The stink in Malaysia's arms procurement: Guess who benefited most?

The continued revelations of crime inside of a Defence Mininstry have caused most consternation amongst a public. Even WikiLeaks has reported a tactful cable in between a US Embassy in Malaysia as well as a United States which alleges crime in Malaysias invulnerability buying in which Umno politicians, agents, polite servants as well as military officials customarily receive thirty per cent elect upon deals.

The US embassy additionally noted which many supervision tenders did not follow buying rules. Instead, there were murky agreements but any tendering process, relying upon income governing body where awards were postulated with a cut of supports circulating back to a statesman or Umno by opposite channels.

The latest is sapura

The antithesis has forked fingers at Prime Minister Najib Razak who was a invulnerability minister from 1991 to 1995 as well as 2000 to 2008. In particular, they have forked to a RM570 million 'commission' - possibly a singular largest for a single understanding - which was allegedly paid to a internal consulting company Perimekar, tranquil by his tighten friend Razak Baginda.

In brand new months, Pakatan Rakyat has additionally questioned a inflated costs of several brand new arms deals proposed by stream Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi, which includes a purchase of thirty EurofighterTyphoon jets as well as 6 naval unit boats.

And usually days ago, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's PKR had uttered regard at an additional RM2 billion directly-negotiated supervision buying contract, upon a basis which it can potentially waste millions of ringgit more of taxpay! ers' mon ey. The plan is called a 'Network Centric Operation! s' (NCO) for a Armed Forces negotiated in between a Defence method as well as Sapura Secured Technologies Sdn Bhd.

"How can a minister of Defence allow such weaknesses in governance to take place before his very eyes?" PKR lawmakers Tian Chua as well as Nurul Izzah asked in their corner statement.

Najib a biggest champion of Malaysia's arms spending

The NCO plan is so haphazard it has additionally irritated some of a military crew themselves, who question a knowledge of a decision to go forward with a project. But unhappy to say, a Sapura understanding is usually an additional in a prolonged line of rarely argumentative multi-billion ringgit deals entered in to by a BN federal government.

Concern over a wastage of open supports has uneasy a nation for decades, in actuality since a rule of 4th budding minister Mahathir Mohamad who was spooky by over-sized infrastructure projects. But counterclaim procxurements have been a realm of Najib, who done a really large bucks if a conjecture is true which his proxies had picked up lavish kickbacks througout many of a past decade.

The argumentative deals related to Najib include a 2 Scorpene as well as a single Agosta submarines purchase in 2002 value RM7billion, 18 Sukhoi jetfighters in 2003 value RM3.5billion, a twelve Eurocopters EC275 helicopters in 2008 value RM2.3billion, a ongoing RM52billion MRT complement for a Klang Valley as well as a multi-billion ringgit jelly account inside of a 1MDB project.

So far, there has usually been evidence of lip use paid to open tender systems, but it is clear a elite choice is by direct negotiation. And this is a vital means for concern.

Bitter tablet for a ordinary people

Although inhabitant confidence is a serious issue, Malaysians have been beginning to demand which a invulnerability method be transparent as well as accountable upon procurements which run in t! o billio ns of ringgit.

At a time, when a manage to buy is unstable as well as set to slide downward, it would be prudent for a ru! ling gov ernment to start implementing spending cuts to buffer a probable economic backlash.

Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Idris Jala has himself forecast 7 years to go to a probable failure in 2019. It is no wonder which there is right away augmenting open vigour upon a supervision to go upon an purgation drive instead of striking large sums upon non-essential costly projects. This is an generally bitter tablet for a ordinary folk to swallow, as they have been still struggling with huge hikes prices after Najib slashed subsidies upon a slew of consumer essentials.

Pundits warn which if a supervision continues to act in such suspicious manner, by direct negotiations instead of a tendering process, open certitude will go upon to take a spin for a worse. "They contingency not forget a actuality which they have been open trustees, inaugurated by a people to govern a nation as well as to protect a wealth, not a permit to line their own pockets," pronounced a single analyst which Malaysia Chronicle spoke to.

Snubbing a antithesis as well as a people at a own peril

But so far, there is no pointer of such unethical practise stopping if a Sapura NCO understanding unprotected by PKR's Tian as well as Nurul Izzah is anything to go by. None of a Najib administration has even queired a Defense officials involved in a project, nor has a Finance method uttered any objection about a pricing, whilst a overpower from a Cabinet has been deafening.

BN lawmakers in Parliament as well as a polite use have been beginning to receptive to advice similar to people conferring upon how most appropriate to finish spending taxpayers' income in a fastest probable time.

he Opposition has been extremely outspoken but all ignored. Outnumbered, they can't do most but holler as well as raise attention. To a BN lawmakers, snub! bing the ir rivals is to show a people which a antithesis is ineffective. Again unhappy to say, this is an additional pointer of how short-sighted a thinking has become in a BN.

Most Malaysians have been right away more wakeful of crime ! than bef ore. They appear to appreciate a efforts of a antithesis in highlighting a facts, generally upon a fee rate hikes, as well as increasingly understand which a usually way to scold incident is to vote out a BN. Otherwise, a cleanup would never be probable as well as a incident similar to what is function right away would prevail until a nation really does go bankrupt.

Old-timers even say, if 50 years ago, a ruling supervision had implemented 'real' democracy, with competing forces in Parliament ensuring check-and-balance as well as transparency, Malaysians might right away even enjoy a monthly average income of RM10,000 as well as on top of due to a country's abounding petroleum reserves, copious oil palm harvests as well as tin mining of a past.

But it looks more similar to Malaysia is streamer towards an additional unsuccessful state similar to Zimbabwe or Myanmar.

- Malaysia Chronicle

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Pakatan losing sight of its Indian support

As domestic parties from both sides of a order hasten to out do any other in offering promises as well as handing out gifts to win votes as a ubiquitous choosing nears, Indian leaders have been moaning which their village is reception a reduced finish of a stick.

While Indian electorate were recognised as a force to be reckoned with in a 2008 ubiquitous choosing which saw an finish to a ruling BN government's prolonged station dual thirds parliamentary majority, right away they feel neglected.

The antithesis coalition, Pakatan Rakyat, rose from their 2004 defeat with a renewed sense of vigour, grabbing not only some-more seats but additionally seizing a incomparable purpose in a country's governance after pocketing five states.

However, a Pakatan personality plainly certified which a antithesis is losing a resounding await it had 3 years ago, when a village incited to Pakatan to vent their grievances against a BN.

"Within a Pakatan (we) didn't create a clever Indian force - I'm not suggesting forming an ethnic formed celebration though some-more similar to a charge force to address a issues inspiring a community.

"I can't deny which you have failed to reason upon to a await you had before a 2008 ubiquitous election," pronounced V Ganabatirao, a prolonged time DAP member as well as a former Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader.

The Indian village albeit a minority organisation play a pivotal purpose in ensuring choosing victories, generally in marginal seats eyed by both a BN as well as a Pakatan, noted Ganabatirao.

Deep-seated grouses which fueled a disappointment of a communitythat eventually led! some 30 ,000 Malaysian Indians receiving to a streets upon November 25, 2007, have been yet to be ! resolved though a ruling bloc has been personification up a issues, creation a antithesis appear non-committal, he said.

"Indian leaders in Pakatan have been not going to a grassroots, not operative a ground. Most of them destroy to understand a community's needs.

"In estates in Kuala Selangor there still villagers who live below poverty line... similarly in Banting, Sepang, Port Klang as well as Kapar.

Pakatan has a top hand

"In Penang, a state administration had inaugurated dual emissary chief ministers as representatives of their communities, Ramasamy for e.g. - people look up to him.

