Believe us when we say… — Daud Kilau

APRIL 9 — The Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar wants Malaysians to take his force's word that Nazri Aziz's son did not assault a 50-year-old security guard.

That is a fair request because all along we have "trusted" the IGP and his band of merry men.

We "believed" the cops when they told us that:

• only 5,000 people turned up for Bersih 2.0

• they "detained" 10 men for putting up defamatory posters about A. Samad Said and Ambiga Sreenevasan in Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur a couple of months ago and then went silent.

• the Penang cops were not trained to handle the Umno hooligans who disrupted an anti-Lynas gathering in Penang and bashed up two journalists.

• they are "investigating" the Umno bloggers and Utusan Malaysia who accused Christians of trying to take over the country.

• A. Kugan's and all the deaths in custody were due to accidents and natural causes.

• two foreign workers were guilty of the murder of Darren Kang in Sri Hartamas a few years ago. Some coincidence, though, that Nazri Aziz's son was also said to be involved.

Don't worry, bro Ismail, gua percaya sama lu. I also believed you when you said that only one per cent of cops are corrupt.

* Daud Kilau reads The Malaysian Insider.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not endorse the view unless specified.

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Kesah Benar: Pengundi Hantu Marang 1990

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Pada Pilihanraya 1990, Timbalan Yang Dipertua PAS (skrg Presiden PAS), Tuan Guru Haji Abdul Hadi Awang telah memenangi kerusi Parlimen Marang dgn majoriti 116 undi.

Rupanya, Haji Hadi sepatutnya kalah dlm pilihanraya tersebut kerana terdapat lebih 3000 pengundi hantu yang didatangkan dari beberapa buah kilang sekitar Parlimen Pekan.

Pada hari mengundi, kira2 200-300 orang telah berjaya dihalang dari mengundi oleh petugas2 PAS. Kira2 12 buah teksi serta 2-3 buah bas berjaya ditahan dari mengundi.

Sekiranya pengundi2 hantu dari Pekan tersebut tidak ditahan, nescaya Tuan Guru Haji Hadi akan kalah di kerusi Parlimen Marang pada tahun 1990 itu.

Perkara yang sama ini harus diulangi di Selangor pada bulan Jun ini kiranya kita mahju kekal memerintah Selangor.

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Bohong dan menipu adalah keperangaian kedua (second nature) Umno

— Sakmongkol AK47
The Malaysian Insider
Apr 09, 2012

9 APRIL — Apa yang menyebabkan Najib dan gerombolan Umno mampu menunaikan sebahagian besar janji janji mereka? Jawapannya ialah dana dan wang yang banyak. Itu sahaja kelebihan yang Najib dan gerombolan Umno ada. Dari segi idea dan gagasan dan wawasan yang terang, dia yilek. Jika tidak ada apco dan firma pakar runding seperti Mckinsey, Najib adalah seorang kanak-kanak yang hilang dalam hutan. Di luar jawapan dan pertanyaan yang tidak berskrip, Najib tidak dapat menjawap apa-apa.

Tiadakan kuasa yang ada, apa yang Najib ada? Sudah tentu hanya janji yang kosong. Janji kosong Najib jika di bandingkan dengan janji Pakatan Rakyat akan menelanjangkan ketandusan idea Najib dan BN. Dan saya tidak fikir Najib bodoh seperti yang kita melihatnya untuk tidak menyedari bahawa objektif PR ialah mendapatkan kuasa di Putrajaya. Dan kuasa inilah yang akan di pertahankan oleh Najib dengan segala tipu helah dan pembohongan terutama kepada orang Melayu.

Pembaca sendiri dapat melihat. Hanya selepas 4 tahun mendapat kuasa, beberapa kerajaan di bawah PR bukan sahaja menepati janji yang mereka buat tetapi mentadbir negeri masing-masing dengan lebih baik dari BN yang telah lama berkuasa. Ada negeri BN yang boleh menunjukkan bahawa mereka dapat mengadakan bajet lebihan? Ada, jika main silap mata yakni dengan mebatalkan beberapa perbelanjaan supaya balance sheet nampak baik. Kita mahu lihat negeri mana di bawah pemerintahan BN yang akan sekoyong koyong membentang supplementary bill untuk mendapat bajet tambahan. Ini semua kerja auta dan autawan in chief iaitu Najib Razak.

Antara 5 negeri yang mendapat FDI yang paling tinggi, 3 dari nya ialah negeri yang di tadbir oleh PR. Yang dua lagi negeri BN termasuk Sarawak yang di pimpin oleh pemimpin yang bukan dari Umno. Sarawak membangun tanpa campur tangan Umno dan jika ada campur tangan Umno, sudah tentu jahanam. Yang membantu Johor ialah kehampirannya dengan Singapura.

Apa sudah jadi pada janji Umno untuk membantu orang Melayu? Lihat sahajalah apa sudah jadi pada DEB? Kemajuan terpesat dan pertumbuhan yang nyata kepada ekonomi orang Melayu hanya berlaku semasa Tengku Razaleigh mengurus ekonomi negara kita. Semenjak ianya di ambil alih oleh putera dari keturunan Hindi Kerala, ekonomi orang Melayu, daripada yang bersifat rakyat, bertukar menjadi kemajuan ekonomi untuk orang yang terpilih.

Dari 1970 hingga ke 1981, perkongsian Melayu dalam kekayaan negara bertambah dari 2.7 peratus kepada 18.4 peratus. Bila Mahathir mengambil alih, ekonomi orang Melayu bersifat rakyat, bertambah kepada kurang sedikit dari 20 peratus. Ekonomi Melayu di bawah pengurusan Mahathir hanya bertambah 1 lebih peratus.

Dari segi rekod, Najib jangan cakap besar lah. Hari ini dia hanya boleh showcase Mokhtar al-Bokhari sahaja. Jika ekonomi orang Melayu hanya boleh di perlihatkan melalui Syed Mokhtar Bokhari, ini membuktikan bahawa dasar ekonomi di bawah Umno dan BN tidak berjaya dan gagal.

Dan jika orang seperti Syed Mokhtar berulang kali hanya mampu maju dengan pertolongan kerajaan, ini membuktikan bahawa S Mokhtar tidak ada skills untuk maju dengan usaha kudrat sendiri. Tambahan pula, dalam Malaysia ini, orang Melayu yang wajib di bantu ialah Syed Mokhtar sahaja kah?

Dibawah Syed Mokhtar, monopoli gula yang di pindahkan dari Robert Kuok menjadi lebih mahal. Sebagai reaksi harga mahal, ada matlaon pemimpin Umno yang mencadangkan supaya orang Melayu terutamanya, makan kurang gula. Bingung punya cadangan.

Bila Syed Mokhtar ambil alih Bernas, beras jadi lebih mahal. Inilah janji Najib kepada rakyat Malaysia, terutama orang Melayu. Saya ulangi lagi, janji Najib hanyalah untuk Putera dalam Bumi-Putera. Rakyat Bumi biasa hanya menadah tangan mengharapkan ehsan Sultan Najib dan al malikul sembab.

Pencapaian orang Melayu lainnya adalah hasil natural progression. Pendidikan? Semua kerajaan dalam dunia ini mesti mengadakan pendidikan. Mengadakan pendidikan sebagai suatu wadah menambahbaikkan kedudukan orang Melayu bukanlah sesuatu yang unik kepada Umno. Pentadbiran di bawah kerajaan-kerajaan Pakatan pun menyokong pendidikan sebagai wadah mengeluarkan mereka mereka dari kemiskinan. No big deal untuk di gahkan oleh Najib.

Najib gagal dalam janjinya untuk meningkatkan ekonomi orang Melayu.

Sekarang kita pergi ke bab terima kasih. Orang Umno yang bongkak dan sombong, beranggapan bahawa mengucapkan terima kasih dan puak yang berhak mendapatkan ucapan terima kasih ialah Umno. Inilah dusta yang paling besar. Jika rakyat di sarankan mengucapakan terima kasih kepada kerajaan yang telah meningkatkan kebajikan meraka, maka pengucapan itu mesti tidak bersyarat. Jika rakyat dalam negeri BN di suruh berterima kasih kepada kerajaan BN, maka rakyat di bawah kerajaan PR pun wajib beterima kasih kepada kerajaan PR. Nilai terima kasih rakyat kepada kerajaan BN tidak lebih mulia dari nilai terima kasih rakyat dibawah kerajaan PR.

