I predict a storm, "said Scotia" different angle / "My dollar was" defeated.

U.S. forces are prepared for the worse storm, and many forecasters look at three different angles to the coast this weekend. U.S. orders up to help victims of the leaders, "Irene," Quick return to normal public transport. All 50 were killed as the storm, "My dollar's" soft power before entering China. And no deaths.

Foreign news agencies reported. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (N-H C) of tropical storm "application tier" as the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday 30 August at 23.00 pm local time, about 10:00 am on Wednesday. Aug 31 by Thailand from the southern end of the Cape Verde Islands, approximately 1425 km with a speed of 95 km / h and was moving west at 35 km / h forecast. Hurricane intensity is also a Level 3 within 24 hours after the U.S. has just experienced her first hurricane "Irene" in the Atlantic Ocean during the monsoon.

However, the anticipated direction of the storm, "said Scotia different" and the date on the east coast of the United States, said Jeff Masters, private weather forecasters. Add Topic. "Weather underground" in a personal blog. Refer to the history of the position of "the holiday" a state of North Carolina, Canada, 16% from 19% to 11%, and the Florida coast at 47%.

While the weather in the north west in the Caribbean of the U.S. oil company, found that "the Theatre" has developed into a tropical storm on the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico over the next 48 hours, 10% said this. Richard Pass Ranch senior hurricane specialist of the N-H C. Here's a reminder at the end of August to early September during the monsoon season, heavy with the face of weather forecasters predict the storm will happen in the year 2554, about the long term 8-10 months. June to November, there will be a storm, average 6-7.

Meanwhile, the president of the United States, Barack Obama, I sent her the Internet in Polish, Campania, Minister of Homeland Security, U.S., and Mr. Tom Zach Wilson, Minister of Agriculture, the United States. To survey the damage to the state of Virginia, North Carolina. The Foo said Craig Gates, U.S. director of disaster prevention. The Burlington area. Vermont. The rescue of the United States. To help thousands of people, including elderly people, children and infants in many cities, roads were cut off due to floods in less than a day. Rainfall measured at 21 cm from the fruit, "Irene," whereas the death toll to 50 dead.

The same day the storm "I was off in the" Fujian Province, southern China, on the morning. However, weakening quickly once ashore. The government reduced the level of violence as depression. And canceled all warnings. As two of the major airport in the city of Xiamen and Fuzhou city was back to normal. Shipping system is expected to gradually provide the same warning, surveillance, officials said heavy rains during the three days.

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Thriller! Outstanding player. The people stuck for over an hour

Foreign news agencies. Reporting system, Surf Rider, the park's bots, Jackson Place, Cherry Beach ใe hands of Lincoln, Churchill, England hold on for over an hour with the players stuck as 22 people, and women receive. severe head injury. And was taken to the hospital first.

By the fire and helped each other on the rope climb. To the people stuck on the player. Which is perpendicular to the ground down. The youngest child is 12 years of muscle pain.

The eyewitness said. The player rolling. Player's gear was broken. Make it stick. Rotation was not possible. And such an event. The owner said the fun part. We need to close the park to check the conditions of their players.

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Sad! Father kills daughter for honor. Libyan soldiers after being raped.

Foreign news agencies reported. Human rights groups said the story of a young woman aged 18, 17 and 15 years was a real honor killings (Honour Killing) or to kill for honor. After they were forces loyal to the point. A. Ammar Modern Libyan leader Gaddafi raped at a school in the district's over. Near miss in the eye during the second month, the military government controlled the city.

The story of his depression was revealed. The organization Physicians for Human Rights. Teams to interview her in the eye area in June of the past. To find evidence of violations of human rights, not long after rebel forces to oust Gaddafi's military success.

In addition, the organization Physicians for Human Rights also claimed that. Find a copy of military orders that can be used as evidence that Gaddafi had ordered the persecution forces loyal to the people starve. The rifle was hidden and do not receive humanitarian aid. The organization Physicians for Human Rights has suggested that NATO. NATO should investigate alleged human rights violations, the reliability of the forces, allies himself with.

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Russian police arrest man cut his brutal killing of cannibalism.

30 Aug 54 foreign news agencies reported. Russian police have arrested a man aged 21 years on Friday. (26 Aug) ago. He later becomes a suspect. And with all parts of human organs. The police found. Mercedes came in Minsk. To the north of Russia.

The investigation of a suspect who has accepted and confessed. He is doing the killing and disposal of human body parts on their own. He claimed that the 32-year-old victim met through the Internet. And invite them to your home. Before using the knife, stabbing him to death. Then he cut the body into pieces and eat his corpse.

The RIA news agency said the motive of the villain desires to taste the taste of human flesh. Do they like to eat human flesh as they begin searching through the victim's homosexual community. Since these people are lonely And do not like to disclose who they are dealing with it.

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Man! Libyan leader Gaddafi raped a female bodyguard.

Foreign news agencies reported that Dr. Sergey News Ham Wah psychologist Libya. The Army is investigating the rape of Libyan behavior indicates that the audit found. There are 5 members of her bodyguards, it was Sonia's Colonel Gaddafi Mo Ammar raped before they were sent to senior officers to rape her as well. They are treated as if it is. "Phone Sex".

The bodyguard said one woman. She was forced to work as a bodyguard of the leader of Libya in exchange for her brother's freedom. After the government had arrested her brother and the false charges that Attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country. She was taken to a health check free of HIV infection. And taken to the residence of the Libyan leader. And he was talking to convince her to have sex with him but she refused. Libya's leader, he raped her.

Dr. Cem Ham said. She questioned the evidence for the prosecution to the International Court. And have documented 300 rape cases since the Civil War. Libya was expected to more than 6,000 women were raped.

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2011 MTV Video Music Awards Winners

From left: Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry (Photo by Getty Images)

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Seks Melayu - Gambar panas dan video 3gp setiap hari

All Minah Rempit Seksi have the same attitudes. No offense. After all they give free fucks to the mat-mat rempit. This is just an assumption because I not involve in this rempit culture. Ironically, All Minah Rempit actually Gadis Melayu Seksi. It’s like a culture to them and I am very pity on how they been brought up by their parents. They are spoiling bred. They should receive good quality of education.

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Video Melayu Boleh

How to make Video Melayu Boleh? That is best question instead searching a steamy video melayu boleh. Making video melayu boleh it’s easy, besides editing from dvd, you can edit and convert pictures into a video clips. Yes, Melayu Boleh!



There are many ways to make a Video Melayu Boleh from a DVD. If you’ve got Windows XP, Movie Maker should already be installed. Look in Programs > Accessories.



Windows Movie Maker 2.1

Windows Movie Maker 2.1 makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes

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Malay girls: karaoke lounges in KL to book them for a fling

wow, she is beautiful with nice dress..... that is a vampish Malay GRO (aka hostess)? Or explore the soft curves of her tender flesh while singing your favourite songs? Maybe drink the sweetest nectar from her velvet cup? Here’re a few karaoke spots that will make the blood of passion swell in you. Just tell the Mamasan what you want and she will bring the erotic lady-of-pleasure for your wet, hungry consumption....

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One man’s traitor is another man’s patriot

There appears to be a debate raging around Mat Sabu. I really don’t know what it is he said. I was not there and neither have I seen the video recording of what he said. Anyway, while we wait for the jury to come back to rule on whether Mat Sabu was out of line or not, let us deliberate on the definition of patriot and traitor.



NO HOLDS BARRED



Raja Petra Kamarudin



There appears to be a debate raging around Mat Sabu. I really don’t know what it is he said. I was not there and neither have I seen the video recording of what he said. Anyway, while we wait for the jury to come back to rule on whether Mat Sabu was out of line or not, let us deliberate on the definition of patriot and traitor

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WIKILEAKS: SARAWAK: OPPOSITION ADRIFT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LACK SERVICES; POLICE REJECT CRITICISM

They said Sarawak's Chief Minister Taib Mahmud ensured the construction contract was awarded to Cahaya Mata, a large holding company that is majority-owned by Taib's family. Upon being awarded the construction contract for RM300 million, Cahaya Mata hired a subcontracting firm to complete the construction for RM220 million; Cahaya Mata (and the Taib family) pocketed the RM80 million ($22 million) difference.



THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

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aclc college tagbilaran scandal, that is the training for girl, hehehehe

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Top Malaysian Singer Linda Rafar - Scandal before Marriage

Malaysian singer LINDA RAFAR Por-nographic before Married. Shocking pics of the superstar doing oral on a man who is obviously not her husband. She not only use her mouth to sing great songs, but she also uses it to suck great dicks too. She is certainly a great artist on the bed, and I am sure her husband had benefitted greatly from her natural skills.



I don’t know the exact time when the pics spread on the internet. I think her smile is beautiful. Bj is simply fantastic.

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Fastest Boob grabber caught on Camera in China

Cameras have caught what may be the world’s fastest boob grabber in the act of high-speed fondling.



The grabber was caught in the act on an automatic camera system in operation in China’s Sichuan province, travelling at 92km/h on an 80km/h stretch of road.

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Giant frog captured in Malaysia

A bloke in Malaysia claims to have captured and eaten a gigantic frog which was as large as a young child.



The man, a Malaysian aborigine, allegedly spotted the gargantuan amphibian at a riverside in the mountainous Gemencheh region of Malaysia. A witness offered to buy the enormous frog, but couldn’t afford the £200 ($326) price tag the aborigine demanded.



The witness returned later that day with more money but discovered that the aboriginal fellow had slaughtered the massive croaker and eaten it! Which may have been a huge mistake as he’s been ill ever since. According to the witness after eating the huge frog the hunter has been laid up sick for days.



Before the frog was eaten the witness managed to take one photo using a mobile phone. He reports that the frog was weighed at 20kg, as much as a small child.

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Malay model, the modern time

In-House studio shoot, modern malaysian girl.

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Suara Rakyat Kunak, Pink Is My New Obsession

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Hot News: Photos Kissing kepising Leylarey Lesesne

ini dia Photos Kissing sampai kepising Leylarey Lesesne

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Probably not much familiar with names Leylarey Lesesne, beautiful artist mixed-blood American, French and Sudanese ini.Maklum, because he still including new artist of Indonesia in 2010. Leylarey becoming known since playing in the movie 18 + as Helen. Some time later this outstanding photos - photos and hot Leylarey intimate kiss with a man who is rumored as his girlfriend. I do not know who is spreading the hot kiss this picture, a clear picture Leylarey Lesesne this kiss could be going a little push up the name and popularity in the entertainment world.



Foto Artis Indonesia Leylarey Lesesne

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Asia: Suhaiza Suhaimi on TV show after “disappearance”

Suhaiza Suhaimi on TV show after “disappearance”



Suhaiza Suhaimi, better known as Memey, is back!!!!



Yes folks. The Malaysian sex bomb now seems to be over the SHAME of being caught for the religious crime of “close proximity” with married actor Norman Hakim, and made a surprise appearance on a TV3 show on Tuesday after 'disappearing' for two months.



Sexy Suhaiza said she felt bad after Norman’s marriage to Abby subsequently crumbled.



But how close did Norman really get to Suhaiza?



Well, your guess is only as good as mine, but if I was in shoes I would have wanted to get very close indeed…





Suhaiza Suhaimi Suhaiza Suhaimi’s favourite pastime is playing with one long stick and two balls in a game called billiards. Let’s just hope she doesn’t change cues too often!!!

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A-G denies Raja Petra’s bribe claims

(The Malaysian Insider) - Attorney-General (A-G) Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail has denied claims by blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin that he was being bribed by former Ho Hup Bhd deputy executive chairman Datuk Vincent Lye in exchange for help in a boardroom tussle.



Raja Petra had alleged on his blog Malaysia-Today on August 23 that Lye had “bribed” Gani and used Ho Hup funds to pay for renovation work at Gani Patail’s second wife’s house in Negeri Sembilan.



(Read more here: http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/42988-now-lets-see-what-the-macc-is-going-to-do)



In his first response to Raja Petra’s claims, Abdul Gani told The Malaysian Insider that he had never accepted any money from the construction company.



“I didn’t take a single cent from Ho Hup. I have a rule; I don’t take money,” he said.



When asked whether he owned a house in Seremban, he replied: “I don’t have a house in Seremban or anywhere in Negri Sembilan.”



“I don’t know what to say … all these things happened in 2009 but the case was from 2010, so it doesn’t make sense,” he added, apparently referring to the charges filed against Low.



Raja Petra had insinuated that the A-G used his influence on behalf of Lye to have his boardroom rival Datuk TC Low charged in court in January this year for non-timely disclosure of his interests in the company.



The blogger had also posted pictures on the website of what appears to be a computer-generated invoice dated July 13 2009 from a company in Petaling Jaya to Ho Hup for installation of lighting fixtures for “AG’s Bungalow at Seremban 2 — Sri Carcosa”; a handwritten invoice dated July 13 to Lye for renovation work for Sri Carcosa in Seremban 2; a cash payment voucher from Ho Hup dated August 12 for work done for “AG Tan Sri Ghani Patail Bangalow at Seremban 2 — Sri Carcosa” worth RM18,000; and a cheque made out to the renovation supplier for RM18,000.

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Malaysia Airlines' short-term outlook bleak despite new alliance with AirAsia

By Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation



Malaysia Airlines (MAS) reported a heavy loss in 2Q2011 (three months to 30-Jun-2011) as soaring costs, led by fuel, weighed on the result. The 2Q2011 loss is MAS’ second-consecutive quarterly loss and the carrier expects to remain in the red for the rest of the year.



MAS reported a net loss of MYR525.8 million (USD177.7 million) in the second quarter, seasonally its weakest. Aggressive capacity deployment, under-performance from its revenue management and sales teams and increasing competition from regional and Gulf-based rivals also hurt the 2Q2011 result. The net result was a slight year-on-year improvement, but the airline’s operating loss swelled to MYR412.5 million (USD139 million) from MYR285.6 million (USD95 million) in the same period last year.



The deteriorating operating performance reflects the sharp increase in operating costs, led chiefly by fuel, which surged 41% in the period, and a weaker cargo performance, which pushed the airline deeply into the red. MAS’ operating margin for the quarter was -12.0%.



Various initiatives will be undertaken to reverse MAS’ woes. Most notably, MAS has announced a tie-up with Malaysian LCC powerhouse AirAsia and its long-haul offshoot AirAsia X, the airline grouping largely responsible for MAS’ struggles over the past decade.



MAS said its board “has identified immediate priorities to focus on in the short-term”, aimed at stemming losses. “Working with the new executive committee…recovery initiatives will be implemented to turn the company’s fortunes around and to start rebuilding cash reserves,” which have fallen sharply in 2011. Immediate initiatives will include, among others, more prudent capacity management, implementing new dynamic pricing to improve yields and revenues and a review of products and brand positioning.



Revenue up, but costs neutralise gains

MAS recorded an 8.5% increase in top-line revenue to MYR3,429 million (USD1.17 billion). Revenue gains were, however, neutralised by soaring costs, which increased 11.4% in the period to MYR3,897 million (USD1.31 billion), which pushed the airline deeply into the red for the quarter.



MAS revenue and operating expenses (MYR million) and growth (% change): 2Q2007 to 2Q2011



Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation and MAS

MAS net profit (MYR million): 2Q2007-2Q2011



Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation and MAS

Passenger revenue increased 9.1% to MYR2,086 million (USD698 million) and revenue from fuel and administration surcharges rose 45.2% to MYR495 million (USD166 million).



Cargo revenue however was much weaker in the period, reflecting the lower year-on-year trade volumes seen in the region, which was skewed by the replenishing of global restocking of inventories in early 1H2010 following the global financial crisis. Total cargo revenue fell 16%, led by a 24% fall in belly and freighter revenue. The cargo segment’s fuel surcharge, which increased 6.6% to MYR145 million (USD48.5 million), helped mitigate the sharp fall in cargo revenue.



