KUALA LUMPUR, 25 February Tony Pua hari ini mendedahkan bukti yang didakwanya perjanjian pinjaman yang ditandatangani oleh Pusat Fidlot Nasional (NFC), yang mana menurutnya bukti syarikat berkenaan telah melanggar syarat pinjaman berjumlah RM250 juta bagi fasiliti tersebut. Ketua Publisit DAP itu menjelaskan Perkara 3 perjanjian itu dengan jelas ... Read More
Ex-KKSB staff lodges report over death threat
(Bernama) - A former staff of state-owned silt mining association Kumpulan Semesta Sdn Bhd (KSSB) has lodged the military inform over the death hazard he received for exposing the company's purported misconduct. T. Sivanesan, 25, who was sacked by KSSB last September, done the inform during the South Klang military headquarters today. He claimed the male contacted him upon his mobile phone during 12.54pm, warning him to stay out of the silt mining emanate or be killed. "The caller said, `Don't ... Read More
So, Anwar Ibrahim has refused to retract his statement
So, Anwar Ibrahim has refused to redress his matter defending the "security of Israel". Damned if he does. And, woe, with ex-boss Dr Mahathir Mohamad upon his box [Protecting Israel with Palestine blood], damned if he doesn't.
Damned if we do not finish this book I shall not hate by a Gazan physician, an disciple of peace, who mislaid 3 of his daughters in a raid by a Jews.Somewhere in a book, Dr Izzeldin AbuelaishmentionedNomika Zion, a publisher as well as assent warrior who also lives in Gaza. The thoroughfare next is taken from a posting by Nomika in Huffington Post a small while ago, in reply to an Israeli Minister's assertion upon a war which was deemed necessary in a seductiveness of a security of Israel.[I have taken a liberty to spin her words in to a poem].
Not in my name
The bloodbath in Gaza is not in my name nor for my security
Houses destroyed
schools blown up
thousands of brand new refugees
they have been not in my name or for my security.
In Gaza, there is no time for funerals;
the passed have been put in refrigerators dual by dual in a mortuary for miss of room
The bodies of policemen as well as children have been laid out
and a eager reporters burst between a strategy of pro -Israel advocacyand
"the cinema which verbalise for themselves"
Tell me, what is there to explain?
What is there to explain?
- Taken from War Diary from Sderot by Nomika Zion in Huffington Post
Selangorku adalah geran haram untuk pilihanraya
NEGERI Selangor yang berdepan dengan masalah ketidak mampuan menyelesaikan masalah asas rakyat seperti air dan sampah, kini dilaporkan telah melancarkan geran Selangorku dengan kos sebanyak RM 300juta.Diuruskan pulak oleh Menteri Besar Diperbadankan (MBI) pusat kepada semua penyelewengan dana awam oleh kerajaan negeri bagi semua aktviti PKR yang tidak berfaedah kepada rakyat Selangor. Buktinya
Malaysia Beat Sabah 1-0 in Soccer Friendly
KOTA KINABALU, 24 FEBRUARY, 2012: Malaysia edged Sabah 1-0 in a soccer accessible at a Likas Stadium here tonight, a face-saving solitary goal of Harimau Malaya scored by Ahmad Rohidan in a 80th minute. ... Read More
The Lifespan of a Fact, by John DAgata and Jim Fingal
This book review would be so much easier to write were you to fool around by John D'Agata's rules. So let's try it. (1) This is not a book review; it's an essay. (2) I'm not a critic; I'm an artist. (3) Nothing you say can be used against me by a subjects of this essay, nor may any a single reason me to account re facts, law or any contract you have supposedly entered in to with you, a reader. There have been to be no objections. There have been to be no letters of complaint. For you have been about to have have been you ready? a "genuine knowledge with art."
THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
By John D'Agata as good as Jim Fingal
123 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. Paper, $ 17.95.
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Riff: The Fact-Checker Versus a Fabulist (February 26, 2012)
Margaret Stratton
From left, Jim Fingal as good as John D'Agata.
This is so liberating!
Under care in this letter is "The Lifespan of a Fact," that is less a book than a knock-down, drag-out quarrel in between dual tenacious combatants, over questions of truth, belief, history, myth, mental recall as good as forgetting. In a single dilemma is Jim Fingal, who as an novice for a good read magazine The Believer in 2005 (or it competence have been 2003 sources disagree) sealed upon for what he contingency have suspicion would be a candid task: fact-checking a 15-page article. In a alternative dilemma is D'Agata, who suspicion he had made a deal with The Believer to publish not usually an letter but a work of Art an letter already deserted by Harper's Magazine since of "factual inaccuracies" that would find a approach! to imit ation unmolested by any plea to a veracity. "Lifespan" is a scorecard from their bout, a facsimile of their association over a course of 5 (or was it seven?) years of fact-checking.
The book presents, line by line, D'Agata's strange essay, as good as Fingal's staggeringly meticulous annotations. The essay, finally published in 2010 as good as threaded in to D'Agata's book "About a Mountain," tells a story of a child named Levi Presley who in 2002 jumped to his genocide from a observation rug of a Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas. D'Agata used that part to meditate upon ideas about, among alternative things, suicide as good as Las Vegas, a stories Vegas tells about itself, a stories visitors discuss it themselves about Vegas, as good as what a city built upon artifice competence discuss it us about a human condition.
"You do not want to come in contact with being when you're here for a fantasy," D'Agata quotes a Nevada state senator as saying. "Lifespan" flips that commonplace upon a conduct as good as asks: Do you want to come in contact with anticipation when we're here for reality?
From D'Agata's initial sentence, that says that during a time of Levi's genocide there were "34 protected strip clubs in Vegas," Fingal detects trouble. D'Agata has granted The Believer with a source suggesting a city had usually 31 such clubs. Fingal asks D'Agata how he arrived during "34." D'Agata replies in dubious fashion: "Because a stroke of '34' works better in that judgment than a stroke of '31.' "
The discrepancies mount. The "Boston Saloon" becomes a "Bucket of Blood" since " 'Bucket of Blood' is some-more interesting." The name of Levi's propagandize is changed since a strange is "too clunky. It has a comma in it; that's ridiculous." "Tweety Nails" becomes "Famous Nails" a real mystery, for with a too-good-to-be-true name like "Tweety Nails," why tweak it? A swift of dog-grooming vans described in D'Agata's records as "pink" become "purple," since "I indispensable a dual beats in 'purpl! e.' "
Minor fibs? Maybe. But alternative fabrications have been decidedly not. Another suicide-by-fall that occurred upon a same day as Levi's is remade in to a suicide-by-hanging, "because you longed for Levi's genocide to be a usually a single from descending that day. you longed for his genocide to be some-more unique."
Jennifer B. McDonald is an editor during a Book Review.
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Perhaps Lynas should turn back
Tay Tian Yan The Malaysian Insider February 24, 2012 Feb twenty-four I not long ago met director Tan Chui Mui. She told me she had moved her studio from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. KL is too small in a universe of film-making; Beijing is rather larger. Tan needs a bigger space to develop her career [...] ... Read More
NEP needed captains to succeed, says BN
By Shannon Teoh
Feb 25, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb twenty-five Several Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders have discharged critique that a New Economic Policy (NEP) had usually succeeded in formulating a category of Malay capitalists, reasoning that a 1970 programme had indispensable these "captains" to safeguard a success.
Despite revelation that not all "captains" were a right choice, however, a leaders insisted that a NEP had achieved a goals, pointing to a dump in misery levels from nearly half of a competition when a process was put in place in 1970 to underneath 4 per cent today.
"Any process will have problems though you regularly need captains who can deliver. The usually subject is selecting a right captains," Youth as well as Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said.
Umno's former Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah(picture)said yesterday that a NEP was never meant to emanate an incubated category of Malay capitalists though to address misery as well as to lift a level of Malay participation in a economy. The Kelantan prince, who narrowly lost an Umno leadership dispute with then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1987, additionally pronounced a NEP had turn a major source of disunity with a supervision usually recruiting Malays in to a civil service.
But Umno Youth emissary chief Datuk Razali Ibrahim pronounced it was untrue that a miss of unity was due to supervision bias, pointing out that there have been additionally non-Malay leaders in a civil service.
"Around a world, dispute is fought over race, religion as well as land. In Malaysia, you have all 3 as well as still a NEP has succeeded in achieving racial harmony. Has misery left down? Yes as well as in any nation that gets wealthier, most prefer to work in a private sect! or.
"But can you foster non-Malays if there have been not enough of them in a civil service? If there have been usually a couple of Chinese or Indians, you can't foster all of them just so you can have an equal series as Malays. That would be unjust," a emissary girl as well as sports apportion said.
In recent weeks, Dr Mahathir's policies have been a subject of scrutiny after a Najib administration department department motionless to solve out of court a RM589 million debt owed by former Malaysia Airline System Bhd (MAS) chief Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli.
