Minor Conversion

MIRI: The two teachers involved in the illegal conversion of a 13-year-old Christian girl to Islam have been issued official letters of transfer out of Sarawak.

Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) secretary general Datuk Sebastian Ting(pic) said on Tuesday that he had received confirmation that the Education Ministry had already sent the transfer letters to the two teachers.

Ting said the move by the ministry to take the two teachers out of Sarawak would bring closure to the controversy.

“The issue should not be prolonged any more as the ministry has taken steps to get the two teachers out of the state.

“We must be very careful about this very sensitive matter so as not to create unwanted problems that can affect multi-racial and multi-religious harmony,'' he told The Star Online.

lvbala said,

No comments but felt funny how these teachers qualified to be a teacher?

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IS Threat

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating a letter purportedly sent by the Islamic State (IS), threatening to kill India’s spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar who was in Penang over the weekend.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that a letter was sent to the famed spiritual leader. Sources said police were trying to track the origin of the letter, which was posted locally to the office of Ravi Shankar’s humanitarian NGO’s Malaysian chapter in Shah Alam.- Reported by STAR.

lvbala said,

Nevertheless, I salute those who have the guts to send the letter and threaten the innocent holy man. But by doing so, it never make you holy or hero in the eyes of people. In fact it make you a coward who hide behind the truth. I am sadden with the way human are thinking now a days.

Humanity is no more exist. Humans have gone far till to the point of killing by the name of GOD which they claim holy.

"GOD Has No Religion"

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Lee Kuan Yew & Me (Tun M)

1. No matter how friendly or unfriendly we are, the passing away of a man you know well saddens you.

2. I cannot say I was a close friend of Kuan Yew. But still I feel sad at his demise.

3. Kuan Yew became well known at a young age. I was a student in Singapore when I read about his defense of labor unions.

4. I first met Kuan Yew when I was a member of Parliament in 1964 after Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963. We crossed swords many time during the debates. But there was no enmity, only differences in our views of what was good for the newborn nation. He included me among the ultra Malays who was responsible for the racial riots in Singapore. Actually I never went to Singapore to stir up trouble. Somebody else whom I would not name did.

5. The Tunku attended the inaugural meeting of the PAP and was quite friendly with Kuan Yew. He believed Kuan Yew was a bastion against Communism. But when the PAP contested in the Malaysian elections in 1964 with Malaysian Malaysia as its slogan, Tunku felt that the PAP’s presence in Malaysia was going to be disruptive for the country.

6. When I became PM in 1981, I paid a courtesy call on Kuan Yew. It was a friendly call and he immediately agreed to my proposal that the Malaysia and Singapore times which had always been the same should be advanced by half an hour. I explained that it would be easier adjusting our time when travelling as we would fall within the time zones fixed for the whole world at one hour intervals.

7. I am afraid on most other issues we could not agree.

8. When I had a heart attack in 1989 and required open heart surgery, he cared enough to ring up my wife to ask her to delay the operation as he had arranged for the best heart surgeon, a Singaporean living in Australia, to do the operation. But by then, I had been given pre-med and was asleep prior to the operation the next day.

9. My wife thanked him but apologized. She promised to ring him up after the operation. She did the next evening.

10. When he was ill, I requested to see him. He agreed but the night before the visit, the Singapore High Commissioner received a message that he was very sick and could not see me.

11. Still when he attended the Nihon Keizai Shimbun annual conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo, which I never failed to attend, I went up to him at dinner to ask how he was. We sat down together to chat and the Japanese photographers took our pictures promising not to put it in the press. I wouldn't mind even if they did. But I suppose people will make all kinds of stories about it.

12. Now Kuan Yew is no more. His passage marks the end of the period when those who fought for independence lead their countries and knew the value of independence.

13. Asean lost a strong leadership after President Suharto and Lee Kuan Yew.

lvbala said,

Greatly explained and expressed by Tun. But something attracted me, please follow up and read the part of the article below :

4. I first met Kuan Yew when I was a member of Parliament in 1964 after Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963. We crossed swords many time during the debates. But there was no enmity, only differences in our views of what was good for the newborn nation. He included me among the ultra Malays who was responsible for the racial riots in Singapore. Actually I never went to Singapore to stir up trouble. Somebody else whom I would not name did.

The above paragraph, high lighted in yellow .... meaning there are someone from Malaysian responsible for the racial riots in Singapore. Meaning, this person is a great influencing Malaysian Minister....... This is an era of Tun Razak as a PM in Malaysia.

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1MDB - Tanjung Public Limited

Billionaire Tan Sri T. Ananda Krishnan’s Tanjong Public Limited Company had helped 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) secure the financing it needed to settle its RM2 billion loan to banks in February, Parliament was told today in the latest revelation on the controversy.

According to Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Tanjong had arranged the funding with the help of private investors.

