Malaysia Ministry seeks recordings of strange noises in sky

The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry wants to collect audio recordings of the purported strange noises in the sky heard by residents of Kota Samarahan, Sarawak.
In a Sinar Harian report, Deputy Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusuf said the ministry was collecting as much "evidence" as possible on the bizarre happening so it could submit its report to the National Space Agency (Angkasa) for further investigation.
"This incident is no laughing matter. We hope those who have audio or video recordings of the noises can come forward so we can investigate," said Fadillah, adding that any evidence can be sent to the Petrajaya parliamentary service centre in Jalan Astana, Kuching.

Appeal against Anwar’s acquittal: A fatal error

Prime Minister Najib Razak seems to have made a U-turn in his position on the much lauded acquittal of Anwar Ibrahim from the sodomy charge.
When the totally unexpected acquittal was stunningly announced on Jan 9, Najib together with senior Umno leaders were quick to bask in the compliments that poured in from around the world for finally having done justice to Anwar despite the preceding perverted process that was seen as plain political persecution.
Najib in particular seemed proud of this high court verdict, citing it as proof of the transformation that he had brought to the country. In an interview published by the influential Wall Street Journal on Jan 13, he told interviewer James Hookway that this verdict “underscores the depth of the reform process”. Najib said he was serious about the political reforms – to the extent of risking his chance of winning in the election.

They are going to convict Anwar — that is certain!

What wasn’t expected surprisingly happened. The High Court acquitted and discharged Anwar. That decision took everyone by surprise and they hoped that it would be the end of this sordid affair.
What the vast majority of Malaysians had hoped for following Anwar’s discharge did not happen. The Prosecution shocked everyone and appealed the High Court decision.
What will happen following this appeal is predictable. We have said as much in our previous statement on 23 December 2009. This is what we said:

BN must return the booty, bread and butter to Malaysians

After five decades of BN governance, what have Malaysians gained and at what price and what have we lost in exchange?
To begin with, where is all of this nation’s booty? There was a time when the colonial masters (rather raiders) came and took all our rubber and tin. But at least they gave us education, healthcare, roads and rails without asking us to pay toll and taxes. Right?
But what can we say of our post-independence masters? They lorded over us and sold us the ‘nationalism’ mantra. They sang ‘Look East’ and ‘Buy British Last’. Later they seemingly sold us that piped-dream of a modern Malaysia with jobs for all and wealth to be shared by Malaysians.

They are still not happy with Umno

A field trip to Tanjung Lumpur in Kuantan on January 21 to gauge the people’s perception on the aid given to the poor by the government and their appraisal of UMNO politics was quite inspiring.
It was found that the aid recipients are aware that the RM100, RM200, RM500, RM5000 now given to the people and the salary increase for government servants before the next general election are all from taxpayers’ money. The people are cognisant of the fact that the money distributed here does not come from UMNO or Barisan Nasional (BN). It comes from the hard-earned taxpayers’ money.
Also, it was found that the recipients could not be easily convinced by all those ‘generous tricks’ and make them vote for UMNO or BN in the next general election.

NFC didesak dedah belanja kad kredit RM593,500

KUALA LUMPUR- Jingga 13 sekali lagi mencabar Perbadanan Fidlot Kebangsaan (NFC) dan pengarah eksekutifnya, Wan Shahinur Izmir Mohamad Salleh untuk tampil mendedahkan kesemua perbelanjaan kad kredit sejumlah RM593,500 oleh ahli keluarganya termasuk dakwaan beliau sendiri yang menggunakan RM122,402 pada tahun 2009.
“Pendedahan ini memberikan peluang kepada rakyat meneliti setiap sen berbelanjaan penggunaan kad kredit NFC,” kata ketua koordinatornya, Fariz Musa kepada Harakahdaily.
Katanya, seperti mana laporan polis yg dibuat oleh Jingga 13 agar siasatan secara terperinci terhadap penggunaan kad kredit oleh ahli keluarga Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil yang dibayar menggunakan wang rakyat melalui NFC yang sewajibnya melaksanakan projek Perbadanan Fidlot Kebangsaan agar benar-benar tidak diseleweng atau berlaku pecah amanah jenayah.

Tiada peluang untuk BN kata wakil Pakatan

Pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat sebulat suara yakin bahawa gabungan pembangkang akan kekal berkuasa di Selangor, Kedah dan mengambil Negeri Sembilan dan Perak.
Membalas kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh seorang pensyarah Monash University James Chin, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad memberitahun Malaysia Chronicle walaupun BN sedang bekerja keras di Selangor, gabungan pembangkang sangat yakin ia akan kekal di Selangor.
Wakil rakyat Seri Setia itu berkata bahawa sangat jelas bahawa rakyat Selangor sangat sedar dengan perbezaan cara pemerintahan Pakatan sejak ia mengambil alih dari BN.

