[NEWS] BERJAYA BOOKS OBTAINS LEAVE TO - 2

  • Gerakan pleads for BN to open up direct membership
    Gerakan pleads for BN to open up direct membership

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 ― Barisan Nasional (BN) must consider letting people join directly and without regard to ethnicity if the coalition wished to survive future elections, Gerakan said today, cautioning that young voters were increasingly turned off by the race-based parties.

  • Penang Umno Youth leader denies role in assault of MP’s aides
    Penang Umno Youth leader denies role in assault of MP’s aides

    GEORGE TOWN, May 22 ― Penang Umno Youth deputy chief Norman Zahalan has denied involvement in the scuffle that broke out during a candlelight vigil at Sungai Dua here on Monday night.

  • PKR mulls delaying party polls
    PKR mulls delaying party polls

    PETALING JAYA, May 22 — PKR may consider delaying its party elections, initially scheduled for November, as the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) anchor party is still recovering from a “fierce” Election 2013 battle, its secretary-general Datuk Saifuddin Nasution said today.

  • Council lodges police report over USM student safety
    Council lodges police report over USM student safety

    GEORGE TOWN, May 22 — The Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) student representative council lodged a police report today urging PDRM to safeguard student safety.

  • DAP agrees to reveal assets publicly, rubbishes ‘secret declaration’ to MACC
    DAP agrees to reveal assets publicly, rubbishes ‘secret declaration’ to MACC

    BY CLARA CHOOIASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 ― The DAP’s elected representatives are prepared to declare their assets in public and disagreed with a “secret declaration” to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) alone, federal lawmaker Tony Pua said today.

Nurul Farhana said the attorney-general''s chambers had raised the objection,

citing the issues of jurisdiction and that the application was premature.

The three applicants had sought, among others, a certiorari order to quash

the decision by Jawi''s officers in raiding, searching and seizing Irshad Manji''s

book titled ''Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta'' and "Allah, Liberty and Love" on May 23

at the Borders Bookstore at The Gardens Mall in Mid Valley City.

They also sought a certiorari order to quash a decision to prosecute Nik

Raina at the Syariah High Court for distributing the book.

Nik Raina was charged on June 19 with distributing and selling the book,

said to contravene Islamic law, at the Borders Bookstore, The Gardens Mall in

Mid Valley City between 8.41 pm and 9.45 pm on May 23.

-- BERNAMA

SSA HK MGN

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