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- Is DAP bowing to Malay interests?
- LTAT: No army funds used in Boustead deal
- Bar to look into Tan Sri lawyer’s possible misconduct
- Anwar fails to strike out charges against him in Bersih 3.0 case
- Robert Phang files RM100mil defamation suit against ex IGP Musa Hassan
- DAP admits counting error left Zairil out of CEC
- SNAP’s sec-gen quits over ‘BN leanings’
- ‘Toothbrush maker financing Puspahanas’
- Disillusioned activist Sindu quits STAR
- Local tabloid marks Bieber as a country
- Non-Muslims can use ‘Allah’, Mat Sabu insists
- Despite Raja Ropiaah’s land deal, Puspahanas not in sight
- Embassy confirms huge compensation paid to Malaysian govt
| Is DAP bowing to Malay interests? Posted: 03 Jan 2013 07:14 PM PST The DAP has rectified its party election results and a Malay candidate has been elected to the powerful central executive committee. Leven Woon, FMT The DAP has rectified its party election results of Dec 15 and suspicion is rife that the party is pandering to Malay interests. In the election, not one of the eight Malay candidates were voted into the central executive committee (CEC). But last night the party announced it rectified the results and Zairil Khir Johari, a protégé of secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, secured the number 20 spot. This puts Zairil in the powerful 20-seat CEC and being the sole Malay candidate who was elected to the top post. In the recount, Zairil secured a place in CEC by garnering 803 votes. On the other hand, DAP grassroots member Vincent Wu, who initially shared the fifth spot with Anthony Loke at 1,202 votes, actually garnered 669 votes and is in 26th position. Deputy president Tan Kok Wai secured the sixth spot following the changes. Several quarters are asking why the delay in the recount as the party had known the error a day after the party polls on Dec 15. The party election returning officer, Pooi Weng Keong, said the error was caused by technical glitches when transferring the tabulated results using Microsoft Excels. He said he had reported the mistake to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng a day after the party polls, but the latter instructed that the correct results be made public after an internal audit and verified by external auditors. However, former Selangor DAP leader Tan Tuan Tat believed that the timing of such an announcement might be the party's ploy to divert public attention from an alleged land scandal involving Perak DAP leader Ngeh Koo Ham. The allegations first surfaced during Perak State Legislative Assembly sitting on Dec 21 in which Ngeh was accused of receiving more than 4,000 acres of a land from PAS-led Kelantan government as an inducement to appoint PAS assemblyman Nizar Jamaluddin as menteri besar after the 2008 general election. "Don't forget after the central executive committee election, only the issue of Ngeh Koo Ham cropped up. "The issue has been punishing, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was done to divert attention," he said. He also said the party should have conducted fresh elections in the wake of such major error. "It's definitely a big no-no for them to make such a mistake for a major event like party elections. It proves that their management skill is not up to par yet," he said. The party's poll results was criticised by various quarters as its members failed to elect any of the eight Malay candidates to the CEC, despite the party's claims that it is a multiracial party. Meanwhile, Klang DAP secretary Lee Fu Haw asked why the party did not immediately inform about the error to the delegates who were still at the party convention. "You could have announced it first and gone for the auditing later. The delay is puzzling to many of us ," he said. He, however, said he didn't think the rectifications were cooked up.
