Posted in Activities, Housing, Parliament Batu on Dec 28th, 2008 9 Comments »
Urban poverty is a serious problem in Malaysia. It is particularly prominent in inner city area like Sentul.
Marry is a single mother who had lived in Sentul for all her life. Her house was located behind the Pasar (market) and was in a appalling condition. She is currently living with a 16 year-old daughter who [...]
Posted in Activities, Festival, Parliament Batu on Dec 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I took the opportunity of Christmas to visit Churches around Batu:
I was accompanied by Steven, his brother Philip, and our division committee member Syed Harun. We started our tour at about 18:30. We first dropped off some boxes of daily necessities to Mrs Marry at Sentul Pasar. Then we joined a service by Tamil Church [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2008 13 Comments »
The National Heart Institute or Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) will be taken over by Sime Darby, with the BN Government consent.
Another of public service fall into profiteering corporation. Over the last few years, IJN had saved many lives and provided poor people affordable services. With Sime Darby takes over 51% of the shares, the quality [...]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Parliament on Dec 18th, 2008 6 Comments »
This morning cyclists from “Cycling for Change” Campaign arrived in Parliament to hand over their memorandum. This was the final stop for the campaign.
MP Sg Siput Dr Kumar Devaraj had given prior notice to the Parliament and book a hall to host lunch for the cyclists.
I reached Parliament House at about 10:30hr, a large groups [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Personality on Dec 17th, 2008 4 Comments »
A shocking news reached me on my way to Parliament this morning (17 Dec). Syafiq (Suara Keadilan photo journalist) called: “Syukree passed away!”
What? I was with him at Rawang Police Station until early morning yesterday! I was unsure what caused his death.
Syukree Hussain was a young man (28) who used to work with Suara Keadilan. [...]
Posted in Parliament on Dec 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
At 19:30hr (16 December), after two days debate, the parliament dominated by BN MPs is now bulldozing the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Bill.
Subang MP Sivarasa proposed several amendments to strengthen the power of the Commission. We also advocate that the MACC to be free from Attorney General Office. However, MPs from BN rejected our motion [...]
Posted in Economy, Viewpoint on Dec 16th, 2008 11 Comments »
Lego No-where Land
Even toys must go mega in Malaysia. Our Southern Johor’s Iskandar Project is going to build a new multimillion theme park, Legoland Malaysia.
The deal was agreed last week (13 December 2008). Malaysian Government is now blowing the trumpet to declare it was a sign of foreign investors’ confidence for Iskandar Project.
According to Bernama, [...]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Party, Visual on Dec 16th, 2008 No Comments »
57 cyclists were arrested and detained in Rawang Police Station on Monday evening (15 Dec). The cyclists were part of “Cycle for Change” campaign coordinated by JERIT.
The program known involves young cyclists including children visiting different cities around the country on bicycle to spread the message for change. The message is save the nation [...]
Posted in Parliament, Transparency on Dec 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
It is already 23:15hr, 15 minutes before parliament ends, I am still waiting for my chance to speak on Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission Bill.
All speakers from both ruling and opposition parties had pointed out various weaknesses of the bill. I am rather pessimist that the Government is willing to amend or improve the bill.
The Opposition [...]
Posted in Parliament, Viewpoint on Dec 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
The PM has tabled a number of bills last week. These are supposedly the reforms initiated by PM Abdullah.
The Parliament scheduled an additional week to rush through these bills. In the last 6 days of parliament session this year (which end on 18 December), we have to stay for extra hours at night to debate [...]