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Pak Lah: Pro-Mahathir bloggers were out to get me
Citizenship a constitutional right, legal experts tell Perkasa
Explain why DAP needs fresh election, Guan Eng dares ROS
Zaid: If only Pak Lah was more Dr M-like, but in a good way
Najadi was acting to protect temple’s interest
LKY: Impossible for Najib to win Chinese, Indian backing without losing Malay votes
If I listened to Mahathir, Malaysia would be bankrupt, says Abdullah
Bellicose Islamic leaders might destroy Malaysia, warns Zaid
A time when Utusan Malaysia didn’t get away with everything…
Singapore’s Kuan Yew says Malaysia bleeding talent due to race policy
Lab on serious crime after Raya, says minister
DAP's Phee has most assets, while PAS man owns only car and motorcycle

Pak Lah: Pro-Mahathir bloggers were out to get me

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:12 PM PDT

(MM) - Reports that Malay bloggers in support of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had conspired to topple his successor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, were never denied, Abdullah has said in his latest book.

Abdullah, popularly known as Pak Lah, said in Awakening that many of the bloggers were "richly" rewarded with titles and money and that "a lot of money was spent" in the campaign against him.

"Some reports on Wikileaks have come out to suggest that the Malay bloggers, pro-Mahathir bloggers had a meeting in Tengku Razaleigh's house to plan how to oust me," said Abdullah in the book edited by political analysts Bridget Welsh and James Chin, which will be out later this month.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a veteran Umno lawmaker, has tried several times to be prime minister, but to no avail.

"These reports have not been denied....one person from Kelantan claims he was given RM4 million by PAS to write articles to topple my administration," said Abdullah.

The country's fifth prime minister said that the opposition attacks against him may have been because he was "the biggest vote-getter for Barisan Nasional (BN) in 2004."

"So part of their game plan was to inflict as much damage on personally. Unfortunately, detractors from my party, who were resistant to the reforms, also used the same medium to attack me personally," he added.

In Awakening, Abdullah blamed Dr Mahathir for "unwarranted attacks" that had led to his eventual ouster after serving for just one term.

Although handpicked by Dr Mahathir to be his successor, Abdullah later came under relentless attack from the nation's longest-serving prime minister and ultimately was forced to relinquish his presidency of Umno and position as prime minister to Datuk Seri Najib Razak in April 2009, after BN lost its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority in Election 2008.

"Mahathir cannot deny that he contributed to the erosion of BN's support in the 2008 general election through his open and unwarranted criticism and attacks," said Abdullah..

"Calling my administration, which included a majority of people from his own Cabinet, as a 'half-past-six government' and accusing us of corruption and all kind of things," he added.

BN won a resounding mandate in the 2004 general election after Abdullah, known as "Mr Clean", pledged to eradicate endemic corruption and institute political reforms.

But Abdullah's reforms, such as passing the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the Judicial Appointments Commission and Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) Acts, came after Election 2008, only just months before he later stepped down in 2009.

Citizenship a constitutional right, legal experts tell Perkasa

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:39 PM PDT

(The Star) - Malay rights non-governmental organistion Perkasa's demand that rapper Namewee be stripped of his citizenship for allegedly issuing racial comments and insulting the national anthem is unconstitutional, say legal experts.

Civil liberties lawyer and constitutional rights activist Syahredzan Johan said the guarantee of citizenship is a constitutional right.

"If you are a citizen 'by operation of law', meaning automatically from birth, the only way for you to lose your citizenship is if you obtain the citizenship of another country or you do something which only citizens of that other country have the right to do, like voting in their elections," he told The Star Online.

"The Government does not have any power at all to strip you of your citizenship. Of course, you can at your own accord renounce your citizenship."

He said a naturalised citizen was more liable to have it taken away for "disloyalty".

This was echoed by constitutional expert Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi (pic), emeritus professor of law at UITM.