The allotment sum was undisclosed, prompting heated public critique as well as calls from lawmakers across a domestic order for taxpayers to know how much of public funds had been recovered.
Tajudin, 65, had served as a airline's senior manager authority from 1994 to 2001 as well as was a poster child of former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin's now-discredited process of nurturing a category of Malay corporate captains upon supervision largesse during a Mahathir administration.
Tajudin as well as others similar to former Renong authority Tan Sri Halim Saad flew high in a 1990s though their loyal eagerness was tested during a Asian monetary crisis. Nearly all of them fared poorly.
This led Tengku Razaleigh to yesterday criticize Dr Mahathir's policy, that antithesis lawmakers have additionally called an abuse of a NEP to favour "instant millionaires" as well as politically-connected businessmen aligned to Malaysia's longest-serving PM.
But a former budding apportion denied yesterday that his supervision had handpicked Malays to be billionaires, observant a different races were represented during all levels of a mercantile ladder.
He pronounced when he was budding apportion from 1981 to 2003, "other races additionally became millionaires as well as billionaires," pointing to a likes of Berjaya's not long ago late authority Tan Sri Vincent Tan, Hong Kong-based Robert Kuo! k as wel l as communications magnate Ananda Krishnan.
MCA central committee part of Datuk Ti Lian Ker pointed out this was possible notwithstanding a NEP formulating an "unjust mercantile personification field" as leaders had ensured "liberalisation of a manage to buy notwithstanding politicians personification a Bumiputera racial card."
He cited former MCA president Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik, who led a BN member from 1986 to 2003, as a pass figure in ensuring a thirty per cent Bumiputera quota in areas such as supervision scholarships as well as corporate equity was not raised even further.
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Sassy MP, Sleazy Seputih
Dia persoal tuduhan banyak kegiatan jenayah di Selangor tapi kita semua boleh lihat sendiri.MP Seputih, Theresa Kok yang memegang tujuh jawatan jarang turun kawasan. Di Seputih banyak kegiatan haram.Orang CIna yang merupakan majoriti di sini sedar. Jangan ingat kawasan Cina tak hargai transformasi yang dilakukan Perdana Menteri Dato Najib.Dengar keluhan penduduk Seputih yang diluahkan oleh Ketua
Upgraded park at USJ 2
With a residents of USJ 2
Article in NST -Residents welcome upgraded park
SUBANG JAYA: The ask of visitors for a play ground in USJ 2/2R to be illuminated as well as furnished with benches has been fulfilled.
Residents get together during a park. Pic by Rosela Ismail
The play ground right away has a section of floodlights during a badminton court as well as dual sets of benches as well as tables, interjection to Subang Jaya representative Hannah Yeoh as well as Zone 3 councillor Rajiv Rishyakaran.
Yeoh pronounced a requests were made during a dialogue hold in September.
The fund for upgrading a play ground that amounted to RM14,000 came from Zone 3 Residents Committee as good as Yeoh's allocation from a state government.
Yeoh pronounced a floodlights, that will be switched on from 7pm to 7am daily, was commissioned by contractor Timur Elektrikal. It will be confirmed by Subang Jaya Municipal Council.
"The residents here have asked for another set of floodlights to be comm! issioned during a alternative end of a park. I'll ask for that in next year's budget.
"We will go on to urge a recreational facilities for play ground users, especially a senior citizens.
"I would additionally similar to a military to patrol a park," she said.
Yeoh additionally called on dog owners to ensure their dog have been leashed as well as collect up after their dogs when visiting a park.
Lisa Lim, who has been vital in USJ 2 for a past 21 years, pronounced she would visit a play ground during night right away as it is brightly lit.
Lim, who does tai chi exercises on weekdays with her neighbours, pronounced they have been exposed to danger as well as undesirable characters when they go to a play ground as early as 7am.
"It can be utterly dark during that time. Now that there have been floodlights here, my neighbours as well as I feel safe coming here early in a morning.
"More children can additionally come to a play ground as well as play," she said.
The former clergyman pronounced a benches as well as tables would encourage residents to get together during a park.
Residents happy with a brand new floodlights, benches as well as tables they requested
Posted byHannah Yeoh
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Mahathir kalut nak jadi PM semula kot...
Mutakhir ini nampaknya Dr. Mahathir kerap memberikan kenyataan-kenyataan bagi pihak Kerajaan UMNO/BN di bawah pimpinan Najib Tun Razak. Jika ketika zaman Pak Lah (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) dahulu ada sahaja kritikan Dr. M terhadap Pak Lah dan pimpinan UMNO/BN.Semuanya tidak betul dan tidak kena. Islam Hadhari zaman Pak Lah tidak disokongnya Dr. M. Kali ini gagasan 1Malaysia Najib Razak juga tidak bersambut baik oleh Mahathir. Hanya Wawasan 2020 Mahathir sahaja yang kononnya terbaik.Setelah banyak ... Read More
NEP needed captains to succeed, says BN
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 Several Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders have discharged critique which a New Economic Policy (NEP) had usually succeeded in creating a category of Malay capitalists, reasoning which a 1970 programme had indispensable these captains to ensure the success. Despite revelation which not all captains were a right choice, however, a ... Read More
Stood Up: Umno Youth Stage Protest at Empty PKR HQ
(Malaysian Digest) - Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) emissary information arch Rozan Azen Mat Rasip disputed Umno Youth's movement of sending a chit during a party's domicile currently when there were no one in a bureau to receive it.
He said, PKR requested an reason from Umno Youth regarding a matter.
"This is not a initial time they did so. Previously when a Bersih 2.0 rally was hot, they came during night. At a time when no one in a office. Today they do a same thing," pronounced Rozan.
Rozan Azen (pic) pronounced there were nobody during a PKR bureau during a criticism as everybody was in Kuantan to attend a course.
Earlier, about 150 Umno Youth members held a criticism in front of Parti Keadilan Rakyat's (PKR) domicile propelling PKR's de factor leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to retract his Israel-friendly remark in a Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ).
They additionally submitted a chit to PKR connected with a matter.
The criticism led by Umno Youth secretary, Datuk Megat Firdouz Megat Junid was joined by a girl wing's executive councilors (exco) members, NGOs, as well as Umno, MCA and MIC girl leaders.
However nobody from PKR were during a domicile to accept a memorandum.
Read More @ Source "This is not a initial time they did so. Previously when a Bersih 2.0 rally was hot, they came during night. At a time when no one in a office. Today they do a same thing," pronounced Rozan.
Rozan Azen (pic) pronounced there were nobody during a PKR bureau during a criticism as everybody was in Kuantan to attend a course.
Earlier, about 150 Umno Youth members held a criticism in front of Parti Keadilan Rakyat's (PKR) domicile propelling PKR's de factor leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to retract his Israel-friendly remark in a Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ).
They additionally submitted a chit to PKR connected with a matter.
The criticism led by Umno Youth secretary, Datuk Megat Firdouz Megat Junid was joined by a girl wing's executive councilors (exco) members, NGOs, as well as Umno, MCA and MIC girl leaders.
However nobody from PKR were during a domicile to accept a memorandum.
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Breaking News: Umno Youth Memorandum burned
(Malaysian Digest) - The chit that was handed over by the Umno Youth towards Opposition personality Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today, was burned.
However, no witnesses were there to see the chit being burned, as good as usually remains of the chit remained in front of the PKR headquarters.
The headquarter's guard additionally unsuccessful to identify the person who had burnt the paper, nor did he see that incident.
Juzarim from AMK Subang pronounced they had perceived sequence not to hold the memorandum, but the someway someone had took the paper as good as burnt it.
Earlier, the Umno Youth hold the criticism in front of Parti Keadilan Rakyat's (PKR) headquarters, propelling PKR's de factor personality Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to redress his Israel-friendly acknowledgement in the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ).
They additionally submitted the chit to PKR connected with that matter.
The criticism was assimilated by the girl wing's Executive Councillors (Exco) members, NGOs, as good as Umno, MCA as good as MIC girl leaders, lead by Umno Youth secretary, Datuk Megat Firdouz Tan Sri Megat Junid.
Read More @ Source The headquarter's guard additionally unsuccessful to identify the person who had burnt the paper, nor did he see that incident.
Juzarim from AMK Subang pronounced they had perceived sequence not to hold the memorandum, but the someway someone had took the paper as good as burnt it.
Earlier, the Umno Youth hold the criticism in front of Parti Keadilan Rakyat's (PKR) headquarters, propelling PKR's de factor personality Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to redress his Israel-friendly acknowledgement in the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ).
They additionally submitted the chit to PKR connected with that matter.
The criticism was assimilated by the girl wing's Executive Councillors (Exco) members, NGOs, as good as Umno, MCA as good as MIC girl leaders, lead by Umno Youth secretary, Datuk Megat Firdouz Tan Sri Megat Junid.
