Gay Malaysian pastor to tie the knot with his partner

KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian self-confessed gay pastor is to marry his African-American partner soon.

Press reports stated that Rev Ou Yang Wen Feng (pic) was likely to wed the Broadway musical producer by the end of the month or early September with ceremonies planned in New York and Malaysia.

Ou Yang told AFP in an interview in Hong Kong that his partner had popped the question on June 26, two days after New York City legalised same-sex marriages.

Ex-UMNO propagandist on Najib's media men, 'bloated cabinet'

Prime Minister Najib Razak has eleven media officers, almost four times the number who served Dr Mahathir Mohamad at any one time.

Revealing this today, former New Straits Times Berhad's group editor-in-chief A Kadir Jasin (pic) said the 'big names' acting as media advisors for Najib include former TV3 chief Farid Redzuan and former deputy chief for Reuters Malaysia, Jalil Abdul Hamid.

MCA Chua Soi Lek may not be fielded as a candidate for Barisan Nasional in the next general election.

The indications are there and this is why he is getting desperate and easily agitated, resulting in his current “scolding spree”.

MCA insiders in the know pointed out that Chua was perturbed and frustrated by the appointment of MIC president Senator G. Palanivel as a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

“It hurt his ego and pride. As president of BN’s second largest coalition party, he should have also been appointed,” said the party insider.

The insider said the Chinese community’s contiuous fall in support for the MCA and Chua’s immoral image had made him a liability to the BN.

Joint call for freeze on Cambodian maids

Tenaganita and Cambodian opposition MP have linked arms to stop the rising abuse of Cambodian domestic workers in Malaysia.

PETALING JAYA: Tenaganita and Cambodian opposition MP, Mu Sochua, today issued a joint call for a freeze on the recruitment of Cambodian domestic workers to Malaysia.

The call comes amidst the alarming rise in abuse and exploitation of Cambodian domestic workers in the country.

Last month an underage Cambodian domestic worker was found dead outside her employer’s house in Penang while another was recently rescued from her abusive employer in Segambut.

Mu Sochua, a well-known figure in the Sam Rainsy Party and a former Women’s Affairs Minister, arrived in Malaysia yesterday after numerous attempts to engage the Malaysian government failed.

Najib-Taib media scandal: The corruption of perception

The advertising critic Randall Rothenberg has suggested that there is something called a Media-Spindustrial Complex, which encompasses advertising, public relations, lobbying, polling, direct mail, investor relations, focus groups, jury consulting, speechwriting, radio and television stations, and newspapers - all of which are in the business of twisting and turning and gyrating the facts to suit a certain pre-designated goal.

Lies can now be told as truth and perceptions built around fantasy as long as you pretend to sell something else. This is the root of all manner of advertising and something that Malaysians have been sold onto for decades under the rule of Barisan Nasional.

Sexiest Filipina likes older men

Really, now. This supposed May-December affair is a bust. While drumbeaters are tripping all over themselves playing matchmakers to sexy star Sam Pinto and teen actor Alden Richards, the alleged "cougar" couldn't be more perplexed.

"It's flattering, but I'm not really that much older than Alden," Sam told us. "He's 19; I'm 21. Just because of my sexy image … people think I'm a cradle snatcher."

Truth to tell, Sam said she prefers "someone who's mature and will take care of me. Then again… Alden can very well surprise me!"

Taking his cue, Alden "surprised" Sam with dinner aboard a Manila Bay cruise ship, with the help of sweetdeals.com.ph and Barbara's restaurant on their first date last week.

Pakatan will take over in GE-13: "I feel it in my bones"

In the wake of the Bersih 2.0 rally for free-and-fair elections and given the many blunders made by Prime Minister Najib Razak in handling recent issues plus the "messy" way in which the country was being run, expectations for the Pakatan Rakyat to take over the federal government is high, come the next general election.

However, some remain unconvinced by the forecast of prominent academic Wong Chin Huat, who expects Pakatan to win 100 seats, 18 more than in the last general election. In the last general election, Barisan Nasional grabbed 140 out of the total 222 seats avaliable, losing its two-third majority.

