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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I was invited to attend the mass circumcision on Sunday morning (14 Dec 2008). 40 children from residents of Intan Baiduri public housing participated the ceremony of circumcision.
Together with me was YB Subahan, the State Assemblyman of Templer Park. PPR Intan Baiduri is located at the border between my constituency Batu (Federal Territory) and Selangor [...]
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The following is my winding up speech at the final day (30 Nov) of Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s Congress 2008:
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I was in Kathmandu for a 3-day conference on “Peace and Democracy” last week (10-12 November). Nepal had been through a sustained period of turbulent time.
Peace only returned to the Roof Top of the Earth less than a year ago. King Gyanendra who ruled Nepal with emergency order between 2005-2007 was overthrown by an united [...]
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