Jadi sesuai dengan saranan PM kita yang kurang cerdik, saya mencadangkan rakyat yang telah menerima manfaat dari keelokan pentadbiran kerajaan PR menyatakan terima kasih mereka dengan mengekalkan kerajaan PR. Di negeri lain yang sengsara dengan pembohongan kerajaan Umno dan BN, mereka boleh menyatakan terima kasih mereka dengan menendang gerombolan penyamun dan perompak harta benda rakyat.

Mengenai sombong Najib jangan cakap besar lah. Bukankah dia baru sahaja memohon maaf kerana kesombongan Umno di negeri Kedah beberapa mingu yang lalu?

Dan beberapa minggu yang lalu, Najib mengingatkan rakyat supaya jangan mengulangi kesilapan mereka. Saya amat bersetuju dengan peringatan ini. Ya, rakyat jangan mengulangi kesilapan memilih Umno dan BN kerana kesilapan tersebut akan memberi lesen besar kepada Umno dan BN melanun dan merompak negara kita. Sudah tentu yang membuat kesilapan ialah golongan minority. Umno dan BN hanya mendapat 49 peratus dari undi popular sedangkan majoroti iaitu 51 peratus sudah pasti golongan yang membuat pilihan tepat. Lima puloh satu peratus telah mengundi parti PR dan ini mesti di teruskan.

Nyawa Umno dan BN bergantung kepada pembohongan dan manipulasi persempadanan kawasan parlimen. Lebih dasyat, terutama kepada orang Melayu, kita jangan lagi bergantung kepada parti politik yang kosong dari segi idea dan hanya bergantung untuk masa depannya kepada bontot Saiful Buhari dan diatas cerita seks.

Punah bangsa Melayu macam ini. — sakmongkol.blogspot.com

* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).

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Malaysia will need to improve its performance in education

— Tunku Munawirah Putra
The Malaysian Insider
Apr 09, 2012

APRIL 9 — Our deputy prime minister/minister of education announced that the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitive Index (GCI) report 2011-2012 for Malaysia ranks the quality of our education system at No. 14 out of 142 countries. Malaysia should be proud of this accomplishment which is above many developed countries including the United Kingdom, the US and Germany.

We really should give ourselves a pat on the back for being ranked at par with these First World nations. But instead, many have voiced their concern over the misrepresentation or misinterpretation of the data by the minister. Many are not amused but aghast.

The WEF CGI report has, for three decades, been perceived as the world's most respected assessment of national competitiveness, by leading business executives around the world. The control sample is based on the opinion of 87 senior-level management in the business community in Malaysia. It is a snapshot of what they believe is true and they believe that Malaysia has one of the best education systems in the world.

Therefore, their opinion is credible and the report is not for dispute. The information is to be helpful for business communities to evaluate the viability of Malaysia as a global player in the corporate world, and specifically to serve the needs of this niche group only.

To put the WEF opinion poll into better perspective, the respondents would have belonged to the top echelons of the business community. It can be safe to assume that they are among the elite — high income, highly educated and living in the urban areas, specifically Kuala Lumpur, with their children in private and international schools and a plan for overseas tertiary education thereafter.

Therefore, to be ranked 14th would have highly likely been based on the quality of private and international education, and not the overall level of the Malaysian education system as a whole. The choices of good private and international schools are plentiful and thanks to the relaxation on local students' enrolment, these schools are available in every high-income housing area, making such schools very accessible to this group.

To determine overall students' performance and the education system as a whole, the international standardised test, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) for Malaysia, would be a more accurate determinant of the current state of affairs in education.

The number of students assessed in Malaysia for PISA 2010 is 4,999 and TIMSS 2007 is 4,466. Cognizance and modesty would point us to evaluate our entire education internationally via PISA and TIMSS. Unfortunately, the reality is that we performed below average in both tests.

One would err to interpret the WEF GCI Education ranking report in isolation without considering the control environment of the sample and generalising that it represents the whole education system when it clearly does not. The WEF CGI shows a true picture of only a cross section of the population whilst PISA and TIMSS covers a wider spectrum.

At least now, nationally, we have been apprised of our ability to compare the level of education available to the wealthy minority versus what is available to the less fortunate majority. This goes to show that we have the capability to provide quality education locally and we should strive hard and work towards that benchmark.

Without doubt, these private and international schools offer mathematics and science in English. We wonder what the opinion would be if the following question was asked: "How likely are you to send your children to schools which offer science and mathematics in English?"

* Tunku Munawirah Putra is the honorary secretary of PAGE Malaysia.

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Of Nedim Nazri Aziz, gold-plated 'bubur ayam' and fine wines...

The lifestyle of cabinet ministers and their kins has again come under public scrutiny following the assault case allegedly involving Mohamad Nedim, son of de-facto Law minister Nazri Aziz.

The responses by netizens to news reports about the incident, based on a police report lodged by a security guard who alleged that Nedim and his bodyguards had manhandled him, reveal the depth of anger among ordinary citizens to the kind of behaviour displayed in public by the likes of Nedim.

In the past, such a public contempt made newspaper headlines, during the height of the constitutional crisis in 1993, sparked by the assault case involving the then Sultan of Johor and a hockey coach, both of whom had since deceased. It led to a controversial but popular amendment to clip the immunity hitherto enjoyed by royalties, particularly when faced with criminal charges.

In the case of Nedim, such contempt from the public as can be seen on online social media extends beyond his alleged misbehaviour. The focus has shifted to the fact that at the time of the incident, the young Nedim was driving a Porsche, and had bodyguards accompanying him in a luxury MPV.

One is now able to understand the claim by PKR de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, when he described the next general election a 'class war' between the rich and poor.

Nedim and his busy schedule

 
Harakahdaily has stumbled upon photographs of Nedim and his circle of friends posted under his account on the image-sharing site Lockerz (above), giving the public a glimpse of this personality, but more importantly, they offer a pictorial explanation of the rich-poor gap that continues to divide Malaysians.

From "chillin by the pool", participating in a convoy of luxury sports cars, holidaying in Europe to dining at fine restaurants, Nedim is the epitome of Malaysia's "one percent", the current parlance for elites of society who own the bulk of a country's wealth at the cost of 99 per cent of the population. One should not expect such characters to have any inkling about the complaints of rising costs of living that have coloured political debates around the world.
 
Of course, not unlike sons of recently deposed leaders of the Middle East, there are also the symbolic gestures by the rich, and in Nedim's case, he brandishes a photograph of him "breaking fast with anak yatim" (orphans).

SILVER SPOONS ... Nadem's 'bubur ayam' for sahur

His political views, needless to say, are a chip off the old block. In one posting on Lockerz, he published a Twitter message containing UMNO's now-familiar name-calling of election reforms coalition Bersih: "Kepala hotak PKR,DAP and ambiga babi!", with a poster saying that Bersih's rally was for the sake of a 'sodomite'. 


He also has a picture to 'prove' his attendance in the optional Tarawih prayers during Ramadan, not to men! tion his favourite chicken porridge in a plate of gold, for his sahur (pre-dawn meal during Ramadan).

With such a lifestyle and display of wealth that is out of sync with the realities faced by Malaysian working adults, it is little wonder then that Nedim's father was at the forefront of attacks against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for suggesting that cabinet members and families declare their wealth.

The young chairman

Nedim, according to his Twitter account, is chairman of Harrison (M) Berhad in addition to his post as director of Charisma Positief, which turns out to be a company selling used, presumably luxury, cars.

Presumably, this is the same 'Harrison' which has its website at harrisons a company which has its origins in Sabah, and concentrates its businesses in East Malaysia, dealing with "marketing, sales, warehousing and distribution of fast moving consumer goods, building materials, engineering products and agricultural chemicals; operation of shipping and travel agencies".

BOTTLED TASTE ... One of the wine brands available at Harrison's wine shop

One of its clients liste! d under its fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) division is Asia Pacific Brewery, dealing with such brands like Tiger Beer, Heineken, Anchor, Guinness, Anglia and Malta. 

 Indeed, one of Harrison's subsidiaries, Harrisons Marketing and Services Sdn. Bhd, is set up to specialise in the business of fine wine, with a large retail store located at Jalan 222, Petaling Jaya.

In the unlikely situation that cabinet ministers are required to declare their wealth, these information, if true, would spell disaster to Nazri more than his son.

After all, Nedim has made it known that he is least bothered with the publicity around him.

