‘I don’t know what I’m defending anymore’
By Ewen Boey – October 30th, 2010
Young Singaporeans like Lim Zi Rui are becoming increasingly disillusioned and they’re not afraid to let it show.
The 23-year-old final-year aerospace engineering student was among a 1,000-strong crowd who attended a Ministerial Forum organised on Friday by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Students’ Union.
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong was the guest-of-honour.
During a dialogue session after SM Goh’s main address, Lim stood up and asked if the Minister was aware that many young people no longer felt a sense of ownership in Singapore.
“When I was younger, I was very proud of being a Singaporean,” said Lim as reported in The Straits Times.
“But that was about five, ten years ago. Five years later, with all the changes in policies and the influx of foreign talent, I really don’t know what I’m defending any more.”
He said this was a view that many of the men he served with during National Service also held.
“I feel that there is a dilution of the Singapore spirit in youth… We don’t really feel comfortable in our country any more,” he said.
Mr Goh replied, “‘This is one early sign of danger… If this is happening, it is very serious.” He went on to ask Mr Lim why he felt disconnected.
Mr Lim told SM Goh, ”‘I’m still serving as an officer and I definitely would love to defend Singapore.”
But he said the key difference between him and his foreign friends was, “I tell them, this is my country. I can’t just leave here whenever I want to. You can come and play and work here, but I have to stay here.”
SM Goh responded by defending the government’s policy of welcoming foreigners.
“You want to have a home. Who’s going to build your HDB flat?” said the Minister.
Lim replied that due to the inability to afford the sky-high public housing prices, his brother had to call off his engagement.
“My brother got engaged, but lost his engagement because he could not afford an HDB flat,” said Lim, who went on to state that his question was not about “integrating foreigners”.
“My question was, how are we going to help the younger generation feel a sense of belonging to Singapore? I don’t think it’s about integrating foreigners,” said Lim.
“This is your country,” SM Goh replied. “What do you want me to do to make you feel you belong?”
“For my part, don’t worry about me,” Mr Lim said. “I will definitely do something, if I can, for Singapore. But I can tell you honestly that the sentiment on the ground is a bit different.”
“If this is happening, it is very serious,” said SM Goh.
“If the majority feel they don’t belong here, then we have a fundamental problem. Then I would ask myself: What am I doing here? Why should I be working for people who don’t feel they belong over here?” asked SM Goh.
Earlier on during the dialogue session, the Minister made the point that the next General Elections, due to be held by February 2012, would be a “watershed” for the future of Singapore from which a “fourth Prime Minister and a core team of younger ministers will emerge”.
SM Goh also challenged the young undergrads in his audience to “make a difference to Singapore” by joining local politics.
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/10/30/i-dont-know-what-im-defending-anymore/
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Penduduk sekitar Kampung Baru Cina di Gua Musang dilaporkan dibayar RM100 dan diberi sehelai kemeja-T 1Malaysia untuk mengambil bahagian di kawasan pe
Monday, November 1, 2010
RM100 untuk majlis 1Malaysia di Galas - Malaysiakini
Penduduk sekitar Kampung Baru Cina di Gua Musang dilaporkan dibayar RM100 dan diberi sehelai kemeja-T 1Malaysia untuk mengambil bahagian di kawasan perumahan mereka semalam.
Kebanyakan mereka dibayar untuk memakai kemeja-T dengan logo 1Malaysia di depan dan belakang serta dilihat berkeliaran di sekitar kawasan pilihan raya kecil Gasa di Gua Musang itu sejak beberapa hari lalu.
Kemuncaknya, semalam pada jam 3 petang, mereka berkumpul dan melaungkan slogan "1Malaysia" dan berarak sekitar kawasan berkenaan. Habuannya, selain wang tunai, mereka juga dibekalkan dengan sebuah beg yang mengandungi beberapa tin susu serta Milo.
Selain itu, mereka juga menikmati jamuan makan malam yang disediakan oleh pihak penganjur yang menamakan diri mereka sebagai 'NGO 1Malaysia' yang ditugaskan menyebarkan kempen perpaduan kerajaan, tetapi menafikan mereka berkempen untuk mana-mana parti politik.
"Antara 1,000 hingga 2,000 orang tiba untuk mendaftar (untuk majlis perakan itu). Ada juga yang bukan penduduk tempatan tetapi orang luar. Pihak penganjur hanya minta nama dan beberapa butiran lain,” kata seorang penduduk yang turut mengambil bahagian selepas jamuan makan malam berkenaan.
Dakwanya, ada juga penduduk yang mengambil kesempatan untuk mendaftar lebih daripada sekali dan oleh kerana majlis ini membabitkan ramai orang, makan tidak mungkin bagi penganjur mengecam mereka.
Pengerusi Dewan Penyokong PAS Gua Musang, Hua Pang Chow, ketika dihubungi mengesahkan perkara itu dan berkata dia dimaklumkan mengenainya oleh penduduk tempatan.
"Malah, saya alu-alukan penduduk supaya pergi dan ambil wang serta barangan. Yang penting, kita tetap undi PAS,” katanya.
Sia Teck Keong, penyelaras bagi NGO 1Malaysia di Gua Musang, ketika dihubungi berkata mereka berada di Galas untuk memupuk kempen perpaduan.
Beliau menafikan mereka yang terlibat dibayar tetapi mengakui penduduk diberikan barangan dan kemeja-T.
"Kita lakukan ini di seluruh Malaysia dan secara kebetulan pilihan raya kecil diadakan di sini. Kita akan anjurkan sekali lagi (hari ini), pada jam 11 pagi,” katanya.
Ditanya sumber kewangan yang diperolehi bagi membeli barangan untuk diedarkan kepada penduduk, Sia berkata, ia hasil derma usahawan dan peniaga yang menyokong usaha kumpulan itu.
Malaysiakini
RM100 untuk majlis 1Malaysia di Galas - Malaysiakini
Penduduk sekitar Kampung Baru Cina di Gua Musang dilaporkan dibayar RM100 dan diberi sehelai kemeja-T 1Malaysia untuk mengambil bahagian di kawasan perumahan mereka semalam.
Kebanyakan mereka dibayar untuk memakai kemeja-T dengan logo 1Malaysia di depan dan belakang serta dilihat berkeliaran di sekitar kawasan pilihan raya kecil Gasa di Gua Musang itu sejak beberapa hari lalu.
Kemuncaknya, semalam pada jam 3 petang, mereka berkumpul dan melaungkan slogan "1Malaysia" dan berarak sekitar kawasan berkenaan. Habuannya, selain wang tunai, mereka juga dibekalkan dengan sebuah beg yang mengandungi beberapa tin susu serta Milo.
Selain itu, mereka juga menikmati jamuan makan malam yang disediakan oleh pihak penganjur yang menamakan diri mereka sebagai 'NGO 1Malaysia' yang ditugaskan menyebarkan kempen perpaduan kerajaan, tetapi menafikan mereka berkempen untuk mana-mana parti politik.
"Antara 1,000 hingga 2,000 orang tiba untuk mendaftar (untuk majlis perakan itu). Ada juga yang bukan penduduk tempatan tetapi orang luar. Pihak penganjur hanya minta nama dan beberapa butiran lain,” kata seorang penduduk yang turut mengambil bahagian selepas jamuan makan malam berkenaan.
Dakwanya, ada juga penduduk yang mengambil kesempatan untuk mendaftar lebih daripada sekali dan oleh kerana majlis ini membabitkan ramai orang, makan tidak mungkin bagi penganjur mengecam mereka.
Pengerusi Dewan Penyokong PAS Gua Musang, Hua Pang Chow, ketika dihubungi mengesahkan perkara itu dan berkata dia dimaklumkan mengenainya oleh penduduk tempatan.
"Malah, saya alu-alukan penduduk supaya pergi dan ambil wang serta barangan. Yang penting, kita tetap undi PAS,” katanya.
Sia Teck Keong, penyelaras bagi NGO 1Malaysia di Gua Musang, ketika dihubungi berkata mereka berada di Galas untuk memupuk kempen perpaduan.
Beliau menafikan mereka yang terlibat dibayar tetapi mengakui penduduk diberikan barangan dan kemeja-T.
"Kita lakukan ini di seluruh Malaysia dan secara kebetulan pilihan raya kecil diadakan di sini. Kita akan anjurkan sekali lagi (hari ini), pada jam 11 pagi,” katanya.
Ditanya sumber kewangan yang diperolehi bagi membeli barangan untuk diedarkan kepada penduduk, Sia berkata, ia hasil derma usahawan dan peniaga yang menyokong usaha kumpulan itu.
Malaysiakini
undilah PAS, undilah Pakatan Rakyat....... Balik mengundi sekalipun merangkak
Monday, November 1, 2010
Balik mengundi sekalipun merangkak
KUALA LUMPUR, 31 Okt: Pengundi Dun Galas di perantauan digesa pulang mengundi pada 4 November ini sekalipun terpaksa merangkak, kata Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
Menurut beliau yang juga Menteri Besar Kelantan, adalah menjadi satu kewajipan untuk menunaikan tanggungjawab memilih pemimpin sama ada di peringkat negara, negeri mahupun Dun, di kalangan orang yang beragama.
"Saya mintak tuan-tuan balik, kalau tak dapat balik dengan kapal terbang, balik dengan kereta, kalau tak boleh dengan kereta, balik berjalan kaki, meranggakak sekali pun kena balik.
"Dosa besar kita biar orang kafir, orang munafik 'ghanya' (merosakkan) ekonomi kita, akidah kita," katanya yang juga Mursyidul Am PAS.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap kepada lebih 100 anak-anak Dun Galas di perantaun pada Majlis Minum Teh bersama Menteri Besar Kelantan di sebuah hotel di ibu negara petang tadi.
Hadir sama pada majlis itu, exco kerajaan Kelantan, Datuk Husam Musa, Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan, Abdul Fatah Mahmood, Pengarah Pilihan Raya PAS, Datuk Halim Abdul Rahman serta pimpinan PAS kawasan Galas.
Calon PAS bagi PRK Galas, Dr Zulkefli Mohamad bagaimanapun tidak dapat hadir kerana jadual kempen di kawasan yang padat dan hanya menghantar wakil calon.
Tambah Tuan Guru Nik Aziz lagi, perebutan menjaga negeri antara hak dan batil sudah berlaku sejak zaman Nabi lagi, dan apa yang berlaku hari ini bukan rekaan PAS tetapi tuntutan agama.
Beliau juga menggesa agar orang Islam khasnya di Galas tidak percaya dengan dakwaan Umno bahawa urusan pentadbiran negara adalah urusan politik bukan urusan agama.
"Bukan PAS dengan Umno sahaja yang berebut, Nabi Muhammad SAW dulu berebut jaga negeri dengan adik beradik dia Abu Lahab, Abu Jahal dan Abu Sufian.
"Patutnya yang lawan kita MCA, MIC<>
Sementara itu, pada majlis sama, Tuan Guru turut menyerahkan bendera PAS kepada wakil anak-anak Galas di perantauan.
Beliau menyeru mereka agar memasang bendera tersebut pada kenderaan masing masing waktu pulang mengundi nanti.
Harakahdaily
http://ayid-manjaddawajada.blogspot.com/2010/11/balik-mengundi-sekalipun-merangkak.html
Balik mengundi sekalipun merangkak
KUALA LUMPUR, 31 Okt: Pengundi Dun Galas di perantauan digesa pulang mengundi pada 4 November ini sekalipun terpaksa merangkak, kata Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
Menurut beliau yang juga Menteri Besar Kelantan, adalah menjadi satu kewajipan untuk menunaikan tanggungjawab memilih pemimpin sama ada di peringkat negara, negeri mahupun Dun, di kalangan orang yang beragama.
"Saya mintak tuan-tuan balik, kalau tak dapat balik dengan kapal terbang, balik dengan kereta, kalau tak boleh dengan kereta, balik berjalan kaki, meranggakak sekali pun kena balik.
"Dosa besar kita biar orang kafir, orang munafik 'ghanya' (merosakkan) ekonomi kita, akidah kita," katanya yang juga Mursyidul Am PAS.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap kepada lebih 100 anak-anak Dun Galas di perantaun pada Majlis Minum Teh bersama Menteri Besar Kelantan di sebuah hotel di ibu negara petang tadi.
Hadir sama pada majlis itu, exco kerajaan Kelantan, Datuk Husam Musa, Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan, Abdul Fatah Mahmood, Pengarah Pilihan Raya PAS, Datuk Halim Abdul Rahman serta pimpinan PAS kawasan Galas.
Calon PAS bagi PRK Galas, Dr Zulkefli Mohamad bagaimanapun tidak dapat hadir kerana jadual kempen di kawasan yang padat dan hanya menghantar wakil calon.
Tambah Tuan Guru Nik Aziz lagi, perebutan menjaga negeri antara hak dan batil sudah berlaku sejak zaman Nabi lagi, dan apa yang berlaku hari ini bukan rekaan PAS tetapi tuntutan agama.
Beliau juga menggesa agar orang Islam khasnya di Galas tidak percaya dengan dakwaan Umno bahawa urusan pentadbiran negara adalah urusan politik bukan urusan agama.
"Bukan PAS dengan Umno sahaja yang berebut, Nabi Muhammad SAW dulu berebut jaga negeri dengan adik beradik dia Abu Lahab, Abu Jahal dan Abu Sufian.
"Patutnya yang lawan kita MCA, MIC<>
Sementara itu, pada majlis sama, Tuan Guru turut menyerahkan bendera PAS kepada wakil anak-anak Galas di perantauan.
Beliau menyeru mereka agar memasang bendera tersebut pada kenderaan masing masing waktu pulang mengundi nanti.
Harakahdaily
http://ayid-manjaddawajada.blogspot.com/2010/11/balik-mengundi-sekalipun-merangkak.html
Saturday, October 30, 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010
How could 3,793 students disappear after drawing in advance loans totaling RM4.9 million, and caused the PTPTN unable...........
Friday, October 29, 2010
When will all these financial scandals end?
Lim Mun Fah
Many people are wondering: How could there be so many scandals revealed by the Auditor-General Report every year? The problems do not lie in the shocking degree of the scandals, but why are these similar scandals repeating every year?
How could 16,013 of students allowed to draw RM2,378 in advance even though they did not apply loans from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN)?
How could 3,793 students disappear after drawing in advance loans totaling RM4.9 million, and caused the PTPTN unable to collect the debts?
How could the Higher Education Ministry able to collect only RM1.51 billion of the RM3.19 billion debts with a recovery rate of less than 50%?
How could so many government departments and agencies not yet learn how to manage money even though they have ruled for decades? How could so many of them overspend, causing the accumulated overrun amount for a year to reach as high as RM4 billion?
Even more difficult to understand, with such a huge amount of cost overruns, shoddy works can actually still be found everywhere.
* Nutritious sardine sandwiches have been turned into buttered bread.
* An ordinary chair costs RM80 originally has become a luxurious chair costs RM415.
* Spanish mackerel, black pomfret and red snapper have been replaced with cheaper fishes while no investigation has been conducted and no refund is made.
Enough, enough, we have heard enough!
Never mind, never mind, we are numb!
Anyway, it has become an annual grand event like the Academic Awards as every year when the Auditor-General Report is released, the media will make a full coverage of the scandals.
Anyway, we will have to suffer a great shock and make criticism every year when the Auditor-General Report is released.
Anyway, the plot of the show is always similar, only the time and the leading characters will be different.
Anyway, the similar process will repeat itself every year and the atmosphere will resume deserted after the bustling noises.
What is the purpose of preparing the report if they only play up the issue to scare those who are involved in the scandals but do not take further action to prevent a repetition?
Very well, the government has actually taken actions. To prevent a recurrence of cost overruns, the Finance Ministry has made four recommendations while the Higher Education Ministry will take numerous improvement measures to enhance supervision and collection of debts.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has also said that a total of 13 investigation papers (KS), 14 preliminary investigation papers (KPA) and five examination and consultation (KPP) papers have been initiated following the release of the 2009 Auditor-General’s report.
I hope we can soon see corrupt officials and contractors who are responsible for the shoddy works being sacked and charged.
Since the scandals have been revealed, those who are responsible must then be punished. The people will be satisfied only if the scandals end in such a way! -
Sin Chew Daily
Posted by admin@ malaysiachronicle at 12:30 PM
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Anonymous said...
Financial scandal will stop if BN fall.
Anonymous said...
Actually these Financial Scandals are meant to be !
Otherwise how would your children become filthy rich?
Anyway the curse of Allah on their families will always be there. God acts in mysterious ways. People know the consequences of possessing sial money !
Anonymous said...
the government is simply not interest to fight corruption because of cronism. Misappropriation is a crime and can also be punished under disciplinary proceedings and there is provision for surcharge. Make the person who approved the contract and who paid for the sum be criminally liable and be liable in tortious act. Then you will see auditor report will become more meaningful otherwise it is window dressing only
Diveman69 said...
All those Kertas Siasatan will just end up being stamped NFA by MACC. That's what will happen!!!! Why? Because some big shot, UMNO/BN warlord (Ketua Cawangan or Ketua Bahagian) is involved and is 'untouchable'!!!! You know it I know it heck everyone knows it. It's an open secret!!!
Anonymous said...
Why is mahathir keeping quiet?
.........................
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/2010/10/when-will-all-these-financial-scandals.html
When will all these financial scandals end?
Lim Mun Fah
Many people are wondering: How could there be so many scandals revealed by the Auditor-General Report every year? The problems do not lie in the shocking degree of the scandals, but why are these similar scandals repeating every year?
How could 16,013 of students allowed to draw RM2,378 in advance even though they did not apply loans from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN)?
How could 3,793 students disappear after drawing in advance loans totaling RM4.9 million, and caused the PTPTN unable to collect the debts?
How could the Higher Education Ministry able to collect only RM1.51 billion of the RM3.19 billion debts with a recovery rate of less than 50%?
How could so many government departments and agencies not yet learn how to manage money even though they have ruled for decades? How could so many of them overspend, causing the accumulated overrun amount for a year to reach as high as RM4 billion?
Even more difficult to understand, with such a huge amount of cost overruns, shoddy works can actually still be found everywhere.
* Nutritious sardine sandwiches have been turned into buttered bread.
* An ordinary chair costs RM80 originally has become a luxurious chair costs RM415.
* Spanish mackerel, black pomfret and red snapper have been replaced with cheaper fishes while no investigation has been conducted and no refund is made.
Enough, enough, we have heard enough!
Never mind, never mind, we are numb!
Anyway, it has become an annual grand event like the Academic Awards as every year when the Auditor-General Report is released, the media will make a full coverage of the scandals.
Anyway, we will have to suffer a great shock and make criticism every year when the Auditor-General Report is released.
Anyway, the plot of the show is always similar, only the time and the leading characters will be different.
Anyway, the similar process will repeat itself every year and the atmosphere will resume deserted after the bustling noises.
What is the purpose of preparing the report if they only play up the issue to scare those who are involved in the scandals but do not take further action to prevent a repetition?
Very well, the government has actually taken actions. To prevent a recurrence of cost overruns, the Finance Ministry has made four recommendations while the Higher Education Ministry will take numerous improvement measures to enhance supervision and collection of debts.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has also said that a total of 13 investigation papers (KS), 14 preliminary investigation papers (KPA) and five examination and consultation (KPP) papers have been initiated following the release of the 2009 Auditor-General’s report.
I hope we can soon see corrupt officials and contractors who are responsible for the shoddy works being sacked and charged.
Since the scandals have been revealed, those who are responsible must then be punished. The people will be satisfied only if the scandals end in such a way! -
Sin Chew Daily
Posted by admin@ malaysiachronicle at 12:30 PM
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Anonymous said...
Financial scandal will stop if BN fall.
Anonymous said...
