Can YOU spot the snow leopard about to kill a goat? Camouflaged big cat patiently waits to pounce on its prey in the Himalayas

The big cat was just metres from the long-horned goat, which was at ease unaware of the fate which awaited it. The endangered predator was pictured at Ladakh, the highest plateau in India. Photographer Nirali Mehta, 21, a student from Mumbai, said: 'It was a breathtaking moment for me. 

Dramatic moment former England striker James Beattie rushes to rescue two children from a tiny yacht that was stranded and in danger of being crushed by a ferry

Former England striker James Beattie (inset with wife Sarah) helped rescue two young children (pictured left and right) after the yacht they were sailing on collided with a chain ferry in Poole, Dorset, prompting fears it would sink. The former Everton and Southampton striker leapt over a security barrier to come to the family's aid and was joined by a crowd of onlookers who carried the crying children to safety. Once the youngsters were on dry land, Beattie and the crowd helped the mother off the yacht, which was then towed away from the ferry by a passing boat.

Tok Puan, Oldest Lady In Malaysia And Probably In The World Says She Owes Her Longevity To Eating Ulam Daily!!!

Have you ever imagine what it would be like outliving SIX husbands?? Well, no we are not talking about your 6th marriage while you are still in your 40s.

We are talking about a senior citizen in Kedah who claims to be 120 years old! That’s older than the oldest person in the world, Violet Brown, 117 years-old.

This great-grandma who goes by the name Tok Puan is from Kampung Bendahara, Kodiang. It is believed that she was born on April 12, 1896, however, due to technical issues with her birthdate on her IC, she can’t obtain the title of being the oldest in the world.

It appears that Tok Puan’s IC number that starts with ’96’ had gotten much the attention from the media back in 2012 since it would simply indicate that she was born in 1996 rather than 1896! What an error?! Oh well, nothing really changed for this ‘young’ lady as she still seems to be fairly healthy.

Tok Puan who is a mother of 4, has 19 grandchildren and 60 great grandchildren! Damn…Hari Raya would be a blast just for this one family as it would feel like the whole village is cramped up in one house.



Want to know what’s her secret to living a long life, almost effortlessly? Well, according to Tok Puan, she believes that eating raw vegetables (or better known as ulam) since young and of course, she has only relied on traditional medicine for minor illnesses over the years!

It also appears that she can still move around without any help and her eardrums are working just fine. She does claims that her eyesight is not as sharp as it used to be, though. Oh! And she sleeps more these days, cause she easily gets tired.

Who said coffee were bad? Tok Puan still makes her own coffee every day and she still cooks!

Her four children seem to be taking good care of her, as they take turns to accommodate her. Well, we wish you a long life, Tok Puan! Hope you will get to see another generation of offsprings.

Malaysian Lady Ridiculed Small Breasts And Small Penises Just To Show Off Her Huge Melons!!!

Breasts and penises are sensitive topics for both boys and girls because size really matters for them.

On 9th of April, a Malaysian lady who named Kiko had posted a rather offensive status on Facebook, where she was joking about girls who had small breasts have lesser benefits in the society and she said it doesn’t matter for the guys who have small penises as they can hide it in the pants! As a “proper” joke status, she had stated clearly that she was just joking. But do you really think it is funny?

What kind of thinking is that huh? Are you asking the boys who are having big penises to be naked and show them off to the public?

The original Facebook status posted by Kiko in Mandarin.

Netizens who saw the status were thinking she was ‘defending’ the small breasts’ women. However, she isn’t!! She is just trying to get attentions with her own big melons!!



I would say please let go the shirts and stop torturing them by squeezing all your breast fats in the middle just to show off your own big melons! 

As her status is overly offensive for girls who don’t have big boobs, as well as the boys! Netizens started to lash at her saying that girls with small breasts are still living fine with a good husband, and they have their lives going good with their family members. The netizens even commented on the post stating a girl who wants to live a good life should have practice a good connotation. Knowledge can change one’s life but great body figures without any mentality are just like a shell with nothing good inside.

Besides, there are netizens saying that natural big breasts are no longer an advantage for women. If you would wonder why netizens said so, it is because as long as you are rich or had enough money to do plastic surgeries, you can also be the attractive one! That’s why it could even be a ridiculous joke, as we aren’t even able to differentiate the fake or real boobs when girls are standing in a row!

After all the backfire on the breasts and penises, netizen found out something weird on her makeups. She is having a pair of big eyes which is bigger than her mouth. This showed how good she can be on doing NINJA job! 

Sometimes netizens are just too mean, to be frank, she didn’t post any photos that she wasn’t showing off her thick layers of makeup.

You should never underestimate the stalking skills of netizens! The furious netizens later found her old photos which did not have any makeup. They backfired on her photos saying that she is such a good NINJA without makeup, she is just a normal woman.

Hope this would be a good lesson for Kiko to learn not to offend others randomly on social media. 

Elderly Man Bullied By A Young Couple Over A Table At A Hawker Center In Singapore!!

A video posted on Facebook by The Local Society of an elderly man who was bullied and shoved at a hawker center went viral and was shared extensively since it was posted around midnight on Sunday.

