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Free the Hindraf Five: Unfounded allegation of terror links

It is exactly one year since the Hindraf Five have been detained under spurious charges of having links with the Tamil Tigers of Sri Langka. The Barisan Nasional Government has had one whole year to substantiate this allegation and lay to rest their case in this sordid affair. But, to date, no evidence has been produced to convince doubting citizens that the government had not lied about this allegation.

In the absence of any proof, the government’s claim remains merely an allegation. That being the case, there is no justification whatsoever for holding them under the ISA. Their continued detention would be cruel, unjust and unwarranted.

Aliran calls upon the BN government to free the Hindraf Five immediately as atonement for perpetuating a cruel and unjust act. Aliran also calls upon the government to immediately release all the other ISA detainees and close down the Kamunting Detention Centre, which has become a national shame.

Aliran Executive Committee13 December 2008

PROGRAM USAHAWAN RAKYAT MENDAPAT SAMBUTAN LUAR BIASA

Pulau Pinang-13 Disember-Program usahawan rakyat yang di rasmikan oleh Timbalan Ketua Menteri 1 Pulau Pinang mendapat sambutan di luar jangkaan . Program anjuran kerajaan negeri dengan usahasma Action Coach dan UPEN ,Unit Pembanggunan Ekonomi Negeri ini dianjurkan oleh sebuah syaraikat antarabangsa dimana program ini bukan sahaja bertujuan untuk menyatu padukan peniaga kecil tetapi bagi membantu menggabungkan produk dan dipasarkan secara lebih teratur dan produktif.

Unit pembanggunan ekonomi di bawah potfolio Timbalan Ketua Menteri ini juga akan memberi tumpuan selepas program utama ini dimana syarikat Action Coach ini akan membuka pejabat urusan mereka di Pulau Pinang bagi memantau beberapa syarikat yang berdaftar dengan syarikat Action Coach ini.Syarikat ini yang didaftarkan di Amerika Syarikat dengan kerjasama UPEN akan membantu dan meningkatkan lagi penyertaan bumiputera

Untuk 13hb sahaja , penyertaan lebih 500 peserta dan melebihi target iaitu sebanyak 400 peserta. Untuk 14 haribulan pula dijangkakan penyertaan dari peniaga kecil pula di jangka lebih dari 600 peserta .Program bimbingan untuk peniaga kecil menyimpan melabur dan membesarkan perniagaan ini julung-julung kali diadakan bagi meningkatkan penyertaan bumiputera dalam penggabungan membesarkan pasaran dibawah satu bumbung dan dipasarkan dengan lebih berdayasaing.

"Kerajaan Negeri yakin dengan pelancaran Tabung Modal Pusingan dan Penjaja Kecil Pulau Pinang akan memberi peluang rakyat yang menjalankan perniagaan kecil-kecilan untuk bertambah maju," ujarnya ketika merasmikan Seminar Bimbangan Usahawan Rakyat Negeri Pulau Pinang bertempat di Dewan Budaya Univesiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Glugor pagi tadi.
Menurutnya, tabung tersebut akan diuruskan oleh Perbadanan Pembangunan Pulau Pinang (PDC) dengan bantuan Kerajaan Negeri yang bertanggungjawab memperhalusi modus operandinya.

Jawatankuasa MMK Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi Negeri yang dianggotai agensi dan Jabatan Kerajaan sentiasa bekerjasama mengadakan program pembudayaan keusahawan di samping memberi peluang peruntukan, katanya.
"Harapan Kerajaan Negeri selepas ini ialah semua usahawan mesti meneruskan kerjaya ini di samping mendapat khidmat nasihat dari pelbagai agensi," tegas beliau dalam program tersebut.

Menurut En Fadzil , jurulatih yang merancang,memberikan idea ini bahawa peningkatan dan penyertaan amat mengagumkan dan ini memberi inspirasi bahawa jika para peniaga ini , yang rata-ratanya peniaga kecil boleh dan pberupaya membesarkan perniagaan mereka dengan usha menabung dan elabur. Ini yang di tekankan kepada peniaga-peniaga ini bahawa dengan menabung dan melabur ianya akan menjadi satu modal untuk membesarkan perniagaan dengan cara yang betul dan juga bagaimana peniaga kecil ini dapat membesarkan perniagaan mereka dengan bekerja secara bergabung.

Esok program ini akan diteruskan untuk memberi inspirasi lagi kepada para peniaga yang juga inginm engetahui rahsia kejayaan yang di capai oleh Saudara Fadzil yang juga merupakan seorang jutawan yang berjaya walau di usia awal 30an dengan rangkaian berbagai jenis perniagaan dan pelaburan yang bijak.Pengalaman inilah yang dicurahkan oleh beliau kepada peserta yang rata-ratanya peniaga sejati, iaitu peniaga kecil di Pulau Pinang, disamping membantu kerajaan negeri terutamnya bumiputera melangkah kepada ciri-ciri usahawan yang berjaya.

