, had wide circle of friends

KUALA LUMPUR: Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, the 69-year old Malaysian `slave` rescued from the grasps of a south London-based Maoist sect, is happy in London and had a lot of friends, her sister was quoted as saying in The Telegraph.

 Kamar Mahtum, 73, described the joy and sadness following her first emotional reunion with her sister in more than 40-years.

 Siti Aishah, who was allegedly held against her will for more than 30-years, said she was happy in Britain and had a wide circle of friends who cared for her, fed her and loved her.

 In the Nov 29 interview, the Telegraph quoted Kamar Mahtum as saying that Siti Aishah was so swept up in left-wing politics that she became totally isolated from her family and did not even know their mother passed away 19-years ago.

 The two sisters were reportedly reunited at a secret location in the north of England after Karmar mahtum flew to London immediately after discovering her sister had been found.

 Kamar Mahtum related to the English daily how Siti Aishah was doing well but was a different person compared to the fiercely bright quantity surveying student who left Malaysia full of ambition at the tail end of the 1960s.

 The retired teacher said: “At first I did not recognise her. She looked very different of course; 40-years older, the beautiful young girl had gone. But then again I am also an old woman now.”

 She said the first thing they did was to hug one another for a long time as the years of separation fell away.

 “I cried, first out of relief, but then out of anger and then out of frustration. She asked me, ‘how is mum?’ and I said, ‘mum is gone’.

 “She did not show any emotion at that point. She had tears in her eyes, but I think they were out of respect for me. But I had the sob of my life.

  “The last time I sobbed like that was when I lost my mother in 1994. We could not contact Aishah to let her know because we did not know where she was.”

  During the 40 minute reunion meeting, the pair did not discuss the conditions in which Miss Wahab and the other rescued women had been living, nor their alleged captors, Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda Pattni.

   She told The Daily Telegraph: “When I asked her about what had gone on she just clammed up. The only thing she wanted me to perceive is that she is happy.

   “She told me, ‘I have got friends here, I work here. I do important work here’, but she could not reveal what it was she did.”

   “Each time she said something that made me smile she would say, ‘oh I love your smile. Don’t frown, laugh, smile’.”

   Siti Aishah and the other two alleged slaves – believed to be Josephine Herivel, 57, from Northern Ireland and 30-year-old Prem Davies – were released last month after the Freedom Charity received a call from one of the women complaining they had been held against their will for 30-years.

   Police from the Met’s human trafficking unit described the case as unique and said as well as investigating allegations of physical assault they were also looking at the “invisible handcuffs” that had been used to keep them in “captivity”.

   In the interview with the Telegraph, Kamar Mahtum said her instinct had been to reach out and help her little sister, but Siti Aishah insisted she had never been lonely in London and had people who looked out for her.

   “Aishah said, ‘I’ve got enough’, ‘my friends feed me’, ‘my friends love me, I love them, they help me out.”

   She added: “When she said that I felt that she was trying to tell me … that even without us, she can survive, as she has been for the last 40 years. We’re nothing that important. I felt a lot of disappointment.”

   But she said Siti Aishah had promised to return to Malaysia to be reunited with the rest of her family once the investigation into allegations of slavery was complete, a process which could take at least a year.

   She explained: “She promised that after the investigation was over she would come home. As the rest of her family I want her to come home very, very badly.

   “I want her to know my children. I want my children to know her. Because part of her is me and part of her is in my children and I want them to recognise the similarity and the identity across the generations. I still feel emotional about it.”

   Kamar Mahtum admitted that her sister had been in London for so long that she now appeared to be more British than Malaysian.

   “She was wearing a thick red cardigan and brown pants, very comfortable. She was commenting on my Malaysian attire, my attire is very delicate, velvety, she said this is not something to wear in this cold weather.

   “When I tried to talk in Malay she said, ‘why do you speak in Malay, when I haven’t heard it for 40-years.

   “I showed her the letter that I had written, but she said, ‘what is this word?’ she could no longer read Malay.”

   Kamar Mahtum said the last time the pair had seen each other had been in 1967 when she won a place at university and moved to London with her fiancé.

   Two years later when the older sister married in Malaysia, Siti Aishah failed to return.

   She became more involved with radical politics, so the communication dried up and she has never met any of her older sister’s four children or 11 grandchildren.

   Describing the meeting, which was attended by around 10 police officers and representatives from the Malaysian High Commission, Kamar Mahtum said seeing that her sister was safe meant she had achieved what she came to Britain to do.

   She said: “It was a very emotional day, very revealing, but then I was contented that I got what I wanted and I can bring home the beautiful memories. I have a feeling that she does want to come home eventually and that we will work hard to persuade her.”

   “At least I know that my feelings have never wavered, I love her as my sister as I loved her before. I think she loves me too but she’s not as ready to show it as much as I do.

   She added: “The blood bonds us thickly as yet, 40-years doesn’t make much change as far as that is concerned.”

   Balakrishnan and his wife Pattni have been bailed until a date in January.

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Tembak anak disangka penyamun

Kajang: Helah seorang warga emas mereka cerita konon anak lelakinya ditembak sekumpulan lelaki yang ingin menyamun rumah mereka di Kampung Baru Balakong, Batu 9 Cheras, dekat sini tidak menjadi apabila polis menemui selaras senapang jenis pump gun miliknya yang disorokkan di belakang pintu rumahnya itu.

Lelaki yang berusia 76 tahun sebelum itu mendakwa anaknya mati akibat ditembak di kepala selepas sekumpulan penyamun yang terdiri daripada enam lelaki datang menyamun pekerja mereka jam 10 malam kelmarin sebelum melarikan diri.


Bagaimanapun, soal siasat anggota polis menimbulkan keraguan terhadap dakwaan itu apabila lelaki berkenaan kerap menukar jalan cerita sebelum penemuan selaras senapang jenis pump gun yang dipercayai sengaja disorokkan.

Warga emas itu akhirnya mengaku tidak sengaja menembak anaknya kerana ketika kejadian keadaan adalah gelap dan akibat terlalu takut, dia menyorokkan senjata berkenaan. Ketua Polis Daerah Kajang Asisten Komisioner Ab Rashid Ab Wahab berkata, ketika kejadian, suspek dan anaknya yang juga peniaga daging panggang berusia 51 tahun itu keluar memeriksa pondok tempat tinggal seorang pekerja mereka yang juga warga Myanmar selepas terdengar jeritan lelaki itu meminta tolong.


“Suspek membawa senapang berkenaan manakala anaknya pula memegang parang. Ketika membuat pemeriksaan di dalam rumah itu, suspek tidak menyedari anaknya terlebih dulu meluru ke hadapan.


“Dalam keadaan gelap, suspek ternampak kelibat seorang lelaki memegang parang yang disangka penyamun sebelum melepaskan tiga das tembakan dan satu daripadanya mengenai kepala mangsa,” katanya dalam sidang media di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Kajang, semalam.

Katanya, suspek sebenar dipercayai seorang lelaki tempatan yang bersenjatakan sebatang besi pula sudah melarikan diri melalui pintu hadapan rumah berkenaan sebaik pekerja berkenaan menjerit.


