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Why can Mara teach Maths and Science in English?
The supervision wants to abolish the training of Maths as well as Science in English subsequent year but Mara youth colleges will teach the subjects in English under the Cambridge programme.
PETALING JAYA: Even Mara understands the significance of English. Their youth colleges have decided to offer Cambridge programme, pronounced Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (Page).
Page chairperson Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim pronounced in the statement this showed that even Mara, that largely caters for farming Malays, understood the significance of the English language.
On Saturday, Bernama reported that Mara would be charity the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education programme, homogeneous to an O-Level certificate, during all 45 Mara Junior Science Colleges (MRSM) in Malaysia by 2016.
Currently, Mara director-general Ibrahim Ahmad said, the programme is being offering during the Tun Adbul Razak MRSM in Pekan, Pahang.
He combined that the programme, that has 180 students currently, would yield additional certificates for students to aspire to their education abroad.
Lauding Mara for being far-sighted, Azimah pronounced this showed that even Mara, an agency under the Rural as well as Regional Development Ministry, did not agree with the abolishment of PPSMI (the training of Maths as well as Science in English).
And they patently bypassed the Education Ministers (Muhyiddin Yassin) decision.Even farming Malay parents assimilate the significance of the English denunciation as MRSM caters for farming students, pronounced Azimah.
While Mara was advancing itself with the Cambridge programme, Azimah said, the Education Ministry was taking the step retrograde by abolishing PPSMI.
And the ! annulmen t was decided but understanding the reason behind the poor authority of ! English between our students. Muhyiddin himself admitted that he is clueless on it. So would the annulment assistance us to attain the preferred customary of English proficiency? asked Azimah.
She afterwards called upon the supervision to return PPSMI in inhabitant schools in order to emanate the turn playing margin between Malaysian students.
Whether she would call for the Cambridge programme to be offering in inhabitant schools, Azimah pronounced it would be the dream come loyal if the supervision were to allow it.
I hold theyre charity the programme in MRSM as it usually involves 45 colleges that is simpler to manage. The slightest the supervision could do for inhabitant schools is to return PPSMI, she said.
In 2009, Muhyiddin abolished PPSMI as well as announced Science as well as Maths would be taught in Malay effective 2012, in the move widely seen as to damp Malay denunciation nationalists.
The PPSMI project, mooted by former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was implemented in 2003 to residence the declining inclination of the English denunciation between students.
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Pahang MB: Orang Asli settlement landslide a natural disaster
KUANTAN, August 10 The Sungai Ruil Orang Asli settlement landslide was not due to growth or land clearing according to a rough inform pronounced Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob.
The Cameron Highlands incident which claimed 7 lives upon August 7 pronounced Adnan was down to heavy rainfall influence by a hill.
The mentri besar pronounced he too primarily thought it was a development-linked disaster.
His supervision will pass RM10,000 to any dead victims family as well as RM3,000 to any one injured in Sungai Ruil.
Adnan (picture) pronounced that both a state as well as Rural as well as Regional Development Ministry will try to relocate a villagers, but fears a psychology as well as enlightenment of a Orang Asli will complicate a move.
He pronounced however if a mark not disposed to landslide is found inside of a same area afterwards a Orang Asli might sojourn in a area.
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PAS Youth supports church raid
SHAH ALAM - PAS Youth pronounced the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) had used its privilege to raid the duty during the Damansara Utama Methodist Church final week, adding which the movement backs the action.
PAS Youth arch Nasrudin Hassan pronounced it supported the Jais movement upon the element which the dialect was gripping the akhlak (conduct) of the Muslims in check.
Basically, the role of Jais is to protect the sanctity of Islam.
There should not be any disbelief upon the movement it took. Instead, it should be supported, Nasrudin pronounced after assembly Selangor senior manager councillor Datuk Dr Hasan Ali during his bureau here yesterday.
Claiming Dr Hasan had shown him strong evidence which led to the raid, Nasrudin pronounced he was satisfied with the reason since by the state exco member.
Dr Hasan had been criticised over his support of the raid, with calls from the DAP which he be removed from his state supervision post.
Urging critics not to be prejudiced, Nasrudin pronounced Jais was merely carrying out its duty.
Meanwhile, Jais pronounced it would emanate warrants to the twelve Muslims who attended the church duty to come to its bureau to assistance in the department's examine upon the issue.
Jais review as well as coercion partner executive Sharom Maarof pronounced the dialect would apply to the Syariah justice for the warrant to be issued.
We have issued letters as well as had phoned them for their statement. However, no the single has nonetheless to come forward.
We assimilate their lawyers had advised them not to turn up.
Sharom combined which Jais would give them t! ime to t urn up prior to arising the warrants.
In an additional development, Malay rights group ! Perkasa lodged the military inform to call for an review in to allegations which the church duty was used to proselytize Muslims.
Selangor Perkasa chairman Abdullah Mansor, accompanied by about 50 members, lodged the inform during the Petaling Jaya district military headquarters yesterday.
He claimed an unnamed Malay lady had confessed in the blog which she was since the Malay language bible as well as recordings of hymns during the event.
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Cabinet member, Najibs aides are non-heterosexual, says leaked US cable
KUALA LUMPUR, August 10 A new Cabinet member as good as a little of Datuk Seri Najib Razaks comparison aides would have found themselves underneath review for homosexual poise if a supervision were on a ethics campaign, according to a leaked United States tactful cable.
The wire to Washington from a US embassy here cited a non-heterosexual poise of an unnamed Cabinet member as good as Najib aides in its authority for State Department officials to understand a purported political act of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahims Sodomy II prosecution.
Anwars charge is not partial of a ethics campaign. The GOM does not aggressively target non-heterosexual behaviour; if it did so, a new cabinet minister, comparison staff compared with PM Najib as good as other prominent adults related to a supervision additionally would find themselves underneath investigation, US Ambassador James R Keith pronounced in a tactful note to Washington that was leaked by whistleblower site Wikileaks through a Malaysia Today website.
The wire did not name a Cabinet apportion or Najibs aides.
But Ambassador Keith forked out that a facts of a box opposite Anwar done it clear that a charge was foremost a political act opposite a Opposition Leader.
The Malaysian supervision does not aggressively take to court cases of sodomy; you find record of a little 55 cases given 1991, or an normal of 3 per year. The immeasurable majority of such cases involve adults assaulting minors, Keith wrote.
Keith additionally reiterated a prolonged hold perspective of a US supervision that Anwars strange Sodomy charge 1999 had been grossly manipulated by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He additionally forked out that gripping in thoughts Najib (picture) as good as Anwar sojourn bitter enemies, it is striking that Najib met personally with a com! plainant Saiful before to a military report.
The! US amba ssador additionally noted a impasse of comparison politicians in a box as good as a steam of information.
From a very early stages, a senior-most officials in a government, including then PM Abdullah, current PM Najib, cabinet ministers, a AGO as good as inhabitant military arch (the latter dual having played critical purposes in Anwars 1998-1999 injured trials) as good as officials of a statute Umno celebration have been intimately involved in decisions per a case, according to Embassy contacts as good as publicly available sources.
