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Posted: 16 Oct 2011 10:16 PM PDT

BERSIH 2.0 CHAIRPERSON

DATO' AMBIGA SREENEVASAN

MELBOURNE-SYDNEY-CANBERRA

#CleanBefore13 Global Campaign -

Fulfil the 8 Demands Before GE-13

TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2011 - 6.30PM- 8.00PM

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Electoral Reform and the Quest for Democracy in Malaysia

Venue: GM15- LAW BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

RSVP Essential: http://alc.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=6A3FF7F9-1422-207C-BAF8B4E4EFE99C64&DiaryID=5569

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2011 - 6.30PM- 10.00PM

CleanBefore13 - BERSIH2.0 SOLIDARITY NIGHT / Nasi Lemak Dinner served
(Vegetarian Option Available) $15 non-students/ $10 students

Venue: Clayton Hall, 264-268 Clayton Road

RSVP Essential: http://bersihstories.eventbrite.com

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2011 - 6.30PM- 8.00PM

AN EVENING WITH DATO' AMBIGA SREENEVASAN

Dinner $40 /pp

Venue: Emperor's Garden, 96-100 Hay St, Haymarket, NSW, 2000

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER 2011 - 12.30PM- 2.00PM

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE (Light lunch served)

Venue: Boardroom, Level 2, Law Building, UNSW

RSVP ESSENTIAL: https://register.eventarc.com/event/view/5951/tickets/ahrcentre-seminar-with-dato-ambiga-sreenevasan

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER 2011 - 6.00PM- 7.30PM

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

New Law School Lecture Theatre, Room 24, University of Sydney

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2011 - 6.30PM- 8.00PM

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

Law Theatre, ANU College of Law (Building 5), Australian National University

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2011 - 8.00PM- 10.00PM

INFORMAL DINNER WITH MALAYSIANS IN CANBERRA

RSVP for all events essential. Email us at sabm.melbourne@gmail.com or contact us on facebook

HAVE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?

Register to vote at any of these events. Bring a photocopy of your Malaysian NRIC with you.

A right to PPSMI

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 07:28 PM PDT

By Lan Boon Leong via The Malaysian Insider

The abolishment of PPSMI will benefit students whose mother tongue or first language is not English because studies have shown children learn better if the language of instruction is their first language.

Furthermore, the United Nations, in its various declarations and conventions, has continually affirmed the universal right to an education where the language of instruction is the first language.

This fundamental right for students whose first language is Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin or Tamil is thus respected by abolishing PPSMI.

However, the abolishment of PPSMI will in turn be unfair to students whose first language is English.

Malaysian students whose first language is English are growing in number from diverse ethnic backgrounds. They include Chinese, Indians and Malays.

These students are already discriminated against in education on the basis of language because there are no English-medium national-type schools to accommodate them.

This discrimination on the basis of language contravenes the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

The abolishment of PPSMI will further discriminate these students on the same grounds.

They have the right to continue studying science and mathematics in English and also the right to study all other subjects in English, their first language.

Thus, PPSMI must at least be retained as an option so that they can learn science and mathematics optimally as their peers whose first language is Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin or Tamil.

If we were to have English-medium national-type schools, it would be justice indeed.

To vote for PPSMI as an option, please go to www.pagemalaysia.org/news.php.

Parents can vote for the establishment of English-medium national-type schools at www.surveymonkey.com/s/NKRJVDH and join PENS (Parents for English-medium National-type Schools) at www.facebook.com/groups/PENSmember/ to support the campaign.

* Lan Boon Leong is an associate professor at Monash University Sunway Campus.

Will we be disappointed yet again?

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 04:36 PM PDT

By Teo Nie Ching

When Najib became Prime Minister in 2009, he ambitiously appointed 6 Ministers to lead the 6 National Key Result Areas (NKRA): widening access to quality and affordable education, crime prevention, fighting corruption, raising the living standard of the low-income people, upgrading infrastructure in the rural and interior regions, and improving public transportation in a moderate period of time. The targets and details of these NKRAs were announced on 27 July 2009.
Although electricity supply coverage for West Malaysia is about 99%, the coverage in Sabah and Sarawak remains low at 80%. Consequently, Najib placed special emphasis on improving basic amenities in rural and remote areas of East Malaysia with special allocations of RM4 billion to construct 1,500 km of tarred roads in Sabah and Sarawak, RM2 billion to improve the water supply in East Malaysia to enable 90% of the population to have access to clean tap water, and RM3.9 billion to improve power-generation facilities to ensure that 95% of households have access to electricity supply.

According to the Prime Minister's announcement on 27 July 2009, these projects were projected to be completed by the end of 2012 to benefit 2 million rural folks in Sabah and Sarawak. After more than 2 years, with the projected completion date just a little more than a year away, how much of the above ambitious projects have been implemented?

In his parliamentary answer on 11 October, Minister in the PM's Department Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon said that the level of achievement with regard to the said projects was "satisfactory".

In Sabah, as at September this year, 180.48 km of tarred roads have been completed or improved (target for 2011 was 366.67 km, therefore target achieved is 49%); 3,463 rural and remote households received clean water supply (target for 2011 was 18,063 households; target achieved 19%); 1,080 rural and remote households received electricity supply (target for 2011 was 4,509 households; target achieved 24%).

Things are not much better in Sarawak. As at September this year, 112.84 km of tarred roads have been completed or improved (target for 2011 was 222.95km theefore target achieved is 51%); 8,823 rural and remote households received clean water supply (target for 2011 was 13,024 households; target achieved 68%); 4,360 rural and remote households received electricity supply (target for 2011 was 21,792; target achieved 20%).