“Selain senapang berkenaan, pemeriksaan di lokasi kejadian turut menemui lima kelongsong peluru, 24 butir peluru dan parang yang mempunyai kesan darah dipercayai dipegang mangsa,” katanya.

Menurutnya, siasatan mendapati suspek sudah memiliki lesen senjata api berkenaan sejak 1967 bagi tujuan mencegah musuh tanaman berikutan mempunyai kebun tanaman di belakang rumahnya.


Difahamkan, mangsa, Chong Kuan Fatt yang maut di tempat kejadian dan anak tunggalnya berusia 12 tahun tinggal bersama kedua-dua ibu bapanya itu selepas kematian isteri beberapa tahun lalu akibat kanser.


Ab Rashid berkata, suspek ditahan bagi membantu siasatan sebelum dibebaskan dengan jaminan polis pagi semalam.


Katanya, siasatan lanjut dijalankan mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan kerana membunuh.

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Serah semua wang diwarisi

London: Seorang wanita yang mati secara misteri ketika tinggal bersama pengikut kumpulan Maoist menyerahkan semua £60,000, wang yang diwarisi daripada mendiang bapanya kepada kumpulan pelampau itu.

Sian Davies mewarisi wang berkenaan apabila bapanya, Alun meninggal dunia pada 1970 tetapi dipercayai menghabiskan semuanya untuk membiayai kumpulan itu yang berpangkalan di London Selatan.


Apabila Sian mati, dia hanya memiliki £5 dalam akaun banknya dan satu-satunya yang ditinggalkannya ialah beberapa buku mengenai Marxist.

Menurut laporan lain, keluarga Sian yang bimbang dia dieksploitasi kumpulan itu membekukan akaun banknya.


Dia mati pada 1997 selepas tengkuknya patah akibat jatuh dari tingkap sebuah bangunan di Brixton, tempat dia tinggal bersama-sama pemimpin kumpulan berkenaan, Aravindan Balakrishnan dan pengikutnya yang lain.


Tiga wanita lain termasuk anak Sian, Rosie yang tinggal bersama kumpulan berkenaan dibebaskan minggu lalu.

Mereka diwawancara polis buat kali pertama kelmarin ketika pihak berkuasa berusaha menyiasat untuk memastikan sama ada Balakrishnan yang dikenali sebagai Comrade Bala dan isterinya, Chanda boleh didakwa.


Sian yang berusia 44 tahun ketika dia mati, dibesarkan dalam keluarga kelas pertengahan di Wales Utara dan menuntut di Kolej Perempuan Cheltenham yang berprestij.

Dia terpengaruh untuk menyertai Institut Pekerja Fahaman Marxist-Lenin-Mao Zedong selepas berpindah untuk meneruskan pengajian di universiti di London pada 1977.


Menurut akhbar Guardian, kumpulan itu bergantung kepada wang Sian selama beberapa tahun.


Sepupunya, Eleri Morgan berkata, ibu Sian mengambil keputusan membekukan akaun banknya dalam usaha untuk menyekat dia menghabiskan semua wangnya untuk kumpulan pelampau itu.


Kumpulan itu dipercayai tinggal untuk beberapa waktu di sebuah rumah di Battersea milik Sian sebelum dia memberikan mereka £10,000 untuk menyewa ibu pejabat mereka di Brixton.


Keluarganya tidak menyedari Sian melahirkan anak perempuan ketika tinggal bersama Balakrishnan dan tidak diberitahu bahawa dia mati selepas terjatuh dari bangunan tempat mereka tinggal.

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Tipis nak jumpa

Jelebu: “Tipis nak jumpa,” antara kandungan ‘Whats App’ dihantar editor majalah Astro AWANI, Zan Azlee Zainal Abidin iaitu anak saudara Siti Aishah Abd Wahab, 69, kepada ahli keluarga ketika menyampaikan perkembangan terkini wanita Malaysia yang dilaporkan media Britain menjadi mangsa penghambaan selama 30 tahun di United Kingdom.

Zan Azlee kini berada di London bersama ibu saudaranya, Kamar Mahtum Abd Wahab, 73.


Anak saudara wanita itu, Siti Zawiyah Othman, 55, ketika ditemui di rumahnya di Kampung Binjai, di sini, semalam berkata, jika betul dakwaan itu, usaha ibu saudaranya, Kamar ke sana sia-sia.

“Kami sekeluarga kecewa dan tertanya-tanya kenapa Kamar tidak dapat berjumpa Siti Aishah “Menjadi harapan Kamar untuk melihat keadaan Siti Aishah. Sekiranya tidak dapat membawa pulang, kami faham, tetapi bagilah peluang kepada mereka untuk berjumpa,” katanya. Dia yang juga anak kepada Hasnah, 88, kakak sulung kepada dua beradik itu berharap kerajaan campur tangan bagi membolehkan ibu saudaranya berjumpa dengan Siti Aishah.


“Ini saja harapan keluarga kami buat masa ini iaitu Kamar dibenarkan berjumpa Siti Aishah.


“Malah saya difahamkan, hari ini (semalam) kira-kira jam 4.30 petang (waktu tempatan) Kamar akan berjumpa Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Malaysia di London, Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong untuk membincangkan kemungkinan berjumpa Siti Aishah,” katanya. Sementara itu, Hasnah yang kurang pendengaran dilaporkan kerap bertanya mengenai adiknya kepada Siti Zawiyah.



“Dia dapat mengecam adiknya melalui gambar Siti Aishah di televisyen dan surat khabar,” kata Zawiyah.


Semalam, akhbar melaporkan warga Malaysia berusia 69 tahun yang disyaki menjadi mangsa perhambaan dan dikurung di daerah Lamberth, United Kingdom sejak 30 tahun lalu dipercayai wanita kelahiran Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan.

Ia berikutan pengakuan bekas guru, Kamar Mahtum bahawa mangsa adalah adiknya, Siti Aishah yang hilang sejak 30 tahun lalu.


Kamar mendakwa, adiknya yang kini berusia 69 tahun, meninggalkan Malaysia pada 1968 bersama tunang untuk melanjutkan pelajaran dalam bidang ukur bahan selepas mendapat Biasiswa Komanwel.


Namun, ketika berada di UK, Siti Aishah dipercayai terpengaruh dengan pergerakan Maoist yang mengamalkan politik melampau hingga mengabaikan pengajiannya.

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Ehh...tak bosan ke?

Kuala Lumpur: “Tak bosan ke, tak habis-habis cerita saya dan Hans terus diperkatakan? Sudah masuk tahun ketiga cerita begini timbul. Bosanlah asyik benda sama saja,” jawab pelakon Neelofa berhubung desas-desus mendakwa hubungannya dengan pelakon dan penerbit Hans Isaac kembali intim selepas kontroversi hubungan mereka senyap seketika sebelum ini.

Neelofa atau nama sebenarnya Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor, 24, berkata, gosip mengaitkan dirinya mempunyai hubungan dengan aktor itu adalah sesuatu yang basi dan bukan perkara baru yang perlu disensasikan lagi.