Senior supervision leaders provided law enforcement information on a box to leaders of Anwars bloc partner, a Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS), in an unsuccessful attempt to separate PAS from a opposition. A new internet inform claims that a supervision has provided a little government-directed press editors with a hide preview of justification opposite Anwar.
The wire appears to have been created in 2009 just before Anwars hearing started.
Anwar is currently confronting sodomy charges for a second time in his life. He was charged with sodomy as good as corruption in 1998 after he was sacked from a Cabinet, as good as was after convicted as good as jailed for both offences.
He was liberated in September 2004 as good as after resurrected his political career by winning behind his Permatang Pauh parliamentary chair in a by-election in 2008, that had been hold in a interim by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
He after led a lax pact of PKR, a DAP as good as PAS to a ancestral sweep of five states as good as 82 parliamentary seats in Election 2008.
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Bursa bloodbath gives Najib pause on polls
KUALA LUMPUR, August 10 With the little RM91 billion slashed from the stock market in dual days, Datuk Seri Najib Razak faces yet an additional global monetary meltdown forward of ubiquitous elections due in reduction than dual years.
Although the budding minister was pronounced to be mulling snap polls as early as the finish of the year, politicians as well as analysts contend which mercantile factors have been right away resolutely out of his hands, with him hanging upon to his Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) projects usually for the miscarry subsequent year.
These projects have been his usually defence against the charge clouds upon the horizon, pronounced Jupiter Securities research conduct Pong Teng Siew, stating which Najib (picture) will usually go to the list boxes after the ETP bites.
Among the projects which will kick off this year is the countrys most expensive infrastructure project, the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) whilst Bandar Malaysia, the large growth during the Sungei Besi air bottom will begin once the Royal Malaysian Air Force move out after Nov 30.
Pong additionally pronounced the forecast this year will sojourn during 4 per cent or reduce unless these projects kick in, notwithstanding the economy resilient with the 7.2 per cent growth final year after skidding to the retrogression when the economy dipped 1.1 per cent in 2009.
But DAPs Tony Pua, the single of the oppositions top mercantile spokespersons, pronounced which Najib is hamstrung as he heads in to the pre-election period.
In the final dual years, he has been means to rest upon high oil prices to stake open spending though which is not going to occur this time as the global slowdown will strike oil prices as well as the exports.
This is Najibs worst nightmare. The undiluted charge is brewing as well as he can usually goal to wait it out, the Petali! ng Jaya Utara MP said.
Bursa Malaysia began draining upon Friday after the United States debt rating was downgraded, causing stock exchanges to tumble globally as confidence faltered forward of the potential double-dip recession.
Putrajaya is additionally tightening the leather belt after the countrys necessity strike the two-decade record of 7 per cent in 2009, forcing it to take the razor to fuel, physical phenomenon as well as sugar subsidies to prevent the funding check from doubling to RM21 billion this year.
But acceleration has continued to rise after attack the two-year high of 3 per cent in Mar with the consumer price index sitting during 3.5 per cent in June.
Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed pronounced which his Umno president has to play the prolonged diversion as well as goal for the current dejection to recede whilst readying Barisan Nasionals (BN) choosing machinery.
It was the same with the Sarawak election. Our intelligence told us you were positive of 60 seats, then down to 25. But after Najib committed the complete machinery, you recovered back to 55, the Umno division personality said, referring to the April sixteen state polls where BN defended the two-thirds majority in the 71-seat assembly.
Political researcher Khoo Kay Peng additionally pronounced which BN arch Najib would be loath to call early check as his member parties have been not ready as well as if his projects have been to bear fruit, it will usually be in 2012.
Deputy Agriculture as well as Agro-based Industries Minister Chua Tee Yong combined which it was pass to keep people in use as well as insulated from the taking flight price of living.
With the new price of vital National Key Result Area joining Najibs mutation package, MCAs Labis MP pronounced which there is still room for improvement which could be effected since time.
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MAS-AirAsia Deal: It is not a Merger
August 10, 2011
MAS-AirAsia Deal: For Growth as well as Enhancing Competitiveness
by Joseph Sipalan@www.malaysiakini.com
Aug 9, 11
6:56pm
Top bosses of Malaysias dual largest airlines currently swatted aside concerns of the corner in their freshly inked Comprehensive Collaboration Framework (CCF), arguing which it was geared towards expansion as well as mending their competitiveness in their particular market segments.
AirAsia Group chief senior manager officer Tony Fernandes pronounced the emanate of the corner did not arise as the agreement usually involved share swaps in between his airline as well as national conduit Malaysia Airlines.
It is not the partnership the suspicion of the corner is crazy, he pronounced during the press discussion after signing the CCF during the hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
Fernandes explained which the newly-inked horizon would work in favour of both airlines as well as consumers, as well as it puts the countrys attention players in the same citation in the interest of growing their businesses as well as the economy, whilst during the same time upon condition which better services as well as some-more job opportunities.
Focus upon core competencies of both airlines
With the advent of the open sky process as well as the multitude of airlines operating globally, he added, there was no way the horizon could constitute the corner of Malaysias airspace by the select couple of companies.
Khazanah Nasional Bhd managing director Azman Mokhtar (pic below) pronounced the brand brand new horizon would emphasize the key strengths of MAS as well as AirAsia which he pronounced are dual graphic as well as apart companies with dual grap! hic as w ell as apart business models.
Explaining the role of the CCF progressing in the press conference, Azman pronounced they longed for to focus upon the core competencies of both companies, with MAS doing long-haul full use flights as well as AirAsia maintaining the successful bill operations.
Azman additionally denied which the understanding was the bailout for the ailing national carrier, stressing which there is no additional money coming, from either the supervision or AirAsia, in the share swap.
Fernandes argued which the CCF would instead urge their competitiveness as well as have the hub much stronger by sketch incomparable numbers of arrivals to the KL International Airport (KLIA).
The skys the limit, he said.
Firefly to go full service
Meanwhile, MAS chairperson Md Nor Yusof pronounced there were skeleton to convert Firefly, the national carriers bill arm, in to the full-service airline for short haul routes.
Responding to the question upon the possibility of approach foe in between Firefly as well as AirAsia in view of the newly-inked horizon agreement, Md Nor concurred which it could happen, especially with Fireflys recent foray in to the jet craft segment.
However, he said, this was an emanate which MAS would be seeking into. Were seeking during Firefly as the base to urge upon the short-haul full use flights, so this way we are actually seeking during 4 quadrants in the framework, he said, explaining which long- as well as short-haul full use flights will be handled by MAS as well as Firefly respectively, whi! lst AirA sia X as well as AirAsia would manage the prolonged -and short-haul bill routes.