But spiralling costs significantly outweighed revenue growth. Operating costs increased 11.5% to MYR3,987 million (USD1.31 billion). Fuel, unsurprisingly, led the rise in costs. Fuel costs surged 41% in 2Q to MYR1,550 million (USD519 million), to account for 40% of total operating costs, up from 30% in 2Q2010. The sharp fuel price rise masks what would otherwise have been an impressive cost performance in 2Q2011, with non-fuel operating costs down 2%, reflecting MAS’ aggressive and consistent cost control measures.



ASKs increased 10% and RPKs increased 12%, pushing average loads up 1.5ppts to 75.5%. The stronger load factors and other various yield-supportive measures, such as fare increases and fuel surcharges, saw yields increase 1% to 24.2 sen (USD8.16 cents), with RASK up 3% to 18.2 sen (USD6.14 cents).



Strategic shake-up aimed at ending MAS’ woes

Since the end of 2Q2011, a major strategic development has taken place as MAS forged earlier this month a tie-up with rival AirAsia, which has moved aggressively into MAS’ short-haul, regional, and more recently, its long-haul markets. Khazanah, a national investment vehicle and majority shareholder in MAS, purchased a 10% stake in AirAsia from Tune Air, as part of a cross-equity deal. Khazanah will also purchase a 10% stake in AirAsia X. Tune Air, the largest shareholder in AirAsia and the investment vehicle of CEO Tony Fernandes, acquired a 20% stake in MAS from Khazanah.



See related report: Turning the industry on its head: AirAsia joins Malaysia Airlines



A Joint Collaboration Committee (JCC) was formed on 09-Aug-2011, which will look into key areas for collaboration to realise synergies and cost efforts, MAS says. MAS and AirAsia aim to cooperate in areas such as engineering and ground support, aircraft purchasing, catering and training and cargo services.



The Malaysian government said the agreement would end cut-throat competition between the airline groups, allowing them to grow together and more profitably than would otherwise be the case. Mr Fernandes said the deal allows his airline to focus on growing the business, “as opposed to spending a lot of time on politics and fighting unnecessary battles”. The collaboration should also boost yields for both airlines.



Better market segmentation should also be achieved under the deal, with one partner targeting the low-cost, leisure market and the other, the higher-yielding and premium market. Firefly, MAS’ LCC subsidiary, also recorded heavy losses in 1H2011 and will be re-structured to focus on the short-haul premium travel space using turboprop equipment. MAS said a longer-term solution for Firefly would be developed by the management team to put the airline on course for sustained profitability.



While Firefly will retain its ATR-72s, the carrier's B737 fleet is expected to be transferred to the new regional, full-service airline, Sapphire. But it remains unclear how MAS, which also has a regional carrier unit in east Malaysia with ATR-72 operator MASwings, will juggle so many brands. Of particular interest will be how the Sapphire unit differs from MAS' existing regional narrowbody services.



MAS, in releasing its 2Q2011 earnings, also said its multi-year re-fleeting programme will be accelerated. As of mid-Aug-2011, the airline has taken delivery this year of five new B737-800s and five new A330-300s. Over the next four months, MAS will take delivery of six more aircraft – two B737-800s, two A330-200Fs and two ATR-72s. Excluding these aircraft, MAS’ order book comprises 38 B737-800s, ten A330s, six A380s and two A330-200Fs. The airline said its fleet delivery schedule would be accelerated in the next few years, adding that all required financing activities for 2012 have been completed.



Weak result matched by gloomy outlook

MAS expects a weak second-half due to elevated fuel prices and sovereign debt fears in key markets which will continue to weigh on consumer confidence and economic growth. The airline’s forward bookings indicate challenges in the European, US and Japanese markets, with “normal” trends for other regions. The third quarter will be soft owing to the month of Ramadan, when travel is seasonally slow.



In response to the challenging outlook, MAS will moderate its capacity growth in 2H2011. The airline will also review its route network and adjust capacity accordingly. MAS will retire two B747-200Fs, one B747-400 and three B737-400s by Oct-2011.



The airline will also have a heavier focus on yield management, with new revenue systems to be introduced in 2H2011. MAS aims to enhance its yield performance through front-end business class initiatives, implementation of fuel surcharges and step up its yield/revenue management.



A loss in 2H2011 is still expected, though MAS said it would be less severe than 1H2011, due to these initiatives.



MAS’ most significant turn in fortunes is likely to come from its tie-up with AirAsia, a deal that effectively neutralises a major competitor and a leading cause of losses in recent years. Under the agreement, MAS also gains two successful and experienced aviation executives on its board, in Tony Fernandes and AirAsia deputy CEO Kamarudin Meranun. This expertise at senior management level should help MAS overhaul its network, alliance and fleet strategies and navigate the flag carrier through some more desperate times.

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‘Sabah getting a raw deal from Petronas’

By Queville To, FMT



KOTA KINABALU: Petronas,which gets a major portion of their wealth from Sabah, was taken to task for spending on luxury projects such as the Sepang F1 racing circuit and a ’5-star’ hospital for the rich .



PKR Sabah secretary Dr Roland Chia said Petronas gets a major portion of its wealth from Sabah,but it is spending money millions on lavish peojects in the Peninsula while Sabah is right at the bottom in the country’s poverty index.



Chia said Petronas had neglected its corporate social responsibility (CSR) to Sabah and has instead indulged in unnecessary projects.



He said Petronas should be using its billions of ringgit following the oil price hike for more meaningful causes, rather than sponsoring sports cars to participate in the F1 Circuit, or continue to finance the accumulated losses incurred by the Prince Court Medical Centre (PCMC) in Kuala Lumpur.



Sabah, the largest gas producer and the fourth largest crude oil producer in the country, has been short – changed and many feel Petronas should do more for the state.



“I urge Petronas to channel their CSR funds for more meaningful causes rather than building a half-a-billion ringgit elite hospital in Kuala Lumpur and continuing to finance the Prince Court Medical Centre.



“The money can be used by sponsoring community buses for rural school children who needed to walk for 10-20 km to reach their schools in Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.



Critics have complained that Petronas spent RM544 million on PCMC and this contrasts with the RM47 million the company spent over the last 36 years from 1975 to 2011 on its Education Sponsorship Programme (PESP) in Sabah, which works out to RM1.3 million a year.



“This is utterly ridiculous. Sabahans are living in poverty … their overty index is among the highest in the country and Petronas under the BN government has got their priorities absolutely wrong.”



On losses incurred by PCMC, Chia noted that in its most recent annual financial report ended April 2010, the hospital, wholly owned by Petronas, suffered a net loss of RM451 million on the back of a RM82 million revenue.



According to records, the luxury healthcare facility had liabilities and current liabilities of RM749.4 million while its reserves were RM178.3 million.



The hospital which was launched in 2007, made a loss of RM203 million on revenue of RM24 million in 2009 to put its accumulated losses over the two years at RM654 million.

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Pakatan confident of ‘mission impossible’

By B Nantha Kumar, FMT



PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat is gearing to launch a powerful offensive in Malacca, which is considered a Barisan Nasional stronghold, in the next general election.



Although political pundits predict that BN would retain power, PKR and PAS were aiming to win more seats in the state assembly.



Sources revealed that the two opposition parties alongside DAP would bank on “Umno’s arrogance” in running the state to pull in the votes.



In the 2008 general election, BN won 23 seats while the opposition won five – all by DAP.



DAP contested eight but won the Bachang, Ayer Keroh, Kesidang, Kota Laksamana and Bandar Hilir state seats. PAS contested 13 seats while PKR fielded seven candidates.



Time time around, a Malacca DAP leader said Pakatan was confident of capturing at least 14 of the 28 state seats up for grabs.



While political analysts dismissed this as “mission impossible”, the opposition believes that with the right campaign strategy, it could turn the tide against BN.



In the next general election, DAP plans to increase its tally to six while PAS and PKR were aiming to seize four seats each.



