Isu Halang Artis Bercinta, Kahwin- David Teo Bidas Zed Zaidi.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Metrowealth International Group (MIG), David Teo menyifatkan dakwaan Zed Zaidi yang menganggap isi kandungan kontrak MIG tidak membenarkan artis naungannya bercinta dan berkahwin telah melanggar hak asasi manusia, sudah menjatuhkan nama baik syarikatnya.

David berkata, Zed yang juga merupakan Presiden Persatuan Seniman (Seniman) itu tidak sepatutnya bertindak membuat kenyataan secara terburu-buru memandangkan dia tidak membaca sepenuhnya kontrak berkenaan. "Kalau nak tahu dia (Zed) telah menghantar surat menerusi emel ingin mendapatkan salinan kontrak pada pagi tadi (Jumaat). 

Nampak tak? Maksudnya dia menuduh syarikat saya tanpa membaca kontrak itu. "Saya akan mengambil tindakan sewajarnya jika ia menjejaskan perniagaan syarikat saya. Ini kerana kenyataannya itu sedikit sebanyak telah menjatuhkan nama baik MIG," tegasnya. Pada Rabu lalu, Zed Zaidi menerusi sebuah akhbar tempatan telah menyelar isi kandungan kontrak MIG yang didakwa telah melanggar hak asasi manusia dan meminta pihak MIG memansuhkan kontrak itu 

Kata Zed, sekiranya syarikat tersebut tidak berbuat demikian, Seniman akan segera membuat laporan polis dan membawakan isu tersebut kepada Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia (SUHAKAM). Zed bercakap demikian selepas kontroversi status perkahwinan pasangan Aeril Zafrel dan Wawa Zainal yang dirahsiakan kononnya hubungan cinta mereka dihalang MIG. Sementara itu, David memberitahu, kenyataan Zed adalah bersifat peribadi dan hanya menggunakan nama Seniman sebagai ingin menggunakan kuasanya.

Kata David lagi, Zed Zaid mahu bertemu beliau dan mengadakan perbincangan "Sudahlah dia menjatuhkan maruah MIG, baru sekarang nak jumpa? Dan baru sekarang mahu membaca kontrak kami?" soal David.

Small Plane With Ten Skydivers And A Pilot Crashed In Belgium.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- A small plane carrying ten skydivers and one pilot crashed near the city of Fernelmont in southeastern Belgium on Saturday, killing all people on board.
According to local media reports, the plane crashed minutes after taking off from an airport near Namur. The skydivers were taking part in a birthday celebration for a 40 year old woman who is also among the victims. "It seems that the plane lost a wing in mid-flight, and it then went into a spin," the Belga news agency quoted Namur mayor Maxime Prevot as sayin.
The accident took place just before 4:00 pm local time some 75 kilometers southeast of the capital Brussels. The exact cause of the accident is still unclear. Rescuers found three open parachutes on the ground, indicating that three people had tried to escape the falling Swiss-built Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter, but were too late, according to Fernelmont mayor Jean-Claude Nihoul who was cited by Belga.
The victims were almost all between the ages of 20 and 40, according to Nihoul. Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo visited the site of the crash, and said his thoughts were with the families of the victims. "It has been a long time we have suffered a tragedy of such kind," said Di Rupo. Belgian King Philippe also visited the scene of the accident.

Violin That Played As TitAnic Sank Sells For USDS 900,000.

LONDON: The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic to calm passengers as it sank sold at auction for £900,000 (RM4.5 million) yesterday, a world record fee for memorabilia from the doomed liner.

The instrument belonging to Wallace Hartley was found strapped to his body after he drowned with his seven bandmates and some 1,500 others on board the supposedly unsinkable ship in 1912. It was sold to a British collector after a feverish 10-minute battle between telephone bidders at Titanic specialist auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, southwest England.

The instrument carries an inscription from the 33-year-old’s fiancee Maria Robinson to mark their engagement and was sold with its leather luggage case, initialled W.H.H, in which it was found. For decades, the violin was believed lost but it was found in the attic of a house in northwest England in 2006, prompting a debate about its authenticity, which experts only recently resolved. “We’re absolutely overjoyed,” Christine Aldridge, a spokeswoman for the auction house, told AFP. 

