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Found 84 matches for Bukit Tinggi
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| 2006-02-28 | Can Pak Lah survive his son-in-law?
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| 2005-03-16 | A constitutional misstep clips Pak Lah's wings yet again
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| 2005-03-10 | The vigilante bigots
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| 2005-03-04 | The Selangor mentri besar on the hot seat
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| 2004-12-31 | The collapse, through gross negligence, of the national disaster systems and centres
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| 2004-12-07 | Breaking the mould
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| 2004-09-06 | Official and media confusion as Anwar leaves for surgery overseas
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| 2004-08-27 | If low cost homes and concern for the poor are not enough, would RM1,000 a vote do?
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| 2004-03-17 | Why free and fair elections is not possible
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| 2004-03-10 | An armed forces chief, no less, can vote in the 2004 general election nine years after he died!
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| 2004-03-08 | The exquisitely fine art of selecting, and back-stabbing, BN candidates
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| 2004-03-05 | A General Election devoid of principle
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| 2004-03-04 | Parliament, and all state assemblies but Sarawak, is dissolved
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| 2004-03-03 | The PPP nearly causes a crisis within the National Front
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| 2004-03-01 | Why does Dato' Seri Najib seek to desert his Pekan parliamentary constituency?
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| 2004-01-20 | The BN needs, but does not yet have, RM3.5 bn for the General Election
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| 2003-10-27 | Pulau Tioman villagers are furious at a crony's destruction of their island THE PRIME MINISTER'S CRONY, TAN SRI Vincent Tan, gets what he wants. Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed, cannot do enough for him. He wanted a casino in Bukit Tinggi. He got it. He misused it. He was forgiven. Even when it turned into a political problem for the BN-run Pahang state government. Pulau Tioman is turned into a duty free island to benefit Tan Sri Vincent who, in the name of development, busily rapes the island. He wanted to turn into a regional gambling centre. The government builds an airport estimated at RM500 million. The people living on the island, mostly fishermen, could do with a few amenities like a health clinic and a school or two. But that is not as important as an airport for a crony. The MP for Rompin, which includes Pulau Tioman, is also the second finance minister. He bends over backwards to provide more than the crony's needs.
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| 2003-10-11 | Istana Keadilan is why KeADILan is denied its name
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| 2003-09-28 | The BN Government builds a RM500 million airport for a crony THE NATIONAL FRONT (BN) GOVERNMENT quietly builds a RM250 million airport in Pulau Tioman, where the Prime Ministerial crony, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, owns a much-hyped holiday resort, so Airbuses could land. But the final cost could double. The second finance minister, Dato' Jamaluddin Jarjis - JJ to everyone but to the Opposition PAS he is JV - wanted it built in a hurry and ahead of more important public works projects like low cost houses, schools and rural health clinics. Why? When the Government cancelled the Tioman resort's additional 100 slot machines given it when Tan Sri Vincent breached his licence for 250 slot machines at his Bukit Tinggi Holiday Resort by installing 420 and advertising it worldwide as a casino. JJ justified it as a move to encourage eco-tourism. The Tan Sri Vincent-owned Berjaya Air runs propeller aircraft several times a week and it is hard put to fill the seats. In any case, the only reason people - even eco-tourists - fly to Tioman is the resort. If Tan Sri Vincent is so sure the airport would have crowds flocking to it, he should have built it on his own, and not ask the Government to build this wasteful airport. After all, it is built for his own benefit and for him alone.
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| 2003-09-26 | What official expenses do BN cabinet ministers and MPs claim? THE NATIONAL FRONT (BN) IS CAUGHT in a bind. The Opposition raises issues it cannot rebut. It is often caught out when challenged. More often than not, it decides discretion is the better part of valour. Its MPs refuse to be drawn into a political fist fight. None of this is reported in the BN-controlled media, which is all the mainstream, but these issues are transferred to the public domain by the Opposition parties. When it does engage with the Opposition, it is often caught short. When the Parti Islam Malaysia (PAS) MP. Mr Husam Musa, wrote a potentially damaging book about the two casinos in Pahang, and how Malaysia is now a "darul kasino", it caused so much political damage in Pahang and elsewhere, that the Prime Minister. Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed, invited him for tea. But before that, an UMNO leader asked Mr Husam to apologise for what he did. He was denied his prime ministerial tea. The political fallout from that unwise decision to grant a casino to a Prime Ministerial crony, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, at the Bukit Tinggi resort boomeranged on the BN and Dr Mahathir when Tan Sri Vincent began his gambling operations, and advertised it worldwide. The licence had to be cancelled, causing this so-called international business man and a few UMNO cronies nearly RM800 million. It turns out that the Pahang state government and a minister in the Prime Minister's Department also benefitted. As if this is not bad enough, the official Malaysian Airline System sponsors horseracing in Australia.
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