Similarly, in a case of a urban poor, Pakatan states have yet to uncover any seductiveness in on condition which affordable housing as well as open up employment opportunities, pronounced Ganabatirao.

"Pakatan Rakayat practises transparency as well as you do not secure contracts for friends - so a kind of people who design cronyism - will consider about going behind to BN."

Despite a hiccups, he cited Penang as a assuage e.g. of having succeeded in reaching out to a various ethnic communities.

"The Indians as well as Chinese have been seeking reforms ad wish to see frank policies as well as politicians. Pakatan has a top palm in fulfilling which role. Progress in Penang has proven which a BN can't take behind Penang," he added.

Out of a sum 222 parliamentary seats, about 64 have substantial Indian voter strength which could tip a scale either way.

The usual BN practice is 10 parliamentary seats indifferent for Indians with MIC allocated 9 as well as PPP one.

The infancy of Indian electorate was in all considered BN's safe deposit before a final ubiquitous election, though this altered when months before a polls 30,000 took their grouses to a streets with Hindraf spearheading a protest.

And a outcome was a finish ! of BN's normal overwhelming parliamentary infancy as well as afterwards prime minister Abdullah Badawi forced to crawl out after only one tenure in office.

Hi ndraf no longer of consequence

Ganabatirao (right) pronounced Hindraf will no longer be a means in a subsequent polls.

"Many (opposition) leaders have lost where they got their winning votes from. They used a 'Makkal Sakthi' slogan to win votes though right away they have been not there to compromise a community's problems.

"With Najib reaching out to a village directly, a Indians have been sceptical, those who depend upon a assist since by a supervision upon a day to day basis, especially, have been having doubts about choosing by casting votes for Pakatan, although they wish a shift in government," he said.

Those who have been self-sufficient, educated as well as with improved social station have been still with a opposition, though even they have been waiting to see aggressive measures committed to a safeguarding of their interests, he said.

He additionally pronounced which Indian politicians's obsession with Tamil schools as well as temples has to stop quite when a youths have been falling into a abyss of vice as well as social ills.

"But I do not wish us to fight again. I have a certainty to reconstruct a support," pronounced Ganabatirao , adding which he felt partly guilty for a enervated await base.

"The cab issues was lifted by us - though right away it looks similar to BN is championing a cab drivers' cause. This have been a kind of issues which can help get us support.

"Estate workers for instance, you have been fighting for their smallest wage! but nobo dy wants to ask for a kampung baru (new village) for them when a estate is demolished as well as they have nowhere to go."

Pakatan inaugurated representatives should be seeking at a "small picture" as well as not only "focus upon a bigger picture".

"When ruling a state ! you shoul d be seeking for avenues to help a people. Instead of angry - a Indians had upheld us in 2008, although BN poured income then, a await was there, so a subject you should be asking right away is: why has it reduced?

"We should be observant what you can do for them, force for a introduction of inter competition relations act or minority protection act, deliver policies to benefit then.

"We can't blindly keep observant which 'by supporting us you will move you improved governance', if you keep you do which people will design a object from a moon," he said.

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Sarawak natives lose landmark NRC land case (Full Judgment of the Federal Court)

The Federal Court has discharged a crucial interest by 5 local prevalent rights landowner, a preference which will adversely affect more than 100 identical cases.

The three-member panel of judges led by effusive Chief Justice Zaki Azmi made a unanimous preference to boot a case, brought by Bato Bagi as well as 5 others.

Bato, along with 5 others, have been suing a state supervision over a loss of their land due to a Bakun dam project. .

The preference by Chief Justice Zaki Azmi as well as a Chief Judge of Sabah as well as Sarawak Richard Malanjum, both of whom refused to answer a question, was to let alternative tentative cases deal with a issue.

The alternative Federal Court judge, Justice Md Raus Sharif, answered a subject in a negative, as well as pronounced a physical condition was not unconstitutional.

All 3 judges unanimously decided, however, to draw up lawyer Baru Bians interest following a land physical condition in Bakun by a state supervision 14 years ago to set up a multi-billion dam plan as well as pap timber mill.

Led by local Bato Bagi, 5 prolonged residence residents of Uma Balui Ukap during Batu Kalo, Uma Lesong during Batu Keling, Uma Bakah during Long Bulan, Rumah Kulit during Long Jawe as well as Rumah Ukit during Long Ayak, claimed upon Jun 23, 1997, to have local prevalent right! s over l ands along Batang Balui as well as a tributaries in a Belaga District Kapit divi! sion.

They were ordered to empty a land as well as extinguish their local prevalent rights over a construction of a dam.

The indigenous people longed for a order to be declared void upon a drift that:

Bato Bagi as well as Jalang Ak Paran (Full Judgment of a Federal Court)

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1 DOCTOR FOR 11,000 SABAH PEOPLE?

SITE.Nabawan brand brand brand new hospital site signboard erected, but no sign of work?

By : DAP MEDIA

THE PAKATAN Rakyat mobile make use of organisation visited Nabawan, Sook, as well as Pensiangan yesterday. The PR organisation was led by the PR Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament Hiew King Cheu with the association of Dr Benjamin Yapp, Philip Voon, Edward Ewol Mujie, as well as the PAS Publicity arch Hisammuddin Bin Hj Sulaiman.

The categorical purpose of the revisit is to listen to the people here upon their problems as well as their assorted requests to prominence to the government which were not heard.

MP Hiew found the outing to the interior is really successful as well as cultivatable due to some-more critical issues can be brought up as well as to move the little changes to the people here. It is loyal which the people here do need the voice of the opposition, as well as this is reflected by the comfortable acquire given to the PR organisation upon arrival.

There have been many problems being highlighted as well as brought to the courtesy of the KK MP Hiew. Hiew betrothed them these problems will be brought to the courtesy of the assorted departments for their immediate action.

Nabawan is the tiny interior town but it has all the compulsory amenities as well as facilities. What the people here require is the little plain economic expansion as well as to progress their income. There is no strong manage to buy booster here as well as the people here depend upon usually the little tiny cultivation furnish only. For the long time the gover! nment ha d literately forgotten about them, let along bringing in the little big plans to improve their internal economy, living standard as well as livelihood.

INSPECT.The PR organisation inspecting the car play ground of the Clinic in Nabawan with Hisamuddin pointing at the pot holes.

The tiny old hospital here with dual doctors has to serve as well as to caring for the illness of the twenty dual thousand people here. This is the incident unsuitable as well as the alloy to population is really as well high, usually imaging 1 alloy to 11,000 people.

In Kuala Lumpur, it is usually 1: 384. This figure usually signified which the healing caring make use of in the interior is still far behind from the compulsory level in upon condition which good illness caring to the people in Sabah. That reflected as well as valid it loyal which there is indeed the big necessity of doctors in Sabah. We have been short of 2,000 doctors to help the Sabahan.

When can this necessity be filled up?

The existing tiny hospital is the tiny wooden office building with the little beds as well as the healing reserve is sufficient. The usually complaint they faced here is the damaged down ambulances. There have been 3 units of ambulances but dual had damaged down as well as they were left with the single serviceable unit to packet the patients around.

The proposed brand brand brand new Polyclinic is yet to be built, as well as the site had been changed as well as the brand brand brand new executive appointed. So far the work was due to start upon the 3rd of March 2010 as well as finished upon the 5th of Feb. 2012, but until today we saw no sign of construction work upon going.

The whole site is usually a! n abando ned piece of dull land with the little fencing on. This brand brand brand new polyclinic is to have the first X-ray unit installed for the make use of of the studious here. At the moment, the patients who indispensable x-ray make use of will have to be sent to Keningau. If indispensable to be sent to Kota Kinabalu, the helicopter had to be called in during puncture cases fo! r furthe r treatment.