On the long-standing lobby by AirAsia X to secure the Sydney (Australia) route, Fernandes left reporters with the hint which the airline might finally get to fly Sydney. we consider so,! was as much as he volunteered when pressed for details upon his Sydney lobby. Azman fuelled suspicions which the track was inside of AirAsia Xs grasp, observant which the CCF is about expansion as well as can accommodate some-more competition.
I hope Sydney is open to others. There is the lot of room for everybody the the dauntless brand brand new world, full of brand brand new things, he said
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Migrating to Lunacy and Idocracies
Just final month, a MOHA was display off their super efficient comprehension in detecting critical threats opposite king as great as republic by a group of ole women as great as group together with those who had in their receive criminialized t-shirts as great as those depicting some communist heroes or 'terrorists' perhaps.
And they charged a 6 incarcerated underneath a Emergency Ordinance, as great as you need to have use of such laws to produce home to a farming folks a dangers a republic is facing from these 8 'terrorists'. None certified to any links with a accusation nor oath guilty as great as they will stand trial. Eve if a rest of a republic as great as 6 billion alternative homos sapiens think a assign is an profusion as great as rather odd, a reduction than 0000.0002% fellos together with a MMOHA chief have been so cock certain which they have unearthed a communist hazard as great as far greater than a chief holocast or tsunami which might wipe out a complete stately institution as great as a tough fought 55 or so years of freedom, assent as great as confidence of a celebration as great as political power which a MOHA is a member.
But BolehLand loyal to a name as great as right away becoming some-more a flip flopLand, a week ago expelled 8 immigration officers held underneath a ISA, equally some-more portent as great as used for cases which retain real as great as present risk to a peace, security, a royalty as great as a political power of a BN party.
The reasons since by a ostensible schooled guardians of assent as great as confidence of FlipFlopLand range from a absurd to ludicrous, idiosyncratic to moronic as great as plain lame, juvenile as great as stupid. Media reports of a MOHA's explanation as great as meditative is since below:
The Home Minister pronounced a 8! officer s had committed critical crimes such as militant activities, firearms smuggling, drug as great as espionage as great as tellurian trafficking. The Home Minister pronounced a 8 were freed since they have shown remo! rse, repute ented for their mistakes as great as have since full team-work to a authorities to stamp out tellurian trafficking.
Responding to this statement, Alias questioned since a 8 should be charged again after being incarcerated underneath ISA. What some-more do they want? They have already been incarcerated as great as arrested underneath ISA, they have already undergone a legal process. Why should they be arrested again?
Earlier this month, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pronounced a 8 will be expelled in stages with a first three being expelled upon August 2.
Hishammuddin pronounced a incarcerated officers had shown distress as great as have repented upon their mistakes, giving full team-work to a authorities to stamp out tellurian trafficking in Malaysia.
Shown distress as great as repented for tellurian trafficking you recover them? Haven't those caught as great as expelled by a court rearrested again huh?
But then a MOHA pronounced a 8 officers had committed critical crimes such as militant activities, firearms smuggling, drug as great as espionage as great as tellurian trafficking.
So what about a alternative critical like militant activities which should be upon par with a alternative 6 communist fraud act right?
And isn't espionage is fraud opposite your motherland?
Isn't firearms bootlegging a real risk to a confidence forces.?
And drugs? Don't you hang for such critical offence?
So a MOHA fellos have been really playing impediment officers, jury, lawyers as great as decider in this case hub?
Why have been they not charged as great as since a satisfactory hearing since it is in all accepted which a ISA do not concede one a satisfactory hearing since you have been rendered some veget! able unq ualified of movement receptive since you obey your rights to probity by what they contend a 'pleasure as great as gauge of a higher ruler?'
It's odd, a Pakatan people as great as NGOs as great as polite rights group have been doubt a proof of a MOHA's preference as great as see their hypocrisy in a light of how they throw a book during a 6 as great as let go a 8? Where is a fairness ! as great as logi c of this movement as great as release?
If usually they have an ISA opposite minds which insult a comprehension as great as mocks us, contrition a probity system as great as sends a wrong message to others which 'ah, a MOHA will flip wave as great as kow tim for offenders, if you just show a green unhappy seeking remorseful face as great as whimper your sorriness, discuss it you have repented as great as promise never to do it again, compartment genocide spares you from carrying to be shunted all over a place.
Can you have use of a EO as well to those who slur a comprehension as well as great as have all of us demeanour foolish as great as laughed during by a total world? And additionally assign those supposedly so cock certain they gave destroy save 'free em' rationale justification upon a freedom for immigration officers' as against to a alternative 6 charged for being a outrageous grave hazard to institutions of a woman monarch as great as which of a beloved nation?
Can you give a brand lau-yah or lousy award to these two jokers for migrating to lunacy, ludicracy as great as idiosyncrasy upon this immigration failure recover reasoning?
Those who take a slipper or food out of craving gets months sealed up, mat rempits made to pull their vehicles many kilometers as great as punished, candlelight vigils opposite injustice hurled up, marching for electrode remodel issued arrests of warrants since they have deemed to have committed bootleg acts, not even tighten to what these 6 ex immigration officers committed?
But can you censure a MOHA if they have been just follo! wing pre cedent how polite servants have been dealt with when they take a law into their own hands or break a law. Sack, send or stay put without ever facing a judge! Along this line, hmmmm a MOHA fellos might not have committed any crime during all in freeing these 8 as great as have rightly charged a alternative 8 since a latter have been not polite servants, have yet to show remorse, pronounced contemptible as great as betrothed never to wear a produce as great as sickle symbol shirt or a red star t or a yellow clean t-shirt too, huh?
Why have been these pretentious 8 so special over a alternative 6 or petty th! ieves or even bootleg migrants which they should be since such absolved diagnosis huh?
The usually great thing from this MOHA's preference is to create jobs for those enterprising ones who will set up precision schools or write dummies array with titles such as 'The art of display distress to get yourself off a hook' or 'Guaranteed no prison technique of display sorrow as great as remorse!', or 'How to dope MOHA with a winning sorrow as great as remorseful look!' or 'Techniques upon display grieve to get yourself free!; or 'Dummies guide to have ISA looks dumb!' or 'Crimes which lets you out of prison yet safe to commit' as great as even 'So you think you have been smarter than an immigration officer?' huh?
So if they have been not charged, can a 8 immigrations sue their department for sacking them? After all, there is no record in a law book to contend they have been guilty of any crime right?
All parties involved in Sosilawati case to visit crime scenes
SHAH ALAM, Aug 9 The 4 individuals currently upon hearing for a murder of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya are to be part of a court-sanctioned revisit of a various crime scenes tomorrow.
The presence of a 4 accused former counsel N.Pathmanabhan, 41, as well as farm workers T. Thilaiyalagan, 20, R. Matan, 21, as well as R.Khatavarayan, 31 was systematic by Shah Alam High Court Judge Datuk Akhtar Tahir.
