PETANDA BAIK BAGI NAJIB DAN MUHYIDDIN

>> Sunday, October 11, 2009





Syabas..., Kemenangan BN di DUN Bagan Pinang dengan majoriti 110%, dengan majoriti 5,435, merupakan suatu petanda baik bagi pemimpin nombor 1 Malaysia, YAB. Dato Sri Najib Tun Razak serta kepimpinan YAB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin sebagai pemimpin nombor 2 kerajaan Malaysia.

Suatu titik permulaan bagi rakyat Malaysia telah menerima semula kepimpinan BN, sejajar dengan konsep 1 Malaysia yang baru saja diperkenalkan oleh Najib. Tomahan politik wang yang bertubi-tubi sehinggah bekas PM Malaysa Tun Dr. Mahathir secara peribadi enggan untuk berkempen untuk nya, Mohd. Isa Abdul Samad; namun kalau rakyat masi memerlukan kepimpinan beliau,kemenangan itu tetap jatuh ditangan rakyat pengundi yang menjadi penentu mutlak.

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Tertimbus ketika mengaji

>> Tuesday, October 6, 2009



BUKIT di Kampung Lubuk Laweh Tandikek di Pariaman runtuh serta meranapkan lebih 50 rumah ketika gempa bumi minggu lalu.
30 kanak-kanak dalam masjid tak sempat selamatkan diri

PARIAMAN (SUMATERA BARAT): Kira-kira 30 kanak-kanak yang sedang mengaji al-Quran di sebuah masjid adalah antara lebih 200 orang yang terkorban akibat tanah runtuh yang melenyapkan Kampung Lubuk Laweh Tandikek di sini dalam gempa bumi, Rabu lalu.

Kanak-kanak berusia antara tujuh hingga 12 tahun itu tidak sempat menyelamatkan diri apabila sebahagian lereng Bukit Tandikek runtuh dan menimbus kampung kira-kira jam 6.30 petang.

Beberapa penduduk yang terselamat berkata, kanak-kanak terbabit mengikuti kelas pengajian al-Quran yang diajar imam kampung berkenaan pada setiap hari sehingga waktu Maghrib.

Norfadli Adi, 29, yang rumahnya terletak bersebelahan masjid berkenaan, berkata penduduk percaya kanak-kanak terbabit memasuki semula masjid itu tanpa menyedari tanah bukit berkenaan merekah akibat gempa, kira-kira sejam sebelumnya.

"Bukan saja mereka, malah semua penduduk tidak menyedari bukit itu akan runtuh selepas gempa bumi melanda.

"Disebabkan itu, semua kembali masuk ke rumah selepas gempa bumi reda tanpa menyedari ia sebenarnya mencetuskan bencana lain," katanya ketika ditemui di kampung berkenaan, semalam.

Dalam kejadian jam 6.30 petang Rabu lalu, sebahagian bukit sepanjang kira-kira 1,000 meter itu runtuh selepas gempa bumi berkekuatan 7.6 Skala Ritcher menggegarkan Sumatera Barat.

Tanah dari bukit berkenaan yang membawa bersama pokok tumbang, melanda kampung itu dan melenyapkan keseluruhan kawasan berkenaan yang mempunyai lebih 50 rumah.

Hanya 15 penduduk kampung berkenaan sempat menyelamatkan diri manakala yang lain tertimbus dalam rumah masing-masing.

Seorang lagi mangsa yang terselamat, Anisa Zulherman, 13, berkata adik lelakinya, Iqbal, 10, yang mengaji bersama kanak-kanak lain di masjid berkenaan bagaimanapun sempat melompat keluar ketika runtuhan berlaku.

"Iqbal hanya memberitahu dia melompat keluar dari masjid ketika runtuhan berlaku tapi enggan bercerita lanjut, mungkin kerana trauma dengan kejadian itu," katanya.

Katanya, keluarganya termasuk Iqbal kemudian segera melarikan diri ke kawasan selamat kerana takut ada lagi tanah runtuh.

Gempa bumi Rabu lalu turut meruntuhkan satu-satunya jalan masuk ke kampung berkenaan menyebabkan penduduk yang selamat serta pasukan penyelamat perlu berjalan kaki mengikut laluan mendaki dan menuruni bukit di dalam hutan sejauh kira-kira lima kilometer untuk sampai ke sana.

Bantuan daripada pasukan bomba Indonesia hanya mulai tiba kelmarin dengan anggota yang sangat terhad, manakala pembabitan daripada tentera belum kelihatan.

Pasukan elit Smart Malaysia yang membuat tinjauan di kawasan itu semalam turut memulakan operasi mencari mayat yang tertimbus, namun tiada mangsa ditemui dan operasi akan disambung hari ini.

Sehingga kini, jentera berat belum dibawa masuk oleh kerajaan Indonesia menyebabkan usaha mencari mangsa sangat perlahan kerana tenaga manusia saja tidak memadai untuk menggali tanah tebal dan mengalihkan pokok besar yang tumbang.

Ramli Ali, 46, yang kehilangan 17 ahli keluarga termasuk ibunya yang mendiami lapan rumah di tengah kampung itu, berkata kebanyakan penduduk tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa tanpa bantuan jentera berat.

"Tanah sangat tebal dan kami tidak mampu menggali sendiri. Jentera berat perlu digunakan untuk menggali kawasan rumah sebelum kami boleh menggunakan cangkul mencari sendiri," katanya yang kesal kerana bantuan daripada kerajaan hanya ditumpukan di kawasan bandar.

Difahamkan, beberapa kampung lain berhampiran kawasan itu turut mengalami nasib sama dengan angka korban keseluruhan mencecah lebih 400 orang.

Oleh Ifwan Tun Tuah
bhnews@bharian.com.my

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SELAMAT MENYAMBUT BULAN RAMADHAN 2009

>> Friday, August 21, 2009

ASSALLAMUALAIKUM.

Khususnya kepada semua Muslimin dan Muslimat, sahabat-sahabat; para blogers negeri dan negara, Akikalawon mengucapkan Selamat menyambut hari pertama bulan Ramadhan yang akan bermula pada hari esok. Semoga dengan berkat Puasa Muslimin dan Muslimat diseluruh dunia, akan diridhai ALLAH serta diberi kekuatan fizikal dan mental dalam masa sebulan. Insya Allah. Amin...!

Wassallam.

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THE BIRTH OF MRT

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Kington Life Plasma

>> Saturday, August 8, 2009

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The trouble with nuclear fuel

Struggling to hold up a bank

When narrow national interests obstruct a noble cause

Alamy

Rods that glow in the darkPAVED it may be with good intentions, but there are many twists and pot-holes along the road to a nuclear-free world. So many, in fact, that the path, tantalisingly opened up by Barack Obama, may yet turn out to lead nowhere.