“Boleh tak bagi orang (di luar) dengar benda-benda baru pula? Contohnya, kalau ada sebarang perkembangan mengenai dakwaan, itu lainlah cerita.

“Kami hanya berkawan seperti sebelum ini. Kalau ada perkembangan sudah tentu saya dedahkan kepada semua,” katanya ketika dihubungi, semalam.


Desas-desus mengatakan mereka menjalin hubungan mula menjadi bualan ramai selepas kedua-duanya terbabit dalam penggambaran filem Lemak Kampung Santan dua tahun lalu.


Bagaimanapun, sama ada Neelofa atau Hans menafikan dakwaan berkenaan dan sebaliknya menyifatkan hubungan mereka sebagai kawan rapat saja.

Terbaru, kelibat pasangan ini didakwa dilihat bersiar-siar bersama di beberapa lokasi di Singapura pada hujung minggu lalu.


Neelofa berkata, cerita itu adalah tidak benar dan tidak berasas kerana dakwaan seumpama itu bukan pertama kali dialaminya sejak bergelar selebriti.

“Itu bukan saya. Saya berada di Malaysia minggu lalu. Saya pasti orang salah nampak atau mereka-reka cerita untuk mensensasikan keadaan.


“Bukan kali pertama tuduhan begini dilemparkan kepada saya. Sebelum ini ada saja cerita yang timbul orang nampak saya di sana dan sini dengan dia (Hans).


“Saya tak nafikan kadang-kadang ada yang betul tapi kebanyakannya ditokok tambah saja,” katanya.

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Bukan lagi ancaman kepada negara

Kluang: Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) berharap kumpulan berhaluan kiri di negara ini tidak mengambil kesempatan atas kepulangan Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, 69, wanita tempatan yang dijadikan hamba domestik selama 30 tahun di Britain yang sebelum ini dikatakan menyokong perjuangan mereka.

Menterinya, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata, walaupun Siti Aishah yang akan dibawa pulang dari London mempunyai rekod sebagai aktivis berhaluan kiri, namun wanita itu kini bukan lagi ancaman kepada keselamatan negara.


Menurutnya, kumpulan berfahaman komunis dan berhaluan kiri diingatkan supaya tidak mengambil kesempatan, sebaliknya memberi ruang kepada wanita itu untuk kembali ke pangkal jalan.

“Kumpulan berhaluan kiri seperti individu yang menghantar kakak Siti Aishah (Kamar Mahtum) ke lapangan terbang (Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur, Sepang) untuk ke London juga diharap tidak lagi meneruskan perjuangan zaman 1970-an yang tidak relevan pada 2013.


“KDN berharap Siti Aishah pulang untuk berehat kerana dia juga sudah uzur, jangan pula bila balik nanti buat ‘road show’ (jelajah) untuk mengembangkan fahaman karut itu. Sepatutnya, dia bertaubat nasuha dan meninggalkan aktiviti itu,” katanya.


Beliau berkata demikian selepas mengiringi Sultan Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar merasmikan Sekolah Agama Tarbiyah Husnul Khatimah di Kompleks Penjara Kluang di sini, semalam.

Pada 22 November lalu, polis United Kingdom melaporkan tiga wanita termasuk Siti Aishah diselamatkan selepas mereka didakwa menjadi hamba domestik selama 30 tahun di sebuah rumah di selatan London.


Susulan itu, Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar kelmarin mendedahkan bahawa Siti Aishah pernah menjadi buruan polis kerana menjalankan aktiviti berhaluan kiri dan memperjuangkan fahaman komunis sebelum ke London.

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Masih belum dapat bertemu Siti Aishah

Kuala Lumpur: Kementerian Luar melalui Suruhanjaya Tinggi Malaysia (STM) di London masih belum dapat bertemu rakyat Malaysia, Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab walaupun pihak berkuasa United Kingdom sudah mengesahkan secara rasmi identiti seorang daripada tiga mangsa berkenaan adalah Aishah.

Wisma Putra dalam satu kenyataan berkata, sehingga pagi semalam, pihak berkuasa United Kingdom mengesahkan mangsa terbabit warganegara Malaysia dengan nama berdaftar Aishah Wahab dan tarikh lahir 27 Mei 1944.


“Memandangkan kes ini masih di peringkat siasatan, akses bagi mendapatkan maklumat lanjut terhad dan tertakluk kepada Akta Perlindungan Data 1998 (Data Protection Act 1998) mengikut undang-undang tempatan United Kingdom. “Pihak berkuasa tempatan belum memberikan akses terus kepada mangsa setakat ini. STM akan menghulurkan kerjasama sepenuhnya kepada pihak terbabit dalam membantu urusan penyiasatan,” kata.

Menurutnya, STM juga akan mengambil langkah susulan bagi menentukan status mangsa dari segi undang-undang.

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London ‘slave’ Siti Aishah in hospital, rallying from stroke

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28 — Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab is being treated in an undisclosed hospital after suffering a recent stroke following her rescue from a south London flat where she was purportedly enslaved for over 30 years by a communist radical, The Star Online reported today.

The news was relayed by a relative currently in London to Siti Aishah’s niece in Jelebu, Negri Sembilan, Siti Zawiyah Othman.

“We have also been told that my aunt is in a stable condition,” Siti Zawiyah was quoted as saying at her Kuala Klawang home in the Negri Sembilan district.

The 55-year-old niece told the news portal that the family does not know which hospital Siti Aishah is being warded in.

British authorities have been keeping a tight lid on the whereabouts of Siti Aishah and the two other woman who were rescued alongside the 69-year-old Malaysian in a police operation last month.

Siti Aishah’s elder sister Kamar Mahtum Abdul Wahab, 73, who flew to the British capital Monday night with former student activist Hishammuddin Rais and a reporter from The Daily Telegraph, is reportedly still waiting for clearance from the authorities to meet her long-lost sibling.

“Aunt Kamar Mahtum is scheduled to return to Malaysia on December 4. She needs time to be with Siti Aishah and convince her to come home as well,” Siti Zawiyah was quoted saying.

The Malaysian High Commission in London has also been pressing Britain for consular access to the woman, but has yet to be given permission.

In a statement today, Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry said its access to information on the case has also been limited due to restrictions under UK’s Data Protection Act 1998.

Yesterday, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that Siti Aishah was the 69-year-old Malaysian woman who had been reported to have lived under three decades of domestic servitude with two other women, a 57-year-old Irish and a 30-year-old Briton, ending days of speculation following the shocking news report.

The leaders of the Maoist sect were reported to be India-born Aravindan Balakrishnan and his Tanzanian-Indian wife Chandra Pattni, who have since been arrested last Thursday after their three suspected captives were freed in a police operation earlier this month.

The three women were finally rescued on October 25 after one of them secretly contacted a British charity group, Freedom Charity, that had been featured on television.

The UK’s Daily Mail today reported the Irish woman to be Josephine Herivel, the daughter of World War II codebreaker John Herivel, who deciphered the Enigma code.

The youngest captive had been reported to be Rosie Davies, whose mother is said to be Sian Davies.

The elder Davies had also lived at another property owned by Balakrishnan and his wife, where she fell out of bathroom window in 1996 under mysterious circumstances and died from her injuries seven months later in 1997, aged 44.

