48. CRIMINALS are so scared to come to Sabah

These CRIMINALS are so scared  of their OWN shadows when in KK, that they waste so much public fund to protect the CRIMINALS themselves abusing the security people with the line of cars, vehicles and special motor cycle- black guards - along the DPM vehicle....Joshua

Sabah Bumi entrepreneurs also successful – Muhyiddin

by Nancy Lai. Posted on October 1, 2013, Tuesday

KOTA KINABALU: Bumiputera entrepreneurs in Sabah are as successful as their peers in other states, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
He added that through the Barisan Nasional (BN) government’s efforts, the living standards of people in Sabah, especially the Bumiputeras, have seen much growth, he said when officiating at a forum for Bumiputera entrepreneurs here yesterday.
The improvement is reflected in the increase in the average household income in Sabah from RM3,102 a month in 2009 to RM4,013 a month in 2012.
This showed an increase of 29.4 per cent with an annual growth of 8.6 per cent, Muhyiddin said, adding that the average monthly income had also increased by 22.7 per cent from RM3,803 in 2009 to RM4,668 in 2012.
In the case of the rural areas, the average monthly income increased by 33.8 per cent from RM2,177 in 2009 to RM2,913 while the poverty rate in Sabah had decreased from 19.7 per cent in 2009 to 8.1 per cent in 2012.
“This is the data that we have recorded and not data that is pulled out of the air by economists. So if there are quarters who go around claiming that there is no economic growth in Sabah, we can prove them wrong as we have the facts and figures to show differently,” he said.
“Congratulations to the Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman, for the success in making life better for the people in the state. Sabah will continue to develop and progress under Barisan Nasional,” Muhyiddin added.
He pointed out that the government’s success in reducing and eradicating poverty was achieved through the implementation of specific programs to assist the poor and low income earners to generate a higher income.
Among the programs were 1AZAM, Agropolitan development, Mini Estet Sejahtera, commercial livestock breeding and agriculture as well as micro credit loans, he said.
For Sabah, the federal Government had allocated RM12.2 billion under the 10th Malaysia Plan for the implementation of various programs, including rural infrastructure, educational programs and housing assistance under the Government Transformation Program (GTP), he said.
Muhyiddin added that this had indirectly opened up more opportunities for Sabahan entrepreneurs to be more active in economic activities.
“Under the GTP programs Sabah has achieved successes in social development and infrastructure in the state, including the construction and upgrading of 1,270 kilometres of rural roads and the supply of electricity to an additional 41,443 houses in the rural areas since 2010.
“As steps to assist the low income group to generate income, a total of RM293.5 million has been allocated to Sabah under the 1AZAM program. As of June this year, a total 27,540 low income individuals in Sabah have received assistance under the program making them the largest number of recipients.
“The government realizes that the achievement of the Bumiputera entrepreneurs is not at what we expect it to be as there is still disparity in the aspect of economical asset ownership and the level of revenue,” Muhyiddin added.
According to him, among the challenges faced by new entrepreneurs in Sabah was the limited market and they have to join forces with their counterparts in Peninsular Malaysia in order to be able to compete at local and global markets.
To this end, Bumiputera entrepreneurs in Sabah venture out of the small markets and establish smart partnerships with their non-Bumiputera peers so that they can explore bigger markets.

47. What do you expect from any CRIMINAL?

Subject: 'Mukhriz is being a vengeful MB'
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:04:34 +0800

If this bloody MB does not want to entertain any requests from Chinese schools in Kedah, then why should the Chinese pay any income tax!!!???

 

'Mukhriz is being a vengeful MB'

4:22PM Sep 29, 2013

Kedah Menteri Besar Mukhriz Mahathir has shown signs of a vengeful menteri besar, out to punish the Chinese for voting against BN, said Seputeh MP Teresa Kok.

In a press release today, Kok said Mukhriz's statement that he would not entertain any requests from Chinese schools in the Kedah was "unbecoming of a menteri besar".

"Mukhriz must accept that the voters have the right to choose whom they want to support and he must realize too that Chinese voters too are tax payers.

"It is therefore most unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable to discriminate against the Chinese community and Chinese schools," she said.

On September 24, Mukhriz told reporters in Shah Alam that his administration will concentrate on national schools because he could not ignore those who voted BN back into power in Kedah.

"I want to be fair but I am also human. In the end, I am forced to help those who have helped me before.

"If the state can afford to, then I will help others," he said, reportedFree Malaysia Today.

Kok pointed out that this was not the first time that Mukhriz had made known his stance on vernacular schools, citing how he had called for such schools to be replaced with a single-stream schooling system to foster unity. 

"Let me tell him that language or the vernacular is not a cause of racial polarization but unfair government is. 

"And politics of vengeance will certainly be a big cause," said Kok.

 

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/242451

46. Goverments of ALL CRIMINALS for more than 50 years

See the CRIMINALS never end in robbing our wealth in Borneo...and this cause must be supported --Joshua


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Lina Soo holds up her book Sarawak: The Real Deal in which she documents the state's history.

KUCHING (Sept 24): A group of Sarawakians mulls suing the British Government for failing to return sovereignty to the state before the formation of Malaysia, 50 years ago.

Recent declassified British colonial documents appear to support the group's claims that the British colonial office colluded with Malaya leaders to secretly contrive the sovreignty of British Borneo to Malaya.

“The British were masterminds and strategists. Despite massive opposition to the Malaysia Plan, they denied Borneo colonies rights to self-determination,” said Lina Soo, who compiled all these historical facts and information into a book.

Entitled of 'Sarawak: The Real Deal', the 124-paged book containing 10 chapters highlights Sarawak's history, includes selected colonial documents, anti-Malaysia campaign and other information on the formation of Malaysia.

The sub-heading of the book reads 'How a Kingdom was betrayed in an intrigue of trickery, coercion an subterfuge'.

The last few pages in Chapter 10 centres on when Singapore left the federation of Malaysia in 1965 to become an independent nation. Sarawak and Sabah were warned by Britain not to try to follow suit.