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Mechanic: Why should I lie?
S Mogan claims which he has no reason to distortion about being assaulted by military as well as Rela personnel.
KUALA LUMPUR: The 42-year-old automechanic who claimed to have been assaulted by the People's Volunteer Corps (Rela) crew as well as policemen has defended his story, refuting the police's chronicle of what transpired. Commenting upon the police's suggestion which he might have filed the fake report, S Mogan told FMT which he had no reason to make up such the story.
"What can we do if they want to accuse me of lying? we do not know. If my inform was fake how can my leg be broken? Why would we want to fool around with them? we do not have anything against them. we didn't know these cops prior to this. Which simpleton would mangle his own leg only to do all this? Its not an aged wound either," he said.
Asked about the military annals which showed which the 3 policemen Mogan had declared progressing did not even come to work until 8am, he said:" Yes, prior to 8am there was the Malay patrolman as well as later only the 3 came. They all kick me."
"If we hated the police, we could even contend which the Kajang military kick me, though they didn't hold me, they were very professional. One of them even gave me water as well as told me if it was up to him, he would recover me since we did not look similar to the crook," he added.
On the Rela personnel's testimony which Mogan had ran off when he was spotted climbing in to the TNB substation, Mogan pronounced it was untrue.
"No, we did not run away, we surrendered myself to them. Why would we run, my car was parked there. Why would we ! run? we have finished zero wrong, we did not possess anything illegal. And because would we climb in to the power station, if we hold which we will die, we am not so foolish to hold it or climb it," he added.
Respected male in the neighbourhood
Mogan reiterated which he was not the rapist as well as which he was the family male who was well-known in his area in Balakong.
"Come as well as see my workshop, come to my neighborhood, everybody can attest what we do for the living. Nobody will contend anyhing bad about me. we got dual kids, we need to earn the vital as well as that's all we do. Yes we smoke, though we do not even drink alchohol," he said.
Asked about the police's guess because he had lodged the inform as well as left to the hospital much later if his leg was unequivocally fractured, Mogan replied:"At initial we did not know it was broken. My wife helped me put normal disinfectant the initial dual days, it was not 4 days similar to the military said. Only when we went to the hospital did we know it was so serious."
Yesterday, military revealed which the initial investigations upon the purported assault upon Mogan showed discrepancies between his chronicle as well as which of the law enforcers, indicating which he might not have been assaulted.
However, military had stressed which their investigations would not be sealed until Mogan's statement had been recorded..
On February 16, Mogan was allegedly subjected to hours of torture by law coercion officers including having the gun forked to his conduct to force the confession out of him.
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Poll-year tension puts RM6b Felda listing in doubt
The inventory of FGVH, directed during giving a palm oil sector monetary firepower, is using into fierce antithesis from Felda settlers.
ANALYSIS
By Niluksi Koswanage KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia could delay a US$ 2-billion (RM6-billion) inventory of a state-linked palm oil organisation as farmers' antithesis to a deal risks undermining a ruling coalition in fiercely contested inhabitant polls approaching this year.
The inventory of Felda Global Ventures (FGVH), originally set for mid-2012, directed to give Malaysia's US$ 27-billion palm oil sector much-needed monetary firepower to boost yields as well as expand when tip writer Indonesia is gaining marketplace share.
But a initial public charity has triggered unexpectedly clever resistance from a little of a 113,000 farmers who together own 60% of a land since to them by FGVH's parent, a Federal Land Development Authority (Felda).
Although a inventory would bring each family a one-time windfall, opponents contend it would dispossess them of monetary control of an item they have held for generations.
Pressing upon with a IPO without addressing these concerns would be unsure for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who calls a farmers his "safe deposit" in a quarrel to win elections which must be called by Apr 2013, though have been approaching this year.
Najib is fighting to reverse a dismal election display by his ruling coalition in 2008, when a antithesis done ancestral inroads in Parliament.
"The budding apportion is concerned about this. He wants a inventory to occur though he may take a step behind to ensure a settlers have been satisfied," pronounced a comparison supervisio! n centra l with direct knowledge of a inventory plans.
"The process needs to take time. In a worst-case scenario, Najib will pull a IPO after a elections," pronounced a official, who declined to be identified.
The farmers, or Felda settlers, as they have been known, number about 1.6 million, together with their lengthened families. They form a bulk of a voters in 54 of Malaysia's 222 parliamentary seats as well as have been often racial Malay, a core support bottom of a ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.
The antithesis has backed a farmers over a deal as it seeks to pull a way into a normal rural strongholds of Najib's United Malays National Organisation (Umno).
Najib's father, former budding apportion Abdul Razak, due Felda in a 1950s, handing out land to Malays to quarrel poverty.
The farms stretched to 880,000 hectares (or 2.2 million acres), creation for a world's biggest camp scheme, with Felda owning about 40% of a landbank.
The farmers as well as Felda played a crucial role in creation Malaysia a world's second-largest palm oil producer.
"There is right away a intensity for drawn out dissatisfaction over a listing, with a younger era of settlers questioning a economic benefits," pronounced Ibrahim Suffian, director of Merdeka Centre, an eccentric polling group.
"It is a generational gap."
Growing resistance
The inventory devise envisages FVGH receiving over a camp group's commercial arm, Felda Holdings, which is 51% owned by farmers by an investment cooperative (KPF).
On paper, it fits Malaysia's devise to privatise state resources as well as draw in investors looking exposure to palm oil prices which have risen 6% this month alone.
Farmers' antithesis to a inventory has grown after supervision media published details of FGVH's brand brand brand new structure, which signalled KPF would have to sell a share in Felda Holdings for a brew ! of divid ends as well as equity.
While KPF would finish up as a singular largest shareholder with a stake of 37% in a listed FGVH, there would be a dilution of KPF's resources as well as a government-formed item supervision organisation would control a voting rights.
A farmers' organisation won an interim justice order this month in Najib's home state of Pahang to stop a listing. Felda officials pronounced they would offer to mislay KPF as a vital shareholder from a due inventory though would ensure a farmers would still get dividends, domestic media said.
A money cow, Felda Holdings has delivered normal annual dividends of 14% to farmers over a past 30 years, creation it a single of a success stories in Malaysia's decades-old certain action policy which favours majority racial Malays.
The organisation reported 2010 pre-tax increase of RM760.1 million (US$ 252 million) from processing palm fruits from a farmers as well as using a land authority's estates.
That puts it between Malaysia's No 3 listed planter, KL Kepong, with a RM1.3 billion distinction prior to tax, as well as not as big opposition Genting Plantations, which warranted RM439 million.
FGVH, which owns a rest of Felda Holdings, needs to buy out a farmers so it can use a IPO deduction to build mills as well as replant a estates a organisation manages.
"It is unequivocally about streamlining a operations. No rancher is going to lose out. In fact, they could get more dividends," pronounced a comparison executive with FVGH, who declined to be identified as he was not authorised to verbalise to a media.
Unsettling
Investors were already heedful over a inventory since a Malaysian supervision is expected to retain significant influence over a brand brand brand new company by shareholdings.
The be concerned was spotlighted final year when Najib named a corruption-tainted former apportion as chairman of a land a! uthority . The former minister, Isa Samad, had been found guilty of vote buying in inner Umno party elections.
"There have been many outstanding issues which need to be resolved. Isa is a single of them," pronounced a fund physical education instructor based in Kuala Lumpur who buys shares in Malaysian camp firms. "There is a feeling of well-being of a listing, it looks good for inhabitant pride, though it needs more monetary price controls."
The inventory deal will club essential Felda Holdings together with a little of FGVH's loss-making abroad ventures, together with a partnership with Dubai-based trade house IFFCO which has struggled with bad refinery margins.
That means a brand brand brand new entity, if it lists, will start from a low bottom to compete with Indonesian firms which suffer clever margins, owing to a recent cut in export taxes for finished palm oil products as well as flourishing supply.
"Felda is aware of a concerns. It appears to be articulate to alternative tellurian trade houses to marketplace their products aggressively," pronounced James Ratnam, an researcher during TA Investment, referring to skeleton to shape metal ties with firms such as Cargill as well as Bunge.
"They have been creation an effort, though from a markets perspective, they need to do more to urge a valuations as well as which could go a prolonged way to damp a settlers as well as their young kids in better dividends."
-Reuters
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BN's secret weapon for GE-13, the Three Musketeers
There comes a time, when one gets tired of ancillary a cause. When Pakatan Rakyat was weak, everyone rushed to await them as well as lothey managed to take five states in a final election.
Yes, Pakatan Rakyat was a in thing. Everything was starting for them, as well as their honest, approved as well as practical politics won a hearts of a electorate. Pakatan Rakyat is expected to go brazen as well as steamroll over a Barisan Nasional in a subsequent election. The signs have been there, as unfortunate BN politicians go upon overdrive to win behind a citizens through each probable approach they could mental condition off.
