Umno: We want to replace Koh as Penang BN boss

Umno is seeking the chairmanship of the Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) now held by Gerakan, saying it is necessary to strengthen the coalition’s position in the state.

Penang Umno Liaison Committee chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the request for the chairmanship was reasonable because Umno held all the seats won by the BN in the state in the last general election.

Umno holds 11 seats while the Pakatan pact of DAP, PKR and PAS, which forms the state government, holds the other 29 seats in the 40-seat state legislative assembly.

“Other (BN) component parties do not hold any (state) seat in Penang,” Dr Ahmad Zahid, who is an Umno vice-president, told reporters last night after chairing a meeting of the Penang Umno Liaison Committee, here.

The chairmanship of Penang BN has never been held by Umno. The post is now held by Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon.

Dr Ahmad Zahid, who is the Defence Minister, said he hoped that Penang Umno’s desire to take over the chairmanship would be considered by the BN central leadership.

“We are desirous of working for the BN and cooperating with the other component parties to strengthen the BN, not to implement our respective party agendas.

“We are convinced that as a party, it is impossible for us to win (any election) without the support of the other component parties,” he said.

Dr Ahmad Zahid said the request for the chairmanship was not in the interest of any personality but for the sake of the party.

“It is not necessarily so that I, as the chairman of the Penang Umno Liaison committee, will be appointed as the state BN chairman. The post may be held by the state BN deputy chairman or the Opposition Leader,” he said.

On another matter, Dr Ahmad Zahid said he hoped that the post of president of the Penang Islamic Affairs Council (MAIPP) would not be given to a Pakatan representative.

He said a delegation of the Penang State Legislative Assembly would seek an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin soon to convey the matter.

The term of the current MAIPP president, Shabudin Yahaya, ends on Dec 31.


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guess this is umno's concept of Power Sharing? Power Sharing to umno means : Umno grab everything for itself.

Why is Koh Tsu Koon still in Penang? GERAKAN is a dead duck. Dead duck should be made into duck rice. Get Tsu Koon out of there!

That is the "Good moves" by UMNO, that will further strengthen the will of the Chinese, Indian and PR supporters in Penang, especially the Chinese will never allowed the chief minister post to be given away so easy to UMNO. In another word Chinese in Penang have to uphold LGE or DAP in Penang. Bye bye KTK. Are you still going to act like "Sotong"!!! Take Gerakan and leave this racist coalition. For the supporters of Gerakan, make sure you are not sink together with Gerakan's sampan. Time to leave and joint PR.

So what have you to say use money no offence (UMNO)lackey tansi Tan Sri Koh.Or will your Gerakan running dogs start barking and yelping. Where is the brave Gerakan Youth Oh just like his master Tansi Tansri Koh shaking in his balls (ai yeah no balls lah) with his tails between his legs lah. UMNO is abandoning you lah Gerakan so why remain the loyal running dogs?

MR.Koh This is not something new. You knew the trick.Give the post away now cos simple umno wants it and they are greedy for it. Then use your trick as how you got the senatorship and landed as minister. You will make up for what you give in now.

This is an expected move from UMNO. The lifting of Ahmad Ismail's suspension was only a prelude. Now all eyes on Gerakan President Dr Koh, what would he do? Ultimately, nothing. He will say, leave to BN Supreme Council or Najib; and they will say, give to UMNO, then Dr Koh will give a long explanation and comply "for the sake of BN unity".

Frankly, what can we Penangites expect of Dr Koh? As President since 308 he didn't do any thing to revitalise Gerakan except continue to bodek UMNO. Now that he has got the minister post, do you expect him to fight back, in the interests of Gerakan? If Dr Koh had Gerakan in mind he would have refused his minister post and concentrated on rebuilding Gerakan. All of us know where his priority is.

In Penang, do you expect Dr Teng, Penang Gerakan State Chairman and his lieutenants fight back? Dr Teng will perhaps make a feeble protest but he won't and he can't do much because he and his lieutenants still have the dependent mentality believing that they will need UMNO’s votes to win back their lost seats. This is wishful thinking of course, but what can you expect from these people with the culture of kowtowing to UMNO firmly embedded in their heads?

Well the sad thing is, these Gerakan state chieftains, like their President, have no guts and will not fight back and will allow themselves to be stepped on by Ahmad Ismails from UMNO. Isn’t it the fate of eunuchs? After all, their existence is dependent on UMNO - the emperor.

