Abang Nara suka betul dengan pelakon-pelakon wanita yang berubah ke arah kebaikan selepas berkahwin. Ini bermakna mereka menghormati maruah dan berusaha untuk menjaga air muka si suami. Salah seorang daripada mereka ialah Liyana Jasmay yang telah mendirikan rumahtangganya awal tahun ini.

Liyana Jasmay bakal menjalani penggambaran filem Sindiket arah Bade di mana ada babak yang wataknya dirogol dan memakai pakaian seksi. Apa yang membuatkan Abang Nara bertambah respek kepada Liyana Jasmay ialah kerisauannya mengenai babak tersebut sehingga dia terus meminta penjelasan daripada Bade. Kata Liyana Jasmay:-
Teruja dapat kerja semula dengan uncle Bade. Cuma mula-mula tu saya risau bila dapat tahu saya terlibat dengan babak rogol dan memerlukan saya pakai seksi. Sebenarnya masa sebelum kahwin pun, saya tak pernah bawa watak yang terlalu dark macam ni. Kalau ada pun masa berlakon dalam Castello, tapi yang tu pun biasa-biasa jer.
Saya memang dari dulu pun tak boleh kalau babak sentuh-sentuh. Apatah lagi sekarang, saya kena jaga hati suami. Berlakon tu belakon lah tapi tak boleh lah overboard, kan. Tapi bila uncle Bade terangkan yang masa saya lakonkan babak tu nanti nampak saja macam ada sentuhan tapi sebenarnya tidak, jadi saya okay dan terima. Untuk babak pakai seksi tu pun dia kata, saya setakat pakai skirt pendek, gaya macam orang pergi clubbing.

Kerisauan sebeginilah yang kita inginkan di dalam diri seorang isteri. Fikirkan suami di dalam apa jua perkara yang ingin dilakukan walaupun sekadar lakonan. Mana tahu selepas ini Liyana Jasmay akan lebih banyak berubah ke arah kebaikan. Yang penting, permulaan itu sudah ada. Tak gitu? Info asal MalaysianDigest.
P.S: Adakah ini Toyota Corolla Altis generasi baru?
Menarik juga cara persiapan daripada segi fizikal dan rohani yang telah dilakukan oleh Linda Hashim menjelang perkahwinannya dengan Beego pada 7 Jun ini. Untuk makluman, mereka berdua akan dinikahkan di Masjid Usamah Bin Zaid, Seksyen 2, Wangsa Maju selepas solat Isyak.

Berkata kepada Mstar Online, Linda Hashim memberitahu yang dia banyak melakukan solat hajat dan solat taubat di samping berdoa agar majlis perkahwinannya akan berjalan dengan lancar. Kata Linda:-
Sebagai persiapan diri, saya banyak buat solat sunat taubat dan hajat. Sebagai manusia biasa kita banyak melakukan kesilapan dan kalau boleh perkara baik ini Allah akan memudahkannya. Saya takut kalau demam atau sakit pada hari itu nanti, jadi saya jaga pemakanan dan ambil vitamin tambahan untuk tambah tenaga. Selain itu, saya juga lebih berhati-hati kerana orang tua-tua kata nak jadi pengantin baru, ‘darah manis’ tapi terpaksa jugalah keluar buat apa yang patut

Insya Allah benda yang baik akan dipermudahkan olehNya. Sama-samalah kita doakan agar majlis pernikahan Beego dan Linda Hashim akan berjalan lancar. Apa pun, Abang Nara ingin ucapkan tahniah in advance kepada bakal mempelai kita. Semoga bahagia dan kekal bersama sehingga ke akhir hayat.
P.S: Baby mugging – trend blogger mama di UK




vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, Storage DRS, Storage I/O Control, VMware HA, and FT are distributed services that enable efficient and automated resource management and high availability for virtual machines.

Live migration using vMotion is the first step towards an automated and much more flexible IT environment because it truly frees the OS and application workloads from the underlying physical hardware. Virtual machines run on and consume resources from the ESXi host. vMotion enables the migration of live virtual machines from one physical server to another without service interruption. Simply saying, the notion of planned downtime goes away. This Live migration capability allows virtual machines to move from a heavily loaded server to a lightly loaded one. The result is a more efficient assignment of resources. With vMotion, resources can be dynamically reallocated across physical hosts.
Storage vMotion enables live migration of a virtual machine’s storage to a new datastore with no downtime.
Migrating single virtual machines and their disks from one datastore to another is possible because a virtual machine is composed of a set of files. Even the virtual machine’s disks are encapsulated in files. Migrating a virtual machine’s disks is accomplished by moving all the files associated with the virtual machine from one datastore to another. Extending the vMotion technology to storage helps the vSphere administrator to leverage storage tiering, perform tuning and balancing, and control capacity with no application downtime.
vSphere 5.0 uses a mirrored-mode approach for Storage vMotion. In this new architecture, Storage vMotion copies disk blocks between source and destination and replaces the need for the iterative pre-copy phase. This was used in the Changed Block Tracking (CBT) method in earlier versions of vSphere. With I/O mirroring, a single-pass copy of the disk blocks from the source to the destination is performed. I/O mirroring ensures that any newly changed blocks in the source are mirrored at the destination. There is also a block-level bitmap that identifies hot and cold blocks of the disk, or whether the data in a given block is already mirrored in the destination disk.

Kalau anda pengikut setia Instagram Leuniey Natasha, anda pasti akan perasan yang semenjak dua ini kebanyakan gambar yang dikongsikan oleh Leuniey menunjukkan dirinya bertudung. Namun ramai yang tertanya-tanya sama ada Leuniey sudah berhijab sepenuhnya atau sekadar mencuba sahaja.

Terbaru menerusi portal Murai, Leuniey membuat pengakuan yang dirinya sudah berhijab sepenuhnya sejak 2 minggu lalu. Kata Leuniey:-
Sebenarnya saya baru sahaja berhijab penuh sejak 2 minggu lalu dan sekarang sedang dalam proses untuk biasakan diri bertudung apabila keluar. Bukan apa, terus-terang saya sudah lama simpan niat untuk bertudung ini Cuma tunggu masa saya benar-benar bersedia untuk tampil kekal dengan berhijab. Tak mahu lah jadi bila rimas dan panas saya suka-suka bukak.

Pasti Apek adalah orang yang paling gembira dengan penghijrahan ini. Agak menarik membaca perkongsian kisah penghijrahan Leuniey yang mengalami kepayahan ketika mula-mula berhijab. Kata Leuniey:-
Mula-mula susah juga nak sesuaikan diri dengan bertudung setiap masa apabila di luar, yelah dengan cauca yang agak panas dan sebagainya. Lama kelamaan selepas belajar bagaimana hendak bertudung, saya pun kini sudah semakin selesa dan tenang dengan penghijarahan ini

Leuniey dan Apek akan pergi mengerjakan umrah bersama-sama pada bulan Ramadhan ini. Jadi Leuniey mengambil persediaan dengan memakai tudung sepenuhnya sebelum ke Tanah Suci kelak. Apa-apa pun, tahniah kepada Leuniey atas penghijrahan ini. Semoga hidup anda dan suami akan lebih bahagia dan dirahmati selepas ini
P.S: Volkswagen Beetle 1.4 TSI kini di Malaysia





Bukan semua wanita boleh kekal cantik sewaktu hamil. Namun bagi pelakon berbakat besar Izreen Azminda, beliau tampak semakin cantik dan berseri sepanjang kehamilannya.


Mungkin inilah keistimewaan mengandung, saya menjadi lebih feminin dan rajin memasak. Bayangkan selama ini, saya tidaklah rajin sangat memasak dan kemahiran juga tidak seberapa.
Sejak duduk di rumah, saya membeli buku masakan dan rajin pula menerokai pelbagai resipi yang tidak pernah saya cuba sebelum ini.
Untuk info, filem lakonan Izreen berjudul Pecah akan mula ditayangkan 13 Jun ini. Ianya ialah sebuah filem bergenre thriller yang diadaptasi dari novel karya Nizam Bakeri juga dengan judul yang sama.


A while back, Huawei had an event at Titiwangsa lake to launch their new Android devices. The theme was ‘Ascend to New Heights’, hence the use of a hot air balloon there.

Everyone was welcome with the view of the hot air balloon

Since we were early, we got to ride it without queueing. AWSM!

Booms!

Then it was the launch announcement

… and one of the devices

The big guys from Huawei then rode the balloon and went to space

We the bloggers… lacking balloons.. tried to catch up by jumping.
dtsv.dtse_post_6707_permalink = 'http://www.smashpop.net/ascending-to-new-heights-on-hot-air-balloon'; dtsv.dtse_post_6707_title = 'Ascending To New Heights On Hot Air Balloon!';Kontroversi yang melanda Afiq Muiz dan ibunya ternyata mendapat perhatian selebriti-selebriti tanah air. Rata-rata menasihatkan Afiq agar segera memohon maaf kepada ibunya. Fizo Omar turut tidak terkecuali untuk memberikan sedikit nasihat dan teguran kepada Afiq.