Nik Aziz sedia isytihar harta, Najib bagaimana

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 Jan: Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia (DPPM) mengucapkan tahniah dan penghargaan kepada Menteri Besar Kelantan, Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat kerana kesediaan beliau untuk mengisytiharkan harta sekiranya undang-undang menetapkan demikian.
Ketua Penerangan DPPM, Riduan Mohd Nor (gambar) menganggap kenyataan Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz menunjukkan sikap keterbukaan dan ketelusan pemimpin PAS sebagaimana juga yang ditunjukkan oleh Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng dan anggota Exconya yang telah mengisytiharkan harta mereka.

Umno 'perasan' BR1M dari kocek mereka

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 Jan: PAS mengingatkan Umno BN agar tidak mendabik dada mendakwa wang RM500 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) yang sedang disalurkan ketika ini adalah wang dari kocek parti itu.
Sebaliknya kata AJK PAS Pusat, Idris Ahmad, wang tersebut adalah wang rakyat hasil dari pelbagai sumber yang dibayar kepada kerajaan.

"Umno jangan "perasan" Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) RM500 wang kocek Umno. Kain-kain rentang digantung merata kampung seolah-olah ini adalah pemberian Umno BN.

"Pada hal ini ialah wang rakyat diambil daripada berbagai sumber negara," katanya dalam satu kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Isytihar Harta: Kenapa menteri perlu takut?

KUALA LUMPUR 20 Jan : Angkatan Muda KEADILAN mempersoalkan kenyataan Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz yang mendakwa pengisytiharan harta menteri dan ahli keluarga mereka akan ‘mengundang bahaya’.
Ia berikutan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia mewajibkan ahli keluarga dan pasangan menteri kabinet mengisytiharkan harta dan aset mereka kepada pihak berkuasa itu.
Ketua AMK, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin menyifatkan kenyataan Nazri itu menggambarkan ketakutan beliau dan mahu melindungi Menteri Kabinet yang menikmati kemewahan di luar kemampuan.
“Kenapa bimbang untuk isytihar harta, hanya menteri yang memiliki kekayaan luar biasa saja yang bimbang untuk mendedahkan aset mereka,”

Segelas milo suam bersama Hata Wahari

Setiap permulaan adalah lambang kepada langkah seterusnya dan untuk itu tidak hairanlah apabila sepanjang Januari 2012 sahaja, DAP menerima kemasukan ‘mengejut’ beberapa pemimpin Melayu. Pada 19 Januari lalu, Hata Wahari, 42, bekas wartawan kanan Utusan Malaysia dan bekas Presiden Kesatuan Wartawan Kebangsaan (NUJ) membuat kejutan dengan membuat pengumuman yang sama dengan tujuan untuk membantu memperkukuhkan DAP. Wartawan Roketkini Amaluddin Zhafir dan Izmil Amri serta jurugambar Wira Andika sempat menemubual Hata yang bercerita mengenai pengalaman dan pandangan beliau.

Faekah: Ibrahim Ali wajar dihalang jejak kaki di Selangor

Tindakan Ibrahim Ali yang cuba menunjuk pandai dengan mencampuri urusan pentadbiran Kerajaan Selangor dalam isu pelantikan EXCO Kerajaan negeri yang baharu dan rombakan portfolio Hal Ehwal Islam jelas menunjukkan beliau seorang ahli politik yang kehabisan modal dan sedang mencuba sedaya upaya untuk menjadikan dirinya masih relevan di arena politik tanahair.  Percubaan beliau melaga-lagakan PAS dan Kerajaan Selangorjuga agak pelik apabila melihat sejarah beliau sendiri dengan PAS.

Siapa yang dapat melupakan bagaimana beliau mengkhianati PAS umpama parasit setelah parti itu memberi beliau tiket bertanding pada tahun 2008.  Hari ini beliau terhegeh-hegeh pula dengan UMNO sedangkan parti yang bakal tumbang ini pun melihatnya sebagai liabiliti dan tidak mempunyai sebarang kredibiliti.

DAP jadi Melayu?

Saya amat meyakini bahawa perubahan lanskap politik tanahair tidak akan berjaya jika parti-parti politik yang memacu arah perubahan ini tidak melakukan perubahan pada dirinya terlebih dahulu.  Sebab itulah saya sering menegaskan, parti-parti yang sedang melakar lanskap politik masa depan bukan hanya tukar baju sedangkan dalamnya penuh dengan pekung, tetapi parti-parti ini mesti merubah segala sesuatu yang berakar umbi dalam politik Malaysia, umpamanya, politik perlindungan, isu perkauman dan agama serta politik populis yang tidak berpijak di bumi nyata.  Untuk melakukan demikian parti politik tersebut mesti terlebih dahulu mengimani jalan ke hadapan yang diperlukan oleh rakyat Malaysia hari ini.

