Gomen janji mangsa banjir terima 'layanan diraja'...

Kerajaan Persekutuan akan memastikan mangsa banjir diberikan bantuan terbaik yang diibaratkan 'layanan diraja' ketika berada di Pusat Pemindahan Sementara (PPS), kata Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan Kassim, lapor agensi berita tempatan.

Bernama melaporkan Shahidan berkata pihak berkuasa telah membuat persediaan secukupnya dalam menghadapi bencana itu bagi memastikan mangsa banjir yang berlindung di PPS mendapat keistimewaan dan keselesaan berserta kemudahan-kemudahan tertentu.

"Makanan segar juga akan disediakan kepada mangsa-mangsa banjir yang tinggal di pusat pemindahan dan pelbagai kemudahan lain turut disediakan agar mereka dapat duduk dengan selesa.

"Dengan kerjasama semua pihak khususnya daripada Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM), kita harap segala kelengkapan dapat disediakan dengan sempurna kepada mangsa," katanya kepada Bernama selepas melawat mangsa banjir di PPS Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama (SMKA) Lati di Pasir Mas, Kelantan hari ini.

Timbalan Ketua Polis Kelantan Datuk Din Ahmad dan Pengarah Jabatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia (JPAM) Kelantan Zainuddin Hussin turut serta dalam lawatan itu, lapor Bernama.

Dah memang namanya kerajaan, bantuan bencana dah ada dlm s.o.p yg sepatutnya dilaksanakan tak payah lah nak ckp sampai layanan diraja. Itu memang tanggungjawab kerajaan menjaga kebajikan rakyat apabila dlm bencana alam..- David Peter

Kalu layanan diraja jgn letak di pusat2 banjir.Letak di hotel 5 star.Bantu sajalah jgn nak tunjok kononnya UMNO saja yg boleh bantu mangsa banjir.Benda2 mcm ni tak payahlah nak dipolitikkan.Bantulah dgn seikhlasnya.Rakyat bukannya tinggal free di negara sendiri.Kena tax..gst..dan macam2 cukai.Gaji Menteri pun sebenarnya rakyat yg bayar so jgn ego sangat. - Azman Abdullah 

Mangsa banjir kat Penang kau orang layan macam pelarian.Cakap kencang macam la bagus sangat.Mangsa banjir yg lepas2 kt Kelantan pun masih merempat.Ini lah JANJI2 menteri yg hanya tahu bercakap besar dan angkuh ,apatah lagi PRU 14 dh semakin dekat.LAYANAN DIRAJA KEPALA BAPAK KAU ORANG la sangat sedangkn kau orng hidup bermewah2 setiap saat.JOM KITA HANYUTKAN BEE END BERSAMA BANJUR PRU14 nanti. Kita bagi LAYANAN KELAS 1 dalam penjara SG BULOH kepada menteri2 bangsat ini yg melanun duit rakyat.- Jus Jue

Layanan diraja nak pancing undi ke? sebelum ni takda pula layanan diraja. Penang banjir ari tu takda pula layanan mcm ni,kena caci maki hamun ada. Inilah menteri hipokrit. - Ariss Salam 

Masa mcm ni baru nak beri layanan diraja? Lepas tu layan mcm pengemis? Jgn mcm budak tadika. Tak ada idea nak berpolitik ke? - Navarasoo Nagarajan 

Di PP mereka salahkan Guan Eng, di Kelantan dan Terengganu nak salahka siapa pulak ? - Hj Ashitelu 

Banjir di Kelantan camne pula?

Pembelian bangunan oleh MARA 

di Australia yang meragukan...

Dengan dua syarikat yang berdaftar di British Virgin Islands (BVI), dokumen dan satu perjanjian yang meragukan serta laporan penilaian yang tinggi, sekumpulan rakyat Malaysia didakwa mengaut kira-kira RM60 juta daripada satu urus niaga hartanah yang dikatakan tanpa mengeluarkan satu sen pun.

Walaupun pembelian itu telah dilaporkan sebelum ini, kini kita dapat menunjukkan untuk pertama kalinya bagaimana pembelian dan penjualan hartanah itu dilakukan tanpa perlu meletakkan sebarang wang pendahuluan dan didakwa mengaut berpuluh-puluh juta ringgit.

Ia tertumpu kepada hartanah yang dikenali sebagai UniLodge, sebuah bangunan 12 tingkat di 746, Swanston Street di pusat bandar Melbourne. Ia telah "dijual" kepada Mara Inc untuk A$41.8 juta (RM138 juta) berbanding harga pasarannya ketika itu dan harga transksi AS$23.5 juta (kira-kira RM77.6 juta).

"Penjualan" pada 2012 itu datang dengan kaveat - hartanah itu, yang mempunyai 281 bilik penginapan pelajar, tidak bertukar tangan sehinggalah lewat kemudiannya. Apa yang ditransaksikan adalah pemilikan sebuah syarikat BVI yang mempunyai sedikit atau mempunyai apa-apa aset.

