Sehingga kini perhatian masyarakat masih lagi tertumpu pada tingkahlaku biadap dan kurang ajar beberapa orang pemimpin pembangkang semasa pertabalan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XIV, Tuanku Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah pada eleven Apr 2012.Mereka yang dikatakan terbabit mengejek dan memperlekehkan Raja-Raja Melayu itu antaranya ialah Timbalan Presiden PKR, Azmin Ali dan Naib Presidennya, Tian Chua. Bagaimanapun mengikut laporan terbaru, kedua-duanya telah menafikan dakwaan tersebut.Dalam ... Read More
Keputusan bantahan kes murtad 10 Mei
GEORGE TOWN: Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah Pulau Pinang menangguhkan keputusan bantahan awal kes dua beradik yang memohon perisytiharan diri mereka bukan Islam ke 10 Mei depan bagi membolehkan mahkamah melengkapkan alasan penghakiman.Kes itu difailkan kedua-dua plaintif, Roslina Abdul Rashid dan adiknya, Rosli Abdul Rashid, masing-masing berusia 30-an yang membuat permohonan pada akhir 2010.Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah Othman Ibrahim berkata mahkamah memerlukan masa untuk menyediakan alasan p ... Read More
Mahathir and Obama
Dr Mahathir Mohamad is in HUKM recuperating from a teenager surgery, as well as I consternation if he won't be in stitches if he'd review about Obama's very un-American, a small Mahathirish, matter opposite speculators. Read Obama proposes new movement upon oil speculation.
"We can't equates to a incident where speculators artificially manipulate markets by shopping up oil, creating a perception of a shortage as well as pushing prices higher, usually to flip a oil for a discerning profit," Obama said. "We can't equates to a incident where a little speculators can reap millions, whilst millions of American family groups get a reduced finish of a stick."
Calling for "more cops upon a kick to monitor activity in energy markets," Obama also proposed an enlarge in civil as well as criminal penalties for illegal energy marketplace strategy as well as other activities. As a equates to of troublesome speculation, he proposed carrying Congress require which Wall Street traders put some-more money aside to compensate off a bets done upon oil contracts. And he called for toughening monetary penalties tenfold as well as commanding penalties for each day a violation occurs.
Read some-more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/17/2754308/obama-proposes-new-action-on-oil.html#storylink=cpy
We still remember a banking crisis of 1998, when Malaysia as well as a Prime Minister raised eyebrows with continuous attacks upon Bersih's George Soros and a banking speculators. The Americans had a outline for this blame-the-speculators function then: Denial Syndrome.
The US has also been bailing out large businesses which had left bad, somet! hing Dr Mahathir was lynched for doing. They bailed out their monetary institutions a couple of years back.
When even a Americans are you do what a Statesman did years ago, which tells us something about a man. Only here you have Malaysians who are too bashful to confess which Dr Mahathir has done a good most things so which millions of Malaysian family groups do not get a reduced finish of a stick, as Obama would put it.
Here's wishing a Tun a full liberation fast.
Ice Ice Adli .....
Perhatikan mata Adam Adli ...Renungan matanya lain macam. Mata dia tenat dan penat ni. Someone please check budak ni yang belajar UPSI pun GPA hanya 2.4. Sebelum polis tangkap ... Is he ice, ice, baby?
Najib: Fuel subsidy raised by 10% to keep RON 95 at RM1.90
PETALING JAYA: The Government increasing its petrol funding by roughly 10% to safeguard a price of RON 95 remains during RM1.90 per litre, pronounced Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.In his ultimate post on his blog www.1malaysia.gov.my, a Prime Minister pronounced a Government, besides proposing a supplementary budget, would additionally have to enlarge its investment by a Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) to balance off a additional expenditure.Transportation costs make up a substantial proportion of a raky ... Read More
Prove it - Tian Chua
"We did not do it," pronounced Tian Chua.
KUALA LUMPUR: PKR clamp boss Tian Chua facing mounting criticisms for allegedly misbehaving during a designation of a Yang diPertuan Agong recently has decided to confront his critics as well as challenged them to explanation their allegations.
Contacted byThe Molerecently, Tian Chua, who is a MP for Batu insisted he did not insult any kingship during a designation as well as demanded those creation such allegations to come up with a proof.
"Like I pronounced earlier, these are all lowdown strategy by Umno cyber troopers, meant to tarnish as well as undermine a picture of a Royal institution. We did not do it.
"If Dr Rahman Kadir is unequivocally honest about it, he should come out as well as have a press statement," Tian Chua said.
In a previousstory, Dr Rahman, who was a single of a special medical team military officer during a designation day, had expressed his disappointment over a behaviour of antithesis leaders, Tian Chua as well as PKR emissary boss Azmin Ali whom he alleged had mocked a Rulers as well as a Governor during a behind of their behind when a royalties were walking into a Balai Rong Seri, in a Istana Negara, where a rite was conducted.
Dr Rahman who claimed to declare a PKR leaders "misbehaving" serve wrote in hisFacebook Notesthat it was crucial for every personality to respect a Royal institution, a single of a principles stipulated in a Rukunegara.
The incident, which was highlighted by bloggerGAP,The Unspinner,AIDCand several others, had sparked anger among a little Malay-based non-governmental organisations including a Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa), Pertubuhan Jalur Tiga (Jati) as well as Gagasan Melayu Perak asreportedin Utusan Malaysia.
The leaders from a NGOs had questioned Tian Chua as well as Azmin's silence over a accusations, saying their keeping still had caused people to understand which they had misbehaved during a installation.
Two Umno clamp presidents Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein as well as Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi both pronounced a matter have to be investigated by a stately commission of inquiry (RCI).
Hishamuddin, in areportinUtusan Malaysia, pronounced a RCI is necessary to establish a truth about a accusations.
Tian Chua, when asked if he would beginner authorised record opposite those who made a allegations opposite him, refused to have any comments.
In his Twitter account, Tian Chuaposted:"Not enough with a personal attacks, now "Pakatan Rakyat" cyber troopers wish to repairs a stately ceremony"
Prior to this, it was reported which Barisan Nasional's MP for Hulu Selangor P. Kamalanathan, who was referred to by Dr Rahman as being "near to where Tian Chua as well as Azmin were during a ceremony" when contacted as well as asked to criticism upon a "misbehaviour of a PKR leaders pronounced which as guests of honour, they should during least be sensitive as well as handle well.
Kamalanathan was additionally quoted as saying which he agreed "with sure things created by Dr Rahman, adding which when "we are invited to attend such a stately ceremony, you should be proud as well as show a respects."
He had additionally tweeted:"I would like to determine a article of Dr Rahman Kadir was true".
Asked to criticism upon Kamalanathan's tweets as well as comments, Tian Chua said: "I do not wish to have a matter about him, because he is friendly (to me)," he said.
