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Lim Kit Siang

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:37 PM PDT

Lim Kit Siang


Politics is not dirty, Umno is!

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:27 PM PDT

By Martin Jalleh | 19 Oct. 2011 Darkness descends on Bolehland. Politicians in Umno stoop low, so very low, by resorting to gutter politics of the most disgusting kind never seen before. The Umnoputras are desperate. They are very disturbed. Dr M has warned them that "…if the general election is held now, Umno may [...]

DAP: Blogs used fake photo to tarnish Guan Eng’s son

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:16 PM PDT

By S Pathmawathy | Oct 19, 2011 Malaysiakini Bloggers aligned to Umno used a fake picture to depict the victim of alleged molest by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s 16-year-old son. DAP publicity secretary Tony Pua said that the picture used by the bloggers had been identified as that of Anya Sun Corke, 21, [...]

Umno blogs used chess champion’s picture to attack Guan Eng’s son, says DAP

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:11 PM PDT

By Shannon Teoh | October 19, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — A girl whose photograph was used by Umno bloggers to level accusations of sexual harassment against Lim Guan Eng's son has been identified as 21-year-old chess Grandmaster Anya Sun Corke. Corke, who represents England in chess, has no ties with [...]

Gutter politics

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:29 PM PDT

The Malaysian Insider | October 18, 2011 OCT 18 — There is no denying that Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin is a smart man. The Oxford graduate has made use of his education and upbringing to shine through the untalented masses that make up the bulk of his party. Which is why it is a [...]

Leave the children out of dirty politics

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:23 PM PDT

Malaysiakini YOURSAY | Oct 19, 2011 ‘After the blue film, now they are resorting to slander against opponent’s child? Really, how low can you get, Umno?’ Incensed Guan Eng castigates pro-Umno blogs your sayMalaysian Born: The politicians who are involved in spreading these unsubstantiated and cruel attacks on this child are despicable and have lost [...]

The most cruel cut of ‘em all

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Comment by Thomas Lee Seng Hock As a father, my heart goes out to Lim Guan Eng whose teenage son is being politically abused by the cruel inhuman Umno and other upstart politicians. It is surely sad that the Malaysian politicalculture has descended to such a low gutter level that a 16-year-old innocent boy's life [...]

Fitnah galore

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT

Tweets @limkitsiang:- How PM/DPM feel if their children/grandchildren victims of such despicable/contemptible gutter attack built on lies? ow.ly/70wLK 3:54pm Will Najib/M’ddin condemn such despicable attack on innocent children by Umno cybertroopers? Is this Najib’s “political transformation”? 3:57pm Fitnah 1:Kes pencabulan di bulan May sebelum cuti sekolah. Fitnah 2:Bayaran tunai RM200 ribu untuk tutup mulut kes [...]

Attack on Guan Eng’s son is ‘gutter politics’, says Pakatan

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:35 AM PDT

By Shannon Teoh | October 18, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) top leadership came out in full force today to defend Lim Guan Eng, calling allegations by Umno against the DAP secretary-general's son "the lowest gutter politics" seen in decades. Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told a [...]

Incensed Guan Eng castigates pro-Umno blogs

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:41 AM PDT

Malaysiakini | Oct 18 Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is incensed that pro-Umno bloggers are trying to finish off his political career by wrecking the life of his teenage son with "morally despicable and barbaric" lies. In a statement, Lim demanded that Umno acts against those who are guilty of this, to prove that [...]

Guan Eng slams pro-Umno ‘beasts’ for targetting son in ‘barbaric lies’

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:48 AM PDT

By Clara Chooi | October 18, 2011 The Malaysian Insider (Updated) KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — Lim Guan Eng said today he was furious with the "barbaric lies" made about his young son by "pro-Umno ferocious beasts" and singled out Khairy Jamaluddin and other party leaders for perpetrating the allegations with snide comments on blogs [...]

Charles Santiago

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Charles Santiago


EU-Malaysia FTA: National Sovereignty & Policy Making at Risk with State-Investor Dispute Settlement Mechanism.

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT

The Malaysia-European Union Free Trade Agreementfifth round of negotiations is underway in Kuala Lumpur. Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister DatukMukhriz Mahathir last month indicated that the present round of negotiation "was getting into specific terms".

One of the most worrying 'specific terms' is the FTAsinvestment chapter that the EU wants Malaysia to adopt.The purpose of the investment chapter is to ensure that interests of investors are protected.

Specifically, the investment chapter contains provisions that allow investors to sue governments directly.

The investment protection chapter allows investors to by-pass the domestic legal system and refers disputes to international arbitration.  Most importantly, the state-investor dispute mechanism allows   investors to sue governments before international arbitration panels.

More than 300 cases have been referred to international arbitration since the 1990s. Most of these cases have resulted in governments paying millions to investors.

Investors can use the investor-state mechanism to refer governments to international arbitration panels if it perceives that state policies jeopardize company profits.

Here in Parliament, we are making laws in the best interests of the nation. But these laws can be over-turned by an international arbitration panel if judged as detrimental to investors.

On 19th February 2010, Philip Morris filed a request for arbitration against Uruguay with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).  The company argued that recent tobacco regulations enacted by Uruguay violate several provisions of the Switzerland-Uruguay bilateral investment treaty (BIT).