Mereka rakyat Malaysia yang terlibat dalam perjanjian itu telah dikenal pasti dalam pelbagai dokumen rasmi, termasuk bekas pegawai tertinggi Mara Inc.

Pada 28 Ogos 2012, berdasarkan satu penilaian UniLodge oleh juruukur dan penilai yang berpejabat di Malaysia, Mara Inc membayar A$41.8 juta untuk pembelian semua kepentingan dalam sebuah syarikat BVI yang dipanggil Thrushcross Ltd. Baca seterusnya...

Another dodgy building purchase by Mara in Melbourne

Hishamuddin To Be "Appointed" 

Acting Timbalan Presiden UMNO??

UMNO is having their general assembly soon. This is not an election assembly. However talk is that Hishamuddin Hussein is going to be appointed "acting" Timbalan President or Deputy President at this coming assembly.

This may not require an election and it may be more "symbolic" to just appoint an "acting timbalan president". Wonder what the ROS will say about that? Prosedur semua mesti ikut cara betul brader. Jangan buat ikut suka hati.

Of course this means the end of Zahid Hamidi - a Javanese immigrant who came to Malaysia at the age of 12 or something. Not even born in Malaysia.  Folks in the know say Zahid will be given a golden handshake to retire into the sunset. He will ride off on his buffalo and disappear into  the rubber estate.  

Ultimately Hishamuddin will take over as UMNO president and become Prime Minister. That is the plan. This has some chance of happening if they get rid of Kepala Bapak before the general elections. But the situation has become so bad now that it is almost impossible to save the BN and UMNO anymore. If Kepala Bapak leads the BN into the GE14, they are going to lose. This is a certainty. 

People in the know also say that indeed they have made an offer to Anwar Ibrahim. Stand with UMNO and his crimes and sins will be pardoned. The daughter will be made a Minister. He and the wife will be given a golden handshake to retire into the sunset. He will ride off on his buffalo and disappear into  the rubber estate.  

The offer has been made but they have not responded yet. Isnt it nice to have so many options.- ostb

Syarikat China Terbit Bon Pakai Duit KWSP

Pelajar conteng gambar badut Najib di baju sekolah

Guan Eng ziarah Anwar cakap pasai PRU14...
Story kat SINI dan SINI  

An open letter to Anwar Ibrahim

cheers.

Ayat2 setan penyangak2 UMNO...

Ku Babuji celupaq,padan muka...

“Saya pun pernah jadi pelajar, (tetapi) kerana dasar Umno yang kamu dapat masuk universiti. Apa salah Umno? Balik nanti renung siapa saya, siapa ibu-bapa saya, bagaimana saya jadi macam ini. Renungkan kerana kita sudah lupa kerana kita orang Islam tetapi tak bersyukur apa yang kita ada,” - Ku Babuji Nan Mansor

Ini adalah petikan kata-kata Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor dalam ucapannyaketika merasmikan Majlis Nadi Negara di PWTC . Jika saya salah petik, sila salahkan wartawan dan editor Malaysiakini.

Saya pernah dengar ayat yang hampir sama seperti kata-kata Tengku Adnan ketika saya masuk ke sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi dalam sesi induksi pelajar baru. Malah dalam latihah BiroTata Negara, saya mendengar ayat-ayat yang hampir serupa.

Penggunaan sentimen “Melayu”, “ibu bapa”, “Tuhan” dan “agama” adalah modus operandi mencuci otak budak-budak Melayu yang masih muda dan kosong seperti saya ketika itu. Bagi saya ini adalah ungkapan biadab gerombolan pemimpin Umno kepada anak Melayu.

Saya ambil keratan kata-kata Tengku Adnan “bagaimana saya jadi macam ini” untuk saya jelaskan. Penjelasan saya ini adalah buat anak-anak muda di luar sana.

Selepas diindoktrinasi di IPT, saya pulang ke kampung bertemu ayah. Dalam satu sesi, rakan-rakan ayah saya dari gerombolan Umno totok sedang berbual dan saya dipanggil lepak bersama. Saya masuk dan duduk dengan rasa segan dan hormat berdepan dengan orang-orang otai tua Umno ini.

Mereka tanyakan bagaimana perasaan masuk menara gading sebagai pelajar? Saya jawab “biasa saja”. Rupanya soalan ini hanya mukadimah, otai-otai Umno ini kemudiannya memberi ceramah yang kekal dalam iingatan saya hingga hari ini.

Kata mereka, kerana Umnolah, budak seperti saya merasa masuk menara gading, tanpa Umno budak seperti saya takkan dapat bersaing. Dan yang paling saya tidak lupa bila mereka katakan, keputusan peperiksaan SPM saya hanya syarat, bukan keputusan itu yang melayakkan saya masuk universiti, tetapi usaha Umno.

Otai-otai ini berceramah sambil tersenyum memegang bahu saya dan berpesan “jangan lupa jasa Umno”. Selepas itu, mereka bergelak ketawa gembira.