Meanwhile, in his latesttweet post, Tian Chua pronounced that: "Saya hantar surat kpd Speaker mohon satu JK dilantik mengikut Peraturan Mesyuarat Parlimen 80a utk s! iasat da kwaan MP Pakatan menghina Agong(I have sent a minute to a Speaker to beginner a cabinet to be set up underneath Standing Order 80 (a) Rules of Parliament to examine allegations which Pakatan MPs had angry a Agong). - a Mole
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"Anwar ... tak tahu apa dia fikir"
Anwar lupa Dr. MahathirKUBANG PASU 15 April Tindakan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengkritik Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) dan bercadang memansuhkannya jika menjadi Perdana Menteri menunjukkan perangai sebenar Ketua Pembangkang itu yang gemar membuat janji tanpa memikirkan apa yang pernah dia sendiri perkatakan.Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (gambar)
HELLO DATO BANDAR DAN DBKL TENGAH TIDUR KE? TAK RETI BUAT KERJA?
Khabarnya malam semalam ada kecoh yang cuba dibuat oleh budak-budak yang bebal dan tak berapa cerdik ni. KLIK SINI
Wah Dato Bandar dan DBKL sangat berlembut nampaknya dalam hal Mahasewel Robot ni ya? Cuba kalau kita pi tidur sana, gerenti kita dah masuk lokap punya la, tak percaya cuba bawak beberapa kawan dan bawak khemah lepak kat sana tengok!
Apa benda ni wei DBKL? Datuk Bandar yang glamer tu masih wujud lagi ke? Nape Datuk, takut nak bertindak ke? Boleh tak kalau kami nak berniaga kat sana sekali? Kami nak jual burger, nak jual air dan macam-macam lagi boleh?
Budak-budak sial yang tak mahu bayar pinjaman tu lepak kat sana tanpa assent tau, siap Mat Sabu, Nurul Izzah, Tian Gigit Chua dan ramai lagi datang bagi ceramah lagi. Semalam Kadiaq si mamak BOWTIE gila pun mai bagi ceramah!
Dato Bandar dan DBKL, kami mahukan jawapan anda! Kepada kengkawan Press, tolong utarakan isu ini. Naik neyampah pulak aku tengok kebebalan dan kegagalan DBKL ni la!
CHINESE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS NATIVES
The Chinese should be considered as natives or inland people of Sabah since history available their presence in Borneo as early as 835AD. Sabah Native Cultural as well as Welfare Organisation (Sano) President, Samson Quintin, pronounced a impasse of a Chinese community in moulding a history of Borneo was additionally clear by one Ong Sum Ping in 1375 who landed in Kinabatangan.
Ong as well as his army succeeded in stopping a Suluks' advancement in to a domain as well as in after years he tied together a daughter of a Sultan of Brunei.
! "Based upon this fact, we am of a perspective that a Chinese have been additionally qualified to be considered natives of Sabah," he pronounced in a statement here Saturday.
"There is a disproportion in between a tenure Anak Negeri (indigenous) as well as Bumiputera," he said.
"For example, in a peninsula, a Malays do not cruise themselves as Anak Negeri since a Sakai clan as well as others there have been a inland people.
"Similarly in Sabah, a tenure local is for local as well as Bumiputera is for Bumiputera,! " he sai d. (DE)
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DESAH TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC VALUE
AN AD HOC cabinet has been formed which operates under a name of 'Demokrasi Sabah' (DESAH) by a little concerned citizens who offer in a cabinet upon a voluntary basis to foster good democratic values such as deputy government, clean, free as well as satisfactory elections as well as a establishment of a 2-party complement which is not based upon racial as well as eremite factors/grounds.
It is remarkable with deep regard which a numerous negative trends in elections especially multi-cornered contests have allowed possibilities who are not upheld by a majority of electorate to be inaugurated under a stream First Past a Post system.
This tends to lead to a existence of a legal body consisting of members not truly representing a majority of electorate thus impairing a check as well as balance mechanism. It is expected which this cabinet will function from right away as well as finish soon after a date of a 13th ubiquitous elections. It is non-partisan as well as non-profit oriented.
Objectives of Desah;
-To foster as well as inspire a 1 to 1 competition in a entrance 13th ubiquitous elections.
-To create recognition of a rights of voters.
-To foster as well as inspire a level personification field in a elections by veteran as well as in effect campaign strategies.
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Targets;
-To secure 1 to 1 competition in at slightest 1/3 of a sum parliamentary constituencies (25).
-To classify as well as control veteran campaign precision courses for domestic parties which experience in a 1 to 1 contest.
-To control as well as classify mock/trial elections in selected constituencies between contending possibilities to sign their respective popularity. This practice can assist to deter rascal (how?) as well as foster clean, free as well as satisfactory elections which strengthen voters' rights.
Programs:
-To run as well as inspire domestic parties to experience in a mock/trial elections to capacitate them to name a winnable claimant for a 13th ubiquitous elections.
-To classify debates between as well as between possibilities to capacitate electorate to sign their ability, genius as well as care quality etc.
-To control as well as classify polls especially in disputed constituencies.
-To control as well as classify fit as well as in effect distribution of information by web site, amicable media, forum, imitation as well as electronic media etc.
Operational Structure:
The cabinet will contain of a Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer as well as Committee Members.
If as well as when required operative sub-committees will be established to perform specific functions.
Membership of DESAH will be non-stop to all Malaysians as well as civil multitude organizations which subscribe to a objectives of DESAH.
It is hoped which DESAH will be financially upheld by members, endorsers, members of a public as well as domestic parties which experience in its program such as debates, precision courses for campaigners as well as party workers etc. - Sabahkini
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New ISA law: An ogre supplanted by an octopus
If a Internal Security Act 1960 was an ogre which destroyed most lives, a brand brand brand brand new Security Offences (Special Measures) Bill 2012 is an octopus in whose tentacles Prime Minister Najib Razak's promised liberalisation suffers serve smothering.
Last year's Public Assembly Bill 2011 was ostensible to have kicked off Najib's liberalisation drive, touted in his Malaysia Day residence of Sept 15.
What it did was merely to digest a time support for demonstrators to acquire military permits to stage protests.
It hadn't occurred to a powers-that-be which liberalisation equates to not carrying during all to acquire military permission to demonstrate.
Now we have an additional example of cognitive dissonance: a brand brand brand brand new Security Offences Bill is ostensible to be a substantive alleviation over a predecessor, a ISA.
Actually, a check attests a truth of a observant which looks can deceive. It's like seeing something by moonlight which can exhibit a outline of a thing but not a true nature.
A tighten celebration of a mass of a proposed brand brand brand brand new law's provisions would establish which in a details, it c! ould enm esh a detainee in prolonged periods of incarceration.
If apprehension but hearing had rendered a Internal Security Act 1960 an abomination, continued apprehension after a justice systematic release, which is a provision in a brand brand brand brand new law, would make a caricature of claims which a latter legislation is an alleviation upon a former.
Najib, in tabling a Security Offences Bill, blithely claimed a proposed brand! brand b rand brand new law is an alleviation over a ISA since a grounds as well as equates to of an detain underneath it have been theme to legal review.
