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- Tun Abdul Razak, Dewan Rakyat (12hb. November, 1975)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Siswi jawab UPM, dakwa mangsa diskriminasi

kemaskini 9:51pm Belum reda isu pembuangan kolej dua mahasiswi Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) - mereka mendakwa layak tinggal di asrama kerana cukup merit tetapi disingkirkan kerana menganggotai Persatuan Mahasiswa Islam (PMI).

"Rakan kami, ketua aras blok Lekir, yang terlibat dalam pengiraan merit memberitahu kami merit kami mencukupi dan masih ada lain yang lebih rendah meritnya tetapi layak untuk tinggal di kolej," kata Nor Farhana Farzieana Azmi (kiri) dan Nur Shafiqa Mohd Ali dalam satu kenyataan bersama.

Tambah mereka, menurut seorang felo blok di Kolej Tun Perak, "merit kami memang mencukupi untuk terus menginap di kolej dan kami diberitahu bahawa kami terpaksa dikeluarkan atas sebab-sebab tertentu iaitu kerana kami merupakan ahli PMI".

farhana pelajar upm 221008Rabu lepas, PMIUPM mendakwa barisan pemimpin dan ahlinya menjadi mangsa penyingkiran sistematik universiti itu dari kolej-kolej kediaman.

Presidennya Mohd Safwan Ab Ghani berkata, sejak tiga tahun lepas, mereka "dibuang kolej beramai-ramai tanpa sebab yang munasabah."

"Kami tertanya-tanya apakah salah kami sehingga kami dilayan sebegini buruk. Apakah dosa kami sehingga kami dinafikan hak dan didiskriminasikan oleh pihak pengurusan kolej dan universiti."

Nor Farhana Farzieana, seorang exco PMI, dan Nur Shafiqa (kanan), ahli persatuan itu serta bekas exco Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar UPM, yang dibuang pada 15 Oktober, dibenarkan kembali ke kolej seminggu lepas itu.

Kenyataan mereka itu bagi mengulas siaran media UPM minggu lalu berhubung penyingkiran mereka daripada kolej.

Bagi menjawab dakwaan UPM bahawa mereka mendiami secara "tidak sah", pelajar-pelajar itu juga berkata mereka dibenarkan menduduki kolej berkenaan setelah berjumpa dan membuat rayuan dengan seorang pegawai kolej.

shafiqa pelajar upm 221008"Selepas beberapa minggu, ketua blok Lekir, datang ke bilik dengan membawa buku rekod pelajar, kami diminta untuk mengisi buku tersebut.

"Jadi sepatutnya pihak kolej mengetahui tentang penempatan kami disitu," kata Nor Farhana Farzieana dan Nur Shafiqa lagi.

Menolak kenyataan ketua bahagian komunikasi korporat UPM Abdullah Arshad pada 22 Oktober yang menyebut dua mahasiswi itu berdegil setelah pemeriksaan dijalankan pada September, mereka menafikan pernah menerima sebarang notis, surat dan peringatan supaya berpindah sehingga beberapa hari sebelum dikenakan tindakan dua minggu lepas.

Abdullah juga menyatakan Kolej Tun Perak diberikan keutamaan kepada pelajar Kor SUKSIS dan pelajar baru, bagaimanapun dua pelajar cemerlang itu menafikannya kerana wujud rakan-rakan mereka yang dibenarkan menetap di asrama tersebut.

Tambahan pula, kata Nor Farhana Farzieana dan Nur Shafiqa, pendaftaran Kor SUKSIS semakin berkurangan dan pelajar baru sedikit sahaja.

Sambil menyifatkan kenyataan UPM itu "palsu dan berunsur fitnah", mereka juga mendakwa ia "mempunyai banyak paradoks dan fakta yang tidak benar".

Tambah mereka, setelah menghubungi Abdullah dan memintanya membetulkan semula kenyataan media UPM, ketua bahagian komunikasi korporat itu meminta mereka menghantar kronologi kes.

"Malangnya sehingga hari ini (26 Oktober - tarikh kenyataan dua pelajar ini) tidak ada tindakan lanjut dibuat olah pihak universiti," kata mereka.