In the final analysis, it is logical for BN not to be led by Gerakan - a party of no consequence in Penang. It may not be a bad thing to let UMNO take over. In this way Gerakan can continue to lick UMNO’s feet without any qualms. Penang voters will be clearer what BN, sorry UMNO, stands for. Penang voters also do not need to have a second thought for Gerakan since they have chosen this subservient role.

DAP rep wants Pakatan to restore local election

DAP’s Hannah Yeoh emerged as the only speaker that critically debated the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) common policy framework, urging the coalition to restore local government elections.

“The local governments collect millions in tax revenue every year, but the public has no say in electing their members,” said Yeoh at the PR’s inaugural convention here.

“Local election will also improve the quality of local councillors, the best candidate will win,” she declared.

In the coalition’s common policy launched earlier today, it is stated that PR is committed to “strengthen local government democracy and democratically enhance the competency and effectiveness of the delivery system and guarantee transparency at all levels.”

Such a choice of words was made to appease PR leaders who are opposed to restoring local government elections.

The Malaysian Insider understands that Malay leaders from both PAS and PKR are worried that local governments would be dominated by the non-Malays should councillors are elected openly.

“If local elections is restored, councillors will be more hardworking, thus improving efficiency in the local authorities,” said Yeoh.

She also urged PR leaders not to worry about the outcome of local elections.

“The Chinese and the Indians have voted for PAS, the people have moved away from their fears,” said Yeoh.

“We should not be fearful of the third vote,” she added.

Earlier, when opening the convention, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng admitted that the party had to compromise on its commitment to restore local elections.

DAP has been known to be a staunch advocate for the restoration of the local council election while PAS are known to oppose it and PKR are internally frayed on the issue despite having promised to restore the locl council vote n its 2008 General Elections manifsto.

Since the suspension of local government elections in the 1960s, councillors have been appointed directly by the state government and this has since been turned into a political reward for ruling party officials.

The restoration of local elections is one of the demands made by electoral reforms coalition Bersih, which also comprise PR parties.

In November 2007, the group organised the largest street demonstration in Kuala Lumpur in a decade, mobilising some 60,000 protesters to demand for free and fair elections.

The coalition’s effort in mobilising support contributed to Barisan Nasional’s worst electoral performance in Election 2008, which was held just four months later.



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How are you going to make sure only best candidates win? From all the issues emerged after 0308 show that generally people in Malaysia are not ready for raceless politics. Right now you can see only non-Malay MPs in Malay majority area but not vice-versa. I believe PAS's standing on this issue is valid. Just let the current system in place. It's not that bad and I believe it's a waste to have this local election.

when non-malays are not worried $ thrust that malays can lead the cabinet, government institutions & state, why should pakatan malay leaders worry that non-malays lead some local councils? aren't there more malays than non-malays citizen in most councils?

MALAYS MUST READ THIS!

Mohamad (pic left ) is alleged to have sent RM10 million to London through a money changer

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDER WHY OUR MONEY IS SMALLER THAN SINGAPORE?
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT WHY OUR ECONOMY IS LESS THAN GOOD WITH ALL OUR RESOURCES?

THIS NEWS REPORT OF THE MB OF NEGERI SEMBILAN SENDING MYR 10 MILLION TO LONDON IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. LET US SEE WHETHER THE ANTI CORRUPTION AGENCY WILL ACT AS IT ACTED ON NON ISSUES OF THE OPPOSITIONS THAT EVEN LED TO MURDER.

LIKE I HAVE MENTIONED IN THE PAST MONEY HAVE BEEN SIPHONED OUT OF THE COUNTRY BY CROOKED POLITICIANS. MONEY HAVE BEEN WASTED BY OTHER RACES WHO FEEL INSECURE BY INVESTING IN HOMES OVERSEAS ESPECIALLY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND AND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY LOST THROUGH INDIANS AND CHINESE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN OVERSEAS TO STUDY. WE HAVE SO MUCH MONEY DRAINING OUT OF MALAYSIA BECAUSE OF AN INEPT GOVERNMENT WITH OUT DATED POLICIES THAT REFUSE TO CHANGE EVEN AFTER A MASSIVE POLITICAL SETBACK.