Actually these Financial Scandals are meant to be !
Otherwise how would your children become filthy rich?
Anyway the curse of Allah on their families will always be there. God acts in mysterious ways. People know the consequences of possessing sial money !
Anonymous said...
the government is simply not interest to fight corruption because of cronism. Misappropriation is a crime and can also be punished under disciplinary proceedings and there is provision for surcharge. Make the person who approved the contract and who paid for the sum be criminally liable and be liable in tortious act. Then you will see auditor report will become more meaningful otherwise it is window dressing only
Diveman69 said...
All those Kertas Siasatan will just end up being stamped NFA by MACC. That's what will happen!!!! Why? Because some big shot, UMNO/BN warlord (Ketua Cawangan or Ketua Bahagian) is involved and is 'untouchable'!!!! You know it I know it heck everyone knows it. It's an open secret!!!
Anonymous said...
Why is mahathir keeping quiet?
.........................
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/2010/10/when-will-all-these-financial-scandals.html
EKOSISTEM DIANCAM TERUK OLEH PENDATANG HARAM
PUCHONG: Mencemarkan pandangan mata apabila puluhan rumah setinggan didirikan dipercayai didiami pendatang Indonesia yang bekerja sebagai buruh binaan dan kilang industri di tebing Sungai Puchong dekat Pangsapuri Angsana Hilir, di sini, sejak empat bulan lalu.
Tinjauan Metroplus di kawasan berkenaan mendapati lebih 10 unit rumah setinggan setingkat dan dua tingkat diperbuat daripada kayu didirikan yang terlindung di sebalik pokok besar.
Penduduk, Rozita Abd Razak, 38, berkata, pendatang berani mendirikan rumah setinggan itu kerana ia tersorok di sebalik pokok besar hingga tidak kelihatan penduduk sekitar.
Katanya, penempatan haram itu boleh mendatangkan pelbagai masalah sekiranya tidak dibendung kerana mereka mungkin akan menambah lagi bilangan rumah serta mengajak masyarakat mereka mendiami kawasan itu.
“Kita bukan tidak suka dengan pendatang asing tetapi kedatangan mereka yang sesuka hati mendirikan rumah boleh menimbulkan pelbagai masalah termasuk kecurian dan rompakan kerana pada masa ini pelbagai masalah jenayah berlaku di sini.
“Kami bukan mahu menuduh mereka melakukan jenayah, tetapi eloklah kita berjaga sebelum kena,” katanya ketika ditemui di Pangsapuri Angsana Hilir,.
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Menurutnya, penambahan warga asing di kawasan itu membimbangkan kerana menyebabkan jenayah kecil seperti kecurian berlaku hingga menakutkan penduduk terutama wanita.
Peniaga, Nasir Mohamad, 45, berkata, walaupun kedatangan setinggan tidak mengancam penduduk, ia memberi kesan pada masa akan datang kerana mereka berani mendirikan rumah dua tingkat diperbuat daripada kayu.
Katanya, kawasan tebing sungai diteroka boleh merosakkan ekosistem air kerana mungkin mereka menggunakan sungai sebagai punca air dan melakukan kegiatan harian.
“Kita tidak mahu kehadiran mereka memberi kesan kepada pelbagai pihak dan meminta pihak berkenaan mengambil tindakan segera bagi melegakan hati masyarakat,” katanya.
Sementara itu, Pegawai Perhubungan Awam Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ), Azfarizal Abdul Rashid berkata, pihaknya akan membuat siasatan perumahan setinggan sebelum tindakan sewajarnya diambil.
Katanya, perumahan itu mungkin baru kerana Subang Jaya bersih daripada setinggan apabila semua penduduk dipindahkan ke perumahan yang disediakan.
“Pada masa ini tidak sepatutnya ada setinggan kerana dasar inflasi sifar sudah menghapuskan semuanya dan mungkin ia dibina oleh pendatang asing,” katanya.
Tinjauan Metroplus di kawasan berkenaan mendapati lebih 10 unit rumah setinggan setingkat dan dua tingkat diperbuat daripada kayu didirikan yang terlindung di sebalik pokok besar.
Penduduk, Rozita Abd Razak, 38, berkata, pendatang berani mendirikan rumah setinggan itu kerana ia tersorok di sebalik pokok besar hingga tidak kelihatan penduduk sekitar.
Katanya, penempatan haram itu boleh mendatangkan pelbagai masalah sekiranya tidak dibendung kerana mereka mungkin akan menambah lagi bilangan rumah serta mengajak masyarakat mereka mendiami kawasan itu.
“Kita bukan tidak suka dengan pendatang asing tetapi kedatangan mereka yang sesuka hati mendirikan rumah boleh menimbulkan pelbagai masalah termasuk kecurian dan rompakan kerana pada masa ini pelbagai masalah jenayah berlaku di sini.
“Kami bukan mahu menuduh mereka melakukan jenayah, tetapi eloklah kita berjaga sebelum kena,” katanya ketika ditemui di Pangsapuri Angsana Hilir,.
Click Here
Menurutnya, penambahan warga asing di kawasan itu membimbangkan kerana menyebabkan jenayah kecil seperti kecurian berlaku hingga menakutkan penduduk terutama wanita.
Peniaga, Nasir Mohamad, 45, berkata, walaupun kedatangan setinggan tidak mengancam penduduk, ia memberi kesan pada masa akan datang kerana mereka berani mendirikan rumah dua tingkat diperbuat daripada kayu.
Katanya, kawasan tebing sungai diteroka boleh merosakkan ekosistem air kerana mungkin mereka menggunakan sungai sebagai punca air dan melakukan kegiatan harian.
“Kita tidak mahu kehadiran mereka memberi kesan kepada pelbagai pihak dan meminta pihak berkenaan mengambil tindakan segera bagi melegakan hati masyarakat,” katanya.
Sementara itu, Pegawai Perhubungan Awam Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ), Azfarizal Abdul Rashid berkata, pihaknya akan membuat siasatan perumahan setinggan sebelum tindakan sewajarnya diambil.
Katanya, perumahan itu mungkin baru kerana Subang Jaya bersih daripada setinggan apabila semua penduduk dipindahkan ke perumahan yang disediakan.
“Pada masa ini tidak sepatutnya ada setinggan kerana dasar inflasi sifar sudah menghapuskan semuanya dan mungkin ia dibina oleh pendatang asing,” katanya.
BIG FRYING PAN
Two men went fishing. One man was an experienced fisherman, the other
wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it
in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman
caught a big fish, he threw it back.
The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired
of seeing this man waste good fish. "Why do you keep throwing back all the
big fish you catch?" he asked.
The inexperienced fisherman replied, "I only have a small frying pan."
Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throw back the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that comes our way.
Our faith and confidence are too small and shallow.
We may laugh at that fisherman who didn't figure out that all he needed was
a bigger frying pan...............
Yet we never ask ourselves how ready are we to increase the size of our faith/confidence?
Whether it's a problem or a possibility, you'll realise with hindsight that you will never be given anything bigger than you can handle.
It is important to note that when the time or opportunity comes, it is the time to perform rather than to start acting.......... Are you ready?
Two men went fishing. One man was an experienced fisherman, the other
wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it
in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman
caught a big fish, he threw it back.
The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired
of seeing this man waste good fish. "Why do you keep throwing back all the
big fish you catch?" he asked.
The inexperienced fisherman replied, "I only have a small frying pan."
Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throw back the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that comes our way.
Our faith and confidence are too small and shallow.
We may laugh at that fisherman who didn't figure out that all he needed was
a bigger frying pan...............
Yet we never ask ourselves how ready are we to increase the size of our faith/confidence?
Whether it's a problem or a possibility, you'll realise with hindsight that you will never be given anything bigger than you can handle.
It is important to note that when the time or opportunity comes, it is the time to perform rather than to start acting.......... Are you ready?
ON A POSITIVE NOTE
ON A POSITIVE NOTE
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life
does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she
handles these three things: 1) a rainy day, 2) lost luggage, 3) tangled
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll
miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that "making a living" is not the same as "making a life."
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on
both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you
focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and
doing the best you can, happiness will find you.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually
make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love that human touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just a
friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Finally, I've learned that you should pass this along to someone you care
about. I just did. Sometimes you just need a little something to make you
smile.
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life
does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she
handles these three things: 1) a rainy day, 2) lost luggage, 3) tangled
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll
miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that "making a living" is not the same as "making a life."
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on
both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you
focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and
doing the best you can, happiness will find you.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually
make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love that human touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just a
friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Finally, I've learned that you should pass this along to someone you care
about. I just did. Sometimes you just need a little something to make you
smile.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
求求你，不好这么快大选。。。燕姐才到过26个国家，62个城市，也只花了三百多万，她还没环游完这个世界，还没花够！！
黄燕燕2年出国开销325万元
世博大马馆册子被揭错误百出
继被行动党华都牙也国会议员冯宝君追问之后，旅游部长黄燕燕又再被国会议员提问出国访问的开销。这回提问的议员，竟然是其马华同僚——马华前总会长兼班登国会议员翁诗杰
根据黄燕燕在国会的书面回答指出，本身自成为旅游部长以来，共耗用了325万令吉出国拜访，其中于去年耗用了167万令吉，而今年起截至10月则耗用了158万令吉。
翁诗杰与黄燕燕曾在马华历史性的328重选时隶属不同派系，其中翁诗杰是俗称“翁派”的领军人物，而黄燕燕则被指是隶属马华总会长蔡细历的“蔡派”大将。
翁诗杰的提问是，自黄燕燕受委当旅游部长以来，共进行了多少次海外访问，所耗资的费用多少，以及所带来的效益为何？
根据黄燕燕的书面回答，“自被委任以来，截至2010年10月，旅游部长共出国16次，曾到访26个国家、61个城市。”
出国拜访有助旅游业成长
回答指出，黄燕燕出国推广大马旅游业的举动，成功帮助国家旅游业的成长。
“根据联合国世界旅游组织的报告，全球的游客在去年下滑了4.2%，而全球旅游业的收入也下降了5.7%。”
“基于全球旅游业的萎缩及为了吸引更多游客前来马来西亚，我们必须主动出击推广我们的国家。”
黄燕燕也指出，本身到世界各地推广大马，成功在2009年提升大马在 “到访过的最受欢迎国家”排行榜的位置，从第11位上升到第10位。
“由于我们在2008年只排在第11位，因此这是一个巨大的成功，只有2个亚洲国家成功打入10大，即大马和中国。”
“这些努力的成果是，在今年1月至8月间，前来拜访我国的游客已增加1618万人或15.2%，比起2009年同期的成绩只有1538万人。”
“事实上，比起2008年只有2205万名游客，2009年的游客总人数也增加了2365万人或7.2%。”
陆兆福斥“超级旅游部长”
值得一提的是，黄燕燕早在本周二以书面方式回答翁诗杰，但在今日揭露此事者，却是民主行动党亚沙国会议员陆兆福。
他今日在国会走廊召开记者会指出，325万令吉只是黄燕燕的个人开支，並不包括官员的费用。
他希望黄燕燕往后可以用更专业的方式吸引外国游客访马，并非每个月出国旅游。
“如果黄燕燕每拜访一个国家，即可吸引数以万计的该国游客到我国观光，那么，黄燕燕可以被称为‘超级旅游部长’。”
大马馆册子拼音错误百出
此外，陆兆福也对旅游部在上海世博会中，分发英文文法错误百出的小册子表示震惊。
他也对旅游部的懒散态度表示失望，並呼吁该部正视此事，或收回有关小册子加以修正。
陆兆福说，“来自多个不同国家的游客会前往上海世博会，而当他们拜访大马馆，都会被派发一份小册子。”
“正当这些小册子旨在推广我国的时候，为何这些充满明显错误的小册子能派发给外国游客？它只会为我国带来坏印象，对旅游部带来的伤害更深。”
这两名反对党议员指出，小册子共有12个拼音错误，连相当基本的英文字眼城市“city”都会被拼错成“ctry”，多元文化“'multicultural'”则被拼错成“nulticultural”，及邀请“invite”被拼错成“incite”。
其他的英文错字包括将“development”拼错成“decelopment”，及“visitors”被拼错成“visitious”。
陆兆福对旅游部在没经官方校对便派发小车子的决定，表示难以置信及震惊。
据早前报导，大马馆的屋顶曾漏水，根据黄燕燕上个月在国会下议院的书面回答，她已指示承包商立刻采取行动维修屋顶。
黄燕燕较早前也提供一份书面答复予冯宝君，回答自己在2010年8月18日至29日，率团到纽西兰及澳洲访问的费用。她与其伴侣及助理3人，在这10天总共花费了24万4720令吉的公帑。
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Pua Kai Chek: 求求你，不好这么快大选。。。燕姐才到过26个国家，62个城市，也只花了三百多万，她还没环游完这个世界，还没花够！！！
Jason Leng Kek Mun: Woo Hoo...我区国会议员是非常尽责旅游的部长，难怪没空回来处理武吉公满山埃问题。
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世博大马馆册子被揭错误百出
继被行动党华都牙也国会议员冯宝君追问之后，旅游部长黄燕燕又再被国会议员提问出国访问的开销。这回提问的议员，竟然是其马华同僚——马华前总会长兼班登国会议员翁诗杰
根据黄燕燕在国会的书面回答指出，本身自成为旅游部长以来，共耗用了325万令吉出国拜访，其中于去年耗用了167万令吉，而今年起截至10月则耗用了158万令吉。
翁诗杰与黄燕燕曾在马华历史性的328重选时隶属不同派系，其中翁诗杰是俗称“翁派”的领军人物，而黄燕燕则被指是隶属马华总会长蔡细历的“蔡派”大将。
翁诗杰的提问是，自黄燕燕受委当旅游部长以来，共进行了多少次海外访问，所耗资的费用多少，以及所带来的效益为何？
根据黄燕燕的书面回答，“自被委任以来，截至2010年10月，旅游部长共出国16次，曾到访26个国家、61个城市。”
出国拜访有助旅游业成长
回答指出，黄燕燕出国推广大马旅游业的举动，成功帮助国家旅游业的成长。
“根据联合国世界旅游组织的报告，全球的游客在去年下滑了4.2%，而全球旅游业的收入也下降了5.7%。”
“基于全球旅游业的萎缩及为了吸引更多游客前来马来西亚，我们必须主动出击推广我们的国家。”
黄燕燕也指出，本身到世界各地推广大马，成功在2009年提升大马在 “到访过的最受欢迎国家”排行榜的位置，从第11位上升到第10位。
“由于我们在2008年只排在第11位，因此这是一个巨大的成功，只有2个亚洲国家成功打入10大，即大马和中国。”
“这些努力的成果是，在今年1月至8月间，前来拜访我国的游客已增加1618万人或15.2%，比起2009年同期的成绩只有1538万人。”
“事实上，比起2008年只有2205万名游客，2009年的游客总人数也增加了2365万人或7.2%。”
陆兆福斥“超级旅游部长”
值得一提的是，黄燕燕早在本周二以书面方式回答翁诗杰，但在今日揭露此事者，却是民主行动党亚沙国会议员陆兆福。
他今日在国会走廊召开记者会指出，325万令吉只是黄燕燕的个人开支，並不包括官员的费用。
他希望黄燕燕往后可以用更专业的方式吸引外国游客访马，并非每个月出国旅游。
“如果黄燕燕每拜访一个国家，即可吸引数以万计的该国游客到我国观光，那么，黄燕燕可以被称为‘超级旅游部长’。”
大马馆册子拼音错误百出
此外，陆兆福也对旅游部在上海世博会中，分发英文文法错误百出的小册子表示震惊。
他也对旅游部的懒散态度表示失望，並呼吁该部正视此事，或收回有关小册子加以修正。
陆兆福说，“来自多个不同国家的游客会前往上海世博会，而当他们拜访大马馆，都会被派发一份小册子。”
“正当这些小册子旨在推广我国的时候，为何这些充满明显错误的小册子能派发给外国游客？它只会为我国带来坏印象，对旅游部带来的伤害更深。”
这两名反对党议员指出，小册子共有12个拼音错误，连相当基本的英文字眼城市“city”都会被拼错成“ctry”，多元文化“'multicultural'”则被拼错成“nulticultural”，及邀请“invite”被拼错成“incite”。
其他的英文错字包括将“development”拼错成“decelopment”，及“visitors”被拼错成“visitious”。
陆兆福对旅游部在没经官方校对便派发小车子的决定，表示难以置信及震惊。
据早前报导，大马馆的屋顶曾漏水，根据黄燕燕上个月在国会下议院的书面回答，她已指示承包商立刻采取行动维修屋顶。
黄燕燕较早前也提供一份书面答复予冯宝君，回答自己在2010年8月18日至29日，率团到纽西兰及澳洲访问的费用。她与其伴侣及助理3人，在这10天总共花费了24万4720令吉的公帑。
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Pua Kai Chek: 求求你，不好这么快大选。。。燕姐才到过26个国家，62个城市，也只花了三百多万，她还没环游完这个世界，还没花够！！！
Jason Leng Kek Mun: Woo Hoo...我区国会议员是非常尽责旅游的部长，难怪没空回来处理武吉公满山埃问题。
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電影《父後七日》 。。。這是一部不可多得的好國片，也是少見笑談生死的好電影，強烈建議親子偕同欣賞
電影《父後七日》
老實說，其實我一直不大敢看這部片，倒不是怕勾起回憶裡的畫面，當然這也是理由之一。
最大的障礙是，我很怕一身披麻帶孝的造型，感覺很怪，可能是小時候殭屍片看太多，有陰影，怕死人會突然從棺材裡蹦出來，而最接近棺材的，就是一身披麻帶孝的那一群人。
只是想歸想，前幾天朋友約看《父後七日》時，倒是沒考慮太久，心情像是愛看鬼片的膽小鬼，有人陪，怕什麼。
《父後七日》這部電影很特別，一開始就用了帶點喜感的音樂揭開父親死亡的訊息，道士悠然的華爾滋也讓死亡在此時多了點戲謔的輕鬆。
如此的鋪成，成功消融了我在進戲院前內心的陰影，少了恐懼，多了點幽默看待生死的心境，電影也由此揭開序幕。
道士阿義的角色最成功，完全撐出了這個角色近百分百的發揮，個性鮮明，長相喜感，讓我原本印象中B咖的演員，有了完美A咖的表現。
女兒阿梅的個性也很討喜，小聲說，我喜歡這類女孩的個性，有能力但不強勢，能登國際也能鄉土俗的好女孩，典型上的了台面，下的了廳廚的好女人。
哥哥大志的角色還算喜感，只是有點小可惜，電影裡交待他與父親的感情過少，所以有點撐不起最後掩面而泣的力道。
阿琴的角色蠻讚的，大剌剌的個性很具鄉土味，在她身上能輕易找回都市缺少的人情味。她扛了不少電影的笑點，還算稱職的甘草人物。
表弟小莊的角色有點可惜，好不容易用母親用興趣與道士阿義搭上了線，卻沒能在最後開花結果。也許是我期待太高，可能是「叫哥哥」那段讓我笑出聲，難免會開始期待後續師徒的發展。加上小莊媽媽又是道士阿義無緣的情人，導演也花了不小的篇幅開了情史笑梗，卻未交待阿義與小莊媽媽後續的情緣，這段浪漫似乎落的有點虎頭蛇尾。
想說的是，《父後七日》算是一部相當具誠意的國片，電影過程中不時有亮點，成功引起觀眾一波又一波的情緒。笑中帶淚，淚中帶笑，近乎無冷場的劇情讓人不難想像「林榮三文學獎」首獎作品原著的精采程度。
印象深刻的一幕，是女兒阿梅載著父親遺照經過大橋時，阿梅回憶起父親為自己臨時慶生的畫面，成功道盡景物依舊，人事全非的陣陣心酸感。
只是容我雞蛋裡挑骨頭一下，可能是電影起了漂亮的頭與精采的中段內容，讓我開始期待結局導演要給我上的是什麼人生大菜？
就我個人的觀感，結局應該能再深刻一點，父親走後的七天，第七天的處理似乎太過匆促，感覺有點像是梗都用完，所以只好如此般的簡捷。電影末尾，如果導演想表達的是對生命的無力感，是日子還得過下去的無奈感，那阿梅與朋友喝酒那段，似乎加的有點贅。
結局的力道如果能有阿梅在橋上與父親那段回憶與真實的情感力道，感動的尾勁一定會教人更加深刻。
總結，這是一部不可多得的好國片，也是少見笑談生死的好電影，強烈建議親子偕同欣賞，一方面同遊，一方面讓小朋友及早看見生命的盡頭，讓他們自然而然思惟親情的珍貴，也讓每個人都能在親見死亡的末路儀式後，更能擁有笑看生死不過彈指間那般遼闊心境，那般豁達人生……
(攝影、文字 / 塵襲)
‧塵襲2010年最新生命勵志小說《極地之光》
http://heavener.pixnet.net/blog/post/27121344
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（当应念：OM MOLI ZHIYI ， SO HA。。。。每天口念，心念千次，万次！！！）
（OM GURU LIAN SHENG XITI HOM。。。。。。今天起，千次，万次！！！）
老實說，其實我一直不大敢看這部片，倒不是怕勾起回憶裡的畫面，當然這也是理由之一。
最大的障礙是，我很怕一身披麻帶孝的造型，感覺很怪，可能是小時候殭屍片看太多，有陰影，怕死人會突然從棺材裡蹦出來，而最接近棺材的，就是一身披麻帶孝的那一群人。
只是想歸想，前幾天朋友約看《父後七日》時，倒是沒考慮太久，心情像是愛看鬼片的膽小鬼，有人陪，怕什麼。
《父後七日》這部電影很特別，一開始就用了帶點喜感的音樂揭開父親死亡的訊息，道士悠然的華爾滋也讓死亡在此時多了點戲謔的輕鬆。
如此的鋪成，成功消融了我在進戲院前內心的陰影，少了恐懼，多了點幽默看待生死的心境，電影也由此揭開序幕。
道士阿義的角色最成功，完全撐出了這個角色近百分百的發揮，個性鮮明，長相喜感，讓我原本印象中B咖的演員，有了完美A咖的表現。
女兒阿梅的個性也很討喜，小聲說，我喜歡這類女孩的個性，有能力但不強勢，能登國際也能鄉土俗的好女孩，典型上的了台面，下的了廳廚的好女人。
哥哥大志的角色還算喜感，只是有點小可惜，電影裡交待他與父親的感情過少，所以有點撐不起最後掩面而泣的力道。
阿琴的角色蠻讚的，大剌剌的個性很具鄉土味，在她身上能輕易找回都市缺少的人情味。她扛了不少電影的笑點，還算稱職的甘草人物。
表弟小莊的角色有點可惜，好不容易用母親用興趣與道士阿義搭上了線，卻沒能在最後開花結果。也許是我期待太高，可能是「叫哥哥」那段讓我笑出聲，難免會開始期待後續師徒的發展。加上小莊媽媽又是道士阿義無緣的情人，導演也花了不小的篇幅開了情史笑梗，卻未交待阿義與小莊媽媽後續的情緣，這段浪漫似乎落的有點虎頭蛇尾。
想說的是，《父後七日》算是一部相當具誠意的國片，電影過程中不時有亮點，成功引起觀眾一波又一波的情緒。笑中帶淚，淚中帶笑，近乎無冷場的劇情讓人不難想像「林榮三文學獎」首獎作品原著的精采程度。
印象深刻的一幕，是女兒阿梅載著父親遺照經過大橋時，阿梅回憶起父親為自己臨時慶生的畫面，成功道盡景物依舊，人事全非的陣陣心酸感。
只是容我雞蛋裡挑骨頭一下，可能是電影起了漂亮的頭與精采的中段內容，讓我開始期待結局導演要給我上的是什麼人生大菜？
就我個人的觀感，結局應該能再深刻一點，父親走後的七天，第七天的處理似乎太過匆促，感覺有點像是梗都用完，所以只好如此般的簡捷。電影末尾，如果導演想表達的是對生命的無力感，是日子還得過下去的無奈感，那阿梅與朋友喝酒那段，似乎加的有點贅。
結局的力道如果能有阿梅在橋上與父親那段回憶與真實的情感力道，感動的尾勁一定會教人更加深刻。
總結，這是一部不可多得的好國片，也是少見笑談生死的好電影，強烈建議親子偕同欣賞，一方面同遊，一方面讓小朋友及早看見生命的盡頭，讓他們自然而然思惟親情的珍貴，也讓每個人都能在親見死亡的末路儀式後，更能擁有笑看生死不過彈指間那般遼闊心境，那般豁達人生……
(攝影、文字 / 塵襲)
‧塵襲2010年最新生命勵志小說《極地之光》
http://heavener.pixnet.net/blog/post/27121344
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（当应念：OM MOLI ZHIYI ， SO HA。。。。每天口念，心念千次，万次！！！）
（OM GURU LIAN SHENG XITI HOM。。。。。。今天起，千次，万次！！！）
65 to 68......work, work, work......until last day you die
Singapore News
S'pore may need to raise retirement age to 68, says Lim Boon Heng
By Hetty Musfirah | Posted: 28 October 2010 1620 hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng has indicated that the country may need to raise its retirement age to 68.
