‘AES not suitable for Sabah roads’

Sabah and federal authorities should first ensure that
state roads are in good condition before indulging in
road-safety campaigns.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah roads may not be suited for the expensive and controversial Automatic Enforcement System (AES) which the government is planning to install nationwide to reduce road accidents.

A Sabah MP pointed out that the poor infrastructure and conditions of roads in the east Malaysian state should be addressed first before the expensive AES project is implemented.

“It is pointless for the government to spend a huge sum of the taxpayers’ money to install such a sophisticated system, when in the first place it can’t even provide a good and safer road for the people to drive on,” said Kota Kinabalu MP Hiew King Cheu.

“We all know that our roads are bad, unsafe, not up to the required standard and in many places it is a killer.

Muslihat Nazri larang guna ruang akhbar Parlimen – Rafizi

Tindakan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri itu dan
pengurusan Parlimen menghadkan akses rakyat biasa
untuk ke Parlimen dan bersuara melalui sidang
media hanya akan merendahkan martabat dan
kedudukan Parlimen.

PETALING JAYA: Pengarah Strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli mendakwa larangan menggunakan ruang sidang akhbar di Parlimen oleh bukan anggota parlimen yang berkuatkuasa serta merta sengaja dibuat untuk menghadkan pergerakannya.

“Saya memang sudah menjangka tindakan seterusnya yang akan diambil oleh Datuk Seri Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz adalah dengan menggunakan kuasanya untuk menghalang saya dari membuat sidang media di Parlimen.

“Beliau seharusnya sedar bahawa Parlimen adalah institusi tertinggi milik rakyat di negara ini. Ia wajar disemarakkan dengan isu rakyat baik di dalam atau luar dewan,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan media hari ini.

Tegas beliau, “tindakan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri itu dan pengurusan Parlimen menghadkan akses rakyat biasa untuk ke Parlimen dan bersuara melalui sidang media hanya akan merendahkan martabat dan kedudukan Parlimen.

Palm Oil Companies unite to protect Malua BioBank’s threatened wildlife

Malua Biobank at the palm oil frontier, Sabah, Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU: In a breakthrough step, four Malaysian palm oil companies (IOI Corporation Berhad, TH Group, Kwantas Corporation Berhad, and Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Selangor) today announced the Malua Wildlife Conservation Agreement – a unique partnership with the Malua BioBank that aims to improve the protection of threatened wildlife in the Heart of Borneo.

Malua BioBank, Sabah Government and the four companies are pioneering a new approach to protect wildlife from illegal hunting in Sabah as this remains a significant threat in the state.  Malua BioBank is an innovative conservation project covering 34,000 hectares of lowland rainforest, which aims to protect wildlife, including through the prevention of illegal hunting. The Agreement recognises the importance of the palm oil industry to work with partners to ensure that Sabah’s significant biodiversity is protected.

Nazri Aziz is not worried about his son using Michael Chia's Hummer

Nazri Aziz who clears Michael Chia turns out to
be the one whose family receives benefits

Source
De facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said that he sees no problem with his son driving businessman Michael Chia's Hummer SUV. 

He said that if a certain opposition figure (name withheld due to legal reasons) is not worried about a leaked video purportedly depicting himself having a tryst with a foreign sex worker, then there is no reason why he should be.

Reporters had questioned Mohd Nazri at his office after the allegation on the Hummer was exposed by PKR leaders at the Parliament lobby today.

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

Something to Consider:

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.