The whole ordeal took place in Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Market & Food Center around 8.45 pm where the elderly man was holding a tray of food, asking the woman how many people were sitting at the table. The woman’s irritated reply was “can’t you see it’s reserved”, said Janice Lim, 50, an eyewitness at the scene.

Lim added that there was a small foldable umbrella on the table, which as filled with dishes and leftover food from previous patrons.

“The elderly man said he could not, and repeated a few times that he just needed one seat, but did not raise his voice,” said Lim. He also asked the young woman what she meant by “reserve”, as the hawker center was a pulic place.


The woman shouted at him “you don’t understand the word reservation?” and even called him a “bl**dy old man” and “f****** old man”. Lim also noticed that the woman was on the phone most probably to call for her companion to back her up.

Shortly after that, the young man came and shoved the old man from behind causing him to lose his balance, but he managed to stay on his feet by holding onto the table. “Why you disturb her”, the young man asked.

A man in black from the table beside the whole ordeal stood up and offered the elderly man the last seat on his table.

The young man was confronted by another patron later telling him he should not have pushed the elderly man. The young man then pushed the plates and bowls which were on the table onto the floor in anger, leaving a mess for the cleaners.



Tsk tsk, why do we have such uncivilized human beings among us? Didn’t your parents ever teach you about respect?

Rumor has it that the two young people worked at UOB. The bank posted Facebook post stating that the bank is looking into whether the two were members of the bank’s staff at the Toa Payoh branch.

Have a look at the video and tell us what you think!

I really do hope they lose their job as they bring bad company image if the company plans to keep them.

Asri apologises to Hindus over ‘cow worship’ poem

It takes a great man to apologies for his mistakes and it takes greater men to accept his apology and move on in life

He reiterates his prior explanation that the poem was intended for the Indian government run by Narendra Modi

KUALA LUMPUR: Perlis Mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has apologised to the local Hindu community over a controversial “cow worship” poem posted on his Facebook page.

“To non-Muslims who are not involved in this issue, particularly to Hindus who may have misunderstood the meaning of my poem, I sincerely apologise. I never meant to refer to Hindus who are not involved in this issue,” he said.

Mohd Asri said previously that his poem on “cow worshippers” actually referred to recent events in India and not was intended as an insult to local Hindus.

Mohd Asri, popularly known as Dr Maza, reiterated his prior explanation that the poem was intended for the Indian government run by Narendra Modi.

In a Facebook posting on Saturday, Mohd Asri said the poem referred to an incident in western India earlier this month where a Muslim was killed by “cow protection vigilantes” after being suspected of eating beef.

The poem, which has since been removed, was believed to be in response to the criticism of controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik, who is wanted in India for allegedly inspiring terrorist activities through his preaching.

Mohd Asri said there are a number of parties, including Muslims, who had told him that they disagree with Zakir’s approach, adding that he too had given differing views.

“I have explained to him myself the situation in Malaysia. He has different views at this point. That is his right. However, that should not be the reason he is accused of being a terrorist and sent back to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led India,” he said.

Mohd Asri added that he held polite discussions with non-Muslim friends, who said they felt that the poem could be misunderstood, particularly when the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) is involved.

He also said that the word used in the poem is “mempertuhankan” (to deify) and not “menyembah” (worship), as was altered by certain parties.

“In Malay, among the meaning of ‘mempertuhankan’ is to excessively glorify. For example, when someone says “dia mempertuhankan nafsu” (he deifies lust), it means someone excessively prioritises lust over everything else. That is the situation in India to the point that there are those who would torture or kill fellow human beings because of cows,” he said.

“To me, Hindraf is an extremist organisation that creates tension between Hindus and Muslims in the country through their actions, even from before. Society should stay away from their provocative actions,” he added, The Star reported.

Mohd Asri advised non-Muslims who protest against Zakir not to follow Hindraf, but instead to look for proof in his speeches that shows that he encourages terrorism.

“If there is clear proof, I am prepared to argue against that,” he said, adding that he will arrange a dialogue with non-Muslims soon.

Mohd Asri said he is committed to upholding justice among people regardless of racial or religious borders as it is one of the highest principles in Islam.

His poem, which was written in Malay and posted on his Facebook page on Friday, drew negative reactions from the public.

On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi confirmed that Zakir had been granted permanent resident status in Malaysia five years ago.

Zakir’s Islamic Research Foundation has been declared an unlawful organisation by the Indian government.

On Saturday, Hindu non-governmental organisations and activists lodged police reports against Mohd Asri over the poem.

Some ancient facts about Iraq which are true

*DID YOU KNOW THAT?*

*1.* The garden of Eden was in Iraq.

*2.* Mesopotamia which is now Iraq was the cradle of civilization!

*3.* Noah built the Ark in Iraq.

*4.* The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.

*5.* Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!

*6.* Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor which is in Iraq.

*7.* Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.

*8.* Jonah preached in Nineveh, which is in Iraq.

*9.* Assyria which is in Iraq conquered the ten tribes of Israel.

*10.* Amos cried out in Iraq!

*11.* Babylon which is in Iraq destroyed Jerusalem.

*12.* Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq!

*13.* The 3 Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq.

*14.* Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq.

*15.* Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.

*16.* Ezekiel preached in Iraq.

*17.* The wise men were from Iraq.

*18.* Peter preached in Iraq.

*19.* The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon which was a city in Iraq!

