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Malaysian Chinese Girl Photos From Lost Cellphone
It is said that this Malaysian Chinese girl lost her cellphone and in it are naughty photos of her flashing her bouncy “dada” together with juicy “tetek” and also being squeezed and suduk-ed by her male companion.
See you can recognize this Malaysian Chinese girl, who claims to be from Penang.
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Malaysia’s cash cow posting lower profits
by LESLIE LOPEZ
26 June 2009
Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s national oil corporation has suffered a nearly 14 per cent decline in profits due to lower global oil prices and high production costs.
Petroliam Nasional ( Petronas) reported a net profit of RM52 billion (S$21 billion) for the financial year ending March 2009, down from RM61 billion in the previous period. Revenues rose to RM264.2 billion, up from RM223.1 billion in the previous year.
However, Petronas’ role as the chief cash cow for the Malaysian government is on a sharp uptrend that is worrying to private economists.
When releasing its results yesterday, Petronas CEO Hassan Marican also revealed that the firm has paid RM471 billion to the government in royalties, dividends, taxes and export duties.. Of this amount, Petronas officials say RM268 billion, or roughly 57 per cent, was paid during the last five years, a period coinciding with the administration of former premier Abdullah Badawi.
With a population of about 27 million people, the payout to the government over the last five years roughly translates to each Malaysian man, woman and child receiving RM10 million from the proceeds of the nation’s oil wealth.
Petronas said yesterday that payments to the government of roughly RM73 billion last year accounted for 44 per cent of the Malaysian government’s total revenue.. It is expected to contribute the same amount this year.
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Petronas again rejects Najib’s bid to put aide on board
by Leslie Lopez, Senior Regional Correspondent
26 June 2009
Straits Times
Board says it will be sending a delegation to brief the Prime Minister on the matter
KUALA LUMPUR: Board members of Petroliam Nasional ( Petronas) stood their ground this week and have politely turned down a bid by Prime Minister Najib Razak to admit a key political aide as a director of the national oil corporation.
Government officials close to the situation told The Straits Times that the board in a meeting on Wednesday had reaffirmed its decision a month previous not to admit Mr Omar Mustapha as a director because he had defaulted on his scholarship loan agreement with Petronas two decades earlier.
The board, which was directed by Datuk Seri Najib to reconsider its decision last month over Mr Omar’s proposed appointment, also decided it would send a delegation to brief the Prime Minister on the matter in the coming days.
Government officials familiar with the situation said the delegation would be headed by senior lawyers and a Petronas director, Mr Abdul Kadir Kassim.
‘I don’t think it is about his close ties to the PM. It has more to do with the scholarship issue,’ said a senior government official, adding that Petronas took a firm view against scholarship defaulters.
Mr Omar, 38, did not complete the required number of years of service with the oil corporation or a related government agency as stipulated in his scholarship agreement.
Petronas initiated legal proceedings against him in 2001.
Tan Sri Hassan Marican, Petronas chief executive and president, declined to comment on the issue when asked by reporters yesterday about possible changes to the board.
Government officials say that the Petronas board has briefed the company’s influential adviser, former premier Mahathir Mohamad, of its decision to reject the proposed appointment of Mr Omar.
Tun Dr Mahathir had on Monday voiced reservations about Mr Najib’s plan to appoint his aide to the board of Petronas, Malaysia’s sole entry in the Fortune 500 list of the world’s most profitable companies.
While acknowledging that it was Mr Najib’s prerogative as premier to ‘appoint a man who failed to honour his obligation to Petronas when he was given a scholarship by it’, Dr Mahathir said in a written response to this newspaper that ‘generally I would say that it is not a good thing to appoint such a person’.
Petronas has established itself as an international energy player over the last two decades, and many industry experts and economists credit that transformation to the government’s hands-off approach in the running of the oil corporation.
That is why Mr Najib’s bid to appoint Mr Omar to the board raised eyebrows.
Mr Omar has emerged as one of the closest political confidants to Mr Najib and is often tapped for advice on economic and financial matters.
He graduated from Oxford on a scholarship from Petronas and worked briefly with the national oil corporation and another government-linked corporation. He then joined McKinsey & Co, working for the international consulting company in London and Malaysia.