Abang Nara tertarik dengan perkongsian cerita Fizo Omar mengenai kehidupannya. Kata Fizo kepada Mstar Online:-
Dahulu saya pernah susah, gaji pun tidak seberapa, tetapi masih mampu memberikan sedikit wang kepada ibu. Dan selepas itu semestinya ibu akan mendoakan buat anaknya agar berjaya pada masa akan datang. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa ibu, saya masih kukuh sebagai pelakon dan pada masa sama sudah memiliki 30 buah francais perniagaan burger (Hot Burger) di bawah syarikat saya F120 Enterprise. Tidak lama lagi saya akan membuka syarikat produksi menerbitkan drama pula, Insya-Allah

Sememangnya doa seorang ibu sangat penting di dalam menentukan kejayaan hidup seorang anak. Doa ibu adalah antara doa yang paling senang dimakbulkan olehNya. Tambah Fizo Omar lagi:-
Kalau nak diikutkan, Afiq masih belum berjaya sepenuhnya tetapi nama dia sedang meningkat naik. Dengan keadaan dia tidak meminta maaf kepada ibu, saya percaya hatinya susah untuk menjadi tenang. Jangan kecilkan hati mereka. Kita kena terima hakikat bahawa orang tua mudah terasa hati. Perlu diingat, mereka tidak inginkan wang kita melainkan masa yang diluangkan bersama. Nilai wang yang kita beri kepada mereka tiada tandingnya berbanding apa yang telah dilakukan sejak mengandungkan kita lagi.
Fuh ~~ Memang insap sungguh kata-kata nasihat Fizo Omar ini. Kena sejibik kat dahi Afiq Muiz. Malah Fizo turut berkata yang dia sanggup berpisah dengan kekasih demi ibunya. Bagi Fizo, ibunya pasti ada sebab-sebab tertentu tidak menyukai kekasih hatinya. Memang bagus betullah Fizo Omar ini. Inilah contoh anak lelaki mithali yang kita cari selama ini. Tak gitu?
IN JAIL, Anwar Ibrahim read a lot of Shakespeare. To understand Malaysian politics, the opposition leader says, you have to know Macbeth, a tragedy of overweening political ambition. For the government, the ambition defacing the country’s politics is that of Mr Anwar himself, to become Malaysia’s prime minister. He had promised to retire if he lost the general election held on May 5th. “But we won,” he says.
That is not how the government sees it. Though the opposition coalition which Mr Anwar leads, Pakatan Rakyat, got 51% of the votes, it won only 40% of the seats in parliament. Years of gerrymandering favour the Barisan Nasional coalition that has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957. Mr Anwar also alleges outright electoral fraud. He has been leading protest rallies around the country against the “theft” of the election.
In his Sisyphean struggle to reach the peak of Malaysian politics, he has come close before. In the 1990s he was deputy prime minister and prospective leader of the government he was to turn against. For a moment in 1998 it seemed as if a people-power movement might sweep him to office. Instead, he spent six years in jail on charges of sodomy (later overturned). After the previous election, in 2008, he again seemed on the brink, claiming enough members of parliament were ready to defect from the government to give Pakatan a majority. It came to naught.
So, most likely, will his current campaign. Pakatan is to file petitions challenging the result in as many as 31 of the 222 constituencies. But this drawn-out process is not likely to overturn the result, and neither is a lawsuit against the election commission—for allegedly defrauding the nation by marking voters’ fingers with “indelible” ink that soon rubbed off. The rallies’ purpose, admits a leader of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), one of Pakatan’s three components, is “to keep the torch alight”. That is helped by anger at the arrest of three opposition leaders and a student activist under a sedition law the government had promised to repeal, and by raids on opposition newspapers.
No opposition leader wants the torch to light a conflagration on the streets in the hope of toppling the government in a Malaysian spring. Yet Mr Anwar argues that the rallies must continue nonetheless: “If we don’t force them to change now,” he says of the ruling coalition, “they will never change.”
For all that, it seems likely that the protests will eventually peter out and that Pakatan will have to knuckle down to another stint in opposition. Whether the next election will be fairer is another matter. Two of the biggest injustices are unlikely to go. The media, except online, are slavishly pro-government. Constituency boundaries are to be redrawn this year. But the opposition trusts neither the election commission, which will propose changes, nor the government, which will approve them.
Pakatan suffers friction among its disparate members—the Islamic, ethnic-Malay PAS, Mr Anwar’s multiracial Keadilan and the Democratic Action Party (DAP), whose support comes mainly from the ethnic-Chinese minority, about a quarter of the population. Barisan, a coalition dominated by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), may try to split Pakatan, by tempting the DAP or PAS, or both, into the government.
Mr Anwar says that, since the election, Barisan has already been trying to woo him. It has also emerged that, before an election he expected to win, he signed a secret agreement with his nemesis, the UMNO leader and prime minister, Najib Razak. Under the deal, brokered by Jusuf Kalla, a former vice-president of Indonesia and an old friend of both men, they promised that they would eschew personal mudslinging during the campaign, that the loser would accept the outcome, and that the winner would govern in a spirit of “national reconciliation”. Mr Anwar excised another clause promising a government of national unity. He says that he feared UMNO would not willingly give up power. Mr Anwar says the agreement was invalidated by government cheating at the polls. As it happens, Mr Najib never physically signed the deal, saying he needed to consult his coalition. But he did at least mention “national reconciliation” in his victory speech.
Reconciliation seems distant. And Mr Najib’s problems may be even bigger than the opposition’s. Unusually for a victorious incumbent, he argues for a change in “our attitude, strategy, programmes and approach”. A radical idea has been floated: turning the Barisan coalition, whose Chinese and Indian bits took a hammering at the election, into a proper, multi-ethnic party. And to show that he means to deal with corruption—the biggest reason for Barisan’s waning popularity—Mr Najib has appointed to his cabinet Paul Low, a former head of the Malaysian arm of Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog. Mr Low says his job requires “changing the system”. The system will resist.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Mr Najib has his job by dint of his leadership of UMNO. He comes up for re-election at a party congress later this year. His predecessor as prime minister and party leader was ousted by colleagues. By contrast, Mr Najib, more popular than his party, may survive. “I think the party will support him because of a lack of an alternative,” is the ringing endorsement from Mahathir Mohamad, who once dominated Malaysian politics. But UMNO hardliners may make reform difficult. Having lost the Chinese vote, for example, they may oppose further erosion of affirmative-action policies favouring ethnic Malays.
The opposition, meanwhile, is confident. Barisan is also losing the votes of growing numbers of city-dwellers and of the young. Pakatan has the momentum. Mr Anwar, however, is 65. With no obvious successor, he seems in a hurry. Lim Guan Eng, the DAP’s leader, is upbeat about the opposition’s hopes: “The future is not theirs; it’s ours.” But it is not necessarily Mr Anwar’s.
Susah juga menjadi wanita “hot” seperti Rita Rudaini ini. Asal buat sesuatu sahaja, pasti ada kontroversi yang menjelma. Terbaru, Rita telah melancarkan produk kecantikannya yang diberi nama RS Collagen. Terus timbul gosip bahawa huruf “S” itu adalah pangkal nama buat seorang Datuk yang menajanya.

Berkata kepada Utusan Malaysia, Rita Rudaini menerangkan yang huruf “S” itu adalah singkatan buat rakan kongsinya, Saleha. Kata Rita:-
Sebenarnya, nama RS Collagen itu adalah gabungan nama saya, Rita dan Saleha. Bukan nama pangkal Datuk S. Saya dan Saleha merupakan rakan niaga untuk produk ini dan kami fikir, tidak salahnya jika kami mencantumkan nama untuk produk kami.