Police said the three surviving women, who are believed to have been living in a flat in Brixton, London, were brainwashed and had reported being beaten, but did not appear to have been sexually abused.

They were occasionally allowed out of the house and detectives are working to understand the “invisible handcuffs” that were used to control them.

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5 Tricks To Fall Asleep Faster

Not getting enough sleep will take a toll on your health and job performance.

Robert Oexman, director of the Sleep to Live Institute, tells Business Insider that a "lack of sleep can manifest itself in erratic behavior, short tempers, and bad decision-making."

Workers who are sleep-deprived are more likely to have difficulty remembering details and have a harder time dealing with high-stress situations. And t hose who regularly skimp on sleep — getting just one to two hours less than the hours you need —  increase their risk of  infection,  weight gain, diabetes, and  heart disease, says Oexman.

To help you get the rest you need, we've compiled five easy tricks to fall asleep faster:
1. Stick to a bedroom routine.
You should participate in the same relaxing activities before heading to bed each night, says Oexman. Some helpful exercises include taking a hot bath or reading a book in low light.  Oexman also recommends keeping your room cool (65 to 68 degrees F) and dark.
2. Don't use your phone as an alarm clock.
We know that we should set limits on technology usage before bedtime. You may not know that even having your phone nearby isn't helping you sleep, since you may feel inclined to check it if you can't fall asleep.

"Your bedroom should be reserved for sleep, sex, and nothing else," says Oxeman. "There’s no excuse — if your cell phone is your alarm clock, then buy a $5 alarm clock and solve the problem."
3. Practice deep breathing.
Once you're in bed, if your body is still wired from the day, you will have a difficult time falling asleep. According to an article on WebMD,  when you practice deep breathing, your brain recognizes that you're trying to relax and sends a message to your body to do so. "Those things that happen when you are stressed, such as increased heart rate, fast breathing, and high blood pressure, all decrease as you breathe deeply to relax."

Vikki Stark advises in Psychology Today how to effectively breathe deeply:

"On the inhale, visualize the clean, fresh air coming into your lungs, traveling around your body and cleansing all your cells. On the exhale, imagine all the toxins and negativity being safely expelled into the atmosphere, leaving your body restored. Focus on this steady, calm inhale-exhale, and I guarantee that you will start to feel more peaceful and relaxed. But it's not going to happen the first time you try it. It's an exercise so you need to practice it to get the best effect. Keep going till you feel your body let go."
4. Relax the muscles in your toes.
Progressive muscle relaxation is a method that helps relieve anxiety and stress, which often keeps people up at night. This technique requires you to focus on tensing and relaxing a specific muscle group. Catherine Darley, director of the Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine in Seattle, advises focusing this progressive relaxation technique on your toes.

"Curl your toes tightly for a count of seven, and then relax," she says in Health.com. "Repeat through each muscle group, working up from your toes to your neck."
5. Participate in a mindless activity.
Sleep expert  Dr. Vicky Seelall recommends playing a mindless game, such as   counting backwards from 100 in multiples of three. This rhythm of counting can put you in a sleepy state and is exactly the reason why people "count sheep" to fall asleep. Counting in multiples of three is more difficult than merely counting backwards and will force your brain to focus just on the counting so that your mind won't wander into other thoughts.
More From Business Insider 13 Scientific Reasons To Drink CoffeePeople Are Broadcasting Their Own Sex Shows With The PlayStation 411 Bizarre Sleeping Habits Of Highly Successful People

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Komunikasi yang penting dalam perhubungan tetapi sering diabaikan

Sudah banyak diceritakan dalam tips tips cinta dan perhubungan bahawa komunikasi adalah satu perkara yang sangat penting. Hubungan yang terjalin boleh kekal selamanya jika anda tahu cara menggunakan komunikasi yang baik saat bersama pasangan anda tidak kiralah di waktu biasa atau di dalam pergaduhan.



Jangan anggap komunikasi adalah satu perkara yang remeh, kerana jika anda salah dalam tindakan dan tidak mengamalkan komunikasi yang betul, anda sebenarnya telah meletakkan hubungan anda di tahap yang bahaya.



Jangan sesekali beranggapan jika anda sudah memiliki si dia, anda tidak perlu lagi menggunakan bahasa yang baik seperti semasa di dalam proses memikat dulu. Anda salah sebenarnya! Ingat, jika anda tidak melayan pasangan anda dengan baik sekarang, tidak mustahil ada orang lain yang sedang menaruh hati dan melayan dia dengan baik.



Jadi bertindaklah sekarang jika anda tidak mahu kehilangan si dia. Mungkin anda berfikir, “eleh, dia dah jadi awek aku, jadi tak payah lah susah susah nak pikat lagi”, atau “ala dia dah memang boyfriend aku la, apa aku kata pun dia mesti terima punya”.



Adakah anda tahu, antara punca perpisahan di kalangan pasangan kekasih mahupun yang sudah berkahwin adalah kerana kurangnya komunikasi yang baik di antara mereka?



Masing masing mahu tunjuk ego lalu mereka pendam segala kemungkinan untuk berkomunikasi dengan baik, lalu terjadilah perpisahan yang sangat menyakitkan. Anda pasti tidak mahu hubungan anda jadi begitu kan?



Mari kita singkap komunikasi yang sangat penting dalam sesebuah perhubungan tetapi sering diabaikan:-



Pertanyaan yang mesra

Selalu tak anda mengucapkan selamat pada pasangan anda? Contohnya seperti mengucapkan selamat pagi dan selamat malam, ditambah pula dengan panggilan yang mesra dan manja. “Morning sayang, dah breakfast?” atau “Selamat malam, I love u”, . Nampak jiwang dan remeh kan?



Tapi sebenarnya, perkara yang dianggap kecil begini sangat penting dalam hubungan. Anda tidak perlu menjadi seorang yang romantik hanya untuk menghantar satu ucapan selamat pada kekasih anda kan? Takkan nak hantar satu ucapan untuk kekasih pun anda tidak ada masa?



Biar sibuk macam mana pun, anda harus bertanya khabar dengan pasangan anda. Tiada alasan untuk anda mengatakan sibuk sehingga 2 atau 3 hari tidak menegurnya. Satu pesanan ringkas SMS tidak mengambil masa yang lama kan?



Saya beri anda satu lagi contoh situasi. Si suami bekerja sebagai doktor dan si isteri pula bekerja sebagai peguam. Secara logik, masa untuk mereka bersama sangat sikit dan pastinya kerjaya mereka menuntut satu pengorbanan masa yang amat tinggi. Cuba anda fikir, sudah tentu mereka jarang berkomunikasi kan?



Tetapi adakah anda tahu bagaimana hubungan suami isteri itu boleh tetap bahagia walaupun masing masing sibuk? Itu adalah kerana adanya kuasa komunikasi yang baik antara mereka berdua. Jadi anda tidak boleh menggunakan alasan sibuk berkerja lalu mengendahkan pasangan.

Komunikasi saat pertelingkahan atau perselisihan faham

Masa tengah marah, orang kata macam macam perkataan yang akan keluar dari mulut kita tanpa kita sedari. Tapi ingatlah, anda tidak boleh menelan balik kata kata yang telah anda keluarkan hanya dengan alasan anda sedang marah.



