Prime Minister ' Guarantee

Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, gave the assurance that Terengganu will change become as a state progress once Koridor Pantai Timur's project launched at the end this year.

He said, through about the project, then opportunity to strengthen development in east coast states, especially Terengganu able to give extraordinary change to this state and every citizen chance to see a cataclysm those who were previously has never been seen before.

"To that, I expect state government leadership will ensure each inferior member officiate more systematic, viz all business settled quickly and effective viz procedural that slow can be shortened so us can move faster by service given also satisfying day the people.

I believe, progress to make comparable Terengganu with other countries to be attainable, in fact it will be more rapid when Koridor Pantai Timur's project execute soon, he remarked.
Abdullah who also Barisan Nasional Chairman says so when speak to Close ceremony Barisan Nasional Terengganu Convention, in Kelab Teluk Warisan, PulauDuyong, here, yesterday.

According to the Prime Minister, see to the development effort, people confident government set for continue to support what which has been and will be implemented by leader in this state and strength will continued to be built to inculcate spirit each party towards develop the state this.

"However, seriousness not only located to the leaders merely, instead it also involving inferior member to make sure this state stay to higher level, as work serious will enable the people enjoy best service from the leaders.

"Agreement and cooperation very important in the efforts develop the state because consensus and cooperation absence, something the development could not be accomplished and carried out with decently possible," he remarked.

Abdullah says, every leader should discuss heart-to-heart to avoid fight and cast charge openly particularly to those media without prior discuss within itself.

"If about everything concludes on with good way, unity and cooperation can be strengthened and state leadership will receive the confidence to continue to rule", he said.

Victim Relieved Crocodile succeed caught

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) - Crocodile attack victim, Ibrahim Yaacob, 60, say thank to Wildlife Protection Department and National Park (Perhilitan) Kelantan strive hard until succeed catch the reptile. According him, it defuse his concern and also plenty occupier raft house here whose river most dependent to necessaries of life though design believe there more other crocodile there.

Nevertheless Ibrahim almost be crocodile share that the near a week ago, not yet brave to bathe in the river, though relieved when animal that succeed caught night just now.
We thanks to the Perhilitan members has operates till caught him the copper crocodile. May be that is crocodile who attack me", he said to Utusan Malaysia when found at home it in Lorong Minyak Gas here, today.

Crocodile as heavy as 130 kilo grammes with long 2.8 meters and estimated aged the eight year is successful arrested by 10 member Perhilitan at 9 o'clock at night just now in Sungai Kelantan and were sent to Melaka Zoo.
In the incident beat 6.45 passed Monday morning, Ibrahim sustains injury in the hands and his left leg result bite a crocodile when while bathing alone in his back of the house.

Ibrahim am being pursued to Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II (HRPZ II) here for receiving treatment by his eldest son, Zulkifli, 37.
Ibrahim tells, crocodile those caught that high possibility who attack it nevertheless he no reject the possibility that there is still crocodile in stated river.

I feel crocodile which is in this river more than a as people here to have seen his shadow above a, he remarked.
He said, before stated crocodile arrested by Perhilitan, his a child, Ahmad Farhan Faridudin, 13, see a crocodile shadow nearby their house yesterday evening.
Meanwhile, villager those found Utusan Malaysia hopes that Perhilitan continue crocodile monitoring of in Sungai Kelantan from time to time that same event not happen to other.

Saved from bomb explosion

RANTAU PANJANG (Warkah Timur) - Two calving almost death when a bomb suddenly exploded nearby car design ride Sungai Golok's market, Thailand, yesterday. However, Rosli Ibrahim, 36, and his child, Mohd Loqman Hakim Akmal, 10, not suffer any injury in the incident at the clock 8.45 pm just now.

He which are descended from Kampung Banggol Kulim, Rantau Panjang is businessman and keeps coming back to the Sungai Golok town to purchase essential goods in which often town be attack target the certain parties.

"God love and protect us both from bomb blast happened nearby car cause behind my Perodua Kancil's car glass broken ," he said when met at home it, yesterday. In nearby incident Hotel Genting, Sungai Golok's town that, a bomb exploded in a waste-paper basket and injuring at least six dealer including a person from it was at the scene experience severe injury.

Understood all of them was send to Hospital Sungai Golok for the treatment, while Rosli and his child Mohd Loqman Hakim Akmal rushing to return after state abated. He both who still trauma with the incident said, almost overheard explosive sound happened nearby his car, his child on shouts in fear.

Meanwhile, regarding Mohd Loqman Hakim Akmal, he surprised when heard bomb blasts on the lawn the retail and see clearly car Perodua Kancil belongs his father vibrate. "Loqman really frightened because think will not be able meet mother. When the explosion, Loqman and Pa (Rosli) is in car and ready want to return to the house after buy goods to plunder the town", he said.

According him, when heard bomb blasts, him look many visitor fled because worried prey on.
Meanwhile, victim wife, Hasanah Hussin, 30, said, when her husband and child go home, she was shocked to see the vehicle behind broken.

"I was ask my husband what happens because on the car glass that he drive broken.
Told him affected bomb blast when was in a town retail Sungai Golok", he said.

Hasanah tells, she understood reputedly exploded bomb that placed in a nearby dustbin a her husband's nearby shop put the vehicle.

Bomb blast that the incident as many as twice, before husband and child second explosion I just in time coming away from," he said.

Cannabis worth RM47,500 succeed to seize

KUATAN (Warkah Timur) -- Attempt bring enter Canabis type drug to this state successfully snapped following arrest three elderly man among 27 and 46 years with 17 nuggets compressed Canabis in a durian garden in Bentong, last Tuesday.

Cannabis supply believed brought into from a neighboring country as heavy as 17.25 kilo grammes this estimated to cost RM47,500 try brought encroached this area with make durian garden stated as transit before being circulated to other areas.

Pahang Deputy Police Chief, Senior Asisten Komisioner 1 Datuk Robiah Abd Ghani says this drug seizure is the largest for this year in Pahang and further investigation still carried out to identify this activity either mastermind syndicate or individual.

He said, act upon public tip-off, a 22 officer and member Narcotic Criminal Investigation Division Pahang Contijent Headquarters Contingent with assisted member of District Police Headquarters (IPD) Bentong and Maran do spy in the garden stated durian before making raid at the clock 10.30 am.

"Suspect who come with board van caught a moment arrived in that garden after our member cordon location environment before their arrival", he said, here yesterday. According him, as good suspect stop their vehicle, further his team take action in storming and catch their all three. He said more, its members forced tussled with suspect all three try slip off person after realising policeman presence in that area before succeed caught

Robiah says two lump compressed drug believed cannabis found above van floor relating while 17 nuggets more found in empty space it van's part of the wall. With the discovery also already lead to discovery 17 nuggets compressed cannabis type drug in empty space right side part of the wall stated van with gross weight estimation heavy 17.25 kilo grammes.

