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• Vandals strike in Perlis in bid to 'provoke' Bersih
• GLCs won’t indulge Bumi agenda, says Azman Mokhtar
• Undaunted, Khairy says July 9 march still on
• Sex Video: US Experts Confirmed It's Anwar
• Sex video: New clip on "possibilities" man is not Anwar
• Datuk T: ‘Mission accomplished’
• 30pc of Customs officers fail to declare assets
• US experts confirmed Anwar as man in video, court told
• RM300m for 1km of rail line
• Pua: Why pay for high power reserve margins?
• ‘Datuk T’ fined for sex video
• ‘Datuk T’ charged over sex video
• GST a way to fund the poor, says Idris Jala

Vandals strike in Perlis in bid to 'provoke' Bersih Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:04 AM PDT (Harakah Daily) - A spate of vandalisation of private properties here has Perlis PAS sounding a warning of attempts to paint a negative image on the electoral reforms rally planned in Kuala Lumpur on July 9. In one incident, vandals spray-painted the word "Bersih 2.0" on a  Toyota Camry car parked near a supermarket here, while a wall nearby was painted "Joint Bersih 2.0" [sic] in large letters. A stone's throw away, another wall was sprayed with the graffiti "Hidup PAS" ("Long Live PAS"). Perlis PAS, saying the party's supporters were not behind such acts of vandalism, cautioned against attempts to create tension among people in the state. State PAS deputy commissioner Azmir Azizan described the acts as "provocations". "This kind of acts could be the work of some mischievous children or quarters encouraged by certain organisations, and are part of attempts to portray Bersih negatively and sow the seeds of hatred among the public. "Perlis PAS is not involved in such acts and the PAS leadership will never allow its members to carry out such silly and uncivilised actions," he said. 'Agent provocateurs' Azmir (left) called on those attempting to create provocations to stop doing so, saying the people were clear on the objectives of Bersih. "We advise these agent provocateurs to stop their extreme acts. The more you provoke, the more people will be coming to Kuala Lumpur on July 9. "Bersih is a peaceful assembly with the noble aim of demanding fair elections," he added. He also called on those victimised by such provocations to lodge police reports. Prior to this, UMNO Youth said it would hold its own rally coinciding Bersih's, while UMNO's sister organisation Perkasa said its members would gather on the same day to clash with Bersih supporters. Perkasa leader Ibrahim Ali had also raised the spectre of a racial riot should Bersih go ahead with the rally. His supporters called Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan "a dangerous Hindu woman" and stomped on her photo, attracting condemnations from Muslim scholars, politicians and NGOs.

GLCs won’t indulge Bumi agenda, says Azman Mokhtar Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:03 PM PDT (The Malaysian Insider) - The federal government's committee on government-linked corporations' performance said today it will not bow to pressure to implement pro-Bumiputera policies that will undermine their own operations. The Putrajaya Committee on GLC High Performance (PGC) moved to allay fears that recent pressure from Malay hardliners would derail the Najib administration's commitment to liberalise the economy and put in place merit-based policies. PGC secretariat chief Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar said today that it had "active and proper" programmes for Bumiputeras, which were part of a national development agenda under the New Economic Model (NEM). He added that these would be inclusive, and see growth with equity for all communities. "It is important that these companies are not a burden on themselves or on their shareholders or the public. They should be part of the solution and not the problem. "Our programmes are not just for Bumiputeras but all local vendors," said Azman, adding that GLCs were also fair in terms of employment. Putrajaya has come under heavy pressure recently from Malay hardliners with regards to contracts from the RM50 billion Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit project, and the proposed Pudu Jail redevelopment plan under UDA Holdings, which could be worth up to RM4 billion. The agency tasked with ensuring Malays have a bigger stake in urban economic activity came under fire recently from right-wingers in Umno and Perkasa as well as Utusan Malaysia for allegedly abandoning the Bumiputera agenda after it chose not to appoint Bumiputera joint-venture turnkey investors for the proposed Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC). Azman, who is also Khazanah Nasional managing director, added that GLCs were strictly merit-based with their contractors even though it was an unpopular policy. "It is merit-based, you must deliver. Sometimes it is unpopular but we are strict with them," he told reporters at the GLC Open Day launch today.