The car play ground in the hospital here is really indispensable repair as well as up grading. It is so bad as well as the cars cannot even expostulate upon it. The authorities as well as JKR contingency come here to repair this immediately. It is usually the couple of trips of mill should do the job, what is so formidable about it!

- Sabahkini

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Revitalising and Transforming Penang

September 10, 2011

Revitalising as well as Transforming Penang

The mainstream media did not inform upon this debate by Penangs Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng which was delivered during a Foreign Correspondents Club , Singapore August,12, 2011. The reason is flattering viewable to all of us. Penang is governed by Pakatan Rakyat, not be a Gerakan Party, a component celebration in a Barisan Nasional coalition, which was resoundingly deserted by a people of Penang in March, 2008.

That Penang has been transformed cannot be disputed. Just take a outing there as well as experience for yourself a transformation which has been receiving place over a last 3 years underneath a Pakatan government. A great story needs to be told, as well as we sincerely consider which a debate by Chief Minister deserves to be read. In times of gloom as well as doom, we need to listen to of successes so which a sagging spirits can be resuscitated. The mood there is lovely as well as a lot has to do with great governance by a group of immature as well as honest leaders.

The Penang Story is inspirational. Basically, it is about a People-centric supervision which is founded upon a element of Justice for All as well as a single which grasp formula by competency, burden as well as transparency. This state government, led by a energetic as well as tough operative Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng. is revitalising Penang. Din Merican

Transforming Penang in a Changing World

by Lim Guan Eng, Chief Minister of Penang

I come here (to Singapore) as a Chief Minister of Penang, a single of 4 states led by Pakatan Rakyat or a Peoples Pact, a opposition bloc in Malaysia. we am from a Democratic Action Party (DAP), a single of three bloc partners.

I am extremely proud to be given a event to oversee a beautiful colourful state of Penang as well as am delighted to have a event to speak to you. we idea by a finish of my remarks we will consider entrance to revisit as well as deposit in Penang , as it continues to be an attractive place for blurb operation as well as instruct alike.

It is smashing to be in Singapore. We have so most in common; usual story as well as people. Our bonds have been deeply intertwined, culturally, politically as well as economically.I would similar to to prominence a little of a usual features. We have been both small states which have punched above a weight economically by a tough work as well as creativity of a people. We have both been successes notwithstanding a distance as well as obstacles we share.

Today, more than 25% of Malaysias exports in terms of worth as well as volume come from Penang some-more than half of a countrys wiring have been constructed there as well as we have been in in between a tip traveller destinations in Malaysia with a jot down numbers of visitors. Like Singapore , we conclude a importance of planning, a auspicious marketplace sourroundings for investors as well as fiscal responsibility. We both have worked tough to put ourselves upon a map internationally, as well as have done so successfully. We both know which in order to progress, we need to conform as well as transform.

I have long dignified Singapores adaptability, how it has managed to respond to monetary crises such as those in 2003 as well as 2008 as well as continues to be a purpose indication for promoting mercantile expansion in Southeast ! Asia . w e am additionally deeply meddlesome in a reforms which Singapore will introduce to address a social concerns which were brought to light in a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new May election, as a hurdles Singapore faces in addressing inequaliti! es as well as p romoting integration have been usual opposite a region. we am looking brazen to learning some-more from Singapore as well as deepening ties here. Penang has not long ago re-branded itself as a place of preference for investors as well as end of preference for tourists.

Penang: Top Tourist Destination as well as Investment Center for Malaysia

We have been a single of a tip 3 traveller destinations in Malaysia . We have been a tip investment state in Malaysia in 2010 sketch investments from all over together with Singapore . Penang contributes towards 36 % of Malaysias FDI notwithstanding carrying usually 6 % of a countrys population.

There have been 7 pass factors which account for a success as a place of preference for investors :

1. Ready availability of tellurian talent;

2. Effective as well as fit supply sequence management;

3. Competent as well as reliable logistics as well as communications hub;

4. Strong Intellectual Property protection;

5. Good, non-corrupt, governance as well as effective leadership;

6. Building creativity as well as innovation in scholarship as well as technology; and

7. Livable as well as protected city environment

For these reasons, in a query to be a smart shop of a Software Valley knowledge-based economy, we have been aware of being a bearable city as well as formulating a colourful urban environment. ECA International listed Penang as a most bearable city in Malaysia upon standard with KL. Penang is world-famous for a travel food as well as CNN not long ago placed a Penang asam laksa as a 7th most appropriate food in a world. KPMG International listed us as a sing! le of 30 tellurian Business Process Outsourcing Centre for a future.

We have been proudly a UNESCO World Heritage City for a superb universal worth of informative farrago as well as living heritage. But what afterwards for a future. As we thought about my outing to Singapore, we realized it was critical to prominence a need for adaptation, to adjust to brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new circumstances. Events over a last week in a marketplace place prominence how vulnerable we have been to remarkable ch! anges in mercantile fortunes as well as developments in a tellurian economy. To tarry as well as thrive, we need to adapt.

Singapore did this in 2003, some-more not long ago after a 2008 monetary predicament as well as continues to do so in response to a capricious evolving tellurian economy. We hold which in order to be tolerable as well as flower it is required to balance mercantile expansion with larger equitable growth for all. We know Penang contingency find a own niche as an ubiquitous as well as smart city.

Branding for Penang is critical which is synonymous with quality, reliability, safety, sustainability as well as integrity. Equally critical is social cohesion as well as inclusion towards a usual society which allows approved participation, apply oneself for farrago as well as particular dignity, subsequent to event as well as prohibition of discrimination. But most crucial of all is subsequent to opportunities for a immature as well as talented to grow as well as perform their potential.

A Changed World

I would similar to to take a pen of 2003 as a usual a single to begin a discussion, over eight years ago. For Singapore this was a formidable year, a single in which SARS as well as a region slack acutely affected your manage to buy as well as brought home a little of a vulnerabilities of a closer tellurian links with China as well as a slack of a US economy. This year was additional! ly poign ant in Malaysia, in which it noted a year which former premier Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed stepped down from office. New leaders have come into bureau given then, with brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ideas. we am partial of a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new generation of leaders. We share an appreciation of a need to reform as well as adapt.

Gone have been a days when hardware brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new HDB flats, brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new roads as well as clinics can satisfactorily encounter a needs of a people. We face a usual charge of bringing a some-more formidable program to a citizens, a tangible yet unsubstantial concerns with peculiarity of life, while simultaneously strengthening institutions to bring about these changes.

Need to Plan for Un! certaint y

This brings me to a first categorical indicate about todays becoming different universe a appearance of crisis. In a region we have right away seen dual major monetary crises as well as a array of healthy disasters, most not long ago with pictures by a tragic Mar 2011 earthquake as well as tsunami in Japan. We do not nonetheless know a stroke of a developments in a monetary markets over a last week. It has right away turn normal to expect a unknown. None of us have been fully ready for a crisis, yet we have learned which we have to put in place conditions for preparedness.We need to plan for uncertainty.

In Penang we have adopted measures to help a state to be prepared for a different inside of a proportions which a Chief Minister can implement. We have softened a states monetary in front of with three years of uninterrupted jot down surpluses as well as rescuing a internal locale council, which lost RM230 million, from bankruptcy. I hold strongly in monetary responsibility. A monetary base is not enough, howeve! r. It is critical to have firm a domestic institutions. Professionalising a polite service, establishing a little of a institutions of polite society such as sourroundings up a first Speakers Corner in Malaysia as well as enacting a Freedom of Information Act.

This brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new indication of governance which is tied to a approval of a need to consider toward a futureis a critical step not usually today, yet for which stormy day when conditions change. If anything we have learnt in a past decade or so is which shift is inevitable, as well as we contingency be as ready as we can to face a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new horizon.