"Things like court offences of obscenity, pornography and so on - you can't just remove citizenship as punishment. That is not the panacea for such things. You wouldn't strip someone of their citizenship for stealing a car," he said.

He added that citizenship could only be revoked for "disloyalty" - exercising rights of a citizen of another country, like joining an army other than the Malaysian one.

"Even for insulting certain parties or inciting racial tension, we have the law of sedition."

Dr Shad said that Perkasa's views should be scrutinised and criticised as need be, but "we shouldn't seek to silence them.

"That would be joining their game, We should not seek to suppress disagreeable views," he said.

Syahredzan suggested that Perkasa "read the constitution before coming out with these statements.

"It is not the first time they and their ilk have made such calls."

Perkasa demanded Tuesday that rapper and filmmaker Namewee's citizenship be revoked for his fierce criticism of the Government and racially-charged videos.

Deputy president Datuk Abdul Rahman Abu Bakar said it had lodged countless police reports against Namewee but the Attorney-General had done nothing.

Namewee is currently in the public eye for coming out in support of film The New Village, which allegedly glorifies communism.

Explain why DAP needs fresh election, Guan Eng dares ROS

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:33 PM PDT

(Malaysian Times) - DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng dares the Registrar of Societies' (ROS) Director Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman to meet him after Hari Raya holidays to explain why the publication by Utusan Malaysia (UM) and New Straits Times (NST) was not verified and to state the reasons for that DAP has to conduct fresh elections.

Guan Eng, who is the Penang Chief Minister, in a statement claimed that ROS has repeatedly behaved unprofessionally by making media announcements that had no factual or legal basis.

"Worse, the ROS makes announcements in the media without any written replies, giving the strong impression of wanting to politicise the issue for the benefit of BN instead of fulfilling their duties in regulating the Societies impartially and lawfully," Guan Eng, who is the Bagan MP, said adding that he have written a letter to Abdul Rahman requesting for a meeting.

"By reiterating in the press that there must be fresh re-elections because he is dissatisfied without needing to give reasons, the ROS is behaving as if he is a King whereby he can make any diktats at his whim and fancy.

"Is Datuk Abdul Rahman refusing to give reasons because he has no valid reasons to give," Guan Eng questioned.

Guan Eng said the DAP had fully co-operated with the ROS and Abdul Rahman should show proof if the ROS claims otherwise.

"If the ROS dares not meet me, then that validates our fears that this new directive is an act of political victimisation and revenge against the DAP,"

"DAP had admitted that a computer glitch at the DAP Congress in Penang caused the wrong announcement of the successful candidates.

"There was no mistake either in vote counting or tabulation but only in posting the results, leading to one candidate Vincent Wu wrongly announced as a successful candidate when it should be Zairil Khir Johari."

"DAP had fully explained this honest mistake to the officials from the ROS by furnishing all relevant materials. The mistake was admitted voluntarily by DAP without being exposed by ROS or BN in the interests of upholding transparency and accountability. DAP is now being punished for being honest and truthful and is a victim of an abuse of power," he added.

Guan Eng said that the DAP has rights to know the reasons why and under what powers the ROS is directing the DAP to hold re-election of its Central Executive Committee (CEC), which was elected in the DAP Party Congress in Penang last December.

"To hint that the DAP grassroots want elections because 753 DAP delegates had been denied their right to attend the DAP Congress in Penang last December is a lie.

"There are no complaints made by as many as 753 delegates that they were not notified of the Congress. So is the false claim of 547 "phantom" delegates attending the Congress, which are all lies concocted by the imagination of UM and NST," Guan Eng claimed.

"Only a few members out of 200,000 DAP members complained. If that is the basis, then Pakatan Rakyat have a greater claim towards being the Federal government due to the majority popular support of 51% during the last general elections.

"As the ROS appears to believe these lies by Utusan Malaysia and NST, DAP has no choice but to sue the BN-controlled media for defamation to expose these lies.