Abang Nara sebenarnya suka apabila artis-artis tempatan mula menceburi bidang perniagaan. Itu satu langkah yang amat baik. Iyerlah, nak diharapkan sumber rezeki daripada lakonan sahaja, sampai bila akan bertahan kan? Abang Nara suka dengan semangat Rita yang tidak ambil peduli dengan gosip murahan sebegini.
Mungkin sebab status saya kini yang menyebabkan timbul pelbagai cerita yang kurang enak. Apatah lagi dengan keadaan saya sekarang, tiba-tiba mengeluarkan produk kecantikan terus dikaitkan dengan lelaki berpangkat Datuk. Biarlah apa orang hendak kata tentang saya kerana yang penting, tumpuan saya kini kepada kerjaya dan serta perniagaan saya yang semakin mendapat sambutan.
Kepada Rita, semoga RS Collagen akan mendapat sambutan yang hangat di masa depan. Teruskan berniaga. Jangan cepat putus asa. Mana tahu memang rezeki Rita ada dalam bidang ini. Good luck and all the best.
P.S: Generasi baru Hyundai i20
MP Nurul Izzah Anwar was on her way to celebrate Kaamatan with her fellow Malaysians when she was held back by Sabah Immigration allegedly under Sabah Chief Minister Department’s instruction before being forcibly deported back to Semenanjung Malaysia.
I condemn this act, more so because Izzah was visiting Sabah to celebrate Pesta Kaamatan in her personal capacity. It makes it all political with no purpose and hurt our state’s reputation as hosts.
Nurul Izzah arrived at Kota Kinabalu Airport around 645pm via Air Asia on 30th May 2013 and was to return back on the evening of 31st May 2013 to Semenanjung Malaysia.
Immigration Department Sabah informed YB Nurul Izzah that the Chief Minister’s department had decided to bar her and many more personalities from Peninsula Malaysia from entering Sabah henceforth.
The right of entry is Sabah Government’s constitutional right but it should not be abused, more so since there are evidence (as revealed in the ongoing Royal Commission of Inquiry) that illegal immigrants have entered and not confronted by the same level of scrutiny as the re-elected parliamentarian of Lembah Pantai and my party’s (KeADILan) vice-president.
Why is it that Malaysians joining a festive celebration with fellow Malaysians especially the Kadazans from Sabah and in Sabah now a reason for denial of entry? I personally met at the airport while waiting for YB Nurul Izzah the many Malaysians from West Malaysia (who took the same flight with YB Izzah) who had told me that they came to Sabah to join in the Kaamatan festivity at KDCA, Penampang. They were equally concerned that YB Izzah was detained by Sabah Immigration and this has indeed shamed us in Sabah.
Nurul Izzah is an elected MP, a mother of two, a loving wife and poses no threat at all to the security of my state. The Sabah Immigration Department and those instructing it to carry this order should be ashamed of themselves. I challenge the Chief Minister and the State Cabinet to explain to the people of Sabah and Malaysia as a whole why this act had happened.
DARELL LEIKING
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, PENAMPANG
At the current age of 87, former premier Mahathir is running out of time. He needs to position his son, Mukhriz Mahathir, at least as UMNO deputy president before he kicks the bucket. He deliberately lobbied two of his “budak suruhan” (boy-servants), Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Nordin, to be fielded as candidates in the 13th General Election, knowing well in advance that they would be roasted like Kenny Rogers Roasters. Both candidates who made headlines due to their racism can only survive in rural UMNO stronghold, not urban Shah Alam nor PAS’s area Pasir Mas. And why would Mahathir send both to the slaughterhouse?
Mahathir believed BN would win hands down. Opposition would need the help of all the Gods combined in the universe to win the just concluded 13th general election. Based on the strong assumption that more Malays, Indians and Chinese would vote for BN as compared to 2008 tsunami, the hope of regaining two-thirds majority was very real. Hence Mahathir’s dilemma – if Najib could regain the lost two-thirds majority, the latter would be invincible and this will definitely strengthen the then caretaker prime minister’s grip on the throne. He needs to somehow weaken Najib by sending the much tainted Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Nordin. Najib can win but cannot do so with a landslide victory.
Meanwhile, Najib thought he would do better than his predecessor sleepy head Abdullah Badawi. Even if he couldn’t regain two-thirds majority, he should have no problem getting more than 140 parliamentary seats achieved by Badawi. He was ill-advised by his team of advisors – that he couldn’t possibly do any worse than Badawi considering the free flow of money, food, beers, sexy ladies, lucky draws and whatnot to the Chinese voters especially in Penang. For the first time in their lifetime, the Chinese were treated like a King and Penang island was transformed into heaven.
Najib also put on Chinese costume and played drum like a clown during Chinese New Year to amuse the Chinese. He believed he was freaking popular with the Chinese and he particularly proud of his “Ah Jib Gor” Chinese name. He promised new Chinese schools wherever he went. Underground betting was also doing brisk business with RM100 win for RM1 bet in favour of Lim Guan Eng’s defeat. According to rumour mill, the stake was so high that you can sell your vote for as much as RM6,000 a piece in Penang. Then came the mega crowd to almost every single opposition’s ceramah.
But these opposition ceramahs attracted mainly the Chinese especially towards the end of the campaign period. With every new ceramah, the Chinese participants increased greatly. While Najib rubbished such pattern as a new threat, Mahathir was quite worried about the Chinese swing. That was why he put on “TSI” (Turbocharged Stratified Injection) mode and screamed every day till foam at mouth about Malay losing power. If Mahathir did nothing, the rural Malays could have given landslide victory to opposition. Najib would be biting his index finger in disbelief till today. Still, Mahathir miscalculated the quantum of the Chinese swing.
The swing of Chinese votes easily breached 90% in most of the constituencies, something which is as rare as finding dinosaur fossils in Malaysia. So whileMahathir lied about not expecting Najib to do worse than Abdullah Badawi, he was honest about didn’t expect the Chinese to dump BN in such a scale. That was why he was emotional and upset about the Chinese, so much so that he didn’t hold back in accusing the Chinese “rejected the hand of friendship” extended by (UMNO) Malays, never mind it was not true in the first place. He was seen openly and deliberately provoking Malays against the Chinese. Obviously it would be to BN’s advantage if Malays start to distrust the Chinese.
Najib needs to survive his next test – UMNO election – hence his parroting about ungrateful Chinese was expected. Actually, Najib is still in a daze, not knowing the root cause of the Chinese’ rejection despite all the goodies and entertainment given to them (*grin*). You don’t need to be a genius to predict that Chinese will once again become UMNO’s punching bag in its coming general assembly. In fact, Mahathir thought it would be a waste of time to recapture Chinese votes by way of sweet-talk them. If the only way to divide the Malays and Chinese is to play racist card again, so be it. The Chinese needs to be intimidated in order for them to go back in droves to BN’s arm like herd of sheep.
Anwar Ibrahim realizes that Mahathir’s latest extreme racial game will have a huge impact on his coalition and he needs to diffuse it fast. If the Chinese do not get the backing from their Malay comrades, they would be too scare to throw their support for PR again in the future. Pakatan Rakyat would be history come next 14th general election. That was why Anwar called for a mega rally, the first after election, to rubbish the “Chinese Tsunami” scare tactictrumpeted by both Mahathir and Najib. Some speculated the reason why police flip-flop about permit requirement for yesterday’s rally, held in Kelana Jaya stadium, was to embarrass Anwar Ibrahim as the spooked Chinese and partners, DAP and PAS, would most probably not present.
However, despite last minute notice, the stadium was packed to the brim.Social media research group Politweet.org estimated the crowd size in and around the stadium at between 64,000 and 69,000, given that the stadium capacity is about 25,000. Some claimed there were easily 100,000 people who answered the call last night, with thousands more stuck in traffic and couldn’t make it to the stadium. If Anwar and Najib administration’s objective was to test the waters as to the relevance of Pakatan Rakyat post 13th general election, the people particularly the young chaps have overwhelmingly given their endorsement to the leadership of Anwar to continue the struggle, judging from Wednesday’s mind-boggling success.
Psychologically, Anwar Ibrahim knew Najib administration would be very careful not to add fuel into the already furious opposition supporters. It would be suicidal to deploy police or FRU and start arresting the public, or to spray them with water cannon, and in the process agitates the situation. It’s always better to let these frustrated people scream till their lungs burst in the stadium. They need to release their steam. Anwar was actually praying for a police crackdown, the more brutal the better, because then he can easily put the blame on Najib’s administration and attracts more sympathizers. Too bad Najib didn’t give Anwar the bullet.
Anwar can now replicate the same rally to other towns throughout the country in order to push the momentum going. Armed with 51.4% of popular votes against BN’s 48.6%, Anwar is set to spread the message of PR’s victory being stolen. Anwar knows that the “flames of desire” amongst the youngsters is his only hope if he still wish to become the country’s 7th prime minister. If there’s one person who knows how to rally people by taking advantage of their sentiments, that person has to be Anwar Ibrahim. Pakatan Rakyat can also take comfort from White House’s congratulatory announcement that comes with a note about irregularities.
As much as Mahathir hates to admit it, this war is far from over. Unless PAS or DAP defects from the current coalition, the future doesn’t look good for BN, if they still intends to recapture Selangor or Penang state. Just like the excessive parties thrown in by BN during the campaign, playing too much racism toys could backfire badly. Mahathir made his biggest mistake by picking Anwar Ibrahim from Abim movement (Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia) to be nurtured as future prime minister. Will he make another fatal mistake by playing racial card only to unite all the multiracial technology-aware voters instead?
Do you know why Anwar tweeted that his coalition PR has won the election just after two hours into the counting process? On its own, PR couldn’t posibly win the election. At best, it could force BN into chaos with a single digit majority win. What gave Anwar the confidence of tweeting such message was his pact with Sarawak and Sabah greedy politicians in the BN coalition. Anwar had been having tons of meetings with these politicians especially the corrupted Sarawak Chief Minister. With double digits frogs ready to jump, depending on the “rewards”, Anwar was damn sure he would be the country’s 7th prime minister.
Again, Anwar couldn’t keep his cool and his early tweet raised red flags. BN’s war room’s director Mahathir was notified of this troubling tweet message and the old fox decided to triple BN’s insurance coverage. Massive frauds or not, BN just couldn’t take lightly of Anwar’s tweet hence the extraordinary delay in releasing the results. That was why you saw only the BN’s parliamentary scoreboards kept churning new score while the opposition PR’s own scorecard practically didn’t move at all. In certain seats, requests for recount was ignored totally. The priority was to ensure Election Commission announce officially that BN has win the election with comfortable majority seats. Thereafter PR can have the remaining leftovers (*hats off to genius BN*).
Nevertheless, Mahathir was right when he questioned Najib’s strategists, whose ideas may have contributed to BN’s poor performance. If only Najib has strategists such as DAP’s Liew Chin Tong – one of the brilliant architects who proposed and justified that the war should be brought to BN’s stronghold, Johor. But considering how Najib was obsessed with becoming popular as if he was running for the President of the United Malaysia, it wasn’t hard to guess what type of strategists that fit his bill. Najib’s advertising and marketing method was “overkill” to the extent people got sick and tired with its propaganda.
Najib and Mahathir should realize that by cursing and victimizing the Chinese is not a long-term solution, unless of course they’ve given up on their future votes in totality. Still, what do they plan to do next? Close all the Chinese schools, force all of them into unemployment and stop providing them electricity, gas and water as punishment for being naughty? And in return the Chinese stop paying taxes? Gimme a break. It’s better to hedge on more funds – Malays, Chinese and others – rather than to burn the bridge with the Chinese and rely on one less fund in its next general election.
Najib administration has to remember that urban Malays were also in the same boat as the Chinese in rejecting his coalition. It’s time for BN to really ponder on its next course of direction. Will there be more Bersih 4.0 till version 8.0 rallies, assuming it would be an annual event? Surely Ambiga knows Election Commission would not give a hood even if they organize rallies on weekly basis. Perhaps overwhelming internationally political pressure could move the stubborn Election Commission.