“It was sold to a UK collector who was bidding by telephone. The whole sale only took about 10 minutes.” She said the final price including premiums paid to the auction house was £1,050,030. Hartley’s band played the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” to try to calm passengers while they climbed into lifeboats as the Titanic sank beneath the icy waves in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. Hartley and his seven fellow band members all died after choosing to play on.

Bidding started at just £50 for the violin, with principal auctioneer Alan Aldridge joking that he was setting the price so low so that two of his friends could bid. But within a few minutes it had passed the previous world record of £220,000 for a Titanic piece as competition between four telephone bidders hotted up. There were gasps from the 200 people at the auction house as the price reached £350,000 and then a tense silence as the battle for the instrument narrowed to two telephone bidders.

It had a reserve price of £200,000 to £300,000. ‘He knew there would be no lifeboats’ Andrew Aldridge, a valuer with the auctioneer, said he hoped the violin would stay in Britain and go on exhibition. “It symbolises love, with a young man strapping it to his body because it was an engagement present from his fiancee,” he said. “It also epitomises bravery. He knew there would be no lifeboats. It symbolises everything that’s good about people, not just Wallace Hartley and his band, but all the men, women and children who lost their lives.”

Hartley was given the maple, spruce and ebony violin by his fiancee in 1910. She had a silver plaque fixed to the instrument engraved with the words: “For Wallace, on the occasion of our engagement. From Maria.” It is now thought that the instrument was inside a leather bag that was found strapped to his body 10 days after the sinking, and was then passed to Robinson.

Robinson never married and after her death in 1939, her sister donated the violin to her local Salvation Army band, where it passed to a music teacher and then the unnamed owner in whose house it was discovered in Lancashire, northwest England. After seven years of testing including MRI scans, researchers said in March this year that the instrument was genuine. It has already been on show at Titanic Branson and Titanic Pigeon Forge in the United States, the largest Titanic museums in the world, and later at Titanic Belfast, a tourist site in Northern Ireland.

The Titanic was built in Belfast and set sail from Southampton, southern England, for New York on April 10, 1912, before hitting an iceberg days later.

Syukur Dapat Kenal Shila Amzah- Johan As'ari.

Hubungan persahabatan antara pelakon Johan As'ari dan penyanyi Shila Amzah bukan lagi rahsia. Dengan beberapa gambar mereka yang di Instagram milik masing-masing. Malah Johan antara tetamu istimewa Shila sewaktu di showcase penyanyi itu, baru-baru ini.

Bagaimanapun, sewaktu bertemu dengan Johan di malam gala tayangan filem Balada Pencinta di e@Curve kelmarin, pelakon ini menegaskan dia hanya berkawan rapat dengan Shila dan sekaligus menolak dakwaan kononnya mereka menjalinkan hubungan cinta.

"Jujur, saya dengan Shila memang kami rapat. Hanya kawan rapat. Sebelum ini pun saya tak pernah meletak janji pada mana-mana wanita dan saya juga bukan kaki perempuan. Saya pun tak pernah mengaku bercinta dengan mana-mana perempuan sebelum ini. 

"Kalau boleh, saya nak jujur dengan semua orang. Bila ada spekulasi yang timbul tentang kami, saya rasa syukur sebab ramai yang nak ambil tahu tentang kami. Saya bersyukur dapat kenal Shila. Dia cantik dan baik", katanya. Dalam pada itu, ditanya tentang perancangannya yang meletakkan sasaran mahu bertunang sebelum penghujung tahun ni, Johan berkata buat masa ini belum ada sebarang persiapan untuk proses tersebut dan hanya mampu menyerahkan segalanya pada ketentuan takdir.