Mr Lim, who's in Finland accompanying President S R Nathan on his state visit there said Singaporeans need to work longer as their life span increases.
That is because they need to accumulate more for their old age.
Mr Lim who is also the minister in charge of issues on ageing in Singapore, cited Finland as an example, and will use this trip as an opportunity to study how the Finnish are dealing with their ageing population.
Mr Lim added there are areas that Singapore can emulate. One of which is to mobilise the elderly to organise themselves and form retirement communities that can provide mutual support and friendship.
A law that will make it mandatory for employers to offer re-employment to workers beyond the age of 62 will be in place by 2012.
"We are raising the retirement age, through the process of re-employment from the current 62 to 65 in January 2012. Beyond that we would have to examine how we can further raise the retirement age. In Finland, they have raised it to 68, so it gives us an indication about where we should be heading.Because the Finns are not living longer than us, we have a life expectancy of about 80, I think the finns are little less than us," said Mr Lim.
-CNA/ac
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Patrick Lee Song Juan via theonlinecitizen:
All MIW Ministars have one great thing in common..can talk through their orifice. Must talk what! with so high pay. But care less of people's feelings and whether conditions of individuals are conducive to certain work environment....Big man too as 'Chair mei' (blind) of Council for 3rd Age. Lim Boon Heng
These (_*_)s' ...can work till they die ..it doesn't matter...they are served on golden platters. Everything fits these ministars like a T. So please don't 'TCSS' Lim Boon (bey) Heng.
So die die must work..don't work also die (no money for food), work also die (deprived of social wellness in their golden years). Die of greater old age stress !!! {_!_}....Work..die..die also work..no work also die..die also work..no die also work..finally work and die !! Heaven awaits the working dead !! LOL!
http://www.facebook.com/leesjuan
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SINGAPORE RAISED TO 65 IN 2012..........
ENOUGH.....LAH
RAISE SOME MORE TO 68, THEN 70..............WORK UNTIL THE FINAL CALL....BAHASA SAID: MENGHEMBUS NAFAS YANG TERAKHIR.......
it is time for Singaporeans to think about: why have to work until the last day??? The government should give something to senior citizens........
做到死,做到老翘翘..............SUSAH, SANGAT SUSAH!!!!!!!!!
S'pore may need to raise retirement age to 68, says Lim Boon Heng
By Hetty Musfirah | Posted: 28 October 2010 1620 hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng has indicated that the country may need to raise its retirement age to 68.
Mr Lim, who's in Finland accompanying President S R Nathan on his state visit there said Singaporeans need to work longer as their life span increases.
That is because they need to accumulate more for their old age.
Mr Lim who is also the minister in charge of issues on ageing in Singapore, cited Finland as an example, and will use this trip as an opportunity to study how the Finnish are dealing with their ageing population.
Mr Lim added there are areas that Singapore can emulate. One of which is to mobilise the elderly to organise themselves and form retirement communities that can provide mutual support and friendship.
A law that will make it mandatory for employers to offer re-employment to workers beyond the age of 62 will be in place by 2012.
"We are raising the retirement age, through the process of re-employment from the current 62 to 65 in January 2012. Beyond that we would have to examine how we can further raise the retirement age. In Finland, they have raised it to 68, so it gives us an indication about where we should be heading.Because the Finns are not living longer than us, we have a life expectancy of about 80, I think the finns are little less than us," said Mr Lim.
-CNA/ac
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Patrick Lee Song Juan via theonlinecitizen:
All MIW Ministars have one great thing in common..can talk through their orifice. Must talk what! with so high pay. But care less of people's feelings and whether conditions of individuals are conducive to certain work environment....Big man too as 'Chair mei' (blind) of Council for 3rd Age. Lim Boon Heng
These (_*_)s' ...can work till they die ..it doesn't matter...they are served on golden platters. Everything fits these ministars like a T. So please don't 'TCSS' Lim Boon (bey) Heng.
So die die must work..don't work also die (no money for food), work also die (deprived of social wellness in their golden years). Die of greater old age stress !!! {_!_}....Work..die..die also work..no work also die..die also work..no die also work..finally work and die !! Heaven awaits the working dead !! LOL!
http://www.facebook.com/leesjuan
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
SINGAPORE RAISED TO 65 IN 2012..........
ENOUGH.....LAH
RAISE SOME MORE TO 68, THEN 70..............WORK UNTIL THE FINAL CALL....BAHASA SAID: MENGHEMBUS NAFAS YANG TERAKHIR.......
it is time for Singaporeans to think about: why have to work until the last day??? The government should give something to senior citizens........
做到死,做到老翘翘..............SUSAH, SANGAT SUSAH!!!!!!!!!
Jailing of dissident Liu Xiaobo 'solved the problem' of how committee should recognise Chinese activists
China made peace prize decision for us, says Nobel judge
Jailing of dissident Liu Xiaobo 'solved the problem' of how committee should recognise Chinese activists
China's decision to jail dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years convinced the Nobel committee to award him this year's peace prize, according to one of the judges.
Geir Lundestad of the Norwegian Nobel committee confirmed speculation that the unusually tough sentence made Liu an obvious choice. He said Beijing's decision "solved the problem" of how to recognise Chinese activists.
He said the judges had gradually come to believe they had to "address the China question".
"If we had given a prize to a dissident from Cuba or Vietnam, fine, there are difficult situations in those countries," he said during a talk at Oxford University. "But the question would then be: why don't you address China?
"And we felt that the credibility of the prize depended on this – we had to address this issue – despite the complexities that this would involve."
He added: "The next question was who should we give the prize to?
"We've studied this for several years: who are the right dissidents? We felt, obviously, that Liu was very important in his own right.
"But the Chinese government solved the problem for us. On 25 December 2009, they punished him, they sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
"And automatically, he became not only one, or perhaps the leading representative of human rights, but he also became a universal symbol of human rights."
Liu's sentence, for incitement to subvert state power, was one of the harshest handed to a dissident for many years.
He was convicted for his co-authorship of Charter 08 – a blueprint for democratic reforms in China, and other essays.
No one from the Chinese foreign ministry was available to respond Lundestad's remarks this evening.
Lundestad's comments, which may fuel accusations in the state media that the west is seeking to impose its values on China.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters yesterday that Liu was "convicted by Chinese judicial authorities for breaking China's laws".
He added: "We oppose any attempt to make an issue of this, and we oppose anyone infringing on China's judicial sovereignty in any way."
Others have suggested that Liu's win could give ammunition to moderates in government.
"The hardliners who decided on this [harsh] course on Charter 08 brought this considerable embarrassment on themselves," said Nicholas Bequelin, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Prior to the announcement of the award, Lundestad said that China's deputy foreign minister, Fu Ying, had warned the committee not to give the award to a dissident.
It is still unclear who will collect Liu's prize at the ceremony in December. His wife Liu Xia is under house arrest but has invited more than 140 other people – including dissidents and celebrities – to attend the event in Norway on his behalf.
A Chongqing woman who friends said was seized by police in the middle of the night after tweeting that she would march with a banner supporting Liu has been allowed home, her friend said today.
Zhang Shijie, a blogger who first tweeted Mou Yanxi's detention, said she was unharmed but "tired and scared". He added that police had kept her mobile phone and computer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/27/china-peace-prize-decision-nobel-judge
Jailing of dissident Liu Xiaobo 'solved the problem' of how committee should recognise Chinese activists
China's decision to jail dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years convinced the Nobel committee to award him this year's peace prize, according to one of the judges.
Geir Lundestad of the Norwegian Nobel committee confirmed speculation that the unusually tough sentence made Liu an obvious choice. He said Beijing's decision "solved the problem" of how to recognise Chinese activists.
He said the judges had gradually come to believe they had to "address the China question".
"If we had given a prize to a dissident from Cuba or Vietnam, fine, there are difficult situations in those countries," he said during a talk at Oxford University. "But the question would then be: why don't you address China?
"And we felt that the credibility of the prize depended on this – we had to address this issue – despite the complexities that this would involve."
He added: "The next question was who should we give the prize to?
"We've studied this for several years: who are the right dissidents? We felt, obviously, that Liu was very important in his own right.
"But the Chinese government solved the problem for us. On 25 December 2009, they punished him, they sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
"And automatically, he became not only one, or perhaps the leading representative of human rights, but he also became a universal symbol of human rights."
Liu's sentence, for incitement to subvert state power, was one of the harshest handed to a dissident for many years.
He was convicted for his co-authorship of Charter 08 – a blueprint for democratic reforms in China, and other essays.
No one from the Chinese foreign ministry was available to respond Lundestad's remarks this evening.
Lundestad's comments, which may fuel accusations in the state media that the west is seeking to impose its values on China.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters yesterday that Liu was "convicted by Chinese judicial authorities for breaking China's laws".
He added: "We oppose any attempt to make an issue of this, and we oppose anyone infringing on China's judicial sovereignty in any way."
Others have suggested that Liu's win could give ammunition to moderates in government.
"The hardliners who decided on this [harsh] course on Charter 08 brought this considerable embarrassment on themselves," said Nicholas Bequelin, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Prior to the announcement of the award, Lundestad said that China's deputy foreign minister, Fu Ying, had warned the committee not to give the award to a dissident.
It is still unclear who will collect Liu's prize at the ceremony in December. His wife Liu Xia is under house arrest but has invited more than 140 other people – including dissidents and celebrities – to attend the event in Norway on his behalf.
A Chongqing woman who friends said was seized by police in the middle of the night after tweeting that she would march with a banner supporting Liu has been allowed home, her friend said today.
Zhang Shijie, a blogger who first tweeted Mou Yanxi's detention, said she was unharmed but "tired and scared". He added that police had kept her mobile phone and computer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/27/china-peace-prize-decision-nobel-judge
Rise, ERP! Collapse, the Singapore dream!
Rise, ERP! Collapse, the Singapore dream!
Posted by theonlinecitizen on June 20, 2008 128 Comments
Choo Zheng Xi
An angry tongue-in-cheek critique of ERP hikes (TOC op-ed).
If you are superstitious, a cave-in in the Central Business District (CBD) that left a 5m-wide hole in the ground could be more than bad engineering.It happened on the same day it was announced that five new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries were to go up by 7 July, bringing the islandwide total to a eye-popping 65.
However, signs are never easy to interpret. So if I were asked about what exactly the cave-in could be symbolic of, I would have to choose from several plausible answers.
1. Collapse in the credibility of the mainstream media
Anyone who read the front page article on the Straits Times would have been left slightly puzzled. How could such bad news have come off sounding so good? Upon deeper thought, that bewilderment will turn to anger, tinged with grudging respect for an excellently-disguised propaganda effort.
To add salt to the visceral pain any sane motorist would feel at this piece of bad news, the front page of the Straits Times trumpeted, in its subtitle, how “changes are aimed at making city traffic flow smoothly in the evenings”.
To me, this is the equivalent of cutting off someone’s legs to save him the fatigue of walking and expecting him to feel gratitude.
To add insult to injury, the article goes on to extensively quote from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) playbook, offering the public statistic after shocking statistic of ever-slowing road speeds. In the body of the article, an LTA spokesman offers the coup de grace: “The majority of people who pay do not get that experience [of uncongested driving].”
The logical conclusion, naturally, is that we should make it more expensive for more people to pay, hence making the experience more enjoyable for the ones left who can.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the last private cars left on the road in Singapore 2050 will belong to the well-paid individuals who made the policies which taxed everyone else off the roads.
If that’s not perverse, I don’t know what is.
This might have been mitigated if the ST featured a perspective from someone who actually drove a car without a motorcade.
Unfortunately, the other voices in the article belonged to Member of Parliament and head of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Transport Mr Cedric Foo, and his deputy chairman, Mr Ong Kian Ming. Because of their service to our country, they are millionaires (they don’t actually have motorcades).
Or perhaps I am just narrow minded, unable to see the big picture, and we really should thank the Government for helping us smoothen the gravelled arteries of our county.
Unfortunately, we have little to be thankful for, which brings me on to the next possible interpretation of the cave in.
2. Collapse in the ingenuity of our leadership
It never strikes me how incapable our top civil servants are of finding a creative solution out of the problem we’re in.
The syllogism by which they’ve derived the solution is as follows:
1) There is congestion from people driving cars.
2) People drive less if they have to pay more.
3) Ergo, the more we make people pay, the less they will drive, hence eradicating the scourge of congestion.
This syllogism might make us all happier if there was a corresponding cap or decrease in cost of public transport. Unfortunately, the “Private Vehicle Department” people and the “Public Transport Division” staff do not seem to be on talking terms. Taxi fares have recently gone up, and bus fares were last raised in September 2007. Call this a hunch, but I feel another public transport price hike in the air.
This leads to the sad conclusion that many of us will soon be walking to work in the CBD. Good luck to you if you live in Pasir Ris.
The use of the language of the criminal law is indicative of how the establishment views driving. Motorist need to be “deterred” from driving by a starting deduction of $2, as “it has become increasingly more difficult to deter motorists with 50-cent jumps”.
It has become apparent that Singaporeans are completely sanitised to this miniscule increment. In fact, with ever-increasing wages, job prospects, and inflation, monetary disincentive is next to meaningless.
So why stop at the language of the criminal law, when you can actually use the full force of the damn thing? A more creative method of solving this problem is to mandate specific days on which motorists are allowed to drive according to the colour of their car, and penalise the black sheep (or cars) that break this coding system with mandatory imprisonment. As the roads will be packed with uniformly-coloured vehicles, violators will be easily spotted.
As there are seven colours of the rainbow, we can have one for every day of the week, so no motorist needs to be left behind.
3. Collapse of the Singaporean dream
Is the Government trying to lose the next elections? Despite Mr Foo’s protestations that “We should not mix up road usage measures like ERP with means to cope with general inflation”, I think the verdict of the motorcade-less masses will be unanimous: this is bad timing par excellence.
Perhaps to test the waters of public opinion for the sharks of dissatisfaction, Mr Foo and Mr Ong have been unhappily chosen to be the first to defend the hikes. One almost feels sorry for them. Almost.
Coming on the back of increased prices of basic foodstuffs like rice, vegetables and chicken, the Government isn’t just shooting itself in the foot, it is taking a machine gun to its leg.
But, the Government will protest, people who fret over the price of basic necessities are not the ones who drive anyway!
And this is where, in all seriousness, the Government has completely lost touch with the sentiments of its people.
