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Penganjur Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat yang mengadakan pertemuan dengan Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Ismail Omar hari ini gembira dengan jaminan polis untuk berperanan sebagai pemudahcara dalam pada perhimpunan pada twelve Januari di ibu negara.ePaper Harakah. Harakah cetak versi digital untuk langganan. Homestay Tempayan Hijau Penginapan bill di Parit Buntar Pada orang lain mungkinberita ni berita terbaiktapi bagi orang yang ketagih nak kena semburan air kimia dan gas pemedih mata, berita ni mungkin berita yang terburuk setakat ni.
Setiausaha Agung PKR Datuk Saifuddin Nasution berkata Ismail dalam mesyuarat berkenaan turut menyatakan kesediaan untuk menjadikan perhimpunan pada hari tersebut sebagai "detik bersejarah" selepas "belajar daripada kekurangan" yang berlaku semasa perhimpunan sebelum ini. -Mkini.
"Tan Sri Ketua Polis Negara sebut peranan polis sebagai fasilitator. Hubungan polis dan wartawan pada perhimpunan itu, mereka akan menyediakan marsyal untuk memandu petugas media berdasarkan (peruntukan) seksyen Akta Perhimpunan Aman.Kalau dah Ketua Polis Negara sendiri dah bagi jaminan yang polis akan jadifasilitator takkan fasilitator nak sembur air kimia dan gas pemedih mata kut.
"Adalah menjadi tanggungjawab semua supaya tertib dan kami ingatkan mereka yang hadir datang dalam suasana mood festival, bagi membantu menjamin kelangsungan perhimpunan.
"IGP mahu menjadi (perhimpunan ini) sebagai saat bersejarah, iaitu belajar daripada kekurangan yang terdahulu. Mereka berhasrat untuk memberi khidmat yang terbaik, untuk memastikan semua hak mengikut undang-undang dan perlu dihormati," kata Saifuddin. - Ibid.
Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu menegaskan pihaknya akan menunggu sehingga tengahari esok untuk pihak pengurusan Stadium Merdeka membuat keputusan sama ada membenarkan perhimpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat diadakan di stadium tersebut pada twelve Januari ini.Kalau himpunan tu 'terpaksa' dibuat dijalanraya aku tak rasa pihak polis bersedia nak jafi fasilitator.
Setakat ini, kata beliau, pihaknya masih belum menerima apa-apa berita berhubung kelulusan untuk menggunakan Stadium Merdeka.
"Kita tunggu sehingga jam 1 tengahari esok sama ada diizinkan atau tidak. Sebarang pengumuman akan dibuat dalam sidang media esok, jam 4 petang di pejabat agung PAS. -Mkini.
January 9, 2013
http://www.thestar.com.my (01-05-13)
IN a journey of transforming Malaysia's manage to buy where a unfit contingency be made possible, there is no room for doubt. We contingency push brazen to do what needs to be done to have certain which a high income manage to buy is completed by 2020.
Make no mistake about it, Malaysia's mercantile essential element today, carrying available a 5.3% expansion in GDP as during a third entertain of this year amidst a tellurian mercantile slowdown is no fluke. Our GDP expansion for this duration surpassed regional peers Singapore's 1.3%, Thailand's 3%, South Korea's 1.6%, Taiwan's 1% as good as Hong Kong's 1.3%.
Furthermore, when a International Monetary Fund's (IMF) handling director Christine Lagarde met Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in November, she said which Malaysia was a usually country for which a IMF had to correct ceiling their GDP expansion forecast.
I hold which this essential element is a result of a concerted, cohesive Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) Malaysians from opposite segments of society put in to motion dual years ago.Indeed, a year 2012 has been a win upon most counts for a ETP which is led by a Prime Minister.
Setting a loyal north of a ETP was positively one of a most defining moments. We repeat it similar to a mantra we want to ensure which a sum national income (GNI) per capita in Malaysia reaches during least US$ 15,000 by 2020. This is a loyal north.
In 2009, a GNI per capita was US$ 6,700 as good as we managed to increase this to strech US$ 9,700 by 2011. This is a conspicuous 45% increase.To get to a loyal north aim by 2020, a chal! lenge is to secure a sum of RM1.4 trillion in investment, 3.3 million incremental jobs as good as RM1.4 trillion in GNI, all to be completed by 2020.