He left McKinsey in early 2002 to set up his own consultancy firm, called Ethos, with several close friends and two years later was tapped by Mr Najib, who was then deputy prime minister, to become his special officer.
ljlopez@sph.com.sg
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‘I don’t think it is about his close ties to the PM. It has more to do with the scholarship issue.’
A senior government official, referring to Petronas’ decision not to admit Mr Omar to the board
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Board defers request to appoint Najib aide
26 June 2009
by Business Times Singapore
THE board of Petroliam Nasional, or Petronas, has deferred a request to appoint Omar Mustapha, a key aide of Prime Minister Najib Razak, to the board of the national oil corporation.
According to oil industry officials, the decision to defer Mr Omar’s candidacy was made on Wednesday after the board met to approve the oil firm’s financial results for the year.
The officials said that the board wanted to personally explain its position to Mr Najib who had made the request in the first place.
Previously the board had rebuffed Mr Omar’s candidacy on the grounds that he had defaulted on the conditions of scholarship given to him by Petronas more than 20 years ago. Mr Omar, 38, had served in the oil firm only briefly before leaving for higher studies overseas – a move that, theoretically, left him in breach of the provisions of the scholarship.
According to an earlier news-report in The Straits Times, Mr Najib had asked the board to reconsider its position on Mr Omar’s candidacy. Given the board’s latest position on Wednesday, it appears that it remained unmoved.
The oil firm’s seemingly uncompromising position on the matter symbolises the relative independence of its board, a characteristic that has been a hallmark of Petronas since its inception since 1974, The tradition has been carried on by its current chairman and chief executive Hassan Merican.
Mr Hassan, however, declined to comment on the matter when asked during a media briefing on the oil firm’s financial results.
The initial reports that Mr Omar, one of the premier’s key advisers on economics and finance, was to be appointed to Petronas’s board first appeared in several prominent blogs and was harshly criticised by various commentators.
Even former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is an adviser to Petronas, got into the act when he criticised the possibility of Mr Omar’s joining the board saying it wasn’t a good idea to have political appointees on Petronas’s board because they ‘might have a different agenda’.
Mr Omar, an Oxford-trained economist, worked in Petronas briefly before joining McKinsey and Company where he served in London and Kuala Lumpur. He then founded Ethos, a consultancy company in Kuala Lumpur, before joining Mr Najib as a special assistant.
When the news first surfaced on the blogs, it was speculated that Mr Omar was being groomed for Mr Hassan’s job because the succession plans for Petronas remain unclear.
Mr Hassan’s contract expires in February and, according to market speculation, he could be replaced as the oil firm’s chief executive but would retain his chairmanship. But given his deft management of Malaysia’s most profitable company, his would be a very hard act to follow.
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Petronas profit dips 14% to RM52.5b
26 June 2009
by Business Times Singapore
Dividend to be paid to federal govt rises 25%, despite fall in earnings
MALAYSIA’S national oil corporation Petroliam Nasional, or Petronas, registered a 13.9 per cent decline in net profit to RM52.5 billion (S$21.7 billion) for the year to March 31, 2009 on the back of RM264.2 billion in sales largely due to lower global prices for oil and high operating costs.
‘It’s been a hugely challenging year,’ Petronas chief executive Hassan Merican told reporters yesterday. ‘The industry has moved from a ‘high price-high cost’ environment to one that is ‘low price-high cost’ and it has tested the resilience of all its players.’
Despite the lower bottom line, however, Petronas declared a RM30 billion dividend to the federal government, 25 per cent higher than the previous year. Indeed, total payments to the government – including royalties, taxes and dividends – rose 20 per cent to RM74 billion.
The heroic figures illustrate the disproportionate importance of Petronas on government revenues and the economy at large. By its own calculations Petronas’s payments contributed 45 per cent of the federal government’s revenues in 2008.
Indeed, much of the oil firm’s fees to the government seemed to have come during the tenure of former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Between 2003 and 2008, Petronas contributed RM268 billion to Kuala Lumpur, or 57 per cent of whatever the oil firm paid the government since its inception 35 years ago..
All that money given back to the government also works against the oil firm as it reinvested only 21 per cent of its profits during its financial year – significantly lower than the average 57 per cent for the oil majors and the 72 per cent that other national oil corporations ploughed back into the industry.