"Police still investigating either durian garden involved make the syndicates hide-out or as transit before stated drug circulated", he said. He said the all suspects which are descended from Kelantan and work as craftsman house and labour being led to IPD Bentong and currently being remanded till July 30 to facilitate investigations follow Seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952.

Young widow detained

KUALA TERENGGANU (Warkah Timur) - Commercial Crime Investigation Department (JSJK) Terengganu, arrest a young widow after detected implicated in seven jewelery cheating case in several shire in this state.

The widow is restrained after police receive information from seven complainant involve shop dealer gold who claimed ever prey on the 20s women aged, since middle of last year. Regarding that Department Chief, Superintendan Mohd Adnan Abdullah, suspect arrested bevy policeman in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, after believed to be involved in seven same case that is two case in Kuala Terengganu, three in Besut, and respectively a case in Setiu and Kemaman.

He says, factual information derivative, involved most of the victims with this fraud report design confronted suspect with offer jewelery exchange is said own value comparable pure gold whereas jewelery stated is forged.

"Suspect move by this solo is wise played a role with show jewelery that is carried that to dealer involved to make pure gold exchange occur in exhibition glass in that shop. "In the transaction, suspect to his first will use tactic to ask on the value price of something jewelery sold before request dealer to issue him of glass exhibition and later he will show jewelery those used to purposes of assessment.

Once jewelery relating changed hands, suspect would ask truth dealer involved to show genuine jewelery that to his husband wait not far from stated shop, he said. Mohd Adnan says, opportunity that used suspect to escape jewelery genuine relating before being sold in the shop gold in Gua Musang, Kelantan with the value environment RM1,000 to RM2,000.

"Victim involved dawn on about that gold not pure after make inspection closely that is just hanger part the jewelInvestigation for suspect on going according to Seksyen 117, Akta Prosedur Jenayah (APJ), after detained three last week, he said.ery only those genuine while the others it is forged.

In connection with that, he advise to all traders the goods worth is so that not easy falls for tactic that way and take initial step test prior each jewellery want convert customer to avoid from swindled.

Accident tragedy graze 14 lifes

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) -- Air Quater Master Family, Sarjan Khusnizaim Ariffin killed in a helicopter crash Nuri, had lost 14 member their family in some tragedies accident. "This is not the first time, although sorrow by what that happens, we believe sure there his advantage God will show against us",said aunt Khusnizaim, Amnah Ismail, 53.

Amnah when found reporter at Khusnizaim's family home in Bunut Payung here, said yesterday on May 23 go her son, Mohd Khairul Hassim, 22, that is cousin to Khusnizaim drowning when picnic in Lata Tembakah in Terengganu.

"In year 1995, Khusnizaim's granddad, Ismail Yaakob, 67, die in accident when the motorcycle she ride clashed with an ambulance here",he said. He says in early 90s, Khusnizaim's uncle, Azizis Ismail, 27, and his cousin's two more death when car design meet with a speeding express bus in Sungai Ular, Pahang.

"While in 80s year, we lost eight family member uncle to late, when the car design ride skid and fell down in Sungai Tunjung", here, he said. For Amnah, what able her doing every time tragedy befallen to upper limb her family is pray to God that always protect them and resigned to one ' fate which has been determined with an open heart.

In the incident last Friday, Nuri's helicopter ride joint Khusnizaim five another member Royal Malaysian Air Force (TUDM) reported missing from pantauan control radar 10 minutes after departing of Pangkalan Kuala Lumpur's Air Force beat 9.35 am.

Joint helicopter wreckage all six the victim encountered at Gunung Bunga Buah not far from Genting Sempah's tunnel, Genting Highlands yesterday. Apart from Khusnizaim, five more killed is Kapten Nor Azlan Termuzi's pilot, 29; Kapten Nor Intan Asykeen Mohd's assistant pilot. Arof, 27; Udara Sergeant Mohd Azmie Yassin's Pengarah Urusan, 35; Senior Udara Lascar Saifulizam Alias, 28; And Muhammad Lascar Ridzuan Ahmad, 27

Boat capsize seize storm found

KUALA TERENGGANU (Warkah Timur) -- A boat own by a fisherman sink result seize tempest him while on fish hook octopus in the waters Pulau Kapas (Kapas Island), Marang in 6 last July, met by bevy fisherman, yesterday.

Regarding that fisherman, Said Mat Zain, 50, works find boat his property do in rotation involve fisherman several people Chendering since day of the incident till it found.

He said, after works dive do by skilled diver, stated boat finally found nearby Marang's territorial water.
Works dive difficult do caused�will fisherman those in the affected search operation the boat to his first no ta�whew exact location where the boat is submerged.

Nevertheless, base diver skill and experience and fisherman involved, end up my boat succeed also found,he said.
In the incident 6 last July, Said which are descended from Kampung Chendering, forced float person for 15 hours in surface of the sea when his boat capsize.
He saved bevy other fisherman coincidence over those areas.

"Us feel sympathy every time see Said (victim) who always nervous every time we return from the sea and to ask on his boat's development.
"Only we alone can help him if expect payment other person might be imposed till RM5,000 and stated total is a value fairly high.

Boat those found that would be able to be used again after cleaning works and repair do, he said.

Slashed when speaking with girlfriend

KEMAMAN (Warkah Timur) -- Consequence when suspected of making police call, a man had to accept nine stitch after his head and body slashed robber in the incident in Kampung Dadong, Batu 17, Air Puteh Road here, yesterday.

Azhar Salleh, 40, an village employee is talking with his girlfriend use mobile phone when unknown four males descended on him with chopper. Kemaman's District Police Chief, Supritendan Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid when contacted confirmed his team is receiving the report stated regarding the case.
Base report, victim slashed by using a chopper when was in a public propose after man involved suspected victim has make the call to side police,he said.

He said, follow information received, four males relating believed Indonesians and hitherto, police still detecting them who are involved.
Victim those found at home it yesterday told Sinar Harian, he is sitting in a public propose in that village time account 3.30 am, when confronted four males who board a Waja type car .

According him, abruptly three from stated four males rush towards him while a person from it continue to hack it by using a chopper at the head portion.
"Then I on talk with girlfriend use mobile phone, without know my real motive attacked",he said.

When on talk use mobile phone, he noticed a man shadow are trying to break into house a its neighbours located immediately confronted by public propose relating.
"Nevertheless, just in time no stated robber break in because action design was realized by my neighbour cause entirely the man fled",said Azhar.

Result failed to split encroached victim house, three from robber involved up angry and further rush towards him who then was in nearby area.
"A person from it slashed behind me before hack in the division back of the head",he said.

Regarding Azhar, after its neighbours light torch towards stated public propose, stated robber all three continue to rush to vehicle set ready to wait, and ran away.