BY JUST CUTTING CORRUPTION, GIVING THE OTHER RACES DUE RECOGNITION, GIVING FAIR EDUCATION TO ALL, THIS COUNTRY WILL LEAP BACK INTO PROSPERITY. CAN'T WE SEE IT THAT ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY LEAVING THIS COUNTRY MEANS THERE IS LESS FUND CIRCULATING HERE, DEPRIVING. OUR PEOPLE ARE SENDING TOO MUCH MONEY ABROAD BOTH LEGALLY AND ILLEGALLY.THE PEOPLE WILL BE UNITED AS ONE NATION WITHOUT THE FALSE BUMIPUTRA BARRIER. THEN ALL WILL SERVE THIS GREAT NATION. ALL RACES MUST UNDERSTAND THIS, THE RACIST POLICY OF UMNO IS DAMAGING THIS NATION. THE AVERAGE MALAY MUST BE BOLD TO BRING ABOUT THIS CHANGE THROUGH THE BALLOT.

The multi-billion ringgit Port Klang Free Zone scandal may be big, but it is only the latest in a long line of scandals going back to the early 1980s.

Time magazine quoted Daniel Lian, a Southeast Asia economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore , saying that the country might have lost “as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s to corruption”.

The scandals listed below are only a small sample of the looting of the country's coffers:

In July of 1983, what was then the biggest banking scandal in world history erupted in Hong Kong , when it was discovered that Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF), a unit of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd, had lost as much as US$1 billion which had been siphoned off by prominent public figures into private bank accounts.

The story involved murder, suicide and the involvement of officials at the very top of the Malaysian government. Ultimately it involved a bailout by the Malaysian government amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mak Foon Tan, the murderer of Jalil Ibraim, a Bank Bumi assistant manager who was sent to Hong Kong to investigate the disappearance of the money, was given the death sentence, and Malaysian businessman George Tan who had participated in looting most of the funds, was jailed after his Carrian Group collapsed in what was then Hong Kong's biggest bankruptcy, and a handful of others were charged.

No major politician was ever punished in Malaysia despite a white paper prepared by an independent commission that cited cabinet minutes of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad giving an okay to a request to throw more money into the scandal in an effort to contain it.

That was just the first Bank Bumi scandal. The government-owned bank had to be rescued twice more with additional losses of nearly US$600 million in today's dollars.

Ultimately government officials gave up and the bank was absorbed into CIMB Group, currently headed by Nazir Razak, the sitting prime minister's brother.

Bank Negara lost RM20 bil

That scandal, which stretched over several years before its denouement in 1985, set the tone for 24 years of similar scandals related to top Malaysian officials and was the first to prove that in Malaysia, you can not only get away with murder, you can get away with looting the treasury as well.

Perwaja Steel, for instance, lost US$800 million and its boss, Eric Chia, a crony of Mahathir's, was charged with looting the company. He stood trial, but was acquitted without having to put on a defense.

In the mid-1980s, the Co-operative Central Bank, a bank set up to aid the Indian smallholder community, had to be rescued by Bank Negara, the country's central bank, after hundreds of millions of ringgit in loans granted to a flock of Umno and MIC politicians became non-performing.

Some had never been serviced at all. Although the chief executive and general manager were charged with criminal breach of trust, none of the politicians were ever charged.

Before that, the Malaysian government was believed to have lost US$500 million in an attempt at Mahathir's urging to corner the London tin market through a company called Maminco, driving the world price of tin from US$4.50 per tonne to US$7.50.

It then sought to cover up the loss by establishing a US$2 company called Mukawasa from which allocations of new share issues to the government's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) were diverted. Mukawasa expected to sell the shares at a windfall profit to hide the tin speculation.

Mahathir also was behind an attempt by the then governor of Bank Negara, the central bank, to aggressively speculate in the global foreign exchange market. Bank Negara ended up losing an estimated RM20 billion. The governor, Jaffar Hussein, and the head of forex trading, Nor Mohamed Yakcop were forced to resign.

' Malaysia 's Enron scandal

There have been many other political and financial scandals since. In 2005, Bank Islam Malaysia , the country's flagship Islamic bank, reported losses of RM457 million mainly due to provisioning totaling RM774 million as a result of bad loans and investments incurred by its Labuan branch.

Cumulatively, Bank Islam ran up non-performing loans of RM2.2 billion, partly from mismanagement and poor internal controls but also "years of regulatory indifference fueled by the misconceived notion of an untouchable Bank Islam because it was a favourite child of the Malaysian government, being the first and model Islamic bank in the country and region," according to a December 19, 2005 article in Arab News.

"Bank Islam had a reputation in the market for being the spoilt child of the Malaysian Ministry of Finance; and the perception of the bank was more of a Muslim financial fraternity or government development financial institution," the report said.

In 2007, in what was called Malaysia's Enron scandal, the publicly traded Transmile Group Bhd, whose chairman was former MCA president and cabinet minister Ling Liong Sik, was caught having overstated its revenue by RM530 million.

