KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 1 The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commissions (MACC) interest opposite former top cop Datuk Ramli Yusuff has been postponed to Aug 16.It is understood that Justice Datuk Ghazali Cha was not accessible to hear a interest currently as he had to attend to family matters.The MACC is delectable opposite a acquittal of former Bukit Aman Commercial Crimes Department executive Ramli (picture) on dual counts of failing to acknowledgement tenure of shares and additionally interest in dual properties value RM1 ... Read More
Aminulrasyid shooting trial postponed to July 15
SHAH ALAM, Jul 1 The hearing for the Aminulrasyid Amzah case has been deferred again to Jul 15 as the key declare was incompetent to take the stand, citing illness reasons.
The trial, scheduled to go upon upon June 27, was deferred to today as declare Dr Amidon Anan, the former crime scene investigation chief, had the healing emergency.
Amidon testified not long ago which the military CSI group had not asked standard handling procedures whilst processing the site of the shooting, resulting in an inaccurate ballistics report.
The 60-year-old forensics consultant was also involved in the investigations of the high-profile Canny Ong as well as Altantuya Shaariibuu attempted murder cases.
The date for Amidon to attest subsequent has not been set.
Senior Assistant Commissioners Razali Basri as well as Noor Azam Jamaludin, who was also the Shah Alam OCPD, will attest in court upon Jul 15.
The 14-year-old schoolboy Aminulrasyid was shot after the high-speed military car follow in Shah Alam in the early hours of Apr 26, 2010.
Police Corporal Jenain Subi, 49, is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to attempted murder of the schoolboy, as well as faces up to 30 years in prison as well as the excellent if found guilty.
Demonstrasi itu haram! Menentang Ulu Amri hukum pancung!!!
Ustaz Rasul Dahari terangkan pihak yang suka demonstrasi dan bawa huru hara adalah Yahudi dan Syiah.Dah betullah Ustaz. Belakang Bersih 2.0 adalah Yahudi Zionis dari Amerika. Ketua dia pun si syiah, Mat Sabu.Baca Selangordaily sini perihal orang asing dibelakang bersih.Disamping itu, menentang Ulu Amri itu haram. Ada hadith daripada Abdullah bin Umar r.a. bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda yang
Government issues DEATH THREAT to us ?
MCMC: We will close down websites if necessary
Attention: Mr. Rais a Alleged Rapist (by his nemesis)People Powered Portal declares you have zero to do with Pakatan Rakyat although you do not disagree what is demanded by Bersih 2.0 seems in accord with BUT, there is a large BUT here ... We feel it's obviously breeze to good themselves only.
Why?
Because you have demanded they guarantee to order law to fuck themselves for crime once they come into power, which is not stated in Bersih 2.0. They not usually pretend bodoh, actually, they even dare to plainly claim crime is a "perks" for this is a usually reason since they're in politicians. Terror or not ? We didn't contend it, they themselves admit they are a same prostitute grade low-lives usually similar to their 'boss' opponents. What else can you contend ?
For this reason, you have Three Demands !
1. We direct an all brand brand new Bersih 3.0 to be chaired by us with Condition #1 - Absolute as well as in effect expulsion of crime in a government. (Details accessible on request).
2. We direct a Govt no touch a portal since ...We are connected to no a single as well as conjunction do you endorse a oppositions (Reason - See 1.) even though you do not disagree a benefaction supervision should be booted out, not so most since it's headed by a single Mrs Rosmah which is still underneath a influence of a single bootleg immigrant robber from Kerala, or you don't similar to UMNO, MCA, BN etc. Nothing similar to that. It's mainly since you see no approach out for UMNO solely to be put in a coffin for once. ANd you promise, usually once. We'd let you come behind a next round.
3. We direct you grant Bersih 2.0 their wishes as well as a Condition #1 above since this is a usually approach to save you from being put to rest in a coffin sooner than you think. Otherwise, get ready to tighten down all as well as put up a wall similar to North Korea (and installed Mukhriz Mamathir Kerala as a Sup! reme Spi ritual Supremo).
See, we're your friend, not foe. So, this news does not apply to us, you believe. Tell Hisham he still owes us a brothel license.
Sincerely
Bersih 3.0
Here is a rest of a news: -
KUCHING: Websites with descent content as well as deemed a hazard to inhabitant security, together with those which promote or assistance in organising a July 9 rally, risked being close down by a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
MCMC chief plan officer Datuk Mohamed Sharil Mohamed Tarmizi pronounced a MCMC would not hesitate to take movement opposite any website for breaching a Communication as well as Multimedia Act.
Anything deemed bootleg or wrong in a real universe also applied to a cyber world, Sharil said.
Don't pretence there's no law in a cyber world. A lot of people don't consider about which though you would similar to to remind a people to handle responsibly when regulating a Internet or any alternative record of a brand brand new media, he pronounced yesterday when asked if a MCMC would take movement opposite websites which upheld a Bersih 2.0 rally.
Sharil pronounced a MCMC had always been monitoring websites for descent as well as harmful content as well as would continue to do so with assistance from alternative enforcement agencies.
MCMC chief plan officer Datuk Mohamed Sharil Mohamed Tarmizi pronounced a MCMC would not hesitate to take movement opposite any website for breaching a Communication as well as Multimedia Act.
Anything deemed bootleg or wrong in a real universe also applied to a cyber world, Sharil said.
Don't pretence there's no law in a cyber world. A lot of people don't consider about which though you would similar to to remind a people to handle responsibly when regulating a Internet or any alternative record of a brand brand new media, he pronounced yesterday when asked if a MCMC would take movement opposite websites which upheld a Bersih 2.0 rally.
Sharil pronounced a MCMC had always been monitoring websites for descent as well as harmful content as well as would continue to do so with assistance from alternative enforcement agencies.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
Ex-Bank Negara assistant governor to be charged in banknote scandal
KETAKUTAN UMNO/APCO SEDANG MENCAPAI KLIMAKSNYA
Tulis sajak "Unggun Bersih" polis panggil. Pakai baju BERSIH polis tangkap. Ajak orang pergi BERSIH 2.0 polis siasat. Sokong BERSIH 2.0 Pemuda UMNO/APCO datang menyalak. Buat ceramah sokong BERSIH 2.0 dalam kawasan persendirian pun polis cekup. Buat ceramah di track pun polis kepung. Bangunan yang ada peralatan BERSIH 2.0 polis geledah sampai habis. Kalau pakai baju BERSIH, jangan harap boleh sembahyang di masjid!!!Melampau betul peraturan ini. UMNO/APCO takut giler kepada perhimpuna ... Read More
Permits for assembly unconstitutional, says lawyer
By Boo Su-Lyn
July 01, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 1 Malaysians have a right to march as a Police Act 1967 which mandates permits for public assemblies violates a inherent right to assemble peacefully, says PKR vice-president N. Surendran.
The tellurian rights lawyer stressed which Malaysians had a right to march in a Jul 9 Bersih rally, indicating out which Article 10(2)(b) of a sovereign constitution merely restricted which right in a interest of inhabitant security.
When you have section 27(5) (of a Police Act) which requires permits, it doesnt just shorten a right... it nullifies a right, pronounced Surendran (picture) at a seminar organized by NGO Lawyers for Liberty last night.
Any right which can only be exercised by a permission of a state is not a right; its a licence, as well as nowhere in a sovereign constitution does it contend which this important right is a licence, he added.
Surendran pronounced a right to assemble peacefully, which is upon trial under Article 10(1)b) of a sovereign constitution, could be restricted by merely requiring organisers to surprise authorities prior to their rally, as practised in England.
The Police Act is a dwarf compared to this document, pronounced Surendran, land up a copy of a sovereign constitution prior to a 50-strong audience.
Article 4 (of a sovereign constitution) says which any law which contravenes a sovereign constitution is not valid, he added.
Election watchdog Bersih 2.0 has vowed to go upon its proof upon Jul 9 in a capital for electoral reform notwithstanding a authorities refusing to accede to it a permit.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, however, asked a police yesterday to suggest a route for its march to ensure which a convene goes off but a hitch.
The group will take to a ! streets ! of Kuala Lumpur upon Jul 9 to hand a memorandum to a Yang di-Pertuan Agong to demand giveaway as well as satisfactory elections.
The government, however, insists which elections are already giveaway as well as fair, citing a oppositions ancestral gains in Election 2008.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) hopes a proof will generate momentum forward of a ubiquitous choosing approaching inside of a year.
The first Bersih convene in 2007 saw up to 50,000 people march in a capital prior to being dispersed by police armed with tear gas as well as H2O cannons.
The proof has been partly credited for PRs jot down gains in a 2008 ubiquitous choosing when a antithesis pact swept to power in five states as well as won 82 parliamentary seats.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
News portals may face more online attacks
As it gets closer to a Bersih rally, pick headlines portals as well as romantic blogs will face augmenting cyber-attacks, say media watchers
KUALA LUMPUR: Online attacks opposite pick headlines portals as well as romantic blogs will intensify, as a clock ticks down to a Jul 9 Coalition for Free as well as Fair Elections (Bersih 2.0) rally.
Centre for Independent Journalism programme executive Chuah Siew Eng pronounced which these cyber-attacks were a right away a norm during politically severe times.
There will unequivocally be some Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. That seems to be a trend, she said, attributing these attacks to different persons.
They will target certain media which are outspoken. But they cannot close down a total Internet, thats as well drastic.
Chuah used a brand new Sarawak state election in April as an example. At a time, both whistleblower site Sarawak Report as well as online headlines portal Malaysiakini crashed due to continuous DDoS attacks.
However, she pronounced which a supervision would not cut off a countrys Internet entrance similar to Egypt since it had as well much to lose.
She pronounced which such an action would backfire opposite a government, as well as capture some-more people to Bersihs cause.
If Facebook were to get close down, if a supervision were to do that, a fence-sitters, or a ones not affected (by a protests) it would have some-more of them involved, she said.
In a early days of this years Egyptian revolution, former president Hosni Mubaraks administration department cut off a countrys Internet as well as cellular entrance in a bid to besiege opposition groups from each other.
However, a pierce did little to stave a annoy Egyptians had opposite Mub! arak. So me experts claimed which a cutoff essentially backfired opposite a government.
