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Lim Lip Eng

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Lim Lip Eng

Campaign in TTDI to register more voters

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:45 PM PDT

A voter-registration campaign will be held at the Taman Tun Dr. Ismail market on the 30th and 31st July, 2011 (Saturday and Sunday) from 9am until 6pm.
The programme, jointly organised by TTDI residents and the Election Commission (EC), is aimed at creating awareness on the importance of registering as a voter.
This voter-registration campaign is apolitical because it is a local community programme.
EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said that about 3.7 million eligible voters did not register to vote by July this year so iIt is the duty of a Malaysian citizen to sign up and to have a say on how the country is to be run.
Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong has also annouced that the general election could be held within the next 180 weeks days, so it was important to register before 30th September, 2011 in order to be eligible to vote when the next general election comes.
The drive will be held at the ground floor of TTDI market.
EC officers would also be present to update the people to vote in their current place of residence.

Charles Santiago

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:52 PM PDT

Charles Santiago

Australia, Malaysia: Refugee Swap Fails Protection Standards

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:36 AM PDT

HRW Asia asia@hrw.org

'Arrangement' Opts For Burden Shifting Over Burden Sharing

(Bangkok, July 27, 2011) – Australia and Malaysia's agreement to swap 800 asylum seekers who arrive in Australia for 4,000 refugees living in Malaysia fails to meet minimal standards for refugee burden-sharing, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to both countries' prime ministers. The Arrangement between Australia and Malaysia on Transfer and Resettlement was signed on July 25, 2011.

"The refugee swap agreement should have been rejected outright because Malaysia is not a party to the Refugee Convention and has no refugee law or procedure," said Bill Frelick, refugee program director at Human Rights Watch.  "The gap in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers between Australia and Malaysia remains enormous."

In its letter, Human Rights Watch said that the failure of one of the two parties to accept the obligations established by the most relevant treaty regarding refugees and to apply customary standards demonstrates the hollowness of the agreement.

The protection and education of refugee children are of particular concern under the agreement, Human Rights Watch said. The agreement says nothing about "best interest" determinations or other basic principles of protection for unaccompanied children under international law, only that special procedures "will be developed."

"The agreement ignores the special needs of unaccompanied children," Frelick said.  "Saying that implementing procedures will come later is no excuse for failing to spell out basic principles in the agreement itself."

The agreement also says that school-age children will be permitted access to "private education," but adds that if "such arrangements are not available or affordable" the children should have access to "informal education." Neither private education nor informal education meet the standards for the right to free and compulsory primary education in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which both Australia and Malaysia are parties.

Australia's willingness to admit 4,000 more refugees for permanent resettlement was potentially a great humanitarian benefit, Human Rights Watch said. But it urged the Australian government to separate that agreement from a deal that would deflect people seeking asylum in Australia to another country.

Malaysia's willingness to recognize a group of asylum seekers as being lawfully present was also a positive development, Human Rights Watch said. However, creating an exception for 800 "swapped" people while 90,000 other refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia remain "illegal migrants" subject to deportation is unacceptable, Human Rights Watch said.

"Unfortunately, the Australia-Malaysia refugee swap agreement is more about burden shirking than burden sharing," Frelick said.

Lim Kit Siang

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:44 PM PDT

Lim Kit Siang

We’ll derail BN, railwaymen warn Najib

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:34 PM PDT

By Patrick Lee | July 28, 2011 Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: In a letter to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the Railwaymen Union of Malaya (RUM) warned him of protest votes against the Barisan Nasional in the next polls. The letter penned by union secretary-general Jaafar Alias in his capacity as the Tampin Umno [...]

Muhyiddin pledges RM100,000 to BN MPs as economy bites

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:41 PM PDT

The Malaysian Insider | July 28, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — The government will approve an immediate RM100,000 grant for constituencies after Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers complained to ministers on Monday that the administration's focus on big-ticket projects in the Klang Valley would not help the coalition in the next general election. The Malaysian [...]

Teoh’s death: ‘Four new leads for police’

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:29 PM PDT

By Teoh El Sen | July 27, 2011 Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang yesterday urged police to re-open investigations into the death of former political aide Teoh Beng Hock based on four new "leads" that the recently released Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report revealed. Lim, the Ipoh Timor MP, [...]

Apocalypse begins

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:24 PM PDT

By Soothsayer | July 27, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JULY 27 — Good is bad and bad is good. Those in power attempt to justify their acts of deceit, cruelty and oppression by hard-sell tactics using all the media tools at their disposal. On Sunday, the news broadcast was filled with falsity and half-truths — [...]

RCI report: Gobind throws Gani a challenge

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT

By G Vinod | July 27, 2011 Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national legal bureau chairman Gobind Singh Deo wants Attorney- General Abdul Gani Patail to explain why the three MACC officers found responsible for the death of Teoh Beng Hock cannot be charged under the Penal Code. "If you can't find anything under [...]

