Who were the real villians CPM or MCA-UMNO

UMNO, MCA used the communist threat (or used Chin Peng and CPM) to gain Independence from the British. They were collaborating with CPM all the while playing the good and bad cop routine and CPM was supposed to be disbanded and become a political party as the secret agreement between UMNO, MCA and CPM but UMNO and MCA choose to backtrack and renegade on their agreement in 1955 Baling talks and CPM had no choice but continue the war and punish the real traitors. The British were bling to this secret agreement and MCA had the backing of the CPC and Mao. MCA was the true CPM and CPM was a MCA/UMNO side show .

Perkasa: MCA’s tie with CPC poses serious threats to M’sia

Ibrahim Ali questions the collaboration between the BN component party and the Communist Party of China

UPDATED

KUALA LUMPUR: Malay NGO Perkasa today strongly condemned the move by BN component party MCA to establish ties with the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali said this course of action to collaborate on matters including education may pose a serious threat to the country.

He questioned if MCA does not have the necessary resources to develop the nation on their own accord, adding that by proceeding with the cooperation, MCA may be seen as being worse than DAP.

“What do they have to prove? Are they not getting the Chinese support, losing to the likes of DAP that they want to collaborate with a communist party to prove a point and impress the Chinese?

“Will MCA be the ground of bringing in modern day communism to Malaysia? This could make MCA worse than DAP.

“We feel that it is better for MCA to halt, rethink and withdraw their proposal to collaborate with CPC,” said Ibrahim in a press conference at Perkasa headquarters.

He was responding to MCA president Liow Tiong Lai who on May 13 said that his party and CPC have agreed to cooperate in several education and cultural fields, including the exchange of research findings of their respective think tanks.

Liow in a statement in Chinese said these agreements were reached after a high-level MCA delegation led by him met with Song Tao, the director of the international liaisons department of the CPC the week prior.

Liow, who is also the Transport Minister, said in the field of education, CPC agreed to provide scholarships to Malaysian students seeking tertiary education in China, and raising the scholarship quota for Malaysian students.

Putrajaya must make a stand

Ibrahim said whatever reasons MCA may have, CPC is still a political party based on the communist ideology which has long been banned in the country.

“Since young, we were taught that such ideology which doesn’t believe in God is very dangerous and unacceptable in Malaysia.

“Will communism be absorbed into our education? Will there be student exchange programmes with pupils who practise the communist ideology in the cadres training?” asked Ibrahim.

He said an official letter will be submitted to the Inspector General of Police, National Security Council Director General and the Registrar of Societies, with copies to Prime Minister Najib Razak and Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for them to make a stand on the matter.

“What is Malaysia’s stand policy and security wise on cooperating with the Communist Party of China. Is it possible?

“If this is allowed by the government, will they then recognise and allow a communist party in Malaysia to be formed?” he asked.

Umno must clarify MOU with CPC

Earlier today, MCA religious harmony bureau chief Ti Lian Ker, in a statement, questioned Perkasa why it singled out MCA’s links with the CPC but overlooked the fact that Umno had inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the CPC in August 2010.

Umno secretary general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor signed the MOU on cooperation to have youth leadership exchanges so that the youth leaders of both countries can have a better understanding of the economic and social developments in Malaysia and China.

Commenting on the matter, Ibrahim urged Tengku Adnan to explain the full content of the MOU to the public so that no confusion arises among the public in the near future.

“If Ti can reveal that there is education training involved in the collaboration I want him to expose it.

“I feel uneasy about this too. I may have overlooked it but I don’t think their MOU includes education collaboration. If it does, all I can say is that it will be the end of Umno,” he said.

Fuel prices up halting 3 week decline and after night the price goes up

Hurry Hurry to the petrol station of your choice to fill up you automobile before Midnight as after midnight the fuel price at the pumps is going up  RON 95 by 3.482% , RON97 by 3.057% and Diesel by 2.051%. Remember the % increase and see if it goes up or down next week

The price of RON95 and RON97 will go up by 7 sen to RM2.08 per litre and RM2.36 per litre

KUALA LUMPUR: Petrol prices across the board will go up for the third week of May compared to the previous week, ending a three-week period of declining prices.

The price of RON95 and RON97 will go up by 7 sen to RM2.08 per litre and RM2.36 per litre.

The price of diesel will go up by four sen from RM1.95 to RM1.99 per litre.

The new prices will be from Thursday to May 24. They were announced on RTM1 and posted on the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry’s Twitter account this evening.

The weekly fuel pricing mechanism came into effect from April this year.