Agak menarik membaca penerangan daripada Shah Jaszle kepada Utusan Malaysia mengenai kes khalwat yang berlaku ke atas dirinya baru-baru ini. Menurut Shah Jaszle, dia tidak berdua-duaan sebaliknya ada 5 orang lain ketika serbuan dilakukan oleh JAIS. Agak pelik untuk dikategorikan sebagai khalwat bukan?

Kata Shah Jaszle:-
Apa yang boleh saya katakan bahawa saya sebenarnya telah diperangkap oleh seseorang untuk terlibat dengan kes khalwat. Lagipun, semasa kejadian, saya bukannya duduk berdua-duaan dalam rumah itu, sebaliknya terdapat lima orang lain ketika pihak Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) membuat serbuan.
Menurut Shah Jaszle lagi, bukan tunangnya iaitu Redzwani Puteri yang tampil untuk menjamin dirinya. Wani hanya mengetahui berita ini sekitar waktu tengah hari selepas dikeluarkan di media massa. Apa pun Abang Nara respek kepada kedua-dua belah keluarga Shah Jaszle dan tunangnya kerana tenang menghadapi dugaan ini.
Selepas saya diikat jamin, terus perjumpaan keluarga diadakan melibatkan kedua-dua belah pihak keluarga. Setelah mendengar penjelasan yang diberikan, barulah mereka tahu perkara sebenar yang telah berlaku kepada saya. Malah, keluarga saya sebenarnya lebih faham dengan perangai saya yang sebenarnya tidak berapa gemar untuk bersosial.
Diperangkap atau tidak, sama-samalah kita nantikan perbicaraan kes khalwat ini. Kalau kita berada di pihak yang benar, tiada apa yang perlu ditakutkan. Apa-apa pun, kalau Shah Jaszle dan tunangnya dapat mempercepatkan pernikahan memang lagi molek sebenarnya. Sememangnya tempoh pertunangan cabarannya agak hebat. Tak gitu?
Nama Jovian Mandagie tidak perlu diperkenalkan lagi. Orangnya bukan sahaja kacak, tetapi rekaan bajunya menarik, unik dan sangat awesome. Siti Nurhaliza, Shila Amzah, Lisa Surihani dan ramai lagi selebriti tempatan pernah menggunakan khidmat Jovian Mandagie.

Salah seorang daripada peminat Jovian Mandagie ialah isteri Abang Nara sendiri. Ahad ini adalah ulangtahun perkahwinan kami yang kedua. Wife Abang Nara dengan comelnya telah meminta Abang Nara menghadiahkan sehelai baju di dalam koleksi Falling Feathers by Jovian Mandagie for Zalora.

Walaupun Abang Nara seorang lelaki, diri ini tetap kagum dan terkesima melihat kecantikan rekaan baju Jovian Mandagie for Zalora ini. Memang lain daripada yang lain. Harga pun sangat berpatutan dengan kualiti yang diberikan. Sukar untuk Abang Nara membuat pilihan demi isteri tercinta kerana kesemua rekaan Jovian Mandagie for Zalora cantik-cantik belaka.

Menurut wife Abang Nara, dia nak pakai baju ini ketika Hari Raya Aidilfitri kelak. Abang Nara gembira je asalkan wife nampak cantik di pagi raya. Khas untuk pembaca BeautifulNara, dapatkan diskaun 10% sekiranya anda menggunakan voucher kupon “JOVIANNARA” ketika membuat pembelian koleksi Falling Feathers by Jovian Mandagie for Zalora ini. Kupon ini hanya sah sehingga 13 Jun 2013.

Tunggu apa lagi? Inilah peluang anda untuk tampil bergaya dengan koleksi khas daripada Jovian Mandagie. Layari laman web Zalora sekarang juga dan buat tempahan anda sebelum kehabisan stok.

Defying threats of arrest, organisers of anti-government rallies across Malaysia have called on 500,000 supporters to march on the country’s Election Commission to protest against election fraud.
The call was made to tens of thousands of people at a packed stadium near Kuala Lumpur early on Sunday where Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim demanded that Election Commission officials who oversaw racially divisive national elections on May 5 resign immediately.
”Now, now, now,” Mr Anwar shouted as the crowd roared.
Mr Anwar, a 65-year-old former deputy prime minister, said he planned to step-up a legal campaign over the results in 29 electoral districts after Monday’s deadline for complaints to be lodged.
The three-party Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance won a majority of the popular vote at the election but the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition was returned with 60 per cent of seats because of a gerrymandered electoral system that favours Malay Muslims in rural constituencies.
The rally was the ninth that has drawn large crowds since the elections, which the opposition says were unfair and marred by vote rigging, claims the government denies.
Malaysia’s Home Affairs Minister Zahid Hamidi called the latest rally a ”provocation” but there has been no violence at any of the rallies as police have largely stayed away.
Four opposition politicians and activists have been arrested in the past few days on sedition and other charges, prompting opposition figures to vow to carry on with the protests.
”They are trying to frighten us into submission,” said Azmin Ali, deputy president of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat. ”We must continue to stand up for our rights and dignity.”
No date for the march has been announced.
Meanwhile a secret pre-election pact between Mr Anwar and Prime Minister Najib Razak to respect the outcome of the election has emerged but both sides disagree on the details. Mr Najib has confirmed it was brokered by former Indonesian vice-president Jusuf Kalla.
Mr Anwar has acknowledged he made the pact in April but said it was rendered void by the way Barisan ran the campaign, singling out attacks on the opposition by the government-controlled media.
”How can you talk reconciliation when you demonise your opponent in this manner?” Mr Anwar told the Asian Wall Street Journal, which broke the story of the pact.
Sementara barisan Exco Kerajaan Negeri Selangor baru dilantik, Menteri Besarnya, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim menegaskan akan meneruskan deklarasi yang telah dilakukan sebelum ini termasuk pengisytiharan harta selepas menjawat jawatan dalam pentadbiran negeri.
Menurutnya, setiap penambahan aset semasa Exco tersebut ketika mula bertugas akan dilaporkan termasuk Exco baru dan lama.
Beliau yang juga Adun Pelabuhan Klang berkata, perkara itu akan dilakukan sebelum sidang Dun yang pertama bermula pada 28 Jun depan.
“…21 Jun akan adakan satu upacara angkat sumpah di Dewan, angkat sumpah tersebut menentukan Speaker, Timbalan Speaker dan juga setiap Adun dikehendaki mengangkat sumpah pada hari tersebut.
“Saya ingat yang pengting adalah Exco dahulu, sebab ia bukan sahaja mempunyai tugas yang dipanggil tugas eksekutif,” katanya pada pemberita di Istana Alam Shah, di sini, hari ini selepas istiadat mengangkat sumpah Exco Kerajaan Negeri Selangor.
Selain Selangor, Negeri Sembilan juga mengambil langkah sama dengan meminta kesemua Exconya melakukan pengisytiharan harta.
Perkara itu dinyatakan oleh Menteri Besarnya, Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan yang memberikan tempoh sebulan bermula 22 Mei lalu untuk mengisytiharkan aset masing-masing.
Sehari sebelumnya, Panel Perundingan dan Pencegahan Rasuah Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) menyarankan semua wakil rakyat di Parlimen dan Dun supaya mengisytihar aset setiap tiga tahun.
Ia bagi memastikan integriti pentadbiran negeri di samping mengatasi soal keraguan sepanjang tempoh menjadi wakil rakyat.
PKR menyifatkan mekanisme yang digunakan kerajaan hari ini untuk menurunkan harga kereta ambil masa yang lama dan merugikan sesetengah pihak.
Pengarah Strategi PKR, Rafizi Ramli berkata, menurunkan harga kereta bukan sesuatu yang susah atau mustahil kerana kerajaan hanya perlu menghapuskan cukai eksais sahaja.
“Cara yang mereka buat adalah menekan pembuat dan penjual kereta untuk kurangkan margin, ini tidak adil kerana akan memberi kesan kepada pekerja dan industri pembuat kereta.
“Sebab itu sampai perlu ambil masa yang lama kerana kerajaan mahu pujuk dan tekan pembuat kereta, perlu bincang dan persetujuan terlebih dahulu dengan kemungkinan menawarkan sesuatu yang lain,” katanya kepada selepas sidang media di pejabat PKR semalam.
Ahli Parlimen Pandan itu juga mengingatkan, Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed untuk tidak menggunakan taktik mengaburi mata rakyat dengan pengurangan cukai yang dibuat kerajaan.
“Amaran saya kepada beliau jangan nak guna taktik kurang dua ke tiga peratus setiap tahun, tetapi bila menjelang PRU14 baru nak kurangkan sampai 20 peratus.
“Saya jamin rakyat akan betul-betul marah kerana rakyat sudah faham sepenuhnya bahawa nak kurangkan harga kereta begitu mudah,” katanya.
Beliau berkata, kerajaan BN tidak seperti PR yang akan mengurangkan duti eksais secara serentak 20 peratus yang memperuntukkan RM1 bilion setiap tahun.
“BN hanya mahu kurangkan 30 peratus berperingkat-peringkat, kalau potong lima peratus setiap tahun daripada kutipan RM7 bilion hanya lebih kurang RM300 juta sahaja.
“Takkanlah RM300 juta pun tidak boleh sedangkan Jabatan Perdana Menteri membelanjakan iklan setiap tahun hampir RM100 juta,” katanya.
Menurut Rafizi, beliau dan ahli parlimen PR akan terus mendesak kerajaan menurunkan harga kereta dengan lebih konsisten dan berkesan dalam persidangan di Dewan Rakyat nanti.
“Pendekatan yang digunakan haruslah menyeluruh, bukannya hanya menekan satu-satu pihak sahaja sehingga pihak terbabit terjejas,” katanya.
Terdahulu, firma penyelidikan JF Apex Securities berpendapat, kerajaan mungkin mengambil masa yang lebih lama untuk menurunkan harga kereta memandangkan langkah itu boleh menjejaskan
penguasaan pasaran Proton.
“Kami tidak menjangkakan perubahan dalam tempoh beberapa bulan akan datang, sementara menunggu perkembangan terkini semakan ke atas Dasar Automotif Negara,” kata JF Apex.
JF Apex berkata, pasaran kereta terpakai akan teruk terjejas jika harga kereta dikurangkan antara 20 peratus dan 30 peratus menerusi pengurangan duti eksais antara 75 peratus dan 105 peratus,
yang menyumbang kepada sebahagian besar harga kereta.
It appears that since the 2008 elections there has been mounting arsenal targeted at one man – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. And along with that snippets were also trained on anyone who aligned with this one man. That explains too then why Lim Kit Siang and several leaders within PAS were not spared too.
With the GE-13 wind of discontent gaining speed, DSAI suddenly becomes the mega-demon-monster. He is the prime target for everyone and anyone counting and betting on the BN-UMNO bandwagon ride to favors, fame and rewards. that includes the main stream media too.
Anwar is now the key crook wanting to destroy this nation. He is the one who is behind all of these surging Blackout 505 rallies.
Anwar is this. Anwar is that. Anything that is against the BN-UMNO agenda or mantra is because of Anwar.
The entire govt & machinery against one man
The flip side of this anti-Anwar madness also reveals how much an entire army of politicians, PDRM, EC, and all the entourage of BN-UMNO included, fear just one lone man. Does it not tell us much then?
Truly, a leader of contemporary times is one who has proven himself or herself through and through all the tests of times. In fact BN-UMNO patriots are already confirming this truth too.
Here is a man who has fought, and fought hard and withstood all the unending persecutions, fabrications, beatings, imprisonments, injustices, deprivations, humiliations – all of these and still commands a 51% following if not more.
That is truly great is it not?
Which one man or team of men and women within the BN-UMNO raider’s ark can lay claim to what Anwar has persevered and achieved so triumphantly?
Political bankruptcy
In fact, even those who look up to Anwar and recognize his tenacity, endurance, conviction and commitment to battle on despite the avalanche of attacks, destruction and derailments are suddenly made out to be enemies and threats to BN-UMNO too.
How sad, how miserably sad. Indeed this is what we could term as political bankruptcy. When corruption, deceit, ill intentions and self-profiteering become a cancer, the perpetrators will certainly want to crucify their very enemy. And in this case it is Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
But let history remind us again.
If Anwar is made to fall, the nation drowns. But the same may not hold water for BN-UMNO.
If anyone within BN-UMNO or even BN-UMNO collapses, the nation will quickly rebound and rebuild itself. Now, please do not be tempted to translate this as seditious or treason! It is only a plain fact.
Of course all the pro-BN-UMNO diehards and especially its beneficiaries will not like this article. But the truth is, to haunt Anwar is to affront more than half the nation’s popular conviction.



