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WORLD’S first conference on Siddhar Principles

April 16th, 2007
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Malaysia the chosen venue for vital meeting
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/16/central/17382503&sec=central
By YIP YOKE TENG
teng@thestar.com.my
WORLD’S first conference on Siddhar Principles will be held in Malaysia.
Speakers and researchers of Siddhar, which means “the perfect soul”, will converge for the May 25 to 27 conference at Auditorium Kompleks Perdana Siswa, University of Malaya.
“Siddhar are persons like Sri Agastiar, Sri Ramalinga Swamigal, Sri Thavamurugan and China’s Lao Tzu who founded Taoism. They are the perfect souls, the masters and the philosophers,” said one of the advisors to the conference, Vaithiyar Sarangapani Bhani.
“They impart knowledge in meditation, medicine, astrology, farming and various other fields, and they lead lifestyle of the enlightened,” he added.
The conference is organised by Batu Cave-based Malaysia Sri Agastiar Nyaana Peedam Awareness Association, which is three years old and with more than 100 members.
The association conducts courses in yoga, herbs’ usage and meditation, while promoting vegetarianism.
It was learned that the conference was held at this time because association president Arul Selvar Abnaa Nagappen “received a message” from Sri Agastiar during meditation.
“We want to expose Malaysians, especially our youths, to Siddhar Principles to address the many social issues concerning them,” Bhani said.
“Youths today are into many unhealthy, and often illegal, activities. We want to show them the wisdom of these great masters of the East, and how they can lead stress-free, healthy and discipline lifestyle with the masters’ principles,” he added.
He reiterated that Siddhar Principles are beyond religion, and that people of all ethnic groups were welcome to participate in the conference.
Currently, speakers, researchers and delegates from India, Singapore, Fiji, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, England, Nepal, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia have confirmed their participation.
Those interested can call the secretariat at 03-6185 2757/5642, 013-505 8505 (P.Thanapackiam) or 012-380 9867 (Satteya).
Delegate fee is RM100, inclusive of food.

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Nazri’s statements shocking, says Lim

April 12th, 2007
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let this be a wake-up call for all malaysians. when nearly 40% of the population can be brushed aside and ministers can says whatever they like, as if they represent all malaysian, this is the outcome.
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Nazri’s statements shocking, says Lim
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=17594
B.Suresh Ram KUALA LUMPUR (April 11, 2007): Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang described as “astounding” the statements by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz on the proposed Inter-Faith Commission (IFC). “What was he saying? You mean to tell me if the Malays do not want to participate, the Federal Constitution cannot be upheld?” Lim asked.
Nazri had said in Parliament yesterday the IFC can only be formed with participation from all communities of different faiths and amendments to Article 121(A) of the Constitution.
“He said my arguments were valid but there is no way the Barisan Nasional (BN) government would agree because there is no way to convince and persuade Malays, who constitute the majority of the electorate, to support such a constitutional amendment,” Lim told reporters in Parliament lobby today.
“His arguments are unacceptable … it’s setting a dangerous precedent for the erosion of the constitutional guarantees in the Merdeka Social Contract of Malaysia as a democratic, tolerant, multi-religious and secular nation with Islam as the official religion but not an Islamic state.”
Lim said he had stressed that the amendments of Article 121(1A) of the Constitution in 1988 was to provide to Muslims the constitutional protection for their rights to be adjudicated in Syariah courts without detracting the rights of non-Muslims.
“In the past few years, particularly after the Ô929 Declaration’ of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that Malaysia is an Islamic state, non-Muslims here have seen their religious and constitutional sensitivities and rights adjudicated in civil courts and Syariah courts eroded.
“The time has come for an amendment to the Constitution to make it clear that Article 121(1A) does not derogate the rights of non-Muslim Malaysians which they had enjoyed without challenge before the 1988 Constitutional amendments,” he said.
On corruption, Lim said the time has come for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to summon a special meeting of the Cabinet to exclusively address the worst corruption crisis in the country’s history.
This, he said, was to demonstrate the political will to arrest, prosecute and jail top political government leaders for corruption.
Updated: 08:42PM Wed, 11 Apr 2007