"I seem to attract haters/poor media and I enjoy every moment of it," says a message introducing himself on Twitter.- harakahdaily

Anak menteri serang pak guard...

Samseng, itu lah ayat yang paling sopan boleh diberikan kepada seorang anak menteri yang lebih rela bergaduh hanya kerana tidak mahu turun untuk mengisi borang atau butiran diri di sebuah kondominium disini.

Anak menteri tersebut didakwa menyerang seorang penyelia keselamatan di sebuah kondominium mewah di Mount Kiara pada malam Selasa lalu.

Ketua Polis Daerah Polis Brickfields, Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid ketika dihubungi hari ini mengesahkan bahawa dua laporan polis berkaitan dengan kejadian itu telah dibuat. "Kes diklasifikasikan mengikut Seksyen 160 Kanun Keseksaan kerana terbabit dengan pergaduhan," katanya, yang keberatan memberikan butiran lanjut kes itu.

Seorang jurucakap pengurusan kondominium itu mengesahkan baha! wa terda pat perbalahan kecil antara anggota keselamatan dan tetamu bangunan itu. 

 

Beliau enggan mengulas lanjut dan berkata butiran kejadian perlu dirujuk kepada polis. Menurut sumber, kejadian berkenaan sempat dirakamkan melalui kamera CCTV.

Pengurusan kondominium itu juga dikatakan sedang menghadapi tekanan supaya 'menutup' kejadian itu kerana firma-firma keselamatan bergantung kepada kelulusan kerajaan persekutuan untuk memperbaharui lesen operasi mereka.

Pada kejadian itu, anak menteri berkenaan Mohamad Nedim Mohd Nazri Aziz, yang memandu kereta sport Porsche ke kondominium teresebut. Beliau diikuti oleh pengawal keselamatannya yang memandu sebuah MPV mewah.

Pengawal peribadi itu dilaporkan turun dari kenderaannya untuk mendaftar butir-butir peribadi bagi tetamu yang melawat bangunan itu tetapi pengawal kondominium berkeras bahawa kedua-dua pemandu mesti berbuat demikian secara berasingan.

Ini menyebabkan pertengkaran hangat dan penyelia keselamatan dipanggil bagi menyelesaikan masalah itu tetapi perkara sebaliknya berlaku.-  really.tigaline.com

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PSC Lynas mula mesyuarat minggu depan

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KUALA LUMPUR: Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen (PSC) bagi meneliti isu kilang memproses nadir bumi Lynas di Gebeng, Pahang dijangka akan mula mengadakan pertemuan pertamanya pada minggu hadapan.

Pengerusinya, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin berkata, pihaknya itu perlu menunggu sehingga 12 April bagi mendengar keputusan semakan kehakiman mahkamah yang difailkan penduduk Kuantan Februari lalu.

"Ada semakan kehakiman mengenai perkara berkenaan. Jadi kita mesti tunggu sehingga keputusan terhadap semakan kehakiman itu selesai. Saya cuba untuk adakan (mesyuarat) minggu depan," katanya kepada pemberita di Parlimen di sini hari ini.

Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menetapkan Khamis ini untuk membuat keputusan bagi semakan kehakiman difailkan oleh penduduk tempatan berkaitan lesen operasi sementara yang diberikan kepada Lynas.

Dewan Rakyat Mac lepas meluluskan penubuhan PSC berhubung Lynas yang dianggotai sembilan Ahli Parlimen – lima wakil Barisan Nasional (BN) termasuk seorang pengerusi, tiga wakil rakyat pembangkang dan seorang Bebas yang diberi tempoh tiga bulan untuk melaksanakan tugas.

Namun Pakatan Rakyat bertindak memboikot PSC Lynas dan sepakat enggan menyertai jawatankuasa terbabit atas alasan PSC sekadar menutup keburukan terhadap pusat nadir bumi  itu.

Malah  tiga syarat yang dikemukakan Pakatan sebelum itu iaitu projek pembinaan kilang tersebut yang hampir 95 peratus siap perlu dihentikan serta merta, menghentikan import bahan nadir bumi dari Australia dan memberi kuasa sepenuhnya kepada jawatankuasa itu untuk membuat keputusan turut ditolak Dewan.

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Where Anwar is ahead of Obama

 

FMT LETTER: From Harish Subramaniam, via e-mail

US President, Barack Obama, centered his entire election campaign on hope and change. "Change we can believe in" was Obama's mantra at every campaign speech he gave. The clear victory against John McCain showed that the message of change resonated strongly with the people tired of eight years of Republican rule under the clueless George W Bush.

Obama convinced more than enough Americans that America should and can change. Obama himself has not changed and stuck to his principles and beliefs in his first term even though it would be politically more expedient to dump some of them, e.g. Obamacare and the individual mandate for health insurance.

While Obama is consistent and has not changed to bolster his political fortunes, in the spirit of 'Malaysia Boleh', we have Anwar Ibrahim who has changed and changed again to better his chances of concentrating power in his person. In this way, Anwar is clearly ahead of Obama.

In the 70s, Anwar was the head of ABIM, an Islamic youth group which defined itself exclusively as an Islamic group. The divide he nurtured in order to build his own relevance was a Muslim vs Non-Muslim divide. This paid dividends when Dr Mahathir decided that Anwar was so good at dividing the people through religion that it would be best for Umno to co-opt him. Mahathir wanted to see if Anwar's proven skills could be used to divide the people a different way.

In the 80s and 90s, Anwar rose through the ranks in Umno to become deputy president and as we know, Umno is a party that defined itself exclusively as a Malay or Bumiputera group. The divide he nurtured in order to climb the ranks of Umno and reach the very top was a Malay vs Chinese/Indian etc. or a Bumi vs Non-Bumi divide. What he achieved by playing up and reinforcing these racial divisions was the deputy presidency of Umno and the deputy prime ministership of the country.

In the 2000s, when wayward sex and corruption forced Anwar back from the pinnacle, he and his family formed a vehicle called KeADILan to divide Malaysians once again as liberals and conservatives. He would become the champion of anti-corruption, press freedom, anti-ISA, anti-affirmative action for the Malays etc. The very same issues he championed and defended just a few months earlier as deputy president of Umno. He knew this would make him hero of the urban elite.

A! n elite who were more concerned with national issues rather than those the BN was good at addressing i.e. developmental issues from roads to clinics to schools. This also catapulted him to international stardom at a time when the Washington consensus was looking for Eastern puppets to repeat their mantras to 'ignorant' third world audiences. The dividends for this are still paying off till today in the form of foreign funding and grandstanding opportunities from and with foreign leaders and figures.

In the 2010s and even leading up to 2008, when his utter defeat at the hands of the hapless Pak Lah forced his family party KeADILan to the brink of extinction in 2004, Anwar would try the latest form of his dividing game. He would cobble together the left-leaning DAP and the simple-living PAS to put together a class war.

He would now pitt Malaysians against each other on the traditional Western basis of rich and poor. The dividends he has gained from this division is coming within 16 seats of capturing the Federal Government in the 2008 election and becoming the leader of the Opposition.

When a man is first an ultra-Islamic leader who can threaten a Government, to an ultra-Malay leader who can put fear into the hearts of Chinese and Indians, to a liberal leader who can fight against Government on all issues he used to champion just months before to a leader of the poor who can wreck the economy forever and therefore plunge the poor into ever more desperate straits if he takes charge, Malaysians have to again ask;

Ultra-Muslim to ultra-Malay to ultra-Liberal to ultra-Class Warrior? Who is Anwar really? Will we ever know?

He has divided Malaysians in four different ways over 40 years, how will he divide Malaysians once again when he becomes PM? Anwar can and will take the 'Malaysia Boleh' slogan to the next level by changing again and dividing again. PKR, DAP and PAS have to think carefully as they can still get rid of Anwar and all his divisiveness and put forward a leader who ha! s the be st interests of all Malaysians at heart.

 

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UUCA changes insulting, say students

PETALING JAYA: Student activists have denounced proposed changes to the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) as "insulting".

They say that the main amendment, which would allow students to join political parties, held little meaning for them.

"Allowing students to join political parties is nothing to be proud of," student activist Adam Adli told FMT.

"Nothing much can be done by merely joining a political party. They are insulting students by doing this."

He said students were demanding the right to full political expression.

"Much bigger things need to be done, like looking at the right to form unions."

