Mat Sabu the next Khomeini, says MCA

PETALING JAYA - MCA has called Mohamad Sabu the next Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the making, taking a different tack from Umno’s offensive against the PAS deputy president for allegedly being a Communist sympathiser.

Khomeini was an Iranian religious and political leader who played an integral part in the Iranian Revolution that led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979. He later became Iran’s Supreme Leader until his death in 1989.

The remarks about Mohamad, popularly known as Mat Sabu, were contained in an editorial contained within MCA party organ, The Guardian. Copies of the newsletter were distributed to participants of a conference organised here by the party’s think-tank.

School gate stab lad is locked up

Victim .. Chloe West

AN A-LEVEL student who repeatedly stabbed his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend as she walked to school has been sent to a Young Offenders' Institution for 13 years.

Samuel Gayzer-Tomlinson, 18, dyed his hair to disguise himself before stalking his victim near the gates of her school in Stourbridge, West Mids, in April.

The 18-year-old aspiring vet knifed Chloe West at least 20 times outside Ridgewood High School, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

SIM apologises for 'unpleasant experiences' at orientation

The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) has responded with an apology for its recent orientation games which has drawn flak from the public.

Some of the games required members of the opposite sex to be in close proximity, such as eating a biscuit from opposite ends or boys doing pushups over girls who lay below them.

The Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that some girls were so affected that they burst into tears later.

In its letter to The New Paper today, Mrs  Ho Soon Eng, director for student life at SIM Global Education, apologised for the "unpleasant experiences" during the orientation.


Mrs Ho explained that said some of the games were "impromptu" and were not part of the programmes approved by SIM.

Highest cash reserves in 28 yrs, but Muhyiddin says S'gor being 'tortured'

The signs are becoming unmistakable, snap polls are around the corner. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin himself let slip the information during a speeh in Selangor, admitting that he was "campaigning".

Amid accusations he was in denial mode for saying the people were being 'tortured' under the Pakatan Rakyat administration, Muhyiddin expressed confidence that BN would recapture Selangor in the next general election, widely expected to be held in November.

Machiavellian Dr M: Slams Mat Sabu while dealing Najib a backhanded blow

Former premier Mahathir Mohamad is stepping up a two-prong psy-war against the Pakatan Rakyat and Prime Minister Najib Razak. Firstly, he doesn't want Pakatan to win the general election, but neither does he want Najib to win the Umno presidency which will follow GE-13.

So what does he do? He attacks one head-on and the other sideways. 85, Mahathir may be, but the wily veteran who ruled Malaysia with a fist of iron for 22 years is still as cunning as ever.

In his latest public appearance, Mahathir told a function in Kuala Selangor that the Najib administration should not have arrested and charged the PAS deputy president. Instead, they should wish for 1,000 Mat Sabus.

Selangor's cash reserves hit historic high

The Selangor state government has managed to increase its cash reserves by some RM200 million in the first six months of this year, bringing the total to RM1.1 billion.

According to Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim, the amount is the highest achieved by the state over the past 28 years.

'Undilah' video blacklisted for telling M'sians to have courage, this is their country

A decision to stop government-controlled TV stations from airing a bi-partisan 4-minute video clip encouraging the people to vote has raised eyebrows and increased public ridicule for Prime Minister Najib Razak, who two weeks ago grandly announced measures to make Malaysia "the best democracy in the world".

"Nice work MCMC. Your blocking undilah video will mean more people will see it. That's good because it is a must see!! Great video!" Ambiga Sreenevasan, the chairman of polls watchdog Bersih, said on Twitter.

"Dia kata kita mau demokrasi terbaik ka atau demokrasi terbalik (Did he say we want the best democracy or the opposite)?" tweeted Dzulkefly Ahmad, the PAS MP for Shah Alam.

Man had six sex slaves in basement rooms

Two residents showing the location of the basement

Police have detained a man who held six women as sex slaves in a basement in China.

Li Hao, 34, is also accused of killing two of his victims and burying them in the room as a scare tactic.

He was nabbed on Sept 6, after one of his captives escaped and led police to the underground prison, Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

Girl, 6, molested by dad and grandpa

A six-year-old girl from Hong Kong has reportedly been molested by her father and grandfather.

Oriental Daily News reported that the father and son had fondled and kissed the girl's body and even put their fingers into her intimate areas.

The suspects, aged 39 and 73, were arrested and released on police bail pending investigations.

The girl's mother, a nurse who divorced her former husband in 2007, was involved in custody dispute over the child.

"I gave up custody two years later because I did not want it to affect my daughter," she said, adding that she was, however, allowed to take the girl home two to three times a week.