Jadi sebelum apa apa perkara yang tidak elok berlaku, lebih baik sekiranya kita belajar cara untuk berkomunikasi dengan betul semasa bergaduh. Mula mula, apa yang perlu anda lakukan adalah, jangan biar emosi mengawal diri anda. Tidak kiralah siapa yang mulakan pertelingkahan dulu, anda seharusnya cuba untuk mengawal emosi dari bertindak tanpa batasan.



Jika anda yang tidak puas hati, tanya dengan si dia dengan bahasa yang halus dan lembut. Pergaduhan biasanya terjadi bila salah seorang dari anda mula bercakap dengan nada yang tinggi.



Jadi elakkan menggunakan bahasa yang kasar dan nada yang tinggi. Jika dia yang memulakan pergaduhan, cuba pujuk si dia dengan bahasa yang lembut juga. Tanyakan padanya apa yang tidak kena dan jelaskan yang anda tidak berniat untuk menyakiti hatinya.



Jika si dia sedang marah dan mengeluarkan kata kata yang membuatkan anda terasa hati, jangan melawan dan apa yang perlu anda lakukan ketika itu adalah diam. Apa akan jadi jika api berlawan dengan api? Sudah tentu bertambah parah kan?



Bersabar seketika kerana selepas dia sudah reda dari kemarahannya, dia akan meminta maaf kembali, percayalah jika si dia benar benar cintakan anda, dia akan menyesal dengan keterlanjurannya sebentar tadi. Yang penting, jangan dua dua ego, salah seorang mesti mengalah.



Dalam setiap perhubungan, kita tidak akan dapat elak dari pergaduhan dan pertelingkahan, tetapi kita boleh belajar untuk menjadi lebih baik dari setiap pertelingkahan itu. Hubungan anda dan si dia akan jadi lebih baik selepas anda berdua faham tentang diri masing masing.



Komunikasi ketika berhadapan dengan keadaan

Apa yang saya maksudkan adalah komunikasi apabila berhadapan dengan sesuatu keadaan yang tidak dirancang seperti si dia dalam keadaan sedih atau murung tiba tiba, pasangan anda jatuh sakit, dan pasangan anda dilanda masalah.



Tahukah anda, di saat ini pasangan anda sangat memerlukan anda, dan tahukah anda juga bahawa ramai orang tidak tahu cara untuk handle keadaan ini dengan baik? Contohnya bila teman wanita anda sedang dalam keadaan sedih. Anda sebagai teman lelaki seharusnya cuba untuk membuatkan teman wanita anda tenang.



Apatah lagi apabila dia mengadu tentang masalahnya pada anda, apa yang anda harus lakukan adalah memberinya semangat. Jangan sesekali abaikan setiap aduannya pada anda. Jika anda sedang sibuk saat dia mengadu masalah, katakan alasan anda dengan baik.



Jangan lukakan hatinya dengan kata kata kasar seperti, “saya tengah busy lah, lain kali lah ek”, atau “awak boleh tak jangan tambah beban saya dengan masalah awak? Saya tengah sibuk dan ada banyak benda lain lagi nak fikir”,



Di saat itu, anda telah membuatkannya lebih jauh kecewa. Apa yang perempuan harapkan sebenarnya adalah perhatian dan kasih sayang anda sebagai kekasihnya. Mereka tidak berharap anda akan menyelesaikan masalahnya, tapi cukuplah jika anda dapat menemaninya saat dia susah hati.



Ini berbeza pula dengan perangai lelaki. Lelaki bila ada masalah, dia tidak mahu teman wanitanya tahu. Jadi anda sebagai teman wanita harus faham apabila si dia berada dalam keadaan murung, jangan tanya secara direct tentang masalahnya. Cuba ceriakan dia dengan perkara lain. Jangan desak dia ceritakan masalah dia kepada anda. Lelaki sangat pantang apabila didesak.



Itu saja yang dapat dikongsikan dahulu untuk artikel ini. Diharapkan agar kita semua dapat jadi kekasih yang terbaik untuk pasangan masing masing. Kita tidak dapat elak dari masalah sepanjang hidup kita, tapi kita mampu untuk menyelesaikan masalah itu dengan baik jika kena dengan caranya. Dari hari ke hari, berusahalah untuk mengubah diri kita ke arah yang lebih baik untuk kebahagiaan kita dan pasangan sehingga ke akhir hayat.

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The trouble with MyKad

PETALING JAYA, Nov 25 — If you decide to leave your driving licence at home, thinking your MyKad has all the details, think again as an experience at a roadblock shows that it can land you in a lot of trouble.

Having incorporated my licence into the MyKad, I left my driver’s licence at home and headed to Shah Alam from Klang on my motorcycle recently.

That is when trouble began. Just after the Sungai Rasau toll plaza, there was a Road Transport Department (RTD) roadblock on the motorcycle lane. As usual, they requested for my road tax and licence.

I handed my MyKad, telling them my details are in it.

The officer then searched for a card reader and managed to get one from a another officer.

He inserted the MyKad into the reader and said sternly my licence had expired many years ago.

I said this was impossible as I had renewed it recently. An argument ensued and several other officers soon milled around me.

One of them even insinuated that I was lying while I retorted that their system was wrong.

One officer even showed me the reader and it showed that my licence had expired in 1998. I then told them to verify it with the headquarters. 

A senior officer came over to calm the situation. He telephoned the RTD headquarters to verify my details and after several minutes my story checked out.

He said I should update my details with the National Registration Department (NRD) as they were incomplete.

Obligingly, I went to NRD but the officer there said my details were complete as clearly stated in his reader.

When I told the officer of my encounter with the RTD officers, he said they did not know how to read the information.

“I have heard of this before. All they had to do was to just scroll down and the latest details will be there,” the officer said.

I was speechless and have since resorted to carrying my licence again.

The Malay Mail Online

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UK slaves bound with ‘invisible handcuffs’ in communist group, says Telegraph

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — The three women, including a Malaysian, who were held as slaves for 30 years in London were not physically restrained, but were bound with “invisible handcuffs” in a communist collective run by their captors, the Daily Telegraphreported yesterday.

The UK newspaper reported that the two suspects in one of Britain’s strangest cases of modern-day slavery had run a communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped Chinese communist revolutionary leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, and that recruited women from other far left-wing groups, who were encouraged to engage in “revolutionary work”.

Police who probe slavery and domestic servitude allegations reportedly said that the London slavery case was unique and that as part of their “extremely complex” investigation, they are trying to understand the “invisible handcuffs” that prevented the three victims from leaving the group.

The alleged captors, who are husband and wife and reportedly hail from India and Tanzania, were arrested last week for holding three women against their will in a house in London for at least three decades, but have since been released on bail.

The couple was suspected of subjecting their three female victims — a 69-year-old Malaysian, a 57-year-old Irish, and a 30-year-old Briton — to physical and mental abuse.

The Daily Telegraph reported that the couple, based in Brixton, south London, had set up a “notorious communist squat” in 1974 and were subsequently imprisoned in connection with their political activities.