They were charged with murdering Sosilawati (picture), 47; bank officer Noorhisham Mohamad, 38; counsel Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32; as well as Sosilawatis driver, Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44, during Lot 2001, Jalan Tanjong Layang, Tanjung Sepat, Banting, in between 8.30pm as well as 9.45pm upon Aug 30, 2010.
Deputy public prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff additionally informed a justice which a locations were concentrated in Subang Jaya as well as Banting, inhabitant headlines agency, Bernama, reported.
In an additional development, prosecution witness, Sgt Mohammed Dahlan Rasi, 50, told a justice which when he arrived during a canal in Jalan Gelanggang Buaya, Kampung Kelanang, Banting during 5.45pm upon Sep 14 last year, he realised which sea military scuba divers were already there.
Under cross-examination by Manjeet Singh, Mohammed Dahalan additionally said which C/Insp N. Govindan had arrived in Jalan Gelanggang Buaya before him.
He said which when he arrived during a canal, a sea military scuba divers had nonetheless to find any zinc sheeting, which was in a future entered as evidence in a trial.
However, approximately 10 minutes later, a scuba divers started to move zinc sheeting to a surface, which was after wrapped in oilpaper by members of a CSI group from Kuala Lumpur as well as Bukit Aman military contingents, he said.
Mohammed Dahalan, however, agreed with Matans counsel Amer Hamzah Arshad when a latter suggested which ! regular policemen could not process a scene until a CSI group had arrived.
He additionally concurred with Amer Hamzahs suggestion which search activities had commenced before a CSI teams attainment upon a scene as well as this disregarded investigation protocols.
Khazanah chief defends past MAS restructuring efforts
Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar (L) pronounced which MAS would be in even worse shape currently had prior attempts at restructuring not left ahead. Picture by Jack Ooi
Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar told the press conference following the proclamation of the vital tie-up in between Malaysia Airlines (MAS) as well as AirAsia which he as well as his team had at slightest managed to keep the inhabitant airline afloat.
If you had not finished earlier restructuring, MAS would be in even worse shape today, he pronounced when asked if the partnership was the final try to reform MAS which the open could design to see. I consider you have repositioned ourselves as well as this is the start though there is still the lot to do.
Khazanah Nasional Bhd senior manager executive as well as newly designated MAS senior manager director, Mohd Rashdan Mohd Yusof, popularly well known as Danny, was partial of the BinaFikir consultancy which engineered the wide asset unbundling (WAU) restructuring which done MAS the practical airline in 2002. BinaFikir was afterwards led by Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, who is now managing senior manager of Khazanah, the infancy shareholder in MAS.
When asked what is different about this tie-up contra prior tie-up attempts which failed, Azman pronounced which the airline industry wasnt ready at the time.
Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin was rarely vicious of the ultimate try to reform MAS currently as well as appeared to indicate out Azmans purpose in prior attempts, saying upon micro-blogging website Twitter: Jurys still out upon this MAS-Air Middle East deal. MAS presently screwed. Azman Mokhtar & Idris Jala couldnt save it operationally. Who can?
Some analysts were optimistic which the! ultimat e understanding could put the flag conduit upon firmer footing although they criticised the WAU practice as the single which had proven to be unworkable.
One airline industry analyst pronounced which todays understanding appeared ironclad with little space to back out due to an agreement which the shares substituted have been not transferable for the subsequent dual years, in addition to the partnership period which could final up to 10 years.
He additionally pronounced which he felt MAS CEO Tengku Azmil Zahruddin Raja Abdul Aziz, who quiescent currently to stick on Khazanah, had been since as well little credit as well as which his plans to renew the swift would bear ripened offspring in the coming years.
The new planes had recaro seats as well as Panasonic inflight entertainment, pronounced the analyst. People favourite the new planes which were getting fuller as well as the yields getting better. Unfortunately MAS could not sequence 100 planes the year though had to do it in phases which done the process slow.
He combined which the current crop of stakeholders in the mutation of the inhabitant conduit was running out of time to encounter marketplace as well as taxpayer expectations.
They have to deliver, he said. If they dont, they cant design any sympathy. There is no excuse for not performing.
Under the share barter unveiled today, AirAsias main shareholder Tune Air Sdn Bhd will barter the 10 per cent interest in the bill conduit for the 20.5 per cent share of the bum flag conduit in the agreement called the Comprehensive Collaboration Framework.
Before the share swap, Tune Air was the greatest shareholder in AirAsia with the 26.28 per cent interest while Khazanah hold 69.33 per cent of MAS.
6P Programme has yielded over 1.5m migrants
Migrant workers induction during Putrajaya upon July twenty-two 2011. Picture by Choo Choy May
Home Ministry comparison deputy secretary-general (Registration and Immigration) Datuk Alwi Ibrahim pronounced of a 1,548,798 persons recorded 834,233 were placed underneath a Registration of Legal Foreign Workers Programme, according to Bernama Online.
Sabah, a state with a huge influx of unfamiliar workers, a total of 157,966 illegal immigrants were signed upon given July 18, Alwis matter review today.
On tip of a 336 government companies contracted to register migrants a home ministry had set-up a one-stop opposite in Putrajaya to assist with technical problems.
Ministry staff and representatives from a supply companies using a 6P programme calm government system are manning a counters.
Ramon's betrayal of the NEP
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By Muhammed Abdul KhalidONCE in a while, a debate upon a New Economic Policy (NEP) resurfaces, and majority would argue that a process is a source of all problems facing this nation. The latest came from Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam's "Time not upon our
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Bukti kegiatan DUMC untuk memurtadkan orang Islam
Baik apa sebenarnya yang berlaku ketika pemeriksaan JAIS dan polis ke Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama (DUMC)?
Kisanya mudah, JAIS dapat maklumat dalaman yang mengatakan ada aktiviti menyebarkan agama lain kepada penganut Islam, jadi sebagai penguatkuasa mereka menyiasat dan semuanya dibuat berdasarkan undang-undang yang sedia ada.
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The outlook is grim you contingency say.
Underscoring a seriousness of a US debt-payment horror is a fact that as of July this year, Apple Incs nett operating money change of USD 76.4b distant outperformed a entire US as a nation. At a same time, a US, as a nation, had a nett operating money change of usually USD73.7b. (source: BBC report).
The US supervision debt is projected by S&P to strike eleven trillion this year, that would be equivalent to 75% of a gross made during home product or all a resources that a US manage to buy would generate this year. S&P also estimated a debt would increase to $14 trillion by 2015 as great as top $20 trillion by 2021, that during that indicate would mean that it will be 85 per cent of GDP.
In a grim postulation, S&P says in a worst-case scenario, US supervision debt could outstrip all a resources generated in a worlds largest manage to buy by 2021. (source: here).
With those kind of numbers, it was not startling during all that a US credit rating was downgraded a notch from AAA rating to AA+. (source: BBC report).
How do all these start us?
Back home, a numbers arent all rosy as well.