"Is the failure by ROS to state the reasons because ROS know that these are lies," Guan Eng chided.

He stressed that if the reasons given are reasonable and the provision of law employed by ROS is lawful, DAP has no hesitation in calling for fresh re-elections.

Zaid: If only Pak Lah was more Dr M-like, but in a good way

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT

If Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had taken a leaf out of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's book on being a "fighter", his short-lived administration could have turned out more successful, former Cabinet minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said today.

But the ex-Umno leader noted that it had never been Abdullah's style to be "ruthless", even though a forceful hand would have earned greater respect for himself and his reforms when he was in power.

Umno leaders should have backed Abdullah "100 per cent", Zaid added, singling out the former prime minister's efforts in the battle against corruption and his promotion of good governance.

"But they didn't. Not only they didn't, they sabotaged him. They ridiculed him," Zaid told The Malay Mail Online today.

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(MM) - If Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had taken a leaf out of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's book on being a "fighter", his short-lived administration could have turned out more successful, former Cabinet minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said today.

But the ex-Umno leader noted that it had never been Abdullah's style to be "ruthless", even though a forceful hand would have earned greater respect for himself and his reforms when he was in power.

Umno leaders should have backed Abdullah "100 per cent", Zaid added, singling out the former prime minister's efforts in the battle against corruption and his promotion of good governance.

"But they didn't. Not only they didn't, they sabotaged him. They ridiculed him," Zaid told The Malay Mail Online today.

"Pak Lah is not exactly the most ruthless leader. So that also makes it difficult," he added, using Abdullah's popular moniker.

"If he could be more Mahathir-like in a good way, if he had been more forceful, more of a fighter, if he had sacked some of his cabinet ministers, I suppose it could have been different. But that's not him," he said.

Zaid agreed with the notion that Barisan Nasional's (BN) losses in Election 2008 were caused by Pak Lah's alleged failure to refom the country but he singled out Dr Mahathir to blame, saying it was the latter's "incomprehensible" attacks on his predecessor that led to it.

"People should appreciate what he has done," Zaid said, referring to Abdullah.

"Dr Mahathir was dismantling Pak Lah's efforts...when you are trying to reform, it's not easy. People always distrust reformists. They like the old style," he added.

Abdullah said in his book titled Awakening, which will be released soon, that Dr Mahathir had led "unwarranted attacks" that led to his eventual ouster.

Although handpicked by Dr Mahathir to be his successor, Abdullah later came under relentless attack from the nation's longest-serving prime minister and ultimately was forced to relinquish his presidency of Umno and position as prime minister to Datuk Seri Najib Razak in April 2009, after BN lost its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority in Election 2008.

"Mahathir cannot deny that he contributed to the erosion of BN's support in the 2008 general election through his open and unwarranted criticism and attacks," read an excerpt of the book reproduced by news portal Malaysiakini yestesrday.

"Calling my administration, which included a majority of people from his own Cabinet, as a 'half-past-six government' and accusing us of corruption and all kind of things," added Abdullah.

BN won a resounding mandate in 2004 after Abdullah, known as "Mr Clean", pledged to eradicate endemic corruption and institute political reforms.

But Abdullah's reforms, such as passing the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the Judicial Appointments Commission and Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) Acts, came only just months before he stepped down.

Zaid said in Awakening that Abdullah had "miscalculated immensely" when the latter retained many of Dr Mahathir's supporters in the Cabinet.

"He was probably thinking he could secure public support and minimise Mahathir's attack on him. But it was not to be, as the attack went into full gear even in the midst of the 2008 general election," said Zaid in the book.

"Abdullah had support from the grassroots, but not from the Umno warlords. By the time the election results were known, he was already a dead man walking," he added.

Zaid pointed out that "no complete reforms are possible" as long as Dr Mahathir is around.

"Of course, it was Pak Lah's own lack of conviction to see them through that did him in," he added.

The former Umno man noted that the ruling party was averse to reform after being led by a "dictator" for over 22 years.

