Tolerance

Since you was inspired (I had frequency eaten anything because a smorgasboard line looked so daunting), you finished my approach to a "halal" list as well as proposed pointing though prior to you could contend anything, you was told "Ini makanan halal" or in English "this is halal food".

KS

My daughter is enrolled during a Chinese medium national type primary school.

you sent her there because whilst being a Chinese by race, you frequency speak any Chinese worth being proud about, as well as my level of jubilee of a mass is singular to writing my own name as well as identifying a little couple of Chinese characters, that equates to you probably wouldn't survive a day in China by myself if no a single spoke to me in English.

It does not meant that you am not proud to be Malaysian. It only equates to that you am proud to be Chinese as well as well as you would similar to to give my kid a little of what you could not achieve.

My personal credentials is singular in that you have complicated Islamic Studies (at my own father's insistence) when you was in delegate school. you have a credit in a old SRP (now PMR) in Islamic studies as well as you did not continue Islamic Studies because when you practical to take up Islamic Studies as a subject for my SPM, you was not authorised to do so by a Ministry of Education upon a drift that you was not a Muslim.

At a single point you roughly converted to Islam. Obviously decisions by authorities such as referred to in a previous divide shabby my preference not to turn a Muslim as it felt similar to you was being blackmailed i! n to apr opos a Muslim.

In observant that, you do not place censure upon Islam as a religion, though rather a have use of as well as extremism of sure members of a conviction had caused me to remove my conviction in a promise of Islam as a religion.

Put additionally in to perspective that between my peers you am sometimes not deliberate a pure Chinese because of my beliefs as well as a approach you run my life.

Yet today, you am during ease, eating any kind of generic food found in Malaysia (I do not consider a eating of exotic animals to be generic), eating with my hands, or with chopsticks, or even with ladle as well as fork (our colonial story during play).

What my credentials equates to is that you feel that you am in a singular in front of to comment upon what happened recently during my daughter's propagandize during a jubilee of a Chinese mid-autumn festival.

The propagandize had finished arrangements to have a large do for a mid-autumn festival. Among a arrangements was a pot luck, where all a relatives would pierce their own food to a list to be shared, that is key to my story here.

On a day of a legal holiday celebrations, you finished my approach to a propagandize that had most fanfare, young kids running around happily with any other, relatives seeking upon them adorably.

PTA/PIBG organizers were conspicuous by a uniform t-shirt that they all wore.

Interested, you went to have a look during a food arrangements.

Food was organised smorgasboard style upon tables organised in a canteen. And quite properly in my opinion, a separate list set apart for "halal" food, that was being hovered over protectively by a little Muslims. Not surprising to me as there were probably thirty to 40 Muslims in a throng of over 700 as well as caring should be taken to safeguard that there was sufficient food for EVERYONE.

The festivities non-stop up with speeches, as well as a little min! or perfo rmances by propagandize children, as well as a smorgasboard was declared opened.

There was a pour out for food as well as my critique of that is that no lines or throng carry out was effected, though in ubiquitous everyone was having a rollicking great time.

Among a chief dishes was satay, being grilled by someone hired to griddle satay, as well as you found out after that there had been two (2) satay stalls arranged, a single by Chinese relatives (whom you assume have been not Muslims), as well as an additional by Malay relatives (whom you assume have been Muslims).

In short order, all a pre-grilled satay available was finished, with a satay grillers frantically barbecuing as fast as they could, probably a little 100 sticks during a time (which if you know, takes 10 minutes off a line to be cooked sufficient to eat).

Yet, you saw during a "halal" list a tray containing maybe 200 sticks.

Since you was inspired (I had frequency eaten anything because a smorgasboard line looked so daunting), you finished my approach to a "halal" list as well as proposed pointing though prior to you could contend anything, you was told "Ini makanan halal" or in English "this is halal food".

And this by a single of a organizing members of a dinner, who was roughly really a Muslim (he looked Malay as well as therefore you assume he is Muslim).

you was primarily dumbfounded to contend a least, upset, as well as additionally indignant during a same time.

you roughly retorted though you did not wish to have a scene, as well as considering a small-mindedness of a statement, chose to omit it, as well as rather lined up waiting an additional 20 minutes for a little prohibited delicious satay instead of insisting upon a little cold satay.

Why did this stun me? Why did this have me upset? Why did this have me angry?

1) By observant that a food is "halal" (when there is a large pointer finished by a orga! nizing c abinet that a food is "halal", does it meant that you am not fit to eat "halal" food? The final you checked relatives of a Chinese student who was not Muslim had taken a suspicion (or during least you hope there was a thought) to sequence halal food for a celebrations in sequence to be all inclusive.

2) At a time of my asking, a smorgasboard had already been in progress for about an hour. Most guests had already eaten during least part their fill, as well as food was starting to run out. It was strong to me that a direct for food during a "halal" list was some-more or less past its peak. you could see that there were about 8 Muslims sitting during a list chatting as well as not a single of them eating.

3) There was plenty satay during a table, offering it to a infancy who had nothing would have been a kind gesture, generally given there was some-more satay upon a way.

4) Again entrance back to a actuality that there was satay barbecuing upon a grill, as well as plenty satay upon a "halal" list cooling down. Why have cold satay after when you can have prohibited satay? If you have been not eating a food, why let it's ambience be ruined by vouchsafing it cool down? Why not get deputy satay later?

5) If you (I am referring to a specific person), a PTA cabinet part of who is a Muslim as well as who told me that a "food is halal" is such an extreme Muslim, then, what were you doing in attendance a presumably non-believer legal holiday as well as even encouraging Muslim young kids to fool around with lanterns (which you saw with my own eyes) in jubilee of a festival? A counterbalance of a highest sequence as well as arrangement of lack of bargain of one's own religion, beliefs as well as toleration of.

6) Did a Muslims during a propagandize not notice that a propagandize administration department had taken heedfulness to safeguard that their rights to eat halal food had been protected? Did they not see a timberland when they beheld trees in ! front of them, or were they so overwhelmed by a trees that they suspicion they were in a haunted forest?

7) My mother who had progressing attended a PTA/PIBG meeting progressing in a year when a cabinet was being voted in had privately heard a headmistress apologize to a non-Chinese vocalization relatives as well as suggested them to pierce their young kids to bureaucratic Malay medium schools if their young kids could not cope as a methods of teaching in a Chinese propagandize might be as well opposite for them to cope, yet during a same time welcomed a challenge of teaching these students. As far as you am concerned, if you have been willing to expect your young kids to non-conformity in sequence to expand their mindset (just as my father did to me as well as 2 of my sisters), afterwards you yourself as a primogenitor must be ready to have a leap of conviction in to non-conformity!

you won't go upon serve except to contend that it is unsatisfactory to see such astigmatic thoughts in a nation that is ostensible to be multi-racial, multi-religious, as well as multi-cultural, as well as generally is ostensible to have such peace as well as toleration for all things racial, religious as well as cultural.

This small incident between such a happy evening for my family ruined a event for me privately as you feel that such insensitivity should not exist in this nation in this day as well as age.

Looking back, it might have even been me privately who was as well supportive towards an innocent insensitive gesture, though you reserve my right to feel aggrieved as you do not feel that you had annoyed anyone (unless someone tells me logically why you might have finished so), as well as you feel that a gesticulate was finished with a lack of usual clarity or intuition for a consequences.

you am not asking a reader of this article to turn angry. you am asking a reader to understand a spirit of a story.

What a role of this article equates to t! o have c lear to a reader is that you all, ALL peoples of Malaysia, have to have use of their usual clarity in reacting to a various elements of race, sacrament as well as culture in this nation as it is what is ostensible to have us strong.

By a same grace, you commend:

1) That you do have Chinese-medium preparation systems in a nation as well as that a supervision allows for such systems.
2) That non-Chinese elect to place their young kids in Chinese-medium preparation systems to serve broaden their mind, that is not to contend that non-Chinese medium preparation systems have been inferior, it is only that it is opposite as well as provides a opposite mindset as part of conditioning.
3) That a relatives of non-Chinese credentials enrol their young kids as well as support their young kids by participating in propagandize events such as these despite these incidents, that minor as they seem, can turn a bone of row in a destiny as well as should be weeded out as shortly as probable prior to they turn just that, a divisive element.