Kerana nila setitik, habis rosak susu sebelanga. Kerana perbuatan gila si adik, si kakak turut sama terpalit malunya. Mungkin itulah yang dirasai oleh Sharifah Shahira (Shiera) apabila adiknya, Sharifah Sakinah berkongsikan video-video mengarut semenjak kebelakangan ini.

Shiera menerusi akaui Twitternya mengakui yang dia tidak sanggup melihat video bodoh yang dihasilkan oleh adiknya itu. Menurut Shiera, lagi ramai orang bercakap mengenai perbuatan adiknya, lagilah perkara tersebut akan dibuat oleh Sharifah Sakinah.

P.S: Telekung travel ini terbaik sangat jika anda ingin pergi berjalan-jalan. Mudah dibawa, kecil dan ringan. Boleh masuk dalam handbag dengan mudah. Hanya RM29 sahaja. Pelbagai saiz boleh didapati. Layari Facebook Gudang.My untuk info lanjut.
Malah menurut Shiera, dia sudah pun menasihatkan adiknya supaya menghentikan perbuatan tersebut. Tidak diketahui pula sama ada nasihat tersebut diambil berat atau sekadar ibarat mencurah air ke daun keladi.

Kalau nasihat kakak sendiri pun tidak diambil pusing oleh Sharifah Sakinah, inikan pula nasihat kita sebagai orang luar. Mungkin Sharifah Sakinah merasakan dirinya bebas melakukan apa sahaja kerana masih muda. Nasihat Abang Nara, kalau tak menjaga air muka sendiri, jagalah air muka mak dan ayah anda. Tak gitu?
Nampaknya Abang Nara harus berusaha keras untuk menjadi pelakon agar dapat banyak peluang melancong ke luar negara sambil menjalani penggambaran drama atau filem. Memang jeles melihat gambar-gambar Elfira Loy yang sedang menjalani penggambaran drama Demi Dia di Nenzing, Austria.

Drama yang diarahkan oleh Erma Fatima ini turut sama dibintangi oleh Zoey. Bila Abang Nara tengok gambar Zoey dan Elfira Loy, kedua-duanya memang nampak sepadan. Kalau diorang bercinta pun memang sesuai. Tak ke gitu?

Semoga Elfira Loy tidak demam-demam kerana cuaca di Nenzing, Austria tersangatlah sejuk ketika ini. Tips untuk tidak demam ialah jangan mandi banyak kali dalam sehari. Sekali sudah cukup. Lagi 10 keping gambar si comel Elfira Loy dengan membaca entri ini sepenuhnya.
P.S: Ibu dan anak berjalan beriringan, sentiasa ceria bersama bila menyambut hari lebaran. Pelbagai pilihan pakaian baju kurung boleh digayakan bersama. Turut ditawarkan ialah jubah, blouse, baju melayu, baju menyusu dan banyak lagi. Maklumat lanjut sila layari www.ronaronacollection.blogspot.com sekarang juga.