"They [detainees] have been giveaway to record for writ of habeas corpus upon a reason as well as equates to of their arrest,"he toldthe Dewan Rakyat yesterday.
"In short, a energy of legal examination has been returned to a courts, unlike in a ISA where habeas corpus is usually applicable to a equates to of arrest," Najib expatiated.
Detention after acquittal
What a PM didn't discuss is which there is a provision in a Security O! ffences Bill for continued apprehension by a police, if a latter hold fit, of a authority liberated by a courts.
True, a brand brand brand brand new check provides for legal oversight of senior manager fiat - a detainee can plea his apprehension in court.
This seeming editing over a ISA is negated by a brand brand brand brand new law's permission for a senior manager to continue land a detainee until a appeal routine is disposed.
The alleviation of legal oversight is cancelled by a latitude since a senior manager to reassert a primacy.
Countervailing powers have been a hint of constitutional government. In permitting for a senior manager to hold a liberated detainee until a appeal routine is completed, a change of energy is slanted in foster of a executive.
Theoretically, this indefinite apprehension renders nugatory all a improvements to a duration - a brand brand brand brand new law boundary it to 28 days compared to a ISA's provision of 60 days - of a primary duration of apprehension of a authority by a police.
Detention after exculpation is marginally, not substantively improved than apprehension but hearing - a f!! eature o f a ISA which had rendered it odious.
This provision for apprehension after exculpation is a tripwire which prevents a Security Offences Bill from being what a supervision asserts it is: a vast alleviation over a prototype as well as a single which strikes an optimal change in between a demands of particular autocracy as well as a confidence concerns of a state.
The border a hype about a brand brand brand brand new law masks a harsh reality is serve inferred from a provision which allows military to intercept communications but legal permit when questioning a detainee for a suspected confidence offence.
The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has voiced a demurral over this proviso which it says can "infringe personal autocracy as well as a right to privacy."
"The provisions in a Bill as well as a amendments to a alternative applicable laws must set upon a change in between inhabitant confidence as well as fundamental liberties as well as human rights," Suhakam authority Hasmy Agam pronounced in a statement yesterday.
Thus opposition MPs were not a usually ones to drive with a supervision which a Security Offences Bill does small to allege a cause of domestic liberalisation in Malaysia.
Suhakam as well as a Bar Council, which had earlier criticised aspects of a Bill, feel likewise.
Last year's Public Assembly Bill 2011 was ostensible to have kicked off Najib's liberalisation drive, touted in his Malaysia Day residence of Sept 15.
What it did was merely to digest a time support for demonstrators to acquire military permits to stage protests.
It hadn't occurred to a powers-that-be which liberalisation equates to not carrying during all to acquire military permission to demonstrate.Now we have an additional example of cognitive dissonance: a brand brand brand brand new Security Offences Bill is ostensible to be a substantive alleviation over a predecessor, a ISA.
Actually, a check attests a truth of a observant which looks can deceive. It's like seeing something by moonlight which can exhibit a outline of a thing but not a true nature.
A tighten celebration of a mass of a proposed brand brand brand brand new law's provisions would establish which in a details, it c! ould enm esh a detainee in prolonged periods of incarceration.
If apprehension but hearing had rendered a Internal Security Act 1960 an abomination, continued apprehension after a justice systematic release, which is a provision in a brand brand brand brand new law, would make a caricature of claims which a latter legislation is an alleviation upon a former.
Najib, in tabling a Security Offences Bill, blithely claimed a proposed brand! brand b rand brand new law is an alleviation over a ISA since a grounds as well as equates to of an detain underneath it have been theme to legal review."They [detainees] have been giveaway to record for writ of habeas corpus upon a reason as well as equates to of their arrest,"he toldthe Dewan Rakyat yesterday.
"In short, a energy of legal examination has been returned to a courts, unlike in a ISA where habeas corpus is usually applicable to a equates to of arrest," Najib expatiated.
Detention after acquittal
What a PM didn't discuss is which there is a provision in a Security O! ffences Bill for continued apprehension by a police, if a latter hold fit, of a authority liberated by a courts.
True, a brand brand brand brand new check provides for legal oversight of senior manager fiat - a detainee can plea his apprehension in court.
This seeming editing over a ISA is negated by a brand brand brand brand new law's permission for a senior manager to continue land a detainee until a appeal routine is disposed.
The alleviation of legal oversight is cancelled by a latitude since a senior manager to reassert a primacy.
Countervailing powers have been a hint of constitutional government. In permitting for a senior manager to hold a liberated detainee until a appeal routine is completed, a change of energy is slanted in foster of a executive.
Theoretically, this indefinite apprehension renders nugatory all a improvements to a duration - a brand brand brand brand new law boundary it to 28 days compared to a ISA's provision of 60 days - of a primary duration of apprehension of a authority by a police.
Detention after exculpation is marginally, not substantively improved than apprehension but hearing - a f!! eature o f a ISA which had rendered it odious.This provision for apprehension after exculpation is a tripwire which prevents a Security Offences Bill from being what a supervision asserts it is: a vast alleviation over a prototype as well as a single which strikes an optimal change in between a demands of particular autocracy as well as a confidence concerns of a state.
The border a hype about a brand brand brand brand new law masks a harsh reality is serve inferred from a provision which allows military to intercept communications but legal permit when questioning a detainee for a suspected confidence offence.
The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has voiced a demurral over this proviso which it says can "infringe personal autocracy as well as a right to privacy."
"The provisions in a Bill as well as a amendments to a alternative applicable laws must set upon a change in between inhabitant confidence as well as fundamental liberties as well as human rights," Suhakam authority Hasmy Agam pronounced in a statement yesterday.
Thus opposition MPs were not a usually ones to drive with a supervision which a Security Offences Bill does small to allege a cause of domestic liberalisation in Malaysia.
Suhakam as well as a Bar Council, which had earlier criticised aspects of a Bill, feel likewise.
It appears a Malaysian open has not seen a final ruins of a dreaded ISA.
TERENCE NETTO has been a publisher for tighten upon four decades. He likes a function since it puts him in hit with a eminent but being underneath a necessity to admire them. It is a ideal function for a spirit which finds energy fascinating as well as a exercise abhorrent.
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I slept with over 500 women, says Mario Falcone
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LONDON: Mario Falcone has revealed he is the recovered sex drug dependant who has bedded some-more than 500 women.
The Only Way Is Essex star, who's right away dating co-star Lucy Mecklenburgh -- says he once slept with five girls in the single night.
"That was all individually," the Sun quoted him as saying.
Mario also got it upon with dozens upon women during wild holiday parties. He said: "My many was during two weeks away in Crete -- you slept with 23 girls!"
He added: "I was 15 when you mislaid my virginity. I've had two critical girlfriends as well as was with each one for two years. But when you pennyless up, I'd go mental."
The Essex lad right away insists his womanising days have been behind him. He said: "With Lucy, you have sex the lot. you get some-more of the disturb out of that than when you used to arise up as well as see the girl next to me as well as think, 'Get out of my house!'"
