Things that you never dream of under Barisan Nasional

Although RM100 is not  a big amount, it shows that we have state government that really cares......... a good gesture that you never dream of under previous government.....

Penang senior citizens, have you registered to get RM100? 


http:// isejahtera.penang.gov.my

Let's see what UMNO will spread rumours about this again.......We heard that UMno opposition leader has gone around telling people that if one register their name means that they are registered as DAP member...what an idiot talk.....

Penang senior citizens to get RM100 annually

PENANG, Feb 28 — The state government will distribute aid of RM100 annually to each senior citizen in Penang who are eligible and aged 60 and above beginning April.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the aid, given under the Senior Citizens Appreciation Programme, was one of the efforts initiated by the state government to assist and appreciate the elderly.
“There are 132,000 senior citizens in the state but only 62,000 had registered at the State Assemblymen’s Service Centres to receive the aid and according to the statistics, the areas with the most number of senior citizens are in the North-East and Seberang Perai Utara districts,” he told reporters, here today.
Lim said that beginning tomorrow until March 8, senior citizens could check the name register and their personal particulars in the website http://isejahtera.penang.gov.my which was launched today. — Bernama

Even Malays leaving Tanah Melayu !!!!!!!!!!!! Very sad......

Umno veteran and Gua Musang MP, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah laments the state of affairs in the country. - Picture by Choo Choy May

Quotable Quote By Ku Li on " Even Malays Leaving Tanah Melayu"


“Something must be wrong in this so-called Malay Land (Tanah Melayu) when they (Malays) are leaving.”  

“There are many Malays in London who are professionals, making good money, who will not return because the environment is not right in Malaysia.”

“Investors and tourists are wondering what’s happening in Malaysia, at a time when we need investments, capital and jobs for our young who are also increasingly finding it difficult...”

“Of course people will come if there’s free food but it’s not genuine.”

“Even my wife is afraid to go out. Why should we be afraid in our own country?”

“Now that the submarine can dive, we’re not sure if it can come up again.” 

“Malaysia is only a small market compared to New York, but because people are corrupt they allow drugs to flow in.” 

“These are signs of decline which were never here before,” he concluded.

Read the full articles in  The Malaysiainsider.............
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/54524-ku-li-even-malays-leaving-tanah-melayu-

Malaysia veering towards instability, says PERC

By Lee Wei Lian

Malaysia needs to get its house in order to entice foreign investment and equities into the country. - Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Events since New Year’s Day have given the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) the impression that the situation in Malaysia is becoming increasingly unstable.
In a blistering report on Malaysia released at the end of January, PERC also asserted that a group of elite minorities were dominating the national agenda to the extent that it was hurting Malaysia’s attractiveness to investors.
The consultancy, which also publishes reports on the risk ratings of other Asian countries, said it is “probable” that no other Asian country is suffering from as much bad press as Malaysia. Among the developments that caught its attention were the theft of military jet engines, detention of terror suspects from a number of African and Middle East countries following warnings that Islamic militants were planning attacks on foreigners at resorts in Sabah, renewed ethnic and religious “violence” that included arson at some churches and desecration of mosques, and controversy over the integrity of key institutions like the judicial system in the sodomy trial of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“Events of the past month give the impression that pressures are building and the entire situation is becoming much more unstable,” said PERC.
The report noted that the government is blaming the international media for exaggerated reporting and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had argued that the focus should not be on the fringe groups that are causing problems but on the majority of Malaysians who are coming together to condemn the recent acts of violence following the ‘Allah’ controversy. But PERC maintained that the root of the problem was a vocal minority that is dominating the national agenda.
“Mr. Razak’s attempt to put the best spin on a bad situation is understandable. He is fighting for his political life and is trying to stop the erosion in confidence in Malaysia’s prospects,” said PERC. “However, he is wrong in saying that Malaysia is being defined by the way the majority of the population are coming together. It is being defined by the ability of a minority to dominate the political agenda, shaping policy and compromising the reputation of key institutions in ways that hurt Malaysia’s reputation as a stable, attractive place for foreign investors.”
The report also said that while Islamic activists which are “threatening Malaysia’s secular credentials” are getting the widest coverage, it was the Umno elites, described as “a fringe group of insiders who have been able to profit disproportionately from the policies of the ruling coalition” that deserved the most attention.
“They are threatened with a loss of political power that could also impinge directly on their substantial business interests. Malaysia’s future will be determined largely by the tactics this group of insider elites resort to in order to stay in power and the success of those tactics. Their commitment to democracy is a major question mark. If they blatantly manipulate the system in order to remain in power, the public backlash could be worse than anything Malaysia has seen in its modern history.”
PERC added Najib’s strategy is looking “increasingly unworkable” as a way to defuse pressures in the country.
“He is trying to be all things to all people, but in the end he might satisfy no one,” it noted.
Malaysia’s risk index as calculated by PERC rose slightly from 5.24 out of a possible maximum score of 10 in December to 5.4 in January. It however, remained well below the risk index in January last year which stood at 6.42. Countries that score higher on the index are deemed to have a higher level of risk.
The PERC report comes as the Najib administration is grappling with a budget deficit and is trying to formulate a new economic model in which private investment plays a bigger role in driving the economy towards developed status.
The consultancy pointed out however that even if the opposition were to be in charge come the next election, foreign investors and others would wait and see if the opposition could govern the country effectively.
“So far the only thing uniting these (opposition) parties is their opposition to the ruling coalition, not matters like dealing with Malay entitlements, the extent that there should or should not be a broader Islamisation of Malaysia, or an economic programme for promoting the country’s development,” said PERC.
PERC maintained in its report that foreign investments into Malaysia have not been forthcoming, either in direct form or in the equity markets.
“Foreign companies and investors are remaining cautious until they see how Malaysia gets its own house in order,” it added.