PEACE.

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Whistleblowing is an Islamic duty

Maszlee Malik, The Malay Mail

In embracing the suggestion of the categorical beliefs of Islam, the transformation of whistleblowing as the perceptible ofislahandamr ma'ruf nahy munkarhas been prejudiced of the syariah imperatives, as good as the vicious basic of the Islamic made at home note since the days of Prophet Muhammad.

There were large incidents during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad where the have make use of of of whistleblowing was sanctioned.

Among them is the auspicious gathering as reported by the singular of his companions, Jabir garbage bin Abdullah, who listened the seer say: "Discussions have been trusted (not subject to disclosure) except in three areas: "Shedding wrong blood, wrong cohabitation as good as wrong accumulation of wealth." (Narrated by Abu Dawud)

In another hadith, Zaid garbage bin Khalid reported that Prophet Muhammad said: "Shall we not discuss it we who is the many appropriate of witnesses? The the singular who brings his sworn matter before being asked to do so, or tells his sworn matter when he is asked for it." (Narrated by Malik).

It is evident from this gathering that the seer was enlivening hisummahto blow the warning voluntarily, as the dignified claim towards the maslahah, (public seductiveness as good as benefits of the exquisite society).

If we demeanour during it from the point of perspective ofamru bil maaruf(enjoin! ing goodness) as good as wal nahy an almunkar(forbidding wrongdoing) or from the perspective ! ofsh ahada(witness attestation), that is imperative on Muslims, then! warning floating is the "duty" since the role of whistleblowing is the same as that of ! 'enjoini ng firmness as good as ominous wrongdoing'.

The respectful as good as made at home administration department dialect dialect dialect dialect of Prophet Muhammad (who as celebrity of the city state of Medina, was the showcase of competency, weight as good as transparency. These were likewise practical to the administration department dialect dialect dialect dialect of government income as good as expenditure in the provinces.

The oft-mentioned situation involving Ibn Lutaybiyah demonstrates this element succinctly. Functioning as anamil(tax collector), he returned to Medina installed with taxation revenues, as good as asserted that the petrify portion of the income was since to him as tokens from sure people.

The seer reminded him by saying: "What is wrong with the male whom we allocated as the taxation gourmet as good as he said this is for we as good as that was since to me? If he stayed in his parent's house, would something be since to him?" (Narrated by al-Bukhari)

On another occasion, the seer was quoted as all the time reminding his companions by saying: "Whomsoever we designate over an affair, we shall give! him prov! ision. What he takes after that is crack of trust." (Narrated by Abu Daud)

The 4 rightly-guided caliphs, the successors of Prophet Muhammad one after another the benchmarks of competency, weight as good as distinctness in their administration department dialect dialect dialect dialect of the state.

Abu Bak r, the primary caliph after the prophet, stressed the stress of weight as good as the poise of people with aut! hority i n the village in his unequivocally primary discuss to the Muslim village after being inaugurated as the caliph, saying: "Cooperate with me when we am right, yet repremand me when we commit error; obey me so enlarged as we follow the commandments of Allah as good as His Pro! phet; th ough spin divided from me when we deviate." (Narrated by al-Hindi as good as Ibn Kathir).

His alternative companions often held him to account for his decisions as good as administration department dialect dialect dialect dialect of the state.

This was in addition the position of Omar al-Khattab when he was inaugurated to achieve Abu Bakr. In his lass discuss after being allocated as caliph, Omar stressed the need for weight in his administration, as good as the rights of each empowered citizen.

It was reported that while Omar was once delivering the Friday sermon, an ordinary chairman rose as good as interrupted, saying: "O the celebrity of the believers, we won't attend to your oration until we demand how we came up with your enlarged dress (the Arabian robe)."

Apparently, there was the small placement of fabric to the people as good as since the magnitude of placement as good as the tallness of Omar; he could not have done the s! kirt out ! of his share. So, the observant voice of egalitarianism unhesitatingly challenged Omar, the celebrity of the immeasurable caliphate.

Omar's son stood up as good as explained that he gave his share to his father, so that the dress could be done to! fit Oma r. The observant voice then voiced his defeat as good as sat down, as good as Omar resumed his oration (Ibn Qutaybah, 2002: 1/55).

Accountability of open administrators

Omar's policy on weight was not singular to the obsolete style of! written complaints as good as defamation from the public. As for the open offices, he determined the specific business to bargain with the weight of the open administrators.

The business was designed for the review of complaints conflicting officers of the state that reached the caliph. When it was primary established, Om! ar alloc ated Muhammad ibn Maslamah to take the responsibility of this ombudsman-like department.

In critical cases, Omar would trust Muhammad to ensue to the location, inspect the assign as good as take action. Sometimes an scrutiny elect was constituted to inspect the charge. Whenever the officers raised complaints conflicting Muhammad, they were summoned to Madinah, as good as the box was listened by Caliph Omar himself.

The caliph in addition liberated governors when the people complained conflicting them. Among those liberated was the companion of Prophet Muhammad (Saad Ibnu Abi Waqqas. In the aft! er provis! o of Muslim history, the specially-designed business good well known as Diwan al-Mazalim was determined to lift put this task, that now can be counsel the model account of the ? la mode ombudsman.

O nce, while delivering the sermon, Omar said: "My rights over open supports (the Baitul Mal) have been identical to those of the guardians of an orphan. If good placed in life, we will not insist anything from it. In box of need, we shall draw customarily as many as it is constitutionally authorised for on condition that food.

"You have each right to subject me about any crude accumulation of the income! as good as annuity collections, crude utilisation of the book money, sustenance of the each day bread to all, border-security arrangements as good as nuisance caused to any citizen."

He was accessible by historians to have released certificates, witnessed by the group of elders, to all duly allocated governors stipulating that the administrator should not float an costly h! orse, ea t white bread, wear any fine fine cloth or forestall the people's needs (from being satisfied).

This is customarily the singular e.g. of Omar showcasing the practise of distinctness where the ruler, as good as the state officers, should have zero to hide from the open as good as have been open to investigation of their have make use of of of open funds.

Another e.g. of weight as good as open airing of grievances practised during the period of the rightly-guided caliphs can be found in the critical letter written by the fourth caliph, Ali ibn Abi Talib, to the administrator of Egypt, Malik al-Ashtar, as accessible in the gathering of Ali's letters as good as sermons, 'Nahjul Balaghah'.

In his letter of reference to the governor, Ali asserts: "Out of your hours of work, repair the time for the complainants as good as for those who want to ensue we with their grievances. During this time, we should do no alternative work yet attend to them as good as compensate attention to their complaints as good as grievances.

'Let them verbalise! unreservedly'

"For this purpose, we contingency hope for open assembly for them; during this audience, for the consequence of Allah, yield them with kindness, amenity as good as respect. Do not let your armed forces as good as military be in the assembly hall during such times so that those who have grievances conflicting your regime competence verbalise to we freely, unreservedly as good as but fear."

All of these examples spell out the stress as good as vicious role of whistleblowing as another facet of ensuring competency, weight! as good as distinctness in support probity as good as good governance.

Whistleblowing has continually been an integral member of the Islamic made at home culture, strongly rooted in the ontological approval since the unequivocally beginning.

Furthermore, Muslim scholars, both the past as good as present, have been unequivocally prolific in their writings on topics related to weight as good as the have make use of of ofmazalimandhisbah(public inquiry).
A mong the many critical was 'al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah', the magnum low-pitched combination of al-Mawardi (al-Mawardi, 1995), in that he dealt with both the topics ofmazalimandhisbahextensively. Another model scholar, Ibn Taimiyah, in addition authored the book patrician 'Hisbah', in that he discussed hisbah as the impending responsibility of each Muslim particular as good as in addition as an claim on Muslim rulers (Ibn Taimiyah, 1985).