Specifically, Philip Morris is challenging three provisions of Uruguay's tobacco regulations: (1) a "single presentation" requirement that prohibits marketing more than one tobacco product under each brand, (2) a requirement that tobacco packages include "pictograms" with graphic images of the health consequences of smoking (such as cancerous lungs), and (3) a mandate that health warnings cover 80% of the front and back of cigarette packages.

Clearly, Philip Morris is critical of the health policy of the Uruguayan government as it will impact on its profits.

Such investor protection impacts on sovereignty of nations, disciplines governments and limits the state's ability to regulate and develop polices in the best interests of the rakyat.

Thus, it is in the interests of the Malaysia that the government does not give-in to the demands of the European Union.

Malaysia could learn from countries such as Australia.

The Australian government is opposing greater rights for foreign companies and thus opposes the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement.

Its 2011 Trade Policy says, "the Government does not support provisions that would confer greater legal rights on foreign businesses than those available to domestic businesses. Nor will the Government support provisions that would constrain the ability of Australian governments to make laws on social, environmental and economic matters in circumstances where those laws do not discriminate between domestic and foreign businesses. The Government has not and will not accept provisions that limit its capacity to put health warnings or plain packaging requirements on tobacco products or its ability to continue the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme".

The Australian government, with its greater revenue and more lawyers to defend cases, is opposing investor-to-state dispute settlement mechanism. The Malaysian government should take a similar position to protect our regulatory space and sovereignty.

I call on the Malaysian governments to reject all pressure from the EU in the interests of the country.

Charles Santiago

Member of Parliament, Klang.


AHLI PARLIMEN KLANG YB CHARLES SANTIAGO BERKATA “KOS PERUBATAN HOSPITAL SWASTA AKAN MENINGKAT”.

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:34 AM PDT

Source: Nan Yang  San Pau


Jualan Bundle 24 Jam

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:16 AM PDT

Source: Sinar Harian


MY VOICE FOR NATION

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT

MY VOICE FOR NATION


Guan Eng slams pro-Umno ‘beasts’ for targetting son in ‘barbaric lies’

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:49 AM PDT

The black swan

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:42 PM PDT

Philosophy Politics Economics

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Philosophy Politics Economics


KLIFD: Another Real Estate Play

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT

The Budget 2012 delivered an enormous set of incentives to "kickstart" the 1MDB flagship Kuala Lumpur International Financial District (KLIFD) project. The project is to be built of a 75 acres piece of government prime land which has been transferred to 1MDB.

The incentives for "KLIFD status" companies announced by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak include:

  • Income tax exemption of 100% for a period of 10 years
  • Stamp duty exemption on loan and service agreements
  • Industrial Building Allowance and Accelerated Capital Allowance
  • Income tax exemption of 70% for a period of 5 years for property developers

The incentives are generous to say the least and replicate the models utilized for earlier mega-projects which were unmitigated disasters such as the Bio-Valley and the E-Village, or the fluttering Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC).

The Government has described the role of KLIFD is to turn Kuala Lumpur into a "new icon for the financial world", "the global financial city of choice" and "bring together world-class names to operate closely in a physical location." Similarly, the Bio-Valley, E-Village and MSC were all sold to Malaysians as transformative projects in their respective sectors and launched with much fanfare.

In the 2001 budget speech, Tun Daim Zainuddin said the 1,200 acres E-Village was to "offer state-of-the-art facilities" to "attract international film producers to Malaysia". The project was launched in the September 2000 in the presence of Jackie Chan. Dr Mahathir had said then that we "will witness a growth of opportunities" and "the transforming of society". Today, the site of E-Village looks like an abandoned ghost town.

The 1,200 acres BioValley project sited at Dengkil on the other hand, was primed as the transformative project in the 2003 Budget to drive Malaysia's "knowledge economy". Despite receiving generous incentives like all the other projects cited, the Bio-Valley was unceremoniously buried two years later. The authoritative Nature scientific journal had labelled the project "the valley of ghosts".

While the MSC had fared better than the rest, it is a far cry from the lofty goals that the project had sought to achieve. The MSC had kicked off with luminaries such as Microsoft's Bill Gates, Oracle's Larry Ellison and Acer's Stan Shih constituting its International Advisory Panel, but their names have since been replaced with lower ranking corporate managers. In fact, the name of the panelists could not even be found on the MSC website today.

The failure of these projects lies in the common factor that these projects were schemed as property development projects and real estate plays, with the Government providing financial incentives for companies to be sited at a particular venue for the purported objective of boosting the industry. There is in reality no practical need for these companies to be sited physically next to one another for the industry to succeed.

We fear that the KLIFD will suffer a similar fate as there is no physical need for financial institutions and related professional services to be sited a stone's throw away from one another. There will be little synergy generated as telecommunications technology, video-conferencing facilities as well as secure and instantaneous electronic transactions obliterates the need for physical proximity. There is little or no added business advantage for example, for the Maybank headquarters to be shifted to the KLIFD compared to its current venue, with the exception of potential tax benefits.

Hence, instead of actually promoting the financial services industry in the country directly, the Government, having already provided the prime land to 1MDB without any open bidding, is further providing unfair crutches for the latter to succeed in the KLIFD real estate play. Such incentives however, given the experience with the MSC, Bio-Valley and E-Village however, may not be sufficient to ensure its success.

The Government must learn from its failures of the past. The decision of global financial institutions to site their offices in Malaysia will not be based on short term benefits as a result of the choice of real estate. It will instead be based on the demand for its services and funds, the sophistication of the market instruments and the openness of the economy.

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