Penyelewengan BN: Kroni kaya rakyat terbeban

Kerajaan berkongsi keuntungan hasil pelaksanaan Sistem Penguatkuasaan Automatik (AES) bersama kroni dengan cara membebankan rakyat, kata Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Bandar, Azan Ismail.

Beliau mengulas jawapan bertulis Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein di Dewan Rakyat semalam bahawa kerajaan berjaya mengutip sebanyak RM20,020,500 juta kompaun hasil AES bermula 11 Jun 2013 hingga 23 September 2012 dengan kutipan lebih kurang 10 peratus.

Indonesia convicts former beauty queen Angelina Sondakh of graft

JAKARTA (AP) - An Indonesian court has convicted a former beauty queen-turned-ruling party politician of graft and sentenced her to 4 1/2 years in jail.

The guilty verdict on Thursday against Angelina Sondakh is the latest blow to the Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose second and final term in office is ending next year amid widespread disappointment at his efforts to clean up endemic corruption.

Tuduhan pelacuran bekas ketua IMF

French writer Tristane Banon is to lodge an official sexual assault complaint against IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Photograph: Daniel Janin/AFP/Getty Images

LILLE: Sebuah mahkamah Perancis semalam menolak permintaan agar dibatalkan dakwaan terhadap bekas ketua Dana Kewangan Antarabangsa (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, kerana pembabitannya dalam kegiatan pelacuran, kata peguamnya.

Egypt ex-PM Ahmed Nazif gets 3 years in jail

CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced former prime minister Ahmed Nazif to three years in prison and to pay a fine of nine million Egyptian pounds (S$1.8 million) for illegal enrichment.