“1MDB’s cash flow is not enough and it took a RM2 billion refinancing,” he said, adding that refinancing is a normal procedure in the corporate sector.

Ahmad Husni noted there has been some misconception on the matter and clarified that the loan had not been refinanced by the banks.

“It is not the bank but from outside and was managed by Tanjong,” he said referring to Ananda’s company.

“Tanjong helped to obtain the RM2 billion fund with a principal repayment tenure of 15 months, and interest repayment (to be settled) within six months… there is no exchange risk and (this) was arranged by Tanjong,” he added.

Ahmad Husni’s claim today contradicts a written reply last week in Parliament, in which the Finance Ministry said that 1MDB’s RM2 billion loan was settled with its fund from the Cayman Islands and not with Ananda’s help.

“Regarding the loan which 1MDB allegedly received from millionaire Ananda Krishnan, the report is not true,” news portal The Malaysian Insider (TMI) reported the ministry saying in its written reply to Batu MP Chua Tian Chang.

TMI reported that the RM2 billion is part of a RM5.5 billion bridging loan to the relevant banks taken by 1MDB subsidiary, Powertek Investment Holdings Sdn Bhd to refinance a RM6.17 billion bridging loan taken in 2012. It was to part finance the purchase of power assets.

The ministry’s written reply reportedly said that 1MDB had withdrawn its US$2.318 billion (RM8.5 billion) offshore savings in the Cayman Islands in two tranches, and had used the first tranche to pay back “loan interest, working capital and other scheduled commitments”.

This tranche was US$1.215 billion, while the second tranche of US$1.103 billion was still kept in foreign currency at BSI Bank Limited Singapore.

The second tranche, the ministry said, would be used to repay loans in foreign currency that were due this year. 

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Look Who Is Talking ~ The Truth At Last

Few more days to go, few more weeks to see changes. Few more months to see MIC’s top leadership changes. Is it true? Don’t be excited. The same face will be there by the favor of the live forever president.

What ever changes going to be, the leader will be the same. So, you we will hear the same tune, the same music, the same song and the same dance.

T.Mohan (MIC Youth President) from Bt Cave will be facing the president’s favor nephew (I don’t remember his name and I am not intended to remember).

T.Mohan was supported by Vell Parri the son of the president. What a joke! What a typical Tamil movie episode. Do Malaysian Tamils still buy this type of stories?

What a father and son game. Tamil’s classic. Tamil’s epic. Tamil’s MGR vs. Nambiar movie. Guess who will win? Of cause lah the nephew, the Samy Vellu boy. Do you think Samy will lose to his Son Vell Parri?

In fact, Samy will get to know every tom and dick story about his candidates rival through his son. And in another word, it gives way to Vell Parri to stand for his chances for against his father.

To the worst if T.Mohan wins, it will be Samy’s favor through his son too. Samy than will use him to hip hop his son Vell Parry to the next level.

P. Subramaniam will contest for the vice-presidency in the upcoming MIC election on Sept 22. Samy Vellu had endorsed three candidates -- Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S.Subramaniam, Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk M.Saravan and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's

Department Datuk S.K Devamany for the post.Two more candidates, businessman S.K Bala of Johor and V. Ragu Moorthy from Selangor are expected to join in the race

In another corner, Palanivel will be facing Sothinathan for the Deputy President post.. The joke is both lost in their constitution in March 08, 2008 general election. What they are going to do up there without a platform to stand?

Aren’t there any other new candidates who are more brilliant educated and succeeded in their professions? Or they were not given any chances by the tugs of MIC?

The above video clip is a Malaysiakini’s interview with our Ex PM Tun who talks about Samy Vellu and MIC. This will show us what type of a Tamil political party we have. This video will tell us how Samy Vellu had ignored many Tamil talented leaders in the past.

This is the proved to show how draconian Samy Vellu was. How he had denied many new leaders. No joke, this comes from TUN the former PM who kept Samy on his side pocket to be his partner to keep the Tamils laid low.

Look who’s talking.

By the way, change the top head who has been sitting there for more than 30 years. For the record, Tun Mahathir, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Tun Ling Liong Sik, Tun Lim Kheng Yeik, Ong Ka ting, Sabaruddin Chik, Tan Sri Muhamad Taib and many more had left but for MIC… when???

Why don’t limit the president post for two term?

By,
Lvbala

"MELAYU DIKHIANATI." Charge UTUSAN with Sedition!

Melayu dikhianati?

Hati Awang semakin hari semakin ditoreh-toreh oleh tuntutan pelbagai pihak bukan Melayu yang bersikap terlalu rasis selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-12. Kita boleh tafsir apa sebabnya.

Awang tidak mahu mengulas panjang kali ini, cukup sekadar disiarkan semula petikan kenyataan seorang pemimpin MCA, Tun Tan Siew Sin pada 30 April 1969 (dipetik daripada buku Khalid Awang Osman dan pernah diulas Ridhuan Tee Abdullah) untuk renungan kita semua.