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Holy Grail of ASEANs Security Cooperation
April 17, 2012
Holy Grail of ASEAN's Security Cooperation
by BA Hamzah@http://www.thesundaily.myASEAN skeleton to settle an ASEAN village by 2015. This village will have three mutually re-enforcing pillars: a domestic confidence community, an mercantile as well as a socio-cultural one. The confidence village post is a Holy Grail of informal confidence cooperation.
The substructure for ASEAN domestic confidence was laid in Bangkok in August 1967. The Bangkok Declaration is evident in a purpose: to foster informal peace as well as stability.
In Bangkok, 5 states agreed "to bind themselves together in loyalty as well as team-work and, through corner efforts as well as sacrifices, secure for their peoples as well as for posterity a blessings of peace, freedom as well as prosperity", with non-interference in a inner affairs of part of states as a basic grounds of informal order.
They additionally agreed which they would conduct family in in between themselves by adhering to a beliefs of a United Nations Charter. Non-use of force as a state policy is a single of them. The alternative is apply oneself for territorial firmness as well as a domestic autonomy of part of states.
To their credit, following a unfortunate Konfrontasi in in between Indonesia as well as Malaysia, a 5 
founding ASEAN members (Indonesia Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand as well as Singapore) seized an opportunity to settle an in! ter-gove rnmental organization in 1967 to foster informal team-work in security, informative as well as mercantile matters. The elites must have realised which but confidence cooperation, there would be no peace in a region.
Academics have called this craving by opposite names: confidence community, confidence regime, as well as most recently, Kei Koga used a less flattering tenure of a Third World security-oriented-institution (SOI). Labels aside, a ASEAN craving has turn a confidence as well as domestic village which provides confidence to a members by agreeing not to use force opposite each alternative as well as to finalise disputes by peaceful means.
Forty-five years is a long period in a lifetime of any organisation. During this period (1967-2012), ASEAN countries have been deferential of each other's territorial firmness as well as politi-cal independence. Faced with seemingly bullheaded crises, which they could not finalise themselves for example, determining a ownership as well as government of doubtful territories four part of states sought visualisation of a International Court of Justice during The Hague.
During a lifetime, members of ASEAN have not used force opposite each alternative except in two limit skirmishes in 2001 in in between Thailand as well as Burma, as well as in 2011 in in between Thailand as well as Cambodia over doubtful land around a Temple Vihear Preah. To their credit, diplomatic family in in between a parties remained intact during a limit skirmishes. Worrisome as they were, these incidents were brief, localised, couple of as well as far in between.
A series of elemental agreements/declarations/instruments, beginning with a 1967 Bangkok Declaration, which included a 1971 Zone of Peace, Freedom as well as Neutrality; a 19! 76 Treat y of Amity as well as Co-operation; a 2003 Bali Declaration of Concord 11; as well as a 2007 ASEAN Charter, have been signed to institutionalise a domestic confidence mechanisms.
ASEAN has additionally developed a complex system of institutions as well as procedures to inhibit members from undermining a usual confidence good by force. These region-wide institutions have, in my view, cumulative general legitimacy for ASEAN.
Forty years down a road from Bangkok, what is a state of play of a ASEAN confidence 
community craving now? According to Rodolfo Severino, former ASEAN Secretary-General, "in a very real clarity ASEAN is a confidence community" (2008).
There is no doubt which a paramount role of ASEAN as a confidence village (or a various of it) has seen a little daylight. The actuality we have been right away during peace with each alternative as well as some-more deferential of a sanctification of borders provides serve justification which a ASEAN examination in substantiating a domestic village has not been a fatuous exercise.
All along, a paramount role of ASEAN has been political. More importantly, a domestic elites have been dynamic to create norms as well as rules which would curt in a long-run in to a confidence village mindset. Some have argued which a top-down approach to a confidence village is inadequate; an endurable confidence village or system of administration needs to be supplemented as well as reinforced by a bottom-up approach, which radically equates to it has to have a await (or buy-in) of a citizens.
In 1987, a Group of 14 upon ASEAN Economic Cooperation as well as Integration resolved whic! h ASEAN has been successful as an apolitical experiment. The report notes with honour which "it is a measure of a success of a ASEAN examination which most have right away forgotten which ours was once an area of turmoil, of mutual suspicion, mutual hostility, mutual dislike, even of mutual disinterest".
The Group of 14 was candid with a letter of reference for larger formation in all sectors domestic security, as well as a mercantile as well as social informative sectors. It warned which sustaining domestic togetherness has to be a constant struggle to achieve peace as well as confidence in a region. Since 1987, a ASEAN family has expanded to ten states, marking another milestone in a domestic integration. It is formidable to omit this achievement.
Persuading a little enemy states (Rizal Sukma, 2003) similar to Vietnam (1995), Laos (1997) as well as Cambodia (1999) to join ASEAN was not an easy task. Of course, most resisted a membership of Burma in ASEAN in 1997.
ASEAN has strengthened a institutions as well as worked tough to reinvent itself given a Group of 14 Report (1987). After a Asian financial crisis of 1997, ASEAN launched a number of initiatives to enhance informal security. Various instruments similar to a ASEAN Vision 2020 (1998), a Bali Concord 11 (2003), Hanoi Action of Plan as well as Vientiane Action Programme (2004) as well as a ASEAN Charter (2007) were introduced.
Institutions similar to a ASEAN Regional Forum (1993) with members from a Asia-Pacific region, a ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (2006) as well as a ADMM-Plus (2010) were determined to yield a forum to discuss usual confidence concerns. The latter two institutions were designed for troops officers; hitherto, they have no grave informal platform (beyond shared mechanisms) to discuss confidence concerns.
ASEAN has succeeded in substantiating a framework for a confidence village to endure. As a process, ASEAN is today politically, economically as well as culturally much some-more integrated. It has d! etermine d a clever identity-building along confidence-building make up towards a nascent, de facto, if not de jure, confidence village (Acharya) although a little have criticised this classification as flawed.
Flawed or not, we hold ASEAN countries have attained a high level of maturity in politics as well as confidence which is akin to a concept of confidence village in general relations. To deny this is to omit a close network of confidence related mechanisms/institutions inside of ASEAN. To suggest which a confidence maturity or consciousness is due to external forces is to disprove or downplay a ASEAN Way.
The provocative subject stays can this nascent, de facto confidence village or confidence regime, SOI, or a confidence state-of-mind in in between a part of states of ASEAN endure? we am a firm believer in a institution's resilience.
I hold Asean can continue a challenges. It is able of sustaining a domestic confidence village programme, if part of states with opposite levels of mercantile as well as domestic development have been peaceful to engage a polite societies, minimise a centrifugal pulls as well as imitate with a determined norms as well as values.
Along a journey, ASEAN must deal with a little of a confidence hurdles of pragmatism.
BA Hamzah is a tyro of politics, general law as well as education.
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PKFZ: Why the U-turn?
