Housing minister's 6 reason on why huge metal fencing is needed in Bukit Kiara park.

 
 

In The Malay Mail’s front page (24 September 2013)

ROS begins probe on MCA following a report lodged by DAP. By @HareshDeol

‘Ops Cantas detainees will be charged after probe’

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/23/ops-cantas-detainees-will-be-charged-after-probe/ (By P Ramani, 23/9/2013)

Ops Cantas Khas will be continued until the crime rate is reduced, says Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said those arrested under Ops Cantas Khas are still being investigated and will be charged after all evidence is gathered.

Zahid said this in response to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut) who wanted to know why no charges were brought against those arrested in the operation.

He said the nationwide crackdown on gangsters begun on Aug 17 and was expected to end on Oct 19. However, he added that the operation would be continued until the crime rate was brought down. Zahid said the police had increased checks near the Thai border to nab gangsters to trying to escape the crackdown.

The Home Minister said 3,842 Malays, 2,485 Indians, 1,888 Chinese and 1,483 others had been arrested during the operation. He said 214 investigation papers were opened under Registrar of Societies Act 1966 and 46 cases under Prevention of Crime Act 1959.

He added that Selangor had the highest number of gangsters arrested at 3,889 followed by Johor (3,790) and Kuala Lumpur (749).

Zahid said the crackdown had enabled police to gather more intelligence information on serious crime offenders. He said police were also monitoring former criminals from the 70s and 80s to see whether they had returned to crime.

Minister: ‘Tanda Putera’ takings to spawn more like it

Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/minister-tanda-putera-takings-to-spawn-more-like-it#sthash.018oJsmG.SxUhQz3z.dpuf (By Zurairi AR, 23/9/2013)

The earnings from controversial “Tanda Putera” will go towards producing more such movies, Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek told Parliament today. The minister of communications and multimedia also explained that the RM4.7 million seed fund for the historical fiction film was sourced from both the National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia (FINAS) and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

“The earnings from the film’s screening will be rechanneled back into a funding programme to develop and give opportunities for more nationalistic films like Tanda Putera to be produced,” Shabery said in a written reply in Dewan Rakyat here. According to Shabery, FINAS had given “Tanda Putera” RM2 million in cash and RM700,000 in use of production facilities, while MDec had contributed another RM2 million from content development grant, called BCi2. “Tanda Putera” is the second FINAS-funded historical fiction by director Datin Paduka Shuhaimi Baba after 2007’s “1957: Hati Malaya” which received a RM1.5 million grant.

The minister was replying to a question from Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng today, whether the film was factually based on true story behind the bloody May 13, 1969 riots.

Lim also questioned the use of public funds towards making the film, if it was just fictional and not actually based on facts. Shabery did not reply Lim’s question directly, but stressed instead that “Tanda Putera” was a nationalistic film about the friendship and sacrifice of the late former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein and his late deputy Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman.

“The story of the two national leaders’ sacrifice and struggle in building Malaysia, is a story that must be taken as an example although both of them were risking their lives faced with critical illness,” he added.

Shuhaimi had in August told The Malay Mail Online that the film is not a documentary, expressing her hope that it would encourage Malaysians to find out more about the country’s history. In fending off accusations that the government had poured in RM 4.7 million to back the film in a bid to push its contentious version of the May 13 riots, Shuhaimi had reasoned that such funding was necessary for history-based and nationalistic films.

Shuhaimi had previously explained that “Tanda Putera” is essentially about Razak and his deputy, Dr Ismail — “two men who gave up everything, including their lives for the country”.

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‘Fight rat menace with efficient garbage collection’

Source: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/836614 (22/9/2013)

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 22, 2013): A member of Parliament today voiced out the need for an efficient garbage disposal system to rid the city of rats, which is especially urgent as Visit Malaysia Year 2014 is less than four months away.

Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng pointed out that this year alone, 2,925 leptospirosis cases have been recorded, resulting in 28 deaths.

"This is a very alarming figure and shows that the rat menace is getting worse," he said in a statement today.

He also pointed out the confusion over the disparate figures released by essentially the same authority.

On the one hand, Kuala Lumpur City Hall's Health and Environment Department director said there were 6.8 million rats in a Sept 12 newspaper report, while the city mayor was reported to have said a week later that there were eight million.

"Does the huge difference of 1.2 million rats mean two different methodologies were used in the rat census, or does it mean that KL rats are tops in the world for being super-productive?" he asked.

Regardless, Lim said, it showed that the city has a serious rat problem.

He urged the relevant authorities to also educate the public on proper garbage disposal as well as the dangers of leptospirosis, and the importance of cooperating with the authorities in maintaining cleanliness of the environment.