Selepas sesi itu saya merasa sangat resah. Saya rasa sia-sia belajar siang malam untuk skor peperiksaan kerana akhirnya usaha itu rupa-rupanya bukanlah pencapaian saya, tetapi usaha dan pencapaian pihak lain.

Kata-kata mereka menggambarkan seolah-olah saya ini robot yang sekadar “belajar” mengikut waktu dan perlu berdisiplin, seterusnya dimasukkan ke kilang universiti untuk nanti dikeluarkan menjadi produk Umno. Saya sebagai produk ini kelak akan dijaja kepada umum sebagai kejayaan Umno. Saya rasa perasaan yang begitu sial.

Selepas peristiwa itu, otak saya sebagai pelajar rosak teruk. Saya seterusnya mengambil jalan sukar dalam hidup, saya konflik dengan diri sendiri, merasa rendah jiwa yang amat dan saya jadi liar.

Saya kemudiannya mengambil pilihan yang drastik dan melampau dalam usia yang terlalu muda. Saya mula mencipta pelbagai masalah dengan fakulti, dalam kelas, tidak hadir peperiksaan, berfoya-foya dan akhirnya saya menggagalkan diri saya dan seterusnya dibuang dari ITM.

Ibu bapa saya tidak dapat marah kerana yang mereka tahu saya gagal peperiksaan, bukan saya lari dan berhenti belajar suka-suka. Maka itu ibu bapa saya pasrah. Selepas dibuang saya merasa begitu lega dan merasa bebas.

Dengan hidup sendiri, cari makan sendiri tanpa bantuan ibu bapa, saya mengambil masa hampir 20 tahun yang memenatkan untuk menyiapkan sendiri diploma dan ijazah yang saya cicirkan suatu ketika dulu. Semua ini saya usaha dengan titik peluh sendiri, dengan wang gaji dan upah yang disimpan sedikit-sedikit termasuk dengan sokongan rakan-rakan sekeliling.

Saya buktikan pada diri saya, tanpa Umno dan dananya, saya boleh belajar dan menggenggam ijazah walaupun berpayah puluhan tahun, saya merasa cukup puas.

“Bagaimana saya jadi macam ini”? Kerana inilah. Wahai anak-anak Melayu, bangkitlah dari lena dan penipuan ayat-ayat setan pemimpin Umno.

Benar, Umno sebagai parti politik yang menjadi kerajaan telah membina dan menyediakan kemudahan kepada pelajar di segala peringkat. Itu adalah tugas dan tanggungjawab mana-mana kerajaan sekalipun bukan parti Umno yang memerintah. 

Saya memahami mengapa Umno mahukan kredit atas usaha mereka itu, tetapi biarlah waras dan berpada-pada. Tidak perlu sampai mengatakan tanpa Umno anak Melayu akan tercicir atau tak boleh bersaing dan mereka semua perlu bersyukur kepada Umno. Ini merepek.

Hakikatnya, mereka yang berjaya atau gagal itu adalah atas usaha sendiri. Apabila ada anak yang gagal, anak itu yang dikatakan lemah dan salah, atau mungkin ibu bapa atau guru. Mengapa tidak salahkan Umno?

Buat anak Melayu, usahalah, pilihlah dan capailah apa saja yang kamu mahu kerana kamu mampu. Kejayaan itu kelak adalah kejayaan kamu, bukan Umno. - themalaysianinsight

UMNO kata tanpa UMNO,Melayu mati,tapi sebenaqnya tanpa Melayu,UMNO pun mampuih...t/sekole

Adakah MB Johor terima RM12 juta...

Story kat SINI SINI SINI dan SINI  

Sehari selepas Adun Senai, Wong Shu Qi dihalau keluar dewan kerana membangkitkan mengenai skandal tanah yang dikaitkan dengan Datuk Khaled Nordin, Pakatan Harapan (HARAPAN) Johor hari ini mendesak Menteri Besar itu tampil menjelaskan dakwaan itu.

Menurut gabungan pembangkang berkenaan, dakwaan itu adalah berdasarkan maklumat yang didedahkan menerusi sebuah laman web yang memuat naik kenyataan saksi dalam siasatan yang dijalankan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) terhadap skandal terbabit.

SPRM dilaporkan sedang menyiasat skandal membabitkan pengubahan status lot perumahan Bumiputera yang didakwa dilakukan oleh beberapa pemimpin tertinggi Kerajaan Negeri Johor.

“Pada saat Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) memberi amaran keras kepada Kerajaan Negeri akan ketidakseimbangan pasaran hartanah yang semakin kritkal di Johor, isu melibatkan pengubahan status lot perumahan Bumiputera yang timbul telah memberi gambaran bahawa kerajaan negeri Barisan Nasional pimpinan Khaled telah gagal untuk memperjuangkan nasib rakyat.

“Oleh itu, Pakatan Harapan Johor mendesak agar Khaled Nordin tampil ke hadapan dan menjawab persoalan ini dengan kadar segera tanpa berselindung,” kata HARAPAN Johor dalam kenyataan, hari ini.