“The book is to give Sarawakians an informed account based on both Sarawak and British official sources of the events leading to the formation of Malaysia,” Soo told reporters at the book launch today.

Soo, who has been campaigning for Borneo Agenda in the past few years, said because of British’s failure to honour the United Nation decolonisation process, it led to serious consequences for both Sarawak and North Borneo (now Sabah).

“Sarawak and Sabah were plundered of their oil and resources for 50 years and both states became the most impoverished parts of Malaysia,” she said, adding that a group of people, including a few lawyers, was preparing the legal documents to file the suit.

She said the main objective is to determine whether Sarawak voluntarily join the federation to form Malaysia, and whether Sarawak can federated with other nation before gaining sovereignty.

In addition, she said the case would seek compensation from the British for its violation of human rights and the people’s unalienable right to independence under international law.

The 54-year-old housewife, who stood in the last general election under State Reform Party’s (STAR) ticket, is also calling for volunteers and contributors to come forward. She plans to raise £50,000 (RM256,593) to prepare researched documentation and to acquire legal opinion.

Registered supporters who pay a registration fees of RM50 have been promised a share of the compensation money should they win the case.

Read more: http://fz.com/content/swakians-sue-britain-not-returning-soverignty-state#ixzz2fnsIibgu

45. How to get the CRIMINALS in Govt to return the theft

How to expect the CRIMINALS in Governments to return the stolen wealth?  Joshua

Nov 22 hearing on bids by Petronas, state govt to strike out suit

by Suraini Andokong. Posted on September 24, 2013, Tuesday

KOTA KINABALU: The High Court here will hear on November 22 applications by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and the State Government to strike out a suit brought by six Sabahan businessmen who are seeking a declaration that the agreement between the national petroleum company and Sabah State Government in 1976 pertaining to the five per cent oil royalty payments is null and void.
Justice Chew Soo Ho, also ordered the plaintiffs, Zainal Ajamain, Michael Peter Govind, PAS leaders Lahirul Latigu, Mohd Julpikar Ab Mijan and SAPP’s Joseph Wilfred Lakai, Duli @ Dullie Mari @ Marie to file and exchange their affidavits in support to oppose the applications by Petronas and the State Government.
Petronas had filed their application to strike out the suit on February 14 this year while the State Government filed their application on September 20.
In their affidavit in support, Petronas, among others, claimed that (i) on June 14, 1976, Petronas and the State Government entered into an agreement whereby all ownership in, and the exclusive rights, power, liberties and privileges of exploring, exploiting, winning and obtaining petroleum whether onshore or offshore Sabah would be vested in the defendant in return for a cash payment of five per cent of petroleum so won and saved to the State Government.
(ii) On June 14, 1976, Petronas and the State Government executed a Vesting Instrument as per the terms of the Schedule to the Petroleum Development Act 1974 (PDA).
(iii) Petronas verily believes that this action is time barred under the Public Authorities Protection Act and/or the Limitation Ordinance (Sabah Cap. 72) and that there is no escaping the limitation defence.
(iv) The PDA 1974 was passed and came into effect in 1974, under the PDA, the defendants negotiated the Agreement and that the Agreement has been in effect since 1976 and the Agreement does not conflict with the Federal Constitution and Article 74 and the ninth and 10th Schedule thereof, in particular; In any event, as a matter of constitutional law, the Agreement is not and cannot be ruled unconstitutional.
(v) In the circumstances of this case the vesting of all ownership in, and the exclusive rights, powers, liberties and privileges of exploring, exploiting, winning and obtaining petroleum whether onshore of offshore Sabah in the defendant took place with the knowledge and consent of the State of Sabah (the second defendant), the Federal Government and Petronas (the defendant). There is accordingly no issue of unconstitutionality of the Agreement. The PDA does not contravene Article 74 or the ninth and 10th Schedule of the Federal Constitution.
On September 25, 2012, the six plaintiffs, who called themselves “Royalty for Sabah”, had filed the writ of summon at the High Court’s registry here through their counsel Marcel Jude A/L M S Joseph naming the Petroliam Nasional Berhad and Sabah State Government as first and second defendants respectively.
They are seeking a declaration that PDA 1974 in so far as it applies to the said agreement entered on June 14, 1976 is also ultra vires null and void.
They are also seeking damages, costs, statutory interest and any other relief deemed fit by the court.
In their statement of claim, the plaintiffs claimed that the first defendant is a company incorporated under the Company’s Act whose registered office is situated at Jalan Pudu, Kuala Lumpur while the second defendant is the lawful government and authority for the State of Sabah in the Federation of Malaysia.
They pointed out the defendants entered the agreement after the Petroleum Development Act 1974 was passed.
The plaintiffs stressed that by the Petroleum Development Act, 1974, the entire ownership and the exclusive rights, powers, liberties and privileges of exploring, exploiting, winning and obtaining petroleum whether lying onshore or offshore of Malaysia is vested in Petronas.
In return of this, they claimed it is agreed that Petronas shall make to the government cash payment in the form of yearly sum amounting to the equivalent of five per cents of the value of the petroleum won and saved from areas in Sabah and sold by Petronas or its agents or contractors during the period provided in Clause 2.
It is further agreed that the government waives any right to royalty or any other payment payable pursuant to any oil mining lease, license or agreement under the Land Ordinance of Sabah or any other written law relating to petroleum for the time being in force in Sabah.
They stressed that the said agreement is null and void and ultra vires article 74 of the Federal Constitution and the Ninth Schedule of the Federal Constitution which among others stated, except as to State rights over permits and licences, that the Federal Government has rights over development of mineral resources, mines, mining, minerals and mineral ores, oils and oil fields, petroleum products, safety in mines, oilfields, gas and gasworks, production and distribution of power and energy.
They claimed that in addition to the right of the states, Sabah and Sarawak enjoy some special sources of revenue namely assigns import duty and excise duty on petroleum products to Sabah and Sarawak, assigns royalty and export duty on “mineral oils” totaling 10 per cent to both states.
The plaintiffs pointed out that “Petroleum”, as defined in the Petroleum Development Act, falls within the meaning of “mineral oils” and, therefore, 10 per cents combined royalty and export duty on it constitutes part of the guaranteed revenue for Sabah and Sarawak.
Furthermore they claimed that the agreement is unenforceable by reason of the Petroleum Act 1974 being in contravention of Article 13 of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia which states that no law shall provide for compulsory acquisition or the use of property without compensation.
The plaintiffs also said that the agreement was executed by the executive arm of the State Government of Sabah and has yet to receive the approval and consent of the State Legislative Assembly and is therefore ultra vires null and void.
They pointed out that the agreement is also ultra vires null and void as it is merely a vesting deed and to date there is no agreement or contract between the first and second defendants in regard to the sharing and exploitation of the onshore and offshore resources of petroleum belonging to the state of Sabah.
Further they claimed that the vesting of the petroleum resources of Sabah under the said agreement by the second defendant into the hands of the first defendant by which is neither the executive or legislative part of the Federal Government of Malaysia but merely a company incorporated under the Company’s Act 1965 is ultra vires null and void.
Meanwhile they pointed out that it was reported in the local media on September 20, 2012 that there was the signing of the Kuching Declaration to restore the rightful place of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia if the Pakatan takes over the federal government.
According to the mass media reports, they said the declaration was to honor the spirit and the 20-point Malaysia Agreement of 1963, which they said had not been fulfilled by the BN government for the last 49 years.
The State Government was represented by State Counsel Mohd Ikhwan Ramlee while Tan Sri Cecil Wilbert Mohanaraj Abraham acted for Petronas.