A pretax profit from RM207 million in 2006 was actually a loss of RM126 million, and a pretax profit of RM120 million in 2005 was a loss of RM77 million, causing the government postal company Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd to warn that its earnings for the 2006 financial year might be affected by the reported overstatement, as the postal group owned 15.3 percent of Transmile.

Bailouts and more bailouts

Over the years 2001 to 2006, the government had to spend billions to rescue seven privatised projects including Kuala Lumpur 's two public transport systems, the perennially ailing Malaysia Airlines, the national sewage system and a variety of others that, in the words of one study, "had been privatised prematurely."

The government also repeatedly bailed out highway construction concessionaires, all of them closely connected to Umno, to the tune of another RM38.5 billion.

In 2008, it was revealed that Rafidah Aziz, who had served as trade and industry minister for 18 years, had been peddling approved permits for duty-free car sales and allegedly lining her pockets.

Two companies which didn't even have showrooms – one of which belonged to the husband of Rafidah's niece – received scores of permits.

Although Rafidah came in for heavy criticism from within Umno, she remained in office until she was defeated in party elections.

In the 1960s, federal prosecutors in the United States who were attempting to jail the late labour boss Jimmy Hoffa for looting the Teamsters Pension Fund of millions of dollars with his cronies were puzzled by the fact that their revelations appeared to have little effect on the union's rank and file.

It was because no matter how much money Hoffa and his cronies stole, there was always money left because the fund was so rich. That appears to be the case with Malaysia .

I am not marrying actress Zizie – Bung Moktar

Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, the MP of Kinabatangan has put down the claims that he is about to get into more celebrity hotseat where he is rumoured to be marrying Zizie Ezette, an actress in the movie Kekasih Awal dan Akhar. The Sabahan has denied all claims that he is actually engaged with the actress and his recent makeover where he changed his hairstyle and dying it black.

Asked at the Parliament’s lobby, he said “I am not handsome enough for her” but kept mum if he had proposed to her. According to reports in a local newpaper, Zizie has admitted that she is currently considering a marriage proposal from a ‘Sabah MP. She said “If the proposal is from a single guy, maybe I will be happy. Since this proposal is from a married man, I have to think seriously because I don’t want to hurt another woman’s feelings,”


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Hahahahahahahahahahahahah, what a joke

no wonder this F U C K E R Bang Mokthar f u c k so hard with opposition in parliament, now i know after the parliament meeting he will have a BIG fu c k in KL with his fifth wife ZIZIE before fly back to Sabah.

YES, YOU ARE OLD NOT YOUNG OR EITHER HANDSOME. BUT THE TROUBLE IS YOU ARE GATAL EVERYWHERE IN YOUR BODY. LIKE TO SEE N TOUCH WHEN GIRLS PASSING BY UR SIDE.AND YOUR DICKY SALUTED THEM WITH UR MONKEY HAND.Mmm..LETS FOLLOW OUR LEADER WHERE GIRLS RE EVERYWHERE TO GET.

Always these BN politicians are having too much money ...so they do nothing but only to het their sexual lust and then when it is found out, they are always in a state of denial (mostly comes true in the end). If this "Rang utan" does not marry this Zixie, then he will seek his mate from the "Rang Utan" sanctuary..maybe named "Zaza"! Always gatal peliak! Tua tua keladi dan miang-miang buluh! (butoh???). Come on, lah, Kenabatan tangan, MP, just say you are marrying her and that ends the controversy! She is too good-looking for an apeman like you who is considered the missing link!

HOI BUNG ,IF YOU ARE NOT SUCESSFUL GETTING HER-PLS GET OUR PM ADVISE.MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!!!!!!!!

Free electricity for bills below RM20

According to Datuk Seri Peter Chin, the Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water, households whose electricity bill are below RM20 would have them waived. This benefit is provided by the government and will take affect immediately and will be in operation until December next year.


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what sort of mother fcuking hypocritical government we are having here ? anyone's electricity bill goes under RM20 per month would be like using 1 light bulb without any fridge, water boiler etc and virtually living in some kind of jungle !! fcuk this mongrels untrustworthy govt and guaranteed to be cursed eternally !!

I suggest we all go back in time and use "lilin" or candles or better still use damak (resin wrapped in palm leaf" ......back to square one! Okay? In that way we don't have to pay a single sen to the fcuking government or TNB! Better, isn't it? No hassle lah!