April 17, 2012
PKFZ: Why the U-turn?
R. Nadeswaran (04-16-12)@www.thesundaily.myNUMEROUS reports from accountants as well as lawyers appointed by the Port Klang Authority gave Malaysians an discernment into the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) liaison that will price taxpayers the whopping RM12 billion.
Enough has been said as well as created upon it as well as as the have the difference of policy, this columnist took the view that the law must take the march as well as any serve comment, regard or dictum would be seen as an profusion as well as the replication. The stance taken was that unless there were brand new developments, it would be the rubbish of valuable space delving into an exercise of exercise as well as reminding readers of the infamous acts as well as omissions.
This stand was to change dramatically dual weeks ago Apr 4 to be exact. A cursory peek during the record noted "Work in Progress" that had not been perused for some-more than 18 months stirred the call to someone informed with disciplinary hearings of lawyers. "What happened to the censure lodged by PKA upon the law organisation that acted for both parties?" was the infrequent question. The answer was stunning: "Didn't you know? The censure was withdrawn dual weeks ago!"
PKA authority Datuk Teh Kim Poh is an aged friend you were in the same delegate as well as primary schools as well as the phone call resulted in the assembly during his PKA office. As we walked in, he was articulate to the senior physical education instructor about concession negotiations, saying he longed for to be benefaction since ! "they br ag the staff".
We had met in London late final year when he attended the World Ports Conference as well as after the prevalent compliments, you came to the critical stuff. Why did PKA repel the complaint? Teh was momentarily stunned. The subject had taken him by surprise. He longed for to know who had told me about the house assembly as well as the preference that was taken usually 10 days earlier. The outmoded meditative as well as philosophy is that report as well as discussion upon each decision, however wrong, should be taken to the grave. But the minute to the Bar Council was the passed giveaway. It had been signed, sealed as well as sent in super-fast time three days after the meeting. How you instruct PKA had acted during such speed when it came to "real issues" similar to procurement as well as tenders.
First, it was the antagonistic declare theory. In what box will the lawyers who rebuilt the agreement
be compulsory to testify? Besides, lawyers know their obligations when giving justification underneath oath. Some, when stumped for answers, demeanour for reinforcements as well as this was no ordinary situation, as well as another physical education instructor steps into the arena.
Why, Teh asks the officer, did PKA repel the complaint? "Mr Kee (the former general manager) does not want to testify. So there have been no witnesses," he replies.
But wasn't Kee destined to house the complaint? After all, Kee was never in the design when the agreement was sealed as well as when the purported breach took place. He merely acted for as well as upon behalf of PKA. All that needs to be tendered during the hearing is the agreement. So because the large fuss?
Shouldn't recommend! ation ha ve been taken from the Attorney-General's Chambers for such the extreme step? The PKA is the supervision physique as well as it is prevalent for recommendation be taken from supervision counsel. Why then did it confirm arbitrarily to ignore the preference of the previous house that saw it fit to have the complaint?
Kee's successor, David Padman, understandably was in the spot as well as needed guidance as to what to do next. He could have been destined to benefaction the PKA's box with the papers in the possession, or during worst, be destined to seek the recommendation of the A-G. Instead, the house chose to embark upon the preference that cannot be noticed in any other way though as the reversal of the receptive to advice as well as in accord with preference done by the predecessors.
The subject upon the minds of many Malaysians is: Is the current house penetrating to bring to book those concerned for the gigantic detriment or will it have serve attempts to brush all underneath the runner to benefit the few?
R. Nadeswaran is not exactly detection the past though preventing the few unsavoury events function in the future. He is editor (special as well as inquisitive reporting) during theSun as well as can be reached at: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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Dataran Merdeka students stay put
There were no reported scuffles in Dataram Merdeka today though city authorities continued to vigour a students to vacant a public area.
PETALING JAYA: City authorities continue to vigour tyro protesters to empty their camp site during Dataran Merdeka. Although there was no scuffle, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) officers came around a camp site this sunrise as well as told a students to idle a camps.
"They told us to mislay a camps though you stayed put. But there was no football practice like yesterday," undergraduate Haziq Abdul Aziz told FMT.
Another activist from a "Occupy" (Dataran Merdeka) movement, Fahmi Reza pronounced which there were around thirteen tents which were set up this morning.
"They told us this sunrise which according to a bylaw, you cannot put up tents though a consent of a city mayor.
"They gave us 5 minutes to idle as well as they left. They later came back in their truck, parked by a side of a road as well as only stayed there.
"We thought they were starting to transport us up though they didn't do so," he told FMT when contacted.
He added which most parties including ordinary Malaysians have been contributing to their cause by donating a solid stream of food, drinks as well as tents given Saturday.
Students 'right' to rally
Students 'right' to rally
Tempers flared yesterday in between DBKL officers as well as a students protesters when a latter defied orders to leave.
Punches were thrown as well as a single undergraduate suffered a minor gash behind his neck.
It is learnt which a KL mayor, Ahmad Fuad Ismail, has none! theless to reply to a student's request to lift on with a criticism during Dataran Merdeka. He could not be reached for comments.
These students have been camping during a Datararan given Saturday following a convene where 300 undergraduates marched in to a city centre perfectionist free tertiary education as well as for a National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan intrigue to be abolished.
The tyro protesters primarily pronounced which they would take up Dataran Merdeka until either Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak or his emissary Muhyiddin Yassin met them.
However after a "disappointing" response from a premier to this request, a students have right away vowed to stay on until April 28 to converge with a sit-in criticism of electoral watchdog Bersih 3.0, also scheduled to take place during a same venue.
Responding to a tyro protest, Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin did not chop his difference when he challenged these students to lapse a loan money currently used to fund their education.
His deputy, Saifuddin Abdullah, however, told FMT which he backed a student's right to convene for an emanate which was "close to their hearts".
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Batu MP Tian Chua wants movement taken opposite MPs for disregard of Parliament.
KUALA LUMPUR: Batu MP Tian Chua wants the parliamentary cabinet to examine allegations that Pakatan Rakyat MPs were unpleasant to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong during final week's designation ceremony. "I have sent the minute to Parliament Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia to call for the parliamentary cabinet to examine as well as punish [MPs] for disregard of council under Section 80A, Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders," Tian Chua said
Also present during the press conference were Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzzah Anwar (PKR) as well as Kota Raja MP Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS).
Section 80A provides for movement to be taken opposite parliamentarians or any alternative people who are deemed to have been in disregard of Parliament.
"The cabinet is similar to the court," Tian Chua pronounced upon the range of the committee.
Section 9 in Houses of Parliament (Privileges as well as Powers) Act 1952 provides for those found guilty of disregard to be fined not exceeding RM1,000.
Tian Chua justified his call for environment up the cabinet as the allegation has shop-worn his repute as the MP.
Blogger Dr Rahman Kadir, in his blog posting, had purported that the Pakatan MPs had been shouting away during the coronation.
Many pro-Barisan Nasional bloggers as well as the media picked up upon the report.
