MRT project: New owner trying out creative ways

KUALA LUMPUR: MRT Corporation (MRT Corp) today said that it was trying unprecedented and creative ways to avoid compulsory land acquisitions in areas where the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line passes under the Klang Valley My Rapid Transit (KVMRT) project.

MRT Corp took over ownership of the KVMRT project from Prasarana Negara Bhd yesterday.

Newly-appointed MRT Corp chief executive officer Azhar Abdul Hamid said: The approach were taking is unprecedented. Were not looking at taking anyones land. We are trying to move away from compulsory land acquisitions. Work with me Were just interested in the tunnel, not the land above.

Were looking at creative ways to making things happen with the least pain, he said at the companys first press conference here. Also present was MRT Corp project director Marcus Karakashian.

He said the plan was not to acquire any land or demolish any building along Jalan Sultan, but to draw up an agreement with the owners under which the land title would be re-issued with provision for the MRT tunnel to co-exist below.

Azhar said he had met with the affected parties from Chinatown, Bukit Bintang, and Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) earlier this month and have presented the proposals.

We understand that the current laws do not leave much room to manoeuvre but the way to avoid acquisition is by having a mutually acceptable agreement with all affected parties individually, he said.

Asked if there was any guarantee on MRT Corps part that land will be returned to the owners in Chinatown, Azhar said:

MRT Corp guarantees that we have no intention to take any land, and we have no intention to demolish any buildings. Were concerned for the safety of the people there and! thats w hy they need to move out for six months.

He added that fair compensation will be paid to shopowners during the duration that they are relocated.

Biggest challenge

He said during his meeting with the affected landowners in Chinatown, it was conveyed to them that we will find ways of not acquiring land and not demolishing the buildings. We will find ways to ensure the interests of both sides are protected as far as the tunnel construction is concerned.

Azhar said eventhough Jalan Sultan was not a gazetted heritage site, MRT Corp recognised it as a heritage area, and would not want to use the Land Acquisition Act to take over the site.

However, for the Bukit Bintang area, he said there was no choice but to demolish certain areas for construction to take place.

The biggest challenge will be in Bukit Bintang because the area is so compact that we cannot build the underground tunnel without demolishing some buildings on the surface, he said.

However, he added that MRT Corps proposed plan was to have an agreement with the landowners to retain the land titles but to agree to allow the company to clear the surface area.

We will compensate for any loss of business and for any demolished buildings. We are open to an agreement to re-build shops for the owners to return I have also offered to work with them and the Tourism Ministry to re-develop the whole area so that Bukit Bintang will be the star of the city, said Azhar.

However, he said the Bukit Bintang landowners were adamant and there was nothing MRT Corp could do.

I can understand they dont want to give up their property. Our proposal is to give us the land temporarily. We would sign an agreement with them committing ourselves to make good whatever we have demolished.

We would even put back the buildings brick by brick except for those areas where we need to build the exits, air vents, and access, he said, adding that a similar plan was proposed to the Jalan Inai la! ndowners .

We wont change alignment

Azhar said while he was optimistic that an agreement could be reached, he was disappointed with the landowners who were unwilling to cooperate.

He said if a workbale solution could not be reached, MRC Corp would have to leave it to the authorities to go through with the compulsory land acquisition.

On the proposal by affected landowners to re-align the tracks, he said that would not be possible.

The alignment is most optimal and we will not change it, he said.

He added that the experts have studied all other options, including re-alignment, before coming up with the final alignment.

The alignment was not something we plucked out of thin air. We looked at all options to make sure that what we decided would deliver maximum benefits, said Azhar.

He said the final alignment took into consideration issues concerning engineering, land suitability and also public opinion.

Azhar said there were certain parties which did not fully understand the issues and were attempting to derail the project, but the work must go on.

I do not want to paint a gloomy or rosy picture. As far as I am concerned, MRT Corp has noble intentions to overcome problems such as traffic congestion.

We tried to accommodate as much as we can to make sure the interests of landowners are protected, but it seems that our gestures on the table are not good enough.

We wont say no to proposals we can use but to say that MRT Corp takes a high-handed approach is unfair.

We are trying to uphold the interests of all parties, especially the public. It is never our intention to upset the public because what we are doing here is for the public.

Azhar said that if everything went according to schedule, people in the Klang Valley would have 51km of trackline by July 2017.

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Hidup Sebuah Misteri Dan Kembara

HIDUP SEBUAH MISTERI DAN KEMBARA
Prof Madya Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin
(sertai facebook DrMAZA.com dan twitter realDrMAZA)

Saya sedang berada di OCIS, Oxford. Hadir ke sini di bawah program Visiting Research Scholar selama sepuluh bulan. Saya pernah datang ke sini dulu sekadar melawat kawan-kawan. Tidak sangka pula, ada peluang datang pula untuk buat kajian di sini dengan agak lama, berserta sedikit elaun yang diberikan oleh British Council.

Saya tinggalkan Malaysia dalam keadaan ramai yang menasihati bahawa sekarang bukan masa yang sesuai. Kebanyakan alasan mereka; pilihanraya sudah dekat. Duta British juga kata begitu kepada saya. Padahal, saya seperti rakyat marhaen yang lain tidak terlibat dengan pilihanraya melainkan sekadar seorang pengundi biasa. Itu bukan alasan yang kukuh. Saya ingin terus mengembara selagi mampu. Mengutip bekalan selagi ada upaya membawanya. Merentasi denai dan lurah. Mendaki gunung dan cuba menggapai awan, jika diizinkan Allah. Biarlah apa tafsiran orang terhadap kehidupan kita, selagi insan berpaksikan Tuhan, dia akan melihat keindahan dimensi hidup dalam pelbagai spektra dan rupa.

Ini tulisan pertama saya di sini. Saya belum mahu mula. Saya hanya mahu meletakkan satu mukadimah yang boleh kita kongsi bersama mengenai kehidupan. Sesuatu yang kita semua alami dan rasai. Allah menyuruh kita mengawal diri sendiri dan membetulkan keadaan dengan kadar kemampuan dan ruang yang kita miliki. Namun, tiada siapa dalam kalangan makhluk yang dapat memastikan episod-episod dalam perjalanan hidup.

Penulis dan bangunan mercu bersejarah dan perpustakaan besar Oxford

Misteri Kehidupan

Ya, hidup penuh keajaiban. Penuh misteri yang tersimpan di sisi Ilahi. Ada perkara yang insan jangka dan sangka, ia tidak berlaku. Ada perkara yang tidak diduga ia menjelma dalam pelbagai rupa dan warna. Tiada siapa boleh menyatakan yang dia menguasai perjalanan kehidupannya. Tidak! Sama sekali tidak! Dia mungkin menguasai dirinya bukan perjalanan hidupnya. Dalam alam ini yang penuh dengan pelbagai watak, episod, musim dan rasa, maka tiada siapa yang berkuasa melainkan Allah. Manusia merancang dan mengatur. Ada kala rancangan itu berjaya, ada kala gagal, ada kala berubah arah dan pelbagai lagi.

Dunia ini bukan kita saja yang menghuninya; insan lain, alam sekeliling dan segala yang wujud. Semuanya mempunyai agenda mereka yang tersendiri. Kadang-kala agenda itu bersaing dengan hasrat kita. Mungkin kita menang, atau kalah. Atau tiada siapa yang mendapatnya. Atau semua mendapat ruang dan peruntukan masing-masing. Itulah kehidupan. Sebab itu kita disuruh bertawakkal iaitu setelah berusaha semampunya hendaklah berserah pasrah dan menggantungkan segala doa dan harapan kepadaNya. Firman Allah (maksudnya):

..dan sesiapa yang bertaqwa kepada Allah, nescaya Allah akan mengadakan baginya jalan keluar (dari masalahnya). Serta memberinya rezeki dari jalan yang dia tidak sangka. dan sesiapa bertawakal kepada Allah, maka cukuplah Allah itu baginya (untuk menyelamatkannya). Sesungguhnya Allah tetap melakukan segala urusanNya. Allah telahpun menentukan kadar bagi berlakunya tiap-tiap sesuatu. (Surah al-Talaq: 2-3).

Kudrat Tuhan

Ya, sesiapa yang bertawakal kepada Allah, maka cukuplah Allah sebagai pengatur urusannya. Ketika menyerah pasrah dirinya kepada Allah, insan mungkin mempunyai pelbagai bayangan bagaimana kehendak atau hajatnya akan tercapai. Namun kuasa, kudrat dan kehendak Allah merentasi segala bayangan dan igauan insani.

Dalam menunai hasrat seseorang insan, Allah kadang-kala takdi! rkan pel bagai kejadian dan episod hidup agar insan belajar, mendapat ganjaran pahala, menemui pelbagai hikmat dan menjadi hamba yang lebih bersyukur dan akur dengan keagunganNya. Cara sesuatu hasrat itu muncul dan menjelma juga, tidak semestinya sama. Pelbagai warna dan rupa. Mungkin insan ingin sesuatu, Allah gantikan yang lain yang lebih baik daripadanya. Mungkin insan tidak tahu kejelekan di sebalik sesuatu yang indah pada matanya sehingga dia mengidamnya.

Apabila insan menyerah diri kepada Tuhan dengan jiwa yang luhur dan akur, Allah akan memberikan ganti yang lain, yang mungkin insan kurang suka, tapi itu lebih baik untuknya. Demikian Allah menegaskan (maksudnya):

..dan boleh jadi kamu benci kepada sesuatu padahal ia baik bagi kamu, dan boleh jadi kamu suka kepada sesuatu padahal ia buruk bagi kamu. dan (ingatlah), Allah jualah Yang mengetahui (semuanya itu), sedang kamu tidak mengetahuinya. (Surah al-Baqarah: 216).

Hanya pada tanganNya kekuasaan mutlak terhadap perjalanan alam ini. Jika Dia mahu memberikan sesuatu, tiada siapa yang dapat menghalangNya. Jika Dia mahu menghalang sesuatu, tiada siapa yang memberikannya. Dia Maha Berkuasa menghadirkan hajat seseorang insan dalam pelbagai bentuk dan rupa, jalan yang disangka dan yang tidak diduga. Dia Maha Mengetahui apa yang terselit dalam benak insani ketika seseorang itu mengadu kepadaNya. Padahal kadang-kala insan itu sendiri alpa dan lupa hasratnya yang sebenar.

Allah mungkin menunaikan hasrat yang tersirat walaupun tidak dalam gambaran yang tersemat. Segalanya atas rahsia alam atau hikmat kehidupan yang Allah Maha Tahu. Apa yang penting Allah tidak mensia-siakan hamba yang bertawakal kepadaNya. Percaya, jika kita serahkan jiwa raga dengan penuh pasrah kepada Allah, harinya akan menjelma dalam pelbagai bentuk dan rupa.