Racist Demonstration in Penang

First we heard some parties labelled  Indians as beggars, Chinese as prostitutes , not enough they are discriminating Chinese leaders by politicise illegal traders issues as racial issues when the fact is that most illegal traders caught are Chinese. If the current trends unchecked, these barbarian may politicize issues when Malay/Chinese/Indian are caught by police due to illegal act and twist it as racial issues......

We are really sad that Malaysia is progessing in a wrong direction due to the personal motive of certain politicians......   What a bad taste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Approved factory investments in Malaysia dropped by 50% in 2009

 

Not suprise to me as our beloved government busy politicking in 2009 .......Power grabs in Perak in 2009 , pendatang issues, Allah issues, TEO Beng Hock issues all are still fresh in our mind .... economy issues ? who cares.....


Not enough  with the above, we are supplied with SODOMEE first thing in the morning ....

Do not believe ? just open the news paper every morning....... 

I can only say GOD bless you Malaysia....

MALAYSIA’S approved factory investment declined in 2009 as companies delayed projects amid a global economic slump.

Approved investments dropped by about half to RM32.6 billion last year, Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said in Kuala Lumpur today. That compares with RM62.8 billion in 2008. Foreign investment more than halved.

“The global economic environment in 2009 was very challenging as a result of the financial crisis which commenced in the U.S. in 2008,” Mustapa said. “Malaysia’s economy also succumbed to these unfavorable global developments.”

Prime Minister Najib Razak eased investment rules last year to attract funds amid the Southeast Asian nation’s first recession in a decade. The country still faces competition for investments from the rest of the region even after liberalizing some services industries, including banking and insurance, Mustapa said in August.
Malaysia approved RM36.3 billion of services investment last year, of which RM32.95 billion was from domestic sources, Mustapa said. Investments in services were led by the transport and energy industries, he said.

In neighbouring Singapore, the government expects to attract fixed-asset investments of between S$10 billion ($7 billion) and S$12 billion in 2010, from S$11.8 billion last year.

Economy Shrank

Malaysia’s economy probably shrank 3 per cent last year, Mustapa said today. The government is confident of 5 per cent growth in gross domestic product this year, Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said last week. That’s higher than its official growth forecast of 2 per cent to 3 per cent.

The nation’s private-sector investment is weak for an investment-grade country and there is little upward pressure on its credit rating because of the “lack of dynamism,” Thomas Byrne, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service in Singapore, said in a Jan. 27 conference call.

The government’s attempts to increase investment may be hurt by a spate of inter-faith disputes in the country of 28 million people.

Acts of violence were reported against at least 11 Christian institutions, one Sikh temple and two Muslim prayer rooms last month following a High Court judge’s decision to allow a Catholic newspaper to refer to God as “Allah” in its Malay-language section.

Foreign Investment

Foreign companies accounted for RM22.1 billion of the approved investments in manufacturing last year, Mustapa said. That compares with the record RM46.1 billion in 2008. Of the 2009 foreign investment, RM16.4 billion was for new investments, and the rest for expansion and diversification, the minister said.

