Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:51
Posted by Muhammad Iqbal
PETALING JAYA: Tens of thousands of people rallied near Malaysia's capital on Saturday night against alleged electoral fraud, further raising the political temperature after divisive recent polls.The latest in a series of protest rallies over the May 5 elections which the opposition says were won fraudulently by the 56-year-old ruling coalition saw a large crowd gather in an open field outside Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia's Home Minister Zahid Hamidi had earlier called the rally a "provocation", coming after four people were arrested including two opposition politicians, actions that sparked allegations of a post-election crackdown on dissent.There were no reports of any police action against the latest rally, which was to include speeches by top opposition figures including leader Anwar Ibrahim.Opposition speakers vowed to expose electoral fraud and keep up the pressure on the Barisan Nasional (National Front) government."We are never disappointed because we have won decisively, the moral victory. Tough times never ...
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PETALING JAYA: Tens of thousands of people rallied near Malaysia's capital on Saturday night against alleged electoral fraud, further raising the political temperature after divisive recent polls.The latest in a series of protest rallies over the May 5 elections which the opposition says were won fraudulently by the 56-year-old ruling coalition saw a large crowd gather in an open field outside Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia's Home Minister Zahid Hamidi had earlier called the rally a "provocation", coming after four people were arrested including two opposition politicians, actions that sparked allegations of a post-election crackdown on dissent.There were no reports of any police action against the latest rally, which was to include speeches by top opposition figures including leader Anwar Ibrahim.Opposition speakers vowed to expose electoral fraud and keep up the pressure on the Barisan Nasional (National Front) government."We are never disappointed because we have won decisively, the moral victory. Tough times never ...
TOKYO: A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assasinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of hauntings.Abe has not moved into the prime minister's official residence for five months since he took power.Asked by an opposition lawmaker about the reported hauntings, the government issued a formal statement on Friday saying it was not ...
TOKYO: Four researchers were exposed to radiation in an accident at a Japanese nuclear physics laboratory this week, officials said Saturday.The accident occurred on Thursday at a laboratory in Tokaimura, 120 kilometres (75 miles) northeast of Tokyo, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) said.The researchers were carrying out an experiment to generate particles by firing a proton beam at gold when the accident happened, it said.There was no widespread radiation leak and none of the ...
BEIJING: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's special envoy told a top Chinese defence official Friday that his country wants to solve problems on the Korean peninsula through dialogue, Beijing's state media said.The comments by Kim's emissary Choe Ryong-Hae were reported by the official Xinhua news agency and came a day after Chinese state television quoted him as saying Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to engage in talks.The North engaged in months of sabre-rattling after ...
HANOI: Vietnamese inflation slowed to its weakest pace in eight months in May, official data showed Friday, in the latest sign that the communist-run economy is cooling.Consumer prices rose 6.36 percent year-on-year in May, the Government Statistics Office said, slightly down from a 6.61 percent increase reported in April.Economists attribute the slowdown in inflation to past monetary policy tightening and an easing of demand from domestic consumers.Communist Vietnam is struggling with a host of economic ...
TOKYO: Three Chinese government ships sailed in waters around disputed islands controlled by Tokyo for about nine hours on Thursday, Japan's coastguard said.The Chinese maritime surveillance vessels were spotted in the 12-nautical-mile zone off the Senkaku islands, which China calls the Diaoyus, in the East China Sea shortly before 9:30 am (0030 GMT), the coastguard said.They left the zone at around 6:30 pm, it said later.It was the latest in a long line of stand-offs ...
KATHMANDU: An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official said.Yuichiro Miura and his party arrived at the summit at around 9am (0315 GMT), according to the website."I feel like the happiest person in the world. How could I have come so far at the world's oldest age of 80," Miura said. "I have never felt ...
