SOME say promises have been meant to be broken.But certainly not in this box where Kelantan Football Association (Kafa) reportedly announced via their president Tan Sri Annuar Musa (left) that players who leave a team may not get a reward for winning a historic treble in a just concluded season.Read more... ... Read More
Floridas 29 Electoral Votes, making it 332 to 206
November 11, 2012
Obama takes Florida's 29 Electoral Votes, creation it 332 to 206
by AFP/de
President Barack Obama has won Florida's 29 electoral votes, serve fattening his substantial domain of feat over Mitt Romney in what had been likely to be a tighten White House race.
The Sunshine State was the final to report its tally from a Nov 6 election, in which Obama won a second term, defeating his Republican opposition Romney.
With Florida's electoral college votes right away in a Democratic incumbent's column, a final total was 332 for Obama, opposite 206 for Romney. Obama earned 50 percent of a vote to Romney's 49.1 percent about 74,000 some-more votes among some-more than 8 million ballots cast, according to county tallies provided to a state prior to a noon (1700 GMT) Saturday deadline.
Republicans have carry out of both houses in Florida's state legal body as well as a governor's mansion, though a growing Hispanic as well as some-more liberal-leaning population have been pushing a citizens toward Obama's Democrats.
Florida was arguably a many coveted esteem upon choosing day, with some-more electoral college votes up for grabs than any of a other so-called pitch states.
In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, who won a US popular vote, lost a choosing to Republican George W. Bush, who triumphed underneath a electoral college system when a divided US Supreme Court stopped a list relate in Florida.
But in a end, Florida did not fool around a main role in a inhabitant race this time. Obama was confirmed a winner Tuesday, earning enough electoral college votes though a state to pass a 270 threshold needed for victory.
Governor Rick Scott pronounced a audience in h! is state had reached record levels, though pronounced a prolonged delays contingency not be repeated. There were "more votes expel than in any other choosing in state history," Scott pronounced in a matter upon Saturday.
"We have been glad which so many voters made their voices listened in this election, though as you go forward you contingency see improvements in a choosing process." He pronounced he had asked tip officials during a state as well as county turn to review choosing procedures, "especially those who ran elections in counties where voters experienced prolonged lines of four hours or more."
Deputy Elections Supervisor Christina White had progressing pronounced a delays in a southeastern state were not due to "any problems or glitches. It's about volume as well as paper left to be processed."
But during slightest two Florida vote experts saw a disharmony as a result of a raw, bare-knuckled Republican attempt to conceal turnout.
Republican state officials have been "intentionally under-supplying choosing by casting votes places as well as equipment" to emanate bottlenecks in traditionally Democratic strongholds, "thereby shortening Democratic choosing by casting votes as well as manipulating a choosing outcome," pronounced Lance deHaven-Smith during Florida State University.
Charles Zelden, a History as well as Law Professor during Nova Southeastern University in Florida, additionally pronounced a state's Republican legal body longed for to slow down choosing by casting votes for narrow-minded purposes.
He pointed to a law sealed by Scott final year which marked down a series of early choosing by casting votes days from 14 to 8 as well as eliminated early choosing by casting votes upon a Sunday prior to choosing day. Democrats tend to do better in early voting, so a measures were seen as likely to have benefited Romney.
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A UNIQUE HOMESTAY IN THE KINABATANGAN JUNGLE
RAINFOREST ....The Heart of Borneo with a stable rainforest yield internal communities with a event to be involve in eco-tourism activities.
By : FIZAH YUSOF
THE HEART of Borneo is a massive biodiversity-rich rainforest treasure residence which straddles 3 constant countries, namely, Malaysia, Brunei as well as Indonesia upon a island of Borneo. The 220,000 km rainforest is a thesis of a charge agreement instituted by a World Wide Fund for Nature.
A new International Conference brought representatives as well as experts to Kota Kinabalu to discuss a progress as well as future growth of a HoB charge effort.
The discussion was not all about not slicing down trees as well as permitting space for wildlife to roam, however. Human home in as well as around a Heart of Borneo was also considered during a discussion where "Shaping as well as Nurturing Sabah's Forest Together" set a thesis for a little purpose-oriented tellurian activities in a charge areas.
Tourism is of course an attention which can open up a stable rainforest to mercantile activities which do not mistreat nature. In a 'Breakout Sessions' upon Community Development (part of a agenda of a conference), Prof. Dr. Fadzilah Majid Cooke told representatives which a single of a examples of next to sharing of benefits from high value charge is found in Mukim Batu Puteh in Kinabatangan.
Cooperative Tourism Mukim Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan (KOPEL) Berhad has a homestay business centre! d upon a ssorted eco-tourism activities in a Lower Kinabatangan segment of Sabah.
Set up 15 years ago a mild warranted RM1.4 million final year from a Miso Walai Homestay, which has a four-hectare niche in a Pin Supu Forest Reserve to support a tourism activities there.
Considered a single of a best homestay establishments in Malaysia, Miso Walai (meaning 'stay together in a single house' in Orang Sungai language) offers visitors an organized community-based informative tourism knowledge drawn from stories as well as folklores of generations of Orang Sungai communities upon a Kinabatangan River.
One interesting aspect of Miso Walai is which it has some-more than 35 households done up of about 400 people vocalization a little twenty inland dialects of a internal of "Orang Sungai" communities living as well as working during a homestay complex.
The formidable itself is done up of large traditional country homes with a little modern conveniences . Traditional internal food is served; domicile activities such as cooking, encampment sports as well as plantation activities have been partial of a experience, as have been wildlife encounters in a surrounding forests.
Saidal Udin, a KOPEL representative during a discussion told Insight Sabah which Miso Walai specialises in informative programs for students, families, groups, as well as people who have been meddlesome in what a homestay is doing.
He pronounced during a commencement they faced difficulty in bringing people together to be involved in a program.
"It is not easy to remonstrate people to take partial when a project was still new; especially to understand a benefits which they can get through a program," he said.
To date a mild has 260 members from four villages in Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan: Kampung Batu! Puteh, Kampung Mengaris, Kampung Perpaduan as well as Kampung Singgah Mata.
Saidal pronounced a income from a business is used for a community growth programmes as well as to pay a mild members involved in these programmes.
Apart from that, KOPEL has been allocated by a State Forestry Department as a contractor in a on-going replacement as well as silviculture treatment of a Pin Supu Forest Reserve. Silverculture involves removing rid of passed trees, branches as well as vegetations which impede timberland regeneration.
The contract with a Forest Department is a categorical source of income for a internal community but, increasingly, they can equate upon tourism to bring in combined revenue."Miso Walaiprovides a encampment setting not only for visitors to knowledge amazing wildlife forestry as well as biodiversity in a area though it also provides an entrance for sustainable livelihood for internal communities," Saidal said. (Insight Sabah)
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BN SUPPORT FOR CHINESE SCHOOLS
ESTABLISHED....The Chung Hwa Chinese Primary School In Kota Kinabalu Founded By Oh Hou Teck In 1917.
DEPUTY Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is additionally a Education Minister, pronounced a BN supervision would continue to support a national-type Chinese schools to meet a need of a Chinese community.
Speaking at a opening of a 14th World Chinese Book Fair at a Mines International Exhibition as well as Convention Centre, Muhyiddin positive a Chinese village that a Barisan Nasional supervision would continue to support a Chinese schools.
Muhyiddin pronounced that a supervision has regularly strived to raise a preparation quality of all schools, irrespective of a type of school.
"Let us not jeopardise a destiny of a children for a sake of short-term domestic gain," he said.
"At a same time, let us not forget a purpose of preparation as a means to unite Malaysians of all races. Let us have all schools in this nation as unity schools, where children of all races can mingle freely, learn to accept differences as well as apply oneself any other," he added.
Muhyiddin additionally praised a knowledge of a past as well as present leaders for not usually preserving Chinese preparation in a nation but additionally integrating it with a inhabitant preparation system.
According to census data provided by a Ministry of Education, in Sabah there are 83 Chinese schools with a sum of 35,706 students whilst there are 591,121 studen! ts enrol led in 1,294 Chinese schools in a total of Malaysia. (Insight Sabah)
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A miniature airport that cost RM13.7 million and took 7 years to complete!
Hamburg is home to the world's largest tiny airfield sited atMiniatur Wunderlandwhich also boasts the world's largest indication railway.
It took nearly seven years as well as over 3.5 million euros to build theroughly 1,600 square-foot model, desirous by Hamburg's Fuhlsbttel Airport. An impressive array of accessories have been featured in the tiny airfield together with 40 planes, 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches as well as 300 buildings. Through the use of computer controls, the figurines move autonomously.