Wong believed that the July 9 Bersih 2.0 rally may help push Pakatan Rakyat's 2008 tally of 75 federal seats to a whopping 100 seats. That would mean 12 seats short for the PR.

Guessing game on Najib's gay associates after leaked US cable

The reactivated sodomy trial against Anwar Ibrahim, dubbed Sodomy II, was never a moral campaign by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s adminstration. It was purely a political and evil attempt at removing the thorn in UMNO’s flesh, and destroying the lynch pin for the political  Opposition in Malaysia, and once and for all and restoring UMNO’s hold on the country.This was clearly stated in the latest leaked US diplomatic cable.

The cable was unusual in that it detailed the observations and comments by the US Consulate in Malaysia. In what may be the most non-partisan observation on the case, the cable states the obvious - that the trial is a farce and engineered to put to death Anwar Ibrahim’s political career. In the various scenarios listed within the document, Anwar would be brought down - either as a politician or as a public figure.

Oral sex Cathay stewardess revealed!

Cathay Pacific said it had launched a "full investigation" into photos allegedly showing a flight attendant performing oral sex on a pilot on board a plane of the Hong Kong carrier.

Several pixelated photos of the act have been published in local Chinese-language media, showing the woman in a red outfit resembling Cathay's cabin crew uniform giving oral sex to a man who the reports said was a pilot.

Amy Winehouse home is robbed

     

PERSONAL belongings were stolen from Amy Winehouse's house in the days after her death, it emerged yesterday.

Furious dad Mitch believes one of her acquaintances has taken copies of unreleased tracks, lyric books and letters.

And the ex-cabbie, 60, has vowed to root out the culprits when he returns from a family holiday taken to come to terms with his loss.

Around 20 people - including family, friends, security and police - have had access to the home since Amy died.

Riots: Meet the accuse

Lifeguard, postman, hairdresser, teacher, millionaire's daughter, chef and schoolboy, 11

A MILLIONAIRE'S daughter and a teaching assistant landed in court on looting charges yesterday - along with jobless teens from sink estates.

A boy of 11 and people from a variety of professions were also facing justice over London's mayhem.

A total of 888 people have been arrested in connection with rioting and looting in London and 371 have been charged, Scotland Yard said.

Meanwhile, a father pleaded for calm after his son and two pals were mown down and killed by a car during a second night of rioting in Birmingham.

The teenage girl hauled into court for allegedly being part of a mob of 200 looters is the privileged daughter of millionaire parents.

LAURA JOHNSON, 19 - one of dozens to appear in court yesterday - is said to have been arrested behind the wheel of a car filled with stolen electrical goods, cigarettes and alcohol worth £5,500.

Police say she was driving away from shops in Charlton, South East London, ransacked by masked thugs from crime-ridden estates nearby.

First pic of woman in blazing flat jump

'Traumatised' ... Monika Konczyk

THIS is the first picture of the brave woman who jumped out of her burning flat as an inferno raged in a furniture store just metres away.

Monika Konczyk, 32, was said to be "traumatised" last night after narrowly escaping with her life when she jumped 14ft from a first-floor window into the outstretched arms of riot cops.

Monika had stayed at home after her sister Beata Mecaj told her not to go out as looters roamed London on Monday night.

But after Monika got ready for bed, yobs torched the nearby House of Reeves furniture store — leaving her trapped when the flames spread to her block of flats.

Mugged, beaten.. but not broken

Vow of 'rescue' lad Asyraf

Brave smile ... Asyraf recovers in hospital yesterday

A STUDENT whose riot mugging shocked the world yesterday told how he might have been hurt - but he would never be broken.

Malaysian Asyraf Haziq even plans to remain in Britain despite his horrific ordeal and family pleas for him to return home.

More than a million people around the world have watched a YouTube video of the helpless 20-year-old being robbed by thugs in Hackney, East London, on Monday.

One helped Asyraf to his feet and appeared to comfort him. But then another lout began going through his bag.