*AND, DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT?*

Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq! 
However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible. The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The name Iraq, means country with deep roots. Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible. Here's why:

👉Eden was in Iraq-Genesis 2:10-14
👉Adam & Eve were created in Iraq-Genesis 2:7-8
👉Satan made his first recorded appearance in Iraq-Genesis 3:1-6
👉Nimrod established Babylon & Tower of Babel was built in Iraq-Genesis 10:8-97; 11:1-4
👉The confusion of the languages took place in Iraq-Genesis 11:5-11
👉Abraham came from a city in Iraq-Genesis 11:31; Acts 7:2-4
👉Isaac's bride came from Iraq-Genesis 24:3-4; 10
👉Jacob spent 20 years in Iraq-Genesis 27:42-45; 31:38
👉The first world Empire was in Iraq-Daniel 1:1-2;2:36-38
👉The greatest revival in history was in a city in Iraq-Jonah 3
👉The events of the book of Esther took place in Iraq-Esther
👉The book of Nahum was a prophecy against a city in Iraq-Nahum
👉The book or Revelation has prophecies against Babylon, which was the old name for the nation of Iraq-Revelation 17 &18

No other nation, except Israel, that has more history and prophecy associated to it than Iraq.

Surprised??? 
*HAVE YOU LEARNT SOMETHING???* 
Thank The Bible Researchers!!!
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Cut visa processing time, Canada told

Malaysia says visa application submitted to the Canadian visa office in Singapore, took an average between 10 and 14 days


PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has urged Canada to find solutions in shortening the visa processing time for its citizens, says Foreign Minister Anifah Aman.

Anifah, who raised the matter with visiting  Canada National Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan in their bilateral talks here today, said currently the visa application submitted to the Canadian visa office in Singapore, took an average between 10 and 14 days.

“Sometimes, businessmen cannot wait that long. So, I have urged them to find a solution to shorten the waiting period, while we do understand Canada’s laws and policies,” he told reporters after receiving  the Canadian minister at Wisma Putra here today.

Musa and Harjit Singh discussed the progress of the ongoing bilateral cooperation between Malaysia and Canada.

Effective April 30, 2012, the Visa and Immigration Sections at the Canadian Embassy in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) have been closed to the public.

Anifah said other topics discussed at the meeting included cooperation in the fight against terrorism and radicalism, and exchanging information on recent happenings involving the Daesh group of militants and the return of foreign fighters.

“We have very good and productive discussions. Both Malaysia and Canada are very happy as this year marks the 60th anniversary of Malaysia-Canada diplomatic relations.

“Ties between the two countries remain friendly and cordial with key cooperation in areas of trade, investment, defence and security cooperation. Both of us want to see more visits between leaders from Malaysia and Canada,” he added.

On trade, Anifah said Malaysia had a huge investment at British Columbia in Canada while Canada’s investment in Malaysia exceeded RM15 billion, and welcomed more Canadian trade missions to explore and seek the wealth of investment opportunities in Malaysia.

Touching on education, the foreign minister said it continued to be an integral part of Malaysia-Canada bilateral relations, and there were currently more than 300 Malaysian students pursuing higher education in Canada.

“We also touched on the Korean Peninsula, South China Sea,  Middle East issues related to chemical weapons, and Syrian issues,” he said.

On behalf of the Malaysian government, Anifah also extended an invitiation to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his counterpart, Chrystia Freeland to visit Malaysia.

According to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry statement, it would be the first official visit to Malaysia undertaken by the country’s defence minister since the establishment of bilateral ties between Malaysia and Canada in 1957.

Harjit Singh is in Malaysia for a three-day visit in conjunction with the port call of two Royal Canadian Navy frigates in Port Klang, Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships Ottawa and Winnipeg.

Malaysian Money-Minded Lady Said RM 65,000 Is A Basic Monthly Salary For Men To Get Married!!

Ugly duckling demanding Husband with salary of RM 65,000 a month

Every Malaysian know the current economic situation in Malaysia is getting worse day by day. A fresh graduate in Malaysia can barely earn a total amount of RM 2500 per month, in order to plan forward for our future, we need to come out with a good financial planning.

Recently, a Malaysian lady who named Kelly had posted a shocking daily expenses list on Facebook. She even set an impossible monthly salary standard for Malaysian men to get married!


Let’s check out how Kelly estimated the daily expenses. You will definitely be scratching your head and ask how on earth did she get her Mathematics subject passed or did she even pass, in the first place?

To be frank, you would need RM 65,000 per month to survive in Malaysia if you would like to get married and have a family of three. 

Basic Daily Expenses For Family Of Three:

Insurance for 3 persons: RM 6700
Car Installment: RM 6500
Car Petrol: RM 2300
Rental: RM 1900 (rural area)
Water & Electrical Bill: RM 1200
Food Expenses for 3 persons: RM 2700
Mobile Fees: RM 600 (U-Mobile)
Allowance for parents: RM 400
Daily Supplies Expenses: RM 7000 = 4590

Balance with RM 440 can be save for educational fees, or annual expenses such as roadtax and Chinese New Year.

If a guy couldn’t earn a total amount of RM 885000, how to get married?