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Tian Chua additionally pronounced that no official investigations have been conducted yet.
He added that there had been precedents for the arrangement of such committees.
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"I have already contacted my lawyer The posting degrades my dignity as well as [Umno-owned] Utusan Malaysia had front-paged the allegations three days continuously," she said.
Siti Mariah pronounced that there were alternative bloggers who added more slanders as well as lies opposite her as well as the rest of Pakatan MPs.
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He was a only MP in a Dewan Rakyat to do so.
Following his attempt, that was rejected by a voice vote, Parliament afterwards speedily upheld a law this afternoon.
It was presented for initial celebration of a mass last Tuesday and a second celebration of a mass yesterday.
The brand new law will replace a 52-year-old Internal Security Act. It is directed during combating terrorism, harm and espionage, but cannot be used to detain people for their domestic beliefs.
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"I simply cannot hold which the supposedly apolitical as good as the non-governmental organisation (NGO) has unexpected been asked to be an agent of the sovereign government.
"And when was KDM Malaysia strictly appointed as an agent of the Higher Education Department?" Jambun asked in the matter today.
Rujhan yesterday appealed to school leavers "especially from the KDM community" to give their names as good as sum to KDM Malaysia boss Peter Anthony "so which it would be forwarded to me".
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KUALA LUMPUR: Former Port Klang Authority (PKA) arch Lee Hwa Beng currently launched a book chronicling a Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) plan from a time it was mooted in 1997 until recently, when it had already become a equivalent term for corruption. Lee co-wrote PKFZ: A Nation's Trust Betrayed with former publisher Lee Siew Lian. In it, he shares a insights he gained as PKA chairman between 2008 as good as 2011 as good as his contribution to a crime investigations.
Lee told his assembly during a launch which a book contained just a fragment of what was left to be pronounced of a liaison as good as suggested which a indeed eccentric investigation would need a shift of government.
"There have been most unanswered questions regarding a plan which were still unanswered as good as there is more to be unravelled as good as unearthed," he said.
"In a ride ministry, there were so most things which happened, which we won't know about, which might not be suggested in a justice cases. Only a military as good as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission [MACC] have a power to dig these out."
Lee, a member of MCA, served as a state assemblyman for Subang Jaya between 1995 as good as 2008. In a final ubiquitous election, he contested for a Kelana Jaya parliamentary seat, but lost to newcomer Loh Gwo Burne of PKR.
To date, six people have been charged in justice over a scandal. They embody former MCA president Dr Ling Liong Sik as good as his inheritor as ride minister, former MCA deputy arch Chan Kong Choy. Both have bee! n indict ed of lying to a Cabinet.
The mainstream media have most taken a PKFZ liaison out of a limelight given a trials began as good as following Ong Tee Keat's dismissal from a MCA presidency in 2010 as good as his abdication as ride apportion in a same year.
Ong was during a book launch, as was DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang.
"As recounted by Hwa Beng's book, after a PwC [PriceWaterhouseCoopers] report, a prime apportion [Najib Tun Razak] announced a setting up of a Super Task Force on a RM12.5 billion PKFZ liaison in Sep 2009, headed by a Chief Secretary to a Government, Mohd Sidek Hassan," Lim said.
"What has happened to this PKFZ Super Task Force? Two as good as a half years later, Najib has not released even an iota of news with courtesy to a activities as good as findings, if any, of this Super Task Force. But as Hwa Beng's book shows, there have been most people associated with this liaison who have not been scrupulously called to account."
Ong pronounced a supervision had failed to assure taxpayers which a funds lost in a liaison could ever be recovered.
"As a immediate past apportion of ride who was responsible for commissioning a thorough as good as eccentric probe in to a PKFZ scandal, certainly I am carefree which a hard work put in by a ad hoc cabinet assigned to examine a alleged wrongdoings or a anomalies identified by a PwC Report would not go to waste."
Lim pronounced a RM12.5 billion lost in a liaison could be used to "build 25 universities during RM500 million each, 125 hospitals during RM100 million each, 1,250 schools during RM100 million each, 312,500 low-cost houses during RM40,000 any or to give ev! erybody of a twenty-seven million Malaysians in any case of age a payout of RM338".
"Only a royal elect of inquiry, where prior ride ministers, PKA chairmen as good as house members, as good as a relevant supervision officials in a ride method as good as finance method have been summoned to attest on their role can do justice for burden as good as integrity in this liaison of scandals," he said.
He pronounced Pakatan Rakyat would settle such a elect of exploration if it done it to Putrajaya with a coming ubiquitous election.
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Seingat aku la sejak BINATANG tang aku tak tau spesis apa ni jadi MP sampai sekarang, ini ajelah soalan yang mampu dia tanya! Korang tak bangga sesiapa yang pangkah dia dulu? Baik letak tenuk atau babi jadi calon, aku rasa binatang tu lagi cerdik dari mamat ni gamaknya!
Inilah sebenarnya kualiti Pakatan Haram! Itu aje level mereka...memalukan Parlimen Malaysia je ada wakil macam ni, patut la Parlimen kita sekarang ni tak ubah macam sarkis, penuh dengan BINTANG dari SPESIS yang pelik-pelik terutama sekali dari Pakatan Harami tu.
Aku nak tulis pasal dia ni joke rasa sangat jijik la, uweekkkk!
PKFZ: Why the U-turn?
April 17, 2012
PKFZ: Why a U-turn?
R. Nadeswaran (04-16-12)@www.thesundaily.myNUMEROUS reports from accountants as well as lawyers appointed by a Port Klang Authority gave Malaysians an discernment in to a Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal that will cost taxpayers a whopping RM12 billion.
Enough has been said as well as written upon it as well as as a matter of policy, this columnist took a perspective that a law must take a march as well as any further comment, observation or decree would be seen as an overkill as well as a replication. The position taken was that unless there were new developments, it would be a waste of profitable space delving in to an practice of exercise as well as reminding readers of a infamous acts as well as omissions.
This mount was to change dramatically dual weeks ago Apr 4 to be exact. A cursory glance during a record marked "Work in Progress" that had not been perused for some-more than eighteen months prompted a call to someone familiar with disciplinary hearings of lawyers. "What happened to a complaint lodged by PKA upon a law organisation that acted for both parties?" was a casual question. The answer was stunning: "Didn't you know? The complaint was cold dual weeks ago!"
PKA chairman Datuk Teh Kim Poh is an aged crony you were in a same secondary as well as primary schools as well as a phone call resulted in a assembly during his PKA office. As I walked in, he was talking to a senior physical education instructor about benefaction negotiations, saying he longed for to be benefaction since "they brag our staff".
! We had m et in London late last year when he attended a World Ports Conference as well as after a prevalent compliments, you came to a serious stuff. Why did PKA repel a complaint? Teh was momentarily stunned. The subject had taken him by surprise. He longed for to know who had told me about a house assembly as well as a preference that was taken only 10 days earlier. The outmoded thinking as well as philosophy is that information as well as discussion upon each decision, however wrong, should be taken to a grave. But a letter to a Bar Council was a passed giveaway. It had been signed, sealed as well as sent in super-fast time three days after a meeting. How you wish PKA had acted during such speed when it came to "real issues" similar to buying as well as tenders.