But to keep things minimally on track, governments that care about the spread of the bomb will make a big effort to shore up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at next year’s five-yearly review. The Obama administration, unlike its predecessor, talks of ratifying the test-ban treaty. America and Russia are busy cutting warheads. Nuclear officials from America, Russia, Britain, France and China will meet in London next month to explore ways to build confidence for future disarmament.

Yet all will be in vain unless better ways can be found to deal with a practical problem as old as the nuclear age: how to stop nuclear technologies that can be used legitimately for making electricity from being abused for bomb-making. Efforts to tackle it are in a muddle.

Sheer numbers are one problem. Governments from Asia and the Middle East to Africa and Latin America are queuing up to get into the nuclear business, though the financial crisis will probably stop some of them. Of those that press ahead, the worry is that not all will be looking merely for alternative ways to keep the lights on.

The failure to stop countries like North Korea and Iran from bending and breaking the nuclear rules has not helped. Although they had lived with Israel’s bomb for years, Arab governments’ interest in nuclear power seemed to go critical suspiciously quickly as concerns mounted about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Meanwhile North Korea, it was discovered, had secretly been helping Syria to build a nuclear reactor ideally suited for weapons purposes, until it was bombed by Israel two years ago.

North Korea never tried hard to disguise its plans, and now doesn’t bother: it claims to have tested two bombs in the past three years and to be building more. But Iran personifies a more insidious problem: that of separating civilian from military nuclear technology—and intentions.

Iran says its nuclear work is peaceful, and notes that the NPT promises access to civilian nuclear power for all who honour it (theoretically all countries save India, Israel and Pakistan which never signed, and North Korea which cheated and left). That includes sensitive nuclear technologies, says Iran, though the NPT doesn’t specify.

It has the dubious honour of being the only country to have built a uranium-enrichment plant and to be developing plutonium-reprocessing technology without having a single working nuclear-power reactor that could use either. That set off alarms, because a country that has mastered making low-enriched uranium for reactor fuel just has to spin its machines in different formation to produce the high-enriched stuff for a bomb; plutonium can be extracted from nuclear wastes and expensively reused in special sorts of fuel, but it can also be fashioned into the fissile core of a weapon. And instead of throwing open all doors to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear guardian, Iran has stymied them and ignored calls from the UN Security Council to stop its suspicious work.

In order to dissuade others tempted to follow in Iran’s nuclear footsteps, some governments have been working on ways of enticing them down obviously peaceful paths. These have included ideas for “fuel assurances”, so that countries do not feel the need to invest in the most sensitive fuel-making technologies, and also nuclear co-operation agreements.

One such agreement between the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is due to enter into force in October. America hopes it will be a model of good practice for others too. Called a “123 agreement”, after the relevant bit of America’s nuclear export-control laws, it will allow the UAE to buy some American nuclear equipment. In return, the emirates promise not to acquire proliferation-sensitive enrichment or reprocessing technologies and to co-operate closely with the IAEA.

Yet as a model the deal is far from perfect, argues Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Centre, in Washington, DC: no one bothered to ask UAE officials to accept the most up-to-date, near-real-time surveillance cameras, though they probably would have agreed. That would have helped strengthen future 123 agreements with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others. What is more, says Mr Sokolski, there appears to have been no effort to get France and Russia, both bidding for contracts in the UAE and elsewhere in the region, to adopt similar standards.

That is one chance lost. But the Obama team may have done itself no favours either by agreeing to open early talks with India, under a controversial 123 deal negotiated by the Bush administration. This will eventually allow India to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel of American origin. India, which has never signed the NPT, does not yet have any American-built reactors, let alone the spent fuel from them to reprocess. America is creating a muddle by giving India such rights now, when it is telling Iran than it should suspend its work and others that they had better not start.

A quiet change
In the confusion, few will have noticed that the Obama administration has dropped its predecessor’s plans to restart commercial plutonium reprocessing—because it makes no economic sense, even for rich America, and is a proliferation risk.

For most countries, uranium enrichment makes no economic sense either, since reactor fuel can be bought from suppliers in Europe, America and Russia. As added reassurance, the IAEA has been developing ideas for a fuel bank of last resort. Some 30 countries, including America, have chipped in the cash, and Kazakhstan has offered to host it. A country that broke non-proliferation rules would be denied fuel. But if it was refused nuclear fuel for no good reason it could buy some from the IAEA at market prices (though this would still somehow have to be fabricated into fuel rods). Russia, Germany, Britain and Japan have also offered ideas of their own.

But in this area, it seems that no good idea goes unpunished. Hopes that more detailed work could start on the fuel-bank plan were shot down at a meeting of the IAEA’s 35-member board in June. Certain countries (Australia, Canada, South Africa, among others) have reserves of natural uranium and might like to profit from enriching them before exporting them. They do not want any restriction on such technologies to get in their way. Resentment and suspicion still linger, too, especially among developing countries, at the Bush administration’s initial plan (later abandoned) to impose such a restriction.

The proposals being discussed at the IAEA explicitly acknowledge countries’ “rights” to nuclear technology. Yet other rows have erupted. The IAEA’s fuel bank would be open to all its members, but that would offend Egypt, which wants Israel excluded. A Russian plan would in effect be limited to NPT members, so offends India. But if muddle and jealousy win out, nuclear proliferation, not restraint, will be the norm—to enduring regret all round.

Aug 6th 2009
From The Economist print edition

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Father of the cell phone

>> Sunday, June 7, 2009

Jun 4th 2009
From The Economist print edition

Marty Cooper, the pioneer of mobile telephony, has spent his entire career pushing wireless communications to new heights

Illustration by Andy PottsUNLESS you work in the telecoms industry, you are unlikely to have heard of Marty Cooper. He is hardly a household name. But his influence has been felt across the world, because he is the engineer who took the cellular technology used in the carphones of the 1970s and decided that phones ought to be small enough to be portable. His determination led to the first prototype, in 1973, and then to the first commercial mobile phone in 1983. “Marty is the most influential person no one has ever heard of,” says Robert McDowell, a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, America’s telecoms regulator.

The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Mr Cooper spent much of his youth in Depression-era Chicago. He says he never went hungry, but his parents made only a modest living selling merchandise door-to-door, on instalment plans. To finance his education at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mr Cooper joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and ended up on a navy destroyer, blowing up railway tracks along the North Korean coast during the Korean war. Mr Cooper later switched to submarines and spent a year and a half stationed in Hawaii. There he picked up scuba diving, one of his many athletic pastimes. He enjoyed the navy very much, but he wanted to settle down, so he took a job at Teletype, a subsidiary of Western Electric. He started working at Motorola in 1954 and had earned his masters in electrical engineering at night school by 1957, again at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Mr Cooper credits his family for his subsequent success. “My resourcefulness and persistence come from watching my folks digging in,” he says. “My mother was a dynamo. She would talk to anyone. She never walked slowly. And I am always leaning forward into the wind.”