In December 2010, the girl told her grandmother on her mother's side about being "touched" by her father and grandfather.

The nurse immediately lodged a police report.

Police arrested the suspects but did not charge them due to lack of concrete evidence.

On Aug 8, the girl made the same accusations against the two suspects.

Her mother lodged another report and police arrested the father and son again.

The girl is currently under the care of Po Leung Kuk, a charity organisation aims mainly in the protection of children.

At the welfare home, she is allowed to meet her family once a week.

The girl who said she missed her mother very much has drawn numerous paintings, expressing her wish to continue living with her.

'I was nearly raped in prison'

I was nearly raped while serving time in prison for match fixing in Singapore.

This is just one of a number of shocking claims by former Sembawang Rangers and Geylang United FC goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel.

He also alleges that he was physically abused by prison inmates and had his nose broken at least twice, and that Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) officers had assaulted him during questioning.

Mr Pfannenstiel, 38, told UK football magazine Four Four Two that in 2001, he was nearly raped by other inmates during his 101-day stay at the Queenstown Remand Prison.

Bodies of woman and son found in reservoir

THE bodies of a woman and her young son were found floating in Bedok Reservoir yesterday morning, three days after they were last seen in Clementi Central.

The bodies of housewife Tan Sze Sze, 32, and her three-year-old son, Jerald Chin, were said to have been found by PUB officers.

Police were notified of the find at about 7am and paramedics pronounced them dead about 15 minutes later. The police have classified the case as unnatural death and investigations are ongoing.

BN may lose GE-13 if ISA issue not resolved, says police chief

Barisan Nasional may lose the next general election if the ruling coalition does not tackle issues surrounding the Internal Security Act (ISA), says top cop Tan Sri Ismail Omar.

The Inspector-General of Police wrote this in a book that was published before Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced plans to repeal the security law last week.

In the book titled “1 Malaysia Menjana Negara Sejahtera dan Bahagia Menjelang 2020”, Ismail said the law, introduced in 1960, would continue to be a hotly-debated political issue, increasing support for the opposition.

Copycats Najib and Rosmah take a leaf from Dr M's 2001 move

Were we ever surprised that things would turn out this way? Was it ever going to be a surprise that Prime Minister Najib Razak and wife Rosmah Mansor would apply to strike out the subpoena placed on their heads?

In the beginning, the couple refused to attend an interview to ascertain whether they were viable witnesses for the Sodomy II trial. They made it clear that they would only do so if a subpoena was served on them. Anwar's lawyers then applied for one, a subpoena was served and even-though the decision itself was a surprise; it was clear the motive in allowing it to happen was merely to ensure both Najib and Rosmah would never take the witness box, ever, in the Sodomy II trial.

The top 20 richest Americans

NEW YORK - Investor George Soros, at 81, has for the first time made the list of the 10 wealthiest Americans, Forbes Magazine reported on Wednesday in the 2011 edition of its annual rich list.

Less surprising, Bill Gates again topped the list with a net worth of US$59 billion (S$75.9 billion), up US$5 billion. The Microsoft founder has been the wealthiest American every year since 1994.


Everyone in the top 20 saw their wealth rise in the past year with the exception of investor Warren Buffett, whose fortune fell by US$6 billion to US$39 billion as the value of his shares in Berkshire Hathaway dropped.

M'sia 'the only one in the world', DNA expert says scathingly of govt procedures

Australian DNA expert Dr Brian McDonald was blunt in telling Prime Minister Najib Razak's government that the bizarre manner in which a sperm sample was retrieved from the anus, then stored in a filing cabinet before being sent for tests to nail Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy, was "the only one in the world".

According to McDonald, in Anwar's case the sperm sample was retrieved from the complainant's rectum 56 hours after the alleged sodomy. It was then left aside for another 48 hours in the open, before being sent for chemistry tests. The total time lapse of 104 hours made it one of the longest documented discoveries in the world.

Outrage over kids in cage fights

A shocking video that shows children as young as eight fighting in a cage in front of baying crowds has gone viral on the Internet.

The children are not wearing protective head gear or padding and one appears to be crying.  At one point, medics were brought into the ring to assess the children but critics including the British Medical Association have slammed the event as dangerous.

Children as young as eight fight in a cage in front of a baying crowd

The fight, which lasts ten minutes and features a scantily-clad girl parading around the ring between rounds, was part of a packed ticket-only fight night in the UK town of Preston.

A-do engaged to sexy actress

Singaporean singer A-do is said to have secretly gotten engaged to sexy Chinese actress Li Xinyu.

The Chinese media reported that A-do had ordered a ring, worth nearly 1mil yuan (RM490,080) specially made for his fiancée.