Al-Ghazali, in the same token, dealt with the begin of weight of the lady monarch as good as his officers in his celebrated 'Nasehat al-Mulk', that was his letter of reference to the son of the sultan during his time. However, it was the renowned vizier as good as scholar, Nizamul Muluk, who smartly deliberated these topics in the unequivocally normative meaning in his resplendent treatise, 'Siyasat Nameh'.

These deductive analogies, formed on sound fact from accurate monk texts, spell out the nobleness as good as righteousness of genuine acts of whistleblowing to enthuse as good as promote competency, weight as good as distinctness in the societies.

Even yet there is no approach anxiety to difficult day whistleblowing per se, the beliefs it embraces implies that whistleblowing is prejudiced as good as parcel of the extensive scheme of good governance to learn the top idea of Islamic nicely in order to guarantee probity with firmness as grea! t as forgiveness wit! hin the parameters of maqasid al-syariah.

Moreover, the have make use of ! of of wh istleblowing is in addition counsel an transformation of worship. According to Yusuf Al-Qaradawy, "whenever the Muslim follows up good intentions with the slight action, his transformation becomes an transformation of worship."

Ulama should behind whistleblowers

The augmenting acts of genuine whistleblowing, that we declare today, meant that all is not good with the state of honesty as good as firmness of the made at home governance.

The bold acts of the couple of who have sto! od up op posite the investiture to display the wrongdoings of people in open business as good as the sum abuse of open supports have been model acts of piety in the pursuit of good governance to achieve the gratification of society.

Regrettably, this venerable equates to is being led by the politician as good as non-scholars instead of an 'apolitical' or non-partisan entity or individuals. Civil society, giveaway from the clutches of unfair politics, should ideally be heading this whistleblowing initiative.

We would dauntless addition that Islamic-based organisations as good as Muslim scholars, since of their ontological awareness, ought to be spearheading this citizen's watchdog commencement to ensure as good as strengthen conflicting rubbish as good as detriment of open supports as good as abuses of open office.

However, disappointingly, many of the Islamic scholars (ulama), whom we had expected to be during the forefront of such righteous efforts in the area of respectful as good as made at home governance, have been pensive with 'red herring' issues that in many cases customarily suggest to polarise serve the multi-racial as good as multi-religious make-up of Malaysian society.

The disaster of the ulama to spearhead such an commencement would send the wrong signal to the lay Muslims, as good as remonstrate them that whistleblowing is visitor to the corpus of Islamic belief.

We idea that this renowned as good as satisfactory try will pi! erce the code brand brand new chapter as good as in essence, the code brand brand new idea in the unconstrained episodes of the onslaught to defend democracy as good as good governance in the dear country, Malaysia. As the consequence, we idea these efforts will develop the some-more competent, under obligation as good as pristine made at home governance.

Undoubt! edly, th ere have been whistleblowing actions taken by the good adults in the past. The stream bid takes the whistleblowing commencement to the higher spin of open engagement.

The 'National Oversight as good as Whistleblowers Centre' is the unequivocally commendable bid t! o galvan ize as good as have determined this endeavour, thus origination whistleblowing some-more structured, guided as good as professional.

We unequivocally as good as unreservedly urge all civic-minded adults of Malaysia, regardless of race, sacrament as good as made at home affiliations, to await this glorious whistleblowing initiative. Above all, we strongly enthuse the Muslim community, monk scholars (ulama) as good as Islamic organisations to acquire this respectful crowd commencement in the common quest of attaining competency, accountability, transparency, good governance as good as adult well-being.

We strongly hold that all these qualities have been indisputably syariah imperatives as good as categorical pillars of the Islamic made at home norms that all Muslims should make an effort to achieve.

MASZLEE MALIK is with International Islamic University Malaysia, while MUSA MOHD NORDIN is with the Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF).

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Haron Din buka langkah serang Anwar Al Kafirun

Haron Din mula menyerang Anwar dalam laporan PAS berikut:






Adakah perang coterie ulamak contra Erdogan sudah bermula?

Anwar memang ada rancangan untuk melumpuhkan coterie ulamak yang berkuasa dalam Dewan Syura dan hanya bergantung kepada Nik Aziz untuk kuasai Dewan Ulamak.



Datuk Haron Din adalah tokoh yang pale kurang kontroversi dan dihurmati kawan dan lawan dalam politik.

Scorpene inquiry on-going, says French lawyer Bourdon

The counsel petitioning a justice in Paris to examine crime in a sale of dual Scorpene-class submarines to Malaysia has ticked off a French prosecutor for his remarks upon a box reported yesterday by national news agencyBernama.

Prominent tellurian rights counsel William Bourdon, who is formed in Paris, pronounced there was no subject of "an persisting trial" as a dual French judges appointed to a box were still carrying out their investigations in to a argumentative counterclaim understanding in in between France as well as Malaysia.

"The Tribunal deGrande Instance has convened a criminal exploration of which (Malaysian tellurian rights group) Suaram has been supposed as a polite celebration given Mar 2012," pronounced Bourdon.

He pronounced it was only upon a execution of a exploration which a investigating judge will have a preference of whether a box goes to full trial.

Bourdon (left) described French! supervision prosecutor Yves Charpenel's have a difference which there was "no trial" upon a box as "absolutely contradictory" because a judges, upon execution of their investigation, are a ones to decide whether to call for a trial, as well as not a prosecutor.

"To a knowledge, a prosecutors in charge of a box have not made any such have a difference as referred to by Charpenel," pronounced a prominent French lawyer.

"The dual judges, Roger Le Loire as well as Serge Tournaire, are stability their investigations upon a Scorpene inquiry."

BernamaquotedCharpenel, a former head of prosecution in France as well as who is now a state prosecutor, as observant which a media in Malaysia should be means to distinguish in in between rumours as well as facts, as well as in in between investigations as well as a trial.

"I am aware about all a bitch kicked up by sure media (organisations) in Malaysia over this have a difference but what we can contend is which this is zero more t! han a tri! al by a media," he is reported to have pronounced in Kuala Lumpur.

Charpenel is additionally an senior manager member of a International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, as well as was in Malaysia to attend a four-day discussion upon corruption.

Suaram: No need to turn a truth

Meanwhile, Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel pronounced her group had always maintained which a Scorpene box was a criminal review carried out by France, as well as which a box had nonetheless to go to trial.

Gabriel (right) pronounced Suaram was in Mar this year supposed as a celebration to a persisting inquiry.

"As such, manipulating as well as twisting a truth will bring no benefit to a poke for answers as well as truth in a matter," she toldMalaysiakini.

In 2009, Suaram filed a complaint opposite French counterclaim hulk DCNS for paying commissions t! o Malays ian officials in connection with a submarine deal. The remuneration of commissions is bootleg underneath French law.

Although a examine in underneath wraps, 139 prosecution papers have anonymously appeared online as well as a little of this information have been reported in a media.

Suaram recently revealed which asubpoena has been servedon a single of a witnesses it due as a chairman means to support in a French legal probe.

Last Saturday, PKR de facto personality Anwar Ibrahim confirmed which Bourdon as well as his law partner, Joseph Breham, had agreed to come to Malaysia to insist details of a exploration to members of a Dewan Rakyat.

However, because of fears which a lawyers maynot be permittedto enter Malaysia - Bourdon was deported final year for allegedly "abusing his social revisit pass" - a dual French lawyers are expected to brief MPs in neighbo! uring Sin! gapore.

Defence minister: Deal above board

At a press discussion final May in Bangkok, Thailand, Suaramrevealedthat a French association bidding for a submarine understanding paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, evidently for "commercial engineering" works.

The RM7.3 billion understanding for a dual Scorpene submarines with DCNS was inked in 2002 when Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak (right) was counterclaim minister.

It has been alleged which millions of ! ringgit had been paid as commissions by private companies, including Terasasi, which belongs to Najib's confidant as well as former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.

Razak, who is currently formed in Br! itain, wa! s charged with abetting in a attempted murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, who allegedly served as a translator in a deal.