MCMC warnings
Like Chuah, Media Defence South East Middle East (MDSEA) executive executive HR Dipendra did not consider a supervision would cut off Internet access.
A total Internet shutdown didnt unequivocally work in Egypt. (For Malaysia), they can possibly close down everything, or not close it down at all, he said.
In a mean time, Dipendra pronounced which local pick headlines sites might get warnings from a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
You might get calls as well as notices from a MCMC. They will substantially try to tell we not to have things worse, or quote national security reasons.
But they would be hard-pressed to come up with any authorised justifications, he said.
He combined which a authorities might review to a earthy shutting of pick headlines sites, if assault erupted on a day of a convene itself.
You might even be physically close down, as well as although we can work remotely, therell be a lot of inconvenience, he said.
He combined which in such an event, a supervision might even take social media sites such as Facebook off a radar, adding: Only if its positively necessary.
However, former National Union of Journalists arch Hata Wahari, was not so optimistic.
Many things will happen
Hata pronounced which a mass arrests as well as heavy-handed police action set a fashion for future supervision action.
I consider all is possible now. If we wear Bersih T-shirts, youll get caught do we consider they will allow we to refurbish your website? he told FMT.
He pronounced which a supervision was taking some-more extreme measures than it did when it faced a first Bersih protests in 2007.
If we look in Bersih 1.0, there was very minimal block-out. But right away I see a lot of precedents. They use (Section) 122 (of a Penal Code), Sedition Act,! raids b ut warrants.
I consider most some-more things will occur in a subsequent week, he said.
NOTE : MALAYSIANS MUST KNOW THE TRUTH was unable to post! any brand new s as well as articles from 4pm today. Reason - UNKNOWN ?
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
'Minority Report' now playing in Malaysia
'For an assembly to be illegal, we contingency have actually held a assembly. Where does it say in a law which expressing support for a future 'illegal' action is illegal?'Hisham declares Bersih T-shirt illegalAnonymous_4196: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, because is wearing a T-shirt which represents a rakyat's struggle for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections illegal?How about just wearing a yellow T-shirt without any print? How about yellow trousers? How about wearing a yellow Digi teletubby mascot outfit? ... Read More
Wheres the RM1.2m, Jabu?
Sarawak PKR wants to know what happened to a money a state supervision had allocated to packet Penan students from their homes.Where has a RM1.2 million allocated by a Sarawak supervision to packet Penan students from their respective villages in Baram gone?Posing a question, PKR vice-president Voon Shiak Ni pronounced a schools had not perceived any money from a allocation which dated behind to 2008.The account was pronounced to have been since to a residents and district bureau for distribution to t ... Read More
Contest The Best Picture of You
Korang nak join satu competition tak? Ala bukan susahpun. Tak payah turun berdemo otak kuning kalau nak menang. Syarat dia mudah je.1) Mestilah seorang blogger yang ada blog sendiri.2) Bagi yang belum follow blog ini, Kena follow blog Sofea untuk lebih senang di update. Lepas competition terpulang pada korang nak unfollow atau stay.3) Buat satu entrance yang bertajuk " Saya/Aku/I join Contest The Best Picture of Me :) "4) Copy banner di atas & paste di dalam entrance tersebut. Linkkan gambar tersebut kepa ... Read More
PANAS : JANGAN CUBA CABAR UMNO...
JANGAN fikir PAS dan PKR saja boleh arah ahli sertai perhimpunan haram 9 Julai ini. Bayangkan apa jadi pada negara ini, jika UMNO, parti terbesar orang Melayu dengan ahli lebih tiga juta berbuat demikian.UMNO bukan saja parti utama yang membentuk kerajaan, tetapi parti paling besar dan kaya, senang cerita kalau UMNO hendak buat mobilisasi besar-besaran, bukan satu perkara yang susah.Sebab itu, Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata Umno, jika ia mahu, mampu mengerahkan tiga juta anggot ... Read More
Berbaju BERSIH: 23 ahli majlis diarah ke balai polis
Daripada jumlah 23 ahli Majlis Perbandaran Kajang itu, hanya tujuh hadir ke ibu pejabat polis daerah (IPD) Kajang petang ini.Gara-gara memakai baju BERSIH pada mesyuarat bulanannya semalam, seramai 23 orang ahli Majlis Perbandaran Kajang dipanggil polis supaya kenyataan mereka dapat dirakamkan.Daripada jumlah itu, hanya tujuh hadir ke ibu pejabat polis daerah (IPD) Kajang petang ini.Selebihnya mempunyai tugas lain dan akan datang secara berperingkat-peringkat selepas ini.Bagaimanapun, menurut se ... Read More
Fuziah: IAEA report raises doubts over Lynas plant
Anti-Lynas protesters outside a Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur May twenty 2011. Picture by Jack OoiKUALA LUMPUR, June 30 While Putrajaya and Lynas Corp say an international row has found a Australian miners singular earth refinery safe, Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh is insisting that a inform has raised multiform questions over a RM700 million plant in Gebeng.The PKR vice boss said a row led by a International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) usually stated it was not means to brand ... Read More
SPR Masih Lagi Mengelat Tidak Mahu Guna Dakwat Kekal
Pengerusi SPR,Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar berkata:Jelasnya, SPR juga akan memperkenalkan sistem biometrik kerana "kita tidak mahu pusing balik sejarah untuk calit dakwat," kata Wan Ahmad lagi.Tambahnya, penggunaan dakwat kekal yang mencetus kontroversi menjelang pilihan raya umum ke-12 itu perlu perlu melibatkan pindaan ke atas Fasal (1) Perkara 119 dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan berhubung kelayakan seseorang pemilih.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifPenggunaan dakwat kekal itu akan menafikan hak ... Read More
Sokong Polis P Pinang cekup Bersih Penang
Polis Pulau Pinang memberi amaran mengenai tindakan keras yang akan diambil terhadap pihak yang menyertai dua perhimpunan haram yang dijadual berlangsung di Tapak Pesta Sungai Nibong dan Tapak Ekspo Seberang Jaya pada 8 malam esok.Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang, Datuk Ayub Yaakob berkata, kedua-dua perhimpunan yang akan diadakan esok mempunyai kaitan dengan perhimpunan haram yang bakal dianjurkan
TERKINI! ADUN SIMPANG PULAI DAN AHLUL PARLIMEN GOPENG DITANGKAP
Ahli Parlimen Gopeng, Dr Lee Boon Chye, Adun Simpang Pulai Chang Meng Kai antara empat individu yang ditahan sehingga jam 9.30 pagi tadi di Pasar Gunung Rapat di sini.
Beliau ditahan kerana cuba mencetuskan provokasi dengan menarik orang ramai menyertai perhimpunan Gabungan Pilihan Raya Bersih Adil (Bersih) yang dijadualkan pada 9 Julai ini.
Selain Boon Chye turut ditahan ialah Ahli
Beliau ditahan kerana cuba mencetuskan provokasi dengan menarik orang ramai menyertai perhimpunan Gabungan Pilihan Raya Bersih Adil (Bersih) yang dijadualkan pada 9 Julai ini.
Selain Boon Chye turut ditahan ialah Ahli
Kekal berkecuali, Ambiga beritahu SPR
KUALA LUMPUR, thirty Jun Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) seharusnya berhenti daripada menuduh Bersih hanya memperjuangkan bulletin pembangkang jika mahu agensi itu dilihat sebagai bertindak berkecuali, kata Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan (gambar). Pengerusi Bersih itu berkata, SPR perlu berhati-hati dengan apa yang diperkatakan kerana suruhanjaya tersebut ... Read More
Bersih: Libya stickers not ours
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun thirty Bersih has denied any links to fake Bersih stickers that convene a public to overthrow Barisan Nasional (BN) via travel protests similar to in Libya.
Bersih chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan said a coalition to demand free as well as fair elections was pacific as well as would never stimulate Malaysians to commit wrong acts against a government.
We have zero to do with that. These are very, really mischievous attempts by people to disprove Bersih.
That is not our intention. It is really naughty of them, she told reporters outward Bukit Aman military domicile here.
PAS suggested a existence of stickers temperament a message, Bersama kita tumbangkan kerajaan sekarang. Buktikan kita mampu seperti Libya (Lets overthrow a supervision now. Show you can do what Libya has done) yesterday.
Party vice boss Salahuddin Ayub said PAS had received inform that a stickers, printed in Johor, could right away be found all over a country.
He combined that he would lodge a military inform on a make a difference soon.
Bersih as well as Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties are gearing up for a Bersih 2.0 convene this Jul 9, a second such entertainment job for electoral reform.
The initial rally, also organized by Bersih, was hold in 2007 as well as saw some 50,000 people take to a capitals streets.
The entertainment in the future descended in to disharmony when a military dismissed tear gas as well as water cannon during demonstrators.
The event has been partly credited for PRs jot down gains in Election 2008, that saw a antithesis agreement swept to energy in 5 states as well as win 82 parliamentary seats.
Umno Youth plans march - star.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: A showdown is brewing between Umno Youth as well as a opposition-initiated Bersih convene on Jul 9. Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said a wing would organise a march on a same day to palm over a memorandum to a Yang di-Pertuan Agong. He ...
Holy cow, do you believe the home minister? - Malaysiakini
But I did not see the action. Perkasa arch Ibrahim Ali who issued threats of violence as well as carnage still walks free. Umno Youth's Lokman Noor Adam as well as Arman Azha Abu Hanifah who had openly in jeopardy to bake down PKR HQ office still walk free.