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Considering the obscene amounts consumed by the Umno/BN regime every fiscal year upon white elephant mega-projects as well as pure corruption, RM13.7 million seems similar to income really originally spent. As the traveller captivate the tiny airport, which opened in May 2011, will probably pay for itself inside of 5-7 years. we find tiny environments absolutely erotically appealing - they capacitate us to view being from an entirely opposite perspective.
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Nurul sokong hak Melayu murtad pun nak salahkan Rosmah
Apabenda yang Datin Rosmah Mansor dituduh dan dipersalahkan ada kala dah masuk menyampah didengar.
Baru-baru ini, timbul pula mengenai seorang indication pakai pakaian lengan pendik di Islamic Fashion Festival 2012.
Oleh kerana Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor adalah Penaung, sudah dipersalahkannya pula. Seperti biasa masing2 memanjangkan cerita tudung Rosmah.
Paham tak masing-masing bahawa
Baru-baru ini, timbul pula mengenai seorang indication pakai pakaian lengan pendik di Islamic Fashion Festival 2012.
Oleh kerana Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor adalah Penaung, sudah dipersalahkannya pula. Seperti biasa masing2 memanjangkan cerita tudung Rosmah.
Paham tak masing-masing bahawa
My 1Bangsa Malaysian dream
KJ John TheNew Straits Times(NST) title paper last Sunday screamed, "CollectiveIntegrity" as a reply to a Auditor-General's Report tabled in Parliament.
They additionally carried a full as great as disdainful talk with a auditor-general of Malaysia focused upon this issue of "our collective disaster to stand up to a exam of a national firmness being audited".
you have regularly argued this as my prayer for a nation, with a difference "to integrate with integrity". Therefore, concede me to all determine with theNST's supposition which you have critical need for most some-more "collective integrity; as a people as great as nation-state".
But, you contingency go beyond, mere "public use accountability", you contingency direct such standards of firmness within a entire nation. This is thus my call for value as a value as great as virtue you should all hunger for for.
We contingency direct for firmness in all matters, as great as especially associated to a financial as great as mercantile accountability. We contingency direct a same for every sen spent by any supervision of a day, upon seductiveness of all citizens, as great as tangible by a open interest. But, where should such shortcoming as great as burden be located? Cannot such shortcoming as great as burden be assigned to all open commissioners, whether it is a auditor-general, or a human rights commissioner, or a open! service s commissioner, or a anti-corruption commissioner?
And should not all such open burden as great as shortcoming inform without delay to a Parliament, as great as not anymore merely to a Executive?
Moreover, already a inspector-general of police, a attorney-general, as great as a armed forces chief, for example, do not sit in a cabinet, though have been without delay usually obliged as great as underneath obligation to a cupboard ministers. But, have been you confident with their opening tangible by their pass opening indicators (KPIs)? What about all alternative director-generals? Who have been they in conclusion underneath obligation to, if not a elected assembly?
To me, these shortcoming as great as burden issues have been huge concerns as you proceed a 13th general election.
Bribery, corruption, as great as truth
Everyone loves sports. Not everyone, however, loves to be all underneath obligation as great as obliged for clearly-defined external standards of opening of similarly high peculiarity of inputs, processes with measured outputs as great as outcomes. Winning is regularly what care defines winning to be.
Recently, a world-renown cyclist has been found guilty by a care of a world physique as great as nude off 7 seven years of global titles, as great as systematic to repay all his past loot to a balance of about US$ 4 million.
This guilt has eventually been established by a World Sports Body, after quite a little years of heavy-duty investigation as great as science-based forensic study, which was great concurrent with a choreographed system of integrated temptation with corruption, which then led to a use of a performance-enhancing drugs, to keep winning during all costs.
Tru! th conti ngency matter to all of us, even about this.
Private equity contra open investments?
The New Yorker, in an paper upon Sept 19, 2012 wrote:
"If a keynote of (United States boss Barack) Obama's administration has been open investment whether in infrastructure, education, or illness a keynote of (Republican presidential nominee Mitt) Romney's candidacy has been in isolation equity, a realm in which potency as great as profitability have been a supreme values". Our choice as a nation, too, swings in between these options. Do you unequivocally need to concede a creation of some-more wealthy particular investors or corporations premised merely upon open products delivery, aided as great as abetted by a supervision incentives, or, do you not need some-more focus upon social investments of a entrepreneurial kind to residence a needs of a bottom 40 percent?
Organisations today do not exist merely for distinction maximisation. The distinction of any business-type operation is a lifeblood for presence of its system of bona fide interests. Profits have been income which exceeds output associated to costs of operation. Therefore, profits for any bona fide organization (including NGOs), have been similar to oxygen for breathing for humans.
No human being lives merely to breathe; neither does any association live usually to have profits. Profits, similar to oxygen, have been necessary for presence of any organization though it is not a solitary purpose of her existence. All organisations have a little alternative some-more important bona fide purpose; araison d'treor reason for existence.
Therefore, it is fathomable which organisations exist, not usually for profits, though for a little larger as great as meaningful purposes of a creators. Most organisations thus have an option; whether they exist for open great investments or in isolation products equity acquisition. Most not-for-profit organizations, similar to Suaram or Oriental Hearts as great as Mind Study Institute (OHMSI) or Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) have been never illegitimate though instead have as bona fide an agenda as a in isolation equity ones with similarly requisite reasons for their existence.
Let us thus not be misled by most hype.
Whither then a 'collective integrity' as a nation-state?
Professor Shad Saleem Farouqi titled hismagnum opuson a Malaysian constitution: Our 'document of destiny'. you call it a "our usual prophesy for integration with integrity." The Malaysian sovereign constitution defines all a laws as great as values for great poise as a nation-state of three collective British colonies.
All nation-states have been regularly artificially crafted as great as have been usually about 60 to 70-years-old as a complicated ideal. We, as one republic with three states, have been advantageous to have been birthed when you were underneath a influence a British Commonwealth. Our Malaysia is right away in her 49th year as great as relocating towards a 50th Birthday. It is a Jubilee year.
Our rulers were without delay involved in historic negotiations, as great as thus their purpose as great as shortcoming remains to defend certain pass facilities which you concluded to as great as wrote in to a laws of a nation.
Likewise, as peninsular Malaysians, you additionally have an agreement with Sabahans as great as Sarawakians which as well needs to be celebrated for a destiny as great as survival.
But, you cannot usually become 1Malaysia as argued by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak by a push of a button; you can usually become 1BangsaMalaysians; when a people have been entirely integrated with integrity. The nation-state (or 1Malaysia) already exists by definition of a sovereign constitution.
Many hurdles thus remain, not a least of which is a family review about what is as great as is not an Islamic state?
The Truth Matters Forum is co-organised by IRF as great as OHMSI to assistance us to consider through what a prophesy for a destiny is as great as is not.
KJ JOHN This was a content of a opening speech delivered by a bard upon a arise of a Islamic state discourse during FGT in Subang Jaya upon Nov 3, 2012.
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CNN interviews Ambiga
Bersih co-chair Ambiga Sreenevasan has appeared on CNN as well as put across the call for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections in Malaysia to the global audience.
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70% rakyat Selangor sokong Umno-PAS bergabung
Berdasarkan satu kajian yang dijalankan majoriti penduduk negeri ini yang berbilang kaum mahu dua parti itu mengenepikan perbezaan politik. Jamilah Kamarudin, FMT Sebanyak 70 peratus rakyat Selangor bersetuju supaya Umno dan PAS bergabung bagi tujuan mempertahankan agama Islam dan kepentingan Melayu. Bekas Setiausaha PAS Selangor Norman Toha, kajian yang dijalankan sebuah agensi perunding menunjukkan majoriti penduduk Selangor yang berbilang kaum mahu dua parti itu mengenepikan perbezaan ... Read More
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A big swing of Malay-Muslim votes in favour of Umno as well as Barisan Nasional could mean a loss of the prized state for PKR. 1 / 1 . DATUK Seri Anwar Ibrahim's politician-daughter's matter over eremite leisure has not only incited nonessential spotlight ...
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Religion is something personal
It has taken a rookie statesman to put opposite get a summary that no one has a right to fool around God.
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Doubt is partial of all religion. All a eremite thinkers were doubters. Issac Bashevis Singer, writer as well as Nobel Prize laureate The antipathy being shown to Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar for her vehement as well as forthright perspective that everyone is honourable of eremite freedom, together with a Malays, reveals a feared truth that sacrament is a personal preference as well as duress simply does not work.