It’s an apt image for Mr Cooper’s career, during which he has repeatedly spotted what lies ahead and led others towards the creation of new industries. In the 1960s he was instrumental in the establishment of the high-capacity paging market, for example, turning paging from a technology used in single buildings to one that could stretch across cities. He also helped popularise the quartz watch, by fixing a flaw in the crystals Motorola made for its radios, and then encouraging the firm to mass-produce the first crystals for use in watches. “Marty can see over the horizon and see how things should be,” says Tom Wheeler, a managing director at Core Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm. “And then he makes them happen.”

The idea for the mobile phone first occurred to Mr Cooper in the early 1970s, at a time when cellular phones were unwieldy devices built into car dashboards and attached to a box of equipment—a two-way radio and a power supply—in the car’s boot. There were only a few radio channels available on which to make calls, and users often had to wait a long time for one to become free.

Carried away
But once Motorola put Mr Cooper in charge of its carphone division, he decided that such products should not merely be able to move around in cars, but should be small and light enough to be carried around the rest of the time. “I became a zealot for products being portable,” he says. From idea to prototype took 90 days in 1972 as Mr Cooper sponsored a design contest among Motorola engineers—many from divisions he did not run. At a dinner he held that December, each engineer presented his own prototype. “We ended up picking the least glamorous phone,” says Mr Cooper. “It was the simplest.”

That device lead to the famous phone call on April 3rd 1973 after Motorola had hosted a press conference to introduce the phone at the Hilton hotel on the Avenue of the Americas in New York. Although the device had already been tested and made successful calls, Mr Cooper’s decision to take it—and a journalist—onto the street to make a demonstration call was a stroke of marketing genius. He cannot remember the journalist’s name, and Joel Engel, the rival engineer whom Mr Cooper called at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories that day, says he does not remember taking the call. But it was the first public call on a hand-held mobile phone. “I was talking and stepped into the street and almost got hit by a car,” Mr Cooper recalls with an impish grin—the first hint of mobile telecommunications’ distracting downside.

The handset, called a DynaTAC, had 35 minutes of talk time and weighed one kilogram (2.2 pounds). Four iterations later Mr Cooper’s team had reduced the DynaTAC’s weight by half, and it was finally launched in 1983 with a list price of about $4,000. By this time Mr Cooper had fought for a decade with Motorola’s bean-counters, who kept asking him when he was going to stop spending so much money on his pet project—he had become Motorola’s head of research and development in 1976—and start generating revenue. “It cost so much and took so long,” admits Mr Cooper. “But my focus has always been on the long-term technology vision.”

Today over half the world’s population has a mobile phone, and it seems obvious that the idea would succeed. But many people within Motorola in the early 1970s wanted to focus instead on expanding the existing market for business-oriented carphones. “But Marty said ‘We’ll get this thing down to the size of the palm of your hand’,” says Travis Marshall, a retired Motorola executive who worked with Mr Cooper. Most people at the time, he says, thought cellular phones would only ever be business tools, because of their high cost. “Marty kept preaching that the cost would come down and that it would become a consumer product,” he recalls. “He hypnotised everyone at Motorola to follow him,” says Sean Maloney, a senior executive at Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, who has himself spent several years championing WiMAX, an emerging mobile-broadband technology.

But by the time Motorola started selling the world’s first hand-held mobile phone to consumers, Mr Cooper had already left the company to launch a new firm that provided billing systems for cellular operators. In 1986 he and his partners sold this company, Cellular Business Systems, to Cincinnati Bell for $23m. A few years later Mr Cooper got a call from Richard Roy, a researcher at Stanford University who had an idea to make mobile telecoms more efficient: smart antennas.

By precisely steering radio waves from a base-station towards a mobile device, it is possible to establish a faster, more reliable link—and to support more users at once, by sending different beams to users in different directions using the same radio frequencies. Mr Cooper gets a call or two every week from someone with a business-development idea, so Mr Roy had to be persistent. He finally got to spend some time with Mr Cooper by jogging with him while the two attended an industry convention. Inspired by Mr Roy’s ideas, Mr Cooper agreed to lead a new company, ArrayComm, set up in 1992.

While leading this smart-antenna company, where he is now the chairman, Mr Cooper coined Cooper’s law, which notes that spectral efficiency—the amount of information that can be crammed into a given slice of radio spectrum—has doubled every 30 months since Guglielmo Marconi patented the wireless telegraph in 1897. Modern devices have a spectral efficiency more than one trillion times greater than Marconi’s original device did 112 years ago (it broadcast in Morse code over a very wide frequency range). Smart antennas, Mr Cooper believes, will help to ensure that this progress continues, and his law continues to hold.

But ArrayComm has had only limited success. Having developed its own wireless-broadband system, it now focuses on providing smart-antenna technology to other equipment-makers, for use in cellular and WiMAX networks. “ArrayComm has the same problem as many technology companies,” says Arthur Lipper, a Wall Street veteran who plays tennis with Mr Cooper. “They are ahead of the market, and this is an expensive place to be.” It is Mr Cooper’s strength, but it can also be a weakness. As Mr Cooper himself puts it, “You could say I was visionary. Or you could say I was too far ahead.”

Unusually for a technology visionary, however, Mr Cooper manages to keep the needs of users in mind, rather than becoming enamoured with technology for the sake of it. He recognised early on that mobile phones would offer people greater freedom and flexibility in their working and personal lives—unlike fixed-line phones, which are tethered to one place, or carphones, which cannot be taken everywhere. A further example is provided by the Jitterbug, a handset designed by his wife, Arlene Harris, which Mr Cooper helped bring to market. This handset, which is now sold by Samsung, has big buttons and basic features and is designed for elderly consumers. As handset-makers crammed more and more features into their phones, Mr Cooper and his wife realised that for some people, less is more.

Beyond the mobile phone
Now 80, Mr Cooper’s vigour is undimmed. Getting time on his schedule may require donning skis or tennis shoes. “Marty scampers around the tennis court like a 17-year-old,” says Mr Lipper. Despite his achievements, he retains an endearing sense of graciousness and humility. He makes a point of replying to the many children who contact him for comments for use in their school reports.

Perhaps surprisingly, Mr Cooper thinks the real impact of mobile communications is yet to come. Things will get really interesting, he thinks, when consumers “get away from the concept of the cell phone—that implies talk and listen” and new applications, based on sending data to and from mobile devices, take hold. There are already glimpses of the potential for mobile data in the success of the BlackBerry e-mail device and the iPhone, with its vast selection of downloadable software. But Mr Cooper feels strongly that such applications will be more likely to flourish if the world’s mobile networks, and the applications that run over them, are developed and managed by different companies, in an open model that mimics the internet. This is yet another idea that Mr Cooper has been pushing for years, says Eric Zimits of Granite Ventures, a venture-capital firm. “He is way ahead in this notion of a mobile internet,” he says.