Syarikat Pembina Perumahan Untung Berbillion. Rakyat Semakin Tersepit Kerana Harga Rumah yang Mahal
Di waktu rakyat Malaysia terutama yang baru hendak membeli rumah terpaksa membeli rumah dengan harga yang melambung tinggi, syarikat2 pembina perumahan mencatat keuntungan yang berlipat-lipat kali ganda.Salah satu syarikat tersebut adalah Mah Sing Group Bhd yang baru mengisytiharkan keuntungan sebanyak RM1.5 ribu juta (billion) sehingga bulan thirty Jun 2011.Tak heranlah syarikat2 ini untung berlipat-lipat kali ganda sebab kerajaan Malaysia tidak memikirkan bahawa rumah adalah satu keperluan, bukan ... Read More
Authorities must cease violations of freedom of peaceful assembly and expression
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) Press Release Malaysia: Authorities must stop violations of leisure of pacific assembly as well as countenance Paris-Bangkok, thirty June 2011. The new arrests as well as criminal charges opposite members as well as supporters of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), as well as the governments warding off to grant assent for [...] Read More
Orang PAS tak dapat syahid di Bersih
Mati macam katak hijau kena lenyek atas jalan. Berjuang untuk PAS tak lagi diiktiraf jihad. Sebab sekarang berjuang untuk negara welfare ... heheheKita sedari kekuatan semangat penyokong taksub PAS dalam menghadapi PRK-PRK dan perhimpunan. Tidak menolak mereka sanggup turun beramai dan berhadapan dengan pihak berkuasa.Masa dahulu penyokong PAS, yang taat macam kaldai akan apa perintah dan arahan ketua, percaya mereka sedang berjihad untuk menegakkan agama Allah. Mereka sedang berjuang untuk mene ... Read More
Prime Minister of whore talks on air
The residents from Taman Maluri does not need RM3 million or RM5 million, you have been very reasonable.Our request:1. Police Kg Pandan pondok to get behind their land from Naza Motor.2. Repair 16 pot holes.3. Get absolved of bootleg stalls.4. Close all the gambling dens in Jalan Belangkas, Off Kg Pandan, Kuala Lumpur.5. Repair all street lights.6. Repair all broken drains as well as safeguard there is no low water.7. Relocation of the Pasar Malam held each Wednesday.See no millions needed.So brother, you help me ... Read More
Orang PAS tak dapat syahid di Bersih
Mati macam katak hijau kena lenyek atas jalan. Berjuang untuk PAS tak lagi diiktiraf jihad. Sebab sekarang berjuang untuk negara welfare ... heheheKita sedari kekuatan semangat penyokong taksub PAS dalam menghadapi PRK-PRK dan perhimpunan. Tidak menolak mereka sanggup turun beramai dan berhadapan dengan pihak berkuasa.Masa dahulu penyokong PAS, yang taat macam kaldai akan apa perintah dan arahan
Book Review Podcast
This Week: Author Calvin Trillin, "House of Meetings" by Martin Amis as well as "Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty" by Tim Sandlin.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
Pakatan mula takut, Bersih 2.0 bagai Pearl Habour yang mengejutkan raksaksa
Bersih 2.0 nampaknya seperti Pearl Harbour yang telah mengejutkan seekor raksaksa yang sudah lama tidor.Di sana sini, bantahan dan tentangan terhadap BERSIH 2.0 semakin hebat. Majoriti orang Melayu yang sebelum ini kurang peduli dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh Pakatan Rakyat, mula membuka mata dan membuka mulut.Siri bantahan berlangsung dan hampir 2000 laporan polis telah dibuat dalam usaha
Wider reach for Act: Domestic violence now includes emotional abuse
IT will soon be a crime for a associate to psychologically abuse or inflict romantic damage following amendments to a Domestic Violence Act 1994.The Bill was tabled by Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Senator Heng Seai Kie for a initial reading.Currently, a Act only covers physical abuse.Among a changes is a definition of domestic violence, which would embody psychological abuse and romantic damage to a associate together with causing a plant to humour delusions after ... Read More
Paralympics RM4 million poser
By Haresh Deol, The Malay Mail PETALING JAYA: Why was a staggering RM4 million invested by a Malaysian Paralympics Council (MPC) in a association helmed by a boss as well as his sons? This is a poser lifted by several legislature members upon learning of a investment recently. A examine by The Malay Mail suggested which in 2008, MPC had invested RM4 million in an events management company, Paralimpik Ventures Sdn Bhd. Our investigations showed a cheque for RM2 million was released upon Apr 4, 2008, an ... Read More
1Malaysia = Yellow Undie
1Malaysia dah deman KUNING....from tumpang sekole...? by ali allah dittaHello!! rakan2 sekalian, berhati-hatilah,dari sekarang.....Oops!! jangan pakai seluar dalam kuningJangan pakai topi warna kuningatau cermin mata kuningatau jam tangan kuningBerseluar bukan warna kuningJangan pakai kasut kuningBerpakaian T-shit bukan warna kuningOops!! jangan pakai seluar dalam kuningJangan pakai coli kuningJangan naik kereta kuningatau bas kuningatau pandu motosikal warna kuningElak minum teh warna kuningata ... Read More
Bersih Female Supporter To Spray Najib With Breast Milk !
For Real !
Woman sprays military with breast milk
from News It's the Mad, Mad World | World News
CHICAGO: A lactating US woman was arrested as well as charged with unfinished control after she sprayed sheriff's deputies with breast milk as they tried to mislay her from the vehicle, military pronounced upon Monday.
Ohio-resident Stephanie Robinette, 30, was arrested as well as charged with made at home violence as well as assault related to the made at home dispute, as well as facing arrest as well as unfinished conduct, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
It pronounced Robinette's husband told authorities the pair had been attending the marriage when his wife got dipsomaniac as well as proposed the dispute. He pronounced which she strike him mixed times before locking herself in her automobile outside the party trickery upon Saturday.
Sheriff Walter L. Davis III pronounced which when military approached the automobile to speak to her, she yelled profanities as well as refused to get out.
"When deputies attempted to mislay Robinette from the car she suggested the deputies which she was the breastfeeding mother as well as proceeded to mislay her right breast from her dress as well as began spraying deputies as well as the car with her breast milk," Davis said.
Robinette was later private from the automobile as well as arrested after more deputies arrived upon the scene.
"This is the prime e.g. of how ethanol can have individuals do things they would not routinely do," Davis said.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
Kualiti kepemimpinan UMNO
Bila saya cakap, orang UMNO marah. Penyokong mereka dalam internet pun marah. Tapi tidak apa, semua perbalahan ini akan selesai dalam pilihanraya. Pilihanraya ke 13 ini mungkin akan lebih teruk daripada yang sudah untuk UMNO. Jika saya salah, bagus. Tapi jika pengamatan saya betul, kali ini ramai yang akan kecundang. Bila DS Najib kata kali ini dia akan menampilkan lebih ramai pimpinan muda, itu
KTMB Land Issue: The last Train into Tanjung Pagar
by Din Merican
In signing the Points of Agreement (POA) upon Malayan Railway (KTM) Land with Singapore upon Jun 27, 2011 Minister in the Prime Ministers Department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop said, Its the really happy day. Its the brand brand new commencement for us in team-work in attracting investment. Its glorious for both countries. We have been assured this is the brand brand new commencement for great team-work as good as plenty of investments. Certainly, not usually Iskandar will do good though the sum of Malaysia will do good since of certainty factor in attracting foreign investment.
In reciprocation, Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam said: It really takes the attribute to the different level. Its win-win.for both countries as good as promises most more. In which sense, in every sense, the ancestral moment.
As the prolonged time friend of Singapore who had the payoff of living as good as working there in late 1980s, I join Malaysians as good as Singaporeans in supporting as good as welcoming this encouragement in shared family in in in in in between the dual countries upon the jointly fitting basis, the single which could be invariably strengthened in the future.
But I am of the perspective which to sustain this certain momentum in shared relations, mild efforts as good as alternative certainty office building measures cannot be undertaken in an ambiguous manner. There is, therefore, the need for the supervision to keep Malaysians sensitive upon vital issues similar to the KTMB Land issue.
Murkiness, obfuscation as good as poser have unfortunately overshadowed the supposed win-win understanding in respect of the land barter understanding in Singapore involving KTMB (Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd), which! was con cluded to in in in in in between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as good as his Singapore counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, in Kuala Lumpur May 24 as good as September 20, 2010.
Six rounds of talks have been hold in in in in in between Heads of Foreign Ministries of both countries, even if
the categorical negotiators have been the Khazanah National Bhd as good as Temasik Holdings, the respective governments investment arm.
To-date, no sum upon the decisive result of the understanding have been done open by possibly supervision even after the end of the sixth as good as last talks, which were hold in Singapore upon December 31 last year.
Instead, out of the blue, The STAR journal ran the story upon Jun 9, 2011 underneath the caption Party skeleton upon lane for last sight ride to Tanjung Pagar. And upon Jun 14, 2011, The New Straits Times in the front page inform pronounced Tickets snapped up for KTMBs last Tanjung Pagar service.Apparently, KTMB had not long ago taken the little of the reporters upon the tour/special outing down to Tanjung Pagar (picture above right).
Historical Significane of Jun 30, 2011
It would appear which KTMB as good as the little in the media lend towards to provide the pending closure of the nearly 100-year old Tanjung Pagar Station as good as the ancestral office building as something merely nostalgic. Seeking out as good as gripping the open sensitive per sum upon the result of the 6 rounds of executive talks by the dual countries or upon associated issues of the railways use or the story seems unimportant to them.
Singaporeans contingency have been in joviality over KTMBs thought of interestin! g the h istory-deficient journalists, who do not seem to know which the country could have taken for the ride by Singapore over tens of billions of KTMB genuine estate in Singapore but competent compensation.
A rather keen part of of the public, the sure Karim Mahsood, upon Jun 13, 2011 wrote t! o Th e STAR newspaper, reminding readers which Jun 30, 2011, the date of the last sight to Tanjung Pagar is not the joyous affair, though the distressing episode in the story of KTMB in Singapore
Karim Mahsood attributed this growth to the series of hapless stairs which were taken by the own leaders, which began in 1990 with the lopsided agreement in in in in in between Malaysia as good as Singapore called the Points of Agreement (POA), as good as culminating in the 2010 understanding for KTMB to immigrate the services from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands upon Jun 30, 2011.
The Najib-Lee Hsien Loong Deal
Under the Najib-Lee Hsien Loong deal, the Singapore Government would vest four little land parcels in Marina South as good as dual parcels of land in Ophir-Rochor in MS Pte Ltd. (a joint-venture association set up by Khazanah National Bhd. as good as Temasik Holdings in the 60-40 % equity arrangement respectively, for the growth of the pronounced 6 parcels when KTMB vacates the Tanjung Pagar Railway Station), in lieu of the three parcels of supposed POA land in Tanjung Pagar, Kranji as good as Woodlands as good as three pieces of land in Bukit Timah. The prolonged as good as reduced of the understanding is which KTMBs Tanjung Pagar Station will be sealed upon or by Jul 1, 2011 as good as relocated to Woodlands temporarily.
