LAWATAN SEHARI DSAI KE PERMATANG PAUH

OLEH: Amiruddin Ahmad

Pada 25 Oktober baru-baru ini Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh merangkap ketua pembangkang telah mengadakan lawatan kerja ke parlimen Permatang Pauh untuk bertemu berbagai golongan masyarakat dan juga mengadakan kenduri serta menghadiri kenduri penduduk tempatan.

Beliau sempat menghadiri dua buah kenduri di kampong Bukit Indera Muda di rumah saudara Malik dan juga kenduri di rumah saudara Johari Zakaria di kampong Sungai Memambu.

Sementara itu dalam satu program yang lain DSAI juga sudi menderma kepada golongan fakir sebanyak RM100 kepada 108 individu dan juga memberikan sebanyak 30 eklor kambing iaitu 15 ekor kepada parlimen Permatang Pauh dan 15ekor kepada parlimen Bukit Mertajam dan mengadakan kenduri di kampong Juru yang diwakili oleh Dato Zahrain yang juga Pengerusi Perhubungan PKR negeri.

Anwar juga sudi menyerahkan duit bantuan kepada fakir miskin dan hamper bersama TKM1 YB Mohd Pulau Pinang Fairus Khairuddin di Kampung Permatang Rawa dan juga di banggunan Yayasan Aman.

Sementara itu, di banggunan Yayasan Aman pula dalam hari yang sama disebelah petangnya , satu majlis perjumpaan dengan kaum India dimana hamper 60 individu kaum India menerima hamper oleh ADUN Penanti dan juga TKM1 YB Fairus Khairuddin dan perjumpaan bersama Dato Seri Anwar dengan maysrakat kaum India dibawah parlimen Permatang Pauh dan ADUN Penanti. Dalam pertemuan tersebut, masyarakat India melahirkan rasa terima kasih kerana dalam masa 51 tahun inilah mereka di terima sebagai ahli dalam sesebuah masyarakat dan merasa dihargai dimana hamper yang diberikan ini tidak sama nilai dengan penghormatan yang diberikan , demikian jelas saudara Sivamaniam jurucakap kaum India di ADUN Penanti

Sementara itu untuk mengetahui nasib masyarakat kaum India merayakan deepavali dan bertanya khabar dengan mereka ,untuk mengetahui kenapa mereka di pinggirkan , dan dalam pertemuan dengan masyarakat kaum India , melahirkan rasa gembira kerana di terima dan menyatakan MIC langsung tidak mengindahkan mereka dimana hanya datang untuk bertanya khabar menjelang pilihanraya kemudiannya berlalu pergi.Mereka juga menyatakan bahawa dahulunya mereka percayakan MIC dan propaganda mereka dan tidak mahu menerima pembangkang kerana MIC tidak akan memberi bantuan, kini mereka mula sedar.
Wartawan sempat bertemu dengan beberapa responden di luar banggunan Yayasan Aman untuk bertanya khabar sebelum pertemuan dengan Ahli palimen Permatang Pauh .Masyarakat India merupakan 16% pengundi di parlimen Permatang Pauh.

Mageswary 32, tinggal di kampong Kubang Ulu . berkerja sebagai perkerja kilang getah.Menurut Mageswary “Anwar suka tolong orang susah ,beliau tengok orang miskin dan suka tolong” .Ini adalah kali pertama beliau menerima hadiah hari raya dan mempunyai 5 orang anak, sementara 4 lagi masih bersekolah.Beliau rasa gembira kerana mula merasakan diri diterima.”MIC ada datang, tapi tengok sana sini,janji mau kasi bantuan sampai sekarang tarak mari”, demikian jelas Mageswary lagi.








Amarativa A/p Machimuthu 44 , beliau tinggal di kampong Kubang Ulu “MIC tak pernah datang, malah ada janji tapi tak pernah bagi,janji nak bagi bumbung pun tak bagi, selama ini tak pernah siapa pun yang bagi ”demikian jelas Amaathiba lagi dimana beliau kesal dengan sesetngah pemimpin MIC yang tidak datang setelah membuat janji untuk membantu kaum India.