However, he was expelled but being asked to have his defence.

Najib, who is additionally finance apportion as well as women, family as well as community growth minister, has denied any impasse in a Scorpene understanding or which he knew Altantuya.

Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi hasdismissed all allegationsof crime in a Scorpene deal, observant a auditor-general has declared which squeeze of a submarines had been carried out in accordance with legal procedures.

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Young and jobless Malaysian grads a RM500m strain on taxpayers

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 Bad work attitudes coupled with bad report exchnage skills surfaced by impractical pay final have been the 3 biggest grouses employers have in turning down uninformed graduates, Southeast Asia's tip online recruitment firm Jobstreet has found suggesting that the scarcely RM500 million the Najib administration has due to spend upon jobless youths might not be sufficient to sufficient to have them marketable.

A whopping 64 per cent of employers surveyed by Jobstreet pronounced they deserted the uninformed graduates given the pursuit seekers had asked for impractical arrangement during the interview, the pursuit poke group toldThe Malaysian Insiderin the new email inquiry.

File print of Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein with university tyro leaders after the lunch early this year. Many graduates sojourn impoverished due to their bad authority of English.

Another 60 per cent pronounced they were forced to spin down the graduates due to bad attitude, personality as well as character.

And some-more than half of 571 tellurian apparatus managers polled by Jobstreet in the Nov 2011 study pronounced they were incompetent to hire the graduates due to the pursuit seekers' bad report exchnage skills, particularly their lack of authority in using English that remains the business lingua franca worldwide.

"Many have been right away impoverished given the courses they complicated for at university do not have the wide market. In fact, most graduates do not know what they want to do after they finish their studies," pronounced Sarafarina Azam, 30, an partner tellurian apparatus manager with an general word company.

In his Budget 2013 debate presented in Parliament final month, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had mooted setting up the Grad! uate Emp loyability Taskforce with an allocation of RM200 million to have firm the employability of jobless graduates underneath the Graduate Employability Blueprint by the finish of this year.

He additionally announced an one some-more RM440 million to be allocated for the Skills Development Fund Corporation (PTPK), to yield loans for trainees to bear skills training.

The supervision will additionally set up the New Entrepreneur Foundation (NEF) with the start-up of RM50 million as partial of the efforts assistance young ICT entrepreneurs. The NEF will be the height to yield precision as well as guidance programmes.

A apart Young Entrepreneurs Fund will be set up as well as will be given RM50 million by the SME Bank to palm out as soft loans to jobless youths aged thirty as well as below, providing the subsidised dual per cent seductiveness rate for loans up to RM100,000 with the seven-year repayment period.

The proposals have been seen to element the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025 with the aim to be in the tip third of the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA) exam inside of the subsequent 13 years. The republic is right away ranked in the bottom third.

The preparation plans comprises 11 strategic "shifts" to inculcate six attributes in young kids knowledge, thinking skills, leadership, bilingual proficiency, ethics as well as inhabitant identity.

Yet inside of the new Budget 2013, the Barisan National (BN)-led supervision cut the preparation bill drastically from RM50 billion in the final bill to RM38.7 billion, raising doubts about the expected success of the tutorial plans in addressing the nation's flagging preparation standards.

The opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) called for abolishing the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) to clean out PTPTN debts, drawing criticism that such the pierce would backfire as it would give students the clarity of entitlement as well as increas! e their reliance upon the government.

Analysts have additionally referred to that Malaysia's dream of boosting the preparation standards through an desirous overhaul of the inhabitant propagandize complement will not happen as prolonged as politicians go upon to be concerned in drawing up the policies.

There have been right away twenty open universities in Malaysia, together with the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), Mara University of Technology (UiTM) as well as Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Over the past twenty years, the number of private aloft preparation institutions has additionally increased to the total of 60 nationwide, such as HELP University, UCSI University, Tunku Abdul Rahman University as well as most more.

Jobstreet pronounced the government's offer to spend the little RM500 million upon precision uninformed graduates as well as yield alternative incentives to lift their employability was welcome though stressed that practical precision courses needed to be strengthened and, some-more significantly, the preparation complement needed to be revamped in order to furnish quality graduates who retain the required skills as well as knowledge in line with the pursuit market.

Malaysia's mushrooming local aloft preparation institutions topsy-turvy out the total 184,581 graduates final year according to the ultimate census data released upon the Higher Education Ministry'swebsite. Of that figure, 44,391 people or twenty-four per cent have been unemployed.

According to interpretation from the ministry, the most number of impoverished graduates have been those who complicated humanities as well as amicable sciences (19,784), followed by those from the technical margin (12,321). But in some-more aged to their peers from the same field, scholarship students have the tip unemployment rate making up 29.5 per cent of jobless graduates.

The ministry's census data additionally show that job-seekers armed with usually the diploma (17,095) have been some-more successful in landing the pursuit than those who holding the bachelor's grade (21,248).

Why are the Malays running away?

A stinging satire upon Mahathir's ultimate call for the Malays to stop being ungrateful, quiescent as well as foolish to opinion against Umno.

COMMENT

Dr Mahathir Mohamad's new summary is timely. The Malays simply contingency change. They contingency reform, transform or whatever you call it! Yes, the Malays have been ungrateful as well as lacking intelligence, especially the few power-hungry ones in the opposition.

Luckily, Tengku Aziz got out in time from the DAP. We cannot expect greedy, ungrateful as well as blunt politicians similar to Anwar Ibrahim as well as Hadi Awang to do the same. Imagine, the country's dominant race losing the domestic energy since of the few ungrateful as well as moronic Malays who have been parsimonious for domestic power.

Mahathir additionally warned which "Malay (opposition) parties who win the elections as well as form the supervision would have to follow the dictates of others (races). They will remove dominance in the supervision since of their willingness to share with others," he said in the special mainstay patrician 'Suara Hati Mahathir' published in Mingguan Malaysia.

Yes, Umno has turn diseased since the final election. It can no longer dish out sufficient crutches for the Malays. And since of this the Malays have been abandoning Umno in droves. Very soon, there will be really small Malay await left for Umno.

For so long, Umno had been busy seeking out for the Malays. It was focused as well as it created immense resources as well as channelled it to their cronies to be dispensed to the Malay masses. But the Malays refused to save what they received, as well as outlayed each final cent of it.

! Today, m any still delight in poverty, as well as blame Umno for not you do sufficient to residence their plight. Many have in jeopardy to opinion the Opposition if Umno does not arrest the situation.

From farmers, civil servants to taxi drivers, everybody is good out for handouts or else! Some have been lazy, lack comprehension as well as plain parsimonious as well as will sell their souls to the top bidder. Umno has been too kind in the past, as well as relented to their demands.

But Umno's glorious doing of the economy, even underneath such extensive pressure is commendable, as it managed to do the bit for the Malays whilst suppressing the inhabitant debt from ballooning to the mere RM500 billion. Most governments in alternative countries would have gone broke by now.

Is it the surprise, which the 2013 bill sees some-more goodies for everyone, especially the Malays?

Malays can go upon to delight in despair

A inhabitant organization to combine the Malays, Umno had always put the Malays first. It has even invited alternative races to turn Bumiputeras as prolonged as they abide by the constitution. Thus far there has been lukewarm reply from the Chinese as well as the Indians.

It has even offering citizenships to clear foreigners who could verbalise Bahasa Malaysia as well as be loyal to the Malay cause. What some-more has Umno not done for the Malays?

Today, many Malays have been blinded by religion, fervour as well as power, so they stick upon the antithesis since they feel which Umno is reduction Islamic than PAS. PAS refuses to stick upon Umno to jointly implement an Islamic state, though rsther than cohabit with the opposition, so which they can gain some-more energy to rule, rsther than than to fool around second fiddle to Umno.

And approbation again, the Malays simply have to see through the insignificant corruption, as well as await Umno as well as the leaders, who ! have bee n sworn to strengthen the Malays from themselves. At slightest with Umno, the Malays can go upon to delight in despondency until the single excellent day, they can evolve in to some-more prolific humans though the fear which the Malay energy base will be eroded.