''Orang Melayu menerusi UMNO bermurah hati melonggarkan syarat-syarat dalam undang-undang negara ini sehinggakan dalam masa 12 bulan selepas kemerdekaan, 90 peratus penduduk bukan Melayu menjadi warganegara.

Ini berbeza dengan keadaan sebelum merdeka di mana 90 peratus daripada mereka masih tidak diiktiraf sebagai rakyat Tanah Melayu walaupun hampir 100 tahun hidup di bawah pemerintahan penjajah. Sebagai membalas kemurahan hati orang Melayu,

MCA dan MIC bersetuju meneruskan dasar memelihara dan menghormati kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu dan dalam masa yang sama mempertahankan kepentingan-kepentingan sah kaum lain''.

Sebelum itu, seorang pemimpin MIC Tun V.T Sambanthan pada 1 Jun 1965 pernah berkata: ''Pada tahun 1955 kita telah memenangi pilihan raya dengan majoriti yang tinggi, selanjutnya mendapat kemerdekaan dalam masa dua tahun kemudian.

Dalam jangka masa itu, kita terpaksa berbincang dan menangani pelbagai perkara termasuk soal kewarganegaraan. Persoalannya di sini, apakah yang dilakukan oleh orang Melayu memandangkan kita bercakap menyentuh perkauman? A

pakah yang dilakukan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Melayu? Mereka mempunyai 88 peratus daripada pengundi menyokong mereka.

Apakah yang mereka putuskan mengenai isu kewarganegaraan? ''Jika kita lihat di serata negara Asia dan Asia Timur, kita akan mendapati kaum India tidak akan diterima di Ceylon dan juga tidak diterima di Burma.

Sama halnya dengan kaum Cina, mereka tidak diterima di Thailand, Vietnam, Kemboja dan di negara-negara lain. Apakah bantuan berhubung kewarganegaraan yang mereka peroleh di semua wilayah tersebut?

"Di Burma, seperti yang kita semua sedia maklum, kaum India telah diusir keluar, di Ceylon mereka tidak diberikan taraf warganegara seperti juga di Burma. Saya tahu dan anda juga tahu. Apa yang sedang berlaku di Malaya?

Di sini kita mendapati pemimpin Melayu berkata, ''Kita akan menerima mereka sebagai saudara, kita akan berikan mereka sepenuh peluang untuk meneruskan kehidupan di negara ini, kita akan beri mereka peluang untuk menjadi warganegara''.

Seterusnya pada tahun 1957, dengan tidak mengambil kira kebolehan berbahasa (Melayu) ribuan orang India, Cina dan Ceylon menjadi warganegara. Seperti yang saya nyatakan, saya amat bernasib baik kerana dilahirkan di negara ini.

Di manakah anda boleh berjumpa bangsa yang lebih prihatin, bersopan-santun dan tertib selain daripada bangsa Melayu.

Di manakah anda boleh mendapat layanan politik yang baik untuk kaum pendatang? Di manakah dalam sejarah dunia? Saya bertanya kepada anda. Ini adalah fakta.

Siapakah anda untuk menjaga keselamatan kami? Saya adalah kalangan 10 peratus kaum minoriti di sini. Tetapi saya amat gembira di sini.''
Persoalannya, kini apakah pengorbanan Melayu dikhianati oleh kaum lain?

-Awang Selamat

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MH370 - After a Year

It has been a year since we hear the search for MH370 is still going on despite many rumors, assumptions, blame and many theories been assumed.

I never stopped following up on the latest news with regards of MH370. It is my passion and interest in aircraft since childhood.

I have a childhood pilot friend as well and I am so much into aircraft from model assembling and remote planes.

Lets cut the crab and back to what I suppose to express today in my writing.

Clearly and rational thinking on the MH370 issues and dramas, we are seeing how humans are behaving when certain issues affected their life.

From the lowest level up to international celebrities are making comments, opinion, prayers and some even go to the extend of bull siting the bull shit. Some used their self claimed super power to detect MH370 (Buss-doctor)

Lets talk about some Chinese celebrities from mainland which I recognize but never understood what was in her mind. She started to announce her boycott the Malaysian Artist in China. Some wants Boycott Malaysian product? Some wants to boycott Malaysian product in China.

I believe everyone who is following the news on the development of MH370 knows the actual fact. We don't need to have rocket science to understand the scenario. We don't need to be a doctor or to be a philosopher to judge the system involve in the search of MH370.

All we need is a rational thinking, transparent information and just get the fact right. The most important fact is SPEAK THE TRUTH...

lvbala

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The Marginalized Minority

I am not good in history, I am so and so in my numbers but as a "rakyat", I know about my country and the people, the culture, the do and the don't s, races and their believe, food and so on.

