Posted in Activities, Party on Nov 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
From: Harris M. Sani Congress 2008
The closing speeches of our 2008 Congress began with my speech at about 15:00hr.
In my speech, I emphasized that the people put high hope on us, they demand a change of government, the party has an obligation to carry out. The people’s dream will certainly come true.
By our name, Parti [...]
Posted in Activities, Party, Politics on Nov 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Congress was declared recess at 18:30hr today (29 Nov). Tonight Anwar will deliver his speech at the Stadium.
The debate this afternoon was inspiraring with all the very spirited speeches by delegates. The women debaters were especially impressive. The young women are the future hope of PKR.
Not only the Congress approved 30% participation of women [...]
Posted in Activities, Party on Nov 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Parti Keadilan Rakyat Congress officially open this morning. Besides 2000 over official delegates and another 2000 official observers, 10 thousands members and supporter flooded Stadium Melawati Shah Alam. For the last 10 years we always had to look high and low for meeting venues, often faced rejection. We had held our annual meetings in Chinese [...]
Posted in Parliament, Visual on Nov 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I raised a question on parking system in KL. Got a long lecture from the Minister of Federal Territory.
As we heard, the parking system of KL is like a big cake, it is being cut into pieces for so many companies and interest groups.
Posted in Environment, Parliament on Nov 25th, 2008 5 Comments »
This evening, Bakun Project became a hot topic again in the Parliament we were debating the Budget of the Ministry of ENergy, Water & Communication.
The Deputy Minister Joseph Salang was in hot soup when he was grilled by MPs from Pakatan Rakyat. He appeared nervous and was unable to justify the RM9 billion undersea cable.
He [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Politics on Nov 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
It was a disappointing afternoon for me. I spent nearly one and half hour searching high and low around Jalan Tun Razak and Jalan Ampang for Dr Rajakumur’s funeral. By the time I arrived at his residence, all well-wishers and family members had left for the crematorium.
During my search, I drove past a small congregation [...]
Posted in Incident, Parliament on Nov 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
This is not my car !
Early Sunday morning, I received a series of strange phone calls from Chinese newspapers’ reporters:
“How is your driver?” one of them asked.
“Your black Perdana had an accident on Federal Highway at 3:30hr this morning,…”
I don’t have a black Perdana. My car is white!
The reporter sounded confused: “but the [...]
Posted in Announcement, Friends & Family, Personality, Politics on Nov 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
I just got the news that Dr MK Rajakumar, veteran leftist politician passed away at the age of 76 this morning.
Dr Rajakumar was one of the founding members of Parti Buruh (Labour Party) and Barisan Sosialis. He started his activist career as a doctor in parnership with late Dr Tan Chee Khoon. He was detained [...]
Posted in Altantuya case, Parliament on Nov 20th, 2008 8 Comments »
Another no surprise. In his first press conference, Razak Baginda re-emerged to defend his boss, Najib Razak (Malaysiakini 20 Nov) and made another attempt to clear Najib’s ascending path.
Razak is not telling us any new thing: Najib Razak and his wife had never met Altantuya. Razak Baginda went further to say that Altantuya played no [...]
Posted in Altantuya case, Judiciary on Nov 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Attorney General decided not to appeal against Razak Baginda’s acquital from the murder of Altantuya (Malaysiakini 14 Nov).
Should anyone be surprised? After a long drawn drama, court freed Razak Baginda on 31 Oct and called 2 UTK security officers for defence.
How would the two defend themselves? The UTK guys couldn’t even distinguish Mongolia and China, [...]