Dakwa Nor Farhana Farzieana dan Nur Shafiqa lagi, mereka dimaklumkan pengurusan kolej sendiri yang menyediakan kenyataan media UPM minggu lalu.

-Malaysiakini

Operasi Giant terlewat akibat MB?

kemaskini 5:28pm Operasi pasar raya besar Giant di Kerteh terganggu lebih sebulan selepas gagal mendapatkan kelulusan daripada Majlis Perbandaran Kemaman (MPK), didakwa akibat campur tangan menteri besar Terengganu.

Sumber-sumber pasar raya itu dan MPK memberitahu Malaysiakini hari ini, ia bercadang membuka premis barunya di Mesra Mall di Jalan Kemaman-Dungun sejak 24 September tetapi gagal mendapat lesen.

"Kerana tidak dapat (September), kita cadang mahu buka pada 10 Oktober, serentak dengan pembukaan Mesra Mall, tetapi tidak dapat juga," kata sumber.

giant hypermarket and mesra mall terengganu 281008 buildingRangkaian pasar raya milik GCH Retail (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, yang berusia 60 tahun, difahamkan selewat-lewatnya dibuka pada 15 Oktober tetapi hingga sekarang tidak jelas kenapa belum menjalankan perniagaan.

Sumber di pihak berkuasa tempatan itu berkata, masalah lesen Giant itu "berkaitan dengan Datuk Ahmad Said", yang juga wakil rakyat Kijal.

Menurut sumber pasar raya terkenal itu, ia telah memenuhi semua syarat yang ditetapkan untuk menjalankan operasinya termasuk mendapat pengiktirafan keselamatan daripada jabatan bomba dan mengikuti garis panduan pengubahsuaian bangunan MPK.

Pasar raya itu sekarang, tambah sumber Giant, ia hanya menunggu lesen untuk memulakan operasinya.

Ditanya jika MPK terus enggan memberikan lesen tersebut, sumber itu berkata "tunggu sahajalah."

Mesra Mall, yang dibangunkan oleh KLCC (Holdings) Sdn Bhd di atas tanah seluas 12 hektar dan diurus oleh Suria KLCC Sdn Bhd, telah dirasmikan oleh exco pembangunan luar bandar, usahawan dan koperasi Datuk Mohamed Awang Tera pada 10 Oktober lepas.

Difahamkan Giant merupakan penyewa utama kompleks membeli-belah yang diberikan jolokan "mutiara timur anda."

Menurut pelan lantai Mesra Mall, Giant ditempatkan di penghujung kanan dan kiri bahagian depan kompleks itu.

Malaysiakini setakat ini gagal mendapatkan reaksi menteri besar Terengganu.

Seorang pegawai kanan Ahmad ketika dihubungi berkata "tidak mengetahui" tentang dakwaan terhadap pemimpin tersebut.

-Malaysiakini

Shares drop 3.1% in panic selling

updated 5.15pm Bursa Malaysia’s share prices shed almost 6% this morning as investors continue to be spooked by the global economic outlook, but recovered slightly after lunch to close with a lost of 3.1%.

malaysia stock exchange market klse 141008 09When the markets break for lunch at 12.30pm, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index had shed 51.16 points, or 5.95%.

The KLCI was at 807.95, down from 859.11 after it closed last Friday.

But the stockmarket recovered slightly after lunch to regain some 24 points to end the day at 837.69.

Nevertheless, it still shed 26.67 points for the day, or 3.1 percent. "There was panic selling in the market after US stocks slumped to their lowest levels in five years overnight," one of the dealers was quoted by Bernama as saying.

The steep decline of KLCI to its lowest level in four years is due to similar fall in regional markets on concern over a severe global economic recession ahead.

Munawar appeal: Federal Court judgment on Thursday

updated 5.15pm The Federal Court - the country's highest court - has set Thursday to deliver its judgment on Munawar A Anees’ appeal against his
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In submissions before a three-member panel of judges this morning, his lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon called on the court to hear Munawar's appeal.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court threw out the case four years ago after Munawar, who is now living in United States, did not attend the hearing.