Today, Umno is populated by the best Malay minds in the world, superior comprehension over review as well as you can find them in the likes of Rais Yatim, Ibrahim Ali as well as Zahid Hamidi. It will be the waste if these leaders have been not since some-more time to work their magic.

Imagine the horrific scenario, if Umno loses. What will turn of the good leaders similar to Najib as well as Muhyiddin, Mahathir, Taib Mahmud as well as Shafie Apdal? The young Hishammuddin Hussein, Khairy Jamaluddin as well as Mukhriz Mahathir, who have been slated to carry upon the flame as future Prime Ministers of this land? Who will take caring of the Malays? Who is starting to strengthen the kingship as well as who is starting to uphold the religion?

Pakatan Rakyat is too preoccupied with the Malaysian Malaysia as well as would sell out the infancy to greatfully the minority. Bumiputeraship will remove the meaning as well as lustre. The Malays would turn ordinary adults similar to everybody else.

And imagine if the Malays would have to compete upon the turn personification field though the NEP, it would take an additional 200 years prior to they have been upon par with the rest of the races. Even the Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have overtaken the Malays upon their home ground.

So, Mahathir's arise up call is timely as well as the Malays should arise up from their doze to opinion with their heads as well as not with their hearts. He even took pains to remind the Malays of how the British during colonial times had called us quiescent as well as foolish as well as enslaving us in the own country.

See, how times have changed? Today you have several towering Malays in the likes ! of Taib Mahmud, Daim Zainuddin as well as Syed Al-Bukhary who through blood, sweat as well as tears managed to eke out the elementary existence. Today, they have the combined worth of nearly RM100 billion as well as the shining e.g. for alternative Malays to follow in their footsteps.

At slightest the Mamaks have been sober

But unlike them as well as in dark comparison, Mahathir who led the country, struggled favourite the workhorse for the Malay Agenda, usually retired with small savings even after twenty-two years in power. And similar to alternative Malaysians, he still has to be parsimonious as well as discount to safeguard which his changed savings final him in to his golden years.

But which did not stop him from chiding the Malays to get their butts moving, as well as to seek knowledge, as well as many important to safeguard which Umno gets to order for an additional century or more. After all, through his eyes, the Malays have been the legitimate heirs of this country.

The antithesis promises to revoke car prices, highway toll, food prices, physical phenomenon as well as H2O as well as giveaway preparation will not benefit the Malays in the prolonged run. The Malays already enjoy subsidies upon home purchases, scholarships, as well as guaranteed places in the universities, so because be taken in by Pakatan Rakyat's sad promises?

According to Mahathir, Malays took upon menial work jobs similar to drivers, orderlies, clerks or office boys during colonial times. Their insufficiency in holding responsibility, led to the import of Chinese as well as Indians to solve this problem of the Malays being foolish as well as incompetent.

Today, the Malays have been most improved off compared to yesteryear, as well as even if some of them reside in wooden tin shacks, with leaking roofs as well as the single meal the day, they can console themselves which they have been still first category citizens, which t! hey stil l have the roof over their heads as well as no inspired tummies. After all, the sacrament has taught us not to stoop to worldly treasures, though to build up treasures in heaven.

But, you contingency go upon to strengthen the excellent leaders, so which they can go upon to strengthen the master race, sacrament as well as the kingship from disintegrating. Losing Malay dominance would be an insult, even though it is not likely to occur underneath Pakatan rule, though Umno cannot simply remove face. PAS as well as PKR Malays have been too inexperienced to hoop the intricacies of statute the Malay infancy nation.

It would be foolish of the Malays to opinion Pakatan, just since the antithesis promises the improved country, the colour blind Malaysian Malaysia, or the corrupt giveaway government. Raced based domestic parties simply cannot vanish overnight as they have been still needed to combine this nation.

Not usually Umno, though MCA as well as MIC still needs the peoples' await to go upon existent as well as to champion the peoples' cause! Voting them out unnecessarily, would see the lot of intensity politicians though the solid job or income to fend for their families. So while, the ungrateful Malays with the bone to pick have been deserting Umno, during slightest the Mamaks (Indian Muslims) have been solemn sufficient to see through the fume screen as well as to stick with Umno.

As prolonged as BN wins the next election, secular as well as religious conflict would vanish in the blink of an eye, for during slightest an additional five years. So, because play divided Malay rights for the sake of the improved nation, individual freedoms or human rights?

A tour guide, lerned commander as well as naturalist, Iskandar Dzulkarnain has been essay for the few years now.

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Ah, Chamil Wariya (versi 2012)

Four years earlier: My Oct 2008 postinjg upon ChamilMalaysian bloggers once hailed Chamil Wariya as the RM100 million cerpen writer but now the little of them have been perfectionist which the journalist give up his in front of as the Malaysian Press Institute for the apology he released to YB Teresa Kok, which effectively got him off the hook of the RM100 lawsuit the statesman slapped upon him over his fiction, Politik Baru YB J, which was published by the pro-government daily Utusan Malaysia, but which has left which newspaper carrying to urge itself not only opposite Teresa but also opposite Chamil's brand new as well as astonishing claim.

I've gotten sued before as well as we have been in jeopardy with suits too for postings upon this blog. I've had to express "regret" outward of court as well as released an "apology" inside court along the way. And as in my case, we am sure Chamil would have also since up his right to verbalise plainly about the "settlement". Unlike Chamil, though, we have never had to blame anyone for the offending articles we had posted, so Chamil's preference to turn opposite his former colleagues in Utusan Malaysia is intriguing, to contend the really least.

And it's not even over the headlines report or analysis. It's the cerpen. A work of fiction!

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Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra: Confined by Police without Proper Cause

by Bernama (10-08-12)

The Sultan of Kelantan's brother, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra told a High Court today which he had not committed any rapist corruption upon Jul thirty 2009, a day he was cramped by Police.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, 34, testified which he was conjunction sensitive of any rapist wrongdoing nor a reason for his apprehension by a military in a Istana Mahkota grounds, in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.

"I was cramped for during slightest an hour by a Police as well as not allowed to leave a house drift which day," he pronounced during a record against Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar as well as three others associated to his purported prejudicial confinement upon Jul thirty 2009. He added which his lawyer, Datuk Mohd Haziq Pillay, was additionally in a automobile with him during a time.

The fifth plaintiff's witness pronounced which only prior to he was detained by a Police, he had driven out a Bentley Brooklands automobile which belonged to his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, from a house garage.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry pronounced prior to which day his father had instructed him to expostulate a automobile down to Singapore.However, as he was about to expostulate a automobile out of a house drift a Volvo had shut off his way as well as a main gates were closed.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry described a incident as frightful observant he saw multiform armed Policemen relocating in as well as out of a Palace.

During cross-examination by comparison sovereign counsel, Azizan Md Arshad, who represented a defendants, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry pronounced he was not wakeful of a order issued by his brother, a behaving Sultan of Kelantan during a time, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, prohibiting him from receiving a automobile out o! f a pala ce.

He additionally refuted Azizan's idea which a Police had essentially prevented a Bentley Brooklands from being taken out of a Palace drift as well as had not cramped him.

The plaintiff filed a RM150 million suit upon December 9 final year, fixing a IGP; a Kelantan Sultan's chief personal bodyguard, ASP Norazman Ismail; Kelantan military chief during a time, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi, as well as a Royal Malaysian Police as a initial to fourth defendants respectively.

In his statement of claim, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry purported which he was wrongfully cramped upon Jul 30, 2009 in a devalue of Istana Mahkota, Kubang Kerian as he was about to leave in a Bentley Brooklands car.

He is seeking RM100 million in ubiquitous damages, RM50 million in aggravated as well as exemplary damages, seductiveness during a rate of 4 per cent, costs as well as other relief deemed fit by a court.

The trial prior to Judge Datin Zabariah Mohd Yusof resumes tomorrow. Bernama

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BUKTI ANWAR PEMBOHONG! MANA ADA PERBICARAAN SCORPENE DI PERANCIS?

