Despite unsolicited promotion and compliment from Rocky Bru here , couldn't post the article on Pantai this week due to various engagement throughout the week. Will duly post it Monday. In the meanwhile, wish to make a comment on a political event.

On Aug 4, 2006 the Goverment of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) bought over 25 million shares in our biggest healthcare company, Pantai. That's more than 5 per cent. Parkway Holdings, a Singapore company, already has more than 31 per cent. That effectively gave them control and teh bourse rule requires a MGO. There was public uproar as Malaysian question the Government decision to approve the sales of a strategic asset to Singapore. Subsequently, Khazanah came to takeover Parkway's shares ..

Omar Ong is a now member of the Board of Director of Petronas. His name was proposed by the Prime Minister and the Board of Directors finally endorsed his appointment as an Independent Director and de facto representative of the Prime Minister. This is done within the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister as pointed out by Tengku Razaleigh. The Directors who disagree should have rightly resigned in protest. This blogger makes no bone about his suspicion and doubt of Omar Ong and have in the not ..

Dalam ucaptama Seminar PAS, Presiden Dato’ Haji Hadi Awang dilaporakan berkata tidak akan ada lagi sebarang rancangan atau usaha untuk bekerjasama dan bergabung membina kerajaan dengan UMNO. Kata Hadi, PAS akan memberikan tumpuan untuk memperkukuhkan Pakatan Rakyat bersama PKR dan DAP. Objektif PAS untuk pilihanraya umum ke 13 adalah untuk mengekalkan kerusi-kerusi yang telah dimenangi. Turut dinyatakan adalah komitmen PAS kepada perjuangan asal untuk membina kerajaan negara Islam akan kekal. ..

When Khalid was asked by reporters on his link with Lim Kim Hong written in this blog on June 9th, 2008 , the above was his response. This blog has been in pursuit of the Selangor Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim's past corruption trail since early 2007. The claim is that Khalid had a history of favour-for-cash arrangement with Lim Kim Hong. With Khalid currently under financial difficulty to repay the balance loan of RM66 million with Bank Islam, there is suspicion that he had done ..

A week before the Criminalise War conference, I expressed doubt that IJN will be privatised in a piece entitled " IJN: Is there really a takeover? " I was expressing a differing view with others who fear of a renewwed takeover of IJN. Subsequently, I wrote " IJN should be spared the "the second wave of privatisation " n response to the budget speech by PM. I had expressed forthrightly that any corporate manouvre to privatise IJN will involve the senior medical consultants. By saying that, I ..

Six detainees of Guantanamo Bay - Sami Al Hajj , Moazzam Begg , Rhuhel Ahmad , Jameelah Abbas Hameedi ; detained Iraqi citizen Salam Fanar Zabin and Abbas Zaid Obaid ; and an expert on environmenat, Dr. Souad Naji Al-Azzawi presented their case to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commision on Thursday. The public hearing was chaired by Zainur Zakaria, a famous Malaysian lawyer and members are Profesor Hans Von Sponeck (US), Dennis Halliday (Irealand), Musa Ismail (Malaysia), Profesor Gurdial Nijar ..

I, SALAM FANAR ZABIN (Iraqi Passport No. G2399607) of full age and a citizen of Iraq do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 24 years old. 2. I now live in Damascus, Syria. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record my torture in the Baghdad Airport prison (for 7 days) and Saladdin (for 3 days) and in Abu Ghraib prison (for 6 months). 4. I was 17 years old when I was detained on 19 October 2003 in my home at the Al Jehad area near the Baghdad Airport at ..

I, Dr SOUAD NAJI AL-AZZAWI (Iraqi Passport No. G1630368) of full age and a citizen of Iraq do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 57 years old. I am an Associate Professor in environmental engineering. I am a consultant for scientific affairs to private universities in Iraq and Syria. 2. I currently live in Mosul, Iraq and Aleppo, Syria. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record that the intentional use depleted uranium and other banned weapons till ..