Man suffer 'SAWAN' found dead in the river

GUA MUSANG (Warkah Timur) -- A man found dead drowned in Sungai Galas, near here, after two hours search operation it do villager and policeman accept his report on loss. Victim, Mohd Hatta Aziz, 45, reputedly suffer fit disease discovered about 50 metres of his place believed to be bathing alone at about time 9 yesterday morning.
He lost wast realised by he wife, Salmah Rahim, 43, suspected something after alleged victim no go home.

Regarding Salmah, she directs her child so that find victim in the river because fear something not desired happened following disease whose suffer from Mohd Hatta. "However his child come back with said father has no in the river ".

"I further scurried to his place is said bathe and first suspected my husband drowned", he said when met reporter at home it, near here, yesterday. Said Salmah, she continue to inform to villager so that find her husband is said lost while bathing that.
Victim nephew, Mohd Ziki Ahmad, 31, on to District Police Station to report the matter and search operation do with the people till found victim in the in the river.

"Customary late to common river youngest child", Abas Mohd Hatta, 8, but to stated morning late fall alone time account 9 am bring bucket to collect water. "Our family depend to this river to gain water resource as no tap water supply and late unload water every time bathe in the river".
"I ever advise him so holding off single-handedly to bathe or draw water in the river this is because fear with his disease will attack him abruptly", he said

Meanwhile, Districts Police Chief, Superintendan Ahmad Termizi Abd Haq confirms receiving the report time account 10.40 am and its members to joint scene Fire Fighter and salvage department Gua Musang member.
He said, when arrived at the scene, villager still continue working find and bodies of the victims found account time 11.45 am, before brought to Gua Musang Hospital to autopsy.

Victim remains then laid to rest at Muslim cemetery near Kampung Kerinting here.

Nik Aziz banned smoking candidate

JELI (Warkah Timur) -- PAS member who smoking will not be elected by the party to are competing in general election is coming, said Mursyidul Amnya, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat. The Kelantan Chief Minister said that him reject the Pas candidate who smoke because design less understanding church law regarding evil smoking.
However, if nothing eligible other nominees, he had to accept candidate whose smoking also, he said to reporters after opening ceremony to the construction groundbreaking 302 unit home here, yesterday.

"In Islam, smoking , is regard it illegal and there are those regard him as objectionable. If is other candidate, I will choose not to smoke," said Nik Aziz.
He says, All Pas leaders should already firmly established understand will and party need wanted candidate in the general election need has features Islamic leadership.

Ask on the proposal by National PAS Supporter Club Chairman, Hu Pang Chaw, so the party select the candidate non-Muslim to contest outside Kelantan, Nik Aziz said this practicability only design meet condition that the party as understand Islamic religion, no gambling and on the wagon

Elderly citizen death destined to Muslim place of worship

TUMPAT (Warkah Timur) -- Wish not reach! Intention a elderly citizen, Abdul Samad Khanapi, 80, riding the motorbike favorite to nearby Muslim place of worship his residence to billow Muslim call for prayer no Zohor achieved when die in accident in Kilometer 3 Pengkalan Kubor-Kota Bharu road , in Kampung Kota Kubang Labu here, yesterday.

In the incident time account 12.30 central that day, victim expired at scene severe injury after experiencing on the head after crash a vehicle still not yet known his type's party. More distressing more, victim wife, Munah @ Maimunah Jusof @ Yusof, 73, make known on the incident stated by unable inhabitants do any because not able to walk result experience knee pain when found saying,
He said, he very surprised when make known stated incident and only directing youngest child to the scene.­

“When almost enter prayer time, late will be to Muslim place of worship near to riding the motorbike to billow Muslim call for prayer and today he descends as usual without leave any message but did not expect his this time go away leaving me forever” he said when met at home it, few metres from the scene.

Regarding Munah, her husband's late fall from home as usual because daily routine it billows Muslim call for prayer in nearby Muslim place of worship.
“No late show changes behaviour or strange sign and before to he Muslim place of worship only before to his Muslim place of worship just in time mowing of grass in house compound,” he said.

Meanwhile, Tumpat Police Chief, Supritendan Nor Azizan Anan says, initial investigation found motorcycle rode victim believed to have rubbed against with a vehicle not yet identified.
“May be also victim motorcycle overturned by own when overlook Pasir Pekan Roundabout before being rammed by different vehicle,” he said when contacted. Adding more, bodies of the victims taken to Hospital Tumpat to autopsy and ask scene saw contact Tumpat Police Headquarters

Three sibling almost death, house fall by durian tree

KUALA TERENGGANU (Warkah Timur) - Three sibling almost death when house on them Kampung Padang Midin, near here fall on durian tree in the incident in a heavy downpour early yesterday morning. Regarding victim mother, Syarifah Noraidah Syed Omar, 44, early heavy rain yesterday morning that the protracted cause a house nearby durian tree it collapse go befallen her house.

He said, during the incident, he with spouse and his eight children on asleep sleep, before shocked after overhearing loud crash sound adjacent his bedroom.
“I remembered after heard the noise the crash and to his first I could not guess what is happening as the situation in the house when that shadowy.

“Almost switch on the light, I found house living room already overflown rain water, while roof part in my junior chamber also ruined fall on durian tree,” he said when met Warkah Timur at its home yesterday. Regarding Syarifah, then her child's three people asleep in that inside the room and just one of the people from it remembered go shocking her siblings's two more after the tree collapse.
“Only a stick spanning the room has save the life my children from fall on the tree after stated trunk got stuck on him.

“At the first I very anxious to see those circumstances, but still be thankful because my children not suffer any injury,” he said.
Follow him, bevy serviceman of 512 Regiment Camp Territorial Army, Padang Midin help made cooperation move and clean stated durian tree to yesterday afternoon.Meanwhile, victim nearby neighbors, Mat Saman Mohd, 53, said, happened as the scene environment time 2 am and almost only see those circumstances he further scurried to victim house to shock family involved.

Boat sink, fisherman afloat 15 hours at sea

KUALA TERENGGANU (Warkah Timur) -- A fisherman forced battle account life 15 hours with float central person sea, when his property's boat capsize beaten up during the incident swell tempest struck in Marang territorial water, yesterday afternoon.

Even when that he only remind moment of death, nevertheless victim, Said Mat Zain, 50, of Kampung Tengah, Chendering, deliverance after manage to hold on to to several float.
Regarding Said, him out single-handedly to the sea to passed Tuesday evening time account 2.30 eves with boat ride of Malaysia Fish Development Authority (LKIM) port, Chendering.

He said, almost anchor account anchor one hour later in territorial water Marang, he manage to hook several octopuses before weather condition suddenly changed with dark cloud patching meet those areas.
“Not long after, suddenly rough sea and overpowering wind caused me no manage to turn around, instead only can experience boat condition unstable result from the rear start sink dramatically the bustle thrust result.