Iman is your name when you’re in the oven.
Yesterday, we went to check on you. You were swimming side to side. I immediately got off the couch and stood beside the doctor to have a better view of the screen. You were twisting, turning, giggling and most importantly you were having fun in mummy’s tummy.
The doctor measured your femur and head, you’re about 5 weeks. Your due date is on the 11th Nov, that’s 2 days away from me. I’m glad we can save on the cake
We also tried to peek at your gender. I am hoping for you to be a boy, because I would know how to play with you. If you’re a girl, I’d be a bit lost. My siblings are all boys, it’s only natural for me. Nevertheless, I’d love you whatever you’ll turn out to be. (We weren’t able to see your huha anyway)
Since we heard of your existence, I have change my way of thinking. I’ve learn to calm down and manage my emotions. I do not wish to raise my hand to you nor scream at the top my lungs. My view of the world changed. I want a better future for your sake.
Tomorrow, we’re going off to Krabi. Make sure you get enough rest and don’t eat too much dirt.
I can’t wait to see you.
-Ayah
ps: We’ve already got some toys for you
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Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 30.5.2013.
DAP lauds the historic appointment of Subang Jaya ADUN Hannah Yeoh as the first women Speaker in Malaysian history. DAP congratulates her appointment as Selangor State Assembly Speaker together with 3 other DAP EXCOs Sdr. Teng Chang Khim, Sdr. Ean Yong Hian Wah and Sdr. V. Ganapathi Rao.
DAP has created history by making path breaking appointments that breaks glass ceilings for both women and Indians. DAP elected the first Indian Speaker in Malaysian history in Sdr. V. Sivakumar as Perak State Assembly and the first Deputy Chief Minister in Malaysia in Prof. Dr. P. Ramasamy as Penang Deputy Chief Minister.
Hannah’s appointment as Selangor State Speaker is a joyous occasion for women empowerment and gender equality in Malaysia. Her historic achievement for DAP has also made up for the disappointment felt by DAP in the EXCO line-up announced by Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim today despite winning more seats in the last general elections. Despite the disappointment, DAP shall move on and hopes that Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim will adhere to his commitment to DAP to give us greater representation in future.
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Kenyataan Media oleh Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur pada 30 Mei 2013,
DAP memuji pelantikan bersejarah ADUN Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh sebagai Speaker wanita pertama dalam sejarah Malaysia.
DAP memuji pelantikan bersejarah ADUN Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh sebagai Speaker wanita pertama dalam sejarah Malaysia. DAP mengucapkan tahniah atas pelantikan beliau sebagai Speaker Dewan Negeri Selangor bersama-sama tiga lagi Exco daripada DAP, Sdr. Teng Chang Khim, Sdr. Ean Yong Hian Wah dan Sdr. V. Ganapathi Rao.
DAP telah menempa sejarah dengan mencipta pelantikan yang membuka jalan baru yang memecahkan ‘siling kaca’ untuk kaum wanita dan masyarakat India. DAP telah melantik Speaker India pertama dalam Sejarah Malaysia iaitu Sdr. V. Sivakumar bagi Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak, serta Timbalan Ketua Menteri India pertama di Malaysia melalui lantikan Prof. Dr. P. Ramasamy sebagai Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang.
Pelantikan Hannah sebagai Speaker Dewan Negeri Selangor adalah khabar gembira buat pergerakan memberdayakan wanita dan kesaksamaan gender di Malaysia. Pencapaian bersejarah beliau bagi pihak DAP berjaya mengubat kekecewaan yang dirasakan oleh DAP dalam pengumuman barisan Exco oleh Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim hari ini, meski pun memenangi lebih banyak kerusi dalam pilihan raya umum yang lalu. Walaupun kecewa, DAP akan terus bergerak maju dan berharap supaya Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim akan menepati komitmen beliau kepada DAP untuk memberikan lebih banyak ruang untuk memainkan peranan pada masa akan datang.
LIM GUAN ENG
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民主行动党秘书长林冠英于2013年5月30日在吉隆坡发表的文告。
民主行动党要赞扬杨巧双成为马来西亚史上首位女议长。
民主行动党要赞扬杨巧双成为马来西亚史上首位女议长。行动党祝贺她成为雪兰莪州议会议长,同时也要祝贺邓章钦、欧阳捍华及甘纳巴迪劳三位行动党同志就任雪州行政议员。
行动党打破历史的阶级框框,一再委任女性及印裔。行动党曾经在霹雳选出西华古玛同志成为马来西亚史上首位印裔议长,也在槟城选出马来西亚史上首位副首席部长拉玛沙米教授。
杨巧双受委为雪州议长乃是马来西亚女性平权运动值得庆贺的时刻。行动党对她这一项行动党历史成就,却也伴随着对雪州州务大臣丹斯里卡立今日所宣布的行政议员阵容感到失望,虽然行动党在刚结束的大选赢得了更多的席位。撇除失望,行动党还是会迈步前进,并希望丹斯里卡立信守他对行动党所作的承诺,在未来给予行动党更大的代表权。
林冠英
Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng And MP For Bagan In Kuala Lumpur On 30.5.2013.
Malaysia’s ill-earned reputation as the world champion of illicit fund outflow per capita testifies to BN’s and Bank Negara’s failure to wipe out corruption and prevent money laundering in Malaysia. When I was in London, I was sad to read in the New York Times that unlicensed money remitting services in Malaysia are alleged to have been a part of a US$6 billion (RM18.3 billion) online money laundering operation in US.
The New York Times said the money laundering scheme operating under Liberty Reserve had millions of customers worldwide, which were “overwhelmingly criminal in nature”, conducted 55 million transactions over the past seven years. In the largest online money-laundering case in history, Liberty Reserve relied solely on “third-party exchangers” to accept or make payments for them, which are usually “unlicensed money-transmitting businesses without significant government oversight or regulation, concentrated in Malaysia, Russia, Nigeria and Vietnam”.
Washington-based Global Financial Integrity Report had listed China as the leader in illicit funds outflow, mainly corruption in nature, with USD 2.8 trillion, with Malaysia at No. 5 in the world at USD 291 billion. However in per capita basis China lost out to world champion Malaysia at RM 6,400 per person per year as compared to RM32,000 for Malaysia.
In England, Malaysians have an unfortunate infamous past for being bookies in setting up Premier League football games. Such negative feedback have been slightly reversed following the favourable impact of positive involvement by Malaysians in owning Premiership clubs like newly-relegated Queen Park Rangers and newly-promoted Cardiff City.
Unfortunately, the Malaysian government’s culture of corruption and lack of financial transparency and accountability has now resulted in Malaysia to be part of being a focus of world-wide money-laundering operation. On money-laundering, Malaysia’s international reputation is now worse than Thailand or Indonesia and on par with countries like Nigeria and Russia.
The time has come for the BN Federal government to stop being in denial by adopting genuine financial reform to clean up and stop such criminal activities of illicit outflow of “black money”and money-laundering. Otherwise, there is no point in winning accolades for Bank Negara or for our purported good running of the economy when the real issues of transparency and accountability are not addressed.
Or are we to continue to depend on foreign countries in Hong Kong to do our work for us by investigating and detaining those involved in trying to smuggle in tens of million of ringgit?
LIM GUAN ENG
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Kenyataan Media oleh Setiausaha Agung DAP merangkap Ahli Parlimen Bagan, Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur pada 30 Mei 2013.
Reputasi buruk Malaysia sebagai juara aliran wang haram per kapita menjadi dalil kukuh kegagalan BN dan Bank Negara untuk melenyapkan rasuah dan mencegah pengubahan wang haram di Malaysia
Reputasi buruk Malaysia sebagai juara aliran wang haram per kapita menjadi dalil kukuh kegagalan BN dan Bank Negara untuk melenyapkan rasuah dan mencegah pengubahan wang haram di Malaysia. Ketika saya berada di London, sayu hati saya membaca laporan New York Times bahawa perkhidmatan kiriman wang tidak berlesen di Malaysia didakwa menjadi sebahagian daripada operasi besar pengubahan wang haram berpusat di Amerika Syarikat yang bernilai US$6 bilion (RM18.3 bilion).
New York Times melaporkan bahawa skim pengubahan wang haram yang beroprasi di bawah Liberty Reserve memiliki jutaan pelanggan di seluruh dunia yang ‘bersifat penjenayah’ tersebut telah melakukan 55 juta transaksi dalam tempoh tujuh tahun lalu. Dalam kes pengubahan wang haram dalam talian terbesar dalam sejarah, Liberty Reserve bergantung sepenuhnya kepada penukar pihak ketiga untuk menerima dan membuat bayaran bagi pihak mereka, yang selalunya merupakan ‘usahawan pengirim wang tidak berlesen yang tidak mempunyai badan pemantau kerajaan mahupun undang-undang yang signifikan, berpusat di Malaysia, Rusia, Nigeria dan Vietnam’.
