KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Sept 2009: French climber Alain Robert, dubbed “Spiderman”, was fined RM2,000 by the magistrate’s court here today after he pleaded guilty to committing criminal trespass by climbing the Petronas Twin Towers. Magistrate Siti Shakirah Mokhtarudin ordered him to serve two months in jail if he failed to pay the fine. Robert, 46, […]
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Perak tree sitting and a Paris tennis court
By Clive KesslerDATUK Seri Azalina Othman Said has characterised the attempt of the Speaker to convene an emergency sitting of the Perak state assembly as “uncivilised” and as recourse to the “law of the jungle”. Never in the country’s history, she avers, has a state assembly sitting been convened under a tree. Perhaps she is right. But […]