The truth is Nurul Izzah has done a Malays generally a foster through her acknowledgement that eremite leisure should be accorded to everyone.
It is a different make a difference that her comments made in a forum entitled "Islamic state? Which vision? Whose responsibility" on Nov 3 came down with a 'Richter Scale'-like backlash.
The statements entrance from a Prime Minister's Department were typical. Minister Jamil Khir Baharom said Nurul Izzah's acknowledgement was "misleading" as well as "dangerous". His deputy, Mashitah Ibrahim, went further, job for a young politician's charge on a charge of scornful Islam.
How could any meditative person conclude that she was scornful Islam when a crux of her acknowledgement was her quotation of a Quranic verse that prohibits believers from compelling people to accept Islam?
Mashitah even hinted that Nurul Izzah was encouraging apostasy, a explain that a PKR vice-president begged to differ.
A impending question
It appears that there have been many in this nation that have bee! n reluct ant to tolerate such innocent perspective of a 'green' statesman as well as that too one who is a daughter of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Granted that it was supernatural for Nurul Izzah to so bravely touch on a subject so supportive in this country, Islam; sadly, unlike her, a minds of her associate colleagues, generally in a Barisan Nasional camp, have nonetheless to 'attain' maturity.
Thinking out of a box or daring to make a paradigm shift has never been BN's seductiveness nor strength, as a result a 'condemn as well as ridicule' approach in traffic with anything a nemesis, a Pakatan Rakyat agreement does or says.
Nurul Izzah has posed a really impending question, one that forces everyone to ruminate as well as ask questions in order to penetrate to a essence of any religion. Most people who have even a severe understanding of Islam will determine that asking questions is not a sin in that religion.
The superb problem in this country, however, is that one is since a sense that anything temperament on a country's official sacrament as well as Malay rights as well as privileges is not to be questioned.
Still, in light of all this, Nurul Izzah dared to state what she believed to be true. She certainly was not trying to ingratiate herself with any one by speaking her mind.
As it stands, a country's constitution says if you have been a Malay then you have been automatically a Muslim. It is since that a Malays will not go against a constitution, not when it comes to religion.
But then what happens if a Malay individual wanst to malign his religion? These have been serious questions that need genuine answers, not rebuke as well as punishment.
Why is there a fear of addressing of even acknowledging a actuality that there have been a little Malays who have been unfortunate with their religion?
Religion is a guide
Going by a harsh reactio! ns to Nu rul Izzah's 'religious freedom', it heedfulness one's heart to see how mankind has taken on themselves to fool around God, last with an iron fist a faith of their associate beings.
Maybe this is because a observant goes "put your confidence in God as well as not in man".
Life is uncertain as well as likewise sacrament too is something that is not forged on stone. Enlightenment comes when one least expects it as well as with it a decision to embrace a sacrament of one's choice.
It has taken a rookie statesman to get a summary opposite that sacrament is something personal as well as cannot be dictated by any one who wants to fool around God. We should appreciate her for it.
After all, leisure of idea is everyone's birthright, irrespective of that 'skin' forms a widespread race.
Or in a words of Dalai Lama: "This is my elementary religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, the own heart is the temple; a truth is kindness".
Jeswan Kaur is a freelance writer as well as a FMT columnist.
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GST for oranges, but not lobsters
A senior supervision military officer admits to a little unavoidable 'limitations' in a impending Goods & Services Tax (GST) though insists which it is a great for a country
KUALA LUMPUR: Luxury food equipment such as abalone, lobsters, as well as oysters will be exempted from a Goods & Services Tax( GST) while usual fruits such as oranges will be taxed. The upon top of e.g. is pronounced to be "illogical" as well as "unfair", given which a government's intention for a due GST is to usually have simple necessities taxation free.
Customs deputy director GST special unit Wan Leng Whatt explained which such incidents have been due to unavoidable "limitations".
"These issues have been formidable to answer as well as there have been many more of such examples. Yes, it's loyal which lobsters as well as even abalones as well as oysters have been 0 rated. Fruits have been in all customary rated," he pronounced during a recent speak upon GST.
Wan pronounced while a supervision in all longed for to have all simple food "zero rated", problems arose when certain equipment do not have a scrupulously tangible "code".
"We longed for to 0 rate simple food. We wish people to be able to means fish as well as prawn though at a same time we do not have codings for lobsters, abalone, oysters [to differentiate item types]. These were simply a limitations," he said.
However, other gourmet food such as shark's fin as well as dried mushrooms have been taxed as those equipment had codings, he noted.
As for fruits, Wan explained which a supervision initially dictated to have local fruits such as papaya, rambutams as well ! as mango steen 0 rated as well though after decided against it.
"But a low income group doesn't unequivocally eat these fruits. So now, in all all fruits will be taxed under GST.
"And when we speak about low income group, many of them actually have their own bananas, [so] they eat their own bananas, [and] they do not have to buy. However, we pity those who have been civic poor, they will be burdened in these aspects, we admit that," he added.
These issues were brought up by GST consultant Derek Wong during a GST speak held at a construction as well as hardware traffic exhibition, OneBuild as well as OneWare 2012 here. It was jointly organised by One International Exhibition Sdn Bhd as well as Malaysian Hardware, Machinery & Building Materials Dealers' Association.
Wong, a partner of GBS KAC Advsory Services as well as speaker during a talk, pronounced which there have been multiform instances where a GST seemed illogical, though concluded with Wan which a taxation remodel should be implemented to widen a country's taxation base.
Where to pull a line?
Wan additionally confirmed which palm oil, peanut oil, as well as coconut oil have been not taxed though corn oil as well as sunflower oil would be. He explained which this was additionally due to a absence of coding for a latter two in progress oils.
Also highlighted was which disinfectant paid for from a private sanatorium will be tax-free; as well as a same item in a pharmacy will price more with GST.
"Generally we longed for to have medicines cheaper. But our complaint is which a sequence of disinfectant as well as food supplements cannot be clearly defined.
"For example, Glucosamine, we would take it as a food addition though my crony takes it after a alloy prescribes it as a disinfectant for him. Tell me, how to pull a line?
"So we took a in front of which if we got it from a hospital,! it woul d be without GST. But anyway, if we paid for it in a pharmacy, it is still a lot cheaper sometimes, as hospitals have other servicefees" he added.
The GST was initial mentioned during a 2005 Budget debate as well as it was supposed to be in place by 2007, though a GST Bill was usually brought to Parliament in December 2009. A year later, the second celebration of the mass was postponed.
Until today, a usually best indication of the doing date is "after a ubiquitous election" as well as "when a time is right", both pronounced by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.
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Hindraf doubts Najibs sincerity
The transformation is however peaceful to give the budding apportion the benefit of disbelief though insists that he must strew his 'current box of thinking' in sequence to have suggestive discussions.
PETALING JAYA: Hindraf has expel aspersions upon the sincerity of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's invitation to reason the discussion. The premier's courtship, pronounced Hindraf authority P Waythamoorthy, had not left the transformation burning with excitement as it could be associated to the coming general election.
"We are not just excited about this invitation though we have motionless to give him the benefit of doubt," he told reporters here.
He pronounced the invitation had come late upon the partial of the supervision since the Indian bad had been marginalised for decades.
Waythamoorthy also urged Najib to lift the anathema upon Hindraf imposed by his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration.
"It does not have sense for the budding apportion to meet leaders of the criminialized organisation.
"There is no timeline upon when it should be carried though of course we would like for the anathema to be carried as shortly as possible," he added.
Hindraf had turn the tainted word during Abdullah's tenure after the transformation staged the massive street criticism in 2007, that was seen as the make the difference for the following year's domestic tsunami.
Meanwhile, Waythamoorthy also called upon Najib to strew his "current box of thinking" in sequence to facilitate suggestive discussions in between them.
"He must be able to come far with us to consider our refe! rred to solutions that are permanent, comprehensive as well as practical," he added.
On August 29, Hindraf done open requests to both Najib as well as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim to reason discussions upon anticipating solutions to the long-standing problems plaguing the Indian poor.
Anwar responded initial as well as talks in between them had started, with some-more meetings in the pipeline.
On the associated matter, Waythamoorty pronounced Hindraf would unveil the five-year plans to move the Indian bad in to the mainstream of national development upon November 25.
This would be the prioritised devise as subsequent from the 18-point demand since creatively to the supervision in August 2007.
Asked for the preview of the blueprint, Waythamoorty pronounced he was not in the position to reveal the contents though gave an example of the condition of 350,000 stateless Indians in Malaysia.