Now, here comes the questions! If she is calculating all the expenses for a family of 3, isn’t she overestimating for almost all the aspects?

function is more than enough for a family of three, and the monthly instalment for Perodua Bezza don’t even need more than RM 800! I would wonder whether she is referring a Lamborghini as the car that she wants her partner to purchase? Then it probably makes sense to have a total amount of RM 2300 per month for petrol fees. How to get a rental of RM 1900 in the rural area if all she needs is just a home?

The most unacceptable part is, she is only estimating a total amount of RM 400 as the monthly allowances for her parents, and it has to be shared with her partner. Girl, you are now requesting your partner to have such a high-pay salary but you wouldn’t want to give more for your parents who brought you up without any complaints of your attitude! This is really ridiculous!

Netizens who were angered by her status, posted her photo under the comment section with an indirect offensive comment, saying that “do you think you worth the amount of money?” Hmm… good question for us to ponder!

There are netizens commented that RM 65,000 could be an annual household income but not a monthly income for guys. Some rational netizens straightaway requested Kelly to recommend a job that can offer such high-pay, some netizens commented that even working as a prostitute doesn’t seem to be able to get such a high-pay monthly salary too.

There’s an impressive comment stated that: “if a prostitute is getting 15 customers per day, each customer pay for RM 150, she can definitely earn that much per month if she is determined to work straight 30 days without any leaves. She seems like serious to work it out huh!”
We can’t deny that Malaysian netizens are creative! They commented that if her partner is able to earn that much for a month, why does she want to rent a house instead of buying a house? The funniest part is she edited her status after she read all the backfired comments!

Now she changed some of the expenses amounts!

To be frank, you would need RM 65,000 per month to survive in Malaysia if you would like to get married and have a family of three. 

Basic Daily Expenses For Family Of Three:

Insurance for 3 persons: RM 670
Car Instalment: RM 650
Car Petrol: RM 230
Rental: RM 190 (rural area)
Water & Electrical Bill: RM 1200
Food Expenses for 3 persons: RM 2700
Mobile Fees: RM 600 (U-Mobile)
Allowance for parents: RM 2300
Daily Supplies Expenses: RM 7000

If a guy couldn’t earn a total amount of RM 88500, how to get marry with a Vietnamese lady?

She edited the insurance, car instalment, car petrol and rental by deleting the ‘zero (0)’ behind the amount. However, she raised the allowances for her parents to RM 2300! Such a filial girl huh!
But then she still insisted a man should earn at least RM 65,000 per month if they would like to get married, and the bride is not from local but from Vietnam? Seriously I can’t brain her logic, can anyone else who is reading this explain to me?

Do not Text and Drive

Watch Video of drivers who text and drive now are regretting doing it because they are crippled due to accidents. What to do when it have already happened due to the stupidly of texting while driving. The below Video can help to prevent future accidents by having a public awareness campaign that “Texting while driving Kills people”

The Great Indian Vegetable scam in India

Hope it is not happening over here also as seen the fruits and vegetables very glossy at the wet markets and on reaching home, cut the fruit in half and it is rotten.

Watch Video on the Vegetable scam in India

Malaysia is the Only country in the World with the month of April having 32 days

Malaysia is the only country in the World with the month of April having 32 days and if do not belief it see the below official Malaysian immigration stamp on a Foreign visitors international Passport on Entry to Malaysia.

It says volume of the quality of Malaysian Education System

Dutch Orchestra Walks Out when Music conductor lectures the Queeen

Bet you didn't see this on your local news.

Dutch Orchestra Walks Out

When the most liberal country in Europe pulls the plug on Islam, the world is beginning to see the light.

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands attended a concert in the capital, Amsterdam. 

The Conductor, who just happens to be Muslim, proceeds to talk about his Islamic faith. 

The entire orchestra got up and walked out, refusing to be associated with someone lecturing their queen. 

Staff of the music hall escorted the conductor off-stage and after questioning, out of the building.

Now that took courage. Good for the people of Holland.


Watch the walk out. Bet you didn't see this on your local news.

Public Service announcement –Video of Organ Traffickers killing innocent girl for her organs

Your humanitarian duty requires you to spread this video as widely as possible, it may contribute to the arrest of these perpetrators and the preservation of innocent lives!

Some counterfeit agencies from China, Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia have offices in several countries in Africa, Asia and others, such as Nigeria, Ghana and a number of other countries, and coordinate with networks around the world including Dubai and Egypt Libya and Lebanon, and may also be present in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

These companies provide young people, especially young women, jobs in various jobs (domestic work, nursery, guard and others). They also prepare travel documents, airline tickets and all travel arrangements. But when they arrive, the life of the poor young man or woman turns into hell and the end of their lives at the hands of an international gang that brutally kills them to get and sell their internal organs.

The video was secretly recorded by someone and the video says it all ..

The life you might save by posting a video may be close to you.

 Spread the video Please take together the largest number of poor third world. Damn human traffickers and traders of human organs.

Note the method of striking and killing these poor people wish to die brain with the survival of its members intact until it is trader

He Was Searching For Intersexual Pigs And Ended Up Finding The World’s Rarest Dog

The unlikely story of how Mac McIntyre found the “extinct” New Guinea highland wild dog, after 20 years of searching.
By Dominique Mosbergen


NEW GUINEA HIGHLAND WILD DOG FOUNDATION

A wild dog photographed in the highlands of New Guinea in September 2016. The animal had long been thought extinct.