"Kita hanya mampu merancang. Saya dah cuba sedaya upaya untuk meletakkan azam untuk bertunang pada penghujung tahun ini. Tapi jika jodoh itu belum sampai, saya terima". Beli Gitar Mengenai Balada Pencinta, Johan memengang watak Amir seorang busker jalanan, Ayang pernah melalui zaman gelap sebagai salah seorang ahli kumpulan gangster.

Pertemuan Amir dengan Aishah (Siti Saleha), menjadi titik permulaan bagi Amir untuk berubah dan mencari jalan kehidupan yang lebih baik.

"Watak kali ni memerlukan saya banyak bermain dengan emosi dan babak paling mencabar adalah babak berlawan. Dari segi keserasian dengan Siti Saleha, kami tak ada banyak masalah. Siti Saleha seorang pelakon yang bagus.

Kami juga dapat banyak tunjuk ajar dari pengarah kami iaitu abang Khir Rahman. "Selain tu saya juga bermain gitar. Mujur saya ada asas bagaimana nak main gitar. Tapi istimewanya dalam filem ni Amir dia seoang yang tak punya apa-apa, yang dia ada hanya gitar dia yang dah berusia 10 tahun.

Jadi saya nak 'feel' tu, saya cuba cari gitar yang berusia 10 tahun. Akhirnya saya jumpa sebuah gitar yang dicari tu di sebuah kedai di Melaka. Saya terus beli dengan harga RM2000", katanya.

Selain Johan dan Siti Saleha (sebagai Aishah) antara barisan pelakon lain yang turut menjayakan filem terbitan Grand Brilliance seperti Sein Hussein, Azhan Rani, Norisz Ismail, Miera Liyana, Iedil Putra, dan penampilan khas Faizal Hussein.
Balada Pencinta akan ditayangkan mulai 24 Oktober ini. Perkembangan lain, Johan tercalon dalam kategori Pelakon Lelaki anugerah Filem Asia Pasific menerusi filem Juvana dan dia akan berangkat ke Macau pada Disember depan.

Clown Kill Cocaine Drug Cartel Boss

A former member of Mexico's Tijuana Cartel was shot and killed in the popular Cabo tourist area, authorities said.

Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix was shot Friday night at a "party venue" at a beachfront hotel in Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported. The agency said authorities received some reports that the attack was carried out by two men, one of whom may have been dressed as a clown. 

Arellano Felix, 63, was killed by gunfire to the head, according to a statement by the deputy attorney's special investigations unit. Arellano Felix had served time in prisons in Mexico and the United States, Notimex said. He was released from an American prison in 2008 on a conviction for selling cocaine. Authorities said there were no pending criminal charges against him.

The U.S. Justice Department has said the Tijuana Cartel, which was responsible for kidnappings and murders in addition to drug and gun offenses, was run by members of the Arellano Felix family. As of mid-2013, three members of the family were in American prisons. Another was killed in a shootout with police in 2002.

State and military forces erected roadblocks in a search for the gunmen, but no arrests had been made Saturday night, Notimex reported.

Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram Has Died

KUALA LUMPUR: The controversial, self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III passed away on Sunday morning.
 He was 75 years old. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Jacel Kiram, through her Facebook page. Jacel said her father passed away at 4am. Inquirer Global Nation reported that Jamalul passed away due to multiple organ failure. Quoting Jacel, the report said Jamalul had been suffering from the disease for a long time.
 She said Kiram’s passing was not that hard for the family to accept since her father had already instilled in them that things happen because of the “will of Allah.” Despite that, Jacel said she will continue to fight for her father's dream of reclaiming Sabah. “Whatever my father started, he left for us to continue. We should not falter. He’s a great man, a good man.
 He was priceless. All he wanted was, in his right time, be allowed by Allah to reclaim Sabah for the Filipinos. We’ll be the ones to continue that,” she reportedly said. Jamalul's remains is expected to be buried within 24 hours in Jolo, Sulu. On February 9, Jamalul sent a group of his followers to Kampung Tanduo di Lahad Datu, Sabah to reclaim the state, which he strongly believes belongs to the Sulu people in Philippines. Several shootouts broke between the national security forces and the group of intruders. The months-long battles left many, including members of the security forces, dead.