Nik Aziz sedia isytihar harta jika diwajibkan

PENGKALAN CHEPA- Menteri Besar Kelantan, Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat berkata, beliau tidak mempunyai sebarang masalah untuk mengisytiharkan harta jika undang-undang menetapkan demikan.
Beliau yang juga Mursyidul Am PAS berkata, isu pengisytiharan harta baginya adalah benda kecil berbanding apa yang disebutnya 'pengisytiharan taqwa' kepada Allah SWT.
“Nak isytihar harta itu perkara yang kedua, yang penting sekali isytihar ketaqwaan diri, sejauhmana diri kita taqwa kepada Allah, di sini silapnya golongan sekular.
“Tapi saya tak ada harta, istihar apa yang ada sajalah ada tanah sekeping dua peninggalan orang tua dulu,”ujarnya sambil ketawa kecil.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditanya wartawan tentang kesediaannya berbuat demikian jika ianya disyaratkan.

Melayu hak UMNO, Islam hak PAS?

Akibat trauma dengan keputusan mahkamah membebaskan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dari dakwaan liwat, media-media milik UMNO dengan pantas dan terus-menerus menyerang Pakatan Rakyat.
Daripada isu pemecatan Datuk Dr Hasan Ali yang mana lidah rasmi UMNO, Utusan Malaysia, cuba menobatkannya sebagai pejuang Islam tulen dan menggambarkan kononnya PAS sudah lari perjuangan asalnya, hinggalah kepada isu perubahan portfolio agama Islam yang ditinggalkan oleh Hasan di Selangor.
Kini portfolio itu telah diambil alih oleh Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim. Portfolio baru Belia dan Sukan diberikan kepada Exco yang baru, iaitu Dr. Ahmad Yunus Hairi dari PAS yang menggantikan Hasan.

Ekonomi bersih dan adil akan makmurkan negara, kata DAP

KUALA LUMPUR, 22 JAN: Hanya dasar ekonomi yang bersih, adil, berdaya saing, meningkatkan taraf hidup rakyat serta membawa pulang pakar-pakar kembali ke tanah air dapat menjayakan transformasi menjadikan Malaysia negara berpendapatan tinggi.
Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng berkata Tahun Baru Cina kali ini dengan perwatakan naga air adalah masa permulaan yang paling sesuai untuk rakyat Malaysia melakukan perubahan dan trasnformasi besar itu.

Ah Wah Gor memintas Ah Jib Gor dalam 24 jam!

Sekali lagi Najib Razak tersungkur di gelanggang internet, apabila terbuka untuk persaingan bebas tanpa sekatan.  Apa tidaknya, usaha Najib untuk mendampingi warga internet Cina terus digagalkan, apabila mengundang pelbagai reaksi negatif - yang dijelmakan dengan pendekatan yang cukup "kreatif".

Bermula dengan laman sosial Facebook versi bahasa Cinanya yang dibanjiri sindiran dan kritikan tajam, seterusnya diperlekehkan pula apabila warga internet menubuhkan laman Ah Jib Soh (makcik Ah Jib, merujuk kepada isteri PM), dan terkini, laman sosial Facebook Ah Wah Gor (merujuk Anwar Ibrahim) - menarik bilangan peminat yang lebih daripada Ah Jib Gor dalam tempoh 24 jam selepas ditubuhkan.

Anwar Ibrahim: Return of a reformer

When the Kuala Lumpur High Court judge delivered a not guilty verdict in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial, the former deputy prime minister was taken aback. Ibrahim, 64, told reporters after his release on January 9, "To be honest, I am a little surprised." The final scene of the 13-year politico-legal drama was over faster than anyone expected. Judge Zabidin Mohamad Diah took only two minutes to give his ruling, saying DNA samples used as evidence might have been contaminated and that he could not convict in the absence of other corroborating evidence.

Walk your talk and not talk your walk: Lessons still unlearnt by 'Big Mama' and 'Ah Jib Gor'

Again, our prime minister’s wife is in the spotlight. This time around, and like always before, Rosmah is making heads turn for all the bad reasons.
The widely reported holiday-cum-shopping spree she indulged in is making its round both in the local and foreign circuit. This consistent portrayal of a free-spending-mama story is not and will not do any good for our ‘First Lady’; definitely not for her man-at-the-helm of national governance; and without doubt it will only keep eroding Malaysia’s public rating.

Come on brothers and sisters, we need to band together to get rid of the BN!

LET'S HAVE A PLAN! In recent months, many groups have risen to stake their claim on the reform movement now sweeping through Malaysia. No doubt, having more voices speaking out against injustice, corruption and promoting civil liberties is a good thing, yet too many heads singing their own tunes may in fact cripple rather than help the reform movement here, or anywhere else in the world. As they say, too many cooks spoil the broth.
The issue is one of coordination and cohesiveness of information. All members of the reform movement have to speak and think the same agenda. There is no point speaking of reforms when each component is on a different page and speaking in their own language.