Twenty years after beginning his quest to find what’s been called the world’s rarest canine species, James “Mac” McIntyre was vindicated. There on his camera screen were the images he’d been waiting years for. The New Guinea highland wild dog — an animal once feared extinct — was alive and well, his pictures showed.

“I squealed like a girl,” the 62-year-old said earlier this month, speaking from his Florida home. “It was emotionally such a tremendous moment. It was justification for all the work I’ve done.”

How McIntyre ended up finding the New Guinea highland wild dog, an animal whose existence had not been verified in almost 30 years, is a story as complex as McIntyre’s own. Trained as a zoologist, McIntyre has worked as a veterinary technician on a cattle ranch, zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo, high school biology teacher, logger and carpenter. But throughout his varied careers, scientific research and exploration have remained personal passions.

“On evenings and weekends, and summers too when I was a teacher, I’d conduct independent field research, on my own and on my own dime,” McIntyre said.

It was this spirit of enquiry that first led him to the South Pacific. But in the beginning, it wasn’t rare wild dogs that lured him there. It was pigs ― specifically intersexual ones.

JAMES MCINTYRE
Intersexual pigs in Vanuatu. ‘Pig half-man half-woman’

Vanuatu, an archipelago west of Fiji, has the unique distinction of being home to what’s believed to be more intersexual pigs — animals with physical characteristics neither entirely male nor female — than any other nation in the world. McIntyre, who first heard of the pigs in a passing reference in a travel magazine, was so intrigued by the creatures that in 1993, he packed his bags, emptied his bank account to pay for a plane ticket and found himself halfway around the world searching the South Pacific island for swine known locally as “pig half-man half-woman.”

At the time, very little was known of the animals or even where they could be found. “I took a chance,” McIntyre said in a 1997 article about his search for the Vanuatu pigs. “People told me I was crazy, but I knew I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try.”

It ended up taking McIntyre six weeks of island hopping and questioning strangers in the street before he found his first intersexual pig — a discovery that would spark years of research into the animal.

GOOGLE MAPS
Vanuatu, marked with a red pin on this map, is located southeast of New Guinea. The island of New Guinea — the world’s largest after Greenland — is divided between two countries: Indonesia to the west and Papua New Guinea to the east.



In 1996, McIntyre returned to Vanuatu, only this time, he had another trip planned after his pig research was complete. At the suggestion of his mentor, ecologist I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., he decided to take a detour to the island of New Guinea before returning home to the United States. Brisbin, a canine expert, had suggested McIntyre search for the near-legendary wild dog of New Guinea, an animal that like Vanuatu’s pigs had long been shrouded in mystery.

Almost all that was known of the dog was from its domesticated descendant ― the New Guinea singing dog ― which exists only in captivity. 

Between the 1950s and 1970s, eight wild dogs had been captured in the New Guinea highlands and brought to Australia, North America and Europe, where they were bred as pets. Today, there are some 200 to 300 descendants worldwide of these “eight founder animals,” McIntyre said. Named for their unique and melodious howl, the singing dogs are domesticated animals who live mostly in private homes, though some are kept in zoos and other institutions. 


New Guinea singing dogs have been described as the world’s “most primitive” domesticated dog. Their forebears are thought to be closely related to the dingo, a wild canine in Australia, and may have been brought to New Guinea by humans about 6,000 years ago.

Another theory is that the dogs traveled over a land bridge between the two countries, which was flooded around the same time in history. “When the waters rose, it separated the dogs into two populations. Some went to adapt and evolve in the mountains of New Guinea while the dingos evolved to live in Australia,” McIntyre said.

The wild dog is believed to have been the only canine living in the New Guinea highlands, which meant the animal did not interbreed with other species. They’ve been called “living fossils” as a result — possibly a key evolutionary link between modern domesticated dogs and their wild canine ancestors. “It’s like they were frozen in time,” McIntyre said.

He added that the “wildness” of the New Guinea singing dog is what sets it apart from other domesticated dogs. “They are as ‘undog-like’ as you could imagine,” he said. “They’re somewhere between a cat and a monkey in terms of their dexterity. They are comparable to a family dog as far as affection goes and can be trained, even to be service animals, but they still haven’t lost that wild streak. There are just some things that can’t be domesticated out of them — and that’s actually what a lot of people love about them.”

But with so many offspring from just eight original animals, the singing dogs that are in captivity today are “highly inbred,” McIntyre said. Among dog enthusiasts and singing dog owners, there’s thus been a desire to find ways to increase their genetic diversity while maintaining their purebred line. That’s prompted some interest in finding more of their wild counterparts in New Guinea — but for decades, the animal has remained elusive.

NEW GUINEA HIGHLAND WILD DOG FOUNDATION
Tom Hewitt (left), director of travel company Adventure Alternative Borneo, captured a photograph of what was believed to be a New Guinea wild dog in 2012. The photo was too blurry to be conclusive, however. James “Mac” McIntyre (right) ultimately captured more than 100 photos of the animal in the wild in 2016. 

Twenty years, two photos 


In 1989, Australian mammalogist and paleontologist Tim Flannery took a single photograph of a wild New Guinea singing dog in the Star Mountains of western Papua New Guinea. It’s believed to be the first photo ever taken of the animal in the wild ― and would represent the last time the animal was conclusively spotted for almost 30 years. 