Kebahagiaan itu jika Allah berikan tiada siapa yang dapat merampasnya dalam dada kita, sekalipun tubuh diluka dan dipenjara. Sengsara jika Allah campakkan kepada kita, tiada harta yang d! apat men ghalangnya, tiada wanita yang dapat menceriakannya dan kuasa yang dapat menangkisnya. Percayalah, dan berjalanlah atas keimanan itu menelusuri diari kehidupan ini.

Hidup Ini Kembara

Setiap insan mengembara di mayapada ini. Samada dia pernah keluar dari daerahnya ataupun tidak. Dia bagaikan pengembara. Perjalanan diari hidupnya sendiri yang bermula dari hari dilahirkan sehingga menemui kematian. Berjumpa dengan pelbagai watak dan bertemu dengan pelbagai episod dalam hayatnya.

Dalam menelusuri rantai-rantai hari yang datang pergi, insan disuruh mengabdikan diri kepada Ilahi. Melakukan yang disuruh dan meninggalkan yang dilarang. Insan itu insan. Akan ada episod duka, salah, silap dan episod suka, benar dan tepat. Ada kala dosa, ada kala pahala. Itulah insan.

Namun, dalam kembaranya hendaklah dia pastikan kesilapan akan diikuti dengan pembetulan, dosa diikuti dengan istighfar dan taubat. Pastikan kebaikan yang mengusai dirinya, sementara kejahatan sesuatu yang asing dan terpencil. Pastikan dalam kembara hidup ini dia tidak membawa beban yang menyukar dia pulang ke pangkuan Tuhan. Sabda Nabi s.a.w: :

Ada apa aku dan dunia ini! Tiadalah dunia dan aku ini melainkan seperti seorang pengembara yang berlindung dari panas di bawah sepohon pokok, kemudian pergi meninggalkannya. (Riwayat al-Tirmizi, dinilai sahih oleh al-Albani).

Walaupun hidup menyerupai sebuah kembara, insan disuruh pula untuk mengembara melihat alam ciptaan Allah. Mengambil iktibar dari pelbagai kejadian dan peristiwa. Begitu banyak ayat dalam al-Quran, Allah menyebut Tidakkah kamu lihat?! dan berjalanlah kamu di bumi... Pelbagai perkara al-Quran menyuruh kita lihat; gunung-ganang, peristiwa lampau dan lain-lain. Demikian dalam riwayat al-Bukhari bagaimana Jabir bin Abdillah menyembara selama sebulan untuk mendapat sebuah hadis sahaja daripada Abdullah bin Unais.

Maka saya terus mengembara lagi dan mengulangi ungkapan Abu Firas al-Amiri ya! ng diken ali dengan Majd al-Arab:

Berpisahlah, nescaya kau dapati ganti orang yang kau tinggalkan. Mengembaralah di bumi, nescaya kau temui petunjuk dalam perjalanan itu. Singa jika tidak meninggalkan hutannya, tidak akan garang. Anak panah jika tidak meninggalkan busarnya tidak akan mengena sasaran. (Fawat al-Fawayat 3/87, Beirut: Dar al-Sadir).

Ezam mahu Aziz Bari, MalaysiaKini disiasat

SHAH ALAM: Senator Ezam Mohd Noor mahu portal berita MalaysiaKini dan Pensyarah Undang-Undang Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) Prof Dr Abdul Aziz Bari disiasat dibawah Akta Hasutan 1948 kerana mempertikaikan titah Sultan Selangor berhubung isu pemeriksaan Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama (DUMC) 3 Ogos lalu.

Ini berhubung kenyataan Aziz Bari dalam MalaysiaKini tidak menghormati kuasa Sultan Selangor dalam hal ehwal Islam di negeri itu seperti yang termaktub dalam Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, seperti yang didakwa Ezam.

Kesannya, Ezam mendakwa kenyataan itu boleh mengundang kemarahan masyarakat Islam di Selangor selain menimbulkan suasana tidak harmoni, kacau bilau dan tidak tenteram di negara ini.

Aziz Bari telah berlaku biadap dan derhaka kepada Institusi Raja Melayu dengan menghasut orang ramai untuk membenci Institusi Raja-Raja Melayu.

Kenyataan Aziz ini dikeluarkan oleh laman portal MalaysiaKini, katanya ketika membuat laporan di Balai Polis Seksyen 6 di sini hari ini.

Isu sensitif

Sementara itu, Ezam ketika ditemui pemberita berkata ini bukan kali pertama portal berita itu cuba merosakkan institusi agama dan raja dengan menyentuh isu sensitif sehinga menimbulkan suasana tidak senang masyarakat berbilang kaum.

Katanya, Aziz Bari dan MalaysiaKini menunjukkan sikap biadap, kurang ajar, dan melampaui batas yang dipercayainya perbuatan terancang dan mempunyai agenda jahat disebaliknya.

Saya percaya ketika kita sedang mempertahankan institusi ini Malaysiakini pada setiap saat dan minit terus menyiarkan artikel yang jelas merosakkan institusi agama dan raja.

Oleh itu kami memohon pihak berkuasa a! mbil tin dakan pantas dan sementara laporan siasatan dibuat, MalaysiaKini perlu dihentikan daripada menyiarkan setiap artikel dan perkataan yang mempertikaikan kedaulatan kedua-dua institusi terbabit, katanya.

Selain itu, beliau juga mahu pihak UIA mengenakan tindakan disiplin terhadap Aziz Bari termasuk digantung tugas kerana mengeluarkan kenyataan sedemikian sekaligus mencemarkan imej serta kredibiliti universiti tempatan terbabit.

Laporan polis yang berlainan turut dibuat oleh Pengerusi Gerakan Anti-Penyelewengan Selangor (Gaps) Hamidzun Khairuddin dan tiga ahlinya yang lain.

Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Isnin lalu bertitah baginda amat tersinggung dengan usaha pihak tertentu yang cuba melemahkan kepercayaan dan akidah orang Islam di Selangor.

Titah baginda, cubaan memesongkan akidah umat Islam itu berjaya dibuktikan melalui hasil siasatan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) semasa Majlis Makan Malam Hari Kesyukuran di DUMC, selain menahan 12 orang Islam yang hadir sama dalam majlis itu.

Bagaimanapun, baginda bertitah bukti yang diperolehi tidak mencukupi untuk diambil tindakan undang-undang.

Mengulas mengenai titah itu, Aziz Bari yang juga pakar Perlembagaan berkata tindakan Sultan Selangor untuk campurtangan berhubung isu pemeriksaan sebuah gereja itu bukan sesuatu tindakan yang biasa terjadi.

Menurutnya, sebagai ketua agama Islam di negeri itu, baginda mempunyai hak untuk campurtangan tetapi ini perlu dijalankan selaras dengan ajaran Islam.

EC admits 40,000 names in electoral roll 'doubtful'...

The Election Commission (EC) will be displaying a list of 40,000 names found in the electoral roll but information on them could not be verified, said EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof today.

He said the commission would be displaying the names for public viewing on its website to enable the individuals concerned to visit the EC's office to resolve the issue.

"Their status could not be ascertained, in some cases the voter's name in the electoral roll differed with that recorded by the National Registration Department.

"In other cases, we want to ensure whether the voter is still alive or not," he told reporters after opening the 13th general election preparation briefing to returning officers and assistant returning officers at a hotel in Shah Alam today.

Abdul Aziz, however, said the list of 40,000 doubtful names was small and that EC was in the process of improving the electoral roll.

On the briefing today, Abdul Aziz said it was to provide initial information to returning officers and assistant returning officers on their duties and responsibilities during the 13th general election.

He said the first briefing was being held in Selangor but would be extended to other states such as Kelantan, Perak and Penang soon.

Abdul Aziz, however, said the briefing was only to train EC duty officers so that they were in a state of preparedness should the 13th general election be called but it did not mean the general election was very near.

He said the EC needed a staff strength of at least 160,00 people for the 13th general election compar! ed to 15 0,000 in the last general election.

source:malaysiakini

SPR akui 40,000 nama di daftar pengundi 'meragukan'

Hello, En.Abdul Aziz Mohd. Yusof letak jawatan lah!!!

cheers.

Shares prices end higher, CI up 1.146 pct

KUALA LUMPUR: Share prices on Bursa Malaysia ended the day higher amid rising confidence of a rescue plan to combat the Euro zone debt crisis, dealers said.

Malaysia Building Society-WA, the highest volume contributor to the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) today, helped push the benchmark index 16.37 points up to end at 1,444.87.

The market barometer, which opened 3.19 points higher at 1,431.69, moved between 1,445.43 and 1,430.95 points throughout the day.

TA Securities Holdings Bhds head of research Kaladher Govindan said strengthening investors confidence in European leaders who are nearing a plan to tame the debt crisis lifted world equity markets, which supported the local bourse.

The local market and regional bourses reacted positively to the optimism sentiment across the globe, he said.

However, the market is reaching the overbought position, so most likely we will see a correction next week, he told Bernama today.

He said although the global market climbed on Euro zone pact, at the end the concerns would be for the European leaders to arrive on a same bailout amount agreement, a full endorsement by the European Union summit on Oct 23.

The nations are at odds over the amount and currently the rescue amount arrived was euro 440 billion. This is small compared to the scale of debts of the countries in the Euro zone.

They need a long-term plan, Kaladher said, adding that the markets were in fragile positive tone with risk sentiment.

On the local front, the Finance Index improved 52.47 points to 13,234.0, the Plantation Index jumped 119.51 points to 7,369.12 and the Industrial Index rose 59.61 points to 2,626.19.

The FBM Emas Index jumped 119.39 points to 9,812.83, the FBM! 70 Index spiralled 136.029 points to 10,471.68 and the FBM Ace went up 120.66 points to 3,823.73.

Advancers led decliners 677 to 174 while 233 counters were unchanged, 389 untraded and 21 others suspended.

Total market volume rose to 1.506 million shares, worth RM1.957 billion, from yesterdays 1.079 billion shares worth RM1.296 billion.

Volume on the Main Market increased to 1.090 million shares, worth RM1.914 billion, from yesterdays 791.793 million shares worth RM1.265 billion.

Turnover on the ACE Market, edged up to 140.822 million units, valued at RM20.240 million from 123.767 million units valued at RM18.39 million.

Warrants also improved to 264.528 million shares, valued at RM19.917 million, from 160.327 million shares worth RM11.499 million previously.