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/24/nov-22-hearing-on-bids-by-petronas-state-govt-to-strike-out-suit/#ixzz2ftK1QwhY

44. The CRIMINALS in Government perish in HELL

from WikiSabah ---

 

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Kerajaan Persekutuan mencuri hasil Sabah

KOTA KINABALU - Pemimpin Malaysia tidak mempunyai asas undang-undang untuk menyatakan bahawa sumber minyak yang terletak di luar pantai Sabah adalah milik kerajaan persekutuan.

Menurut Ketua STAR Sabah, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, pendedahan Tan Sri Majid Khan bahawa minyak hanya terdapat di pantai milik Sabah jelas membuktikan bahawa pemimpin persekutuan dari Malaya “mencuri” minyak dan sumber gas Sabah.

Katanya,mereka sanggup mereka cerita dan memujuk pemimpin Sabah untuk menerima bayaran tunai sebanyak 5 peratus.

“Apabila Tun Datu Mustapha dan Tun Fuad Stephens  (gambar) enggan menandatangani perjanjian dengan Petronas maka kosnpirasi dibuat supaya berlakunya kemalangan kapalterbang yang dinaiki Fuad pada petang 6 Jun 1976,” dakwa beliau sebagai mengulas cerita terpendam yang dibentangkan oleh Majid Khan pada forum baru-baru ini “The Formation of Malaysia – The Untold Story” yang dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Sabah.

Majid turut menambah bahawa apa yang dikatakan benar atau sah adalah perkara yang lain dan ia terpulang kepada rakyat Sabah hadir untuk membawa perkara itu ke mahkamah untuk menentukan kesahihan itu.

Perlembagaan Persekutuan 1963 memperuntukkan bahawa wilayah Sabah sebagai wilayah yang terkandung di dalamnya sebaik sebelum Hari Malaysia pada 16 September 1963 merupakan sempadan antarabangsa 1954.

Petronas telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1974, empat daripada 19 telaga minyak di Sabah dan Sarawak sudah mengeluarkan kira-kira 99,000 tong sehari.

Sumber petroleum di Sabah termasuk pelesenan dan pungutan royalti sebagai hasil Sabah datang dalam lingkungan Seksyen 24 Ordinan Tanah Sabah (Bab 68) yang telah diluluskan pada tahun 1930, dahulu sebelum pembentukan Malaysia.

Di bawah Perkara 74 Perlembagaan Persekutuan, perkara-perkara tanah yang termasuk sumber petroleum datang dalam kuasa Senarai Negeri dalam Jadual 9. Permit dan lesen untuk mencari gali untuk lombong, pajakan perlombongan dan sijil juga datang dalam lingkungan Senarai Negeri dalam Jadual 9.

Dr Jeffrey menegaskan bahawa Parlimen Malaysia tidak mempunyai hak menggubal undang-undang perniagaan Akta Pembangunan Petroleum (PDA) 1974 apabila perkara-perkara yang datang dalam lingkungan Senarai Negeri dalam Jadual 9.

“PDA adalah undang-undang perlembagaan tidak bernilai, namun, ia masih digunakan untuk menyedut kira 95% daripada minyak Sabah dan sumber gas sehingga hari ini tanpa bantahan daripada pemimpin-pemimpin BN Sabah,” katanya.

Katanya lagi, Allahyarham Tun Razak tidak mempunyai kuasa undang-undang dan tidak mempunyai bidang kuasa ke atas minyak dan gas di Sabah apabila beliau secara tidak sah dan menyalahi undang-undang yang ditandatangani Perintah Letak Hak pada 27 Mac 1975 pemberian minyak Sabah dan sumber gas kepada Petronas.

“Kehilangan royalti akan menjadi antara 12% hingga 30% jika angka yang diberikan oleh Tengku Razaleigh sebagai kayu pengukur untuk pergi. Royalti 30% kepada RM18 bilion yang dikutip oleh Petronas keseluruhan kepada kerajaan Sabah merupakan tambahan RM5.4 bilion dalam pendapatan tambahan pada tahun 2012 kepada RM3.7 bilion hasil bajet negeri dikumpulkan dalam negara.” tegas beliau.

Tambahnya lagi, seperti yang dinasihatkan oleh Majid, hari ini bola kini berada di kaki rakyat Sabah untuk mengambil isu pemilikan dan perkongsian hasil minyak Sabah dan sumber gas.

