1MALAYSIA Economics Seminar by MIBC

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received via email:

The Malaysian Indian Business Co-operative is organising a half-day seminar entitled 1MALAYSIA ECONOMICS SEMINAR on Saturday, the 15th of May, 2010 at the Auditorium at Wisma Paradise in 63 Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. This is part of our obligations to our community who are starved of business opportunities and lack the knowledge to access available funds.

We have three eminent speakers and trust members of the community will benefit from the knowledge to be imparted at the Seminar. The tentative program for the day is as follows:

Time Topic Speaker
9.00am -9.45am Sources of Funds En. Fozian Ismail of Small and Medium Enterprises Corporation
9.45am – 10.00am Q & A
10.00am- 10.20am Tea Break
10.25am -11.10am Seeking New
Business Opportunities Dato’Pardip Kumar Kukreja, CEO Paradise
Group
11.10am – 11.25am Q & A
11.30am – 12.15pm Access to Finance Mr. Thomas Tan of Bank Negara
12.15pm -12.30pm Q & A
12.30pm – 12.50pm Panel Discussion Participants to seek clarification on related topics
1.00pm Close

The fee for this useful seminar is only RM70.00 to cover costs of venue and refreshments. Persons wishing to participate are requested to send in an email to ganapathy_ramasamy@yahoo.com

Payment of RM 70/- should be made thru cheque/Money Order in the name of “KOPERASI PENIAGA-PENIAGA INDIA MALAYSIA BERHAD” and posted to Malaysian Indian Business Co-operative, 5.02 A, Level 5, Wisma Paradise, 63 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur before the seminar date.
You may also make online payment to CIMB Account No: 14260074623525. If you are making online payment please send me an email or fax the receipt to 03 7981 0424.

As seats are limited allocation will be on a first come basis.
Rgds

Ganapathy Ramasamy
Organising Chairman
H/P 013 3691021

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Twists and turns as voting day looms in Hulu Selangor

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Just less than one hour left before campaign period ends. Voters in Hulu Selangor will make the important act tomorrow and results are expected by late night.

There was some doubts about Bn candidate Kamalanathan’s academic qualifications after RPK said Edith Cowan didn’t have such records. The issue was clarified later by Olympia College and a search at Edith Cowan website.

I was listening to Minnal FM news in the evening and all I heard was this school got RMxxx, that school got RMxxx, This deputy minister solved this issue, that deputy minister solved that issue and so on. Quite a long list. Hulu Selangor Indians are are lucky lot this month. Err..not forgetting the Chinese and also the Felder settlers.

Felda folks get R 50,000 each as compensation for the land taken over by government. Selangor government immediately appoints Zaid to oversea the Felda issues. Even Works minister don’t want to be left out, announcing the elevated highway interchange project to start in 2011 (and nope, its not a sudden project he says). Felcra folks and Orang Asli community also got something from DPM Muhyiddin. Chinese school, Tamil school, all get something.

Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim announces the set up of a Selangor Felda Task Force – headed by Zaid – to look into and tackle the problems of Felda settlers in the state.

Zaid has been given a three-months’ timetable to complete the task force’s terms of reference.

Khalid also announces that the state government has plans for a housing project for second-generation Felda settlers in Selangor. PKR vice-president Mohd Azmin Ali will head this development project in collaboration with state development agency PKNS.

Most humiliating and incriminating is promises of “more goodies to come” if the voters vote for them. Isn’t this inducement?

Everyone get something courtesy of BN (mainly) and PR.  I really wonder if the residents will decide on their vote based on the longevity of the candidate since death brings some much good news. Kamalanathan is in his 40s while Zaid is in his 60s I think.

Ong Kian Ming predicts PR to win with 1000 to 1500 votes while one survey says PR is leading by about 3%, but I still stand by initial  view that the seat is for BN to lose.

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Will these students be investigated for taking part in protest?

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We always read about students hauled up for protests, be it in IPTA like UPM or some NGO-organised events.

Today, some Iraqi students protested at Sunway. Is this freedom of speech (as per Hishamuddin version) or does it violate AUKU? Can postgraduate students do this? Just curious, coz maybe in future, when Sri Lankan president visits Malaysian, some Malaysian Indians or Sri Lankan students may also do the same.

Amani Majid and Osama Abdul Karim are two names mentioned in the article below:

About 100 angry protesters stomped on and burnt pictures of Tony Blair today as the former British prime minister addressed a business gathering in Malaysia.
The anti-war campaigners shouted noisy slogans against Blair’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq and threatened to throw shoes at him – an action considered a grave insult in the Arab and Muslim world – if he came near them.

The demonstrators, including Iraqis living in Malaysia, described Blair as a war criminal and said that he should be hauled up before an international court for the death of innocent Iraqi people.

“We oppose Tony Blair’s presence in Malaysia. His hands are full of Iraqi blood. He must go to the grave,” Amani Majid, 44 a student at a local university, told AFP.

Despite the protest, Blair gave a 40-minute speech to more than 3,000 participants in Petaling Jaya.

Success Resources, a company founded in Singapore, brought Blair to Malaysia as a sponsored speaker at the National Achievers Congress.

‘He is a war criminal’

Police did not break up the protest as demonstrators held a few banners including: “Blair Murderer,” and “Get out of Malaysia.”

Blair, Britain’s prime minister from 1997 to 2007, was then US president George W Bush’s staunchest ally and sent British troops to Iraq in 2003.

Osama Abdul Karim, 30, an Iraqi student, said: “He is a war criminal. Blair should not come here to talk about business success.

“He destroyed the infrastructure in Iraq. He should be hit with a pair of shoes. What kind of democracy has he brought to Iraq?”

“I ran out of Iraq with my family in 2006. It is no longer a safe country to live,” he added.

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Statistics on UPSR results

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This news came out some time back. Blogging it for future use.
Meanwhile, Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said children of Malaysian Indians aged between 4 and 6 years old should be sent to pre-school as they would be able to learn with ease when they move on to primary school.
“Currently, 10 to 15 per cent of students in Tamil schools who move to Year Four do not have a basic grasp of reading, writing and calculating.
“If we start them young, they would be able to pick these skills well when they move to upper primary classes.
“For students sitting the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah, 40 per cent of them now fail at least one of the seven subjects they take.
“Our aim is to bring the figure down to 20 per cent and in the long-term, ensure all students from Tamil schools achieve a 100 per cent pass in the exam.”

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After a Cabinet Committee, we have a Taskforce

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I’m sure readers will remember the cabinet committee set up in 2008 to solve problems among the Indian community. Well, recently, a task force was set up as well, headed by Dr Subra, the HR minister. Its known as the Special Implementation Taskforce which will be reporting to the cabinet committee. Its purpose is “to monitor and strengthen service delivery and implementation to ensure that poor and low-income Indians take part in government programmes”.
Tamil Nesan reported that the Prime Minister’s Office will monitor efforts to help the poor and low-income groups in the Indian community through a taskforce.
It said the taskforce would ensure that the groups could benefit from the Government’s efforts to help them in poverty eradication programmes, getting affordable housing and participating in educational programmes.
Dr Denison Jayasooria has been appointed secretary of the task force while Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subrama­niam, who is also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Indian affairs, would head the task force.
He said the formation of the task force proved the Government’s commitment in assisting the community.
I hope the taskforce will come out with regular reports to indicate what they have done.

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