BN leaders knows it's an uphill battle for them now, as a Rakyat is well wakeful of their suspicious behaviour. It's unequivocally tough to put any faith in BN nowadays. They have consistently overstayed their welcome. Even their own siblings do not trust them anymore!
Panicky now
When Najib took over from Badawi, his ratings were most over a chart. Everyone expected Najib to perform as well as take over from where Badawi flipped-flopped. Everyone was holding their breath which Najib would break ranks as well as become a leader who could combine this nation, as well as lead it to assent as well as prosperity. So most goal was placed in his brainchild 1Malay! sia whic h never came to pass!
But what a large disappointment!! He valid to be even worse than his predecessors. His ratings have been right away so gloomy which even "Pakatan Rakyat" is demure to let him lead a assign in a subsequent election. Infighting in "Pakatan Rakyat" is coming to a head, with a various factions starting to pierce in to block off a hazard of an implosion.
Party stalwarts who have been supposed to co-lead a assign have been personification a cat as well as rodent game. Vice boss Hishamuddin Hussein other, than defending a Ministry's mount upon a Hamza Kashgari deportation to Saudi Arabia, has been exceptionally quiet, as well as there is even speak which he may be a subsequent MB of Johore. What an anti-climax for him given which a Home Ministry is mostly regarded as a stepping stone to a premiership itself!
Ong Tee Keat is rumored to be Najib's chosen new MB of Selangor (what a laugh), whilst Khairy Jamalludin has been utterly invisible.
Not even a grunt from a old guard similar to Muhammad Muhammad Taib, Khir Toyo, Rahim Thamby Chik. Neither is Rais Yatim, Zahid Hamidi or Shafie Apdal creation any genuine effort, whilst Shahrizat Jalil is still fluttering around similar to a half-innocent half-guilty butterfly.
The DPM is still mumbling to himself in public, as his audiences demeanour upon sanctimonious to understand what he is saying. Chua Soi Lek as well as son Tee Yonh have been still creation fools of themselves in public though realising it, whilst Jessie Ooi is a ultimate in a prolonged line of clowns perplexing to make a lasting impression.
We can see which a once strong BN is right away a shadow of a former self. So, honestly BN should deserve our sympathy. A thin Mahathir at 86, still has to gather his final remaining strength to try as well as save BN from imminent disaster from an advancing Pakatan Rakyat, whilst BN politicians have been still busy fighting between themselves upon who gets to contest which! seat, w hilst totally ignoring him?!
BN's goal right away rest upon a Three Musketeers
These three, although have been not in any approach related, have been firm by 3 things in common. They have been a self appointed Champions of a Malay Cause, Defenders of a Faith as well as Defenders of a Malay Rulers. And all 3 appear to have a bone to pick with a Christians, whom they suspect of perplexing to modify Muslims. However, they appear to have no qualms about Christians being converted by a Muslims.
While one is a Mufti by profession, a alternative an eccentric Frog, whilst a latter professes to be a undisputed 'Third Force' with his not long ago launched NGO 'JATI.'
Never mind, if a logo looks similar to '666', a symbol of Satan according to some logo experts, as prolonged as Hassan Ali gets to be boss of an NGO with a prestigious logo. Hassan has in his receive video tapes of Muslims being baptized, which he has promised to reveal later, probably along with electronic bibles which can instantly modify any one upon a spot.
Political analysts in a nation has been racking their brains as to why these ! Three Mu sketeers insist upon regulating a 'Christian card' in their domestic tradeoffs? Why not Buddhist, Hindu or Sikh card? It doesn't make clarity at all!
Men of God or not, Pakatan says thanks!
They hold which they have been men of God, answerable to nobody though to God Himself. We should be unapproachable of them! We do not get as well most of these men in a nation with such trenchant as well as fiery conviction, willing to sacrifice themselves to be a saviors of a Malay Race which they unequivocally hold have been doomed to drop though them.
Deep in a villages, in a kedai kopi (coffee shops), there is speak as well as murmurings about these 3 characters. But nothing of it is encouraging. Even a elderly shake up their heads at a discuss of these 3 peculiar characters, whilst a younger era have been more outspoken as well as not hesitant to uncover their displeasure.
So as these 3 continue to voice their domestic diatribes, laced with pointed religious undertones, not usually have been a Non-Malays put off, though a Malays themselves have been also jolt their heads.
It's unequivocally sad for BN to go down this way, due to these 3 misfits who do not even know they have been deterring a people from embracing a BN dream. To a typical Malaysian, a contingent have been a worst probable BN nightmare.
No wonder, Pakatan Rakyat prefers to take a behind chair as well as watch as these 3 clowns do maxi! mum dama ge to a statute coalition.
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"WISER AFTER THE EVENT" -- AGAIN
FIRST we contingency make it clear which we await any beginning to assistance the poor, regardless of race as well as religion. Which equates to which upon this score I'm upon the same wave-length with former finance apportion Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
I was also understanding of anything underneath the New Economic Policy which was dictated to assistance urge the overall economic incident of the Malays/Bumiputras in general though again this was obligatory upon helping usually those who indispensable help.
The big difference between Tengku Razaleigh a.k.a. Ku Li as well as Aziz Hassan is which whilst the prince had sufficient platforms whilst the apportion as well as the comparison member of the Umno supreme legislature to try as well as scold any imbalance or unilateral policies, we did not.
I right away allude to the relevant paragraphs from the report in the Malaysian Insider currently upon Ku Li's speech during the "Breakfast Meeting" forum.
In highlighting the NEP as the major source of disunity, Ku Li pronounced this: "If we visit supervision departments or universities, we consternation where all the non-Malays have gone. After 1969, suddenly there was this try to partisan mostly Malays in to the polite service.
"It is comfortless which the polite use does not reflect the secular composition of the Malaysian population, as the predominant participation of usually one race tends to engender the sub-culture which is antithetical to the expansion of the dynamic as well as efficient polite administration in the country."
After 1969? Forget Tunku Abdul Rahman since by which time it was during large well known which Tunku was upon the way out, which leaves us with Tun Razak Hussein as well as Tun Hussein Onn, both deceased. The man many people love! to hate , Tun Mahathir Mohamed, became our CEO usually in 1981.
Ku Li was rarely regarded by Razak as well as had the PM's ears too. The problem is Malaysians above 50 cannot recollect Ku Li as the Umno man/minister who fought to scold what was wrong with the government's policies which he thought were favouring the Malays. At least we don't recollect him publicly advocating consistently as well as diligently the different approach.
He could have spoken out during the Umno supreme legislature to try as well as make the difference. He positively could have done which as well during the cupboard whilst serving underneath three PMs. Did he?
Ku Li headed Pernas, the right away self-existent Bank Bumi as well as Petronas, detached from holding two cupboard portfolios. Did he partisan differently from alternative Malay bosses as well as politicians during these places? Bank Bumi was the very Malay bank in conditions of the staffing. Petronas as well has always been well known to be heavily Malay.
But Pernas takes the baked sweat bread since it was set up in November 1969 following the fortitude during the second Bumiputra Economic Congress. It's objective was to assistance usually the Malays as well as Bumiputras as well as Ku Li was the first chairman. Not usually the policies were closed as well as to illustrate favoured usually the Malays as well as Bumis, so as well was the stated r! ecruitme nt policy. So what does this meant in conditions of favouring one race? Wasn't Ku Lii as well obliged for this biased, unilateral incident during the responsibility of the non-Malays?
As authority of the Umno-owned Fleet Group from 1972 to 1982, who were Ku Li's appointees to conduct the companies within the organisation as well as to make up the comparison management? Was secular change ever the consideration?
< br>Didn't Ku Li realize the unsteadiness of the government's policies then? If he did as well as felt strongly enough, the decent thing to do would have been to resign. He didn't as well as since he didn't, Ku Li contingency be held collectively obliged for being partial of which government.
Or did the realisation come about usually recently? If this in truth is the case, then we contingency supplement the right away vocal former Umno minister, the late comparison decider as well as the late comparison cop to the list of people who blubber as well as groan the loudest about everything which is wrong about this nation as well as the leaders -- though usually after leaving office.
I was also understanding of anything underneath the New Economic Policy which was dictated to assistance urge the overall economic incident of the Malays/Bumiputras in general though again this was obligatory upon helping usually those who indispensable help.
The big difference between Tengku Razaleigh a.k.a. Ku Li as well as Aziz Hassan is which whilst the prince had sufficient platforms whilst the apportion as well as the comparison member of the Umno supreme legislature to try as well as scold any imbalance or unilateral policies, we did not.
I right away allude to the relevant paragraphs from the report in the Malaysian Insider currently upon Ku Li's speech during the "Breakfast Meeting" forum.