The organisation reportedly published pamphlets calling for the downfall of Western capitalism, besides running study groups, lectures and organising film screenings.

The UK newspaper reported that the police arrested 14 members of the organisation in 1978, including the two leaders, who were subsequently jailed for assaulting a police officer.

The organisation then reportedly broke up after the headquarters were closed, with the two leaders moving into a squat in Brixton with several followers.

Commander Steve Rodhouse from the Metropolitan Police, who is leading the investigation into allegations of slavery, was reported by the Daily Telegraph as saying that the Malaysian and the Irish women had met their alleged captors through a political group.

“We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a ‘collective’,” Rodhouse was quoted as saying.

“Somehow that collective came to an end and how the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects. How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims’ lives,” he added.

Local news website The Star Online reportedly said last Saturday that the Malaysian High Commission in London has contacted the British police and Freedom Charity, a UK-based charity group that initiated the rescue mission after being contacted by one of the captives, to get in touch with the Malaysian victim.

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Cinta punca bakar diri

Kuala Lumpur: Angkara cinta dipercayai menjadi punca seorang lelaki yang juga anak seorang tokoh korporat membakar diri di rumahnya di Taman Tun Dr Ismail, di sini, awal pagi semalam.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 1 pagi, lelaki berusia 20 tahun terbabit dikatakan baru tiba di rumahnya selepas keluar berjumpa rakan sebelum meminta minyak petrol daripada bapanya dan masuk ke dalam biliknya.

Sumber berkata, pelajar jurusan ekonomi dari sebuah universiti luar negara itu membakar diri di bahagian balkoni biliknya menggunakan minyak petrol itu sebelum ditemui ibunya dalam keadaan rentung lebih 80 peratus.

“Sebelum kejadian, mangsa berjumpa rakan dan berlaku pergaduhan. Mangsa disyaki mempunyai hubungan dengan seorang penari kelab malam. Wanita terbabit disyaki mengandung anak hasil hubungan mereka.

“Wanita terbabit menyuruh mangsa bertanggungjawab, namun mangsa enggan. Wanita itu memberitahu seorang rakan mereka yang dipercayai mengugut mangsa supaya bertanggungjawab,” katanya.

Menurut sumber, hubungan terbabit menyebabkan mangsa mengalami tekanan lalu bertindak nekad membunuh diri dengan membakar dirinya.

Katanya, kejadian itu hanya disedari ibu mangsa kira-kira jam 4 pagi ketika bangun daripada tidur dan melihat asap dari balkoni bilik anak lelakinya.

Sumber berkata, ibu mangsa masuk ke dalam bilik mangsa dan terkejut melihat anak lelakinya rentung.

Berikutan itu, bapa mangsa dimaklumkan mengenai kejadian itu sebelum menghubungi polis untuk siasatan lanjut.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Brickfields, Asisten Komisioner Azlee Abdullah ketika dihubungi mengesahkan kejadian itu dan kes disiasat sebagai kematian mengejut.

Beliau berkata, mayat mangsa dihantar ke Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya (PPUM) untuk bedah siasat.

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Beri laluan atlet muda

Petra Jaya: Ratu terjun negara, Pandelela Rinong sanggup melepaskan beberapa acara pernah disertai dan menjadi prospek menyumbang pingat emas pada temasya Sukan SEA Myanmar bulan depan semata-mata mahu memberi peluang kepada penerjun baru.

Lantaran keputusan itu, prospek emas yang mungkin diraih pada temasya kali ini menerusi terjun boleh disifatkan sebagai ‘pertarungan maut’ berikutan sandaran skuad negara mula beralih kepada penerjun baru.

“Saya ‘menyerahkan’ acara jaminan emas kerana memberi peluang kepada muka baru mempamerkan aksi masing-masing. Ini sebagai pendekatan membuktikan sejauh mana mereka bersaing di peringkat antarabangsa tanpa mengharap penerjun senior,” katanya yang hanya menyertai acara 10 meter platform individu.

Katanya, keputusan itu juga mencerahkan peluang penerjun muda bagi membuktikan kemampuan masing-masing dalam perebutan pingat kontinjen negara.


“Saya yakin penerjun muda mempunyai potensi besar menghadiahkan sekurang-kurangnya pingat gangsa terutama dalam acara 10m platform terjun berirama dan 3m terjun papan anjal.




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Siram petrol ekzos meletup

Kuala Lumpur: Tindakan seorang ‘mekanik amatur’ menyiram ekzos motosikal dibaikinya dengan petrol mengundang padah apabila ekzos itu meletup, menyebabkan muka, telinga dan tangannya melecur.

Kejadian berlaku di rumah mangsa, Fathul Mizan Albar di Kampung Pandan, di sini, ketika remaja berusia 17 tahun itu membaiki motosikal Yamaha 125Z milik abangnya, kira-kira jam 6.30 petang kelmarin.

Fathul berkata, sebelum kejadian abangnya meminta dia membaiki ekzos motosikal yang dikhuatiri tersumbat.

“Saya tanggalkan ekzos itu dari motosikal dan memeriksanya. Yakin ekzos itu tersumbat, saya menyiram dengan petrol dan membakarnya seperti yang pernah saya lakukan sebelum ini sebelum memadamnya kembali.

FATHUL menerima rawatan di HKL, semalam.


“Namun, beberapa minit kemudian ekzos itu tiba-tiba meletup,” katanya ketika ditemui wartawan di Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), di sini, semalam.




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Kereta dilarikan di stesen minyak

KUALA LUMPUR: “Kami hanya singgah sebentar di stesen minyak ini untuk ke tandas kira-kira 10 minit namun sebaik keluar saya terkejut apabila kereta dan anak saya yang sedang tidur di dalam kereta hilang,” kata Roswati Rahmat ibu kepada Iskandar Zulkarnain Borhan, 25, yang hilang dipercayai dilarikan.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 7 malam semalam, Roswati, 55, memberhentikan kereta di laluan luar stesen minyak Petronas selepas plaza tol Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam dan keluar untuk ke tandas, manakala suami Abul Malik Abdul Latif ke kedai serbaneka stesen minyak itu.

Menurutnya, ketika itu enjin kereta Subaru XV berwarna putih dengan nombor pendaftaran WXQ 191 itu tidak dimatikan manakala anak mereka Iskandar sedang tidur kerana kepenatan.

“Kami dalam perjalanan pulang dari kampung di Melaka ke rumah di Sungai Buloh. Iskandar ketika itu berada dalam kereta di bahagian tempat duduk belakang sedang tidur.


“Apabila menyedari kereta hilang, saya cuba hubungi nombor telefon saya yang tertinggal dalam kereta kerana telefon Iskandar rosak. Beberapa kali panggilan saya tidak berjawab. Tidak lama selepas itu, saya tidak dapat menghubungi nombor berkenaan. Mungkin talian telah dimatikan,” katanya ketika dihubungi.


