[Straits Times] JOHOR BARU - THE Home Ministry is still assessing the investigation papers relating to the nude squat incident involving two Singaporean women here on June 9, said Immigration Department director-general Datuk Alias Ahmad.
'We have to allow the ministry time to study the report in order to make an official statement on it,' he said on Sunday, adding that he could not disclose other information on the inquiry.
The incident occurred after two Singaporean women drove past an unmanned booth at the Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex on June 9 and failed to get their passports checked.
Realising their mistake, the women then allegedly made a U-turn on the Causeway and admitted their mistake to officers there.
The officers, however, jugged the women for several hours at the checkpoint and later brought them to the Pekan Nenas detention centre for investigations.
At the centre, the women were allegedly told to strip, perform 10 squats and locked away for the night before being released at about 5pm the following day. The women submitted written statements to the Singapore Foreign Ministry which forwarded them to the Malaysian High Commission.
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We can only hope that no one from the TSA reads this article.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Ghana's former President Jerry Rawlings ... former lieutenant in the Ghanian air force, then military dictator for 11 years. He thought he was elected President-for-Life of Ghana in 1993, but was forced to step down his at the end of his term-limited second term when his proxy was defeated ... has finally lost his charm and charisma after delegates at the ruling National Democratic Congress' (NDC) primary used their thumb to reject his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings's challenge to replace incumbent President John Atta Mills at next year's election.
Out of 2,861 votes, Nana Agyeman-Rawlings could only poll 90 votes against President Mills' 2,771.
If she had won, this would have been the first time that a serving president is changed after his first term in office since the country returned to Constitutional rule in 1992.
It looks this logic must have worked against Nana Agyeman-Rawlings because weeks into their campaign, most analysis in the media had questioned the rationale for the challenge against President Mills.
There was also the issue of Mr Rawlings' continuous criticisms of President Mills which started just two weeks after he took office.
"People get fed up when you become irritating. This defeat was a clear sign that the NDC is fed up with Mr Rawlings who has since President Mills came into office has been his main critic.
"He has become more vociferous than the opposition party," said governance expert, Mr Jacob Manu.
Rawlings does not only criticise President Mills. When former President John Kufuor was in power, Mr Rawlings did not spare him.
"Most Ghanaians have come to see Rawlings as someone who thinks he is the only wise man in Ghana. This cannot be the case and a time would come when the people would kick against you," Mr Manu said.
The massive show of support would definitely give President Mills some confidence because, Mr Rawlings would no longer have any basis to criticise him.
Mr Manu said, "the defeat is overwhelming and it finally must show to Mr Rawlings that the grass-root supporters he had always claimed to be fighting for with his criticism against President Mills had lost faith in him."
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This is a collection of 45 photos of the Battle of Britain just put up on the Atlantic website. The photos are amazing, and serve as a reminder of the fact that defense budget cuts can have bad consequences.
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This is a remarkable series of pictures. I met a Turkish Cypriot fruit stand vendor in the early morning in a Sunday in July in London, 1982. He said that the city was not fully repaired from the bombing until 1962.
The spirit of defiance of the Londoners was amazing. It is tragic to see what England has become since then.
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A lot of those Londoners were smiling. They were smiling while taking shelter in a train tunnel and a girl was smiling, dirtied but apparently uninjured after being rescued from a bombed out building. A shop keeper worked on a sign that said "Business as usual." How are you gonna beat people like that?
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One has only to look back 3 or 4 generations to see how far down the road to serfdom and collapse we have come.
Imagine present day Brits or Americans facing that level of hardship. Not a pretty thought. Only our military and veterans hold that resevoir of grit anymore. Remind me again how many vets now serve in Congress or the White House?
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I remember when the movie Battle of Britain was made.
A news crew was out on the streets asking people about it.
I clearly recall one person who, when asked the question, stared blankly at the camera for a few seconds then said "I work for the government so I should not comment on it".
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Nice addition GulfBravoUSMC. It was good to listen to Churchill again. His words echo a time of sadness but of greatness as well. The British Tommy and the words of their young Queen brings back allot of history. The spirit is still there and here. The person of the time will come forward soon I hope and in our case return the statue of Churchill. I hope before things get too buggered up.
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Thanks Dale, the love of my life, Kilo Bravo is a tough Brit. She broke her arm near Nevada Falls in Yosemite two weeks ago. We strapped her arm against her body with our windbreakers and she hiked the three miles to the valley floor for first aid.
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The remarkable Battle of Britain photos are part 4 of a 20-part photo series on WWII that the Atlantic is running. Part 1-3 are equally noteworthy and I'm sure the subsequent parts will be well worth viewing. Thanks, Matt.
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Good show for Kilo Bravo, especially on the section of trail where you go through the mist of Vernal Falls.
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#26 and #30 where very touching. I would hope the ppl of today would take such selfless measures as the woman in 26 and hope the child in 30 was well taken care of after this
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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JOHOR BARU - THE Home Ministry is still assessing the investigation papers relating to the nude squat incident involving two Singaporean women here on June 9, said Immigration Department director-general Datuk Alias Ahmad.