Alleged RM12 million mansion for former premier

Whose mansion it is? This 12 million luxury mansion at Lot 65, Seksyen 60, Persiaran Mahameru near Carcosa Seri Negara is allegedly built for Malaysia's former Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, reported Malay Mail.

A staff from City Hall's Town Planning Department claimed that this massive project is 'Pak Lah's house'. The newspaper checked that the project owner is indeed the Prime Minister's Department.

Judging from its ongoing construction, it is believed that this is a one-and-a-half storey bungalow attached with an external building. In contrast with the initial project submission to City Hall's Town Planning Department, it was originally meant for a development catered to a population density of 10 people per acre.

A senior officer of Public Works Department was shocked when he was asked if the mansion was built by the government specifically for the former premier. But the officer refused to comment on the details.

Meanwhile, FT Land Office said that records of this freehold land showed that the land is meant for 'building of a palace'. The matter surfaced when bloggers mentioned about it during the last few days of Abdullah as Malaysia's premier.

Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar raised the issue in Parliament yesterday and questioned the secrecy of the project as it was not mentioned in Ninth Malaysia Plan and the 2010 Budget. In addition to that, Mahfuz also raised another issue stating that the project was granted to TRC Corporation, the same corporation that developed the submarine base worth over RM400 million in Sabah.

This luxury mansion offers view of Le Meridien and KL Hilton hotels at KL Sentral. The site has no board or signage to indicate what was being built. With only a plaque of numbers 'JKR 551', it could be a government-related project


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If its so, the government should aution the house.

MACC can interrogate witnesses after hours hours – Court of Appeal

Justice Hasan Lah, the judge in the Court of Appeal has ruled that the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) will be allowed to interrogate witnesses until after office hours. He made the ruling together with Justice Ahmad Maarop and Justice syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad who made the unanimous decision.

This means that the earlier decision made by Justice Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof of the High Court that states that the MACC cannot do so is now repealed.


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Malaysia Kangaroo bar BOLEH!!! ..Why the Kangaroo....cannot wait...they should advised them to amend the so called regulation,etc...
Afterwhich, this bunch of kangaroos are more comfortable to judge.....
This bunch of kangaroos....so called study laws....hor..

Is really very shameful to be practising laws in this Bolehland ! You can make impossibles to be possibles and vice versa. Lawyers, you can throw all your law books away ! With money and power, you can make the law !

fcuk this umno manipulated mongrels court of appeal !!!! hopeless judges make this country trully doom and gloom !

M’sian football gets RM50-RM60m funding for grassroots level

Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, the Minister of Youth and Sports has announced that the government has agreed in principle to allocate some RM50 to RM60million for a fund to help develop the country’s ailing football industry from the grassroots level. The fund will be managed by a board of trustees and will be expected to start next year. Shabery said

“It will be for grassroots development as the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) lacks funds for this purpose. However, the elite programme involving the national squad will still be under the FAM. The proposal by the ministry was raised at the Cabinet meeting last Friday and that follow-up action would be taken upon his return to Kuala Lumpur after the closing ceremony of the Laos SEA Games this Friday. The fund would initially concentrate on football before being extended to other sports.


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Even they spend 500milion, the football in this country is not going anywhere!

It just another excuse for the BN government to enrich themself only


50 or 60 millions. There is a 10 million different in this sum. But
when this money reach the grassroot, maybe 10,000.00 rm is
left for soccer. The rest you guy guess to where.

Govt will not review MACC’s immunity - Nazri

Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said today that the government has no plans whatsoever to review the immunity from legal action given to the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission)’s officers. He told the Dewan Rakyat that this is because it is not absolute and would come with specific conditions. Nazri said “Section 72 of the MACC Act 2009 provided for immunity from action, suit, prosecution or other proceedings against MACC officers in any court or before any other authority. The immunity is applicable on the condition that such act or statement is done or made, or was omitted to be done or made, in good faith. Nevertheless, the immunity will not be applicable if it can be proven that there was a criminal act, mala fide or evil intention by MACC officers in discharging their duties under the MACC Act 2009,”

He was replying the question posted by the BN Representative of Gua Musang Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah who wanted to know if the immunity enjoyed by the MACC would be reviewed by the government.”

Nazri also said “If we have been following the news lately, six of the seven people whom the MACC had brought to court were directly or indirectly linked to Umno. Only one was from the DAP,” on the question posted by Lim Kit Siang claiming that MACC only acted against those in the opposition parties


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MACC special immunity which covers " to interrogate a witness from 8.00 p.m until 4.00am the next day, a straight 8 hours without rest and without food" .... betul kah Datuk Nazri ?