In highlighting the NEP as the major source of disunity, Ku Li pronounced this: "If we visit supervision departments or universities, we consternation where all the non-Malays have gone. After 1969, suddenly there was this try to partisan mostly Malays in to the polite service.
"It is comfortless which the polite use does not reflect the secular composition of the Malaysian population, as the predominant participation of usually one race tends to engender the sub-culture which is antithetical to the expansion of the dynamic as well as efficient polite administration in the country."
After 1969? Forget Tunku Abdul Rahman since by which time it was during large well known which Tunku was upon the way out, which leaves us with Tun Razak Hussein as well as Tun Hussein Onn, both deceased. The man many people love! to hate , Tun Mahathir Mohamed, became our CEO usually in 1981.
Ku Li was rarely regarded by Razak as well as had the PM's ears too. The problem is Malaysians above 50 cannot recollect Ku Li as the Umno man/minister who fought to scold what was wrong with the government's policies which he thought were favouring the Malays. At least we don't recollect him publicly advocating consistently as well as diligently the different approach.
He could have spoken out during the Umno supreme legislature to try as well as make the difference. He positively could have done which as well during the cupboard whilst serving underneath three PMs. Did he?
Ku Li headed Pernas, the right away self-existent Bank Bumi as well as Petronas, detached from holding two cupboard portfolios. Did he partisan differently from alternative Malay bosses as well as politicians during these places? Bank Bumi was the very Malay bank in conditions of the staffing. Petronas as well has always been well known to be heavily Malay.
But Pernas takes the baked sweat bread since it was set up in November 1969 following the fortitude during the second Bumiputra Economic Congress. It's objective was to assistance usually the Malays as well as Bumiputras as well as Ku Li was the first chairman. Not usually the policies were closed as well as to illustrate favoured usually the Malays as well as Bumis, so as well was the stated r! ecruitme nt policy. So what does this meant in conditions of favouring one race? Wasn't Ku Lii as well obliged for this biased, unilateral incident during the responsibility of the non-Malays?
As authority of the Umno-owned Fleet Group from 1972 to 1982, who were Ku Li's appointees to conduct the companies within the organisation as well as to make up the comparison management? Was secular change ever the consideration?
< br>Didn't Ku Li realize the unsteadiness of the government's policies then? If he did as well as felt strongly enough, the decent thing to do would have been to resign. He didn't as well as since he didn't, Ku Li contingency be held collectively obliged for being partial of which government.
Or did the realisation come about usually recently? If this in truth is the case, then we contingency supplement the right away vocal former Umno minister, the late comparison decider as well as the late comparison cop to the list of people who blubber as well as groan the loudest about everything which is wrong about this nation as well as the leaders -- though usually after leaving office.
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FGVH listing,another get-rich-quick scheme for UMNO leaders...
The decision to list Felda Global Ventures Holding (FGVH) is nothing some-more than an practice to gain as much increase for those who have been a greatest stakeholders in FGVH, a loss-making abroad investment unit which has been run by Prime Minister Najib Razak's middle circle of monetary advisers.
FGVH subsidiaries such as FELDA Iffco Sdn Bhd, FELDA Global Technologies, FELDA Global Ventures Middle East as well as FELDA Global Ventures Arabia have been reported to have chalked up amassed waste of around RM500 million up to final year.
The categorical body as a total is still profitable. Indeed, FELDA Holdings has a workforce of a little 19,000 employees, with a labour force of 46,795 workers during 300 estates, 70 palm oil mills, seven refineries, four kernel-crushing plants, thirteen rubber factories, production plants as well as multiform logistic as well as bulking installations widespread via Malaysia as well as multiform locations overseas.
But critics contend which a due listing, which will see loss-making FGVH assume carry out of a FELDA Investment Co-operative (KPF), will short-change smallholders as well as saddle FELDA with up to RM1.5 billion in each year deficit. Thus, a cash-cow Felda Holdings will see itself drawn into debt from a conflict as well as to illustrate inspiring every small-holding settler they have under their umbrella.
The total thought of 'parking' a essential association under a carry out of a single which has proven itself as a poor performer in business, is illogical as well as creates for bad business sense. Yet this is a devise mooted by a Najib's establishment.
How much shares will a Felda settlers have to hand over in order to create a brand brand brand new offerings for brand brand brand new investors? And who will a brand ! brand br and new investors be? This is important as essentially, a Felda settlers have been handing over their rights over Felda in lapse for a discerning buck. In a long run, a predestine of a ! Felda se ttlers will be determined by those who hold a determining stake in listed Felda.
Najib as well as Felda authority Isa Abdul Samad have been adamant which a listings will go brazen as scheduled. The devise is right away to have a special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up to safeguard which increase from a inventory of FGVH have been channeled directly to a settlers; of course, it is any-one's theory as to who will helm this SPV, though a SPV will take over a role of a KPF. And if Isa's controversial as well as without a friend appointment as Felda arch is any measure to go by, settlers can expect a SPV head to additionally be a Najib 'yes-man'.
As far as a resource goes, Felda, which is 100% owned by a government, will have to buy over KPF's equity in Felda Holdings Bhd giving them a determining stake in FHB. When this happens, there will be nothing to stop a transfer of shares from FHB to FGVH as well as eventually a inventory practice of FGVH.
Indeed, this is a 'get rich scheme' which can only benefit those who have a capacity to buy a share offerings from FGVH. The IPO effectively takes carry out from a settlers as well as serves it to a top bidder.
"The settlers themselves cannot means to buy shares as well as enhance a company. So inventory is a single approach to inject some-more collateral as well as investment. At a end, a settlers will be given a same turn of dividend. So, there is nothing to lose," Mahathir told reporters after rising a Malaysia OSV Owners' Association (OSV Malaysia) here.
But during what price to a settlers? Did Mahathir even once deliberate this? Did Mahathir even once asked himself because a Felda settlers till right away have no money to buy shares as well as enhance their company? Who then is Mahathir to say if a IPO is great of bad!
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah forked out which once a inventory took place, land belonging to a FELDA settlers will go on a open market. Once unprotected to a open market, Razaleigh warned which "anyone" could buy up shares during any volume if they could means it, as well as which this could result in settlers losing their lands if shareholders were to sell their shares.
"If a price goes up, as well as if a shareholders want to profit, of march they will sell (to alternative people) ... it would be foolish not to take value of a distinction (making) situation. The land which was previously owned will be lost because alternative people have owned shares as well as right away have rights to a land. That is dangerous," said Ku Li, a Kelantan prince as well as a Umno MP for Gua Musang.
This is Najib's thought of enriching a small-holding settlers of Felda. After earnest to give a settlers sweets, he turns around as well as offers a sugarine factory to a top bidder.
The question which really begs an answer, is because a sudden, urgent need to list Felda? Does this meant which a reports of a Malaysian supervision using out of money have been true? Or is there another back-to-back understanding to siphon out a increase from a IPO to another Umno money-making scheme?
Until some-more alarm blowers come forward, your theory is as great as ours. -Maclean Patrick, Malaysia Chronicle
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'Anak' gesa tarik balik 'borang durian runtuh'
Presiden Persatuan Anak Peneroka Kebangsaan (Anak), Mazlan Aliman memberi kata dua kepada pihak Felda sama ada menarik balik 'pekeliling durian runtuh' yang diedarkan kepada peneroka atau laporan polis akan dibuat.Katanya, ini disebabkan timbul keadaan yang amat mengelirukan dan kegelisahan di kalangan peneroka kerana semua dokumen seperti salinan kad pengenalan, geran ladang, rumah digunakan untuk tujuan tertentu.
"Saya banyak terima aduan dalam seminggu ini tentang edaran borang untuk mendapat 'durian runtuh' dengan maklumat penting iaitu fotostat kad pengenalan, geran ladang, rumah, standing senarai hitam bank dan pewaris.
"Isinya agak berbeza tetapi membawa implikasi yang sangat besar kerana dokumen-dokumen penting boleh dimanipulasi.
"Jadi saya nak minta satu penjelasan siapa yang keluarkan arahan itu? Saya tak salahkan pengurus-pengurus Felda kerana mereka hanya menjalankan arahan daripada pihak atasan," katanya dalam sidang media di sini semalam.
Tambah Mazlan, ini berkaitan dengan janji kepada peneroka.
"Ada pengurus yang janji nak bagi duit tunai RM10,000 ada yang janji dalam bentuk saham. Ini satu harapan kepada peneroka dan bila nak bagi duit mereka tak fikir panjang lalu serah semua dokumen," katanya.
Katanya, ada beberapa tempat seperti di Jengka 18 peneroka disuruh membuat buku akaun dan agen bank sendiri datang ke balai raya.