“Unprompted I manage to achieve float was in boat on the roof before jump to the sea bail out to avoid comply sink,” he said when met at home it, here, yesterday.
Regarding Said, when was in surface of the sea and in the state of panic, him look several other float comply arise nearby his boat.

“I swim approaching the float and taken several float.
“Present about I forced sheathe to limb, while the rest I clip in gap left armpit and senior. But then only god those know my feelings,” he said.

According him, after be in case fatigue and fear that, his hours later noticed area float fish aggregating device, caused him on swam towards stated location before being saved by other fisherman at the clock 6 yesterday morning.
“When was in area fish aggregating device that, I just pray that there fisherman through stated area and end up my prayer accepted,” he remarked.

Meanwhile JKKK Batu Enam Chairman, Simpang empat, Cendering, Mainong Ali, said the victim would be channel led assistance following incident undergone Said

New bridge to Kelantan People

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) - Adjacent construction of the new bridge beside Sultan Yahya Petra Bridge here whose will start very soon able to give which often comfort to consumer stranded in jam. Four lane bridge (two twin aisle) expected ready December 2009 built adjacent original bridge which operates since the past 47 years wish can launch traffic travel the bridge.

Badan Perhubungan UMNO Kelantan's chairman, Datuk Seri Annuar Musa says, congestion daily seriously happened at the bridge by 811 metres is inhabitants main access Tumpat, Pasir Mas and Rantau Panjang to the city center.

“Number of vehicle increase, especially every time festive season and school holiday be congestion a core factor at the bridge original which has only dual carriageway measuring 3.25 metres broad and a broadly motorcycle lane 1.5 metres.

“Since several years ago traffic situation go from bad to worse in the route. However, state government not take any action despite already some time scatter promise to tackle the problem,” he said to reporters at a media briefing that bridge construction project here, yesterday. According him, new bridge which would be built in threephase that began from Pasir Pekan, Tumpat treks Sungai Kelantan and ended in Dusun Muda Road, here

He said, expected bridge construction of the bridge cost RM143 millions and will be implemented in threephase by Konsortium IS (M) Sdn Bhd / RIS Capital (M) Sdn Bhd and will be examined Public Works Department (JKR).

Annuar says, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister expected to officiate second bridge ground breaking ceremony that during his working visit to Kelantan next month. Meanwhile, Consortium Chief Executive Officer IS (M) Sdn Bhd / RIS Capital (M) Sdn Bhd, Datuk Ismail Hassan says, his team confident of getting accomplish that construction of the bridge within 30 prescribed month.

“So far no our big problem faced including from the aspect acquisition of land. With jobs will be carried out including nocturnally, we confident can carry it within the prescribed.
“Present bridge no will be teased but shall be overhauled and construction of the new bridge wish can launch traffic travel," he said.

Roof 'fly'! 70 abandoned house beaten up storm

BACHOK (Warkah Timur) -- More than 70 abandoned house after beaten up storm in the incident in several village night here yesterday.
Villages seize the storm is Kampung Pengkalan Chengal, Pantai Damat, Tok Bakar, Pagar Raja, Perupok, Daramain and Tok Burung and in the area Perupok involve loss more than RM50,000.

However no any accident soul or injury undergone inhabitants in that area.
Development Supervisor Base District Chengal, Mohd. Zain Drani says, incident occurred for 30 minutes between the hours 11.30 pm to 12 midnight when many people ready to sleep.

He said, house roof majority 'flew' storm in the incident first time within 20 years that.
“Is a house which his porch crushed palm as high as almost 20 metres, however elderly citizen and two grandchild it save

“Storm happened split second with rain ice cause inhabitants chaos apart from trees along the road Kampung Pantai Damat collapse befallen electric post cause blackout inhabitants all night long,'' he said to Warkah Timur in Kampung Pantai Damat here yesterday.
Mohd Zain says, assistance house repairs the damage is further yesterday made and today after information on the damage take regardless of political ideology.

“I inhabitants straight home involved to get damage information and reasonably well-to-do inhabitants house repairs respectively without waiting assistance Pusat Khidmat Rakyat Bachok's Parliament.
“This may be tests by God. Possibility is blessing lie behind this incident,'' he remarked.

UMK Hostel imperfect students disappointed

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) -- University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) student urge management of the university side stated immediately resolve problem concerning facility in a temporary campus it in Taman Bendahara, Pengkalan Chepa.

Damage state in students residential area as finish that a continuous imperfect to his building, apart from furniture quality and door latch has broken raise students less comfortable sense.

Some student told Warkah Timur, bathroom state small student hostel and pipe bathe fitted low only fit for purpose wash hands and feet.

“Although there a water pipe as high as knee-deep, but it only suitable to wash feet or hand. This mean we should bring barrel to receptacle water before bathing.

“More disquieting is doorknob to several ended bathroom damaged, cannot locked from in. How can damaged whereas us this new campus and us is first student group use the facility that are provided," said one student only want to be known as Ina.

Students also claimed, male dormitory congestion which house 20 students comply raise less comfortable sense they.
More distressing, design also claimed forced bask following no ceiling fan facility.

Media survey students claim that yesterday found top finish to idle bathroom offhand as if new completed being cement and not painted till affect his quality of construction.
Meanwhile, parents whose found hopefully management UMK resorts quick to solve stated problem to ensure students comfort and avoid happened not wanted matter.

Victim not negligent but Hit And Run

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) -- Road accident victim family, nearby Labok towards Bandar Machang last Monday, claimed incident occurred not caused negligence instead prey on incident hit-and-run.

Claim made after suspected state apart at the rear victim motorcycle prove him hit severe of rearward when stated incident.

“Base observation, I his suspicion (victim) hit of rearward given motorcycle rear apart," Mohd Sabri Yusof's claim, 32, victim younger sister in-law, when met in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, yesterday.

Following stated incident, victim, Che Harun Che Awang which are descended from Kampung Mokel, Tok Uban, Pasir Mas still coma and following serious injury in the spleen division.

Mohd Sabri tells, he very confident his brother in-law's eared that is the victim hit-and-run and hope the public who are looking stated incident contact him or even immediately police parties.

"I'm by myself go to Police Station Machang to own view motorcycle state stated and confident serious damage in attributable rear of strong stampede," increase him. Meanwhile, victim wife, Faridah Yusof regret with the incident befallen her husband and hoped side power to take immediate action detect incident actual cause stated.

"My husband already coma three day and doctor state part his spleen forced to be thrown after hachure and not functioning the impact of the accident.

“Hospital side receiving the report my husband stretched out unconscious at the scene before contact the police. I also called upon to the public who are looking incident that can contact us, hospital side or police to provide evidence and information reach the incident," pour forth Faridah.

He also told, stated incident happened around 6 o'clock to 8 pm and hoped incident reporter participate give further information regarding accident that.
Incident Monday go that the incident in new route sue design had no diversion warning sign and other security warning.