The actual achievements of the 6 NKRAs as at September 2011 falls way short of the Prime Minister's grand targets and is much lower than the milestones projected for the end of the year and yet, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon shamelessly rated the achievements as "satisfactory" (hasil yang memuaskan). I believe not many individuals can claim to be on par with the Minister when it comes to being thick-skinned, as well as the extent of his self-denial and cockiness.

Every year, the federal administration showers us with promises but how many of them were actually realized? How many of them were mere lip service? How many of them sounded great but were impractical, hence they were "all form but no substance"?

In the 2012 Budget, Najib announced that 5 new highways will be constructed: Lebuhraya Pantai Timur Jabor-Kuala Terengganu, Lebuhraya Pantai Barat Banting-Taiping, Lebuhraya Segamat-Tangkak, Lebuhraya Central Spine and upgrade of the Kota Marudu-Ranau road.

However, let us not forget that in the 2011 Budget, Najib had also promised that 6 new highways were to be constructed. As 2011 draws to a close, not a single one of these highways has been built.

How much hope should we place on this new round of promises?

TEO NIE CHING
DAP Assistant National Publicity Secretary-cum-MP for Serdang

What a little bird told me…

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 12:45 AM PDT

By Hakim Joe

Almost exactly one year ago in October 2010 and right after the PKR Party Elections Fiasco, ZR nominated himself to be the Ketua Cabang Pandan by virtue of his position as the Pandan PKR Elections Committee Chairman when results of the Pandan polls showed a tie between himself and Nik. This decision was backed up by Molly Cheah, the PKR Party Elections Committee Chairman even after a protest was officially lodged with PKR as no recount was performed after the decision was announced. It was much later announced that this was because the polling boxes went missing.

How was it even remotely possible that a candidate be given the authority to decide on the outcome of an election in the event of a tie? Why wasn't there a recount when the results showed a tie? How did one lose the polling boxes? How can the PKR Central Committee even consider ratifying the results?

It was then well known amongst the PKR members that ZR was a devoted member of the Anwar/Azmin clique and that he was on the shortlist to be nominated as the PKR Pandan candidate in the forthcoming general election. As of one month ago, the ZR Election machinery was mobilizing its people all around the Pandan area ensuring that ZR be nominated as the Pandan candidate. That was four weeks ago.

Nowadays, the Pandan area is without a Ketua Cabang PKR as ZR was quietly relieved of all his official posts in PKR (as of last week). What a little bird told me was that ZR was alleged to be caught red-handed with his hands way inside the cookie jar, to the tune of RM5,000 or thereabouts. However, there is no news of this fact as yet and an advance search on the Internet failed to provide any articles regarding this "misallocation of funds" as the PKR Central Committee is keeping this potentially explosive news all wrapped up in view of the forthcoming general elections.

Remember the time when the PKR Supremo, albeit un-elected, assured us that he shall personally weed out the undesirables within the party ranks? Well, it can be said that he is actually doing so but what made him give his full support to ZR in the first place, and especially when the 2010 Pandan PKR election results showed a tie? Was it a really bad decision of his own or did his sidekick Azmin influence him in making this decision? If that is the case, does it actually show an appalling grasp of judgment within the top hierarchy of the PKR?

Nik, who was never found with his hands in the cookie jar, was sidelined after lodging an "undesired" official protest in 2010 that was subsequently rejected without reasons, and after ZR authorized himself to act as the Ketua PKR Cabang Pandan, Nik's political fortunes took a headlong descent. One year in the political wilderness is a long time especially when the general elections are due and without a doubt, Nik can never make up ground for the mistakes made by Molly Cheah, DSAI and Azmin. Even appointing him as the defacto Ketua Cabang PKR Pandan now can never compensate for the series of undemocratic and appalling decisions made last year. Who are they to complain about the EC when they are practically practicing the same procedures? Is this a case of "I can do it but you cannot"?

For those uninformed, there were officially over sixty separate appeals (one third of all seats) lodged after the PKR Party Elections in 2010 but none were addressed and the only statement issued was "we will look into the irregularities". So far as everybody is concerned, they are still looking into it and it makes one wonder in awe just how long they intend looking into it as one long year has already passed us by. To be impartial to PKR, they did not mention that they would be doing anything once they have had enough of time just looking into it but that remains to be seen as they are still looking into it (phase 1). Perhaps these people would consider the possibility of seriously thinking about doing something (Phase 2) once Phase 1 is over (God knows when) and proceed really thinking about doing something (Phase 3), to deliberate what needs to be done (Phase 4), plan how to do it (Phase 5) and actually doing it (Phase 6); and before you know it, Phase 6 will come into effect when you are watching the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics on television in full HD.

DSAI must take full responsibility for this debacle but unfortunately that was certainly not the scenario. Is this who we potentially want sitting in Putrajaya next year? Some of us might think that he is the lesser of two evils, and rightly so, but why can't we settle for someone special who cares more for the country and its residents rather than himself or herself? (And no, I do not know of any such candidate now that is "constitutionally-qualified" to become PM).

So, if there presently exist rotten apples like ZR within the PKR rank and file who cannot wait till the big-time to loot a mere RM5,000 now, what are the chances of a repeat of frog-like behavior once millions in cash are on offer after they are elected?

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Isnin, 17 Oktober 2011

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