The prices of petrol and diesel had been placed on a managed monthly float system since Dec 1, 2014, following the removal of fuel subsidies.

With the new weekly mechanism, fuel prices will be announced every Wednesday and take effect at midnight.

21-Yr-Old Woman Drowns In Sea While Taking Selfie In Mumbai

IANS, 04 May, 2017

A 21-year-old woman from Tamil Nadu drowned in the Arabian sea, off Bandra Bandstand here while taking a selfie, police said today.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Meenakshi Priya Rajesh slipped at Bandra Bandstand while taking a selfie with her sister and mother, a senior police official said.

The family had come to Mumbai for a vacation.

Miss Meenakshi's father had warned her against taking a selfie. She lost balance while clicking the selfie and was drifted into the sea, he said.

Her body was found later in the day. She was taken to hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, police added.

Bandstand Promenade

The Bandstand Promenade is a 1.2 kilometer long walkway along the sea on the west side of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, India. It is simultaneously a popular hangout spot, a jogging track and a park.

Chandigarh's Once-Beautiful Sukhna Lake Goes Dry, Shrunk by 57%

Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh, India, is a reservoir at the foothills of the Himalayas. This 3 km² rainfed lake was created in 1958 by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming down from the Shivalik Hills.
Area: 1.158 mi²Location: Sector 1, Chandigarh - 160009 (PIN)Max. depth: 16 ft (4.9 m)Average depth: 8 ft (2.4 m)Basin countries: IndiaCities: Chandigarh

Large patches of dry bed, more than 50 per cent of the water body showing its dirty and smelly underbelly of weeds, boating limited to a small area and marine and bird-life affected -- Chandigarh's landmark Sukhna Lake is no more the picturesque water body that used to attract thousands of people every day.

In just under six decades, the area under water of the scenic lake, which has the Kasauli Hills and lower Himalayas in the backdrop, has shrunk by nearly 57 per cent.

While going dry is not entirely a new phenomenon for the rivulet and rain-fed Sukhna Lake, this year is particularly bad as the lake started drying up quite early in the summer.

With monsoon rains over the region not likely to arrive for the next 45-50 days, Sukhna Lake could be headed for one of its worst dry periods.

With an average depth of eight feet and a maximum of 16 feet, Sukhna Lake is barely managing to stay afloat in some parts. The water depth in some areas, where boating is still being allowed in a restricted area, is just about 2-3 feet.



Built in 1958, the Sukhna Lake was spread over an area of three square km. In 2016, the area of the lake under water was reduced to a mere 1.3 square km.

With rainfall over the region not being as high in recent years as earlier, the seasonal rivulets have not been able to maintain the supply of water to the lake. The construction of over 200 check dams in the Sukhna choe (rivulet) and other rivulets, which feed the lake from the catchment areas of neighbouring Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, in the past over four decades, has also meant that the lake gets lesser water from upstream.

"The check dams were constructed to stop silt from coming to the lake. But it stopped the water flow too," Yogesh Kumar, a retired engineer, who has been coming to the lake since the 1970s, told IANS.

The lake complex, which attracts hundreds of visitors, tourists, regular morning and evening walkers, fitness freaks and even lovelorn couples, presents a picture of neglect as far as the water body is concerned.

"We had heard a lot about Chandigarh's Sukhna Lake. But we are disappointed after coming here. The lake has very little water and looks ugly in some parts," Suresh Das, a tourist from Kolkata, who stopped with his family while en route to Shimla, told IANS.

Last year, the water level of the lake was not even close to its maximum water storage capacity of 1,167 feet. Even at the end of the monsoon season, the water level stood at only 1,154 feet. It is down to about 1,151 feet now.

Such is the state of affairs that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had to intervene last year and direct the Chandigarh Administration to list immediate steps to save the lake.

Despite the administration, on the directions of the high court, spending up to Rs 15 lakh ($23,000) to pump water into the lake from five tubewells, the effort hardly helped in saving the lake from going dry.

The high court even appointed an amicus curiae to invite suggestions from experts, environmentalists and concerned citizens to save the lake.

Sukhna, the most popular tourist spot in the city along with the Rock Garden, was built in 1958 by making a three-kilometre-long dam on the Sukhna Choe. It was conceived as a place of relaxation, seclusion and sport by the city's founder-architect, Le Corbusier.

The lake is situated in an upscale and VIP area of Chandigarh, with the governors of Haryana and Punjab, senior officers of the administration and some affluent people residing in its immediate vicinity.

The lake, which is a national wetland, has lost its water body area to silt and forest cover that has grown on this area.