"The solution would be for any one innate in Malaysia from August 31, 1957 onwards to be spoken as citizens of Malaysia.
"A statutory declaration by those involved should be enough for the National Registration Department (NRD) to issue them with the blue temperament card," he added.
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A dark Deepavali for Kg Railway residents
Slapped with an eviction order, a residents staged a white picket as well as demanded a developer as well as DBKL to build them low-cost houses.
SENTUL: This year's Deepavali or legal holiday of lights will be a murky a single for 153 Kg Railway residents who have been slapped with a justice eviction sequence from developer Sentul Raya Sdn Bhd. "Light legal holiday darkened" review a single ensign as some 40 residents staged a white picket at a entrance of their century-old allotment this afternoon.
The 30-minute white picket saw a residents land black flags as well as displaying banners which review between others "One Malaysia, a single family, a single house" as well as "Safeguard Kg Railway residents' rights".
On Oct 30, High Court declared Sentul Raya as a rightful owners of a land as well as released a eviction order.
The residents now perfectionist a Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) as well as Sentul Raya to issue a minute of commitment to perform their earlier promises of bureau building low-cost apartments as compensation.
Their counsel Abdul Rashid Ibrahim pronounced a residents are not requesting a free section though concluded to compensate at a ignored price to own a unit.
He pronounced prior to a justice decision, Deputy Minister of Federal Territories as well as Urban Wellbeing M! . Sarava nan pledged which low-cost apartments will be built by a developer in a assembly with a residents at Sentul Pasar. He claimed which Saravaman reaffirmed a statement prior to a justice handed down a preference on Oct 31.
The residents were sensitive which they would obtain a commitment minute from a developer regarding a bureau building of low-cost apartments on Nov 4.
"However, they have nonetheless to embrace such a letter," pronounced Abdul Rashid.
It is accepted which another 31 residents represented by Hindraf de facto leader P Uthayakumar are seeking a stipulation which a village is national heritage as well as a plot of land to be given to any family.
Batu MP Tian Chua, who was also present, urged a residents to criticism in front of a Prime Minister's Office or a developer's bureau should they destroy to finalise a matter after Deepavali.
Chua later told reporters which a residents were primarily promised with negotiations for allotment though a developer brought them to court. "Saravanan promised to have a contention after a justice proceeding is done. But again there is no meeting. People are running out of patience," he said.
Kg Railway residents action cabinet chairman Darshan Singh pronounced only DBKL as well as a developer could return a "light" a residents needed for Deepavali.
"We never contend this land belongs to us, though you were colonize residents who have been paying rental as well as comment fees until 2009. We hope they can perform their promises," he said.
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NO SIGHT of Petroleum Heritage Fund: What happens when Petronas oil money DRIES UP?
The deficiency of any account to secure Malaysia's petroleum resources for the destiny era has been described as the "serious indictment" of the government.
PKR vice boss Chua Jui Meng pronounced whilst roughly all oil producing countries have their own oil funds for their peoples' future, Malaysia still does not have such the devise despite the environment up of inhabitant oil company Petronas in 1974.
"Has there been any such oil account set up? As far as we know there has never been the disclosure by the supervision of the life of such the fund," he pronounced in the statement to Harakahdaily, lamenting the unusual resources of Barisan Nasional leaders as well as their families.
Chua forked out which four decades of oil income amounting to "billions or even trillions of ringgit" meant which the deficiency of such the account was the "tragic profanation of the people's trust".
"There is absolutely no forgive which is acceptable to Malaysians for this tragic profanation of the people's trust by our 'oil sheikhs ... Mahathir, Abdullah as well as Najib'," pronounced Chua, referring to former budding ministers Dr Mahathir Mohamad as well as Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, as well as the obligatory Najib Razak.
Prior to this, Petronas first authority Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, now the Gua Musang part of of parliament, had revealed which the hulk company had programmed to preserve the oil resources for destiny generations through the environment up of the National Petroleum Heritage Fund, to which the percentage of oil income would be channelled.
"Instead, after 55 years, the corrupt BN supervision has given us the RM502 billion sovereign debt which is fast growing," he added, citing multiform recent exposs of mass-scale corruption of the country's wealth.
Referring to the RM250 million scandal involving the National Feedlot Corporation managed by the family of Wanita UMNO head Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Chua pronounced it was an e.g. of how cronyism was practised during the cost of open good.
"If the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) had not been hijacked by the Shahrizat family, low-income Malaysians today would be enjoying affordable beef. We will not be profitable about RM27 for the kilogramme of beef now when it was usually about RM7 per kg in 2000," he said.
Chua additionally spoke about the latest revelation involving minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz, whose counterclaim of UMNO's crony tycoon Michael Chia had been linked with benefits enjoyed by his son Mohamad Nedim Nazri, who has the penchant of flash his wealth.
"Nedim was seen pushing the more than RM500,000 Hummer purebred in the name of Michael Chia. Not usually that, cinema of Nedim wearing the Richard Mille Tourbillon (model RM 002 V2) watch worth RM1,072,000 have flush in amicable network Facebook.
"What is happening to Malaysia as well as the ruling lawmakers? Scandals which expose their huge resources are surfacing continually whilst our RM502 billion sovereign debt continues to climb," Chua said.
-Harakahdaily
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FACE UP to allegations, not ban non-MPs from exposing your MISDEEDS - Rafizi tells Nazri
Following the new ruling which usually members of council could residence the media during the council lobby, PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli, whose display on apportion in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz who additionally double as the apportion in charge of parliamentary affairs pronounced it was an try to stifle him from further divulgence alleged links with Michael Chia, the timber aristocrat caught with RM40 million cash.
"I have already predicted which this is the next step which will be taken by Nazri regulating his energy to bar me from making press conferences during the parliament.
"This is another dispute of interest since the press discussion may be about him," Rafizi pronounced in the statement.
Yesterday, council orator Pandikar Amin Mulia claimed which "no council in the world" would concede non-MPs to give press conference.
He pronounced it was "embarrassing" for him to see non-MPs speaking to the media whilst the council emblem in their background.
But Rafizi pronounced the new ruling had further eroded credit of the parliament.
He questioned since Nazri had not shut off press conferences in council during the National Feedlot Corporation liaison part involving the family of Wanita "Pakatan Rakyat" conduct Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.
"It is clear, since he himself had been the target of press conferences lately owing to his ties with Michael Chia," pronounced Rafizi .
Rafizi challenged Nazri to be more open as well as ease in handling questions over his integrity. < div> Earlier in parliament, Nazri put up the strong defence of Chia who was under the crime probe. Days later, Rafizi showed evidences which Nazri's son Mohamad Nedim Nazri was reaping benefits from Chia.
Nazri however gave several controversial remarks when confronted by reporters over the matter.
"I'm the rich man, I'm powerful, great looking. Wealthy. So what can I do?" he asked.
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DATUK 'S' BATMAN WORE RM3,000 SHIRT?
KOTA KINABALU: A man's explain for RM3,000 from Hyatt Regency Hotel for repairs to his designer shirt was refused by a Consumer Claims Tribunal here Thursday. Nordin Ening pronounced he used an iron provided by a road house in his room to iron his Stefano Ricci shirt though was frightened when a shirt was ruined.
Nordin claimed he followed all a instructions upon how to scrupulously iron a shirt as well as blamed a condition of a iron, which he described as dirty.
"I bought a shirt for RM3,000 as well as thus given a road house unsuccessful to yield a great iron in my room, a shirt finished up ruined. I have left back to a seller in Kuala Lumpur to ask for their views as well as they concluded which a shirt was busted since of unfamiliar objects upon a iron," he said.
In a hotel's defence, a hotel's Housekeeping Manager Jiwa Sior pronounced there was zero wrong with a iron which Nordin used. The road house could not reinstate Nordin for his busted shirt since it was Nordin's own doing.
"If it was done by our staff, afterwards we would gladly reinstate it or compensate him for a damage. Also, a business use all a comforts in a bedrooms at their own risk," he said.
Jiwa additionally pronounced which a black symbol upon a iron surface is normal as well as has zero to do with a busted shirt. He suspected Nordin had ironed his shirt a wrong approach as well as not according to a instructions.
Tribunal President Datuk Lawrence S.H. Thien pronounced special clothes need! special caring as well as which maybe Nordin unsuccessful to follow a instructions.
Nordin additionally unsuccessful to get a written sworn statement from a seller as well as could not technically infer his case. The box was dismissed.