Adam shot to public notice last October, when he lowered a flag bearing the Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's portrait during a protest outside the Umno headquarters here. He has since been suspended from the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris for three semesters.

He said the UUCA should have been abolished altogether.

The amendments were tabled in Parliament today. While allowing tertiary-level students to join political parties, they bar these students from contesting in campus elections and from campaigning for their parties inside campuses.

The amendments also give university authorities the power to decide which organisations students could not join.

In April 2010, four Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia students were hauled up for campaigning during the Hulu Selangor by-election, an act prohibited by the UUCA.

The Court of Appeal has since ruled that the prohibition of political campaigning went against Article 10 of the Federal Constitution, which provides for freedom of expression.

Looking at the larger issue

According to Malaysian Students Solidarity (SMM) chairman Muhammad Safwan Anang, no student for or against the UUCA wanted any amendments to the law.

"Even the pro-government, pro-Najib students did not want the UUCA to be amended," he said.

"We don't know whose wish it was to amend Section 15. The larger issue here is student autonomy, not membership in a political party. Give us the ability to run campus elections ourselves.

He too called for total abolition of the law. "These amendments are only cosmetic," he said.

He also said the amendments in fact allowed for further politicise the student realm, adding that Umno had started stepping into campuses.

Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin, who tabled the amendments today, said the changes were aimed at curbing the influence of political parties on campuses.

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Petronas will fold if Pakatan takes over

BANGI: Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today ridiculed Pakatan Rakyat's plan to abolish the students' loan scheme and offset it using the oil income, saying the idea would bankrupt the country's oil company Petronas.

He called the idea mooted by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim an irresponsible populist measure proposed without considering the repercussions.

Weak exports and domestic market makes oil Malaysia's major income contributor. Muhyiddin claimed Petronas would have to spend as much as RM43 billion to offset the loans, something the country can't afford.

"Petronas is a company and if we squeeze it dry, how is it supposed to reinvest? So how is it supposed to generate money from other fields? Anwar can suggest that (as) he has no responsibility.

"We in Barisan Nasional have experience and we know it is not possible to do this," he told reporters here, adding that other countries have raised their taxes just to cover their education bill.

Anwar recently dismissed Putrajaya's argument that abolishing the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan scheme would cost taxpayers RM43 billion.

Higher taxes

The former deputy prime minister claimed it was possible to scrap the scheme if the government maintained fiscal discipline through eliminating corruption.

He said the country's RM150 billion revenue could easily finance Pakatan Rakyat's plan to rid of PTPTN if most of the money were not was wasted on construction projects rife with abuses that resulted in ballooning costs.

Pakatan had made the PTPTN issue one of its key fodder for the elections, riding on the wave of anger from majority of the country's graduates coping with loan repayments amid soaring inflations.

Students, led by Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM), are planning to hold a rally next month calling for the abolition of the PTPTN. They argued that education should be made free.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, however, said the idea was not feasible unless higher taxes were imposed, an idea that he said would burden voters.

Muhyiddin, who is also the education minister, said PTPTN was necessary for the country's future in education and it is the responsibility of those who received the loans to repay them.

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Corruption: Even Kurt Cobain is against it #pangkahrasuah

Here's my poster for @ssafuan's corruption-themed poster drive -

#pangkahrasuah is a corruption-themed poster drive led by Sufri Safuan.

E-mail your poster to pangkahrasuah@gmail.com.

The drive begins 9^th April 2012 and ends 15^th April 2012.

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Altantuya's dad,"I did not take even a single ringgit from the Malaysian government"...

Setev Shaariibuu, the father of murdered Mongolian national Altantuya,  has denied talk that he had been paid to shut up.

"I deny this. I did not take even a single ringgit from the Malaysian government," he said through an interpreter, at a press conference in Parliament House today.

Setev said that he was made aware of the accusations against him from a posting on video-sharing site Youtube.

The rumour began to circulate shortly after political consultant Abdul Razak Baginda was acquitted of all charges in connection with the murder.

The trial established that Altantuya had been shot dead and then blown up with military-grade explosives by two Malaysian Special Action Unit officers in 2006.

Setev explained that he is currently in Malaysia to seek closure of his daughter's death, as many questions remain unanswered despite the fact that the two police personnel have been found guilty of murder.
              
"You know me. This is the second time I am here. Why am I here? I have travelled the world seeking justice," he said, adding that he is also representing Atantya's children's interests.

'Still no answers'

He said that he knows that Malaysians in general are not responsible for what happened, but ! lamented that the government has done nothing for the last six years to help end his search.

Although the Mongolian government has issued several diplomatic notes to Malaysia, "there have been no answers".

"I don't understand how there has been no response to official communiques between two sovereign nations," he said.

"I want (the government and Malaysians) to solve this case as soon as possible. I want to take my girl home, to bury her in her own country."

Asked what else he might do to fight his case, he said that he may try to meet with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak again.

"Najib ran away when I wanted to meet him last time. I want to meet him again, not as a minister but as a father and a man," said Setev.

Setev had filed a civil suit for RM100 million against the Malaysian government in relation to his daughter's death.  He lost the case and was ordered to pay costs, but is appealing the decision.- malaysiakini

Bapa Altantuya nafi dibayar agar tutup mulut...

Bapa kepada Altantuya, Setev Shaariibuu, menafikan dakwaan bahawa beliau telah dibayar wang supaya mendiamkan diri berhubung kes pembunuhan kejam anak sulung itu.

Professor di universiti Mongolia itu menegaskan, beliau tidak menerima sesen pun daripada kerajaan Malaysia.

Beliau berkata demikian melalui seorang jurubahasa dalam sidang media di bangunan Parlim! en, hari ini.

Setev mengulas khabar angin yang timbul sejurus selepas seorang tertuduh dalam kes tersebut, Abdul Razak Bagida di bebaskan daripada semua tuduhan berhubung pembunuhan tersebut.

Perbicaraan itu mengemukakan fakta Altantuya telah ditembak mati dan diletupkan menggunakan bahan letupan tentera oleh dua orang pegawai Unit Tindakan Khas pada 2006.- malaysiakini

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Where Anwar is ahead of Obama

FMT LETTER: From Harish Subramaniam, via e-mail

US President, Barack Obama, centered his entire election campaign on hope and change. "Change we can believe in" was Obama's mantra at every campaign speech he gave. The clear victory against John McCain showed that the message of change resonated strongly with the people tired of eight years of Republican rule under the clueless George W Bush.

Obama convinced more than enough Americans that America should and can change. Obama himself has not changed and stuck to his principles and beliefs in his first term even though it would be politically more expedient to dump some of them, e.g. Obamacare and the individual mandate for health insurance.

While Obama is consistent and has not changed to bolster his political fortunes, in the spirit of 'Malaysia Boleh', we have Anwar Ibrahim who has changed and changed again to better his chances of concentrating power in his person. In this way, Anwar is clearly ahead of Obama.

In the 70s, Anwar was the head of ABIM, an Islamic youth group which defined itself exclusively as an Islamic group. The divide he nurtured in order to build his own relevance was a Muslim vs Non-Muslim divide. This paid dividends when Dr Mahathir decided that Anwar was so good at dividing the people through religion that it would be best for Umno to co-opt him. Mahathir wanted to see if Anwar's proven skills could be used to divide the people a different way.

In the 80s and 90s, Anwar rose through the ranks in Umno to become deputy president and as we know, Umno is a party that defined itself exclusively as a Malay or Bumiputera group. The divide he nurtured in order to climb the ranks of Umno and reach the very top was a Malay vs Chinese/Indian etc. or a Bumi vs Non-Bumi divide. What he achieved by playing up and reinforcing these racial divisions was the deputy presidency of Umno and the deputy prime ministership of the country.

In the 2000s, when wayward sex and corruption forced Anwar back from the pinnacle, he and his family formed a vehicle called KeADILan to divide Malaysians once again as liberals and conservatives. He would become the champion of anti-corruption, press freedom, anti-ISA, anti-affirmative action for the Malays etc. The very same issues he championed and defended just a few months earlier as deputy president of Umno. He knew this would make him hero of the urban elite.

An elite who were more concerned with national issues rather than those the BN was good at addressing i.e. developmental issues from roads to clinics to schools. This also catapulted him to international stardom at a time when the Washington consensus was looking for Eastern puppets to repeat their mantras to 'ignorant' third world audiences. The dividends for this are still paying off till today in the form of foreign funding and grandstanding opportunities from and with foreign leaders and figures.