“Pemimpin BN Sabah tidak boleh diharapkan untuk meneruskan perkara itu terutama apabila Ketua Menteri telah memberikan petunjuk kepada pemimpin-pemimpin yang lain untuk berdiam diri apabila beliau berkata bahawa tidak ada semakan segera pembayaran minyak dari Petronas,” dakwanya lagi.

Oleh William Mangor

262 comments:

DoubleSeptember 18, 2013 at 2:16 PM

jangan sembarang ulas mengenai tragedi double six.. nanti kena saman rm1 juta.. enda pasal2 terpaksa jual bangunan parti..

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irisSeptember 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM
peduli dia...dia tu kaya sudah tu..

Teh HerbaSeptember 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM
saman2 ni mmg fymes sgt...."U ulang I saman".~~~

HarunSeptember 19, 2013 at 9:29 AM

44. the CRIMINALS in Federal & State Government had fixed the price of oil

the CRIMINALS in Federal and State Governments had fixed the price of oil to the 'middlemen' hence any prices above the low floor price since 1970s would go to the CRIMINALS - Joshua

YOURSAY ‘Malaysia exports petrol, not imports it. So by logic Malaysia should be making money when the price of petrol goes up.'

Ahmad Maslan: Richest 40pct enjoy 80pct of subsidies

Umno Portal: Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan must have not known what he is talking about. Let me explain. If the price goes up, the government needs to subsidise more to maintain the same price level to the rakyat.

But Malaysia has the best Tapin crude which fetches the highest price. So if the crude price is high, that also means that Malaysia will get better profit for its crude.

Malaysia is using the lower quality crude from Middle East for our local consumption. Where is the income from our best quality sweet crude? Unless it goes into a different pocket?

YF: Maslan, are you a deputy finance minister or a freelance minister? Malaysia exports petrol, not imports it. So by logic Malaysia should be making money when the price of petrol goes up. So why raise the price and let the rakyat suffer while the government gains?

If you can't understand this simple economics then you are not fit to be a deputy finance minister, or anything to do with governance. You might as well work as a clown since you are making the whole nation laugh with your silly antics.

Anonymous #02382443: As you sow, so you shall reap! You created a handout mentality among the people.

If only you had allowed the market forces to dictate in all sectors of the economy, the people would have accepted the increase of fuel hike as in all other countries. Unfortunately, you chose otherwise, so please do not try absolve yourself of the blame.

Bamboo: When the oil price is up, BN government hikes the price. When the oil price is down, we don't see the BN government lowering the price. So don't tell us that when the world price rises, the domestic price must also go up.

Black Mamba: Another one of those thoughtless minister, albeit a deputy one this time. If the government of the day is not for monitoring oil price hike then who is?

The government of the day is there to balance the trade deficit of the country, regulates the economy through their fiscal policies and of course, set up the right infrastructure for a free market to work.

You are not there to sit pretty and utter nonsensical remarks. If you can't manage, please roll over and let Pakatan Rakyat take the helm.

Onyourtoes: Yes, Maslan, I agree oil prices are set by the global market and the government only reduced the subsidy.

You know what, we should also allow market forces to determine the salary and perks of ministers, deputy ministers, senior government officials and heads of government-linked companies (GLCs).

Maslan, if the government reduces or withdraws the subsidy embedded in your pay and perks, maybe your take-home pay would be RM900 month, not that you deserve RM900 a month but because it was the minimum wage stipulated by law.

And you should be walking or cycling to your office, because certainly you don't deserve to be driven around in an official car along with free petrol.

This is what your deserve given your productivity and output - RM900 a month with a bicycle.

James Dean: As far as all ministers are concerned, the BN government is not responsible for anything.

Ahmad Maslan, if the BN want to be the government of the day the BN will and have to be responsible of the effects of this petrol increase. To deny responsibility as a minister in the government is truly flabbergasting.

Buddyoo: Why do we need a government which just passes on the cost to the rakyat?

Hplooi: The doctrine of ‘exceptionalism' demands ‘exceptional' management and discriminatory policies which will not promote check and balance and but requires ‘opacity' to sustain as a public policy.

This (opacity) and lack of check and balance will in turn accrete power to a smaller and smaller coterie of power-elite. It doesn't matter if you start with idealistic ideas.

Ergo, the current ramping up of initiatives focusing only on one (majority) race as a national economic policy is doomed to failure.

The conclusion from alternative scenarios with possible outcomes based on ‘game theory' (but with some modification to the original premise of ‘zero sum' and innate selfishness, etc) would be a good subject of study. Any ‘egg-head' or permanent-head-damaged dude keen to take this up?

NoCorruption: Less than 10 percent of the population are paying income tax. So all these are rich (I am one of them, haha)? He just doesn't dare to say 7 percent enjoy 70 percent of the subsidies.

CiViC: And the richest 40 percent controls most businesses that affects the poor directly and indirectly. Ahmad Maslan, do you have any economic sense at all?

Anonymous$&@?: Oh yes, Umno is not responsible for the petrol prices in Malaysia. Really? Maybe forces from another world like Altantuya Shaariibuu or Chin Peng are responsible? Umno is only responsible for robbing the rakyat, that we know.

Fourtan: If I were a wantan mee seller and somehow the wantan mee price went up, wouldn't I be a happy man and buy more things for my wife and children?

Unless, I were a bad father had a lot of mistresses and gambling debts. In which case, my wife should kick me out of the house.