I wanted to speak about my race so called Indian which I never agreed to be called as so. I have wrote in my previous blog that the word Indian is for those who came from India.

My father was from India and not me. I am a Malaysian and I speak Tamil. So I am a Malaysian Tamil. I am not an Indian.

Same goes to all ethnic in Malaysia. A Malay called Malay because he speaks Malay. A minang, Jawanise or a Bugis called by the dialect the speak. A Hakka, Cantonese, Kung fu in called base on the dialect the speaks.

This goes to Sabahan as well. When come to race they will be identified by Murut, Bajau, Dusun, Kadazan and so on. This identification is base on the language the speaks so called mother tongue.

But in Malaysia, some how the Tamil is call Indian as they were from India, the Chinese called Chinese because they are from China.

The Malays called Malays for some reason which was mention in the History of King Cholan or "Raja Raja Cholan" but in Malaysia he was known as Raja Chulan.

He is the King who landed and conquered Lembah Bujang), where by the ethnic people from the mountain area of Mt Jerai who come down to Lembah Bujang town to sell their product is called "malayuran" in Tamil mean people from the high hill.

It was believed that the name Malays has originated from here other wise I would welcome if anyone who have any other historical reason behind it.

But in majority of people in Malaysia come from various country who move or migrated because of geographic reason, religion, business, were brought by colonialism or many other reason of their own.

In the recent days I have seen documents, photos of the ministers include PM Najib's whereby their origin was from Indonesia and some proudly claim their root is from here and there.

This shows the migration of mankind and exploration of mankind have brought the world as one.

Its all started when the Dravidian and Aryan movement and migrations through out the globe. Till today mankind explore and migrates to find a new land to survive, but it doesn't mean they could claim the land that they landed is theirs. I think I don't have to elaborate any further because you can see and judge yourself of this old history of the land owners.

Anyway,

Finding the land, own the land, and master the land is part of human way of thinking and human way doing thinks. I wonder do we really own anything in this world??

Thought of the day....

lvbala

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Anwar Ibrahim – He Cannot Sing He Cannot Dance….

I want to share this article with readers from a good friend of mine. Cheers. lvbala
By Hussein Hamid

Anwar Ibrahim was born in August 1947. Me in October 1947. Two months separates us at birth-enough for me to be able to say that he is older, but possibly two or three lifetimes separates us knowing what he has gone through in his life.
I remember the time when I wanted to meet up with him to find out what he was doing with his life.

He was then teaching at one of the shop houses along Jalan Pantai – possible with Adabi if I am not mistaken.

I did find him and he was indeed teaching and in slippers. At home that evening I casually told my father that I had met Anwar that afternoon. My father was then Director of CID.

He stopped, looked at me and said sternly “Engkau tak ada kerja lain?” Whenever my father uses “engkau” when addressing me I knew that he was not amused.

And he then went on to lecture me as to why it would be in my best interest to keep away from Anwar!Then I was away in Australia for a while and he became DPM. I was at Ampang Shopping center with my Family patiently letting my kids wander around Toy R Us. As we walked up to the counter to pay there was Anwar.

We hug and he smiled that smile that light up his whole face and then he was gone again out of my life for a few more years.

But always the familiarity of old classmates made for easy banter every time we meet.
Then this time he was away for a while – six years I think – as the British like to say – At her Majesty’s pleasure in Sungai Buloh.

I was with one of UMNO ex Ketua Bahgian who had joined Keadilan when we heard that Anwar had been released and was at home.

My friend wanted to immediately head for Anwar’s house in Damansara to pay his respect. Would I like to come along? He asked. I said ok.

We arrived and there were people everywhere. We got into line and waited our turn. We were told that Anwar was not well – that he was sitting down and that anytime he might need to rest. One hour of waiting in line I eventually stood in front of him.

He looked up from his chair, again with that smile of his, stood up and gave me a hug oblivious to what pain he must have felt –we talked for a few seconds and mindful of the others waiting to see him, I excused myself and walked on.
The last time I saw him was at a class get together in Bangsar – at Fauzi’s house, a school mate of ours who was the host – a few years back.

As always his arrival was greeted with good nature ribbing and for the son of one of our classmates who had not seen Anwar before – that was a real treat.

We sat and talked and I could see that age had caught up with all of us – Anwar included. He looked not as robust as I though he would be- after all he has always looked good whenever he was on TV and photographed well. But sitting beside me he looked vulnerable.
Was the pressure of living constantly under public and media gaze getting to him? Was UMNO getting to him? I could not imagine what he had to go through on a daily basis in what he chose to do – POLITICS.

It is one thing to be DPM where everything is laid out for you, another to be in the opposition. He constantly referred to Azizah in conversation with us and we could see that Family meant a great deal with him.