Undaunted, Khairy says July 9 march still on Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:56 PM PDT (The Malaysian Insider) - Umno Youth will not let the withholding of police permission dissuade it from holding its July 9 rally to counter Bersih. Instead, movement chief Khairy Jamaluddin said the rally was now growing larger, with MIC Youth and PPP members set to join its ranks. MCA Youth has opted out, however. Election watchdog Bersih 2.0 is planning a massive rally on the day to push for electoral reforms, with PAS aiming to galvanise all one million of its members to take part in the assembly. Aside from the Umno Youth-led assembly, Malay rights group Perkasa is also planning a separate counter-protest. Authorities maintain they will deny permits to all three and have repeatedly warned they will treat the rallies as illegal assemblies. The first rally in 2007 saw up to 50,000 people take to the capital's street before they were dispersed by police armed with tear gas and water cannons.

Sex Video: US Experts Confirmed It's Anwar Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:59 PM PDT (Malaysian Digest) - US video experts consulted by the Malaysian police have identified the man in the controversial sex video screened by Datuk T as Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a magistrate's court was told this morning. Counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said that US video experts had compared images of the man in the video with a photo of Anwar and confirmed that both were identical. "This means that A and B is the same person," he said. The result of the examination conducted by experts from Dartmouth College, Handover, New Hampshire was raised in the facts of the case read out today after the Datuk T trio of Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik and Datuk Shuib Lazim pleaded guilty to their involvement in the screening of the video on March 21. Eskay, together with former Perkasa treasurer-general Shuib, were jointly charged with possession and distribution of pornography under Section 292(a) of the Penal Code. They had allegedly committed the offence between 10:30am and 12pm at the Carcosa Seri Negara hotel on March 21. Rahim, however, was charged under section 109 of the Penal Code for abetting Eskay and Shuib in "openly" screening the pornographic material. All three pleaded guilty to the charges. All three were slapped with fines under section 292 of the Penal Code. Shafee further said that according to the June 4 report by professors Hany Farid and Lorenzo Torresani from Dartmouth College there is a 99.99 percent match of the male in the video clip to a known photo of Anwar based on facial recognition analysis. "Results of the analysis by experts from Dartmouth College, Handover, New Hampshire in the US verified the authenticity of the video, that there was no tampering or any act of super-imposing and that it originated from a DVR camcorder taken from Datuk Shazryl (Eskay)," deputy public prosecutor Kamalluddin Md Said said when reading the facts of the case this morning. As such, he told the court that Anwar should be charged under sections 192, 193 or 199 of the Penal Code for lodging a false report, denying his identity in the video. In the statement of facts, it was also stated that the sex tape was taken in an apartment in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. This was uncovered when Shuib gave his statement to the police on March 25. "The police took a CCTV recording from the apartment and also found that Anwar was with Eskay at the lobby of the apartment on Feb 21," said the statement of facts. It was previously reported that Eskay had told reporters that the video was taken in a spa in Kuala Lumpur instead. The court also heard how Eskay met Shuib and Rahim to expose the sex tape. Eskay had met Shuib at the end of February with the recording in his thumbdrive, with a video said to be of Anwar engaging in various sex acts with a Chinese national believed to be a prodtitute. They then decided to meet Rahim, considering that the recording was "sensitive" and had "national interest", before all three agreed to screen the video to members of the media. Rahim then called one Kamarulail Sulaiman to book a room at Carcosa Seri Negara, an exclusive hotel in the hilly outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, while Eskay contacted The Star's chief reporter Sirajinisa Habibu Mohd to round up the other reporters at the hotel for a story of "high national interest". "Sirajinisa then invited other reporters, who then turned out to spread the word to other reporters," said the statement of facts. Earlier, the trio's counsel had listed down their clients' credentials to prove their credibility as upstanding Malaysians. The court also screened the 21-minute recording to ensure that the evidence had not been tampered with but magistrate Aizatul Akmal Maharani ordered the pornographic portions to be fast-forwarded. In appealing for a lenient sentence for Rahim, Shafee pointed out that the ex Melaka chief minister was a first-time offender, that he had not caused any injury, his action was not for the purpose of obtaining profit and was in fact more for "public benefit". "We cannot let these men leave here thinking that justice was not served. We must show that justice has been done. Use your discretion wisely to look at their three cases here, in particularly my client, who only came in to assist in securing the room in Carcosa. "He was driven by compassion to expose probably the biggest fraud in Malaysia," he said. Eskayl's lawyer Mohd Zamani Ibrahim agreed with his colleague's submission, saying that his client had even performed the "sumpah laknat" to prove that he was not lying. "Until today, Anwar has not responded. What he did was for public good," he said, adding that Eskay was also a close associate of Anwar's since 1996. Lawyer Suhaimi Salleh, arguing for Shuib, appealed for a light sentence for his client, saying that by pleading guilty the latter had saved time and money. He also said that Shuib is a pensioner, a senior citizen and a diabetic.