Once mobile operators focus on providing the network—while leaving application development to the open market—competition will flourish, “so that consumers’ lives are improved,” says Mr Cooper. Open access, he believes, “is just good business”. There are certainly signs that things are heading this way, despite the efforts of operators to avoid being reduced to mere “dumb pipes”. It may be another case where Mr Cooper has correctly identified the outcome, but it takes longer than expected to materialise.

But that seems to be his role. “Marty created the wireless industry,” says Tim McDonald, a former fund manager at Merrill Lynch and one-time board member at ArrayComm. “His greatest strength is his ability to inspire the vision for where the wireless industry can go.”

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Interior Bloggers Use Blogs As a Platform To Instill Hatred Against The Government.

>> Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Keningau: Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) President Tan Sri Joseph Kurup criticised certain bloggers who continue to use the blogs as a platform to instil hatred against the Government.

He said it was saddening that some of these bloggers were educated and had received assistance from the Government, including scholarship for further studies.

"For example, there are blogs in the interior areas that accuse the Government of not bringing development to the people, but at the same time, the bloggers are enjoying the facilities and infrastructure provided by the Government.

"In fact, some of them are in government service. These people are ungrateful. Their intention is merely to instil hatred and create enmity between the people and government," he said at a function in Kampong Bombay, here, Monday.

Kurup, who is also the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, said the blogs should be utilised to create a community of quality through constructive writing.

Meanwhile, PBRS Vice-President, Cyril Yansalang, proposed that the Kaamatan Festival celebrations at the State and Federal level be held simultaneously on May 31 next year.

He said the move would not only raise the status of the Pesta Kaamatan as a prestigious celebration but would also reduce the cost of organising it.

Usually, the climax of the Kaamatan Festival at the State-level would be held for two days on May 30 and 31 at the Dewan KDCA each year.

"It will be better if the State-level celebration next year is held on May 30 and the national-level on May 31 at the same venue," he said here.

Welcoming the decision of the Federal Government through the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture to hold the national-level Kaamatan Festival at Padang Merdeka, near here, on June 7 with the cooperation of the State Government, Yansalang said it reflected the commitment and seriousness of the Government to place the Kaamatan Festival as a major cultural festival in the country.

Sources: Daily Express.(01/06/20090

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Fourth bomb destroyed in Keningau

>> Monday, May 25, 2009

22nd May, 2009

KENINGAU: The fourth World War II bomb found in Kg Toboh Baru on Wednesday was destroyed yesterday amid much fanfare among residents.

Bomb disposal units from Kepayan police headquarters and Keningau detonated the relic at exactly 2.30pm under the watchful eyes of district police chief DSP Zahari Mohamed.

The bomb was discovered by a worker clearing the area for a development project undertaken by a private company.

DSP Zahari said that the explosion was controlled well and it did not shake the houses nearby or the district hospital nearby.

He reminded the residents not to venture into the area and to abide by the signs put up to warn the public to stay clear of the area.

He added that the private company could engage satellite imagery service to locate any bomb remnants.

“Although the cost may be high, we have to address the safety issue of the people,” he said in thanking the company for assisting police in disposing off the bomb.

Meanwhile, the bomb disposal event attracted residents from Kg. Magatang Trans Pegalan and Batu 11, Jalan Sook who could hear the explosion.

The bomb dropped by the allied troops on Imperial Japanese army logistics has an 800-metre damage capability.

Known as the UXO bomb, it weighed 250lb with a diameter of two feet by eight inches and four-feet by inches long.

The bomb was found about 20 metres from the third bomb which had been destroyed last week.

Sources: New Sabah Times.

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PERRY'S SITE

>> Sunday, May 10, 2009

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SABAH DIIBARATKAN SEPERTI TELUR DIHUJUNG TANDUK…..?

>> Sunday, April 5, 2009


Terlebih dahulu ‘Aki kalawon’ ingin mengucapkan TAHNIAH dan setinggi-tinggi penghargaan kepada Yang Amat Berhormat Dato Seri Najib bin Tun Razak sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ke 6, yang baru mengangkat sumpah pada 04/04/2009 yakni; kelmarin. Saya percaya dan yakin kewibawaan beliau menerajui kerajaan Malaysia INSYA ALLAH diberkati ALLAH yang Maha Kuasa, agar seluruh rakyat Malaysia sentiasa dalam keadaan aman, damai serta dapat menikmati segala hasil dan segala kemudahan daripada apa yang di ilhamkan oleh pucuk pimpinan kerajaan.

Sebagai salah seorang anak watan Malaysia di Sabah, begitu perihatin tentang kedudukan sebagai rakyat Sabah sejak tahun 1963 Sabah menyertai perkongsian kuasa dengan Malaysia. Kerajaan Sabah dipimpin dan diterajui oleh Ketua Menteri yang bersilih ganti hinggah lah pada hari ini dan begitu juga dengan kepimpinan diperingkat Nasional, bahawa Perdana Menteri juga bersilih ganti, namun Aki Kalawon melihat kedudukan Sabah dalam Malaysia seperti Telur Dihujung Tanduk. Tidak terlintas didalam fikiran dan niat untuk menunjukkan HERO dalam konteks ini, tetapi walaupun saya sebagai rakyat biasa yang tidak mempunyai kedudukan dalam kerajaan, saya rasa bersalah seandainya perkara ini; juga hak saya sebagai rakyat Sabah tidak diutarakan dengan serious, kerana lambat laun perkara ini menjadi suatu masalah Nasional yang sukar diubati seandainya tidak diselesaikan lebih awal secara tertib, aman dan damai.

Saya telah melayari dalam internet berhubung dengan “Royal Sultan Sulu & Sabah”, apa yang ada dalam isi kandungan artikel tersebut amat menakutkan dan mendukacitakan pada rakyat Sabah. Kandungannya berbunyi seperti berikut;


IN 1963, MALAYSIA ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED SABAH TO THIS DAY. It was said that a referendum was held for the people of Sabah to join Malaysia but this referendum was unfair and unlawful because Malaysia did not inform and did not give any opportunity to the owners of Sabah namely the Sultan of Sulu and the Sultanate of Sulu to present their side as landowners of Sabah before and during the said referendum.


Therefore, this referendum being unilateral and one-sided was unlawful and null and void ab initio and had no effect on the land ownership of the Sultan of Sulu and the Sultanate of Sulu over Sabah. Sabah is still the property of the Sultan and the Sultanate of Sulu to this day. His Majesty Sultan Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram I, The Sultan of Sulu & The Sultan of Sabah, Head of the Sultanate and Head of Islam in the Sultanate of Sulu & Sabah, along with the Royal Family and the Royal Cabinet, support A FREE AND INDEPENDENT SABAH under a Parliamentary Monarchy whereby Members of Parliament are elected by the people of Sabah provided, howsoever, that a free and independent Sabah will be under the reign of His Majesty Sultan Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram I and his successors according to law of succession as King of Sabah.


