41 MPs flying to Taiwan today and tomorrow

STAR |A total of 41 MPs who are members of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BBC) are expected to leave for Taiwan in batches on Monday and Tuesday.

Deputy BBC chairman Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin confirmed this on Monday.

The BBC members going to Taiwan comprise of nine MPs from Sabah, 10 from Sarawak and 22 from the peninsular. As at 11.50am, 29 MPs had turned up at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport for their flight.

The MPs are expected to take part in the programme, which was organised to explore Taiwan’s agricultural and industrial technology.

BBC chairman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said they decided to go to Taiwan, and not China, as they were short of time.... selanjutnya.

Siapa kata MB tak turun padang?

... selanjutnya DISINI.

Khalid .. Diam aje la

erisar |

Terperanjat aku membaca berita dimuka depan Utusan Malaysia hari ini. Aku tidak pasti itu adalah benar kata-kata yang keluar dari mulut Menteri Besar Selangor, atau satu sandiwara akhbar media arus perdana untuk mengalih perhatian dari isu Bukit Bendera.

Khalid didakwa berkata lawatan beliau ke tempat dilanda musibah membuang masa dan membuang kewangan sahaja. Beliau ada wakil rakyat dan orang yang boleh pergi melawat, yang boleh pergi memberi sumbangan kewangan. Guess what Khalid, rakyat suka nak tengok pemimpin mereka datang melawat, mendengar sendiri rintihan rakyat dikala kesusahan. Mendengar dan melihat sendiri sudah pasti berbeza dari mendengar dari pihak perantara.

Rakyat suka dengan pemimpin yang prihatin, yang dalam keadaan super busy sekalipun boleh meluangkan masa melihat keadaan kawasan bencana. Aku melihat PAS, PKR, dan lain-lain parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat sebagai berbeza dari UMNO. Takkan nak upgrade sama paras dengan Paklah, dikala banjir di Johor, beliau ke Australia makan nasi kandar?

Aku nasihatkan kepada Khalid, lainkali kalau nak menentang arus, diamkan sahaja. Jangan bersuara. Somethings better left unspoken.

imej - Pinkturtle2

Anwar is Back !!!

From My Sinchew

Opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim’s return to parliament spells leadership change in Malaysia.

Despite a nasty campaign against him, opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim has won spectacularly in a landmark by-election in the family stronghold of Permatang Pauh, confirming his stature as possible prime minister with truly national appeal, cutting across race and religion.

Victory on August 26 by a 15,500-vote majority signals that Anwar has re-arrived politically after suffering a severe setback in 1998, following charges of sodomy that saw him jailed for six years. His opponent Arif Shah Omar Shah managed just 15,524 votes or about half as many votes as polled in favour of Anwar.

The return to parliament of the man who once was deputy prime minister has shaken the political establishment and brought him one step closer to the stated goal of seizing the top job.

“The next step is Putra Jaya,” Anwar told thousands of cheering supporters outside the counting centre in Bukit Mertajam, a suburb of the Permatang Pauh constituency, referring to the administrative capital that houses the office of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.

“We won and our victory is decisive and overwhelming,” he said. “This is a victory for the people. And it’s great to be back,” Anwar said. He described the occasion as a “defining moment for the new Malaysia minus race, fear and discrimination”.

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'They call me a cyber terrorist'

Malaysianinsider | ...To ordinary Malaysians, Raja Petra Kamarudin is something like a rockstar. As publisher and editor of Malaysia Today, the self-confessed hippie has delighted his fans by turning up the heat on the nation's troubled politicians, who vainly attempt to rebuke him or feign indifference whenever his name is mentioned.

"They call me a cyber terrorist," he says with a smile and a slight sense of bewilderment.

Politicians try to dismiss him as a mere blogger, which in Malaysian parlance is a term with its own nuances as the country's leaders eagerly attempt to relegate their critics to the status of second-class citizens because they communicate through the Internet as opposed to the mainstream media.

Former information minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin referred to Raja Petra and other bloggers as off-key karaoke singers who like the sound of their own voices, but lack real public influence. Azril Amin, vice-president of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia once wrote that Raja Petra had failed to
meet his responsibilities by defaming Islamic organisations. He also said Raja Petra had a confused misunderstanding of Islam and was appalled by his "vulgar-languaged polemic".... selanjutnya.

Too many ‘foreign’ spirits in this school

GHOSTS, spirits, jin and other supernatural beings are abundant at SMK Tanjung Lumpur, claim dozens of bomoh as well as spiritual and faith healers who have visited the school in Kuantan in the past weeks.

Some of the bomoh have even claimed that they have "communicated" with the spirits who were responsible for bouts of hysteria at the school since May.

The so-called spirits, which are aplenty based on the names given by the bomoh, have made several demands including a special feast before they leave the school.... NST

Abdullah bentangkan belanjawan Titanic - Shamsul Iskandar

suarakeadilan | Mengulas mengenai belanjawan yang dilaksanakan Perdana Menteri Abdullah Badawi, Jumaat lepas, Ketua Angkatan Muda KeADILan Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin berkata belanjawan yang dibentangkan ibarat gula-gula dan bermotifkan politik.

Katanya kerajaan terpaksa menumpukan Sabah dan Sarawak demi menarik perhatian rakyat negeri itu berdasarkan keadaan semasa yang tertumpu kepada perubahan tampuk kepimpinan negara yang dijangka pada 16 September ini.

“Saya ibaratkan ianya hanya belanjawan kapal titanic, dimana Abdullah cuba untuk kali terakhir untuk selamatkan kapal Umno dari tengelam,” katanya.

Tambahnya lagi, belanjawan yang dibentangkan oleh Abdullah tidak banyak khabar gembira bagi mereka yang bekerja dalam sektor swasta dan perkilangan.

“Abdullah tidak menjamin sektor buruh dimana kurang khabar gembira kepada pekerja-pekerja di sektor swasta dan perkilangan,” katanya lagi.... selanjutnya.

Gerakan ulangi mungkin keluar BN, MCA mahu kekal

mstar | Gerakan mengulangi akan meninggalkan Barisan Nasional (BN) jika ia tidak dapat memainkan peranan "yang bermakna" dalam perikatan berusia lebih lima dekad itu, kata Pemangku Presidennya, Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon.

Gerakan sedang menyemak semula peranannya dalam BN, kata beliau dua hari selepas menyatakan pandangan sedemikian di Kelantan.

Kelmarin, kata beliau, Gerakan akan mengkaji semula kedudukan parti itu dalam BN sekiranya partiparti komponennya terutamanya Umno, gagal membuat perubahan untuk mengembalikan keyakinan rakya.

Di Kota Baharu kelmarin, sambil menegaskan Gerakan bukan parti "pak turut" dalam BN, Koh bagaimanapun berkata, parti itu tidak akan tergesagesa dalam tindakannya dan akan memberi "tempoh munasabah" sebelum mengambil sebarang tindakan.... selanjutnya.

Malaysian spends 11 months at depot for illegals

Unemployed M. Rajeshvari, 22, carrying her baby Logekali as she walks out of the Lenggeng Immigration depot in Negri Sembilan on Friday evening. She had been detained at the depot for 11 months simply because she did not have her identity card with her and could not recall its number when she was checked by police in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. — thestar