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Putera Mateen, Puteri Anisha Rosnah bakal timang cahaya mata pertama

Putera Mateen, Puteri Anisha Rosnah bakal timang cahaya mata pertama

PUTERA Brunei, Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Abdul Mateen, mengumumkan bahawa baginda dan isteri, Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Anisha Rosnah Adam, bakal menimang cahaya mata pertama mereka.Berita gembira itu dikongsikan sendiri oleh Putera Mateen menerusi hantaran di Instagram, memaparkan foto hitam putih pasangan diraja itu saling berpandangan mesra sambil berpegangan tangan di balkoni.Dalam gambar tersebut, Puteri Anisha kelihatan anggun mengenakan gaun putih labuh berkancing sambil meletakkan tangan di atas perut yang mula kelihatan.Tarikh jangkaan kelahiran belum diumumkan, namun pasangan diraja itu bakal menyambut ulang tahun perkahwinan kedua mereka pada Januari depan.Putera Mateen, 34, dan Puteri Anisha, 30, melangsungkan perkahwinan diraja yang gilang-gemilang selama 10 hari pada Januari 2024, dengan kemuncak majlis di Istana Nurul Iman, kediaman rasmi Sultan Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, di Bandar Seri Begawan.Majlis bersejarah itu turut dihadiri pemimpin negara, Raja-Raja Melayu serta ketua kerajaan serantau.Putera Mateen merupakan anak ke-10 dan putera keempat kepada Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah dan bekas isteri baginda, Hajah Mariam Abdul Aziz.Baginda mendapat pendidikan awal di Brunei sebelum melanjutkan pengajian dalam bidang politik antarabangsa di King’s College London, diikuti pengajian peringkat sarjana di School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.Dikenali sebagai seorang yang aktif dan berdisiplin, Putera Mateen menamatkan latihan ketenteraan di Royal Military Academy Sandhurst pada 2011 dan turut dikenali sebagai pemain polo berbakat.Sebelum mendirikan rumah tangga, Putera Mateen dianggap antara jejaka diraja paling menjadi tumpuan dunia.Puteri Anisha pula, kelahiran London, ialah seorang usahawan yang mengusahakan syarikat pakaian sutera dan agensi pelancongan mewah.Pasangan itu difahamkan mula berkenalan sejak 2018 namun memilih untuk merahsiakan hubungan mereka sehingga majlis perkahwinan berlangsung.Sekiranya anak yang bakal lahir itu lelaki, baginda akan menjadi pewaris keenam takhta Kesultanan Brunei. - Awani

Trump hails ‘martyr’ Charlie Kirk at posthumous medal ceremony

Trump hails ‘martyr’ Charlie Kirk at posthumous medal ceremony

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump hailed assassinated ally Charlie Kirk as a “martyr for truth and freedom” on Tuesday as he posthumously awarded the right-wing activist America’s highest civilian honor. Handing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Kirk’s tearful widow, Trump compared the 31-year-old conservative to Socrates, Saint Peter, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Trump, 79, also used the somber ceremony at the White House to vow to redouble his crackdown on what he calls radical left-wing groups that he launched following Kirk’s shooting. “In the wake of Charlie’s assassination, our country must have absolutely no tolerance for this radical left violence, extremism and terror,“ Trump told an audience of the country’s conservative elite. “We’re done with the angry mobs, and we’re not going to let our cities be unsafe.” The US State Department on Tuesday said it had revoked visas of at least six foreign nationals who had “celebrated the heinous assassination” on social media. In posts to X, the department shared offending posts allegedly by citizens of Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and Paraguay who had called Kirk “racist,“ “xenophobic” or other characterizations. One German apparently lost their US visa for writing “When fascists die, democrats don’t complain,“ according to the State Department. The Trump administration has controversially cited political reasons in stripping others of their visas, including several hundred people involved in Gaza war protests on US universities campuses. Father-of-two Kirk was shot dead on a Utah college campus last month, sparking a wave of grief among conservatives and promises of a clampdown from Trump that has seen National Guard troops sent to several Democrat-run cities. Guests at the ceremony included visiting Argentinian President Javier Milei, a libertarian firebrand, and a host of conservative US media personalities. Kirk’s widow Erika thanked Trump for flying back from a Middle East peace trip for the medal ceremony, which fell on what would have been her late husband’s 32nd birthday. “You have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have,“ she said, dabbing away tears and occasionally pausing to collect herself. She added that Kirk, who used huge audiences on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to build support for conservative talking points, “would probably have run for president” if he had not been assassinated. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged with Charlie Kirk’s murder. He faces the death penalty if convicted. - AFP