Global Financial Integrity Report yang berpengkalan di Washington telah menyenaraikan negara China di tangga pertama dalam aliran keluar wang haram, yang selalunya berunsur rasuah, berjumlah US$ 2.8 trilion; dan Malaysia berada di kedudukan kelima di dunia dengan US$ 291 bilion. Namun atas dasar per kapita, China kalah kepada juara dunia Malaysia dengan hanya sekadar RM6,400 seorang setahun berbanding RM32,000 bagi Malaysia.
Di England, Malaysia malangnya mempunyai sejarah silam apabila warganya ada yang menjadi ‘bookie’ yang mengatur perlawan bola sepak Liga Perdana Inggeris. Reaksi negatif dari hal tersebut kini kian pudar berikutan kesan positif penglibatan Malaysia dalam milikan kelab Liga Perdana Inggeris seperti Queen Park Rangers dan Cardiff City.
Malangnya, budaya rasuah kerajaan Malaysia dan kurangnya ketelusan kewangan serta akauntabiliti telah mengakibatkan Malaysia menjadi fokus dunia sebagai pusat operasi pengubahan wang haram global. Reputasi antarabangsa Malaysia kini lebih teruk daripada Thailand atau Indonesia dan hampir sebaris dengan negara seperti Nigeria dan Rusia dalam hal pengubahan wang haram.
Masanya telah tiba untuk Kerajaan Persekutuan BN berhenti hidup dalam penafian dengan melaksanakan reformasi kewangan yang tulen untuk membersihkan dan menghentikan aktiviti jenayah aliran keluar wang haram serta pengubahan wang haram. Jika tidak, tidak ada ertinya Bank Negara mendapat pelbagai penghargaan untuk apa yang disangkakan sebagai pengurusan ekonomi yang baik padahal isu sebenar berkaitan ketelusan dan akauntabiliti tidak boleh diuruskan.
Atau adakah kita akan terus bergantung kepada negara luar seperti Hong Kong untuk bekerja bagi pihak kita bagi menyiasat dan menahan mereka yang terlibat menyeludup puluhan juta ringgit?
LIM GUAN ENG
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民主行动党国会议员及峇眼国会议员林冠英于2013年5月30日在吉隆坡发表的文告。
马来西亚臭名远播,登上人均非法资金外流的世界冠军,证明了国阵及国家银行无法杜绝贪污及防止洗黑钱活动。
马来西亚臭名远播,登上人均非法资金外流的世界冠军,证明了国阵及国家银行无法杜绝贪污及防止洗黑钱活动。当我人在伦敦读到《纽约时报》报导马来西亚涉及美国网上高达60亿美元(约183亿令吉)的洗黑钱活动的时候,真的很难过。
根据《纽约时报》报导,以“自由储备”为名目的洗黑钱活动,全世界拥有数以百万计的客户,多数是不法份子,过去七年共完成了5500万笔交易。这这项史上最大宗的网络洗黑钱案当中,“自由储备”只单凭“第三方货币兑换商”来为他们接收及支付款项,这多数是“未获准证的汇钱活动,并没有受到政府及法律监管,主要集中在马来西亚、俄罗斯、尼日利亚及越南”
总部设于华盛顿的全球财务廉洁报告已经列出中国是非法资金外流最大的国家,主要是贪污的资金,共高达2.8兆美元。马来西亚虽然以2910亿美元排在第5,但是若以国家人均计算,马来西亚以每人须承担3万2000令吉,成为非法资金外流世界冠军,将中国每人承担6400令吉给比下去。
在英格兰,马来西亚过去也是因为非法仆基操纵英超联赛而声名狼藉。这些负面的看法,多多少少影响了马来西亚人最近积极正面参与及拥有英超球会的努力,如最近刚降级的女皇公园(或译昆士柏流浪/昆士柏骑兵)及刚升班的卡迪夫。
不幸的是,马来西亚政府的贪污文化及财政缺乏透明问责,已经在全球的洗黑钱活动中成为焦点。马来西亚洗黑钱的臭名现在比之泰国或印尼还要糟糕,已经与洗黑钱闻名的国家如尼日利亚及俄罗斯齐名。
国阵联邦政府是时候停止继续否认这些糟透的情况,必须全心进行财务改革,以清洗及杜绝这些黑钱外流及洗黑钱的非法活动。不然,不去认真进行透明与问责的改革,却吹捧国家银行多棒及吹嘘国家经济多好,简直于事无补。
难道我们还要仰赖外国地区如香港,来协助马来西亚调查及扣留那些非法运出数千万令吉的不法份子?
林冠英
Press Statement By Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng In George Town, Penang On 30.5.2013.
The Penang state government is willing to communicate with the Singapore government to plead for leniency for Malaysians, especially any Penangite, who had gathered to seek Malaysian electoral reforms which had resulted in BN winning despite losing the popular vote 47% to 51%. The Penang state government is trying to determine whether there were any Penangites amongst the 21 Malaysians arrested for conducting two protests on May 8 and 11.
Whilst the Penang state government acknowledges and respect the right of the Singapore government to determine and take action based its own laws and affairs, I believe that the Singapore government would not reject efforts to plead for leniency. Such effort is based on humane grounds and should not be seen as foreign interference in Singapore affairs.
The Penang state government hopes that Singapore can view this case not from a criminal angle but from a human rights perspective as those involved are law-abiding, without any criminal record or had no record of interfering in Singapore’s internal affairs.
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Kenyataan Media oleh Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng di George Town, Pulau Pinang pada 30 Mei 2013.
Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang bersedia untuk berkomunikasi dengan Kerajaan Singapura bagi memohon kelonggaran untuk rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya warga Pulau Pinang, yang telah berhimpun bagi menuntut reformasi pilihanraya di Malaysia; setelah kerajaan BN menang walaupun kalah undi popular sebanyak 47% berbanding 51% undi untuk Pakatan Rakyat.
Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang bersedia untuk berkomunikasi dengan Kerajaan Singapura bagi memohon kelonggaran untuk rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya warga Pulau Pinang, yang telah berhimpun bagi menuntut reformasi pilihanraya di Malaysia; setelah kerajaan BN menang walaupun kalah undi popular sebanyak 47% berbanding 51% undi untuk Pakatan Rakyat. Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang sedang cuba untuk memastikan jika ada warga Pulau Pinang yang terlibat di antara 21 warga Malaysia yang ditahan kerana menjalankan dua protes pada 8 dan 11 Mei.
Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang mengiktiraf dan menghormati hak kerajaan Singapura untuk menentukan dan mengambil tindakan berasaskan undang-undang dan hal ehwalnya sendiri; namun saya percaya bahawa kerajaan Singapura tidak akan menolak usaha untuk memohon kelonggaran. Usaha demikian adalah berdasarkan asas kemanusiaan dan tidak sepatutnya dilihat sebagai campur tangan asing dalam hal ehwal Singapura.
Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang berharap agar pihak Singapura dapat melihat kes ini daripada sudut hak asasi manusia dan bukan sudut jenayah memandangkan mereka yang terlibat adalah dari kalangan mereka yang patuh kepada undang-undang, tidak mempunyai rekod jenayah mahupun rekod campurtangan dalam hal ehwal dalaman Singapura.
LIM GUAN ENG
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槟州首席部长林冠英于2013年5月30日在槟城乔治市发表的声明:
槟州政府愿意与新加坡政府沟通,恳求从宽处理参与黑色集会要求大马选举改革而受对付的大马公民,特别是槟城人。选举的不公,经让只赢得47%票数的国阵胜出,而不是有51%得票的民联。
槟州政府愿意与新加坡政府沟通,恳求从宽处理参与黑色集会要求大马选举改革而受对付的大马公民,特别是槟城人。他们集会的目的是抗议在大选中只获得47%票数的国阵胜出,而不是有51%得票的民联。槟州政府目前正尝试确认在21名于5月8日及11日参与集会被捕的大马人当中,是否有任何的槟城人。
虽然槟州政府承认和尊重新加坡政府依据该国的法律及事务条款采取行动的权利,但我相信新加坡政府不会拒绝恳求宽恕的努力。这项恳求宽恕的努力是基于人道理由,因此不应被视为干涉新国事务。
槟州政府希望新加坡政府不是以犯罪的角度,反之以人权的角度来看待此个案,因为所涉及的人物都是遵从法纪、没有任何犯罪记录,也没有任何干预新加坡内政的记录。
林冠英
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Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng And MP For Bagan In Kuala Lumpur On 30.5.2013.
Malaysia’s ill-earned reputation as the world champion of illicit fund outflow per capita testifies to BN’s and Bank Negara’s failure to wipe out corruption and prevent money laundering in Malaysia. When I was in London, I was sad to read in the New York Times that unlicensed money remitting services in Malaysia are alleged to have been a part of a US$6 billion (RM18.3 billion) online money laundering operation in US.
The New York Times said the money laundering scheme operating under Liberty Reserve had millions of customers worldwide, which were “overwhelmingly criminal in nature”, conducted 55 million transactions over the past seven years. In the largest online money-laundering case in history, Liberty Reserve relied solely on “third-party exchangers” to accept or make payments for them, which are usually “unlicensed money-transmitting businesses without significant government oversight or regulation, concentrated in Malaysia, Russia, Nigeria and Vietnam”.
Washington-based Global Financial Integrity Report had listed China as the leader in illicit funds outflow, mainly corruption in nature, with USD 2.8 trillion, with Malaysia at No. 5 in the world at USD 291 billion. However in per capita basis China lost out to world champion Malaysia at RM 6,400 per person per year as compared to RM32,000 for Malaysia.
In England, Malaysians have an unfortunate infamous past for being bookies in setting up Premier League football games. Such negative feedback have been slightly reversed following the favourable impact of positive involvement by Malaysians in owning Premiership clubs like newly-relegated Queen Park Rangers and newly-promoted Cardiff City.
Unfortunately, the Malaysian government’s culture of corruption and lack of financial transparency and accountability has now resulted in Malaysia to be part of being a focus of world-wide money-laundering operation. On money-laundering, Malaysia’s international reputation is now worse than Thailand or Indonesia and on par with countries like Nigeria and Russia.
The time has come for the BN Federal government to stop being in denial by adopting genuine financial reform to clean up and stop such criminal activities of illicit outflow of “black money”and money-laundering. Otherwise, there is no point in winning accolades for Bank Negara or for our purported good running of the economy when the real issues of transparency and accountability are not addressed.
Or are we to continue to depend on foreign countries in Hong Kong to do our work for us by investigating and detaining those involved in trying to smuggle in tens of million of ringgit?