Forging links as well as networks regionally

Part of todays becoming different universe involves a need to forge links as well as networks regionally together with with China . We contingency give approval of a special attribute with these countries together with Singapore where we have been bonded by blood, tested by time as well as driven by usual values of excellence, competitiveness as well as integrity. From early on! , as standard t of a Straits Settlements, Singapore as well as Penang have usual strong bonds. Many a Penangite has migrated to or works in Singapore, as well as most a Singaporean visits Penang. The scarcely 20 flights each day to as well as fro in in between a dual islands have been full.

Need to Diversify

Thirdly, we should never put a eggs in a single basket.We need to diversify. Despite a close linkages with a traditional investors in electronic industry from Japan , Europe as well as US, we have been deeply engaged in operative with China as well as India as well as a regional neighbors Singapore , Indonesia as well as Thailand as well. The concentration is not just upon investment, yet broadening tourism as well as informative exchanges.

Our MYPenang debate featured in J! une-July in Dhoby Ghaut with pictures graphically usual chronological as well as personal ties. It highlighted a most traveller attractions of a state. This initiative, along with a alternative outreach efforts, reflects a rebranding of a state, a single in which we enthuse those who have not visited Penang for most years to return or come for a first time.

I cannot stress sufficient which we have been in law a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Penang , as well as aim to have firm a ubiquitous form in this each becoming different tellurian context. The tellurian changes in a universe have been not additionally receiving place inside of in Asia. In a last six months we have seen what scholars have been already labeling a fourth call of democracy, a absolute domestic revolutions which others have labeled a Arab open in a Middle East.

From Tahril Square in Cairo to a some-more unfortunate brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new confrontations in Syria as well as Yemen, a demands for domestic shift prominence a actuality which people wish fairer improved domestic systems. Even in Singapore a call for shift had larger inflection in May.

Be People-Centric

This brings me to a fourth point: a need to anchor what we do in a people to be people-centric. Everything we do as leaders should be driven by a desire to offer a people. I! n a Mi ddle East as well as elsewhere, corruption, fervour as well as self-interest have eroded open certainty as well as broken open conviction in leadership.

Political institutions from a judiciary to a military have been enervated by vested interests aiming to protect a few, a elite, rsther than than a people during large. The lessons from a Middle East have been clear which elites which do not offer a people as well as have been some-more meddlesome in power as well as their own slot book will be opposed. Malaysias contemporary Bersih transformati! on draws from most of a same concerns in todays Middle East. We wish stronger domestic institutions, fairer opportunities for all as well as clean governments.

Transparency as well as Accountability in Governance

Penangs mantra from a day we took bureau has been a same positively no corruption. None. The large investments in Penang for infrastructure is by open tender, committed to great governance, as well as open to all. Penang is proud to be a usually state in Malaysian story to be praised by Transparency International. We contingency emanate opportunities for everyone. The people contingency be served by carrying a supervision which protects their interests, rsther than than a single which is self-interested.

My last indicate yet viewable is crucial for small states dependent upon a universe manage to buy similar to Penang , a need to effectively manage globalization. Rising oil prices as well as rising incomes in China have contributed to inflationary pressures which have been being felt throughout Asia . Partisan politicking in a US as well as an unwillingness to have tough decisions upon a Euro debt predicament in Europe have been right away carrying their affects. It is thus a shortcoming as leaders to minimize these disastrous goods upon a people.

Changing a World

I am a immature personality in this brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new severe as well as becoming different world. Our success as todays leaders will be judged by how we renovate a countries as well as have have use of of a most critical resource to develop a people. To have have use of of an! economi c analogy, a success depends upon a people moving up a worth chain, a context where a needs physical as well as mental a people have been being met as well as maximized.

This brings me to a second territory of my remarks, a steps needed to shift a world, a universe here in Asia, yet gener! ally my universe in Penang as well as Malaysia . In this day as well as age where monetary interest as well as materialism is a driver in a economy, as well as alas sadly infrequently for others in politics, we cannot importance sufficient a need to have a dignified core as well as set of ideals which guide a actions in government.

Malaysias opposition of Pakatan Rakyat either it is my celebration a Democratic Action Party, a Islamic Party of Malaysia, PAS, or Anwar Ibrahims celebration Parti Keadilan Rakyat is guided by a set of usual ideals broader democracy, fairness, tellurian dignity, tough work as well as mutual respect. We have been firm together by a usual goal, to have Malaysia a stronger as well as fairer nation for all of a adults of each community as well as background.

I am really proud to be a Malaysian, as well as everything we do is directed during creation a nation stronger as well as better. we have personally witnessed a struggle of typical Malaysians to have ends encounter in these formidable capricious times as well as a hardship which a little family groups endure. My own family comes from usual means as well as we assimilate each day hurdles to find a unvaried for your child, to yield a most appropriate education for your children, to know which we have sufficient income to yield for your desired ones, as well as importantly, to be means to live a hold up with grace as well as security.

When a governing body in my nation is full of personal attacks, most built by newspapers which engage in storytelling of hatred, we pull strength from my believe which what we do is for Malaysia , for all Malaysians. we pull impulse from a most people opposite secular communities who walked a streets last month in a call for Bersih, a cleanser electoral complement as well as improved Malaysia .

As a people-cen! tric gov ernment, a most critical idea is to yield subsequent to opportunities for all generally a event for a young kids to comprehend their potential. No! thing ca n be sadder than to fall short a certainty of a kid with archaic as well as dangerous extremist ideology which ones kid is never great sufficient as well as contingency be perpetually dependant upon a tongkat or a wheelchair, as well as they will never be rewarded for their great performances no matter how honourable they are. To achieve peace Malaysians contingency mount joined as well as reject those who instruct to order us by preaching secular as well as eremite hatred.

Stop Extremists

If we wish to benefit from subsequent to opportunities as well as comprehend a tellurian intensity we contingency stop extremists from ceaselessly spiritless others as inferiors so as to uplift ourselves. We can usually grasp harmony together. Despite a differences as well as diversity, Malaysians can have a usual aspirations of freedom, justice, democracy as well as law come true if we remember pass values. That it is not who we have been which is important, yet what we have been which is important; not a colour of a skin which is critical yet a content of a character; as well as not a past stock which is critical yet how we bond with a present as well as with each alternative to face a future. We cannot be locked in a past as well as allow a past to close off possibilities of a improved future.

Here in Singapore , when a 2003 SARS predicament happened, we embraced a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new destiny together. No matter a domestic differences in a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new May ubiquitous elections, Singaporeans were one in wanting a improved nation as well as a improved destiny for Singaporeans. In 2008, in Penang as well as alternative Pakatan Rakyat-run governments, we additionally embraced a destiny as well as we go upon to do so. Change is an ongoing process, a single in which as leaders we contingency nurture.

To be honest, infrequently it can be utterly frustrating, as well as often we am overtired in my loyalty to creation formula happens! as soon as possible. We know which a time has come to leave behind policies which have been not operative as well as adopt brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new initiatives. We know which we cannot let a anguish as well as harm of a past blind us to a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new future. Our nation is strong since of a secular as well as eremite diversity, where all communities can practice their conviction as well as know which they have a secure place in a nations future. We know which we have to embrace a young, as well as sense from a believe of a old.

Our Policy Direction

I wanted to take a moment to share with we a little of a petrify routine frameworks we have been taking advantage of in Penang.This foreshadows a little of a ideas in a forthcoming Penang Blueprint from 2011 to 2015. This blueprint was drafted by a states consider tank Socio-Economic as well as Environmental Research Institute (to be renamed Penang Institute this year) as well as is a outcome of dialogues opposite a state. From a onset, we have recognized a need to consider of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new innovative approaches as well as ideas to move Penang as well as Malaysia forward, as well as acquire further inputs.