Those who are turning to temples for free food handouts today are precisely those who are dreaming so fervently of a better tomorrow. Materialistic as it may sound, many Singaporeans from all strata of society look forward to the day when they get their own car keys. The stories most prominently highlighted in the Straits Times are of scholars or businessmen who came from humble backgrounds and who have done well for themselves.
Pride in private ownership is a sentiment that our Government, which has based its rule on a foundation of economic performance legitimacy, should understand well.
It would be the darkest hypocrisy for them now to put this dream out of the reach of the ordinary Singaporean by pricing us off the roads and then have their propagandists make us believe they are doing this for our own good.
If these are the guys behind our country’s steering wheel, I can’t help wishing they’d hand over the car keys to someone else.
*The title of this article has been changed from its original one by request from the author.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/06/rise-erp-collapse-the-singapore-dream/
Posted by theonlinecitizen on June 20, 2008 128 Comments
Choo Zheng Xi
An angry tongue-in-cheek critique of ERP hikes (TOC op-ed).
If you are superstitious, a cave-in in the Central Business District (CBD) that left a 5m-wide hole in the ground could be more than bad engineering.It happened on the same day it was announced that five new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries were to go up by 7 July, bringing the islandwide total to a eye-popping 65.
However, signs are never easy to interpret. So if I were asked about what exactly the cave-in could be symbolic of, I would have to choose from several plausible answers.
1. Collapse in the credibility of the mainstream media
Anyone who read the front page article on the Straits Times would have been left slightly puzzled. How could such bad news have come off sounding so good? Upon deeper thought, that bewilderment will turn to anger, tinged with grudging respect for an excellently-disguised propaganda effort.
To add salt to the visceral pain any sane motorist would feel at this piece of bad news, the front page of the Straits Times trumpeted, in its subtitle, how “changes are aimed at making city traffic flow smoothly in the evenings”.
To me, this is the equivalent of cutting off someone’s legs to save him the fatigue of walking and expecting him to feel gratitude.
To add insult to injury, the article goes on to extensively quote from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) playbook, offering the public statistic after shocking statistic of ever-slowing road speeds. In the body of the article, an LTA spokesman offers the coup de grace: “The majority of people who pay do not get that experience [of uncongested driving].”
The logical conclusion, naturally, is that we should make it more expensive for more people to pay, hence making the experience more enjoyable for the ones left who can.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the last private cars left on the road in Singapore 2050 will belong to the well-paid individuals who made the policies which taxed everyone else off the roads.
If that’s not perverse, I don’t know what is.
This might have been mitigated if the ST featured a perspective from someone who actually drove a car without a motorcade.
Unfortunately, the other voices in the article belonged to Member of Parliament and head of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Transport Mr Cedric Foo, and his deputy chairman, Mr Ong Kian Ming. Because of their service to our country, they are millionaires (they don’t actually have motorcades).
Or perhaps I am just narrow minded, unable to see the big picture, and we really should thank the Government for helping us smoothen the gravelled arteries of our county.
Unfortunately, we have little to be thankful for, which brings me on to the next possible interpretation of the cave in.
2. Collapse in the ingenuity of our leadership
It never strikes me how incapable our top civil servants are of finding a creative solution out of the problem we’re in.
The syllogism by which they’ve derived the solution is as follows:
1) There is congestion from people driving cars.
2) People drive less if they have to pay more.
3) Ergo, the more we make people pay, the less they will drive, hence eradicating the scourge of congestion.
This syllogism might make us all happier if there was a corresponding cap or decrease in cost of public transport. Unfortunately, the “Private Vehicle Department” people and the “Public Transport Division” staff do not seem to be on talking terms. Taxi fares have recently gone up, and bus fares were last raised in September 2007. Call this a hunch, but I feel another public transport price hike in the air.
This leads to the sad conclusion that many of us will soon be walking to work in the CBD. Good luck to you if you live in Pasir Ris.
The use of the language of the criminal law is indicative of how the establishment views driving. Motorist need to be “deterred” from driving by a starting deduction of $2, as “it has become increasingly more difficult to deter motorists with 50-cent jumps”.
It has become apparent that Singaporeans are completely sanitised to this miniscule increment. In fact, with ever-increasing wages, job prospects, and inflation, monetary disincentive is next to meaningless.
So why stop at the language of the criminal law, when you can actually use the full force of the damn thing? A more creative method of solving this problem is to mandate specific days on which motorists are allowed to drive according to the colour of their car, and penalise the black sheep (or cars) that break this coding system with mandatory imprisonment. As the roads will be packed with uniformly-coloured vehicles, violators will be easily spotted.
As there are seven colours of the rainbow, we can have one for every day of the week, so no motorist needs to be left behind.
3. Collapse of the Singaporean dream
Is the Government trying to lose the next elections? Despite Mr Foo’s protestations that “We should not mix up road usage measures like ERP with means to cope with general inflation”, I think the verdict of the motorcade-less masses will be unanimous: this is bad timing par excellence.
Perhaps to test the waters of public opinion for the sharks of dissatisfaction, Mr Foo and Mr Ong have been unhappily chosen to be the first to defend the hikes. One almost feels sorry for them. Almost.
Coming on the back of increased prices of basic foodstuffs like rice, vegetables and chicken, the Government isn’t just shooting itself in the foot, it is taking a machine gun to its leg.
But, the Government will protest, people who fret over the price of basic necessities are not the ones who drive anyway!
And this is where, in all seriousness, the Government has completely lost touch with the sentiments of its people.
Those who are turning to temples for free food handouts today are precisely those who are dreaming so fervently of a better tomorrow. Materialistic as it may sound, many Singaporeans from all strata of society look forward to the day when they get their own car keys. The stories most prominently highlighted in the Straits Times are of scholars or businessmen who came from humble backgrounds and who have done well for themselves.
Pride in private ownership is a sentiment that our Government, which has based its rule on a foundation of economic performance legitimacy, should understand well.
It would be the darkest hypocrisy for them now to put this dream out of the reach of the ordinary Singaporean by pricing us off the roads and then have their propagandists make us believe they are doing this for our own good.
If these are the guys behind our country’s steering wheel, I can’t help wishing they’d hand over the car keys to someone else.
*The title of this article has been changed from its original one by request from the author.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/06/rise-erp-collapse-the-singapore-dream/
Why we gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel
Posted by theonlinecitizen on October 23, 2010 7 Comments
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, responds to China’s criticism of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Liu Xiaobo, who is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in China. Jagland’s response was first published in the New York Times.
Thorbjorn Jagland
THE Chinese authorities’ condemnation of the Nobel committee’s selection of Liu Xiaobo, the jailed political activist, as the winner of the 2010 Peace Prize inadvertently illustrates why human rights are worth defending.
The authorities assert that no one has the right to interfere in China’s internal affairs. But they are wrong: international human rights law and standards are above the nation-state, and the world community has a duty to ensure they are respected.
The modern state system evolved from the idea of national sovereignty established by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. At the time, sovereignty was assumed to be embodied in an autocratic ruler.
But ideas about sovereignty have changed over time. The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen replaced the control of the autocrat with the sovereignty of the people as the source of national power and legitimacy.
The idea of sovereignty changed again during the last century, as the world moved from nationalism to internationalism. The United Nations, founded in the wake of two disastrous world wars, committed member states to resolve disputes by peaceful means and defined the fundamental rights of all people in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The nation-state, the declaration said, would no longer have ultimate, unlimited power.
Today, universal human rights provide a check on arbitrary majorities around the world, whether they are democracies or not. A majority in a parliament cannot decide to harm the rights of a minority, nor vote for laws that undermine human rights. And even though China is not a constitutional democracy, it is a member of the United Nations, and it has amended its Constitution to comply with the Declaration of Human Rights.
However, Mr. Liu’s imprisonment is clear proof that China’s criminal law is not in line with its Constitution. He was convicted of “spreading rumors or slander or any other means to subvert the state power or overthrow the socialist system.” But in a world community based on universal human rights, it is not a government’s task to stamp out opinions and rumors. Governments are obliged to ensure the right to free expression — even if the speaker advocates a different social system.
These are rights that the Nobel committee has long upheld by honoring those who struggle to protect them with the Peace Prize, including Andrei Sakharov for his struggle against human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his fight for civil rights in the United States.
Not surprisingly, the Chinese government has harshly criticized the award, claiming that the Nobel committee unlawfully interfered with its internal affairs and humiliated it in the eyes of the international public. On the contrary, China should be proud that it has become powerful enough to be the subject of debate and criticism.
Interestingly, the Chinese government is not the only one to criticize the Nobel committee. Some people have said that giving the prize to Mr. Liu may actually worsen conditions for human-rights advocates in China.
But this argument is illogical: it leads to the conclusion that we best promote human rights by keeping quiet. If we keep quiet about China, who will be the next country to claim its right to silence and non-interference? This approach would put us on a path toward undermining the Universal Declaration and the basic tenets of human rights. We must not and cannot keep quiet. No country has a right to ignore its international obligations.
China has every reason to be proud of what it has achieved in the last 20 years. We want to see that progress continue, and that is why we awarded the Peace Prize to Mr. Liu. If China is to advance in harmony with other countries and become a key partner in upholding the values of the world community, it must first grant freedom of expression to all its citizens.
It is a tragedy that a man is being imprisoned for 11 years merely because he expressed his opinion. If we are to move toward the fraternity of nations of which Alfred Nobel spoke, then universal human rights must be our touchstone.
Responses to “Why we gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel”
1.
Peter Sellers 23 October 2010
This should be framed in bold letters and put up all over Singapore.
2.
Singaporean 24 October 2010
In that case, we should nominate the following Singaporeans for the Nobel Peace Prize:
Chia Thye Poh
Lim Hock Siew
Said Zahari
Vincent Cheng
Teo Soh Lung
Francis Seow
JB Jeyeratnam (posthumous)
Tang Liang Hong
Chee Soon Juan
etc.
Singapore is a member of the UN, and should comply with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/10/why-we-gave-liu-xiaobo-a-nobel/
Posted by theonlinecitizen on October 23, 2010 7 Comments
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, responds to China’s criticism of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Liu Xiaobo, who is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in China. Jagland’s response was first published in the New York Times.
Thorbjorn Jagland
THE Chinese authorities’ condemnation of the Nobel committee’s selection of Liu Xiaobo, the jailed political activist, as the winner of the 2010 Peace Prize inadvertently illustrates why human rights are worth defending.
The authorities assert that no one has the right to interfere in China’s internal affairs. But they are wrong: international human rights law and standards are above the nation-state, and the world community has a duty to ensure they are respected.
The modern state system evolved from the idea of national sovereignty established by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. At the time, sovereignty was assumed to be embodied in an autocratic ruler.
But ideas about sovereignty have changed over time. The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen replaced the control of the autocrat with the sovereignty of the people as the source of national power and legitimacy.
The idea of sovereignty changed again during the last century, as the world moved from nationalism to internationalism. The United Nations, founded in the wake of two disastrous world wars, committed member states to resolve disputes by peaceful means and defined the fundamental rights of all people in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The nation-state, the declaration said, would no longer have ultimate, unlimited power.
Today, universal human rights provide a check on arbitrary majorities around the world, whether they are democracies or not. A majority in a parliament cannot decide to harm the rights of a minority, nor vote for laws that undermine human rights. And even though China is not a constitutional democracy, it is a member of the United Nations, and it has amended its Constitution to comply with the Declaration of Human Rights.
However, Mr. Liu’s imprisonment is clear proof that China’s criminal law is not in line with its Constitution. He was convicted of “spreading rumors or slander or any other means to subvert the state power or overthrow the socialist system.” But in a world community based on universal human rights, it is not a government’s task to stamp out opinions and rumors. Governments are obliged to ensure the right to free expression — even if the speaker advocates a different social system.
These are rights that the Nobel committee has long upheld by honoring those who struggle to protect them with the Peace Prize, including Andrei Sakharov for his struggle against human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his fight for civil rights in the United States.
Not surprisingly, the Chinese government has harshly criticized the award, claiming that the Nobel committee unlawfully interfered with its internal affairs and humiliated it in the eyes of the international public. On the contrary, China should be proud that it has become powerful enough to be the subject of debate and criticism.
Interestingly, the Chinese government is not the only one to criticize the Nobel committee. Some people have said that giving the prize to Mr. Liu may actually worsen conditions for human-rights advocates in China.
But this argument is illogical: it leads to the conclusion that we best promote human rights by keeping quiet. If we keep quiet about China, who will be the next country to claim its right to silence and non-interference? This approach would put us on a path toward undermining the Universal Declaration and the basic tenets of human rights. We must not and cannot keep quiet. No country has a right to ignore its international obligations.
China has every reason to be proud of what it has achieved in the last 20 years. We want to see that progress continue, and that is why we awarded the Peace Prize to Mr. Liu. If China is to advance in harmony with other countries and become a key partner in upholding the values of the world community, it must first grant freedom of expression to all its citizens.
It is a tragedy that a man is being imprisoned for 11 years merely because he expressed his opinion. If we are to move toward the fraternity of nations of which Alfred Nobel spoke, then universal human rights must be our touchstone.
Responses to “Why we gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel”
1.
Peter Sellers 23 October 2010
This should be framed in bold letters and put up all over Singapore.
2.
Singaporean 24 October 2010
In that case, we should nominate the following Singaporeans for the Nobel Peace Prize:
Chia Thye Poh
Lim Hock Siew
Said Zahari
Vincent Cheng
Teo Soh Lung
Francis Seow
JB Jeyeratnam (posthumous)
Tang Liang Hong
Chee Soon Juan
etc.
Singapore is a member of the UN, and should comply with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/10/why-we-gave-liu-xiaobo-a-nobel/
Political openness – for PAP only
Posted by theonlinecitizen
on September 2, 2008 92 Comments
Andrew Loh / Deputy Editor
If our society is ruled by two different sets of laws – or laws applied selectively – for different people or political parties, it cannot but fracture and disintegrate.
Barely two weeks after he announced more space for political expression, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his colleagues from the People’s Action Party (PAP) could very well have just shown what this ‘openness’ mean – for the ruling party.
On Sunday, the PAP Community Foundation organised a ‘PAP carnival’ at West Coast Park. This was reported by the Straits Times on its front page, with a big picture of PM Lee on a bicycle.
The event would be nothing out of the ordinary if not for one small detail: outdoor events by political parties are banned – or at least that is what the PAP Government itself says.
This was explained in no uncertain terms in Parliament last year (2007) by the Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, Professor Ho Peng Kee, and carried in news reports by our mainstream press.
The ban, said Minister Ho, is a ‘longstanding one’ because ‘outdoor gatherings by parties have the potential to cause a public disturbance.’ (Straits Times).
Ho explained this in his reply to questions from the Workers’ Party MPs in Parliament, who asked why the WP’s application to hold a cycling event at East Coast Park was rejected by the police. The Minister had said then:
The East Coast Park is a recreational park for Singaporeans and their families. It is not meant to be used by a political party to promote its cause.
Apart from displacing the usual recreational users…it is an open area where there is greater potential for breach of the peace, public disorder and unruly behaviour.
Minister Ho did not care even if the organisers themselves were ‘well-behaved’:
… even if the organisers were well behaved, others there might still cause problems.
And to top it off, Minister Ho defended his position by saying:
You may be well-behaving, but there may be other people whom you come across when you cycle who may stop you, may want to debate with you and that may attract a crowd, and therefore will result in problems the police want to avoid.
And the final nail in the coffin:
He said that police required political events to be held indoors or in stadiums where problems could be contained, adding that the WP could consider these venues. The policy applied to all political parties.
"The policy applied to all political parties."
Well, apparently not.
Having adopted such an unequivocal position on the issue, one wonders how Minister Ho would explain the police granting the People’s Action Party a permit to hold an outdoor event on Sunday – where ‘thousands thronged the park’ and ‘a host of ministers and MPs [making] their entrance on bicycles’, as reported by the Straits Times. (One presumes that a police permit was applied for and, obviously, given.)
(Read also: A CASE of double standards?)
While we may criticise the Government, the PAP, Minister Ho or even the police, for this seemingly biased application of the law, there is a wider and more important issue which such selective application of the law throws up – and this is; are we seeing a Government which would, apparently, disregard the law when it suits its purpose; what impact will this have on the wider society?
On what moral authority would the Government be able to require everyone else to adhere to and obey the law if it does not do so itself?
Sadly, such behavior by the ruling party can only breed further resentment and cynicism not only among its dissenters but also increasingly among those who have supported it as well.
As we said in an earlier article on the way the Government explained away the Mas Selamat escape fiasco, the Government’s lack of accountability is bad for the PAP but worse for Singapore.
For if our society is ruled by two different sets of laws – or laws applied selectively – for different people or political parties, it cannot but fracture and disintegrate.
The PAP would do well to remember that a leader whose moral authority is questionable is one whom no one respects.
Ironically, the slippery-slope argument which Minister Ho used to explain and justify his rejection of permits for other political parties, in the end, could result in his own PAP sliding down that slippery slope itself.
If it hasn’t already.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/09/political-openness-for-pap-only/
Posted by theonlinecitizen
on September 2, 2008 92 Comments
Andrew Loh / Deputy Editor
If our society is ruled by two different sets of laws – or laws applied selectively – for different people or political parties, it cannot but fracture and disintegrate.
Barely two weeks after he announced more space for political expression, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his colleagues from the People’s Action Party (PAP) could very well have just shown what this ‘openness’ mean – for the ruling party.
On Sunday, the PAP Community Foundation organised a ‘PAP carnival’ at West Coast Park. This was reported by the Straits Times on its front page, with a big picture of PM Lee on a bicycle.
The event would be nothing out of the ordinary if not for one small detail: outdoor events by political parties are banned – or at least that is what the PAP Government itself says.
This was explained in no uncertain terms in Parliament last year (2007) by the Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, Professor Ho Peng Kee, and carried in news reports by our mainstream press.
The ban, said Minister Ho, is a ‘longstanding one’ because ‘outdoor gatherings by parties have the potential to cause a public disturbance.’ (Straits Times).
Ho explained this in his reply to questions from the Workers’ Party MPs in Parliament, who asked why the WP’s application to hold a cycling event at East Coast Park was rejected by the police. The Minister had said then:
The East Coast Park is a recreational park for Singaporeans and their families. It is not meant to be used by a political party to promote its cause.
Apart from displacing the usual recreational users…it is an open area where there is greater potential for breach of the peace, public disorder and unruly behaviour.
Minister Ho did not care even if the organisers themselves were ‘well-behaved’:
… even if the organisers were well behaved, others there might still cause problems.
And to top it off, Minister Ho defended his position by saying:
You may be well-behaving, but there may be other people whom you come across when you cycle who may stop you, may want to debate with you and that may attract a crowd, and therefore will result in problems the police want to avoid.
And the final nail in the coffin:
He said that police required political events to be held indoors or in stadiums where problems could be contained, adding that the WP could consider these venues. The policy applied to all political parties.
"The policy applied to all political parties."
Well, apparently not.
Having adopted such an unequivocal position on the issue, one wonders how Minister Ho would explain the police granting the People’s Action Party a permit to hold an outdoor event on Sunday – where ‘thousands thronged the park’ and ‘a host of ministers and MPs [making] their entrance on bicycles’, as reported by the Straits Times. (One presumes that a police permit was applied for and, obviously, given.)
(Read also: A CASE of double standards?)
While we may criticise the Government, the PAP, Minister Ho or even the police, for this seemingly biased application of the law, there is a wider and more important issue which such selective application of the law throws up – and this is; are we seeing a Government which would, apparently, disregard the law when it suits its purpose; what impact will this have on the wider society?
On what moral authority would the Government be able to require everyone else to adhere to and obey the law if it does not do so itself?