Stop bullying the Chinese and stop frightening the Malays

The time has come to implement economic policies that are clean, fair, competitive and improves the well-being of the people as well as attract back talented Malaysians that can help transform Malaysia into a high-income nation enjoyed by all. What better time than the year of the water dragon to initiate such changes so that the coming general elections marks the new beginning that would be enjoyed by all Malaysians rich and poor by 2020.

Present policies which are corrupt, opaque with no open tenders and benefits only certain cronies would only bring Malaysia backwards. A good comparison is South Korea. In 1970, Malaysia’s Gross National Income(GNI) per capita was USD 380 as compared to South Korea USD 260. But 40 years later in 2010, Malaysia’s GNI per capita was at USD 7,760 while South Korea had exceeded us by almost 3 times at USD19,890 (World Bank)

BN is not forever, nor is Mahathirism: Malaysia already a worldwide joke

This past decade has seen Malaysian politics boil and simmer, simmer and boil again. All these are puncturing too many holes in the armour of our economy while steadily shredding at the seams of our social cohesion.
For how long will we continue to be battered by the politicians who are hell bent in their determination to hold on to power is even beyond the soothsayers prediction.
But as long as BN politicians are determined and resolute to remain in power at all costs – even at the expense of democratic principles, then this nation will only sink deeper into the gutters of a failed nation status.

'Ah Jib Gor' Najib is begging but no one is listening

Everywhere Najib goes, he keeps stressing the same message that it is "very important" for Umno and the BN to be re-elected in the next general election so that the party can deliver its promised transformation.
"I keep saying it is not unimportant to be re-elected. It is very important to be re-elected. For us to deliver the real transformation, we need to be re-elected," he said at the opening of a recent on "Politics of Economic and Social Transformation in the Era of Global Crisis.

Syria gesa wanita goda pemantau Liga Arab

Perisik Damsyik ikut pemerhati hingga ke bilik air
DAMSYIK- Syria mengancam pemerhati Liga Arab dengan ugutan bunuh dan menggunakan wanita untuk menggoda mereka, dakwa seorang delegasi Algeria kepada akhbar Britain, The Telegraph.
Bekas pegawai tentera Algeria, Anwar Malek, memberitahu akhbar itu bahawa dia meninggalkan negara itu selepas kerap diganggu selepas menyaksikan pembunuhan wanita dan kanak-kanak oleh pasukan keselamatan yang setia kepada Presiden Syria, Bashar Assad.
Beliau menyifatkan wilayah Homs, pusat penunjuk perasaan anti Bashar sebagai ‘zon bencana antarabangsa’.

Temuramah dengan Malott bekas diplomat AS: BN tidak relevan lagi

Chronicle: 1. Pertama sekali, soalan paling panas adalah mengapa Najib menarik rancangan memutuskan keputusan bersalah? Ramai dikalangan rakyat yang percaya bahawa dalam ia adalah satu konspirasi dan bukanlah system kehakiman yang bebas seperti yang didakwa BN. Cerita yang timbul adalah hakim telah pun menulis keputusan bersalah tetapi terpaksa menggunakan pembebasan secara verbal selama 60 saat. Adakah anda lihat adalah campurtangan Umno dalam hal ini? Adakah Najib takut pada legasi beliau nanti sekiranya beliau dilihat sebagai mengambil langkah yang keras untuk menangani isu ini?

Perang saudara dalam Umno mungkin melebihi perjuangan untuk M'sia, kata Malott diplomat US

Temuramah Bahagian ke-tiga: Perdana Menteri Najib Razak dan rakan beliau mungkin mempertahankan status quo politik di negara tetapi realitinya adalah sangat jelas walaupun untuk penganalisis politik daripada negara lain.
Barisan Nasional, gabungan 14 parti yang memerintah sudah tidak relevan lagi kepada rakyat Malaysia biasa yang melihat ia mentadbir sebuah kerajaan yang tidak berkaliber, tidak layak dan tidak jujur. Bagi memburukkan lagi keadaan, perang saudara telah meletus dalam UMNO- parti nasionalis Melayu NAjib yang telah menerajui BN selama 54 tahun.

Fitnah II: AG guna hukum rimba untuk penjarakan semula Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR 21 Jan: Peguam negara mengguna hukum rimba apabila memfailkan rayuan terhadap pembebasan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,  kata Naib Presiden KEADILAN, N Surendran.
Beliau merujuk kenyataan Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail yang menyatakan kononnya rayuan tersebut difailkan berdasarkan kepada bukti keterangan dan undang-undang.
“Yang nyata rayuan ini bermotifkan politik, secara tidak sah dan dipengaruhi oleh keputusan pemerintah BN. Sekiranya pejabat peguam negara meneruskan rayuan berdasarkan keterangan dan undang-undang, tidak akan ada rayuan difailkan terhadap pembebasan ini.