Sex video: New clip on "possibilities" man is not Anwar Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:49 PM PDT A 40-minute clip has emerged showing the "possibilities" of identifying the man in the Datuk T sex video which implicated Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The clip, more of a documentary on why the man in the video is not Anwar, was narrated by PKR's Sungai Petani MP Datuk Johari Abdul. It was shown to reporters during a press conference at the PKR headquarters Friday. "The video will be uploaded on Youtube," said Johari. "We plan to make copies of the video to be sold to the public," he said.

Datuk T: ‘Mission accomplished’ Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:49 PM PDT   (The Malaysian Insider) - The "Datuk T" trio behind a sex video allegedly featuring Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim emerged victorious today despite their criminal convictions, declaring they had "accomplished" their mission to prove the opposition leader's immorality. The three — businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik and former Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim — were given a hero's greeting when they left the Jalan Duta court complex here after being fined for screening the video in public. Shuib was first to be whisked off into a waiting vehicle but Abdul Rahim and Shazryl, both with wide smiles on their faces, stood at the top of the stairs leading to the court complex entrance to address the hundreds that surrounded them. "Mission accomplished today and we are very happy. We have proven to the people, through the judicial system of the country. Now, it is up to the people to decide the future destiny of the country," Abdul Rahim boomed to the crowd. Beside him, Shazryl maintained his silence but nodded at his comrade's every word. Abdul Rahim, who himself once faced persecution for his sexual assault on a minor, shredded Anwar's morality to bits in his four-minute victory speech, drawing inferences from the points that were raised in court today. "Today in court, we have seen that the truth has been revealed. We are confident that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was the man in the video who has committed vice. "We did this to defend our country, our national security, from a leader who is corrupt and immoral, we see him as a man who is a hypocrite, who does not deserve to be our nation's leader," he said. MORE TO COME

30pc of Customs officers fail to declare assets Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:09 PM PDT By Jason Gerald John, NST MALACCA: Some 3,900 Customs officers could soon see themselves in cold storage if they fail to declare their assets by year-end. Customs deputy director-general Datuk Khazali Ahmad said they formed 30 per cent of the 13,000 Customs officers required to declare their assets. "These irresponsible officers face the risk of being barred from promotions." They could also be banned from getting scholarships to further their studies, going on holidays abroad or getting overseas postings. Khazali said declaring assets enhanced the department's image. According to him, a Customs officer must declare his or her assets upon being appointed or when there were changes in their assets. "Even officers getting promoted must declare their assets," he said after a gathering of state Customs officers at the Customs Complex in Ayer Keroh. Present was state Customs director Datuk Mohd Nasir Said. As for the Malacca Customs, Khazali said 80 per cent of its 236 officers had made the declaration. Earlier, Khazali opened the Internal Tax Clinic, the first in the country, that would act as a one-stop-centre for clients requiring assistance on the payment of internal tax. "The clinic will help companies in the state answer all their questions on taxes. In Malacca, there are 884 companies paying service tax while another 601 are contributing sales tax. "Last year, the Malacca Customs collected RM1.63 billion in taxes, including RM28.7 million service tax and RM402.2 million sales tax."