Sadly, such behavior by the ruling party can only breed further resentment and cynicism not only among its dissenters but also increasingly among those who have supported it as well.
As we said in an earlier article on the way the Government explained away the Mas Selamat escape fiasco, the Government’s lack of accountability is bad for the PAP but worse for Singapore.
For if our society is ruled by two different sets of laws – or laws applied selectively – for different people or political parties, it cannot but fracture and disintegrate.
The PAP would do well to remember that a leader whose moral authority is questionable is one whom no one respects.
Ironically, the slippery-slope argument which Minister Ho used to explain and justify his rejection of permits for other political parties, in the end, could result in his own PAP sliding down that slippery slope itself.
If it hasn’t already.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/09/political-openness-for-pap-only/
Sejarah berfungsi sebagai cermin. Setelah mendengar orang lain menunjukkan kesalahan kita, kita perlu untuk menghadapi kesalahan-kesalahan ini.......
BERTERIMA KASIH KETIKA DIKRITIK
Menjadi orang yang berterima kasih ketika dikritik adalah contoh teladan yang merupakan intisari dari kebudayaan Tiongkok kuno.
Kritik dan komentar dari orang lain tidak ditangkis untuk melindungi diri, melainkan digunakan untuk mengoreksi dan memperbaiki diri.
Dibawah ini adalah beberapa contoh nyata dari teladan tersebut.
Kaisar Shun, abad 23-22 SM pemimpin Tiongkok kuno, memberi contoh prilaku senang jika rakyatnya mengkritik kesalahan-kesalahannya. Di bawah kepemimpinannya, ia mengantarkan era baru pemerintahan yang efektif dan reformasi sosial yang harmonis.Ia memerintahkan menanam berbagai benih biji-bijian berdasarkan perhitungan kondisi musim.
Dia memperkenalkan irigasi dengan membangun saluran dan sistem drainase. Dia mengeruk sungai, mengendalikan banjir, ia menunjuk pejabat yang berpengetahuan dalam bidangnya untuk mengawasi pertamanan, pertanian, pendidikan, keadilan, dan aspek penting lain dari masyarakat.
Kaisar Shun menjadi kaisar persatuan terbesar suku di Tiongkok tengah. Secara historis, suku ini dianggap sebagai salah satu nenek moyang pertama peradaban Tiongkok yang menekankan kebajikan dan keselarasan dengan hukum alam.
Mencius, seorang filsuf mengajarkan para siswa tentang Kaisar Shun, Konfusius, dan Zilu, seorang murid Konfusius, mereka mengatakan tiga kalimat, bagaimana baiknya menghadapi kritik dan memperbaiki diri.
Mencius mengatakan kepada murid-muridnya: "Kaisar Shun memberi hormat dan respek kepada orang lain saat mereka menunjukkan kelemahannya. Dia tidak pernah berhenti belajar dari orang lain dan memperbaiki diri."
Sejak dari muda saat ia masih bertani, menjadi pengerajin gerabah dan menjadi nelayan, Shun meniti karir untuk menjadi kaisar.
Dia mendengarkan sungguh-sungguh keluhan dan masukan dari rakyat kecil untuk memperbaiki pemerintahan agar rakyatnya sejahtera, dan seumur hidupnya dia tetap terbuka untuk belajar dari orang lain..
Li Shimin, yang dikenal sebagai Kaisar Tang Taizong, 599-649, juga seorang kaisar bijak - baik hati. Selama pemerintahan Dinasti Tang (627-649), Tiongkok mencapai kegemilangan, yang dikenal sebagai Tahun Emas Zhenguan.
Suatu hari pada tahun kedelapan belas dari era Zhenguan, Kaisar Taizong mengadakan sidang dengan berbagai menteri di pengadilan kekaisaran.
Dia berkata: "Saya ingin mendengarkan komentar Anda tentang kesalahan saya. Harap hanya fokus pada kesalahan saya dan berbicara dengan bebas."
Li Ji, seorang pejabat peringkat menengah tidak setuju dan berkata, "Baru-baru ini seseorang menyampaikan saran tertulis yang tidak berkenan di hati Yang Mulia. Anda memarahi dan menginterogasi pejabat tersebut di depan semua orang. Pejabat akhirnya mundur dengan rasa malu. Pendekatan ini tidak mendorong pejabat untuk memberikan kritik yang membangun. "
Taizong senang dan berkata, "Apa yang Anda katakan adalah benar. Kesalahan tersebut akan saya perbaiki!"
Sejarah berfungsi sebagai cermin. Setelah mendengar orang lain menunjukkan kesalahan kita, kita perlu untuk menghadapi kesalahan-kesalahan ini kepala dingin dan memiliki ketabahan dan keberanian untuk belajar dari orang lain.
Hanya dengan menjadi pendengar yang baik kita bisa menjadi bijaksana. Hanya dengan memperbaiki kesalahan kita, melakukan perbuatan baik, dan terus menerus melihat ke dalam, kita bisa memiliki pemahaman yang matang tentang diri kita dan dunia di sekitar kita.
Menjadi orang yang berterima kasih ketika dikritik adalah contoh teladan yang merupakan intisari dari kebudayaan Tiongkok kuno.
Kritik dan komentar dari orang lain tidak ditangkis untuk melindungi diri, melainkan digunakan untuk mengoreksi dan memperbaiki diri.
Dibawah ini adalah beberapa contoh nyata dari teladan tersebut.
Kaisar Shun, abad 23-22 SM pemimpin Tiongkok kuno, memberi contoh prilaku senang jika rakyatnya mengkritik kesalahan-kesalahannya. Di bawah kepemimpinannya, ia mengantarkan era baru pemerintahan yang efektif dan reformasi sosial yang harmonis.Ia memerintahkan menanam berbagai benih biji-bijian berdasarkan perhitungan kondisi musim.
Dia memperkenalkan irigasi dengan membangun saluran dan sistem drainase. Dia mengeruk sungai, mengendalikan banjir, ia menunjuk pejabat yang berpengetahuan dalam bidangnya untuk mengawasi pertamanan, pertanian, pendidikan, keadilan, dan aspek penting lain dari masyarakat.
Kaisar Shun menjadi kaisar persatuan terbesar suku di Tiongkok tengah. Secara historis, suku ini dianggap sebagai salah satu nenek moyang pertama peradaban Tiongkok yang menekankan kebajikan dan keselarasan dengan hukum alam.
Mencius, seorang filsuf mengajarkan para siswa tentang Kaisar Shun, Konfusius, dan Zilu, seorang murid Konfusius, mereka mengatakan tiga kalimat, bagaimana baiknya menghadapi kritik dan memperbaiki diri.
Mencius mengatakan kepada murid-muridnya: "Kaisar Shun memberi hormat dan respek kepada orang lain saat mereka menunjukkan kelemahannya. Dia tidak pernah berhenti belajar dari orang lain dan memperbaiki diri."
Sejak dari muda saat ia masih bertani, menjadi pengerajin gerabah dan menjadi nelayan, Shun meniti karir untuk menjadi kaisar.
Dia mendengarkan sungguh-sungguh keluhan dan masukan dari rakyat kecil untuk memperbaiki pemerintahan agar rakyatnya sejahtera, dan seumur hidupnya dia tetap terbuka untuk belajar dari orang lain..
Li Shimin, yang dikenal sebagai Kaisar Tang Taizong, 599-649, juga seorang kaisar bijak - baik hati. Selama pemerintahan Dinasti Tang (627-649), Tiongkok mencapai kegemilangan, yang dikenal sebagai Tahun Emas Zhenguan.
Suatu hari pada tahun kedelapan belas dari era Zhenguan, Kaisar Taizong mengadakan sidang dengan berbagai menteri di pengadilan kekaisaran.
Dia berkata: "Saya ingin mendengarkan komentar Anda tentang kesalahan saya. Harap hanya fokus pada kesalahan saya dan berbicara dengan bebas."
Li Ji, seorang pejabat peringkat menengah tidak setuju dan berkata, "Baru-baru ini seseorang menyampaikan saran tertulis yang tidak berkenan di hati Yang Mulia. Anda memarahi dan menginterogasi pejabat tersebut di depan semua orang. Pejabat akhirnya mundur dengan rasa malu. Pendekatan ini tidak mendorong pejabat untuk memberikan kritik yang membangun. "
Taizong senang dan berkata, "Apa yang Anda katakan adalah benar. Kesalahan tersebut akan saya perbaiki!"
Sejarah berfungsi sebagai cermin. Setelah mendengar orang lain menunjukkan kesalahan kita, kita perlu untuk menghadapi kesalahan-kesalahan ini kepala dingin dan memiliki ketabahan dan keberanian untuk belajar dari orang lain.
Hanya dengan menjadi pendengar yang baik kita bisa menjadi bijaksana. Hanya dengan memperbaiki kesalahan kita, melakukan perbuatan baik, dan terus menerus melihat ke dalam, kita bisa memiliki pemahaman yang matang tentang diri kita dan dunia di sekitar kita.
GEJALA STROK
Membaca Gejala Stroke
18.09.2010 | Author: 0 Terapi Sehat Z | Article Posted in Kesehatan
Sebagian besar kasus stroke terjadi secara mendadak, sangat cepat dan menyebabkan kerusakan otak dalam beberapa menit (completed stroke). Kemudian stroke menjadi bertambah buruk dalam beberapa jam sampai 1-2 hari akibat bertambah luasnya jaringan otak yang mati (stroke in evolution).
Perkembangan penyakit biasanya (tetapi tidak selalu) diselingi dengan periode stabil, dimana perluasan jaringan yang mati berhenti sementara atau terjadi beberapa perbaikan. Gejala stroke yang muncul pun tergantung dari bagian otak yang terkena.
Membaca isyarat stroke dapat dilakukan dengan mengamati beberapa gejala stroke berikut:
• Kelemahan atau kelumpuhan lengan atau tungkai atau salah satu sisi tubuh.
• Hilangnya sebagian penglihatan atau pendengaran.
• Penglihatan ganda.
• Pusing.
• Bicara tidak jelas (rero).
• Sulit memikirkan atau mengucapkan kata-kata yang tepat.
• Tidak mampu mengenali bagian dari tubuh.
• Pergerakan yang tidak biasa.
• Hilangnya pengendalian terhadap kandung kemih.
• Ketidakseimbangan dan terjatuh.
• Pingsan.
Kelainan neurologis yang terjadi akibat serangan stroke bisa lebih berat atau lebih luas, berhubungan dengan koma atau stupor dan sifatnya menetap. Selain itu, stroke bisa menyebabkan depresi atau ketidakmampuan untuk mengendalikan emosi.
Stroke juga bisa menyebabkan edema atau pembengkakan otak. Hal ini berbahaya karena ruang dalam tengkorak sangat terbatas. Tekanan yang timbul bisa lebih jauh merusak jaringan otak dan memperburuk kelainan neurologis, meskipun strokenya sendiri tidak bertambah luas. (sumber : www.terapistroke.blogspot.com)
18.09.2010 | Author: 0 Terapi Sehat Z | Article Posted in Kesehatan
Sebagian besar kasus stroke terjadi secara mendadak, sangat cepat dan menyebabkan kerusakan otak dalam beberapa menit (completed stroke). Kemudian stroke menjadi bertambah buruk dalam beberapa jam sampai 1-2 hari akibat bertambah luasnya jaringan otak yang mati (stroke in evolution).
Perkembangan penyakit biasanya (tetapi tidak selalu) diselingi dengan periode stabil, dimana perluasan jaringan yang mati berhenti sementara atau terjadi beberapa perbaikan. Gejala stroke yang muncul pun tergantung dari bagian otak yang terkena.
Membaca isyarat stroke dapat dilakukan dengan mengamati beberapa gejala stroke berikut:
• Kelemahan atau kelumpuhan lengan atau tungkai atau salah satu sisi tubuh.
• Hilangnya sebagian penglihatan atau pendengaran.
• Penglihatan ganda.
• Pusing.
• Bicara tidak jelas (rero).
• Sulit memikirkan atau mengucapkan kata-kata yang tepat.
• Tidak mampu mengenali bagian dari tubuh.
• Pergerakan yang tidak biasa.
• Hilangnya pengendalian terhadap kandung kemih.
• Ketidakseimbangan dan terjatuh.
• Pingsan.
Kelainan neurologis yang terjadi akibat serangan stroke bisa lebih berat atau lebih luas, berhubungan dengan koma atau stupor dan sifatnya menetap. Selain itu, stroke bisa menyebabkan depresi atau ketidakmampuan untuk mengendalikan emosi.
Stroke juga bisa menyebabkan edema atau pembengkakan otak. Hal ini berbahaya karena ruang dalam tengkorak sangat terbatas. Tekanan yang timbul bisa lebih jauh merusak jaringan otak dan memperburuk kelainan neurologis, meskipun strokenya sendiri tidak bertambah luas. (sumber : www.terapistroke.blogspot.com)
PROJEK RAKSASA DI INDONESIA YANG AKAN DATANG,,,,,,,KEBANGKITAN " INDOMIE"
Proyek Raksasa Presiden SBY dan Boediono
05.10.2010 | Author: admin | Article Posted in Berita
lainnya MRT Jakarta, lainnya Presiden SBY,
Pemerintah Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – Boediono berjanji akan merampungkan sejumlah proyek-proyek besar sebelum pemerintahannya berakhir pada 2014.
“Proyek-proyek ini ditarget sampai 2014,” kata Menteri Pekerjaan Umum Djoko Kirmanto seperti ditulis Senin 4 Oktober 2010.
Menurut Deputi Bidang Sarana dan Prasarana Bappenas, Deddy S Priatna, jumlah proyek besar itu cukup banyak. Tak hanya di Jawa, kata Deddy, sederet proyek besar itu mencakup darat, perhubungan laut, udara, penyeberangan dan kereta api.
“Oktober ditetapkan prioritas sampai 2014. Baru kemudian bicara anggaran yang disediakan,” kata Deddy.
Karena ini merupakan proyek-proyek raksasa, maka dana yang dibutuhkan juga sangat besar. Karena itu, Djoko menekankan pendanaan tidak bisa dibiayai pemerintah sendiri. Semua proyek masuk kategori multi years dan umumnya mendapat dukungan dari swasta. “Dana dari Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara hanya sebagai stimulan.”
Berbeda dengan pemerintah Soekarno yang membangun proyek “mercusuar” yang menjadi ikon Indonesia, seperti Gelora Bung Karno dan Monumen Nasional.
Sedangkan, pemerintah SBY-Boediono lebih memilih membangun proyek-proyek infrastruktur untuk mendorong kegiatan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi. Berikut ini proyek-proyek yang dijanjikan tuntas sebelum 2014.
1. Jalan Tol Trans Jawa
Jalan tol Trans Jawa merupakan jalan tol terpanjang di Indonesia. Panjangnya 650 kilometer menghubungkan kota-kota besar di Pulau Jawa. Dana yang dibutuhkan tidak main-main, puluhan triliun rupiah. Bayangkan, untuk membebaskan lahannya saja membutuhkan duit Rp5 triliun. Sebagian ruas sudah selesai seperti Tol Palimanan-Kanci di Cirebon, sebagian sedang dibangun dan dibebaskan lahannya. Jika jalan tol ini selesai, dipastikan bakal mendorong kegiatan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi Pulau Jawa.
2. Jalan Tol Jabodetabek
Jalan tol Jabodetabek ini mencakup jalan tol di lingkungan Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Pemerintah tengah menuntaskan pembangunan jalan tol dalam kota Jakarta, jalan tol lingkar luar Jakarta tahap II, jalan tol lingkar luar Bogor, serta jalan tol akses ke pelabuhan Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
3. Perluasan Pelabuhan
Agenda besar mengembangkan sejumlah pelabuhan, salah satunya pelabuhan Tanjung Priok, Jakarta Utara menjadi pelabuhan bertaraf internasional. Dengan demikian, Priok bisa menampung kapal berkapasitas besar dari 3.000 teus menjadi 5.000 teus. Untuk itu, Priok akan melakukan reklamasi besar-besaran karena membutuhkan lahan 270 hektare. Total investasi itu diperkirakan mencapai Rp22 triliun.
4. Jalan Lintas Pulau
Selain jalan tol, pemerintah SBY menjanjikan akan membangun jalan lintas Sumatera, Jawa, Bali, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur hingga Papua. Totalnya sepanjang total 19.370 kilometer pada 2014.
5. Pembangkit Listrik 10.000 Megawatt Tahap II
Pembangunan pembangkit listrik tahap II juga merupakan salah satu agenda pemerintah SBY setelah membangun Pembangkit Listrik Tahap I. Sebagian dari proyek pembangkit listrik tersebut akan mengandalkan sumber energi batu bara.
6. Mas Rapit Transit (MRT)
MRT Jakarta merupakan salah satu agenda besar angkutan transportasi massal. Ini sebenarnya sudah dibahas sejak 1985, namun mulai ada titik terang pada 2005, pada masa kabinet SBY tahap pertama. Meski sudah mulai digarap, namun proyek raksasa ini tidak akan tuntas 2014. Diperkirakan baru bisa terwujud 2016. Dana yang dibutuhkan sebesar Rp16 triliun.
http://artikelindonesia.com/proyek-raksasa-presiden-sby-dan-boediono.html
05.10.2010 | Author: admin | Article Posted in Berita
lainnya MRT Jakarta, lainnya Presiden SBY,
Pemerintah Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – Boediono berjanji akan merampungkan sejumlah proyek-proyek besar sebelum pemerintahannya berakhir pada 2014.
“Proyek-proyek ini ditarget sampai 2014,” kata Menteri Pekerjaan Umum Djoko Kirmanto seperti ditulis Senin 4 Oktober 2010.
Menurut Deputi Bidang Sarana dan Prasarana Bappenas, Deddy S Priatna, jumlah proyek besar itu cukup banyak. Tak hanya di Jawa, kata Deddy, sederet proyek besar itu mencakup darat, perhubungan laut, udara, penyeberangan dan kereta api.
“Oktober ditetapkan prioritas sampai 2014. Baru kemudian bicara anggaran yang disediakan,” kata Deddy.
Karena ini merupakan proyek-proyek raksasa, maka dana yang dibutuhkan juga sangat besar. Karena itu, Djoko menekankan pendanaan tidak bisa dibiayai pemerintah sendiri. Semua proyek masuk kategori multi years dan umumnya mendapat dukungan dari swasta. “Dana dari Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara hanya sebagai stimulan.”
Berbeda dengan pemerintah Soekarno yang membangun proyek “mercusuar” yang menjadi ikon Indonesia, seperti Gelora Bung Karno dan Monumen Nasional.
Sedangkan, pemerintah SBY-Boediono lebih memilih membangun proyek-proyek infrastruktur untuk mendorong kegiatan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi. Berikut ini proyek-proyek yang dijanjikan tuntas sebelum 2014.
1. Jalan Tol Trans Jawa
Jalan tol Trans Jawa merupakan jalan tol terpanjang di Indonesia. Panjangnya 650 kilometer menghubungkan kota-kota besar di Pulau Jawa. Dana yang dibutuhkan tidak main-main, puluhan triliun rupiah. Bayangkan, untuk membebaskan lahannya saja membutuhkan duit Rp5 triliun. Sebagian ruas sudah selesai seperti Tol Palimanan-Kanci di Cirebon, sebagian sedang dibangun dan dibebaskan lahannya. Jika jalan tol ini selesai, dipastikan bakal mendorong kegiatan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi Pulau Jawa.