Kenyataan tersebut ditandatangi oleh Pengerusi HARAPAN Johor, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; Timbalan Pengerusi, Datuk Dr Shahruddin Md Salleh; Hj Aminulhuda Hassan; Hassan Karim dan Liew Chin Tong serta Pengarah Pilihan Raya, Salahuddin Ayub. – Roketkini.com

If Siew Sin and Tun Ismail were alive,

Najib would be behind bars...

Reading Robert Kuok’s account of Malaysian leaders of a bygone era, one anecdote stood out.

The anecdote shows how far our current leaders have fallen in integrity, accountability, honesty and sense of responsibility for the country.

In his memoir, Kuok recalls an incident of former Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman writing to then Finance Minister (Tun) Tan Siew Sin to tell the tax department to go easy on a poker buddy.

Tan was so upset at being asked to intervene and bend the rules that he marched into the office of Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman.

Dr Ismail’s advice was brilliant. He told his cabinet colleague that Tunku Abdul Rahman had done his friend a favour by writing the letter. Now Siew Sin had to do the country a favour by doing his job.

And yes, Dr Ismail also crumpled up the letter and threw it into the waste bin.

These men were the nation’s true trustees. 

There wouldn’t have been the BMF and Perwaja Steel scandals, and most certainly, the biggest act of kleptocracy in the world would never have been allowed to happen.

If the PM or UMNO chieftains of the day had tried to propose a shady deal, they would have spoken up against it. What a contrast to the crop of today.

Cronyism. Nepotism. Every “ism” that the leaders of the bygone era fought against has infected the leadership of the country, from top to bottom. But even sadder is that unlike the towering giants of the past, we now are surrounded by champions of mediocrity.

Not for them the integrity and honesty of their predecessors. They prefer to attend to the more immediate need of short-term electoral gains to stay in power at any cost.

Cronies and acolytes are a must, in the interests of development and to ensure the race and religion remain supreme.

That it is lip service is of no concern to those who preach that the end justifies the means. People may remain poor decades after Merdeka but they are fed hope while cronies scoop up the contracts and concessions.

Will anyone in government stand up to such blatant abuse of their mandate? Will any blow the whistle on those who abuse their power?

The long answer is, no way for sure. The short answer, d’uh. It will never happen and the few who dared to say yes have been sacked and punished.

The simple fact is, Kuok is talking of a time in Malaysia that is long gone. And will never return again. - dinmerican

Kepala Bapak despatch "Khalid" 

to talk to Claire To "Terminate" Suits...

Talk is Kepala Bapak wishes to see an end to the libel suits filed against Claire Rewcastle Brown (Sarawak Report). They are planning to despatch "Khalid" to see Claire and get her to agree if the suit against her is withdrawn.

At the same time they also want Claire to cancel her counter suit and her counter claims. I checked with someone who knows Claire who says she is in the dark about this plan.

If that is the case, do get ready Ms Brown. They must be prepared to pay big money to get out of this really stupid  mistake. Another one of their strategic bungles.  

By the way, did you know that Kepala Bapak's entire team of media advisors are all "slow learners"? Yes they are UITM graduates. That Tengku fellow, Farid etc. I think even Sup Kambing Kuala Kangsar.  No wonder.Dudsville. 

If Kepala Bapak seeks to have the suits terminated, please ask for costs, plus, plus, plus.  If a high school failure (an MCE dropout) can be paid RM5 million for writing rubbish, surely withdrawing a suit which will embarass Kepala Bapak and his entire team of slow learners must be worth a lot more.  

Christmas can come extra early Ms Brown.Do take them to the cleaners.

They are realising now that the defense filed by Claire Rewcastle Brown will embarass them to the sky. 

Plus they have hired the most expensive lawyer in the UK to file the suit.  Who is going to pay the legal fees, believed to run into a few million Ringgit ?  

What if that Bawang fellow just drops the suit because there is 'no more money' to pay the lawyers? That would be doubly embarrassing.

They cannot ask the ahli  lembu to donate more funds. The ahli lembus know the number plates of all those expensive cars that have been bought with that money.  They cannot be that stupid. Or can they? As the stomach churns.- ostb

12 tahun jadi cikgu guna IC palsu...

Rawang By-pass open 29/11/2017

Story kat SINI SINI SINI dan SINI 

Banjir di Kelantan camne pulak?

Meowna Lisa...

Hospital Rehabilitasi Ceras,rawatan fisioterapi...

cheers.

Ku Babuji kata Melayu 'slow learner' boleh masuk UiTM...

Ku Babuji kata Melayu pelajar lemah...

KU Babuji says Melayu slow learners can go to UiTM...

Ku babuji Adnan Mansor kata Universiti Institut Teknologi Mara (UiTM) ditubuhkan bagi menampung pelajar Malayu/Bumiputera yang lembap (slow learners).