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41. CRIMINALS in Govt robbing for decades

CRIMINALS lying more and more with empty heads but pockets full of USD, AUD, Euro, HKD, SD, RM, Yen, Dinars, Gold, Diamonds, mistresses etc etc. and talk of CABOTAGE only to fool more  poor and poorer people in Sabah..and next is life threatening GST- the malaise approach of Malaysia -- Joshua

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/11/sabah-to-address-extra-freight-cost-caused-by-cabotage-policy-cm/

Sabah to address extra freight cost caused by Cabotage Policy – CM

by Murib Morpi. Posted on September 11, 2013, Wednesday

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Ports Authority (SPA) and the State Economic Planning Unit (EPU) will commission a detailed study to look at how the state can increase its shipping volume soon, in response to the long-standing Cabotage Policy issue.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman in announcing this yesterday, said there was still quite a fair bit of room for Sabah to manoeuvre and take steps to address the extra freight cost caused by the policy which had been blamed for the higher prices of daily goods in Sabah.
“On the subject of the Cabotage Policy, I agree that we are facing some setbacks at the moment and we are doing our best to resolve this matter,” he said in his speech for the annual luncheon of Malaysia International Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MICCI) Sabah here, yesterday.
“The final report of the study is expected to be completed by mid next year,” said Musa in his speech delivered by Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Industrial Development Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah who represented him at the function.
Musa, who is also Sabah’s Minister of Finance, strongly believed that Sabah could still increase its shipping volume and reduce freight cost even with some semblance of the Cabotage Policy in place.
“At the moment this is very much a work in progress and we are working very hard at it,” he said.
The Chief Minister also stressed that the state government had not wavered in its goal to develop Sepanggar Port into a Regional Transhipment Hub, which it included under the Sabah Development
Corridor (SDC) blueprint.
Earlier, MICCI Sabah chairman Datuk A Arulpragasam in his welcoming address also highlighted the much debated policy, urging the federal government to implement the proposed three-year relaxation trial without any further delay or excuses.
He said it was now the time for Sabah to take advantage of its strategic location in the centre of Asian trade route and push for a major revamp in the national shipping policy by having the federal government allocate large fund to realise its plan for Sepanggar Port.
He added that the private sector also felt strongly that the Malaysian Competition Commission’s (MyCC) decision to allow exemption to certain shipowners would only prolong the problems of high cost of doing business in Sabah.
“The MyCC’s role is to promote fair competition. Are they really doing so? Sabah businessmen are already up in arms and are in the process of expressing their strong and angry views and are raising their objections to the MyCC and the state government,” he said.
Arulpragasam said the proposed implementation of the Government Service Tax (GST) called for a more urgent measure to be taken to address the Cabotage Policy issue. He argued that the government must first implement a “one country one price” policy in order to ensure that GST was fairly implemented to everyone in the country.
He said giving large subsidies to shipping companies alone would not be enough to reduce the cost of moving goods to the interior of Sabah and this would result in the rural people paying more in GST compared to those in Peninsular Malaysia.

At the event, Tan also launched the Sabah International Expo 2014 on Musa’s behalf. The biennial trade fair scheduled for September next year is expected to bring in more than 200 international exhibitors from 20 countries, including major companies such as Eu Yan Sang, Fuji Xerox and Petronas.

41. More land grab by CRIMINALS in Govt

No more land grab???? My foot??? Bullshit???  CRIMINALS never stop stealing everything --Joshua


http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/10/govt-urged-not-to-sacrifice-historical-village-for-devt/

Govt urged not to sacrifice historical village for devt

Posted on September 10, 2013, Tuesday

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Democratic Action Party (DAP) is urging the State Government to cancel its plan to relocate villagers in Kampung Cina, Tambunan to make way for a Youth and Sports Ministry’s project.
Its secretary cum Kapayan assemblyman, Dr Edwin Bosi, claimed that villagers were being forced out of their homes to allow for the construction of a hostel and swimming pool planned under the second phase of the Tambunan Sports Complex project, which is supposed to be completed by February next year.
According to Edwin, the villagers have come to seek help from DAP, claiming that the agencies concerned did not offer a fair compensation and acceptable relocation scheme for them.
He said the residents of Kampung Cina deserved better treatment and the government should spare the village, in respect of their sino-natives’ and natives’ rights to claim the land they have occupied for generations under Native Customary Rights (NCR).
He further argued that the village, which existence dated back to pre-independent era, should not be sacrificed in the name of development as it holds an important historical value for Tambunan.
Moreover, the government should consider the fact that the early dwellers and their children have helped built Tambunan in one way or another.
“Inter-marriages with the natives have established this village as an NCR land. The villagers deserve a caring friendly government that prides itself with the ‘people’s first’ slogan.
“I urge the Ministry of Youth and Sports to reconsider its decision to build the hostel and swimming pool at Kampung Cina. These two facilities can be built away from the stadium proper. They do not have to be adjacent to the stadium.
“I urge the government to reconsider the fact that Kampung Cina was established before Malaysia and the villagers comprise sino-natives and natives who are entitled to claim this land under NCR. By right, the government should have recognised the NCR status of the village,” he said in a statement yesterday.
According to Edwin, one of the villagers, Chan Wai Hiong and her two children, came to the Penampang DAP service centre in Donggongon early this month to seek advice and assistance concerning the issue.
Following Chan’s complaint, Edwin said he visited the village with several other DAP state committee members to investigate further.
“According to grandma Chan, who is now 90 years old, Kampung Cina used to hold about 13 households comprising more than 100 individuals. Grandma Chan was born in Penampang, married when she was 19 and moved to Tambunan on a pony to settle down with her husband, grandpa Yong Pak Choi, who passed away in 1986.
“Like the others, they made Kampung Cina their home working hard to have a decent living and raise their children. She recalled the Japanese planes that came dropping bombs and shooting at them. She even showed us the site of a crater made by a bomb. She cannot forget the thousands of empty shells from the machine guns raining down on them as she took cover in a nearby stream.
“The government had given Chan’s late husband a TOL (temporary occupational lease) to the land that he had applied for. He was told by the officers then not to bother as the land would never be taken away from them. According to grandma Chan, her husband had so much trust in the officers then which was the usual trademark of the administration.
“However, happiness has turned into a nightmare for grandma Chan. First, the TOL was abruptly discontinued, then came the bombshell when they were informed by the District Office that the land they are sitting on has been acquired and is now the property of the Ministry of Youth and Sports,” said Edwin.
According to him, the villagers were asked to move out to make way for the project during a meeting with the Tambunan District Council on September 10, 2012.
He said the villagers were offered low-cost houses at Kampung Galiung, Nambayan in return for leaving their homes but these units are sitting on a piece of land belonging to the Tambunan District Council with no title being ever given to those who are now staying there.
“According to grandma Chan, the council did not discuss about compensation but told them to pay about RM25,000 for the low-cost houses.
“Now that the six-post low-cost houses are occupied by others, the other villagers from Kampung Cina are offered plots that are still covered with thick vegetation.
“They have been asked by the council to clear the land and build their own houses. Worse, the District Office has asked them to move out, rent a house and slowly build their houses in Kampung Galiung,” he said.

