KUALA LUMPUR: Police have warned that they will use all available laws to prevent the July 9 rallies, saying they have information that foreign elements were out to create chaos.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar issued the warning to groups who planned to defy police orders, regardless of their political affiliations, from holding the rallies.

MELBOURNE: Australia's Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says there are strong arguments for Australia in increasing its intake of refugees from Malaysia.

PUTRAJAYA: The two foreigners detained on Saturday for alleged involvement in the planned Opposition-initiated Bersih rally are being deported back to their home countries.

The authorities are in the process of doing that, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

NUSAJAYA: The Government should relook the amnesty programme for illegal foreign workers to prevent abuse.

Johor MCA backbenchers club adviser Datuk Tee Siew Kiong, who represented a group of 10 MCA assemblymen in the state, said there was already cases of workers with documents quitting their current work place to register themselves as illegals.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Rights Commision of Malaysia (Suhakam) says it is the right of the people to assemble and to express their views in a peaceful manner.

Commission chairman Tan Sri Hasmy Agam said the right to do so was provided for under Article 10(1) (b) of the Federal Constitution as well as Article 20(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.