BINA Ramanand and Asha Lim are just two among what is believed to be many more with a predicament because they live in Malaysia. They are foreign spouses married to Malaysians who have waited years and in some cases, decades, for their permanent residency (PR) applications to be approved. As of June 2010, the Home […]
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Divorce, PAS style
By Shanon Shah“It is a verbal oath. Under the oath, a candidate promises not to sell out the party or hop to another party. If the candidate does it, he will have to divorce his wife.” SHAH Alam PAS Member of Parliament (MP) Khalid Samad, explaining a loyalty oath imposed on PAS legislators. Under the oath, PAS’s […]
Media barred from covering ‘mutaah’ hearing
KOTA BARU, 21 April 2009: The Syariah High Court here today issued an injunction to bar the media from covering the “mutaah” hearing involving Melor assemblyperson Wan Ismail Wan Jusoh and his ex-wife Siti Aishah Chou Abdullah. The judge, Abdullah Man, said the injunction also covered disseminating and publishing media coverage throughout the proceedings between […]
Abby gets her divorce from Norman
KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Dec 2008: The Gombak Timur syariah lower court today granted popular actress Abby Abadi a divorce from her actor husband Norman Hakim. The divorce was sealed after Norman uttered the words to divorce Abby or Arbaeyah Abdul Manan, 31, with ‘talak satu’ in front of syarie judge Wan Mahyuddin Wan Muhammad. Norman […]
Incomplete documents, so Abby fails to file divorce
KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Nov 2008: Actress Abby Abadi failed to file for divorce from her husband, Norman Hakim, today as the documents she submitted to the Syariah Court were incomplete. Gombak Timur Syariah Court registry officer Harun Hashim advised Abby to return with the complete documents to proceed with the divorce under Section 47 of […]