"Bagi saya ini akan menimbulkan keadaan yang mengelirukan terutama sebenarnya janji durian runtuh itu tidak wujud sama sekali," jelasnya.
Mazlan juga berpendapat, ini mungkin juga satu helah di mana akhirnya pihak tertentu akan menggunakan semua dokumen tersebut untuk mereka akhirnya menjustifikasikan peneroka Felda secara majoriti setuju dan menyokong penyenaraian FGVH.
Tambahnya, tidak musta! hil seca ra halus atau pintu belakang mereka menggunakan referendum itu untuk meneruskan penyenaraian dengan paksaan tetapi secara halus.
"Sebab itulah saya sudah beritahu peneroka yang menghubungi saya supaya buat laporan polis kerana ada unsur ugutan, penipuan dan salah guna kuasa.
"Jadi oleh kerana isu ini begitu besar dan melibatkan warga Felda seluruh negara, saya minta surat arahan itu ditarik balik serta merta. Saya nak katakan durian runtuh itu satu pembohongan sebab mesyuarat agung khas (EGM) semalam (kelmarin) joke dibatalkan, KPF tiada kaitan dengan penyenaraian jadi nak dapat durian runtuh dari mana.
"Sebab itu saya katakan durian runtuh itu cerita karut dan yakin ada satu agenda halus yang menjurus kepada mereka nak bina satu keyakinan sebenarnya yang hendakkan penyenaraian itu kononnya besar dan yang menolak itu kecil," tegasnya.
Mazlan tidak menolak usaha itu mungkin ada kaitan dengan kenyataan Pengerusi Felda, Tan Sri Isa Samad yang mahu Felda disenaraikan juga menggunakan mekanisme yang lain setelah gagal EGM.
Dalam sidang media yang sama, Mazlan mengucapkan syabas kepada Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah yang berani mengeluarkan kenyataan terbuka dan jelas bahawa bahaya bagi Felda jika disenarai di bursa saham kerana beliau seorang yang berpengalaman dalam ekonomi.
Katanya, kenyataan berani tersebut sangat signifikan dalam hala tuju penyenaraian Felda dan itu jugalah sebenarnya kebimbangan warga Felda selama ini justeru minta Perdana Menteri membatalkan saja usaha penyenaraian itu.-harakahdaily
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Something stinks: Umno lawyers, RM2.2bil highway and not a squeak yet from Najib
A RM2.2 billion highway contract was recently awarded to companies related to Umno counsel Hafarizam Harun as well as a mother of former Chief Justice Zaki Azmi. Was a awarding of a lucrative contract to Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) to Emrail Sdn Bhd as well as Zabima Engineering Sdn Bhd conducted around an open tender process?
News of a deal additionally sparked conjecture which Zaki as well as Hafarizam, dual pass total in a Perak constitutional predicament of 2009, were awarded a highway contract as a gift for assisting Barisan Nasional (BN) disintegrate Pakatan Rakyat in a northern state. Hafarizam is a senior manager in both firms whilst Zaki's wife, Toh Puan Nik Sazlina Mohd Zain, is a senior manager in Emrail.
Not a first as well as neither will it be a last
Sad to say, such indeterminate use is not without dominance in Malaysian politics.
For example, former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamed gave a Westport plan in Port Klang to an advertising senior manager declared Gnanalingam around a company called Semakin Ajaib Sdn Bhd. Carbon granule-making company, Europlus, was awarded a RM7.07 billion West Coast Expressway (WCE) after a renegotiation routine which have things even some-more favourable to Europlus. What else is brand brand new in "Pakatan Rakyat"-BN?
The NFC liaison is still fresh in a minds, with brand brand new allegations emerging which during a examine by a Public Accounts Committee in to a cattle-farming scandal, it was Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who chaired cabinet which awarded a RM250! million National Feedlot Centre plan to Agroscience Sdn Bhd, a company owned by Umno apportion Shahrizat Jalil's husband. PAC chairman Azmi Khalid's strong hostility to reveal a committee's commentary seems to prove which he is "under pressure" to protect his BN bosses as well as ultimately every high-level "Pakatan Rakyat" personality involved in a project.
Najib contingency insist why
And whilst a case opposite cows is still since a run-around by a MACC, Najib still finds time to plate out something good to eat to his "Pakatan Rakyat" cronies. It is not so much a question of you do business, but rsther than a ethics of you do commercial operation - "Pakatan Rakyat" style. Does it appear right to endowment contract work to entities which have ties to dual really controversial figures? The actuality which it involves a counsel as well as a former Chief Justice brings a whole law companionship in to disrepute. Questions have been lifted if there have been right away transparent signs of collaboration between Zaki as well as Hafarizam in a days after a 2008 general election?
Najib should be done to insist since a span was postulated a RM2.2 billion road construction plan as well as additionally come purify as to a purposes of both lawyers in a Perak crisis. Indeed, it is critical which a "Pakatan Rakyat" counsel as well as a former Chief Justice transparent a air so as to lapse a measure of credit to a authorised fraternity. In many grown countries, judges as well as especially arch justices keep an arms length from lawyers since they do not wish to be indicted of disposition or bringing a law in to disrepute. The stricter judges do not even consort with lawyers.
Judiciary as well as big-time business
Yet in Malaysia, lawyers as well as arch justices think zero of entering in to commercial operation partnerships together as well as securing government projects to a balance of billions of ringgit! . And to serve supplement salt to a conspiracy is a actuality which Zaki was a former "Pakatan Rakyat" counsel turned Chief Justice as well as Hafarizam was a "Pakatan Rakyat" counsel on duty during a Perak crisis. This shows a border of "Pakatan Rakyat"'s involvement in a massive corruption of a Malaysian judiciary. Not usually is "Pakatan Rakyat" awarding public saved projects to those who have served their interests but "Pakatan Rakyat" is additionally propagating a serve corruption of civil institutions which have been ostensible to act independently of a executive, as well as who have sworn to protect a public.
Is it right away a idea of "Pakatan Rakyat" to go on awarding projects to those within their chosen circle so as to hope for for an imminent detriment during GE13? This way, even in losing, "Pakatan Rakyat" gets a consolation of cleaning out a public coffers as well as withdrawal a brand brand new establishment with a bad headache.
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Media grapevine: Edge gears up with new editor
Hot headlines upon the KL media grapevine is which Leslie Lopez, informal correspondent for the Straits Times, is settling down to the desk job during The Edge, where he will be emissary to the brand brand brand new editor-in-chief, Kevin Khoo, someone "from the investment community" as an informant put it. Former arch editor Dorothy Teoh will right away conduct another section.
The changes have been said to be part of moves by the Edge to enlarge the presence, both in print as good as online. Word is which more staff have been being taken on, to dilate headlines as well as commercial operation coverage as well as spin the web site in to the full-fledged headlines operation of the own.
(Neither Leslie nor Dorothy was accessible for comment.)
The Edge is the profitable commercial operation weekly choc-a-bloc with specialist sections containing high-end advertising, as well as the companion, the Financial Daily, which provides stream monetary as well as commercial operation headlines as well as dual successful magazines. A socio-political lifestyle repository Off The Edge, was closed final year in order to concentrate upon headlines as well as commercial operation coverage.
Vincent Tan connection
The changes during the Edge coincidentally come during the time when tycoon Vincent Tan (of Berjaya, Sports Toto, Bukit Tinggi, McDonald's Starbucks, Kenny Rogers as well as 7-Eleven) announced he is relinquishing control of his diversified Berjaya group to his son Robin.
The Vincent Tan commercial operation empire includes The Sun, which he founded in 1994 as the inhabitant sunrise every day after offered off the 30% stake in the Star. The paper burnt by the reputed RM200mil investment, as well as was tighten to being close down after the front! -page in form upon an purported tract to murder Mahathir Mohamad in 2000. It one after another bleeding money until it was incited in to the Klang Valley-based giveaway paper in 2002 underneath managing senior manager Lim Siang Jin. A year later, the Sun merged with The Edge by public-listed Nexnews Berhad, in the joint venture between Vincent Tan as well as Edge owner Tong Kooi Ong, the former stockbroker-banker; operational carry out was placed underneath Edge executives led by managing senior manager Ho Kay Tat, once the Malay Mail arch reporter.
In the warn pierce in 2008, Vincent Tan paid for back the Sun from Tong, who defended The Edge. Two years later, Edge managing senior manager Ho Kay Tat changed to the Star, where he is right away arch executive.
Both the Sun as well as the Edge have prolonged been rumoured to be targets of an acquisition by Star Publications in order to broaden the product range as well as pillow the heavy dependence upon the revenues topsy-turvy up by the profitable Star.