In the 2010s and even leading up to 2008, when his utter defeat at the hands of the hapless Pak Lah forced his family party KeADILan to the brink of extinction in 2004, Anwar would try the latest form of his dividing game. He would cobble together the left-leaning DAP and the simple-living PAS to put together a class war.

He would now pitt Malaysians against each other on the traditional Western basis of rich and poor. The dividends he has gained from this division is coming within 16 seats of capturing the Federal Government in the 2008 election and becoming the leader of the Opposition.

When a man is first an ultra-Islamic leader who can threaten a Government, to an ultra-Malay leader who can put fear into the hearts of Chinese and Indians, to a liberal leader who can fight against Government on all issues he used to champion just months before to a leader of the poor who can wreck the economy forever and therefore plunge the poor into ever more desperate straits if he takes charge, Malaysians have to again ask;

Ultra-Muslim to ultra-Malay to ultra-Liberal to ultra-Class Warrior? Who is Anwar really? Will we ever know?

He has divided Malaysians in four different ways over 40 years, how will he divide Malaysians once again when he becomes PM? Anwar can and will take the 'Malaysia Boleh' slogan to the next level by changing again and dividing again. PKR, DAP and PAS have to think carefully as they can still get rid of Anwar and all his divisiveness and put forward a leader who has the best interests of all Malaysians at heart.

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PKR gesa keluarga Shahrizat cagar harta peribadi

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KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) menggesa keluarga bekas Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil mencagarkan harta peribadi kepada kerajaan Malaysia dalam masa terdekat sebagai timbal balik pembayaran pinjaman RM250 juta.

Pengarah Strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli berkata, cagaran itu wajar dilakukan sebagai syarat jaminan peribadi daripada keluarga Shahrizat
yang didapati gagal menguruskan projek Pusat Fidlot Kebangsaan (NFC) dengan baik.

Katanya, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebagai Menteri Kewangan perlu menggunakan kuasa yang ada padanya bertindak sebagai 'orang tengah' mendesak keluarga Shahrizat supaya membuat cagaran dalam minggu ini juga.

"Jika NFCorp gagal membayar jumlah pinjaman pertama dalam tempoh dua minggu (bayaran yang telah lewat seperti yang didedahkan oleh Jaawatankuasa Kira-Kira Negara) maka Najib perlu mengambil tindakan melelong harta tersebut untuk mendapatkan kembali dana rakyat," katanya dalam sidang media di Parlimen hari ini.

Katanya, jika cagaran tidak berlaku dalam masa seminggu ini pihaknya akan terus mendedahkan harta lain yang telah dibeli oleh keluarga Shahrizat yang masih belum diketahui umum dan segala penyelewengan lain bersabit NFCorp.

Rafizi minggu lalu mendakwa Pengerusi Eksekutif (CEO) NFC Datuk Seri Mohammad Salleh Ismail dan anaknya Wan Shahinur Izran Mohd Salleh cuba melupuskan aset hartanah syarikat itu bernilai RM4 juta walaupun kerajaan telah membekukannya sejak 14 Januari lalu.

Tiga hartanah terbabit merupakan kedai pejabat tingkat 1 hingga 3 yang dijual berasingan di Plaza Damas 3, Taman Sri Hartamas, di sini yang bernilai masing-masing RM1.5 juta, RM759,000, serta RM741,000, dengan menawarkan diskaun pembelian 25 peratus dan kini dalam proses rundingan terakhir dengan syarikat Insun Development Sdn Bhd.

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The power of LGBT votes in Malaysia

FMT LETTER: From Pang Khee Teik, via e-mail

Around the world, LGBTs represent around 3 to 10 % of the population. Malaysian homo sapiens are not more homo. So it is certainly not 30 % here as recently claimed by a counsellor in Utusan.

This counsellor said his data is solid because he heard it from his gay clients who are being cured of gayness by him. This is what happens when people have a simplistic understanding about the world. This is how our education has failed us.

The Ministry of Education is not the only institution that has failed us. All other Ministries, either in promoting discrimination and misunderstanding of LGBTs or keeping silent when we are discriminated, have also failed us.

But the country has not only failed the LGBTs. It has failed all minorities. This government has only been manipulating and pandering to the majority because it is interested in their votes. This is where they are wrong.

The upcoming General Elections will be a close fight. In many constituencies, the difference between the winning candidate and the losing candidate will be about 3 to 10 % of the votes, the same percentage of LGBTs in society.

LGBT voters therefore make up that difference between winning and losing. With the majority split half and half to either coalition, the fates of this election lies in the fabulous hands of the minorities.

Whether we are out and proud LGBTs or we are in the closet or we are friends and families of LGBTs, we must vote the candidate most likely to create a better future for everyone, minorities and all.

So all you MP wannabes who want our votes?

1 Be nice to us.

2 We don't need special treatment. We don't need to be cured. We are fine as we are. We just want equality. Treat us all with respect.

3 We are a peaceful people. We want to make peace with ourselves. We want to make peace with others. Yet many are fighting us. We are not surprised. It is because they are ignorant about us, they misunderstand us. Your task is not to take sides, not to censor, not to ban. Your task is to facilitate peace making. And understanding leads to peace.

4 Give us space to be who we are and to promote our rights. We want to fully participate in society. We are tired of simply existing in the shadows where it becomes easy for others to mistreat us. We want to help make Malaysia a better home for everyone.

5 Educate yourself about us. Talk to us. Hear our side.

6 Educate the public about us. Promote understanding. Give us space to talk about ourselves.

7 Stop saying stupid shit about us or other minorities.

8 Apologise for your party's stupid shit. Call on your own members to apologise when they say stupid shit.

9 You don't only represent the people who vote for you. You don't represent the majority only. For the majority certainly doesn't represent the minorities. You represent all.

10 Be nice to everyone, especially minorities. Malaysia is big enough for us all.

Seriously, we are watching you now. We have families and friends who care about us too. So don't mess with us. We are the king and queen makers.

The writer is the co-founder of annual sexuality rights festival Seksualiti Merdeka. Though banned by the police on Nov 2011, Seksualiti Merdeka vows to keep fighting for the rights of LGBTs in Malaysia.

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Lift menders bring relief to disabled couple

PETALING JAYA: Technicians are currently repairing the lifts at a Selayang public housing project (PPRT) that malfunctioned on Friday and caused a weekend of distress to a disabled couple.

A source from lift suppliers Dover Elevators Sdn Bhd said the repairs were delayed because workers could not gain access to equipment during the weekend.

He told FMT the company despatched technicians to the Taman Wahyu 2 flats this morning and they were attending to the problem.

"It is not that the repairing process was deliberately delayed," he said. "We could not access equipment from our office during the weekend.

"Also, the flat's management office was closed as well. So even if we had the equipment, we could not access the motor room of the affected block."

Yesterday FMT highlighted the plight of a wheelchair bound couple who said they had suffered loss of wages because two of the three lifts in their block of flats had broken down. The only working lift does not stop at the first floor, where they reside.

The husband, 40-year-old A Thangarajoo, said technicians did some repairs on Friday, but the lifts malfunctioned again on Saturday.

He said he had no choice but to crawl up and down the stairs to get groceries for the household and provisions for his hawker stall.

Contacted today, Thangarajoo confirmed that the lifts were being repaired and said he was relieved.

He said his wife's employer had cut his wife's salary by RM600 because she missed work on the weekend.

"I'm just glad that the problem it is being rectified now," he said.

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Talk cock award

Jangan risau K? You pi main bola. Najib take care your land for you ok? Ha! tu rakyat yg patuh. Bagus....bagus....pi sekarang.

One of the most ludicrous statements he's ever made must be Najib's announcement yesterday that 50 of the best footballers from FELDA schemes will receive training in the sport at the Cardiff Football Academy! Najib also said that the stint in Britain was part of efforts to develop the sport as an industry and a nation-building tool. Develope the sport as an industry and a nation-building tool???  I thought sports is developed for the love of sports. Obviously, in Malaysia everything is boiled down to Ringgit and Sen and politics. And I never even knew that FELDA schemes were a hotbed of football talent waiting to explode on the World Cup arena. But I suppose it is an attempt, no matter how silly, to divert attention from the fact that FELDA people are about to be fucked big time.


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Kenapa Tabung Haji pindah RM300,000 ke akaun CEOnya...