Mother refuse return if younger sister stubborn - Nurul Amalin

BECHAH LAUT (Warkah Timur) --"Mother ever threaten youngest brother to to Kuala Lumpur and do not want return reach whenever if us both stubborn," said child Allahyarham Maimunah Che Hassan,34 death in horrific accident in Simpang Bechah Laut's Three, yesterday.

Nurul Amalin Husna Fadzil, 13, proven do not suspect her mother words not want to return to the house materialized.
Nurul Amalin, victim first child unable hide sad sense and sad let alone when remembering her mother threat characterized as token badinage enough pampered mother love with her youngest brother.

"Reason pampered younger brother (that) Mother kind word (that) but no think it is departure sign it leave we indefinitely," said the Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tanah Merah 1 student.

Regarding Nurul Amalin she also also ask permission her mother to to stated forum but block reason over her mother the place is congested and if she goes also not yet made them will reach.
"I only following said the mother furthermore I just returned from school because I schooling afternoon and feel pretty tired," He Said.

Meanwhile, husband to Maimunah Mat Yaakob, 39, which is known as Tajuddin says he unable detains sad see wife body it.
Jelasnya, he always was at the scene until he comply to issue own his wife's body stretched out stiff in the car apart.

"I also forced to commute to place my children given design could not control feelings when know their mother was gone and grateful to kindred calm design," he said.

Women married two would be prosecuted soon

KOTA BHARU (Warkah Timur) -- Woman whose sue have two husband would be prosecuted in court soon after all the investigation papers for it submit to the Syarie prosecutors in Syariah High Court, here.

Syarie's Prosecutor chief, Zaini Sulaiman, said ended his team accept investigation report from Kelantan's Islamic Religious Affairs Department (JAHEAIK) Bachok and will make prosecution if there is no obstacle.
Said him, women involved and husband `newly' already instructed bermufarakah after JAHEAIK receiving the report on the case involved from husband the woman who claimed never divorce him after marry in Thailand, before that.

He said, process of prosecution for women and his new husband that relatively late following imam involved marry pair passed away.

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Abdullah: Restricting Companies From Going Private Will Not Help Bursa

KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 -- Setting conditions to prevent a company from going private will reduce the interest of other companies wishing to be listed on Bursa Malaysia, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Abdullah, who is also Finance Minister, said the move will cause other foreign investors to lose interest in investing in the country, while other initiatives taken to liven up the share market and trade will also be affected.

"Besides many other reasons, the share market also exists to allow companies to realise their value and for investors to make profits from investments made.

"Because of this, the market must give way to corporate activities, such as mergers and acquisitions which will only increase the value of a listed company. This will make the market more active," he said.

The prime minister said this in his written reply to eight questions posed by Members of Parliament on the privatisation of telecommunications company, Maxis Commmunications Bhd (Maxis).

Among the questions were on why the government, through the Securities Commission and Foreign Investment Committee allowed the telecommunication giant to be taken private and the implications to the stock exchange and the country's economy.

Explaining further, Abdullah said that there was very little evidence that supported claims that privatisation deals resulted in the outlfow of funds from the domestic market.

In fact, the revenue collected from the take over offer is usually rechannelled into the market by Malaysian and foreign investors who are keen to retain their investments in the capital market assets of the country.

A market which sees active takeovers, regardless of whether the companies retain their listed status or go private, will create a dynamic market which will attract many more investors to see other opportunities in the market.

Such a market will also encourage more active trade, he added.

SMART To Be Completed One Week Ahead Of Schedule

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 - The floodwater channel of the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) will be ready one week ahead of its scheduled June 30 completion date as the authorities scramble to overcome flash floods in the Klang Valley.

Irrigation and Drainage Department (DID) director-general Datuk Keizrul Abdullah said the department would speed up all flood mitigation measures to deal with the problem.

For SMART's floodwater channel, several gates are being installed while all security features would be completed before the tunnel is commissioned, he said in a statement Tuesday.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday expressed dismay over the inadequate flood control measures in the city during a briefing at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall on the flood which threw the capital into chaos on Sunday night.

He asked the DID to speed up flood mitigation efforts, including the RM1.93 billion SMART dual-purpose tunnel.

Keizrul said DID was carrying out several projects to prevent floods in the federal capital under the Klang River Valley Flood Mitigation Programme, including the construction of the Batu Dam and raising the height of the Klang Gates Dam by three metres.

He said the department was also installing pump systems in low-lying areas.

"DID is also deepening and widening the Klang River, Damansara River, Kerayong River and Penchala River besides strengthening the river embankment in Kebun Bunga, Shah Alam.

"We'll also construct flood bypasses and upgrade flood forecast and alert system. We've started sending flood warnings to Shah Alam residents by SMS (short messaging service)," he added.

A four-hour downpour on Sunday left many places in Kuala Lumpur under water. Among the worst affected areas were Kampung Baru, Sentul, Jinjang Selatan, Segambut, Jalan Masjid India, Jalan Perak, Jalan Pinang, Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan P Ramlee and Jalan Kolam Air, Setapak.

Clean up operations are now underway to clear the streets of rubbish and items destroyed by floodwaters.

Ringgit Opens Stronger Against US Dollar

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 - The ringgit opened stronger against the U.S. dollar today on commercial buying interests, said dealers.

However, the greenback was higher in most overseas markets on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would not cut interest rates in the near term.

Dealers said that lower interest rates could boost the U.S. economy but at the same time could make investments denominated the U.S. dollar less attractive.

The ringgit has appreciated by 4.2 percent against the U.S. dollar this year and cumulatively since its depegging against the greenback in 2005, the ringgit has risen by between 10 and 12 percent.

At 9.00 am, the ringgit strengthened at 3.4585/4615 against the U.S. dollar compared with yesterday's closing of 3.4685/4715.

Except against the Singapore dollar, the local unit was also mostly higher against other major currencies.

It weakened against the Singapore dollar at 2.2462/2492 against 2.2456/2490 yesterday but rose against the Japanese yen at 2.8425/8562 from 2.8498/8525.

Against the pound sterling, the ringgit was stronger at 6.8202/8271 from 6.8264/8340 and rose against the euro at 4.6202/6253 from 4.6260/6324 previously.

PM Wants Flood Alleviation Projects Speeded Up

"The flood is not seasonal. All projects to alleviate floods like the deepening of rivers and building of retention ponds must be completed fast,""Mobilise all resources and give it priority," Datuk Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 - Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today all flood alleviation projects should be speeded up to prevent flash flood.

"The flood is not seasonal. All projects to alleviate floods like the deepening of rivers and building of retention ponds must be completed fast," the Prime Minister said at a Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) briefing on its preparedness in facing flood.

He said all projects being undertaken by the and Drainage and Irrigation Department (JPS) and DBKL must be completed ahead of schedule.