MACC special immunity which covers action like, when TBH body was found at the MACC building, one of the superior told his staff " no need to make police report, because it is none of our business" .... betul kah Datuk Nazri ?

MACC special immunity which covers speeches like " TBH death is a small issue" .... betul kah Datuk Nazri ?

MACC special immunity which covers special case like " MACC official (as the main witness) was missing in a court case which resulted the suspect got off as a free man " ...... betul kah Datuk Nazri ?

MACC special immunity which covers standards like " two sets of standards (double standards), one for the small fish and the other for the big sharks " ( during interrogation of small fish they were grilled (macam ikan bakar) and during the interrogation of big sharks they were well pampered) .... betul kah Datuk Nazri ?

Even if this special immunity was taken off from the MACC pun tarak guna juga. If these official were to trial in a kangaroo court, 99% he will be set free. And if it happen that a unfortunate one (MACC official) was found guilty pun tarak guna juga because when it reaches the Court of Appeal ... he will be set free. So apa nama .... in BolehLand ... apa pun boleh mah !.

BTN courses not racist. M'sia would be destroyed if it was

Ahmad Maslan, deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department has come out to defend the BTN (Biro Tatanegara) or National Civics Bureau courses saying that it has helped to maintain peace among the multi-racial and multi-religious people of the county for the past 35 years. Had it been racist, then Malaysia would have been long destroyed. He said "Millions of people had attended the BTN course since 1974. Malaysia would have been destroyed if not for the BTN course. It made the nation good and successful. The BTN course modules apply to all groups and aimed at nurturing pure values and the spirit of unity. BTN not only organise courses but also other programmes to nurture the spirit of patriotism. Those who say that BTN course is racist are afraid of their own shadows,"

He added that “It was not wrong for BTN to deliver government policies to participants and it was up to them to accept them or not. If states ruled by the opposition want to have their own course, they can do so but don't say that BTN is not good. I am sure that the Selangor government will deliver its policies during its course,"


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BTN courses has been held for more than 30 yrs but according to many ppl and media, the modules and contents of the courses become more n more racist after the Administration of Tun M. Encik AHmad Maslan dun feel any wrong with the course coz he is another racist politicians who only think of the benefit of Malay. IF the modules of the courses are not racist, it should be published some of its content to let the ppl to make judgement. Any course that is forcing/threathening minority races to obey majority races and only talking about the contribution of Malay toward this country and purposely ignore the contributions of Non- Malay toward this country actually is manipulating the history!! Even though, Msia is not destroyed yet but the harmony among all races getting worse since the administration of Tun M.


If the BTN course is REALLY REALLY benefit to the people and country, WHY NOT SHARE IT WITH EVERY MALAYSIA REGARDLESS OF RACE?

WHY IS IT BEING CONDUCTED UNDER CLOSED DOOR?

WHY NOT MAKE THE COURSE MODULE PUBLIC, IF IT IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD AS CLAIM?

EN AHMAD MAZLAN, WE RAKYAT ARE NOT STUPID ANYMORE, DON'T TRY TO PULL OUR LEG PLEASE!

Blogger's ethics

The PM has spoken about it. Minister Hishamuddin has now weighed in.

Yes. I fully agree with the PM and MInister Hishamuddin. All writers must follow ethics. They must be responsible. The must report the truth. They should not plagiarise. Plagiarism is a theft. They should follow the law. They must be responsible. If they make a mistake, they should make corrections as soon as the mistakes are discovered. If they quote from somewhere else, they should acknowledge the original work and writer from whom they quote.

This should apply to every writer, be it journalist, bloggers or whatever. I fully support and agree with the calls made by the PM and Minister Hishamuddin.

I hereby give my word and promise that I will adhere to those ethical standard.

In short, I will not do this:



Especially when the original is this:




Let's all of us be ethical.

ALL OF US.


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Ethics? I thought that would be a dirty word in UMNO & BN? Why crying about ethics now Najib & Hisham? You have lost that long time ago lar! As what Mahathir said "corrupted to the core". So why bother about ethics? As Ahmad Said would say "It's just like a traffic offence" when his son was caught with child pronography on his handphone


When you did a survey on the ISA issue on the Home ministry website, you changed the results!!! When Utusan instigate racial riot, you keep quiet!! What kind of ethics is that?

This is no longer a joke when UMNO thinks that only NST and the other rubbish newspapers write only the truth and nothing but the truth. So the lies had become the truth for them.