MP Pokok Sena, Datuk Mahfuz Omar hari ini mempertikaikan dakwaan pemindahan wang Tabung Haji sebanyak RM300,000 ke akaun peribadi ketua pegawai eksekutif badan tersebut, Ismee Ismail.

Mahfuz berkata, kerajaan dan tabung haji perlu menjelaskan dakwaan tersebut ekoran jawapan yang diberikan timbalan menteri kewangan Datuk Donald Lim di Dewan Rakyat hari ini.

Mahfuz berkata, Donald sekadar menjawab bahawa langkah itu dibuat mengikut prosedur tetapi tidak menjelaskan sebab pemindahan wang itu dilakukan.

"Duit itu untuk apa"," soalnya lagi dalam sidang media di bangunan parlimen hari ini.

Duit berkenaan mungkin untuk bayaran gaji Ismee "berjumlah RM85,000 sebulan", kata Mahfuz lagi yang turut mengedarkan dokumen berhubung dakwaan tersebut.

Dokumen yang diedarkannya itu antara lainnya menunjukkan arahan terperinci ketua pegawai kewangan Tabung Haji kepada pengurus banknya supaya memindahkan wang ke akaun peribadi Ismee.- malaysiakini

Tabung Haji moved RM300k to CEO's account...

A PAS parliamentarian has questioned the alleged transfer of over RM300,000 from Tabung Haji to the private account of its CEO, Ismee Ismail.


"The government and Tabung Haji must explain this," Pokok Sena MP Mahfuz Omar told reporters in the Parliament lobby today.

"Deputy Finance Minister Donald Lim had answered this in Parliament (and) said it is according to procedure, but he failed to say why. What was the money for?

Mahfuz said the money could not have been in payment of Ismee's salary, "which amounts to RM85,000 a month".

He distributed copies of a Tabung Haji document which detailed an order from the chief financial officer to the company's banker, instructing the telegraphic transfer of the money to Ismee' personal account.- malaysiakini


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Dayak union rejects Masing, Jabu

KUCHING: Fed up with Senior Minister James Masing's disinterest in their affairs, the 100,000- strong members of Sarawak Dayak National Union recently rejected his presidency and elected instead his arch political rival William Mawan.

According to the union's deputy president John Anthony Brian, Masing, who is also State Land Development Minister, had never responded to the union's invitation to be its patron of its functions nor has he contributed to SDNU's coffers.

"We often invited him, but he failed to respond to our invitation to be a patron of a Gawai Dayak function, not to mention donating funds to SDNU.

"He just refused to respond to the union's functions. So how could the union members want him to be their president?" asked Brian, adding that members themselves were clueless as to what Masing was thinking.

Brian was responding to Masing's statement that a full-time politician should not be elected as SDNU president.

This, however, did not stop members from voting in Mawan, who is Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) president.

Mawan was elected unopposed as president of the 66-year-old union, which is one of the most influential Dayak NGOs in the state. Kapit MP, Alexander Nanta Linggi, was elected deputy president.

Masing, who is Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president, is rumoured to be miffed by the turn of events. But the union feels that Mawan's election is justified.

'Interfering wife of a leader'

Mawan is not only committed to the cause of the Dayaks, but has never failed to attend its functions, Brian said, adding that he even donated some funds to the union.

"We had a discussion among our members and decided to approach Mawan to be our president, and he accepted our invitation.

"We have willingly accepted a new leader to take over the union, especially someone like Mawan. We believe Mawan can help solve some of the problems like restarting the stalled the Rumah Dayak project as well as some other projects which the union has proposed to build on its own land.

"Our projects had also been cancelled even after agreements were signed just because a wife of a senior Dayak minister had complained to the State Planning Authority not to entertain our proposals," Brian said.

Although he did not name the person, it was learnt that the "wife" is Empiang Jabu. Empiang is the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Anak Numpang. She is also the president of Sarawak Indu Dayak Sarawak (SIDS).

On why SDNU had not approached Jabu to helm the union, Brian said that Jabu had always been critical of the union since the time it was headed by Daniel Tajem, former president of the defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak in the early 1980s.

"Jabu is not the right person. He has been criticising nearly all Dayak non-governmental organisations.

"So instead of uniting the Dayaks, especially the Ibans, Jabu keeps them away from the union," said Brian.

'Dayak unity elusive'

Meanwhile, Masing said that it was not wise for active politicians to head the union because their inherent enemies would tend to follow them wherever they went.

"Because of this, unity is an elusive dream," he said.

He said that he had been approached to head the union, but had to reject it.

Howerver, Masing gave an assurance that he would assist the union behind the scene if needed.

In his acceptance speech, Mawan called on members to cast aside past problems and political affiliations so that the union could move forward.

"Unity must prevail and past issues should never be allowed to become distractions. Now is the time to uphold the spirit of working together and moving forward," he said.

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Liow: Medical council not biased

KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai denied that the Malaysia Medical Council (MMC) was practising double standard in sending local medical students to overseas.

"That's not true. MMC is a professional body and we cannot have this problem," said Liow when met at the Parliament today.

Last month, a former medical student from Ukraine alleged that students doing medical courses in Baltic countries were compelled to do a foundation course while those going to Egypt and Jordan were exempted.

"If a student plans to do a medical programme in Ukraine for example, he has to score at least five Bs in SPM each in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or Additional Mathematics and another optional subject."

"A student would be required to sit for a foundation course or other pre-university examinations like STPM, Matriculation and A Levels. This is set by MMC," said the student.

But those going to universities in Jordan and Egypt, the student alleged, were seemed to be given a "special privilege" as they are not required to undergo the foundation course.

Liow promised to probe the matter. "I'll double check on the matter and we will be transparent," said Liow.

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Internal probe on MACC trio still on

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Abu Kassim Mohamed today said that an internal probe against the three officers implicated in Teoh Beng Hock's death was still ongoing, despite almost a year after the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) named the trio.

"We've forwarded the case to a disciplinary panel, which is headed by former Court of Appeal judge Mohd Noor Abdullah and four other independent members," Abu Kassim told reporters at Parliament today.

He said that he was informed that the panel was still giving an opportunity to the three officers, namely the then Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim and his subordinates Mohd Anuar Ismail and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus, to explain their case.

"We're still waiting for their explanation…" he said.

Abu Kassim declined to say what sort of disciplinary action the panel will take after deliberating the case, but added, however, that it would be done according to whatever procedures the officers had gone against.

On the Teoh family's request to have a dialogue with him and MACC over their youngest son's death, Abu Kassim said he welcomed it.

"They can come to MACC anytime. I welcome that," he said.

On Satuday, Teoh's sister Lee Lan, marched to the Selangor MACC headquarters in protest against the government's decision not to prosecute anyone over Teoh's death.

She said that her family was seeking an "open and transparent dialogue" with Abu Kassim to once and for all put a closure to the case.

Open verdict

On Thursday, it was revealed in Parliament that the Attorney-General's Chambers has closed its case on Teoh's death and had cleared the three MACC officers named in the RCI report – which had found that Teoh was driven to suicide following aggressive interrogation – of all offences.

Teoh, 30, was the political aide of Selangor executive council member Ean Yong Hian Wah. He was found dead on July 16, 2009, on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers on the 14th floor.

An inquest was held but could only reach an "open verdict". A RCI was subsequently held and the five-man RCI panel, headed by then federal court judge James Foong, had singled out the three officers who were involved in Teoh's interrogations in their report in July 21, last year.

The Bar Council, which played an active role in the RCI into Teoh's death, had urged the A-G to clarify and explain his decision.

Contrary to the RCI report which named the three men, the Bar Council had recommended that five MACC officers be investigated for culpable homicide.

The five officers include Hishamuddin, Mohd Anuar and Mohd Ashraf as well as Selangor MACC investigations chief, Hairul Ilham Hamzah, and Klang MACC assistant enforcement officer Zulkefly Aziz.

The Bar had recommended that the five be investigated under Section 304A of the Penal Code for causing the death of Teoh via negligence.

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PKR cabang ladang Perbadanan Sungai Petani dibubarkan

SUNGAI PETANI: PKR cabang Ladang Perbadanan, Taman Ria di sini dibubarkan selepas 50 ahlinya mengisytiharkan keluar parti hari ini.

Ketua cabang berkenaan, M Muruli berkata mereka kecewa kerana  pemimpin-pemimpin atasan parti yang gagal menunaikan janji, tidak menjaga kebajikan ahli dan banyak bercakap kosong.