Akhbar Australia: Rosmah belanja RM325 ribu di Sydney

SYDNEY: Isteri Perdana Menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor terus mendapat perhatian dan liputan dari akhbar antarabangsa akibat sikap dan tabiatnya yang gemar berbelanja besar.
Dalam seksyen ‘Private Sydney’ yang disiarkan akhbar Australia Sydney Morning Herald, kolumnis Andrew Horney memetik kenyataan pereka fesyen, Carl Kapp mengenai Rosmah yang dikatakan membelanjakan A$100,000 (RM325,000) di butik miliknya di Sydney.
“Rosmah Mansor suka diperkenalkan sebagai Wanita Pertama Malaysia, tetapi untuk pereka fesyen Carl Kapp, beliau adalah First Lady Of Shopping,” lapor kolumnis akhbar itu.
“Dia benar-benar pemurah dan sangat mudah untuk berurusan dengannya,” Kapp dipetik berkata kepada Private Sydney.

Pengendali tol lebuh raya untung maha firaun

Keuntungan yang dikaut oleh syarikat pembina lebuh raya melalui kutipan tol adalah berlebihan, tidak masuk akal dan menindas rakyat.
“Ini untung maha besar, untung Maha Firaun,” kata Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng.
Dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat DAP di sini hari ini, beliau tampil berkongsi data peratusan hasil daripada kos pembinaan lebuh raya Malaysia yang diperoleh melalui jawapan Parlimen.

Isytihar harta: Pemimpin harus berani berdepan dengan bahaya demi selamatkan Malaysia

Walau pun pengisytiharan harta secara terbuka oleh menteri-menteri serta keluarga terdekat mungkin “membahayakan” bagi individu-individu tersebut, ia perlu dilakukan bagi menggalakkan ketelusan dan kebertanggungjawaban para pemimpin.
Justeru, DAP boleh menerima sebagai permulaan jika hanya menteri-menteri, timbalan-timbalan menteri dan ahli-ahli majlis mesyuarat kerajaan negeri sahaja yang mengisytiharkan harta.
DAP juga berpendapat buat masa ini ahli keluarga para pemimpin tersebut boleh dikecualikan.

Orang Cina perlu bersatu dengan semua kaum untuk ubah kerajaan

KUALA LUMPUR, 21 JAN: Pemimpin veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang mahu semua kaum Cina bersama dengan kaum-kaum di Malaysia untuk membuat perubahan besar dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Dalam perutusan Tahun Baru Cina, beliau berkata perpaduan di antara kaum Cina dengan rakyat Malaysia pelbagai kaum akan dapat memenuhi potensi mewujudkan masyarakat yang bersatu, berharmoni, demokratik, adil, makmur dan mampu bersaing.
Katanya masyarakat Cina perlu sedar bahawa mereka tetap menikmati kemakmuran melalui pertumbuhan ekonomi negara walau pun hidup di bawah sistem yang disalah tadbir, korup dan penuh dengan salah guna kuasa oleh UMNO-Barisan Nasional.

Komitmen rakyat, kerajaan untuk negeri mampu tingkatkan taraf hidup

GEORGE TOWN, 21 JAN: Kemakmuran, kesejahteraan dan kebaikan yang dinikmati oleh anak negeri Pulau Pinang sekarang terus dijamin jika rakyat bersama kerajaan komited untuk mengutamakan negeri, dan bukannya kepentingan peribadi.
Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng berkata untuk memastikan perkhidmatan awam yang bermutu, kerajaan negeri Pakatan akan meningkatkan urus tadbir cekap, akauntabel dan telus (CAT).
“Tidak ada ruang untuk gagal berprestasi, melewatkan kerja, menendang masalah dari satu jabatan ke jabatan yang lain seperti bola dan melakukan korupsi,” katanya dalam mesej Tahun Baru Cina di sini hari ini.

Dua graduan UiTM sertai DAP

IPOH, 21 JAN: Dua graduan muda jurusan undang-undang daripada UiTM yang berminat dengan politik telah memilih untuk menyertai DAP. Mereka adalah Fairuz Azhan Amirruddin dan Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud.
Fairuz Azhan, 25, merupakan seorang penulis manakala Dyana Sofya, 24, seorang peguam.
Penyertaan mereka dilihat sebagai keseinambungan populariti parti tersebut di kalangan profesional Melayu yang semakin meningkat.
Kedua-dua mereka telah diperkenalkan dalam satu sidang media di ibu pejabat DAP Perak di sini hari ini.

Forum di tepi tembok

Potret anak muda Melayu yang selalu dilukis dalam mana-mana bentuk naratif konvensional samada drama, filem, novel, mahupun komik pasti akan menggambarkan satu situasi tipikal; sekumpulan remaja rosak akhlak melepak atau menebeng di tepi tembok.  Tidak kiralah tembok surau, parit, mahupun tembok balai raya.  Dan tembok tempat menebengnya anak Melayu ini pasti membawa sentimen negatif serta mempromosikan budaya membuang masa generasi muda ini.  Itulah signifikan tembok dan anak muda.