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| LTAT: No army funds used in Boustead deal Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:37 PM PST
Chua Sue-Ann, fz.com Army savings fund Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) has defended the recent acquisitions by its subsidiary Boustead Holdings Bhd as a commercially sound decision that does not utilise any army funds. In a statement today, Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) chairman Admiral (Retired) Tan Sri Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor maintained that Boustead's corporate exercise was based on commercial reasons and not other considerations. LTAT's statement was issued to assuage public criticism over moves by Boustead's wholly-owned subsidiary Bakti Wira Development Sdn Bhd to buy an 80% stake in Astacanggih Sdn Bhd for RM30 million. After the share purchase, Bakti Wira and Astacanggih will then purchase 200 acres of land in Bukit Raja, Klang for RM130 million from Awan Megah (M) Sdn Bhd, a company owned by Selangor Wanita Umno chief Raja Datuk Ropiaah Raja Abdullah. Mohd Anwar also stressed that LTAT was not involved in the purchase of the 80% stake in Astacanggih, a company controlled by controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan, even though LTAT holds a 60.7% stake in Boustead. Mohd Anwar also sought to clarify that LTAT's funds were not used in these two contentious transactions, as alleged by the opposition and some veteran servicemen. According to Mohd Anwar, Boustead would fund its share purchase of Astacanggih by using profits generated from previous property development projects. Astacanggih meanwhile will take on borrowings to fund the acquisition and development of the Bukit Raja land since Astacanggih currently has no borrowings, Mohd Anwar said. Retired Royal Malaysian Air Force general Datuk Abdul Hadi Abdul Khatab had earlier called on the army generals sitting on LTAT's board to speak out against the contentious deals. Abdul Hadi, who heads PKR's security committee, had also alleged that the RM160 million deal was merely for "private gain" and does not benefit current and former servicemen contributing to the fund. Mohd Anwar said that LTAT will closely monitor all its investments, including its stake in Boustead, to ensure that it brings the best returns for LTAT's contributors who are members of the Malaysian armed forces. "LTAT has full faith that the land development project by Boustead will be as successful as Boustead's other projects while being able to provide affordable housing for servicemen," Mohd Anwar said. Mohd Anwar also said the transactions will help expand Boustead's landbank and bring profits for Boustead in the long term. Boustead has pointed out that the deal will enable it to expand its existing landbank in Klang since Awan Megah's 200-acre parcel was adjacent to Boustead and LTAT's 700 acres in that area.
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| Bar to look into Tan Sri lawyer’s possible misconduct Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:28 PM PST We will act regardless of the personalities involved, says its president Lim Chee Wee. Lisa J. Ariffin, FMT The Bar Council today assured that it would make all necessary enquiries to ascertain the identity of the lawyers involved in the drafting of private investigator P Balasubramaniam's second statutory declaration (SD). Its chairman, Lim Chee Wee, today said that the Malaysian Bar will act in accordance with due process regardless of the personalities or circumstances. He said this in a statement in light of recent allegations by carpet trader Deepak Jaikishan that a 'Tan Sri' lawyer and his son had been involved in the preparation of the second SD. The second SD has since reversed an earlier one Balasubramaniam had signed, which implicated Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in the 2006 murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu. "If there is cogent evidence to suggest professional misconduct, we will not hesitate to lodge a complaint with the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board [ASDB] and prosecute the complaint," Lim said. He said it will then be the responsibility of the ASDB to adjudicate the matter and to mete out appropriate disciplinary punishment. He urged anyone with compelling evidence of professional misconduct in this matter to submit a complaint with the ASDB. "We are prepared to render assistance to any would-be complainant, in having his or her complaint properly directed to the ASDB," Lim said. "We urge those who have knowledge in this matter to be less hesitant, and more forthright," he added. He stressed the seriousness of the matter, saying it could not "be resolved on an indulgence of surmise, conjecture or deductions [simple or otherwise)". "To do so would be to sacrifice due process [including natural justice] at the altar of expediency or convenience," he said. "This would ultimately compromise the proper determination of the matter." In a previous report, the Tan Sri lawyer was revealed to be Cecil Abraham, who sits on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) panel. In exposing the lawyer's identity, former member of MACC advisory panel, Robert Phang, urged Abraham to come forward and verify the claims. However, Balasubramaniam's lawyer, Americk Singh Sidhu, stressed that Abraham was a "barrister of the highest integrity" and maintained that it was "unthinkable" for Abraham to have been involved in the preparation of the second SD. He also claimed that Balasubramaniam was forced to sign the second SD because of threats to the safety of his wife and children.
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| Anwar fails to strike out charges against him in Bersih 3.0 case Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:56 PM PST
(The Star) - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Friday failed in his bid to strike out charges against him for allegedly violating a court order by taking part in the Bersih 3.0 rally. Sessions Court judge Mahmud Abdullah allowed a preliminary objection by the prosecution against the striking out application by Anwar. In his ruling Friday, he held that the Sessions Court had no jurisdiction to revise or review or make any declaration that the prohibitory order issued by Magistrate Zaki Ashraf Zubir prohibiting any assembly at Dataran Merdeka was invalid. "The Subordinate Courts Act does not give revisionary and declaratory jurisdiction to the Sessions Court. The Sessions Court is bound by the Act," he said. Anwar's lawyer Ramkarpal Singh said that he would appeal against the court ruling and file his notice of appeal at the High Court by Monday. Ramkarpal said that Anwar's application challenging the constitutionality of the charge under Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 was set to continue to be heard at the High Court on Jan 11. The court then set Feb 28 for mention.