"Mobilise all resources and give it priority," he said when briefed by Federal Territories Deputy Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop at DBKL's security and enforcement department in Jalan Tun Razak here.

Also present was Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Ab. Hakim Borhan.

JKR To Tighten Grip On Contractors

"A stricter compliance system must be developed for contractors and sub-contractors with specific references to infrastructure weaknesses due to shoddy work and fulfilling standard requirements,"Datuk Seri S. Smy Vellu, Work Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 - In the wake of a series of minor defects in government buildings recently, the Public Works Department (JKR) will set up a Building Surveyors Division to inspect the condition of all buildings after completion.

In issuing the directive Monday, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said in addition, a new central department would be formed at the ministry to ensure high standards in maintenance, while penalties in the form of surcharges would be imposed on contractors who shirked their duties.

Elaborating on the Building Surveyors Division, he said its role would be to detect any defect.

"It (the division) will also ensure the maintenance and streamlining of high standards for construction supervision," he said when opening a workshop on the new government delivery system organized by his ministry here.

He also directed the JKR and all agencies within the ministry to draw up implementing charts when giving a project to a contractor.

"If the task or required parcel of work is not completed within the stipulated period and according to the quality expected, the contractor is surcharged immediately.

"There is therefore an urgent need to tighten quality assurance, standards including enhancing monitoring and supervisory roles," he said.

Samy Vellu also called for a revamp of the ministry's Complaints Unit. "This unit must become more pro-active in making itself available to the ordinary citizens thereby documenting accurately their complaints and effectively resolving their grievances," he said.

He said by managing public complaints and giving reliable and accurate replies, it would enhance the ministry's profile with civil society groups.

Samy Vellu said also said it was important for the JKR to deploy the right people especially those with the competency, expertise, experience, information, brainpower and commitment to oversee the implementation of projects.

"In a similar way, a step-by-step approach to effectively monitor all the infrastructure projects that are being undertaken is critical," he said.

Samy Vellu said critical self assessment and peer group appraisals were necessary to keep relevant officials alert on their professional and technical outputs.

"Effective tracking and feedback systems must be developed. Multiple sources of information both formal and informal must be tapped from all the stakeholders," he said.

He also suggested that trouble shooting teams be established to undertake spot checks and analysis to ensure quality control, while internal audits must assess both effective and efficient use of resources.

"A stricter compliance system must be developed for contractors and sub-contractors with specific references to infrastructure weaknesses due to shoddy work and fulfilling standard requirements," he said.

Bank Islam Appoints Dubai-based Banker As Director

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 - Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd has appointed prominent Dubai-based banker Ahmad Saeed Bin Brek as an independent non-executive director from June 8.

Ahmad Saeed is a reputed turnaround specialist, as demonstrated when he turned around from a loss of one millionCitibank Arab Emirates dinar (AED) to a profit of 150 million AED in 1990, Bank Islam in a statement.

He is also credited with establishing a diversified commercial and retail segment for and transforming Citibank, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to a premier institution, the bank added.

Bank Islam said the appointment was in line with its strategy to bring in relevant expertise at the board and senior management level to help accelerate the bank's tranformation.

An accountant by training, Ahmad Saeed has over 25 years of experience in banking and financial services in the UAE and Gulf region.

He is currently chief executive officer (CEO) of MAF Ventures LLC.

Previously, he was CEO of Citibank NA, UAE and Oman, from 1990 to 2002 and seconded to Dubai Bank in 2002. Prior to joining Citibank, he was a senior auditor for Ernst & Young.

Smart Tunnel Toll Collection Begins Midnight Friday

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 - Toll collection at the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) motorway will start at midnight on Friday and the rate will be announced shortly, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.

"I'll announce the toll rate at a news conference in one or two days," he told reporters after opening the Hindu Dharma Mamandram national delegates' meeting in Batu Caves here Sunday.

Asked whether the government would guarantee that the toll rate would be reasonable and would not burden the public, Samy Vellu said they should understand that the cost of building a road tunnel was higher than that of a normal highway.

"I can't guarantee you that there'll be a reasonable toll because it cost a lot of money to build the tunnel," he said.

The RM1.9 billion project between Jalan Sungai Besi and Jalan Ampang includes a road tunnel costing 3.3kmRM650 million. Road users have been using the motorway for free since May 14.

Samy Vellu said the public had the option of using the road tunnel for speedier travel or other existing roads.

The 9.7km SMART project is meant to divert rain water away from the city centre to prevent flash floods and alleviate traffic congestion, especially for those coming into the city from the south.

Najib, Rosmah Attend Brunei Royal Couple's Bersanding Ceremony

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, June 10 - Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor today attended the ceremony of the "bersanding"Brunei Sultan's fourth princess, Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Puteri Hajah Majeedah Nuurul Bulqiah and Pengiran Khairul Khalil Pengiran Syed Jaafari.

Najib and Rosmah were seated in the front at Balai Singgahsana Indera Buana of Istana Nurul Iman along with the Crown Prince of Brunei Paduka Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah and his consort Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah and the sultan's princes dan princesses.

The deputy prime minister and his wife later flew to Sabah to attend an official function there. They will return here tomorrow to attend the royal banquet at the royal banquet hall of Istana Nurul Iman.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah and Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud would also attend the banquet.

Also present at today's bersanding ceremony were Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, his wife and members of the foreign diplomatic corps based here.

Thailand, Malaysia To Ink Education MoU

BANGKOK, June 9 - After years of informal ties in the education field, Malaysia and Thailand are expected to sign a historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) in August to pave the way for closer cooperation and exchange of expertise between their educators.

The formal collaboration comes in the wake of the two neighbours ushering in their 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year.

The MoU is expected to be finalised and signed when Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont visits Malaysia in August.

Deputy Director-General of Education (School Division) Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom led 12 Education Ministry senior officials to explore areas of cooperation during their five-day visit to Thailand which ended today.

Alimuddin said the MoU was the result of a recent meeting between Malaysian Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein and his Thai counterpart Prof Dr Wichit Srisa-an here and in Kuala Lumpur last month.

"Many schools and institutions in both countries have exchange programmes and cooperation for many years. In view of that, the ministers felt there is a need for formal cooperation that will benefit the two countries," he said in an interview here.

Alimuddin said the MoU would, among others, touch on academic cooperation and exchange of staff, experts, teachers and students, promoting linkages between cluster schools and organising training programmes for teachers.

He said one of the important areas of cooperation involves religious schools as Dr Wichit had sought Malaysia's help to further develop the religious school system in Thailand, especially in the restive south.

"Dr Wichit was impressed with our religious school system that gives equal importance to both religious studies and normal syllabus.

"He wants to implement a similar model in Thailand," he said.

Alimuddin said Thai officials are also keen to learn from Malaysia the teaching of science and mathematics in English.

In return, he said, Malaysia hopes to learn from Thailand the examination and evaluation systems for arts schools, which are new in Malaysia, as well as special education.

