Kami ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 2008 Masehi kepada semua rakyat Malaysia.

Mari kita merenung sejenak cabaran besar yang dihadapi negara kita: ekonomi yang makin hambar, jenayah yang meningkat, harga barang yang terus naik serta ketegangan kaum dan agama yang makin parah.

Sempena tahun baru ini, wajar sekali kita membulatkan tekad dan azam untuk mengatasi cabaran-cabaran ini dengan kepimpinan yang tegas, berani dan jujur di dalam memperjuangkan perubahan.

Ubah sebelum parah, ubah demi maruah.

Selamat Tahun Baru 2008

ANWAR IBRAHIM & DR WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL

2008 NEW YEAR MESSAGE

We would like to take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to all Malaysians.

Let us reflect on the critical challenges that our nation face today: a lackluster economy, rampant crime, rising prices as well as worsening racial and religious relations.

On this New Year, let us strengthen our resolve to overcome these challenges with resolute, courageous and honest leadership in our endeavour to heal the country.

Stop the rot, vote for change.

Happy New Year 2008.

ANWAR IBRAHIM & DR. WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL

By Din Merican

I joined Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim on his visit to the rural heartland of Negri Sembilan on December 28, 2007. The journey took my colleagues (Sdr. Azmin Ali, Dato Kamarul Bahrin who is the KeADILan Chief for Negri Sembilan, Dr Xavier Jayakumar, Sdr. Saifuddin Nasution, and others) and I to Felda Pasoh 4 in Jelebu, Felda Palong 10 in Jempol, Pekan Rompin, Pekan Kuala Pilah and Pekan Linggi (near Port Dickson), Negri Sembilan. We criss-crossed the state,meeting interesting Malays, Indians and Chinese, who showed genuine concern about the economy, and the state of our national and local politics.

It was my first extensive trip to Negri Sembilan since 1967 when, as a central bank officer, I was exchanging old Currency Board notes for the new Ringgits issued by Bank Negara Malaysia. At that time, I was living in Seremban Rest House (from June-September, 1967). I was surprised that I could still recognise the places I visited and operated in some 40 years ago. This means that the much touted progress or development, corridors and what not, has not come to the people in the places we visited, and their lives and economic status have not changed very much. In stead, they have been burdened by rising cost of basic foods and services. That much for UMNO-BN propaganda!!

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