US experts confirmed Anwar as man in video, court told Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:06 PM PDT   By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — US authorities have identified the man in the controversial sex video screened by "Datuk T" as Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a magistrate's court was told this morning. The point was raised in the facts of the case read out today after the "Datuk T" trio of Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik and Datuk Shuib Lazim pleaded guilty to their involvement in the screening of the video on March 21. "Results of the analysis by experts from Dartmouth College, Handover, New Hampshire in the US verified the authenticity of the video, that there was no tampering or any act of super-imposing and that it originated from a DVR camcorder taken from Datuk Shazryl," deputy public prosecutor Kamalluddin Md Said said when reading the facts of the case this morning. Abdul Rahim's lawyer Datuk Seri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who also submitted on the point, told reporters later that according to the experts' report, it was 99.99 per cent certain that the man in the video is Anwar.  MORE TO COME HERE

RM300m for 1km of rail line Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:28 PM PDT By Patrick Lee, FMT PETALING JAYA: It costs more than RM300 million to build one kilometre of railway track here. In China, however, the cost is much lower – at less than RM15 million for the same length of railway. In Parliament this week, PKR-Telok Kemang MP Kamarul Bahrain Abbas asked the Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak why the 150km Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit needed a budget of more than RM50 billion. He compared this with the RM15 billion that was used to build the 1,140km-long line from Golmud in Qinghai Province, Western China, to Lhasa, Tibet. In a written response, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz said that it was difficult to compare the two lines. "The comparison of costs between two different systems without detailed information is very difficult and would not give the right picture," he said. However, Nazri said that the vast difference in costs between the two lines could be due to: the period in which the lines were built; track alignments above or below the ground; the track's location, which was dependent on the population density in the area; and the system's configuration due to size and complexity. READ MORE HERE.

Pua: Why pay for high power reserve margins? Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:00 PM PDT By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — The government needs to explain why Malaysians should continue paying for high electricity reserve margins when countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and the United States are paying much less, Tony Pua said today. The DAP national publicity secretary pointed out that Malaysia's electricity reserve margin has been consistently close to 50 per cent over the past decade, while the reserve margins for Thailand and Java in Indonesia are only 25.4 and 26 per cent. "Is the (Energy, Green Technology and Water) minister (Datuk Seri Peter Chin) claiming that both these countries, who have been attracting greater foreign direct investments than Malaysia consistently over the past five years, do not have sufficient margins?" Pua (picture) said in a statement. He said even in the United States and Canada, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) study indicated a reserve margin of 28.6 per cent despite both countries being more "advanced and developed." "The minister should perhaps enlighten Malaysians as to what makes Malaysia so special that Malaysians are forced to pay for electricity reserve margins which have been consistently close to 50 per cent over the past decade?" added Pua. Chin has defended the country's reserve margin of 45 per cent as an intended government policy to prevent any sudden rise in electricity demand. Pua continued his attacks against Chin for saying that independent power producers (IPPs) were not being subsidised by the government. "While the minister and the IPPs are absolutely right 'technically' and 'legally' speaking, the subsidies have allowed the IPPs to mask the high electricity prices they sell, particularly to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). "For example, despite subsidising less in Thailand where natural gas is sold at RM23.10 per MMBTU to IPPs compared to RM13.70 per MMBTU in Malaysia, the electricity tariffs in Thailand are similar, if not cheaper than that in Malaysia... (The) average commercial tariff rate today is RM40/kWh after the recent tariff hike compared to RM38/kWh in Thailand," Pua said. He also said that this showed that the government was "insincere" about renegotiating the power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the IPPs.   READ  MORE HERE.