In August, 500 scouts from Malaysian schools bordering Thailand would join 1,500 scouts from the southern provinces in the Thai-Malaysia Border Scouts Jamboree in Songkhla.

S'pore Detains "Self-Radicalised" S'porean, Four JI Members Under ISA

SINGAPORE, June 8 - Singapore's Internal Security Department (ISD) has arrested a 28-year-old man whom it described as a "self-radicalised' Singaporean who had made specific plans to pursue "militant jihad" in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement tonight that Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader, an ex-lecturer, was arrested in February this year and subsequently detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

The ISD had also arrested and placed under ISA four Jemaah Islamiyah members between November last year and February this year, including one whom the ministry said had "undergone JI training in Malaysia".

The ministry said Abdul Basheer studied and practised law after graduation and later became a lecturer in an educational institution.

"From late 2004, he began developing the mindset that he had to wage 'militant jihad' in a land where Muslims were under attack. His views were shaped by the radical discourse that he avidly looked up on the Internet," the ministry said.

In October 2006, Abdul Basheer left Singapore for a Middle-Eastern country. "He planned to live there for two years, learning Arabic so that he could communicate with Mujahidin fighters," the ministry said.

He was arrested and repatriated to Singapore "before he could embark on his violent agenda".

Meanwhile, the four JI members detained under the ISA are Ishak Mohamed Noohu, Mohamed Hussain Saynudin, Mohamed Yassin Mohamed Nooh and Ibrahim Mohd Noor.

TNB Beat BJSS 3-1, E&Y Edge Maybank 2-1

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 - Former champions Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), despite taking off on a promising start, only managed to beat underdogs Bukit Jalil Sports School (BJSS) boys 3-1 in the Malaysian Hockey League (MHL) Division One match at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil here today.

The power house broke down the school boys' defence as early as the fifth minute through Mohd Fairuz Ramli while midfielder Kevinder Singh rammed home the second goal barely two minutes later.

Kevinder Singh made it 3-0 for TNB in the 18th minute when he touched home another in the 18th minute off a field attempt.

BJSS' solitary strike was courtesy of Ahmad Kazamirul Nasruddin in the 48th minute.

In another Division One match, defending league champions Ernst and Young (E&Y) fought hard to edge Maybank 2-1.

However, it was Maybank who took the lead through Chairil Anwar Abdul Aziz in the sixth minute but E&Y equalised five minutes later through their penalty corner specialist Zulkifli Mohamad Rejab.

The second half saw E&Y struggling to break into Maybank's semi-circle and finally found their loop hole in the 60th minute through Ismail Abu to collect the full three points.

"We were cautious in the first half and conceded a goal. We charged back and got the equaliser. In the second half, I told the boys to go all-out and they got the winning goal late in the second half. It was a close game but I'm glad we collected full points today," said E&Y's coach K. Dharmaraj.

In Division Two, Jurutera Letrik Jentera (JLJ) steamrolled Royal Malaysian Air Force(RMAF) 7-1 at the Tun Razak Hockey Stadium while SUKSES Selangor could only manage a 2-2 draw with Dolphins at Klang.

In another match, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) secured a slim 1-0 win over Renjers at the Sungai Petani pitch while Kedah Hockey Association Nur Insafi managed to overcome MSN Terengganu 3-2.

At the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Batu Pahat beat Royal Malay Regiment 4-3.

US sued over 'ghost prisoners'

Six human rights groups are suing the US government seeking more details of 39 people they claim were detained in anti-terror operations, and have since gone 'missing'.

Amnesty International and the others said they have compiled evidence to show the "ghost detainees" were either in or have been in US custody, Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports.

The move comes after a US civil rights group last month filed a suit against a subsidiary of aircraft manufacturer Boeing for aiding the CIA in flying the suspects to detention facilities.

Most of those arrested in the months following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York are held at Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base in Cuba.

Detainee list

The groups on Thursday published the list of 39 detainees based on information gleaned from interviews with former prisoners and officials in the US, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen.

Amnesty says it is not sure if the missing prisoners are in any US detention facility, claiming their report offers evidence that Washington has been lying.

"For its part, the CIA has always maintained that it operates in strict accord with American law," Sean Casey, a US State Department spokesman, said.

George Bush, the US president, had late last year acknowledged the existence of secret detention centres but did not specify any locations.

The rights groups say the men were among those captured in highly controversial "renditions" in which suspects were detained outside the US and flown to top secret American jails around the world.

European probe

In Europe, a Swiss senator heading an investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe is expected to present on Friday new findings on what he calls a "spider's web" of human rights abuses.

Dick Marty, who is leading an inquiry on behalf of the Council of Europe, had spoken to former CIA agents to corroborate his earlier accusations that CIA planes landed in Poland and Romania to drop off detainees, a source familiar with the investigation said.

The European Parliament came to the same conclusion after completing its own investigation in February.

Both the Polish and Romanian governments have vehemently denied Marty's allegations.

Last year, he accused 14 European nations of colluding to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities, and said European governments "did not seem particularly eager to establish" the facts.

While details of most of the detainees remained sketchy, information for at least 21 of the detainees had been confirmed by two or more independent sources, Anne Fitzgerald, a senior adviser for Amnesty International, said.

Right restored

Meanwhile in Washington on Thursday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill that will restore basic legal rights to inmates of Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing the accused to challenge their detention in a US court.

The move came days after the US administration suffered a severe legal setback in its 'war on terror' after a military tribunal dismissed charges against two Guantanamo inmates.

"Habeas corpus was recklessly undermined in last year's legislation," Senator Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said. "I hope that the new Senate will reconsider this historic error in judgment and set the matter right."

Judges who heard both cases on Monday ruled they had no jurisdiction to proceed with military commission trials as neither inmate was classified as an "unlawful enemy combatant".

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a joint Russian-US base to detect missile attacks in a startling proposal to overcome a crisis between the two countries.

Putin offered President George W. Bush the joint use of a Russian radar base in Azerbaijan as an alternative to plans for a US missile shield in central Europe.

Russia has angrily opposed the planned US shield in Poland and the Czech Republic and Putin had threatened to return to the Cold War policy of aiming Russian missiles at European targets, if it was deployed.

Putin said a joint base would "remove the need, would allow us to not change our policy on non-targeting of our missiles."

Putin and Bush met Thursday on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in a bid to rescue relations which were at a post-Cold War low amid their missile defence wrangling.

Bush found the Russian offer "interesting" and proposed experts from the two countries examine it, his national security advisor, Stephen Hadley, said later.

Bush himself told journalists that the two leaders would pursue their "strategic dialogue" at talks at the Bush family home in the United States in early July.

Putin said he had spoken on Wednesday to the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, who had agreed that the Gabalin base rented by Russia could also be jointly used by the United States.

Russia says it is the target of the proposed US shield in Europe while the United States insists its system is to guard against an attack by Iran or North Korea.