British American Tobacco led the gainers list finishing 90 sen better at RM44.50 followed by PPB Group which rose 56 sen to RM16.86 and MISC Bhd which gained 41 sen to RM6.41.

Among actives, Malaysia Building Society-WA added 1.5 sen to 74.5 sen, UOA Development edged 22 sen to RM1.50 and Time Dotcom gained two sen to 57 sen.

As for heavyweights, Maybank was unchanged at RM8.28, CIMB added 10 sen to RM7.40, Sime Darby advanced five sen to RM8.60 and Petronas Chemicals perked 13 sen to RM5.93.

Consumer products accounted for 36.845 million shares traded on the Main Market, industrial products 154.577 million, construction 86.010 million, trade and services 275.124 million, technology 27.961 million, infrastructure 52.234 million, finance 160.584 million, hotels 3.554 million, properties 235.377 million, plantation 48.514 million, mining 118,300, REITs 2.568 million and closed/fund 64,000.

- Bernama

Asian markets mostly higher in early trade

HONG KONG: Asian markets rose today, taking a lead from Wall Street and extending a recent rally on hopes that eurozone leaders will be able to hammer out a solution to the debt crisis.

The euro added to its overnight gains against the dollar as traders responded to news that a bailout package for Europes sovereign debt woes was getting closer.

Tokyo rose 0.97%, or 84.35 points, to 8,823.25, Sydney gained 0.96%, or 40.2 points, to 4,244.5 and Seoul ended 0.75%, or 13.60 points, higher at 1,823.10.

Hong Kong gained 2.34%, or 428.35 points, to 18,757.81. The index has surged more than 15% in the past six sessions, after it hit a two-and-a-half-year low.

Shanghai was closed 0.78%, or 18.79 points, higher at 2,438.79 despite weak export data and with dealers saying they were awaiting tomorrows release of inflation data for September.

Investors are closely watching tomorrows CPI (consumer price inflation), Guan Yewen, an analyst at China Dragon Securities, said.

CPI the main gauge of inflation rose 6.2% year-on-year in August, down from a more than three-year high of 6.5% in July.

Regional market sentiment was lifted by news that Slovakias political parties had agreed to hold a new vote this week that could see the expansion of the eurozone emergency fund approved by tomorrow.

Lawmakers in the Eastern European nation on Tuesday blocked its passage, holding up EU leaders plans to revamp the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), a tool created last year to shore up debt-laden economies.

Slovakia is the last of the 17 eurozone members to ratify the deal.

The market appears a little bit more optimistic that Europe is going to get together on the banking crisis, said David Gilmore, analyst ! at New Y orks Foreign Exchange Analytics.

And Mark Smith, economist at ANZ bank in Wellington, told Dow Jones Newswires: Equity markets are still giving European leaders the benefit of the doubt.

But he added that in coming days investors will be watching out for concrete measures to resolve the blocs debt problems.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso joined the chorus of leaders calling for a solution to the crisis, saying banks urgently need to recapitalise to weather the sovereign debt storm.

However, Yutaka Miura, a senior technical analyst at Mizuho Securities, noted: Markets have been rising solely on the back of expectations (for Europe) so its going to be a bit shaky from here.

The euro extended its recent gains in New York on increased risk-appetite and managed to hold up in Asia.

In Tokyo the single currency was at US$1.3820 against the US dollar, from US$1.3796 late yesterday in New York. The single unit is up about three US cents since yesterday in Asia.

It was also at 106.34 yen in Tokyo, from 106.52 yen in New York. On Wednesday in Asia the euro bought 104.46 yen.

The dollar was at 77.18 yen, from 77.24 yen.

In Shanghai dealers sent the composite index higher despite data showing the politically sensitive trade surplus contracted to US$14.51 billion in September from US$17.8 billion the previous month.

The figures, highlighting falling demand in the United States and Europe, will likely stoke fears over Chinas vast manufacturing sector, which employs millions of workers and has been contracting for several months.

On Wall Street, the minutes of the most recent Federal Reserve meeting released yesterday showed some members wanted the central bank to resume large-scale asset purchases, or quantitative easing, to boost the weak economy.

The news helped send the Dow up 0.90%, while the Nasdaq added 0.84% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.98%.

The Australian dollar got a boost after official data showed the countrys u! nemploym ent rate decreased to 5.2% in September from 5.3% in August.

The Aussie dollar surged to 102.30 US cents from 101.50 just before the report before easing in the afternoon to 101.80.

On oil markets New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, fell 86 US cents to US$84.71 per barrel in the afternoon.

Brent North Sea crude for November delivery dipped 33 US cents to US$111.03 on its last trading day.

By 0800 GMT gold was at US$1,674.95 an ounce, from US$1,682.01 at 1100 GMT yesterday.

In other markets:

• Taipei rose 0.62%, or 45.98 points, to 7,428.33. Leading smartphone maker HTC gained 2.58% to Tw$755.0 after unveiling its first mobile phones using Microsofts Mango platform while design house MediaTek was 2.13% higher at Tw$336.0.
• Manila gained 0.36%, or 14.77 points, to 4,134.48. Wellington closed down 0.55%, or 18.44 points, at 3,306.68. Telecom fell 0.8% to NZ$2.53.

- AFP

Australia scraps Msia asylum solution

CANBERRA: Australias prime minister has scrapped a plan to send asylum seekers to Malaysia.

The move keeps her fragile government from becoming the first in 82 years to have legislation rejected by Parliaments lower chamber.

Julia Gillard had vowed to put legislation to a vote on Thursday that would enable her government to send asylum seekers to Malaysia in return for Australia resettling registered refugees from Kuala Lumpur.

Gillard says she canceled the vote because a nonaligned lawmaker doomed it to failure by declaring his opposition. Gillards minority government holds a single-seat majority in the lower chamber.

We are not in a position to implement the arrangement with Malaysia, Gillard told reporters, adding her government continued to support the plan. It is apparent the legislation will not pass the parliament.

It is Gillards second failure to secure an offshore asylum processing centre. This year, Gillard announced that East Timor would host a centre, but failed to gain East Timor government support for the plan.

Gillard had hoped the swap deal would stem the tide of asylum seekers making the dangerous journey by boat to Australia.

Gillard announced details of the refugee deal with Malaysia in July under a policy designed to deter people smugglers and asylum seekers from sailing to Australia in leaky boats, mainly through Indonesia.

However, the deal, which would have seen Australia send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia and accept 4,000 refugees in Malaysia, was ruled invalid by Australias High Court because Malaysia has not signed the UN refugee convention. Agencies

Longer wait for Honda buyers because of Thai floods

KUALA LUMPUR: Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd is facing short supply of parts which in turn will delay product delivery following the suspension of a production plant in Ayutthaya, Thailand Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co Ltd was forced to halt production due to severe floods sweeping through the country currently, Honda Malaysia said in a statement today.

The suspension has an inevitable impact on Honda Malaysias production as the plant in Ayutthaya, along with its suppliers in the same region whose operations are also suspended, provide considerable number of parts for the Malaysian completely-knocked-down models, namely City, Civic, Accord and CR-V.

Honda Malaysia managing director and chief executive officer Yoichiro Ueno said since Monday it has reduced its output at the Melaka plant to prolong the production using on-hand stock.

We regret there will be a delay in product delivery as the production in our plant has slowed down due to suspension of parts supply.

However, the delivery timing for all our completely-built-up units are not affected yet currently, he said.
Ueno said the Ayutthaya plant still remained flooded and was inaccessible by road until now.

This is making it difficult for us to estimate the recovery time. However, well assess the situation closely on a daily basis and hope for the best though we foresee the recovery may take longer than we expected earlier, he added.

-Bernama

They have no right to question me

PETALING JAYA: This could very well be a case of sour grapes. Eight disgruntled and former members of Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP) is now accusing the president of misusing party funds.But MMSP president RS Thanenthiran argued that they dont have a leg to stand on and he maintained that only party members could question him.

Ill sue them. They have no right to question me. Only party members can question me, he said.

Thanenthiran was responding to allegations made by a coalition of eight NGOs called Anti- Thanentiran United Machinery (Jebat) which is led by former MMSP youth chief, N Ramu.

Thanenthiran also revealed that Ramu was booted out a month after the party was formed.

Jebat is made up of an eight man committee, all of whom were former MMSP state and national level leaders.

There are allegations that Thanenthiran is squandering party funds as many complained that they have not been issued with receipts for annual party membership payment, said Ramu.

Earlier this month, Ramu also questioned how central working committee member RS Ramesh had received a license to operate a shipping business in Port Klang. Ramesh is Thanenthirans brother.

Ramu also queried about Thanenthirans lavish lifestyle and his silence over issues concerning the Indian community such as Interlok and 10 subjects in SPM.

Ramesh said that he has been in business for more than 20 years and all the issues raised were resolved within a year after the party was formed.

Mak Nyah community demands apology from TV3

FMT LETTERS

We, the Mak Nyah community of Malaysia, are appalled at the defamatory and slanderous statements made by the host of TV3s Wanita Hari Ini programme titled Pondan, Ancaman Wanita aired on Oct 4, 2011 as well as the invited guest speakers towards the Mak Nyah community.

We feel that as a national TV station, it is TV3s responsibility to foster national unity in the spirit of 1Malaysia. By providing publicity to unsubstantiated statements and relying on sensationalism, TV3 has shown that it is no better than the tabloids that rely on cheap publicity. We demand a public apology.

Your public apology should acknowledge that your station, by airing the show, had unjustly incited fear and prejudice towards the transgender community in Malaysia, which included, but were not limited to the following acts:

1 Making statements based on assumptions, perceptions and personal views;

2 Basing arguments on personal opinions instead of factual or research data;

3 inviting unqualified individuals as guest speakers and introducing them as experts for the sake of backing slanderous statements;

4 Humiliation, including but not limited to; using terms like sotong and geli, deragatory hand gestures, asking questions in a degrading intonation.

We demand that TV3 formally apologise for:

- Airing a show that promotes further persecution and prejudice against a group of already marginalised people, who are stigmatised and discriminated against from young, who have been denied education and employment opportunities and other types of benefits that the larger Malaysian society enjoys;

- Allowing slanderous and defamotory remarks used on natinal TV, inviting unqualified guests to talk about a topic that is not their area of expertise, encouraging undue discrimination towards a group of people on baseless grounds, using assumptions, personal views and perceptions instead of statistics, research and facts.

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TV3 s hould be aware of its role in educating and disseminating information to the public. Many Mak Nyahs are forced to work on streets as a result of rampant discrimination while seeking employment, in the form of rejection on the basis of appearance and gender expression without regard to their qualifications.