Kalau pembangkang kacau-bilau, huru-hara, caca-caca marba maka yang seelok-eloknya dibuat oleh bapak-bapak kepala Umno/BN ialah relaks. Mengapa harus gila-gilaan bikin kepala pusing pak?

Guna sajalah duit rakyat jelata dan pembayar cukai yang beratus bilion ringgit yang dipungut melalui GST itu untuk beli undi. Bukankah itu yang akan dilakukan sebaik saja Belanjawan 2018 lulus di Parlimen?

Tak payahlah maki-hamun rakyat jelata serta perkecilkan pelajar dan lulusan UiTM semata-mata kerana ada siswazah yang dibiayai kerajaan tidak bersetuju dengan Umno.

Mereka sudah cukup derita. Ramai tak ada kerja dan bagi yang bekerja pula mereka kena VSS dan MSS kerana ekonomi lembap. Lembap ini betul. Ekonomi lembap dan pertumhuhan tidak berkualiti. Kalau berminat boleh baca DI SINI.

Sebagai penjelasan, saya sengaja guna pakai istilah Indonesia “bapak kepala” bagi merujuk kepada ketua-ketua Umno/BN kerana saya hendak bezakannya dengan istilah “kepala bapak” yang Najib gunakan ke atas pembangkang baru-baru ini.

Lagi pun, pada akhir-akhir ini bapak-bapak kepala Umno/BN sangat bangga dengan asal usul mereka dari Indonesia - sama ada Bugis seperti Najib, Jawa (Ahmad Zahid Hamidi) dan Aceh (Adnan Mansor). Jadi bagus kalau sekali sekala kita ngomong bahasa Indonesia.

Saya tidak mahu bercerita panjang tentang bebelan Adnan Mansor mengenai pelajar Melayu/Bumiputera yang dituduhnya benci kepada Umno tanpa sebab. Kalau berminat boleh baca DI SINI.

Kalau pembangkang kuchalana (loghat Kelantan), bapak-bapak kepala Umno/BN relaks sajalah dan, kalau mahu, boleh kembali berfoya-foya macam Adnan Mansor sebelum bertemu “hidayah” Umno.

Hujung tahun semakin dekat. Krismas dan tahun baru akan menjelang. Macam yang sudah jadi adat, Najib dan keluarga serta kroni dan “hangers-on” tentulah sedang merancang ke mana hendak pergi berfoya-foya.

Bukan Najib saja kerja kuat dan berhak kepada percutian di luar negara. Para isteri pun berhak juga kerana macam kata Najib, kejayaan pemimpin BN bergantung pada peranan isteri. Kalau berselera bolehlah baca DI SINI.

Bagi pelajar dan alumni UiTM pula, saya rasa eloklah mereka rasionalisasikan kedudukan mereka.

Adakah mereka pelajar lembap yang masuk universiti semata-mata kerana ihsan atau mereka masuk universiti kerana mereka berhak, layak dan berwibawa?

Atau mereka adalah orang bertongkat yang tidak akan sampai ke mana-mana tanpa bantuan kelas dedak daripada Umno. - a.kadir jasin

Slow Leaner kepala bapak kau Ku Nan..nk masuk Uitm skrg utk lepasan Stpm pon 3.33 ke atas Cgpa..pembelajaran semua dlm English di Uitm..Jauh dh standard Uitm ni..bodoh punya menteri Umno.- Alif Ikram Boas

Lain kali bangun dan tinggalkan majlis bila ada pemimpin negara yang bercakap mengarut mencarut menghina. Tak payah beri muka lagi. Jangan duduk saja terima penghinaan. Biar miskin tapi maruah tetap kita jaga.- Seng Hup Cheng 

Dia la slow leaner...tak ada Tengku letak Tengku. Tak boleh terima hakikat diri orang biasa. Adui pedihnya ko cakap slow leaner ya dah tu turunkan graf lagi. Lekeh betul gambaran ko. Pru nanti dorang akan buktikan - Putri Putri Syafika

Org bodoh jer yg tak marah ngan biawak hidup ni... Umno dah mcm biawak hidup yg sdg mencakar atas belakang rakyat malaysia. Walau diangkat jadi kjaan apa yg depa buat cakar belakang rakyat.dengan cukai yg tinggi.. Bantuan kjaan ditarik ... Subsidi dirampas.. Bil2 letrik di naikkan.. Biawak2 ni senang lenang.. Rakyat yg kesusahan. Rakyat sepatutnya buang saja biawak hidup ni ke longkang. - Awea Pro 

Sebab apa Ku Nan berani kluarkan kenyataan mcm ni?!Pasal dia tau,org melayu ni akan kecam dan marah kejap jek.Lama2 Melayu akan lupa dan kembali menyokong dan mengundi BN bila pilihanraya.- Zaidi Ibnu Othman 

Kalau slow learner masuk uitm..maka penyangak penyamun semua masuk UMNO..termasuk la ku nan salah sekor dari nya.- Msab Shukry 

Kalu bengang dengan kata2 Babuji ini 

sila t/tangan petition bantahan ini...