‘Datuk T’ fined for sex video Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT   By Clara Chooi,The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — The "Datuk T" trio pleaded guilty and were fined in a magistrate's court here this morning over their involvement in the screening of a sex video allegedly featuring Pakatan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Former Malacca Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik was charged with abetting former Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim and businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah in "openly" screening the pornographic material featuring sex acts between a man and a woman at the prestigious Carcosa Seri Negara Hotel here on March 21. Shazryl was fined RM3,000 or three months' jail, Shuib was fined RM1,500 or two months' jail while Abdul Rahim was fined RM1,000 or one month's jail. The three committed the offence between 10am and noon at the Seri Makmur room in the hotel. Shazryl and Shuib were charged under section 292 (a) of the Penal Code while the charge against Abdul Rahim, also under the same section, was read together with section 109 of the Penal Code for abetment. The three face a maximum three-year jail term, or fine, or both. The trio's lawyers had earlier protested against the charges when they were read in court and requested to meet with magistrate Aizatul Akmal Maharani in chambers. After a 30-minute discussion, the lawyers emerged and the trio pleaded guilty to the same charges. READ MORE HERE

‘Datuk T’ charged over sex video Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:22 AM PDT   By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — The "Datuk T" trio were charged this morning for their involvement in the screening of a sex video allegedly featuring Pakatan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Former Malacca Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik is charged with abetting former Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim and businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah in screening the pornographic material at the prestigious Carcosa Seri Negara Hotel here on March 21. Earlier this morning, the three men arrived at the Jalan Duta court complex here to screams from scores of supporters who had gathered outside from 8am. Dressed smartly in neatly-pressed suits, the men waved as they made their way into the complex. They finally entered the packed courtroom at 9.17am. On March 21, a mysterious "Datuk T" had screened a video purportedly showing Anwar having sex with an unidentified woman, believed to be a foreign prostitute. Abdul Rahim, Shazryl and Shuib later claimed responsibility for the video, saying they screened the video to show "a man who wants to be prime minister is not qualified." Following police investigations into the screening, the trio claimed to have surrendered the original copy of the sex video to the police. MORE TO COME HERE

GST a way to fund the poor, says Idris Jala Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:29 AM PDT By Lee Wei Lian and Boo Su-Lyn, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — Putrajaya believes the Goods and Services Tax (GST) could help widen the government's tax base and provide funds for the poor now reeling from a global rise in commodity prices. Economists also do not foresee any issues with implementing the GST despite the country's low tax base which appears to suggest chronic tax evasion. But the government has shied away from pushing the tax due to outrage from most Malaysians, where only one million pay income tax. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala (picture) said yesterday Malaysians have to accept that "we have to move away as only then the government will have sufficient money to go around for everyone, especially the poor." "To widen our tax base, we need to get rid of sales and services tax and replace it with GST. Currently, only one million of the 28 million Malaysians pay tax. "With the GST in place, all 28 million Malaysians will pay a little bit which then allows us to reduce corporate tax and income tax and that's how we can find money enough for poor people," Idris said at a forum. He said this was the reason 143 countries were now enforcing the GST. Critics however say Malaysia's natural resources are enough to fund programmes for the poor but economic leakages and an extravagant government have frittered away most of the money. Only about 10 per cent of Malaysians currently pay income tax but economists say that GST will be harder to evade and will help improve tax collection efficiency. Detractors say the government must be more efficient in collecting tax, citing the number of mansions and high-ends cars seen in the country despite the low tax base. Kenanga Investment Bank economist Wan Suhaimi Wan Saidi said the GST will improve the efficiency of tax collection in the long run. "There will be initial hiccups," he told The Malaysian Insider. "It's a necessary evil now so that they'll be more efficient in collecting taxes," he said.   READ MORE HERE.

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