Kalimuthu a/l Jonamthu 85, menjelaskan bahawa inilah pertama kali menerima bantuan dan menjelaskan MIC tidak pernah memberi “walau sikit tapi ini amat seronok,saya sudah lama di sini namun inilah kali pertama dan seronok.MIC tak pernah kasi apa pun”, demikian jelas Encik Kalimuthu lagi yang tinggal di pekan Penanti





Sombhu Ramasamy 58, beliau tidak mahu tinggal di rumah kebajikan.Beliau mangsa kebakaran yang menumpang di merata tempat kerana mengalami kebakaran rumah.Kali ini beliau akan menyambut Deepavali dirumah adik beliau di Kulim.Kebakaran rumah beliau menyebabkan tuan tanah tidak mahu membenarkan lagi beliau membina rumah.Kini beliau menumpang di merata tempat dan mendapat bantuan sebanyak RM300 dari Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat.

BANTU YANG KAYA PINGGIR YANG SUSAH –ANWAR

OLEH:Amiruddin Ahmad



Permatang Pauh-Pada 25 Oktober baru-baru ini , Dato seri Anwar Ibrahim sempat berkunjung ke Permatang Pauh untuk melakukan lawatan kerja sehari bagi memberi bantuan dan menyampaikan sumbangan kepada golongan fakir dan juga memberi bantuan kaum India di Permatang Pauh.

Dalam pertemuan tersebut Anwar sempat berucap di kampong Permatang Rawa dan beramah mesra dengan golongan orang tua-tua dimana beliau menjelaskan bahawa kampong Permatang Rawa yang sering dilanda banjir ini akan di ikhtiarkan semampu mungkin oleh kerajaan negeri walau pun ianya bukan tanggungjawab kerajaan negeri semata-mata tetapi kerajaan Pusat juga harus melakukannya.


Kampong Permatang Rawa seringkali menerima kes kejadian banjir kerana pembanggunan sekeliling dan juga sistem peparitan yang sempit dan mudah-mudahan TKM1 YB Mohd fairus boleh mencari jalan dan sistem peparitan di perbesar atau di perdalamkan walau menyedari ianya tak mudah dilakukan kerana ianya kawasan asal dan factor pembanggunan sekeliling .

“Ianya bukan sahaja melibatkan kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan pusat harus bertangungjawab juga memantau melalui egensi tertentu” demikian jelas Anwar lagi mendengar keluhan penduduk.Semasa Dato Seri Wan Azizah pun telah dilakukan berbagai usaha, namun ianya gagal kerana kawasan tersebut dikelilingi oleh pembanggunan.


Anwar juga menjelaskan bahawa usaha-usaha sebegini nampaknya gagal dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan Pusat kerana dilihat usaha yang begitu cepat untuk membantu syarikat-syarikat besar berbanding dengan usaha membantu golongan rakyat marhaen

“Baru-baru Ini menteri kewangan umum 5 billion untuk menaikan saham dan RM5 billion untuk bantu orang kaya,syarikat-syarikat besar tetapi untuk membantu golongan kecil amat payah. Saya tidak menyatakan kerajaan Barian Nasional tidak membantu tetapi jumah RM5 billion dilihat terlalu besar untuk membantu syarikat-syarikat kaya.nak suntik saham, saya tak kata orang kaya tak turun pendapatan dengan harga barang dan tangungan sekarang. Mana-mana kerajaan kena ikhtiar membantu orang susah. Mudah mudahan akan ada perubahan nanti .” demikian jelas Anwar

Beliau juga menjelaskan tentang sikap pimpinan Barisan Nasional semasa beliau membentangkan belanjawan dimana menteri kewangan sendiri tidak ada, malah sebahagian besar menteri tidak ada dalam dewan untuk mereka mengkaji dan melakukan perubahan jika cadangan kita dilihat baik untuk rakyat dan menjelaskan kenapa perlunya di lakukan beberapa perubahan dalam belanjawan yang dibentangkan oleh perdana menteri dalam belanjawan yang lalu dimana pengubahsuainya perlu dilakukan kerana kenaikan kos sara hidup.