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BAD FEDERAL ROADS IN SABAH
KK MP, Hiew King Cheu in council saying which a sovereign roads in Sabah is well well known of their bad conditions as well as there were not most attention since to urge them. It is more like "drive during your own risk"!
This can be seen upon a sovereign case roads heading from Kota Kinabalu to Kudat, Sandakan, Tenom, as well as Sipitang. The roads from Sandakan to Lahad Datu, Semporna, Tawau have been a same. The worst case is a highway from Keningau to Kalabakan.
These roads have been potential killers as well as it is not protected to expostulate upon these roads anymore. There have been large pot holes, pointy bends, slight stretches, as well as high gradients. The people have no choice though have to take a large risk to expostulate upon these roads. If there is a train service, they will have use of a train.
The people repeatedly requested for these roads to be fitted with lightings, though so distant there is no movement taken. We needs highway lights during night for protected driving, though a supervision is not providing that, does it means they don't caring about us? In Semananjung, you see highway lights each 30 meters, though you see usually few lights from locale to locale in Sabah.
Our sovereign roads have not sufficient reserve measures as well as which is an additional means of frequent a deadly accidents. The new one which killed 5 was caused by a car crushing into a car upon a conflicting lane. Why there is no crush barriers in between, as we! ll as wh en can a supervision have a roads protected in Sabah?
Flyover is indispensable to ease a trade jam incident in many tools of a Kota Kinabalu City. This is especially in a Jalan Lintas where during least 4 junctions indispensable flyovers. So distant you have heard a flyovers as well as upgrading work will start, though when?
KK MP Hiew goal a ministry can keep up with their work as well as have a roads safe. (DAP Media)
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YONG PLEDGES FULL RECOGNITION TO NCR
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party President Datuk Yong Teck Lee pronounced a celebration will, formed upon its 'Land Reformation Policy', accord full approval to Native Customary Rights (NCR), give lands to Sabah locals as well as retreat back a land reign forcibly reduced by a Barisan Nasional (BN) government from 999 to 99 years.
He pronounced he has done a same thing previously by arising land titles with 999-year reign to a Taman Seputeh residence owners as well as an additional housing in Tawau, meaning a celebration has no complaint to do it again for other residence owners.
Yong, who is a former Chief Minister, was vocalization during a leader-people gathering organized by SAPP Tanjung Aru CLC, here, Wednesday.
Among those benefaction was a small group of people in normal clothes carrying placards wanting NCR to be recognised, petroleum rights be returned to Sabah as well as a Native Certificate to be revived.
Their representative, who longed for to be well known as Chung, questioned why a Government disregards NCR that has existed ever since a British administration.
"If British had a seductiveness of a locals in mind by formulating NCR, how could a own government not recognize a NCR? This is unacceptable," he said.
Chung also asked for a revival of a Native Certificate (Sijil Anak Negeri) that recognises a status of locals as well as Sino-Kadazan, describing a Government's solidify upon a distribution! of a ce rtificates has put a locals generally a Sino-Kadazan in a difficult in front of that could result in a deterioration of their status, entitlements as well as rights.
He pronounced despite steady calls to unfreeze a distribution of a certificates that was frozen since a 80s, a Government has been dragging this serious issue.
SAPP Tanjung Aru authority Datuk Richard Yong, in his speech, highlighted a problems faced by a people in a Tanjung Aru area, observant after 49 years of independence, Tanjung Aru town as well as a water villages have not changed much, except for a Tanjung Plaza as well as a couple of prosperous bar houses operating container machines.
"The same aged problems persist, a Prince Philip Park is still in a miserable situation, broken wooden walkways as well as leaking roofs of a encampment houses, heaps of balderdash surrounding a water villages as well as even inundate problems near a sea," he said.
"Tanjung Aru has been badly neglected. A lot of a residents moved out from a area because of these unbearable problems. Their houses were then rented out to people from outward Tanjung Aru together with foreign workers," he said, adding this was happening in a Tanjung Aru, Sembulan as well as Petagas areas.
Richard pronounced a needs of a typical people must regularly be looked after.
Speaking to a crowd comprising mostly residents from Tanjung Aru, he pronounced SAPP has, formed upon observation, prepared skeleton as well as programmes to resolve a inundate problems with a large-scale inundate slackening system, to concentration upon a housing needs of a people, to propel a mercantile activities as well as to foster tourism as well as cultural activities in a area.
"These are all directed to emanate Tanjung Aru in to a improved place for a typical people," he said.!
"Another area that SAPP will demeanour in to is a deplorable housing problems generally during all a water villages of Sembulan, Tanjung Aru as well as Petagas.
People have been complaining about a dilapidated state of a houses as well as wooden bridges that has been not asked by this BN government.
"SAPP will by way of conference with a local residents come up with a restructuring programme by receiving Brunei water villages as an e.g. to have Kg Tanjung Aru a gainful place for living," he said.
Richard forked out flooding is an additional pressing complaint faced by a people both in a towns as well as villages, observant a improper as well as non-maintained drainage as well as sewage systems resulted in superfluous of unwashed foul-smelling water all over a roads.
In view of that, SAPP skeleton to redress a drainage systems during a towns as well as kampungs to prevent flooding.
Likas Assemblyman Datuk Liew Teck Chan, Luyang Assemblywoman Melanie Chia, Datuk Wong Yit Ming, Supreme Councillors Don Chin, Aloysius Siap, Bahari Aship as well as Abdul Malik Mohed from Kota Belud were also present. (DE)
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BOMBA SHOULD GO BACK TO SCHOOL?
Dear Editor,
BOMBA should go behind to school. It was about 12.49pm my crony tags me upon Facebook per a glow happening during Lido. Then some-more pictures appeared, a tyre shop was blazing fiercely releasing thick black smoke. When we return home from work during 6pm it is raining heavily.
After a function, we can still smell it. To my curiosity we expostulate 5min from my home to a site as well as was shock that it was still blazing during 11.50pm.
we talked to an military officer asking a situation. He said they used Foam during 2pm indicating during a whiteboard behind him. Now they have been only using water to 'cool' it down.
The blazing obviously releasing a lot of poisonous in a air for a pass twelve hours as well as still does. we saw tired glow warrior nap during someone's gate. Yet they do not realize heavy rain as well as water did not assistance a situation?
BURNING.....Still blazing after twelve hours?
Fire warrior had to go in a site without mask. Sadly their health was not taken into consideration too. Apparently they ran out of Foam as well as have been ! as well 'expensive' to make use of more.
Where do they think a twelve hours of containing alkali from a water they sprayed in will flow to? They should go behind to investigate upon how to put off glow accordingly as well as alternative option like 'Sand/ Soil'.
Best Regards,
CONCERNED CITIZEN
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RED TAPE TRACED TO RAIS' MINISTRY
KOTA KINABALU: The red tape which is hampering Sabah's efforts in getting World Heritage Site standing for a Maliau Basin, Imbak Canyon as well as Danum Valley is on a part of a Federal Ministry of Culture, Arts as well as Information headed by Datuk Seri Yais Yatim.
Daily Express understands which while Sabah is trying really hard to pull for a status, a Director General of a Heritage Council underneath a Ministry had declared she would only validate it if a State is acceptable to placing these Sabah sourroundings icons underneath their administration as well as government on listing.
Sources in a know pronounced which a State Government vehemently opposite a idea since this would be starting opposite a Malaysia Agreement, in sold a chapter which land is a state make a difference as well as one which is really sensitive.
"Agreeing to a condition will mean indirect federalisation of State land," pronounced a source, withdrawal a State Government helpless to attacks by a antithesis eager to portray a Federal Government as colonisers.
Meanwhile, in a earlier report, a Federal Minister who has been urged to be some-more pro-active in a Heart of Borneo (HoB) initiative involving Indonesia, Brunei as well as Malaysia is a Environment Minister as well as not a Tourism Minister. (DE)
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Taboo topic child marriage gets airing
The roiling emanate of kid matrimony is being swept under a carpet as well as being used as a "solution" to teenage pregnancy, according to a member during a discussion upon kid matrimony as well as orthodox rape held last night.
At a event hosted by a NGOs Sisters in Islam (SIS) as well as Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), he forked out which a census data for a year 2000 reported 6,800 girls next fifteen years aged as married, with Selangor, Penang, Malacca, Johor as well as Kedah being a tip 5 states in forward order.
However, for a year 2010, a ultimate census data, a marital standing of those next fifteen has utterly escaped a official radio detector screen, a member pronounced in a free-for-all event where it was left to a individual speaker to brand himself or herself.