"But Pak Lah's reluctance to show his resolve in implementing reforms was fatal. The feudal mindset in Umno knows quickly when a leader is reluctant to fight. Always back the winner; that's their instinctive reaction," said Zaid.

Awakening, jointly edited by political analysts Bridget Welsh and James Chin, is due to be launched by Abdullah later this month.

Najadi was acting to protect temple’s interest

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:16 PM PDT

(The Star) - Murdered Hussain Ahmad Najadi had played a role in protecting the interest of the Kuan Yin Temple in Jalan Ceylon.

The temple stands on a portion of land that was being negotiated for sale.

Police revealed that Najadi was neither a buyer nor a seller in the deal but was merely there to ensure the temple would not be sold or demolished.

It is learnt that the estimated value of the land is worth over RM40mil.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said there had been speculation that Najadi was part of the land deal involving the temple but he was in fact appointed to protect it.

"We can safely say that he was not a buyer or a seller involved in the deal," he said.

SAC Ku said police had yet to record a statement from Najadi's wife Cheong Mei Kuen who is still recovering from her injuries.

It was learnt that Cheong was a devotee of the temple and would go there to pray from time to time.

Bahrain-born Najadi was a banker and founded Arab Investments for Asia Kuwait Ltd (AIAK) some 40 years ago in Kuwait.

Najadi later moved his business to Kuala Lumpur in the 1970s, where he founded Arab Malaysian Development Bank in 1975 before selling it to corporate figure Tan Sri Azman Hashim in 1982.

Azman then renamed the bank AmBank.

Najadi's memoir about his life stories and early struggles The Sea And The Hills was published last April. The book received rave reviews.

LKY: Impossible for Najib to win Chinese, Indian backing without losing Malay votes

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:09 PM PDT

Copies of Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's latest book 'One Man's View of the World' are displayed for sale at his book launch at the Istana in Singapore August 6, 2013. – Reuters pic

(The Malay Mail) - "...the chances of it (PR) getting rid of Malay special treatment are next to nothing. This is an opportunistic ad-hoc group not held together by even vaguely coherent set of ideas but by a common desire to unseat the government."

If Malaysians counting on Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia concept to usher in a new era for race relations are being unrealistic, those counting on the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to do the same are not very much less so, Lee Kuan Yew has written in his latest book.

The former Singapore prime minister said the 1Malaysia slogan had not lived up to the initial excitement it created, adding that the Malay ground had not moved with Najib's ambitious plans to unite the different races in Malaysia.

"Prime Minister Najib proposed 1Malaysia because he wanted to win back some of the Chinese and Indian votes...But has the ground moved with him? Has there been thunderous applause from the Malays at 1Malaysia?," Lee wrote in his book One Man's View of the World, which was launched in the island republic last night.

Lee suggested that while Najib was ambitious in pushing for racial harmony, "but it appears political realities have conscribed his subsequent actions."

"It is impossible for him to win votes from the Chinese and Indians without losing votes from his party's core supporters - the Malays."

Lee was equally disparaging in his observations of the opposition parties in Malaysia.

"...the chances of it (PR) getting rid of Malay special treatment are next to nothing.

"This is an opportunistic ad-hoc group not held together by even vaguely coherent set of ideas but by a common desire to unseat the government."

Lee argued that when it comes to the crunch PR would not be able to do away with Malay supremacy.

"The moment the bluff is called and it is handed the full power to push ahead it will either be torn apart from within or be paralysed by indecision.

Lee also suggested that even if Umno were to lose power any party that takes its place would not behave very differently.

In his book, Lee had also pointed out that Malaysia's acute brain drain problem is due to its government's insistence on promoting "one race" above all others.

Malaysia experiences a severe talent flight issue with an estimated 5 per cent of skilled locals exiting the country on an annual basis, with the main beneficiary being Singapore.