First, it was a hostile declare theory. In what box will a lawyers who prepared a agreement be compulsory to testify? Besides, lawyers know their obligations when giving justification underneath oath. Some, when stumped for answers, look for reinforcements as well as this was no typical situation, as well as an additional physical education instructor stairs in to a arena.
Why, Teh asks a officer, did PKA repel a complaint? "Mr Kee (the former general manager) does not want to testify. So there are no witnesses," he replies.
But wasn't Kee destined to lodge a complaint? After all, Kee was never in a design when a agreement was sealed as well as when a purported crack took place. He merely acted for as well as upon behalf of PKA. All that needs to be tendered during a hearing is a agreement. So why a big fuss?
Shouldn't recommendation have been taken from a Attorney-General's Chambers for such a extreme step? The PKA is a government body as well as it is prevalent for recommendation be taken from government counsel. Why afterwards did it decide arbitrarily to ignore a preference of a previous house that saw it fit to have a complaint?
Kee's successor, David Padman, understandably was in a spot as well as needed guidance as to what to do next. He could have been destined to benefaction a PKA's box with a papers in a possession, or during worst, be destined to find a recommendation of a A-G. Instead, a house chose to enter upon upon a preference that cannot be noticed in any alternative way though as a annulment of a sound as well as reasonable preference done by a predecessors.
The subject upon a minds of most Malaysians is: Is a current house keen to move to book those concerned for a colossal detriment or will it have further attempts to sweep all underneath a runner to benefit a few?
R. Nadeswaran is not just unearthing a past though preventing a couple of tasteless events happening in a future. He is editor (special as well as inquisitive reporting) during theSun as well as can be reached at: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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Holy Grail of ASEANs Security Cooperation
April 17, 2012
Holy Grail of ASEAN's Security Cooperation
by BA Hamzah@http://www.thesundaily.myASEAN plans to settle an ASEAN village by 2015. This village will have 3 jointly re-enforcing pillars: a domestic confidence community, an mercantile as good as a socio-cultural one. The confidence village post is a Holy Grail of informal confidence cooperation.
The foundation for ASEAN domestic confidence was laid in Bangkok in August 1967. The Bangkok Declaration is evident in a purpose: to foster informal assent as good as stability.
In Bangkok, 5 states resolved "to connect themselves together in loyalty as good as team-work and, through joint efforts as good as sacrifices, secure for their peoples as good as for posterity a blessings of peace, leisure as good as prosperity", with non-interference in a inner affairs of part of states as a simple premise of informal order.
They additionally resolved which they would conduct family between themselves by adhering to a principles of a United Nations Charter. Non-use of force as a state policy is a single of them. The alternative is respect for territorial firmness as good as a domestic autonomy of part of states.
To their credit, following a unfortunate Konfrontasi in in between Indonesia as good as Malaysia, a 5 founding ASEAN members (Indonesia Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand as good as Singapore) seized an opportu! nity to settle an inter-governmental organization in 1967 to foster informal team-work in security, cultural as good as mercantile matters. The elites contingency have realised which without confidence cooperation, there would be no assent in a region.
Academics have called this craving by different names: confidence community, confidence regime, as good as most recently, Kei Koga used a reduction flattering tenure of a Third World security-oriented-institution (SOI). Labels aside, a ASEAN craving has become a confidence as good as domestic village which provides confidence to a members by similar not to make use of force opposite any alternative as good as to resolve disputes by peaceful means.
Forty-five years is a prolonged period in a lifetime of any organisation. During this period (1967-2012), ASEAN countries have been deferential of any other's territorial firmness as good as politi-cal independence. Faced with seemingly bullheaded crises, which they could not resolve themselves for example, determining a ownership as good as government of doubtful territories four part of states sought visualisation of a International Court of Justice during The Hague.
During a lifetime, members of ASEAN have not used force opposite any alternative solely in dual border skirmishes in 2001 in in between Thailand as good as Burma, as good as in 2011 in in between Thailand as good as Cambodia over doubtful land around a Temple Vihear Preah. To their credit, tactful family in in between a parties remained total during a border skirmishes. Worrisome as they were, these incidents were brief, localised, few as good as far in between.
A series of elemental agreements/declarations/instruments, beginning with a 1967 Bangkok Declaration, which included a! 1971 Zo ne of Peace, Freedom as good as Neutrality; a 1976 Treaty of Amity as good as Co-operation; a 2003 Bali Declaration of Concord 11; as good as a 2007 ASEAN Charter, have been signed to institutionalise a domestic confidence mechanisms.
ASEAN has additionally grown a complex system of institutions as good as procedures to dissuade members from undermining a usual confidence good by force. These region-wide institutions have, in my view, cumulative general legitimacy for ASEAN.
Forty years down a highway from Bangkok, what is a state of play of a ASEAN confidence community craving now? According to Rodolfo Severino, former ASEAN Secretary-General, "in a really genuine sense ASEAN is a confidence community" (2008).
There is no doubt which a paramount role of ASEAN as a confidence village (or a various of it) has seen a little daylight. The actuality we have been now during assent with any alternative as good as some-more deferential of a sanctification of borders provides further justification which a ASEAN experiment in establishing a domestic village has not been a fatuous exercise.
All along, a paramount role of ASEAN has been political. More importantly, a domestic elites have been dynamic to emanate norms as good as manners which would curt in a long-run into a confidence village mindset. Some have argued which a top-down approach to a confidence village is inadequate; an livable confidence village or system of administration needs to be supplemented as good as reinforced by a bottom-up approach, which radically equates to it has to have a support (or buy-in) of a citizens.
In 1987, a Group of! 14 upon ASEAN Economic Cooperation as good as Integration resolved which ASEAN has been successful as an apolitical experiment. The report records with pride which "it is a measure of a success of a ASEAN experiment which most have now forgotten which ours was once an area of turmoil, of mutual suspicion, mutual hostility, mutual dislike, even of mutual disinterest".
The Group of 14 was candid with a letter of reference for larger formation in all sectors domestic security, as good as a mercantile as good as social cultural sectors. It warned which nutritious domestic togetherness has to be a consistent struggle to achieve assent as good as confidence in a region. Since 1987, a ASEAN family has stretched to ten states, marking an additional milestone in a domestic integration. It is formidable to ignore this achievement.
Persuading a little enemy states (Rizal Sukma, 2003) similar to Vietnam (1995), Laos (1997) as good as Cambodia (1999) to stick on ASEAN was not an easy task. Of course, most resisted a membership of Burma in ASEAN in 1997.
