Thursday, December 24, 2009

How serious is the loss of TWO Jet Engine to the AG?

Malaysian Insider 24-Dec:
Is the AG serious? For his statement is incredible considering his chambers haven’t appeared to have taken action on the case two years after the treacherous theft in 2007.
THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail has described the embarrassing theft of two F-5E jet engines as a “serious matter”.
Which is why his chambers is going all-out to solve the case as “the public needs to know” — a full six months after the police investigation papers landed in his office.
more at..... Is the AG serious- — The Malaysian Insider 24-Dec-2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009

More December 2009 News

December 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Wake-Up call for Malaysia

Wake-up call - Sin Chew Daily
50 years ago, everyone said Malaysia was the best, even better than Hong Kong and Japan.
30 years ago, they said Malaysia was not that bad, at least we were as good as Korea and Taiwan (they no longer mentioned Hong Kong and Japan).
20 years ago, they said Malaysia was quite okay after all, at least we were better off compared to China and Thailand (Taiwan and Korea were no longer in the same league).
10 years ago, they said Malaysia could never be like Vietnam or Indonesia no matter how bad it could be (China was not in the same category any more)
Today, Vietnam and Indonesia have far outpaced Malaysia in economic development, and the gap is fast closing in.......................read more Wake-up call

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Friday, November 13, 2009

PI Bala surface!

Top news in blogs and online media this November
....PI Bala....

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Thai expert says Teoh’s death ‘80pc’ homicide

By Debra Chong, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand told the coroner’s court this morning that there was an 80 per cent probability that Teoh Beng Hock’s death was homicide and not suicide, and suggested that some of his injuries were sustained before his fatal fall......... more The Malaysian Insider

Sunday, October 18, 2009

101 East AlJareeza- KL land scam

101 East - KL land scam - 15 Oct 09 - Part 1









101 East - KL land scam - 15 Oct 09 - Part 2


Sunday, August 23, 2009

Malaysia, Stop Whipping and End Corporal Punishment for All Offences

Malaysia, Stop Whipping and End Corporal Punishment for All Offences
By WAO, PKKS, SIS, All Women's Action Society

On the 20 July 2009, the Syariah High Court in the Malaysian state of Pahang sentenced Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, to six strokes of the cane and fined her RM5,000 (approximately US$ 1,400) after she pleaded guilty to consuming beer two years ago at a hotel in Pahang. On 18 August 2009 the same Shariah Court ordered that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno be remanded at the Kajang women’s prison in the state of Selangor from Monday, 24 August 2009 and caned within seven days of this date.
To our knowledge, no person in Malaysia, male or female, has thus far been caned under the country’s Shariah laws, making her the first to be punished in this way. Furthermore Kartika will be the first woman to be caned in Malaysia as under the existing Malaysian Criminal Procedure Code, only males are subjected to caning for a range of crimes. Women’s Groups urges the government of Malaysia to review caning as a form of judicial punishment under the Common and Syariah legal systems. In the case of Kartika, it constitutes further discrimination against Muslim women in Malaysia and violates Constitutional guarantees of equality and non-discrimination as whipping of women under Shariah Criminal Offences legislation contradicts civil law where women are not punishable by caning under Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
There is no consensus among Muslim scholars on the range of crimes for which whipping is prescribed, nor on whether women should be whipped. Nor is whipping for consuming alcohol considered proportionate to the gravity of the offence. Sisters In Islam, a member of JAG in their press statement on 23 July 2009 have said:
“SIS believes that Islam as a religion of compassion calls people to the way of God with wisdom, as expressed in Surah An-Nahl,16:125 , “Invite all to the way of the Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and reason with them in the ways that are best and most gracious.”
.....read more HERE

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

August Blog News 2009

Around the blogs in August 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

Penan Starvation in Malaysia!!

It is very disturbing that the Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development acknowledge the plight of the Penan natives - and that some of the natives had to resorted to eating wild plants!
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Political secretary dead at MACC

Friday, 17 July 2009

Victim's injuries consistent with a fall, say police. Suhakam says duration of questioning 'inhumane and cruel'
EVENTS leading to the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock, 30, remain a mystery in the absence of a CCTV system at the high security area of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) Selangor headquarters in Shah Alam.
While police have said the injuries suffered by Teoh were consistent with that caused by a fall, questions have been raised on what had transpired between the time he was last seen sleeping on a sofa at the 14th floor of the MACC building at 6am, slightly more than two hours after he was released from questioning, and when his body was spotted lying in a pool of blood on the fifth floor, around 1.30pm.........more at DEATH OF TEOH BENG HOCK: A mystery waiting to be solved

Thursday, July 2, 2009

News on H1Ni and Others

Links to latest Video News - June-Jul 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Chin Peng, Communism and Malaya

Uphold the Spirit of Reconciliation in the Haadyai Peace Accords - Centre for Policy Initiative; 4 June 2009
Twenty years ago, the Haadyai Peace Accords were signed between our government and the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), which ended the protracted anti-British-turned-civil war, and marked the beginning of national reconciliation process beneficial to national unity and nation building as a whole.
Among other things, CPM’s contributions to the independence process was finally recognized by our government when Datuk Rahim Noor, the then IGP and head of government negotiating team, made an announcement that “Malaysia did not deny or dispute the CPM’s contribution to the struggle for independence.”............................according to Chin Peng’s lawyer Darshan Singh Khaira, Clause 3.1 of the Peace Accords also stipulates that the former CPM members who have laid down their arms and desire to return home to Malaysia should be allowed to do so freely. .......Read details at Centre for Policy Initiatives

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Sunday, May 31, 2009

More on PKFZ scandal

PKFZ’s RM12 Billion Scandal - Where’re the Sharks?
Sunday, 31 May 2009
PKFZ (Port Klang Free Zone) scandal is perhaps the biggest scandal the country ever had so far from the legacy of former premier Mahathir Mohamad since the BMF scandal, that’s if you ignore the Central Bank’s losses from the foreign exchange speculation.
BMF (Bumiputra Malaysia Finance Ltd) scandal involved losses of about RM2.5 billion (that’s huge amount of money back in early 80s mind you) thanks to dubious loans to Hong Kong Carrian Group which collapsed in 1983 after the property crash. Carrian Group chairman George Tan (a Malaysian/Singaporean businessman), BMF chairman Lorraine Esme Osman (a longtime Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah associate) and BBMB (Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad) executive director Mohd Mashim Shamsuddin were figures linked to the scandal.

Like it or not PKFZ is yet another shameful scandal although government-controlled news tried to play down the issue by using “weak project management” by PKA (Port Klang Authority) instead. Of course if the word “scandal” is used then many heads need to roll but a “weak project management” means people who were responsible for multi-billion of dollars of losses can be forgiven. Just like BMF scandal the Malaysian government was trying to cover-up the PKFZ scandal but the losses just got too huge to be swept under the carpet. And if not for the huge losses in peoples’ confidence in the current BN government as can be witnessed from the Mar 2008 general election, you must be mad to think that Najib’s administration would reveal the findings of PKFZ scandal by PricewaterhouseCoopers to the public.
..........continue at Stocktube.blogspot- PKFZ scandal

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