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Premises Demolishing Spun into Racial Issue

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SHAH ALAM, 1 Nov: Datuk Teng Chang Khim is disappointed with those connecting the action by the Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) to demolish an additional building of a restaurant in Serdang Perdana, with racial issues.

The Executive Councillor in charge of the Selangor Local Government, Studies and Research said that the issue is brought up to discredit Pakatan Rakyat (PR) by giving the impression that the Selangor Government is not helping Malay businessmen.

Instead, he said, the demolition was based on provisions of Local Government law that knows no colour difference.

“In this country, there are three main races; Malays, Chinese and Indians, in addition to other ethnic groups in Sabah and Sarawak.

“Every action, if not done to Malays, can be said to be done to Chinese or Indians.

“When action is taken against a Malay person, they accuse the government for being racist. If action is taken against a Chinese or Indian, the racial issue is still played.

“So, when will it end?” he said at a press conference at his office here at the State Secretariat Building (SUK) today.

Apart from the premises in Serdang Perdana, several food stalls owned by Malays were demolished by the Kajang Municipal Council (MPKJ) at Taman Mesra Batu 13, Jalan Cheras in Kajang, and the mainstream media has made an issue of it on 30 October.

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Vendors claimed that enforcement officers were biased when carrying out the action, however MPKJ denied the allegations.

Meanwhile, the MPSJ Director of Public Relations, Asfarizal Abdul Rashid said that the demolition had been done as the additional building was leased to foreign traders.

He said, the new building structure was built without permission, and was found to be a risk to the public because it was located near the main road.

“We act based on complaints received from the public because it endangers motorists passing through the area. The demolition was carried out on 28 October,” he said.

Last week, two houses in Kampung Chubadak were demolished by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) because the land was said to be owned by the Federal Land Commissioner.

Apart from the two houses, there are still about 200 houses in the village that would receive the same fate, and is now being monitored by the Member of Parliament of Batu, Tian Chua.

However, in contrast to the restaurant in Serdang Perdana, the issue of the demolition of the village houses, where the majority of residents are Malay, was deliberately not publicised by the mainstream media since the village is located under the jurisdiction of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government.

Abdul Khalid Asks the Media to Stop Regarding the Chief Minister’s Position Issue

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KLANG, 1 Nov: The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim asked the mass media to stop harping on his relationship with the Vice-President of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Azmin Ali, on the issue of taking over office.

He described the action as being ‘disgusting’ and asks editors to immediately stop.

Abdul Khalid said that he has no problem if his position as Chief Minister of Selangor is replaced by someone else.

“If the approach (of the supposed clash) is a way to sell newspapers, then such mentality shows that we have reached the level of developed countries,” he said when met at the Deepavali Celebration Opening Ceremony here in Little India yesterday.

Prior to this, there were rumours that Khalid’s performance had declined and the position of Chief Minister will be replaced by a new representative.

Meanwhile, Abdul Khalid also denied that there were Assemblymen who are not satisfied with him in their meeting session on 29 October.

“Not only did I look into every suggestion they raised, but also the long-term effects.

“We need to see the current and future impact if we want to develop Selangor in the next 20 years, not just the current (impact). So the reason for every proposal should be strong,” he said.

Previously, several local media reports have given the impression that Azmin would be leading the state; however the Bukit Antarabangsa Assemblyman and the PKR de facto leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, denied the rumours.

PJ Senior Citizen’s Run 2013

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PETALING JAYA, 1 Nov: The PJ Senior Citizen’s Run 2013 which was held at the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) compound received encouraging response, with 300 people from all walks of life participated in the programme on 27 October.

The programme is part of initiative under the MBPJ community development programme in conjunction with the National Senior Citizen’s Day which is celebrated on 1 October every year.

MBPJ Council Member, Ahmad Akhir Pawan Chik, said that the programme is able to instil the spirit of social responsibility and is an effective idea, especially for senior citizens.

“Participants were also given tips in caring for their health. In addition, values among the community can be instilled so as to bridge the gap between the elderly and the young,” he said.

Also held at the event was the programme for Healthy, Quality and Increase in Self-Potential for Senior Citizens as well as a Fun Exercise, choir performances, games and a lucky draw contest.

Participants also received information on weight loss, blood pressure levels, strength of hands and legs, nutrition advice and special exercises throughout the programme.