YB Mohd Fairus dalam ucapan perasmiannya yang turut dihadiri oleh YB Raven, YB Ustz Maktar,YB Poh Bon,SU PKR Negeri Pak Mus dan penyokong, menjelaskan bahawa kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang pada tahun ini telah berjaya mendapat pelaburan sebanyak RM 8 Billion ringgit dan usaha membawa syarikat gergasi Samsung dijangka akan membantu rakyat Pulau Pinang mendapat peluang pekerjaan.

Malaysia's PM-to-be says by-election a must win

Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:46pm IST
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's ruling coalition needs to win a by-election in January to re-establish its credibility after it performed poorly in recent polls, the country's prime minister-in-waiting said on Saturday. ...";

By David Chance

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's ruling coalition needs to win a by-election in January to re-establish its credibility after it performed poorly in recent polls, the country's prime minister-in-waiting said on Saturday.

The Barisan Nasional government that has ruled Malaysia for 51 years slumped to its worst election result in March and in an August by-election, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was returned to parliament with a larger than expected majority.

"We have to win because we want to make the victory a starting point for BN (Barisan Nasional) and UMNO's revival from the defeat in Permatang Pauh (Anwar's seat)," Najib Razak, who will become prime minister in March, told a meeting in the rural constituency where the vote will take place on Jan. 17.

On Saturday, Najib, who is finance minister, handed over a 408.6 million ringgit ($114.1 million) cheque for oil royalties to the state on the east coast of Malaysia where the by-election will be held, according to Malaysian news agency Bernama.

Najib is set to take office after the departure of lacklustre Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was brought forward by UMNO, the dominant party in the Barisan Nasional coalition.
The by-election is a key test for Najib, who will lead the government campaign in a constituency that is almost 90 percent Malay, the race traditionally represented by UMNO, compared with 60 percent nationally in this country of 27 million people.

The opposition alliance will put up a candidate from an Islamic party that held the seat in 1999 and hopes to retake the marginal constituency which was won by the government with a majority of just 628 votes in the March general election.

It is taking place against a backdrop of a sharp deterioration in Malaysia's economy with growth set to drop to 3.5 percent next year, according to government forecasts, and to zero according to some private sector forecasts.

Legoland In Malaysia: Yet To Reach Public’s Pockets

With another two theme parks set to join the 200-hectare Legoland, which should be completed by 2012, Johoreans may be able to look forward to some fun and games.

It has been three years since Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi first announced the Iskandar Development Region to boost the economy in south Johor. Some 37 months and 11 days plus RM41 billion in investment pledges later, businesses in the area are still waiting for this boost.

In fact, they are finding themselves in the middle of an economic slump. The Malaysian Insider understands that this evening, yet another mega project in what is now known as Iskandar Malaysia will be announced in the form of an RM800 million Legoland theme park, Asia's first. Abdullah will witness the signing of a joint venture between Iskandar Investment, the investment arm of Iskandar Malaysia, and Merlin Entertainments Group, who represent the interests of Danish toy building blocks manufacturer Lego.

Add to this the RM40.25 billion claimed by Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman already committed, and Johor should be looking forward to coasting through the current economic slump. But numbers on paper do not seem to be translated into real business for small-medium enterprises or the labour force here. South Johor SME association president Teh Kee Sin told The Malaysian Insider that local entrepreneurs are yet to reap any trickle-down effect, as in fact, tangible and physical evidence of investments are rare.

"We do not feel the benefits as developments have been slow," he said. Most of what has been put in place is merely infrastructure, but actual trade and business have not yet mushroomed in Iskandar.

Speaking to The Malaysian Insider, state opposition leader Dr Boo Cheng Hau (DAP-Skudai) claimed that the RM460 million rail link between Tanjung Pelepas Port and Senai airport has not been utilised and new factory lots were only seeing 10 per cent occupancy. Even these infrastructural projects, according to Teh, have been awarded at federal level, leaving local contractors high and dry. Meanwhile, SMEs are forced to do everything they can to control running costs. Keeping inventories under strict control is perhaps simply about good management.

Despite Abdul Ghani quoting statistics from the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority, saying that at least 9,757 new jobs had been generated in Iskandar Malaysia with the investments in the manufacturing sector, SMEs have been forced to reduce wage bills. Teh said that they have freezed hiring, eliminated overtime, cut hours, implemented three or four-day weeks and retrenched — in order of ascending desperation — as order books have been hit by a 20 to 70 per cent reduction in sales.

With today's announcements to come after a high-level progress update meeting between Abdullah, Abdul Ghani and top Iskandar executives, the questions that need to be asked are not about how big the project is becoming but how much of it is being delivered to the ground. With another two theme parks set to join the 200-hectare Legoland, which should be completed by 2012, Johoreans may be able to look forward to some fun and games. However, all play and no work makes Johor a depressed economy.