LIM GUAN ENG
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Kenyataan Media oleh Setiausaha Agung DAP merangkap Ahli Parlimen Bagan, Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur pada 30 Mei 2013.
Reputasi buruk Malaysia sebagai juara aliran wang haram per kapita menjadi dalil kukuh kegagalan BN dan Bank Negara untuk melenyapkan rasuah dan mencegah pengubahan wang haram di Malaysia.
Reputasi buruk Malaysia sebagai juara aliran wang haram per kapita menjadi dalil kukuh kegagalan BN dan Bank Negara untuk melenyapkan rasuah dan mencegah pengubahan wang haram di Malaysia. Ketika saya berada di London, sayu hati saya membaca laporan New York Times bahawa perkhidmatan kiriman wang tidak berlesen di Malaysia didakwa menjadi sebahagian daripada operasi besar pengubahan wang haram berpusat di Amerika Syarikat yang bernilai US$6 bilion (RM18.3 bilion).
New York Times melaporkan bahawa skim pengubahan wang haram yang beroprasi di bawah Liberty Reserve memiliki jutaan pelanggan di seluruh dunia yang ‘bersifat penjenayah’ tersebut telah melakukan 55 juta transaksi dalam tempoh tujuh tahun lalu. Dalam kes pengubahan wang haram dalam talian terbesar dalam sejarah, Liberty Reserve bergantung sepenuhnya kepada penukar pihak ketiga untuk menerima dan membuat bayaran bagi pihak mereka, yang selalunya merupakan ‘usahawan pengirim wang tidak berlesen yang tidak mempunyai badan pemantau kerajaan mahupun undang-undang yang signifikan, berpusat di Malaysia, Rusia, Nigeria dan Vietnam’.
Global Financial Integrity Report yang berpengkalan di Washington telah menyenaraikan negara China di tangga pertama dalam aliran keluar wang haram, yang selalunya berunsur rasuah, berjumlah US$ 2.8 trilion; dan Malaysia berada di kedudukan kelima di dunia dengan US$ 291 bilion. Namun atas dasar per kapita, China kalah kepada juara dunia Malaysia dengan hanya sekadar RM6,400 seorang setahun berbanding RM32,000 bagi Malaysia.
Di England, Malaysia malangnya mempunyai sejarah silam apabila warganya ada yang menjadi ‘bookie’ yang mengatur perlawan bola sepak Liga Perdana Inggeris. Reaksi negatif dari hal tersebut kini kian pudar berikutan kesan positif penglibatan Malaysia dalam milikan kelab Liga Perdana Inggeris seperti Queen Park Rangers dan Cardiff City.
Malangnya, budaya rasuah kerajaan Malaysia dan kurangnya ketelusan kewangan serta akauntabiliti telah mengakibatkan Malaysia menjadi fokus dunia sebagai pusat operasi pengubahan wang haram global. Reputasi antarabangsa Malaysia kini lebih teruk daripada Thailand atau Indonesia dan hampir sebaris dengan negara seperti Nigeria dan Rusia dalam hal pengubahan wang haram.
Masanya telah tiba untuk Kerajaan Persekutuan BN berhenti hidup dalam penafian dengan melaksanakan reformasi kewangan yang tulen untuk membersihkan dan menghentikan aktiviti jenayah aliran keluar wang haram serta pengubahan wang haram. Jika tidak, tidak ada ertinya Bank Negara mendapat pelbagai penghargaan untuk apa yang disangkakan sebagai pengurusan ekonomi yang baik padahal isu sebenar berkaitan ketelusan dan akauntabiliti tidak boleh diuruskan.
Atau adakah kita akan terus bergantung kepada negara luar seperti Hong Kong untuk bekerja bagi pihak kita bagi menyiasat dan menahan mereka yang terlibat menyeludup puluhan juta ringgit?
LIM GUAN ENG
===============Mandarin Version===================
民主行动党国会议员及峇眼国会议员林冠英于2013年5月30日在吉隆坡发表的文告。
马来西亚臭名远播,登上人均非法资金外流的世界冠军,证明了国阵及国家银行无法杜绝贪污及防止洗黑钱活动。
马来西亚臭名远播,登上人均非法资金外流的世界冠军,证明了国阵及国家银行无法杜绝贪污及防止洗黑钱活动。当我人在伦敦读到《纽约时报》报导马来西亚涉及美国网上高达60亿美元(约183亿令吉)的洗黑钱活动的时候,真的很难过。
根据《纽约时报》报导,以“自由储备”为名目的洗黑钱活动,全世界拥有数以百万计的客户,多数是不法份子,过去七年共完成了5500万笔交易。这这项史上最大宗的网络洗黑钱案当中,“自由储备”只单凭“第三方货币兑换商”来为他们接收及支付款项,这多数是“未获准证的汇钱活动,并没有受到政府及法律监管,主要集中在马来西亚、俄罗斯、尼日利亚及越南”
总部设于华盛顿的全球财务廉洁报告已经列出中国是非法资金外流最大的国家,主要是贪污的资金,共高达2.8兆美元。马来西亚虽然以2910亿美元排在第5,但是若以国家人均计算,马来西亚以每人须承担3万2000令吉,成为非法资金外流世界冠军,将中国每人承担6400令吉给比下去。
在英格兰,马来西亚过去也是因为非法仆基操纵英超联赛而声名狼藉。这些负面的看法,多多少少影响了马来西亚人最近积极正面参与及拥有英超球会的努力,如最近刚降级的女皇公园(或译昆士柏流浪/昆士柏骑兵)及刚升班的卡迪夫。
不幸的是,马来西亚政府的贪污文化及财政缺乏透明问责,已经在全球的洗黑钱活动中成为焦点。马来西亚洗黑钱的臭名现在比之泰国或印尼还要糟糕,已经与洗黑钱闻名的国家如尼日利亚及俄罗斯齐名。
国阵联邦政府是时候停止继续否认这些糟透的情况,必须全心进行财务改革,以清洗及杜绝这些黑钱外流及洗黑钱的非法活动。不然,不去认真进行透明与问责的改革,却吹捧国家银行多棒及吹嘘国家经济多好,简直于事无补。
难道我们还要仰赖外国地区如香港,来协助马来西亚调查及扣留那些非法运出数千万令吉的不法份子?
林冠英
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Jika perkembangan media Melayu mutakhir ini diperhatikan, sifat-sifat kewarasan, keberkecualian dan kesusilaan sudah jelas tidak wujud.
Sentimen perkauman bagai menjadi kelumrahan media Melayu zaman sekarang, baik di kaca mata televisyen ataupun dalam media cetakan. Nyata trend yang sempit ini sedang diterajui oleh media-media kawalan Umno, khususnya Kumpulan Utusan Melayu.
Sejurus selepas pilihan raya umum ke-13, Utusan Malaysia dengan tidak segannya telah mempersoalkan “Apa lagi Cina mahu?” melalui tajuk berita utama, manakala tabloid Kosmo! yang dimiliki kumpulan yang sama telah meluahkan muka depan yang tidak kurang provokatifnya, yakni, “Pengundi Cina bersikap talam dua muka”.
Jelas, kemenangan undi popular Pakatan Rakyat membuktikan bahawa gabungan parti tersebut telah menerima sokongan yang padu daripada segenap masyarakat Malaysia ? namun hakikat ini langsung diabaikan oleh media kawalan Umno yang tidak ingin menerima kenyataan.
Agenda perkauman kemudian telah diteruskan dengan seruan Awang Selamat, iaitu suara hati lembaga pengarang Utusan, untuk memboikot syarikat penerbangan Air Asia ekoran kritikan seorang pegawai kanannya, Azran Osman-Rani, yang telah mencemuh akhbar Utusan kerana bersifat rasis.
Dan jika itu tidak mencukupi, Utusan kemudiannya menyiarkan kenyataan Perkasa yang menyelar Azran sebagai “bongkak” dan “lupa diri”, serta “mengingatkan” Azran agar tidak sesekali “menyentuh” Utusan Malaysia kerana akhbar itu merupakan satu-satunya wadah yang mempertahankan hak orang Melayu di negara ini, seolah-olah segala kejayaan Azran adalah hasil daripada jasa-jasa akhbar tersebut.
Aduhai, malangnya nasib bangsa sehingga perisai perkauman terpaksa menjadi pelindung kepada umat Melayu. Agaknya, tanpa “perlindungan” daripada wira-wira bangsa seperti Utusan dan Perkasa, tidak mungkin Melayu dapat berjaya atas usaha gigih sendiri ? inilah sebenarnya sikap yang memperlekehkan dan merendahkan martabat bangsa!
Keadaan ini bukan sahaja sangat mendukacitakan, tetapi amat memalukan, khususnya apabila Utusan Malaysia pernah pada suatu ketika dahulu menjadi tonggak dan peneraju kepada suara masyarakat Melayu yang bebas.
Mungkin ramai yang telah lupa peristiwa tahun 1961 apabila pekerja-pekerja Utusan, termasuk tokoh kewartawanan seperti Said Zahari (yang ketika itu Ketua Pengarang), Usman Awang (kini Sasterawan Negara), serta barisan penulis dan wartawan seperti Abu Zaki Fadzil, Awam-il Sarkam, Salleh Yusof, Tajuddin Kahar, Zailani Sulaiman, Rosdin Yaakub dan lain-lain telah melancarkan kempen mogok.
Tujuan mogok tersebut adalah untuk membantah pengambilalihan Utusan oleh Umno yang tidak senang dengan sikap akhbar itu yang kritikal terhadap pemerintah dan pro kepada masyarakat terbanyak.
Akhirnya, 50 tahun kemudian, kekhuatiran Said Zahari, Usman Awang dan para pekerja Utusan pada zaman 60-an yang mahukan Utusan kekal bebas daripada campur tangan politik, sudah pun menjadi kenyataan. Malah, Said Zahari dan Usman Awang tidak mungkin dapat bayangkan betapa corotnya kualiti kewartawanan akhbar yang pernah menjadi perjuangan mereka.
Akibatnya, Utusan sudah hilang wibawa di mata orang Melayu, khasnya golongan kelas menengah seperti Azran yang sudah lelah dengan politik perkauman dan fitnah. Jika tidak kerana langganan kerajaan melalui jabatan-jabatan, agensi-agensi dan anak-anak syarikatnya, Utusan tidak mungkin mampu bernyawa, apatah lagi apabila ia seringkali didapati bersalah oleh mahkamah dan dipaksa untuk membayar ganti rugi kepada mangsa-mangsa fitnahnya (Lim Guan Eng dua kali, Karpal Singh, Khalid Samad, Azan Ismail sebagai contoh-contoh yang terbaru).
Hakikatnya, Utusan yang dahulu menjuarai suara masyarakat terbanyak sudah menjadi alat politik parti konservatif kanan yang ketandusan ilham dan gagal merangkumi gagasan politik baru yang berteraskan idea. Yang paling malangnya, “usaha-usaha murni” Utusan serta puak-puak haluan kanan ini sebenarnya tidak memajukan, malah memperbodohkan bangsa sendiri.
Pada saya, keadaan Utusan Malaysia pada hari ini adalah tragedi yang sangat besar kepada warisan akhbar Melayu. Jalan keluar daripada kemelut ini hanya satu ? media massa di negara kita harus dibebaskan.
Pengalaman di negara-negara lain yang telah beralih daripada media terkongkong kepada media yang bebas telah menunjukkan bahawa akhbar-akhbar yang berpendirian sempit dan berhaluan ekstrim seperti Utusan Malaysia tidak dapat bersaing dan akhirnya akan berhadapan dengan dua pilihan: tukar pendirian atau tutup kedai. Yang berjaya adalah mereka yang mampu memenuhi kehendak pasaran untuk kewartawanan yang lebih objektif.
Jika warisan akhbar Melayu hendak diselamatkan dan kewibawaan dikembalikan, jalannya adalah melalui pembebasan media.





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