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| Robert Phang files RM100mil defamation suit against ex IGP Musa Hassan Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:52 PM PST
(The Star) - Tan Sri Robert Phang has filed a RM100mil-defamation suit against former IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan. The suit was filed at the Shah Alam High Court registry on Friday through the firm Messrs S.N. Nair & Partners. Phang claimed Musa uttered defamatory words at a press conference held by MyWatch which implied he was a dishonest, untrustworthy, unethical and a corrupt person. He claimed Musa's words were pre-meditated to tarnish his image. Phang is claiming compensatory and aggravated, exemplary damages, and other costs and relief deemed fit by the court.
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| DAP admits counting error left Zairil out of CEC Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:43 PM PST
Syed Jaymal Zahiid, The Malaysian Insider The DAP was forced to admit last night it botched up the vote count at its polls last month that saw Zairil Khir Johari shut out of the opposition party's highest leadership council despite a push to appear more racially-inclusive. Newcomer Zairil — one of the handful of Malay representatives out of a total 68 candidates vying for 20 seats in the DAP's central executive committee (CEC) — made the cut as an elected member after an audit of the December 15 polls showed it had wrongly chalked up the tabulation process. "The error was discovered after the congress and I then notified the DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng. "Lim immediately instructed that the correct results must be made public subject to an internal audit," Pooi Weng Keong, the returning officer for the 16th DAP National Congress, told a news conference last night after its CEC meeting. The party also conducted audits of the recount, carried out within the DAP by its election strategist Ong Kian Ming and externally by TCMK Associated Chartered Accountants. National publicity chief Tony Pua told reporters the party immediately held a recount, which showed Zairil had won enough votes to be elected to the CEC. He maintained the second tallying process made a slight difference to the overall outcome of the elections. The Chinese-dominated DAP had been attacked by former vice-chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim who alleged that Malays had no place in the party. Zairil, the son of former education minister, the late Tan Sri Khir Johari, won the last seat in the CEC contest with 803 votes. The 28-year-old was appointed to the CEC, as assistant national publicity secretary, after failing to be elected the first time around — a move described by the party's critics and political foes as a damage-control exercise. The political secretary to Lim, who is also Penang chief minister, said last night the recount validated his belief in the DAP as a party that stood for transparency and trust in the younger generation. He added that only political foes had looked at the party's polls from a racial perspective. "It was made a big deal by others," Zairil said last night. The CEC now has two Malay representatives, the other being Senator Dr Ariffin SM Omar who was appointed as party vice chairman.
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| SNAP’s sec-gen quits over ‘BN leanings’ Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:33 PM PST The latest resignation could trigger a major exodus from Sarawak National Party, pushing the party further into political doldrums. Joseph Tawie, FMT KUCHING: Speculations that Sarawak Nasional Party (SNAP) will return to Barisan Nasional were confirmed with the resignation of its secretary-general Frankie Nyumboi. Nyumboi cited "major differences" with SNAP president Stanley Jugol as the reason for his resignation adding that he did not want to be with a party that 'betrayed' its members. In a text message to FMT, Nyumboi said: "I have relinquished my post as secretary-general and have informed the president on Nov 30, 2012 via SMS at about 5.00 pm. "I do not agree with his direction to rejoin BN and the manner he had made the decision does not take into account the feelings and desire of members at large. "I do not want to be a party to a decision which betrays the general members' aspirations," he said, who is also the party's elected vice-president. Nyumboi, who was appointed in January last year as secretary-general, said SNAP was putting itself in a very insignificant position by adopting to be BN-friendly or 'leaning towards' BN. "Grassroots members have lost their trust and hope in the party and lately its image diminished significantly with its loud silence on political issues and the goings-on in the political scene. Perhaps this is just to appease (BN masters)," he said. With regard to his intention to contest the Mas Gading seat, Nyumboi said that it is still on unless the party refuses to endorse him. Under such circumstance, he foresees