“DAP is confident of retaining five seats. They are also eyeing the Duyong seat, it is the only state seat they lost in the Kota Melaka parliamentary constituency in the last general election,” a party insider told FMT.



The Duyong seat was won by BN candidate Gan Tian Loo with a slim 806 vote majority defeating DAP’s Damian Yeo Shen Li.



Extra seat for PKR



However, there were several issues which needed to be ironed out before DAP could contest the seat.



Speculation was rife that PKR wanted the seat as part of a swap plan. DAP leaders on the other hand were adamant about contesting in Duyong.

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ACCIM claims MRT abused as front for land grab

By Yow Hong Chieh, The Malaysian Insider



KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — The country’s largest Chinese business association has accused the regulator and the owner of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) of abusing the Land Acquisition Act to acquire a prime land bank for property development by “favoured parties”.



In a no-holds barred letter sighted by The Malaysian Insider, the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Malaysia (ACCCIM) told the transport minister that the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) and Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (Prasarana) should stop the abuse and focus on developing an efficient public transport system instead.



“Since SPAD/Prasarana announced the ‘rail plus property’ model to develop the MRT, the private sector was already apprehensive that they will abuse the Land Acquisition Act to compulsorily acquire large tracts of land under the guise of MRT station needs with the true underlying purpose of parcelling out to favoured parties to develop in unfair competition with the private sector.



“This abuse must be stopped. The private sector does not have any objections if SPAD/Prasarana develops properties around the MRT stations on state land, e.g. RRI land in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia Financial Centre in Sungai Besi, Cochrane Road, etc,” ACCCIM president Tan Sri William Cheng said in a letter to Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha dated this August 22.



The multi-billion project is 51km-long, including 9.5 km of underground tunnels, and stretches from Sungai Buloh to Kajang. Putrajaya has also reserved 43 per cent of the works bill, or RM8 billion in value, for Bumiputera contractors in the country’s most expensive infrastructure project.



Property owners protest against the proposed acquisition of land in Chinatown for the MRT project, in Kuala Lumpur August 9, 2011. — Picture by Jack Ooi

In his letter, Cheng said the private sector was in effect subsidising the MRT, citing the “incredulous” proposal mooted by SPAD and Prasarana to acquire prime land in Bandar Utama after one of ACCCIM’s members, Bandar Utama Development, refused to foot the bill for the proposed station there without compensation.



“The MRT station appears to [have been] surreptitiously moved away from the operating 1 Utama Integrated Transportation Hub and the developer was given the choice to have the station reverted back to its original ideal position if the developer acquiesced to build and surrender the station plus 500 Park & Ride [parking lots], forego any land acquisition compensation and to also build a commercial building.



“Arising from the developer declining to acquiesce to these onerous and unfair demands, an acquisition of five acres of prime Bandar Utama commercial land worth at least RM150 million has been proposed under the guise of building car parks for Park & Ride facilities, which is incredulous,” he said, adding that such tactics could not be condoned.

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Muslim Women Christian Apostasy Sign Dibogel and was beaten by the Public!

news sources from christianpost



New Delhi: About 50 Muslims rampage in a church requires a woman, Aunt Selina to repent and get all into Islam. They mengugut to burn the church if waniat was reluctant to embrace repentance.



Before that Aunt Selina has dibogelkan by 2 Muslim women who came with a bunch of people crowded into his house to see the sign he had become Christian. They believe an apostate Muslim who became Christian there would be marks on his body.



India is not an Islamic country but its people will soon wake up if there is a Muslim apostate. Unlike for our country is now charged as an Islamic country but if penguatkuasa religion that exists allotment laws prevent apostasy in the church makes a boisterous one country. That's new for the examination and not rush rude or uncivilized.



We just take the issue of apostasy as a capital to seek the kingdom or who is wrong samada dissidents while this issue is not a problem samada dissidents or kingdom is at fault. He is the whole issue of Muslims in our country who need to find a settlement, and fill all the weaknesses that exist. We do not know just pointing fingers to each other when issues relating to the enactment of this apostate!

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"Drag Queen" in Britain's Youngest

Redvers Stokes



Bored? DCM have strange stories of human behavior.



Boy 12 years in Britain has a strange hobby. He loves to play as a "drag queen" or queen bapok. More frightening to the child of the title of Carnival Queen Bapok. Hobbies certainly frightening many parents.



But parents Redvers Stoke, Matthew and Georgie thought otherwise, though a bit worried at first. For those Redvers behavior is a strange hobby. Both insist that a boy Redvers true and not berperwatakan as displaying the current action as the queen bapok.



How Redvers Bapok the title of Carnival Queen? It all started when he entered a bapok prestigious pageant in the city. In the competition, he beat three men was three times that of age. After the "success" is, Redvers now uses the name Naughty Nora when making presentations to council and programs.



Redvers Stokes along with his father and mother, Matthew and Georgie.

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MENSTRUAL BLOOD Maid Enter the COOKING

Stories that can make you termuntah. Stories from Temasek.

A woman embodies a FB page called "Dangerous Maid" to give warnings to people crowded bahawa the salary is not always the prey flagellation, even employers are also sometimes "tortured" the salary, AsiaOne reports.



Creators of those pages, Hylda Low, who embodies the page on Tuesday saying "I mahu give warnings to people crowded domestic bahawa this (picture above) is very dangerous. We must not let these evil people use black magic to others, "Low wrote.



The 20-year-old student accused her maid, who came from West Java, has put her menstrual blood into the soup to be served to his family. Maid was also charged with secretly put menstrual blood in the tea bag.



According to Low, the family gets to know gross indecency and was beginning Ogos housekeepers and maids then it was three times that heinous acts.



Low's brother, who declined to name published, said her family bahawa hired a maid to keep her grandmother. The maid of the house was moved from home to work for the brother-in-law and Low families for five months before his actions exposed.



Everything is uncovered when his father found a piece of wet cotton Low cut from a pad the woman hidden in the kitchen when she was cleaning the floor in the region.

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Sepuluh Artis Russia Yang Memiliki Buah Dadah Besar,, Dan Mengancam.

English Russia » Byelorusssia’s Top 10 Most Attractive Anchorwomen And Singers



Suara Pakatan Rakyat Sabah

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Interview Candidates Garuda Indonesia Bugil Stewardess Under!

Nemoto: Garuda Indonesia Candidates Interview Nude Stewardess In Case!



Voice of the People Kunak

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RBA briefed on bribery, deputy governor admits

By Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie, The Age



Federal police last month charged NPA and sister firm Securency with Australia's first foreign bribery offences, alleging that millions of dollars paid to the companies' agents in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia were used to bribe officials. Eight former NPA and Securency senior executives have also been charged.



THE Reserve Bank of Australia board was briefed twice in 2007 on information implicating subsidiary Note Printing Australia in overseas bribery, deputy governor Ric Battellino (pictured) admitted yesterday.



Mr Battellino's admission came as he and RBA governor Glenn Stevens faced questions from the House of Representatives' economics committee on the bribery scandal involving the bank's currency printing firms NPA and Securency.



At the committee's meeting in February, Mr Stevens said it was unlikely any RBA officials knew of bribery allegations involving its banknote businesses prior to The Age revealing corruption concerns about Securency in May 2009.



Under questioning from Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer and Greens MP Adam Bandt, Mr Battellino confirmed the details of a report by The Age this month, which revealed the board of NPA and senior RBA officials were, in May 2007, presented with strong evidence implicating the company and two of its agents in the bribery of officials in Malaysia and Nepal in return for contracts.



The 2007 information included an admission from an NPA agent that he had paid bribes and requests from another agent to be paid excessive commissions into a third-party bank account.



Mr Battellino said the information presented to the NPA board raised issues ''about bad business practices in relation to agents and, as a result of that, they took some very hard decisions''.



But instead of referring the bribery evidence to the Australian Federal Police for investigation, the RBA and the NPA board decided to handle the matter internally by sacking the agents, calling in the Reserve Bank's audit team and later contracting law firm Freehills to conduct an inquiry.