As we talked I found myself thinking what more has he got to endure before his work is done.

I did not envy the situation he was in. But he had no regrets. No wanting to take his pound of flesh from those that have done him ill.

A more spirited discourse came from him when we talked about Mahathir – but either he was in control of himself or that he did not think it worth his while to think to much of times gone by. The present was what mattered.

At 63 I will not run if I can walk. Stand if I can sit. Talk if I can be quite. But Anwar has chosen the path less traveled.

This path requires an uncommon resolve to move relentlessly ahead no matter what.

He stands in front of crowds everyday. He meets more people then he can remember everyday and all this he does with a willingness that belittle his age.

He could be anywhere he wants to be in the world and be welcomed by world leaders and acquaintances.

He could be in business and be rich beyond our wildest dreams.

Instead he chose to serve the nation. He chose to take us to the next election because if Anwar does not do so, who will take us?

I am sure sometimes in his moment of solitude he must question his capacity to physically last the distance but his commitment to our cause is great.

That will see him through and he has said that Azizah has done enough while he was away.
This is a good man. As we all know he cannot sing well, neither can he dance well even if his life depended on it but he is decent man.

I wish Najib and UMNO will do battle with him on a level playing filed..

I wish they could have enough compassion in their hearts to accept that Anwar had gone though more that a baptism of fire – a baptism that neither Najib or Mahyuddin could ever imagine or endure.

But then it that would be like asking Bush to go fight Saddam one on one.

No shock or awe, no overwhelming force meeting defenseless people, no doctrine of Rapid Dominance, no weapon of mass destruction on stand by just in case they are needed….none of the above.

Bush would never survive.We know that Anwar was with UMNO many years back.

We do not know what he will be in the future. But this I know now. He and the other leaders in Pakatan Rakyat are the leaders we now have to lead us to the next General Election and they give us our best hope for a new beginning – without an UMNO that has already abused the trust we Malays placed in them many times over, without a corrupt PDRM, a cowered MACC, without a Government that steals from its people, without a Judiciary that does the bidding of its Political masters, without many of the injustices and unfairness that we now have. Are these not reason enough for us to give them the opportunity to do so?

lvbala.

WAR ~ Bob Marley

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

Bob Marley

lvbala,

Nothing I would like to say because its all have been said in the song.

Vivekananda Ashram - Brickfield Kuala Lumpur

 The Tourism Ministry will soon conduct an open hearing to formally receive views and suggestions on conserving Vivekananda Ashram as a heritage site.

DAP national vice chairman, M. Kula Segaran said this was promised by Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, who stated the hearing was a necessary measure for all parties, including the Ashram's trustees, who are opposing the move to grant it heritage status.

Kula Segaran said Nazri promised to hold a formal hearing at a meeting between the minister and other lawmakers, including Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kui Lun and DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng to discuss the state of the 110-year-old Ashram, which has been earmarked for development. 

"Nazri is most accommodative of our suggestion to declare the ashram grounds as heritage.

"However, in view of the trustees’ objections, a formal open hearing of the matter will be conducted soon for all parties to be given an opportunity for their views, suggestions and opinions to be heard," Kula Segaran said in a statement today.

Kula Segaran said Nazri had also expressed shock that the trustees were objecting to the conferting of heritage status to Vivekananda Ashram.

"The issue of declaring heritage status for the ashram was raised in Parliament late last year. The Heritage Department then followed up by issuing a written notice under Section 272(2) of the National Heritage Act on January 14.

"However the notice expired last Thursday, and a day before that, the Ashram Trustees submitted a last-minute objection to the proposal to grant heritage status to Vivekenanda Ashram," said Kula Segaran. 

Kula Segaran said Nazri had agreed there was an overwhelming need to preserve Vivekenanda Ashram after meeting with local leaders and politicians who supported conserving the iconic building in the middle of Little India in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

"The Ashram stands out as a historical iconic building that is also a tourist attraction to this area. It is the last bastion of a century-old culture of the Indian community.

"It is most sad and shocking that the Ashram's board of trustees are not with the local community on this issue," said Kula Segaran.

The DAP lawmaker added that Nazri also gave assurance that the tourism ministry would be in touch with the Federal Territories ministry as the authority in charge of deciding on the proposed redevelopment of the ashram into a 23-story residential tower with 264 units and an eight-storey car park.

In November last year, Nazri said hearings on any objection to the plan to gazette the site as a national heritage were expected to be held between March and May this year

He said the same process will be repeated again in June until its final hearing in September.

"If everything goes according to procedure, the minister will make a decision on this in October," he had said.

He said if the ministry did not receive any objection, the site could be gazetted as a national heritage site as early as March this year.

During a visit to the ashram last November, Nazri also revealed that the Vivekananda Ashram Board had rejected an initial offer by the national heritage department on November 13, 2008, to gazette the site as a national heritage.

