Lawyer. Activist. Trainer. Loyarburokker. Edmund Bon wears many hats in his quest to champion human rights. Bon is currently the Bar Council’s constitutional law committee chairperson. This is the committee that, since 2009, has been running the MyConstitution campaign to popularise the federal constitution among Malaysians. Bon and his contemporaries — Amer Hamzah Arshad, K […]
Taiping
Hee sued over alleged pepper spray incident
IPOH, 26 June 2009: Aulong assemblyperson Yew Tian Hoe today filed a suit against Perak deputy speaker Hee Yit Foong for allegedly attacking him with a pepper spray canister at the state legislative assembly last month. He is seeking, among others, aggravated and exemplary damages, as well as cost, interest and other reliefs deemed fit […]
Cops shoot dead three, smash dangerous gang
TAIPING, 28 March 2009: Police succeeded in smashing a dangerous gang involved in shooting dead a Tesco hypermarket store operations manager on 18 March in two separate operations in Bukit Merah last night. Perak police chief Datuk Zulkefli Abdullah said in the first incident at 1.40pm yesterday, a police team from the Perak contingent headquarters […]
Police shoot dead three, arrest three others
IPOH, 27 March 2009: Police shot dead three people and arrested three others — all believed to be criminals — in an operation close to Bukit Merah Lake Town Resort near Taiping, 100km north of here, today. It is believed that a police officer was wounded after he was shot by one of the men […]
Don’t destroy Taiping’s natural heritage
IPOH, 23 Jan 2009: The Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (Fomca) today called on the Perak government not to destroy Taiping’s natural heritage by going ahead with the proposed 6km cable car project to the top of Bukit Larut in the township. Fomca president Datuk Marimuthu Nadason said the state government had repeatedly been reminded […]