Reviving Penangs Livability

Allow me to share a little of a core ideas in a forthcoming Penang Blueprint. We have grouped them underneath a Rs :The first indicate we wish to stress is Reviving Penangs Livability by being sustainable. Penang is a first immature state in Malaysia. In a past we have been known as a Pearl of a Orient, as well as a policies have been framed around bringing behind a dash of a past.

We have been a living birthright city, a UNESCO World Heritage sit! e, as we ll as we have been operative to foster as well as enhance a birthright monuments. We know which livability is not just about a buildings as well as brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new land developmentsand we have utterly a couple of exciting skill as well as blurb developments entrance yet additionally about a maintaining a peculiarity of a physical sourroundings as well as affordable housing.

In Penang, we led Malaysia in a key of immature initiatives such as a no p! lastic b ag debate as well as we have been actively exploring housing programs for revoke income as well as center class residents. One of a most severe routine areas has been mending trade as well as transportation. We have offering some-more open travel options, such as a giveaway train from a mainland for bureau workers, as well as have been exploring skeleton to variegate road travel options.

We additionally conclude a informative as well as mental dimensions of livability, as well as have actively worked to inspire a humanities as well as emanate open spaces. Last month we held a really successful Georgetown Festival of a humanities highlighting dancing, movie as well as cuisine. Artists know which Penang is a place where creativity is valued as well as showcased.

Revitalizing a states blurb operation environment.

A together R is Revitalizing a states blurb operation environment. We have been streamlining a routine for permits as well as licenses to revoke a red tape. We have removed a greatest barrier of all, a alleged payoff. We have created a special section to await small as well as middle enterprises as well as upgrading infrastructure. A pen of a infrastructural upgrades is Penangs brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new airport, where a substantial renovations have been expected by subsequent year which will allow for some-more upsurge of tourists as well as investors.

Reducing costs to b! lurb ope ration as well as formulating a operative sourroundings which is gainful to success is required for a brighter destiny for Penang as well as Malaysia as a whole. Part of a revitalization routine has been to deposit in a city core of Georgetown , meaningful which a synergies in in between a city as well as alternative tools of Penang have been strong as well as extend outwards.

The 2009 World Bank Report upon Globalization stressed which a city is an mercantile section as well as as such can offer as a lynchpin in promoting multifaceted expansion as well as development. We in Penang hold which office building cities not usually serves national development, it has critical certain spillovers for a state as a whole.

Reclaiming Responsibi! lities.

Let me prominence a third R Reclaiming Responsibilities. The state governments have been overshadowed in Malaysia by a sovereign government. There is a limited operation of areas where we as a chief apportion have jurisdiction. We have been operative to retrieve these responsibilities. We hold which decentralization of decisions as well as resources is positively required to effectively reach communities.

As such, we have been introducing social reserve net policies such as a program for a elderly during a state level. We have additionally empowered as well as energized a internal councils, as well as a formula have been viewable to any visitor. Penang is cleanser as well as safer. We know which as state leaders which a internal is important, as well as which each citizen sees their supervision from their everyday experience.

We have been receiving shortcoming for what a constitution allows us to exercise as well as office building upon a deeper believe of internal conditions. These ideas have been partial of a broader strategy of moving Malaysia out of what a World Bank has labeled a middle-income trap. Livability, mercantile revitalization as well as domestic decentralized! with so me-more fit as well as fairer governance.

Yahoo Travel not long ago listed Penang as a single of a 10 tip islands in a universe we contingency explore before we die. For those who have come to Penang we can all die happy. we have usual with we a little of contemporary Penangs story, how we have been going about transforming Penang in a becoming different world. We ask we to come to Penang , to see for yourself a success where we set up a destiny for a youths as well as a youths for a future.

Speech by The Honourable Lim Guan Eng Chief Minister of Penang At Foreign Correspondents Club , Singapore August,12, 2011

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Dari dulu PAS alat British pecahbelahkan Melayu

Selepas peristiwa Pilihanraya 1955, yang mana Pas menang 1 kerusi, agenda British adalah untuk mencaca-marbakan UMNO kerana kekuatan Kuasa Raja Melayu dan Rakyat Raja terhimpun di dalam UMNO. Natijahnya, lahirlah Pas yang kini menjadi duri dalam daging dalam perpecahan bangsa Melayu hingga ke saat ini.Umat Melayu kena ingat, bahawa British telah mengakui gagal dalam misi Malayan Union pada 1

MRT on wrong track without masterplan, says Transit

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 A internal ride advocacy group has questioned a wisdom of committing up to RM50 billion in to a Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) plan but waiting for a open ride masterplan which will only be finished during a finish of this month.

The Association For The Improvement Of Mass Transit (Transit) told The Malaysian Insider which this has scored equally a hands of ride authorities to a plan instead of alternatives such as a train fast movement (BRT).

File print of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (centre) rising a MRT plan in July.

Weve put a ride before a horse as weve already motionless you wish to have a largest-ever infrastructure project, got a alignment as well as open feedback done as well as giving out contracts though nobody unequivocally knows what a big picture plan is, pronounced a orator Rajiv Rishyakaran.

Rajiv, who is representing a group while a chairman Muhammad Zulkarnain Hamzah is in Canada pursuing further studies, cited a Light Rail Transit (LRT) as a warning of a pitfalls of going ahead but a blueprint.

Now more than a decade later they are fluctuating it for RM7 billion, he pronounced of a dual LRT lines which had price an initial RM5.5 billion though continues to see low trade during multiform stations.

The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) had begun drafting a inhabitant open ride masterplan in Sep last year, three months after it was established to streamline a countrys open ride system.

Although it gave itself 12 months to finalise a inhabitant open ride blueprint, a alignment for a initial MRT line using 51km from Sungai Buloh to Kajang was opened to open feedback in March with tendering of work commencement in April.

SPAD arch senior manager Mohd Nur Kamal had pronounced during a official MRT launch in Jul which there is no sense waiting for a masterplan as a mega plan was essenti! ally gea red towards jump-starting a Najib administations Economic Transformation Programme.

Rajiv pronounced a masterplan additionally fell short of a full ride masterplan which would take in to comment pick parties such as a Public Works Department, internal councils as well as a Malaysian Highway Authority.

Instead, SPAD will plan as well as cranky a fingers which everything else falls in to place, a Subang Jaya internal councillor said.

Although Rajiv would not exhibit sum of Transits dual discussions with SPAD over a masterplan this year, he pronounced a Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) had not been approached to discuss train routes, so you can deduce which citation they are heading.

Transit had progressing due a BRT as an pick for alleviating choking highway trade in a Klang Valley, saying which implementing it would price 50 times less than a MRT.

But a idea was shot down in a MRTs environmental impact assessment report which pronounced which it would require 90-passenger vehicles to run undeviating scarcely each 10 seconds to compare a MRTs targeted 30,000 passengers per hour per citation (PPHPD).

The MRT plan has come under fire from assorted parties together with Malay contractors who demanded which qualifications for projects be eased to ensure Bumiputera participation.

Several communities have additionally been up in arms over SPADs insistence which it contingency acquire their land to set up tracks for a plan which it says is in a greater open interest.

Baram Dam put on hold for now

Joseph Tawie The dam will be built at a after date after problems with a Orang Ulu natives have been sorted out. The proposed Baram Dam is to be placed upon hold following clever opposition from a Orang Ulu natives of Kayan, Kenyah and Penan communities about 20,000 of whom face banishment as a outcome [...] Read More

Apa ni Rais? Isu caj telko pun nak tolak ke PM ke?