Hot on 'secret' MAS-AirAsia deal comes reprieve for ex-Daim Boy, Tajudin Ramli

Amid growing concern that Malaysian taxpayers have again been taken for a ride by the UMNO elite, Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim ticked off Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz for allegedly instructing Government-Linked-Companies or GLCs to withdraw lawsuits filed against for MAS chairman Tajudin Ramli.

Among the affected GLCs wereTelekom Malaysia Bhd, Naluri Corporation, Celcom (M) Bhd, Atlan Holdings Bhd, Pengurusan Danaharta Bhd, Malaysia Airlines and Duta Skyline Bhd. These firms had sued Tajudin for losses suffered by MAS amounting to billions of ringgit, and there is concern that with a stroke of pen, Prime Minister Najib Razak's administration was bailing out fallen tycoon Tajudin.

"Such orders should have come from the Minister of Finance and not Nazri as this concerns GLCs. The government said it had a strong case against Tajudin involving billions of ringgit in filing the suit. It is a disturbing," Anwar, a former Finance minister, told reporters on Tuesday.

Kelantan prison detainees forced to strip naked

A former training director for election watchdog Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (Mafrel) has complained of human rights abuses during his almost two-week-long detention at the Pengkalan Chepa Prison in Kelantan.

Ahmad Syauqey Abdul Ghani said he and 113 other prisoners were ordered to strip in front of one another on June 23, the day he was sent to the prison.

"I was scared and confused, along with the other detainees who also had to strip naked. It was very embarrassing.

‘No Bra Thursday’ and ‘Miniskirt Monday’ – Woman Sues Over Boss’ Dress Schedule

An office manager is suing her former employer, claiming her boss at the time gave her a Monday to Friday schedule of how to dress, including ‘Tube-top Tuesday’ and ‘No bra Thursday.’

Trudy Nycole Anderson, 44, of Utah County, Utah, claims she was sexually harassed and is seeking undisclosed damages

She filed the suit in U.S. District Court against Derek Wright, the owner of Lone Peak Controls and D&L Electric Control Company.

Britain’s riots – a reflection of social malaise

The children and teenagers involved in the violence represented a 'lost generation' faced with a life devoid of hope and aspiration, and 'written off by society'.

LONDON: As the pictures of burning and looting tarnish Britain’s image around the world, the mostly young rioters and social analysts agree on one thing: This was an event waiting to happen.

“I’ll keep doing this every day until I get caught. When I get home nothing is going to happen to me,” a teenager laden with looted goods told a BBC reporter in Manchester early yesterday.

“The prisons are overcrowded. So what are they going to do?” he added for good measure.

Children as young as 10 were seen carrying off looted goods in plastic bags from shops in the northern city, laughing and joking as they threw the items in the air with delight before disappearing down side streets and alleyways to escape the police.

‘Mystery’ shrouded deal to save AirAsia?

Why is Khazanah giving away 20.5% in 'asset'-rich MAS, which has an extensive network and prized position in the Tier-5 airline market, for a stake in debt-ridden AirAsia?

The boss of Khazanah Nasional says that the MAS-AirAsia deal is, among other things, “not a bail-out” of MAS.

Well, we have questions for him.

Firstly, why was this deal worked out in the first place? Why AirAsia? Isn’t AirAsia operating at some 40 times its price earning (PE) ratio?

Looking at its numbers and the fundamentals, the high PE could mean that AirAsia stocks are overpriced.

Jeyakumar: Detention was horrible

The PSM leader recalls his 28-day ordeal and speaks about his party’s plans for the next election and its relationship with Pakatan Rakyat.

KUALA LUMPUR: Despite the grassroots popularity that he and his party enjoy, Dr Michael D Jeyakumar does not want Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) to scramble for seats to contest in the coming general election.

“It is important for the opposition to be united,” he told FMT. “We do not want to split votes or cause three-cornered fights. We also don’t want to be the cause of any fights within the opposition.”

Soccer star dumps fiancee for sexy model

Soccer star Jermaine Pennant has dumped his fiancee and moved in with a glamour model.