a "new scenario" emerging. He however declined to explain what the "new scenario" would be. The SNAP national council is scheduled to meet on Jan 16 to decide Nyumboi's resignation among others but the later knows his appointment as secretary-general will not be renewed. SNAP in BN? Nyumboi's resignation is expected to trigger mass resignations by those who disagree with the top leadership's decision to return to the BN fold and their resignations may send SNAP further into the abyss of political doldrums. SNAP was deregistered in November 2002 after an unresolved party leadership crisis which also resulted in the formation of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP). Even though the party's deregistration was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June 2010, SNAP's membership in BN remains a mystery. It had never been sacked from BN nor quit the BN. READ MORE HERE: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/01/04/snaps-sec-gen-quits-over-bn-leanings/
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| ‘Toothbrush maker financing Puspahanas’ Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:16 PM PST Awan Megah, the company owned by Wanita Umno Selangor chief has not spent a single sen on the 2005 project and instead gained millions, said PKR. Anisah Shukry, FMT The multi-million defence project awarded to Awan Megah Sdn Bhd is fully financed by a company specialising in the manufacturing of toothbrushes, said PKR leader Rafizi Ramli today. He said this meant that Raja Ropiaah, who owns Awan Megah, had not spent a single sen on the National Defence Education Centre (Puspahanas) project, despite having been given RM130 million and 223.33 acres of prime land in return for developing the centre. Instead, he said, the Selangor Umno Wanita chief received multiple commissions for the project from three different companies – Deepak Jaikishan's Astacanggih Sdn Bhd, Boustead Holdings Bhd (BHB) and toothbrush manufacturer GuppyUnip Sdn Bhd. "It is clear that Awan Megah is just an 'Ali Baba' company – it has no activities, no capital and just works as a middleman to gain commission, much like the Perimekar company involved in the Scorpene scandal," Rafizi told reporters at a press conference here. As proof, the PKR director of strategy provided reporters with the latest summary of Awan Megah's financial information from the Companies Comission Malaysia (CCM). The documents revealed that Awan Megah had not conducted any financial activity since 1993, and was considered a dormant company. This was despite the fact that the then defence minister Najib Tun Razak had awarded the Puspahanas project to Raja Ropiaah in 2005. Instead, copies of a private and confidental letter from the United Overseas Bank (UOB) to GuppyUnip showed it had approved a loan of RM79,250,000 for GuppyUnip in 2010. The copy, which Rafizi distributed to reporters, said the purpose of the loans was for "issuance of financial guarantee favouring Awan Megah (M) Sdn Bhd", "to pay Awan Megah Sdn Bhd" as well as to partly finance the "cost of earthwork and infrastructure costs on the subject property", among others.
"Worse still, the 223 acres of land is supposed to be for Awan Megah but the letter from UOB shows that GuppyUnip is covering the costs of the premium payment to the Selangor state government," he added. He said the bank document also revealed why the Puspahanas project was delayed for so long – it took five years for Awan Megah to find a partner which could provide it with the financial backing it needed. Meanwhile, even the unfinished Puspahanas' location remained a mystery to the public and Rafizi said he would attempt to visit the presumed construction site over the weekend. "I heard that in the past five years, they have not managed to go beyond breaking the ground," he said. 'She won't be able to escape' "Last Wednesday, I made a statement for Raja Ropiaah to come forward. What would be done with the millions, since it won't be used to fund Puspahanas? "To enrich her family? To enrich Wanita Umno? The culture of taking the rakyat's money for their own personal use is prevalent in Wanita Umno," she said. Zuraida said that should Raja Ropiaah choose to keep quiet over the missing funds, it would be to the latter's detriment as PKR Wanita would go all out to expose the scandals she was hiding. "We expect her to keep quiet, the way [Wanita Umno chief] Shahrizat Abdul Jalil did [over the National Feedlot Scandal]. But she won't be able to escape," she stressed. Rafizi also explained that the reason Awan Megah needed to pull in partners such as carpet dealer Deepak and GuppyUnip to finance the project was because it was a "shell company." "Awan Megah is only a shell company, it has no expertise in construction. In fact, it has not run any activity at all, as you can see in the CCM documents. "That is why when it was awarded Puspahanas, it had to rope in another company as a partner to actually manage the construction. And this is how Deepak came in," he explained.