Perdana Menteri terpaksa masuk campur dalam isu cukai perkhidmatan pengguna prepaid card telefon bimbit. Bernama melaporkan:KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Sept -- Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak meminta syarikat telekomunikasi supaya mengkaji semula keputusan mengenakan cukai perkhidmatan sebanyak 6.0 peratus kepada pengguna ke atas produk tambah nilai dan pek permulaan kerana keputusan itu kini

Zaki punches out as CJ for last time

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 9 Tun Zaki Azmi spent his final day in the office of the Chief Justice today, forward of his mandatory retirement upon Monday. Zaki will palm over the reins of the law to Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria, who will formally assume the in front of upon Monday. The effusive CJ noted the finish of his reign with the cake-cutting ceremony, that also ... Read More

Prove commitment to independent judiciary, Bar Council tells Putrajaya

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 Putrajaya must infer a joining to an eccentric judiciary by re-amending supplies inside of a sovereign constitution to allow a transparent didactic discourse of subdivision of powers in in between a judiciary, a legal body as well as a executive, a Bar Council has said.

Lim Chee Wee, who is president of a Malaysian Bar, pronounced which a subdivision of powers in in between a 3 branches of supervision is necessary in a modern democracy which professes as well as abides by a rule of law, as well as cited a 2008 sovereign court box where then-President of a Court of Appeal Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad had ruled which a didactic discourse is not a sustenance of a Malaysian Constitution even yet it shabby a framers of a Malaysian Constitution as well as which a border of a powers of a courts depends upon what is supposing in a Constitution.

It is thus timely as well as needed which a recommendations in a inform of a Royal Commission of Enquiry upon a Video Clip Recording of Images of a Person Purported to be an Advocate as well as Solicitor Speaking upon a Telephone upon Matters Regarding a Appointment of Judges dated 9 May 2008 be immediately acted upon, as well as since outcome to, by a government.

The inform recommended, inter alia, which essay 121(1) of a Federal Constitution be re-amended to a original form so which a Judiciary is free once again to live up to a highest expectations of society for all time. There will be no room for regard upon a judicial energy issue, pronounced Lim in a matter today, in anxiety to a findings of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) tasked with conference a VK Lingam video fasten controversy.

It quotes Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi as saying, The amendment to essay 121(1) has created a wrong perception which a Malaysian Executive wishes to overpower a Judiciary. All Judges feel humiliated. Some h! ave supp osed their truncated role as small agents of Parliament as well as not as eccentric pillars of a Federal Constitution. Others demand which their examination powers are intact. There is division inside of a ranks, he said.

Lim remarkable which it was encouraging to hear Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak stating during a recent visit to a Palace of Justice which he was committed to an eccentric judiciary.

It is now incumbent upon a budding apportion as well as a supervision to put powder as well as shot in a formers spoken joining to an eccentric judiciary, as well as avowal which a attribute in in between a various branches of supervision must not usually be proper, though must additionally be seen to be so, a lawyer added.

Najibs visit to a Palace of Justice was noticed as argumentative by a little quarters, as it was claimed which a judiciarys independence would be jeopardised by a scheduled tea party as well as photography event with a PM.

But Najib has stressed which he usually agreed to a visit after being positive which a emanate of division by a senior manager would not arise.

INI BUKAN SILAP, INI SIAL!!!

Antara masalah yang pale besar melanda UMNO-BN ialah bersikap terlalu korporat. Semua orang nampak macam mana UMNO-BN yang menjadi tulang belakang kerajaan sekarang, melihat laba besar. Dalam keadaan ekonomi kurang memuncak, UMNO-BN dan para pembesarnya sibuk membicarakan tentang pelaburan yang masuk ke dalam negara.

Memang benar, pelaburan amat penting kepada negara ini. Segala prasarana dan

Al Ghazali-Hadhari Man is not Mr. Clean, After All

September 9, 2011

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Al Ghazali-Hadhari Man is not Mr. Clean, After All

Malaysian Procurement System riddled with Corruption, says US cable

The decrepit as well as allegedly corrupt side of Malaysias counterclaim buying has been laid unclothed in a US embassy cable, with startling revelations upon how UMNO politicians, agents, polite servants as well as troops officials receive thirty per cent elect upon deals.

In a note upon a ambiguous buying complement here revealed by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, a US embassy remarkable which American companies operating here had three main complaints about a system: a miss of transparency, outright corruption, as well as Bumiputera requirements.

The undated wire sent during a Abdullah administration in between 2004 as well as 2009 additionally remarkable which many government tenders do not follow buying rules.

A US aerospace senior physical education instructor told a US embassy here counterclaim deals were finished through shadowy agreements with no tendering process. For example, a then-Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawis sister-in-law organised a US$400 million (RM1.2 billion) stipulate to buy troops cargo aircraft from Airbus.The understanding was voiced following Abdullahs return from a trip to France.

The Hadhari Jet

The US senior physical education instructor asserted which PM Abdullahs hermit told him this understanding was finished for! domesti c as well as other reasons, such as commission, remarkable a US embassy wire done open through WikiLeaks.

Similar scena! rios wer e described for a buying of T91 Polish tanks as well as SU-30 Russian aircraft, remarkable a executive, who additionally pronounced which once someone purporting to work for then-Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak approached him about a understanding as well as suggested you will get a part of it.

The US embassy remarkable which Malaysian domestic parties together with UMNO rely upon income politics for much of their operating funds. Projects or tenders mostly are awarded as domestic patronage with a cut of supports present behind to a celebration through opposite channels, remarkable a embassy.

These revelations come at a time when there has been a little inspection surrounding a understanding to buy Scorpene submarine. More than RM500 million was allegedly paid to a local consulting association Perimekar as well as a opposition has forked fingers at Najib who was a counterclaim minister when a understanding was inked.

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) politicians have additionally questioned a inflated costs of several new counterclaim deals voiced by stream Defence Minister Datuk Zahid Hamidi.

The US embassy remarkable which miss of clarity was additionally evident when it came to awarding contracts in a information communication technology (ICT) sector. A physical education instructor at a US ICT organisation forked out which it was shortlisted for a proposal with Telekom Malaysia Bhd though mislaid to another association which did not even bid for a contract.

Though a wire was sent during a Abdullah administration, there is little justification which a buying compl! ement ha s improved. Anecdotal justification suggests which lip use is paid to open proposal complement with a elite preference being approach negotiation.

This trend is generally true for vast contracts as well as concessions where politically-connected companies are involved.

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T he Malaysian Insider reported yesterday which a consortium led by 1MDB as well as Puncak Niaga have been given a greenlight by a government to buy IWK for RM1. The consortium will assume a debts of RM1.5 billion though will acquire a benefaction for 60 years.

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Economist predicts BN, Pakatan to gun for Malay votes, dump reforms for GE-13

KUALA LUMPUR - An successful international weekly took aim at Malaysias lop-sided racial policies in the ultimate emanate as well as expects both the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) as well as the antithesis Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to solicit to the Malay vote despite the risk of serve damage to already frail racial ties.

In the September 10 issue, The Economist Online pronounced the signs pointed to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak calling for the general elections as early as finish of this year, forward of the 2013 expiry of his governments mandate, for three reasons.

It observed which Najib was still popular; which the inhabitant manage to buy was upbeat now though might not be subsequent year because of the tellurian mercantile storm entertainment in the West; as well as which the still fledgling PR agreement was held in the mess over the probability which their personality Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim might finish up in prison soon for sodomy without leaving the clear pick candidate to be budding minister.

The widely-read news repository pronounced it expected Najib to win, though remarkable his supervision has been giving divided giveaway bullets to the opposition, most notably by the cack-handed crackdown upon electoral remodel transformation Bersih 2.0s July 9 convene in the capital city.