Mr Battellino said the RBA board was briefed on the internal inquiries into the NPA bribery matters in July and August 2007. The RBA board was told Freehills had been unable to find any breach of Australian laws, he said.



Asked by Ms O'Dwyer why neither the NPA board nor the RBA called the police in 2007, Mr Battellino said: ''There was no basis to. This was an investigation that was started by the NPA board as part of an ongoing control around the way the business was being run. They pursued that to its logical conclusion. You have to accept it is a very serious matter for any organisation to call in police to have staff investigated and my guess is that most organisations would not do that.''



Freehills did not have the AFP's powers to formally question people, issue search warrants to seize evidence or seek co-operation from overseas police. The RBA has twice refused freedom-of-information requests from The Age for the Freehills report.



Federal police last month charged NPA and sister firm Securency with Australia's first foreign bribery offences, alleging that millions of dollars paid to the companies' agents in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia were used to bribe officials. Eight former NPA and Securency senior executives have also been charged.



Mr Battellino confirmed to the committee yesterday that Abdul Kayum, the Malaysian agent specifically referred to in the 2007 bribery information, had also last month been charged with corruption offences by Malaysian authorities investigating NPA's 2004 central bank contract. A former assistant governor of Malaysia's central bank was also charged with accepting a bribe from NPA.



The alleged kickbacks paid by NPA's Nepal agent, Himalaya Pande, to secure a 2002 central bank contract are still being investigated by the AFP and by Nepal's anti-corruption agency.



The NPA board in 2007 was chaired by former RBA deputy governor and former Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chief Graeme Thompson.

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Exposure! Girl Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) Sexy!

Many are not aware of this issue .. And everyone thought that Raja Petra or RPK is holistic person. But see for yourself this son .. This Islamkah .???. DADA REACHES MORE FRUIT see !!!!! What to so if you want to be the very help WHI is no need to change the citizenship tu use IC Malaysia .. Hang Wear a colonial British IC tu!

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Tammy NYP Scandal - How it all started

The Tammy sex video scandal was an incident in Singapore involving a sex video first circulated in mid-January 2006 that turned into an Internet phenomenon. The incident began when a student from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), known only as Tammy, apparently had her mobile phone stolen, and a 10-minute video of her having sex (which included intercourse as well as oral sex) with her boyfriend was uploaded on the internet.

The video, which was stored in the girl's mobile phone, was initially spread via instant messaging, email and blogs, but eventually made it to the front pages of national newspapers. Shortly after, the video gained international notoriety as many people curiously began searching for it online under the keyword Tammy Nyp, causing the scandal to make it to the first five places in Technorati's top search terms for almost two weeks.

The video was reportedly sold on DVDs in Penang, Malaysia. A domain on the scandal's top search term was also squatted, and other merchandise such as T-shirts was sold online.

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Sister Tammy NYP Camwhoring

Famous Singapore sex scandal featured Singapore teen Tammy NYP still fresh in memory. Now her younger sister followed her step and camwhoring. Here are some pictures that original from Gutter Uncensored

Tammy is about 20 year old now so her sister seem to be around 18 0r 19 and following her big sister's foot steps.

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WikiLeaks Releases Tens of Thousands More Classified Cables

(Malaysian Digest) - WASHINGTON: The WikiLeaks organization said on Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified, reported Reuters.



"We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to be controlled by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' controversial Australian-born founder and chief.



According to the report, the cables which the website said it is dumping onto the public record appear to be from a cache of more than 250,000 State Department reports leaked to the group. WikiLeaks began releasing the cables in smaller batches late last year, but until now had made them public in piecemeal fashion.



Several news organizations around the world, including Reuters, have had complete sets of the cables for months. But for the most part, media outlets have only cited or published cables when publishing specific news or investigative stories based on them.



By late afternoon on Thursday, the WikiLeaks website said it had published 97,115 of the 251,287 cables it possesses. It did not specify its motives for releasing such a large amount of material at once.



A person in contact with Assange's inner circle told Reuters the rationale behind the mass release of documents was dismay among WikiLeaks activists that media organizations had lost interest in publishing stories based on the material.



The source described Assange and his associates as "frustrated" at the lack of media interest.



The document release began hours after WikiLeaks revealed on Twitter that Dynadot, a California internet registrar which had hosted WikiLeaks, had received an order, generated by federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, requiring it to produce "information on Julian Assange."



WikiLeaks said Dynadot had complied with the order.



According to a copy of the document published by WikiLeaks, US investigators want any "customer or subscriber account information" held by Dynadot since November 1 that relates to Assange, WikiLeaks or the domain name wikileaks.org.



Dynadot and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment.



It is unclear when or how WikiLeaks acquired a copy of the government order to Dynadot, which was dated January 4, 2011. A US official indicated that the document, which was sealed by court order, had not been officially unsealed.



US officials have indicated that prosecutors and a grand jury in Alexandria, have a long-running investigation into WikiLeaks, Assange and others associated with the website.



A few weeks earlier, the same prosecutors sent a similar request to Twitter seeking records of accounts held by Assange, WikiLeaks, and others. They include Bradley Manning, a US Army private being detained for alleged unauthorized disclosures of classified information which was believed to have gone to WikiLeaks.



Last year WikiLeaks and Assange were celebrated after their release of State Department cables, tens of thousands of other secret US files, and a classified video of a contested American military operation in Iraq.



Since then public interest in WikiLeaks has waned. It may have suffered from publicity related to Assange's flight to Britain after sexual misconduct charges were filed against him in Sweden and a subsequent protracted extradition fight. Assange has also publicly fueded with former collaborators.



A person close to Assange said a British appeals court is due to rule early next month on his appeal against Sweden's extradition request. The source was unaware of any link between the latest document dump and the anticipated court decision.

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Isn’t the Transport Minister from MCA?

Kong is keeping mum because his useless ministerial position is more important than the Chinese community. If he objects, he will be removed by Umno, just like what happened to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat in the multi-billion-ringgit Port Klang Free Zone (PKF) financial scandal.



By Lee Kee

Who is MCA trying to kid in the controversial acquisition of Petaling “Chinatown” Street land for the construction of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT)?



The sex-scandal-tainted president Dr Chua Soi Lek had on Wednesday (Aug 24, 2011) so proudly announced and promised that the 31 landowners on Kuala Lumpur’s Jalan Sultan would be able to hold on to their property — after the government agreed to reinforce their buildings — and return upon completion of the tunnelling beneath their shops.



In less than 24 hours, Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) chairman Syed Hamid Albar said the compulsory acquisition of the Jalan Sultan lots — where the KVMRT would run underground — was necessary because under land law, landowners also owned the land that lies below ground.



“We have to do compulsory acquisition of the land. It means that subsequently, they have to alienate the land above,” Syed Hamid told reporters after a memorandum of understanding signing with Puspakom Sdn Bhd on Thursday.



Syed Hamid added that although they were currently working on a solution to allow the traders to return to Chinatown “there is no guarantee that it would eventually be returned to the owners”.



This again, as in the past, shows what MCA leaders say are meaningless and just a “damage control exercise” whenever controversial issues afflicting the Chinese community arise.



In particular, can anyone really trust Dr Chua the wife cheater to represent us?



In dealing with such issues since Merdeka, the MCA continues to dish out crap, never sticking its neck out for the Chinese community.



The biggest joke in this Chinatown issue is this: “Why is the Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha keeping mum?” Isn’t he from MCA? Is the SPAD chairman more powerful than Kong?



Of course the Umno SPAD chairman is more powerful.



Kong is keeping mum because his useless ministerial position (Kong is making it useless with his inaction) is more important than the Chinese community.



If he objects, he will be removed by Umno, just like what happened to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat who foolishly knocked his head on the brickwall in the multi-billion-ringgit Port Klang Free Zone (PKF) financial scandal.



Kong, after taking office, displayed his 101% loyalty to the powers that be by immediately sweeping the PKFZ probe under the carpet, thus comnsolidating his ministerial position.