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| Disillusioned activist Sindu quits STAR Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:09 PM PST Exodus from STAR is expected with the exit of long-time Sabah human rights and consumer activist. Luke Rintod, FMT PAPAR: A well-known human rights and consumer activist, Patrick Sindu, has dropped a bombshell on surging State Reform Party (STAR). He is resigning from STAR to join another opposition party, PKR. Sindu, who was STAR chief for Papar, said he had lost confidence in the party led by maverick Sabah opposition leader, Jeffrey Kitingan. Sindu claimed there will be a mass resignation from STAR following his exit. In a text message to his friends today, the former long-standing president of the now defunct Consumer Association of Sabah (Cash) said he will be joining PKR tomorrow. "I am joining PKR at 2pm tomorrow at a PKR function at Kampung Sungkadon, Papar, to be witnessed by PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail," he said. When FMT called, Sindu said details of his reasons for leaving STAR would be disclosed in his exit speech at the Papar function. "Please come tomorrow, you will hear it [the reason] in my speech…" he added. It is rumoured that Sindu has been unhappy with the way STAR has treated him. He has been particularly annoyed that Jeffrey had excluded him from the party's long list of leaders to sign a transparency pledge with Transparency International (TI) in Kota Kinabalu a few months ago. Jeffrey had apparently chosen mostly "green horns".
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| Local tabloid marks Bieber as a country Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:16 PM PST
(MSN News) - A tabloid pullout called Mega from the local Malay newspaper Utusan even quoted Justin Bieber as the ninth biggest country in the world.
Reader Firdaus Hassan captured a snapshot of a column that ran in a tabloid pullout named Mega from local Malay newspaper Utusan, which carried a short write-up entitled 'Interesting facts about Justin Bieber'. The write-up was published today. The snapshot went viral on Facebook today as the column showcased eight 'facts' about Bieber, as a country. The first 'fact' read as Bieber was 'freed from the ruling of Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 16 December 1991', whilst the second 'fact' listed Bieber as 'the ninth biggest country in the world with a population of 16.6 million (as of the year 2011)'. Another 'fact' read as there were 130 ethnic groups in Bieber country, including Kazakh, Russia, German and Ukraine. Many users find the error as amusing, calling it an 'epic typo' and that the editor must have been a 'Belieber'. |
| Non-Muslims can use ‘Allah’, Mat Sabu insists Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:53 AM PST
(The Malaysian Insider) - PAS maintains that non-Muslims are allowed to use the word "Allah" to describe their gods, says PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu, in a bid to allay fears among the religious minority that the Islamist party may be reversing its president's stand ahead of polls. He insisted that the latest polemic over the use of "Allah" by non-Muslims was limited to peninsular Malaysia and was never an issue among Muslims and Christians in Sabah, Sarawak and the Middle East. "The PAS' president had issued the statement in 2010 to not forbid any religious adherent apart from Muslims to use the word 'Allah'. "PAS maintains that stand," the 58-year-old told The Malaysian Insider, weighing in on the religious row after the party information chief Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man issued a statement last month seemingly contradicting his president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's previous remarks on the hot-button topic in mainly Muslim Malaysia. The leader popularly known as Mat Sabu (picture) noted that Abdul Hadi had already spoken out on the matter three years ago, when the debate first raged. Abdul Hadi, a respected Islamic scholar, had in a statement dated January 7, 2010 said: "In conclusion, we cannot forbid them from using the word 'Allah' among themselves, in their worship and practice, even though the meaning deviates from the original according to our language." Many Muslim Malaysians, who form 60 per cent of the 28 million population, argue that the Arabic word is a proper noun that refers exclusively to their god despite a December 31, 2009 High Court judgment saying otherwise, and ruled to allow the Catholic Church to publish the word to describe the Christian god in the Malay section of its weekly newspaper, Herald, which caters to its Bahasa Malaysia-reading congregation who mostly hail from Borneo. Read more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/non-muslims-can-use-allah-mat-sabu-insists/
