Selasa, 14 Jun 2011

Lim Kit Siang

Lim Kit Siang

RM1.8mil … for a Facebook page?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:22 AM PDT

By Joseph Sipalan June 14, 2011 MalaysiaKini The Tourism Ministry came under fire again today, as MPs questioned why it had spent RM1.8 million to start and maintain its Facebook page – yet another on the list of controversial projects. Anthony Loke (DAP-Rasah) slammed the decision to use so much money when the social networking [...]

Bashir not welcome

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:17 AM PDT

By Tarani Palani June 14, 2011 Free Malaysia Today Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Abdul Aziz said the decision to invite the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir was not discussed in the Cabinet. KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia may withdraw the invitation issued to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to attend an international conference in Langkawi. Minister [...]

Roubini Says ‘Perfect Storm’ May Threaten Global Economy

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:46 AM PDT

By Shamim Adam | June 13, 2011, 12:12 AM EDT Bloomberg June 13 (Bloomberg) — A "perfect storm" of fiscal woe in the U.S., a slowdown in China, European debt restructuring and stagnation in Japan may converge on the global economy, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said. There's a one-in-three chance the factors will [...]

Why Does Australia Want to Send Refugees to Malaysia?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:44 AM PDT

By Marina Kamenev/SYDNEY Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Time Between 2003 and 2004, Marion Le, a Canberra-based lawyer, made regular trips to the remote island of Nauru in the South Pacific. But she wasn’t going for a beach holiday. At the time, Nauru was part of the so-called Pacific Solution, Australia’s policy of processing and detaining [...]

‘Tambatuon dam is unnecessary’

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:31 AM PDT

By Stephanie Sta Maria | June 14, 2011 Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: An academic from the Faculty of Agriculture in Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM) cast doubt on the necessity for the proposed Tambatuon dam in Kota Belud. According to Christopher Teh, the dam is not the sole means to increasing Malaysia's rice productivity as [...]

“Yield Considerations” – Iskandar replies to Kota Belud MP Rahman on Tambatuon Dam controversy

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:28 AM PDT

By Iskandar Basha Abdul Kadir Yb Rahman, I had opined that our existing acerage in Malaysia can be used to fully meet our rice security consideration (i.e to overcome the 35% shortage) provided our Yield (Mt/hectare) can be increased to 5.0. The 5.0 yield factor is backed by research materials that you had referenced in [...]

Tourism Ministry: RM1.8 million spent on Facebook pages

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:01 AM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal June 14, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — A whopping RM1,758,432 was spent on developing six Facebook pages to promote Malaysian tourism, the Tourism Ministry said today. Deputy Tourism Minister James Dawos Mamit said this today in reply to a question from Anthony Loke (Rasah-DAP). Each Facebook page [...]

Court says Hee attacked Yew with pepper spray

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:32 AM PDT

The Malaysian Insider June 14, 2011 IPOH, June 14 – Aulong assemblyman Yew Tian Hoe won today a court ruling against his state lawmaker colleague Datuk Hee Yit Foong for attacking him with a pepper spray in the infamous May 7, 2009 Perak legislative assembly. He also won a restraining order preventing her from future [...]

House rejects motion on Ahmad Sarbani

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:27 AM PDT

By Joseph Sipalan June 14, 2011 MalaysiaKini The Dewan Rakyat has thrown out an emergency motion to debate the death of Customs senior assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). Deputy speaker Ronald Kiandee agreed that the motion is specific and of public interest, but decided that [...]

DAP’s ‘Dayak Brain Trust’ gets support

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:21 AM PDT

By Joseph Tawie June 14, 2011 Free Malaysia Today Sarawak DAP chief Wong Ho Leng believes it is time Dayak themselves ‘take the lead to shape their political future’. KUCHING: The Sarawak Dayak community has thrown its support behind Lim Kit Siang's proposal to form a "Dayak Brain Trust". Lim, who is DAP adviser and [...]

DAP says nude squat case ‘humiliating’, demands Home Ministry response

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:10 AM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal June 14, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The DAP has demanded that the Home Ministry respond to reports that two Singaporean women were handcuffed and made to do squats naked by Malaysian immigration officials. Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran said that the act was "humiliating" and "ridiculous," [...]

Parliament rejects motion on Sarbaini

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:52 PM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal June 14, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Parliament has rejected an emergency motion to discuss the death of Ahmad Sarbaini, with Deputy Speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee saying that the matter was "not urgent" as an inquest will be taking place. "Parliament has decided that there is no [...]

Cancel invites to Mugabe, Bashir, DAP tells Putrajaya

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:35 PM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal June 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The federal government should cancel invitations to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for an international economic forum here, the DAP has said. The two presidents are scheduled to attend a forum to be held in [...]

Umno turning into the old PAS

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:52 PM PDT

By Hafiz Noor Shams June 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 14 — If one had opined that PAS was more of a centrist than Umno 10 years ago, nobody would have believed it. It would have been an outrageous opinion. Yet today, it is no longer so foreign a prospect. The recently concluded [...]

Denied entry, Bersih chief sues Sarawak government

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:41 PM PDT

By Debra Chong The Malaysian Insider Jun 14, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Election watchdog chief Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has filed a suit against the Sarawak government for barring her entry into the East Malaysian state two months ago, saying the move is against the Federal Constitution. "Yes filed and leave application will be [...]

Subsidies masking IPP ‘inefficiencies’, says think tank

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 03:48 PM PDT

By Lee Wei Lian The Malaysian Insider Jun 13, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 — Independent Power Producers (IPPs) would have to charge much more than their Singapore counterparts if natural gas were sold to them at market rates, due to their bloated and inefficient cost structures, claimed Research for Social Advancement (Refsa) today. The [...]

Poem for World Environment Day 2011

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 02:47 PM PDT

by Dr Zorina Khalid 12 June 2011 CONSIDERATION FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT, WHY BOTHER, NOT MY CONCERN…. The ills of society I've noticed it's aplenty People are selfish and not considerate They just live life on a rampage With not a bother or a thought Did you not notice that? Look at what's happening to our [...]

Minister: Soi Lek approved diesel subsidy cuts

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:13 AM PDT

S Pathmawathy | Jun 13, 11 Malaysiakini MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek did not object to diesel subsidy cuts during the National Economic Council meeting when the matter was decided, revealed Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs Minister Ismail Sabri. Speaking to reporters at the Parliament lobby today, Ismail said that Chua should have [...]

Putrajaya’s double standards

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 08:26 AM PDT

The Malaysian Insider Jun 13, 2011 JUNE 13 — Here's a riddle. Why is the Home Ministry warning Bersih 2.0 from organising its July 9 rally but not taking action against Datuk Ibrahim Ali for threatening a "jihad" against Christians if they usurp Islam with a Christian state? Right, because nothing violent happened after the [...]

Why from a community of MCA “enablers” to MCA “bashers”?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 08:18 AM PDT

by donng55 Comment from “Soi Lek's impossible dream”Sunday, 12 June 2011 We are not barren of appreciation of what MCA did for the Chinese community and the country as a whole before, during, and immediately after Merdeka. But that was the nascent MCA more than two score years ago. The MCA of today, since Ling [...]
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