Under such circumstances, do you really expect the dumbbell Kong or the MCA to defend the interests of the Chinese community or care a damn for a Chinese heritage zone?



It is really appalling to note that, of late, the non-Umno ministers have been reduced to just puppets, toothless leaders who are completely subservient to Umno and the powers that be.



Non-Umno ministers are just puppets and powerless to Umno-formed and Umno-linked commissions, committees, boards, etc.



So Malaysians, isn’t it crystal clear that it does not really make any difference whether there are MCA, Gerakan or MIC ministers after the next general election?



As for the Malays, only the cronies of Umno Malays will continue to prosper while the majority of Malays continue to struggle in poverty.

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Lynas: an injustice most taxing

The 12-year tax exemption given to Lynas may prove to be the biggest blunder ever. Lynas is projected to make about AUD 6.2 billion in pre-tax profit in 2012 and 2013 and in exchange, we allow them to contaminate our land for free.



By Lee Wee Tak and Soo Jin Hou



Malaysians are no strangers to skewed agreements. From IPP subsidies to guaranteed profits for highway concessionaires, the public has on numerous times endured the consequences of sheer governmental incompetence. Yet, the 12-year tax exemption given to Lynas may prove to be the biggest blunder ever. Lynas is projected to make about AUD 6.2 billion in pre-tax profit in 2012 and 2013 and in exchange, we allow them to contaminate our land for free.



The graph below shows the spectacular rise in rare earth price since Q3 2010. While gold’s bull run has been getting plenty of attention of late, the real star is rare earth, which has taken off to astronomical heights. For Lynas, the price of the rare earths from Mount Weld may increase 15.7 times from JP Morgan’s estimate by the time the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) begins production in 2012.





JP Morgan published their stock analysis on 24 June 2010, just prior to the price break out. They have predicted a ridiculously conservative average price of USD 17.69/kg in 2012. At that price, they have expected Lynas to be breaking even in making AUD 4.8 million in net tax profit in 2012. The price has since shot up to USD 201.35/kg on 22 Aug 2011. Based on linear regression calculated from 3Q10 to 22 August 2011, and extrapolated to 1 January 2012, the price may even surge up to USD278.14.



The following table shows our revised estimates based on JP Morgan’s research. We predict Lynas will make AUD 2.2 billion in 2012 and AUD 4.1 billion in 2013 before tax based on the above linear regression estimation (if the 22 August price of USD 201.35/kg is used, 2012 and 2013 profits would be AUD1.5 billion and AUD 2.9 billion respectively).



No matter what the price would be, Lynas will be able to repay their entire setup cost of AUD 807 million and still be able to make super normal windfall profit within the first year. The profit is expected to double up in 2013 when production from Phase 2 commences.







Certain important assumptions are made in this deduction, and they are:



a) The revenue is directly proportional to the increase in rare earth price.



b) Rare earth prices are able to sustain at an average of USD 278.14.13/kg. This is justified by assuming that the downside risk of new supply sources is balanced by the upside risk of China's continual pull back in production.



c) Production of Phase 2, which will double LAMP's capacity to commence production by 2013. Construction of Phase 2 is scheduled for completion by Q4 2012.



d) In 2012 and 2013, the AUD/USD rates are 0.95 (rate at 25/8/2011) and 0.9 respectively.



e) Exchange rate has impact on revenue (since rare earths are priced in USD) and operating cost (25% of total operating cost to run the Mount Weld concentration plant is denominated in AUD).



JP Morgan has estimated that the internal transfer price of the semi-refined ores from the Mount Weld concentration plant to its Malaysian subsidiary to be approximately 30% of the finished product price. Consequently, from the AUD 6.2 billion pre-tax profit for 2012-2013, only AUD 1.9 billion will be subjected to Australian tax.

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Rise of strict Islam exposes tensions in Malaysia

Analysts say this emphasis on Islamic practice is superficial. They blame it on the competition for Malay-Muslim voters between the ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), both of which are trying to position themselves as defenders of Islam.



By Jennifer Pak, BBC News



Muslim women without headscarves are a common sight on the streets of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.



But engaging them in a discussion about the hijab is difficult.



Norhayati Kaprawi is a Malaysian activist whose recent documentary Aku Siapa (Who Am I) deals with the issue of how women in Malaysia should dress. She found some women unwilling to show their faces in her film - not on religious grounds, but becasue they feared reprisals.



This is a damning reflection on Malaysia's Muslim society, says Ms Norhayati.



"It's full of fear. If you don't follow the mainstream you will be lynched."



According to the activist, the pressure to wear the hijab grew after the Iranian revolution in 1979, and it is now the most visible sign of Malaysia's rising Islamic fundmentalism.



Muslims account for over half the population of 28 million people and are mainly ethnic Malays. Malaysia often prides itself on being a moderate Muslim nation, which allows other religions freedom of worship.



And while there are no laws forcing women to wear the hijab, Ms Norhayati says many Muslims feel compelled.

Crime and punishment



Increasingly, there is a greater emphasis on Islamic codes of conduct.



For the first time last year, Malaysian authorities caned women under Sharia law. The three women sentenced were found guilty of having sex outside of marriage.



And a part-time Muslim model was sentenced to the same punishment in 2009 for drinking beer in public. Islamic authorities eventually reduced Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno's sentence to community service last year after the story made international headlines.



Analysts say this emphasis on Islamic practice is superficial. They blame it on the competition for Malay-Muslim voters between the ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), both of which are trying to position themselves as defenders of Islam.



The youth wing of the PAS has often lobbied the government to ban Western pop artists from perfoming in Malaysia, deeming them to be un-Islamic.



Since 2008, when elections delivered a record number of seats to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition, of which the PAS is a member, the party has tried to moderate its stance.



Although the PAS has not abandoned the goal of making Malaysia into an Islamic state, PAS Member of Parliament Khalid Samad says non-Muslims have nothing to fear.



"We do not think Islam is all about cutting off hands and stoning adulterers," he says.



"That's a very minute aspect of the Islamic law. What's more important is the question of good governance."



In a move to show it can work with non-Muslims, the PAS is planning to open up membership to them.



"Nobody can say if we come to power, [that] we cannot govern a multi-religious and multi-racial nation," says Mr Khalid.



Cause for concern?



But a resurgence in Islam has many non-Muslims concerned.



Islamic officials in Selangor state entered a Methodist church without a warrant in early August, breaking up a fundraising dinner. They recorded the details of several Muslims who attended the function.



The Islamic authorities have said they acted on a tip-off, but have refused to reveal the nature of the complaint.



Religious officials are wary about Muslims attending church-organised events. There are fears these are attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity - something that is illegal in Malaysia.



"This action sets a dangerous precedent and makes a mockery of the sanctity and inviolability of all religious places in our beloved country," said the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hindusim, Sikhism and Taoism in a statement.



Ongoing row



The fear of conversion has already strained relations between Muslims and the Christian minority, who make up around nine per cent of the country's population and are typically ethnic Chinese and Indians.



Over the last two years, churches have been firebombed and Bibles have been seized in an ongoing row between Christians and Muslims over the use of the word 'Allah'.



The religious minority insists that they have been using the term for centuries in the Malay language to refer to the Christian god.



But in 1986, the government banned non-Muslim from using the word 'Allah' in publications. This ban was not usually enforced until recently when the government began to act upon it at the behest of some Muslim groups.



In a move seen as a bid to win Malay-Muslim votes, the government argued that for non-Muslims, calling their gods 'Allah' would be confusing to the Muslim-majority and threaten national security.



As a result, Malay-language Bibles have been impounded by customs officials. Some Muslim activists fear that Christians are using the Bibles to convert Muslims.



Attacks on places of worship came after the High Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled in December 2009 that the word 'Allah' is not exclusive to Islam. The government has appealed against the decision but no hearing date has been set yet.



In the meantime the prime minister's department has made some concessions in recent months and released some 35,000 seized Bibles. The cabinet has also set up a committee for religious leaders from all faiths to resolve the "Allah" issue.



