The miasma of irritating controversies over the Perak crisis had tarred all and sundry with the same brush of disrespect over whom should be the legitimate mentri besar. No matter how we look at it, the state by-election is the best choice. Let the Perakians decide once and for all!
Reading “Stop wrecking the nation, says Ku Li” in malaysiakini, has shown how feckless UMNO has been over this issue. To save UMNO and Barisan Nasional, Ku Li is the manna to put some senses into UMNO denial over the people’s wishes.
"But the constitution is not just any law. It is the set of laws that founds our nation, defines its basic principles, guarantees our individual rights and prescribes the structures, duties, and powers which make a national community possible.”
"It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of Malaysia," added the former finance minister.
If such profound wisdom falls on deaf ears, then law of the jungle reigns supreme for the advent of multitude tirades over the power grabbing issue till kingdom come.
There are too many parvenus in Malaysian’s politics with important positions but without substance, so to speak.
One excellent example that speaks for itself was written by Jean. The focal points are retrieved but not the whole content.
Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said about five million pupils and 360,765 teachers from more than 10,000 schools would be mobilized to protest against Gaza offensive by Israeli forces.
He wanted to create a wave of pressure for the Israelis to stop their violence and oppression of Palestinian civilians.
When asked on the danger of exposing children to such atrocities, the minister said that when they grow up, they will have to face global issue like peace, environment and the economic crisis, as quoted in NST.
Does anyone give a thought how, as an education minister, he said nothing about the police harassment of the JERIT cyclists incident where most of them are young Malaysians?
Does this ring a bell?
The days of Tengku Abdul Rahman were over and for Tengku Razaleigh, all Malaysians have to take heed.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Implement Coroner’s Act without Further Delay
Press Statement: 4 March 2009
Implement Coroner’s Act without Further Delay
SUARAM urges the Attorney-General’ s Chambers to take action immediately against those personnel responsible for the death of Kugan Annanthan (22 years old) in police custody on 20 January 2009, especially in view of the completion of the second postmortem report and the Attorney-General classifying the case as murder.
According to the second postmortem report, revealed by Kapar Member of Parliament S. Manikavasagam, Kugan had died of kidney failure due to severe beating which caused a breakdown in muscle cells and congested blood flow.
Kugan’s death is not an isolated case. Let us not forget the deaths of Goh Yan Peaw (20 January 2008), Francis Udayapan (24 May 2004), Ulagathan Muniandy (21 July 2003), and many others in police custody.
According to statistics released by then Deputy Home Minister Wan Farid to Parliament on 8 July 2008, 1,535 deaths were recorded in prisons, drug rehabilitation centres, and immigration detention centres from 2003 to 2007, while 85 deaths occurred in police custody in the same period.
While the enforcement officers of detention centres and prison facilities are fully responsible for the safety and wellbeing of detainees while they are in custody, these cases clearly show that the safety of detainees is no longer guaranteed. The unacceptably high number of deaths in police custody and other detention centres in recent years severely undermines the credibility of the police and other enforcement officers in detention centres.
Besides that, the long wait for inquests on cases of death in custody is also another area of grave concern. According to the findings in the report of The Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police (Royal Police Commission), only 6 out of 80 cases of death in custody which were reported from year 2000 to 2004 had inquests conducted on.
The delay and failure to conduct inquests into these cases denies justice for the victims and perpetuates impunity. The Attorney-General should therefore stand firm in Kugan’s case, and take immediate action to whole perpetrators accountable, while all previous cases of death in custody should be further thoroughly investigated.
SUARAM strongly urges the government to immediately implement the recommendations by the Parliamentary Select Committee on The Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code to legislate a Coroner’s Act in Malaysia and for a Coroner’s Court to be established.
The government must also implement all the recommendations by the Royal Police Commission, including to conduct inquests
Moon Hui
Coordinator
Implement Coroner’s Act without Further Delay
SUARAM urges the Attorney-General’ s Chambers to take action immediately against those personnel responsible for the death of Kugan Annanthan (22 years old) in police custody on 20 January 2009, especially in view of the completion of the second postmortem report and the Attorney-General classifying the case as murder.
According to the second postmortem report, revealed by Kapar Member of Parliament S. Manikavasagam, Kugan had died of kidney failure due to severe beating which caused a breakdown in muscle cells and congested blood flow.
Kugan’s death is not an isolated case. Let us not forget the deaths of Goh Yan Peaw (20 January 2008), Francis Udayapan (24 May 2004), Ulagathan Muniandy (21 July 2003), and many others in police custody.
According to statistics released by then Deputy Home Minister Wan Farid to Parliament on 8 July 2008, 1,535 deaths were recorded in prisons, drug rehabilitation centres, and immigration detention centres from 2003 to 2007, while 85 deaths occurred in police custody in the same period.
While the enforcement officers of detention centres and prison facilities are fully responsible for the safety and wellbeing of detainees while they are in custody, these cases clearly show that the safety of detainees is no longer guaranteed. The unacceptably high number of deaths in police custody and other detention centres in recent years severely undermines the credibility of the police and other enforcement officers in detention centres.
Besides that, the long wait for inquests on cases of death in custody is also another area of grave concern. According to the findings in the report of The Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police (Royal Police Commission), only 6 out of 80 cases of death in custody which were reported from year 2000 to 2004 had inquests conducted on.
The delay and failure to conduct inquests into these cases denies justice for the victims and perpetuates impunity. The Attorney-General should therefore stand firm in Kugan’s case, and take immediate action to whole perpetrators accountable, while all previous cases of death in custody should be further thoroughly investigated.
SUARAM strongly urges the government to immediately implement the recommendations by the Parliamentary Select Committee on The Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code to legislate a Coroner’s Act in Malaysia and for a Coroner’s Court to be established.