The Premier League winger, 28, missed his son Trey's first birthday after falling for 32FF porn model Alice Goodwin.

The £35,000-a-week Stoke City star, who ditched Trey's mum Lara Murphy, 27, earlier boasted she thought he was the "best dad in the world".

Law teacher videotaped herself raping 16 yr-old male student

A High School teacher has been charged with rape after allegedly filming herself having sex with an underage student.
Tara Driscoll, 33, of Bayshore, Long Island, was arrested after police obtained a copy of the video film showing her performing sex acts on the 16-year-old boy.

Back to the wall, Najib tries to re-invent himself as the "best of the worst"

Malaysia’s emerging first world economy, despite the wishful thinking of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who doubles up as Finance minister, is no longer a factor that the ruling Barisan Nasional can constantly harp on at the hustings.

If the 58-year old Najib were to boast about the economy in purchasing power parity terms, the man on the street would fire back at how expensive life has become. And for Najib to argue would not only be a futile exercise, it would also be a dumb move.

Straightaway, it would set up the backs of the ordinary folk who feel the pulse of the economy from their ragged PVC wallets, and not the thick tomes of numbers that only make sense when compared with similarly sized and stressed nations.

Unsolicited and free insight on BN's options

These past three years since, BN has been fast sliding down the road of political survival. Hence today it is very evident that BN has gone on the defensive with the ‘opposition’ coalition party trenching into an offensive advantage.

Why?

The problem is the leaders and power brokers within the BN army have been operating from an out-dated mindset for far too long. They failed to grasp the revolution taking place within societies with Malaysia being no exception in this globalizing and networked society.

Kneel down, bang! bang!: Autopsy report of 3rd victim to be unveiled

The post-mortem report on the third victim killed in a police shoot-out in Glenmarie, Selangor will be released by the lawyers for his family on Thursday. With the release of the final autopsy finding, the families of the three victims will lodge a police report calling for a murder investigation.

According to human rights lawyer Latheefa Koya, who is also the PKR legal affarirs director, a press conference will be held after the report is lodged at the Petaling Jaya police headquarters at 11 am.

Shamil Hafiz Shapiei, 15, Hairul Nizam Tuah, 20, and Hanafi Omar, 22,  were gunned down by police after a high-speed car chase in Glenmarie, Shah Alam in the wee hours of the morning.

Mobs strip and rob people in 3rd night of London riot

 

MOBS have begun stripping people and taking their belongings as police struggle to control riots in London and in other major English cities in which officers have been attacked, shops looted and buildings and businesses set on fire.

A young man is shown being forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during the third night of lawless riots.

Sexy dancing the latest thrill in China

Exotic dancing has grown in popularity in China over the last five years.

From risqué street-dancing to public pole-dancing, exotic dance forms have clearly taken hold of the Chinese public, particularly the female demographic.

Though it is not without its critics, especially among more traditional Chinese, its growing popularity indicates an increasing acceptance of female sexuality.

Now, wannabe dirty dancers can even learn a sexy dance move or two off the Internet.

In a recent video posted on Youku (China’s version of Youtube), a female dance instructor is seen demonstrating some highly suggestive dance moves to an extremely attentive female student.

The video, uploaded late last July, has received nearly 2 million hits to date and has garnered over 2000 comments.

You can watch the video here.

Spy camera found in school toilet

A spy camera was found in the female toilet of a secondary school in Kemaman, Kuala Terengganu.

A Form Four student made the discovery on Sunday, after spotting an odd object in the clothing hook by the door of a cubicle.

She removed the camera and handed it to the school authorities.

The incident has caused panic among the female students, who were worried that their photos might be leaked in the Internet.

It is learnt that this female toilet is the only one in use at the school as the other toilets are currently under renovation.

So far, 11 parents have lodged police reports over the incident on Tuesday.

An officer from the district Education Department told an emergency meeting with the school authorities that investigations revealed that the camera was installed just before it was discovered.

It is learnt the department will conduct a throughout search of all the toilets on Thursday.