Reverend Dr Thomas Philips is one of the committee members. He says the meetings have been sporadic but he is optimistic they can reach an understanding.



"I'm convinced Malaysia is a moderate Muslim country," he says.



Norhayati Kaprawi agrees, but fears that the mainstream opinion has been silenced.



"People who hold more progressive or alternative views," she says, "don't dare to speak up in public."

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Against the tide

Faced with the menace of the internet, Asia’s censors are not yet giving up the ghost.



The unwitting instrument of Mr Najib’s epiphany was The Economist. An article in our July 16th issue covered the government’s crackdown on a huge demonstration organised by civic groups calling for electoral reform. In the copies of The Economist that reached Malaysians, the article was disfigured by black ink.



By The Economist



TAKING arms against a sea of troubles, many governments in Asia have long resisted the tide of unfiltered news, rumour and comment washing over their citizens via the internet. On August 15th one prime minister, Najib Razak of Malaysia, appeared to admit defeat. “In today’s borderless, interconnected world,” he said, “censoring newspapers and magazines is increasingly outdated, ineffective and unjustifiable.” Noting that the internet in Malaysia has always been uncensored, Mr Najib announced a “review” of print censorship laws. Yet what it comes up with is unlikely to be a free-for-all. Across Asia, governments find it hard to cede their power to control flows of information.



The unwitting instrument of Mr Najib’s epiphany was The Economist. An article in our July 16th issue covered the government’s crackdown on a huge demonstration organised by civic groups calling for electoral reform. In the copies of The Economist that reached Malaysians, the article was disfigured by black ink. Three passages—concerning the death of a man (from a heart attack), the banning of the protest march and “heavy-handed police tactics”—were censored. However, they could still be read on our website, or indeed on a number of Malaysian news sites and blogs. As Mr Najib noted, the act of censorship created far more of a fuss than the offending passages. Besides being “outdated, ineffective and unjustifiable”, the censorship was also very bad public relations.



His general point is plainly true all over the world. Strict controls over “old” media, foreign and domestic, are increasingly anachronistic since ever more citizens have access to the bottomless shallows of the internet. In both Malaysia and Singapore, where mainstream media have been largely servile in their treatment of the powers-that-be, the internet has changed the political landscape. It was one reason why the opposition did better than ever in Malaysia’s most recent parliamentary election, in March 2008. In Singapore, in the run-up to May’s general election, candidates were for the first time allowed to campaign on social-networking sites; once again, the opposition did better than ever. Opposition politicians in both places also credit online competition with gingering up the mainstream press a bit.



Mr Najib said that, instead of censorship, Malaysia could use “legal means” in the event of defamatory coverage. That for a long time has also been Singapore’s strategy. “Right-to-reply” rules oblige foreign publications that circulate in Singapore to carry government rebuttals. Settling contempt-of-court actions and defamation suits from leading politicians is costly. All of this deters critical foreign reporting.



Elsewhere in Asia, some governments still use the trusted old slash-and-blotch methods. The Chinese authorities simply rip out pages with articles they don’t like; or, if there are too many of them, they block the issue altogether. India tolerates most of what is written about the country, perhaps believing, as a member of the present cabinet put it when in opposition, that “this is India. You can never be wrong.” But officialdom draws the line, stamps the stamp, or confiscates the consignment when it comes to maps showing the India-Pakistan border as it is, rather than as it would be were all of Kashmir under Indian control.



In Sri Lanka, the government never “bans” The Economist. But customs officers spend a hell of a long time enjoying issues with Sri Lankan coverage. In Thailand, again, the government never issues a formal ban. But, in fear of the country’s fierce lèse-majesté laws, no distributor will touch a publication carrying coverage that might be construed as remotely critical of the monarchy.



Online distributors, however, are less easy to cow. The logic of monarchism also compels Thailand’s government to intervene directly on the internet. According to Freedom Against Censorship Thailand, an NGO, it has blocked hundreds of thousands of web pages. Thailand’s efforts to curb unpalatable online material, however, are no more than a picket fence when compared with the great firewall of China. China has more users of the internet than any other country, yet its censors battle the medium, convinced that they can win. The foreign press is the easy part. There are ways around the blockage of websites that the censors do not like. But relatively few people have the will, time or money to bother finding them.



The domestic internet poses more of a challenge, however. Deleted postings on social-networking sites immediately pop up elsewhere; banned internet-search terms morph into bizarre homonyms; small incidents such as hit-and-run road accidents become national scandals. And national scandals, such as the high-speed train crash on July 23rd, news of which the authorities would have liked quietly to bury along with the wreckage, suddenly become enormous political problems.



Hoping to reboot the world



The battle between the Chinese Communist Party and the internet seems fairly evenly matched. When Urumqi, in the western region of Xinjiang, was racked by ethnic violence in 2009, the authorities simply switched the internet off in Xinjiang for ten months. A strange new phenomenon, the internet-café border town, sprang up along the railway line to the east to cater for Xinjiang residents who wanted to get online. China, further alarmed by the alleged role of social networks in the recent riots in Britain, might well counter renewed regional unrest with another local internet shutdown.



But this is hardly an option for China as a whole. Not only might Hong Kong struggle to cope with an influx of more than 450m Chinese internet users needing to check their e-mails; China cannot, in effect, resign from the global economy. Asian governments are stuck with the internet which, worryingly for the dictatorships among them, seems as integral to the future as black blotches on newsprint seem to the past.

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DNA samples from Saiful’s anus ‘pristine’

There is absolutely no evidence that Saiful's DNA samples had degraded, according to Australian expert



McDonald said the sample – taken from the higher rectum which was predominantly from “Male Y”, while another which was predominantly Saiful’s – was inconclusive. However, the DNA expert said that all three had no evidence that degradation had occurred and were “pristine DNA”.



Teoh El Sen, Free Malaysia Today

The DNA samples extracted from Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s anus, which were supposed to have degraded, appeared to be in “pristine” condition, the High Court here heard today.



“There is absolutely no evidence of degradation… ” said Australian consultant molecular geneticist, Dr Brian Leslie McDonald, at the Sodomy II trial.



McDonald agreed with defence counsel Ramkarpal Singh that the DNA test results were “inconsistent with the history (of the case)”.



Yesterday, McDonald had testified that the DNA samples – which were extracted from Saiful’s anus 56 hours after the alleged sodomy, and later kept in a drawer for 43 hours – would have degraded.



Australian forensic expert Dr David Lawrence Noel Wells, the head of forensic medicine at the Victoria Institute of Medicine, had also testified that the poorly kept samples were unlikely to have returned a positive result.



The defence team claimed the testimony today supports its argument that the evidence was tampered with.



“This is a very important issue. How could we have a new sample when the sample was supposed to have degraded with bacteria? Where did they get the sample from?” Anwar told reporters outside the court.



Earlier, Ramkarpal asked McDonald to give his opinion on the chemist report done on three DNA samples (B7, B8, B9) which were taken from Saiful’s higher and lower rectum.

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‘Upholding Malay unity’ … or ‘deconstructing’ a tired cliché?

Specifically, the day is long overdue for all Malaysians to begin to differentiate, fastidiously and consistently, in all contexts — when they render into English the Malay word “bangsa”, with its very broad range of meanings and denotations — between “race”, on the one hand, and “people”, “nation”, “stock”, “descent” and “kind”, to note but a few of its various referents, on the other.



Clive Kessler, The Malaysian Insider 




The Mufti of Perak, Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria, is reported as insisting “that the Umno president must find a way to unite the Malays” (“Perak mufti says Malays must defend race”, Syed Mu’az Syed Putra, The Malaysian Insider, 25 August 2011).



“We must defend our race and Najib must find a way to reunite Malays,” Harussani is quoted as saying.



On this matter, it is timely to make four points.



First, it is more than time for political actors and commentators in Malaysia to be careful in their use of words, including technical terms.