2. Jalan Tol Jabodetabek
Jalan tol Jabodetabek ini mencakup jalan tol di lingkungan Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Pemerintah tengah menuntaskan pembangunan jalan tol dalam kota Jakarta, jalan tol lingkar luar Jakarta tahap II, jalan tol lingkar luar Bogor, serta jalan tol akses ke pelabuhan Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
3. Perluasan Pelabuhan
Agenda besar mengembangkan sejumlah pelabuhan, salah satunya pelabuhan Tanjung Priok, Jakarta Utara menjadi pelabuhan bertaraf internasional. Dengan demikian, Priok bisa menampung kapal berkapasitas besar dari 3.000 teus menjadi 5.000 teus. Untuk itu, Priok akan melakukan reklamasi besar-besaran karena membutuhkan lahan 270 hektare. Total investasi itu diperkirakan mencapai Rp22 triliun.
4. Jalan Lintas Pulau
Selain jalan tol, pemerintah SBY menjanjikan akan membangun jalan lintas Sumatera, Jawa, Bali, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur hingga Papua. Totalnya sepanjang total 19.370 kilometer pada 2014.
5. Pembangkit Listrik 10.000 Megawatt Tahap II
Pembangunan pembangkit listrik tahap II juga merupakan salah satu agenda pemerintah SBY setelah membangun Pembangkit Listrik Tahap I. Sebagian dari proyek pembangkit listrik tersebut akan mengandalkan sumber energi batu bara.
6. Mas Rapit Transit (MRT)
MRT Jakarta merupakan salah satu agenda besar angkutan transportasi massal. Ini sebenarnya sudah dibahas sejak 1985, namun mulai ada titik terang pada 2005, pada masa kabinet SBY tahap pertama. Meski sudah mulai digarap, namun proyek raksasa ini tidak akan tuntas 2014. Diperkirakan baru bisa terwujud 2016. Dana yang dibutuhkan sebesar Rp16 triliun.
http://artikelindonesia.com/proyek-raksasa-presiden-sby-dan-boediono.html
durian yang bermulti-fungsi
durian dengan berbagai fungsi
25.10.2010 | Author: tsuuicide | Article Posted in Nutrisi
Buah durian yang terkenal dengan baunya yang menyengat ini, ternyata memiliki banyak fungsi.
Beberapa bagian dari durian bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai bahan obat tradisional. Akarnya dimanfaatkan sebagai obat demam, sementara daunnya dapat dicampur dengan jerangau (Acorus Calamus) untuk menyembuhkan cantengan, yaitu infeksi pada kuku. Kulit buahnya bisa mengobati ruam pada kulit (sakit kurap) dan juga masalah gangguan buang air besar (sembelit). Tidak hanya itu, kulit buahnya juga biasa dibakar dan abunya digunakan untuk melancarkan haid.
Abu dan air rendaman abu dari kulit buahnya bisa digunakan untuk campuran pewarna tradisional. Beberapa masyarakat di Jawa menggunakan kulitnya sebagai pengusir tikus, dengan meletakkannya di sudut ruangan.
Tidak hanya itu, nutrisi durian dapat merangsang sistem regenerasi kulit.
Menurut Donna P. Killian, enior Director Global Education Murad, nutrisi durian dapat membantu keseimbangan kulit saat kering maupun lembab akibat faktor cuaca. Selain itu, nutrisi durian mengandung anti inflamasi dan antioksidan. “Dan ketika kulit diberi lingkungan yang baik maka sel kulit dapat beregenerasi dengan baik sehingga mengurangi timbulnya garis-garis halus.” Ujarnya.
http://artikelindonesia.com/buah-durian-dengan-berbagai-fungsi.html
25.10.2010 | Author: tsuuicide | Article Posted in Nutrisi
Buah durian yang terkenal dengan baunya yang menyengat ini, ternyata memiliki banyak fungsi.
Beberapa bagian dari durian bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai bahan obat tradisional. Akarnya dimanfaatkan sebagai obat demam, sementara daunnya dapat dicampur dengan jerangau (Acorus Calamus) untuk menyembuhkan cantengan, yaitu infeksi pada kuku. Kulit buahnya bisa mengobati ruam pada kulit (sakit kurap) dan juga masalah gangguan buang air besar (sembelit). Tidak hanya itu, kulit buahnya juga biasa dibakar dan abunya digunakan untuk melancarkan haid.
Abu dan air rendaman abu dari kulit buahnya bisa digunakan untuk campuran pewarna tradisional. Beberapa masyarakat di Jawa menggunakan kulitnya sebagai pengusir tikus, dengan meletakkannya di sudut ruangan.
Tidak hanya itu, nutrisi durian dapat merangsang sistem regenerasi kulit.
Menurut Donna P. Killian, enior Director Global Education Murad, nutrisi durian dapat membantu keseimbangan kulit saat kering maupun lembab akibat faktor cuaca. Selain itu, nutrisi durian mengandung anti inflamasi dan antioksidan. “Dan ketika kulit diberi lingkungan yang baik maka sel kulit dapat beregenerasi dengan baik sehingga mengurangi timbulnya garis-garis halus.” Ujarnya.
http://artikelindonesia.com/buah-durian-dengan-berbagai-fungsi.html
www.butuhtips.com----amatlah bermanfaat
Mengajari Anak Anda Berenang?
Apakah anda mempunyai anak dan ingin mengajari si kecil untuk berenang? Jangan khawatir, ada tips berenang sederhana namun cukup manjur. Berikut tipsnya :
1. Manfaatkan pelampung
Usahakan untuk memasang pelampung pada lengan anak, selain sebagai langkah pengamanan agar anak tidak tenggelam, pelampung juga dapat memberikan semacam kepercayaan diri yang lebih pada anak untuk lebih berani menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya di dalam air sebagai sebuah langkah awal. Pelampung lengan berkualitas baik dapat diperoleh dengan mudah dan dengan harga yang terjangkau di berbagai toko mainan besar di kota Anda
2. Menuntun di dalam air
Setelah anak Anda mulai berani menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya di dalam air, langkah berikutnya adalah mulai mencoba menuntunnya agar bisa melaju. Caranya: peganglah anak Anda dengan satu tangan pada perutnya, buatlah agar posisi badannya horizontal di permukaan air, kemudian mintalah ia untuk menggerakkan kakinya agar ia merasakan tubuhnya mulai melaju di dalam air. Tangan Anda yang menahan tubuhnya agar tetap horizontal hanya berfungsi sebagai ‘penuntun’ agar ia lebih mudah merasakan bahwa gerakan kakinyalah yang membuatnya melaju.
3. Buatlah anak Anda merasa nyaman
Langkah penting lainnya yang perlu juga Anda perhatikan adalah kemampuan Anda untuk menanamkan perasaan nyaman pada anak selama ia berada di dalam air. Tunjukkan dan berikan semangat kepadanya bahwa berenang atau bermain di dalam air adalah permainan baru yang sangat menyenangkan.
4. Kejar teman atau ayah dan ibu!
Apabila anak Anda mulai merasa semakin nyaman bermain dan menggerakkan tangan serta kakinya di dalam air, Anda bisa mendorong keberaniannya untuk melaju di dalam air tanpa bantuan. Caranya: lepaskan anak Anda dan berdirilah menjauh darinya kurang lebih satu meter, mintalah anak Anda untuk mengejar Anda, secara refleks dia akan menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya agar bisa melaju di dalam air untuk sampai ke pelukan Anda. Lakukan terus cara ini dalam tiap kesempatan berenang dengannya, dan secara perlahan perpanjang juga jarak berdiri Anda dengan anak Anda agar kemampuannya semakin berkembang.
Meskipun berenang merupakan olahraga atau permainan yang menyenangkan bagi anak, tentunya sebagai orang tua Atau pemandu Renang ada beberapa hal penting yang perlu juga anda perhatikan dengan cermat selama anda berada bersamanya di dalam kolam renang:
• Tak perlu terburu-buru, lakukanlah 4 langkah diatas secara bertahap, yang paling penting adalah tujuan anda untuk memperkenalkan anak pada olahraga renang bisa tercapai.
• Jangan berdiri terlalu jauh dari anak, pastikan agar anak dapat selalu melihat anda berada didekatnya, sehingga ia merasa lebih aman dan lebih berani bermain di dalam air.
• Pastikan juga bahwa pelampung di lengannya terpasang dengan baik pada posisi ideal, karena gerakan tangannya di dalam air kadang dapat membuat posisi pelampung terlampau naik atau terlampau turun.
• Berenang pada anak balita lebih merupakan sebuah permainan daripada sebuah olahraga, oleh karena itu jangan malu untuk membawa juga bola karet/plastik, rubber duck, ataupun mainan lainnya yang bisa dipakai air agar ia lebih tertarik untuk bermain didalam air.
Perlu juga diingat bahwa 4 langkah di atas sebaiknya dilakukan pada kolam renang dengan kedalaman minimal satu meter.
Jangan kuatir anak Anda akan tenggelam karena pelampung akan memberikan pengamanan tambahan untuknya. Namun bila anak Anda berkeinginan untuk bermain di kolam anak-anak (yang biasanya berkedalaman setengah meter), lepaskan pelampung lengannya, dan selalu awasi anak Anda dengan seksama.
Dasar-dasar gaya renang ada 4 gaya:
Gaya dada
Perenang meletakkan kaki dan tangan didalam air. kedua tangan digerakkan bersama-sama dengan gerakan melingkar, dan merentang keluar kedepan perenang kemudian diteruskan ke-air dan kembali ke bawah dagu. Dan pada waktu yang sama, perenang itu menendang dengan kaki mereka seperti kodok.
Gaya bebas
Gaya bebas adalah gaya yang paling cepat. Didalam gaya bebas, satu tangan melewati kepala perenang itu dan yang lainnya mendorong melalui air. Pada waktu bersamaan, kaki perenang bergerak keatas dan kebawah dengan cepat
Gaya punggung
Perenang harus tetap berada pada posisi membelakangi air setiap saat, kecuali ketika memutar. kaki bertindak seperti gaya bebas. Tangan bergerak satu persatu secara beraturan dengan gerakan melingkar melewati kepala perenang tersebut dan kemudian diteruskan keair.
Gaya kupu-kupu
Gaya kupu-kupu adalah gaya yang paling susah dikuasai. Perenang mengayunkan tangannya melewati atas air dan kemudian tarik kebawah melalui air. Pada waktu bersamaan, perenang tersebut perlu menggerakkan kaki mereka seperti tendangan lumba-lumba, menyamai kedua kaki untuk bergerak naik dan turun bersama-sama.
Masih mau mendapatkan bermacam tips olahraga menarik lainnya?
Silahkan ke www.butuhtips.com
Apakah anda mempunyai anak dan ingin mengajari si kecil untuk berenang? Jangan khawatir, ada tips berenang sederhana namun cukup manjur. Berikut tipsnya :
1. Manfaatkan pelampung
Usahakan untuk memasang pelampung pada lengan anak, selain sebagai langkah pengamanan agar anak tidak tenggelam, pelampung juga dapat memberikan semacam kepercayaan diri yang lebih pada anak untuk lebih berani menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya di dalam air sebagai sebuah langkah awal. Pelampung lengan berkualitas baik dapat diperoleh dengan mudah dan dengan harga yang terjangkau di berbagai toko mainan besar di kota Anda
2. Menuntun di dalam air
Setelah anak Anda mulai berani menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya di dalam air, langkah berikutnya adalah mulai mencoba menuntunnya agar bisa melaju. Caranya: peganglah anak Anda dengan satu tangan pada perutnya, buatlah agar posisi badannya horizontal di permukaan air, kemudian mintalah ia untuk menggerakkan kakinya agar ia merasakan tubuhnya mulai melaju di dalam air. Tangan Anda yang menahan tubuhnya agar tetap horizontal hanya berfungsi sebagai ‘penuntun’ agar ia lebih mudah merasakan bahwa gerakan kakinyalah yang membuatnya melaju.
3. Buatlah anak Anda merasa nyaman
Langkah penting lainnya yang perlu juga Anda perhatikan adalah kemampuan Anda untuk menanamkan perasaan nyaman pada anak selama ia berada di dalam air. Tunjukkan dan berikan semangat kepadanya bahwa berenang atau bermain di dalam air adalah permainan baru yang sangat menyenangkan.
4. Kejar teman atau ayah dan ibu!
Apabila anak Anda mulai merasa semakin nyaman bermain dan menggerakkan tangan serta kakinya di dalam air, Anda bisa mendorong keberaniannya untuk melaju di dalam air tanpa bantuan. Caranya: lepaskan anak Anda dan berdirilah menjauh darinya kurang lebih satu meter, mintalah anak Anda untuk mengejar Anda, secara refleks dia akan menggerakkan tangan dan kakinya agar bisa melaju di dalam air untuk sampai ke pelukan Anda. Lakukan terus cara ini dalam tiap kesempatan berenang dengannya, dan secara perlahan perpanjang juga jarak berdiri Anda dengan anak Anda agar kemampuannya semakin berkembang.
Meskipun berenang merupakan olahraga atau permainan yang menyenangkan bagi anak, tentunya sebagai orang tua Atau pemandu Renang ada beberapa hal penting yang perlu juga anda perhatikan dengan cermat selama anda berada bersamanya di dalam kolam renang:
• Tak perlu terburu-buru, lakukanlah 4 langkah diatas secara bertahap, yang paling penting adalah tujuan anda untuk memperkenalkan anak pada olahraga renang bisa tercapai.
• Jangan berdiri terlalu jauh dari anak, pastikan agar anak dapat selalu melihat anda berada didekatnya, sehingga ia merasa lebih aman dan lebih berani bermain di dalam air.
• Pastikan juga bahwa pelampung di lengannya terpasang dengan baik pada posisi ideal, karena gerakan tangannya di dalam air kadang dapat membuat posisi pelampung terlampau naik atau terlampau turun.
• Berenang pada anak balita lebih merupakan sebuah permainan daripada sebuah olahraga, oleh karena itu jangan malu untuk membawa juga bola karet/plastik, rubber duck, ataupun mainan lainnya yang bisa dipakai air agar ia lebih tertarik untuk bermain didalam air.
Perlu juga diingat bahwa 4 langkah di atas sebaiknya dilakukan pada kolam renang dengan kedalaman minimal satu meter.
Jangan kuatir anak Anda akan tenggelam karena pelampung akan memberikan pengamanan tambahan untuknya. Namun bila anak Anda berkeinginan untuk bermain di kolam anak-anak (yang biasanya berkedalaman setengah meter), lepaskan pelampung lengannya, dan selalu awasi anak Anda dengan seksama.
Dasar-dasar gaya renang ada 4 gaya:
Gaya dada
Perenang meletakkan kaki dan tangan didalam air. kedua tangan digerakkan bersama-sama dengan gerakan melingkar, dan merentang keluar kedepan perenang kemudian diteruskan ke-air dan kembali ke bawah dagu. Dan pada waktu yang sama, perenang itu menendang dengan kaki mereka seperti kodok.
Gaya bebas
Gaya bebas adalah gaya yang paling cepat. Didalam gaya bebas, satu tangan melewati kepala perenang itu dan yang lainnya mendorong melalui air. Pada waktu bersamaan, kaki perenang bergerak keatas dan kebawah dengan cepat
Gaya punggung
Perenang harus tetap berada pada posisi membelakangi air setiap saat, kecuali ketika memutar. kaki bertindak seperti gaya bebas. Tangan bergerak satu persatu secara beraturan dengan gerakan melingkar melewati kepala perenang tersebut dan kemudian diteruskan keair.
Gaya kupu-kupu
Gaya kupu-kupu adalah gaya yang paling susah dikuasai. Perenang mengayunkan tangannya melewati atas air dan kemudian tarik kebawah melalui air. Pada waktu bersamaan, perenang tersebut perlu menggerakkan kaki mereka seperti tendangan lumba-lumba, menyamai kedua kaki untuk bergerak naik dan turun bersama-sama.
Masih mau mendapatkan bermacam tips olahraga menarik lainnya?
Silahkan ke www.butuhtips.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Health Ministar Khaw Boon Wan paid $8/- for his 'Free First Class Medical Bills' -LOL!
Health Ministar Khaw Boon Wan paid $8/- for his 'Free First Class Medical Bills' -LOL!
by Patrick Lee Song Juan on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 08:17
Health Minister Khaw only paid $8/- after his heart-bypass surgery due to medical insurance. He can say it with great ease!
With his exorbitant pay, any kind of medical insurance with cover him. And he did not divulge or tell us he is entitled to A1 class in hospitals FREE as a government servant.
He paid a token $8/- is so ironic. Mr minister, you cannot compare 'abalone with cockles' (you being the abalone of society). Talk is easy. Who cannot talk.
My grand daughter at one and a half year old talks very well too though with limited vocab.
What the government should do is to really subsidise the poor to insure them for more on Health and Medical insurance.
We all know that nowadays medical bills are a 'killer' in itself, not the sickness.
Liberate our Medisave for more use on outpatient consultation. Why hold our Medisave in our CPF only for severe illness. By then many of us will not see the living daylights!!!
Those who are healthy and have surplus in their Medisave account with no major medical conditions that do not need surgery should be given an option to use their Medisave on outpatient payments on medicines in Polyclinics.
Many old and destitute folks really find it tough to pay for the medicine and consultation charges in outpatient clinics.
Have a heart Khaw Boon Wan...though you had your heart-bypass.
Your heart is still there! With your 'higher echelon' of life, (please do not compare 'abalone with cockle'; LHLoong will like some cockles for his mee-siam) medical bills are never in your mind.
But I sincerely wish you to live a healthy and empathetic life for the poor citizens of S'pore.
I am a poor man too. I am healthy but my Medisave account is locked for 'DEATH not FOR LIFE'...if you know what I mean...Give everyone of us a better deal on our own money of Medisave savings.
A good scenario is when a terminally-ill cancer patient dying and have only one month to live. His/her medisave account long depleted. He has a minimum sum savings there sitting waiting to be used when he reaches 65 years in instalments...My God!...he is dying now and cannotuse his so called minimum sum money to assist his predicament now!
Where is the rationale ??
What the CPF and government will do is when he is dead...it will be burned as Hellnotes to him to live a rich life in Hell.
How sad? Do our government have a heart?. And our Mr Khaw had just mended his heart for $8/-. LMAO !
I am a VWO volunteer and a Voice for the Poor. Regards.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247269996#!/notes/patrick-lee-song-juan/health-ministar-khaw-boon-wan-paid-8-for-his-free-first-class-medical-bills-lol/170968769586971
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IN MALAYSIA，ORDINARY PEOPLE， NORMAL CITIZENS HAVE TO PAY AT LEAST RM40，000 TO RM100，000 FOR HEART SURGERY！
BUT RICHER， AND FAMOUS MAN MAY BE NO NEED TO PAY！
HOW MUCH DID MAHATHIR MOHAMAD PAID FOR HIS HEART SURGERY (FEW TIMES) AFTER HE QUIT FROM PM POST。。。。。
WHO SAY RICHER AND THOSE WITH A LOT OF PENSION MONEY WILL PAY MORE。。。
NO， ONLY ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN。。。。LIKE ALL OF US WILL HAVE TO USE "COFFIN MONEY" TO PAY MEDICAL FEES， MEDICAL EXPENSES。。。。
WE ALL RAKYAT BODOH， JAHIL。。。。。。。。
THOSE POLITICIANS ARE REALLY BASTARD， ESPECIALLY FROM BN。。。。THEY HAVE TREATED ALL OF US LIKE RAKYAT BODOH！！！！！！！！！！！
WHY RAKYAT HAVE TO PAY HIGH MEDICAL BILLS，WHY？ A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SUFFER DUE TO PRESSURE AND TENSION THAT CAN NOT PAY FOR MEDICAL BILLS。。。NOW。。EVEN MCA。。BEGIN AND TRY HARD TO SET UP A MCA MEDICAL FUND TO HELP THOSE NEEDY。。。。A LOT OF RAKYAT ARE DESPERATELY NEED HELP.