To suggest that an employed Mak Nyah is conspiring to take away the jobs from women, would cause them to suffer from suspicion, mistreatment and discrimination at their workplace both by fellow colleagues and employers.

In June 2011, the Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak set a target for women to fill up 30% of top management positions within a span of five years. Yet, in the airing of this show, TV3 has potrayed women in stereotypical female only occupations. This is a violation of Article 5 of the Federal Constitution, as TV3s action can be interpreted as an attempt of halting womens progressive developments as equal to their male counterpart.

Furthermore, by proposing the idea that Mak Nyahs are taking husbands from women, TV3 has only served to drag Malaysia back into the dark ages and patriarchal age-old tactics of blame if its not the womens fault, then it is the Mak Nyahs fault. This is again a dangerous act on TV3s part in stereotyping womens role and responsibilities in relationships.

Since the programme is targeted at women in general, the producer of the episode should be aware that there are women who are mothers and sisters of Mak Nyahs, and they accept the Mak Nyahs as their own flesh and blood. Broadcasting such incriminating statements would be an indirect insult towards them as well.

TV3 has been very unprofessional in its insensitivity towards the Mak Nyah community and women of Malaysia. It has become an international embarassement to know that despite being an advanced country in so many ways, we are still promoting thoughts and positions that are so archa! ic and demeaning to Malaysia.

We demand a public apology from TV3 for the defamatory broadcast made, clearly citing the reasons above, as well as commitment from TV3 not to air any shows that promotes prejudice and discrimination of any minority groups.

This letter carries 927 signatures

SPR siar nama 40,000 pengundi `meragukan

SHAH ALAM: Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) akan mempamerkan senarai 40,000 nama yang terdapat dalam daftar pemilih yang tidak dapat disahkan kesahihan maklumatnya.

Pengerusi SPR Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof berkata nama-nama itu disiarkan untuk tatapan umum di laman web dan media bagi membolehkan individu berkenaan mengunjungi pejabat SPR bagi membantu menjelaskan kedudukan.

Ada maklumat yang tidak dapat dipastikan seperti terdapat kes nama pengundi di senarai daftar pemilih dan Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara berlainan dan sebagainya.

Kita juga hendak memastikan status seseorang pengundi itu sama ada hidup ataupun tidak, katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan taklimat persediaan menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13 kepada pegawai pengurus dan penolong pegawai pengurus di sini hari ini.

Abdul Aziz menyifatkan sebagai kecil bilangan 40,000 nama yang tidak dapat dipastikan kesahihan maklumatnya itu dan SPR dalam proses memperbaikinya.

Persempadanan semula

Mengenai persempadanan semula kawasan Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri, beliau berkata proses itu akan dibuat selepas pilihan raya umum ke-13 nanti.

Ini kerana SPR memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya dua tahun untuk berbuat demikian, katanya.

Ditanya mengenai negeri mana yang perlu menjalani persempadanan, Abdul Aziz berkata semua negeri dilihat perlu menjalani proses itu terutama negeri-negeri yang mempunyai bilangan kerusi negeri yang angkanya genap.

Kita hendak menukarkan DUN yang mempunyai jumlah kerusi genap kepada ganjil bagi mengelak kemungkinan berlakunya situasi kemenangan 50-50, katanya.

Abdul Aziz berkata mengikut ramalan SPR, PRU ke-13 akan menjadi lebih men! cabar be rdasarkan kepada senario politik semasa.

Dua pertembungan

Parti kerajaan memerintah akan berusaha sedaya upaya pertahan kuasa mereka dan parti pembangkang pula akan berusaha sedaya upaya ambil alih pucuk pimpinan negeri ataupun negara. Dalam dua pertembungan ini, kita ramalkan PRU ke-13 akan jalan rancak dan sengit, katanya.

Mengenai taklimat hari ini, Abdul Aziz berkata ia bertujuan memberi penerangan awal kepada pegawai pengurus dan penolong mereka tentang tugasan dan tanggungjawab mereka sewaktu menghadapi pilihan raya ke-13 nanti.

Taklimat hari ini, yang pertama seumpamanya adalah bagi negeri Selangor. Ia akan diperluaskan ke negeri lain dalam masa terdekat.

Abdul Aziz bagaimanapun berkata taklimat itu adalah hanya untuk melatih petugas SPR agar sentiasa berada dalam keadaan siap sedia dan tidak semestinya bermakna PRU ke-13 terlalu hampir.

Katanya SPR memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 160,000 petugas untuk pilihan raya umum ke-13 nanti berbanding 150,000 pada pilihan raya umum lepas.

-Bernama

PAS wants ministry's answer to citizenship-for-votes claim...

PAS has demanded a speedy explanation from the Home Ministry on a group of individuals suspected of conducting an operation to grant citizenship to foreigners in exchange for votes.

Salahuddin Ayub (PAS-Kubang Kerian) insisted that the party has a solid basis to back their claims on the alleged operations, with the most recent one detected in Putrajaya.

Revelation after revelation (but) we still dont have an answer from the Home Ministry on the matter, said Salahuddin (right in photo).

So Pakatan Rakyat MPs will be taking this issue up in Parliament for a concrete explanation from the ministry, he said.

Yesterday, PAS Youth treasurer Mohd Adram Musa claimed that there attempts to grant citizenship to foreigners who are already permanent residents.

PAS members had thronged outside a resort in Bangi after being tipped off that six buses had ferried some 240 foreigners from Kulai, Johor, to Putrajaya.

According to Mohd Adram, who was also present alongside Salahuddin and Mohd Nasir Zakaria (PAS-Padang Terap), the purported foreigners were being kept inside a resort near Kampung Bukit Dugang.

Salahuddin stressed that even if the said foreigners were already permanent residents, the government must follow the proper procedures in granting citizenship.

If you want to give them Malaysian citizenship, it should not be done in this manner. Shuttling them in a bus to a remote location, he said at a press conference at the Parliament lobby today.

The standard proced! ure is t o give citizenship to skilled foreign talents, not in bulk... this has raised concerns that there are syndicates involved in registering foreigners as Malaysians and attempts to include them as voters in the next general election, said Salahuddin.

Suspected head of the operation identified

Mohd Adram, who was also present, added that a group formed to investigate the alleged incident has nearly succeeded in proving the claim as they have identified an individual suspected of being the head of the operation.

They said (the foreigners) were brought for an entrepreneurial course, but when (we asked) some of the Indonesians, they said they came to receive identification cards (MyKad), he said.

However, Mohd Adram said that they did not spot any officials from the Immigration Department nor the National Registration Department.

He added that besides the Indonesians, there were also foreigners from Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Photographs of an individual (right) believed to be the leader of the operation was distributed to the media in Parliament, as well as photographs of the buses that ferried the foreigners.

source:malaysiakini

'Sindiket' IC: PAS mahu k'jaan perjelas

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Govt holding on to Auditors report

KUALA LUMPUR: The Auditor-General (A-G) Report is apparently being held back by the government despite being completed prior to the Budget 2012, Pakatan Rakyat MPs claimed.

Sungai Petani MP (PKR) Johari Abdul said that he called the A-Gs office yesterday, only to be told that the report was already sent out.

The A-Gs office said they finished it (the report) much earlier than last year. They said theyve done a better job (too), but the reports are not here, he told reporters in the Parliament lobby today.

The A-Gs office was shocked when they heard that MPs did not get it where is it (the report)? Is it in the A-Gs office, in the Prime Ministers Office or in Parliament? he asked.

Johari was also accompanied by Balik Pulau MP (PKR) Yusmadi Yusoff, Pokok Sena MP (PAS) Mahfuz Omar and Tumpat MP (PAS) Kamaruddin Jaafar.

At the same time, Mahfuz confirmed that some states, including Kelantan, had already received a copy of the individual state audit reports.

There are some states that have gotten a copy of the report but Parliament hasnt gotten it yet, he said.

Earlier this week, Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Nazri Abdul Aziz said that the report would be released after a go-ahead from the Cabinet this Friday.

It is expected that the report, which is usually given out before the annual Budget is announced, would only be released two weeks after this Friday.

Statutory responsibility

Johari said that the A-G Report was important as it would detail the countrys actual economic status.

How can we talk about the Budget when we dont know about the health of this years Budget? he asked.

He suggested that certain leaders in the government were keepin! g the re port because the contents were not to their liking.

The government, he said, was probably in the midst of drafting answers in response to some difficult issues mentioned in the report.

Yusmadi said that the A-Gs report was unlike any other report in the country, and added that it had a statutory responsibility.

This, he said, meant that if the responsible party did not release it, action could be taken against them.

Tension running high in new village

KUALA LUMPUR: Tension is running high again in Kampung Sungai Terentang, Rawang, as the controversy over a stalled project to build a high voltage cable running through the village resurfaced.

The residents of this new village want the government to be sincere and not use them as an election tool when resolving the issue.

The residents have been up in arms since 2005 against Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) which was to have built the high voltage cable stretching for 1.5km across the village.

The stretch was part of a longer line covering a distance of 60km from Bukit Tarek to Cudadak. The project was to meet the rising electricity demand by consumers in the Klang Valley.

It was to have been completed by 2007, but was halted when the project into fierce opposition.

The issue cropped up again two days ago when Deputy Finance Minister Donald Lim reportedly told the Chinese press that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has asked him to resolve the matter.

However, Donald, who is also MCA Selangor chief, reportedly said that he was not quite familiar with the issue.

Today, the deputy chairman of the villages Anti-High Tension Cable Committee, Lim Seng Chong, hit out at Donald for his statement.

Seng Chong said that at the height of the row, the representatives in the area were both from MCA.

Dont politicise

The village falls under the Rawang state assembly seat and the Selayang parliamentary seat. The then Rawang sta! te assem blyman was MCAs Tan See Hang and the Selayang MP was MCAs Chan Kong Choy.

We have sent many memorandums to the authorities and MCA. So how can (Donald Lim) say he is not familiar? asked Seng Chong, who gave a press conference at the Parliament lobby here.

Seng Chong claimed that MCA politicians had informed the residents that the matter was discussed at high-level meetings.

He said that if Donald was not aware, it was because he doesnt care.

Seng Chong also said he welcomed any assistance to find an alternative route for the cables.

He also warned the government not to politicise the matter and turn into an election issue.

Also present at the press conference were Selayang MP, PKRs William Leong and Rawang state assemblyman, PKRs Gan Pei Nee.

Quake rocks Bali, tourists run from hotels

DENPASAR: Indonesias resort island of Bali was struck by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake today, shaking buildings and sending tourists running out of hotels. There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

The epicentre of the quake was about 100 miles (160km) southwest of the islands capital Denpasar, the US geological survey said.