A World Bank report from 2011 concluded that 20 per cent of Malaysian graduates opt to quit the country, again with Singapore cited as the preferred destinations. Worryingly for Malaysia, the report concluded that these migrants were being replaced by unskilled and uneducated foreigners.

"They are prepared to lose that talent in order to maintain the dominance of one race," he wrote.

The NEP and other policies in its vein have been blamed for driving the country's non-Malays to find an exit, with Singapore being the destination of choice for geographic and cultural reasons.

"The Chinese made up 35.6 per cent of the population in 1970. They were down to 24.6 per cent at the last census in 2010," Lee wrote in his book

"Over that same period, the Indian numbers fell from 10.8 per cent to 7.3 per cent," he said.

While saying "40 per cent of our migrants are from Malaysia", Lee said the group were now casting their sights farther afield, heading for Europe, America and Australia.

"Some have done very well for themselves, such as Penny Wong, Australia's current finance minister."

But perhaps most damning of Lee's assessments was why some non-Malays who remain, do.

"Among those who have chosen to remain in Malaysia, some lack the means to leave and others are making a good living through business despite the discriminatory policies. Many in this latter class partner with Malays who have connections."

Lee stepped down as prime minister in 1990, handing power to Goh Chok Tong, but remaining influential as senior minister in Goh's cabinet and subsequently as "minister mentor" when Lee Hsien Loong became prime minister in 2004.

The elder Lee resigned from his cabinet position in 2011 after his long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) stumbled to its worst electoral showing since independence in 1965.

During his time, the 89-year-old Lee shared rocky ties with contemporary Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

In their previous books, Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going and A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the two traded acerbic remarks about one another.

If I listened to Mahathir, Malaysia would be bankrupt, says Abdullah

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT

Malaysia's 4th and 5th prime ministers - Mahathir Mohamad (left) and Abdullah Badawi - in happier times. The Malaysian Insider pic

(TMI) - "Can you imagine, if I had succumbed to Mahathir's continued pressure to spend when the deficit was already so high, how could Malaysia have weathered the oil and financial crisis which subsequently came in 2008?

If Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had succumbed to the pressure applied by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to spend without a care and continue with some of his pet mega-projects, Malaysia would be bankrupt by now.

This frank assessment was offered by Abdullah in a book covering his years as the prime minister of Malaysia.

Titled, "Awakening: The Abdullah Badawi Years In Malaysia", it was scheduled to come out earlier but there were some concerns in Putrajaya that the fifth prime minister's comments and observations could spark a war of words between Abdullah and Mahathir and split Umno before the May 5 general election.

Putrajaya need not have worried. Abdullah lobbed a few barbs here and there, and threw a few zingers in the direction of his chief critic but did not reveal state secrets or offer juicy and humiliating anecdotes about the country's longest-serving PM.

And he could have, he said. Referring to the constant attacks against him by Mahathir and other critics when he was in office, he recalled that some people asked why he did not clarify in detail the role of his young advisers, his son's involvement in business and the influence of son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin.

"Perhaps I should have been more vehement in defending and explaining these issues. I could have retaliated by exposing Mahathir. But what good would have come out of this for the government and party?" he said.

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Bellicose Islamic leaders might destroy Malaysia, warns Zaid

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:05 PM PDT

(The Malay Mail) - Hardline Islamic leaders seeking to punish Shia Muslims might "destroy the country", former minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said yesterday as state religious authorities move to enforce laws that forbid the teachings of denominations other than the mainstream Sunni.

In a series of scathing posts on Twitter, Zaid lashed out at the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (JAKIM) for its crackdown of followers of the Shia school of jurisprudence that the former de facto law minister compared to the intra-faith conflict raging among the Arab nations.

"Are the Syiah Muslim? Obviously they are otherwise Jakim would not be interested in them," he said in a posting on his Twitter handle @zaidibrahim.

"So if you are Muslim but not of the variety accepted by Jakim you get punished... If this is not stupidity what is?" he added.