"We have an understanding of common threats but there are differences over the means for overcoming these threats," Putin said after the talks, with Bush at his side.

The Russian leader insisted that the US and Russian military could detect any long-range missile test by Iran and would then have up to five years to set up a joint base before there was any major threat.

Putin argued that the Azerbaijan-based system would cover all of Europe rather than just parts of it and that any missile debris would fall in the ocean rather than on land in Europe.

He said locating the base in Azerbaijan would ease Russian concerns about a missile shield on its frontier in Europe.

But he insisted that the new system had to be "transparently" shared and that the strategic concerns of both sides had to be taken into account.

Putin warned the United States not to start building the system in Europe while negotiations with Moscow take place. "We hope these consultations will not serve as cover for some unilateral action," Putin said.

Bush said that his Russian counterpart had made "some interesting suggestions" during the talks.

"As a result of our discussions, we both agreed to have a strategic dialogue, an opportunity to share ideas and concerns between our State Department, Defence Department and military people."

The US president said there would have to be "a serious set of strategic discussions."

The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, whose country is at the centre of the political storm, said Putin had finally recognised that the concept of anti-missile defence is "useful."

"The most important thing is his (Putin's) will to seek agreement," Topolanek said in a statement.

Putin's foreign policy advisor, Sergei Prikhodko, said Moscow now hoped for "a positive response to our very far-reaching offer."

According to Prikhodko, "it seemed to me this initiative was met with very great interest from President Bush."

The US national security advisor said it was too early to predict where the talks with Russia would lead.

Referring to the reaction in Poland and the Czech Republic, he told reporters: "There are a lot of questions that they are going to have and a lot of questions that we are going to have."

Hadley said Putin's proposal had been a sign that both sides "wanted to de-escalate the tension on these issues."

Immigration bill fails key test, is withdrawn

WASHINGTON - A broad immigration bill to legalize millions of people unlawfully in the United States failed a crucial test vote in the Senate Thursday, a stunning setback that could spell its defeat for the year.

The vote was 45-50 against limiting debate on the bill, 15 short of the 60 that the bill's supporters needed to prevail. Most Republicans voted to block Democrats' efforts to bring the bill to a final vote.

The legislation, which had been endorsed by President Bush, would tighten borders, institute a new system to prevent employers from hiring undocumented workers and give as many as 12 million illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.

Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who had made no secret of his distaste for parts of the bill, said he would withdraw it but keep working toward eventual passage.

"I, even though disappointed, look forward to passing this bill," Reid said. But he said he needs help from the White House.

"This is the president's bill," Reid said. "... We can't do it alone over here. We need some help."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, urged Reid not to give up on the legislation, but allow debate on amendments to continue in order to resolve the objections of conservative senators.

"This is a complicated bill, but the key to passage is not complicated," McConnell said.

McConnell said all that's needed is a "reasonable number of additional roll-call votes" on amendments.

"We're not that far away from being able to get cloture on the bill," he said.

Conceived by an improbable coalition that nicknamed the deal a "grand bargain," the measure exposed deep rifts within both parties and is loathed by most GOP conservatives.

Most Republicans voted against ending debate, saying they needed more time to make the bill tougher with tighter border security measures and a more arduous legalization process for unlawful immigrants.

All but a handful of Democrats supported the move, but they, too, were holding their noses at provisions of the bill. Many of them argued it makes second-class citizens of a new crop of temporary workers and rips apart families by prioritizing employability over blood ties in future immigration.

Still, they had argued that the measure, on balance, was worth advancing.

"We can all find different aspects of this legislation that we differ with," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the leading Democratic architect of the bill.
Amendments bandied about all day

Proponents in both parties had scrambled to find a way of reversing a blow their compromise sustained earlier Thursday, when the Senate voted to phase out the bill's temporary worker program after five years.

The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill.

Business interests and their congressional allies were already angry that the temporary worker program had been cut in half from its original 400,000-person-a-year target.

A five-year sunset, they said, could knock the legs from the precarious bipartisan coalition aligned with the White House. The Dorgan amendment "is a tremendous problem, but it's correctable," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania.

Until the Dorgan vote was tallied, Specter and other proponents had enjoyed a fairly good day.

They had turned back a bid to reduce the number of illegal immigrants who could gain lawful status. They also defeated an effort to postpone the bill's shift to an emphasis on education and skills among visa applicants as opposed to family connections.

And they fended off an amendment, by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, that would have ended a new point system for those seeking permanent resident "green cards" after five years rather than 14 years.

All three amendments were seen as potentially fatal blows to the bill, which would tighten borders, hike penalties for those who hire illegals and give many of the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.

The Senate voted 51-46 to reject a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to bar criminals -- including those ordered by judges to be deported -- from gaining legal status. Democrats siphoned support from Cornyn's proposal by winning adoption, 66-32, of a rival version that would bar a more limited set of criminals, including certain gang members and sex offenders, from gaining legalization.

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, alone among his party's presidential aspirants in backing the immigration measure, opposed Cornyn's bid and backed the Democratic alternative offered by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts.

Senators also rejected a proposal by Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, that would have delayed the bill's shift in favor of attracting foreign workers with needed skills as opposed to keeping families together. Menendez won 53 votes, seven short of the 60 needed under a Senate procedural rule invoked by his opponents.

Menendez's proposal would have allowed more than 800,000 people who had applied for permanent legal status by the beginning of 2007 to obtain green cards based purely on their family connections -- a preference the bill ends for most relatives who got in line after May 2005.

Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, fell short in her bid to remove limits on visas for the spouses and minor children of immigrants with permanent resident status.

While several Cornyn amendments failed, he prevailed on one matter opposed by the grand bargainers. That amendment, adopted 57 to 39, would make it easier to locate and deport illegal immigrants whose visa applications are rejected.

The bill would have barred law enforcement agencies from seeing applications for so-called Z visas, which can lead to citizenship if granted. Cornyn said legal authorities should know if applicants have criminal records that would warrant their deportation.

Opponents said eligible applicants might be afraid to file applications if they believe they are connected to deportation actions. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said in an interview that Cornyn's amendment was "not a deal-killer" but would have to be changed in House-Senate negotiations.

PM's Marriage Solemnisation Ceremony At Noon Saturday

PUTRAJAYA, June 8 - The akad nikah between (marriage solemnisation ceremony)Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Jeanne Abdullah at Seri Perdana here will be held at noon Saturday.

The matter came to light when Abdullah corrected Internal Security Ministry Secretary-General Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof's remarks on the time of the wedding at the ministry's excellent service awards presentation here Friday.

"It's at noon," Abdullah said upon hearing Abdul Aziz mentioning in his speech that the ceremony would take place in the morning.

The Prime Minister's Office had only announced the date of the wedding without specifying the time.

To be attended by close relatives, the wedding will be a modest affair.