Sassy MP

The Pakatan Rakyat first ever convention is taking place right now at MBSA in Shah Alam. Watch it live at http://www.tvselangor.com/live/channel1/

We have about 1500 delegates from PAS, PKR and DAP from all over the country taking part in this convention. Here’s the schedule:

19 DISEMBER 2009 DI AUDITORIUM MBSA, SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR

0800 : Pendaftaran bagi wakil media di Tingkat 4, Auditorium MBSA.

0900 : Pembukaan

0915 : Ucapan Perdana Ketiga Pimpinan Tertinggi dan Perasmian Bersama Konvensyen – Saudara Anwar Ibrahim (Ketua Umum KeADILan), Saudara Lim Guan Eng (Setiausaha Agung DAP) & Saudara Hj Abdul Hadi Awang (Presiden PAS).

1015 : Rehat

1045 : Pidato Dasar Pakatan Rakyat (dipengerusikan YAB Khalid Ibrahim) – Saudara Salahuddin Ayub (Naib Presiden PAS), Saudara Tony Pua (Setiausaha Publisiti Kebangsaan DAP), Saudara Sivarasa Rasiah (Naib Presiden PKR) dan Perbahasan oleh 2 perwakilan setiap parti.

1245 : Makan tengahari di Laman MBSA.

1345 : Sambungan perbahasan oleh 3 perwakilan setiap parti (dipengerusikan Saudara Teng Chang Khim).

1530 : Majlis Penutup (dipengerusikan Saudara Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah).

Rumusan oleh 3 Pimpinan : Saudara Karpal Singh (Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAP), Saudara Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (Murshidul Am PAS), Saudara Anwar Ibrahim (Ketua Umum KeADILan).

1700 : Majlis bersurai. Sidang media di Tingkat 3

Here is MalaysiaKini’s report on the economic briefing by Jomo KS to Selangor State Government which I blogged about earlier.

‘Vision 2020 likely to be put back by 10 years’

Dec 18, 09 1:08pm

Malaysia’s vision of becoming a developed nation by the year 2020 will be delayed by 10 years, said the country’s best known economist, Dr KS Jomo.

According to Jomo, who is a senior United Nations official, the average GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 9 percent before the 1997/1998 financial crisis have been slashed to only around 5 percent.

He said private investments in Malaysian has significantly reduced and public spending is now becoming more prominent as the engine of growth.

Jomo, who was a professor of economics in Universiti Malaya before joining the UN in 2005, met with senior Selangor government leaders yesterday to give a private briefing on the global economic crisis and its impact on Malaysia’s most industralised state. Continue Reading »

Thursday last week, I went the whole afternoon to look for new land to relocate the cemetery that is currently right beside Saujana Puchong residences. This work is a follow-up of when I supported the residents of Saujana Puchong to protest against the cemetery being created right besides their homes, and on Ayer Hitam forest reserve land at that, back in March 2008, and the new Pakatan state government’s decision to relocate the cemetery to a more suitable site earlier this year.

Once the cemetery is relocated, the residents will no longer have to live with the discomfort of a cemetery and burial activities next to their homes.

And most of all, Ayer Hitam can be restored back into being the nature reserve that it was meant to be before the former state government suddenly converted into cemetery land. I have already started work on planning the creation of a Taman Rekreasi Rimba Ayer Hitam together with planners, Jabatan Perancangan, MPSJ and Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Back to my recce. The man in the middle is Jaafar Mohd Atan, the director of Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa. Behind us, just behind the overgrowth is the existing cemetery. And less than 30 feet from where we are standing is the housing area. We are studying the site map for our next location.

Alternative site number 1. Continue Reading »

As the EXCO in charge of investment, industry and trade in Selangor, I have to continously update myself on the state of Malaysia and the world’s economy. So yesterday, I attended Jomo KS‘s economic briefing to Selangor State Government held at SUK (Setiausaha Kerajaan) in Shah Alam.

Jomo, an economist and former professor of Universiti Malaya, is currently based in New York as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

Presenting a token of appreciation to Jomo KS on behalf of Selangor. On my left is Anwar Ibrahim, economic advisor to Selangor with a monthly allowance of only 1 ringgit

Others present include MB Khalid Ibrahim, EXCO Dr Halimah, EXCO Ronnie Liu, and EXCO Hassan Ali.

Yesterday morning, I held a press conference at Parliament to defend the rights of Ma YanHong, a tourist from China, who was arrested by the police, put in police lock-up and treated with a lack of human dignity. All this despite her having the genuine legal visa and passport to be in Malaysia!

Here is MalaysiaKini’s video of our press conference.

Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching, myself, Ma YanHong.

This is Ma’s official statement to the press:

Pada 10/12/2009 5 petang, saya dan kawan saya membeli-belah di Pusat Kompleks Sungei Wang hingga 10 malam. Selepas itu, kami makan malam di Jalan Alor. Selepas itu, pada pukul 11.30 malam kami pun masuk ke sebuah pub di Jalan Alor untuk terus berbual. Pada pukul lebih kurang 12.30 malam, polis masuk ke pub tersebut dan menangkap gambar, kemudian mereka periksa kad pengenalan dan dokumen setiap orang berada di dalam pub. Semua orang dari negara asing diminta tunggu dan orang tempatan diminta balik.  Saya dan kawan saya memberitahu seorang polis bahawa kami mempunyai visa dan paspot yang sah tetapi polis tidak mempedulikan kami. Polis terus ambil paspot kami pada pukul 3 pagi. Polis membawa kami bersama dengan orang negara asing ke Balai Polis Pudu. Kami dikurung di dalam lokap selama sejam. Selepas itu, kami dibawa ke Balai Polis Daerah Dang Wangi. Kami dimasukkan balik ke lokap sehingga pukul 8.30 pagi pada 11/12/2009.
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I urge all of you to come for this forum. I have strongly criticised the racist content of BTN since as far back as my parliament speech in 2005. And since last month, Selangor government has barred all students in state-owned higher-learning institutions, civil servants and employees in state government-linked companies (GLCs) from attending nation-building programmes carried out by Biro Tata Negara (BTN).

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Pejabat MB Selangor melaksanakan program berikut. Harap semua, terutamanya bekas peserta BTN hadir.

Forum: Biro Tatanegara: Patriotik atau Perkauman?

Tarikh: 23 Disember 2009 (Rabu)
Masa: 7.45 malam
Tempat: PJLA  (Petaling Jaya Live Arts) Theatre, 2A-3, Block K, Jaya One, Seksyen 13, No.72A, Jalan Universiti, 46200, Petaling Jaya. Lihat peta.

Ahli Panel
1. Amirudin Shari (ADUN Batu Caves)
2. Dr. Asyraf Wajdi Dasuki (bekas calon UMNO Tumpat)
3. Eddin Khoo (Budayawan)
4. Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (Setiausaha Politik MB Selangor / ADUN Seri Setia)
5. Dr. KJ John (Kolumnis Malaysiakini.com)

Bekas peserta BTN turut hadir bagi berkongsi pengalaman mereka

Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222581007640&index=1

Semua dijemput hadir.

Sebarang pertanyaan: 03-55447017 / Saifullah 013-3005461 / saifullahzulkifli@gmail.com

Masjid Negeri Selangor, Shah Alam. Photo credit: Momoc HDR Photography

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