Shia ― also spelled as Syiah locally ― is Islam's second largest denomination after Sunni, the latter of which is widely practised in Malaysia and is the only one recognised by JAKIM.

The National Fatwa Council had issued an edict on May 5, 1996 banning the belief on the grounds that it would split Muslims in the country.

But the issue resurfaced in public discourse recently after Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir pushed for an anti-Shia fatwa to be gazetted in the state to curb the spread of the Shia belief in the country.

The Home Ministry's secretary-general Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi was reported by Malay daily Utusan Malaysia as saying today that 10 states had gazetted anti-Shia laws that went against the Sunnah Wal Jamaah jurisprudence.

According to Abdul Rahim, Pahang, Kelantan, Sabah dan Sarawak were in the process gazetting the anti-Shia legislation.

The senior officer also said there were some 250,000 Shia followers in the country and added that the home ministry was keeping a close eye on them for possible militant activity.

In his latest Twitter tirade, the founder of Malaysia's largest law firm, Zaid Ibrahim & Co ― which he has since sold off ― continued to hit out at the country's leading Islamic authority for trying to drive a wedge among Muslims.

"Just because the Arabs partake in Syiah-Sunni warfare doesnt mean we have to follow. Do we want those killings in this great country?" he asked.

A time when Utusan Malaysia didn’t get away with everything…

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:42 AM PDT

Abdullah Badawi implies such Utusan Malaysia headlines as these would not have been tolerated by him.

(The Malaysian Insider) - In a book about his years in power, former prime minister Tun Abdullah Badawi makes a startling revelation about how he dealt with Utusan Malaysia, in stark contrast to how the strident newspaper is managed by its Umno backers now.

Abdullah was known for liberalising news media in an attempt to restore their credibility after the severe damage that mainstream media took under the Mahathir years, but Abdullah still kept a firm line on racial and religious issues.

Referring to his appointees, he said, "I did not interfere with their work as I believed that they had a professional job to do and I allowed them the space to do it. But when they abused the openness by playing up racial and religious issues, like when Utusan Malaysia did, then I would call them and warn them."

He revealed that he made a phone call to the editor-in-chief of Utusan Malaysia and left him with a stark warning: the newspaper had crossed the boundary with an editorial that smacked of racism and he should expect no favours from Putrajaya if charged with sedition.

As it turned out, the police did not come a-calling and the editor escaped any sanction. But Abdullah said that phone call put the fear of God into the newspaperman and, after that, there were no more offensive articles from the Umno-owned paper.

Such control apparently no longer exists over the newspaper that has since lost a bunch of defamation cases to opposition members and has even been ticked off in the courtroom for not following journalistic standards.

In reply to a question from the editors of the book on how much control Umno has over Utusan Malaysia now, the former leader replied, "Now, I don't think there's any control anymore."

Singapore’s Kuan Yew says Malaysia bleeding talent due to race policy

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:39 AM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - "They are prepared to lose that talent in order to maintain the dominance of one race"

Malaysia's acute brain drain problem is due to its government's insistence on promoting "one race" above all others, former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew wrote in his latest book.

Malaysia experiences a severe talent flight issue with an estimated 5 per cent of skilled locals exiting the country on an annual basis, with the main beneficiary being Singapore.

A World Bank report from 2011 concluded that 20 per cent of Malaysian graduates opt to quit the country, again with Singapore cited as the preferred destinations. Worryingly for Malaysia, the report concluded that these migrants were being replaced by unskilled and uneducated foreigners.

"They are prepared to lose that talent in order to maintain the dominance of one race," read an excerpt of Lee's book, "One Man's View of the World".

"This is putting the country at a disadvantage. It is voluntarily shrinking the talent pool needed to build the kind of society that makes use of talent from all races," Lee continued in parts of the book reproduced by news portal The Malaysian Insider.