At the end of today's hearing, Chief Justice Zaki Azmi and Federal Court judges Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin and Nik Hashim Nik Abdul Rahman said they needed time to consider their decision.

Manjeet, when contacted, said a 14-page submission had been submitted, arguing that Munawar had been denied justice when the High Court dismissed his appeal without giving reasons.

“My client was never presented the chance or allowed to present his case and therefore he has been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

“He should be given the chance to present his case based on the merits of his case,” Manjeet said in a phone interview.

Sentence Served

Munawar, a Pakistani-American writer who is a biologist by training and an internationally well-respected Islamic intellectual, was detained under the Internal Security Act on Sept 14, 1998.

munawar anees interview 131106 dr anees and anwarThe former aide and speech writer of ousted deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was later charged alongside Anwar’s adopted brother, Sukma Darmawan Sasmitaat Madja.

They were convicted after pleading guilty to “allowing themselves to be sodomised” by Anwar.

They were charged with committing the offences at Anwar's residences in 1993 and 1998 but no specific dates or time were given. They were each sentenced to six months’ jail.

However, in a statutory declaration issued 10 years ago, Munawar claimed that he had been forced to confess following brutal torture while he was in detention.In the statutory declaration, he claimed that Special Branch officers had abused him mentally and physically.

After serving his sentence, he left for the United States where he currently works as a project management consultant with the US-based John Templeton Foundation.

Kerajaan Negeri Perlu Jalin Kerjasama Profesional Dengan Kerajaan Pusat???

Kerajaan negeri khususnya di bawah pemerintahan pembangkang perlu menjalin kerjasama profesional dengan kerajaan persekutuan bagi memastikan program pembangunan bagi faedah rakyat dilaksanakan dengan lancar.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan pusat sebenarnya saling memerlukan dalam soal pelaksanaan program untuk rakyat.

"Saya minta sangat kerajaan negeri supaya berlapang dada dan berfikiran terbuka menerima projek yang dibawa oleh pusat," katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas menghadiri jamuan Aidilfitri anjuran Majlis Tindakan Persekutuan Negeri Perak (MTPN) di perkarangan Stadium Indera Mulia di sini hari ini.

Ni kira "permintaan ikhlas" la ni ya?Tak payah cakap banyak la Zahid...Kerajaan PAS Kelantan dah 4 penggal didiskriminasi selama ni sebab apa?siapa yang tak profesional sebenarnya?

Tok Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat dah beratus kali dah dok mintak KERAjaan pusat profesional ada hangpa nak layan?mentang-mentang masa tu hangpa kuat, bukan main hangpa buat bola dekat kerajaan PAS Kelantan kan?

Berapa banyak projek pembangunan dekat Kelantan yang hangpa sekat sampai sekarang?itu hangpa panggil profesional?tu dekat Kelantan...

Dekat Terengganu pulak lepas PRU10 tahun 1999 tampuk kerajaan beralih kepada kerajaan PAS pimpinan Tuan Guru Haji Hadi...apa yang KERAjaan pusat buat dengan negeri terengganu?apa jadi dengan wang royalti minyak?kenapa kena tarik balik?kenapa pengurusan ESSO diarah pindah keluar negeri Terengganu lepas PRU10 dulu?sebab terlalu profesional?

Apa jadi dengan kilang-kilang dekat Kemaman lepas PRU10 dulu?kenapa semua tutup?sebab profesional?

Sekarang hangpa dah nak tersungkur hangpa nak cerita pasai "profesional" pulak?nak tunjuk dekat sapa?siapa yang bagi contoh "bangsat" selama ni/siapa yang buat bangsat denagn kerajaan pembangkang selama ni?

UMNO/BN la bodoh..!

Khak Ptuih..!

Time To Sleep...ZzZzZzZzZzZz......

A Malaysian broker takes a nap at a securities firm gallery in Kuala Lumpur today. Asian stocks were mixed today with Japan’s benchmark index extending a 26-year low amid persistent worries over a worldwide recession, while markets in South Korea and Hong Kong rose.

Anwar’s former speech writer seeks to clear his name

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 28 — All he wants is for his story to be heard in court, a chance to clear his name from the stigma of a conviction for sodomy, a crime he says he did not commit.