The programme was in collaboration with the University of Malaya’s Melor Project (Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research), consisting of physicians and academics from various faculties such as medicine, law, economics and administration, education, architecture, engineering, computer science, as well as information technology and sports science.

The Melor Project involves groups that conduct research projects to be used and applied by the elderly in efforts to improve their quality of life.

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Mentaliti Kerajaan Nepal lebih maju, miliki 127 akhbar banding Malaysia

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SHAH ALAM 30 OKT: Nepal dilihat lebih telus dan terbuka apabila mempunyai 127 akhbar, berbanding Malaysia yang dilihat kurang memberikan kebebasan media.

Kerajaan Nepal percaya dengan memberikan kebebasan media mampu membawa kepada kemajuan mentaliti pemimpin dan rakyat negara Asia Selatan itu.

Walaupun Nepal masih dikategorikan sebagai negara dunia ketiga daripada segi pembangunan fizikal, tetapi mentaliti pemimpin negara itu dianggap lebih maju berbanding Barisan Nasional (BN).

Bekas Presiden Kesatuan Wartawan Kebangsaan (NUJ), Hatta Wahari berkata, hal itu dibuktikan apabila sehingga kini Nepal mempunyai 127 akhbar tidak termasuk akhbar yang diterbitkan peringkat negeri.

“Walaupun kita membangun dan mempunyai prasarana seperti negara maju tetapi mentaliti kerajaan masih di tahap negara dunia ketiga kerana mereka ingin mengawal media. Sebenarnya, semua kerajaan ingin kawal tanpa beri ruang kebebasan kepada media dan masyarakat,” katanya ketika dihubungi TV Selangor, di sini, hari ini.

Hatta turut mengutuk tindakan Menteri Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN), Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yang mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur ugutan untuk menutup akhbar yang menerbitkan kenyataan beliau dalam satu program di Melaka, baru-baru ini.

“Ini kenyataan paling kurang ajar yang keluar daripada seorang pemimpin dan beliua mempunyai mentaliti dunia ketiga dengan beranggapan mempunyai kuasa dan boleh kawal kebebasan media. Pemimpin seperti ini kita kena tolak,”katanya.

Menyentuh kemenangan portal berita Malaysiakini dalam kes rayuan KDN yang menolak permit penerbitannya, Hatta berharap kemenangan itu akan menjadi contoh kepada media lain supaya berani menerbitkan media seimbang dan telus.

“Kemenangan Malaysiakini patut dijadikan contoh kepada media lain dan saya harap industri media kita lebih bebas serta maju,” katanya. -NFN-

GST : Pendapatan rakyat perlu dipertingkat – FOKUS

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FOKUS Untuk 31102013

Saksikan secara langsung “FOKUS” yang bersiaran pada hari ISNIN hingga JUMAAT . Pelbagai berita dan maklumat terkini negeri dan nasional yang kami sediakan untuk anda.

Paparan menarik untuk hari ini :

1. Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan segala bentuk kebocoran, rasuah dan sistem monopoli yang membengkak dalam negara perlu dihentikan terlebih dahulu sebelum memikirkan pelaksanaan cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST).

2. Tindakan kerajaan pusat memansuhkan subsidi barangan keperluan rakyat pada pembentangan Bajet 2014 adalah satu ‘hukuman berat’ kepada rakyat sedangkan pentadbiran kerajaan tidak mengamalkan cara berhemah berbelanja sehingga menyebabkan berbilion wang rakyat.

3. Masalah jenayah harus ditangani secara holistik dan bukan hanya tertumpu kepada penguatkuasaan undang-undang semata-mata, tegas Ahli Parlimen Kelana Jaya, Wong Chen.

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Selangor tawar 300 rumah mampu milik – FOKUS

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FOKUS Untuk 31102013

Saksikan secara langsung “FOKUS” yang bersiaran pada hari ISNIN hingga JUMAAT . Pelbagai berita dan maklumat terkini negeri dan nasional yang kami sediakan untuk anda.

Paparan menarik untuk hari ini :

1. Kerajaan Selangor menawarkan Rumah Mampu Milik “Rumah Selangorku” kepada 300 orang pemohon yang layak menduduki mengikut kriteria yang ditetapkan.

2. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menggesa Kerajaan Pusat agar mengukuhkan pendapatan rakyat dan memastikan infrastruktur percukaian yang baik sebelum dilaksanakan Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST).

3. Kerajaan Pusat tergesa-gesa melaksanakan Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) yang akan membebankan rakyat ketika tiada mekanisme untuk meningkatkan sumber pendapatan rakyat.

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Naik taraf klinik 1Malaysia, bukan hanya jadi ‘klinik panadol’

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SHAH ALAM 30 OKT :  Kerajaan Pusat perlu menaiktaraf klinik 1Malaysia di seluruh negara dengan perkhidmatan lain agar tidak hanya dianggap sebagai ‘klinik panadol’ semata-mata.

Ahli Parlimen Bukit Katil, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin berkata, klinik 1Malaysia hanya mempunyai seorang pegawai penolong pegawai perubatan yang hanya memeriksa demam dan selsema.

Sepatutnya, klinik berkenaan dilengkapi kemudahan untuk mengesan wabak berbahaya seperti demam denggi.

Beliau memberi alasan, ramai pengidap demam denggi di kawasannya yang terpaksa berulang-alik ke klinik itu tetapi wabak denggi itu tidak dikesan ? sehinggalah pesakit tersebut meninggal dunia.

“Di kawasan saya, ada (pengidap) wabak denggi ramai yang telah mati. Ada klinik satu Malaysia. Demam pergi klinik, dapat panadol, pergi lagi dapat panadol. Hari ketiga tak datang dah, sebab dah meninggal… Kesannya besar.

“Klinik pada nama sahaja, (selepas ini) nak tambah lagi 50 klinik. Tapi tidak ada kelengkapan mencukupi apatah lagi klinik ini bagi (kumpulan) miskin bandar yang tidak mampu nak pergi kesihatan yang jauh, tak mampu,” katanya bagi membahas Rang Undang-undang Perbekalan 2014 di Dewan Rakyat.

Kata Shamsul Iskandar, klinik 1Malaysia yang terletak dalam kawasan berisiko tinggi penularan wabak denggi perlu dinaiktaraf untuk mengesannya.

“Saya ingin mencadangkan supaya ada ujian (kesan) denggi segera di kawasan ada wabak… Kalau itu perkara yang baik, apa salahnya, untuk rakyat,” katanya dipetik dari Malaysiakini.

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RM3.14 Million Allocated to Improve Traffic Flow at Jalan Othman, Petaling Jaya

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PETALING JAYA, 30 Oct: The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) decided to spend RM3.14 million to demolish the roundabout at Jalan Othman and replace it with traffic lights to solve the traffic congestion faced by motorists.

Member of Parliament for Petaling Jaya Selatan, Hee Loy Sian said the project which will be completed within the next 10 months is expected to improve traffic flow in the area.

“Originally, this project would take eight months. However, because technical issues caused by piping and wiring in the area, we expect for the project to be completed in September (next year),” he said.

“Currently, motorists in the area would need to take an hour to pass through the roundabout.

After the project is completed, we expect motorists to save 80 percent of the time taken currently,” said Loy Sian.

Hee Loy said this during the ground breaking ceremony of the Jalan Othman Roundabout Upgrading Project, together with the Assemblyman for Bukit Gasing, Rajiv Rishyakaran.

He said, this upgrading project will benefit residents of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18, as well as those using the road leading to Puchong, Kota Damansara and Serdang.

Loy Sian urged the public to be patient at this point while waiting for the traffic lights to be set up in the specified period.

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FOMCA: Health Reason an Unreasonable Excuse for Rise in Sugar Price

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SHAH ALAM, 30 Oct: The move by the central government to increase the price of sugar by RM0.34 cents on grounds of curbing diabetes among Malaysians is a frivolous and unreasonable excuse.

Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (FOMCA) Communications Director, Mohd Yusof Abdul Rahman, said that health reasons to raise price of sugar is not accurate because diabetes stems from an individual’s lifestyle.

He said, healthcare awareness campaigns should be increased and intensified instead of increasing the price of the essential good, if the central government wants to care for the people’s health.

“We fear that the same excuse will be used by the government to raise the price of other goods such as flour and rice, which causes an increase in food calories. The government may use the excuse of the increase (in food calories) to raise the price of flour,” he said when contacted by TVSelangor today.