Pressed on whether he was under pressure from the government to continue delivering high dividends to plug Kuala Lumpur’s budget deficit, Mr Hassan replied that he was under ‘no pressure at all’ and clarified that there had been times ‘especially in the 1990s’ when the government allowed the firm to reinvest locally and abroad in a big way.
But he also conceded that the firm would be in a ‘better position of comfort’ if it could reinvest up to 35 per cent of its profits.
There is no doubt that it has been reinvestment, especially overseas, that has enabled Petronas to become a major global player and Malaysia’s only Fortune 500 company.
During the period under review, the firm’s international operations contributed 42 per cent of revenue. A further 37 per cent came from exports while only 21 per cent came from domestic operations.
Reinvestment of the firm’s profits has also boosted its oil reserves. During the period under review, Petronas boosted its reserves marginally to 20.18 billion barrels of oil equivalent with new finds in increasingly complex geological areas: almost 15 per cent of reserves exist in very deep waters. Meanwhile, the firm’s international reserves rose almost 10 per cent to 6.84 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Mr Hassan said he did not expect oil prices, currently close to US$70 a barrel, to improve any time soon. ‘The fundamentals do not justify the prospect of high prices,’ he said. ‘The demand is down and spare capacity has increased. My own opinion is that the current prices are due to speculative trading and the depreciation of the US dollar.’
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Malaysia’s Anwar: Ready to be jailed for sodomy
25 June 2009
by Associated Press Newswires
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday he is prepared to be jailed for sodomy in a trial next month, but warned his conviction could unleash a groundswell of public support to rout the government in the next elections.
Anwar denies the charge and said he does not expect a fair trial. It’s the second time in his political career that he has been charged with sodomy. Both cases have been politically motivated to stop him from challenging the people in power, he said.
But just like the first case, “there will be a huge outcry here and internationally,” Anwar told The Associated Press.
“The worst-case scenario for me personally would be great for the opposition and the worst-case scenario for the government” in the next elections in 2013, he said.
Anwar, 61, was charged last August with sodomizing a 23-year-old male former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Sodomy, a crime in this Muslim-majority country, is punishable by up to 20 years in jail even if it is consensual.
The trial starts July 8 and is seen as a test of credibility for Malaysia’s judiciary, which has been tainted by allegations that many judges are corrupt and easily influenced by the government. The trial will also reflect on new Prime Minister Najib Razak’s promises to create a more open and free society.
“My chances, given a free fair trial, are 100 percent, but under the current circumstances the chances go down fast,” Anwar said. “Nobody likes to go to jail, but I will do it if forced to … and hopefully (come) out like a hero.”
He said a government hospital’s July 13 medical report of a rectal examination of Saiful found no evidence of anal penetration. He also claimed that his defense team has evidence to show that he was framed and that Saiful has become exceedingly wealthy in recent months. He implied Saiful was bribed by the government.
The government denies it is persecuting Anwar, and says it has nothing to do with what it describes as a personal case between two individuals.
Anwar, a former deputy prime minister, spent six years in prison after being convicted of corruption and sodomy following his ouster from the Cabinet in 1998. His arrest led to weeks of massive anti-government protests, and support for the ruling National Front coalition fell drastically in general elections the following year, even though it returned to power.
After emerging from jail in 2004 when the sodomy conviction was overturned, Anwar formed an unusual three-party opposition alliance that won more than one-third of Parliament seats in the 2008 elections.
It was the first time Malaysia’s opposition parties had formed an alliance cutting across racial lines. Anwar brought them together by tapping into the anti-government resentment not only among the minority Chinese and Indians but also the majority Malays.
Anwar said his alliance will surely win the next elections, due in 2013, if he goes to jail.
“If (Prime Minister) Najib pursues this, he is making a big blunder. It will continue to haunt him for the rest of his life,” he said. “They can control the judiciary, the media, the police but they cannot control public opinion.”
Still, Anwar said, the alliance has taken into account the possibility of him going to jail, which would bar him from contesting elections for five years after he has served his sentence.
The three parties are holding “elaborate sessions” on who would lead the alliance into next elections, Anwar said.
“This time, we are prepared for everything,” he said.