It went upon as well as listed as well Najibs seeming back-track as well as delay over the washing list of electoral, mercantile as well as supervision remodel policies to improve Malaysians lives, together with the PMs failure to follow by as well as carry over elections to after the bipartisan parliamentary examination! row mo oted by the PM as an confirmation of his administrations mishandling of the Bersih rally.

It highlighted, however, which the heart of the prob! lem lay in the long-expired, racially discriminatory New Economic Policy (NEP), introduced by Najibs father as well as the countrys second budding minister Tun Razak Hussein written to soothe Malay fears of being sidelined by the Chinese as well as the Indians.

Whatever technical reforms have been done prior to the subsequent election, it will still be dominated by the strange impiety of racial taste set out in the countrys 1957 constitution, it pronounced in the Banyan column.

The Economist, however, did not giveaway from responsibility the three-party PR agreement in the article headlined The haze as well as the malaise: Ethnic politics creates Malaysias passing from one to another to the contested democracy fraught as well as ugly.

Both supervision as well as antithesis speak of dismantling these privileges, which have contributed to crime as well as large-scale emigration, it said, as well as added which with elections looming, it is the Malay voter whose opinion matters, as well as he is insincere to resent any effort to diminish his privileges.

And which means which both coalitions have to review to defending the indefensible: the complement in which family groups which have lived in Malaysia for generations have been told to tolerate taste upon the basis of ethnicity, to bolster allegedly frail racial harmony, it said.

It observed which the division in between Malay as well as non-Malay was worsened because the Malays, who must constitutionally be Muslim, have become some-more regressive in their religion.

It is shocking that, instead of seeing competitive politics as the way of bridging the racial divide, as well most Malaysian politicians see the racial order as the way of winning the domestic competition, it concluded.

- Malaysian Insider

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INI BUKAN SILAP, INI SIAL!!!

Antara masalah yang pale besar melanda UMNO-BN ialah bersikap terlalu korporat. Semua orang nampak macam mana UMNO-BN yang menjadi tulang belakang kerajaan sekarang, melihat laba besar. Dalam keadaan ekonomi kurang memuncak, UMNO-BN dan para pembesarnya sibuk membicarakan tentang pelaburan yang masuk ke dalam negara.

Memang benar, pelaburan amat penting kepada negara ini. Segala prasarana dan

Kempen Bersihkan Najib dalam Umno?

"Benda ni agak dah lama saya tahu, lebih kurang tiga bulan lepas bila seorang pemimpin peringkat negeri memaklumkan kepada saya," kata seorang pemimpin Umno Selangor. (Free Malaysia Today) - Satu gerakan tersusun yang dinamakan Bersihkan Najib di dalam Umno untuk menolak Presiden Umno yang juga Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dikatakan mula dijalankan oleh pihak tertentu di dalam ...

Disclose details of IWK deal

The opposition is perfectionist for details per a takeover bid of a inhabitant sewerage company.

PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat leaders have been perfectionist a disclosure of details upon a hidden takeover bid of inhabitant sewerage association Indah Water Konsortium (IWK).

Secretariat part of Liew Chin Tong from DAP pronounced a bloc is against a privatisation of sewerage as well as argued which it is best to place it in state governments hands.

An online news portal reported yesterday of a takeover bid of IWK by a 1Malaysia Development Bhd-led consortium eleven years after a supervision was forced to bail out a inhabitant sewerage association from monetary predicaments underneath a prior owners.

It was reported which a 1MDB consortium will take a association for RM1 as well as additionally take over a debts which include some-more than RM1.5 billion in loans still owed to a ministry.

The consortium, looking a 60-year benefaction from a supervision to be paid back in a principal volume as well as seductiveness upon a loan over a prolonged term, additionally has skeleton to link sewerage charges to H2O usage.

The takeover bid was reliable around a statement issued to Chinese every day Nanyang Siang Pau which was published currently saying 1MDB was during an evaluation stage.

The open have been wary of IWK ever since a association forced them to compensate for separate sewerage charges which had previously been part of a H2O bill.

Liew echoed a same perspective as well as pronounced which a open should not be forced to compensate for additional sewerage use as a check should be enclosed in a H2O use fees.

Sewerage should be underneath a state supervision as well as a check should come as a total together with a H2O use (charges), he tol! d a pres s discussion here.

Telcos out to have profit

M eanwhile, PKR part of of a Pakatan secretariat Tian Chua criticised a pierce to assign 6% taxation upon prepaid services by mobile write companies (telcos).

The PKR vice-president pronounced a volume is large deliberation which a prepaid use is targeted during those who cannot afford a bound line.

The telcos will disagree which postpaid services have been additionally charged a 6% taxation rate though a argument is which with prepaid you have been already profitable upfront, he told a same press conference.

The Batu MP additionally pronounced which telcos have been creation increase from a residue of new prepaid credit after exceeding a expiry date.

The timing is just not right, he said, referring to a inflationary vigour consumers face amid a tellurian mercantile slowdown.

Tian pronounced he will study a emanate serve as well as aims to exhibit a volume of distinction telcos have been creation without a additional 6% taxation charge.

He additionally urged a supervision to meddle in a make a difference as well as force telco companies to halt their skeleton to travel charges tentative serve studies.

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Mais denies plot against Khalid, points to others

The Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) currently denied Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad's claim which a legislature is plotting to reject Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.

Instead, MAIS forked a fingers to "those around a MB" as a culprits.

"On a contrary, what is listened is which those around a MB have been trying to topple him," pronounced Mais chairperson Mohamad Abzib Mohd Isa in a statement released today.

The legislature also warned which it will deliberate a lawyer on whether legal action can be taken opposite Khalid for slander.

"Mais vehemently denies a accusation by Khalid... This claim by Khalid (above, left) is really irresponsible as well as aims to confuse a Islamic village especially in Selangor," he said, adding which all Islamic institutions in a state should not be exploited for domestic purposes.

"But this is what has been happening. Certain quarters or domestic parties have done religious institutions a height to widespread their domestic agenda, which could tarnish a credibility of a institutions including a sanctification of places of worship," pronounced Mohamad Abzib.

'Duty to brief NGOs'

On Mais' assembly with Muslim NGOs on Aug 5, Mohamad Adzib pronounced a total purpose of a assembly was to brief them on a Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) raid on a Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC).

He forked out which it is Mais' shortcoming to reason such meetings to clarify issues so which they have been fairly relayed to a public.

The assembly was chaired by Selangor state senior manager councillor in charge of Islamic affairs, Hasan Ali, as well a! s attend ed by Mohamad Adzib himse! lf, Jais executive Marzuki Hussin, a state legal confidant as well as representatives from 45 Muslim NGOs.

Mohamad Adzib explained which a assembly enclosed a speech by Hasan, a briefing as well as video display by Jais coercion officers as well as a subject as well as answer session.

"Mais does not repudiate which there were government staff present during a meeting, though they attended in their capacities as representatives of their particular NGOs," he said, adding which Mais hold a special assembly to plead a same emanate a few days after a assembly with Muslim NGOs.

Yesterday Khalid Samad challenged Mais to prove which they were not plotting opposite a MB by display a bulletin as well as minutes of a meeting.

"If they had no ill-intentions, because did Mais as well as Jais come together to give an reason about a Damansara Utama Methodist Church emanate to a NGOs when Jais is nonetheless to contention a report on a situation to a MB?" pronounced Khalid.

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LEBAK ROAD IN SABAH, NO MAINTENANCE SINCE 10 YEARS

COLLAPSED..Aminuddin as well as DAP Edward Ewol Mujie inspecting a collapsed road.