The man-made lake has a capacity of only around 500 hectare metres against the original capacity of over 1,074 hectare metres in the late 1950s when it was built.

In the late 1980s, comedian Jaspal Bhatti and members of his "Nonsense Club" had played cricket on the dry bed of the lake to highlight the plight of the water body. They were chased away by the police.

Boating activity at the lake is very popular with over 100 paddle and rowing boats and some Shikaras' (traditional boats like those in Srinagar's famous Dal Lake) being booked by people daily for boating.

FROM UGLY DUCKLING TO SEXY SWAN: GIRL LABELLED AS ‘TOO UGLY & UNDESIRABLE’ STUNS HATERS AFTER PLASTIC SURGERY

A woman from Vietnam who has been teased for her looks has hit back at her haters after undergoing plastic surgery.

According to World Of Buzz, 22-year-old Kuok has always been at the receiving end of insults due to her looks.



In school, she was ostracised by her classmates.

Things did not get better after graduation. Kuok was described as too ugly and undesirable during match-making sessions.

One candidate even reportedly said:
“If I marry her, I will lose my appetite.”

All the years of verbal abuse prompted Kuok to take drastic measures in the form of plastic surgery. She spent around $20,000 on cosmetic procedures.

Thankfully, they have yielded some positive results.

Kuok’s physical appearance improved dramatically, along with her self-confidence.

She found love after plastic surgery, and decided to tie the knot with her companion after dating for less than six months.

– http://www.stomp.com.sg

Sad day for the Italian Sikhs as they not allowed to practice their religion in Italy

Italian Supreme Court Rules Against Sikh Wanting To Carry Kirpan In Public

Italian Supreme Court Rules Against Sikh Wanting To Carry Kirpan In Public
The Italian Supreme Court has ruled against a Sikh who wanted to carry a kirpan in public and said that migrants in the Western world must conform to the values of the society they have chosen to settle in.

The Italian High Cassation Court yesterday ruled against the Sikh Indian migrant who wanted to carry a kirpan, a dagger considered sacred in Sikhism, even as it was against the Italian law, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

The court said migrants who choose to live in the Western world have an obligation to conform to the values of the society they have chosen to settle in, even if its values differ from their own.

"An attachment to one's own values, even if they are lawful in the country of origin, is intolerable when it causes violating the laws of the host country," the court said.

"The multi ethnic society is a necessity, but it can't lead to the formation of conflicting cultural groups of islands according to the ethnicities they're made up of, precluding the unity of the cultural and judicial fabric of our country, which identifies public safety as an asset to defend and as such bans carrying weapons and objects aimed at injury," the court said.

The Sikh man, who has not been named, was appealing against another court's decision ordering him to pay a 2,000 euros in fine because he had been caught leaving his home in Goito, northern  Italy, armed with a knife measuring nearly 20 cm, BBC reported, citing local media.


AKALI DAL, SGPC UPSET AT ITALY SUPREME COURT RULING ON 'KIRPAN'

The Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday expressed anguish over the Italian Supreme Court upholding a ban on wearing of 'kirpan' and plan to raise the issue at appropriate platforms to ensure "justice" to Sikhs settled in Italy.

In a statement here on Tuesday, Akali Dal secretary and spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said the Italian court has "ignored" the fact that carrying of 'kirpan' is essential and a mandatory part of religious code of conduct of an 'Amritdhari' (baptized) Sikh.

"It is a question of faith and a fundamental right of a Sikh. Banning of 'kirpan' means that no 'Amritdhari Sikh' will be able to live in Italy after this order," Cheema pointed out.

Cheema said the Akali Dal and SGPC would raise this issue at appropriate platforms to ensure "justice" to Sikhs settled in Italy.

"The party will also take up of the matter with the External Affairs Ministry and urge them to take up this matter with the Italian government at the earliest," Cheema said.

The Akali Dal expressed deep concern and anguish over the decision of the Italian Supreme Court upholding a ban on wearing of 'kirpan', a small sword-like weapon considered a Sikh religious symbol, on the pretext of public safety.

"The decision of the Italian Supreme Court has shaken the Sikh community the world over," Cheema added.

Italy has a large number of immigrants from India, especially Sikhs from Punjab.

The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on Tuesday termed as "unfortunate" the Italian Supreme Court upholding a ban on the 'kirpan' (Sikh sword) and said it will approach External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on the matter.

Reacting strongly to the Italian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on kirpan, DSGMC General Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa in a statement said: "We will take up issue with Sushma Swaraj and urge her to take up this issue with Italian government."

