3 MPs detained, then freed after protest

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Police briefly detained five opposition activists who brought dozens of children outside Istana Negara today to protest a law that allows detention without trial.

The children carried teddy bears as a symbolic gesture to present to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to plead for the release of their fathers held under the Internal Security Act that enables suspects regarded as national security threats to be imprisoned indefinitely without trial.

S. Jayathas, a spokesman for the so-called "Father's Day" protest, said police detained five adult demonstrators, including three PKR MPs — Zuraida Kamaruddin (Ampang), R. Sivarasa (Subang) and S. Manickavasagam (Kapar) — for holding a public rally without obtaining approval.
Taken from The Malaysianinsider

'Najib's move bad for Umno'

LANGKAWI: Datuk Seri Najib Razak's continued allegiance to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will only hasten Umno's downfall, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
He said Abdullah had fared badly as Umno president and prime minister in the last general election and Najib's continued support for him would only cause the party to fall faster.

"Abdullah's own state of Penang was badly beaten and now Najib says he will stand by his boss.

"I think Najib may also soon kiss the premiership goodbye," he said when met here last night.

Dr Mahathir and his wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, were here to spend the weekend with friends.
He was asked to comment on the deputy prime minister's recent announcement that he would not betray Abdullah and that he would help to strengthen Umno.

Dr Mahathir said when Abdullah and Najib were in his cabinet, Umno and Barisan Nasional never fared badly in a general election as had happened in the March 8 elections.

"Now Najib wants to continue supporting Abdullah and this makes Umno's downfall imminent."
Taken from NST

WEATHER WILL HOT

All area in Semenanjung will experiencing hot temperature for the next 3 months beginning June up to August. According to the mets dept the noon temperature will be around 33c and more.

Rain drops will be less on these 3 month time due to the changing of monsun wind.

No Astro if bill not paid in 45 days

KUALA LUMPUR: Astro will stop imposing a RM10 fee for late payment. Instead, starting July 1, it will issue a reminder and disconnect the account if payment is still not received within 45 days.

As for service availability during rainfall, Astro said there was no permanent solution to that.

CEO Rohana Rozhan said there was no total solution to eradicating rain fade on a Ku Band transmission, which Astro uses for its Direct To Home satellite systems.

In a statement yesterday, she said, Astro would, however, gain additional satellite capacity towards the end of the year, and it would use this to mitigate downlink disruption due to rain fade.
Taken from The Star