Tuesday October 27, 2009
Split by oil palm
By HILARY CHIEW
With their forested home gone, orang utans are driven into oil palm plantations but the cultivated landscape is unlikely to sustain them for long.
THE sight of an orang utan feasting on oil palm fruits will certainly be the ultimate vindication for the plantation industry that is battling criticisms over its impact on the endangered species. After all, the industry has insisted that an oil palm plantation is no less rich in biological diversity than natural forests.
Hence, Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) chief executive officer Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron highlighted this fact at the two-day Orang Utan Conservation Colloquium – Developing Models for Orang Utan Conservation Within Fragmented Ecosystems in Sabah recently
Trapped between fragments of forests, orang utans have been found to build nests in oil palm landscapes in eastern Sabah – mostly on trees but some on oil palm trees.
But Yusof’s suggestion that oil palm plantations are good habitats for orang utans was quickly dispelled by orang utan conservationist Dr Marc Ancrenaz, co-director of the Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservation Project, who has researched the primate in the Kinabatangan region for the last 12 years.
Ancrenaz, who is also scientific director of non-governmental organisation Hutan, clarified that although orang utans have been found chewing on oil palm fruits, the behaviour should not be interpreted to mean that plantations are a viable ecosystem for the Asian great ape.
“Plantations alone cannot support the orang utan in the long term. The nutrients are insufficient and the animals will likely starve to death,” he noted.
The exchange, which was expressed cordially, nevertheless underscored the long tension between the industry and the conservation community over the fact that plantations are carving up orang utan habitats in Borneo and Sumatra, home to the sole Asian great ape. Both sides are seeking a middle path to realise each other’s objective – saving the orang utan for the conservationists and ensuring market access for the plantation companies.
Towards this end, MPOC funded a 30-hour aerial survey in March 2008 by Hutan and the Borneo Conservation Trust, a state government-mandated body set up in 2006 to spearhead the establishment of wildlife corridors.
The survey revealed that a significant number of animals were surviving in mangrove forests disconnected from dry forests by plantations and in isolated forests within oil palm plantations in eastern Sabah. More than 1,000 nests were detected in some 100 fragmented forests.
The presence of nests indicated that orang utans are commuting between the patches of forests and because the plantations are too vast, they have to rest for the night in the plantations.
“We estimated that a few hundred orang utans are currently found in the extensive oil palm landscape of eastern Sabah, which is a significant part of the entire orang utan population in the state. The industry, at large, had been in denial but the results of the survey shows that it does affect orang utans,” said Ancrenaz.
The report dismissed the likelihood of a stable and resident population surviving within the plantations. But, for the moment, these roaming orang utans enable gene flow between the major orang utan populations in Sabah.
Herein lies the opportunity for the industry to get involved in orang utan conservation efforts in man-made landscapes. But the window of opportunity is closing.
“The longer we wait, it becomes more difficult to halt the erosion of biodiversity. When forests are too small, they can’t provide enough food. For the orang utan, time is running out fast,” warned Ancrenaz.
To aid orang utans in crossing vast expanses of oil palm estates, these landscapes can be connected. Conservationists suggest two approaches: step-stone forests and contiguous corridors by river banks. Step-stone forests can be created by rehabilitating existing forest patches. This will lead to a network of natural forests within oil palm estates. Green corridors are envisaged from reforesting degraded river reserves.
Ancrenaz proposed that the corridors and step-stone forests be at least 500m wide along major rivers and 250m wide along major tributaries, in order to create a network that is ecologically robust to sustain wildlife.
“Fast-growing trees could provide a decent cover in three years and grow into a semi-matured forests after 10 years,” he said.
Sabah Wildlife Department director Laurentius Ambu said creating the corridors would require 11,000ha of land to be included in the existing 26,000ha Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, which was the focus of the much-talked about wildlife corridor initiative mooted a decade ago.
Currently, the sanctuary is all but 10 lots of forests, some disconnected and others narrowly enjoined. Existing forest reserves surrounding the sanctuary need to be secured against further degazettement and reconnected to the sanctuary.
Ambu said besides Tabin Wildlife Reserve which harbours 1,400 individuals, the sanctuary is the second most important place for the orang utan. Some 62% of the apes in Sabah (or 6,800 of the total 11,000 animals) live outside protected areas (such as national parks, forest reserves and wildlife sanctuaries).