In this proposal, the King of Sabah will reign and the Sabah Parliament will rule and administer services beneficial to all the people of Sabah. This proposal will finally resolve the age-old recovery problem of Sabah because the Sultan of Sulu & The Sultan of Sabah as lawful owner has agreed with this compromise solution that will be a win-win position to everyone concerned. This also means that the resources of Sabah and its gross domestic product, as well as the nearly 1 million barrels of oil pumped per day in Sabah, amounting to USD100 Billion per year, will be utilized for social and economic developments of the beloved people of Sabah. As per energy report, Sabah contains over 70% of oil reserves of Malaysia today but with this reality, Malaysia (a Muslim nation), dispossessed their Muslim brothers and sisters of their Sabah property without just compensation. This act of Malaysia is Un-Islamic and against the law of Allah and must be rejected by good peoples and the international community of nations. It is, however, necessary that Sabah assists in the much needed social and economic developments of their underprivileged Muslim brothers and sisters in the Sultanate of Sulu and of Mindanao.


This compromise solution is agreed to by His Majesty Sultan Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram I to resolve the Sabah recovery issue by peaceful means. Eventually, once this proposal is well-received and welcomed by the good poeple of Sabah, they will then become the masters of their own destiny and the masters of their resources in Sabah worth over USD100 Billion per year, with said resources now siphoned off to Kuala Lumpur. We pray the good people of Sabah will act on this once in a lifetime opportunity to resolve the Sabah recovery issue by peaceful means.


Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar!!!
Berdasarkan dengan petikan diatas, Aki kalawon rasa sungguh menyedihkan, kita telah meraihkan kemerdekaan ke 51 tahun, tapi masalah ini masih belum terselesai. Seandainya pucuk pimpinan terlalu sibuk dengan pembangunan yang beratus-ratus billion di Sabah, tapi pada hakikatnya, tidak ada gunanya sekiranya perkara ini belum diselesaikan. Maka dengan itu saya percaya dengan kepimpinan Yang Amat Berhormat Dato Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang baru, dapat melihat masalah rakyat Sabah yang dianggap sebagai suatu penyakit kenser yang merbahaya seandainya ianya diambil perkara yang remeh.

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BN perlu perubahan drastik: Muhyiddin

>> Saturday, January 24, 2009


KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional (BN) kini melalui ujian paling getir dan gagasan pemerintahan itu mungkin menghadapi kemusnahan jika tiada tindakan drastik diambil untuk menangani kemerosotan sokongan maka, kata Naib Presiden Umno, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Muhyiddin berkata, walaupun BN merangkumi 13 parti komponen, Umno cuba memperbaiki imej parti untuk meningkatkan keyakinan rakyat dan lebih banyak usaha perlu dilakukan segera.

“Kita tidak bekerjasama dalam usaha kita. Oleh kerana kita lambat melakukan perubahan, ramai berpendapat Umno tidak akan berubah. Jika ambil masa terlalu lama untuk berubah maka orang tidak akan menunggu kita.


“Situasi kekalahan dua pertiga majoriti BN di Parlimen selepas pilihan raya umum Mac tahun lalu masih tidak berubah.

“Kita perlu lebih berkesan dan melaksanakan perkara luar biasa pada masa luar biasa,” katanya pada majlis penyampaian hadiah Kejohanan Golf Amal, Tan Sri Muhyiddin, di MINES Golf and Beach Resort di sini, hari ini.

Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri berkata, bukan saja Umno sebagai tulang belakang BN yang perlu berubah, parti komponen lain juga perlu berbuat demikian.

“Situasi akan bertambah teruk jika kita menunggu lama untuk melaksanakan perubahan. Umno mesti memimpin dalam melakukan perubahan drastik. Kita khuatir dengan situasi ini,” katanya.Mengenai ekonomi negara, Muhyiddin berkata keadaan Malaysia adalah lebih baik dalam menghadapi krisis ekonomi global berbanding negara lain.


Beliau, yang baru kembali dari mengiringi Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, dalam rangka lawatan ke Bahrian, Qatar dan Emiriyah Arab Bersatu (UAE), berkata walaupun negara tidak mengalami kemelesatan ekonomi namum situasi ekonomi global tidak berkembang.

“Rakyat Malaysia harus tabah menghadapi perubahan. Walaupun kita tidak menghadapi kemelesatan ekonomi namun perlu mengambil langkah meringankan impak krisis ekonomi global,” katanya.

Sementara itu, kejohanan golf amal itu berjaya mengumpul RM20,000 yang disumbangkan kepada Tabung Bantuan Kemanusiaan Gaza, anjuran akhbar Berita Harian. - Bernama

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KURUP DARES PAIRIN TO DEBATE

>> Friday, January 23, 2009


23rd January, 2009

KOTA KINABALU: PBRS president Tan Sri Joseph Kurup has challenged his Barisan Nasional (BN) colleague Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan to an open debate over the candidacy for the much-anticipated Pensiangan by-election.

Kurup who is the Deputy Minister of Rural Development urged Pairin who is the PBS president not to hide behind his secretary-general Datuk Radin Malleh and to face him as a gentleman.

“I would like to meet Datuk Pairin face to face to debate on his recent statement on the candidacy in Pensiangan and the implications of that statement as well as what I said about his performance as a two-term Pensiangan MP and his “colourful and well documented history with BN,” he said here yesterday.

He was responding to a statement issued by Radin on Wednesday questioning him (Kurup) on his chances of winning the Pensiangan seat, if and when a by-election was called.

Radin especially reminded Kurup that the Pensiangan seat was never won by PBRS in the real sense of the word but was given a ‘free ride’ in the spirit of the BN.

Radin was responding to Kurup’s attack on Pairin for ruling him out as the automatic choice of candidate for the by-election.

And he even quipped that Kurup himself was the one who did not know how to read the political situation and local sentiments in Pensiangan which indicated that the voters wanted a local Murut to be the candidate.

Kurup, according to Radin, should rule himself out of the running since he was neither a local of the area nor a Murut and he had lost before not only there but in other seats as well.

Taking Kurup to task for questioning Pairin over his record of public service and ridiculing him in the media, Radin pointed out that Kurup had failed the people wherever he represented them and that it was evident from the talk on the ground.

He cited for example when Kurup was the state assemblyman for Sook from 1985 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2008 but failed to deliver his promises. In addition, he also held the post of state Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister during that period and now a federal Deputy Minister for Rural and Regional Development.

He thus advised Kurup to think of the people of Pensiangan and not just of himself.

“Kurup should do some soul-searching for the sake of the people in Pensiangan as well as the fate of the BN,” said Radin.

Kurup was offended by Pairin’s remarks and retaliated by hitting him with remarks which did not go down well with PBS and state BN leaders.

“As much as I would not like to say anything, I am compelled to do so in response to Pairin’s interference in this well-prepared machinery when he raised the question of the candidate for Pensiangan,” said Kurup.

He said Pairin’s remarks would undoubtedly weaken, to an extent, their election machinery and his ill-conceived remarks were definitely not in line with the BN spirit.