I, RHUHEL AHMED (British Passport No. 105601983) of full age and a citizen of United Kingdom do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 27 years old. 2. I live in Sandwell, England. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record my torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. 4. In October 2001 I and 3 of my friends Shafiq, Asif and Monir – all citizens of the United Kingdom went to Pakistan for Asif’s wedding and a holiday. We were there early about 3 weeks ..

I, ABBAS ZAID OBAID (Iraqi Passport No. G2077826) of full age and a citizen of Iraq do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 45 years old. 2. I now live in Iraq. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to highlight the destruction in Fallujah city in Iraq. 4. The American military operations started in Fallujah about four months after the entry of invading forces to Iraq, when they tried very hard to establish a foothold in the city but the people of Fallujah try to ..

I, SAMI EL-HAJ (Sudanese Passport No. C 0338271) of full age and a citizen of Sudan do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 40 years old. I am the head of Public Liberties and Human Rights Desk of Al Jazeera. 2. I live in Doha, Qatar. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record my unlawful detention in Pakistan, and subsequent torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. 4. On 15 December 2001 when I was a cameraman for Al Jazeera news network and was with ..

I, JAMEELAH ABBAS HAMEEDI ( Iraqi Passport No. G2582171) of full age and an citizen of Iraq do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 54 years old. I used to be Head Chief of the Cooperation Unions ( that manages the other government unions in Kirkuk) prior to the invasion in 2003. 2. I now live in Damascus, Syria. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record my torture in the Baghdad Airport prison and Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 after the invasion of Iraq. 4. ..

I, MOAZZAM BEGG (British Passport No. 464541423) of full age and a citizen of United Kingdom do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 1. I am 41 years old. I am a director of human rights organisation called the Cage Prisoners which advocates for people detained without charge or trial in the war on terror. 2. I live in Birmingham, England. 3. The purpose of making this declaration is to put on record my torture in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. 4. In mid 2001 I went to ..

"People must realise the horrors of war. What they (the Americans) do is inhumane”, said Tun Dr Mahathir during the press conference at the end of the conference session of the Criminalise War Conference & Exhibition at PWTC yesterday. The War Crimes Commission Hearings will begin today and end tomorrow. Dr Mahathir went further, "They champion liberty, freedom, human rights and democracy but in actual fact, they torture people who they detain without trial." He was refering to the US ..

After the keynote speech by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad , the first day of the conference was followed by three panel sessions. The first panel was entitled Flouting International law and the Failure of International Institutions. There were two star attractions on the panelist; namely Bitish MP George Galloway and US Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney . Another is former Indian diplomat, Mr Gajendra Singh. The second panel is on Economic Warfare with panelists - the reknown ..

Dr Mahathir delivered the keynote speech at this morning opening of the conference on the Criminalisation of War. In reply to sceptics to accepting war as a natural existence in human history, he asked why we cannot reject war? It is absurd that modern civilisation who rejects abuse of human rights, discrimination, public execution, etc. but accept the kiling of millions of individuals in war. Dr Mahathir went on to talk on the arms build up happenining around the world, development of weaponry ..

When the United States of America launched its “War on Terror” the world was divided – some feeling it was justified given the September 11 terror attacks on the US soil. Others were apprehensive and felt the chill of fear that the very force combatting terror will end up being the very terror itself. It has been eight years since the War on Terror was launched and the visible casualties were Afghanistan and Iraq, both invaded by the US and its allies. These invasions, especially on Iraq ..

IJN Holding and Tan Sri Nor Mohamad Yakcop has denied it. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has in so many words repeated the call that IJN should not be privatised. However, Najib's budget speech last Friday mentioned "the second wave of privatisation". The exerpt from his budget speech taken from his blog here is below: Implementation of Privatisation Initiatives 28. The Government will gradually reduce its involvement in economic activities, particularly in areas where it competes with the private ..