The Sabah population that is distributed among 16 populations is the stronghold for the Bornean subspecies Pongo pygmaeus morio. There are only 5,000 individuals in eastern Kalimantan.
“In the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, 1,000 animals are further isolated in more than 20 sub-populations because of oil palm plantations, drains and other man-made features. To ensure their survival, the habitat has to be enlarged,” said Ambu, adding that there should be no further expansion of plantations in the region.
As plantations occupy 1.3 million hectares of once lowland forest and prime orang utan habitat, he said the industry should play a key role in conservation efforts.
Borneo Conservation Trust chief executive officer Cyril Pinso Tan said four pieces of land of 2ha each have been acquired and another 3.9ha is in the final stage of acquisition.
“We’re trying to acquire more land and encouraging oil palm companies to do the same. MPOC has promised a matching grant on the amount that Borneo Conservation Trust can raise. The fund is insufficient but we’re getting positive response from the private sector,” he enthused.
Source: the STAR online
Pentadbir terus kawal harta Jacko
Ibu Raja Pop mahu tuntutan diambil kira
LOS ANGELES: Mahkamah di sini, kelmarin memberi pentadbir lanjutan tiga bulan lagi untuk mengawal harta peninggalan Michael Jackson yang bernilai jutaan dolar, tetapi mengarah mereka segera menyelesaikan pertikaian dengan ibu Raja Pop itu.
Katherine Jackson, 79, pewaris harta bernilai kira-kira AS$400 juta (RM1.39 bilion) itu, bersama tiga anak penyanyi berkenaan dan badan kebajikan, mahu suaranya diambil kira pentadbir – peguam John Branca dan ahli perniagaan John McClain dalam membuat sebarang keputusan berhubung harta peninggalan itu.
Julai lalu, dua minggu selepas kematian mengejut penyanyi Thriller pada 25 Jun lalu, Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Los Angeles Mitchell Beckloff memberi kawalan sementara harta Raja Pop itu kepada Branca dan McClain, pentadbir bersama wasiat Jackson pada 2002.
Beckloff kelmarin melanjutkan tempoh kawalan berkenaan sehingga 4 Januari dan berkata pentadbir mempunyai keupayaan untuk memenuhi sebarang tuntutan kreditor.
Katherine tidak kelihatan pada perbicaraan kelmarin, namun suaminya Joseph Jackson hadir.
Sesetengah keputusan dibuat berhubung harta peninggalan Michael sejak kematiannya mencetuskan perbalahan di antara ibunya dan pentadbir sehingga mengheret perbicaraan panjang di mahkamah.
Dalam satu contoh, Katherine membantah rancangan promoter konsert ‘AEG Live’ untuk mengadakan pameran jelajah memorabilia anaknya.
Ogos lalu, Branca dan McClain diberi kelulusan membuat perjanjian dengan Sony Pictures Entertainment bagi mengedarkan satu filem, This Is It, berdasarkan rakaman video latihan Jackson untuk konsertnya di London bermula Julai lalu.
Branca dan McClain juga berupaya mendapatkan kelulusan mencetak semula autobiografi Jackson pada 1988, ‘Moonwalk’. Jackson mati Julai lalu akibat penggunaan ubatan berlebihan pada usia 50 tahun dan polis masih menyiasat sama ada untuk membuat dakwaan ke atas mana-mana doktor merawatnya.
Penyanyi itu meninggalkan kira-kira AS$400 juta hutang, tetapi pentadbir berkata mereka mampu meningkatkan nilai harta Raja Pop itu sekurang-kurangnya AS$200 juta (RM760 juta). Reuters
Jambatan runtuh: 19 pelajar terselamat, dua masih hilang
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KAMPAR: 19 pelajar terselamat manakala dua lagi masih hilang dalam kejadian jambatan gantung runtuh di Sungai Kampang, Kuala Dipang, runtuh, malam tadi, kata polis Perak.
Polis mengesahkan hanya tiga murid yang dihanyutkan air deras dalam kejadian jambatan runtuh di Pusat Kokurikulum Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Kinta Selatan di Kampar.
Selain dua dilaporkan hilang, mayat seorang murid perempuan dikenal pasti sebagai Dina Deve a/p Nathan ditemui jam 8.40 pagi tadi.
Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 10.30 malam tadi, Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Kong Cho Ha berkata, disahkan satu mayat sudah ditemui, manakala dua lagi masih hilang.
Katanya, beliau menafikan 22 pelajar hilang seperti laporan awal selepas pihak penganjur kem salah membuat kiraan pelajar.
Farting is no big deal — Tay Tian Yan
OCT 26 — With only a simple sentence — “personal pledge is no big deal but public trust is” — no one dares asking MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat to step down now.
Even if he doesn’t keep his word, even if he has intermittently lost his memory, even if his reputation and credibility have been destroyed, so what? It’s no big deal.
Because the Chinese community… oops, should be the Malaysian community, the whole world community would be more appropriate, is having tremendous expectations for him. How can he just wave and go?
He cannot go as the world has expectations for him. The Chinese community will collapse, the Malaysian community will have a bleak future while the end of the world will be coming soon if he leaves.
Therefore, who dares ask him to go? What’s the big deal with the trifling 14 votes at the extraordinary general meeting (EGM), the central committee’s signature campaign and “being ambushed from all directions”?
Since the sentence is very powerful that it can turn bad into good, under Ong’s leadership MCA should be able to promote the spirit behind the sentence, including becoming indomitable, more courageous and ever-victorious, to highlight the Chinese cultural essence.
At this point, I would like to give a few examples to show how the sentence can be widely used:
The central delegates’ decision is no big deal but the president’s position is. Therefore, the central delegates should not complain about why the voting result is not playing its role here.
Infighting is no big deal but the intervention of an outsider is powerful. MCA is incapable of handling its own affairs and has to rely on the external power. Don’t worry about losing face, it has always been like that. All you have to do is get used to it.
Trauma is no big deal but internal injury is. After fighting for a whole year, MCA leaders have been badly wounded but don’t worry, these are only traumas. Just apply some ointment to the cuts. However, as a political party, its tarnished image, loss of direction and ruined credibility are all internal injuries which may claim its life.
Forcing an abdication is no big deal but being wary of eavesdroppers is. It is said that during a secret meeting of the central committee, someone actually leaked information, allowing the president to break the plan. Farting is no big deal but letting others to know about it is.
The central committee had been blasting Ong, making several calls for him to resign. But today, it has fallen silent and no one dares to admit that it wishes that Ong abdicates.
Sexual activity is no big deal but being videotaped is: wise remarks by experienced former deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
Personal morality is no big deal but loosing positions is. They sacked Dr Chua by stressing on morality before this but are throwing the sex DVD and morality into the rubbish bin now. — mysinchew.com
‘Made In Siam’, Selalunya Nampak Asli Tapi Tiruan — Dr Razmin Zakry
OKT 22 — Memang sesuatu yang agak pelik dan meragukan. Tanpa memeriksa dan membedah siasat mayat Teoh Beng Hock, dengan tidak pergi melawat tempat kejadian di tingkat 14 Plaza Masalam dan tidak dibekalkan beberapa dokumen relevan, seorang pakar dari Thailand yang dibawa Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, Dr Porntip Rojanasunan membuat kesimpulan bahawa kemungkinan 80 peratus Teoh dibunuh dan 20 peratus dia membunuh diri.
Faktanya, Dr Porntip sebenarnya tidak dapat melakukan proses bedah siasat kerana keluarga Setiausaha Politik Exco Selangor, Teo Beng Hock, mahu mayat Teo dibawa segera ke Melaka untuk urusan pengkebumian.
Ini bermakna tidak berlakunya proses bedah siasat yang dilakukan Dr Pornthip iaitu Pakar Patologi dari Thailand tetapi hanya melibatkan empat doktor bedah dari Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya, Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur dan Hospital Tuanku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang.
Maksudnya Dr Pornthip tidak melakukan pemeriksaan pada fizikal Teoh tetapi hanya memberi pandangan di dalam inkues mungkin menggunakan laporan siasat pihak ketiga iaitu empat pakar bedah yang disebutkan tadi dan berpandukan kepada gambar-gambar tempat kejadian.
Jelas pendedahan ini amat meragukan apabila Dr Pornthip hanya mengulangi perkataan ‘mungkin’ terhadap hampir semua kenyataan beliau.