And, Kurup also claimed that the people knew who to vote for and that Pairin was out of touch with reality, lacked the BN spirit since he pulled out from the coalition two decades ago, and had a poor record of public service when he was Chief Minister (1985-1994).

Radin’s remark that Kurup had failed the people was echoed by former Pensiangan MP Bernard S Maraat, who recently quit PBRS to join PBS.

Bernard who has been appointed chairman of the Sandakan Sawit Palm Oil Industrial Cluster, was denied the chance to defend his seat in last year’s March 8 general election when Kurup decided that he wanted the seat for himself.

“We don’t want Pensiangan to become the third opposition victim after the BN lost two parliamentary by-elections in Permatang Pauh and Kuala Terengganu,” said Maraat.

He also conceded that the constituents of Pensiangan were no longer satisfied with such handouts like chainsaw, parang, cangkul, rice mill and grass cutter as inducement to vote for BN.

“We have done all this previously,” he said.

Bernard also urged the state government to see to it that all projects promised were promptly implemented in Pensiangan.

“It is important for the federal government to start the projects without further delay. We don’t want any delay to be politicised by the opposition during the Pensiangan by-election.

“All elected representatives and government departments should sit down together and settle the matter as quickly as possible. If not, the people will not only reject the BN in the Pensiangan by-election but also in the next general election,” he added.

Kurup’s victory in Pensiangan at the last election was declared null and void last Sept 8 by the Election Court following a petition brought by PKR candidate Danny Anthony Andipai.

Andipai is said to have the support of Pakatan Rakyat leaders to contest in the seat as the opposition candidate.

“Sabah PKR deputy chief Ansari Abdullah is not the only one to favour Andipai as the candidate,” said PKR Tuaran division secretary, Jumin Jeffrey Masuling.

“Other Pakatan components like DAP and PAS would not deny Andipai the chance to contest should he be selected as the candidate for the seat. It is obviously because of him that the seat fell vacant,” Jumin added.

Sources : New Sabah Times.



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Obama steps into history as the first black US president


21st January, 2009

WASHINGTON: Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasps the reins of power as America’s first black president in a high-noon inauguration amid grave economic worries and high expectations.

Braving icy temperatures and possible snow flurries, hundreds of thousands of people descended on the heavily guarded capital city Tuesday for the first change of administrations since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Two years after beginning his improbable quest as a little-known, first-term Illinois senator with a foreign-sounding name, Obama moves into the Oval Office as the nation’s fourth youngest president, at 47, and the first African-American, a racial barrier-breaking achievement believed impossible by generations of minorities.

Around the world, Obama’s election electrified millions with the hope that America will be more embracing, more open to change.

The dawn of the new Democratic era — with Obama allies in charge of both houses of Congress — ends eight years of Republican control of the White House by George W. Bush. He leaves Washington as one of the nation’s most unpopular and divisive presidents, the architect of two unfinished wars and the man in charge at a time of economic calamity that swept away many Americans’ jobs, savings, homes and dreams — leaving behind a sickening feeling of insecurity.

The unfinished business of the Bush administration thrusts an enormous burden onto Obama’s shoulders. Pre-inauguration polls show Americans believe Obama is on track to succeed and are confident he can turn the economy around. He has cautioned that improvements will take time and that things will get worse before they get better.

Culminating four days of celebration, the script for Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden at the nation’s 56th inauguration was to begin with a traditional morning worship service at St. John’s Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House, and end with dancing and partying at 10 inaugural balls lasting deep into the night.

By custom, Obama and his wife, Michelle, were invited to the White House for coffee with Bush and his wife, Laura, followed by a shared ride in a sleek, heavily armored Cadillac limousine to the U.S. Capitol for the transfer of power, an event flashed around the world in television and radio broadcasts, podcasts and Internet streaming. On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back, leaving him in a wheelchair for the inauguration.

Before noon, Obama steps forward on the West Front of the Capitol to lay his left hand on the same Bible that President Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861. The 35-word oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been uttered by every president since George Washington. Obama was one of 22 Democratic senators to vote against Roberts’ confirmation to the Supreme Court in 2005.

The son of a Kansas-born mother and Kenya-born father, Obama decided to use his full name in the swearing-in ceremony.

The Constitution says the clock — not the pomp, ceremony and oaths — signals the transfer of the office from the old president to the new one.

The 20th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that the terms of office of the president and vice president “shall end at noon on the 20th day of January … and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”

To the dismay of liberals, Obama invited conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren — an opponent of gay rights — to give the inaugural invocation.

About a dozen members of Obama’s Cabinet and top appointees — including Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton — were ready for Senate confirmation Tuesday, provided no objections were raised.

More than 10,000 people from all 50 states — including bands and military units — were assembled to follow Obama and Biden from the Capitol on the 1.5-mile inaugural parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue, concluding at a bulletproof reviewing stand in front of the White House. Security was unprecedented. Most bridges into Washington and about 3.5 square miles of downtown were closed.

Obama’s inauguration represents a time of renewal and optimism for a nation gripped by fear and anxiety. Stark numbers tell the story of an economic debacle unrivaled since the 1930s:

_Eleven million people have lost their jobs, pushing the unemployment rate to 7.2 percent, a 16-year high.

Sources: New Sabah Times.

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BN Tewas Di Kuala Terangganu.

>> Sunday, January 18, 2009

Kuala Terengganu:Selera pengundi PAS dan BN masih samaJanuary 18, 2009 : 09.24 AM--->
Walaupun PAS menawan semula kerusi Parlimen Kuala Terengganu namun kemenangan calon parti itu serta kekalahan calon Barisan Nasional masih menunjukkan sokongan pengundi kepada PAS serta BN tidak banyak berubah.

Sungguhpun Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut menang dengan majoriti 2,631 undi, calon PAS itu hanya berjaya menarik pengundi baru seramai 949 orang. Ini kerana jumlah undi diperolehi dalam pilihan raya kecil tersebut adalah 32,883 manakala Mohamad Sabu yang bertanding ketika pilihan raya umum Mac tahun lalu mendapat 31,934 undi.

Kekalahan calon BN, Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh pula menunjukkan kegagalan parti itu mengekalkan 32,562 undi yang diperolehi allahyarham Datuk Razali Ismail pada Mac tahu lalu. Beliau mendapat mendapat 30,252 undi iaitu kurang 2,310 berbanding Razali.
Peratusan keluar mengundi kali ini turut menurun dengan 79.3 peratus atau kira-kira 63,993 pengundi daripada 80,229 orang layak mengundi berbanding 82.3 peratus atau kira-kira 66,112 pengundi daripada sejumlah 80,325 pengundi yang layak pada pilihan raya umum lalu.
Kemerosotan 3 peratus pengundi ini bermakna seramai 2,119 pengundi yang keluar mengundi Mac lalu tidak keluar menunaikan tanggungjawab mereka dalam pilihanraya kecil ini.