Specifically, the day is long overdue for all Malaysians to begin to differentiate, fastidiously and consistently, in all contexts — when they render into English the Malay word “bangsa”, with its very broad range of meanings and denotations — between “race”, on the one hand, and “people”, “nation”, “stock”, “descent” and “kind”, to note but a few of its various referents, on the other.



Any inability to recognise the differences between these perhaps related yet quite distinct notions would be a routine cause of failure in the introductory social science courses (including anthropology, sociology and political science) in any internationally reputable university.



It remains an anomaly, and one about whose origins and persistence one may speculate, that — for all its great work in linguistic engineering and technical lexicographic innovation over half a century — the Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka has never focused its attention upon the clarification, in Malay usage, of the semantic overlap and confusion that characterize this one very general, all-purpose term “bangsa”.



Second, why must Malays, the entire Malay people of the peninsula and Malaysia as a whole, be “united”?



That they should be united, the idea that the unity of “the Malays” is a natural condition that has been disrupted and now needs to be restored, is the implicit underlying presupposition of the call recently made by the Tan Sri Harussani, and so often voiced by other leading political and public personalities on the national stage.



Is the call for “the Malays” to be united politically any more reasonable and acceptable, one must ask — and constructive, in the national interest — than a call for all Chinese or Indians or non-Malays generally to be united politically?



Where does such an approach inescapably lead? That does not bear thinking about. Yet it is a matter that must be recognized and addressed, urgently.



It leads not to the formation of a united Malaysian nation but, headlong, to inter-ethnic antagonism and communalistic Armageddon.



Is that a desirable future, a scenario that is in the interest of either the vast majority of Malays and non-Malays alike? 
Third, why must people speak in these contexts of “the Malays”? Where does the word “the” come from here, and how is its use justified?



To use that word “the” (the so-called “definite article”) is to suggest that what follows, whatever it is that this “the” refers to, is a unified and undifferentiated entity.



So its use here simply begs the entire question that has to be carefully considered. The very terms in which the question is posed, using this homogenising “the”, presupposes a certain answer.



It smuggles its own conclusion into the posing of question. It “builds in” from the start the notion of Malay unity, as a normal and established fact, as a desirable and supposedly natural state of affairs.



In this way “Malay unity” is normalised, and any departure from it is, by implication, rendered pathological, an undesirable departure from healthy normality.



Fourth, and most important, why are “the Malays” of Malaysia not united? This is the situation that so troubles the mufti of Perak and those who think along similar lines.



The historic reason for the present lack of Malay unity is clear. The Malays of Malaysia are now irreversibly divided, as they never were in the past, by the NEP.



Not by current debates about the NEP — whether it is good or bad, whether it should be extended or phased out, whether it should give way to reward on the basis of merit and proven achievement — but by the long accumulating effects of the NEP over the last 40 years.



What the NEP sought to do, and succeeded triumphantly in doing, was to promote a rapid and far-reaching diversification of the Malay people of Malaysia: economically, socially, culturally and intellectually, in their orienting everyday attitudes and personalities.

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AG GANI PATAIL: MACC MUST SHOW INDEPENDENCE AND NOT IMPOTENCE

Straight Talk



1. AG Gani Patail is again courting controversy by the revelation in Malaysia Today, which appeared on the 24th August 2011. If the allegation is not thoroughly investigated, it will be perceived badly by the Rakyat. Malaysia Today produced documentary evidence of what appears to be AG Gani Patail receiving gratification to take sides in a corporate boardroom tussle in Ho Hup Construction Berhad. Previously, photographs had already surfaced in various blogs of AG Gani Patail with that company’s previous Managing Director, Dato Vincent Lye.



2. This revelation would surely destroy any residual credibility left about the AG Chambers. It appears that criminal prosecution is instituted at the whims and fancies of AG Gani Patail not on the basis of right or wrong but on might is right.



3. I have previously criticized AG Gani Patail over his Haj Trip with Tajudin Ramli’s proxy, one Shahidan Shafies. Instead of taking action against AG Gani Patail, alarmingly I was subjected to an immediate investigation by the MACC based on just a false allegation in an anonymous blog. I was then publicly humiliated when the MACC Operations Evaluation Panel (OEP) Chairman, Tan Sri Dr. Hadenan Abdul Jalil only conditionally cleared me. My demands for an unconditional and unequivocal clearance have yet to receive any response from the MACC.



4. The invoices, receipts and cheque shown in Malaysia Today do not require complex forensic accounting. These documents paint a thousand words of the alleged renovation works done for AG Tan Sri Ghani Patail’s bungalow at Seremban 2 - Sri Carcosa.



5. These documents constitute clear evidence of corrupt gratification. The MACC must show independence and courage by acting swiftly to investigate this matter. To facilitate such an investigation, AG Gani Patail MUST immediately step down. These are clear steps that must be taken to preserve the integrity of the AG Chamber and the Government. Otherwise, the MACC will be regarded as impotent and dare not take action against those in the corridors of power.

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TV3 Kantoi! Surau Al-Musyrikin tidak wujud!

Milo Suam

SEBELUM ini media propaganda, TV3 ada menyiarkan berita kononnya ada sebuah kelas tuisyen di Jalan Klang lama yang menyebarkan agama Kristian kepada pelajarnya.

Tambah melucukan bercampur hairan, TV3 mendakwa sekumpulan Qariah Surau Al-Musyrikin (kafir) telah berhimpun di hadapan kelas tuisyen berkenaan kerana membantah tindakan kelas tuisyen itu yang didakwa kononnya menyebarkan agama Kristian kepada pelajar yang beragama Islam.



Saksikan video laporan media propaganda TV3 di bawah ini.

Warm Milo

This BEFORE the media propaganda, have published news TV3 supposedly a tuition class in Jalan Klang old spread Christianity to students.

Add a comical confusion, TV3 claimed a Qariah Surau Al-polytheists (disbelievers) had gathered in front of the tuition for the protest against tuition charged allegedly spreading Christianity to Muslim students.



Watch a video on TV3 propaganda media reports below.

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Sodomy II: Trial postponed to Sept 19-23

The Star) - The sodomy trial of Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been postponed, and will be held from Sept 19 to 23.



Earlier Friday, DNA expert Dr Brian Leslie McDonald told the High Court that the process used by a chemist did not ensure that the sperm extracted from the rectum of complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan was pure and not mixed with other cells.



During examination in chief by counsel Ram Karpal Singh, Dr Mcdonald told the court, in his opinion, the differential extraction process (DEP) carried out by Dr Seah Lay Hong, who was the prosecution witness, was speculative.



He added that the sperm examined by Dr Seah did not comprise purely sperm heads and there was the existence of other cells there.



McDonald, the fourth defence witness, had testified Thursday that Dr Seah's testing procedure did not follow international standards.



Anwar, 63, is charged with sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful, 26, at Desa Damansara Condominium in Bukit Damansara, between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.

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Former MAS chairman sues news portal for RM200mil

(Bernama) - Former executive chairman of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli has filed a RM200mil suit against a news portal over the publication of a article on the airline suffering losses of RM8bil.



He named The Malaysian Insider Sdn Bhd, its chief executive officer Jahabar Sadiq and journalist Shazwan Mustafa Kamal as defendants.



Tajudin, who was the MAS executive chairman between 1994 and 2001, filed the suit last Aug 18 at the Civil High Court registry here through the legal firm of Lim Kian Leong & Co.



The case has been set for case management before judge Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal on Sept 19.



In the statement of claims, Tajudin stated that the portal had published defamatory words in an article, with the title "MACC clear A-G of graft allegations", on May 31, 2011.



He claimed that the article was published after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) revealed the outcome of its graft probe against Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.



Tajudin claimed that the article was published with the intention of reflecting that he was implicated in the investigation against the Attorney-General.



Tajudin claimed that the portal also repeated the defamatory words in other articles, despite a letter sent to it to not do so.



He said The Malaysian Insider, when responding to his letter, stated that the words in the article were not defamatory and that they had obtained the information from multiple sources.



Besides general damages of RM200mil, Tajudin is also seeking aggravated damages and interests

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