ASEAN has strengthened a institutions as good as worked tough to reinvent itself since a Group of 14 Report (1987). After a Asian financial crisis of 1997, ASEAN launched a series of initiatives to enhance informal security. Various instruments similar to a ASEAN Vision 2020 (1998), a Bali Concord eleven (2003), Hanoi Action of Plan as good as Vientiane Action Programme (2004) as good as a ASEAN Charter (2007) were introduced.
Institutions similar to a ASEAN Regional Forum (1993) with members from a Asia-Pacific region, a ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (2006) as good as a ADMM-Plus (2010) were determined to provide a forum to plead usual confidence concerns. The latter dual institutions were written for military officers; hitherto, they have no grave informal height (beyond shared mechanisms) to plead confidence concerns.
ASEAN has succeeded in establishing a framework for a confidence village to endure. As a process, ASEAN is currently p! olitical ly, economically as good as culturally most some-more integrated. It has determined a clever identity-building along confidence-building structure towards a nascent, de facto, if not de jure, confidence village (Acharya) nonetheless a little have criticised this classification as flawed.
Flawed or not, we hold ASEAN countries have attained a high level of maturity in politics as good as confidence which is same to a judgment of confidence village in general relations. To repudiate this is to ignore a close network of confidence associated mechanisms/institutions inside of ASEAN. To indicate which a confidence maturity or consciousness is due to outmost forces is to discredit or downplay a ASEAN Way.
The provocative question stays can this nascent, de facto confidence village or confidence regime, SOI, or a confidence state-of-mind between a part of states of ASEAN endure? we am a organisation follower in a institution's resilience.
I hold Asean can continue a challenges. It is able of nutritious a domestic confidence village programme, if part of states with different levels of mercantile as good as domestic growth have been willing to engage a polite societies, minimise a centrifugal pulls as good as imitate with a determined norms as good as values.
Along a journey, ASEAN contingency deal with a little of a confidence hurdles of pragmatism.
BA Hamzah is a tyro of politics, general law as good as education.
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EMAIL LUAHAN HATI SEORANG BEKAS PELAJAR PASAL PTPTN! WAJIB KENA BACA
Salam Bro Parpukari,
Aku terpanggil untuk ulas sedikit mengenai PTPTN ni. Untuk makluman aku adalah antara batch pertama menerima PTPTN (1997) dari kerajaan masa belajar di sebuah universiti utara tanah air. Aku ingat lagi di mana ia merupakan pinjaman dan mempunyai kos 4% pada asalnya. So aku request MARA, JPA dan lain-lain lagi tetapi gagal dan kebanyakkannya borang dah habis. Aku ingat lagi borang-borang tu terhad dan maklumat mengenainya amat kurang.
So terpaksalah aku request PTPTN dan aku dimaklumkan bayaran balik bulanan sebanyak RM192.50 sebulan. Selepas connoisseur aku kerja. Alhamdulillah dimudahkan LHDN diberi tugas untuk mengutip kembali pinjaman tersebut. Apa yang nak aku share ialah mereka yang menerima pinjaman dari JPA, MARA dan lain-lain badan tidak pula membayar pinjaman mereka. Malah mereka gelak lagi pada JPA, MARA dan lain-lain dan mengatakan bahawa "dia telefon saya bayar la...kang 5 bulan lagi tunggu la dia call balik". Aku dengan sinis mengatakan pada senior-senior tempat kerja aku padanla aku takleh nak dapat duit pinjaman dari MARA, JPA dan lain-lain pasal korang semua ni la.... Dia orang gelak je.....
So aku mula bayar mulai tahun awal pertengahan 2001 tak silap aku. Sbb bagi aku dah bg pinjaman sampai aku dapat kerja so bayar la balik. Aku nak benda ini berterusan sbb anak-anak aku pon nak pakai. Aku tak nak jadi senior-senior aku yang pentingkan diri sendiri. Mereka fikir mereka je.... So aku amat mengharapkan pinjaman seumpama ini di dunia diteruskan supaya anak cucu aku boleh menikmati juga. Aku dah tgk mereka yang pergi belajar ke US, UK dan! lain-la in negara....amatlah mahal dan memang tak boleh harapkan FAMA. Bagi aku mereka yang liat bayar pinjaman ini tak kira la PTPTN, MARA JPA TNB, Telekom dan lain-lain tu semua sombong dan kacang lupakan kulit. Sekarang gaji permulaan kebanyakkan connoisseur bermula dengan RM2500. Tapik lihat la jumlah mereka yang diistihar broke kerana kad kredit atau mereka yang gagal bayar kad kredit golongan mana? Apa lepas ni mereka nak hutang kad kredit mereka, hutang kereta mereka juga dilupuskan? Ini perihal anak muda dan mereka yang lupa daratan. Kalau mereka kata mereka ni tidak mampu bayar, lihat la statistik mereka yang disenarai hitam bank negara berapa umurnya? Jangan kelentong la bayar PTPTN ni membebankan kalau dah mula kerja. (Bagi yang tidak bekerja atau belum dapat pekerjaan aku akui ia membebankan).
Malah aku salute kerajaan bila kata ia boleh dijadikan pinjaman boleh ubah. Berapa percentage yang ambil peluang tu?? So bagi aku la, kalau dah liat bayar hutang tu, liat juga la. Aku tgk youth aku masuk kerja, masa mula masuk kerja saja dah tambah hutang dengan beli kereta yang bukan calang-calang. So di mana prioritynya? Bagi aku semua ni alasan je. Aku dengar bapa aku cerita yang dia dulu kalau sambung belajar masuk universiti, aku mungkin tak makan... tu dah kerja dah bro!! Orang dulu masuk belajar mak ai gadai semua sebab investment yang baik jika anak dapat sambung belajar universiti. Ada mak bapak pinjam lagi dari sedara mara. Tapik apa jadi bila anak dah abih belajar? Yang jadi gurantor tu kena kejar beb!! Ha masa mula nak masuk belajar dulu, dengan muka toya mak bapak datang minta jadi guarantor. Ni dah abih belajar buat tak reti je. Sama je bro perangai orang Malaysia. Tak kira apa...hutang pale liat nak bayar. Tu yang kes Ah Long melampau tu.
Aku tengok youth aku...masuk kerja je once confirm, kereta mesti beli, kad kredit dan personal loan. Semua hutang bro. Yang hutang belajar tak der insiatif langsung nak gi tanya LHDN camner nak buat pototngan gaji. So kalau la pendidikan ni percu! ma dari sekolah darjah 1 sampai menengah, Uni nak giveaway abih tu lepas tu apa? Kereta, kad kredit dan lain2? Takyah citer la yang amek engineering, account, pengajian Islam sama je...mencari alasan untuk tidak bayar. Mereka amat selfish. Aku dah abih bayar...10 tahun bro bayar....sbb aku pikir anak-anak aku nak pakai loan camni bila dorang belajar.....So entahlah bagi aku budak-budak sekarang nak senang semua....nak pakai barang semua yang branded je....maybe tak semua tapik yang aku jumpa comparison aku atau youth aku ditempat kerja itu yang aku jumpa.
Wallahualam.
Mohd Affendi
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