Kerajaan ambil tindakan tegas isu keselamatan sekolah – PM

Kerajaan ambil tindakan tegas isu keselamatan sekolah – PM

PUTRAJAYA: Kerajaan akan mengambil tindakan tegas berhubung isu keselamatan di sekolah susulan insiden seorang pelajar ditikam di sebuah sekolah semalam. Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan, langkah itu termasuk meneliti semula pengaruh aplikasi media sosial melalui penggunaan telefon pintar yang dilihat semakin membimbangkan dalam kalangan pelajar. Kita akan adakan perjumpaan mengenai isu ini. Saya ... Read more The post Kerajaan ambil tindakan tegas isu keselamatan sekolah – PM appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

‘I know it’s immoral’: Child workers still common in Pakistan

‘I know it’s immoral’: Child workers still common in Pakistan

KARACHI : From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi. Like millions of Pakistani children, she is a household helper, an illegal but common practice that brings grief to families often too poor to seek justice. “Alongside my mother, I cut vegetables, wash dishes, sweep the floor and mop. I hate working for this family,“ said the 13-year-old, who leaves her slum neighbourhood in Karachi at 7 am and often returns after dark. “Sometimes we work on Sundays even though it’s supposed to be our only day off, and that’s really unfair.” One in four households in a country of 255 million people employs a child as a domestic worker, mostly girls aged 10 to 14, according to a 2022 report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Sania, 13, earns $15 a month helping her mother maintain a sprawling luxury home in the city, where she has been explicitly forbidden to speak to her employer’s children or touch their toys. AFP is not publishing the full names of children and parents interviewed to protect their identities. Sania gets half the salary of her mother for the same hours, together earning $46 -- far below the minimum wage of 40,000 rupees ($140). “I dreamed of finishing school and becoming a doctor,“ said the eldest of five siblings who, according to the law, should be in school until the age of 16. ‘Cheaper and more docile’ A university professor who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity employs a 10-year-old boy because children are “cheaper and more docile”. “I know it’s immoral and illegal to employ a child, but at least he has a roof and is well fed here,“ he said. Hamza was sent by his parents to live with the professor in Karachi -- a 450-kilometre (280-mile) journey from his impoverished village, to which he returns only a few times a year. His monthly salary of $35 is paid directly to his father. “In the village, his poor parents would likely have sent him to the fields without even being able to feed him,“ the professor said, while also acknowledging that he feels “uneasy” when his own children go to school and Hamza stays behind to clean. There is no unified definition of a child or child labour in Pakistan, although a federal law prohibits children under the age of 14 from working in unsafe and hazardous environments, such as factories. In Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, employing a child as a domestic maid can lead to a maximum of one year in jail or a fine of up to 50,000 rupees ($177). However, few are prosecuted. Kashif Mirza from the NGO Sparc, one of the leading child rights organisations, described it as a form of “modern slavery widely accepted in Pakistani society that makes them particularly vulnerable”. “Society prefers to hire child domestic labour because they are cheap and more obedient, and employers make the argument that they are also safeguarding them, which is not true and illegal,“ he told AFP. ‘I had no choice’ Iqra, a 13-year-old child worker, died in February from blows by her wealthy employers in Rawalpindi, Islamabad’s twin city, because chocolate had disappeared from their kitchen. Her father, Sana, who said after her death that he would seek to prosecute the employers, instead told AFP that he forgave them. Under Islamic law, which operates alongside common law in Pakistan, a family can accept financial compensation from a killer in exchange for forgiveness, leaving them free from prosecution. “I had no choice. Where would I have found the money to pay legal fees? I already have more than 600,000 rupees ($2,120) in debt,“ he said. “There was also some pressure from the family’s relatives to pardon them, and I eventually agreed,“ he said. He told AFP that he had not taken any money from the family, highly unusual under Islamic law. He brought home his other two daughters and two sons after Iqra’s death. “I stopped sending them because I cannot bear the thought of losing another child,“ he said. Burned with an iron “The penalties are not strict enough” for both employers and parents, said Mir Tariq Ali Talpur, the social affairs minister for rural and impoverished Sindh. He told AFP that authorities regularly conduct checks and take charge of young children employed illegally, but the courts often return them to their parents after a small fine of around $3.50. “That’s why these incidents keep happening again and again,“ he said. A Karachi couple accused of burning a 13-year-old domestic worker named Zainab with an iron were released on bail of around $105 each in September. “I don’t understand how they could be free. Doesn’t anyone see Zainab’s injuries?” said the teen’s mother Asia, pointing to severe burns on her daughter’s arms, legs, back and stomach. Asia, who is pursuing the offenders legally, acknowledges that they are “rich and think they’re untouchable”. “The poor like us have no power,“ she said. - AFP