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/10/govt-urged-not-to-sacrifice-historical-village-for-devt/#ixzz2eX6LzCwa

40. The work of CRIMINALS in Govt

All the CRIMINALS in Governments only want to rob the nation dry by whatever methods or modus operandi - feeding the greedy cronies as well - Joshua

 

Malaysia 

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/pac-chief-blames-khazanah-for-lack-of-oversight-in-mas-airasia-deal-gone-wrong 

PAC chief blames Khazanah for lack of oversight in MAS-AirAsia deal gone wrong

BY RANJIT SINGH
September 09, 2013
Latest Update: September 09, 2013 01:40 pm

Nur Jazlan is the member of parliament for Pulai. The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, September 9, 2013.Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed (pic) today reprimanded Khazanah Nasional for its role in the Malaysian Airlines-AirAsia share swap deal which resulted in both carriers being fined RM10 million each by the Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) last week.
In a statement today, Nur Jazlan said that Khazanah and other government-linked companies (GLCs) could not rely solely on consultants for advise. He said the consultants were only motivated by profit and had at times overlooked the laws governing a transaction.
The state asset manager holds a 69% stake in Malaysia Airlines (MAS). In 2011, MAS and low-cost carrier AirAsia entered into a share swap deal which saw cross holdings by both entities. MAS would hold a 10% stake in AirAsia while AirAsia‘s stake in MAS would be 20.5%.

The deal was later rescinded after the MAS Employees Union (MASEU) opposed the deal claiming it would result in job losses at MAS.
Last week, the MyCC decided that the deal was monopolistic and both MAS and AirAsia were fined RM10 million each.

39. Confirmed CRIMINALS in Govt

Quote: "
I wish they were as zealous in defending our right not to be
robbed by a corrupt ruling elite. We don't seem to be applying the law of
the land there, let alone the ISA."

 

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Subject: Tengku Razaleigh's speech in UK -You can also read it in the following link;

http://borneoherald.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-excellent-speech-by-tengku-razaleigh.html

Pre-National Day - An excellent speech by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in UK

 

Thank you for inviting me to speak with you. I am truly honoured. I have
played some small role in the life of this nation, but having been on the
wrong side of one or two political fights with the powers that be, I am not
as close to the young people of this country as I would hope to be.

History, and the 8 o'clock news, are written by the victors. In recent years
the government's monopoly of the media has been destroyed by the technology
revolution.

You could say I was also a member of the UKEC. Well I was, except that
belonged to the predecessor of the UKEC by more than fifty years, The
Malayan Students Union of the UK and Eire. I led this organisation in
1958/59. I was then a student of Queen's University at Belfast, in a rather
cooler climate than Kota Bharu's.

Your invitation to participate in the MSLS was prefaced by an essay which
calls for an intellectually informed activism. I congratulate you on this.
The Youth of today, you note, "will chart the future of Malaysia." You say
you "no longer want to be ignored and leave the future of our Malaysia at
the hands of the current generation." You "want to grab the bull by the
horns... and have a say in where we go as a society and as a nation."I feel
the same, actually. A lot of Malaysians feel the same. They are tired of
being ignored and talked down to by swaggering mediocrities.

You are right. The present generation in power has let Malaysia down.

But also you cite two things as testimony of the importance of youth and of
student activism to this country, the election results of 2008 and "the
Prime Minister's acknowledgement of the role of youth in the development of
the country."

So perhaps you are a little way yet from thinking for yourselves. The first
step in "grabbing the bull by the horns" is not to required the endorsement
of the Prime Minister, or any Minister, for your activism.

Politicians are not your parents. They are your servants. You don't need a
government slogan coined by a foreign PR agency to wrap your project in. You
just go ahead and do it.

When I was a student our newly formed country was already a leader in the
postcolonial world. We were sought out as a leader in the Afro-Asian
Conference which inaugurated the Non-Aligned Movement and the G-77. The
Afro-Asian movement was led by such luminaries as Zhou En-lai, Nehru, Kwame
Nkrumah, Soekarno. Malaysians were seen as moderate leaders capable of
mediating between these more radical leaders and the West. We were known for
our moderation, good sense and reliability.

We were a leader in the Islamic world as ourselves and as we were, without
our leaders having to put up false displays of piety. His memory has been
scrubbed out quite systematically from our national consciousness, so you
might not know this or much else about him, but it was Tengku Abdul Rahman
who established our leadership in the Islamic world by coming up with the
idea of the OIC and making it happen.

Under his leadership Malaysia led the way in taking up the anti-apartheid
cause in the Commonwealth and in the United Nations, resulting in South
Africa's expulsion from these bodies.

Here was a man at ease with himself, made it a policy goal that Malaysia be
"a happy country". He loved sport and encouraged sporting achievement among
Malaysians. He was owner of many a fine race horse.

He called a press conference and had a beer with his stewards when his horse
won at the Melbourne Cup. He had nothing to hide because his great integrity
in service was clear to all. Now we have religious and moral hypocrites who
cheat, lie and steal in office but never have a drink, who propagate an
ideologically shackled education system for all Malaysians while they send
their own kids to elite academies in the West.