And upon Jun 26, 2011, there was nonetheless another bolt out of the blue: which Nor Mohamed Yakoop (and not For! eign Min ister Anifah Aman) as good as Singapores Minister of Foreign Affairs as good as Law, K. Shanmugam, would sign the instrument containing sum of the implementation of the POA upon KTMB land in Singapore upon Jun 27. It was couched innocuously which Tanjung Pagar would be sealed down by or upon Jul 1, 2011. Perhaps, both governments wish this useful event to pass off unnoticed.
Nor Mohamed as good as Shanmugam additionally reliable ! which Mal aysia as good as Singapore have concluded to open the rapid movement system (RTS) couple in in in in in between the dual countries by 2018 and, secondly, which nonetheless another joint-venture association had been determined in further to MS Pte Ltd known as Iskandar JV Co. , hold 50-50 by Khazanah Bhd as good as Temasek Holdings to commence dual growth projects in Iskandar Malaysia involving 87 hectares of land.
Despite the above, the open in both countries, quite in Malaysia, sojourn ignorant especially as to how the Najib-Hsien Loong understanding would contribute to jointly fitting attribute in in in in in between the dual countries in the destiny and, specifically, how the understanding would safeguard Malaysias inhabitant interest. Indeed, there have been wider political implications which the Government leaders contingency face.
The KTMB Land saga(and alternative properties in Singapore) does raise multiform important points:
a) The pierce by KTMB to Woodlands will vigilance the commencement of the transfer to
Singapore, not usually the ancestral railway hire office building in Tanjung Pagar, though additionally the little 175.7 hectares of KTMB land, in sell for corner growth of 6 parcels of land in Marina South as good as Ophir-Rocher whose sum value i! s additi onally not known to the public.ASIAWEEK magazine in the March 31, 1995 emanate estimated the 32 hectares of budding skill of Tanjung Pagar alone to be value USD 2 billion, creation KTMB the republics second-biggest land owner after the local government.
b) When KTMB vacates Tanjung Pagar Railway Station to tumpang(squat) during Singapore CIQ office building in Woodlands by Jul 1, 2011, it would essentially meant which all KTM land in the Island nation, south of Woodlands, will revert to Singapore. This Malaysian genuine estate in Singapore the little 1! 75.7 hec tares in all will be gone forever but competent remuneration to Malaysia. Again formed upon ASIAWEEKs estimate in 1995 of the 32 hectares of Tanjung Pagar property, KTMBs entire 175.7 hectares of genuine estate in the island Republic could today simply be value in in in in in between USD 0.25 to USD 0.5 trillion.
c) The Woodlands checkpoint is not the railway hire in the normal sense though the Customs, Immigration as good as Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint belonging to Singapore. It is in truth formidable to imagine how KTMB can effectively use the Woodlands checkpoint as the brand brand new depot in Singapore. It does look similar to KTMB will be constrained to retreat further north to Johar Bahru, earlier rather than later. When which happens, the glorious chapter in the story of KTMB operations to as good as from Singapore would be forced into an early closure.
d) The 1990 POA was Lee Kuan Yews strategic pierce to subtly uproot the KTMB Railway line which literally divides the Island State into dual halves from North to South. Therefore, the pierce by KTMB from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands is additionally the commencement ! of the a ccomplishment of Lee Kuan Yews dream since 1990.
e) The injection of the supposed growth charges by the Prime Minister of Singapore during the eleventh hour into the negotiations in Kuala Lumpur is seen as the single done in bad faith.
As the matter of fact, Singapores insistence which Khazanah will have to pay sure growth charges competence meant which in reality Singapore would get KTMBs entire 175.7 hectares in Singapore as good as Khazanahs investment in corner growth projects in Singapore practically for free.
f) And, in the meantime, the brawl over the supposed growth charges has still not been resolv! ed. Ther e is absolute overpower over the standing of the matter, which both countries concluded in Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to be brought up to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
g) No reduction serious have been genuine concerns here which not usually will KTMB remove 175.7 hectares of the land as good as even Khazanahs investments in Singapore but, some-more importantly, which Malaysia, as the whole, over the longer haul, would effectively remove carry out of vast chucks of Johor as good as even land as far as Malacca to Singapore through the Iskandar- Malaysia ventures as good as alternative similar plans.
How the little Singaporeans look during the Najib-Hsien Loong Deal? Many Singaporeans who have been friends of Malaysia have been undetermined because the Malaysian negotiators concluded to such the understanding in the initial place? They ask what possible quid pro quo benefits Malaysia could have. Surely, they contend Malaysia does not need the money.
Is progressing KTMBs resources in Singapore the weight to Malaysia? If this is not the case, afterwards Malaysia has the top hand. So, what as good as because the rush as good as because the bending-backwards? Why so fervent to close the deal? Worse still, friendly Singaporeans ask because so cheap?Many Singaporeans hold Malaysia is incompetent and, as the result, get! s short- changed. That Malaysia is regularly ill-prepared as good as which it is not thorough enough. They attribute this to the series of factors:
i) partly due to division by the politicians as good as which the polite servants have been marginalized;
ii) structurally, Malaysia does not have as good as fails to capture the brightest smarts into the Civil Service, people with the long-term seductiveness of the country during heart;
and iii) politicians as good as polite servants with as good most personal, short-term interests to fight the kiasu, no-holds-barred, win-all, no tolak ansur (no give as good as take) Singapores Team. This, Singaporeans say, is during the root of the problem, the single which is most unfortunate.
Why Nor Mohamad, not Anifah Aman
Singaporeans have been additionally in all undetermined as to because Nor Mohamed Yakoop represented Ma! laysia the t the recent signing rite in Singapore? They expected Foreign Minister Anifah Aman to have accompanied Nor Mohamed as good as do the honours for Malaysia.
But as unapproachable Singaporeans, they contend the understanding is fine after all it is Malaysias detriment as good as Singapores gain. As Singaporeans they feel unapproachable of their Team, who got the most appropriate understanding for Singapore. As for Lee Kuan Yew, getting such the understanding from Malaysia makes the result even sweeter.
Need for Transparency
All told, transparency is crucial in ensuring positive, brazen movement in shared family as good as in winning the hearts as good as minds of the public. One can try to mask underlining problems of any understanding by words as good as promises of destiny infrastructural growth as good as accompanying mercantile growth. But great intentions can furnish bad results.
Foreign process should be endangered with the countrys inhabitant interest. Diplomacy as an instrument of Foreign Policy is the art of negotiation, of get! ting dea ls which offer the inhabitant interest. In alternative words, inhabitant seductiveness should dictate Foreign Policy.
Unless inhabitant seductiveness is firmly embedded in the minds of supervision ministers, it is not expected which the creation of foreign process will return to the proper, executive place during the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in the case, Wisma Putra). In this regard, Singaporean diplomats as good as their political masters have been sheer realists, regularly portion their countrys inhabitant interest.
In conclusion, there is the need for correct inhabitant debate in Malaysia upon the Najib- Hsien Loong understanding in the media, in intellectual as good as business circles and, indeed, in conclusion in Parliament. Perhaps, the White Paper should be presented to the legislators in Parliament.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
NO-PARKINGSIGN CAUSE TEACHER IN ICU?
ERECTED..The dangerous sign house stick erected upon highway surface
By : DAP MEDIA
A ROAD-SIGN stick erected upon a highway aspect in Damai, Kota Kinabalu is a means of a deadly collision that put a kindergarten teacher into sanatorium Sunday night.
The young teacher in her thirties was admitted to a sanatorium with critical conduct injury as well as right away she is still in a ICU (Intensive Care Unit). The signage is believed to be a No-Parkingsign.
According to people who saw a accident, a truck passed by a corner of a emporium where a driver did not see a stick planted upon a highway corner, ramped as well as knocked against it.
She was knocked conduct upon right away by a sign-board pole. She as well as dual alternative teachers were upon foot along a pavement (Kaki-Lima) near a emporium a few feet away from a highway side. The temperament of a lorry was not known, since he fled from a scene.
Her condition is critical as well as due to a critical conduct injury, she is put underneath sealed observation in a ICU.
Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament Hiew King Cheu was sensitive of a collision as well as a little photos were forwarded to him in Parliament.
Hiew said he felt very indignant since such a box should not have happened, as well as a great teacher right away became a plant of a wrong you do of a authorities. How can a authorities erect a highway sign stick right upon a highway aspect as well as around a blind corner?
What is a proof as well as who should be responsibl! e? We wi sh to know who did this. Of march a Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) cannot discharge from t! he first shortcoming as well as to be hold liable.
Is Kota Kinabalu becoming a city full of danger, as well as collision can happen anytime? Just imaging she just walked along a pavement as well as yet can be knocked down by a stick erected upon a highway surface. This is not excusable during all.
We titillate a KK City Hall to immediately set up an investigation group to prop into a matter, as well as give us an answer. DBKK should recompense a plant upon all healing expenses as well as cost involved.
There have been most alternative identical risk areas in a City where during anytime can means accident. These can be simply sign play erected restraint a drivers views, flare post too sealed to a highway sides, damaged pavements with large holes, dangerous highway junctions, dark streets, passed trees as well as most alternative aspect that can means astonishing accident.
We wish a safe city as well as a little evident work contingency be put in to rectify all intensity risk areas. The authorities have to act without further delay. The KK MP bureau will forward a open complaints as well as suggestions to a DBKK as well as alternative authorities for their examination as well as action.
- Sabahkini
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
For I Beheld Satan
SEE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QfEUSAjIA4
"For we beheld Satan as well as befell from heaven similar to lightning" - Luke 10:18
I see things have left upside down today. Never before we have seen people arrested for zero apart from wearing t-shirts, carrying pamphlets or selling anything which is yellow. And which offense was never mentioned in any of a law books. The cops are to be damned. Many have sole off their dignified ethics in for subservient to a ruling regime. They do at your convenience they are told, even if a wrong of all aspects.
It is transparent which a Devil is running a set down today. And God is not here currently for there was no things which spin as well as set it right. It reminded me of Raul Julia's final line in his cinema before his tragic death from stroke.
I thought of essay something else, though we didn't have a time to write it. If we can, may be in a morning before work, we supposed.
See a video here.
See a video here.