Tindakan disiplin bukti tiada ahli kebal dalam Bersatu

Tindakan disiplin bukti tiada ahli kebal dalam Bersatu

KUALA TERENGGANU: Tindakan Lembaga Disiplin Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) terhadap enam pemimpinnya termasuk dua ahli Parlimen membuktikan tiada mana-mana ahli kebal daripada peraturan parti berkenaan. Ketua Badan Pimpinan Bersatu Terengganu, Datuk Razali Idris berkata, keputusan itu menunjukkan ketegasan Bersatu dalam memastikan setiap ahli mematuhi perlembagaan serta tatacara yang ditetapkan tanpa mengira kedudukan. “Bila ada ... Read more The post Tindakan disiplin bukti tiada ahli kebal dalam Bersatu appeared first on Utusan Malaysia .

Status rayuan FAM ke FIFA masih 'misteri'

Status rayuan FAM ke FIFA masih 'misteri'

TANDA tanya terus menyelubungi mengenai status rayuan Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia (FAM) terhadap hukuman yang dikenakan oleh Persekutuan Bola Sepak Antarabangsa (FIFA) apabila tiada sebarang perkembangan rasmi diumumkan setakat ini.Meskipun peminat bola sepak tempatan menantikan penjelasan, FAM masih belum mengesahkan sama ada proses rayuan telah dihantar atau sebaliknya.Situasi ini menimbulkan pelbagai persoalan dan kebimbangan dalam kalangan penyokong yang mahu kepastian terhadap langkah seterusnya yang diambil oleh badan induk bola sepak negara itu.Berdasarkan Artikel 61 Kod Tatatertib FIFA (FDC), FAM perlu memaklumkan niat untuk membuat rayuan secara bertulis dalam tempoh tiga hari selepas menerima notis rasmi penghakiman pada 6 Oktober lalu.Tempoh tersebut secara rasmi berakhir pada Khamis minggu lepas, namun sehingga kini tiada pengesahan dibuat sama ada notis rayuan itu telah dikemukakan kepada FIFA.Sekiranya langkah awal itu telah dilakukan, FAM hanya mempunyai tempoh lima hari berikutnya untuk menyerahkan dokumen rayuan penuh kepada Jawatankuasa Rayuan FIFA, menjadikan semalam sebagai tarikh akhir penghantaran.Ketiadaan sebarang kenyataan rasmi daripada FAM menimbulkan tanda tanya besar dalam kalangan penyokong yang menuntut kejelasan dan ketelusan mengenai status sebenar rayuan tersebut.Sebelum ini, FAM pernah memaklumkan bahawa semua dokumen serta bukti sokongan berhubung isu pemain warisan telah lengkap dan sedia dihantar kepada FIFA dengan kadar segera.Namun, kenyataan itu tidak disusuli dengan sebarang perkembangan baharu menjadikan isu ini tergantung dan menimbulkan pelbagai spekulasi dalam kalangan peminat bola sepak tanah air.Dalam konteks ini, FAM perlu sedar bahawa isu berkenaan bukan hanya melibatkan kepentingan organisasi, tetapi turut menyentuh maruah serta imej bola sepak Malaysia di peringkat antarabangsa.Peminat dan rakyat Malaysia berhak mengetahui perkembangan semasa kerana kes ini turut memberi kesan terhadap reputasi pasukan kebangsaan serta kepercayaan penyokong terhadap integriti badan pengurusan tertinggi bola sepak negara itu.Untuk rekod, FIFA sebelum ini telah mengeluarkan dokumen penuh penghakiman yang mendedahkan asal usul sebenar tujuh pemain warisan negara yang digantung selepas didapati melanggar Artikel 22 Kod Tatatertib FIFA membabitkan isu pemalsuan dan pengubahan dokumen rasmi.Tujuh pemain tersebut ialah Joao Figueiredo, Jon Irazabal, Hector Hevel, Gabriel Palmero, Facundo Garces, Rodrigo Holgado dan Imanol Machuca.Semua mereka digantung daripada sebarang aktiviti bola sepak sehingga tempoh tertentu seperti yang ditetapkan oleh FIFA.