Seorang pendakwa kerajaan Perancis yang terkenal menafikan laporan-laporan media yang tersebar di kalangan beberapa portal berita online Malaysia berhubung perbicaraan yang sedang berlangsung di Perancis, mengenai dakwaan rasuah oleh sebuah syarikat Perancis berhubung pembelian dua kapal selam Scorpene buatan Perancis oleh Malaysia pada 2002.

Yves Charpenel berkata, media di Malaysia harus dapat membezakan antara khabar angin dan fakta dan antara siasatan dan perbicaraan.

Saya sedar mengenai semua kekecohan yang dibangkitkan media tertentu (organisasi) di Malaysia berhubung perkara ini tapi apa yang saya boleh kata ini adalah tidak lebih daripada satu perbicaraan oleh media, katanya kepada Bernama di sini, hari ini.

Charpenel, yang juga bekas ketua pendakwaan di Perancis dan kini seorang pendakwa negeri dan anggota eksekutif Persatuan Pihak Berkuasa Anti-Rasuah Antarabangsa (IAACA), berada di sini untuk menghadiri persidangan dan mesyuarat agung tahunan IAACA yang berakhir semalam.

Berikutan satu aduan Suaram, sebuah badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) mengenai hak asasi manusia, yang difailkan pada 2009 mengenai sebuah syarikat Perancis yang didakwa memberi rasuah kepada sebuah firma Malaysia untuk urus niaga kapal selam itu, beliau mendedahkan bahawa dua hakim siasatan bebas memulakan siasatan mereka awal tahun ini.

Charpenel berkata, di Perancis, seperti negara-negara yang mengamalkan kedaulatan undang-undang, semua siasatan dibuat sepenuhnya secara rahsia.

Beliau berkata, adalah hak bagi sesiapapun untuk memfailkan aduan dan berikutan sifat rahsia siasatan itu, sesetengahnya beralih untuk mengadu kepada media.
Beliau menjelaskan bahawa untuk kes-kes tertentu di Perancis, Kementerian Keadilan akan! meminta seorang hakim bebas, meminta hakim siasatan untuk menyiasat.

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Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra: Confined by Police without Proper Cause

October 9, 2010

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra: Confined by Police without Proper Cause

by Bernama (10-08-12)

The Sultan of Kelantan's brother, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra told a High Court today which he had not committed any criminal corruption upon July thirty 2009, a day he was cramped by Police.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, 34, testified which he was neither informed of any criminal indiscretion nor a reason for his detention by a military in a Istana Mahkota grounds, in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.

"I was cramped for at least an hour by a Police as well as not authorised to leave a house drift which day," he pronounced during a proceedings opposite Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar as well as 3 others associated to his purported wrongful capture upon July thirty 2009. He added which his lawyer, Datuk Mohd Haziq Pillay, was also in a automobile with him at a time.

The fifth plaintiff's witness pronounced which only prior to he was detained by a Police, he had driven out a Bentley Brooklands automobile which belonged to his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, from a house garage.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry pronounced prior to which day his father had instructed him to drive a automobile down to Singapore.However, as he was about to drive a automobile out of a house drift a Volvo had shut off his way as well as a categorical gates were closed.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry described a situation as scary saying he saw several armed Policemen relocating in as well as out of a Palace.

During cross-examination by senior sovereign counsel, Azizan Md Arshad, who represented a defendants, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry pronounced he was not aware of a sequence released by his brother, a acting Sultan of Kelantan at a time, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, prohibiting him from receiving a automobile out of a palace.

He also refuted Azizan's idea which a Police had essentially prevented a Bentley Brookland! s from b eing taken out of a Palace drift as well as had not cramped him.

The plaintiff filed a RM150 million suit upon December 9 final year, fixing a IGP; a Kelantan Sultan's arch personal bodyguard, ASP Norazman Ismail; Kelantan military arch at a time, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi, as well as a Royal Malaysian Police as a initial to fourth defendants respectively.

In his statement of claim, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry purported which he was wrongfully cramped upon July 30, 2009 in a devalue of Istana Mahkota, Kubang Kerian as he was about to leave in a Bentley Brooklands car.

He is looking RM100 million in ubiquitous damages, RM50 million in aggravated as well as model damages, seductiveness at a rate of 4 per cent, costs as well as other relief deemed fit by a court.

The trial prior to Judge Datin Zabariah Mohd Yusof resumes tomorrow. Bernama

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Lawak pagi: Pencacai boleh tunggang

PANAS BERAPI! KONFLIK AGAMA BOLEH MENGHANCURKAN NEGARA!

Sekadar gambar hiasanDalam negara yang berbilang kaum dan agama, penggunaan isu agama secara berlebihan untuk meraih sokongan politik boleh membawa kepada ketidakstabilan kepada keamanan negara. Sejarah menunjukkan Pas telah lama menggunakan agama untuk menarik sokongan penganut agama Islam kepadanya. Selama beberapa dekad yang lalu umat Islam di negara ini, khususnya orang Melayu, mengalami perpecahan yang sangat hebat.

2. Daripada mengkafirkan orang UMNO,solat dua imam, haram memakan sembelihan orang UMNO sehinggalah kepada perkara-perkara peribadi menjadi bahan Pas menghasut umat Islam membenci pemimpin Islam dari UMNO. Kemuncaknya ialah peristiwa hitam di Memali, Kedah.

3. Saya sendiri mempunyai pengalaman yang tidak enak dengan strategi Pas ini. Beberapa tahun lalu di Selangor, Pas mengambil kesempatan memainkan emosi orang Islam atas keputusan kerajaan negeri mengambalikan tapak surau sementara Pangsapuri Jubli Perak kepada PKNS.

4. Tapak tersebut sepatutnya dijadikan tempat asuhan kanak-kanak seperti dalam perancangan asal, namun dibenarkan digunakan sebagai surau sementara sehingga masjid berdekatan siap. Malangnya, keputusan ini menyebabkan Pas berkempen ke seantero negara bahawa UMNO meruntuhkan surau. Gambar-gambar suasana berselerak untuk pengubahsuaian digunakan untuk membuat fitnah kononnya kerajaan meruntuhkan surau.

5. Apa yang tidak dimaklumkan kepada orang Islam di luar kawasan tersebut ialah kerajaan negeri telah membina surau al-Kausar yang yang lebih besar, selesa dan cantik kurang 500 scale daripada tapak asal. Ini semua tidak diceritakan. Sebaliknya, apa yang digambarkan ialah saya seorang pemimpin Islam meruntuhkan surau dan menghalang penduduk pangsapuri tersebut beribadat.

6. Selain Pas,! PKR jug a tidak kurang peranannya dalam mencetuskan konflik agama. Melalui Hindraf, beberapa individu yang terbabit dengan PKR dilihat cuba mewujudkan konflik antara penganut Hindu dan Islam. Mereka menghasut kononnya BN menindas penganut agama Hindu dan orang India. Daripada peristiwa Kampung Medan sehinggalah tindakan meroboh kuil di Rimba Jaya, Kampung Jawa, dijadikan modal politik menghasut penganut agama Hindu membenci Barisan Nasional.

7. Isu kuil Rimba Jaya merupakan contoh klasik bagaimana agama digunakan untuk meniup sentimen kebencian bagi meraih keuntungan politik. Peranan, sumbangan dan bantuan BN dalam menjaga keharmonian penganut pelbagai agama dilupakan begitu sahaja melalui pemesongan fakta dan fitnah yang berleluasa.

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Dr M: I told police I was not cheated in PKFZ case

Former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad pronounced he had told a military which he was not deceived in tie with a cost of a argumentative Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.

"As distant as we can remember, no cupboard member objected to (the cost) of a project," Mahathir pronounced in a High Court in Kuala Lumpur today..

Mahathir is a fourth defence declare in former transport apportion Dr Ling Liong Sik's corrpution trial.

He pronounced a single of a military officers who recorded his matter had remarked which if they had known that, they would not have charged Ling.