Keengganan penjawat awam isytihar harta bahayakan negara

DAP menggesa Barisan Nasional untuk mengambil pendekatan dwipartisan untuk menggalakkan ketelusan dan kebertanggungjawaban dalam Malaysia dengan mengisytiharkan harta mereka secara terbuka.  Walaupun pengisytiharan harta secara terbuka oleh menteri-menteri serta keluarga terdekat mungkin membahayakan bagi individu-individu tersebut, sebagai langkah pertama hanya mereka yang memegang jawatan awam harus mengisytiharkan harta secara terbuka.

Demi kepentingan dwipartisan, DAP boleh terima sebagai permulaan jika hanya menteri-menteri, timbalan-timbalan menteri dan ahli-ahli majlis mesyuarat kerajaan negeri sahaja yang mengisytiharkan harta.  Ahli keluarga mereka boleh dikecualikan.  Sekadar mengisytiharkan kepada Perdana Menteri seorang ataupun kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) tidak memadai.

Pembangunan Kg.Baru: Kepentingan pemilik dan pewaris tanah atau kepentingan politik?

"Jangan buang masa, tumpu kepada Selangor.  Nanti sibuk di Kampung Bharu, Selangor terlepas kepada Barisan Nasional, Kita tidak tahu kenapa dia nak buang masa di Kampung Bharu, kecuali jika dia nak bertanding di (Parlimen) Titiwangsa," kata Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar, Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (gambar bawah) - Berita Harian.

Tanah Kg. Bharu telah wujud sejak tahun 1900 melalui Enakmen Tanah Pertanian Melayu 1950 (Malay Agricultural Settlement 1950) adalah hak milik pensendirian orang-orang melayu.  Sejak kewujudannya lebih 111 tahun, tanah Kg. Bharu diwarisi turun temurun oleh orang Melayu kerana statusnya dijamin melalui Enakmen yang digubal oleh Kerajaan Selangor sejak sebelum Malaya mencapai kemerdekaan lagi.

Skandal NFC: Skop audit perlu telus dan tepati kehendak rakyat

KEADILAN menyambut baik langkah melantik firma juruaudit untuk menyiasat dan membongkar penyelewengan dana rakyat yang berlaku di dalam NFC, seperti yang diumumkan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri semalam.

Walau bagaimanapun, keberkesanan audit yang bakal dijalankan dan keikhlasan pentadbiran Najib Razak dalam menangani skandal ini akan bergantung kepada skop audit dan bidang kuasa yang diberikan kepada firma juruaudit yang dilantik kelak.

Oleh yang demikian, KEADILAN mencadangkan enam skop utama audit yang memberi kuasa sepenuhnya kepada juruaudit untuk menyiasat sepenuhnya NFC, seperti berikut:

'Appeal against Anwar's acquittal politically-motivated'

The last-minute filing by the Attorney General’s chambers to appeal against the January 9 acquittal of parliamentary Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim of the sodomy charge has been described as politically motivated.
“When the appeal was made, I thought it was more of a political decision.
"Why was the verdict involving Abdul Razak Baginda not appealed? That was a bigger case as it affected the country's reputation at the international level,” said PAS lawyer Hanipa Maidin (pic), referring to the murder trial of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu involving Razak, the former aide to prime minister Najib Razak, and two others.
Razak was however acquitted in October 2008 of the murder charge without having to enter defence, while the two others had been found guilty and sentenced to death.

UMNO reaction to Exco restructuring shows 'outdated mentality' — PAS

There is no point in having even an 'ustaz' to helm the Islamic affairs portfolio in the absence of personal integrity, as has been shown in the zakat abuse saga involving minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom and two other senior officials.
This is the gist of the response from the PAS leadership in reaction to suggestions by a section of UMNO leaders that Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim's recent decision to take over the state's Islamic Affairs portfolio was an insult to the Islamic party.
PAS information chief Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man however attributed such a thinking to UMNO's "outdated mentality".

‘Islamic affairs portfolio for MB the right move’

PETALING JAYA- The decision by the Selangor Mentri Besar to personally handle the challenging portfolio of Islamic affairs is a correct move, said a Selangor PAS leader.
Its deputy commissioner Khalid Samad dispelled allegations that the party had been sidelined when Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, from PKR, announced that he would take over Datuk Dr Hasan Ali’s Islamic affairs portfolio although Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi was appointed to replace him.
The Shah Alam MP said it was unfair to thrust Dr Ahmad, a new person, into a challenging portfolio with an impending general election given the recent controversies.

Jui Meng drops bombshell: MCA only has 40,000 'real' members, not 1.3 mil as claimed

Those who were surprised by the news that the MCA may lose some 30% of its members to the Pakatan Rakyat by the time the 13th general election rolls along are due for more shocks.
Firstly, this number is likely to be much larger. And secondly, did you know that the MCA - despite its longstanding boast of having at least a million members - actually only has about 40,000-odd real and authentic supporters!
"This is something I can say with confidence given my knowledge of the party. MCA is the mother of the phantom voters illusion, even Umno has to learn from it how to falsify and pad up membership rolls," PKR vice president Chua Jui Meng, a former MCA stalwart, told Malaysia Chronicle.

