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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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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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