Good

• Selangor police will cone down hard on Mat Rempit, and police personnel who fail to act on public complaints against the menace will face disciplinary action.

• The Malaysian Bar will hold more discussions with various religious and activist groups to demonstrate that it is not against any particular religion.

• The Chief Justice has invited senior members of the Bar to step up for “national servive” and become judicial commissioners for two years to help clear the backlog in commercial cases.

• Mahathir has advised Najib to choose his Cabinet line-up carefully as corrupt leaders could lead to the demise of Umno.

• Lim Guan Eng called on PKR Youth executive council member to lodged a report with the MACC over allegations that two senior state party leaders are working hand in glove with several quarries to cover up illegal activities.

• More students scored A1 and A2 in Chinese language in SPM last year.

• Obama’s administration dropped the “enemy combatant” designation for terror suspects and vowed to draw on international law for its detention policy at Guantanamo Bay
• prison.

• The US Roman Catholic church paid out RM1.6bil last year for sex cases involving clergy members.

Bad, Ugly & Stupid

• The Ipoh City Council demolished a marble plaque erected by PR.

Bad

• An oil spill polluting popular tourist beaches on Australia’s northeast coast is 10 times worse than originally reported.

• Former Pakistani PM and opposition leader Sharif was placed under house arrest.