REALLY BASTARD！
BN REALLY OPPRESSIVE。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
（UMNOPRESIF --OPRESIFKAN MINDA RAKYAT DAN MENJADIKAN RAKYAT LAGI JAHIL DAN MUDAH DITIPU-DUSTA！）
by Patrick Lee Song Juan on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 08:17
Health Minister Khaw only paid $8/- after his heart-bypass surgery due to medical insurance. He can say it with great ease!
With his exorbitant pay, any kind of medical insurance with cover him. And he did not divulge or tell us he is entitled to A1 class in hospitals FREE as a government servant.
He paid a token $8/- is so ironic. Mr minister, you cannot compare 'abalone with cockles' (you being the abalone of society). Talk is easy. Who cannot talk.
My grand daughter at one and a half year old talks very well too though with limited vocab.
What the government should do is to really subsidise the poor to insure them for more on Health and Medical insurance.
We all know that nowadays medical bills are a 'killer' in itself, not the sickness.
Liberate our Medisave for more use on outpatient consultation. Why hold our Medisave in our CPF only for severe illness. By then many of us will not see the living daylights!!!
Those who are healthy and have surplus in their Medisave account with no major medical conditions that do not need surgery should be given an option to use their Medisave on outpatient payments on medicines in Polyclinics.
Many old and destitute folks really find it tough to pay for the medicine and consultation charges in outpatient clinics.
Have a heart Khaw Boon Wan...though you had your heart-bypass.
Your heart is still there! With your 'higher echelon' of life, (please do not compare 'abalone with cockle'; LHLoong will like some cockles for his mee-siam) medical bills are never in your mind.
But I sincerely wish you to live a healthy and empathetic life for the poor citizens of S'pore.
I am a poor man too. I am healthy but my Medisave account is locked for 'DEATH not FOR LIFE'...if you know what I mean...Give everyone of us a better deal on our own money of Medisave savings.
A good scenario is when a terminally-ill cancer patient dying and have only one month to live. His/her medisave account long depleted. He has a minimum sum savings there sitting waiting to be used when he reaches 65 years in instalments...My God!...he is dying now and cannotuse his so called minimum sum money to assist his predicament now!
Where is the rationale ??
What the CPF and government will do is when he is dead...it will be burned as Hellnotes to him to live a rich life in Hell.
How sad? Do our government have a heart?. And our Mr Khaw had just mended his heart for $8/-. LMAO !
I am a VWO volunteer and a Voice for the Poor. Regards.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247269996#!/notes/patrick-lee-song-juan/health-ministar-khaw-boon-wan-paid-8-for-his-free-first-class-medical-bills-lol/170968769586971
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
IN MALAYSIA，ORDINARY PEOPLE， NORMAL CITIZENS HAVE TO PAY AT LEAST RM40，000 TO RM100，000 FOR HEART SURGERY！
BUT RICHER， AND FAMOUS MAN MAY BE NO NEED TO PAY！
HOW MUCH DID MAHATHIR MOHAMAD PAID FOR HIS HEART SURGERY (FEW TIMES) AFTER HE QUIT FROM PM POST。。。。。
WHO SAY RICHER AND THOSE WITH A LOT OF PENSION MONEY WILL PAY MORE。。。
NO， ONLY ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN。。。。LIKE ALL OF US WILL HAVE TO USE "COFFIN MONEY" TO PAY MEDICAL FEES， MEDICAL EXPENSES。。。。
WE ALL RAKYAT BODOH， JAHIL。。。。。。。。
THOSE POLITICIANS ARE REALLY BASTARD， ESPECIALLY FROM BN。。。。THEY HAVE TREATED ALL OF US LIKE RAKYAT BODOH！！！！！！！！！！！
WHY RAKYAT HAVE TO PAY HIGH MEDICAL BILLS，WHY？ A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SUFFER DUE TO PRESSURE AND TENSION THAT CAN NOT PAY FOR MEDICAL BILLS。。。NOW。。EVEN MCA。。BEGIN AND TRY HARD TO SET UP A MCA MEDICAL FUND TO HELP THOSE NEEDY。。。。A LOT OF RAKYAT ARE DESPERATELY NEED HELP.
REALLY BASTARD！
BN REALLY OPPRESSIVE。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
（UMNOPRESIF --OPRESIFKAN MINDA RAKYAT DAN MENJADIKAN RAKYAT LAGI JAHIL DAN MUDAH DITIPU-DUSTA！）
独立新闻中心炮轰通讯委员会违反宪赋言论自由，并要求当局撤销一切的调查行动..........
网络媒体和部落格最近因报道巫统主席纳吉在该党全国大会的政策演说，结果招致通讯及多媒体委员会调查；针对此事，独立新闻中心炮轰通讯委员会违反宪赋言论自由，并要求当局撤销一切的调查行动。
通讯委员会官员是于10月22日上门，向《当今大马》总编辑颜重庆录取口供。
官员上门向总编辑录供
根据该名官员指出，《当今大马》是在1998年通讯及多媒体法令第211和233条文下被调查，而被投报的新闻是〈纳吉：我们须不惜一切捍卫布城〉（We must defend Putrajaya at all costs: Najib）和〈首相动手扑灭种族辩论〉（PM moves to snuff out racial debates）。
该官员也宣称，自己并不知道这次是谁针对《当今大马》进行报案。
作者被否决咨询律师权
紧接其后，《Malaysia Chronicle》部落格作者黄春梅（Wong Choon Mei，译音）也因为从《当今大马》上述新闻转载数个段落，结果在10月25日遭通讯委员会援引同样条文进行调查。
不但如此，黄春梅在接受调查过程，也不被允许有律师在旁陪同。其律师拉蒂花被告知，除非黄春梅是提供证人口供，这样才允许律师陪同。
独立新闻中心批评通讯委员会，此举显然已经违反联邦宪法第5条文。
报章报道马华曾经报警
独立新闻中心表示，根据一家马来文报章的报道，国阵成员党之一的马华公会，曾经向警方举报《Malaysia Chronicle》，唯不清楚通讯委员会是否基于此案进行调查。
迄今，首相署也不曾发表任何声明，澄清或驳斥有关新闻报道。
其他媒体却未受到对付
独立新闻中心批评，通讯委员会的调查已经违反了宪赋的言论自由，而且旨在骚扰大马网络社群，尤其是针对特定的新闻和资讯网站，因为其他媒体也同样刊登类似的新闻和题目却不受对付。
它指出，在一个印刷与电子媒体受到当局严厉监管的国家，网络为政治讨论和言论提供了一个重要的空间，而这也是通讯及多媒体法令第3条文所明文保障的空间。
独立新闻中心呼吁通讯委员会，撤销对上述两个网站的一切调查行动，并希望该委员会日后能够秉持宪赋的言论自由和咨询律师的权利办事。
“为了确保通讯委员会日后不会违反咨询律师的权利，我们建议它对该名否决黄春梅权利的官员，进行调查。"
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/146573
通讯委员会官员是于10月22日上门，向《当今大马》总编辑颜重庆录取口供。
官员上门向总编辑录供
根据该名官员指出，《当今大马》是在1998年通讯及多媒体法令第211和233条文下被调查，而被投报的新闻是〈纳吉：我们须不惜一切捍卫布城〉（We must defend Putrajaya at all costs: Najib）和〈首相动手扑灭种族辩论〉（PM moves to snuff out racial debates）。
该官员也宣称，自己并不知道这次是谁针对《当今大马》进行报案。
作者被否决咨询律师权
紧接其后，《Malaysia Chronicle》部落格作者黄春梅（Wong Choon Mei，译音）也因为从《当今大马》上述新闻转载数个段落，结果在10月25日遭通讯委员会援引同样条文进行调查。
不但如此，黄春梅在接受调查过程，也不被允许有律师在旁陪同。其律师拉蒂花被告知，除非黄春梅是提供证人口供，这样才允许律师陪同。
独立新闻中心批评通讯委员会，此举显然已经违反联邦宪法第5条文。
报章报道马华曾经报警
独立新闻中心表示，根据一家马来文报章的报道，国阵成员党之一的马华公会，曾经向警方举报《Malaysia Chronicle》，唯不清楚通讯委员会是否基于此案进行调查。
迄今，首相署也不曾发表任何声明，澄清或驳斥有关新闻报道。
其他媒体却未受到对付
独立新闻中心批评，通讯委员会的调查已经违反了宪赋的言论自由，而且旨在骚扰大马网络社群，尤其是针对特定的新闻和资讯网站，因为其他媒体也同样刊登类似的新闻和题目却不受对付。
它指出，在一个印刷与电子媒体受到当局严厉监管的国家，网络为政治讨论和言论提供了一个重要的空间，而这也是通讯及多媒体法令第3条文所明文保障的空间。
独立新闻中心呼吁通讯委员会，撤销对上述两个网站的一切调查行动，并希望该委员会日后能够秉持宪赋的言论自由和咨询律师的权利办事。
“为了确保通讯委员会日后不会违反咨询律师的权利，我们建议它对该名否决黄春梅权利的官员，进行调查。"
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/146573
The ‘social contract’ — Concerned Scholars
The ‘social contract’ — Concerned Scholars
by Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Dr Mavis Puthucheary, Dr Azmi Sharom, Dr Toh Kin Woon and Dr Wan Zawawi Ibrahim
October 27, 2010
We would like to provide some feedback to the speech made by Prime Minister Najib Razak on 21 October 2010 to the Umno general assembly in which he gave the impression that there is a ‘social contract’ whose terms are set in stone. He also told the delegates that no Malaysian should question it.
It is necessary to note that there is a range of views amongst us on the social contract issue and on how to respond to the Prime Minister’s advice.
One colleague has argued that it is not yet time for an “organized effort” of civil society to make such a statement as it may provoke negative reactions that may be harmful to our common pursuit of a fair and united nation.
Another has expressed concern that we must not play into the hands of politicians who will mobilize Malay support by trying to show that the non-Malays have reneged on their so-called promise to accept Malay political superiority in exchange for citizenship.
A third colleague has noted that there is really no need to contest what is ‘written’ in the social contract. Rather, we should question where a copy of the social contract is to be found so we can verify and discuss its contents and meaning.
Despite our different points of view, we are in agreement on three key points.
* It is important for Malaysians not to be gagged into silence on what is perhaps the most contentious issue standing in the way of better inter-communal relations in the country. The quicker we can
reach consensus on what the social contract means — not only in terms of what was agreed by the nation’s early leaders in the past but also, more importantly, on how this agreement should be understood by Malaysians today — the less divided and more hopeful will be our future.
* For us to reach this consensus, it is important to have the facts on what took place during that critical period of our history fully disclosed and available for public discussion. In particular, we will need to have the relevant reports of the Reid Commission so that Malaysians have the opportunity to read and understand the logic and wisdom of our early leaders and do not have to depend on politically skewed interpretations of what is supposed to comprise any agreement or social contract for that period.
* At the same time it is necessary for constitutional and legal experts, historians and other scholars to lend their expertise to the public understanding. Professional organizations such as the Bar Council, the Malaysian Social Science Association, and other bodies should organize talks, seminars and forums to ensure that the best minds on the subject can have their opinions disseminated to the public.
We believe that the Malaysian public has reached a level of political maturity so that we can have a rational and public debate on the way forward in terms of any inter-communal accord or understanding arrived at, and on what needs to be honoured and respected. For that reason, we are opposed to the position of Umno and MCA which is tantamount to decreeing a ban on public discussion of the issue.
The danger is that in not debating the issue openly — which is what the two main BN parties seem to be driving at — there is a real danger not only of driving that debate underground but also of reinforcing or entrenching ethnocentric interpretations that do not reflect the true intent of the constitutional agreement reached more than 50 years ago.
* Issued and signed by Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Dr Mavis Puthucheary, Dr Azmi Sharom, Dr Toh Kin Woon and Dr Wan Zawawi Ibrahim.
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/10/27/the-%E2%80%98social-contract%E2%80%99-%E2%80%94-concerned-scholars/
首相纳吉在巫统大会上警告各界勿再质疑社会契约及联邦宪法，避免挑起种族冲突的说法，引起5名著名学者挺身驳斥，并强调“社会契约”问题必须能够公开讨论，而且大马人民已拥有成熟政治思维来讨论相关的课题。
“我们相信，马来西亚人的政治思维已足够成熟，可以理性和公开地讨论国家如何迈进的课题，达致种族的协议和理解，同时确认什么是必须被尊崇和遵守的。”
“基于这样的理由，我们反对巫统和马华的立场，因为它们等同给相关议题的公开讨论发出了禁令。”
这5名学者是林德义、玛维斯普都哲里（Mavis Puthucheary）、阿兹米沙隆（Azmi Sharom）、杜乾焕和万查瓦威（Wan Zawawi Ibrahim ）。
禁止讨论和种族诠释才危险
他们今天发表联名文告强调，危险不在于公开讨论相关议题；巫统和国阵的的推论是不正确的。
相反地，真正的危险在于禁止辩论，以及强化和保护那些对宪法作出种族中心诠释，违反制宪协议原初和真正用意的做法。
越快达共识未来就越有希望
5名学者也指出，他们达致三个关键的共同意见。首先，马来西亚人绝不能够被噤声，禁止讨论能够改善种族关系，但却最具有争议的课题。
“我们对社会契约的意义，越快达致共识，则我们的未来就会更少分歧，和更多的希望。社会契约不仅是过去国家领袖们所同意的事情，更重要的是，今天的马来西亚人如何看待这些协议。”
促政府公开各建国关键文件
其次，他们强调为了达到共识，建国关键时期的历史必须获得充分理解，同时允许公众进行讨论。
他们举例说明，政府尤其应该公布当初李特宪制委员会（Reid Commission）所撰写的相关报告。
他们解释，这样做可以让大马人有机会直接认识和理解国家建国领袖的“逻辑和智慧”，而无需依赖“有政治意图的诠释”。
专家学者致力提高公众认识
第三，这些学者也认为，宪法和法律专家、历史学者和其他学者应该善用他们的专才以提升公众对宪法的认识。
他们建议，律师公会、大马社会科学协会和其他团体应该广泛举办讲座论坛，邀请上述的专才主讲，让公众能够听到他们宝贵的意见。
纳吉：或挑起种族原始本能
NONE有鉴于国内最近再掀起公民权及土著特别地位的争论，首相兼巫统主席纳吉在10月21日的巫统大会上警告各界，勿再质疑社会契约及联邦宪法，以免挑起“种族原始本能”，上演20世纪欧洲大陆及西亚的种族大清洗屠杀事件。
纳吉表示，由于马来人当初为了争取国家独立，不惜做出巨大牺牲，甘愿与其他种族分享马来土地，若再有人质疑社会契约，将会让马来人“很受伤”。
他接着说明，非马来人为了取得公民权，在协定社会契约时，早已接受宪法赋予的马来人特权，而从那时起，马来西亚国民在根本的性质上就并非平等，反之，为了国家长远利益而顺应现实。
如此一来，纳吉促请所有人停止这种争辩，以免进一步激起日益高涨的种族情绪。
针对纳吉这种论调，马华总会长蔡细历回应说，社会契约并非完全不能被讨论，唯须低调闭门进行，以确保政府公平执行这项原则。
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/146556
by Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Dr Mavis Puthucheary, Dr Azmi Sharom, Dr Toh Kin Woon and Dr Wan Zawawi Ibrahim
October 27, 2010
We would like to provide some feedback to the speech made by Prime Minister Najib Razak on 21 October 2010 to the Umno general assembly in which he gave the impression that there is a ‘social contract’ whose terms are set in stone. He also told the delegates that no Malaysian should question it.
It is necessary to note that there is a range of views amongst us on the social contract issue and on how to respond to the Prime Minister’s advice.
One colleague has argued that it is not yet time for an “organized effort” of civil society to make such a statement as it may provoke negative reactions that may be harmful to our common pursuit of a fair and united nation.
Another has expressed concern that we must not play into the hands of politicians who will mobilize Malay support by trying to show that the non-Malays have reneged on their so-called promise to accept Malay political superiority in exchange for citizenship.
A third colleague has noted that there is really no need to contest what is ‘written’ in the social contract. Rather, we should question where a copy of the social contract is to be found so we can verify and discuss its contents and meaning.
Despite our different points of view, we are in agreement on three key points.
* It is important for Malaysians not to be gagged into silence on what is perhaps the most contentious issue standing in the way of better inter-communal relations in the country. The quicker we can
reach consensus on what the social contract means — not only in terms of what was agreed by the nation’s early leaders in the past but also, more importantly, on how this agreement should be understood by Malaysians today — the less divided and more hopeful will be our future.
* For us to reach this consensus, it is important to have the facts on what took place during that critical period of our history fully disclosed and available for public discussion. In particular, we will need to have the relevant reports of the Reid Commission so that Malaysians have the opportunity to read and understand the logic and wisdom of our early leaders and do not have to depend on politically skewed interpretations of what is supposed to comprise any agreement or social contract for that period.
* At the same time it is necessary for constitutional and legal experts, historians and other scholars to lend their expertise to the public understanding. Professional organizations such as the Bar Council, the Malaysian Social Science Association, and other bodies should organize talks, seminars and forums to ensure that the best minds on the subject can have their opinions disseminated to the public.
We believe that the Malaysian public has reached a level of political maturity so that we can have a rational and public debate on the way forward in terms of any inter-communal accord or understanding arrived at, and on what needs to be honoured and respected. For that reason, we are opposed to the position of Umno and MCA which is tantamount to decreeing a ban on public discussion of the issue.
The danger is that in not debating the issue openly — which is what the two main BN parties seem to be driving at — there is a real danger not only of driving that debate underground but also of reinforcing or entrenching ethnocentric interpretations that do not reflect the true intent of the constitutional agreement reached more than 50 years ago.
* Issued and signed by Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Dr Mavis Puthucheary, Dr Azmi Sharom, Dr Toh Kin Woon and Dr Wan Zawawi Ibrahim.
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/10/27/the-%E2%80%98social-contract%E2%80%99-%E2%80%94-concerned-scholars/
首相纳吉在巫统大会上警告各界勿再质疑社会契约及联邦宪法，避免挑起种族冲突的说法，引起5名著名学者挺身驳斥，并强调“社会契约”问题必须能够公开讨论，而且大马人民已拥有成熟政治思维来讨论相关的课题。
“我们相信，马来西亚人的政治思维已足够成熟，可以理性和公开地讨论国家如何迈进的课题，达致种族的协议和理解，同时确认什么是必须被尊崇和遵守的。”
“基于这样的理由，我们反对巫统和马华的立场，因为它们等同给相关议题的公开讨论发出了禁令。”
这5名学者是林德义、玛维斯普都哲里（Mavis Puthucheary）、阿兹米沙隆（Azmi Sharom）、杜乾焕和万查瓦威（Wan Zawawi Ibrahim ）。
禁止讨论和种族诠释才危险
他们今天发表联名文告强调，危险不在于公开讨论相关议题；巫统和国阵的的推论是不正确的。
相反地，真正的危险在于禁止辩论，以及强化和保护那些对宪法作出种族中心诠释，违反制宪协议原初和真正用意的做法。
越快达共识未来就越有希望
5名学者也指出，他们达致三个关键的共同意见。首先，马来西亚人绝不能够被噤声，禁止讨论能够改善种族关系，但却最具有争议的课题。
“我们对社会契约的意义，越快达致共识，则我们的未来就会更少分歧，和更多的希望。社会契约不仅是过去国家领袖们所同意的事情，更重要的是，今天的马来西亚人如何看待这些协议。”
促政府公开各建国关键文件
其次，他们强调为了达到共识，建国关键时期的历史必须获得充分理解，同时允许公众进行讨论。
他们举例说明，政府尤其应该公布当初李特宪制委员会（Reid Commission）所撰写的相关报告。
他们解释，这样做可以让大马人有机会直接认识和理解国家建国领袖的“逻辑和智慧”，而无需依赖“有政治意图的诠释”。
专家学者致力提高公众认识
第三，这些学者也认为，宪法和法律专家、历史学者和其他学者应该善用他们的专才以提升公众对宪法的认识。
他们建议，律师公会、大马社会科学协会和其他团体应该广泛举办讲座论坛，邀请上述的专才主讲，让公众能够听到他们宝贵的意见。
纳吉：或挑起种族原始本能
NONE有鉴于国内最近再掀起公民权及土著特别地位的争论，首相兼巫统主席纳吉在10月21日的巫统大会上警告各界，勿再质疑社会契约及联邦宪法，以免挑起“种族原始本能”，上演20世纪欧洲大陆及西亚的种族大清洗屠杀事件。
纳吉表示，由于马来人当初为了争取国家独立，不惜做出巨大牺牲，甘愿与其他种族分享马来土地，若再有人质疑社会契约，将会让马来人“很受伤”。
他接着说明，非马来人为了取得公民权，在协定社会契约时，早已接受宪法赋予的马来人特权，而从那时起，马来西亚国民在根本的性质上就并非平等，反之，为了国家长远利益而顺应现实。
如此一来，纳吉促请所有人停止这种争辩，以免进一步激起日益高涨的种族情绪。
针对纳吉这种论调，马华总会长蔡细历回应说，社会契约并非完全不能被讨论，唯须低调闭门进行，以确保政府公平执行这项原则。
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/146556
Friday, October 22, 2010
RAKYAT DAN PENGUNDI DI BATU SAPI, SILA SOKONGLAH YONG TECL LEE!!恳请支持杨德利!