On Thursday, the Federal Court will decide if it has the jurisdiction to review the Kuala Lumpur High Court decision which threw out Dr Munawar Anees's application for an appeal over a sodomy conviction which dates back about a decade.

Pakistan-born Munawar is a former speech writer to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim when the latter held the post of Deputy Prime Minister. He was charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court alongside Sukma Darmawan, Anwar's adopted brother, for performing "intercourse against the order of nature" with Anwar. Both men were found guilty and sentenced to six months' jail in 1998. Munawar served the sentence.

However, he then filed an appeal against his conviction in the KL High Court. He claimed that the plea of guilty entered in his name during the initial trial was made under duress. He has since attempted to obtain a hearing for his appeal in the High Court but failed.

Today, his lawyer, Manjeet Singh Dhillon, told the three-member Federal Court that he was not asking the Federal Court to reverse the decision or set aside the conviction made by the High Court.

"I'm asking the court to let his appeal be heard in the High Court on its own merits," Manjeet said.

"It has never been heard in the High Court," he added.

Manjeet told The Malaysian Insider that on the day the appeal was brought up in the High Court, Munawar was absent from the hearing as he was away in the US — where he is based — and the presiding judge, Justice Wahab Patail, had struck out the appeal before hearing Munawar's submissions.

Munawar, now 60, is a project management consultant with the US-based John Templeton Foundation. He flew into Malaysia alone just two days ago for the Federal Court hearing and is staying at a hotel in Petaling Jaya.

"I have been seeking justice for the past 10 years," Munawar told The Malaysian Insider outside the courtroom before the hearing.

"The system has not allowed me to say what I want to say. It has given judgment and held me in detention, illegally, on false charges.

"It has been a traumatic story for the past 10 years, psychologically, physically, financially. My kids grew up under this fear and smear system. My reputation has been tarnished. What I'm looking for is, yes, that there will be a moment of justice," said Munawar.

-TMI

Court documents 'incomprehensible', appeal put off

updated 3.10pm The appeal hearing of migrant workers activist Irene Fernandez was today adjourned to a later date to give her time to decide on her next move after it was discovered that portions of the notes of evidence relating to her case were “incomprehensible”.

irene fernandez trial 100908 03 During the previous proceedings, Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohamad Apandi Ali had set Oct 28-30 and Nov 24-28 for the hearing proper after the bulk of the ‘missing documents’ that had contributed to the delay were finally found and made presentable.


The appeal mention date had been postponed four times due to several technical glitches since April, when papers pertaining to her appeal went missing.

Fernandez’ lawyer M Puravelan told the court today that while he has received as many as 8,988 pages of handwritten and typed notes amounting to a total of eight volumes of documents - including exhibits - portions of them are “incomprehensible”.

“In other words, the evidence cannot be understood”, he said.

Three Options

Requesting the adjournment, Puravelan said the time would be taken to decide which of three options his client would take. The first option would be to apply for leave to include an additional item to Fernandez’s grounds for appeal in that the “infirmities inherent or discovered in the notes of evidence” result in her not being able to proceed, he said.

puravalen pc on missing pi balasubramaniam 180708 m puravalen The second would be to file a fresh motion based on the premise that the appeal records have not been properly presented before the court “by reason of the infirmities of the record of appeal”, Puravelan added.

He said further that it may also be argued merely on a “preliminary point of procedure” that the appeal records are not properly before the court.

Puravelan said that as the situation is “unprecedented to a large extent in terms of the law”, the options and the ultimate decision taken would have to be considered very carefully.

Finding no objections on the part of deputy public prosecutor Shamsul Sulaiman, justice Apandi allowed the adjournment and vacated tomorrow and Thursday, the days set for the hearing to continue.

Met later, Fernandez said while she prefers the first option, Apandi’s decision whichever way it goes “would be important because it would reflect the system of the courts, how the appeal records are put together, and the previous judgment by the judge”.

“After five years now, at this stage, if the records are incomprehensible, it’s really a reflection of the court system and that you have weaknesses in it,” she told reporters.