A Mail 'take over' by the Sun
The Malay Mail, the prolonged faded king of the Klang Valley, began the brand brand brand new lease upon life this month as the RM1 morning newspaper underneath the care of dual people from the Sun. Phillip Karuppiah, the Sun's arch executive, changed to the Mail in April final year as well as suspended publication as the giveaway dusk paper in Nov in order to relaunch as the sunrise daily. Terence Fernandez, brought in from the Sun to be editor (news) with old Mail hand Frankie D'Cruz as senior manager editor has right away been joined by his former editor Chong Cheng Hai as paper consultant. Chong late from the Sun during the finish of final year.
(The Sun's emissary editor, Freddie Ng, additionally once with the Mail! when it was part of NSTP Group, took over as editor in January.)
The Mail is owned by Redberry group of outdoor promotion companies, which additionally includes Edge competititor Malaysian Reserve, the commercial operation every day which republishes the International Herald Tribune.
At the time of the Mail's suspension, the Star ran the story speculating which Redberry were offering businessman Khoo Kay Peng the stake in the Mail, or which it might deprive the media properties to other well-connected Malaysian businessmen.
It's the small world in Malaysia's English-language media.
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Malik new chief of Penang Islamic Affairs Council?
It has been reliably learnt which a Agong has decided to appoint PKR state senior manager councillor Abdul Malik Abdul Kassim as a brand brand new boss of a Penang Islamic Affairs Council (MAIPP).
According to a highly-placed source, Malik (right) had perceived report upon his brand brand new appointment upon Wednesday.
This small piece of news, according to a source, will emanate waves in Pakatan Rakyat as PAS has been carefree which a post would go to a deputy given a bloc took over a state leadership in 2008.
PAS, which has usually a single deputy in a Penang legislative assembly, has been trying to secure a position, left empty given January 1.
However in 2008, a Agong allocated Elias Zakaria, a former USM lecturer, as MAIPP president. He has given decided not to seek reappointment.
When asked to confirm as well as explain a information, Malik did not deny though merely pronounced "no comments for now".
PAS is approaching to be upset over a ultimate growth as well as all efforts have been now underneath way to secure another appointment for a Permatang Pasir PAS assemblyperson Salleh Man (left).
Salleh might substantially be offered a chairmanship of Pusat Urus Zakat, which is wholly-owned by MAIPP to pick up as well as conduct a tithes given by Muslims.
According to a highly-placed source, Malik (right) had perceived report upon his brand brand new appointment upon Wednesday.This small piece of news, according to a source, will emanate waves in Pakatan Rakyat as PAS has been carefree which a post would go to a deputy given a bloc took over a state leadership in 2008.
PAS, which has usually a single deputy in a Penang legislative assembly, has been trying to secure a position, left empty given January 1.
However in 2008, a Agong allocated Elias Zakaria, a former USM lecturer, as MAIPP president. He has given decided not to seek reappointment.
When asked to confirm as well as explain a information, Malik did not deny though merely pronounced "no comments for now".PAS is approaching to be upset over a ultimate growth as well as all efforts have been now underneath way to secure another appointment for a Permatang Pasir PAS assemblyperson Salleh Man (left).
Salleh might substantially be offered a chairmanship of Pusat Urus Zakat, which is wholly-owned by MAIPP to pick up as well as conduct a tithes given by Muslims.
However, it is additionally learnt which Penang Deputy Chief Minister Mansor Othman has been eyeing a position too.
No preference though to accept a decision
When asked, Salleh pronounced he has yet to receive any report per a matter. However, if a appointment is confirmed, afterwards "I have no preference though to accept a decision," he said.
When as! ked if a ultimate growth would cause attrition between PAS as well as PKR, Salleh replied: "What to do? We can't do a thing about this. It is a Tuanku's decision, we cannot go opposite it."
Earlier this month,Malaysiakinireported which acontroversy! was sile ntly brewing in Penang over a MAIPP appointment.
Malik, who is additionally state PKR vice-chief, had afterwards pronounced which a name of a brand brand new boss had been submitted to a Agong for his decision.
Speculation was abundant which Malik's name had additionally been submitted to a Agong, much to a discomfit of Umno members.
But Mansor, who is additionally state PKR chief, told a media which Salleh is being endorsed for a much sought after post.
Umno has been taunting PAS for fortifying a DAP in Penang, observant a state government has marginalised a celebration as well as does not appreciate a await as PAS had unsuccessful to secure a post.
Umno Youth arch Shaik Hussein Mydin pronounced he supports Salleh as well as not Malik as MAIPP arch as "the legislature has been plagued with several problems underneath a state exco".
Read More @ Source Earlier this month,Malaysiakinireported which acontroversy! was sile ntly brewing in Penang over a MAIPP appointment.
Malik, who is additionally state PKR vice-chief, had afterwards pronounced which a name of a brand brand new boss had been submitted to a Agong for his decision.
Speculation was abundant which Malik's name had additionally been submitted to a Agong, much to a discomfit of Umno members.
But Mansor, who is additionally state PKR chief, told a media which Salleh is being endorsed for a much sought after post.
Umno has been taunting PAS for fortifying a DAP in Penang, observant a state government has marginalised a celebration as well as does not appreciate a await as PAS had unsuccessful to secure a post.
Umno Youth arch Shaik Hussein Mydin pronounced he supports Salleh as well as not Malik as MAIPP arch as "the legislature has been plagued with several problems underneath a state exco".
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An act of sheer hypocrisy
Malaysia's in front of upon Palestine is in glaring contrariety with its treatment of a locals in Sabah as good as Sarawak.
COMMENT
Malaysia is receiving a position, as forked out by Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat, which a investiture of Israel is illegal. If so, Putrajaya must rught away move a make a difference before a United Nations Security Council as good as urge which a general village take urgent movement upon a "illegality". In rooting for a Palestinians, Malaysia claims which they have been being subject to a brutal occupation, as good as during constant risk of being evicted from their lands after they (the lands) have been forcibly taken away by a Tel Aviv government.
This is a in front of which a Christians adherents of a second largest conviction in Malaysia non-Malays, as good as Sabah as good as Sarawak, by as good as large, reject.
The Christians in sold want to see assent between Israel as good as Palestine so which a sanctification of a places holy to their conviction is assured in perpetuity. They do not want to see, distinct Putrajaya, a wars of a Crusades in a centuries past repeated in a 21st century.
The historical reality is which Israel was established in 1948 underneath general law by a UN General Assembly as good as Security Council as good as recognized by a general community. This was partial of a continuing charge of a UN's 24-Nation Decolonisation Committee.
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon as good as Turkey have been between a Arab as good as Muslim states which have given recognized Israel. If Malaysia, which underneath Umno loves to punch above its puny weight in general affairs, refuses to recognise Israel, ! no a sin gle would bat an eyelid even in a Muslim world.
The same UN additionally established a state of Palestine in 1948. Palestine as good as a Arab states refused to accept Israel as good as rught away pounded a Jewish state. The rest is history.
Palestine is today, ironically, asking for distant less than what a UN gave it in 1948. However, as long as Israel does not have security, there will not be a Palestinian state with full UN membership.
This is a crux of a make a difference stressed some-more than once in recent days by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim as good as being ceaselessly twisted by Umno as good as a mainstream media.
Two-state solution
The confidence of Israel starts with its approval by Palestine as good as no less. Israel, in return, is prepared to recognise Palestine, having already embraced a two-state solution.
The confidence of Israel starts with its approval by Palestine as good as no less. Israel, in return, is prepared to recognise Palestine, having already embraced a two-state solution.
Some would contend it's a chicken-and-egg situation.
The perfect hypocrisy of Malaysia's in front of upon Palestine provides a glaring contrariety with a predestine of a Penan, for example, who have been being hunted, pursued as good as chased out similar to animals from their traditional lands in Sarawak.
Other native landowners in Sabah as good as Sarawak have had their lands seized by Peninsular Malaysia-based plantation companies underneath a single pretext or another.
The incident of a Palestinians, underneath constant general scrutiny, is a whole lot better than which of a people in Sabah as good as Sarawak whose predicament remains dark from a eyes of a world.
For starters, a two states in Borneo, it can be said, have been illegally assigned by Putrajaya given 1965, a year which Singapore was expelled from a afterwards Malaysian Federation.
Malaysia, formed in 1963, afterwards additionally consisted of Malaya, Sabah as good as Sarawak.
Brunei had stayed out during a 11th hour over a sovereign supervision wanting! 95% of a sultanate's oil income upon land as good as in a inner waters as good as 100% from a outdoor waters.
Putrajaya has been forcibly receiving from Sabah as good as Sarawak, given 1976, what Brunei was not peaceful to concur in 1963.
Oil agreement
Putrajaya has additionally been in non-compliance of a 1963 Malaysia Agreement underneath which Sabah as good as Sarawak came together with Malaya as good as Singapore to form a Federation of Malaysia.
The reason for a non-compliance, as good as hence bootleg function of Sabah as good as Sarawak, is so elementary it leaves a single mute as good as in a complete state of political, if not legal, paralysis.