'Good boy' Soi Lek defends Najib: It was Shahrizat's fault NFC blew up in Umno's face

The Barisan Nasional (BN) government, particularly embattled minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abd Jalil, handled the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) controversy poorly, causing the public to perceive the project as “real rotten”, says Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
The MCA president said Shahrizat was “poorly advised” on the matter after it was highlighted in the Auditor-General’s Report 2010, adding that, as a senior minister, she should have known what to do when faced with resounding calls for her resignation.
“They should have caught the bull by the horns in the early days. First, by having an audit. Having an open book about it,” Dr Chua said at the MCA headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

Soi Lek is "confused" : Chinese successful despite BN not because of BN, slams PKR

PKR leaders tore to shreds claims by MCA president Chua Soi Lek that Malaysian Chinese owed their prosperity and good living to the Barisan Nasional.
On the contrary, they said it was sheer back-breaking hard work and a never-say-die attitude that enabled the community to rise above the obstacles thrown at them by the Umno-led BN, making the Chinese a success story in Malaysia today.
"Soi Lek is one confused politician. It seems he has never heard of the complaints about the lack of educational opportunities, the annual scramble for scholarships and grants. Also, the lack of equal job opportunities seem to have bypassed him completely. So too has the brain drain and the fact that half a million or so Malaysian Chinese have to seek work in Singapore," Batu MP Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

International response filters in, condemning Najib's U-turn on Anwar acquittal

International response is starting to filter in on news that Prime Minister Najib Razak's government has decided to appeal the acquittal of political arch rival Anwar, the Opposition Leader, who was found "not guilty" by a High Court judge last week.
Phil Robertson, Deputy Director of the Asia Division, Human Rights Watch was among the early bird to condemn the Najib administration for its latest flip-flop.
“The trial court gave the government a chance to bow out gracefully from Anwar’s politically motivated prosecution. It’s very unfortunate that they didn’t take it. This decision means the citizens of Malaysia will be further subjected to the more political machinations in the courtroom as the government perpetuates this travesty of a trial for a crime that should not be a crime in the first place,” Phil said in a statement.

Iran tutup kedai patung Barbie

TEHERAN – Polis Iran bertindak menutup berpuluh-puluh kedai yang menjual patung Barbie sebagai sebahagian daripada usaha menyekat budaya Barat.
Agensi berita Mehr melaporkan, polis merampas patung-patung Barbie itu kerana etika pemakaiannya yang mengenakan pakaian renang dan skirt pendek, sedangkan wanita di negara ini perlu memakai purdah.
Larangan penjualan patung Barbie telah dikuatkuasakan di Iran sejak pertengahan 1990-an.

– AGENSI

Wasatiah: Najib diminta 'jangan cakap tidak serupa bikin'

KUALA LUMPUR- PAS meminta Datuk Seri Najib Razak agar jangan mencemarkan Islam dengan slogan sehingga merosakkan imej Islam di pandangan masyarakat bukan Islam di negara ini.
"Kita mengharapkan Datuk Seri Najib biarlah bercakap serupa dengan bikin," kata AJK PAS Pusat, Ustaz Idris Ahmad.
Beliau mengulas dasar wasatiah yang diperkenalkan Najib.
Bagi beliau, ia adalah lanjutan dasar pragmatis Umno untuk meraih sokongan di kalangan orang Melayu terutama musim pilihanraya.
"Zaman Tunku Abdul Rahman memperkenalkan musabaqah al-Quran, zaman Tun Hussein Onn memperkenalkan Bulan Dakwah.
"Tun Dr Mahathir Penerapan Nilai-Nilai Islam dan Tun Abdullah Badwi Islam Hadhari.

Pemimpin Dayak dan Kadazan dalam BN bagaikan hamba

Menurut kebanyakan pemimpin Dayak di Sarawak dan Kadazan di Sabah, masyarakat Dayak dan Kadazan yang kononnya diwakili mereka semuanya adalah terpelihara akan hak dan segala bantuan serta kemudahan.
Betulkah? Tetapi sehingga kini, masyarakat Dayak dan Kadazan di Sarawak dan Sabah yang merupakan penduduk majoriti di kedua-dua negeri masing-masing didapati masih tidak mampu untuk memerintah negeri milik mereka dan menentukan halatuju mereka sendiri.

Sekarang Hassan Ali merasakan Umno parti terbaik di dunia, tapi sampai bila?

Hassan Ali sangat marah buat masa ini dan sebetulnya dia marah. Dengan pilihanraya akan menjelang tidak lama lagi, beliau harusmencari jalan untuk kekal relevan dan diambil sebagai calon. Walaubagaimanapun, nasib tidak menyebelahinya kerana beliau baru sahaja dipecat daripada PAS dan reputasi beliau sekarang agak tercalar. Beliau dituduh menjadi sebagai ‘katak’ dan dimotivasikan oleh wang. Hassan sekarang sedang bekerja keras untuk mencari jalan untuk diambil sebagai calon parlimen supaya dia tidak perlu berpisah dengan faedah dan kelebihan yang disediakan untuk ahli parlimen.