“Dulu masa saya berucap sebagai menteri kewangan, saya dengar bagaiman Ketua Pembangkang Sdr Lim Kit Siang berhujah supaya kita dapat meneliti dan mengambil langkah-langkah yang sepatutnya kita perbaiki,dapat teliti, tetapi , sekarang mereka tidak mahu mendengar , malah sombong dan takut untuk mendengar hujah saya. Sebabnya kalau mereka dengar sudah tentu mereka dapat menyelesaikannya. Misalnya untuk menurunkan harga minyak, saya telah katakan dahulu bahawa kita boleh turunkan harga minyak sebagaimana formula yang saya jelaskan tetapi mereka mempermainkan apa yang saya kata.Jika diturunkan harga minyak sedikit demi sedikit sebagaimana sekarang, macamana nak turunkan harga barang keprluan dengan serta merta. Inilah implikasinya jika kita turunkan sedikit-demi sedikit harga minyak.Saya sebutkan harga minyak kerana ianya penting dan sekarang harga minyak RM70 setong dan harga minyak masih tinggi dan golongan yang memotong getah dan kelapa sawit harga keduanya jatuh”

Beliau juga mengucapkan tahniah kepada pimpinan kerajaan negeri kerana berusaha ikhtiar untuk membantu golongan miskin di Pulau Pinang secara beransur-ansur untuk meghapuskan masaalah miskin tegar dan usaha ini harus disusuli dengan berdoa dan megimarakkan masjid, dan beliau juga mengucapkan terima kasih kepada rakan-rakan yang kaya-kaya untuk sama-sama membantu meringankan beban masyarakat miskin.


“Iktiar dan doa, dan bila ada surau dan masjid kenalah mengimarakkan dan susun semula jawatankuasa masjid dan pertingkatkan kelas pengajian quran dan agama semoga ianya dapat menjadi pengisian jemaah dan haruslah di tingkatkan.walau pun ianya bermula dengan 5 orang” demikan jelas Dato Seri Anwar mengakhiri ucapan ringkas beliau.

PENGANUT KRISTIAN BERDOA UNTUK PEMBEBASAN TAHANAN I.S.A

BUTTERWORTH-Aku diberitahu oleh anil netto bahawa akan diadakan satu upacara berdoa oleh penganut roman katholik di sebuah gereja di sini.Lalu aku singgah untuk mendapatkan gambar dan mendengar ceramah dari seorang paderi dari luar berhubung dengan kes tahanan ISA.
Paderi menjelaskan bahawa adalah tidak adil menahan tahanan tanpa bicara dan ini adalah berkaitan dengan kemanusiaan.Aku juga sempat melihat kaunter ALIRAN menjual buku-buku tetapi agak lengang namun di satu sudut kawan dari ALIRAN sedang sibuk melayan tetamu untuk mendapatkan cerderamata dari GMI.

Aku kira harus ada juga solat-solat hajat yang berterusan dan lebih kerap lagi sebagaimana pernah kita lakukan untuk pembebasan DSAI.Maka kerana itu kita penganut Islam harus tingkatkan solat hajat bagi pembebasan mereka-mereka yang ditahan.

Ex-leader uses blog to needle Malaysian government

KUALA LUMPUR: In a vast office at the top of one of the world's tallest buildings, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sits at a broad, glass-topped desk, scribbling his thoughts on a pad of unlined paper.

For 22 years Mahathir was the most powerful person in this land, and his thoughts were commands as he reshaped the country in his own grand image.
But he has become an irritant and a spoiler five years after stepping down, turning against his handpicked successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and he has fallen victim to the press controls he perfected as prime minister.

It is mainly a system of self-censorship in an atmosphere of pressure and intimidation that produces an obedient press and has seen the closure or banning of many publications.
"Where is the press freedom?" he exclaimed two years ago, apparently surprised to be suddenly ignored. "Broadcast what I have to say! What I say is not even accurately published in the press!"

Earlier this year, like many other inconvenient critics, he joined what seems to be a political wave of the future, creating his own acerbic blog - www.chedet.com - an online journal where he vents in both English and Malay several times a week.
Around the region, bloggers like him are becoming a fifth estate, challenging the government's monopoly on information in Singapore, evading censors in Vietnam and influencing events in places like Thailand, Cambodia and China.

In March, political experts say, Malaysia's bloggers helped tip the balance, contributing to the biggest upset the governing party, the United Malays National Organization, had suffered since independence in 1957. For the first time in decades, it fell below two-thirds of the seats in Parliament, and it lost control of 5 of 13 states.

Two months after that, in May, Mahathir went digital, cutting and thrusting with elan.
"It is time the so-called intellectuals realize they were being duped by the Master of Spin," he wrote on Aug. 21, referring to his bitter enemy, Anwar Ibrahim, who was his deputy prime minister and now leads the opposition.