Perkataan ‘mungkin’ ini menandakan Dr Pornthip sendiri tidak pasti terhadap kenyataan beliau.
Sepekara lagi di dalam pendedahannya juga beliau tidak menyentuh mengenai aspek-aspek yang menyokong Teoh membunuh diri iaitu :
“Juga dari hasil DNA tidak ada terdapat kesan-kesan DNA dari pegawai SPRM dan juga kesan kecederaan yang dialami tidak menunjukkan apa-apa pergelutan dan ia boleh diterangkan ia disebabkan oleh kesan jatuh”.
Amatlah pelik apabila Teoh dicekik dan dicederakan duburnya tetapi DNA si pelaku tidak ditinggalkan di tubuh badan Teoh.
Jika ada sarung tangan digunakan si pelaku dan senjata yang mencederakan dubur Teoh. Di manakah sarung tangan dan senjata itu?
Adakah kenyataan yang dibuat Dr Pornthip hanya ingin menimbulkan keraguan? Apatah lagi Dr Porntip adalah pakar yang dilantik kerajaan Selangor untuk memberikan pendapat berdasarkan kepakaran beliau dalam bidang forensik setelah tidak berpuas hati dengan pandangan dua pakar patologi tempatan.
Ini umpama cerita satu kemalangan jalan raya, seorang mengulas kejadiaan kemalangan itu berdasarkan berita dan gambar yang disiarkan di akhbar manakala seorang lagi berada di tempat kejadian.
Masing-masing mengulas kejadiaan tersebut menerusi versi yang berbeza. Dalam soal ini versi mana yang boleh kita pakai dan boleh dipercayai.
Berkaitan dengan Thailand atau siam ini tidak semestinya produk dari negeri tersebut benar-benar boleh dipercayai kerana kebanyakan “made in siam” ini nampak macam asli tapi sebenarnya tiruan.
Tepuk Dada Tanya Selera!!! — www.pemudaumno.org.my
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Sunday October 25, 2009
Amber stripes down for Peta’s anti-zoo campaign
By SHAUN HO
PETALING JAYA: Supermodel Amber Chia did not mind sitting still for three hours to have her body painted with tiger stripes.
“This is the first time I am being body-painted but it turned out all right,” she said after a media photo opportunity at a photo studio yesterday.
“It took a long time, but I’m all right with it since it’s for charity.”
The media opportunity was arranged by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) Asia Pacific.
Amber’s “tiger image” will be featured in a new anti-captivity advertisement for Peta with her photos appearing on posters and newspapers across the globe early next year in a campaign against zoos.
Amber will pose in a jungle setting and also in a steel cage.
She is the first Malaysian celebrity they have roped in to help their cause urging people to boycott zoos.
Senior Peta campaigner Ashley Fruno said Amber was chosen because she had a compassion for animals.
“Wild animals belong in the wild. An animal who lives a long and healthy life but dies in the wild is not worse off than animals who spend all their lives pacing in enclosures.”
Fruno added that despite claims that zoos taught people about animals, Peta still wanted people to boycott them as animals were being exploited for entertainment.
The campaign is urging people against visiting zoos as no zoo could recreate the animals’ natural habitat, she said.
She also said no matter how much a zoo took care of its animals, it would never be able to offer the space animals needed.
Fruno also visited Zoo Negara last Septem-ber and observed that the animals at the nation’s oldest zoo were living in old enclosures which did not provide enough room or stimulation for them.
An article on Zoo Negara has been put on their website www.petaasiapacific.com.
PM: RM50 for credit card not a big deal
Sunday October 25, 2009
HUA HIN: Describing Budget 2010 as “painless”, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the people should not complain about the Government’s decision to impose a RM50 annual service tax on principal credit and charge cards.
Instead, the Prime Minister said they should look at the overall benefits offered by the Govern-ment in the Budget.
“They are getting the RM1,000 tax relief and those paying tax at 27% will now pay 26%.
“So, they get two (relief measures) and only have to pay RM50 (per credit card). Don’t tell me they cannot pay RM50?” he said after a meeting at the 15th Asean Summit here yesterday.
Najib, who arrived here on Friday after tabling the Budget in Parliament, had earlier asked the media on the reaction back home to his maiden Budget.
Source: THE STAR ONLINE