Expeditions in the 1990s searching for the dog came up mostly empty. At least one — the 1996 trip taken by McIntyre — suggested the animal did still roam the highlands. McIntyre said he found feces that may have been left by the animal and local villagers told him they’d seen glimpses of the dog, though rarely. McIntyre, however, wasn’t able to conclusively confirm the dog’s existence and didn’t catch sight of the animal himself. 

Sixteen years later, in 2012, Tom Hewitt, director of Adventure Alternative Borneo, captured a single photograph of what appeared to be a wild dog in Indonesia’s Papua province, which encompasses the western half of New Guinea. It was a faraway shot and blurry, however, and ultimately also not considered solid evidence.

Every dog has its day

Finally, on a rainy day last September, while climbing a mountain in Papua province in New Guinea, MacIntyre found himself staring — with mounting glee — at an unmistakable paw print in the mud.

“In the end, I didn’t find the New Guinea highland wild dog,” McIntyre said. “They found me.”

Two decades after his first attempt to find the wild canine, McIntyre — who for years had unsuccessfully tried to raise funding to make a return visit — had finally made it back to the South Pacific island for a second search attempt. 

When he arrived on the island, again traveling on his own dime, he unexpectedly met some researchers from the University of Papua who were also keen to search for the island’s enigmatic wild dog. Together, they traveled into the remote highlands in search of the creature.

But the conditions, said McIntyre, weren’t in their favor. It rained incessantly for weeks and “was miserable,” he said. “We went many, many, many days without seeing any signs of the dog.”

But near the end of his planned monthlong stay in Papua, McIntyre and his team caught a break.

While climbing one day in a terraced valley lined with “beautiful zebra rocks,” McIntyre played the sounds of coyote howls through a speaker in an attempt to attract the dogs. He and his team saw nothing on the ascent, but as they climbed down, McIntyre spotted something in the mud. Right next to the footprints they’d recently left were fresher prints: a dog’s prints.

“The animals had heard my audio calls and had come behind us to investigate,” McIntyre said. “This was the moment ― the first verification that there were dogs recently in these mountains.”

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The muddy paw print that marked the turning point in McIntyre’s fortunes.
Over the next few days, McIntyre deployed 12 camera traps in five different spots in the area. “It was the eleventh hour,” he said. “It was getting toward the end of my trip. I figured, if there are dogs up here, this was the time for me to find them.”

Finally, on the day before he was scheduled to leave, McIntyre went out to collect the cameras. Two were duds, but the other 10 ― he’d hit the mother lode.

“They were full of pictures,” McIntyre said. “We got ‘em.”

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Puppies captured on camera.

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A pregnant female caught wandering around at night.

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Dogs exploring.
In all, the cameras captured more than 140 photographs of at least 15 wild dogs, including males, pregnant females and puppies. The images not only confirm the existence of the wild dogs on New Guinea, said McIntyre, but they also suggest a healthy and robust population.

“The discovery and confirmation of the [highland wild dog] for the first time in over half a century is not only exciting but an incredible opportunity for science,” the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation said on its website, celebrating the finding. The organization was established by McIntyre and a team of other scientists last year to promote further research into the animal.

“There is nothing known about the natural history of these dogs in the wild,” McIntyre said. “Everything we know is from the captive population and while that’s good for comparison, you can’t project that to dogs in the wild.”

The photos offer some insights into the dogs’ behavior in the wild and their social hierarchies, he said. But more research needs to be done to fully understand these creatures. For one, DNA testing of fecal samples taken from the camera trap sites are still being analyzed to determine the possible genetic link between the wild dogs and the captive New Guinea singing dogs. In the meantime, McIntyre and his team have referred to the wild animals seen in the photographs as New Guinea highland wild dogs to differentiate them from the captive population.

“If these dogs are the same, we absolutely need to get the wild population genetics to the captive population,” McIntyre said.

He added that further study of the dogs and their history could reveal much about the evolution of the South Pacific region. 


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McIntyre pictured here exploring the very remote mountain landscape where New Guinea wild dogs are found. 

With confirmation of the dog’s existence, McIntyre said interest and funding for research into the animal has suddenly burgeoned. He’s planning a trip back to New Guinea soon in the hopes of collecting more data ― and seeing the dog himself with his own eyes. 

“For a scientist to stumble upon something like this, it’s the kind of thing you dream about,” McIntyre said. “It’s very exciting.” 

As for the intersexual pigs who started this whole journey, McIntyre said he still hasn’t given up on them. 

He’s currently seeking backing from academic institutions to allow him to return to Vanuatu to continue his research. In the country’s northern islands, selective inbreeding has resulted in an unusually large incidence of pigs that are genetically male but that have external genitalia that are predominantly female ― a very rare condition known as male pseudohermaphroditism. 

These animals, said McIntyre, could hold the secret to preventing boar taint, the unpleasant odor and taste of pork that comes from uncastrated male pigs. Most male pigs reared for pork are castrated at a young age because of boar taint. McIntyre said finding a “vaccination” for the phenomenon could revolutionize the pork industry ― and he believes the answer might lie in the genetics of Vanuatu’s hermaphrodite pigs that are male but don’t have boar taint due to a defect in their testosterone pathway.