"The pious Muslim, who is also the bosom pal of Paul Wolfowitz, the neo-con Jew, the killer of Muslims," he said, referring to the former U.S. deputy secretary of defense.
Blogging on Sept. 3, he offered a sort of mission statement.
Many people are with him as he harasses the government, he asserted. "But they are not prepared to say it openly. That was why I started my blog. About six million had visited my blog site and tens of thousands have commented and supported me."

In case anyone doubts this, he posts the comments, by the dozens and hundreds, page after page, day after day. It turns out he has a lot of fans out there.
"Amazingly brilliant!" reads one comment. "I can't stop laughing... you made my day Sir!"
"HAHAHAHA :) ...This is your BEST posting so far, my dear Tun!!" reads another, referring to Mahathir by an honorific.

"Dearest Tun," reads another, "You are sooooo right.. spot on.. bulls eye.."
And just to clear up any possible misunderstanding, another writes: "You, sir, are the most brilliant politician Malaysia has ever been blessed with."
In the upheaval of the March election, several bloggers, following an opposite trajectory from that of Mahathir, used their online popularity to win seats in the national or state parliaments.
The most prominent was Jeff Ooi, 52, a former advertising copywriter who was one of Malaysia's first political bloggers, in 2003, at http://www.jeffooi.com/.

"The government doesn't have a clue how to handle bloggers," he said in an interview. "If I were a dictator I would be despairing. What do you do against this?"
The government's assault on Ooi - "very hostile," he said - included threats of imprisonment without trial, attacks in the government-friendly press and defamation lawsuits, which are popular among leaders in Southeast Asia.

But that only seemed to make him a hero, and when he decided to run for Parliament with the opposition Democratic Action Party, he already had a big head start.
"As a person that has consistently faced threats as a blogger, I had a kind of iconism and imagery that this is someone you can trust, someone the government fears, someone you need to put into Parliament," he said.

But he said it is much harder to blog from the inside. "The trade-off is that I have to write with measured words," he said. "I am no longer my old self. I thought I had to take it to a higher level, and a lot of readers are getting disappointed. It isn't the same blogger that they used to know."

Earlier this year, Ooi said, he attended a public forum with Mahathir, and he claims that he is the one who persuaded the old war horse to get blogging.
"I threw him a challenge," Ooi said. "A blogger shares a few prerequisites. One, he is strongly opinionated. Two, he could be controversial. And, thirdly, he is an agent provocateur on issues.
"I thought Mahathir fulfilled all three."

The result, Ooi said, was "a miracle, he scored about 10 million visitors within months."
Now, a convert to free speech, Mahathir is using his blog to champion the most recent victim of government censorship, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the country's highest-profile blogger, who posts his slash-and-burn commentary on his site, www.malaysia-today.net. The site has been blocked, but readers are redirected to another address, which continues to be updated.
The government has fallen back on the kind of tactics that Ooi said it threatened against him, charging Raja Petra with sedition and locking him up for two years without trial for comments he has posted.

Mahathir, the country's former strongman, sounded almost like Che Guevara when he said in his blog that the arrest showed "a degree of oppressive arrogance worthy of a totalitarian state."
Furthermore, locking people up is futile, he said in an interview in his sky-high office. There is no way the government can arrest all the bloggers, even if it wants to.
At least, he said, "I hope so. Otherwise I'll be in, too."

1. SEMASA PEMERINTAHAN BELIAU BANYAK KORUPSI BERLAKU

2. PIMPINAN LANGSUNG TAK BERANI BERSUARA

3. PUNCA MASALAH DALAM UMNO

Why is Mukriz afraid to debate Khairy? Susan Loone

Power transition is not a change in government

Special rights of Malays will be defended alongside the interests of non-Malays when he takes over power in March, M'sian DPM Najib assures.
Mon, Oct 27, 2008The Star


By Hah Foong Lian


IPOH, Malaysia: The special rights of Malays will be defended alongside the interests of non-Malays when he takes over power in March, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said.


Assuring the people that certain matters would not change such as the social contract, the Federal Constitution and Article 153 on the special rights of Malays, Najib said:
"These we will defend, including the rights of our partners. The non-Malays have their rights and we must protect them too.
"We must never abuse our powers and we do not want others to question what has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution which is the pillar of our nation," he said on Sunday during a Perak Umno Hari Raya gathering here.


The event also saw the attendance of vice-presidents Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, supreme council member Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, MCA secretary-general Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan and other state Barisan Nasional leaders.
Najib said policies could be changed or negotiated but the interest of every race must be looked after.