- A Little Taffer's Room
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
World is taking stock of Najib's inability to handle Bersih
The Home Minister of Malaysias undisguised anathema on the wearing of anything yellow be it the T-shirt, shoes, pants or skirts, headband, or whatsoever, is imparting shockwaves down the spine of caring, endangered citizens.
The Home Ministers announcement as well as the evident military action which went in to over-drive with premises raided, will be toll warning bells all over the universe for certain.
The learned highbrow from the International Islamic University in Malaysia has in all honesty as well as with bravery pointed out which there is no law in the republic to effect such the ban. And which the top law of the approved republic - the Constitution of Malaysia is being compromised.
The authorities have been claiming which this mother of all bans on wearing anything yellow as well as suggesting Bersih 2.0 is being invoked for inhabitant security. Simultaneously some-more threats have been being pumped out of the governments projection i.e. the police, the assorted pro-UMNO as well as BN agentries as well as from the corriodors of vested interests.
Arrests have already proposed as well as some-more have been expected. Those underneath apprehension have been claimed to be abused with comprehensive disregard for tellurian dignity as well as simple rights as supposing for underneath the law.
Bullying, joke as well as vandalism opposite those ancillary the convene for the fair, clean as well as only choosing is seen to be on the climb as well as unabated while the little have been even condoned with absolution.
The media is being encouraged as well as stable to pour wild, fiery as well as seditious allegatio! ns with impunity.
Parliamentary immunity is compromised. Parliamentary sessions have been additionally being bulldozed by with utter disregard for democracy as well as respect for the augu! st residence .
Now, all these have been positively some-more melancholy to inhabitant security than the Bersih 2.0 rally. But how come the equation does not tally? How long some-more does the supervision of the day wish to fight this prompted war on the citizenry?
World is receiving stock
Indeed it is becoming crystal transparent - by any accounts you make use of to validate the incidents talking figure in the country, which democracy has been eventually quarantined with the anathema on the yellow color.
Truly, sour as it may be, the truth is when the adults have been denied of the free as well as peaceful assembly, the Constitutional rights have been hung. When the most supreme law of the republic the Constitution, is not kept to the letter, democracy has been compromised.
The universe is receiving batch of the stream Malaysian PMs inability to understanding with this growth which is already deep in to the predicament mode by the governments own doing. In fact, with the latest announcement by the top management of law enforcement the Home Minister, Malaysia has virtually entered the predicament stage as well as no less.
The leaders in the segment have been additionally very endangered with the way the supervision is reacting on the every day basis. It is not an understatement to contend which many of these approved leaders have been distancing themselves from Malaysia.
Civil multitude organizations in the segment as well as the universe have been additionally zooming their lens on Malaysia. Painful as it may be to the ears as well as egos of power, the supervision has unsuccessful to plunge into the means as well as concern in the mature, transparent as well as respectful manner from the commencement without compromising democracy.
It appe! ars whic h going by the series of actions forced on the rakyat in the interest of inhabitant security, the Malaysian supervision has supposing an impetus for the adults to now join the ranks of the worldwide community of civil multitude protesting opposite perceived or genuine tyranny, regimes, as well as military state brutality.
The American Dream for true democracy as well as civil liberties which ! is brush ing the globe currently has eventually been invited by the kind courtesy of the Malaysian government, i.e. the Home Minister, with this yellow T-shirt as well as anything yellow sweeping ban.
- J. D. Lovrenciear is the reader as well as writer to Malaysia Chronicle
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
14 arrested for wearing BERSIH T-shirts and for distributing Malaysian Flags
SEE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QfEUSAjIA4
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
Reality check on UMNO
If UMNO has 3 million members, then the quality of their members ... And what about a former UMNO unfamiliar minister, who garbled in an unintelligible ...
Forum on Media and Ethnicity: Overcoming the Challenges
*Forum upon Media and Ethnicity: Overcoming a ChallengesThursday June 30, 8-10pm**Hang Jebat upon Level 6, Le Meridien KL Sentral*Location map* *Ethnicity is so most part of a fabric of Malaysian multitude that it is hardto understand events or people but regulating a racial lens. Post-2008,media coverage of racial issues has come underneath even larger scrutiny givenhow ethnicity has been instrumentalised most some-more than before by certainsegments of multitude to a wreckage of a nation.Given this c ... Read More
ISA will not deter Bersih, vows leader
The make use of of ISA nor mass arrests will not stop the peoples voice from taking flight to the fore, says Maria Chin Abdullah.
The make use of of the draconian Internal Security Act as well as mass arrests cannot be authorised to deter adults from exercising their inherent rights in fasten the Bersih 2.0 march upon Jul 9.
Saying this today, Bersih 2.0 steering cabinet member Maria Chin Abdullah spoken which the police's one after another danger of those related to Bersih will not stop the rally.
They (the government) can make use of surety measures, which they have already in jeopardy to use, though the convene is not about individuals in Bersih 2.0," she told reporters today.
"Even if they locate all (the leaders), this is the citizens' call for (electoral) reform.
Maria, who is senior manager director of NGO Empower, stressed which the government's new actions should be cause for regard for the public, especially after Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein currently spoken the yellow Bersih T-shirts to be illegal.
She pronounced the government's mental disorder has reached the indicate where just about anything can be considered the threat to national security.
They h! ave not even since the reasonable answer why the Bersih T-shirt! s have been il legal. This is the furious reaction, as well as reflective of the supervision which has mislaid carry out of what is receptive as well as irrational.
She maintained which the military actions will only galvanise the public in to showing the supervision who the genuine trainer is.
Intimidation will not stop the rally. The people will show they have been in charge... currently we essentially witnessed the total array of moves to quell the people's rights. Change will come, as well as it starts now, she said.
Maria was among four people hauled up during the same time for doubt during the Dang Wangi military station today, in relation to Bersih 2.0.
The others were Tenaganita arch Irene Fernandez, social activist Hishamuddin Rais as well as Latheefa Koya from Lawyers for Liberty.
'Kopi Jantan' jibe
Irene pronounced the new string of arrests as well as the successive tide of people being called up for doubt have been transparent acts of danger as well as harassment.
Calling the new actions absolutely atrocious, she pronounced the situation is apropos increasingly ridiculous, especially after the Bersih T-shirt was spoken bootleg as well as the military raid currently upon the Bersih 2.0 secretariat in Petaling Jaya.
It creates we wish to giggle though it is also ridiculous. To claim democracy within such an proclamation only proves there is no democracy, she said.
Hishamuddin put his own spin upon the situation, making the joke out of questions military asked about his purpose in the Bersih convene launch.
They asked me who is sponsoring the rally. we told them 'mungkin Kopi Jantan' (maybe Kopi Jantan), he said, referring to the popular coffee brew infused with the herb tongkat Ali, which is supp! osed to be an aphrodisiac.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
KTMB Land Issue: The Last Train into Tanjung Pagar
June 29, 2011
KTMB Land Issue: The final Train in to Tanjung Pagar
by Din Merican
In signing the Points of Agreement (POA) upon Malayan Railway (KTM) Land with Singapore upon Jun 27, 2011 Minister in the Prime Ministers Department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop said, Its the very happy day. Its the new beginning for us in team-work in attracting investment. Its excellent for both countries. We have been assured this is the new beginning for great team-work as great as plenty of investments. Certainly, not usually Iskandar will do great though the total of Malaysia will do great because of certainty factor in attracting foreign investment.
In reciprocation, Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam said: It unequivocally takes the charge to the opposite level. Its win-win.for both countries as great as promises most more. In that sense, in each sense, the ancestral moment.
As the prolonged time friend of Singapore who had the payoff of critical as great as working there in late 1980s, we join Malaysians as great as Singaporeans in supporting as great as welcoming this enhancement in shared family in in in in in between the dual countries upon the jointly fitting basis, the single that could be invariably strengthened in the future.
But we am of the view that to sustain this sure momentum in shared relations, mild efforts as great as alternative certainty office office building measures cannot be undertaken in an ambiguous manner. There is, therefore, the need for the supervision to keep Malaysians informed upon critical issues identical to the KTMB Land issue.
Murkiness, obfuscation as great as mystery have unfortunately overshadowed the so-called win-win understanding in apply! oneself of the land barter understanding in Singapore involving KTMB (Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd), that was concluded to in in in in in between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib! Razak the nd his Singapore counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, in Kuala Lumpur May twenty-four as great as September 20, 2010.
Six rounds of talks have been held in in in in in between Heads of Foreign Ministries of both countries, even if the categorical negotiators have been the Khazanah National Bhd as great as Temasik Holdings, the particular governments investment arm.
To-date, no sum upon the definitive result of the understanding have been done open by either supervision even after the end of the sixth as great as final talks, that were held in Singapore upon December 31 final year.
Instead, out of the blue, The STAR journal ran the story upon Jun 9, 2011 under the caption Party skeleton upon track for final sight ride to Tanjung Pagar. And upon Jun 14, 2011, The New Straits Times in the front page report said Tickets snapped up for KTMBs final Tanjung Pagar service.Apparently, KTMB had not prolonged ago taken the little of the reporters upon the tour/special trip down to Tanjung Pagar (picture upon top of right).
Historical Significane of Jun 30, 2011
It would crop up that KTMB as great as the little in the media lend towards to treat the pending closure of the scarcely 100-year old Tanjung Pagar Station as great as the ancestral office office building as something merely nostalgic. Seeking out as great as keeping the open informed per sum upon the result of the 6 rounds of executive talks by the dual countries or upon related issues of th! e railwa ys use or the story seems insignificant to them.
Singaporeans contingency have been in glee over KTMBs idea of interesting the history-deficient journalists, who do not appear to know that the country could have taken for the ride by Singapore over tens of billions of KTMB genuine estate in Singapore w! ithout the dequate compensation.
A rsther than perceptive part of of the public, the sure Karim Mahsood, upon Jun 13, 2011 wrote to The STAR newspaper, reminding readers that Jun 30, 2011, the date of the final sight to Tanjung Pagar is not the joyous affair, though the distressing episode in the story of KTMB in Singapore
Karim Mahsood attributed this expansion to the series of hapless steps that were taken by the own leaders, that began in 1990 with the unilateral agreement in in in in in between Malaysia as great as Singapore called the Points of Agreement (POA), as great as culminating in the 2010 understanding for KTMB to relocate the services from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands upon Jun 30, 2011.