Non-governmental organisations, concerned individuals and political parties then came together after it was revealed there were plans to develop the site into a multi-storey apartment building.

A signature drive was carried out, with tens of thousands signing the petition to save the ashram from redevelopment, and handed over to the Kuala Lumpur City Hall.

The Vivekananda Ashram Board of Trustees defended their redevelopment proposal, saying that the move would provide funds for schools and charity homes under its care and for its future plans.

In the campaign, Brickfields Asia College co-founder Raja Singham, who was instrumental in efforts to save the site, had offered to start a fund to save the Vivekananda Ashram and started the ball rolling with RM1 million.

Following the furore, the ashram management committee finally broke its silence and stated that its redevelopment plans did not include demolishing the building. Instead the building would remain intact and the Swami Vivekananda statue outside the building would be retained. – March 24, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/tourism-minister-promises-public-hearing-on-heritage-status-for-brickfields#sthash.c3MXUJuf.dpuf

lvbala,

This issue has been lingering around for sometimes and I come in light about this Ashram after I received a whats app announcing all Tamil Malaysian to support to keep the Vivekananda Ashram in Brickfield.

Many including me would understand how much the ashram has contribute to Tamil society in the region. Uncountable numbers of good deeds, helping the poor and the needy is part of the asram contribution which doesn't count on race and religion base.

I would say, this ashram has been declared as a Heritage by UNESCO and could not understand how far this place guaranteed protected or shall I say reserved.

Anyway, I do believe this Ashram shall nnot be reserved because its belongs to the Indian community, who cares to protect it?

It doesn't bring any benefits to the country, It doesn't bring any benefits to other race in Malaysia. It doesn't serve any purpose to the BUMIS or Malaysia.

And why wasting time and energy to protect the old building?

I am always 99% good in guessing. I am guessing this is what will happen to this Ashram.


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Aviation Horror - A320

An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's German wings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in the French Alps yesterday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren.

German wings confirmed its flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf went down with 144 passengers and six crew on board.

One of the plane's black box recorders has been found at the crash site, about 100 km (65 miles) north of the Riviera city of Nice, and will be examined immediately, France's interior minister said.

In Washington, the White House said the crash did not appear to have been caused by a terrorist attack, while Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption that the tragedy had been an accident, adding that any other theory would be speculation.

Aerial photographs showed smouldering wreckage and a piece of the fuselage with six windows strewn across the steep mountainside cut by ravines.

"We saw an aircraft that had literally been ripped apart, the bodies are in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage," Brice Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters after flying over the wreckage in a helicopter.

German wings believed 67 Germans had been on the flight. Spain's deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was also aboard.

Also among the victims were 16 children and two teachers from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in the town of Haltern am See in northwest Germany, a spokeswoman said.

Barcelona's Liceu opera house said on Twitter that two singers, Kazakhstan-born Oleg Bryjak and German Maria Radner, had died while returning to Duesseldorf after they had performed in Wagner's Siegfried at the theatre.

French police at the crash site about 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) above sea level said no one had survived and it would take days to recover the bodies due to difficult terrain, snow and incoming storms.

Police said search teams would stay overnight at altitude. "We are still searching. It's unlikely any bodies will be airlifted until Wednesday," regional police chief David Galtier told Reuters.

In Paris, Prime Minister Manuel Valls told parliament: "A helicopter managed to land (by the crash site) and has confirmed that unfortunately there were no survivors."

It was the first crash of a large passenger jet on French soil since the Concorde disaster just outside Paris nearly 15 years ago. The A320 is a workhorse of aviation fleets and one of the world's most used passenger jets.

It has a good safety record. However, according to data from the Aviation Safety Network, Tuesday's crash was the third most deadly involving an A320. In 2007 a TAM Linhas Aereas A320 shot off a runway in Brazil, killing 187 people, while 162 people died when an Indonesia AirAsia jet went down in the Java Sea in December.

Sharp descent

Germanwings said the plane started descending one minute after reaching its cruising height and continued losing altitude for eight minutes.

"The aircraft's contact with French radar, French air traffic controllers, ended at 10.53 am at an altitude of about 6,000 feet. The plane then crashed," German wings' Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann told a news conference.

Winkelmann also said that routine maintenance of the aircraft was performed by Lufthansa on Monday.

Experts said that while the Airbus had descended rapidly, its rate of descent did not suggest it had simply fallen out of the sky.

France's DGAC aviation authority said air traffic controllers initiated distress procedures after they lost contact with the Airbus.

"The aircraft did not itself make a distress call but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft's descent which led the controller to implement the distress phase," a DGAC spokesman said.

In emergencies, pilots are trained to try to fly the aircraft as their first priority, then pay attention to navigation and only then communicate with the ground.