"The pillar of the nation must be defended at all times and that is the way forward," he added.
Najib pointed out that the power transition in March would also see continuity in beneficial projects initiated by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Among the good projects, he said, were the national mission, Islam Hadhari and the development of corridors.


"Come March, it is not a change of Government but merely a change in leadership and we are still in one family," Najib said.
He noted that he would take care of Abdullah's feelings because he wanted to continue enjoying a cordial relationship with the premier.
Earlier when speaking about the need to re-engineer and re-brand Umno and Barisan, Najib said:


"We cannot change just for the sake of changing but change must be for the better."
Change, he said, should be seen in the aspect of style and substance, adding that they must have humility to prevent being branded as being arrogant.

KITA AKAN TUNJUKKAN KERJA-KERJA YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH PAKATAN RAKYAT

Pulau Pinang- Pihak media WRLR akan membuktikan kerja-kerja yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat di kawasan yang telah diadukan.Sesungguhnya kawasan-kawasan ini diberi keutamaan kerana ianya membuktikan sokongan yang kuat kepada Pakatan Rakyat.Mungkin di kawasan Teluk Air Tawar ada ADUN yang cukup bercakap banyak di Dewan Undangan negeri Pulau Pinang, namun kerja tak menjadi. Adalah tidak adil dikawasan teluk Air Tawar yang mana ADUN nya ialah YB Jahara Hamid(UMNO) yang memegang hampir 3 penggal,tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa.Adalah tidak baik untuk YB yang lain melanggar kawasan sedangkan kawasan tersebut dibawah ADUN yang sama sejak 15 tahun dahulu?perutukkan RM 100,000 untuk setiap ADUn telah diberikan.Jadi pihak tuan dikehendaki untuk membuat aduan terus kepada YB terbabit. Sekian.


P/S : Kepada Inderaputra dari Damansara, Pihak Tuan terus hubungi ADUN Telok Air Tawar YB Jahara Hamid untuk membuat aduan. Projek perumahan di taman Guar Perahu,JUWARA gagal rupanya........kepada pihak yang menghantar dari Damansara harap bersabar.Mungkin pihak tuan dapat berhubung terus dengan YB Jahara Hamid dari UMNO untuk membuat sesuatu, kerana jika dilihat kepada kerja-kerja YB Hamdan dari PAS, sila lawati blog saya dari bulan MEI dan pihak tuan akan dapat melihat bagaimana kesungguhan pihak YB Hamdan,YB Fairus, dan juga DSAI sendiri melakukan tanggungjawab.Saya akan cuba untuk mengambil gambar-gambar kerja-kerja yang dilakukan oleh YB-YB yang terlibat.Harap bersabar.Rasanya tak ada salahnya rakyat adakan sambutan aidilfitri yang ditaja oleh syarikat-syarikat yang ingin berbakti dan masyarakat pula menggunakan wang sendiri yang dikutip secara gotong royong dan meraikan bersama pimpinan........kerja tetap berjalan......

MAJLIS HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI KAMPONG PERMATANG TENGAH

Sambutan Aidilfitri di kampong Permatang Tengah dihadiri oleh pimpinan bahagian.Pak Mus Johari,dan lain-lain.

LAWATAN SEHARI DSAI KE PERMATANG PAUH

PERMATANG PAUH-Lawatan kerja sehari DSAI ke Permatang Pauh berjumpa masyarakat ,hadir kenduri,menyampaikan bantuan kepada fakir dan orang miskin juga memberi hadiah Deepavali.

Maklumat lanjut dapatkan Suara Keadilan minggu hadapan...

VISIT PENANG-ANILNETTO

Penang’s a happening place!

Lots of interesting things happening in Penang in the coming days:
Sunday, 25 October
Noon: Himanshu Bhatt on the meaning of Deepavali in Penang’s dim and distant past
Venue: Upper Penang Road
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2.00-3.30pm: Kee Thuan Chye reads from his latest book “March 8: The day Malaysia woke up”
Venue: Beach Blanket Babylon, Upper Penang Road.
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10.00am-3.00pm: Exhibition on people’s movement pre- and post-Independence
3.00-5.00pm: Forum
Venue: Caring Society Complex
Organisers: Persatuan Persahabatan Abad Ke-21 Malaysia, Persatuan Kawan Karib Pulau Pinang, Persatuan Persahabatan Phoenix Malaysia and Suaram.