Mengambilkira jumlah undi diperlolehi calon Bebas, Azharuddin Mamat@ Adam sebanyak 193 undi serta undi rosak direkodkan berjumlah 665 undi, kemungkinan bermakna ada diantara mereka yang mengundi Mak Cik Maimon Yusof tahun lalu mengalihkan undi mereka kepada Abdul Wahid.

Dalam pilhian raya umum Mac lalu, Maimon memperolehi 628 undi manakala undi rosak 931 undi. Kelebiihan 949 undi diperolehi Abdul Wahid kemungkinan disumbang oleh mereka yang dulunya mengundi Maimon dan jumlah yang merosakkan undi masing-masing.
Secara tidak langsung, jumlah perbezaan undi calon Bebas dan undi rosak berbanding tahun lalu dan pilihan raya kecil ini adalah sebanyak 691 undi yang memihak kepada calon PAS.

Apa yang jelas, PAS seolah-olah mempunyai pengundi tetap yang menyokong parti itu setiap pilihan raya dan faktor menang atau tewas parti itu kepada calon BN boleh dikaitkan dengan kekurangan jumlah keluar mengundi selain undi dipecahkan calon Bebas serta direkodkan rosak.
PAS juga beroleh kemenangan disebabkan faktor pengundi lama yang sudah sebati dengan parti itu dan generasi muda yang enggan keluar mengundi turut memberi kelebihan kepada mereka.
BN juga dilihat mempunyai pengundi tetap yang tidak banyak berubah dan jika menang atau kalah, ianya adalah disebabkan faktor sama seperti di atas. Punca Wan Ahmad Farid tewas boleh dikaitkan faktor di atas termasuk bilangan keluar mengundi yang merosot.

Sumber-sumber jentera BN yakin sekiranya peratusan keluar mengundi meningkat atau jumlahnya sama seperti pilihan raya umum lalu, Wan Ahmad Farid mempunyai peluang menang pada pilihan raya kecil ini walaupun majoritinya kecil. Ada juga yang mengandaikan pertarungan kedua-dua parti itu lebih sengit serta seimbang dan nasib PAS mungkin berubah seandainya jika bukan Wan Ahmad Farid yang menjadi calon BN. Selain faktor Wan Farid yang dinilai ‘ kurang mesra ‘ ramai kalangan pemerhati yang merasakan terdapat beberapa faktor seperti diatas yang ‘ menekan’ BN berbanding PAS dalam menghadapi pilihanraya kecil ini.

– 17/1/2009 Sources Agenda Daily.
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Pas rampas Parlimen Kuala Terengganu


KUALA TERENGGANU: Pas merampas kerusi Parlimen Kuala Terengganu daripada Barisan Nasional (BN) apabila calonnya, Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut, menang dengan majoriti 2,631 undi. Abdul Wahid yang juga Yang Dipertua Pas Kuala Terengganu memperoleh 32,883 undi menewaskan calon BN, Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, mendapat 30,252 undi manakala calon Bebas, Azharudin Mamat @ Adam, hanya menerima 193 undi, sekali gus hilang deposit.

Undi rosak pula sebanyak 665 undi manakala peratusan keluar mengundi ialah 79.9 peratus atau 63,993 pengundi. Keputusan itu diumumkan Pegawai Pengurus Pilihan Raya Kuala Terengganu, Wan Mustafa Wan Hassan, di Stadium Negeri jam 9.30 malam tadi. Sebanyak 144 saluran di 36 pusat pembuangan undi dibuka mulai jam 8 pagi dan ditutup jam 5 petang bagi membolehkan 80,229 pemilih berdaftar menunaikan tanggungjawab mereka.

Pilihan raya kecil itu diadakan berikutan kematian bekas Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Razali Ismail, akibat serangan jantung ketika bermain badminton di Institut Aminudin Baki (IAB), Genting Highlands, 28 November lalu. Pada pilihan raya umum Mac tahun lalu, Allahyarham Razali menewaskan calon Pas, Mohamad Sabu dan calon Bebas, Maimun Yusuf dengan majoriti 628 undi.
Sources: Berita Harian.

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Obama vows quick diplomatic action in Mideast

>> Tuesday, January 13, 2009



13th January, 2009

WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama said he was prepared for immediate involvement in Mideast diplomacy toward a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but once again refused to show his hand about specifics that would lead him to success where his predecessors have failed for more than a half-century.

Pressed on his silence about the raging war in the Gaza Strip, Obama quickly reverted to his contention that there can be only one president speaking for the United States on foreign policy issues, a position that has caused some to claim the incoming chief executive was being callous in the face of Palestinian suffering in the Israeli offensive to cripple the Hamas organization. Obama does not take office from President George W. Bush until Jan. 20.

“I think that players in the region understand the compromises that are going to need to be made. But the politics of it are hard,” Obama said in an ABC television interview broadcast Sunday. “And the reason it’s so important for the United States to be engaged and involved immediately, not waiting until the end of their term, is because working through the politics of this requires a third party that everybody has confidence, wants to see a fair and just outcome.”

Obama reiterated that the violence and suffering on both sides was “heartbreaking. And obviously what that does is it makes me much more determined to try to break a deadlock that has gone on for decades now.”

The incoming leader, who has been receiving daily national security briefings since his election in November, also acknowledged that his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay will be more of a challenge than he anticipated. Many of those held at the military site are suspected terrorists or potential witnesses in cases against them.

“It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize _ and we are going to get it done _ but part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication,” he said.

The president-elect said that while some evidence against terrorism suspects may be tainted by the tactics used to obtain it, that doesn’t change the fact they are “people who are intent on blowing us up.”

Speaking in general terms, Obama said the country had made security progress since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but dangers persist. He said national security remains a concern, but added:

“We know exactly what they’re planning, where they’re positioned. If you have a small group of people in today’s world with today’s technology who are intent on doing harm and are willing to die, that is something that’s always going to be a challenge.”

During the interview, Obama criticized the Bush administration for the lack of oversight in implementing the $700 billion federal bailout plan for the reeling U.S. financial system and called for tighter controls on how the remaining funds are spent.

The incoming president’s economic team and the Bush administration are in consultations about release of the second $350 billion allocated under the bailout measure passed by Congress last fall. But the Treasury Department has come under criticism for failing to provide taxpayers and Congress with sufficient disclosure about or control over the massive infusion of money into the financial system.

“Let’s lay out very specifically some of the things that we are going to do with the next $350 billion of money,” Obama said. “And I think that we can regain the confidence of both Congress and the American people that this is not just money that is being given to banks without any strings attached and nobody knows what happens, but rather that it is targeted very specifically at getting credit flowing again to businesses and families.”

He also voiced dissatisfaction with how the first $350 billion was spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

“I, like many, are disappointed with how the whole TARP process has unfolded. There hasn’t been enough oversight. We found out this week in a report that we are not tracking where this money is going,” the president-elect said.

Obama meets in Washington on Monday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in a session that was expected to cover U.S. immigration policy, efforts to diminish the flow of elicit drugs out of Mexico and the violence raging there that is slopping over into the United States.