Are we upon a right track, most have asked.The ETP is dual in a objectives. It aims to emanate specific mercantile focus areas through a twelve National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) so which potential investors know beforehand what prospects a Malaysian manage to buy has for them. It additionally addresses policies as good as procedures to emanate conditions for competitiveness to flourish underneath a six Strategic Reform Initiatives (SRIs).
The sense of buy-in we have cumulative from a in isolation zone cannot be stronger than what it is today. To date, it has captivated RM212bil in investments which will emanate almost 411,000 new jobs as good as RM137.6bil in GNI by 2020.
A sum of RM20.6bil out of RM29bil investment committed in 2011 to 2012 was realised. For a years between 2013 as good as 2015, we intend to surpass that. Private investment expansion in Malaysia averaged 6.7% between 2000 as good as 2010, though doubled in 2011 to 12.2% after a initial year of a ETP. We're upon track to do even better in 2012, with investment carrying tripled to 22.5% after three quarters.
It is enlivening to see a in isolation zone is retaking a rightful role as a engine of mercantile expansion in this country. A supervision cannot carry a bulk of a burden in generating mercantile growth.
There have been limitations in a ways a supervision can consequence income. Also, which income needs to be used for developmental purposes as good as where possible, for fiscally prudent practices to ensure we do not finish up in a same incident of bankrupt nations similar to Greece.
Thus, with a in isolation zone taking a lead role in mercantile development, a Government can now focus upon indeed catalytic projects with great mercantile returns such as a Mass Rapid Transit, River of Life project, Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex as good as! tipping indicate for infrastruture investment in mercantile corridors.
When these projects have been up as good as running, a beneficiaries would be a in isolation zone as good as a rakyat, a product or service provider as good as a consumer. It results in both tolerable resources origination as good as alleviation in a quality of hold up for Malaysians.
Despite certain signs so far, we have been yet to strech a pinnacle as good as we contingency continue to up a game.One very genuine design which a ETP hopes to achieve is to bring structural changes to sum made during home product (GDP) make-up in order to achieve a higher degree of sustainability.
We cannot be as well contingent upon either in isolation investments or made during home consumption though need to achieve a healthy mix of components so which we have been able to continue tellurian headwinds through a robust as good as resilient economy.
As a commission of GDP, in a past, in isolation investments have been 20%-22%. For a nine months of 2012, this has risen to 27%, as good as it needs to stay during this level.
Our net trade is impacted as good as reflective of a recessionary state of a United States as good as euro economy. To deal with this, a exports need to significantly increase as good as a usually approach we can dig a tellurian marketplace is when a products as good as services have been competitive, meeting with tellurian standards.
Local companies as good as brands contingency be challenged to grow their bottom outside a comfort of a local marketplace as good as compete with a most appropriate in a regional as good as tellurian arena.
Renowned tellurian institutions have been taking note of a country's certain change. The World Bank's Doing Business Report 2013 saw us pierce from a 18th in front of in 2012 to 12th in 2013 whilst a AT Kearney's FDI confidence index for Malaysia has risen from twenty-one in 2010 to 10 in 2012 brazen of France, South Korea, as good as Canada.
W! hile we have a prolonged approach to go to fight graft, a Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by Transparency International shows which Malaysia's tellurian ranking has improved from 60th to 54th this year. This demonstrates which a Government's bid in combating crime is delivering some enlivening results, despite we have a prolonged approach to go.
Yes, we contingency keep moving. We contingency keep pushing to shift policies, attitudes as good as behaviours necessary to have Malaysia a rival as good as business-friendly destination.
It is important to keep in thoughts which this mutation is not something being pushed down by a Government to a in isolation zone though a perfection of both government-industry partnership to identify a most appropriate approach brazen for a country's economy.
On a ETP's methodology, we was heartened to sense which Harvard University as good as Princeton University, dual Ivy league universities in a United States, have created case studies upon a mutation of Malaysia. These have been used in their teaching courses.