Caroline Mercier, a 40-year-old tourist in the islands cultural centre of Ubud, said she was used to feeling quakes in California, but never like this one.

It started at my feet and went all though my heart and head it made me nauseous. My first reaction was to get out of the house. I was very confused when the roof started shaking, she
told Reuters.

Novotel Bali Benoa, one of the many resorts in the luxury southern beach area of Nusa Dua, evacuated its guests as the hotel shook for a minute.

The funny thing is that the foreign guests who were sitting in the lobby did not feel the shaking. They started running when hearing people say theres an earthquake while running down the lobby, hotel worker Ariyanti told Reuters.

Endro Tjahjono, head of information at Balis meteorology agency, said there was no tsunami potential and no reports of aftershocks. Cracks appeared in the walls and glass lobby windows of his office in the southern town of Kuta, and some top floor ceilings fell off, he said.

Indonesia is on the Pacifics Rim of Fire and gets regular earthquakes.

- Reuters

10 years and still waiting for health clinic

KUCHING: Ten years ago the villagers in Kampung Stungkor in Lundu were promised a health clinic.

The clinic, the state government told them, would provide out-patient services, mother and child healthcare services and maternity wards.

The government officials told them that the clinic would cater for villagers from Kampung Stenggang, Kampung Stoum Muda, Kampung Stungkor, Kampung Raso 1 and 2, Kampung Bokah, Kampung Bitokan and Kampung Selampit.

The loyal villagers believed every word and voted in their Barisan Nasional candidate in 2001.

The pledge was repeated through the 2006 and most recent 2011 state polls. Both times BN incumbents were returned to the seats.

But little has come of these villagers support, says PKR Mas Gading branch official Boniface Willy Tumek.

BN made a promise 10 years ago. The building of the clinic was approved during the ninth Malaysia Plan (MP) but we are nearing the end of the 10th MP and the clinic is still nowhere in sight, he said.

There are some 1,000 families in these villagers with a collective population of some 5,000 people.

Kampung Stungkor and the surrounding villages are predominantly Bidayuh constituency.

Said Willy: There is no clinic here. If there is an emergency, the nearest district hospitals are in Bau and Lundu.

But both these hospitals are already under heavy pressure.

Frustrated villagers

According to Willy, the government acquired a piece of land from villagers nine years ago with the intention of building a clinic.

The land, which is located near the Kampung Stungkor primary school, was allegedly acquired from a local villa! ger, Foo Ah Kee.

According to Foo, who was also present at the PKR organised press conference here, there was a great deal of excitement at the time when the project was announced.

We were all very excited. But now I have no idea whether the government actually has any plans to construct the clinic.

But I do know that there is a real and urgent need for the clinic here, Foo told reporters.

Willy, who was also present at the press conference, said his sources at the Land and Survey Department had confirmed that the land had been acquired.

My sources in the Land and Survey Department have confirmed that the land was officially acquired and duly gazetted for that purpose in 2002.

The land is now vested in the federal commissioner for land. Its now almost 10 years after the promise was made the villagers are fedup, he said.

Willy said the frustrated villagers had brought the issue to PKRs attention and the party would work towards getting them their clinic.

The villagers are frustrated theyve tried pleading with the respective MP and state assemblymen.

They are still hoping that their elected representatives would be able to find ways to get the project going.

These people are in desperate need of a clinic, said Willy.

[File photo of nurses at work from Internet]

Beri wang one-off : Pakatan guna lebihan bajet, BN berhutang...

Yang membezakan negeri-negeri Pakatan Rakyat dengan Barisan Nasional ialah Pakatan tidak meminjam duit untuk diberikan kepada rakyat, sebaliknya menggunakan lebihan Bajet untuk diberikan kepada mereka yang memerlukan.

Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng berkata, sikap Kerajaan Persekutuan yang boros berbelanja dan meminjam semata-mata untuk meraih undi merupakan punca rakyat telah menjadikan Malaysia sebagai antara negara yang banyak berhutang, lapor Roketkini.

Beliau yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP berkata demikian dengan merujuk kepada Laporan Tahunan Bank Negara 2010 yang mendedahkan bahawa hutang isi rumah rakyat Malaysia adalah kedua tertinggi selepas Korea Selatan.

Laporan itu mendedahkan bahawa hutang isi rumah Malaysia pada akhir tahun 2010 adalah sebanyak RM581 bilion atau 76 peratus daripada KDNK, katanya dalam satu kenyataan.

Menurut Guan Eng yang juga Ahli Parlimen Bagan, nisbah bayaran hutang isi rumah rakyat Malaysia pada 2010 adalah 47.8 peratus, bermakna hampir separuh pendapatan isi rumah rakyat Malaysia digunakan untuk membayar hutang.

Jelas rakyat Malaysia telah membentuk negara yang banyak berhutang, terutamanya apabila kerajaan persekutuan memberikan wang yang diperolehi daripada pinjaman, katanya.

Beliau menjelaskan, negeri-negeri Pakatan Rakyat lebih jujur dengan memberikan bantuan tunai kepada golongan miskin berdasarkan hasil dari lebihan bajet, berbanding BN yang turut menawarkan bantuan yang sama tetapi dengan bergantung pada lebihan defisit perbelanjaan dan pinjaman kewangan.

Jelas beliau lagi, ramai pakar ekonomi telah memberi amaran bahawa risiko Bajet 2012 BN akan membawa negara! kepada perbelanjaan yang tidak mampan kerana tidak sesuai dengan keadaan ekonomi dunia yang sedang mengalami kemelesetan.

Dr Marie-Aimee Tourres, felo penyelidik kanan di Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pentadbiran Universiti Malaya menyatakan bahawa bajet buah tangan BN ini tidak dikaitkan dengan mana-mana komitmen produktiviti.

Jelas bajet pilihan raya ini direka untuk meraih pengundi dan dalam masa sama, DAP tidak nampak sebarang usaha (BN) untuk memerangi rasuah atau pun ketirisan dalam pengurusan sumber negara, katanya.

Oleh itu, Guan Eng yang juga Adun Air Puteh tidak yakin bahawa sasaran Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk mengurangkan defisit akan dapat dicapai menjelang tahun hadapan.

Pungutan hasil adalah terlalu optimistik dan boleh menyebabkan peningkatan hutang kerajaan persekutuan untuk membiayai perbelanjaan defisit ini, katanya.

Kerajaan BN pada sesi pembentangan Bajet 2012 Jumaat lalu menyasarkan defisit bajet dapat dikurangkan dari 5.4 peratus kepada 4.7 peratus daripada KDNK, iaitu bersamaan RM45.5 bilion untuk tahun ini kepada RM43 bilion menjelang 2012.

source:roketkini.com

Lim Guan Eng on Budget 2012

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DAPs Hiew colluding with Umno

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has accused a senior Sabah DAP member of having a secret understanding with Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders to undermine the local opposition partys standing in the state.

DAP MP for Kota Kinabalu, Hiew King Cheu, was the target of SAPP president Yong Teck Lees wrath after Hiew fired another salvo at the former chief minister over the latters role to sell two parcels of seafront land in the city when he was ruling the state.

As proven in the Batu Sapi by-election, Hiew and DAP colluded with Umno to attack only SAPP and not to criticise Umno, especially Sabah Umno Chief Minister (Musa Aman).

This Umno-DAP Hiew collusion is still going on, Yong claimed.

Yong, who has come under a series of attacks since leaving the BN in 2008, said even the complaint against SAPP hoisting its party flags in and around the city to mark its third anniversary of leaving the BN was made an issue by the DAP.

Not even the Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) or any BN or Umno leader had wanted to look foolish by complaining about the flags because of the fiasco over the July 11 DBKKs attempt to remove the Sabahtv.net signboard.

But Umno got Hiew and Edward Mujie (Sabah DAP vice-chairmman) to do the dirty work for them.

Hiew and Mujie became the spokesmen for Umno and DBKK by criticising SAPP on this signboard issue, he said.

Doing Umnos dirty work

Supporting his claims that Umno was using others to do its dirty work, Yong cited the case of the Sabah Amanah Sabah (SAS) fiasco that left thousands of investors clutching near worthless pieces of paper.

Umno never dared to say anything because it knows that the people involved are its ! own peop le.

When pressed for an answer, the chief minister only brushed aside the SAS issue as petty and refused to publish a White Paper to release the information on SAS and its dealings and who the real culprits are, he said.

Yong noted that after repeated delaying tactics by the state Cabinet, SAPPs State Legislative Assembly members Liew Teck Chan and Melanie Chia finally managed to debate the SAS White Paper motion in the last state assembly sitting.

But in the state assembly, Umno got the PBS (Parti Bersatu Sabah) puppets like Yee Moh Chai, Herbert Timbon Lagadan and (ex-SAPP member) Raymond Tan to speak for Umno.

It is most revealing that the chief minister and finance minister and all the Umno representatives kept silent, in the same way that Umno has been silent on the phantom voter issue, the illegals and fake ICs.

Umno has nothing to fear because it got its PBS cohorts to do its dirty work and divert the attack to SAPP, especially myself, on the SAS issue, he said.

DAP silent on land grabs

Referring to the controversy over phantom voters and illegal immigrants, Yong said PBS had suddenly lost its tongue on the issue and had even begun answering on behalf of Umno over the scandal.

Such is the control of the Umno chief minister over PBS and Sabah DAP, he said.

Yong also noted that Sabah DAP had never raised the issue of land grabs, especially those allegedly linked to Musa.

Everybody knows that Hiews company business is involved in the ongoing Kota Kinabalu seafront project.

When people complained about the seafront project, Hiew went to the site and declared that the project was earth filling of the sea and not reclamation, as though there is a difference.

Everybody knows that the so-called seafront project signed by MLGH Sdn Bhd is linked to Umno members who are still very active in BN today.

All the names of the Umno-linked personalities were mentioned in the trial (involving the case).

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The o n-going seafront project which will block the sea view of Promenade and Marina apartments is also Umno-linked, he added.

Intense police harassment

Hiew also caused controversy when he said that the Karamunsing Complex is safe and stable, even before DBKK and the Public Works Department were told to investigate the matter, causing many to question his agenda.

Yong said Hiew was being misled by his Umno handlers about the CM Incorporated shares as though there is something mischievous.

In fact, most, if not all, government shares are held in the name of CM Incorporated or Ministry of Finance Incorporated as a matter of legal requirement.

Yong said SAPP leaders would continue to expose the land grabs by those in high office.