For all his talk,Robert Kuok 

was himself an UMNO crony...

From Kuok’s memoirs: 

“Cronies are lapdogs who polish a leader’s ego. In return, the leader hands out national favours to them.“A nation’s assets, projects and businesses should never be for anyone to hand out, neither for a king nor a prime minister.“A true leader is the chief trustee of a nation,” 

Kuok writes in his book, alluding to allegations of cronyism linked to the nation’s leaders over the past few decades.He added that any good leader could also rely on their fiduciary sense to set them on the right course, if the nation lacks an established system to guide its leaders.

“A leader who practices cronyism justifies his actions by saying he wants to bring up the nation quickly in his lifetime, so the end justifies the means.“He abandons all the General Orders, that is the civil-service work manual that lays down tendering rules for state projects.“Instead, he simply hands the projects to a Chinese or to a Malay crony,” 

Kuok said, adding that government-owned banks are also forced to lend to the projects.“Some of these cronies may even be fronting for crooked officials.”

On the other, hand this, extracted from: 

The Beginnings of Crony Capitalism: Business, Politics and Economic   Development in Malaysia, c.1955–70 by Nicholas  J. White:1

The enigmatic Robert Kuok was the entrepreneurial success story of the Tunku years —by the late-1960s, he had developed vast financial interests in Malaysia, originally in the food industry but extending also to timber, hotels and property development. Case studies by  Gomez and Rajeswary Brown illustrate that Kuok relied on close ties to the Malay elite, long before the NEP, to secure pioneer status for his sugar refining and flour milling ventures. 

He was awarded these concessions despite that the Federation’s tax holidays and tariff protection to encourage ISI tended to benefit British multinational enterprises, and notwithstanding the concern amongst Malay leaders that the grant of pioneer certificates to ethnic Chinese would only exacerbate the economic divide between Malay and non-Malay Malaysians.

Additionally, Kuok secured nearly 15, 000 acres of land in Perlis to grow sugar cane during the 1960s—again, in a period when the federal government, as Gomez notes, was ‘alreadyunder some pressure from UMNO members to augment state intervention in the economy to promote Malay economic interests’.

For Brown, Kuok‘s ‘oligopolistic niches in sugar and flour milling provided a secure capital base for diversification’ of his empire into property and hotels. As Gomez also claims, ‘Kuok‘s close links with government leaders’ smoothed the path for his appointment to the chairs of enterprises with a strong government equity participation—in the late-1960s, Kuok became head of both Malaysia Singapore Airlines (MSA) and the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC). 

He additionally became a director of the national trading corporation, PERNAS and the Bank Bumiputera—two government backed institutions specifically designed to enhance the Malay share in the Malaysian economy. - realpolitikasia.blogspot

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Kroni adalah ‘anjing peliharaan’ yang jilat ego pemimpin...

Robert Kuok, taikun yang kaya-raya bermula dengan perniagaan gula, dalam memoirnya yang masuk pasaran hari ini, mendedahkan hubungannya dengan tiga perdana menteri Malaysia yang awal dan bagaimana sikap mereka terhadap perniagaan.

Individu paling kaya di Malaysia itu merakamkan pengalamannya dalam buku Robert Kuok: A Memoir, yang petikannya disiarkan di portal berita South China Morning Post.

Dalam satu daripada tiga petikan yang disiarkan hari ini, Kuok menulis pandangannya tentang kronisme dan persahabatannya dengan tiga perdana menteri: Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak Hussein dan Hussein Onn.

Menurut Kuok, Tunku ada kawan baik yang kadang-kala beliau bantu tetapi tidak ada yang beliau jadikan sebagai kroni. Kuok merakamkan episod bagaimana Tunku menulis sepucuk surat kepada Menteri Kewangan Tan Siew Sin meminta pertolongan untuk kawannya yang ada masalah dengan cukai.

Siew Sin kemudian mengadu kepada Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, yang hanya ketawa dan membuang surat itu ke bakul sampah. Tulis Kuok, hanya setakat itulah Tunku membantu kawannya, iaitu dengan menulis surat.

"Kronisme berbeza. Kroni itu 'anjing peliharaan' yang menjilat ego seseorang pemimpin. Sebagai ganti, pemimpin itu menyerahkan kepentingan negara kepada mereka.

"Aset, projek dan perniagaan negara tidak harus jadi milik sesiapa untuk diagih-agihkan, baik seorang raja atau perdana menteri," tulis Kuok.  

Pemimpin sejati, tambah beliau, adalah pemegang amanah utama negara. Pemimpin yang mengamalkan kronisme pula akan melakukan apa saja sehingga mengetepikan peraturan serta menekan bank milik kerajaan untuk memberi pinjaman.

"Sesetengah kroni ini mungkin pemuka kepada pegawai yang tidak jujur," tambahnya.

Buku setelah 376 halaman itu bertajuk Robert Kuok: A Memoir, dijual di Hong Kong dan Singapura bermula hari ini. Ia akan masuk ke pasaran Malaysia pada 1 Disember dan Indonesia sebulan kemudian.

