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Borneo Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- Borneo Post
Former assemblyman, ex-newsreader named Sabah's Maal Hijrah Icons
Norsuadah (third left) with her family after receiving the Maal Hijrah Icon Award (Female Category) from Musa at the state-level Maal Hijrah celebration on Friday. The former newsreader, announcer and producer received RM20,000, a trophy and a certificate.-Bernama photo KOTA KINABALU (June 27): Former Banggi assemblyman Datuk Amir Kahar Tun Mustapha and former newsreader Datin Seri Panglima Nursuhadah Basah have been announced as Sabah's Maal Hijrah Icons for 1447H/2025M. The awards were presented by Sabah's Head of State, Tun Musa Aman, here today. Amir, born on February 16, 1950, inherited the fighting spirit of his late father, Tun Datu Mustapha, in championing the welfare of Sabah's people. Armed with qualifications from the London Business School and Harvard School of Business, he established himself in state politics, serving five terms as an assemblyman and three terms as a Member of Parliament. The pinnacle of his career saw him appointed as Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, with an outstanding record in advocating rural development, indigenous land rights, and regional economic cooperation through the Sabah and Palawan Co-operation Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In the field of Islamic propagation (dakwah), he continued his father's harmonious approach, strengthening state Islamic institutions and promoting a more open, scholarly and unifying model of dakwah in Sabah. Meanwhile, Datin Seri Panglima Nursuhadah Basah, born on August 31, 1953, began her career as a newsreader, broadcaster and program producer from 1973 to 1978. She later entered politics as a nominated assemblywoman and then as Assistant Minister of Community Welfare and Unity in Sabah. She has been active in Sabah's Muslim women's religious organizations, leading and coordinating religious, welfare and educational programs for women. Her commitment is also evident in her roles as a committee member of MUBARAK Sabah and patron of the Hj Salleh Mosleh Mosque. As a charismatic Muslim woman leader, she has amplified women's voices in policy-making and da'wah program management, reflecting her authority as a prominent female Islamic figure in Sabah. Her contributions have been recognized with the Ahli Darjah Kinabalu (1983) and Ahli Setia Darjah Kinabalu (2000) awards. The selection of these two icons highlights their steadfast roles in reinforcing Islamic values, defending the people's welfare, and fostering inclusive societal well-being in Sabah.
Malay Mail
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Malay Mail
Missing Pamela Ling wins court nod to contest MACC arrest, travel ban
KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — The High Court today granted leave for Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh to proceed with her judicial review challenging her arrest and a travel ban imposed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Immigration Director-General. High Court Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh Serjit Singh granted Ling's application, following a leave hearing today. He then set case management for June 3. In her judicial review application, Ling is seeking several orders, including the cancellation of the arrest warrant used by the MACC for her January 8 arrest, the lifting of her travel ban to allow her to leave Malaysia to care for her three children in Singapore, and compensation of at least RM137,000. MORE TO COME
Malay Mail
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Malay Mail
Pamela Ling still missing but court to hear today her bid to challenge MACC's actions
KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — Sarawak-born Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh has been missing for more than a month now, but her lawyers will still go on today with her court bid to challenge her previous arrest and travel ban by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). Just two days before her disappearance, Ling on April 7 filed her court challenge at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur against the MACC and the Immigration director-general. In a nutshell, Ling wants the court to cancel the arrest warrant used by MACC in her January 8 arrest; to be allowed to leave Malaysia to care for her three children in Singapore; and is claiming for at least around RM137,000 as compensation. Here are the five specific court orders that Ling is seeking in her court case: 1. To quash the December 2, 2024 arrest warrant --- issued by the Johor Bahru Magistrates Court --- against her. 2. A declaration that MACC does not have powers to directly or indirectly prohibit a person from leaving Malaysia (except in the way stated in the MACC Act's Section 44 and the anti-money laundering law's Section 44(4) ) 3. To order MACC to return her mobile phone to her; 4. An order to compel the Immigration director-general to allow her to leave Malaysia; 5. An order for compensation - For expenses spent up to the day of filing of court challenge: Two sums of S$20,401.14 (equivalent to around RM67,000) and RM70,000, or any part of these amounts;- For expenses for the period between lawsuit filing up to decision date, and general, exemplary or punitive damages: To ask the court to decide the amount payable. As Ling's lawsuit was filed as a judicial review application, she will first have to get the court's leave or permission for her actual lawsuit to be heard. High