The government must also implement all the recommendations by the Royal Police Commission, including to conduct inquests
Moon Hui
Coordinator
Speeky Inglis
Speeky Inglis
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
Contributed by: Sokewong.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
Contributed by: Sokewong.
World Universities Ranking
World Top 50 Universities
1 HARVARD University United States
2 YALE University United States
3 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4 University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt... United States)
6 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
8 University of CHICAGO United States
9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M... United States
10 COLUMBIA University United States
11 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
12 PRINCETON University United States
13 DUKE University United States
14 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
15 CORNELL University United States
16 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
17 STANFORD University United States
18 University of MICHIGAN United States
19 University of TOKYO Japan
20 MCGILL University Canada
21 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
22 KING'S College London United Kingdom
23 University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom
24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T... Switzerland
25 KYOTO University Japan
26 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
27 BROWN University United States
28 École Normale Supérieure, PARIS France
29 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom
30 National University of SINGAPORE (NUS) Singapore
31 University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U... United States
32 University of BRISTOL United Kingdom
33 NORTHWESTERN University United States
34 ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France
35 University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada
36 University of California, BERKELEY United States
37 The University of SYDNEY Australia
38 The University of MELBOURNE Australia
39 HONG KONG University of Science & Techno... Hong Kong
40 NEW YORK University (NYU) United States
41 University of TORONTO Canada
42 The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
43 University of QUEENSLAND Australia
44 OSAKA University Japan
45 University of NEW SOUTH WALES Australia
46 BOSTON University United States
47 MONASH University Australia48 University of COPENHAGEN Denmark
49 TRINITY College Dublin Ireland
50 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE... Switzerland
Who Runs The Country?
SINGAPORE CABINET
PM Lee Hsien Loong Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1974) Harvard University - Masters (1980)
SM Goh Chok Tong University of Singapore - First Class Honours (1964) Williams College, USA - Masters (1967)
MM Lee Kuan Yew Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1949)
Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar University of Singapore - Bachelor of Law Honours (1963) Yale Univerity - Masters (1966)
Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng University of Singapore - Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977) London Business School - Masters (1979)
Minister for Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo Cambridge University - Double First Class Honours (1976) Harvard Business School - MBA with Distinction (1985)
Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang Cambridge University - First Class Honours with Distinction (1976) Harvard University - Masters (1986)
Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean University of Manchester - First Class Honours (1976) Imperial College, London - Masters w/ Distinction (1977)
Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam London School of Economics - Bachelor of Arts Cambridge University - Harvard University - Masters
MALAYSIAN CABINET
PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi University of Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours: Islamic Studies 1964)
Deputy PM Dato' Sri Najib Razak University of Nottingham - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1974)
Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar (Univeristy Unknown) - Bachelor of Arts
Ministry of Works Dato' Seri Samy Vellu (Education Unknown-formerly a draughtsman/architect)
Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz Universiti Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours
Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin (Education Unknown)
Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal (Education Unknown)
Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein (Education Unknown)
Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad (Education Unknown)
1 HARVARD University United States
2 YALE University United States
3 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4 University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt... United States)
6 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
8 University of CHICAGO United States
9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M... United States
10 COLUMBIA University United States
11 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
12 PRINCETON University United States
13 DUKE University United States
14 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
15 CORNELL University United States
16 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
17 STANFORD University United States
18 University of MICHIGAN United States
19 University of TOKYO Japan
20 MCGILL University Canada
21 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
22 KING'S College London United Kingdom
23 University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom
24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T... Switzerland
25 KYOTO University Japan
26 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
27 BROWN University United States
28 École Normale Supérieure, PARIS France
29 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom
30 National University of SINGAPORE (NUS) Singapore
31 University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U... United States
32 University of BRISTOL United Kingdom
33 NORTHWESTERN University United States
34 ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France
35 University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada
36 University of California, BERKELEY United States
37 The University of SYDNEY Australia
38 The University of MELBOURNE Australia
39 HONG KONG University of Science & Techno... Hong Kong
40 NEW YORK University (NYU) United States
41 University of TORONTO Canada
42 The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
43 University of QUEENSLAND Australia
44 OSAKA University Japan
45 University of NEW SOUTH WALES Australia
46 BOSTON University United States
47 MONASH University Australia48 University of COPENHAGEN Denmark
49 TRINITY College Dublin Ireland
50 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE... Switzerland
Who Runs The Country?
SINGAPORE CABINET
PM Lee Hsien Loong Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1974) Harvard University - Masters (1980)
SM Goh Chok Tong University of Singapore - First Class Honours (1964) Williams College, USA - Masters (1967)
MM Lee Kuan Yew Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1949)
Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar University of Singapore - Bachelor of Law Honours (1963) Yale Univerity - Masters (1966)
Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng University of Singapore - Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977) London Business School - Masters (1979)
Minister for Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo Cambridge University - Double First Class Honours (1976) Harvard Business School - MBA with Distinction (1985)
Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang Cambridge University - First Class Honours with Distinction (1976) Harvard University - Masters (1986)
Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean University of Manchester - First Class Honours (1976) Imperial College, London - Masters w/ Distinction (1977)
Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam London School of Economics - Bachelor of Arts Cambridge University - Harvard University - Masters
MALAYSIAN CABINET
PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi University of Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours: Islamic Studies 1964)
Deputy PM Dato' Sri Najib Razak University of Nottingham - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1974)
Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar (Univeristy Unknown) - Bachelor of Arts
Ministry of Works Dato' Seri Samy Vellu (Education Unknown-formerly a draughtsman/architect)
Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz Universiti Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours
Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin (Education Unknown)
Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal (Education Unknown)
Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein (Education Unknown)
Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad (Education Unknown)
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