He claimed that the addresses of the directors of a land grab company in Sukau were registered as as the chief ministers official residence known as Sri Libaran at Mile 7, Jalan Airport, Kampung Sungei Kayu, Sandakan.

The genuine landowners were jailed for two weeks in Sandakan.

In recent days, police harassment has intensified against the remaining villagers who are native Orang Sungei so that the company can take over the 400 plus acres of oil palm trees and fruits that have been planted for more than 25 years.

The 50-odd families have toiled for years using their own hands, tools and fertiliser but now a big company wants to evict the genuine villagers and pluck the fruits of the poor villagers labour.

This is cruel and will continue to be exposed.

Land grabs in Kota Belud, Tawau, Serudong, Sandakan, Banggi, Papar, Keningau and eviction of villagers from forest reserves have reached a critical point that countless villagers have become refugees in their own country, he said.

MB Khalid Mendapat Sokongan Padu Rakyat Selangor...

Pengurusan Kerajaan Negeri Selangor mendahului tahap kepuasan hati dalam satu tinjauan perbandingan lima pentadbiran di Semenanjung Malaysia termasuk kerajaan persekutuan yang dikendalikan firma kaji selidik UMR.

Dari seribu pengundi berdaftar yang dibanci, 67 peratus responden berkata mereka sangat berpuas-hati dengan prestasi Kerajaan Negeri Selangor.

Sekadar 26 peratus tidak berpuas-hati dengan urustadbir Pakatan Rakyat di Selangor.

Meskipun corak kepimpinannya dilaporkan menjadi pertikaian kawan dan lawan, Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim terus meraih sokongan positif setinggi 52 peratus responden.



Malah Abdul Khalid lebih diyakini dikalangan responden di Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur berbanding Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.

Cerapan populariti mengikut etnik menunjukkan Abdul Khalid disokong 48 peratus pengundi Melayu, dan 50 peratus pengundi berbangsa Cina, disebalik pelbagai kritikan terhadapnya mutakhir ini.

Keyakinan mereka turut diperkuatkan 59 peratus pengundi Melayu Selangor.

Tinjauan dibuat antara 22 Ogos hingga 15 September tahun ini meliputi negeri Selangor, Johor, Perak dan Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. Pembentangan yang dibuat memberi penekanan kepada 9 perkara antaranya kepimpinan, situasi ekonomi dan prestasi urustadbir.

Sementara itu, sokongan kaum Hawa kepada Tan Sri Khalid mencecah 43 peratus, manakala 58 peratus kaum Adam menyakini kepimpinan beliau.

Yang lebih memberangsangkan, tokoh korporat ini menjadi pilihan ! 45 perat us responden berumur antara 21 hingga 29 tahun. 50 peratus responden antara 30 hingga 39 tahun turut yakin, begitu juga 50 peratus responden yang berumur 40 tahun dan keatas.




Dalam tinjauan yang sama, corak buang undi dalam pilihanraya umum akan datang dijangka menyebelahi Pakatan Rakyat.

Yang memilih Pakatan Rakyat meningkat lebih 1.5 peratus, dan 51.5 peratus responden berkata Pakatan Rakyat menjadi pilihan mereka.

Di empat negeri terbabit, corak pengundian dijangka menunjukkan kekutuban yang ketara. 73 peratus dan 78 peratus pengundi Cina dan India pasti memilih Pakatan Rakyat, manakala 69 peratus pengundi Melayu berkata mereka mungkin memilih Barisan Nasional.

Meskipun Abdul Khalid popular di kalangan wanita, umumnya Pakatan Rakyat masih perlu menggembleng sokongan kaum Hawa. Hanya 44 peratus responden wanita di semua negeri mahu memilih Pakatan Rakyat. Kaum Adam bagaimanapun positif. 56 peratus responden lelaki menyokong Pakatan Rakyat.

Tinjauan UMR juga mendapati Pakatan Rakyat mendapat tempat di kalangan komuniti pemuda dan dewasa 30 hingga 39 tahun. Di sudut ekonomi pula, PR memukul rata sokongan di kalangan responden yang berpendapatan antara RM3001 hingga RM5000, RM5001 hingga RM10,000 dan RM10,000 keatas.

Rakyat Selangor dijangka mahu Selangor terus menjadi templat reformasi melihat kepada sokongan lebih 57 peratus.

source:tv selangor

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The GE13 Propaganda MSM Is Being Pepped Up...

and the Malaysian Insider has the story:) It marks another changing of the guards if BN-UMNO retaoin Putrajaya admin. But politics since March 8, 2008 has become so unpredictable -- especially with how the average VOTER thinks and acts -- that PKR chioef Sdr Anwar Ibrahim, despite all the odds stacked against him by UMNO, may yet triumph and become Malaysia's CEO at the ripe age of 65. Then Desi will sigh that tremendous sigh of relief that NegaraKu may yet have a life, after awe! -- YL, newhound, Desi, blogger knottyaSsusual:)

Umno realigns media units with eye towards polls

By Jahabar Sadiq
Editor

October 13, 2011

Umno-liked English newspapers have fallen behind their Malay counterparts. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 Datuk Seri Najib Razaks media strategist, Abdul Jalil Hamid, is expected to head newspaper publisher New Straits Times Press (M) Berhad (NSTP) from Monday as Umno realigns its media units ahead of the next general election expected by early 2012.

The Malaysian Insider also understands that apart from changes in NSTP, another Umno-linked newspaper, The Malay Mail, is in talks to take news from the MalaysiaKini web portal in exchange for shares in the tabloid. MalaysiaKini, which began in 1999, has been interested in the print media for some time and is suing the Home Affairs Ministry for a publishing permit.

Both media companies have planned for a relaunch on November 11 with The Malay Mail returning as a paid morning tabloid while the NSTPs flagship New Straits Times will sport a new design. It is learnt that NSTPs current group managing director, Datuk Zainul Ariffin Mohammed Isa, will return to lead the companys e-Media unit that focuses on putting more content online.

It is also underst! ood that the publishers Umno-linked parent, Media Prima Berhad (MPB), have agreed to a mutual separation with NSTP chief executive officer Datuk Anthony @ Firdauz Bujang. His post has been re-designated as chief operating officer and is expected to be filled by Mohammad Azlan Abdullah, the current chief executive officer of MPBs Big Tree Outdoor Sdn Bhd.

The decision was made at a board meeting yesterday. Both MPB and Anthony have agreed that he can leave but the real surprise is moving Zainul Arifin out effective this Saturday, a source told The Malaysian Insider.

Several other sources confirmed the new appointments, with one saying that NSTP was abuzz with news that Jalil would take over the newspaper company, which is now a subsidiary of MPB.

What we hear in Balai Berita is Jalil Hamid, ex-Reuters and ex Securities Commission, will be the new group managing editor, one newspaper editor told The Malaysian Insider, referring to the NSTP headquarters in Jalan Riong here.

Another source confirmed that only two changes were made in the board meeting yesterday and MPB group managing director Datuk Amrin Awaluddin is expected to brief NSTP staff later today on the changes in the top posts. Anthony took up his post in November 2008 while Zainul Arifin has led the editorial team since July 2009.

Jalil is a widely-respected journalist who had only worked with national news agency Bernama and international newswire Reuters Ltd before it became ThomsonReuters PLC. He was seconded to head Najibs National Communications Team in September 2010 from the Securities Commission (SC), which he joined as its senior general manager in the Corporate Affairs Department in 2009.

Apart from serving twice in the Reuters Kuala Lumpur bureau, Jalil has also worked in Reuters offices in Singapore and London, specialising in commodities, equities and political news.

He was in the news in July when criticised over a leaked note to Umno informati! onc chie f Datuk Ahmad Maslan advising local media on coverage of the July 9 Bersih 2.0 rally calling for free and fair elections. Several newspapers demonised the rally and its organisers while the government cracked down on the rally which is now subject of a public inquiry by the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam).

New COO Mohammad Azlan has been with Big Tree since 2001 and will continue to report to Amrin. He holds a Bachelor Business Degree (Accountancy) from University of Tasmania, Australia and is a full member of the Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia and Chartered Accountant, Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).

Media executives say the NSTP stable of newspapers remains profitable and will benefit from increased advertising expenditure in 2012 due to campaigns related to the London Olympics and Euro 2012 football competition. But it is understood the owners are unhappy with the English-language New Straits Times editorial coverage and shrinking circulation.

It is making money but readership is falling off for the NST. Only the Bahasa Malaysia papers are doing well, an executive told The Malaysian Insider on condition of anonymity. He added that Umno officials had expressed concern and had recommended personnel changes recently.

The Malay Mail, which first began in publishing in 1896, is now under the Redberry Media group that bought a 75 per cent stake of the tabloid from the NSTP group in 2009. It became a free afternoon newspaper in May 2008 but has recently announced plans to revert to being a paid daily.

Both media groups are supportive of Najib, who last month announced that newspapers will not be subject to annual licensing under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 as part of a wider liberalisation package that his political foes say is linked to snap polls next year.

From addin777.blogspot.com cometh a post in BM...

which YOU must find time to read.

13 Oktober, 2011

Pendedahan Bagaimana BN Menang P'raya Melalui Pengundi Hantu Dan IC Palsu

Posted by Addin at 10/13/2011

Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) telah mengadakan wawancara secara langsung dengan C.E.O merangkap Ketua Editor Sabahkini.net, Mutalib M.D berhubung isu kerakyatan songsang dan IC Projek pada 10 Oktober dan rakaman wawancara boleh dimuat turun melalui podcast RadioFreeSarawak mulai 11 Oktober 2012. Berikut transkripsi penuh wawancara berkenaan yang disediakan khas buat pembaca Sabahkini.net yang tidak dapat mendengar wawancara berkenaan kerana masalah bandwith atau talian internet.

RFS : Boleh saudara nyatakan pandangan berhubung isu kerakyatan songsang dan IC Projek yang melanda Sabah dan kini menjadi ancaman Negara?

MUTALIB : Bermula dari tahun 1970-an, hello!, iaitu ketika zaman Tun Mustapha, ini bukan isu yang baru. Selepas merdeka, Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara telah mula merekrut melalui sindiket-sindiket tertentu. Itu semua telah saya sebutkan dalam empat

buah buku iaitu buku pertama IC Palsu Merampas Hak Anak Sabah; yang kedua Pengundi Untuk Disewa; yang ketiga IC Projek Agenda Tersembunyi Mahathir dan yang keempat 007-Lelaki Malaysia Terakhir.