Terming the court's decision as "most unfortunate", Sirsa said "DSGMC understands the situation where the courts of the concerned country are bound to take up the issues as per the law of the land prevalent in the country."

"Time has now come for the Indian government to play a bigger role to safeguard the interests of the Sikhs throughout the world by taking up with different countries the issue of articles of faith." 

He also said that laws in some countries where carrying of articles of faith are banned "needs to be amended for achieving this".

The DSGMC's remarks came after the Italian Supreme Court ruled against a Sikh migrant who wanted to carry a kirpan in public.

The Italian court had on Monday said migrants who choose to live in Italy must respect Italian laws prohibiting the carrying of weapons even though Sikhs regard kirpan as sacred.

The DSGMC General Secretary also pointed out that it was for the Indian government to apprise these countries of the importance of the articles of faith including five Ks like Kirpan, Kara, Kangha, Kachera and Kes. 

Sirsa said a high level delegation of the DSGMC will soon meet Sushma Swaraj and apprise her on the need to take up the issue with the Italian government. 

The Sikh man in the case was appealing against another court's decision ordering him to pay a 2,000 euro fine ($2,195) because he had been caught leaving his home in Goito, northern Italy, armed with a kirpan measuring nearly 20 cm, the Italian media reported.

The man had argued that his kirpan as well as his turban were symbols of his religion and wearing them was part of his religious duty.

World afraid of our Financial Shenanigans and voodoo government

MALAYSIA’S DISGRACE SPREADS: SCARRED BY NAJIB & JHO LOW’S 1MDB SHENANIGANS, S’PORE BANKERS ARM THEMSELVES WITH NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SKILLS

SINGAPORE – The Wealth Management Institute, which helps train private bankers, has launched an anti-money laundering programme.

Since the WMI was started in 2003, anti-money laundering has been part of the institute’s curriculum, which offers short-term courses to full-fledged postgraduate degree programmes.



The WMI Anti-Money Laundering Risk Management Program, sponsored by leading private bank UBS, is the first time the perils of illicit money flows is getting this kind of attention by the institute.

“We are going deep, and going broad,” says Foo Mee Har, WMI’s CEO.

Besides the shared experience of the wealth management industry, the institute is tapping into a panel of industry practitioners so that their pooled expertise can be disseminated via WMI back into the industry.

For now, the industry experts include Jonathan Shih, head of compliance and operational risk control and UBS; David James, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ fiscal crime liaison officer; Ian Wong, deputy director of the Commercial Affairs Department, Jon Page, head of business consulting, Asia Pacific at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence; and Larry Lam, managing director at McGuire Asia and Lem Chin Kok, head of forensic at KPMG Singapore.

The launch of this programme follows last year’s unprecedented regulatory actions taken by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to shut down branches of two private banks, BSI and Falcon, for their roles in shuffling money on behalf of their client Low Taek Jho.

Better known as Jho Low, he is said to be a key person shuffling money on behalf of 1 Malaysia Development Bhd.

“This is a nation-wide effort,” says Foo, when asked if the launch of this programme is in response to the 1MDB fund flows that has thus far led to the conviction of four private bankers last year.

She points out that with 1,500 financial institutions operating here, “Singapore is definitely vulnerable to cross border financial crimes.”

Teo Lay Sie, UBS’ group operating officer Singapore, observes that money laundering is a growing problem for the global financial industry. Some studies estimate that the money laundered is equivalent to between 2 to 5% of global GDP. “Singapore is no different,” she says.

The WMI trains mostly relationship managers and they, being the key point of contact with clients, are now seen as a first line of defence against money laundering. They are then backed by their colleagues in compliance, followed by audit and last but not least, industry partnerships formed by the various players and stakeholders.



Industry experts who spoke at the programme’s launch on May 15 observe that while the problem is widespread, there are moves in the right direction that are taking place.

For example, Shih of UBS sees more and more jurisdictions banding up to combat illegal fund flows by agreeing to common standards. This will have the effect of minimising criminals’ chances of exploiting “arbitrage” opportunities.

Other reasons for the growing complexity include new technologies. For example, social media messaging and crowd funding platforms have emerged as growing ways to transfer funds, says Jason Tan, director of forensics at KPMG.

While the challenges have become more complex, banks, at the very least, are more aware of what needs to be done and are doing so as a result.

Tan recalls how when he was starting out in this field back in 2010, senior private bankers he talked to would baulk at the information they needed to ask their clients as part of the “know-your-customer process”.

“If I were to ask for so much information from my customers, they will just walk down the street to the other bank,” Tan recalls them saying. “This has changed,” he adds.

– http://www.theedgemarkets.com