Tuesday, 28 October
8.00pm - Special Mass for Justice and Peace in our land, including prayers for the release of all ISA detainees and the repeal of the ISA
Venue: (Catholic) Church of the Nativity, Butterworth (next to Sikh temple), about 1km from ferry terminal.


Saturday, 1 November
2.00-5.00pm: Interfaith dialogue: Women in the Eyes of God
Representatives from the various religions taking part.
Venue: Hotel Seri Malaysia
Organiser: Jamaah Islah Malaysia
Contact Cik Ramlah 016-4222142 to make a reservation; limited places


Saturday, 8 November
2.00-5.00pm - Forum: Wireless@Penang (to address questions relating to the proposed state-wide wi-fi project)
Venue: Komtar Dome
Organisers: Penang state government and MCMC
Meanwhile, a new group calling itself the Penang Wireless Campaign Group, concerned about the health risks of state-wide wi-fi, have set

Hindraf activists arrested for “illegal assembly”

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: Defying Malaysia’s ban on the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), 11 of its activists staged what the authorities described as an “illegal assembly” outside the Prime Minister’s office at Putrajaya on Thursday. They were detained.

While their conduct will be “investigated” in the context of the recent ban, one of them, wife of Hindraf’s self-exiled leader P. Waytha Moorthy, may also be questioned for fielding their six-year-old daughter for political purposes. P. Vwaishnnavi is said to have carried a poster that contained a demand for the release of five Hindraf leaders, who were detained under the Internal Security Act last year. And, the authorities have not listed the child, who remained with her mother, as a detenu for the police probe under the Societies Act, which would apply to the Hindraf as a banned outfit.

Social practice

However, a Hindraf leader has now informed an international human rights organisation that “the baby” and 11 other adults were “arrested for attempting to invite Prime Minister [Abdullah Ahmad Badawi] to their [planned] Deepavali Open House.” A social practice in Muslim-majority and multicultural Malaysia is to organise “open houses” as occasions for people to exchange pleasantries and views, cutting across the ethnic and religious lines.

According to the leader, the child, in her letter, had also sought, “as a Deepavali gift for all Malaysians,” the release of the group’s five leaders and “all others in prison under ISA.”
The five Hindraf leaders are P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganapati Rao (alias Ganabatirau), M. Manoharan, T. Kengadharan, and T. Vasanthakumar. The rights panel was further informed that the request for “the release of all prisoners of conscience” in Malaysia covered the case of a prominent Malay blogger as well.

POLISTERIN YANG BOLEH MENGANCAM NYAWA-KERAJAAN PERLU BERTEGAS

GEORGE TOWN - Kerajaan diminta bertegas mengharamkan penggunaan bekas makanan polistirena kerana ia mendedahkan pengguna kepada masalah kesihatan khususnya risiko kanser.
Selain itu, polistirena yang mengandungi bahan kimia stirena dan benzena boleh menjejaskan alam sekitar kerana ia didakwa sukar terurai, malah mungkin mengambil masa 500 tahun untuk dimusnahkan secara alam semulajadi.
Presiden Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP), S.M. Mohamed Idris berkata, bahan-bahan kimia daripada bekas itu boleh menyerap ke dalam makanan dan kemudian ke dalam tubuh manusia.
Katanya, Agensi Penyelidikan Kanser Antarabangsa (IARC), Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) mengkelaskan stirena sebagai bahan karsinogen kumpulan 2B iaitu agen penyebab kanser kepada manusia.
Ujarnya, stirena juga adalah mutagen yang boleh menyebabkan perubahan genetik yang berpotensi merosakkan sistem pembiakan dan berisiko kanser.
"Pendedahan kepada stirena walaupun sedikit boleh merendahkan bilangan sel darah merah selain kepada wanita boleh mengalami gangguan haid,'' katanya pada sidang akhbar di sini semalam.

11 Hindraf members held outside Malaysian PM's office

Uzbekistan News.NetFriday 24th October, 2008 (IANS)

At least 11 members of Malaysia's banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), including the minor daughter of one of the leaders, have been arrested for gathering outside Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi's office to submit a memorandum.Their gathering Thursday was declared illegal and officials of the prime ministers's office refused to receive the memorandum that sought freedom for five Hindraf leaders serving two-year terms for organising a rally last November.

The Hindraf members wanted M. Manoharan, S. Kengadharfan, Ganabatirau, Vasanth Kumar and P. Uthaya Kumar, held under the stringent Internal Security Act (ISA), released before Hindu festival Deepavali next Monday, The New Straits Times reported Friday.