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| Despite Raja Ropiaah’s land deal, Puspahanas not in sight Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:44 AM PST The carpark near the Health and Higher Education ministries in Precinct 1 of Putrajaya, which is the only known point on a map for the Puspahanas project. (The Malaysian Insider) - Senator Datuk Seri Raja Ropiaah Abdullah might have settled her legal suit and sold hotly-contested land to Boustead Holdings Bhd (BHB) but questions remain whether the Selangor Wanita Umno chief's firm has delivered a RM100 million defence education building to the government. The National Defence Education Centre or Puspahanas project ground breaking was done on November 21, 2008 but the exact location of the building is a mystery, with the only known point on a map shown to be a carpark near the Health and Higher Education ministries in Precinct 1 of Putrajaya. The unfinished Puspahanas is akin to an earlier scandal that engulfed Raja Ropiaah's Wanita Umno chief, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, when her family was accused of using a RM250 million government soft loan for personal investment instead of the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) project. There are no street signages in Putrajaya for the project, which her development company Awan Megah Sdn Bhd agreed to build in 2005 in exchange for some 80 hectares of land in Bukit Raja, Selangor and RM27 million. The other mystery is how BHB could buy the Bukit Raja land as the government had stipulated the land couldn't be sold by Awan Megah, which had earlier worked out a complicated deal with carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan to finance the Puspahanas construction. The controversial businessman had taken Raja Ropiaah to court when the deal fell through and she instead went into a joint-venture development with a plasticware maker. His revelations before the civil suit, which was heard at the same time as the last Umno annual general assembly, later led to a settlement where his company, Astacanggih Sdn Bhd had its 80 per cent majority stake sold to a BHB unit for RM30 million. Astacanggih has also proposed to buy Raja Ropiaah's land for RM130 million, although the deal could not be secured earlier due to restrictions from the government, which had yet to receive the Puspahanas facility. BHB yesterday cited expanding its landbank as the reason to buy into Astacanggih, adding today it was purely a commercial decision. In a filing to Bursa Malaysia, BHB said economies of scale can be achieved by combining the land with the adjacent 283.28ha land held under Jendela Hikmat Sdn Bhd, which the Boustead Group and Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) jointly hold a 60 per cent equity interest. Based on its experience, BHB said it is confident the acquisition of the development land will be able to generate a return on development cost of 25 per cent from the RM160 million investment.
 An artist's impression of the Puspahanas project. Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latif Ahmad declined to comment yesterday on the project, saying he did not have any information about the project that was first mooted in 1971. Read more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/despite-raja-ropiaahs-land-deal-puspahanas-not-in-sight/
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| Embassy confirms huge compensation paid to Malaysian govt Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:38 AM PST qSdxYDRFmy0 (Harakah Daily) - The Embassy of Japan has today confirmed that it had paid money to the Malaysian government being compensation for families of victims of the so-called 'Death Railway' project in the 1940s.  Jejak, the PAS-backed secretariat led by Bukit Gantang member of parliament Nizar Jamaluddin, visited the embassy today in a bid to unravel truth over some RM207 billion in unpaid compensation. Also present were PAS Youth vice chief Raja Iskandar Al-Hiss and Jejak operation chief Safarizal Saleh. Or watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdxYDRFmy0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kedutaan Jepun sahkan serah wang pampasanKedutaan Jepun di Malaysia mengesahkan kerajaan negara itu telah menyerahkan sejumlah wang pampasan kepada kerajaan Malaysia untuk diserahkan kepada buruh paksa pembinaan landasan keretapi Thailand Myanmar. Namun sehingga kini, tidak ada sebarang wang diberikan oleh kerajaan Malaysia kepada mangsa atau waris mereka.
(Rombongan bergambar di perkarangan kedutaan selepas berjumpa pegawai kedutaan)
Dalam kunjungan hari ini, Sekretariat Jejak juga meminta pihak negara Jepun memberi maklumat bila dan berapa jumlah pampasan kepada buruh binaan itu di hantar ke negara ini dan siapa yang mengesahkan penerimaan itu. Sejak didaftarkan secara rasmi pada 11 Januari 2011, persatuan terbabit telah memohon beberapa kali untuk mendapatkan wang pampasan dari kerajaan Malaysia tetapi hingga kini masih gagal.
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