I really hope that GE13 goal will be achieved as we could not live in an environment where lies are the truth

Teacher discharged from bribery charges in Umno division election

Judge Rosbiahanin Ariffin of the Sessions Court has acquitted a primary school senior assistant on 2 counts of bribery at the Umno division elections of Raub because the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against the teach, Junaidi Abdul Hamid. He was represented by Aishaton Abu Bakar in the case where he was alleged to have offered RM200 to one Adnan Samad on who to vote during the division’s election. The offences were alleged to have been committed at the Grand Season Hotel’s Coffee House in September last year. Syafinas Shabudin prosecuted on behalf of the MACC.



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If you are umno members, never fear when najis is around. Confirmed discharged. But dont fool around if you are on the opposition side, as witness can land you in the grave, under najis.

Teachers from UMNO will give kids nightmares.

Project Director of PKFZ faces 24 counts of graft charges

Law Jenn Dong, the project director with PKFZ (Port Klang Free Zone) and a former employee of Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd, the turnkey developer of the project has been charged by the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) for 24 counts of graft in the currently ongoing investigations of the fiasco. Law left the company in September 2007 and will now be the fourth person to be charged after the MACC arrested Datin Paduka OC Phang, Bernard Tan Seng Swee and Stephen Abok last week. Law has claimed trial for all 24 charges and bail was set at RM250,000 in one surety where the charges are said to amount to some RM116.85million.


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It could be just a CO-INCIDENCE that all arrested and charged so far are ALL Chinese. Even if there are more bigger fishes to come into the net, I would not be surprised if they are Chinese too.

Its a GENERAL PERCEPTION that the Chinese, due to their FINANCIAL STRENGTH, are the main GIVERS of corruption, and Malay Government officials the main RECEIVERS.

So PR bloggers, do not BLINDLY put blames on UMNO/BN politicians.

This is only a show the real hand behind are far more powerful then this few mickey mouses, you think with this few mouses can do such a big crime without a strong support you think this mouses dare to move ?

The root of corruption has already planted so deeply through out the whole rulling period by Umnooooo,when Tun Mamak time ever anyone dare question his wrong doing ?

During that period of time even his fart was very nice to smell,how many people try get to know his cronie,his son, his relative even his runner hope for getting a project like Bagun Damp ,KLCC and KLIA ...

It is not supprise that the biggest fishes swim away freely.....but we rakyat have to thank Lim Kit Siang who has the guts to protect the rakyat's interest by risking his life to review such an urgly and digust and disgrace behaviour of this so call rakyat representative ......i hope god will make a judgement on them all.


To set bail at just rm250,000.00 for 116 million is encouraging
who ever charge to disappear. next round will not find them if
this guy did manage to cheat such a big amount. If me I am
long gone.

Taxi drivers demand apology from Nazri for saying ‘taxis dirtier than public toilets’

Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department has come under fire from the taxi drivers in Klang Valley over his recent remarks that the taxis are dirtier than the public toilets. He reportedly said that “the bad attitude of our taxi drivers is worse than our filthy public toilets” and for that drew the wrath of the taxi drivers. The chairman of the Executive Taxi Owners Association of Malaysia, Azmin Md Yatin said that it is not fair for Nazri to generalize all taxi drivers as only a small number of them have such negative attitudes. He said “Only a small number had negative attitudes like charging high fares and refusing to take passengers to distant destinations, his equating taxi drivers to toilets was an insult. The statement by Nazri is extreme and we (taxi drivers) from the Klang Valley unequivocally agree that Nazri must apologise openly,”

They have since handed a memorandum of protest to t Kamaruddin Hassan, the secretary of the Federal Territory Umno liaison committee which will then be presented to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, his deputy.


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All taxis driver, kick this f u c k e r Nasri with- BN Minister dirties than Taxi Drivers!!!!

ALL TAXI DRIVERS, UNITE AND RAM UR VEHICLES INTO THIS BOTAK'S ASS INSTEADOF ASKING FOR APOLOGY. THIS IS UMNO LAND AND NO SHAME LAND U THINK HE WILL SAY SORRY??

HE FORGET THAT THE TOURISTS ARE THE ONES WHO HELP THE ECONOMY OF THIS COUNTRY, AND HE FORGET HE AND HIS UMNO DOGS BLED THIS COUNTRY DRY, U BLED THE TPOURISTS, THEY BLEED U, FAIR AND SQUARE

Maybe NASRI facing the complained from MONGOLIAN tourist Altantuya firends,
they complained our country head are so dirty...so NASRI kick the ball to uncle taxi and the toilet,
but he donno actually they are saying Najis

Stop debate on BTN, I will decide, says Najib

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wants all quarters, including ministers not to prolong the polemics on the National Civics Bureau (BTN).