Sources: New Sabah Times.



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Students can apply online now to UMS for July 2009 intake

>> Friday, January 9, 2009

Students can apply online now to UMS for July 2009 intake

9th January, 2009

KOTA KINABALU : Universiti Malaysia Sabah Registrar,Abdullah Hj Mohd Said has informed that applications for the various courses for its July intake is now open to qualified candidates.

“The application process begins this month but courses for SPM and STPM school leavers will only be opened next month.

“It can be done online and all the applicants need to do is buy a PIN (Personal Identification Number) at the nearest Bank Simpanan Nasional that costs RM11 each,” he said.

“We have 13 schools with 60 programmes which among others include medicine,psychology,engineering,arts and commerce.

“We also have two schools at our international campus in Labuan,” he told reporters after the launch of the registrar department’s web portal,which was held in conjunction with UMS Meet-the-Clients Day here yesterday.

He said UMS hoped the programmes would help to produce more highly qualified and skilled human resource of the highest level.

The university targets more Sabahans to enrol at UMS in pursuit of higher education.

In another development,Abdullah said UMS was also in the process of recruiting more qualified staff to hold various academic and non-academic posts.

UMS has some 100 job vacancies that have attracted more than 24,000 applicants.

All applications will be screened to ensure only the most qualified are selected to help the university in its quest for excellence,said Abdullah.

“At present,we have a total of 1,605 staff and over 600 of them are in the academic division while the rest are non-academic.

“The number of academic staff is quite sufficient but we plan to recruit more so as to be able to provide better service in that department,” Abdullah added. – JOSEPH JUPIOL.

Sources: New Sabah Times.

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Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says

>> Thursday, January 8, 2009



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ATLANTA – Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released

The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.

The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have rates at roughly half the national average, which is 42 births per 1,000 teen women.

It's not clear why Mississippi, with 68 births per 1,000, surged into first place. The state's one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children's health statistics.

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RM1 mil drugs seized in raid

>> Wednesday, January 7, 2009

RM1 mil drugs seized in raid


7th January, 2009

PENANG: Police on Sunday seized two types of drugs worth RM1 million during a raid on a house in Relau which was converted into a drugs processing laboratory. The raid was conducted following the arrest of a man in his 30’s in Georgetown at 2.45pm the same day following months of surveillance, said Penang chief police officer Datuk Ayub Yaakob.

“As a result of the arrest a team from the Penang Narcotics Investigations Department raided the house and seized the drugs and drugs processing equipment,” he said at a news conference yesterday. In the raid, police seized three kilogrammes of syabu and 1.5kg ecstasy worth RM1 million in all.

Initial investigation revealed that the unemployed man belonging to a syndicate, turned the rented house into a laboratory and distributed the drugs in the state. The man had a drug-related record.

Police believe the syndicate has been active for a few months and efforts are on-going to find the rest of the members. “We are also investigating if the man has links with other syndicates,” he said. The man has been remanded until Jan 10 to help in investigations under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.

Meanwhile, Ayub said last year Penang police arrested 12,230 people involved in various drugs cases and seized RM8.7 million worth of banned substances. “Last year we succeeded in busting five illegal drug processing laboratories and seized RM5.9 million of drug distributors’ property,” he said.

Sources: New Sabah Times.

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The Zionist Regime Of Israel.

ASSALAMMU'ALAIKUM WTB.

Our Muslim brothers and sisters in Gazza are being massacred by Zionist regime of Israel.They have surrounded the Masjid of Aqsa and probably they are going to attack it. May be we can't help them by physically but we can help them through our prayers. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad S.A.W said, " Prayer (Doa) is the weapon of Muslim". Therefore let us all pray for ALLAH's mercy and protection for the people of Gazza and may the military might of the Israelis be vanquished. Please remember them in your Doa's and if possible please perform the Hajat prayer for them. May Allah bless you for your efforts.

La Ilahaillallah...., Allahuakbar..........................!!!!!

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India gives Pakistan evidence over Mumbai attacks

>> Tuesday, January 6, 2009



6th January, 2009

NEW DELHI: India handed evidence Monday to Pakistan that it says links the deadly Mumbai attacks to Pakistani “elements” and called on authorities across the border to investigate further and help bring the culprits to justice.

India has blamed the November attacks that killed 164 people on Pakistani-based militants, but Pakistan has denied the accusations saying India had yet to provide proof.

Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon gave evidence to the Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi on Monday linking the attacks to “elements in Pakistan,” said Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

The evidence included material from the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, details of conversations between the gunmen and their alleged handlers in Pakistan, recovered weapons, and data from satellite phones.

“This material is linked to elements in Pakistan,” an official statement said. “It is our expectation that the government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Pakistani officials could not immediately be reached for comment. India has blamed the three-day siege on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group based in Pakistan, where authorities have arrested at least two men accused of planning the attacks and launched a nationwide crackdown on a charity believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.

India has called on Pakistan to hand over the suspects and dismantle the terror network they say is based across the border. Pakistani leaders say they will try any suspects in the attacks in their own courts.

In the wake of the attacks, tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals have been high, with Pakistan redeploying troops away from the Afghan border toward India. The two countries have fought three wars against each other since they gained independence in 1947.

But India has been careful not to blame the attacks on the Pakistani government, and Monday’s statement again accused “elements in Pakistan,” an apparent reference to militant groups.

Much of India’s evidence against the militants comes from interrogations of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only gunmen to survive the attacks. He has reportedly told authorities that he and nine others were Pakistani, and that he was trained in Pakistan and that his handlers are still there.

Pakistan has said it has no record of Kasab as a Pakistani citizen.

The Mumbai attacks began Nov. 26 and lasted for nearly three days. The 10 gunmen attacked 10 sites across India’s financial capital, including two five-star hotels, the main train station, popular restaurants and a Jewish center.

Source: New Sabah Times.

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Keningau folks treasure FM radio for latest info

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LIVE ON RADIO…Sairin (left) chatting with Keningau FM presenter Azroy
6th January, 2009

KENINGAU: While FM radio may be a service taken for granted by urban folks, the residents of Keningau should treasure it to keep themselves abreast with the development around Sabah and the country. Assistant Rural Development Minister Datuk Sarin Karno said the new service should be used by the folks to receive information. “We are grateful for the service which has been awaited by the folks of Keningau for a long time,” he told Keningau FM which interviewed him.

The Liawan assemblyman said for those who could not understand the national language well, the radio station also offers Dusun and Murut languages.“And this is a unique radio station which goes on the air 10 hours daily,” he added. According to Sairin, 70 per cent of the interior population was still relying on the radio to keep themselves informed.

The station went on the air five days ago and has received the thumbs-up from the people. It is headed by Lucy Goh as broadcasting officer and Ibrahim Diman as the programme head supported by 20 staff. It is the 33rd radio station in the country.
Source: New Sabah Times

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