"So unexpected it seems such marriages don't exist in Malaysia, during least for those next 15, yet you know for a actuality which these girls have been getting tied together off," he said.
He charged which a heads of a state governments as well as syariah judges were not you do their job of protecting a girls, instead facilitated such unions, desiring which be it a improved pick to premarital sex (zina).
"Teenage conceiving physically is a single problem. It is very, really high. Do you know a single approach for them to 'make it good'? Marry them off.
"So if they have been not married, it is a problem. However, if they have been tied together whilst still 14 or fifteen years aged as well as pregnant, it is okay.
At a event hosted by a NGOs Sisters in Islam (SIS) as well as Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), he forked out which a census data for a year 2000 reported 6,800 girls next fifteen years aged as married, with Selangor, Penang, Malacca, Johor as well as Kedah being a tip 5 states in forward order.
However, for a year 2010, a ultimate census data, a marital standing of those next fifteen has utterly escaped a official radio detector screen, a member pronounced in a free-for-all event where it was left to a individual speaker to brand himself or herself.
"So unexpected it seems such marriages don't exist in Malaysia, during least for those next 15, yet you know for a actuality which these girls have been getting tied together off," he said.
He charged which a heads of a state governments as well as syariah judges were not you do their job of protecting a girls, instead facilitated such unions, desiring which be it a improved pick to premarital sex (zina).
"Teenage conceiving physically is a single problem. It is very, really high. Do you know a single approach for them to 'make it good'? Marry them off.
"So if they have been not married, it is a problem. However, if they have been tied together whilst still 14 or fifteen years aged as well as pregnant, it is okay.
"Why? Married," he said, whilst indicating out which conceiving physically during an early age can be harmful to a girl's reproductive health.
Easy approach out policy
The event's moderator Suri Kempe (left)chipped in, indicating to a programme introduced by Malacca government to illustrate a point.
She pronounced which in efforts to quell baby dumping, a state has set up schools for profound teens as well as additionally encouraged them to get married.
"So for each underaged teen which longed for to get married, they have essentially said, 'Never mind. If a relatives will not consent, a state will. On tip of that, they'll give RM500 for a wedding.'" she said.
Earlier during a discussion, Suri, who is additionally a programme physical preparation instructor of SIS, explained Malaysia's smallest age mandate for matrimony to a participants.
She pronounced which for non-Muslims, a smallest age is eighteen though females in in between sixteen to eighteen can marry if a state government head's gives a nod.
The event's moderator Suri Kempe (left)chipped in, indicating to a programme introduced by Malacca government to illustrate a point.She pronounced which in efforts to quell baby dumping, a state has set up schools for profound teens as well as additionally encouraged them to get married.
"So for each underaged teen which longed for to get married, they have essentially said, 'Never mind. If a relatives will not consent, a state will. On tip of that, they'll give RM500 for a wedding.'" she said.
Earlier during a discussion, Suri, who is additionally a programme physical preparation instructor of SIS, explained Malaysia's smallest age mandate for matrimony to a participants.
She pronounced which for non-Muslims, a smallest age is eighteen though females in in between sixteen to eighteen can marry if a state government head's gives a nod.
Consensual sex where it stands
For Muslims, she pronounced a smallest age sixteen for females as well as eighteen for males. However, they can be exempted from this requirement with a Syariah Court's agree where there is no smallest age.
"He (the judge) will weigh with no specific criteria either she is grown up sufficient to come in into marriage.
"There is never a box where they call for consultant witnesses such as a kid clergyman or kid developmental clergyman to weigh either or not this girl is ready for marriage. So usually, a judging criteria have been her 'physical endowments'," she said.
Despite this, two students from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) study a emanate pronounced which during their surveys, most respondents were unknowingly which kid matrimony does start in Malaysia as well as found themselves explaining a emanate repeatedly.
N! onethele ss, they found which comparison Muslims were some-more receptive to a idea of kid matrimony for eremite reasons, a racial Chinese opposing it, as well as mixed views from Indian Malaysians.
The idea was almost unanimously objected to by youths.
Rigidity of a elders
"These o! ld people (above 40 years old) have been too 'rigid' with their religion as well as hold which it is a approach to avoid social problems, though they overlook potential problems such as divorce," pronounced tyro Nor Fadilah Mohd Jalil (right), who is conducting a study as partial of her thesis for her Bachelor of Administrative Science course.
Strangely, upon a preferred age for marriage, she pronounced a respondents upon top of 40 would still choose upon top of twenty-two for males and, as well as upon top of sixteen for a conflicting gender.
The survey is still ongoing with over 100 responses garnered so far.
During a discussion, a single member additionally argued which a consenting age judgment is arbitrary, preventing youths from having sex "when they really wish to".
For Muslims, she pronounced a smallest age sixteen for females as well as eighteen for males. However, they can be exempted from this requirement with a Syariah Court's agree where there is no smallest age.
"He (the judge) will weigh with no specific criteria either she is grown up sufficient to come in into marriage.
"There is never a box where they call for consultant witnesses such as a kid clergyman or kid developmental clergyman to weigh either or not this girl is ready for marriage. So usually, a judging criteria have been her 'physical endowments'," she said.
Despite this, two students from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) study a emanate pronounced which during their surveys, most respondents were unknowingly which kid matrimony does start in Malaysia as well as found themselves explaining a emanate repeatedly.
N! onethele ss, they found which comparison Muslims were some-more receptive to a idea of kid matrimony for eremite reasons, a racial Chinese opposing it, as well as mixed views from Indian Malaysians.
The idea was almost unanimously objected to by youths.
Rigidity of a elders
"These o! ld people (above 40 years old) have been too 'rigid' with their religion as well as hold which it is a approach to avoid social problems, though they overlook potential problems such as divorce," pronounced tyro Nor Fadilah Mohd Jalil (right), who is conducting a study as partial of her thesis for her Bachelor of Administrative Science course.Strangely, upon a preferred age for marriage, she pronounced a respondents upon top of 40 would still choose upon top of twenty-two for males and, as well as upon top of sixteen for a conflicting gender.
The survey is still ongoing with over 100 responses garnered so far.
During a discussion, a single member additionally argued which a consenting age judgment is arbitrary, preventing youths from having sex "when they really wish to".
He advocated improved preparation instead to assistance them make suggestive choices.
However, others pronounced which a law forbidding premarital sex for those next a age of agree is still required to protect young kids from passionate predators.
A mom of four added which nonetheless she works with women's rights NGO as well as frequently talks about passionate rights, she finds it formidable to lift a emanate with her own daughters.
"We have been still in rejection which our young kids have been going to have sex a single day," she said.
Another mom pronounced she did no! t have t his complaint since she had encouraged her daughters to share information upon any changes in their bodies with her from a immature age, together with "every wound as well as each scar".
However, others pronounced which a law forbidding premarital sex for those next a age of agree is still required to protect young kids from passionate predators.
A mom of four added which nonetheless she works with women's rights NGO as well as frequently talks about passionate rights, she finds it formidable to lift a emanate with her own daughters.
"We have been still in rejection which our young kids have been going to have sex a single day," she said.
Another mom pronounced she did no! t have t his complaint since she had encouraged her daughters to share information upon any changes in their bodies with her from a immature age, together with "every wound as well as each scar".
Nations where sex isn't shameful
Yet an additional highlighted which alternative jurisdictions such as a Netherlands as well as Australia have guidelines in their orthodox rape laws which understanding with a age opening in in between underaged person(s) having sex.
The member pronounced which where a opening is small, it is not regarded as an offence since there is less likelihood of 'imbalance of power' in in between a couple.
Suri explained which in Malaysia, a court does not cruise a emanate of agree in convicting orthodox a rape accused.
However, upon conviction, a emanate of agree is deliberate as a mitigating cause when sentence is meted out, which can be as light as being firm over for great behaviour.
But not so if a kid is next twelve where a punishment is a imperative five-year smallest jail term for a offender.
Before a discussion started, two 10-minute plays were staged. Neither had a conclusion to their plots, giving a impression which a stage was being distant for a main event.
In a initial play, a 14-year aged girl gossips with her crony over a phone which she had her initial passionate experience with her boyfriend.
However, her mom overhears a conversation as well as after calls her husband, angrily relating to him what she heard, saying she wants to take a emanate to a police.
The second fool around was a woman's monologue, a plant of a shotgun matrimony during a age of 15.
She told a doctor, who was ! not port rayed in a scene, which nonetheless a matrimony was initially sweet, she was abused by her father as well as family after for being "useless" after multiform miscarriages.
Her father additionally blamed her for his miss of career advancement.