Domestic manufacturing investments approved totaled RM10.5 billion in 2009, Mustapa said. That compares with the RM16.7 billion reported earlier for the previous year.

Japan was the biggest investor in Malaysia’s manufacturing industry last year, accounting for RM5.6 billion, followed by Hong Kong, the U.S. and Singapore, Mustapa said. Manufacturing of chemicals and chemical products lured the most investment. - Bloomberg

Fxxx you Nasir Safar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Pendatang"


"Indians came to Malaysia as beggars and Chinese especially the women came to sell their bodies"

Again and again Chinese and Indians are getting  derogatory remarks for the ruling party and this time the words coming from special assistant to our honourable PM Nasir Safar.........    

I want to repeat the word is not coming from ordinary citizen but special assistant to PM


While his boss is running around promoting " One Malaysia", his little pharaoh  are going around hurting Indians and Chinese with such a uncivilisied words not once but again and again.....


Do you still believe there is  "One Malaysia" in our Bolehland.......


Tunggu lama-lama lah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is Malay in Penang Bullied by Penang Government?

See this and judge yourself....

http://www.malaysiakini.tv/video/18493/kerajaan-pulau-pinang-menindas-kaum-melayu-.html

Guan Eng dictator? Good for Guan Eng

Allow me to share this article with you written by Raja Petra regarding Zahrain latest accusation on Lim Guan Eng....

Let you decide who is the communist and chauvanist  instead.....

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

But Lim Guan Eng is nobody’s running dog. He is not in office to serve Umno’s interest, or the interest of ex-Umno people who no longer have any future in Umno and are now trying to build a new future in PKR.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin

When the Umno Malays attack the Chinese from the opposition, they would normally use the word ‘Communist’. To the Umno Malays, any Chinese who opposes Umno is a Communist.
And this is what MP Zahrain Mohd Hashim from PKR called Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng from DAP -- ‘Communist-minded’.

But then, Zahrain is Umno. Okay, maybe now he is in PKR. But that was only very recently. For decades he was in Umno and, furthermore, he was one of the key people in Umno Penang who headed various very important government agencies in the state.

In short, in true Umno fashion, Zahrain was one of the Penang warlords -- and he was so for a great number of years. But Umno warlords, even ex-Umno warlords now in the opposition, no longer carry any weight in Penang. And this must be extremely unsettling for someone like Zahrain, who practically had the power of ‘life and death’ over Penang -- and now has no power to even change the curtains in his office without the approval of ‘dictator’ Lim Guan Eng.

Another thing that is even more upsetting for Umno, even ex-Umno people now in PKR, is that, during the days of the Gerakan state government, it was Umno that called the shots while the Gerakan Chief Minister was merely an Umno running dog and in office merely to serve Umno’s interest.

But Lim Guan Eng is nobody’s running dog. He is not in office to serve Umno’s interest, or the interest of ex-Umno people who no longer have any future in Umno and are now trying to build a new future in PKR.

The ex-Umno people in PKR, in particular those from Penang, will have to learn how to adjust to the new ‘culture’. During the Umno days it was the Chinese who sat on the throne while the Malays were the power behind the throne who manipulated Gerakan and the Chief Minister. All Umno had to do was tell the Chief Minister to jump and he would respond, “How high?"

Lim Guan Eng, however, has a mind of his own. He knows what needs to be done (after all, Penang is the best run state, according to the Auditor-General).

He understands the old Umno culture, which invariably has been ‘imported’ into PKR. No one is going to pressure him or blackmail him. He will not allow himself to become a puppet Chief Minister like the Gerakan Chief Minister in the days when Umno was running Penang with Gerakan as its front.

So we lose some ex-Umno people in PKR who decide to go back to Umno because they are no longer warlords like they used to be. Well, so be it. Better they go now even if we see a Perak situation in the other states as well. Spring-cleaning in PKR (and DAP and PAS as well) is long overdue anyway.


I have just about had it with all these ex-Umno people like Hassan Ali, Zulkifli Noordin, Zahrain Mohd Hashim, and many more who have been nothing but a source of problems for PKR and Pakatan Rakyat. If I were to list down the names of people like Ruslan Kassim, Ezam Mohd Nor, Lokman Adam, Rozaid Abdul Rahman, Hanafiah Man, and all those many others who came from Umno into PKR, and then left PKR to rejoin Umno after causing so much problems, this article would probably run into 20 or 30 pages.

It is time we bite the bullet and purge the party, even if we have to use 'undemocratic' methods, or else this nonsense will never end. Maybe Lim Guan Eng can teach us some of his ‘undemocratic’ tactics that we can use in PKR to clean up the party.