The Najib-Lee Hsien Loong Deal
Under the Najib-Lee Hsien Loong deal, the Singapore Government would vest 4 tiny land parcels in Marina South as great as dual parcels of land in Ophir-Rochor in MS Pte Ltd. (a joint-venture company set up by Khazanah National Bhd. as great as Temasik Holdings in the 60-40 % equity arrangement respectively, for the expansion of the said 6 parcels when KTMB vacates the Tanjung Pagar Railway Station), in lieu of the 3 parcels of so-called POA land in Tanjung Pagar, Kranji as great as Woodlands as great as 3 pieces of land in Bukit Timah. The prolonged as great as short of the understanding is that KTMBs Tanjung Pagar Station will be closed upon or by Jul 1, 2011 as great as relo! cated to Woodlands temporarily.
And upon Jun 26, 2011, there was nonetheless another shaft out of the blue: that Nor Mohamed Yakoop (and not Foreign Minister Anifah Aman) as great as Singapores Minister of Foreign Affairs as great as Law, K. Shanmugam, would sign the instrument containing sum of the doing of the POA upon KTMB land in Singapore upon Jun 27. It was couched innocuously that Tanjung Pagar would be closed down by or o! n Jul 1 , 2011. Perhaps, both governments wish this useful event to pass off unnoticed.
Nor Mohamed as great as Shanmugam additionally reliable that Malaysia as great as Singapore have concluded to open the fast transformation system (RTS) couple in in in in in between the dual countries by 2018 and, secondly, that nonetheless another joint-venture company had been determined in further to MS Pte Ltd well known as Iskandar JV Co. , held 50-50 by Khazanah Bhd as great as Temasek Holdings to undertake dual expansion projects in Iskandar Malaysia involving 87 hectares of land.
Despite the above, the open in both countries, particularly in Malaysia, sojourn ignorant especially as to how the Najib-Hsien Loong understanding would contribute to jointly fitting charge in in in in in between the dual countries in the future and, specifically, how the understanding would guarantee Malaysias inhabitant interest. Indeed, there have been wider domestic implications that the Government leaders contingency face.
The KTMB Land saga(and alternative properties in Singapore) does raise multiform critical points:
a) The pierce by KTMB to Woodlands will vigilance the beginning of the transfer to Singapore, not usually the ancestral railway hire office office building in Tanjung Pagar, thou! gh addit ionally the little 175.7 hectares of KTMB land, in sell for corner expansion of 6 parcels of land in Marina South as great as Ophir-Rocher whose total value is additionally not well known to the public. ASIAWEEK repository in the March 31, 1995 issue estimated the 32 hectares of prime skill of Tanjung Pagar alone to be value USD 2 billion, creation KTMB the republics second-biggest land owner after the local government.
b) When KTMB vacates Tanjung Pagar Railway Station to tumpang(squat) during Singapore CIQ office office building in Woodlands by Jul 1, 2011, it woul! d actual ly meant that all KTM land in the Island nation, south of Woodlands, will lapse to Singapore. This Malaysian genuine estate in Singapore the little 175.7 hectares in all will be left perpetually though competent remuneration to Malaysia. Again based upon ASIAWEEKs guess in 1995 of the 32 hectares of Tanjung Pagar property, KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares of genuine estate in the island Republic could currently easily be value in in in in in between USD 0.25 to USD 0.5 trillion.
c) The Woodlands checkpoint is not the railway hire in the normal sense though the Customs, Immigration as great as Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint belonging to Singapore. It is in truth difficult to imagine how KTMB can effectively use the Woodlands checkpoint as the new terminal in Singapore. It does demeanour identical to KTMB will be constrained to retreat further north to Johar Bahru, earlier rsther than than later. When that happens, the stately chapter in the story of KTMB operations to as great as from Singapore would be forced in to an early closure.
d) The 1990 POA was Lee Kuan Yews strategi! c pierce to subtly dig the KTMB Railway line that literally divides the Island State in to dual halves from North to South. Therefore, the pierce by KTMB from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands is additionally the beginning of the fulfillment of Lee Kuan Yews mental condition since 1990.
e) The injection of the so-called expansion charges by the Prime Minister of Singapore during the eleventh hour in to the negotiations in Kuala Lumpur is seen as the single done in bad faith.
As the make the difference of fact, Singapores insistence that Khazanah will have to pay sure expansion charges competence meant that in reality Singapore would get KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares in Singapore as great as ! Khazanah s investment in corner expansion projects in Singapore most for free.
f) And, in the meantime, the dispute over the so-called expansion charges has still not been resolved. There is comprehensive silence over the standing of the matter, that both countries concluded in Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to be brought up to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
g) No reduction critical have been genuine concerns here that not usually will KTMB remove 175.7 hectares of the land as great as even Khazanahs investments in Singapore but, some-more importantly, that Malaysia, as the whole, over the longer haul, would effectively remove carry out of vast chucks of Johor as great as even land as distant as Malacca to Singapore through the Iskandar- Malaysia ventures as great as alternative identical plans.
How the little Singaporeans demeanour during the Najib-Hsien Loong Deal? Many Singaporeans who have been friends of Malaysia have been undetermined because the Malaysian negotiators concluded to such the understanding in the initial place? They ask what probable quid pro quo benefits Malaysia could have. Surely, they contend Malaysia does not need the money.
Is maintaining KTMBs assets in Singapore the burden to Malaysia? If this is ! not the case, afterwards Malaysia has the top hand. So, what as great as because the pour out as great as because the bending-backwards? Why so eager to close the deal? Worse still, accessible Singaporeans ask because so cheap?Many Singaporeans believe Malaysia is amateurish and, as the result, gets short-changed. That Malaysia is regularly ill-prepared as great as that it is not consummate enough. They charge this to the series of factors:
i) partly due to interference by the politicians as great as that the civil servants have been marginalized;
ii) structurally, Malaysia does not have as great as fails to attract the brightest brains in to the Civil Service, people with the long-term seductiveness of the country during heart;
and iii) politicians as great as civil servants with too most personal, short-term interests to fight the kiasu, no-holds-barred, win-all, no tolak ansur (no give as great as take) Singapores Team. This, Singaporea! ns say, is during the root of the problem, the single that is most unfortunate.
Why Nor Mohamad, not Anifah Aman
Singaporeans have been additionally generally undetermined as to because Nor Mohamed Yakoop represented Malaysia during the new signing ceremony in Singapore? They expected Foreign Minister Anifah Aman to have accompanied Nor Mohamed as great as do the honours for Malaysia.
But as unapproachable Singaporeans, they contend the understanding is okay after all it is Malaysias loss as great as Singapores gain. As Singaporeans they feel unapproachable of their Team, who got the best understanding for Singapore. As for Lee Kuan Yew, getting such the understanding from Malaysia creates the result even sweeter.
Need for Transparency
All told, transparency is consequential in ensuring positive, brazen transformation in shared family as great as in winning the hearts as great as minds of the public. One can try to mask underlining problems of any understanding by di! fference as great as promises of future infrastructural expansion as great as accompanying economic growth. But great intentions can furnish bad results.
Foreign process should be concerned with the countrys inhabitant interest. Diplomacy as an instrument of Foreign Policy is the art of negotiation, of getting deals that serve the inhabitant interest. In alternative words, inhabitant seductiveness should foreordain Foreign Policy.
Unless inhabitant seductiveness is resolutely embedded in the minds of supervision ministers, it is not likely that the creation of foreign process will lapse to the proper, executive place during the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in the case, Wisma Putra). In this regard, Singaporean diplomats as great as their domestic masters have been sheer realists, regularly portion their countrys inhabitant interest.
In conclusion, there is the need for correct inhabitant debate in Malaysia upon the Najib- Hsien Loong understanding in the media, in egghead as great as commercial operation circles and, indeed, in conclusion in Parliament. Perhaps, the White Paper should be presen! ted to o ur legislators in Parliament.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
KTMB LAND ISSUE: The Last Train into Tanjung Pagar
June 29, 2011
KTMB Land Issue: The final Train in to Tanjung Pagar
by Din Merican
In signing a Points of Agreement (POA) upon Malayan Railway (KTM) Land with Singapore upon Jun 27, 2011 Minister in a Prime Ministers Department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop said, Its a really happy day. Its a brand brand new commencement for us in team-work in attracting investment. Its glorious for both countries. We have been confident this is a brand brand new commencement for great team-work as well as plenty of investments. Certainly, not only Iskandar will do well though a total of Malaysia will do well since of certainty factor in attracting unfamiliar investment.
In reciprocation, Singapore Foreign Minister K Shanmugam said: It really takes a relationship to a different level. Its win-win.for both countries as well as promises most more. In which sense, in every sense, a ancestral moment.
As a long time friend of Singapore who had a payoff of vital as well as working there in late 1980s, we stick upon Malaysians as well as Singaporeans in supporting as well as welcoming this encouragement in shared family in in in in between a dual countries upon a jointly fitting basis, a single which could be continuously strengthened in a future. But we am of a perspective which to sustain this certain movement in shared relations, mild efforts as well as alternative certainty office office building measures cannot be undertaken in an opaque manner. There is, therefore, a need for a supervision to keep Malaysians informed upon vital issues like a KTMB Land issue.
Murkiness, obfuscation as well as poser have unfortunately overshadowed a supposed win-win understanding in apply oneself of a land barter unde! rstandin g in Singapore involving KTMB (Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd), which was concluded to in in in in between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak ! as well as his Singapore counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, in Kuala Lumpur May 24 as well as Sep 20, 2010.
Six rounds of talks have been hold in in in in between Heads of Foreign Ministries) of both countries, even if a categorical negotiators have been a Khazanah National Bhd as well as Temasik Holdings, a respective governments investment arm.
To-date, no sum upon a decisive outcome of a understanding have been done open by either supervision even after a conclusion of a sixth as well as final talks, which were hold in Singapore upon December 31 final year.
Instead, out of a blue, The STAR journal ran a story upon Jun 9, 2011 under a heading Party skeleton upon lane for final sight float to Tanjung Pagar. And upon Jun 14, 2011, The New Straits Times in a front page report said Tickets snapped up for KTMBs final Tanjung Pagar service.Apparently, KTMB had recently taken a little of a journalists upon a tour/special outing down to Tanjung Pagar (picture upon top of right).
