Michael Jackson (© Oceania Rock / Flickr.com) PERTAMA kali saya mendengar lagu mendiang Michael Jackson pada tahun 1984, saya berumur enam tahun. Saya ingat lagi, pada masa itu Radio dan Televisyen Malaysia menyiarkan rancangan hiburan istimewa mengenai Anugerah Grammy ke-26. Jackson memecahkan pelbagai rekod untuk pencalonan bagi albumnya, Thriller. Rancangan tersebut memaparkan sedutan videonya untuk […]
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Kugan’s final journey
By Deborah Loh and Zedeck SiewCorrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 11.30pm IT was not an ordinary death, and so it was not an ordinary funeral. A Kugan’s funeral on 28 Jan 2009 drew hundreds of people who followed his body in a procession from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) across Petaling Jaya to Puchong Batu 14, where he […]
Six people arrested at Kugan’s funeral (Updated)
(Updated 7:43pn, 28 Jan 2009) KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Jan 2009: Six men, one of them a wanted criminal, were arrested at the funeral today of A Kugan, who died in police custody, at the main entrance of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) in Petaling Jaya. Brickfields police chief ACP Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul […]
Police arrest five outside UMMC mortuary
PETALING JAYA, 28 Jan 2009: Police arrested five men from among a crowd outside the mortuary of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) today just before the hearse bearing the body of A Kugan was to begin the funeral procession to Puchong. Three of the men were held for wearing T-shirts bearing the word “Hindraf”, […]