Kuok juga menyifatkan Tunku seorang pemimpin yang bijak, cekap dan strategik, dan mempunyai timbalannya, Abdul Razak yang melaksanakan perancangan besar beliau dengan baik. Menurut Kuok, selepas tragedi berdarah 13 Mei 1969, bidang perniagaan berubah — "tidak lagi bersih dan terbuka".

Beliau menceritakan bagaimana dasar ekonomi yang memberi ruang dan peluang kepada orang Melayu telah disalahgunakan secara salah, dan kesalahan itu tidak boleh dipertikaikan.

"Satu kesan sampingan kesungguhan mereka untuk merapatkan jurang ekonomi itu ialah perkauman yang jadi semakin jelek.  

"Saya nampak dengan jelas bagaimana bahayanya jalan yang dipilih oleh pemimpin-pemimpin selepas 1969," katanya.

Kuok kemudian berjumpa dengan Hussein Onn, yang ketika itu akan jadi perdana menteri ketiga, untuk menyuarakan pandangannya. Katanya, beliau mengingatkan Hussein tentang pentingnya Malaysia dibangunkan oleh pemimpin yang berbakat dan layak tanpa mengira kaum, dan menasihati bakal perdana menteri itu tentang ciri-ciri pemimpin yang diperlukan oleh negara.

Pertama, integriti — bersih, lurus, jujur dan tidak tercemar sedikit pun dengan rasuah atau skandal. Kedua, mampu dan berupaya, dan ketiga sedia bekerja keras.

"Saya merayu kepadanya, tolonglah, Hussein, gunakan mereka yang terbaik, yang hatinya berada di tempat yang betul, rakyat Malaysia yang penuh integriti dan sangat berkebolehan, bekerja keras dan tekun.

"Gunakan mereka tanpa mengira kaum, warna kulit dan kepercayaan."

Kuok kemudian menulis bagaimana Hussein, selepas mendengar pandangannya itu, berkata orang Melayu belum bersedia dan menjelaskan ia akan ditentukan oleh orang Melayu.

"Saya fikir Hussein faham mesej saya tetapi beliau tahu apa yang berlaku sudah terlanjur," katanya, dan menambah perdana menteri ketiga itu berjaya sedikit membetulkan hala tuju negara.

"Negara ini sudah di landasan yang salah. Hussein tidak cukup kuat untuk membetulkannya dan meletakkannya semula ke landasan yang betul."  - themalaysianinsight

So,Najib and Anwar are friends again...

They are sworn enemies, but last week’s surprise visits paid by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his loyal deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to the jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in hospital have sparked chatter of a fresh twist in the country’s real-life Game of Thrones. 

Both sides immediately dismissed suggestions of an entente, but the cordial demeanour of the warring leaders in photographs widely circulated on social media, as well as the timing – just months ahead of general elections – has spurred commentators to suggest there was a deeper meaning to the visits. 

Zahid told reporters he and his boss “set aside politics and acted on compassion” in their separate visits with their spouses on Friday and Saturday. “I know from his body language that he took our visits well,” Zahid said. 

Their visits followed shoulder surgery performed on Anwar, 70, at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. He is serving a five-year jail term after being found guilty of sodomy in 2015, an outcome the charismatic leader says was engineered by Najib, 64, to keep him out of politics. 

Interpretations of the visit have also been coloured by recent seismic shifts in political alliances. 

Anwar last year declared his support for arch rival and former strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad to join the opposition, while Najib in turn has been courting Abdul Hadi Awang, the influential Islamist hardliner who until recently was vehemently anti-establishment.

Anwar’s current prison term is his second stint behind bars in two decades. Hand-picked for politics by Mahathir in the 1980s, the skilled orator was dramatically sacked as deputy prime minister by his mentor in 1998 and subsequently jailed for sodomy and corruption – charges Anwar maintains were trumped up in the same way the current premier concocted a false case against him. Upon his release in 2004, he galvanised the fractured opposition and led the bloc to two strong showings in the 2008 and 2013 general elections, ending the legislative supermajority of the ruling United Malay National Organisation (UMNO). 

In name, Anwar is still the de facto leader of the opposition Pakatan Harapan alliance, but his latest jail sentence has meant 92-year-old Mahathir has held the reins since he crossed aisles last year in a bid to oust Najib over allegations of widespread corruption.

In such a fevered political landscape, described by Najib’s non-partisan banker brother Nazir Razak as akin to the HBO series Game of Thrones, even the most astute political observers have been unwilling to dismiss last week’s meeting as mere courtesy calls with no underlying motive.  

“Publicly visiting Anwar Ibrahim allows Najib and UMNO to project an image of Malay unity to the masses, potentially reinforcing Malay support for the party,” said Rashaad Ali, a Malaysian politics researcher at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. 

Malaysia-based analyst Ahmad Marthada Mohamed said while the visit could be a show of “Malay culture” – where the sick are cared for and visited regardless of past animosity – the optics benefited the premier. 