Court judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh Serjit Singh is scheduled to hear her application for leave for judicial review this morning. The Attorney General's Chambers is expected to object to only Ling's bid to have the arrest warrant quashed through this lawsuit. Pamela Ling is seeking general damages for MACC's alleged unlawful arrest and detention of her during January 8 to January 11, and alleged emotional and psychological distress due to those actions and being allegedly unlawfully separated from her children who she said needs her care. — Picture by Choo Choy May What Ling is asserting in her court challenge Ling and Sarawakian businessman Datuk Seri Thomas Hah Tiing Siu, who will both turn 42 and 56 this year, had been married for more than 20 years. Ling was living in Singapore with their three children, while Hah is based in Malaysia. The eldest child aged 20 and diagnosed with autism undergoes treatment in Singapore for a rare medical life-threatening condition known as hereditary angioedema, while another child aged 18 diagnosed with dyslexia also undergoes treatment there. Ling had in August 2023 filed for divorce in Singapore while Hah had in December 2023 filed for divorce in Malaysia. Based on court papers, Ling detailed multiple events, including MACC's obtaining of an arrest warrant on December 2, 2024, over her failure to comply with the agency's October 29, 2024 order to appear at its Johor Bahru office the next day for investigations into a case. The investigations were for a case involving her father's business, which he said in court documents had been resolved after his late November 2024 payment of a compound sum offered by MACC. In lengthy court documents, Ling asserts that the MACC's October 2024 order was not served according to the law, and that she had not wished to accept the order and had taken it under protest from an MACC officer without acknowledging service. According to Ling, Singapore authorities on January 8 carried out the arrest warrant by taking her into custody in Singapore, before passing her to MACC officers at the Malaysia-Singapore immigration checkpoint the same day. On January 8, Ling said she was in handcuffs when taken to MACC's Johor Bahru offices and confined, and remained in handcuffs when she was brought to MACC's Putrajaya headquarters and was kept in the MACC lock-up overnight. Ling said she was then remanded or further detained for three days from January 9 to January 11 to assist in the MACC's investigations, and that MACC seized her phone and recorded her statement. She was released from remand on January 11, with the MACC requiring her to pay RM35,000 as deposit and to report every month to MACC until investigation ends. Apart from reporting to MACC every month, Ling said she had presented herself to the MACC to have her statement recorded on January 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, 27 and February 12. Ling claims that she had shown up at MACC's office on January 24 and was waiting to have her statement taken, when her husband allegedly approached her and claimed to have been told by MACC officers that the two should settle matters between them. Ling said she later found out that MACC had successfully obtained a travel ban on her since October 2024, but asserts that MACC had acted unlawfully in getting Malaysia's immigration authorities to stop her from leaving the country. Ling asserts that immigration authorities had acted wrongfully and unlawfully by complying with MACC's alleged unlawful direction for the travel ban on her. Ling said her criminal lawyers' January 24 letter to request that she be allowed to return to her children in Singapore received no response, while her same lawyers' February 14 letter with a similar request upon her eldest child's hospitalisation was refused by MACC. She said there was no response to her civil lawyers' March 24 letter to MACC to request a lifting of the travel ban. Among other things, Ling in her court documents expressed her belief that the actual purpose of her arrest, remand and travel ban was to pressure her to resolve with her husband on her claims, including on assets in their marriage and on his alleged forgery of her signature on a disputed July 2023 share transfer document. Claiming that MACC had allegedly abused its powers and acted beyond the powers it had under the laws, Ling asserted that MACC had no legal basis to apply for the arrest warrant and the remand order or to impose conditions on her January 11 release from remand. The expenses she is seeking to claim in her court challenge include her hotel stays since there is a travel restriction on her, and the RM70,000 she has so far paid to criminal lawyers for matters such as opposing the remand application and to deal with the MACC. She is also seeking general damages for MACC's alleged unlawful arrest and detention of her during January 8 to January 11, and alleged emotional and psychological distress due to those actions and being allegedly unlawfully separated from her children who she said needs her care. She claims to have been denied her constitutional rights to liberty and equal protection of the law under the Federal Constitution's Article 5(1) and Article 8(1) respectively. April 9 disappearance en route to MACC Ling disappeared on April 9 after her e-hailing ride to MACC was intercepted by unknown individuals in several vehicles, and remains missing with no ransom demands made. The police are currently investigating her disappearance as a missing persons case, and have so far recorded the statements of 27 individuals.
