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MIC hotline to address community

November 30th, 2007
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Update from the Star and also THR this morning. I have SMS’ed my suggestion on setting up multiple communication channels to him just now.

MIC to set up hotline to address the problems of the community
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By A. LETCHUMANAN and PARVEEN GILL

KUALA LUMPUR: The MIC will set up a hotline as soon as possible to handle all problems faced by the Indian community, its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.

He said that after meeting the Prime Minister on Wednesday, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had also asked MIC to set up a special committee to analyse and address socio-economic problems faced by the Indian community.

“We expect calls on problems on Tamil schools and Hindu temples. Other problems can also be channelled to the hotline,” he told reporters after chairing the party’s central working committee meeting here yesterday.

Samy Vellu said the problems would be referred to party leaders according to their portfolios.

He said the telephone and contact numbers of the hotline would be published in the local newspapers as soon as it was set up.

“When there are problems which need to be brought to the attention of the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, I will bring it up with them,” he said.

Samy Vellu said that he had also received hundreds of SMS on his handphone after certain quarters distributed his numbers and those of MIC leaders.

“While many were genuine, some were crank ones.”

Samy Vellu said Abdullah wanted the committee to submit a detailed report on all the demands of the Indian community so that they could be evaluated.

He stressed that the committee was a result of a report submitted by the party to Abdullah in June. The report is entitled “A New Mechanism for the Indian Community”.

Asked if all these measures were due to the Hindraf protest last Sunday, he said MIC had always submitted a report to the Prime Minister every six months.

He said Abdullah was very sympathetic to the plight of the community and the Prime Minister had promised to study the report.

Saying that Abdullah asked the special committee to come up with more proposals, Samy Vellu said among the new proposals would be to provide the number of non-bumiputras serving in the civil sector, their ranks and also the number of vacancies available at both the federal and state levels.

The Works Minister said that whenever the party did something for the Indian community, it did not seek publicity. He refused to comment on the fate of Cameron Highlands MP K. Devamany on remarks the latter made on the woes of the Indian community in the Parliament sitting on Monday.

“I do not want to comment on the issue as he is supposed to meet Barisan Nasional Chief Whip and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Abdul Razak to explain his remarks.”

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miss malaysia favorite to win miss world

November 30th, 2007
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Best wishes to Deborah, hope she will win the award.

Miss Malaysia seen as hot favourite for world title
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By CHOW HOW BAN

SANYA: Miss Malaysia Deborah Priya Henry is not letting it go to her head that bookmakers and websites are pitching her as a hot favourite to win the Miss World 2007 beauty pageant.

“It is very exciting and encouraging to read about Miss Malaysia being one of the top five favourites.

“It raises my confidence level. But at the end of the day, it is the judges who make the decision and not the bookmakers,” said Henry, 22, of her chances at the pageant, being held here in Hainan, China.

Still, the stunning beauty from Kuala Lumpur, who is of Indian and Irish parentage, is confident, having done well when she spoke to the judges about herself at the pre-judging session.

Although the pageant has courted some negative publicity over reports of stealing and backstabbing, Henry said she was game to face the challenges.

“Good and bad things happen in the real word. I have been modelling for seven years so I know that people do a lot of bad things and it’s unavoidable. You have to put things in perspective,” she said yesterday.

Henry said it would help if contestants treated their counterparts nicely and made friends with them.

“Miss World is an opportunity for us to network and make friends from all over the world,” the political science and economics graduate from the University of Queensland said.

She said it was important for the contestant to be herself, to stand a chance of winning the contest. “You have to know your limitations and principles. In competitions like this one, sometimes it’s easy to waver and do things you are not comfortable with.

Henry’s parents, Raj and Mary, arrived on Wednesday to give her moral support at the final, to be held tomorrow at the Beauty Crown Convention Centre here

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PM asks MIC to prepare report

November 29th, 2007
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today,night, Minnal FM stated that PM has asked MIC to prepare a list of what the malaysian indian community wants. MIC to create committee and start working on the report.

i hope the create a multi-channel feedback – email/sms/hotline/fax/letter/forum/meet the rakyat sessions etc. not only focus on academicians, politicians, NGOs, govt dept, but also go down to the affected areas.

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malaysia better off than india and no protest from other indians says minister

November 28th, 2007
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I'm not clear on why are they comparing our country with India. I mean comparing a country with 1 billion over people who have got independence 10 years before a country with 27++million people doesn't make much sense.

Also, looks like the global indians out of Malaysia have not complained to our govt over the attack on protesters. Maybe the need some help finding their emails and addresses. best place to try would be:

www.gov.my
www.parlimen.gov.my
www.umno.org.my
www.mic.org.my
www.mca.org.my
http://www.pmo.gov.my/

Opposition behind Hindraf rally
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/75412

Yoges Palaniappan
Nov 28, 07 6:22pm

The opposition had instigated the people to demonstrate to create the impression that the public is angry with the government, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

"The opposition know that they would not win the coming elections. So they have resorted to create such an atmosphere," said parliamentary secretary to the Foreign Ministry Ahmad Shabery Cheek

He explained that the government had not received protest notes from other countries over the claim that the Indians here have been marginalised.

He was replying a supplementary query from Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timor) who asked Ahmad Shabery whether the government had received protests from Indians residing in other countries over the marginalisation of Indians in Malaysia.

Shabery said the living conditions in Malaysia is better than India and quoted a report from the United Nations (UN) in 2006 which stated that one-third of the problems in the world are faced by India.

"With so many immigrants from India flooding our country only goes to show that the situation in Malaysia is far better than India," he added.

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Hindraf denies affiliation to any political party

November 28th, 2007
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Hindraf denies affiliation to any political party

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By DHARMENDER SINGH

KLANG: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has denied that it has any political motives or ambitions in its fight for the rights of the Indians in the country. Its secretary V. K. Regu said its sole objective was to express the grassroots’ grievances and unhappiness over the current status of the Indians in Malaysia. “We are not aligned or affiliated to any political party but welcome any support for our efforts, regardless of whether it is from the ruling party or the Opposition,” he told a press conference yesterday.

Regu said Hindraf also urged all parties, including the Government, not to turn the mass gathering on Sunday into a racial issue and provoke the public further as Hindraf harboured no ill feeling towards the other races. “The races in Malaysia are like a family and like a member of this family who is not getting enough food, we are asking for more. It should not break the family,” he said. 

He also said that it was wrongfully claimed that the gathering on Sunday was a Hindraf-organised rally as it never sent out any form of invitation for a gathering and even the SMS messages calling for a mass gathering did not originate from the movement. He said the publicity actually came from statements by the police and the Government against Hindraf’s decision to hand over the memorandum. 

Regu said Hindraf also wanted to make it clear that it resorted to handing over the memorandum to the British High Commission after getting no response from all the avenues it explored here to highlight the plight of the Indians, including the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. 

He said it was a peaceful gathering that turned ugly when police provoked those gathered by firing tear gas and chemical-laced water at the crowd. He claimed thugs were also planted at Batu Caves to disrupt the gathering there. 

“I also ask the local media to be more responsible and mature in its coverage of the events on Sunday by also reporting how many visitors got injured and not just how many cops were hurt,” he said. He said Hindraf also urged the parties involved to stop unwarranted accusations of the mass gathering and instead look seriously at finding solutions to the plight of Indians without attaching racial connotations to it. 

On why the memorandum was eventually not handed over, he said police already had a court injunction barring them from going to the high commission, and they viewed this as a trap to arrest Hindraf’s leaders. 

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