Mahathir pronounced this in reply to questions from Ling's lawyer Wong Kian Kheong.

He pronounced a military officers recorded his matter twice as well as he identified a single of a officers as Supt R Rajagopal.

Wong:After perusing a documents since by a IO, did we surprise a IO which we were deceived with courtesy to a land purchase?

Mahathir:No.

Wong:Did we board a military inform which defendant deceived we with courtesy to a squeeze of a land in this case?

Mahathir:No.

Wong:What did a IO tell you?

Mahathir:One of a officers pronounced which if they had heard my statement, they would not have charged Dr Ling. However, we cannot recollect which military officer this is.

'Low land cost will affect my popularity'

The former premier, who was additionally a Finance Minister as well as Special Functions Minister in 20! 02, addi tionally told a justice which if compulsory acquisition was finished upon a 1,000 acre land in Pulau Indah, a cost could be low.

He pronounced as budding apportion as well as Finance Minister, he did not wish to take a land by compulsory acquisition as a evaluation finished by his officers would be very low.

"The evaluation finished by a officers would be low as they wish to assistance a supervision to save money. Being a apportion as well as a statesman we know if (compulsory acquisition) is made, it would affect my recognition (being a politician). And recognition is very critical to me.

"I do not wish to overlook a land (through compulsory acquisition) as my status (being a PM) depends upon my popularity. If it is undervalued, people will be upset. If it is fair valued, it was alright for a supervision to acquire," he said.

Despite this, Mahathir pronounced he remembered former Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Rais Yatim had warned him as well as a cupboard which there was complaint in appropriation a land as there are encumbrances.

For him, he pronounced he longed for to continue upon with a PKFZ plan as it is modelled after a Jebel Ali port in a Middle East of which he had visited twice, once during construction as well as an additional after it is completed.

Wong:Are we in favour of removing this l! and?

Mahathir:I recollect which we longed for to get a land as a plan is beneficial for a port as well as a country.

Wong:What were a reasons a cupboard motionless to acquire a land?

Mahathir:We were endangered which this was a good plan for a nation as well as we longed for to go forward with a project.

Wong:When we were a PM, did any of! your mi nisters in a cupboard object to a project?

Mahathir:I do not recollect any ministers voicing objection, as all of them backed a project.

RM25 did not embody interest

Mahathir additionally told a justice which nothing of his officers in a Finance Ministry had informed him of any discrepancy in a cost of land when Ling had sent his minute antiquated Jun 29, 2002 to take a land in Pulau Indah for a project.

He pronounced he cannot recollect any of his officers or a cupboard having brought this to his attention.

When asked by Wong (left) either he understood Ling's minute to him as well as its annexure, a former premier, who was wearing a khaki suit, replied he understoo! d a le tter as well as what Ling meant.

"My bargain during which time was RM25 per square foot (psf) of a land is for money payment. If it is paid in cash, there will be no interest, if it is paid overtime there will be interest," he said.

Wong:Have we received any complaint from your officers as well as a cupboard which this minute (in contention) was dubious or contained any omission?

Mahathir:No

Wong:If it is paid over 15 years, there will be interest?

Mahathir:Yes it would

Wong:RM25, does it embody interests?

Mahathir:No it cannot. we told a military officers who questioned me which a matter of cost is money cost as well as if it is to be finished over some time, there will be faedah (interest).

He agreed with Wong which until today, nothing of his former officers during a Finance Ministry or a cupboard had met him to say which they were d! eceived as well as he had not lodged any inform over Ling's letter.

The hearing will continue tomorrow with Mahathir continuing his sworn statement before Justice Ahmadi Asnawi.

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All We Know: Three Lives, by Lisa Cohen

Gay group as well as lesbians are now integrated in to mainstream culture to the grade that would once have seemed unimaginable. Television sitcoms underline happy dads proving they can be usually as cloying as their heterosexual counterparts. J. C. Penney, the department store not well known for outr conform or radical politics, hired Ellen DeGeneres, an open lesbian, as the mouthpiece as well as enclosed the page in the Mother's Day catalog featuring lesbian moms.

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Mercedes de Acosta in 1934.

ALL WE KNOW

Three Lives

By Lisa Cohen

Illustrated. 429 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $ 30.

In contrast, Lisa Cohen's "All We Know: Three Lives" plunges the reader in to the happy as well as lesbian universe prior to this assimilation: prior to Act Up, prior to lesbian feminism, prior to marriage equality. A universe in that homosexual acts were illegal, as well as group as well as women could lose their jobs if they were less than circumspect. A universe that one might consider would be grim, along the lines of Radclyffe Hall's downbeat lesbian classic, "The Well of Loneliness," that was found pornographic by an English justice in 1928. Yet as Cohen portrays it, this vanished universe is beguiling, the inhabitants members of the stylish, disdainful club. A unsure club, certainly. But in the tragedy in in between option as well as flamboyance in in between fitting in as well as a! cting ou t Cohen locates the start of "camp," that Susan Sontag defined as "seeing the universe as an aesthetic phenomenon."

Cohen concentrates upon 3 tastemakers who were active during the initial two-thirds of the 20th century: Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta as well as Madge Garland. Although all weathered marriages to men, they preferred the erotic association of women. Each knew the alternative dual such was the close-knit nature of upper-class happy hold up as well as in in between them, they additionally knew usually about each important artist, writer, conform designer, architect, screenwriter, actress as well as director in New York, London, Hollywood as well as Continental Europe. Reading "All We Know," one feels assured that "gay culture" should simply be abridged to "culture."

As individuals, these 3 women could not have been some-more different. Murphy as well as de Acosta proposed out abounding as well as ended up broke. Garland began with less, done the lot, lost some, yet kept upon earning the conspicuous feat in the eyes of her independently rich coterie. "I was literally the usually person they knew who had ever warranted her living," she remarked.

Cohen opens with Murphy, whose family owned Mark Cross, the leather goods association that accursed her with enough income to avoid even remote exposure to the work ethic. She honed her weakness for bootleg hooch to one side alternative casualties of Prohibition like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who modeled the characters in his novel "Tender Is the Night" upon her brother, Gerald, as well as sister-in-law, Sara. By the mid-1920s, Murphy had assimilated the rest of her Lost Generation in France, where she flirted as well as fraternized with the likes of Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney as well as Janet Flanner, all the whilst incubating plans for the grand biography of Madame de Maintenon. But booze, banter as well as the weird marriage to Chester A. Arthur III, the pansexual fortune hunter, got in the way. Long after Murp! hy's dea th, her crony Sybille Bedford undetermined over her unprepared opus: "What's the make use of of being brilliant, if you lay during the cafe all day as well as are considered the greatest bore since you don't know when to stop articulate as well as never write anything down?"

At slightest Mercedes de Acosta excelled during something. She was "the initial luminary stalker." A distracted, mediocre screenwriter as well as memoirist, de Acosta was assumingly the focused, accomplished partner who counted Marlene Dietrich as well as Greta Garbo among her conquests. Garbo, however, was as well shrewd to bequeath evident showing off rights. When she sent de Acosta flowers, she left the greeting card blank. Cohen's section upon de Acosta climaxes upon April 15, 2000 some-more than thirty years after de Acosta's death, 10 years after Garbo's genocide with the opening of the sealed archive of Garbo's letters to her. This took place not in the little cheesy Hollywood air blower palace yet during the distinguished Rosenbach Museum as well as Library in Philadelphia. And the big exhibit was: nothing. "There is no concrete evidence that any passionate relationship in in between these dual women ever existed," Garbo's executor declared. There were the little weird objects, though, including the Bible in that de Acosta had pasted photographs of Garbo. It reminded Garbo's executor of her "11-year-old goddaughter's scrapbook devoted to Leonardo DiCaprio."

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Jeffrey Eugenides: By the Book

The bard of "The Marriage Plot" as good as "Middlesex" says the most appropriate matrimony plot novel of all time is Henry James's "Portrait of the Lady," since it presents an "anti-marriage" plot.