Najib was the first to publicise the visit on social media. Anwar’s family thanked the premier for his visit on his Facebook page, but a subsequent post featuring a photograph of the visit included a poem that ended with the jailed leader’s political battle cry: “Lawan tetap lawan” (The enemy is always the enemy). 

Najib’s visit gave a “positive image to the prime minister that he is a caring person who still visits his political nemesis when the latter is in hospital,” said Ahmad Marthada, a politics professor at the University of Northern Malaysia. 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ANWAR? 

The shifting alliances of the past make writing off a Najib-Anwar thaw unwise, but Rashaad said he saw little upside for Anwar. 

Given the fact that he is still a prisoner, the latest visit might have just been “an enforced courtesy call [rather] than a strategy meeting,” the researcher said. “Anwar cutting a deal with Najib and UMNO would cause him to lose widespread political support, both within his party and with Malaysians likely to vote for the opposition.”

Ahmad Marthada said Anwar’s family would also be a stumbling block to any such move, as they “still have grudges” over his jail terms. Of his six children, his eldest daughter Nurul Izzah is the most prominent and is among the opposition’s top leaders. 

The two men have been each other’s biggest threats since Anwar’s split from UMNO. 

Saiful Bukhari Azlan, the accuser in Anwar’s latest sodomy case, visited Najib in his house days before deciding to file a police report when the alleged incident occurred in 2008. Najib was then deputy prime minister. 

Anwar has used this fact to buttress his argument that Najib is behind the allegations. 

After his release from his first prison stint in 2004, Anwar led the charge in accusing Najib, who was also defence minister, of corruption in a deal to buy submarines, and for his links to the murder of a Mongolian model said to have known details about the deal. Najib denied connections to the case but the government declined a public inquiry.

Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, was also not spared – Anwar and his supporter for years have targeted her for a supposedly luxurious lifestyle. 

Anwar, known for his soaring rhetoric, moderation and support for multiracialism, then shocked Najib in the 2013 polls when the opposition won the popular vote. It lost the election on legislative seat count. His jailing for a second time in 2015 stunned his supporters. 

He was initially acquitted in 2013, but on appeal the country’s two highest courts ruled he was guilty. 

It remains to be seen if there are overarching common interests between Anwar and Najib for them to paper over their deep animosity and bring about yet another shake up in the country’s politics. The two were the brightest young stars in UMNO until Anwar’s sacking in 1998 split the once united Malay political elite. UMNO and its allies have ruled the majority Malay and Muslim country uninterrupted since 1957. 

Joceline Tan, a pro-establishment columnist with Malaysia’s The Star newspaper, wrote this week that one person who might be nervous about the hospital visit might be the politician who precipitated that split: Mahathir. “The former premier knows Anwar too well and they do not trust each other even though they are now on the same side,” Tan wrote. There have been murmurs that Anwar is keen on retaking the reins of the opposition from Mahathir. 

This could happen if Najib’s government made special provisions for the opposition leader to recuperate from his surgery under house arrest until his expected release date some time next year. General elections are due by August, but are likely to be called before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in mid-May. - Bhavan Jaipragas,SCMP

If Daddy’s got it, flaunt it...

Children of some of Asia’s richest business tycoons and politicians are unabashedly flaunting their extravagant lifestyles on social media, Straits Times reported.

Many of these young and rich personalities have become easy targets for political attacks, as in the case of Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s granddaughter, Meers Alyana Mukhriz who was recently savaged in two pro-Umno newspapers, Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian, which published Instagram pictures showing her in designer clothes and travelling around on a luxury yacht.

Mr Norashman Najib at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai last week. 

Norashman Najib, Malaysia

Norashman, the son of Prime Minister Najib Razak, recently posted a picture of himself at a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai last week. 

Norashman, 27, had a seat at the show which featured models in scintillating lingerie and posted a selfie with one of the models, Josephine Skriver. 

Ashman, as he is known to friends, is well known to social media users as he frequently documents his love for music on Instagram. 

But most posts show him trailing his father on official business trips, including a ministerial meeting with US President Donald Trump in September.

Chryseis Tan

Daughter of tycoon Vincent Tan of the Berjaya group

Chryseis often documents her travels through Instagram stories.

The heiress is chief executive of Berjaya Times Square, a giant shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. Forbes valued her father Vincent Tan, one of Malaysia's most recognisable tycoons, at US$820 million (S$1.1 billion) this year.

Chryseis was recently engaged to Mr Faliq Nasimuddin, 32, a son of the founder of large Malaysian conglomerate the Naza Group.

She had her pre-wedding photoshoot in Venice. Dressed in a Monique Lhuillier gown, her photos were taken by Greg Finck, one of the top wedding photographers listed by Harper's Bazaar.

She celebrated her 29th birthday last month in Venice, with dinner in an emptied-out hall at the Aman Venice, where George Clooney tied the knot with Amal Alamuddin. - source...

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