He said he himself would evaluate BTN’s training modules and arrive at a decision on them later.

“All quarters have given their views or opinions (on the BTN). All kinds of opinions have been voiced, I think it is enough,” he told reporters after opening the Pekan Resource Centre here today.

He said this when asked to comment on the differing views on the subject from ministers, deputy ministers and also from former prime Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed.

“Give me a chance to evaluate the BTN modules together with the bureau’s officers and the government will take the necessary decisions to ensure its courses are in line with government policies,” said Najib.

Asked about his personal views on the BTN courses, Najib did not dismiss the possibility that the modules might have to be reviewed so that they were more suited to today’s demands.

“I want to know what are the contents of the (training) modules and secondly, I want to see if the courses are in tune with the times. Maybe, some of the contents were suited to a specific time period and when times change, the demands change likewise.

“As such, whether the BTN courses are keeping abreast of the changes taking place has to be looked into. Even school curricula cannot be static, they must change according to the times. Our training courses must at all times be dynamic and relevant,” he said.

Najib stressed that should any changes be made to the modules, it did not mean that he was rejecting what had done by the BTN before this.

“We appreciate what has been done by the BTN but when the environment around us changes, we have to ensure the contents (of the modules) are suited to the new and changed era,” said Najib.

As to when he would make a decision on the type of modules to be used, Najib said he would be meeting BTN officials after returning from his overseas trip.

On the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) review for ministers tomorrow, Najib said it was to fine tune its contents especially in relation to the six National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) that he had announced.

“This shows the approach taken by the government in using NKRAs and KPIs are not mere political rhetoric or empty talk, we are truly serious and committed.

“Despite it being a Sunday tomorrow, we will still be working. It goes to show that the government’s committment is very high in using these approaches to produce results,” he said.

Asked what would happen if there were ministers who were not up to the mark, Najib said: “There is still time for performance improvement and even if I do not reprimand, the people will.”


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Since BTN is good for the government servants and some selected sectors, it is recommended that all Malaysians should be given a chance to learn it.

Of course, it is impossible for each and every Malaysian to attend the course. The simplest way is to live televise the classes. In this case the government and the public will be able to know whether the contents of the courses have been properly conducted by the officers concerned. It is also to ensure that no personal racist comments will be added by the officers concerned.

An ‘overdoes of politics’, worries Selangor Sultan

The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has expressed worries over the situation in the state as the political agenda had gained the upper hand rather than the development agenda.

He said sometime petty matters were blown out of proportion, thus causing confusion among the people.

“State leaders should not only talk but implement programmes for the benefit of the people.

“I believe the people are now questioning about development and their well-being than being engrossed with politics.

“As such, the Selangor state government is responsible in laying the foundation for harmony,” he said at an investiture ceremony in conjunction with his 64th birthday celebration at Istana Alam Shah here today.

The Sultan urged Selangor Menteri Besar and state executive councillors to carry out their duties with dedication, and trust and cooperate with civil servants.

“The time of finding faults and weaknesses have ended and now is the time to implement plans and election promises and solve the problems faced by the people for the sake of progress and prosperity of the state,” he added.

Sultan Sharafuddin hoped that ideological differences should not be an excuse for the people not to respect one another and strive for unity.

“I would like to advise the people of Selangor that if they are not happy, they should voice their opinions and grievances through proper channels and abide by the law,” he added.

Urging the police to carry out their duty with resolve and commitment, he said the people should not be scared to move about and worried about their safety.

Sultan Sharafuddin also advised Selangor royal families to protect the good name of the royal house and refrain from doing anything that would bring disrepute to their positions.

“The reputation and good name must be guarded from negative activities as it is a valuable asset to the individuals concerned and Istana Selangor,” he added


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No worried, if the present Govt were doing a right and fair job, so the people will continue to support what supposed they had been done. If the people still want change, God is willing, so nothing can prevent this might not be happened then.

Good call but most of the politickings in Selangor and all PR held states are being started by the BN. Their non stop efforts to destabilize and sabotage the PR led Governments had made it more and more difficult to perform, though they had performed admirably well, despite all the bad BN efforts!!!

Now BN are going one step further by all the racists protests and sloganeering! Besides, KL and Selangor, over the years had developed so badly without proper planning, that today, compare it with other ASEAN capitals like Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta, KL falls short.