As of last year, a inhabitant debt was down from RM236.18b in 2008 to RM233.92b. (source: the Star report). That sounds great as it is upon a downward trend. However, an research of a unfamiliar debts as compared joined with a made during home borrowings as great as a commission in a increase of a debts as compared to a in! crease i n a GDP over several years pai! nts a re fan worrying picture. See a research here.
The points have been these:
What a upon top of means is that you have been borrowing faster than you have been producing income.
According to a US Census Bureau, between a months of Jan to May this year, a US exports to Malaysia totals USD6.1b whilst a exports have been value USD10.5b. The US Department of State's website shows that he United States is Malaysia's third-largest trade partner as great as Malaysia is a eighteenth-largest trade partner of a United States with annual two-way trade amounting to $33b.
The United States is a largest unfamiliar financier in Malaysia upon a cumulative basis, as great as was a largest source of brand new unfamiliar approach investment in Malaysia in 2010 with approach investment in a manufacturing zone in Malaysia as of year-end 2009 of $15.1 billion, with billions of dollars in one some-more investment in a oil as great as gas as great as financial services sectors of a economy.
Such is a importance of a US to Malaysia. It goes though observant that a US in financial bad shape would fundamentally next to to a Malaysia in mercantile doldrums.
Meanwhile, Malaysias Economic Transformation Program (ETP), an desirous devise to convert a! nation in to a fully developed republic by 2020 remains critically linked to unfamiliar investment. The ETP requires annual for! eign inv estment in a operation of $11 billion to account a entertain of a due projects. However, normal annual investment since 1997 has usually been $3.1 billion.
A Mar 2011 report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch ranked Malaysia a second slightest popular market after Colombia among tellurian taking flight market account managers. Malaysia, thus, is in no in front of to devise a design of chaos as great as intrusion to a investors from outside.
In addition, new great good known events, a sum of that have been all as great familiar to many, if not all of us, do not attraction Malaysia as great good to unfamiliar investors notwithstanding eager efforts by a supervision to capture them.
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs revised a GDP foresee for this year from 5.4% to 5% with a identical cut of 0.4% next year from 5.6%. (source: the Malaysian Insider report).
Considering a state of a US manage to buy as great as a burgeoning debts, a US supervision might only increase seductiveness rates in sequence to lessen public spending; levy higher import duties upon sure goods; levy a little strict import conditions as great as broaden a protectionism process over a little industries.
The increase in seductiveness rates would shorten money outflows as great as investment activities thereby ensuing in diminution of consumer spending as great as imports by a US. This is firm to adversely start a exports to a US. Standing during USD33b a year, a 10% diminution in a exports to a US would mean a snatch of USD3.3b from a liquidity. you consternation how most commercial operation would overlay up as great as how most jobs will be lost in such situation.
Added to that a severely weakened US dollar as against to a Ringgit, things would not look ! as great splendid for a exporters as they remove competitiveness in conditions of currency exchange. Perhaps you should take a serious re-look during a growth process as great as compensate sufficient courtesy to a areas in that you have been strong and! not for getting a traditional bread as great as butter, namely, a rural sector. Modern as great as to illustrate efficient food production might be a great option as well.
The supervision contingency come up with a devise to counter a US meltdown as great as a Europe meltdown that is fast forthcoming as soon as possible. failure to do so would only exacerbate a current economics hiccups that you have been facing.
Locally, vital costs have been sharpening newly as acceleration rises. As of June this year, it was 3.5% nonetheless realistically, a people upon a streets have been feeling a pinch a lot more.
In sequence to assuage a pang of a people who have been finding it tough to cope with a taking flight in a costs of living, a supervision yesterday announced a half-month bonus to a 1.3 million polite servants as great as a sum of RM500 to each pensioner.
The goal was good. Our Honourable Prime Minister was reportedly observant a reward remuneration can lighten a burden... for a arriving Aidil Fitri celebration.
I am happy for a polite servants. The sum compensate out is RM2b. However, in my common opinion that compensate out would do little, if not nothing, to solve a complaint during hand, generally a complaint of a taking flight costs of living.
Can you all suppose a sum total of RM2b being outlayed in a next 10 days or so? How does that help in conditions of controlling spiralling prices as great as inflation? In fact, utterly to a contrary, this 2b one some-more spending inside of such a reduced camber of time would usually offer as inflationary factor.
The rew ard could have been since in a form of a saving instrument for example. The supervision could give out ASB certificates to a polite servants (as great as other debt instruments to non-Bumi polite servants) to a balance of their reward entitlement thereby ensuring a little savings for a polite servants as against to money compensate outs that wil! l do not hing though to flare up inflations.
I could be wrong as you am not an economist. But you have been against to stop-gap measures for a prolonged time.
To me, all problems, generally inhabitant problems, will have to be met with a holistic solution. Stop-gap measures look great for a while, until some-more as great as some-more gaps appear in a destiny as great as you would run out of plugs to plug those gaps.
GEMPAR!!! BUKTI GEREJA CUBA MURTADKAN ORANG ISLAM DIDEDAHKAN!
Sebabnya, berdasarkan daripada penemuan yang dibuat, dakwaan bahawa usaha pemurtadan yang
Jais mulls arrest warrants for church dinner Muslims
Deputy investigations as well as coercion director Sharom Maarof told The Malaysian Insidertoday that a 12 had unsuccessful to appear prior to a state eremite authority.
We have asked all 12 people to come forward as well as give their statements about their attendance of a event though up to now they have not turned up as well as we understand that their lawyers have advised them not to do so.
We will ask for a justice sequence as shortly as possible. We just want their statements to assistance with our investigations, he said.
Sharom combined that if a dozen destroy to present themselves should a justice sequence be served, Jais may ask for them to be arrested.
Jais had raided a Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) at a Dream Centre in Petaling Jaya final Wednesday, purportedly behaving on a complaint that Muslims were speckled between those at a dinner.
The raid had caused an conflict between eremite communities, as well as a Selangor government under Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has since demanded a report from Jais to insist a raid.
But Muslim lobby groups have rallied at a back of Jais as well as Selangor executive councillor for eremite matters, Datuk Hasan Ali, additionally defended a raid by claiming that a difference urge as well as Quran were used in a presence of a 12 Muslims who were between a 100 attendees of a dinner.
This was between a justification ci! ted as p roof by a PAS leader that Christians were attempting to conver! t Muslim s during a function.
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Chinatown businesses suspicious over MRT acquisition
Traders as good as emporium owners demonstrate their antithesis to a proposed merger of their properties for a MRT today. Picture by Jack Ooi
To date, 34 units have been served compulsory merger notices to have approach for a KVMRT project, whose runs along Jalan Sultan as good as Jalan Petaling, cutting through a physical condition that bears a name Petaling Street in three languages.
That means they have been perplexing to chak jiu pai (shutdown a business) as good as cheong ngo dei ge fan woon (steal a livelihood), Daniel Wong, a trader who owns multiple properties in a area, pronounced during a initial assembly with a traders last week. How can we only mount by as good as watch?
Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kui Lun speaks to traders as good as emporium owners in Lok Ann Coffee Shop today. Picture by Jack Ooi
Chinatown has witnessed a development of KL. Its been around for a hundred years, he said, adding that it was not right for a supervision to only take their businesses as good as properties from them. All we can do right divided is criticism against it.
The traders told The Malaysian Insider that they have been still in a dim as to since a supervision needs a properties as ! good as what is going to happen to a buildings as good as a stream businesses that operate in them.
The area has a brew of new as good as old buildings, with a little untouched since a day they were built, while others had been refurbished, with only a strange frame of a office office building retained.
Some of a buildings have been more than a century old.
Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua, who was additionally present to speak with a traders, told The Malaysian Insider that there was no reason for a supervision to take a land privately for a MRT project.
The MRT hire is essentially located a retard away, so these shops have been essentially not upon top of a MRT hire itself. They have been upon top of a tunnel track though since a tunnel is essentially 100 feet next ground, there is no reason for a supervision to take these particular emporium lots. So a only reason since they would want to take these emporium lots is so that they can distinction from a high regard resulting from a building a whole of a MRT system.
We remonstrate with this kind of resource for a simple reason that when a supervision builds infrastructure, its meant to benefit a people in as good as around a area. You cannot, only since you set up a infrastructure, explain that all a increase have to go to a government, he said.
Traders as good as emporium owners listen to MPs speaking in Lok Ann Coffee Shop. Picture by Jack Ooi
She pronounced it looked more similar to a plan to dilate a highway heading to a Warisan Merdeka landmark.
The argumentative RM5 billion plan will be located inside of a enclave of Stadium Merdeka as good as Stadium Negara.
Construction of a 100-! storey s kyscraper, that is part of a mega project, will start a little time this year as good as is approaching to be completed in 2015.
After being wordless since a initial merger notice was sent out, representatives of a projects owners as good as operator Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad will encounter with a traders as good as emporium owners upon Thursday for a briefing.
The traders as good as emporium owners told The Malaysian Insider that they still have a lot of questions to ask as good as hopefully, they will be sensitive of a governments intentions.
Hopefully, they will withdraw a notice to take these buildings. Otherwise, based upon a stream law, a owners have no choice though to sell a buildings to a government. The only thing they can brawl is a remuneration as good as if they cannot agree upon a compensation, afterwards a supervision will take a land first, as good as afterwards they can fight for a remuneration in court. Thats what a law says, so afterwards a courts will determine a final remuneration though they have no right to reject or contend no to a acquisition, Pua said.
The DAP broadside chief emphasised that a supervision should figure out a price of a plan before moving to take a properties.
A spray-painted sign upon Petaling Street denoting a area that will be acquired for a MRT project. Picture by Jack Ooi
The Malaysian Insider understands that a traders as good as emporium owners will additionally encounter with MCA representatives here tomorrow morning.
In 2003, Chinatown underwent a major RM11.3 million facelift with two vast Chinese-themed arches placed during both ends of a travel with a Petaling Street signage to acquire visitors.
A roof tiles was constructed to cover a street, dubbed as a Green Dragon. The travel is closed to vehicular trade during night.
Chinatown was creatively an area of disinfectant halls, coffee shops, wake parlours, Chinese weave shops as good as normal grocery shops. Today, there is an contentment of stalls selling knock-off garments as good as accessories along with bootleg DVDs as good as CDs, although a tiny number of normal Chinese businesses remained.
Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar speaking today. Picture by Jack Ooi
Yap Ah Loy, a 19th century Kapitan Cina, non-stop a tapioca indent in Petaling Street where a tubers from his farms were brought to be ground in to flour. Petaling Street is still fondly known as Chee Cheong Kai in Cantonese, or tapioca indent street.
Chinatown is upon foot stretch to a Pasar Seni LRT hire of a Kelana Jaya line as good as a Maharajalela Monorail station, that stirred commercial operation as good as emporium owners to question a need for an MRT hire inside of such a close proximity.
Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, who was additionally during a assembly with traders today, pronounced a Parliamentary name cabinet shou! ld be se t up as a bipartisan, eccentric third celebration to disremember a mega MRT project.
She pronounced a cabinet should afterwards be briefed continually upon a projects progress so they can afterwards send a message to those who have been affected.
The KVMRT plan is deliberate a largest infrastructure plan ever undertaken in Malaysia as good as a initial phase alone has been estimated to price upwards of RM20 billion.
Earthwork formally kicked off a month ago upon July 8 upon a MRTs initial line from Sungai Buloh to Kajang (SBK) though transport authorities have admitted they have yet to pinpoint a sum price for a project, that has been described as a countrys many costly building a whole plan ever.
The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) had previously voiced that Gamuda-MMC, a MRTs plan delivery partner (PDP), would have to bear monetary penalties should a plan knowledge delays or incur price overruns.
MAS-AirAsia merger: Remake of hijacking of Avenue Capital 2006
There have been so most talks about inhabitant conduit Malaysia Airlines merging with Air Asia upon a share barter deal. A lot of people have been really skeptical with this merger.
Tuesday August 9, 2011
Rivals MAS as good as AirAsia to turn allies
By ANITA GABRIEL as good as JEEVA ARULANPALAM
starbiz@thestar.com.my
PETALING JAYA: National conduit Malaysia Airlines as good as low-cost carrierAirAsia Bhds major shareholders Khazanah Nasional Bhd as good as Tune Air Sdn Bhd will currently announce a landmark share barter understanding worth just over RM2bil which will turn a long-time bitter rivals in to collaborating partners.
According to sources, underneath a share barter deal, Khazanah will take a 10% interest in AirAsia from Tune Air, a private vehicle tranquil by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes as good as Datuk Kamarudin Meranun.
As during July 6, 2011, Tune Air owned a 26% interest in AirAsia. Sources additionally pronounced Khazanah was in talks to take a 10% interest in long haul low price conduit AirAs! ia X though this would be announced during a later date.
As part of a agreement, a sour! ce pronounced MAS would emanate brand brand brand new shares to Tune Air which would end up with a 20% interest in a inhabitant carrier. Khazanah, which has a determining interest of 69% in MAS, will continue to remain a singular largest shareholder in a inhabitant airline after a exercise.
The source combined which MAS, which was in apocalyptic need for uninformed capital, would additionally have a rights emanate really soon.
The gratefulness of a barter will be formed upon a recent share price of both companies as a exercise involves non-controlling stakes. Trading in both counters have been dangling until currently for dual days tentative a component announcement. MAS as good as AirAsia were final traded during RM1.60 as good as RM3.95 respectively.
There is really little thats innovative about all of this. The reality is which if we look during a large players in a industry, they have a low price arm as good as a reward arm. If anything, MAS is just personification catch up only now, pronounced an observer.
A special senior manager committee comprising 3 to five members together with MAS newly-appointed chairman Tan Sri Md Nor Yusof anddirector Mohammed Rashdan Yusof as good as Tony and/or Kamarudin will be set up to run a every day operations of a conduit in a interim whilst a search for a brand brand brand new arch senior manager officer will embark soon.
