| Lim Lip Eng Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:34 AM PDT
| WATCH YOUR STEP Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:57 AM PDT  (From left) Lim Lip Eng, Lim Tiam Soon and Yap Fong Yoong inspecting the viewing platform at Taman Tasik Manjalara. — Picture by Syarafiq Abd Samad Park visitors are concerned about a cracked viewing platform in Taman Tasik Manjalara in Kepong. One of the several viewing platforms surrounding the Taman Tasik Manjalara in Kepong is on the verge of collapsing and endangering the safety of park users. One of the viewing platforms built on the edge of the lake adjoining the recreational park's jogging track had cracked from its pathway foundation, leaving a 50cm gap.
Several joggers Streets spoke to said they began to notice the deteriorating condition of the platform about a year ago when the gap was still small. They said the gap grew bigger and they have alerted City Hall about the safety hazard. However, the joggers claimed that their complaints had fallen on deaf ears.
Chong, who goes to the park daily, said he and fellow joggers had even tied red ribbons at the cracked platform to warn park users from stepping onto it. "We highlighted this matter to City Hall several times but nothing was done to address the problem. "I urge City Hall to act quickly before it becomes costlier to repair the damage," Chong added. "I think the platform cracked because of poor design and a foundation that is not deep enough," he said. Chong, who is from Segambut, said if the viewing platform was not repaired, it could weaken further. He said City Hall should check on the other viewing platforms to see if they are in similar condition.
Lim Tiam Soon, 68, who goes to the park with his grandchildren, described the situation as hazardous. "Instead of spending time leisurely here, I have to keep an eye on the children as I am afraid they will go near the platform or fall into the lake. "City Hall should repair the platform quickly or cordon off the area," said the Taman Maluri resident.
Another Taman Maluri resident Yap Fong Yoong, 63, expressed regret that the park had not been properly maintained for sometime. "The fountains are out of order and the place is no longer safe. "Previously, there were guards on duty, even at night," said Yap, who is a regular visitor at the park for about 10 years now.
The trio had sought the assistance of Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng to have the matter resolved. Lim said he had written to City Hall's Landscaping and Urban Control Cleaning Department but had received no response from it. | |
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| 黄文标指市政厅没有细心按照新住宅区处理邮区编号！ Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:45 AM PDT  黄文标（中）与Villa Gopeng居民指向错误的邮区编号路牌。他本人是接到怡保务边路高架公路旁Villa Gopeng住宅区居民投诉后，前往该区了解情况。并发觉该路牌邮区编号是31400，而电单里所记录到的是31350。而居民与他一起详细搜寻后得知该区准确编号是30250。 居民也向他表示在4月已向怡保市政厅投诉，但是到现在该局还是没有纠正此错误。这问题使他们必需面对信件延迟收到，甚至让人误会该地点的位置。在此他敦促怡保市政厅必需纠正此错误，同时也要确保新发展区的路牌为发展商提供正确资料。 | |
| Lim Kit Siang Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:51 PM PDT
| Wearing Bersih 2.0 T-shirt is more dangerous than Osama bin Laden? Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:10 PM PDT The Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein should stop the madness where a person can be detained by the police for wearing the Bersih 2.0 T-shirt, as if he/she is more dangerous than Osama bin Laden. Last night, the police have started arresting people for wearing the Bersih 2.0 T-shirt. This are tweets about the [...] | | Umno goes berserk with Bersih Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:26 PM PDT By Mariam Mokhtar June 24, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today Ambiga Sreenevasan, the Bersih chairman, may yet be the person who leads this country out of the quagmire. Ambiga was the Malaysian Bar chairman from 2007-2009 and in March 2009, received the US Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage from Hillary Clinton, [...] | | Malaysia No. 2 in Asia-Pacific for cargo theft Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:21 PM PDT By Yow Hong Chieh June 25, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — Cargo theft in Malaysia is now the second highest in the Asia-Pacific by value and looks to increase as more cargo from Singapore, the world's busiest port, is routed overland through the Malay peninsula, the New York Times has [...] | | Who’s the idiot? Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:14 PM PDT By Shamini Darshni June 25, 2011 JUNE 25 — When I read how Ibrahim Ali "clarified" what he said about the Chinese community, I had a vision of him in a sampan with a panic-stricken look on his face, working those oars in reverse like the devil was after him. But this time, I am [...] | | Bersih 2.0, Perkasa and the ‘middle-ground’ fallacy Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:15 AM PDT By Pak Sako June 24, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 24 — Based on my analysis, I believe the government faked the plane crash and demolished the World Trade Center North Tower with explosives. The South Tower, in a simultaneous but unrelated plot, was brought down by actual terrorists. — Randall Munroe, on taking [...] | | Tambatuon folk fear Bakun fate Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:07 AM PDT By Michael Kaung June 24, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today PENAMPANG: The villagers of Tambatuon are anxious to avoid the heartbreak that the people of Bakun suffer, according to testimony before Suhakam commissioners who are conducting a study on Native Customary Land Rights (NCR) issues. Jahim Singkui, who heads the Tambatuon Villagers' Action Committee, told [...] | | Another day, another bogeyman raised Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:09 AM PDT by Farah Fahmy The Malaysian Insider Jun 24, 2011 JUNE 24 — In all the furore surrounding the Bersih 2.0 rally, I couldn't help noticing that all the things and events used to scare us are being dragged out yet again, presumably so that we would all be scared of history repeating itself and therefore [...] | | “Datuk T” trio’s gross abuse of process of the court Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:25 AM PDT What happened in the Kuala Lumpur magistrate's court this morning in the "Datuk T" trio Sri Carcosa sex tape case was a gross abuse of the process of the court, reducing the judicial process to a farce. It was alleged for instance that there are expert testimony that the man in the sex tape is [...] | |
| Blog@Wengsan...博客@永山 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:27 PM PDT |
| SERVANTHOOD Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT
| Illegal for Government to subject non-Muslims to be tried by the Syariah Court. Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:20 AM PDT PRESS STATEMENT
Illegal for Government to subject non-Muslims to be tried by the Syariah Court. Call on the Government to resolve the problems related to the conversion in and out of Islam immediately and to implement a quick and easy way to determine the religious status of a person
The clarification by Minster in the Prime Minister's Department, Mejar Jeneral (B) Datuk Jamil Khir Bin Baharom that the 135 applicants who managed to renounce Islam were actually non-Muslims who were mistakenly registered as Muslims by the National Registration Department (NRD) because of their names and these victims have to apply to the Syariah Court to change their religious status shows that something is very wrong with the Government administration.
Firstly, if it is a mistake made by the NRD why can't the NRD rectify it?
Secondly, the Syariah Curt has no jurisdiction over non-muslims. The Syariah Court Judges should reject such application due to lack of jurisdiction and asked that the matter be resolved by the NRD. Any decision by the Syariah court over a non Muslim is illegal.
Thirdly, courts are constituted to settle disputes not for confirming the religious status of a person. Articles II of the Federal Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion of every Malaysian and therefore, the religious status of a person is determined by the person concern. A statutory declaration made by the person should suffice. Muslims are complaining that there is huge back log of cases in the Syariah Courts. Therefore, Syariah Courts should spend their time giving priority clearing the cases rather than getting themselves involved with matters which they do not have jurisdiction.
Subjecting non-Muslims to the Syariah Court is oppressive as these non-Muslims have to go through 'counselling not to leave the Islamic faith' which may take months, some cases years and in many other cases never approved.
A person after becoming a Muslim registers himself/herself with the respective State Islamic Council. Depositing a statutory declaration declaring that he/she has left the Islamic faith with the same Islamic Council should suffice to confirm that he/she has left the Islamic faith.
Conversion to Islam has been abused by many. Some have converted to Islam to escape their legal duty to provide maintenance for their wives and children. Others converted to Islam to get custody of the children as the Syariah Courts will grant them the custody of the children. The civil courts regretfully now hold the view that they have no jurisdiction to interfere. Islam promotes justice but it has now been used to perpetuate injustice.
I know of people who do not profess the Islamic faith, never seen or read the Koran before and have never entered a mosque but due to various circumstances have a muslim sounding names. They want to be non-Muslims and get married to non-Muslims. Since there is no avenue for them to get married, they stay together out of wedlock and give birth to offsprings who will then be victim of circumstances like their parents. By refusing them an avenue to get married and have a normal family, we become a cruel society and by our cruelty we breed further social problems.