The aircraft came down in an alpine region known for skiing, hiking and rafting, but which is hard for rescue services to reach. The search and recovery effort based itself in a gymnasium in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes, which has a small private aerodrome nearby.

Storms, snow, cloud

As helicopters and emergency vehicles assembled, the weather was reported to be closing in.

"There will be a lot of cloud cover this afternoon, with local storms, snow above 1,800 metres and relatively low clouds. That will not help the helicopters in their work," an official from the local weather centre told Reuters.

Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr, who planned to go to the crash site, spoke of a "dark day for Lufthansa".

"My deepest sympathy goes to the families and friends of our passengers and crew," Lufthansa said on Twitter, citing Spohr.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would travel to the site on Wednesday. German wings and the Catalan regional government were preparing to take Spanish relatives there.

Family members arrived at Barcelona's El Prat airport, many crying and with arms around each others' shoulders, accompanied by police and airport staff.

In Llinars del Valles, the Spanish village that hosted the German schoolchildren, Mayor Marti Pujol said the whole village was distraught. "The families knew each other," he told Reuters. "The parents had been to see them off at 6 this morning."

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain called off a state visit to France in a sign of mourning for the victims. They had arrived in Paris minutes after the crash happened.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said his thoughts and prayers were with Germany and Spain after what he called the "awful tragedy".

Airbus confirmed that the plane was 24 years old, having first been delivered to Lufthansa in 1991. It was powered by engines made by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France's Safran. – Reuters, March 25, 2015.

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GST - And Continues

BUKIT AMAN: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar described as "barbaric" the actions of a group of anti-GST protestors at the Federal Customs headquarters and Kelana Jaya police station on Monday.

"I'm confused, what do these individuals want?

"If they wanted to express their grouses over the implementation of GST or have their questions answered, why the need to break into government offices?" he told reporters after attending prayers in conjunction with Police Day celebrations.

The demonstrators, among them Parti Socialist Malaysia activists, had walked into the Customs headquarters in Kelana Jaya at 11am demanding answers to 106 questions relating to the GST.

They wanted to speak to and hand over a memorandum to the Customs director-general on the tax regime.

Police, along with the FRU, later barricaded the office complex and barred anyone from entering with a group of protesters still inside.

At least 80 people were later taken away in a police truck at the end of the protest.

However, scores of people converged at the Kelana Jaya police station later in the night with the FRU on stand by to control the crowd.

Asked if there was a need for the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) to be deployed at both locations, Khalid said the FRU would be used if there was a need.

"The Selangor police chief has my green light to use the FRU.

"At the moment, let the Selangor police handle this case before action is taken against those who broke the law.

"We will take stern action against them as we can't afford to let this situation continue," he said, adding that the situation at the Customs headquarters and police station were under control.

lvbala said,

Can anyone called us Malaysian as Barbaric???? When we are claimed to act as Barbaric it will make you a Barbaric person, would you agree?

And if not, can I say, You behave like a PIG... will he agree and settle down with it??

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HUDUD - Nazri Aziz

Hudud is unsuitable for Malaysia and those who discuss it are fools, former de facto law minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said today, becoming the first Umno minister to openly dismiss the implementation of the Islamic penal code in Kelantan.

Nazri, who is now Tourism Minister, said hudud could only be implemented by amending the Federal Constitution and this would require two-thirds of legislators in Parliament to support it.

"No need to discuss something that will not happen. It's stupid for anyone to even be discussing hudud," he told reporters in the Parliament lobby today.

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lvbala said, 

These are some comments done by the the UMNO minister with regards to HUDUD. He got the point of course. But whether it is practical to practice or to implement is another story chapter. In politics, anything can happen, anything is possible.  But the core identification of the exception is base on the rational theory which meant to be practical.

Hudud or not Hudud come base on majority support. It also must be considered in implementing to non Muslim as well. Can a HUDUD applicable to non Muslims?

These are the questions which need to be considered and practiced base on rationalism and humanitarian concept.

It is not that  we are against it, because nothing is to be against when something is proven to be good to all.  If implementing HUDUD is good for all and benefit for the citizen, it should be welcomed.

Rationalism and humanatarian is a must to practice HUDUD as this law has been practice many manyt years and centuries ago and whether it is suitable or not must be considered. Other countries who practice HUDUD should be exampled and shared.

When all views are considered, than HUDUD should be in place without any excuses.


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RIP - LEE KUAN YEW

RIP - LEE KUAN YEW

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Malaysia Boleh - Sickening Citizens.

The police will take action against any party who tries to incite hatred against non-Malays. 

Kuala Lumpur CID chief Senior Asst Comm Zainuddin Ahmad said those caught doing so would be detained under the Sedition Act. 

“We will not tolerate anyone who tries to influence others to discriminate against any particular race or religion. 

“We will take action under the Sedition Act,” he said when contacted on Friday. 