The source pronounced MAS CEO Tengku Datuk Azmil Zahruddin would step down from his post to have proceed for these changes whilst Rashdan, who is Khazanahs senior manager senior manager of investments, would likely pla! y a some-more active purpose in a airline until a CEO is identified.
The exco will be a subset of a board, which will take over a using as good as government of a airline in a interim. The categorical preference builder during a airline will be Md Nor, pronounced a source.
CIMB Investment Bank Bhd has been allocated confidant for a share barter understanding representing both parties.
If we stand behind as good as look during this deal, we can see a worth it will move to a full-service conduit (FSC) similar to MAS. The trend between FSCs is which they have been gradually deriving a bulk of their revenue reduction from a airline operations as good as some-more from ancillary services such as maintenance, repair, operations (MRO) services as good as so forth. These services have been outrageous profit centres. Currently, AirAsia outsources these services. With this partnership, MAS can be a outsourcing agent, pronounced an analyst.
This way, MAS which has a staff strength of 20,000 can make use of its people some-more productively. There wont be a need to lay off staff as both airlines will be run separately, pronounced a source.
The deals defendants contend this understanding marks a good opportunity to emanate Malaysia as an airline hub. The whole idea is not for Tony to run MAS. It is to realign both airlines interests to concede them to grow with a some-more transparent commercial operation indication MAS in reward shred as good as AirAsia in budget shred as opposed to being in any others way, pro! nounced an analyst.
A source pronounced this understanding has been in progress for so long though in a deficiency of a structure which could work as good as concerns over a strife of cultures, it had failed to take off.
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Probably Malaysia Airlines would good AirAsia assertive selling module as good as proceed from this merger. But afterwards again, where is a genuine beef for Malaysia Airlines?
Compa! re to Ai r Asia, Malaysia Airlines is an item corroborated corporation. The paid up stands during RM 3.384 billion, where it is represented with a fixed item worth of RM 8.4 billion. The net item is during RM 6.962 billion, where money constitute RM 2.086 billion.
AirAsias debts stand during RM 7.7 billion where else it money position is only during RM 1.7 billion. Apparently even though voted as a best low price carrier, AirAsia is pronounced to be a bad paymaster. At one point of time, they due Malaysia Airports over RM 65 million as good as during your convenience actions longed for to be taken against them, they run to their patron, afterwards PM Flip-Flop Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
This partnership is exactly similar to when ECM Libra took over Avenue Capital Resources Bhd. in a really controversial takeover laced with manipulation as good as disaster of disclosures, where a latter is valued four times some-more than a former. The minority shareholders were denied of a rights to a Mandatory General Offer.
The law-breaker who have been suspicion to be behind this is Rashdan Danny Yusoff as good as Datuk Omar Ong. Rashdan, who was afterwards a partner in Binafikir Consulting which charity a Wide Asset Unbundling (WAU) intrigue to rescue Malaysia Airlines a few years ago is right away a Director of Malaysia Airlines. Omar recently was allocated to a BOD of AirAsia.
It is expected which a outcome of this, would be share barter understanding where Khazanah Nasional Bhd. give way 17% of its holding to Tune Air, a primogenitor as! sociatio n of AirAsia as good as AirAsia X. In return removing Khazanah would get 20% in AirAsia as good as 15% in AirAsia X. Of march it is rumoured which CIMB is a adviser to this deal.
The transparent winner of this understanding is Tony Fernandes. As a singular largest shareholder in Tune Air, he would earn a chair in Malaysia Airlines Bhd. He would have a contend in how, what, where as good as how much of Malaysia Airlines vital commercial operation decision. With Omar upon his BOD as good as being so tighten to Prime Minister Dato Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak, all vital preference involving air travel as good as airline commercial operation would b! e unequi vocally favourable to Fernandess side.
AirAsia could right away expect to get a inhabitant conduit status.
It is AirAsia Xs dream to be a major intercontinental carrier. Getting landing rights would be a G-to-G agreement as good as inhabitant carriers usually get a initial right of refusal. Now AirAsiaX is accessible to lucrative landing rights as good as destinations.
Malaysia Airlines did her satisfactory share of inhabitant service as good as most Malaysians benefitted from this during a times where communications were poor or non existence. In 2005 when PM Flip-Flop Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi concluded to Level Four Boys concocted Airline Rationalisation Plan, where Malaysia Airlines to run a case track as good as feeder to a international end where else AirAsia got a rest. This embody heavily subsidized Rural Air Service. The most critical component of a devise was Malaysia Airlines were prohibited to lower down its fair.
Fernandes took those routes to build up AirAsias genius as good as additionally a numbers. The complicated subsidy was proven profitable to his commercial operation indication too. The moment a numbers went up substantially, Fernandes gave behind a RAS away as good as Government insisted which Malaysia Airlines took a service behind again, for a sake of Sabahans as good as Sarawakians.
Da! nny as g ood as Omar is about seeking during numbers. Nothing else. And Khazanah MD Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar is all for that. Azman as good as Danny were a partners who told Malaysia Airlines to frame off her resources behind in 2002 underneath a WAU scheme. If Malaysia Airlines needed selling as good as work routine boost, stripping a house as good as charity it to vultures similar to Fernandes is not a solution.
If this part of PM Najibs Economic Transformation Plan, afterwards probably infancy of Malaysians might not be with him. The Malays still have not lost a how Shamsul Azhar brought in Wee as good as promoted Non Malays have been Vice Presidents of Petronas, with a expense of a Malays.
*Updated 400pm
Sources within pronounced Malaysia Airlines MD Tengku Dat! o Azmil Raja Abd. Aziz was shown a doorway mins ago. He is going in Khazanah as Executive Director (Investment). Fernandes is pronounced to have called all a executives for a meeting tomorrow.
*Updated 430pm
The brand brand brand new indpeendent-non-executive BOD members for Malaysia Airlines have been Tan Sri Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah, Tan Sri Tan Boon Seng, Dato Rohana Rohzan as good as David Low. Rohana was Omar Ongs partner in Ethos Consulting. DannyYusof is right away directed towards Executive Director of Malaysia Airlines.
Fernandes as good as Dato Kamaruddin Meranun non independent as good as non exective directors with outcome upon 11 August 2011.
In interim, a house would be amanged by an senior manager committee chaired by Tan Sri Mohd. Nor Yusof. Members have been Dato Mohamed Azman Yahya, Danny, Fernandes as good as Kamaruddin. They will manage operations until brand brand brand new MD is appointed.
It is expected a brand brand brand new MD would be someone Not unknown to a company.
-bigdogdotcom
Tottenham lessons for PDRM, and us
I wrote this upon Twitter as well as some pro-Bersih 2.0 people proposed becoming very defensive as well as a small violent. we don't know since these people think which it's all about them all a time. It is not.