SOKONGLAH SAUDARA YONG TECK LEE!
MEMOHON SEMU PENGUNDI KAWASAN BATU SAPI MENYOKONG SAUDARA YONG TECK LEE!
今日率先公布该党主席杨德利，将在巴都沙比国会议席补选中，亲自披甲上阵。
曾经出任沙巴首席部长的杨德利，今次亲自在补选上阵，无疑令这场补选更添看头，更凸显该党在这场补选志在必得之心。
沙巴进步党副主席方家扬今早为该党加拉文汀（Karamunting）办事处主持开幕后，作出这项宣布。
“沙巴需要一名勇敢的领袖。我们需要一名可以致力于，夺回沙巴自主权和捍卫州权利的领袖。我们需要一名可以带来改变的领袖。”
巴都沙比补选预料三角战
被当地人称为“三脚石”的巴都沙比，将在下周二举行提名日，并在11月4日进行投票。
由于沙巴进步党与公正党的谈判破局，因此预料这场补选至少会出现两个在野党和国阵之间的三角战。
预料公正党和国阵将在明日公布候选人。
杨德利曾任两年首席部长
根据媒体的资料，现年52岁的杨德利是沙巴政坛老薑，在英国林肯法律学院考获出庭律师资格之后，回到沙巴从政，加入反对党沙巴团结党。1985年沙巴州选举，他一炮而红，中选里卡士(Likas)州议员，团结党也在那年击败人民党，上台执政。
在1986年、1990年、1994年及1999年沙州选举，杨德利成功连任里卡士州议员。他在1994年另起炉灶，成立沙巴进步党。
团结党取得沙州政权后曾经加入国阵，1990年全国大选，前财政部长东姑拉沙里成立46精神党，与首相马哈迪抗衡。投票前夕，团结党突然宣布退出国阵，据说杨德利当时就是幕后推手之一。
1994年沙州选举结果，首席部长百林领导团结党以25席对23席险胜，选举过后，多名团结党议员相继跳槽到国阵，导致团结党政府倒台。不过，杨德利当年率先退出团结党另立门户，被认为是团结党失去江山的关键。
1996年7月，杨德利在各族轮任制度下，担任了两年的沙州首席部长。
担任州议员期间，杨德利惹上几宗选举官司，最轰动的是1990年沙州选举后，他被控在竞选期间散播不确实言论，抵触选举法令。
这起案件一直拖到1996年5月，他最终在控方修改控状下，承认参加非法集会，结果被判罚款1000令吉（约420新元）。这项判决没有使杨德利丧失议员资格，两个星期后，他接任沙州首席部长。
在2001年，沙巴高庭宣判1999年3月沙州选举中，里卡士的选举结果无效，原因是在选举中投票的包括非公民等“幽灵选民”。杨德利过后参加补选，成功守土。
杨德利也在1999年全国大选中选为加雅国会议员，不过，他没有在2004年及2008年大选上阵。
基于1999年大选的选举布条问题，导致杨德利在2001年失去参选资格。他也没有参加 2008年全国大选，因为当时沙巴进步党要求在亚庇国会议席上阵，但是未获时任首相阿都拉拒绝。
沙巴进步党于2008年6月18日宣布对前首相阿都拉领导失去信心，进而在9月宣布退出国阵。
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SOKONG!
PENGUNDI-PENGUNDI SILA SOKONG YONG TECK LEE!
MEMOHON SEMU PENGUNDI KAWASAN BATU SAPI MENYOKONG SAUDARA YONG TECK LEE!
今日率先公布该党主席杨德利，将在巴都沙比国会议席补选中，亲自披甲上阵。
曾经出任沙巴首席部长的杨德利，今次亲自在补选上阵，无疑令这场补选更添看头，更凸显该党在这场补选志在必得之心。
沙巴进步党副主席方家扬今早为该党加拉文汀（Karamunting）办事处主持开幕后，作出这项宣布。
“沙巴需要一名勇敢的领袖。我们需要一名可以致力于，夺回沙巴自主权和捍卫州权利的领袖。我们需要一名可以带来改变的领袖。”
巴都沙比补选预料三角战
被当地人称为“三脚石”的巴都沙比，将在下周二举行提名日，并在11月4日进行投票。
由于沙巴进步党与公正党的谈判破局，因此预料这场补选至少会出现两个在野党和国阵之间的三角战。
预料公正党和国阵将在明日公布候选人。
杨德利曾任两年首席部长
根据媒体的资料，现年52岁的杨德利是沙巴政坛老薑，在英国林肯法律学院考获出庭律师资格之后，回到沙巴从政，加入反对党沙巴团结党。1985年沙巴州选举，他一炮而红，中选里卡士(Likas)州议员，团结党也在那年击败人民党，上台执政。
在1986年、1990年、1994年及1999年沙州选举，杨德利成功连任里卡士州议员。他在1994年另起炉灶，成立沙巴进步党。
团结党取得沙州政权后曾经加入国阵，1990年全国大选，前财政部长东姑拉沙里成立46精神党，与首相马哈迪抗衡。投票前夕，团结党突然宣布退出国阵，据说杨德利当时就是幕后推手之一。
1994年沙州选举结果，首席部长百林领导团结党以25席对23席险胜，选举过后，多名团结党议员相继跳槽到国阵，导致团结党政府倒台。不过，杨德利当年率先退出团结党另立门户，被认为是团结党失去江山的关键。
1996年7月，杨德利在各族轮任制度下，担任了两年的沙州首席部长。
担任州议员期间，杨德利惹上几宗选举官司，最轰动的是1990年沙州选举后，他被控在竞选期间散播不确实言论，抵触选举法令。
这起案件一直拖到1996年5月，他最终在控方修改控状下，承认参加非法集会，结果被判罚款1000令吉（约420新元）。这项判决没有使杨德利丧失议员资格，两个星期后，他接任沙州首席部长。
在2001年，沙巴高庭宣判1999年3月沙州选举中，里卡士的选举结果无效，原因是在选举中投票的包括非公民等“幽灵选民”。杨德利过后参加补选，成功守土。
杨德利也在1999年全国大选中选为加雅国会议员，不过，他没有在2004年及2008年大选上阵。
基于1999年大选的选举布条问题，导致杨德利在2001年失去参选资格。他也没有参加 2008年全国大选，因为当时沙巴进步党要求在亚庇国会议席上阵，但是未获时任首相阿都拉拒绝。
沙巴进步党于2008年6月18日宣布对前首相阿都拉领导失去信心，进而在9月宣布退出国阵。
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SOKONG!
PENGUNDI-PENGUNDI SILA SOKONG YONG TECK LEE!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
TEKSI DI DUBAI MEWAH-MEWAH, MODEN BELAKA..TEKSI DI MALYSIA, BURUK-BURUK...TAK SELAMAT, TAKUT NAIK ..(PEROGOL, PEROMPAK ADA, ORANG ASING PUN ADA......)
TAXI in Dubai.... MEWAH-MEWAH!
Under capitalism, the Dubai Taxi. Wow!
BMW 745, VERY COMMON!
IN MALAYSIA......NO EYES SEE.....
DI BAWAH BAPA MODENISASI DR MAHATHIR.....YANG MODENKAN KERETA NUSA, LAUNG DAN LAKSANAKAN KERETA NASIONAL........TAPI KENAPA TEKSI MASIH BURUK-BURUK, TAK ADA STANDARD SEPERTI DUBAI!
MODENISASI YANG MENIPUKAN RAKYAT
RAKYAT HANYA BERSTANDARD DENGAN KERETA BURUK PROTON..........ANAK SIAPA YAMG MENJUAL MERCEDES BERAMBUS, PORSCHE....
RAKYAT BODOH MENGGUNAKAN KERETA NASIONAL, ANAK PONTAN MAMAK GUNAKAN BENZ, PORSCHE, IMPORTED LUXURY CARS......INILAH HAKIKATNYA! FAKTA!
RAKYAT DIPERBODOHKAN, RAKYAT DIJADIKAN SASAU
Rabu, 2010 Oktober 20
SELAMAT HARI HARTAL
63 tahun yang lalu, golongan kiri terdiri dari parti-parti dan pertubuhan patriotik-demokratik telah melancarkan hartal di seluruh negara menuntut kemerdekaan penuh tanah air.
Penjajah British dan tali barutnya bagaikan cacing kepanasan berhadapan dengan perjuangan rakyat tersebut. Beberapa bulan selepas itu, kaum penjajah telah mengisytiharkan undang-undang darurat mengharamkan semua parti-parti tersebut dan menyumbat para aktivis dan pemimpinnya ke penjara.
Walaupun hartal itu telah berlalu, tapi semangatnya tak pernah padam. Ia terus menyala memberikan kekuatan kepada kita!
http://matamin02.blogspot.com/2010/10/selamat-hari-hartal.html
SELAMAT HARI HARTAL
63 tahun yang lalu, golongan kiri terdiri dari parti-parti dan pertubuhan patriotik-demokratik telah melancarkan hartal di seluruh negara menuntut kemerdekaan penuh tanah air.
Penjajah British dan tali barutnya bagaikan cacing kepanasan berhadapan dengan perjuangan rakyat tersebut. Beberapa bulan selepas itu, kaum penjajah telah mengisytiharkan undang-undang darurat mengharamkan semua parti-parti tersebut dan menyumbat para aktivis dan pemimpinnya ke penjara.
Walaupun hartal itu telah berlalu, tapi semangatnya tak pernah padam. Ia terus menyala memberikan kekuatan kepada kita!
http://matamin02.blogspot.com/2010/10/selamat-hari-hartal.html
http://loveperak.blogspot.com/
Siswa UKM sertai raptai perhimpunan Umno?
Dua mahasiswa Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) didakwa turut mengambil bahagian dalam raptai penuh perhimpunan agung Umno di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC) pada 17 Oktober lalu.
Kumpulan yang dikenali sebagai Kesatuan Mahasiswa Mahasiswa Sedar (KEMAS) mendakwa ia dapat mengecam kedua-dua mahasiswa UKM itu di dalam foto yang disiarkan akhbar Berita Harian pada hari berikutnya.
Perasmian perhimpunan agung Umno tahun ini akan disempurnakan oleh Presiden Umnno, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak di PWTC esok.
KEMAS mendakwa mahasiswa terbabit adalah daripada Fakulti Pengajian Islam dan Fakulti Kejuruteraan UKM.
"Kehadiran mereka ini juga berkaitan rapat dengan pernglibatan pentadbiran universiti dengan parti Umno," kata jurucakap KEMAS, Fathi Hisham (dua dari kiri) yang membaca satu kenyataan hari ini.
Katanya, KEMAS juga yakin penglibatan mahasiswa UKM dalam perhimpunan agung Umno kali ini melebihi dua orang.
Fathi yang juga pelajar tahun dua Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan berkata gambar tersebut menunjukkan mahasiswa terlibat memakai baju Melayu Putih, bersongkok dan bersampin yang mempunyai logo Umno.
Kejadian itu, katanya, adalah sama sepertimana kes mahasiswa yang telah dikenakan hukuman di bawah Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti (Auku) - Saudara Soh Sok Hua - yang dihukum kerana gambarnya tersiar di akhbar dengan memakai pakaian yang mempunyai logo parti politik beberapa tahun lalu.
Sementara itu, setiausaha KEMAS Syamir Zulkefli (Foto atas: yang pegang mikrofon) - dalam kenyataannya - menggesa pihak Hal Ehwal Pelajar (HEP) universiti berkenaan supaya segera menyiasat perkara ini mengikut undang-undang dan prosedur seharusnya.
Beliau juga mendesak agar Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Seri Mohamad Khaled Nordin supaya menubuhkan jawatankuasa khas menyiasat penglibatan pentadbiran universiti dan mahasiswa dalam perhimpunan agung Umno itu.
Sementara dalam sidang media selepas itu, Fathi berkata pihaknya mendapat maklumat berhubung perkara tersebut melalui sumber yang dipercayainya.
Bagaimanapun beliau enggan mendedahkan identiti dan jumlah individu sebenar yang terlibat dalam perhimpunan tersebut.
"Mungkin satu pasukan diarahkan (menyertai perhimpunan)....Saya tidak mahu menyatakan (jumlahnya) pada hari ini," katanya.
Sementara itu, Malaysiakini telah cuba menghubungi ketua penolong pendaftar kanan hal ehwal pelajar UKM, Musa Zainal Abidin Othman.
Bagaimanpun, Malaysiakini dimaklumkan oleh pejabatnya bahawa beliau sedang menghadiri bengkel di Sabah dan dijadualkan pulang esok. - MK
http://loveperak.blogspot.com/
Dua mahasiswa Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) didakwa turut mengambil bahagian dalam raptai penuh perhimpunan agung Umno di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC) pada 17 Oktober lalu.
Kumpulan yang dikenali sebagai Kesatuan Mahasiswa Mahasiswa Sedar (KEMAS) mendakwa ia dapat mengecam kedua-dua mahasiswa UKM itu di dalam foto yang disiarkan akhbar Berita Harian pada hari berikutnya.
Perasmian perhimpunan agung Umno tahun ini akan disempurnakan oleh Presiden Umnno, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak di PWTC esok.
KEMAS mendakwa mahasiswa terbabit adalah daripada Fakulti Pengajian Islam dan Fakulti Kejuruteraan UKM.
"Kehadiran mereka ini juga berkaitan rapat dengan pernglibatan pentadbiran universiti dengan parti Umno," kata jurucakap KEMAS, Fathi Hisham (dua dari kiri) yang membaca satu kenyataan hari ini.
Katanya, KEMAS juga yakin penglibatan mahasiswa UKM dalam perhimpunan agung Umno kali ini melebihi dua orang.
Fathi yang juga pelajar tahun dua Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan berkata gambar tersebut menunjukkan mahasiswa terlibat memakai baju Melayu Putih, bersongkok dan bersampin yang mempunyai logo Umno.
Kejadian itu, katanya, adalah sama sepertimana kes mahasiswa yang telah dikenakan hukuman di bawah Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti (Auku) - Saudara Soh Sok Hua - yang dihukum kerana gambarnya tersiar di akhbar dengan memakai pakaian yang mempunyai logo parti politik beberapa tahun lalu.
Sementara itu, setiausaha KEMAS Syamir Zulkefli (Foto atas: yang pegang mikrofon) - dalam kenyataannya - menggesa pihak Hal Ehwal Pelajar (HEP) universiti berkenaan supaya segera menyiasat perkara ini mengikut undang-undang dan prosedur seharusnya.
Beliau juga mendesak agar Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Seri Mohamad Khaled Nordin supaya menubuhkan jawatankuasa khas menyiasat penglibatan pentadbiran universiti dan mahasiswa dalam perhimpunan agung Umno itu.
Sementara dalam sidang media selepas itu, Fathi berkata pihaknya mendapat maklumat berhubung perkara tersebut melalui sumber yang dipercayainya.
Bagaimanapun beliau enggan mendedahkan identiti dan jumlah individu sebenar yang terlibat dalam perhimpunan tersebut.
"Mungkin satu pasukan diarahkan (menyertai perhimpunan)....Saya tidak mahu menyatakan (jumlahnya) pada hari ini," katanya.
Sementara itu, Malaysiakini telah cuba menghubungi ketua penolong pendaftar kanan hal ehwal pelajar UKM, Musa Zainal Abidin Othman.
Bagaimanpun, Malaysiakini dimaklumkan oleh pejabatnya bahawa beliau sedang menghadiri bengkel di Sabah dan dijadualkan pulang esok. - MK
http://loveperak.blogspot.com/
Malaysia is ranked 141 out of 178 countries in the 2010 World Press Freedom Index (The lowest in nine years)
Malaysia is ranked 141 out of 178 countries in the 2010 World Press Freedom Index (The lowest in nine years)
马来西亚在《2010年度全球新闻自由指数》排名下跌到第141位（总共有178个国家）（9年以来的谷底）
Of course lah, have a look at the list below!
...1. radio station DJ was fired (988)
2. TV program is banned (Bakun Dam documentary series)
3. Press censorship of ntv7 popular talk show
4. '1Funny Malaysia' cartoon by Zunar is banned
5. Cartoonist Zunar was arrested
6. Harakah and Suara Keadilan banned 3 months
当然啦，看看以下的例子就知道了！
1。 电台DJ被停职（988）
2。 电视节目被禁（巴贡水坝纪录片）
3。 ntv7的《非谈不可》节目被限制
4。 漫画家祖纳的《一个搞笑马来西亚》漫畫被禁
5。 漫画家祖纳被遭警察逮捕
6。 回教党党报以及公正党党报被禁三个月
Quoted from:
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/145920
http://www.voiceitout.com/2010/09/25/cartoonist-zunar-arrested-new-book-seized/
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/04/23/press-censorship-of-ntv7-talk-show-involving-prime-minister%E2%80%99s-wife-rosmah-resulting-in-resignation-of-senior-producer-joshua-wong-must-be-deplored-by-all-malaysians-as-an-undesirable-and-dange/
马来西亚在《2010年度全球新闻自由指数》排名下跌到第141位（总共有178个国家）（9年以来的谷底）
Of course lah, have a look at the list below!
...1. radio station DJ was fired (988)
2. TV program is banned (Bakun Dam documentary series)
3. Press censorship of ntv7 popular talk show
4. '1Funny Malaysia' cartoon by Zunar is banned
5. Cartoonist Zunar was arrested
6. Harakah and Suara Keadilan banned 3 months
当然啦，看看以下的例子就知道了！
1。 电台DJ被停职（988）
2。 电视节目被禁（巴贡水坝纪录片）
3。 ntv7的《非谈不可》节目被限制
4。 漫画家祖纳的《一个搞笑马来西亚》漫畫被禁
5。 漫画家祖纳被遭警察逮捕
6。 回教党党报以及公正党党报被禁三个月
Quoted from:
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/145920
http://www.voiceitout.com/2010/09/25/cartoonist-zunar-arrested-new-book-seized/
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/04/23/press-censorship-of-ntv7-talk-show-involving-prime-minister%E2%80%99s-wife-rosmah-resulting-in-resignation-of-senior-producer-joshua-wong-must-be-deplored-by-all-malaysians-as-an-undesirable-and-dange/
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