Speaking of football. You're too young to have experienced the Merdeka Cup,
which Tunku started. We had a respectable side in the sixties and seventies.
Teams from across Asia would come to play in Kuala Lumpur.
Teams such as South Korea and Japan, whom we defeated routinely. We were one
of the better sides in Asia. We won the Bronze medal at the Asian games in
1974 and qualified for the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
Today our FIFA ranking is 157 out of 203 countries. That puts us in the
lowest quartile, below Maldives (149), the smallest country in Asia, with
just 400,000 people living about 1.5 metres above sea level who have to
worry that their country may soon be swallowed up by climate change. Here in
ASEAN we are behind Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, whom we used to
dominate, and our one spot above basketball-playing Philippines.

The captain of our illustrious 1970's side was Soh Chin Aun. Arumugam, Isa
Bakar, Santokh Singh, James Wong and Mokhtar Dahari were heroes whose names
rolled off the tongues of our schoolchildren as they copied them on the
school field. It wasn't about being the best in the world, but about being
passionate and united and devoted to the game.

It was the same in Badminton, except at one time we were the best in the
world. I remember Wong Peng Soon, the first Asian to win the All-England
Championship, and then just dominated it throughout the 1950. Back home
every kid who played badminton in every little kampong wanted to call
himself Wong Peng Soon. There was no tinge of anybody identifying themselves
exclusively as Chinese, Malays, Indian. Peng Soon was a Malaysian hero. Just
like each of our football heroes. Now we do not have an iota of that
feeling. Where has it all gone?

I don't think it's mere nostalgia that that makes us think there was a time
when the sun shone more brightly upon Malaysia. I bring up sport because it
has been a mirror of our more general performance as nation. When we were at
ease with who we were and didn't need slogans to do our best together, we
did well. When race and money entered our game, we declined. The same
applies to our political and economic life

Soon after independence we were already a highly successful developing
country. We had begun the infrastructure building and diversification of our
economy that would be the foundation for further growth. We carried out an
import-substitution programme that stimulated local productive capacity.
From there we started an infrastructure buildup which enabled a
diversification of the economy leading to rapid industrialisation. We
carried out effective programmes to raise rural income and help with
landless with programmes such as FELDA. Our achievements in achieving growth
with equity were recognised around the world. We were ahead of Our peer
group in economic development were South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and
Taiwan, and we led the pack. I remember we used to send technical
consultants to advise the South Koreans.

By the lates nineties, however, we had fallen far behind this group and were
competing with Thailand and Indonesia. Today, according to the latest World
Investment Report, FDI into Malaysia is at about a twenty year low. We are
entering the peer group of Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines as an
investment destination. Thailand, despite a month long siege of the capital,
attracted more FDI than we did last year. Indonesia and Vietnam far
outperform us, not as a statistical blip but consistently. Soon we shall
have difficulty keeping up with The Philippines. This, I believe, is called
relegation. If we take into account FDI outflow, the picture is even more
interesting. Last year we received US$1.38 billion (RM4.40 billion) in
investments but US$ 8.04 billion flowed out. We are the only country in
Southeast Asia which has suffered nett FDI outflow. I am not against outward
investment. It can be a good thing for the country. But an imbalance on this
scale indicates capital flight, not mere investment overseas.

Without a doubt, Malaysia is slipping. Billions have been looted from this
country, and billions more are being siphoned out as our entire political
structure crumbles. Yet we are gathered here in comfort, in a country that
still seems to 'work.' Most of the time. This is due less to good management
than to the extraordinary wealth of this country. You were born into a
country of immense resources both natural and cultural and social. We have
been wearing down this advantage with mismanagement and corruption. With
lies, tall tales and theft. We have a political class unwilling or unable to
address the central issue of the day because they have grown fat and
comfortable with a system built on lies and theft. It is easy to fall into
the lull caused by the combination of whatever wealth has not been plundered
and removed and political class that lives in a bubble of sycophancy.

I urge you not to fall into that complacency. It is time to wake up.
That waking up can begin here, right here, at this conference. Not tomorrow
or the day after but today. So let me, as I have the honour of opening this
conference, suggest the following:

Overcome the urge to have our hopes for the future endorsed by the Prime
Minister. He will have retired, and I'll be long gone when your future
arrives. The shape of your  future is being determined now.

Resist the temptation to say "in line with" when we do something. Your
projects, believe it or not, don't have to be in line with any government
campaign for them to be meaningful. You don't need to polish anyone's apple.
Just get on with what you plan to do.

Do not put a lid on certain issues as "sensitive" because someone said they
are. Or it is against the Social Contract. Or it is "politicisation". You
don't need to have your conversation delimited by the hyper-sensitive among
us. Sensitivity is often a club people use to hit each other with. Reasoned
discussion of contentious issues builds understanding and trust. Test this
idea.

It's not "uber-liberal" to ask for an end to having politics, economic
policy, education policy and everything and the kitchen sink determined by
race. It's called growing up. Go look up "liberal" in a dictionary.

Please resist the temptation to say Salam 1 Malaysia, or Salam Vision
2020 or Salam Malaysia Boleh, or anything like that. Not even when you are
reading the news. It's embarrassing. I think it's OK to say plain old salam
the way the Holy Prophet did, wishing peace unto all humanity. You say you
want to "promote intellectual discourse." I take that to mean you want to
have reasonable, thought-through and critical discussions, and slogans are
the enemy of thought. Banish them.

Don't let the politicians you have invited here talk down to you.

Don't let them tell you how bright and "exuberant" you are, that you are the
future of the nation, etc. If you close your eyes and flow with their
flattery you have safely joined the caravan, a caravan taking the nation
down a sink hole. If they tell you the future is in your hands kindly
request that they hand that future over first. Ask them how come the
youngest member of our cabinet is 45 and is full of discredited hacks? Our
Merdeka cabinet had an average age below thirty. You're not the first
generation to be bright. Mine wasn't too stupid. But you could be the first
generation of students and young graduates in fifty years to push this
nation through a major transformation. And it is a transformation we need
desperately.