People impetus in protest every day lah beb. In some places upon Earth, people impetus since they have been hungry as well as they don't have jobs. Or since they want
Memang tagline cun ... "Pas aloh ko DAP"
Perjuangan Pas sejak tahun 1950-an berjaya dipatahkan DAP. Kata orang Kelantan, "Pas aloh ko DAP" (Pas kalah kepada DAP).
1. Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang mengumumkan di muktamar Pas baru-baru ini bahawa partinya menggugurkan matlamat membentuk negara Islam, sebaliknya mahu wujudkan negara berkebajikan jika dapat memerintah Malaysia, Tun Dr.
A reluctant symbol
New York Times, one of a most successful journal in a world, published this essay today upon Malaysia as well as Bersih 2.0.
A Reluctant Symbol for Electoral Reform in Malaysia
By LIZ GOOCH
August 8, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR Her sketch has been burned by ethnic Malay nationalists, there have been calls to revoke her Malaysian citizenship as well as she has been threatened, around content message, with death. The transformation she leads, Bersih, an alliance of 62 nongovernmental organizations dire for electoral reform, has been declared illegal, as well as a proof that brought thousands of a followers in to a streets of this collateral city final month finished with nearly 1,700 arrests.
But having stared down these challenges, Ambiga Sreenevasan, 54, a University of Exeter-educated lawyer as well as former president of a Malaysian Bar Council, is right away being hailed by most here as a new pitch of polite societys dissent.
She has not been fearful to speak a law to power, pronounced Ibrahim Suffian, executive of a Merdeka Center, an independent polling organisation in Kuala Lumpur.
Over peppermint tea in a bustling cafe recently, Ms. Ambiga squirmed uncomfortably during a attention she had attracted.
This concentration upon me is actually ridiculous, pronounced Ms. Ambiga. Its a true citizens movement, since a citizens have taken tenure of Bersih.
The Coalition for Clean as well as Fair Elections, or Bersih purify in Malay got a begin in November 2007. Members of a domestic antithesis as well as civic groups defied restrictions upon gatherings of some-more than 5 people without a assent as well as rallied for changes in an choosing complement they pronounced unfairly favored a ruling coalition, that has been in energy given Malaysia completed autonomy in 1957.
The demonstrators were dispersed by rip gas, as well as some were arre! sted. Th ey did not achieve their evident demands, that included better acce! ss to th e state-owned news media by antithesis candidates as well as a make use of of memorable ink upon voters thumbs to help forestall fraud. But their movement was credited with winning support for a antithesis as well as contributing to a ruling coalitions poor showing in a 2008 election, when it fell subsequent a two-thirds infancy for a first time.
Ms. Ambiga did not attend that convene in 2007, though earlier in a year she had led a impetus of some-more than 2,000 lawyers calling for legal reform. And while she runs a blurb litigation practice, she has additionally clinging considerable time to pro bono cases involving a rights of squatters, indigenous people as well as women. In 2009 she became a first Malaysian to receive a U.S. State Department International Women of Courage Award.
Maria Chin Abdullah, senior manager executive of Empower, a nongovernmental classification that promotes women in politics, pronounced it was since of Ms. Ambigas commitment, loyalty as well as care in fortifying human rights as well as democracy that she as well as other N.G.O. leaders approached her to lead Bersih 2.0, a second incarnation of a electoral remodel movement.
Ms. Ambiga agreed, upon a portion that it be polite society-driven, as well as not simply a tool of antithesis parties.
Again, Bersih pushed for an end to electoral fraud, media entrance for all parties as well as a minimum 21-day debate duration prior to any election. But Ms. Ambiga pronounced she never expected a event to reveal a approach it did.
What began as a call for remodel morphed in to drawn out annoy during a governments handling of a activists. When Bersih was declared an unregistered as well as thus bootleg organization, barred from demonstrating in a capital, as well as some-more than 200 people were arrested in a weeks leading up to a Jul 9 protest, Ms. Ambiga said, a effect was to prompt even some-more people to join ! in a ral ly. Bersih estimated that there were 50,000 protesters; a military put a figure during 5,000 to 6,000.
As a demonstrators attempted to impetus to Stadium Merdek! a, a p olice dismissed rip gas as well as water cannons to disperse a crowds. Among those arrested was Ms. Ambiga, who, along with a others, was released that night.
While we was sitting there a most wonderful things were happening in Kuala Lumpur, that we could only read about that night, she said. It brought tears to my eyes. we only didnt for a minute design Malaysians to climb to a occasion in a approach they did that day.
Even yet a convene was blocked, she said, Bersih has heightened open recognition of a need for free as well as fair elections. A number of people have told me that they may not have voted before, though theyll definitely opinion subsequent time, she said.
Even now, though, she does not call herself an activist.
I consider Im an disciple for a cause, she said. In a clarity it was a guidance experience for me, pulling myself out of a comfort of a Bar Council as well as all a support that it had, together with finances, coming in to this classification that didnt have a single cent.
Ms. Ambiga, who is ethnic Indian in a nation that is often Malay as well as often Muslim, pronounced that a protesters exploded most misconceptions about Malaysians, such as a idea that people of opposite ethnic as well as eremite backgrounds could not work together as well as that a middle class was as well comfortable to step up to a plate.
She attributes her eagerness to get involved in open causes to her upbringing. She cites as an inspiration her late father, a alloy who helped establish a National Kidney Foundation.
I suppose Ive been brought up to regularly try as well as do a right thing no matter what a odds, pronounced Ms. Ambiga.
Haji Sulaiman Abdullah, additionally a former president of a Bar Council, pronounced he was not astounded by a extent as well as! abyss o f care she has brought to a Bersih movement.
Even a typical man in a street has come to appreciate what Ambiga stands for, he said.
The events of recent weeks suggest abundant fodder for a constrained choosing debate nar! rative, though Ms. Ambiga shoots down any possibility that a domestic career could be in a offing. we dont have a go through for it, she said.
In fact, it has been Ms. Ambigas capability to define a Bersih transformation as a cause detached from narrow-minded governing body that has enabled her to unite Malaysians, pronounced Mr. Suffian, of a Merdeka Center.
Bersih has affianced that a debate would go upon as well as has called for people to wear yellow upon Saturdays, though no some-more protests have been programmed for now.
People keep saying, What next?, but, utterly frankly, we consider a citizens have taken it upon themselves to organize things around a nation using a yellow theme, a thesis of democracy. What we consider Bersih has completed is a awakening, Ms. Ambiga said.
She pronounced there have been certain responses from a Election Commission, for example, creation it possible for Malaysians vital overseas to vote. Its proclamation that it would deliver a biometric fingerprinting system, she said, was an acknowledgment that there had been a problem of choosing fraud.
When pressed upon how Bersih would reply if a government did not encounter other demands, such as equal media access, prior to a subsequent election, that must be held by mid-2013, Ms. Ambigas tendency to inhibit a concentration from herself resurfaced.
Its not me creation a decision, she said. It will be a rakyat Malay for people creation a decision.