It was also reported that A-do flew to Beijing, China, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Li last Monday.

Cheryl wants Simon to stop using her

The war is not over between Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell yet.

The British pop star has reportedly told friends that she wants the reality show mogul to stop using her name to publicise his TV shows.

Apparently, she's turned down his offers to return to The X Factor or join the Britain's Got Talent panel after she was shamefully axed from The X Factor USA.

"There's absolutely no chance in hell Cheryl will even consider doing Britain's Got Talent," the supposed insider told Metro. "She's not even willing to discuss it. She's turned it down before.

"Simon knows by mentioning her it will get publicity for his shows. She's fed up. Cheryl's walked away from it all and moved forward."

They added: "Simon keeps dragging it up and her name. Cheryl's in a great place right now and has always said that music is her main focus... The X Factor is history for her now."

A beggar with cars and properties

A man, who often seen begging for money on the streets of Bejing in China, has been found to be richer than anyone can imagine.

He has four cars and several properties in Beijing, Jiangxi Satellite TV reported in its morning news on Tuesday.

The world's shortest woman

A dancing, cheerleading 69cm (2ft 3in) tall American has been named world's shortest living woman by Guinness World Records.

Bridgette Jordan, 22, from Sandoval, Illinois,also holds the record for shortest living siblings with her 20 year-old brother Brad.

Bridgette Jordan likes to stay active and often spends time dancing and cheerleading

Boy gets 'horns' to remove birthmark

To his proud mum, George Ashman has always been her angel-faced boy - even when he sprouted satanic horns.

The five-year-old from Somerset, UK, was born with a large, unsightly red birthmark right in the middle of his forehead.

Boy with 'horn' ... Doctors insert two small inflatable sacks under
his hair line at either side of his forehead

Sex sells for Rihanna

Sex sells and no one knows it better than Rihanna.

The 23-year-old singer left little to the imagination as she strutted about stripper-style in fishnet stockings and a skimpy black-and-white leotard during her recent concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cheeky Rihanna was raunchy as ever at her concert in Brazil.

Lib Dems want to cover up Pg 3 girls

Lib Dems last night backed a potty plan to stop shopkeepers from selling the Sun before 9pm.

In a clampdown on Britain's best-selling daily and its most popular page, militant party activists said it should be restricted to the top shelf.

Ex-MP Evan Harris led calls at the party conference in Birmingham to "tackle the projection of women as sex objects".

He put forward a motion to restrict photos of topless women in tabloids and lads mags to the same rules that apply to pre-watershed TV.

Eel enters man's penis in spa treatment, is surgically removed

Yes, you read that right. A Chinese man had to have an eel surgically removed from his bladder after a mishap while undergoing an unusual spa treatment.

Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old resident of Hubei province, was bathing with live eels, in the hopes that the tiny, serpentine critters would nibble away layers of dead skin, revealing more youthful-looking skin below.

One unusual spa treatment resulted in a painful mishap as an eel traveled up a Chinese man's penis. The treatment was thematically similar to so-called 'fish pedicures,' which use fish to eat away dead skin on the feet.

It's similar to those unusual pedicures that have fish eat dead skin off people's feet -- except that you're fully submerged, and you're probably naked, and there are eels all over you.

Michelle Le's remains identified

A high school acquaintance has been charged with murder in the case of the East Bay nursing student who had been missing since May. The skeletal remains were found in a canyon Saturday.

A file photo of nursing student Michelle Le. Officials have determined that badly decomposed human remains found over the weekend in a California canyon are those of Le, who had been missing since May.

Reporting from San Francisco -- Skeletal remains found in a canyon east of San Francisco have been identified as those of Michelle Le, a nursing student who vanished in late May, police said Tuesday.

Hockey mom accused of having sex with son's underage teammates

Kathia Davis hosted parties and provided alcohol to the boys

An Orange County mother of three is accused of having sex with teenage members of her son's youth hockey team.

Kathia Maria Davis, 44, was arrested Wednesday from her Laguna Niguel home on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said. She was released the same day on $25,000 bail.

What if it was Najib in the sex video?

Some NGOs want to know why Pakatan Rakyat leaders are remaining silent on Anwar being implicated in a sex scandal and would they keep quiet if it was Najib Tun Razak.

PETALING JAYA: Would Pakatan Rakyat leaders remain silent if there was a video implicating Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in a sex scandal?

This was a question an NGO popped up when referring to the latest video on Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

The video snippet allegedly showed Anwar entering a hotel with businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah.

Commenting on the video, Coalition of Malay Students in Peninsular Malaysia (GPMS) secretary-general Zambri Mohd Isa criticised opposition supporters for practising double standard.