Historical Significane of Jun 30, 2011
It would appear which KTMB as well as a little in a media lend towards to provide a tentative closure of a scarcely 100-year aged Tanjung Pagar Station as well as a ancestral office office building as something merely nostalgic. Seeking out as well as gripping a open informed per sum upon a outcome of a 6 rounds of official talks by a dual countries or upon associated issues of a railways use or a story seems insignificant to them.
Singaporeans contingency hav! e been i n joviality over KTMBs idea of entertaining a history-deficient journalists, who do not seem to know which a republic could have taken for a float by Singapore over tens of billions of KTMB real estate in Singapore without! adequat e compensation.
A rsther than perceptive part of of a public, a sure Karim Mahsood, upon Jun 13, 2011 wrote to The STAR newspaper, reminding readers which Jun 30, 2011, a date of a final sight to Tanjung Pagar is not a joyous affair, though a heartbreaking part in a story of KTMB in Singapore
Karim Mahsood attributed this expansion to a series of unfortunate steps which were taken by a own leaders, which began in 1990 with a unilateral agreement in in in in between Malaysia as well as Singapore called a Points of Agreement (POA), as well as culminating in a 2010 understanding for KTMB to immigrate a services from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands upon Jun 30, 2011.
The Najib-Lee Hsien Loong Deal
Under a Najib-Lee Hsien Loong deal, a Singapore Government would vest 4 tiny land parcels in Marina South as well as dual parcels of land in Ophir-Rochor in MS Pte Ltd. (a joint-venture association set up by Khazanah National Bhd. as well as Temasik Holdings in a 60-40 % equity arrangement respectively, for a expansion of a said 6 parcels when KTMB vacates a Tanjung Pagar Railway Station), in lieu of a three parcels of supposed POA land in Tanjung Pagar, Kranji as well as Woodlands as well as three pieces of land in Bukit Timah. The long as well as short of a understanding is which KTMBs Tanjung Pagar Station will be closed upon or by Jul 1, 2011 as well as relocated to Woodlands temporarily.
And upon Jun 26, 2011, there was nonetheless an additional bolt out of a blue: which Nor Mohamed! Yakoop (and not Foreign Minister Anifah Aman) as well as Singapores Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Law, K. Shanmugam, would sign a instrument containing sum of a doing of a POA upon KTMB land in Singapore upon Jun 27. It was couched innocuously which Tanjung Pagar would be closed down by or upon July! 1, 2011 . Perhaps, both governments wish this momentous eventuality to pass off unnoticed.
Nor Mohamed as well as Shanmugam additionally reliable which Malaysia as well as Singapore have concluded to open a rapid movement complement (RTS) couple in in in in between a dual countries by 2018 and, secondly, which nonetheless an additional joint-venture association had been established in addition to MS Pte Ltd well well known as Iskandar JV Co. , hold 50-50 by Khazanah Bhd as well as Temasek Holdings to commence dual expansion projects in Iskandar Malaysia involving 87 hectares of land.
Despite a above, a open in both countries, particularly in Malaysia, sojourn uninformed generally as to how a Najib-Hsien Loong understanding would contribute to jointly fitting relationship in in in in between a dual countries in a destiny and, specifically, how a understanding would safeguard Malaysias inhabitant interest. Indeed, there have been wider domestic implications which a Government leaders contingency face.
The KTMB Land saga(and alternative properties in Singapore) does lift several important points:
a) The move by KTMB to Woodlands will vigilance a commencement of a send to Singapore, not only a ancestral railway station office office building in Tanjung Pagar, though additionally a little 175.7 hectares of KTMB land, in exchange for corner expansion of 6 parcels of land in Marina South as well as Op! hir-Roch er whose total value is additionally not well well known to a public. ASIAWEEK magazine in a March 31, 1995 emanate estimated a 32 hectares of prime skill of Tanjung Pagar alone to be value USD 2 billion, creation KTMB a republics second-biggest land owners after a internal government.
b) When KTMB vacates Tanjung Pagar Railway Station to tumpang(squat) during Singapore CIQ office office building in Woodlands by Jul 1, 2011, it would actu! ally mea n which all KTM land in a Island nation, south of Woodlands, will revert to Singapore. This Malaysian real estate in Singapore a little 175.7 hectares in all will be left perpetually but adequate remuneration to Malaysia. Again based upon ASIAWEEKs guess in 1995 of a 32 hectares of Tanjung Pagar property, KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares of real estate in a island Republic could today easily be value in in in in between USD 0.25 to USD 0.5 trillion.
c) The Woodlands checkpoint is not a railway station in a normal clarity though a Customs, Immigration as well as Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint belonging to Singapore. It is in truth formidable to suppose how KTMB can effectively use a Woodlands checkpoint as a brand brand new terminal in Singapore. It does look like KTMB will be compelled to shelter serve north to Johar Bahru, earlier rsther than than later. When which happens, a glorious section in a story of KTMB operations to as well as from Singapore would be forced in to an early closure.
d) The 1990 POA was Lee Kuan Yews strategic move to subtly dig a KTMB Railway line which literally divides a Island State in to dual halves from North to South. Therefore, a move by KTMB from Tangung Pagar to Woodlan! ds is ad ditionally a commencement of a accomplishment of Lee Kuan Yews dream since 1990.
e) The injection of a supposed expansion charges by a Prime Minister of Singapore during a eleventh hour in to a negotiations in Kuala Lumpur is seen as a single done in bad faith.
As a make a difference of fact, Singapores insistence which Khazanah will have to pay sure expansion charges might meant which in being Singapore would get KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares in Singapore as well as Khazan! ahs inve stment in corner expansion projects in Singapore practically for free.
f) And, in a meantime, a brawl over a supposed expansion charges has still not been resolved. There is absolute silence over a standing of a matter, which both countries concluded in Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to be brought up to a Permanent Court of Arbitration.
g) No reduction critical have been real concerns here which not only will KTMB remove 175.7 hectares of a land as well as even Khazanahs investments in Singapore but, some-more importantly, which Malaysia, as a whole, over a longer haul, would effectively remove control of vast chucks of Johor as well as even land as distant as Malacca to Singapore through a Iskandar- Malaysia ventures as well as alternative similar plans.
How a little Singaporeans look during a Najib-Hsien Loong Deal? Many Singaporeans who have been friends of Malaysia have been undetermined because a Malaysian negotiators concluded to such a understanding in a first place? They ask what probable quid pro quo benefits Malaysia could have. Surely, they contend Malaysia does not need a money.
Is maintaining KTMBs resources in Singapore a weight to Malaysia? If this is not a case, afterwards Malaysia has a upper hand. So, what as well as because a rush as well as because a bending-backwards? Why so eager to close a deal? Worse still, accessible Singaporeans ask because so cheap?Many Singaporeans hold Malaysia is incompetent an! d, as a result, gets short-changed. That Malaysia is always ill-prepared as well as which it is not consummate enough. They charge this to a series of factors:
i) partly due to division by a politicians as well as which a polite servants have been marginalized;
ii) structurally, Malaysia does not have as well as fails to capture a brightest brains in to a Civil Service, people with a long-term seductiveness of a republic during heart;
and iii) politicians as well as polite servants with to most personal, short-term interests to quarrel a kiasu, no-holds-barred, win-all, no tolak ansur (no give as well as take) Singapores Team. This, Singaporeans say,! is during t he base of a problem, a single which is most unfortunate.
Why Nor Mohamad, not Anifah Aman
Singaporeans have been additionally generally undetermined as to because Nor Mohamed Yakoop represented Malaysia during a recent signing rite in Singapore? They expected Foreign Minister Anifah Aman to have accompanied Nor Mohamed as well as do a honours for Malaysia.
But as proud Singaporeans, they contend a understanding is okay after all it is Malaysias detriment as well as Singapores gain. As Singaporeans they feel proud of their Team, who got a best understanding for Singapore. As for Lee Kuan Yew, removing such a understanding from Malaysia creates a outcome even sweeter.
Need for Transparency
All told, clarity is crucial in ensuring positive, forward movement in shared family as well as in winning a hearts as well as minds of a public. One can try to facade underlining problems of any understanding by difference as well as promises of destiny infrastructural expansion as well as accompanying mercantile growth. But great intentions can produce bad results.
Foreign process should be endangered with a countrys inhabitant interest. Diplomacy as an instrument of Foreign Policy is a art of negotiation, of! removin g deals which serve a inhabitant interest. In alternative words, inhabitant seductiveness should dictate Foreign Policy.
Unless inhabitant seductiveness is firmly embedded in a minds of supervision ministers, it is not likely which a creation of unfamiliar process will return to a proper, central place during a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in a case, Wisma Putra). In this regard, Singaporean diplomats as well as their domestic masters have been sheer realists, always portion their countrys inhabitant interest.
In conclusion, there is a need for proper inhabitant discuss upon a Najib- Hsien Loong understanding in a country: in a media, in intellectual as well as commercial operation circles and, indeed, ultimately in Parliament. Perhaps, a White Paper should be presented! to a legislators in Parliament.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
KTMB LAND ISSUE: The last Train into Tanjung Pagar
June 29, 2011
KTMB LAND ISSUE: The final Train in to Tanjung Pagar
by Din Merican
In signing the Points of Agreement (POA) upon Malayan Railway (KTM) Land with Singapore upon Jun 27, 2011 Minister in the Prime Ministers Department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop said, Its the very happy day. Its the brand brand new commencement for us in team-work in attracting investment. Its excellent for both countries. We have been confident this is the brand brand new commencement for great team-work as great as plenty of investments. Certainly, not usually Iskandar will do great though the sum of Malaysia will do great since of confidence factor in attracting unfamiliar investment.
In reciprocation, Singapore Foreign Minister K Shanmugam said: It unequivocally takes the attribute to the different level. Its win-win.for both countries as great as promises much more. In which sense, in every sense, the ancestral moment.
As the prolonged time crony of Singapore who had the payoff of critical as great as working there in late 1980s, I join Malaysians as great as Singaporeans in ancillary as great as welcoming this enhancement in shared family in in between the dual countries upon the mutually fitting basis, the single which could be continuously strengthened in the future. But I am of the perspective which to sustain this certain momentum in shared relations, mild efforts as great as alternative confidence office building measures cannot be undertaken in an opaque manner. There is, therefore, the need for the supervision to keep Malaysians sensitive upon critical issues like the KTMB Land issue.