Sementara itu, abang mangsa, Fairuz ketika dihubungi berkata, dia bergegas ke stesen minyak berkenaan selepas mengetahui kejadian itu dan terus mengambil ibu bapanya membuat laporan polis,

Beliau juga menghebahkan kejadian menerusi laman sosial dan Facebook Malaysian Crime Awareness Campaign (MCAC). Mereka yang mempunyai maklumat mengenai kejadian diminta menghubungi Fairuz di talian 012-2585802.

Laporan polis juga sudah dibuat di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Shah Alam pada jam 8 malam dan bilik gerakan ketika dihubungi mengesahkan menerima laporan.

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‘Tolong jangan bantu dia’

Kajang: “Rakyat Malaysia, tolong hentikan sumbangan kepada anak saya. Malah, saya reda jika dia ditangkap dan dihukum,” kata seorang wanita warga Palestin selepas mengetahui anak lelakinya menipu dan menyalahgunakan wang sumbangan rakyat Malaysia untuk membantu rakyat negara itu.

Malah, wanita berusia 60 tahun mahu dikenali sebagai Zahrah turut membuat laporan polis semalam selepas ditumbuk anaknya berusia 27 tahun itu di rumah tumpangannya di Sungai Kantan, di sini, semalam.

Zahrah berkata, dia dan seorang lagi anak lelakinya, Khaled Alzahar, 20, datang ke Malaysia dua minggu lalu selepas suspek menjemputnya datang, kononnya untuk membincangkan hal perniagaan.

Menurutnya, suspek berkahwin dengan seorang wanita tempatan yang menjalankan aktiviti kemanusiaan di Palestin, Mac lalu sebelum berhijrah dan menetap di negara ini tiga bulan kemudian.

ZAHRAH menceritakan perangai anaknya kepada wartawan Harian Metro.


“Malah, saya cukup sedih kerana anak saya (suspek) tergamak memukul isterinya hingga keguguran dan sebelum ini dia mengugut mahu menyembelih ayahnya sendiri ketika bekas suami saya itu datang berjumpanya di sini September lalu,” katanya kepada Harian Metro, semalam.




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Maut rempuh tembok parit

Ledang: Sepasang suami isteri maut apabila kenderaan pelbagai guna (MPV) Proton Exora dinaiki mereka terbabas di Kilometer 9.5 Lebuhraya Ayer Keroh, Melaka, Jasin (AMJ), Kesang dekat sini, petang semalam.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 4 petang itu, mangsa yang juga seorang juruteknik, Sharil Yusuf, 42, dari Kampung Batu 5, Tanjung Gading, dekat sini, maut di tempat kejadian akibat cedera parah di kepala dan badan.

Manakala isterinya yang memandu kenderaan itu, Roslina Mahmud, 40, meninggal dunia di Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah (HPSF) Muar ketika mendapatkan rawatan kecemasan kira-kira sejam kemudian.

Difahamkan, ketika kejadian, pasangan suami isteri itu dalam perjalanan dari Melaka ke rumah mereka yang hanya kira-kira dua kilometer dari tempat kejadian. Roslina dipercayai gagal mengawal kenderaan sebelum terbabas lalu merempuh tembok konkrit parit di simpang Kampung Parit Fajar, lebuh raya itu.


Adik Sharil, Idris 30-an berkata, Roslina ke Melaka untuk mengambil Sharil yang habis bekerja.




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Keluar jel tubuh geng

Seremban: Dua suspek yang baru dibebaskan dari penjara Ogos lalu kerana terbabit dalam kes pecah rumah didapati tidak serik apabila kembali aktif melakukan jenayah itu dan curi kenderaan dengan menubuhkan geng baru yang menyasarkan kediaman di sekitar Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Melaka dan negeri ini.

Bagaimanapun, kegiatan kumpulan dikenali Geng Arif Kecik itu lumpuh apabila kedua-dua suspek bersama dua wanita yang juga adik beradik ditahan sepasukan polis Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Seremban diketuai Inspektor Roswadi Ismail dalam serbuan di sebuah rumah flat di Paroi, di sini, 8 November lalu.

Ketua Polis Daerah Seremban Asisten Komisioner Zainal Abu berkata, suspek berusia antara 21 dan 26 tahun itu ditahan di rumah keluarga adik beradik itu ketika tidur kira-kira jam 6 pagi.

“Hasil risikan, empat suspek serta dua wanita berusia 25 dan 26 tahun dipercayai aktif memecah masuk rumah dan curi kenderaan pada malam hari menggunakan pemutar skru.


“Dengan tertangkapnya empat suspek itu, kita berjaya menyelesaikan 10 kes pecah rumah dan curi kenderaan di empat negeri berkenaan,” katanya dalam sidang media di IPD Seremban, di sini, semalam.




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Masa Raja sudah habis!

Kuala Lumpur: Masa sudah tiba buat jurulatih kebangsaan Datuk K Rajagobal untuk berundur selepas kegagalan Harimau Malaya layak secara automatik ke pusingan akhir Piala Asia 2015.

Jika sebelum ini Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia (FA M) masih mahu memberikan ‘talian hayat’ kepada pengendali negara itu untuk menghabiskan misi itu namun kekalahan kepada Qatar pada aksi kedua terakhir kumpulan D yang meranapkan impian negara seharusnya membuatkan FAM membuka mata.

Bukan hanya keputusan dalam kempen Piala Asia saja yang harus diambil kira namun prestasi sepanjang tahun skuad kebangsaan bagi 2013 amat mengecewakan apabila hanya menang dua dalam 19 perlawanan.

Setiausaha Agung FAM Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin mengaku badan induk itu tidak berminat untuk menyambung kontrak Rajagobal yang bakal berakhir 31 Disember ini.

REAKSI pemain negara selepas wisel penamat ditiup.


Bagaimanapun perkara itu akan dimuktamadkan pada Mesyuarat Exco FAM Ahad ini termasuk sama ada membenarkan Rajagobal terus membimbing skuad kebangsaan bagi aksi terakhir kumpulan menentang Yaman pada Mac tahun depan.




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Tuhan Harun akhirnya tewas

Ledang: Ketua ajaran sesat Tuhan Harun yang nama sebenarnya Harun Mat Saat dicekup polis di sebuah rumah Taman Bandar Baru Tangkak, di sini, semalam langsung tidak pernah dilihat jiran sejak dia menyewa di rumah itu kira-kira dua minggu lalu.

Seorang jiran mahu dikenali sebagai Roslan, 40, berkata, dia hanya pernah ternampak seorang lelaki bernama Hairi di laman rumah dan lelaki itu tergesa-gesa masuk selepas melihatnya.

“Saya menyangka mereka sekeluarga dan baru dua minggu menyewa rumah itu. Kehidupan mereka agak aneh kerana tidak pernah bertegur sapa dengan jiran.

“Mereka juga menggunakan kenderaan pelbagai guna (MPV) cermin gelap, manakala pintu dan pagar sentiasa ditutup,” katanya, semalam.

GAMBAR fail Harun ketika dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Majistret Kuantan atas tuduhan menipu tidak lama dulu.


Harun yang dikehendaki polis dan Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (JAIP) ditahan di sebuah rumah berkembar di Jalan Puteri 2/15, taman berkenaan bersama seorang wanita dipercayai isterinya, Azida Mohd Zol, 30, kira-kira jam 3.30 petang.