Isu IC ini, sewajarnya kerajaan, sepatutnya mengakui dan tidak perlu berdolak dalih kerana pada 1995 Kerajaan Persekutuan telah menangkap 15 Pegawai Pendaftaran dan 25 orang awam ! di bawah Seksyen 8, Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri. Ini bermakna mereka mengakui sindiket ini berlaku.

Tetapi sayangnya mereka tidak menarik kembali IC yang telah dikeluarkan iaitu lebih kurang 322,903 kepada warga asing, sama ada Indonesia, Filipina, India atau Pakistan. Tetapi selepas itu, pada, kalau saya tidak silap pada 1996, kerajaan telah mengeluarkan satu surat daripada Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara telah menarik balik seramai 16,693 kad pengenalan iaitu yang bermula H0492001 sehinggalah H0553999 yang dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Pendataran Negara yang ditandatangani oleh Wan Md Arif Wan Ismail.

Jadi persoalan sekarang ialah kerajaan mengakui wujudnya benda ini, tetapi oleh kerana faktor politik, perkara ini didiamkan begitu saja. Jadi kalau untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut saya ada satu blog tentang IC Palsu.

Ada dua keadaan iaitu http://mutalibmd.blogspot.com/2008/12/integriti-malaysia-di-parlimen.htmlkita boleh layari dari sana, pasal saya telah dipanggil oleh Jawatankuasa Select Comittee untuk membentangkan isu ini di Parlimen iaitu pada 26 Februari tahun 2007 yang dipengerusikan oleh Tan Sri Bernard Gilok Dompok pada ketika itu dan turut hadir ialah Ketua Pembangkang Lim Kit Siang sebagai Timbalan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa berkenaan.

Jadi sekarang saya telah dedahkan begitu juga dengan saudara saya Datuk Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing telah menghantar satu memorandum kepada Kementerian Dalam Negeri dan beberapa orang lain yang turut serta termasuk Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan, Datuk Patrick Sindu dan saya sendiri telah menghantar memorandum dan buku keseluruhannya kepada Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Dipertuan Agong sekarang dan bekas Perdana Menteri yang lalu. Jadi sekarang ini bukanlah satu rahsia lagi.

RFS : Dan adakah seperti soalan ini masalah IC ini di Sabah, adakah ia berlaku di Sabah saja dan mungkin juga ianya berlaku di kawasan-kawasan lain seperti di S! arawak d an Semenanjung?

MUTALIB :Yang saya boleh katakan ialah Sabah menjadi Kilang ataupun Factory melalui sindiket berkenaan untuk memproses kad pengenalan tersebut kerana beberapa cara iaitu sama ada melalui sindiket yang menggunakan borang Persatuan Kebangsaan Bugis Bersatu (PKBS) iaitu untuk mendaftar sesiapa saja dengan bayaran RM10 setem duti. Segala-galanya ada saya nyatakan di dalam buku saya yang terakhir iaitu 007-Lelaki Malaysia Terakhir. Oleh kerana benda ini telah direkrut di Sabah dan kebanyakan Pengundi telah bertebaran, terutama orang Pakistan telah bertebar sehingga ke Semenanjung dan Sarawak.

RFS : Dan kenapa ini maksudnya sekarang ini masih ramai lagi di mana masalah yang ditanggungi oleh kita terutamanya dalam hal mengundi ini, kerana yang melibatkan Pendatang Asing seperti yang paling dekat dengan Sabah iaitu Filipina sendiri sekarang ini saya rasa makin ramai sudah punyai IC palsu ini, demi untuk mengaut undi sebenarnya bagi mendapatkan kemenangan besar-besaran menentang pembangkang. Ya, adakah ini dipersetujui oleh Saudara Mutalib?

MUTALIB : Isunya begini, bukan IC Palsu tapi IC Projek. Benda ini ada dalam rekod Pendaftaran, bagaimana ia ada kena tanya Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara sendiri kerana Tan Sri Bernard Dompok telah memanggil Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara dan Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya, mereka tidak datang ke Select Comittee sehingga menyebabkan saya rasa menjadi satu punca kenapa Tan Sri Bernard Dompok meletak jawatan. Ini perkara X-Files, orang putih kata X-Files.

Jadi persoalannya warganegara asing ini, Kerajaan tidak merekrut tapi melalui satu agensi lain yang merekrut mereka. Sebagai contoh yang menjadi isu masalah terbesar di Malaysia sekarang ini ialah masalah agama. Iaitu kira-kira seribu orang berada di Shah Alam, orang dari Filipina, beragama Kristian tapi telah dikeluarkan Kad Pengenalan beragama Islam. Itu jam mereka ditangkap di kawasan berkenaan kerana didakwa oleh penduduk kampung bahawa mereka memanggang babi.

Ol! eh keran a mereka beragama Islam dalam kad pengenalan maka JAIS, Jabatan Hal Ehwal Agama Islam Selangor menghadapi masalah kerana mereka tidak mengaku sebagai beragama Islam...

RFS : Oh itu satu perkara yang mengejutkan kerana mereka mempunyai IC yang beragama Islam dan tetapi sebaliknya memanggang babi dan itu suatu yang...

MUTALIB :Oleh kerana mereka bukan beragama Islam dan mereka bangsa Visaya dari Filipina dan tinggal di Shah Alam.

RFS : Dan adakah hal ini patut kita tujukan dan put the blame on Barisan Nasional kerana yang tampuk pimpinan sebenarnya bermulanya dari seorang yang berdiri di parti Barisan Nasional?

MUTALIB : Tidak boleh salahkan Kerajaan kerana perkara ini berlaku sindiket. Sekarang Kerajaan telah mengambil tindakan tegas iaitu menangkap kesemua mereka ini, tetapi oleh kerana tiada political will untuk memberkas kesemua kad pengenalan iaitu pada ketika itu 300 ribu lebih kad pengenalan dikeluarkan.

Jadi Kerajaan telah menunjukkan prihatin dengan merampas kembali 16 ribu lebih kad pengenalan. Tetapi selepas itu Pemimpin politik yang ada, tidak berani untuk melakukan, orang kata satu suicide dive, maknanya dia kena mengakui bahawa memang ada kad pengenalan dikeluarkan di zaman Megat Junid Megat Ayob iaitu sama ada dengan pengetahuan Perdana Menteri atau Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada ketika itu adalah Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, kita tidak tahu.

Tetapi persoalan kenapa boleh berlaku di Malaysia dan inilah isu yang paling hangat sekarang kenapa warga Filipina beragama Kristian boleh mendapatkan kad pengenalan. Jadi usaha mereka untuk menukarkan kepada agama Kristian tidak dibenarkan oleh Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, kerana perlu melalui JAIS dan sebagainya.

Jadi inilah isu paling besar sama ada mereka ini mendaftar sebagai pengundi atau tidak itu masalah Jabatan masalah Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya kerana saya telah menulis buku yang bertajuk Pengundi Untuk Disewa dan buku ini telah menyatakan keseluruhan apa yang berlaku sama ada mer! eka men ggunakan duplicate IC, sama ada mereka menggunakan polis dan tentera dan sebagainya. Ini bukan lagi rahsia, kerana ini telah menjadi pengetahuan umum.

Begitu juga dengan kebanyakan buku saya diambil oleh Dr Chong Eng Leong dalam Lest We Forget dan beberapa buku lain. Tetapi kebanyakannya boleh dilihat dalam blog saya lah.

RFS : Dan satu lagi soalan yang ingin ditanyakan according to the news report di Selangor di mana seramai 186 ribu orang asing yang kononnya telah pun mendapatkan IC ini dan untuk mendapatkan satu sebabnya ialah bagi mendapatkan undi bagi pilihanraya yang akan datang ini dan apakah pendapat anda tentang pesan undi ini untuk memancing undi ini bagi rakyat asing ini?

MUTALIB :Sindiket ini sebenarnya sudah lama berlaku, bukan perkara yang baru. Jadi soalnya mereka baru buat atau tidak, adalah melalui sindiket, sama ada dipersetujui oleh kerajaan atau tidak, pasal perkara ini ada di dalam rekod Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara. Inilah yang kita harap kerajaan Sabah harap supaya kerajaan Malaysia atau Persekutuan menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja untuk mengenalpasti segala masalah ini, kerana apapun tindakan yang telah kita telah ambil, telah sampai kepada peringkat kata Datuk Patrick, Jika ada pejabat tuhan dia akan pergi. Sudah begitu desperate orang Sabah. Jadi persoalan sekarang ini, mereka gunakan pengundi adalah perkara yang sudah lumrah. Sekarang di Sabah sendiri, TANPA PENGUNDI HANTU SAYA RASA TIDAK ADA KERAJAAN NEGERI.

RFS : Dan saya sudah pun begitu terang untuk kita bincangkan bersama dengan saudara Mutalib dan kita amat berbesar hati daripada kami Radio Free Sarawak mendapatkan bahan berita ini daripada saudara dan kita akan bersama lagi di masa akan datang dan sekali lagi kami ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada saudara Mutalib.

MUTALIB : OK. Sama-sama. - sabahkini

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The Fox, Sex and sadly Religion

FMT LETTER

From Mathias Gomes, via e-mail

The 13th GE is near so says the Prime Minister, thats all he can say. If he had the power to decide it will be in November, which will be the safest for him, at least he will have the chance to prove and redeem himself.

But with the old sly fox on his back he cannot commit a date, what Mahathir says is what the upper circle in Umno will follow. We saw it happen in Ahmad Badawis time as Prime Minister, he was literally thrown out of office.

With so much power wielded by the old fox, what can Najib do to out fox this old man? Najib is living on borrowed time, looks like even if the GE 13th doesnt get him Umno will get him, all because of his wife Rosmah (FLOM)s extravagance.

Badawi went down because of Khairy, the old fox didnt like the sight of Khairys brashness, so Badawi lost big time, now it is Najibs turn. Mahathir hates Rosmahs guts, so far he has not publicly condemned her unlike Khairy, most probably because he belongs to the old school of thought so it is a no no with woman.

But the time is near for Muhiyidin to wear the cap, every action in the Umnos camp is a reaction that Najib can be without, like Sodomy 2 where is it heading to? Najib and Rosmah were called to the witness stand to testify , but they have wriggled their way out which doesnt augur well to the people, now the trial has become a show trial the Hunter is now the Hunted.

The Scorpene Trial in France has awakened the ghost of Altantuya, she is coming to create havoc for Najib in GE 13th, how will he withstand the onslaught of a ghost. We have to wait and see ! Ghost or not whatever is happening now Najib has no control.

Even his PR people from APCO have created trouble for him indirectly through FBC Media which is being investigated for media fraud, paid by Malaysia for its Global Strategic Communications Campaign and what about his employed cybertroopers from US?

