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Tamils, Sikhs and Thais usher in New Years

April 16th, 2007
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Tamils, Sikhs and Thais usher in New Years
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/15/nation/17446736&sec=nation
KUALA LUMPUR: It was a day of rituals with Tamils, Sikhs and the Thai community here ushering in their respective New Years.
While the Tamils observed the start of the Chitthirai month, Sikhs celebrated Vaisakhi and the Thais, Songkran.
Giving to charity: Dr Koh making a donation at the Gurdwara Sahib Temple in Penang on Saturday. MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu led the prayers at the Batu Caves temple here. Samy Vellu, dressed in a traditional Indian dhoti, was joined by many devotees at the temple who wished each other Putande Valtukal (Happy New Year).
Thai Ambassador-designate Piyawat Niyomrerks was the special guest at a Songkran dinner, where Thai New Year rituals were also performed.
In Penang, about 2,000 Sikhs attended the Vaisakhi celebrations at the Gurdwara Sahib Temple in Jalan Gurdwara.
Penang Wadda Gurdwara Sahib Association president Harcharan Singh greeted Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon who turned up garbed in traditional Sikh attire.
A blood donation drive and free vegetarian luncheon were also held at the temple.

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Put knowledge first, Indians told – SV New Year wishes

April 14th, 2007
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Put knowledge first, Indians told
PETALING JAYA: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu extended his wishes to the Indian and Sikh communities in conjunction with the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi today and urged them to be equipped with knowledge.
He said this was necessary due to increasing economic competition.
Samy Vellu, who is the Works Minister, said the Indian community should be proud for having contributed to the country’s peace, prosperity and unity.
“I would like to wish a Happy New Year to Tamil Indians and Happy Vaisakhi to the Sikh community. Since Malaysia’s independence, we have achieved a lot,” he said.
On the MIC’s part, he said the party would help in efforts to uplift the Indian community in the field of education.
Malkit Singh, secretary of Malaysian Gurdwaras Council, urged the Sikh community to help in building a truly united and cohesive nation. – Bernama

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Tamil Language Dept may be closed by year end

April 14th, 2007
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Malaysia Nanban reported that there was a possibility that the Tamil Language Department, which was set up 17 years ago at the Temenggong Ibrahim Teachers Training College, could be closed by the end of the year.
There has been no admission of new students this year.
Department head R. Sethupathy has been transferred to the college’s education section while its two lecturers have been transferred to other departments.
In previous years, there were 60 students at each intake who signed up to pursue Tamil Language full-time for three years, but none was admitted this time round.
Indian organisations were hoping that the college would continue to conduct the Tamil Language teacher’s training as a full-time course, the paper said, adding that at present, the college carried out the course only during the holidays.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/14/nation/17439516&sec=nation

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Nod for Samy’s choice

April 13th, 2007
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one name submitted and one approved! and it is not the one among 23 who applied! wow…an ace up the sleeve or melodrama?
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Nod for Samy’s choice http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/13/nation/17428973&sec=nation
By A. LETCHUMANAN
SEREMBAN: The Barisan Nasional candidate for the Ijok by-election has already been approved by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said. He said Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who is state Barisan chairman, would announce the name of the candidate at an appropriate time. “I called the Prime Minister and submitted one name at 4pm. He has approved it,” he told reporters before opening the Negri Sembilan MIC state convention here yesterday. On whether the candidate was a local, Samy Vellu said: “I cannot say anything and there are no further details. “You will all have to wait for the announcement by the Selangor mentri besar.” Asked whether the chosen candidate was a young or veteran politician, Samy Vellu said: “We don’t give to veterans anymore”. He said the person named was not among the 23 candidates who had applied to be considered. “Although 23 had applied, I submitted only one name to the Prime Minister after discussions with Dr Khir Toyo on Tuesday,” he said. Speculations are rife that Selangor MIC Youth chief S. Murugesan, a lawyer, is the likely candidate. Murugesan, 40, contested on his own accord and won one of the two Youth seats in the MIC’s Central Working Committee last year after a fallout with MIC Youth chief S.A. Vigneswaran. The Ijok by-election is being held following the death of state assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam in Chennai on April 4. Nominations have been fixed for April 19 with polling scheduled on April 28 if there is a contest.

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NEWS:’Panel to have final say’

April 13th, 2007
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then the courts do what? is this some sort of trick to hoodwink nearly 50% of the malaysian population?
 
 

‘Panel to have final say’

KUALA LUMPUR: The special commission for religious-sensitive matters will have the final say, if the Cabinet approves its establishment. 

Minister in the Prime MinisterÂ’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said the proposed commission would focus more on moral obligations in discussing these matters. 

“Such issues should be handled in an extra-legal manner as they are very personal and close to the heart for those involved,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby yesterday. 

He added that the Government would like to see leaders of the different religions in the commission to ensure deliberations were conducted in a fair manner.  

Nazri said the Attorney GeneralÂ’s Chambers was fine-tuning the details on the setting up of the commission, after which the proposal would be submitted to Cabinet for consideration. 

On Wednesday, The Star front-paged a report that the A-GÂ’s Chambers was mulling over the setting up of a special commission to study religious-sensitive cases.  

The latest controversy involves 28-year-old R. Subashini, a Hindu, who is in a legal tussle with her husband who converted to Islam.  

However, the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) said an interfaith commission should not usurp the role of the civil courts. 

“Civil courts established under the Federal Constitution must have the last word on religious-sensitive cases,” said president Datuk Chee Peck Kiat.  

At a conference in 2005, he said civil society had proposed the setting up of a Interfaith Commission by statute that was envisaged to be a non-binding, consensus creating body intended to act only through “conciliation, mediation and negotiation” to help parties in dispute to resolve their differences amicably.

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