Yusof said that the price increase is too drastic and may hugely affect the price of food and drinks based on sugar consumption.

“It should have not been done drastically and dramatically because the adjustment in sugar price should be carried out in stages so as to have a tremendous impact on the people,” he said.

Meanwhile, he also urged the federal government to inform the people if they intend to raise the price of cooking oil following the withdrawal of subsidies.

Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim questioned the central government’s move of deliberately hiding the increase in cooking oil and instead chose to publicly announce the cut in sugar subsidies during the National Budget 2014 debate session at the House of Representatives yesterday.

He also questioned the move because palm oil production is currently surging and the people are shocked by the sugar price hike.

CM Visits SP Setia Bhd Housing Project

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SHAH ALAM, 30 Oct: Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim spent over half an hour visiting the latest apartment housing project using the ‘prefabricated’ method which is being developed by a leading property developer, SP Setia Berhad.

During the visit to the project site, Abdul Khalid, who was accompanied by Selangor State Excos, was given detailed descriptions regarding the housing project by the Chief Operating Officer of SP Setia, Datuk Voon Tin Yow.

The housing project, among others, is being built near the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) and Jalan Meru, Klang, with house area estimated at 850 square feet each.

A total of 3,960 apartment units at the 11-storey buildings are being offered at the market price of RM220,000, and has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and other facilities such as a swimming pool.

The medium-cost apartment project commenced building over a year ago and targets families with a household income of about RM3,000 per month.

It is understood that the housing project has been fully sold to the public.

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MB: 2,000 Peluang pekerjaan tenaga mahir diwujudkan di Selangor – FOKUS

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Paparan menarik untuk hari ini :

1. Kira-kira 2,000 peluang pekerjaan baru bagi pekerja tenaga mahir diwujudkan di Selangor berikutan kejayaan usaha Kerajaan negeri membawa masuk pelabur asing ke negeri itu.

2. Teguran bagi tujuan penambahbaikan sudah menjadi amalan Kelab Penyokong Kerajaan (BBC) sejak Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih pentadbiran Kerajaan Selangor sejak 2008. BBC yang dianggotai 44 Adun PR, terus menunjukkan sikap konsisten bagi tujuan penambah
baikan pentadbiran di negeri ini.

3. Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak disifatkan tidak berlaku jujur apabila sengaja menyembunyikan kenaikan harga minyak masak daripada pengetahuan umum ketika pembentangan Belanjawan Negara 2014, pada 25 Oktober lalu.

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RM3.14juta diperuntuk perbaiki aliran trafik di Jalan Othman Petaling Jaya

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PETALING JAYA 30 OKT : Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ) membuat keputusan untuk membelanjakan RM3.14 juta bagi merobohkan bulatan (roundabout) di Jalan Othman di sini dan menggantikannya dengan lampu trafik bagi menyelesaikan masalah kesesakan trafik yang dihadapi pengguna.

Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Selatan, Hee Loy Sian, berkata projek itu yang akan disiapkan dalam masa 10 bulan akan datang diharap dapat memperbaiki aliran trafik di kawasan itu.

“Asalnya, projek ini hanya memerlukan lapan bulan. Namun, atas isu teknikal yang disebabkan oleh paip dan wayar di kawasan tersebut, kami menjangka projek itu akan siap pada bulan September,”

“Sekarang, pengguna lalu lintas di kawasan tersebut perlu mengambil masa sejam untuk melalui bulatan tersebut.

Selepas projek ini disiapkan, kami menjangka pengguna lalu lintas dapat menjimatkan 80 peratus dariapda masa yang diambil sekarang,” kata Loy Sian.

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Hee Loy berkata demikian Program Pecah Tanah Projek Naik Taraf Bulatan Jalan Othman bersama Adun Bukit Gasing, Rajiv Rishyakaran di sini.

Beliau berkata, projek naik taraf ini akan memberikan manfaat mereka yang penduduk  di Seksyen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 dan 18, serta mereka yang menggunakan jalan menghala ke Puchong, Kota Damansara dan Serdang.

Loy Sian berkata, beliau menyeru orang ramai agar bersabar pada ketika ini bagi menantikan  lampu isyarat itu disiapkan dalam tempoh yang ditetapkan.

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