"Tindakan kami tidak didorong oleh mana-mana pihak tetapi kerana kecewa dengan pemimpin atasan yang menonjolkan sikap tidak bertanggungjawab dan mungkir janji," katanya selepas membuat pengisytiharan itu di Taman Ria Jaya di sini.

Penyelaras Parlimen yang juga ketua Umno bahagian Merbok, Datuk Tajul Urus Mat Zain dan Penyelaras DUN Bukit Selambau, M.L. Maren turut hadir pada majlis itu.

Muruli memberi pengakuan semua bekas ahli PKR itu akan menyokong dan membantu Barisan Nasional (BN) pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 akan datang, dan  selepas ini mereka bergerak atas nama Persatuan Kebajikan Masyarakat Tamil Sungai Petani.

Sementara itu, Tajul Urus berkata bekas anggota PKR itu sedar perjuangan PKR tidak membawa sebarang kebaikan.

"Tiada apa yang boleh dibanggakan dengan PKR berbanding BN yang telah banyak berjasa dari aspek kebajikan serta memenuhi kehendak rakyat dan bekerja demi faedah bersama," katanya.

Bernama

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Ucapan Setiausaha PKR Rembau mengimbai sejarah parti di hari keADILan

SAMBUTAN 13 TAHUN PARTI KEADILAN
4 April 2012, Rembau, Negeri Sembilan

Dibaca oleh Sdr Norazizi - Setiausaha Parti Keadilan Rakyat Cabang Rembau

1. Sidang hadirin yang dihormati sekalian, pada hari ini kita amat bersyukur kepada Allah s.w.t. kerana hari ini merupakan ulangtahun yang ke 13 kelahiran Parti Keadilan yang dilancarkan secara gilang gemilang di Hotel Renaissance, Kuala Lumpur pada 4 April 1999.

2. Setelah DSAI dipecat pada 2 September 1998 dan akhirnya ditangkap pada 20 September 1998, rakyat secara besar-besaran turun ke jalanraya mengadakan demonstrasi menentang kezaliman.

3. Pada peringkat awal tiada sebarang usaha ketika itu untuk menggerakkan sebuah landasan atau "platform" politik untuk menyatukan kesemua pejuang-pejuang reformasi yang menuntut keadilan.

4. Sejarah Parti Keadilan bermula apabila sekumpulan anak muda mengadakan perbincangan pada 2 Oktober 1998 di Hotel Allson Klana Resort, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan menyarankan untuk melahirkan satu wadah politik yang baru untuk menggabungkan kesemua pendokong reformasi dibawah satu parti yang sah. Satu wadah politik baru perlu untuk menampung kepelbagaian latarbelakang pendokong-pendokong reformasi dari pelbagai kaum dan pelbagai bangsa.

5. Pada 18 November 1998, di Pejabat Cenpeace, Petaling Jaya, satu mesyuarat khas telah diadakan yang dihadiri oleh Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Tuan Haji Mohd Anuar Tahir, Puan Hajah Marina Yusuf, Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab. Malek, Puan Nurul Izzah Anwar dan Sdr. Norazmi. Perbincangan lebih memfokuskan untuk bagaimana menyatukan perjuangan pendokong kebenaran dan keadilan.

6. Di dalam mesyuarat ini, Dr. Mohamad Rafie mencadangkan untuk melahirkan satu parti politik yang sah sebagai landasan untuk pendokong-pendokong reformasi. Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail menyatakan ia amat sukar dilakukan kerana sudah pasti pemerintah tidak akan meluluskan pendaftaran sebuah parti baru.

7. Sebagai satu perancangan yang strategik, Dr. Mohamad Rafie menyarankan supaya usaha dibuat untuk menubuhkan beberapa buah parti baru tetapi ia akan hanya sebagai satu "camouflage". Usaha sebenar adalah untuk mengambil alih sebuah parti politik yang "dormant". Mesyuarat bersetuju diatas saranan ini dan Tuan Haji Mohd Anuar Tahir telah diamanahkan untuk menyelaras untuk merealisasikan matlamat ini.

8. Pada malam ini, kita amat berbesar hati tiga orang yang terbabit untuk menubuhkan tiga parti baru yang sehingga kini masih tidak diluluskan oleh Pendaftar Pertubuhan hadir bersama-sama kita.

a. Dr. Mohamad Rafie Bin Ab Malek
Presiden Penaja, Parti Malaysia Baru (PMB)

b. Sdr. Norizam Yasin
Presiden Penaja, Parti Himpunan Angkatan Keadilan (HAK)

c. Sdr. Suhaimi Salleh
Setiausaha Agong Penaja, Parti Angkatan Reformasi Malaysia (ARM)

9. Usaha penubuhan tiga parti baru ini telah mendapat liputan meluas media perdana dimana matlamat yang sebenarnya telah berjaya iaitu sebagai usaha "camouflage" kerana di dalam masa yang sama usaha secara rasmi telah dibuat untuk mengambil alih Parti Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia (IKATAN) dengan mengadakan Persidangan Agung Tahunan untuk menukar Presiden asal Tuan Haji Abdul Wahab Yunus beberapa individu yang tidak dikenali terbabit di dalam politik dan hanya bertindak dengan menggunakan nama-nama mereka sahaja. Sdr. Nordin Ismail telah dipilih selaku penama Presiden manakala Sdr. Mohd Shah Amin selaku Setiausaha Agongnya sementara menunggu peralihan untuk ditukar kepada Presiden sebenar Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail dan Tuan Haji Mohd Anuar Tahir sebagai Setiausaha Agong yang pertama Parti Keadilan Nasional.

10. Malangnya, berlaku pergolakan dalaman di kalangan berlaku pendokong reformasi kerana banyak pihak tidak bersetuju untuk melahirkan parti baru di atas pelbagai sebab dan balasan. Mereka menyarankan untuk bergabung samada bergerak dengan Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) atau Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM).

11. Malahan Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim sendiri selewat tarikh 15 Mac 1999 iaitu hanya tinggal sekitar 2 minggu sebelum tarikh pelancaran yang dirancang iaitu awal April ! 1999; diatas pengaruh beberapa pehak, tidak cenderung untuk Parti Keadilan Nasional dilahirkan. Beliau lebih senang untuk bersama dengan PAS atau PRM. Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek beserta pimpinan penaja PMB telah mengutus surat kepada DSAI untuk menolak pandangan beliau yang tidak mahu Parti Keadilan Nasional dilancarkan.

12. Pada 19 Mac 1999, jam 11.00 pagi di Petaling Jaya satu mesyuarat yang dihadiri oleh Tuan Haji Mohd Anuar Tahir, Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab. Malek, Norazmi, Yusuf Abdul Rahman, Zulkifli Daud dan beberapa orang yang lain telah memutuskan untuk melancarkan Parti Keadilan Nasional pada awal April 1999 walaupun mendapat tentangan daripada pelbagai kelompok yang lain dikalangan pendokong reformasi. Beberapa usaha untuk menjelaskan kepada Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail telah dibuat untuk menjelaskan mengapa Parti Keadilan Nasional perlu dilancarkan. Akhirnya, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail akur bahawa Parti Keadilan Nasional perlu dilancarkan untuk menjadi agen perubah atau "catalyst" di dalam mencorakkan "landscape" baru politik di Malaysia.

13. Namun, usaha penolakan penubuhan dan pelancaran Parti Keadilan Nasional makin hebat diteruskan. Akibat pelbagai tekanan, Tuan Haji Mohd Anuar Tahir merasa terpinggir sebagai penyelaras pelancaran Parti Keadilan Nasional yang dirancang pada pagi 4 April 1999 di Hotel Renaissance, Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek segera mengambil alih tugasan dan mengerakkan puluhan anak-anak muda yang ketika itu majoriti merupakan pekerja-pekerja kilang di Nilai dan Bangi untuk memastikan Majlis Pelancaran Parti Keadilan Nasional berjalan dengan jayanya.

14. Pada ketika itu tiada langsung sebarang peruntukan kewangan dari mana-man! a pihak, maka anak-anak muda inilah yang telah mengeluarkan semua belanja untuk menampung semua kos termasuk sewaan di Hotel Renaissance dan bahan cetakan.