You will be told that much is expected of you, much has been given to you,
and so forth. This is all true. Actually much has also been stolen from you.
Over the last twenty five years, much of the immense wealth generated by our
productive people and our vast resources has been looted. This was supposed
to have been your patrimony. The uncomplicated sense of belonging fully,
wholeheartedly, unreservedly, to this country, in all it diversity, that has
been taken from you.

Our sense of ourselves as Malaysians, a free and united people, has been
replaced by a tale of racial strife and resentment that continues to haunt
us. The thing is, this tale is false.

The most precious thing you have been deprived of has been your history.
Someone of my generation finds it hard to describe what must seem like a
completely different country to you now. Malaysia was not born in strife but
in unity. Our independence was achieved through a demonstration of unity by
the people in supporting a multiracial government led by Tengku Abdul
Rahman. That show of unity, demonstrated first through the municipal
elections of 1952 and then through the Alliance's landslide victory in the
elections of 1955, showed that the people of Malaya were united in wanting
their freedom.

We surprised the British, who thought we could not do this.

Today we are no longer as united as we were then. We are also less free. I
don't think this is a coincidence. It takes free people to have the
psychological strength to overcome the confines of a racialised worldview.
It takes free people to overcome those politicians bent on hanging on to
power gained by racialising every feature of our life including our football
teams.

Hence while you are at this conference, let me argue, that as an absolute
minimum, we should call for the repeal of unjust and much abused Acts which
are reversals of freedoms that we won at Merdeka.

I ask you in joining me in calling for the repeal of the ISA and the OSA.
These draconian laws have been used, more often than not, as political tools
rather than instruments of national security. They create a climate of fear.
These days there is a trend among right wing nationalist groups to identify
the ISA with the defence of Malay rights. This is a self-inflicted insult on
Malay rights. As if our Constitutional protections needed draconian laws to
enforce them. I wish they were as zealous in defending our right not to be
robbed by a corrupt ruling elite. We don't seem to be applying the law of
the land there, let alone the ISA.

I ask you to join me in calling for the repeal of the Printing and
Publications Act, and above all, the Universities and Colleges Act. I don't
see how you can pursue your student activism with such freedom and support
in the UK and Eire while forgetting that your brethren at home are deprived
of their basic rights of association and expression by the UCA. The UCA has
done immense harm in dumbing down our universities.

We must have freedom as guaranteed under our Constitution. Freedom to
assemble, associate, speak, write, move. This is basic. Even on matters of
race and even on religious matters we should be able to speak freely, and we
shall educate each other.

It is time to realise the dream of Dato' Onn and the spirit of the Alliance,
of Tunku Abdul Rahman. That dream was one of unity and a single Malaysian
people. They went as far as they could with it in their time. Instead of
taking on the torch we have reversed course.
The next step for us as a country is to move beyond the infancy of
race-based parties to a non-racial party system. Our race-based party system
is the key political reason why we are a sick country, declining before our
own eyes, with money fleeing and people telling their children not to come
home after their studies.

So let us try to take 1 Malaysia seriously. Millions have been spent putting
up billboards and adding the term to every conceivable thing.
We even have cuti-cuti 1 Malaysia. Can't take a normal holiday anymore.

This is all fine. Now let us see if it means anything. Let us see the
Government of the day lead by example. 1 Malaysia is empty because it is
propagated by a Government that promotes the racially-based party system that is the chief cause of our inability to grow up in our race relations.
Our inability to grow up in our race relations is the chief reason why investors, and we ourselves, no longer have confidence in our economy. The
reasons why we are behind Maldives in football, and behind the Philippines in FDI, are linked.

So let us take 1 Malaysia seriously, and convert Barisan Nasional into a
party open to all citizens. Let it be a multiracial party open to direct
membership. PR will be forced to do the same or be left behind the times.
Then we shall have the vehicles for a two party, non-race-based system.

If Umno, MIC or MCA are afraid of losing supporters, let them get their members to join this new multiracial party. PR should do the same. Nobody need feel left out. Umno members can join en masse. The Hainanese Kopitia Association can join whichever party they want, or both parties en masse if they like. We can maintain our cherished civil associations, however we choose to associate. But we drop all communalism when we compete for the ballot. When our candidates stand for Elections, let them ever after stand only as Malaysians, better or worse.

38. Land grabs by the CRIMINALS in government still on

Land grabs within urban areas (near and far) by CRIMINALS in Government still ongoing despite denial, and no excuse that the past land grabs are allowed to go free.  Joshua

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/09/04/no-more-land-grab-in-sabah-osman/

No more land grab in Sabah – Osman

by Jenne Lajiun. Posted on September 4, 2013, Wednesday

Osman

KOTA KINABALU: State Land and Survey Department director Datuk Osman Jamal yesterday denied that incidence of land grabbing still occurs in Sabah.
“It is true that there were two companies involved in Tongod before, and we have learned from this and made changes. After 2007, there have been no more of such incidence,” he said.
He added that companies were no longer given approval for lands in Sabah since then.
However, land is still being developed by government agencies aimed at eradicating poverty, he said.
Osman, who was irritated by an earlier presentation by UMS senior lecturer from the School of Social Sciences, Dr Gaim James Lunkapis, stressed that he had to explain the matter for the sake of the State government’s future.
“Someone has used the term ‘land grab’. The use of the word is very, very wrong,” he said.
Dr Gaim, in his presentation entitled “A critical reflection on the implementation of the communal title in Sabah” had used the term ‘land grab’.
However, Dr Gaim also specifically mentioned that the term was used in the article he used as a reference for his presentation and that it was in no way connected to Sabah.
“This was used for the article which focused on Ethiopia and Africa,” he said.
At the same time, he also spoke of the need to assess the development of the communities that have been given the communal title.
He added that the main aim of the communal title was towards poverty eradication, but at the same time questioned why trees such as rubber that were already generating income for a farmer were cut down to make way for the planting of oil palm trees once the land becomes part of the communal title.
“We are so concerned on the economy of scale and we open large plantations, sometimes forgetting that in the middle of that land, there is a family that is already self-sufficient,” said Dr Gaim.