In a report last month, British newspaper The Guardian cited analysts as saying the cloud of the New Economic Policy (NEP) race-based affirmative action may stifle investment and hamper Malaysia's quest for developed nation status come 2020 and drag the bottom 40 per cent of its population into high-income status.

Born from the communal dissatisfaction that climaxed during the May 13, 1969 race riots, the NEP was designed ostensibly to lift the poorer sections of the Bumiputera Malay group in a bid to help it catch up to the economic progress of other communities.

Although technically defunct since 1990, the application of the NEP remains very much alive albeit unofficially.

Lab on serious crime after Raya, says minister

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT

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(Bernama) - A Special Laboratory aimed to explore ways to tackle serious crime in the country would be held after Hari Raya Aidilfitri said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Nancy Shukri.

Nancy Shukri said the Special Laboratory would look into the issue from the legal perspectives, especially on the formulation of a stringent act to ensure the personal safety of Malaysians.

"A lab is going to be established after the Hari Raya celebration, (and it) will be headed by Datuk Seri Idris Jala (Minister in the Prime Minister's Department), and the rest of the ministers going in there will be me, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Senator Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan (Minister in the Prime Minister's Department).

"I will also be a member of the lab that would discuss matters related to the duties of the respective agencies under our ministries," she told Bernama, here today, when clarifying a local daily report that said the Special Laboratory would look at laws to replace the Emergency Ordinance.

DAP's Phee has most assets, while PAS man owns only car and motorcycle

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

(The Star) - DAP Sungai Puyu assemblyman Phee Boon Poh probably has the most in terms of assets among Penang's Pakatan Rakyat's assemblymen, with eight properties including joint properties, some of which are in Hamilton, New Zealand.

According to his asset declaration, Phee, who is a state exco member, jointly owns houses (inherited) and land in Hamilton, an apartment in Pantai Molek, Butterworth, a house in Taman Dalia, a shophouse in Bandar Mutiara (inherited), land in Teluk Air Tawar, a penthouse in Bagan Ajam and bungalow land in Batu Kawan.

Phee also owns shares in 24 companies and unit trust shares in six companies.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, meanwhile, has two shophouses in Malacca, the same as he did when he first took office in 2008. He also has RM308,368 in fixed deposit and shares/unit trusts in eight companies.

One shophouse is a joint property bought for RM435,000, and while another was bought for RM530,000.

Lim settled the RM300,000 loan for the first shophouse and a RM350,000 loan for the second one last year. He does not own any vehicle.

Another state exco member, Lim Hock Seng, also from DAP, owns a house in Seberang Jaya, a flat in Mutiara Perdana, a flat in Vista Perdana, a shophouse in Jalan Raja Uda and a factory in Permatang Pauh (both joint properties) and two pieces of land in Teluk Air Tawar.

State PAS commissioner and Permatang Pasir assemblyman Datuk Salleh Man does not own any property or shares.

He owns a motorcycle and a Toyota Corolla Altis, which he bought for RM5,000 and RM118,000 respectively.

Datuk Abdul Malik Abul Kassim of PKR does not own any property or shares.

Abdul Malik, who is also a state exco member and second-term Batu Maung assemblyman, is listed as owning a Proton Tiara, a Honda CRV and a Ford Ranger, which he bought for RM36,000, RM143,000 and RM32,000 respectively.

PKR's first-term Machang Bubuk assemblyman Lee Khai Loon does not own any property but has 10,254 units of Amanah Saham Wawasan 2020 shares and a fixed deposit of RM41,990.

Sungai Pinang assemblyman Lim Siew Khim of DAP only owns a flat and a Proton Wira which she bought for RM50,00 and RM43,000 respectively. She took loans of RM45,000 and RM23,000 to buy the flat and car respectively.

Sungai Bakap assemblyman Maktar Shapee of PKR owns an inherited land in Seberang Prai Selatan and a Proton Persona which he bought for RM60,000.

He does not own any property, shares or unit trust shares.

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Rabu, 7 Ogos 2013

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