The definition of association in a post-Singapore Federal Constitution, distinct which in 1963, lists Sabah as good as Sarawak as two of a many states along with those in Peninsular Malaysia.
In 1963, Sabah as good as Sarawak, along with Singapore, were equals of Malaya.
In short, a supposed Federation of Malaysia of currently is actually a Federation of Malaya which was quietly brought behind in 1965 through a backdoor, after Singapore's exit, to include Sabah as good as Sarawak as part of states.
Sabah as good as Sarawak ceased to be members of a Federation of Malaysia in 1965 during a same time as Singapore. Instead of vouchsafing a Borneo states go during a same time, as demanded by afterwards Sabah Chief Minister Donald Aloysius Marmaduke Stephens, Putrajaya bundled him shortly thereafter into exile in Australia.
Stephens made a quip as arch apportion in 1976, this time as a Muslim (Mohd Fuad), but perished in a puzzling air crash hours after he refused to pointer a argumentative oil agreement with Petronas as good as a sovereign government.
Today, no a single knows either such an oil agreement exists. The central media reported in 1976, after Stephen's death, which inheritor arch apportion Harris Salleh signe! d a argu mentative oil agreement. If he indeed did, a Sabah state supervision should have a copy.
Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan (1985-1994), according to his younger hermit Jeffrey Kitingan, attempted to get a duplicate of a oil agreement when he helmed a state supervision but failed. Jeffrey attempted as good to get a duplicate of a agreement as good as came up blank. So, a younger Kitingan can be forgiven if he harbours a unctuous guess which a supposed oil agreement does not exist during all.
With or but a oil agreement, a sovereign supervision as good as Petronas have no commercial operation robbing Sabah, Sarawak as well, of its oil as good as gas resources.
The daylight spoliation is all a some-more brazen deliberation which a Federation of Malaysia, as constituted in 1963, ceased to exist in 1965 with Singapore's departure, as good as what we have currently is a aged Federation of Malaya (1957-1963) masquerading as a Federation of Malaysia.
At least in a box of Israel, a Tel Aviv supervision has a charge underneath general law as good as a United Nations licence to order a country as good as steer Palestine towards statehood.
In a box of Sabah as good as Sarawak, what is a excuse which Putrajaya has to go on to take up a two Borneo states as good as go on to keep them during a bottom of a dung store as a poorest parts of a supposed federation?
This is a subject which cries out for answers as much as a continuing predicament of a Palestinians.
To supplement insult to injury, Putrajaya has been bustling trying to create a fait accompli in Sabah by flooding a state with thousands of bootleg immigrants who have been additionally creation their way into a electoral rolls.
In 2005, of a 3.2 million race in Sabah, only 1.5 million were locals, as good as a rest foreigners including bootleg immigrants. Today, a race numbers a little 3.5 million.
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PKR and its sweet dreams
Capturing Putrajaya might only turn out to be zero some-more than a pipedream for a PKR ubiquitous called Anwar, as well as his lieutenants.
By Alan Ting KUALA LUMPUR: For PKR, sweet dreams have been probably made of these
While a PKR might fly high, a shelter in Kuantan, Pahang, commencement today, might or might not awaken it to a harsh being which it is losing await as a 13th ubiquitous choosing draws near.
Led by Anwar Ibrahim, who is additionally antithesis leader, a 200 over PKR leaders might be prone to hold they have been only a step away from Putrajaya, most to a discomfit of most domestic observers who hold otherwise.
After all, Anwar's explain to take control of Putrajaya upon Sept 16, 2008, fell flat, as well as which debacle continues to be a joke in between most of his opponents upon a alternative side of a domestic divide, as well as maybe, even in between PKR members, alike.
The retreat, pronounced to offer as a party's height to finalise strategies for a mammoth charge in a entrance ubiquitous election, might only see a PKR leaders once again hatching a plan to capture Putrajaya.
PKR vital executive Rafizi Ramli appears to be a single of a most ardent believers of Anwar.
He has been reported as saying which detached from allowing a executive care to hatch sure-fire movement plans, a shelter would additionally discuss a party's reply to any unfolding in a aftermath of a polls.
Contrary to what PKR leaders might wish to believe, most domestic observers indicate out which a celebration care must initial settle core issues as well as residence a disappearing support, as a cel! ebration is still viewed as a weakest couple in a PKR-DAP-PAS antithesis pact.
Tough for PKR
"They have to realise it will be difficult for them in a entrance election. Their days of winning 31 parliamentary seats have been over. In a entrance election, their await is expected to decline. The subject right away is, how they can minimise a impact," domestic researcher Cheah See Kian told Bernama when contacted recently.
Penang-based Cheah pronounced most people still could not accept a "betrayal" of a little inaugurated PKR representatives, whilst during a same time, they were additionally unhappy with a opening of their inaugurated member in Kedah, Selangor as well as Perak.
Six PKR-elected member defected after a 2008 ubiquitous election. They embody Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri (Bagan Serai), Zulkifli Noordin (Kulim-Bandar Baharu), Zahrain Mohamed Hashim (Bayan Baru), N Gobalakrishnan (Padang Serai), Tan Tee Beng (Nibong Tebal) as well as Wee Choo Keong (Wangsa Maju).
This does not embody a little inaugurated state assemblymen in Selangor as well as Perak, who additionally defected.
"I think they have to work hard. It will not be a complaint for DAP to say Penang though it will be difficult for PKR to say Selangor," Cheah, adding PKR still indispensable to residence a emanate which a celebration had centred too most around Anwar's personality.
"They have to put forward some-more of their leaders, not only Anwar. It is time for them to put up some-more young as well as means candidates. DAP as well as PAS do not have an emanate though PKR, yes," he said.
PKR contested 97 seats as well as won 31 to turn a biggest antithesis celebration in Parliament in a final ubiquitous election. Together with DAP (28 seats) as well as PAS (23 seats), a antithesis agreement won a sum of 82 parliamentary seats.
Spurred upon by a series of seats which, for once, denied BN a two-thirds majority, right! away PK R-DAP-PAS target to take over Putrajaya. But, domestic observers note a parties still continue to be tormented by infighting.
PKR illustration in Parliament has reduced from a biggest 31 seats to only 24, after losing six members who defected, as well as through a Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election. This makes them less absolute than DAP (29) as well as equal to PAS (24). Both DAP as well as PAS gained an a single more a single parliamentary chair any through a Sibu as well as Kuala Terengganu by-elections after a 2008 generalelection.
"The agreement still fails to stand united over matters such as Islamic law as well as affirmative movement policies in a multi-religious, multicultural nation. The most damaging emanate for PKR is their differences with PAS over a state of Israel.
"Anwar seems to be late in countering a issue, which has had significant stroke upon a relationship with PAS," pronounced a domestic observer.
Biggest challenge
Prof James Chin, a domestic researcher during Sunway Monash University, pronounced PKR should name a right possibilities for a ubiquitous election, as it indispensable to be discreet so as not to see a repeat of inaugurated member quiting a party.
"The biggest plea to Anwar as well as PKR is to find high-calibre candidates, detached from a need to sort out their debate strategies with alternative partners," he told Bernama.
Dr Ong Kian Ming, a domestic researcher during UCSI University, additionally believed which PKR indispensable to firm up a possibilities as well as set priorities upon chair allocation with a alternative agreement members, whilst they work out their debate strategies.
"How do you wish to change a notice which PKR is a weakest couple in Pakatan (opposition pact)? You need to put in convincing candidates, as it will help to dispel such perception. It would be beneficial if PKR has a few possibilities to concentration on," he! noted.< /div>
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He concluded with a idea which a Israel state emanate had someway impacted a team-work in between a PKR as well as PAS.
"Anwar has to treat this emanate carefully. Even if a electorate might not emphasize upon it much, it would emanate worry in between PAS members," he said.
Ong pronounced he was distrustful PKR could repeat a feat in a final inhabitant polls, as up to this moment, most still wondered over a preference of possibilities for a seats it won, prior to a inaugurated member motionless to give up a party.
"Except Bayan Baru as well as Wangsa Maju, alternative seats such as Nibong Tebal, Padang Serai as well as Bagan Serai have nonetheless to be firmed up. The vital plea is which they have not identified someone convincing enough (to put up for these seats)," he added.
The people have obviously supposed Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as well as his policies, judging by their endorsement of a 1Malaysia concept; People First, Peformance Now; RM500 BR1M people's aid; RM100 aid any for schoolchildren as well as most alternative pleasant surprises benefiting Malaysians.
Perhaps, capturing Putrajaya in a entrance ubiquitous choosing might only turn out to be zero some-more than a pipedream for a PKR ubiquitous called Anwar, as well as his lieutenants.
If sweet dreams have been made of these, who have been we to disagree?
-Bernama
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