By : DAP MEDIA

THE Jalan Lebak Kupang highway heading from a Kota Belud to Kota Marudu categorical highway is in very bad shape when legalised by a Pakatan Rakyat group recently led by a PAS Sabah Commissioner Hj Mohd Aminuddin. According to a villagers here a highway was not been given any upkeep given it was built a little ten years ago.

The highway right away is nearly all damaged up as well as most places with a bitumen tip layer all gone as well as withdrawal most low pot holes as well as uneven surfaces. At one partial a stream is already eating in to a highway as well as withdrawal a big collapsed territory which is endangering a highway users.

This highway is portion a couple of kampongs here as well as there have been most villagers here. If a highway is eventually cut off, it will be very formidable for them to come out to a categorical road.

Aminuddin urges a authorities to immediate find ways to correct a collapsed highway territory prior to any critical mishap can happen. The whole highway is additionally indispensable to be resealed as well as have good generally on a highway side drains. The bushes as well as weed have been over flourishing in to a highway surface as well as this is indispensable to be cut.

He urges a authorities to go to inspect a assorted roads in a Kota Belud district as well as yield regular maintenance, as well as dont wait until a total cut off then come to rescue.

Aminuddin pronounced he will go round a Kota Belud area as well as in to a ass! orted ka mpongs to check if things were not done properly. Someone must act, otherwise a whole Kota Belud will have more problems in a future.

- Saba hkini

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Shamsidar pakai "guna-guna" pikat Azmin

Azmin berkelulusan luar negara dan pernah belajar di universiti Minnesota, US. Ketika menuntut di sana, Shamsidar merupakan pelajar junior kepada Azmin. Dan kesempatan inilah yang digunakan Shamsidar untuk mengorat Azmin.Ketika itu, beratus pucuk surat chenta telah dikirimkan Shamsidar kepada Azmin, memujuk rayu dengan kata-kata berbunga. Gatal dan miangnya begitu terserlah terhadap Azmin.

And in Bakri, one-tenth of voters have no details

In a parliamentary constituency of Bakri which has 61,101 purebred voters, 5,800 (9.54 percent) have their report missing from a National Registration Department (NRD) online database, Bakri MP Er Teck Hwa has claimed.

Er pronounced a software programme developed by a charge force set up by a party as good as comprised of mathematicians, programmers, complement designers as good as networking engineers has found which a MyKad standing of all 5,800 electorate showed "no application/invalid data" (above as good as below) during a new check upon a NRD's publicly permitted website.



The software programme, pronounced Er, is capable of locating as good as validating each singular voter in a electoral hurl as good as analyse a electoral data.

The charge force members had finished a little random checking upon these MyKad holders as good as confirmed which a little of them are valid Malaysian citizens, though their interpretation cannot be found in a NRD online question system," pronounced Er in a statement issued today.

The party shaped a 17-member electorate validation charge force to scrutinise a latest electoral hurl updated until June.

Ledang, a parliamentary seat next to Bakri, was addit! ionally found by a charge force to have a same problem where 8,524 or 15.17 perce! nt of vo ters have no annals in a NRD database.

Er (left) forked out which all these facts infer which a NRD online database is rarely unreliable as good as unstable.

The MyKad question complement is a official online question complement provided by NRD for a open to validate their MyKad status, as a result a interpretation has to be accurate as good as stable.

But our analysis shows which 9.54 percent as good as 15.17 percent of electorate respectively from Bakri as good as Ledang do not have their annals in NRD's database.

The software additionally rescued two Bakri electorate listed as permanent residents, with a identification numbers 481020715055 as good as 530801016052.






On this, Er reiterated which a cases of electorate found to be non-citizens could be a threat to national confidence as good as have a nation a laughing batch in a international community.

So far a EC still maintains a 'catch me if we can' perspective as good as waits for a antithesis parties to expose all these errors prior to they can be erased from a database.

The MP was baffled why a EC, which has computerised a database since 2002, failed to acknowledge those errors which were detected by Pakatan Rakyat within two months.

The EC is saved by a federal government, as good as it has enough full-time staff to do this job. Does it mean which a EC is not capable of behaving a duty, or it is simply ignoring a mistakes? he asked.

Another anomaly in a Bakri electoral roll, c! laimed E r, is which 43,443 or 71.46 percent of a sum electorate have either incomplete or no addresses during all in a EC online database.

He pronounced a ! charge for ce had approached a little of these electorate as good as been told which they did fill in their addresses when they purebred as voters, mostly prior to 2000.

It is reasonable to hold which a error is due to negligence of EC registrars or officers when they submit a data.

Or may be a EC has two sets of data, as good as a interpretation which is opened to open entrance has been tampered with, he added.

He demanded which both EC as good as NRD give satisfactory answers over these irregularities.

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Mahathir akui populariti Najib jatuh akibat cara tangani Bersih 2.0

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Sept Bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berpendapat tinjauan Merdeka Center baru-baru ini yang menunjukkan sokongan terhadap Datuk Seri Najib Razak merosot teruk berpunca antara lain kesan cara kerajaan menangani perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 pada awal Julai lalu. Katanya, tindakan kerajaan tidak membenarkan orang memakai ... Read More

Minister says unaware of IWK takeover, 1MDB confirms plan

By Lisa J. Ariffin

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 Energy, Green Technology as well as Water Minister Datuk Sri Peter Chin pronounced currently he has no believe of the due takeover of Indah Water Konsortium (IWK), even after strategic investment agency 1MDB confirmed the plan.

In the matter to Chinese every day Nanyang Siang Pau published today, 1MDB pronounced the offer was during an evaluation stage.

1MDB did not reveal details about the offer though it confirmed skeleton to form the consortium to take over the inhabitant sewerage company.

But Chin, the minister who oversees sewerage services, pronounced he was not aware of the deal.

No, Ive not heard anything about it. And Indah Water comes directly underneath my ministry, Chin told reporters currently during the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) initial introduction.

Yesterday, The Malaysian Insider reported which IWK is expected to be privatised soon to the consortium led by 1MDB, the little 11 years after the supervision was forced to bail out the inhabitant sewerage company from financial difficulties underneath the prior owners.

However, it is accepted which the little Finance Ministry officials have been still scrutinising the understanding because of concerns about the feasibility as well as worries which the supervision could once again be forced to bail out the company if the latest plan fails.

Under the due deal, the 1MDB consortium will take IWK for RM1 as well as take over the debts which embody more than RM1.5 billion in loans still due to the ministry.

The consortium is seeking the 60-year concession from the supervision as well as will only pay behind the principal amount as well as seductiveness on the loan over the prolonged term.

It additionally has skeleton to link sewerage charges to H2O usage.

The plan could spark the new ! turn of debate because of the lack of transparency surrounding negotiations, with consumers still wary about deals involving IWK.

From Day One, IWK has had problems convincing the distrustful open to pay for apart sewerage charges which had formerly been part of the H2O bill.

In 2000, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamads administration paid scarcely RM200 million to nationalise IWK to safeguard open seductiveness as well as to avoid service disruptions.

The nationalisation of IWK was to plunge into the companys debt afterwards of scarcely RM700 million.

IWKs bailout in 2000 exemplified the pitfalls of Dr Mahathirs privatisation process in which government-owned assets or resources were allocated or sole to in isolation investors in the hopes of generating profits.

The IWK story began in 1993 when office worker Tan Sri Vincent Tan assured the supervision to let the consortium of in isolation interests led by him to take over the ownership, operation as well as maintenance of more than 2,800 state-owned sewage-treatment plants nationwide.

But IWK subsequently found which most of the diagnosis plants it inherited from the supervision were not functioning as well as costs began escalating.

A national outcry additionally ensued, with most consumers as well as businesses complaining bitterly about IWK.

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