What book is upon your night mount now?

Right now I'm shuttling between "The Map as good as the Territory," by the French bard Michel Houellebecq, as good as the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn, which everybody we know seems to be reading.

Houellebecq's known for being the provocateur. He'll say things similar to "Life was costly in the west, it was cold there; the harlotry was of bad quality." His book "Platform," which is about sex tourism as good as Islamic terrorism, got him sued in France. What's less appreciated is how acute he is upon the subjects of business as good as the macro effects of global capitalism. His books have been the strangest confections: partial Gallic anomie, partial sociological analysis, partial Harold Robbins. He says the lot of depressing, un-American things we get the large flog out of.

What's the final truly great book we read?

"The Love of the Good Woman," by Alice Munro. There's not the singular story in there which isn't perfect. Each time we finished one, we just longed for to distortion down upon the floor as good as die. My life was complete. Munro's poetry has such the aspect propriety which you're never prepared for the shocking places he! r storie s take you. She pulls off technical feats, too, similar to changing the point of view in each section of the singular story. This is nearly impossible to do while carrying the required narrative freight forward, though she makes it demeanour easy. Most readers do not notice how technically inventive Munro is since her storytelling as good as characterization intimidate their attention.

And what's the most appropriate matrimony plot novel ever?

"The Portrait of the Lady," by Henry James. Unlike the comedies of Austen, where the heroines all get tied together during the end, this book presents an anti-marriage plot. Old Mr. Touchett gives Isabel Archer the huge inheritance in sequence to secure her independence. The irony, however, is which the income ends up attracting the wrong suitor. James fills the book with the traditional energies of the matrimony plot. You've got Caspar Goodwood as good as Lord Warburton courting Isabel, too, though here the heroine makes the wrong choice (the connoisseur!), as good as the question isn't who will she wed though how will she survive her marriage. It's much darker than anything Austen did, as good as it leads true to the dignified ambiguities as good as complexities of the modern novel.

And the most utilitarian book we review while during Brown?

I arrived during college keen to develop the life philosophy. The thought was to proceed with the Greeks as good as stop somewhere around Nietzsche. By celebration of the mass the canonical works, we thought we could move an sequence to my mind which would manifest itself in my function as good as decisions. Now, thirty years later, we demeanour back as good as have to confess it didn't happen. I've forgotten the lot of what we review during college. It's all in pieces, bright patches of festooned detail about Augustan Rome or early Islam or Renaissance Italy or the modernists, though not the finish tapestry. I've got Jacques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence" upon my bookshelf here. That's the kind of book I'm the fool for. we want to get it all explained in the singular shot. But we know what? I've attempted to review which book three apart times, as good as we never get past Page50.

In the end, it was the useless books we review during college which have stayed with me. we consider of the final pages of "Lolita," where Humbert Humbert hears children's voices as good as recognizes the mistreat he's brought Dolores Haze, as good as the sentence comes immediately back: "I stood listening to which musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of apart cries with the kind of demure murmur for background, as good as afterwards we knew which the hopelessly touching thing was not Lolita's deficiency from my side, though the deficiency of her voice from which concord." To see the bard report the world with such specificity, as good as to learn which this plan of difference went beyond difference which it taught we about empathize as good as shame, as good as beauty, liveliness as good as care that's what stuck with me. Not the awake system, maybe. But the few constellations to set my course by.

Any guilty celebration of the mass pleasures book, periodical, online?

The usually thing I'm eminent about is literature. It's not an snob stance; it's temperamental. Whenever we try to review the thriller or the investigator novel we get incredibly bored, both by the language as good as the narrative machinery. Since I'm so of course virtuous upon the well read front, we do not see because we can't dive elsewhere, as good as we do, guiltlessly. I'm the man in the watchful room flipping through People. Bellow pronounced which novella was "the aloft autobiography," though unequivocally it's the aloft gossip.

What was the final book which done we cry?

"The So uth Beach Diet."

The final book which done we laugh?

The Houellebecq as good as St. Aubyn have been both creation me laugh, though the St. Aubyn is more purposely funny. And Christopher Hitchens's discourse "Hitch-22." There's the line in there which goes something like, "By which time, my looks had declined to such the degree which usually women would go to bed with me."

The final book which done we furious?

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The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers

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At a age of 17, Kevin Powers enlisted in a Army as well as in a future served as a machine-gunner in Iraq, where a sky is "vast as well as catacombed with clouds," where soldiers stay awake upon fright as well as amphetamines as well as Tabasco salsa daubed in to their eyes, where rifles coarse hair from rooftops as well as bullets sound similar to "small rips in a air." Now he has channeled his experience in to "The Yellow Birds," a initial novel as compress as well as absolute as a footlocker full of ammo.

THE YELLOW BIRDS

By Kevin Powers

230 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $ 24.99.

Daniel Borris for The New York Times

Kevin Powers

In a northern city of Al Tafar, 21-year-old Pvt. John Bartle as well as his platoon rivet in a full of red blood campaign to carry out a city. Before his deployment Bartle promised a mother of 18-year-old Pvt. Daniel Murphy he would take care of her son, move him at a behind of alive. It is a promise that, as Powers reveals from a earliest pages, he will not keep. But in a meantime they suffer by simple precision together, followed by Iraqi street fights which leave rooftops covered in coronet casings as well as doorsteps splashed with red blood all underneath a command of a growly, battle-scarred Sergeant Sterling, who punches them in a face a single moment as well as claps them upon a at a behind of a next, grouping them to fight both a insurgents as well as a mental highlight which bluster to send them h! ome in a box with a flag draped over a top.

Though a colonel in a frail uniform inhaling as well as exhaling of starch does his most appropriate "half-assed Patton imitation" as well as tells a immature soldiers to "give 'em hell," Bartle feels small clarity of expostulate or destination or purpose. He knows this is not his grandfather's war. He will kill some. He will expostulate divided others. And then, while he patrols a streets, he will "throw sweets to their young kids with whom we'd fight in a tumble a few some-more years from now." There is a helpless resolve when he dodges bullets as well as ducks trebuchet blasts as well as studies corpses as well as considers starting AWOL, you do his most appropriate to tarry while wondering how he can respect his promise to keep Murphy intact, when he feels as if he himself is disintegrating.

The novel moves, fitfully, by Virginia as well as Iraq as well as Germany as well as New Jersey as well as Kentucky, from 2003 to 2009. Recalling a war, Bartle says, is "like putting a nonplus together from behind: a shapes familiar, a picture fast fading, a muted tan of a cardboard subsidy a provoke during entire as well as completion." This serves a story in dual ways. First, it turns readers in to active participants, enlisting them in a clarity as co-authors who fit together a most memories as well as theory during what distressing tip lies in wait, a truth at a behind of Murphy's death. Because they lean brazen instead of back, since they participate in piecing together a puzzle, they have been made some-more culpable.

Then too, a fractured make up replicates a book's themes. Like a follow stage made up of sentences which run upon as well as upon as well as ultimately leave readers breathless, or similar to a unison outline which stops as well as starts, which swings as well as sways, which makes us stamp our feet as well as clap our hands a nonlinear design of Powers's novel is a beautifully heartless e.g. of style relating content. War destroys. ! It doesn 't usually rip by bone as well as muscle, stone as well as steel; it fragments a thoughts as a fist to a mirror might emanate thousands of bloodied, glittering shards.

When Bartle ends up confined to a troops prison, he has usually his memories to keep him company, memories he tries to follow down even as their proof as well as method evade him: "My initial few months inside, we outlayed a lot of time perplexing to piece a fight in to a pattern. we developed a habit of creation a mark upon my dungeon wall when we remembered a particular event, thinking which during a little after date we could refer to it as well as arrange all a outlines in to a story which made sense." But a outlines proceed to run together, as well as commotion predominates. Eventually, he knows, a walls will crop up scraped over entirely, scoured down to a blind white patina.

Benjamin Percy is a writer of a novel, "The Wilding," as well as dual story collections. His new novel, "Red Moon," will be published subsequent spring.

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