Kelantanese are not beggars..........

"Kelantan may be poor but we are not beggars" .........Ku Li I cannot agree with you anymore.....

Ku Li insists Kelantan gets 5pc oil royalty

KOTA BHARU, Jan 29 — Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has insisted that Kelantan is entitled to a five per cent royalty for oil extracted off its waters, saying it was time to “re-examine the relationship between the states and the federal government”.
The Gua Musang MP told a packed Stadium Sultan Mohamed IV last night that national oil firm Petronas was bound by law to give the money to states where oil is found, adding Kelantan was not interested in compassionate payments.

“Kelantan may be poor. But we are not beggars. We demand what is rightfully ours,” the Kelantan prince said to cheers and cries of “Allahu Akbar (God is great)” at the last night’s gathering organised by the state government over the oil royalty issue.

The PAS government had demanded the oil royalty payment from Petronas last year, after the Statistics Department revealed that Kelantan, together with Sabah and Terengganu, had contributed 62.5 per cent of the oil extracted in Malaysia

The Barisan Nasional-ruled federal government has insisted oil from the joint development area with Thailand was not from part of Kelantan’s waters and has only offered RM20 million as “compassionate payment”.

But Razaleigh, the founding chairman of Petronas, disagreed with the government’s move, saying the formula for oil royalty was first agreed with Sarawak and later extended to all states.

“If Sarawak is due her five per cent royalty, no less is Kelantan, by the same principle,” thundered the Umno politician popularly known as Ku Li.

An estimated 50,000 turned up to hear Ku Li’s speech.

Razaleigh said he has received the blessings of the Kelantan palace to speak on the issue and also confirmed that he will lead a parliamentary caucus to press the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to honour the Petronas agreement.

“The oil caucus I will lead is not just about oil. It is to re-examine the relationship between the states and the federal government,” he told the crowd, adding the larger issue here was state rights as Malaysia was a federation of sovereign states that have assigned only certain rights to the federal government.

“Let us re-examine the terms of the Federation Agreement signed in 1948,” Razaleigh added, referring to the founding of Malaya before it gained independence from Great Britain in 1957.

He repeated his earlier argument that Putrajaya should respect the agreements made and not change them depending on who ruled the states, saying “How are we to ask investors to have confidence in us if we can’t even keep contracts between ourselves!”

The move has a precedent in Terengganu after the 1999 general elections, when PAS won the state, prompting the federal government to convert oil royalty payments to compassionate payments managed by a federal department. Terengganu had sued for its right and Putrajaya relented only after Barisan Nasional recaptured the state.

Ku Li, who noted to the crowd that he was entering the stadium after 15 years, was earlier escorted in by a convoy of 50 trishaws. Among those sharing the stage with him were Kelantan state executive councillors, led by Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat.

The approximately 50,000 crowd cheered and clapped when Razaleigh began his speech with “I stand here representing only myself. I am here upon principle.”

The former finance minister and one-time Umno vice-president, who had unsuccessfully challenged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for the Umno presidency, had no kind words for his party during the speech and later when speaking to reporters.

He described Kelantan Umno chief Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, also International Trade and Industry Minister, as a sycophant, and party-owned newspaper Utusan Malaysia as reporting fiction.

“Don’t mention those names to me. Mustapa is a sycophant, Utusan is just [reporting] myths,” he retorted.
Razaleigh has, in recent months, taken a strident stand against his party, particularly over the oil royalty issue and the larger issues of governance in Malaysia.

He had earlier written in his weblog (razaleigh.com) that by ignoring both the letter and the spirit of agreements over oil found in Malaysia, the federal government sets aside the very purpose of Petronas.

“More importantly there is a failure to understand the origin of federal powers over state resources.

“We have forgotten that the states existed prior to the Federation. The Federation only exists because the states were willing to vest their rights in it, such as their rights in oil. Not the other way around,” he wrote.
Razaleigh noted the federation itself rested on the principle of fairness to all the states, and to its citizens, wherever they may live.

“When the government of the day ignores this principle, it is ignoring a basic principle holding our country together.

“There has been too much centralisation of power in the federal government. Powers functions and rights that belong to the states must be restored to them,” the Gua Musang Umno chief said.

Truly One Malaysia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 A photo speak louder than words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not think I should introduce any one in the photo to you....... They are just Malaysian, Truly Malaysian!!!!!

No cosmetic, no slogan.......