The group was the first to be arrested since Hindraf,which claims to speak for the country's 2.6 million ethnic Indians, a bulk of them Tamil Hindus, was declared illegal by the authorities last week, The Star noted.Among those arrested were K. Santhi, wife of self-exiled leader P. Waythamoorthy, and their six-year-old daughter Vwaisgnnavi. Police took the girl as she was accompanying her mother.The little girl had on many occasions been put 'on the frontline of Hindraf's activities', the newspaper noted. She had presented a Hari Raya (Eid) card and a gift basket containing flowers and a teddy bear with a Hindraf badge on it to Badawi at the latter's open house reception.

The police did not want the girl to spend the night in jail with the mother and so decided to release them on bail. However, the woman refused to leave the lock-up in a show of solidarity with the other arrested members.Outside the guardhouse of the prime minister's office, the girl was made to carry a poster with the message 'Release Our Leaders'. Her mother is now being investigated for child abuse.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Muhammad Sabtu Osman confirmed the arrests but declined to comment.A crowd of relatives and friends of those detained turned up outside the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. Among them was lawyer and member of parliament Gobind Singh Deo, who is representing those arrested.Hindraf has been in the eye of a political storm since it organised a rally Nov 15 last year to highlight the perceived discrimination of ethnic Indians in jobs and education.A royal decree has said that the five complete their two-year terms. The Hindraf has nevertheless fought their cases in law courts.Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar who pursued the ban on Hindraf has accused it of promoting extremism, stating that the Hindraf considers the majority Malays as 'enemies'.

Malaysia's Anwar says no hurry to oust government

10/23/2008 04:32 PM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim acknowledged Thursday he won't be able to bring down the government any time soon, but said he is in no hurry to take over given the nation's economic problems.Anwar had previously claimed that he would get enough ruling party lawmakers to defect to unseat the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi by Sept. 16.








However, he missed his self-declared deadline. Anwar has asked Abdullah for a face-to-face meeting to discuss voluntary power transfer, but the prime minister has refused.Anwar told reporters he is still aiming for a "peaceful orderly transition" but said his options have diminished. Abdullah also has refused to call a special Parliament session to hold a vote on confidence in his leadership, he said.Anwar said this amounted to the opposition being denied "constitutional legal options" to bring down the government."We have lost two options ... (but) there's 10 to go. ... We are working on it,"

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Anwar said. He has refused to reveal the names of lawmakers purportedly willing to defect, saying they will be subject to coercion if their identities are revealed before the time is right."We are not in a terrible hurry. Particularly in the present economic downturn we need to engage with government leaders to ensure that they take the right measures," he said.Malaysia's stock market has plunged 37 percent this year amid the global financial crisis.





The government also expects its economic growth forecast of 5.4 percent for 2009 to dip, partly because of lower demand for key exports such as palm oil and crude oil. Some analysts predict growth of only 3.4 percent.Anwar's People's Alliance coalition won an unprecedented 82 seats in the 222-member Parliament in March elections, gaining ground as the government's popularity plummeted amid racial disputes, a weak economy and corruption accusations.Anwar refused to set a new deadline to topple the government but said it will be done "with an element of surprise.



"He dismissed suggestions that his goal was becoming tougher to reach after Abdullah recently announced he will hand over power in March to his deputy Najib Razak, who commands much greater loyalty from ruling party bosses.Anwar said Najib's position is shaky amid accusations of abuse of power.





"This is the first time in history where you have a prime minister designate hounded and haunted with serious allegations," Anwar said.The most recent accusations involve the purchase of military helicopters while Najib was defense minister. Najib has denied suggestions that the prices were inflated.Anwar said his opposition alliance, if it takes power, would curb expensive projects and cut operating expenditures, channeling more funds instead to develop education, public transportation and housing. - AP

AMK PERMATANG PAUH ADAKAN RUMAH TERBUKA

PERMATANG PAUH- 22 Oktober ,Satu majlis sambutan Aidilfitri AMK Permatang Pauh telah diadakan semalam.Sambutan dan bantuan kepada fakir di berikan terutamanya kepada yang daif dan memerlukan.Sumbangan turut diberikan kepada kaum India sempena hari Deepavali.

Hadiah dan sumbangan disampaikan oleh para EXCO AMK Permatang Pauh diketuai oleh Sdr Amir Ghazali.