She pronounced she regretted a matrimony since she had missed educational opportunities as well as hoped to complete high school eventually.
However, she said, in in between sobs which she has no choice though to stay locked in a matrimony to look after her young kids as well as her husband.
Read More @ Source The member pronounced which where a opening is small, it is not regarded as an offence since there is less likelihood of 'imbalance of power' in in between a couple.
Suri explained which in Malaysia, a court does not cruise a emanate of agree in convicting orthodox a rape accused.
However, upon conviction, a emanate of agree is deliberate as a mitigating cause when sentence is meted out, which can be as light as being firm over for great behaviour.
But not so if a kid is next twelve where a punishment is a imperative five-year smallest jail term for a offender.
Before a discussion started, two 10-minute plays were staged. Neither had a conclusion to their plots, giving a impression which a stage was being distant for a main event.
In a initial play, a 14-year aged girl gossips with her crony over a phone which she had her initial passionate experience with her boyfriend.
However, her mom overhears a conversation as well as after calls her husband, angrily relating to him what she heard, saying she wants to take a emanate to a police.The second fool around was a woman's monologue, a plant of a shotgun matrimony during a age of 15.
She told a doctor, who was ! not port rayed in a scene, which nonetheless a matrimony was initially sweet, she was abused by her father as well as family after for being "useless" after multiform miscarriages.
Her father additionally blamed her for his miss of career advancement.
She pronounced she regretted a matrimony since she had missed educational opportunities as well as hoped to complete high school eventually.
However, she said, in in between sobs which she has no choice though to stay locked in a matrimony to look after her young kids as well as her husband.
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PM Najib woos Felda settlers with pre-fab houses
Prime Minister Najib Razak currently pronounced that Felda had set aside RM120 million for a 'Sentuhan Kasih' plan to set up houses for a second era of Felda settlers as well as to enable them to try in to high-yielding money crop project.
For a start, he pronounced 300 houses would be built in Felda settlements in Besut, Terengganu; Chini Timur 2, Pahang; as well as Tenggaroh, Johor, by finish of this year.
Najib pronounced this during a Felda New Generation Assembly attended by a little 12,000 youths nationwide during Universiti Teknologi Mara in Shah Alam.
The budding apportion said: "We are ready to set up 4,000 more houses if you can get more land."
The prefabricated houses for a second era of Felda settlers would be built during a cost of RM70,000 each with a monthly installment of RM360, he said.
He pronounced using a built method, one house could be finished in just one week.
The budding apportion additionally said: "We additionally wish brand brand new innovations, you wish a second era of Felda settlers to grow melons, stone melon for example, that has yellow skin, though with flesh so crunchy as well as can be sole to other countries, together with Singapore."
He pronounced a settlers could additionally grow salad leaves or lettuce to increase their income.
Najib pronounced for a second era of Felda settlers to be more successful than their parents, they contingency have knowledge, record as well as innovation, besides land, fund as well as manpower.
He pronounced this was because knowledge could help a settlers to master a technology, that can reinstate a use of manpower, t! o create high-yielding mercantile activities, whilst creation could lead them to a brand brand new source of income.
Overwhelming support
Meanwhile, a budding apportion additionally voiced his gratitude with a overwhelming support since to him by a brand brand new era of Felda settlers, saying that it additionally symbolised their hopes for a supervision to continue a convention in taking caring of a welfare of Felda brand brand new generation.
Najib pronounced UiTM was selected as a venue for a public because a two institutions, Felda as well as UiTM, were founded by his father, a late Abdul Razak Hussein, a second budding apportion who had changed a destiny of a young era in a country.
The assembly, that began yesterday as well as will finish tomorrow, is mutually organised by UiTM, Felda as well as Felda Youth Council.
Other activities have additionally been lined up for a three-day programme, together with an educational discourse, Xplorace as well as paintball competitions, cultural performance, lucky draws as well as exhibition.
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For a start, he pronounced 300 houses would be built in Felda settlements in Besut, Terengganu; Chini Timur 2, Pahang; as well as Tenggaroh, Johor, by finish of this year.
Najib pronounced this during a Felda New Generation Assembly attended by a little 12,000 youths nationwide during Universiti Teknologi Mara in Shah Alam.
The budding apportion said: "We are ready to set up 4,000 more houses if you can get more land."The prefabricated houses for a second era of Felda settlers would be built during a cost of RM70,000 each with a monthly installment of RM360, he said.
He pronounced using a built method, one house could be finished in just one week.
The budding apportion additionally said: "We additionally wish brand brand new innovations, you wish a second era of Felda settlers to grow melons, stone melon for example, that has yellow skin, though with flesh so crunchy as well as can be sole to other countries, together with Singapore."
He pronounced a settlers could additionally grow salad leaves or lettuce to increase their income.
Najib pronounced for a second era of Felda settlers to be more successful than their parents, they contingency have knowledge, record as well as innovation, besides land, fund as well as manpower.
He pronounced this was because knowledge could help a settlers to master a technology, that can reinstate a use of manpower, t! o create high-yielding mercantile activities, whilst creation could lead them to a brand brand new source of income.
Overwhelming support
Meanwhile, a budding apportion additionally voiced his gratitude with a overwhelming support since to him by a brand brand new era of Felda settlers, saying that it additionally symbolised their hopes for a supervision to continue a convention in taking caring of a welfare of Felda brand brand new generation.
Najib pronounced UiTM was selected as a venue for a public because a two institutions, Felda as well as UiTM, were founded by his father, a late Abdul Razak Hussein, a second budding apportion who had changed a destiny of a young era in a country.
The assembly, that began yesterday as well as will finish tomorrow, is mutually organised by UiTM, Felda as well as Felda Youth Council.
Other activities have additionally been lined up for a three-day programme, together with an educational discourse, Xplorace as well as paintball competitions, cultural performance, lucky draws as well as exhibition.
- Bernama Read More @ Source
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Orhan Pamuk: By the Book
November 10, 2012
Orhan Pamuk: By a Book
Published: November 8, 2012
The bard of "The Innocence of Objects" as great as "Silent House" believes all American presidents should review "Zen as great as a Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."(by Robert M. Pirsig)
What book is upon your night stand now?
Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh" subtitled "The Persian Book of Kings," a great interpretation as great as compilation by Dick Davis is a Penguin Classics edition. Like Rumi's "Masnavi," or "Arabian Nights," "Shahnameh" is a great ocean of stories which we crop from time to time in assorted Turkish as great as English translations to be desirous by or to adapt an ancient story as we did in "My Name Is Red" as great as "The Black Book." At a heart of this epic lies a great soldier Sohrab's poke for his father, Rostam, who without meaningful which Sohrab is his son, kills him in a fight.
The place of this great tragic story in a Persian-Ottoman-Mughal great review criterion is really similar to a place of a fable of Oedipus in a Western canon, nonetheless a story still awaits its resourceful Freud to residence a similarities as great as radical differences. Comparative novel can teach us some-more about East-West than a tongue of a "clash of civilizations."
What's a final indeed great book we read?
The indeed great boo! ks have been regularly novels: "Anna Karenina," "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Magic Mountain."... Just as with "Shahnameh," we crop these books from time to time to remember how a great book works upon us, or to teach my students during Columbia University.
And what's a worst book you've ever read?
The worst books have been additionally bad novels. Just as great books give me a joys of being alive, bad novels depress me as great as as we notice this sentiment coming from a pages, we stop. we additionally do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if a movie is bad. Life is short, as great as we should apply oneself each impulse of it.
Any guilty celebration of a mass pleasures book, periodical, online?
For a prolonged time we navely believed which thrillers as great as detective novels were a rubbish of time. And we suspicion which was because we felt guilty enjoying a novels of Patricia Highsmith. Later we realized which a guilt comes not from celebration of a mass thrillers nonetheless from her ingenious process of creation a reader brand with a murderer. She is a great Dostoyevskian crime writer. we additionally instruct we had review some-more of John Le Carr. we feel guilty if we review as great most book-chat upon a Internet.
The final book which done we laugh?
Oscar Wilde regularly creates me grin with apply oneself as great as admiration. His reduced stories prove which it is probable to be both sarcastic, even cynical, nonetheless deeply compassionate. Just saying a cover of a single of Wilde's books in a bookshop creates me smile. Julian Barnes has some of his vicious as great as benevolent humor. we favourite Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending" really much.
The final! book wh ich done we furious?