15. Alhamdulillah, segala pujian bagi Allah, pada pagi 4 April 1999, ribuan masyarakat dari pelbagai bangsa dan agama hadir sebagai sokongan. Kehadiran amat menggalakkan sehingga Dewan Besar tidak mampu menampung yang menyebabkan orangramai melimpah keluar dari kawasan Hotel Renaissance, Kuala Lumpur .

16. Alhamdulillah, pada hari ini, genap 13 tahun, Parti Keadilan dilancarkan dan ia lebih simbolik kerana perjuangan junjungan besar Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. di era Mekah juga selama 13 tahun.

17. InsyaAllah, era Madinah, era pentadbiran Madani yang bermula di Madinah akan menjadi simbolik era kejayaan perjuangan kita di Malaysia setelah 13 tahun berlalu bersama-sama satu pakatan yang lebih besar iaitu PAKATAN RAKYAT.

18. Di dalam simbolik sempena 13 tahun parti, majlis dengan ini mengalu-alukan pengasas-pengasas parti Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek, Sdr. Norizam Yassin dan Sdr. Suhaimi Salleh untuk memotong kek.

Reformasi, Reformasi, Reformasi.......TAKBIR!!

(Serentak dengan pengumuman ini lagu Teman Sejati - Kumpulan Brothers dikumandangkan sebagai simbolik dimana lagu ini telah dimainkan semasa Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail mula memasuki Dewan Besar di Hotel Renaissance, Kuala Lumpur pada 4 April 1999 dan tamat sebaik sahaja Presiden sampai di! pentas)

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JELAJAH JOM UBAH DEMI RAKYAT NEGERI SEMBILAN

Gelombang kesedaran rakyat untuk membuat perubahan landskap politik Negeri Sembilan semakin membara apabila Program Jelajah Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat NS memulakan siri jelajahnya bermula pada 1 April 2012 di Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan. Siri jelajah ini tidak hanya tertumpu dengan program ceramah umum kerana buat pertama kalinya ia disertai oleh Maskot Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat NS - Rusa yang memegang tiga bendera parti di dalam Pakatan Rakyat. Maskot Rusa diperkenalkan sebagai manifestasi kecerdikan di mana rakyat Negeri Sembilan adalah bijak di dalam membuat pemilihan di dalam Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 nanti di mana kebobrokan UMNO/BN sudah jelas terserlah.

Maskot Rusa ini telah mendapat sambutan masyarakat di setiap tempat ia pergi seperti di Pasar Tani, Pasar Malam, kawasan perumahan dan pelbagai tempat dengan mengedar risalah yang berkaitan mengenai isu semasa. Hebahan dengan menggunakan kenderaan bersama Maskot Rusa ini juga telah mendapat sambutan yang menggalakkan dari pelbagai lapisan masyarakat. Ramai di antara orang ramai termasuk anak-anak mahu bergambar dengan Maskot Rusa Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat NS. Kehadiran maskot dalam aktiviti politik merupakan satu kaedah pembaharuan yang amat menarik di dalam siri penjelajahan ini.

Kehadiran di lokasi siri pertama di dalam kawasan DUN Pilah amat memberangsangkan walaupun pada masa yang sama pelbagai program lain termasuk Solat Munajat di Batu Kikir anjuran PAS berlangsung. Jelajah siri kedua di DUN Chembong, Rembau pada 4 April 2012 amat membanggakan kerana menurut petugas-petugas tempatan, inilah buat pertama kalinya orang lebih ramai dari biasa berbanding dengan program-program sebelum itu. Lebih menarik walaupun ada penceramah-penceramah di peringkat nasional seperti Dato' Chua Jui Meng di Kuala Pilah dan Dr. Mujahid Yusof Rawa di Rembau, hampir kesemua penceramah yang lain adalah penceramah tempatan yang diketuai oleh Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek, CheguBard, YB Taufek Abdul Ghani (ADUN Paroi), YB Teo Kok Seong (ADUN Bahau), YB Aminuddin Haron (ADUN Sikamat), YB Ravi (ADUN PD), Dr. Rosli Yaakob, Dr. Alinor Abdul Kadir, Sdr. Rusli Abdullah, Ustaz Norazman Mohamad, Ustaz Khairil Anuar Wafa, Tunku Harmy Tunku Abdul Hanan dan ramai lagi. Sokongan dan komitmen Tunku Harmy yang merupakan kerabat DiRaja Negeri Sembilan di dalam Jelajah Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat NS ini telah mendapat sambutan memberangsangkan dari masyarakat tempatan.

Di dalam program siri jelajah kedua di Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, ia dimeriahkan lagi dengan sambutan secara simbolik dengan sambutan ke 13 ulangtahun Parti Keadilan yang telah dilancarkan pada 4 April 1999 di Hotel Renaissance, Kuala Lumpur. Sebelum acara pemotongan kek, sejarah penubuhan Parti Keadilan Nasional diungkap kembali. Ramai tidak mengetahui sejarah sebenar penubuhan Parti Keadilan apatah lagi hakikat pengasasan parti diperingkat nasional dilakukan oleh penggerak-penggerak dari Negeri Sembilan. Kehadiran Dr. Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek, Presiden Penaja Parti Malaysia Baru (PMB) yang juga pemimpin yang bertanggungjawab mengasaskan parti dan melancarkan parti di Hotel Renaissance, Sdr. Norizam Yassin, Presiden Penaja Parti Himpunan Angkatan Keadilan (HAK) dan Sdr. Suhaimi Salleh, Setiausaha Agong Penaja Parti Angkatan Reformasi Malaysia (ARM) telah memeriahkan program pada malam itu.

Adalah dijangka kesemua program siri Jelajah Jom Ubah NS akan mendapat sambutan memberangsangkan dari orang ramai. Kesemua program ceramah bermula jam 9.00 malam telah di atur adalah seperti berikut:

• 1 April 2012; Pelancaran Jelalah Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat; Pejabat PKR K. Pilah

• 4 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Chembong; Bilik Gerakan PR, Kg Mulia, Rembau

• 7 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Pertang; Dewan Kg Petasih, Jelebu

• 11 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Sikamat; Pasti Al-Falah, Taman Desa Rhu, Sikamat

• 14 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Johol; Kg. Kabong, Jalan Inas-Senaling, Johol

• 18 April 2012; Jelajah DUN PD Bandar; PD Walk (sebelah The Store, PD), PD

• 21 April 2012;! Jelajah DUN Gemencheh; Markas Pas Felda Bukit Jalor, Gemencheh

• 22 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Labu; Pekan Bt.8, Labu, Rasah

• 24 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Palong; Felda Palong 2

• 25 April 2012; Jelajah DUN Rantau; Pusat Khidmat PKR DUN Rantau

• 29 April 2012; Kemuncak Jelalah Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat NS; Seremban

Umumnya siri jelajah bermula pada jam 3.00 petang apabila Maskot Rusa beserta aktivis-aktivis Pakatan Rakyat turun menemui rakyat di kawasan ceramah tersebut di adakan.

Sambutan kemuncak Jelajah Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat Negeri Sembilan akan diadakan di Seremban pada 29 April 2012 (Ahad) dijangka akan dihadiri ribuan masyarakat dari pelbagai lapisan di Negeri Sembilan dirancang untuk di adakan di Padang Majlis Perbandaran Seremban. Pihak sekretariat Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat Negeri Sembilan telah mengemukakan permohonan dengan Majlis Perbandaran Seremban (MPS). Permohonan juga telah dibuat agar Kompleks Belia dan Sukan Paroi yang terletak di Ampangan dibenarkan untuk digunakan sebagai Tapak Karnival Jom Ubah Demi Rakyat Negeri Sembilan yang dirancang bermula dari jam 9.00 pagi hingga 6.00 petang pada 29 April 2012 tersebut. Walaubagaimanapun jika MPS menolak permohonan ini, pihak sekretariat akan mengusahakan mana-mana tempat lain yang bersesuaian di dalam DUN Ampangan, Seremban. Seluruh rakyat Negeri Sembilan dijemput hadir di dalam program kemuncak ini sebagai tanda makluman kepada pimpinan UMNO/BN bahawa rakyat Negeri Sembilan telah bersedia untuk membuat perubahan kepimpinan demi kepentingan rakyat di negeri ini. Progr! am yang di atur sehari selepas program Bersih 3.0 yang dijadualkan di Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur pada 28 April 2012 ini juga akan menjadi sambutan kemuncak untuk sokongan rakyat peringkat Negeri Sembilan di dalam usaha pembersihan sistem pilihanraya negara yang telah tercemar.

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