I hold this is not something for a Government alone to be happy about; all Malaysians should be proud of this achievement. In most ways, we have been commencement to see a results of this collective, industry-wide bid targeted during mercantile mutation for Malaysia.
As a momentum builds up, we cannot turn complacent. There have been even bigger wins in store in a future for a ETP. We just have to stay focused in a efforts as good as be certain upon a high-income target. With that, season's greetings as good as wishing we a smashing as good as prosperous 2013. Happy New Year!
Datuk Seri Idris Jala is CEO of a Performance Management as good as Delivery Unit as good as Minister in a Prime Minister's Department.
January 9, 2013
The Japanese embassy in Kuala Lumpur has currently (January 8) denied that it reliable a RM207 billion was paid out by their supervision to Malaysia as remuneration for a victims of a 'Death Railway project' that ran from Thailand to Burma.
In a statement sent by a embassy during Jalan Tun Razak, second secretary Takaharu Suegami pronounced a matter was outside a impasse as good as believe of a Japanese government.
"We must remind we that a embassy has never reliable that RM207 billion was paid to a Malaysian supervision as remuneration to a victims," he said.
A copy of a minute was sent to Harakah Daily editor-in-chief Ahmad Lutfi Othman, as good as was faxed to Malaysiakini today, where Takaharu referred to a dual articles carried by a PAS spokesman patrician 'Embassy confirms outrageous remuneration paid to Malaysian government' upon Jan 3 as good as 'Embassy clarifies inform upon death railway' that appeared yesterday.
Suegami referred to a Second World War as "unhappy events" as good as that war remuneration upon a matter had been entirely as good as eventually settled underneath a San Francisco Treaty that entered in to force in 1952.
"Furthermore, for your reference, there is a Sep 21, 1967 agreement in between Japan as good as Malaysia where in sequence to foster mercantile cooperation, Japan concluded to supply grants to Malaysia of a products as good as services of Japan to a sum worth of RM25 million.
"The necessary arrangements for a implementation were already conducted by a dual governments as good as in a agreement, ! a Malays ian supervision has concluded that all questions outset from a 'unhappy events' during World War II that may start a existent great family in between a dual countries were settled," he said.
The second secretary combined that all a reserve in suitability with a agreement were finished upon May 6, 1972.
Deep remorse
He serve pronounced that Japan has always engraved deep distress as good as apologised for a damage as good as suffering caused in a past by a colonial order as good as charge to a Asian countries that it had occupied.
"On assorted occasions, Japan expressed these feelings of distress as good as apologised, as good as a resolve to ensure that such an hapless history is never repeated as shown by a statement by a then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Maruyama in 1995," he said.
"Japan has made pinnacle efforts to set up a destiny oriented as good as mild attribute with Asian nations as good as will continuously work to grasp a assent as good as prosperity of a universe in a destiny as well," pronounced Suegami.
Previously, Malaysiakini had cited a Harakah Daily inform upon Jan 5 where it quoted former Perak Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin as saying that a amount of RM207 billion had been paid. Opposition personality Anwar Ibrahim was also asked to comment upon a issue.
"Penganjur dan polis sama-sama berazam untuk memastikan HKR menjadi himpunan aman dan berjalan lancar," kata Mat Sabu kepada pemberita.
"Kita berbincang berpandukan Akta Perhimpunan Aman dan berjanji setiap pihak perlu mengikuti undang-undang tersebut," jelasnya.Pertemuan itu turut disertai 10 pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat termasuk wakil NGO.
"Polis juga akan sediakan 'marshal' un! tuk memu dahkan dan melancarkan perjalanan hari tersebut," katanya.Dalam perkembanganberkaitan, Mohamad Sabu menyatakan pihak sekretariat HKR belum mendapat maklum balas berhubung kebenaran menggunakan Stadium Merdeka.
"Kita tunggu sampai 1 petang esok, sama ada dibenarkan atau tidak. Kemudian kami akan adakan mesyuarat jawatankuasa pada jam 4 petang. Selepas itu kita akan maklumkan kepada polis, media dan orang awam jika terdapat sebarang perpindahan lokasi," jelasnya.~KD- shalehudin