Statements Missing

The Tenaganita executive director’s first mention date on June 11 was postponed to Aug 5 after papers with statements of important prosecution witnesses were found to have gone missing.

On Aug 5, the case once again came to a standstill when Fernandez was told a computer virus had wiped out a portion of a specific volume of notes required for the trial.

Fernandez, 62, was sentenced to 12-month imprisonment in 2003 after being found guilty by the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate's Court of maliciously publishing false news. She was allowed bail pending appeal.

In 1995, Fernandez had exposed the poor conditions at immigration detention centres in a memorandum entitled ‘Abuse, Torture and Dehumanised Conditions of Migrant Workers in Detention Centres'.

She was arrested and charged under Section 8A(1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 a year later.

The maximum penalty on conviction is three years' imprisonment or a fine not exceeding RM20,000, or both.

Her case has become the longest-running criminal trial in Malaysian history.

Dua Senator Dilantik Semula Anggota Dewan Negara

KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Okt (Bernama) -- Dua senator yang dilantik semula sebagai anggota Dewan Negara bagi satu penggal lagi hari ini mengangkat sumpah jawatan di hadapan Yang Dipertua Dewan Negara Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Pawanteh.

Mereka ialah Exco Pergerakan Wanita Umno Datin Paduka Nor Hayati Onn dan Ketua Umno Bahagian Kepong Datuk Rizuan Abd Hamid.

Ketika mengalu-alukan pelantikan semula dua senator itu, Abdul Hamid berharap mereka dapat meneruskan perkhidmatan dengan bertanggungjawab dan jujur dalam memelihara dan mempertahankan perlembagaan negara.

Norhayati, 45, adalah Pengarah OISB Construction Sdn Bhd dan berkelulusan dalam kesetiausahaan dan pengurusan perniagaan Kolej Stamford.

Rizuan, 53, pula ialah Pengerusi MPH Group Printing (M) Sdn Bhd dan berkelulusan ijazah Sarjana Pentadbiran Perniagaan dari University Connaught, Kanada.

Sasaran 200,000 Pelancong Atau Masalah?

Majlis Tindakan Pelancongan Negeri Selangor (MTPN) yakin mencapai sasaran menarik sebanyak 200,000 pelancong dari Indonesia tahun ini menerusi promosi agresifnya terutama bagi sektor pelancongan, kesihatan dan pendidikan.

Pengerusi Eksekutifnya Datuk Subahan Kamal berkata keyakinan itu berdasarkan trend kedatangan pelancong Indonesia yang semakin meningkat ke negeri Selangor.

Katanya dari Januari hingga Ogos lepas sahaja, Selangor telah menerima sebanyak 108,480 pelancong dari Indonesia, iaitu kedua tertinggi selepas Singapura, dan angka itu merupakan peningkatan sebanyak 5.07 peratus berbanding tempoh yang sama tahun lepas.

Ini satu berita baik bagi sektor pelancongan dan juga sektor jenayah di Malaysia.aku yakin sasaran 200,000 akan berjaya dicapai dalam masa yang amat singkat.jumlah PATI akan mengatasi jumlah pelancong.

200,000 pelancong akan datang dari Indonesia, 5,000 pelancong tersebut akan selamat kembali ke Indonesia selepas melancong manakala 150,000 lagi akan terus menetap di Malaysia.

Baki 150,000 lagi dijangkakan akan memenuhi tapak-tapak binaan, setinggan-setinggan, flat-flat, kawasan perumahan dan juga hutan-hutan simpan sekitar ibukota.

Selepas 3 bulan menetap, mereka akan mengimport lebih ramai lagi PATI melalui orang tengah yang telah dikenal pasti.

Pihak berkuasa malaysia akan terus tidur nyenyak diatas tilam "wang" yang dibayar oleh PATI dan tindakan tidak akan diambil sebab "tiada laporan" dibuat oleh sesiapa.kalau ada laporan pun macam biasa la..."sedang dalam siasatan"...tak kan hangpa tak reti-reti...

Mungkin sektor perniagaan "ayam mentah" juga akan mendapat "suntikan baru" selepas ini...

sasaran pengurangan pekerja asing akan hanya tinggal "sasaran"... gomen tidur lagi...