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No surprises in Machap…

April 12th, 2007
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No surprise
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=17616
Pauline Puah
MACHAP (April 12, 2007): There was a no surprise result. There was no mood swing among the rural electorates. As expected, Barisan Nasional (BN)’s superior machinery streamrolled for an overwhelmingly win in the by-election, as it did in the 2004 general election. But, the 481 decrease in the winning margin announced tonight did spoil the party for the BN which had clearly worked their hearts out to try and secure an even wider mandate.
Machap is also the first Chinese-majority constituency to see a by-election since the 11th General Election.
Machap is made up of 45% Chinese and the by-election was caused by the death of Malacca MCA chief Datuk Poh Ah Tiam on March 15.
The by-election is also seen by many political observers as a barometer to gauge the mood of the voters, especially the Chinese before the next general election. But this is an exceptionally rural electorate.l
The increased in votes for DAP in the Chinese-majority area of Machap Baru, though insignificant, is still a wake-up call for the MCA. More so, Machap Baru is Poh’s kampung.
In their respective post-mortems, the MCA will do well to determine the grouses of the Machap Baru Chinese while the DAP must surely find a way to win the hearts of the Malays and Indians for any real possibility to unseat the BN in the next general election.
This time around, DAP secured 527 votes while MCA garnered 914 votes in Machap Baru. In 2004, MCA garnered 1,270 votes while DAP got only 356 ballots.
The BN was confident of a bigger majority by fielding “local boy” Lai Meng Chong. The DAP’s Liou Chen Kuang is from Malacca town.
“The residents here voted for BN in last general election because of Datuk Poh Ah Tiam. He had done a lot for the villagers. But what has Lai done for us? We know him too well (to know his weaknesses),” said a young voter when met in Machap Baru on Wednesday night.
For the BN and Umno, they can take heart that, depsite the thousands that turned up at former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s ceramah on Wednesday night, the crowd did not translate into votes.
Anwar had also made his rounds in Malay villages that saw him locked in warm shakes which did not really mean electoral support.
The BN was also able to retain the support of the Indian community. Machap is one of the few constituencies that feature a high percentage of Indian voters – at 15%.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng’s political secretary Ng Wei Aik said: “We had no chance to even talk to the voters in the Malay and Indian villagers who were either satisfied with the BN or had been intimidated not to see us.”
The Opposition had raised many national issues, alleged scandals and corruption but clearly these did not impact the rural folk.
Although the BN had won the by-election with its “development” trademark, unfortunately it had been marred by allegations of vote-buying and abuse of government machinery.
Updated: 10:22PM Thu, 12 Apr 2007

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Medical Students in Bali all sponsored by MIC, says Najib

April 10th, 2007
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ALOR GAJAH, April 9 (Bernama) — The position of the Indian community in the country has been improving under the Barisan Nasional (BN) government which looks after the interest of all races, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that based on his observation and visits abroad, many students from the community were endeavouring to improve their position and becoming professionals, thus bringing benefits to the country.
“I had met with Malaysian students in Bali and 80 per cent of them were medical students who were of Indian origin. It was also the same in Sulawesi and the University of Crimea in Ukraine.
“They were all sponsored by the MIC. The position of the Indian community is improving from time to time,” he said at a gathering of the leader with the people during the campaign for the by-election for the Machap state seat in Tebong, near here tonight.
Najib said although some of the Indian community were satying in the estates, they could be developed through the education system provided by the government to improve their standard of living.
“Thus, the (Indian) community must continue to vote for the candidate who would always champion their cause, namely Lai Meng Chong from the Barisan Nasional and not the candidate who only knows how to speak but cannot provide any assistance,” he said.
Najib, who is also the BN deputy chairman, believed that the Indian community, right from the days of the Alliance up to the BN, had given their undivided support to the ruling party.
“Can people like Nallakaruppan (who is now a leader of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat) help us? Let us not listen to issues which have nothing to do with us,” he said.
The Deputy Prime Minister said any problem should be referred to the elected representative, and subsequently to the state government, and then to the federal government or himself to be resolved.
There are about 1,403 Indian voters in the Machap state constituency with the majority of them living in Tebong, in the oil palm plantation.

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NEWS:4.9mil yet to register as voters

April 2nd, 2007
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wonder who will be shitting in their pants? bn, dap or pas?
 
selangor, sarawak and perak – high number of non-muslims as compared to other states’ number of non-muslims. more concentration in town areas especially in selangor.
 
johor – umno heartland.
 
also, most are in the age bracket of 21-35, where education and getting a job is priority, which was mentioned in the survey.
 
 
 

4.9mil yet to register as voters

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/2/nation/17322941&sec=nation

KUALA LUMPUR: There are 4.9 million eligible Malaysians who have not registered as voters. 

Election Commission (EC) deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said these people were denying themselves the right to elect their leaders. 

“Malaysians like to do things at the last minute – even for registering as voters. But they forget that there is a three-month period for their names to be validated into the electoral roll.  

“When their names are not in the electoral roll in time for an election, they will blame the EC for not providing enough facilities and venues for them to register themselves. 

“This happens every election,” he said during the launch of the nationwide campaign by the Malaysia National Sikh Movement (Gerak Sikh) to register voters. 

Wan Ahmad said the EC had done everything to make it easy for people to register as voters, including establishing over 640 counters at post offices nationwide.  

“They can walk in and register in 15 minutes. But while people donÂ’t mind queuing up to buy stamps, they complain of having to queue up at the EC counters,” he said. 

There are 10.3 million registered Malaysian voters. 

As at December 2006, Selangor had the highest number of eligible people yet to register as voters, followed by Sarawak (450,000), Johor (400,000) and Perak (375,000). 

Seventy per cent of these people are between the ages of 21 and 35.  

Wan Ahmad said the campaign by GerakSikh was the first time a non-governmental organisation was working with the EC to mobilise people to register as voters.  

Under the campaign, GerakSikh would organise the registration of voters at various venues, with the EC providing mobile units.

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