“At the age of 62, I believe good things are starting to coming to me now,” he said earlier this month. “It seems the hard work and perseverance are going to pay off.” 

AN OBITUARY OF SORT. of the BN led government in Malaysia - The last of a legacy.

Forgive me if it offended anybody who reads this article below but take time to read and evaluate yourself these journey where all of us live through. AN OBITUARY OF SORT.



RM250,000 a month income at a GLC ! ! Explosive ! !

By our Editorial Consultant.


(The following article was sent to me by our Editorial Consultant. As you read it you will see that the writer is extremely well informed and perceptive. The writer's views are well put and capture the reality of our situation accurately.)


The two recessions in 1986 and 1997/98 were caused by different factors.   


The earlier one in 1986 was caused by the collapse of commodities prices all at the same time.  This is the curse of commodities.  lt came so suddenly, resulting in an economic crisis.  


The 1997/98 recession was caused by a financial crisis.  This was as a result of mainly private sector borrowing heavily in US dollars. When the speculators attacked the local currencies, almost all companies went under. And when the government tried to defend the Ringgit, the money was lost, which put greater pressure on the currencies as speculators continued to attack. In the case of Thailand, it almost lost all its reserves.  


So both recessions were from different causes.

In the first recession in 1986/87, the government was aware of the problems faced by rakyat because of the collapse of commodities. The government took care of rubber tappers, small holders and those working in the palm oil plantations.  The government took care of the petty traders as well. 


But more importantly it showed that the government was serious about helping those facing problems.  The Cabinet took a pay cut and agreed that the allowances of the ministers also were cut.  


This was to show the rakyat that ministers too were willing to sacrifice as rakyat was facing a difficult time. The rakyat appreciated this gesture and felt the government was serious in trying to solve the economic crisis. And it was this trust the people had in government that made it smooth for the government to implement its recovery plan.  


The government cut development expenditure to match revenue and made it clear, henceforth we will live within our means.  That  was an opportunity for the government to restructure our economy.  The civil service was bloated and revenue was used mainly to pay the salary.  The government froze new recruitment and in future, new government employees will not get pension.  


Instead, a pension fund would be established.  To reduce the number of civil servants, privatization was speeded up and they became employees of the privatized company. The government saved on salaries and after privatisation the government was no longer responsible for both their opex and capex.  All these saved the government a lot of money.  

The government decided the country must not rely entirely on commodities and must shift to manufacturing. The laws were amended or relaxed to welcome foreign investments.  The policy was so successful that we had millions of foreign workers who came to work here.  


The government then attended to the financial sector and cleaned up the banks, insurance companies and deposit taking co-operatives.  The government’s initiative to restore the economy was so successful that growth was high and the people’s income also increased.  

ln 1997/98, the issues were completely different.  But fortunately for us there was no recession in the rest of the world. Our exports were doing well and brought in a lot of money to the country.  lt was the private sector that was facing problems and our banks had to be saved.  


The government formed Danamodal and Danaharta to save the banks and another agency was established to handle companies facing trouble.  Once the government introduced capital controls which was condemned by almost the whole world, the ringgit was fixed against the USD and this created certainty for business people.  


So the government's success in handling both recessions was because people trusted the government and were confident that the government knew how to handle and solve the crisis. The people proved their trust by giving 2/3 majorities in both the elections during the crisis.  

Now in 2016 what is the present government doing?  Nothing.  


Rakyat don’t see any attempt to try to help their hardships.  The government minister made a false statement that  GST will reduce prices of goods.  

The government is not honest with the rakyat. The ministers job is to spin everything which makes them all sound like idiots.  The 1MDB scandal was created by the leadership. It is not helping the government at all and it has created a huge trust deficit against the government.  Even Husni Hanadzlah lied when he said that the billions of Ringgit were kept in the form of units. Only after he resigned from government Husni acknowledged that he suffered very high blood pressure because of the 1MDB scandal which the ministers were tasked to cover up.


The government keeps saying we have growth and it is better than most countries. In actual fact the per capita GDP of Malaysians has been shrinking over the past three years. 


What growth is the government talking about?  What good is growth if the rakyat does not benefit?  ln fact, this government is (like Pak Lah’s government was) obsessed with growth.  As both Najib and Pak Lah have no clue about finance and economy, they both relied on Nor Mohd Yakop who was happy to deliver growth to his bosses but at what cost and at whose expense?  


Now we know when Pak Lah retired, our national debt grew to RM250billion.  Now the national debt is RM800billion (and maybe more, for example the government has taken out housing loans of RM200 billion to hide the real debt levels from the rakyat). This is how the government has generated the so called "growth'. By borrowing money heavily and pumping it into wild horse projects in the economy.   

Prepaid bloggers who do not understand economics compared our national debt to other countries and say ours is low compared to others.  This is a false comparison.  


Granted that Japan’s national debt is very high but the Japanese are a very rich people. Japanese per capita GDP is RM156,000.  Japan is the 4th largest economy in the world.   Yes their national debt is huge but so is their economy. The same with America.  Americans are a rich people.  We are a poor nation and 1MDB has made our position worse.  Dont be so ridiculous to compare our economy with Japan or USA.