All have backfir! ed, look s like whatever foreign expertise he recruited for a face saving campaign has proved to be a waste of tax payers money. Imagine first year payment to APCO was RM72 million, and they have renewed the contract for another year? (I can do much more with my writings on blogs, facebook, e-mails, articles and even live speeches, just pay me a fraction of it.. say about 100K he will get better results LOL)

And now we have many new sex tape scandals, from Anwar (new tape) Mat Sabu and they even did not let a fellowman Ahmad Sarbani rest in peace with a tape on a Custom Officer. Yes! sex sells that is raw sex and pornography, humans natural instinct to sex is unlimited according to ones needs, but sex in politics is disgusting.

And if there is too much of it, then it has no impact just like whatever the people were subjected to during the Sodomy 1 , Sodomy 2 and the famous Datuk T sex tape, all have been washed down, everything has backfired.

Even simple kampung folk know or believe that all this a political game and it is all farce. Just ask anyone they will say thats politics in Malaysia. So please you Umno cybertroopers take the money from your masters, and write something nice about them or do some groundwork for them to increase their popularity.

Do not resort to sex tape fabrication it will not work anymore . There is a saying in Tamil too much of a good thing becomes poison so now anything to do with sex in politics is Poison, and for your information do you all know who started this culture well it is the cunning old fox who else?

The old fox did it again by creating an uproar over hudud, knowing very well it cannot be implemented in Malaysia, but just as he wanted, he made Pakatan Rakyat run in circles on the issue which till today Pakatan is clueless about.

Hudud or no hudud, Malaysians will still be Malaysians this cannot be changed. We are living in a Millennium a thousand years away from all this, we are not carrying spears as a weapon a! nd hunti ng for food, we are living in a concrete jungle with a set of rules governing all, so why fear?

With the controversial Jais-DUMC raid taking its final run, and the palace not finding anyone guilty for lack of evidence, while this did not go down too well with Christian groups, again Umno lost this one Big time, with all the dealing and wheeling gone wrong.

So whats in store for Najib? He has to get the peoples mandate to put him on a pedestal, it is better if he comes clean on all, be sincere to himself first, then to the people and win them back. With this, he can out fox the FOX.

Multi Level Melayu

Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera buat para pembaca yang budiman, usahlah anda risau sekiranya anda takut penulisan saya kali ini mungkin berbaur perkauman.

Jangan risau, di Malaysia ini sekiranya saya menyindir atau mengkritik golongan majoriti, ianya tidaklah dipandang begitu malah dilihat sebagai menjalankan suatu tanggungjawab sebagai seorang Malaysian yang berani dan cintakan negara, jadi ayuh teruskan membaca.

Hari ini kita akan membincangkan tentang budaya yang saya perhatikan sejak zaman universiti lagi iaitu apabila golongan usahawan Bumiputera melibatkan diri dalam industri yang sering memaparkan orang mengambil gambar dengan bergaya di hadapan kereta buatan Jerman sambil memegang wang kertas RM50 yang berkepul-kepul.

Kemudian diikuti dengan perkataan-perkataan dan slogan dalam Bahasa Inggeris seperti Success Unstoppable atau Retire rich retire young.

Maka seperti yang ada boleh jangka, tajuk penulisan pada kali ini diambil dari takrifan pemasaran berbilang tingkat atau lebih dikenali sebagai Multi Level Marketing.

Pelan perniagaan

Untuk menjual sesuatu produk atau pelan perniagaan kepada orang-orang Melayu, modus operandi yang biasa digunakan sangatlah mudah.

Cara pertama ialah dengan menjanjikan pulangan besar tanpa melakukan apa-apa kerja. Untuk meyakinkan bakal pelabur anda hanya perlu memandu sebuah kereta buatan Jerman sewaktu berjumpa dengannya sambil memakai jam mahal tiruan bersaiz besar yang dibeli dari Danau Kota.

Cara kedua yang agak efektif juga ialah dengan mengislamkan produk atau pelan perniagaan, contohnya seperti Epal Doa, Jus Kedondong Tok Guru atau Makanan Kesihatan Habbatul Sauda Formula Nabi.

Jangan risau, biasanya orang! Melayu ini memang malas membuat kerja rumah, mereka akan lebih percaya kepada anda sekiranya anda menyelitkan satu dua ayat Quran atau perkataan Arab dalam pelan pemasaran anda, sebagai contoh anda boleh mengubah perkataan Skim Piramid kepada Sistem Hibah Kebawah dengan menerapkan konsep Akad dalam setiap transaksi perniagaan.

Dari penjualan ubat-ubatan yang harganya jauh tinggi dari pasaran, kepada pembelaan lintah hinggalah ke skim matawang asing kita lihat ramai yang rata-ratanya orang Melayu melibatkan diri hanya untuk rugi kerana tergilakan pulangan yang banyak dan mudah.

Untuk menyatakan bahawa mereka yang melibatkan diri dalam perkara seperti ini adalah golongan tidak berpelajaran adalah tidak tepat sama sekali, seringkali saya melihat sewaktu di zaman universiti para pelajar yang mendapat 10A dalam SPM dan mempunyai CGPA yang hebat-hebat dengan mudahnya melibatkan diri dengan skim perniagaan yang memerlukan anda hanya mencari tujuh pasang pelabur bertingkat yang diakhiri dengan bonus sebiji Mercedes.

Hukum perniagaan

Pelan pemasaran bertingkat atau Multi Level Marketing (MLM) bukanlah suatu skim cepat kaya, ianya ialah suatu kaedah perniagaan yang betul dan halal.

Malah sekiranya anda betul-betul mengkaji pelan perniagaan MLM, ianya sebenarnya bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah. Memang anda boleh jadi kaya dan berjaya melalui MLM dan ramai yang telah melakukanya namun bukan dengan hanya anda duduk dan goyang kaki sahaja, sesungguhnya pelan perniagaan atau business plan semata-mata bukan faktor yang menjanjikan kejayaan.

Sebelum anda terpengaruh dengan perkataan-perkataan yang canggih yang sering diselitkan dalam business plan, apa kata kita kembali kepada asas perniagaan.

Tak kisahlah apa perniagaan yang anda mahu lakukan, samaada ianya dalam bentuk perlaburan, pedagangan, pemasaran bertingkat atau apa-apa nama sekalipun, ianya pada akhirnya mesti jatuh kepada hukum asas perniagaan iaitu Anda membuat duit dengan menawarkan samaada produk a! tau perk hidmatan.

Sekiranya pelan perniagaan itu tidak pada akhirnya menawarkan keuntungan dengan penawaran produk atau perkhidmatan, maka ianya bukanlah perniagaan, ianya adalah suatu penipuan, tak kisahlah secanggih mana atau seArab mana sekalipun namanya, ianya mesti jatuh kepada asas yang telah dinyatakan di atas.

Sebagai contoh anda mahu melibatkan diri dengan melaburkan wang KWSP anda kedalam jongkong timah, tak kisahlah apa pelan perlaburan yang dinamakan pada akhirnya anda perlu nampak dengan jelas bagaiamana anda membuat untung.

Duit tidak akan datang begitu saja hanya kerana anda memegang jongkong timah dalam tangan, ianya perlu bertukar tangan, ianya perlu dijual untuk anda buat duit.

Sebagaiamana anda membeli sebuah rumah, walaupun nilainya naik tinggi mana sekali pun, anda tidak akan mendapat apa-apa pulangan selagi anda tidak menjual rumah berkenaan (produk) atau anda menyewakan kediaman itu (perkhidmatan).

Tanya sama hati

Kadang-kadang ada pelan perniagaan MLM yang menawarkan produk dan perkhidmatan tertentu dan sebelum anda terpengaruh dengan sesi motivasi atau kehebatan pelan perniagaan anda perlu tanya suatu soalan yang penting pada diri anda dahulu: adakah anda mahu beli barang yang anda bakal jual nanti?

Sering kita selalu lupa tentang produk itu sendiri kerana terlalu terkesima dengan kehebatan persembahan Power Point yang disertakan graf-graf dan gambar orang di hadapan kereta Mercedes tapi itu soalan pokok yang sangat penting.

Tanya pada diri anda, adakah benar-benar gelang magnetik ini akan membuat saya tahan lebih lama? Adakah betul pil kesihatan ini akan membuatkan saya lebih pandai? Adakah serbuk pencuci ini akan betul membuatkan kehidupan saya lebih mudah?

Soalan ini penting kerana, sekiranya produk yang anda jual itu anda sendiri tidak yakin untuk pakai atau beli maka ianya tidak akan berjaya dalam jangkamasa panjang.

Mungkin anda boleh buat duit dengan menawarkan pelan perniagaan ini kepada 20 ! orang la gi kerana mereka mahu terlibat dalam sistem perniagaan anda, akan tetapi sampai bila?

Malaysia bukan besar dan untuk pendapatan jangkamasa panjang, orang perlu mahu membeli produk anda berulang kali barulah ianya menjadi sebuah perniagaan yang mempunyai kesinambungan.

Ini kerana ada sesetengah MLM ianya hanyalah suatu skim yang membuatkan orang membeli suatu produk yang biasa dengan harga yang jauh lebih mahal dari pasaran dengan menyamarkan ia sebagai suatu pelan perniagaan yang hebat.

Kesimpulan

Sesungguhnya dengan hanya mencari tujuh pasang ahli atau menyimpan sesuatu komoditi tidak menjanjikan sebuah Mercedes di hujung hari.

Sesuatu yang berbaloi untuk dapat bukanlah semudah itu, janganlah kita mudah terpengaruh dengan sesuatu itu hanya kerana ianya dipakejkan sebagai sesuatu yang Islamik.

Saya bukan menentang atau memperkecilkan agama cuma saya ingin mengingatkan kepada anda semua bahawa ramai orang hari ini yang suka mempergunakan agama untuk memperdaya, tidak kira dalam perniagaan, politik atau kehidupan seharian.

Tak semestinya kalau ada sepotong ayat Quran atau ada menggunakan nama Arab maka ianya benar-benar mengikut Syariah.

Jangan takut untuk personal dan menyelidik dan jangan sesekali anda terpedaya dengan usul berhenti menggunakan akal atas alasan anda bukan golongan ulamak atau tuan guru. Sesungguhnya Allah (s.w.t) bagi kita akal untuk dipakai, bukan untuk dibuat pekasam.

Zaidel Baharuddin, seorang jurutera elektronik, boleh diikuti di WirawanWeb.com, lipassepi.blogspot.com atau @Sinatra_Z. Beliau adalah kolumnis FMT.

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