Hilangnya semangat Muhyiddin, berhati-hati dikala Umno sedang bertelagah sesame sendiri

Muhyiddin Yasin telah menjadi seorang yang kurang bersemangat sejak kebelakangan ini. Anda mungkin bertanya, apa yang telah menjadikannya begitu kurang bersemangat – dalam kebanyakan perkara ! Suka atau tidak, Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan orang nombor 2 Umno yang sudah berusia 64 tahun itu terpaksa juga bertindak balas. Lambat laun, beliau perlu membuat keputusan sama ada masih mahu mejadi lembu cucuk hidung untuk mantan perdana menteri Mahathir Mohamad atau tidak.

Ambiga lets it all out: Najib endorsed threats against me, I had to hire a bodyguard

In a shocking development, Ambiga Sreenevasan, the well-respected chairman of the Bersih 2.0 movement for free and fair elections, accused Prime Minister Najib Razak of endorsing threats against her safety.
This took place during the run-up to the Bersih's July 9 rally in Kuala Lumpur last year, Ambiga told the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) on Wednesday.
“There were calls to strip me of my citizenship, attacks by state-controlled media and I believe that all this was condoned by the government,” said Ambiga.

Even if Umno-BN wins 100% of the votes, it would still be an illegitimate government

UMNO has long lost its legitimacy to form the federal government. Even if it can win 100 per cent of the vote in the 13th general election that must be called by April 2013, this fact will not change. In fact, the more seats UMNO wins, the more illegitimate it would be because it is simply inconceivable that UMNO can win 100 per cent votes, without having cheated or rigged the polls results.
Some facts on the 12th General Election held in 2008 should be noted and analysed. The Barisan Nasional within Peninsular Malaysia failed to obtain a majority of popular votes cast. It only obtained 49% of the popular votes in Peninsular Malaysia whereas the Opposition had the majority of popular votes – 51%. UMNO won 35% of popular votes against 34.8% won by PAS and PKR. The figures by themselves tell us that the Malays do not depend on UMNO anymore.

Ridiculous for Jekyll-and-Hyde Najib to call himself a moderate: GMM a waste of money

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, taking a leaf from Mahathir Mohamad, has launched the Global Movement of the Moderates (GMM) in Putrajaya on Tuesday this week.
But of what good can it do for Malaysia or the world is a source of national and international puzzlement. What is certain though, the event will cost Malaysian taxpayers a pretty penny indeed - all for the purpose of boosting Najib's ego and padding his resume or legacy, if you will.
The implication here is that Islamic fundamentalists everywhere are engaged in a Global War of Terrorism against the west and its allies. The so-called moderates, like Najib, want to distance themselves from this militant form of Islam propagated by a tiny minority. In the process, they want to buy “respectability’ and support from the international community for their own self-serving political survival.

"Dangerous" for BN ministers to declare assets: Nazri ridiculed for "worst excuse" ever

As expected, recent calls for top political leaders to declare their assets have struck fear into the hearts of BN Cabinet ministers, who are perceived to be among the richest but most corrupt people in the country.
Nazr Aziz, the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, was obviously tasked to knock down the suggestions from Transparency International, the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission as well as the examples set by the Pakatan Rakyat state governments in Selangor and Penang.
For defending the indefensible, Nazri was ridiculed for insisting that revealing the assets of ministers and their immediate family to the public "may endanger them".

Scrambling for time, Shahrizat sues Rafizi, Zuraidah over NFC in alleged bid to gag them

In a move that has been widely anticipated, Umno minister Shahrizat Jalil finally filed a RM100 million defamation suit against PKR leaders Rafizi Ramli and Zuraidah Kamaruddin for claiming she had misused a federal loan meant for the National Feedlot Centre.
"For us, it is fine because we have information backed up by statements and documents provided by whistle-blowers. For her, she might trying to buy some time out of her troubles," Rafizi, the PKR's strategy director, told Malaysia Chronicle.

We Not Naughty: Too much baggage, not enough fun

SINGAPORE- Singapore director Jack Neo returns to film directing with his latest Lunar New Year film "We Not Naughty", the first film he has directed since 2010's "Being Human".
The film revolves around Wei Jie (Shawn Lee) and Jian Ren (Joshua Ang), best friends who face a variety of problems at home and become involved with gangsters.
Their school lecturer CK (Daniel Chan) is determined to help them, but the two boys reject his assistance, even as their situation at home and in the gang steadily becomes more and more complicated.
There are also secondary story threads where Wei Jie's sister gets embroiled in an online bullying case and CK deals with the fallout from his streaking in school, as a result of losing a bet with Wei Jie and Jian Ren.