RCI + inquest = ‘big, big mess’

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:19 PM PDT

By Teoh El Sen | July 28, 2011 Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock's death, which released its findings in a report last Thursday, has created a "big legal mess" by generating more questions than answers, said prominent human rights lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar. Malik, who [...]

The chameleon PM

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:41 PM PDT

By Othman Wahab | July 27, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JULY 27 — Okay, now it is official. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has run out of ideas. After looking terribly unconvincing when handling the Bersih 2.0 rally, he is clutching at anything just to seem to have things under control. But the sad [...]

BN MPs want more funds ahead of polls

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:39 PM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal | July 28, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers have told coalition leaders that the government must ensure more funds trickle down to their constituencies instead of concentrating on big-ticket projects like the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) construction in Kuala Lumpur if the ruling [...]

Why Najib must go

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:26 AM PDT

By Mariam Mokhtar | Jul 25, 11 Malaysiakini The rakyat is angry with all politicians, not just BN or the opposition. We have had 54 years of Umno/BN rule and have things really got any better? The rich appear to get richer, whilst the numbers who make up the poor, are increasing. The old class [...]

After Bersih, doubts over Malaysia’s UNHRC spot

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:56 AM PDT

By Debra Chong The Malaysian Insider Jul 27, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — LawAsia, a global organisation of lawyers, judges and legal experts has reminded Putrajaya it could lose its seat in the United Nations' Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its strong-arm tactics over the Bersih 2.0 affair. The 45-year-old society based in Brisbane, [...]

TBH inquisition reveals racist underpinnings

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:47 AM PDT

By CPI | 27 July 2011 What is most telling about the Royal Commission report on Teoh Beng Hock is its total neglect of the two major structural factors accounting for the tragedy – the Umno and MACC agenda convergence, and the racist character of the civil service. These ingredients together created a scenario where [...]

A sham that deceived Malaysia

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:45 AM PDT

By Marcus van Geyzel (loyarburok.com) | July 25, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JULY 25 — As the news filtered in on Thursday that the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Death of Teoh Beng Hock ("the TBH RCI") had issued its findings, the conclusions seemed simple enough. The TBH RCI concluded that Teoh Beng Hock [...]

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:42 AM PDT

By Zaharom Nain | July 27, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JULY 27 — Many of us have long been opposed to monopolistic or oligopolistic control of institutions, including media institutions. More often than not, critiques of such control have been levelled at large corporations or moguls. Indeed, such concentration of control often invariably leads to [...]

For BN, a call to arms

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:32 AM PDT

By G. Manimaran, Bahasa Malaysia Editor | July 27, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — As speculation rises over the likely date of the next general election, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin rounded up over 100 Barisan Nasional lawmakers on Monday night and told them to work as if the "polls could be [...]

The Amanah agenda (Part 3)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:16 PM PDT

By Sakmongkol AK47 | July 27, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JULY 27 — There's a practical side as to why I usually break up my articles into several parts. One is that I am writing from memory and therefore the output depends on my power of recall; if the issue at hand has decelerated, I [...]

MACC a house of criminals, says Kit Siang

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:14 PM PDT

By Joseph Sipalan and Lee Way Loon | Jul 27, 11 Malaysiakini INTERVIEW Responsibility for the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock lies squarely on the shoulders of the BN, which created a monster in the form of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), senior DAP leader Lim Kit Siang says. Lim said the recently [...]

Blog@Wengsan...博客@永山

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:54 PM PDT

Blog@Wengsan...博客@永山

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Posted: 27 Jul 2011 01:23 AM PDT

View issues with Tan Seng Giaw

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT

View issues with Tan Seng Giaw

Truly serious strategy to train & mentor women for higher posts

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 12:35 AM PDT

DAP National Deputy Chairman and MP for Kepong Dr Tan Seng Giaw calls on the Central Government to formulate genuinely serious strategy to train and mentor women for higher posts including corporate board members. they should be given more opportunities.

As women do much better at schools and universities, it is only a matter of time before they catch up. This is happening in many fields.

On 26.7.2011, Dr Tan comments on the point made by the Deputy Prime MInister Tan Sri Muhyiddin to empower women.

The Deputy Prime Minister wants serious training and mentoring strategy to push women towards higher posts such as corporate board membership. Lets hope it is really serous.

Women are trying to achieve greater heights.

Education is essential. At schools and universities, there are more female than male students. They excel. The majority of nearly 400,000 teachers in the country are women. They dominate. Some courses in universities have more than 60% women. At times, it is difficult to get qualified male students to fill vacancies. The Higher Education Minister says that starting from 2012, his ministry would like to enrol more male students. If there are no qualified male students, the vacancies must be filled by female students.

According to Women Minister Datuk Seri Sharizat, women occupy more than 32% of the premier grade civil posts, compared with 19% in 2004. We hope the Government will publish the details.

The Government must ensure that women get there by merits without racial and religious discrimination. It is only time before women get to the top of most fields. They will overcome obstacles. Lets help them along.

Dr Tan Seng Giaw

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Posted: 27 Jul 2011 01:47 PM PDT
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