Murkiness, obfuscation as great as poser have unfortunately overshadowed the supposed win-win understa! nding in respect of the land swap understanding in Singapore involving KTMB (Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd), which was concluded to in in between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak ! as great as his Singapore counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, in Kuala Lumpur May 24 as great as September 20, 2010.
Six rounds of talks have been hold in in between Heads of Foreign Ministries) of both countries, even if the main negotiators have been the Khazanah National Bhd as great as Temasik Holdings, the respective governments investment arm.
To-date, no sum upon the decisive result of the understanding have been done open by possibly supervision even after the end of the sixth as great as final talks, which were hold in Singapore upon Dec 31 final year. Instead, out of the blue, The STAR journal ran the story upon Jun 9, 2011 underneath the caption Party plans upon track for final sight float to Tanjung Pagar. And upon Jun 14, 2011, The New Straits Times in the front page report pronounced Tickets snapped up for KTMBs final Tanjung Pagar service.Apparently, KTMB had not prolonged ago taken the little of the reporters upon the tour/special trip down to Tanjung Pagar (picture above right).
Historical Significane of Jun 30, 2011
It would crop up which KTMB as great as the little in the media tend to treat the pending closure of the nearly 100-year old Tanjung Pagar Station as great as the ancestral office building as something merely nostalgic. Seeking out as great as keeping the open sensitive regarding sum upon the result of the 6 rounds of executive talks by the dual countries or upon related issues of the railways make use of or the story ! seems in significant to them.
Singaporeans contingency have been in joviality over KTMBs thought of entertaining the history-deficient journalists, who do not seem to know which the republic could have taken for the float by Singapore over tens of billions of KTMB genuine estate in Singapore though adequ! ate comp ensation.
A rsther than perceptive part of of the public, the sure Karim Mahsood, upon Jun 13, 2011 wrote to The STAR newspaper, reminding readers which Jun 30, 2011, the date of the final sight to Tanjung Pagar is not the joyous affair, though the distressing episode in the story of KTMB in Singapore
Karim Mahsood attributed this growth to the series of unfortunate steps which were taken by the own leaders, which began in 1990 with the unilateral agreement in in between Malaysia as great as Singapore called the Points of Agreement (POA), as great as culminating in the 2010 understanding for KTMB to relocate the services from Tanjung Pagar to Woodlands upon Jun 30, 2011.
The Najib-Lee Hsien Loong Deal
Under the Najib-Lee Hsien Loong deal, the Singapore Government would vest four little land parcels in Marina South as great as dual parcels of land in Ophir-Rochor in MS Pte Ltd. (a joint-venture association set up by Khazanah National Bhd. as great as Temasik Holdings in the 60-40 % equity agreement respectively, for the growth of the pronounced 6 parcels when KTMB vacates the Tanjung Pagar Railway Station), in lieu of the three parcels of supposed POA land in Tanjung Pagar, Kranji as great as Woodlands as great as three pieces of land in Bukit Timah. The prolonged as great as reduced of the understanding is which KTMBs Tanjung Pagar Station will be closed upon or by Jul 1, 2011 as great as relocated ! to Woodl ands temporarily.
And upon Jun 26, 2011, there was nonetheless an additional bolt out of the blue: which Nor Mohamed Yakoop (and not Foreign Minister Anifah Aman) as great as Singapores Minister of Foreign Affairs as great as Law, K. Shanmugam, would signed the instrument containing sum of the implementation of the POA upon KTMB land in Singapore upon Jun 27. It was couched innocuously which Tanjung Pagar would be closed down upon Jul 1, 2011. ! Perhaps, both governments wish this useful event to pass off unnoticed.
Nor Mohamed as great as Shanmugam additionally reliable which Malaysia as great as Singapore have concluded to open the fast transformation system (RTS) link in in between the dual countries by 2018 and, secondly, which nonetheless an additional joint-venture association had been determined in addition to MS Pte Ltd great known as Iskandar JV Co. , hold 50-50 by Khazanah Bhd as great as Temasek Holdings to commence dual growth projects in Iskandar Malaysia involving 87 hectares of land.
Despite the above, the open in both countries, particularly in Malaysia, sojourn ignorant generally as to how the Najib-Hsien Loong understanding would minister to mutually fitting attribute in in between the dual countries in the future and, specifically, how the understanding would safeguard Malaysias inhabitant interest. Indeed, there have been wider domestic implications which the Government leaders contingency face.
The KTMB Land saga(and alternative properties in Singapore) does lift multiform important points:
a) The pierce by KTMB to Woodlands will signal the commencement of the send to Singapore, not usually the ancestral railway station office building in Tanjung Pagar, though addit! ionally the little 175.7 hectares of KTMB land, in sell for corner growth of 6 parcels of land in Marina South as great as Ophir-Rocher whose sum worth is additionally not great known to the public. ASIAWEEK magazine in the March 31, 1995 issue estimated the 32 hectares of budding skill of Tanjung Pagar alone to be worth USD 2 billion, creation KTMB the republics second-biggest land owner after the local government.
b) When KTMB vacates Tanjung Pagar Railway Station to tumpang during Singapore CIQ office building in Woodlands by Jul 1, 2011, it would essentially mean which al! l KTM la nd in the Island nation, south of Woodlands, will revert to Singapore. This Malaysian genuine estate in Singapore the little 175.7 hectares in all will be left perpetually though competent remuneration to Malaysia. Again based upon ASIAWEEKs guess in 1995 of the 32 hectares of Tanjung Pagar property, KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares of genuine estate in the island Republic could today simply be worth in in between USD 0.25 to USD 0.5 trillion.
c) The Woodlands checkpoint is not the railway station in the normal clarity though the Customs, Immigration as great as Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint belonging to Singapore. It is in truth formidable to suppose how KTMB can effectively make use of the Woodlands checkpoint as the brand brand new terminal in Singapore. It does demeanour like KTMB will be constrained to retreat further north to Johar Bahru, sooner rsther than than later. When which happens, the stately chapter in the story of KTMB operations to as great as from Singapore would be forced in to an early closure.
d) The 1990 POA was Lee Kuan Yews vital pierce to subtly di! g the KT MB Railway line which literally divides the Island State in to dual halves from North to South. Therefore, the pierce by KTMB from Tangung Pagar to Woodlands is additionally the commencement of the accomplishment of Lee Kuan Yews mental condition since 1990.
e) The injection of the supposed growth charges by the Prime Minister of Singapore during the eleventh hour in to the negotiations in Kuala Lumpur is seen as the single done in bad faith. As the make the difference of fact, Singapores insistence which Khazanah will have to pay sure growth charges might mean which in being Singapore would get KTMBs complete 175.7 hectares in Singapore as great as Khazanahs investment in joint! develop ment projects in Singapore scot-free.
f) And, in the meantime, the brawl over the supposed growth charges has still not been resolved. There is comprehensive overpower over the standing of the matter, which both countries concluded in Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to be brought up to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
g) No reduction critical have been genuine concerns here which not usually will KTMB remove 175.7 hectares of the land as great as even Khazanahs investments in Singapore but, some-more importantly, which Malaysia, as the whole, over the longer haul, would effectively remove carry out of large chucks of Johor as great as even land as distant as Malacca to Singapore by the Iskandar- Malaysia ventures as great as alternative similar plans.
How the little Singaporeans demeanour during the Najib-Hsien Loong Deal? Many Singaporeans who have been friends of Malaysia have been undetermined because the Malaysian negotiators concluded to such the understanding in the initial place? They ask what probable quid pro quo benefits Malaysia could have. Surely, they contend Malaysia does not need the money. Is progressing KTMBs assets in Singapore the weight to Malaysia? If this is not the case, then Malaysia has the top hand. So,! what as great as because the rush as great as because the bending-backwards? Why so eager to close the deal? Worse still, friendly Singaporeans ask because so cheap?
Many Singaporeans hold Malaysia is incompetent and, as the result, gets short-changed. That Malaysia is regularly ill-prepared as great as which it is not thorough enough. They attribute this to the series of factors:
i) partly due to division by the politicians as great as which the polite servants have been marginalized;
ii) structurally, Malaysia does not have as great as fails to capture the brightest brains in to the Civil Service, people with the long-term seductiveness of the republic during heart;
and iii) politicians as great as polite servants with to much personal, short-term interests to quarrel the kiasu, no-holds-barred, win-all, no tolak ansur (no give as great as take) Singapores Team. This, Singaporeans say, is during the base of the problem, o! ne which is many unfortunate.
Why Nor Mohamad, not Anifah Aman
Singaporeans have been additionally generally undetermined as to because Nor Mohamed Yakoop represented Malaysia during the new signing rite in Singapore? They approaching Foreign Minister Anifah Aman to have accompanied Nor Mohamed as great as do the honours for Malaysia.
But as unapproachable Singaporeans, they contend the understanding is fine after all it is Malaysias loss as great as Singapores gain. As Singaporeans they feel unapproachable of their Team, who got the best understanding for Singapore. As for Lee Kuan Yew, removing such the understanding from Malaysia creates the result even sweeter.
Need for Transparency
All told, transparency is consequential in ensuring positive, forward transformation in shared family as great as in winning the hearts as great as minds of the public. One can try to mask underlining problems of any understanding by words as great as promises of future infrastructural growth ! as great as consequent mercantile growth. But great intentions can produce bad results.
Foreign process should be concerned with the countrys inhabitant interest. Diplomacy as an instrument of Foreign Policy is the art of negotiation, of removing deals which offer the inhabitant interest. In alternative words, inhabitant seductiveness should dictate Foreign Policy. Unless inhabitant seductiveness is resolutely embedded in the minds of supervision ministers, it is not likely which the creation of unfamiliar process will lapse to the proper, executive place during the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in the case, Wisma Putra). In this regard, Singaporean diplomats as great as their domestic masters have been stark realists, regularly serving their countrys inhabitant interest.
In conclusion, there is the need for proper inhabitant discuss upon the Najib- Hsien Loong understanding in the country: in the media, in intellectual as great as commercial operation circles and, indeed, in conclusion in Parliament. Perhaps, the White Paper should be presented to the legislators in Parliament.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)