Artikel ini disiarkan pada : 2013/11/21

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Egypt police fire teargas to clear Tahrir Square

By Tarek Fahmy and Maggie Fick

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired teargas to drive protesters out of Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, breaking up a demonstration commemorating 42 protesters killed two years ago while opposing the government that took power after Hosni Mubarak's downfall.

The rally was aimed against people the protesters felt had "betrayed" the revolution - Mubarak loyalists, the military council that ruled for 17 months after his fall and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood which won subsequent elections but was ousted by the military in July.

But many in the crowd voiced their desire to overthrow what they called the new "military junta", the government installed by the army after removing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Several hundred riot police moved in shortly before midnight to clear the few dozen protesters still in Tahrir Square, a Reuters reporter said. Protesters threw rocks and fireworks but left the square shortly after the security forces moved in.

A security official said the police decided to clear the square after protesters had tried to storm the headquarters of the Arab League. The authorities would allow them to remain in nearby streets, the official added.

"Down with the military regime," the protesters chanted earlier in the day, a common refrain during the period of army-led government that followed Mubarak's downfall.

Supporters of army chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who promised stability and elections when he overthrew Mursi in July, also showed up at Tahrir but were chased away by activists.

The protesters said the goals of the uprising that toppled Mubarak in 2011 had not been met and accused the security forces of acting with impunity in the intervening two years.

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Security forces have killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members since Mursi was toppled. Thousands have been arrested and the group has been outlawed.

"I am not for the Brotherhood. But I sympathize with them because of what happened at Rabaa," said high school student Salma, referring to a pro-Mursi protest camp in Cairo that was crushed by security forces in August.

"It was a horrible massacre. There was more freedom under Mursi."

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Mubarak's downfall raised hopes for more political freedoms but Egypt has stumbled through its transition. Since Mursi's removal, a wave of militant attacks against the state has further clouded Egypt's political outlook.

A Sinai-based militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for the assassination on Monday of a high-ranking security officer, according to a statement posted on a militant Islamist website. Mohamed Mabrouk, the officer, was shot dead outside his home in northeast Cairo.

During his troubled year in office, Mursi alienated many Egyptians who accused him of trying to give himself sweeping powers and mismanaging the economy.

The army's subsequent takeover has raised questions about whether Egypt will achieve the democracy hoped for by the activists who took to Tahrir Square in 2011.

"We have a president in name but we know Sisi is really in charge. We want freedom and democracy and the military don't know those things," said university student Marina Samir, 19.

Hadiga al-Hanawy, among about 1,000 demonstrators moving through central Cairo towards the Tahrir area, said: "We do not want Sisi as president. He is a strong defense minister and he should remain in that position. We want a civilian leader."

Many Egyptians believe Sisi would become president if he ran for office.

On nearby Mohamed Mahmoud Street, the scene of the 2011 clashes, a wall that street artists used to express revolutionary ideas was covered in coats of paint resembling the pattern of military fatigues.

On Facebook, artists explained that the wall "got a new coat of paint last night. Like the military trying to hide the truth, all the graffiti is now hidden under pink camouflage."

On Monday, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi visited Tahrir to lay the cornerstone of a planned memorial in the square.

The government says the monument will honor the "martyrs" not only of the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising, but also of what it calls the "June 30 revolution," referring to the date of mass disturbances that precipitated Mursi's ouster.

Activists say it insults the memory of protesters killed.

(Additional reporting by Seham Eloraby; Writing by Michael Georgy/Tom Perry; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Jackie Frank)

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China dismisses as absurd Spanish arrest warrants over Tibet

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MADRID (Reuters) - Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and ex prime minister Li Peng could face arrest when travelling abroad over allegations they committed genocide in Tibet, a Spanish court ruled on Tuesday, in a case Beijing has dismissed as absurd.

Two Tibetan support groups and a monk with Spanish nationality brought the case against the former leaders in 2006 using Spanish law, which allows suspects to be tried for human rights abuses committed abroad when a Spanish victim is involved.

The two former leaders and three other high-ranking officials who worked in the government in the 1980s and 1990s, are accused of human rights abuses in the Himalayan region.

Tuesday's court order will now trigger arrest warrants which in turn could result in the suspects being arrested when they travel to Spain or other countries which recognize orders signed by Spain.

Although it is unlikely the leaders will end up in a Spanish dock, the case is reminiscent of the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998 after a warrant was issued by former Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon.

Last month, another ruling by the same Spanish court indicted former Chinese president Hu Jintao for alleged genocide in Tibet. China's government denounced that move as interfering with its internal affairs.

Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the ethnic and religious affairs committee of China's top advisory body to parliament, said the case was absurd, in comments published by Chinese state media on Tuesday before the ruling.

"If some country's court takes on this matter, it will bring itself enormous embarrassment," Zhu said. "Go ahead if you dare."

Communist Chinese troops took control of Tibet in 1950. China says it "peacefully liberated" the remote mountainous region that it says was mired in poverty, exploitation and economic stagnation.

Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fled to India in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule. Exiled Tibetan groups are campaigning for the return of the Dalai Lama and self-rule for their region.

More than 120 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest against Chinese rule since 2009, mainly in heavily ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces rather than in what China terms the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Most of those who set themselves on fire have died.

(Reporting by Sarah Morris and Teresa Larraz Mora. Additional reporting by Michael Martina in Beijing. Editing by Julien Toyer, William Hardy and Jeremy Laurence)

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Rescue workers search for survivors after South Africa building collapse

DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Rescue workers picked through rubble and used sniffer dogs to search for survivors on Wednesday after a soccer pitch-sized section of a mall under construction collapsed near the South African city of Durban, killing one and injuring dozens more.

It was not immediately clear how many people might be still trapped under the rubble after the three-storey shopping mall in the town of Tongaat, 30 km (20 miles) north of Durban collapsed on Wednesday afternoon.

"We have no idea how many are trapped at the moment, but we've only got confirmation of three missing," police spokeswoman Mandy Govender told Reuters.

Sniffer dogs had located one "hot spot" area where workers were now using hydraulic rescue tools to try and break through slabs of concrete and steel bars, emergency services spokesman Chris Botha told broadcaster ENCA.

"It was just total chaos when we first arrived here," he said.

The cause of the collapse was also not clear, although Deputy Mayor Nomvuzo Shabalala said on Wednesday local authorities had tried to halt construction a month ago.

If safety regulations are found to have been flouted, the accident could hurt the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as it moves toward an election next year.

Durban and the surrounding province of KwaZulu-Natal are the home of President Jacob Zuma, and the region has enjoyed a construction boom in the last few years, based in part on government investment in infrastructure improvements.

Besides one confirmed death, 29 people, two of them in critical condition, were rushed to nearby hospitals, which initiated full-scale disaster plans, health officials said.

A high death toll could also sour labor relations in the construction sector, which has an otherwise decent safety record due to the strength of South Africa's unions.

The ANC is expected to win the election expected in April or May next year, although its share of the vote is likely to taper as young post-apartheid South Africans with no knowledge of white-minority rule come of age.

(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala and David Dolan; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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