SAC Zainuddin was commenting on a poster being circulated, urging Muslims to gather at Dataran Merdeka on Saturday, in a bid to pressure the Government to drive away non-Malays from the country. 

“So far we have not received any indication that the demonstration will be held,” he said.

lvbala said,

I am posting this second article of mine after I posted the first one just a couple of minutes ago.

I am happy to hear and read the above statement from SAC Zainuddin Ahmad. Thats the way it should be.

I felt funny too, to receive such a treat from fellow country man to gather and chase away non Muslims from this country. I felt this must be another sickening thought that comes from those was mentally retarded deceased.

Anyway, this world is going to end soon as mentioned in all region and let it end by the name of GOD. 

And so we can have another new world created by GOD and let new way of ADAM & EVE thinking human produced.

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Does Malaysia Safe To Live? - Mohamad Tajuddin

The latest incident about a BFM newsreader being threatened with death, rape and being burnt alive by those whom  I assume to be Malay-Muslim netizens brings forth serious questions for this country.

Is this country safe for our children to live in? If a simple point of view is raised against such issue as hudud or even such issue as democracy and clean elections can produce outburst of murder, rape and burning people alive, what does it say about our country, its citizens and our leadership? Where did this culture come from?

I have noticed that the ones making threats of this nature come from mostly Malays who I assume are Muslim. Where did we, as a nation go wrong in educating these Malays? What are we teaching in our secondary schools? More importantly are our public universities producing people of such culture?

I sincerely hope that those who made the threats have never stepped foot in our public universities because if not I would like to ask these Vice Chancellors, what kind of Malay Malaysians are you producing? Yes, they are passable engineers and architects but are they barely passable Malaysian citizens, or passable Muslims or worse are they even passable human beings with a humane conscience? "Apa sudah jadi?" I have been to mosques and I have listened to thousands of youtube ceramah by our so called eminent ustazs and I know that their understanding of Islam is a strong contributor to the kinds of comments made by these young social media users.

Although I feel anger towards these netizens that have made the threats like it was just a “terminator” movie of mowing people down with a big machine guns, but I am ready to forgive them because I know it was our society that have created such a culture.

When the Prophet Muhammad was faced with the persecution of the young people of Taif till his body was bloodied, he stood in front of the angel Gabriel at the command of a host of a heavenly army ready to eliminate the people of Taif, he said,”No, do not do anthing against these people because they knew not what there are doing. Perhaps future generations may accept my message if these people do not at the present time.”

The Prophet had the magnanimity to forgive these people because he knew those that threw the stones and rocks are teenagers and young adults being influenced by their elders.  I am afraid, our religious scholars may be teaching a brand of Islam that is very much distant from the examples of the holy Prophet himself.

With this incident I ask Malaysians again… are we safe to raise our children in this country? If not, should we start looking elsewhere and create a much safer place for our children to have a future? I write these words with a heavy heart. I write these words as a concerned Malaysian citizen and as a simple Muslim for the sake of all our children.

And finally, I write these words as the father of Aisyah Mohd Tajuddin, the BFM girl. – March 20, 2015.

*Professor Dr Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi reads The Malaysian Insider. 

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.

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lvbala,

When someone question how safe you are to live in your own country, matter of fact, this is something serious to be looked into.

In fact, situation will be worse when you don't feel safe in your own house and when you have no where to go, and where and which direction you shall turn too?

Mostly, in worst case scenario, If anyone, who face this situation in their own place, the first thing they do is to run away because of their family safely.

But, but in fact...... if they were cornered, they will fight back. Their fight back shall be deadly and dangerous. It will be mortal, and shall continue to spread and the fight back shall prolong to next generation.

This is what we have witnessed in many country around the world. Sri Langkan Tamils is one of many ethnic that fought back. Deadly fight back and hatred can last for generations. 

Revenge and mentally attached hatred shall move on till dead shall do apart.

Mostly, people who are affected by RELIGIOUS and race base hatred, shall take this hatred till the end of their life.   

And so, if we are living in a country with many ethnics and believe, we should be sensitive and practice sensitivity.

But mainly, those who are living in Islamic country or living in a country which Islam is the official religion, we shall be facing this issues. If you don't agree with me, than look into the historical evidence surround you. 

Ask this question and find out yourself.. 

1. Who are those believers is fighting through out this world, by the name of GOD or by the name of religion?.
2. Even in the country with minorities, they still do face the same issue and it comes from the them.
3. Even in the country which face worst economic issues to the extend of no meal on the plate, they still fight for their religious right.
4. And now, Malaysia is challenged by those still in lime of religious matters. They are trying to be religious and stay united by the name of religion but they are intend to make the same mistake which I am looking to be serious problem in future.

I would never understand the stand but I am clearly understand that mankind s are no more can be tolerant when comes to Religion and GOD mission. 

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