Adam Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost" is about a atrocities committed by a armed forces as great as people of King Leopold II of Belgium, in in between 1885 as great as 1908, with a stratagem of "fighting opposite slavery" nonetheless actually simply to have money in a Congo. Leopold's group killed some-more or less 10 million people in Africa. We all know as great great which a tongue of "civilization, modernization" is a great excuse to kill, nonetheless this great book was as great annoying for any one generally someone similar to me who believes in a suspicion of Europe as great much.
If we could suggest a single book to a American president, what would it be? To a Prime Minister of Turkey?
Many years prior to he was inaugurated president, we knew Obama as a bard of "Dreams From My Father," a really great book. To him or to any American president, we would similar to to suggest a book which we sometimes give as a gift to friends, hoping they review it as great as ask me, "Why this book, Orhan?"
"Zen as great as a Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values" is a great American book based upon a proportions of America as great as a particular poke for values as great as meaning in life. This rarely regretful book is not a novel, nonetheless does something each critical novel should do, as great as does it better than many great novels: creation truth out of a tiny sum of daily life.
I respected a Turkish Prime Minister's governing body of pulling a armed forces divided from governing body as great as behind to a barracks, nonetheless we am not happy about going to courts for my domestic opinions similar to many, many others during his reign. He ! sued a c artoonist for picturing him as a cat, nonetheless as any one who comes here knows we all adore cats in Istanbul. we am certain Erdogan would enjoy a great Japanese bard Natsume Soseki's book "I Am a Cat," a satirical novel about a diabolical dangers of as great most Westernization, narrated by a intelligent cat.
You have been charged with "insulting Turkishness" for acknowledging a mass killings of Kurds as great as Armenians, as great as have been outspoken about Turkey's bid to stick upon a European Union. In these instances, were we behaving as an intent adult or do we consider writers have a shortcoming for amicable activism?
At most we was behaving as an intent citizen. we do not have systematical domestic beliefs, nor am we a self-consciously domestic writer. Yet my books have been domestic given my characters live in troubled times of domestic unrest as great as informative change. we similar to to uncover my readers which my characters do have choices all a time, as great as which is domestic in a great review approach in my fiction.
I am never encouraged by domestic ideas. we am interested in human situations as great as droll stories. The domestic problems we face in Turkey have been not given of my novels nonetheless given of a international interviews we make. Whatever we say outward of Turkey is twisted, altered a bit behind during home to have me demeanour silly as great as some-more domestic than we am.
Once we complained to a immature Paul Auster a bard we admire, whom we met in Oslo as he was additionally we do interviews, similar to me, to foster a single of his books saying which they have been asking me domestic questions all a time, as great as which it might be easier to be an American writer. He said they have been additionally asking him about a cove war all a time. This was a initial cove war! In a 20 years which passed in between, we perhaps schooled which domestic questions have been a arrange of destiny for great review writer! s, gener ally if we come from a non-Western world.
The best approach to equivocate them is to be domestic similar to a diplomat as great as answer only a great review questions. But my character is not a character of a successful diplomat. we remove my rage as great as answer some of a domestic questions as great as possibly finish up in justice or face a campaign by right-wing newspapers in Turkey.
Novels have been domestic not given writers lift celebration cards some do, we do not nonetheless given great fiction is about identifying with as great as understanding people who have been not indispensably similar to us. By nature all great novels have been domestic given identifying with a other is political. At a heart of a "art of a novel" lies a human genius to see a universe by others' eyes. Compassion is a biggest strength of a novelist.
You can move 3 books to a desert island. Which do we choose?
Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1911 edition, a initial book of "Encyclopaedia of Islam" (1913-1936) as great as Resat Ekrem Kocu's "Encyclopedia of Istanbul" (1958-1971), which we wrote about in my book "Istanbul," will keep me bustling for 10 years. My aptitude works best with facts generally if they have been a bit dated. After 10 years they should pick me up from a desert island to publish a novels we wrote there.
You've lived upon as great as off in America. Which American writers do we generally admire? Any who have influenced your work?
The late John Updike once wrote which all third universe writers have been influenced by Faulkner. we am a single of them. Faulkner showed us which a theme make a difference might be provincial, divided from a centers of a West as great as politically troubled, nonetheless a single can write about it in a really personal as great as resourceful approach as great as be review all over a world.
I've review roughly a! ll of Fa ulkner as great as Hemingway as great as Fitzgerald. we additionally review all of Updike's great review reviews he wrote for The New Yorker. we schooled a lot from Updike as great as benefited from his reviews of my books too. Since we went to an American secular tall propagandize in Istanbul, Robert College, I've review "Tom Sawyer" as required reading, as great as "A Separate Peace" as great as "To Kill a Mockingbird," enjoying a democratic as great as egalitarian spirit of these books. Salinger was not taught during propagandize then, so we review "The Catcher in a Rye" as a subversive book in tall propagandize years. we admire a novels of Thomas Pynchon, a comprehension of Nicholson Baker. we apply oneself Dave Eggers. ...
But when someone asks me about American literature, we rught away consider of Hawthorne, Melville as great as Poe. For me these 3 writers paint some-more than any one else a American spirit.
Perhaps given it is easy for me to brand with their stress of provincialism as great as wild imagination, their tiny number of readers in their time as great as their appetite as great as optimism, their successes as great as fantastic failures. In my aptitude we associate Poe, Melville as great as Hawthorne with some poser only as we associate, say, German Romantic painters as great as their landscapes with something unknowable.
How has your precision as a house house painter informed a approach we write as great as review your books?
As we wrote in my autobiographical book "Istanbul," as great as right away in "The Innocence of Objects," we was lifted to be a painter. But when we was 23-years-old, a single puzzling screw got loose in my conduct as great as we switched to essay novels.
I still enjoy a pleasures of painting. we am a happier chairman when we paint, nonetheless we feel which we am intent some-more deeply with a universe when we write. Yes, portrayal as great as novel have been "sister arts" as great as we taught a! categor y about it during Columbia. we favourite to ask my students to tighten their eyes, entertain a suspicion as great as to open their eyes as great as try to explain either it was a word or an image. Correct answer: Both! Novels residence both a written (Dostoyevsky) as great as visual (Proust, Nabokov) imaginations. There have been so many unforgettable scenes in a novels of Dostoyevsky, nonetheless we rarely remember a background, a landscape or a objects in a scenes.
There have been additionally other types of novelists who harmonise noted scenes by forming motion picture as great as images in a minds. Before Flaubert's "perfect word," there should be a perfect picture in a writer's imagination. A great reader should occasionally tighten a novel in her palm as great as demeanour during a roof as great as explain in her aptitude a writer's initial picture which triggered a judgment or a paragraph. We writers should write for this kind of talented reader.
Over a years, a house house painter in me taught radically 5 things to a bard in me:
1)Don't start to write prior to we have a strong clarity of a total composition, unless we have been essay a lyrical content or a poem.
2)Don't poke for soundness as great as balance it will kill a life in a work.
3)Obey a rules of point of perspective as great as perspective as great as see a universe by your characters' eyes nonetheless it is slight to break this rule with inventiveness.
4)Like (Vincent) van Gogh or a neo-Expressionist painters, uncover your brushstrokes! The reader will enjoy observing a creation of a novel if it is done a minor part of a story.
5)Try to brand a random beauty where conjunction a thoughts recognised of nor a palm dictated any. The bard in me as great as a house house painter in me have been getting to be friendlier each day. That's because we am right away formulation novels with motion picture as great as picture books with texts as great as stories.
The city of ! Istanbul has altered enormously in a final 50 years. How has this shift been reflected in literature?
The previous generation of Turkish writers were some-more bustling with life as great as amicable misapplication in farming Anatolia whilst my poor Istanbul of a 1950s grew from a single million to fourteen million in my lifetime. The suburban neighborhoods, tiny fishermen's villages, whim summer resorts for a Westernized top classes as great as a factories as great as working-class quarters which we report in "Silent House," along with their indignant immature men, a nationalists, a fundamentalists as great as a secularists as great as their domestic problems have been part of a large capital now.
I feel so lucky to have celebrated all this immense, amazing expansion from a inside. And given most of it happened in a final 15 years, it is tough to locate up with it too. As we did in a years which we wrote "Silent House," we still take prolonged walks in a assorted quarters of a city, as it gets bigger as great as bigger, enjoying everything we see, observing a high-rises which reinstate aged shantytowns, a whim malls built upon aged summer motion picture gardens, all sorts of brand new shops as great as internal fast-food bondage representing many communities as great as endless crowds in a streets.
A version of this article appeared in imitation upon November 11, 2012, upon page BR9 of a Sunday Book Review with a headline: By a Book: Orhan Pamuk.
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