All persons above the age of 18 should be given full liberty to choose the religion of their choice.
I call on the Government to resolve the issues related to the conversion in and out of Islam immediately by following and respecting the provisions and the spirit of the Federal Constitution so that the untold miseries of those affected by the said issue can be put to an end.
Dated this 24th day of June 2011.
DATO' NGEH KOO HAM
Deputy Secretary of DAP Malaysia
MP for Beruas & State Assemblyman for Sitiawan | |
| MY VOICE FOR NATION Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:31 PM PDT
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| SUARA PERAK Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:38 AM PDT |
| Philosophy Politics Economics Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:44 AM PDT
| Open Tenders, Higher Prices Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:52 PM PDT The Government should just "open tenders" if it intends to continues to select contractors based on political connections and not based on merit and price.
As part of the "Government Transformation Programme" (GTP), the Najib administration had announced its intention to award more contracts for government projects through open tender. However, the Government had continued to award contracts without calls for tenders for many high-profile projects. This includes the MRT to Gamuda-MMC as the "project delivery partner", the RM682 million Matrade International Convention Centre to Naza TTDI and both the proposed Kuala Lumpur International Financial District (KLIFD) and the Sungai Besi Airport redevelopment project to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
The silver lining was that for certain second tier construction projects, open and competitive tenders had been called subject to pre-qualification. One such recent bid was for the electro-mechanical system for the Kelana Jaya Line LRT extension project. The tender for the project was so successful that it had managed to attract some top international players to submit their bids – Bombardier, Colas, Thales, Siemens, Invensys, Samsung and more – before it closed on May 16.
Unfortunately, the entire exercise has been made a sham, if reports over the past few days by The Malaysian Insider and The Singapore Straits Times were indeed accurate. According to The Malaysian Insider last Friday, "a Finance Ministry committee has ignored the city's light rail transit (LRT) operator's recommendation for the Kelana Jaya line extension project by awarding it to a company whose project price of RM890 million is almost 50 per cent higher than that of the lowest bid."
A source had claimed that "all bids are technically the same but Prasarana had recommended Ingress Corp Bhd-Balfour Beatty Rail Sdn Bhd, which put in a bid of RM610 million, the lowest against Hartasuma-Bombardier's RM890 million, which is the highest."
Today, the Singapore Straits Times reported that it was the consortium led by British firm, Colas which will be awarded for its RM670 million bid, which is still RM60 million higher than the lowest bid recommended by Syarikat Prasarana Bhd.
What the Government has done is not only to spend up to RM280 million extra on the project, it also has in effect wiped out the entire credibility of the GTP and the Najib administration by making a complete mockery of its "open tender" exercise. After attracting some of the top international companies to take part in the tender, they are now finding out that Malaysia will award the party which puts in the higher or highest bid, and not that of the lowest.
The "open tender" has wasted millions of ringgit borne by companies that submitted a competitive bid, thousands of man-hours from the private and public sectors and delayed for months the LRT extension project. Given that the Finance Ministry headed by Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak himself that owns Syarikat Prasarana Bhd already has in mind to award the project to Hartasuma Sdn Bhd-Bombardier joint-venture regardless of the tender outcome, the Government might as well just scrap the "open tender" show and "save" everyone the trouble.
In fact, the Straits Times quoted industry executives as saying that the "behind-the-scenes intrigue shows how opaque and non-transparent practices that have long characterised large public sector contract awards remain the order of the day in Malaysia."
I will raise this matter in the Dewan for the supplementary budget debate should I have a chance to speak. The Finance Ministry must confirm if the above allegations are true, and if true, account to the rakyat as to why Malaysians must pay RM280 million more for the LRT extension project.
Postscript: The Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Awang Adek has disclosed that the 2nd lowest bid of RM670 million has been awarded because the lowest bid submitted a "surat jaminan" from its principal "late". The question is, is that strong enough reason to eliminate a tender RM60 million cheaper - we are not talking about technical failure or non-compliance here, especially since it has received endorsement from Syarikat Prasarana? | |
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