Dari Harakah Daily

Oleh Dzulfikar Mashoor

Pakatan Rakyat mencabar Umno agar tidak membuat rayuan di mahkamah bagi membolehkan pilihanraya kecil di Dun Kota Seputeh berjalan sebagaimana yang sepatutnya.

Demikian kenyataan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim petang tadi, selepas selesai mesyuarat Pakatan Rakyat di Parlimen. Turut serta dalam sidang media bersama PR itu ialah Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang; Penasihat DAP, Lim Kit Siang dan beberapa pimpinan tertinggi parti masing-masing. (more…)

Dari Malaysia Kini

Oleh Salhan K Ahmad

Selangor digesa supaya berhenti menghantar mahasiswa di pusat pengajian tinggi milik kerajaan negeri ke program anjuran Biro Tata Negara (BTN) kerana ia didakwa menyemai sentimen perkauman di kalangan pelajar.

Sekumpulan ADUN muda Pakatan Rakyat Selangor menggesa pemulauan program agensi bawah Jabatan Perdana Menteri itu melalui satu surat kepada Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim. (more…)

From The New York Observer

Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists
Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
By Ken Silverstein
Random House, 195 pages, $24

Two years ago, when I was a press officer for the United Nations in Iran, government agents tried to sting us. In an effort to discredit the U.N., every week I was visited by two fat, profoundly bearded and poorly dressed “TV producers”; they offered us unprecedented access to large national audiences on the condition that we weave criticism of the regime into our work. Of course, we turned them away and thus preserved our organization’s ability to remain in the country as a neutral aid rather than a propagandist for regime change.

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The Malaysian Insider

By Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon (picture) confirmed in Parliament today that the government had engaged Apco Worldwide, an international public affairs and media relations company, to boost its image overseas.

The Malaysian Insider understands that the contract is worth some RM20 million but Koh, in a written reply to a question from DAP’s Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching, did not divulge the exact amount.

“Apco Worldwide was tasked with promoting and improving Malaysia’s image overseas,” said Koh, who is Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

He justified the appointment by asserting that a foreign firm would ensure that the country’s communication practice was in line with international standards.

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Dari The Malaysian Insider
Oleh Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 — Naib Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Azmin Ali menafikan dakwaan terbaru hari ini bahawa beliau memperoleh saham-saham bernilai sekurang-kurangnya RM2 juta ketika Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Menteri Kewangan dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri.

Azmin membuat penafian beberapa jam selepas seorang bekas pembantu kanan Anwar mendedahkan dokumen-dokumen baru yang didakwa sebagai bukti Azmin telah memperoleh saham sekurang-kurangnya bernilai RM2 juta sekitar awal 1990-an.

Dakwaan itu yang dibuat oleh Anuar Shaari, bekas setiausaha peribadi Anwar pagi tadi merupakan yang kedua dalam tempoh lima hari.

Sabtu lalu, Azmin juga telah menafikan pendedahan bekas Ketua Pemuda MIC, SA Vigneswaran kononnya beliau, isteri dan adik iparnya memperoleh saham RM8.5 juta awal 1990-an ? ketika Anwar menjadi Menteri Kewangan sambil menganggapnya “sebagai tidak berasas sama sekali.”

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From The Star

OPPOSITION leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will table a Private Members Bill to seek power to transfer the distribution of earnings of the country’s oil extraction income from the Federal Government to the state authorities.

He said checks were made on existing laws, including amendments, on oil extraction, profits and income in which state powers were transferred to Petronas.

He said he would table the Bill to ensure income from oil extracted from Kelantan, Terengganu, Sabah and Sarawak would be equally distributed to the states.

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From The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 – Malaysia is now seen to be more corrupt than ever, anti-graft watchdog Transparency International said in its global corruption perception index 2009 launched today.

Malaysia now ranks 56 out of 180 countries in the world with a corruption index score of 4.5 out of 10, with 10 being the least corrupt, said the world corruption watchdog. Last year, it placed 47 with a CPI score of 5.1.

The three least corrupt countries in the world are, in order, New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore.

In an immediate reaction, DAP Parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang called Malaysia’s ranking the worst in 15 years and said it was a major blow to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s administration.

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Dari Malaysia kini

Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Selangor hari ini mencalonkan timbalan presiden PKR, Syed Husin Ali, 73, sebagai senator yang mewakili negeri tersebut.

Pemilihan Syed Husin diluluskan melalui undian di mana 32 ADUN menyokong, tiga ADUN berkecuali manakala 20 ADUN lagi tidak hadir.

Nama beliau dicadangkan oleh Menteri Besar. Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim dan disokong oleh exco kerajaan negeri, Datuk Dr Hasan Ali yang juga pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor. (more…)

KONVENSYEN PKR NEGERI TERENGGANU

Jumaat, 20 November 2009

Gelangang Dewan Badminton Seberang Marang
Jalan RHU MUDA 3, Seberang Marang Terengganu

2.00 – 2.45 Ptg – Pendaftaran

2.45 – 2.50 Ptg – Doa

2.50 – 3.00 Ptg – Nyanyian lagu rasmi PKR

3.00 – 3.10 Ptg - Ucapan dari Pengerusi MPN Terengganu Saudara Abdul Rahman Yusoff

3.10 – 3.40 PTG – Pembentangan kertas kerja 1 oleh

Dato’ Salehuddin Hashim – Setiausaha Agung PKR

3.40 – 4.10 Ptg - Pembentangan kertas kerja 2 oleh

 YB Saifuddin Nasution

4.10 – 4.30 Ptg – Sesi soal Jawab

4.30 – 5.00 Ptg – Rehat dan Solat Asar

5.00 – 6.30 Ptg – Sesi khas bersama Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim

8.00 – 9.00 mlm – Perjumpaan tertutup MPN Bersama Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim di  Pejabat PKR Cabang Kuala Nerus

9.00 – 12.00 mlm- Ceramah Perdana

Lokasi – Padang air, Kuala Nerus

Penceramah :

1) YB DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
2) DATO’ SALEHUDIN HASHIM
3) YB SAIFUDIN NASUTION
4) YB WAHID ENDUT

PAKATAN RAKYAT AND THE MAKING OF TWO PARTY SYSTEM

Dato’Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan memberi ucaptama di Pearl International Hotel Kuala Lumpur, bersempena Majlis National Symposium 2009  anjuran Institut Kajian Dasar yang berlangsung pada Sabtu 21 November 2009. Symposium tersebut diadakan bagi membicarakan penubuhan Pakatan Rakyat dan menjadikan politik Malaysia kearah sistem 2 parti utama.

Sila klik  laman rasmi disini untuk keterangan lanjut : http://symposium.ikd.org.my/