During the 1986 recession, the government froze civil servants’ pay as everyone must sacrifice. You cannot ask the rakyat to sacrifice and yet civil servants are treated differently.  


Under Najib, the civil servants are given bonuses when the rest of the rakyat are suffering due to high costs of living.  In fact, under Pak Lah and on the advice of Nor Mohd Yakop, more and more agencies were created and with overlapping functions.  


Nor Mohd Yakop was very politically ambitious and was using these agencies under him to build his political base using public funds. As Pak Lah was sleeping, he was not aware of what was happening.  


Luckily, his own bahagian in UMNO rejected Nor Mohd Yakop.  Otherwise, he would continue as MOF II and only Allah knows what further damage he would have caused to the country.  


Don’t forget that at Bank Negara, he made Bank Negara insolvent.  We are lucky he is out of the Cabinet but he is causing damage at Khazanah.  And don’t forget he was also adviser to 1MDB and see what has happened to 1MDB?  Many people don’t know that he arranged for Goldman Sachs to raise the bonds on those terms. Those who know, understand the monkey business involved  in that bond deal.  (Cheah in Singapore (ex Public Bank) would also know.) 

Our household debt is also among the highest in the world.  Just to show growth, we kept borrowing,  because MOF wants and believes growth is good for his image.  


Rakyat is more concerned about bread and butter issues and can’t be bothered about growth.  They are angry that prices of everything have gone up and now they pay GST too.  


lf growth is a criteria of a country’s success, then Angola and Equatorial Guinea where growth used to be 30% to 40% per year would be a success story yet people there are poor.  


Growth does not reflect the true state of a country’s economy these days, other factors have to be taken into consideration.  If people are suffering and not happy and their quality of life is poor and can’t afford to pay for their daily needs, what good is the government’s figures on growth?  


The government now claims we have escaped the middle income trap.  This is a nonsensical statement. When the US Dollar was around RM3.50, ldris Jala said if we are not careful we will go the way of Greece. The country can become bankrupt he once said. Now after the Ringgit has "collapsed", ie the US Dollar is at RM4.12 they announce that we have escaped the "middle income trap".  This is another example of  a very poor spin job. Even Idris Jala's Dayak community will not be impressed with this type of spin anymore. 


Most likely Idris Jala is comparing salaries of top management in Khazanah. It is time the rakyat is told how much top management in Khazanah is earning. Khazanah belongs to the rakyat so please do not hide behind any OSA bullshit.  


According to well informed "rumours" a few people in Khazanah earn RM250k a month ! ! !


Many others earn RM100k a month. 


Even a "retired professor" at Khazanah earns  RM70k a month (and this does not include another RM20k he earns at another agency).  


No wonder the rakyat are angry as the privileged few are getting huge salaries whilst the rakyat do not even have money for daily living.   


When they hear of 1MDB and the huge sums that have disappeared, they cannot believe what this government is up to.  

PM and MOF are asking for suggestions for budget.  He is NOT being serious. This is just to pull the wool over the people's eyes. 


Normally Budget dialogues are held in June, to show that the MOF is serious to hear budget suggestions. 


But now he is asking for suggestions in September while the budget is in October.  He can’t be serious.  


What is the best suggestion for this year's Budget? The best suggestion for the Budget is to ask the MOF and PM to resign.  


Tell him that growth that is generated from borrowing money is like a Malay kampung where neighbors are jealous of a big and grand house whose occupants are living very well at a time when the whole neighborhood cannot even make ends meet. Then one day a chettiar came to foreclose the grand house and chase the rich people out.  The rich people were living high using borrowed money. lf we are not careful, our borrowings will lead us exactly to that same end.  It is best to live within our means. 

Zahid said Tun Mahathir was very lucky because during his time  prices of commodities went up.  Zahid should check his facts.  (Before that Zahid may wish to check a dictionary for the meaning of "fact".) 


Zahid also said he was a leader during demonstrations. However when this statement was challenged, he cannot remember or tell us he was a leader in which particular demonstration.  


He said he was a banker.  Yes, he was appointed as  chairman of Bank Simpanan Nasional (aka the Post Office bank) which is not a commercial bank. 


He used his position to issue credit cards to UMNO members who were mainly his supporters and they all spent to the maximum and ne*er paid and when he left the bank, the bank had to deal with non-p**ments of the debt.  

When the rakyat is suffering, the government allows Khazanah to spend RM650 million on a park.  lt shows how insensitive the government is towards the rakyat’s suffering during this economic slowdown.  


Yet the government refuses to gazette Bukit Kiara as a park although the Cabinet agreed to it a long time ago. Instead the government is planning to allow high rise condominiums around the area.  


So does this sound like a government that listens to people and upholds "janji ditepati"?

And this is the wrong time to not only introduce Minimum Wages but to increase Minimum Wages from RM900 to RM1000. Minimum wage certainly causes hardship to businesses and employers during economic slowdowns. As a result  employers and businesses will be forced to lay off workers and / or do not hire new workers. Khazanah themelves have acknowledged that unemployment among the young is very high.  


*My comments : * They do not care.  The Americans have classified MO1 as a kleptocrat. Need I say more?  That would be shame enough to warrant seppuku in Japan. But this is not Japan. This is not even a democracy.  This is a kleptocracy.


Posted by Syed Akbar Ali