Shadow Policy Committee

Date: 5 February 2010 ( Friday ), 8.30pm Venue: Kompleks Masyarakat Penyayang Penang, Jalan Utama, Penang. (Next to Governor's Residence) Speakers: YBM Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim (Vice-Chairman DAP) Founder of Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International YB Dr HJ. Dzulkefly Ahmad (Central Committee Member PAS, MP Kuala Selangor) YB Sivarasa Rasiah (Vice-President PKR, MP Subang) Moderator: Anil Netto (Independent Journalist & Blogger) The admission is free and all are welcomed.

By: Lim Guan Eng, DAP Secretary-General, Penang Chief Minister and MP for Bagan It saddens me that less than one week after the arson attempts on two suraus in Muar, more despicable incidents took place in the Klang Valley today, whereby the heads of wild boars were found at the Masjid Jumhuriyah in Taman Dato Harun and the Al- Imam Tirmizi mosque at Taman Sri Sentosa near Old Klang Road this morning. This reminded us of the infamous “cow head” incident that took place last year in Shah Alam where irresponsible parties tried to fan religious and racial sentiments by hurling insults against fellow Malaysians who are Hindus. Such actions were condemned by Malaysians of all religious backgrounds and similar condemnation must be directed against the culprits who caused today's “pig-head” incident in mosques. Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had downplayed the various attacks on places of worship in the country since early this month as “minor aberrations”. It is not i...

Timbalan Ketua Menteri 1, Mansor Othman berkata Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) kesal dengan kenyataan Anggota Parlimen Bayan Baru, Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohd Hashim yang mengkritik Ketua Menteri Lim Guan Eng sebagai diktator. “Kami sedih dan kesal bahawa kenyataan seumpama iu datang dari Zahrain kerana ia bukan cara yang betul untuk menegur pemimpin sendiri dalam Pakatan Rakyat, lebih-lebih lagi Lim merupakan pemimpin senior,” kata Mansor yang menggantikan Zahrain sebagai Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan PKR negeri Pulau Pinang tahun lepas. Beliau mengulas kenyataan Zahrain hari ini yang menyifatkan Lim yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP sebagai seorang diktator, cauvanis dan berfikiran komunis. Lim pula enggan mengulas perkara tersebut. “Oleh kerana saya adalah pihak yang terlibat, saya enggan mengulasnya hari ini sebaliknya saya benarkan Mansor membuat respons,” katanya. Ketua Pemuda PAS Pulau Pinang, Mohd Yusni Mat Piah berkata kenyataan itu merupakan pandangan peribadi Zahrain.“Kita tidak melihatny...

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The DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) special congress to be held at the Syuen Hotel here this Saturday will see proposals for amendments to a whopping 16 out of the wing's 18 clauses in its constitution. Perak DAPSY chief Wong Kah Woh told a press conference here today that the amendments would give DAPSY members more representative powers in the wing's national congress as well as the party proper's national convention. “We also hope that with the amendments, it would give way to the setting up of more DAPSY divisions in areas where the party's influence is weak. “Additionally, we hope that it would also encourage the wing to be more active as well as strengthen the DAPSY organisation on a whole,” he said. Wong said that the amendments would be clerical in nature (amendments to words), would include amendments to procedures and would also be substantive in nature for certain clauses. One of the main amendments to be made, added Wong, was to the number of representatives all...

Konvensyen Kebangsaan DAP akan diadakan pada 17 Januari 2010 bertempat di Hotel Syuen, No 88, Jalan Sultan Abdul Jalil, 30300 Ipoh, Perak pada jam 7.30 pagi. Program dan agenda persidangan parti yang akan berlangsung pada hari tersebut adalah seperti yang berikut:- Pendaftaran 7.30 pg - 9.30 pg Pendaftaran Perwakilan dan Pemerhati 9.30 pg - 9.45 pg Para Perwakilan dan Pemerhati mengambil tempat 9.45 pg Para Jemputan mengambil tempat 9.50 pg Ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa Eksekutif Pusat (CEC) mengambil tempat 9.55 pg Speaker dan Timbalan Speaker Konvensyen mengambil tempat Pembukaan Rasmi 10.00 pg Negaraku dan Lagu DAP dinyanyikan Urusan Persidangan Parti Bermula 10.15 pg Ucapan Aluan Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAP Karpal Singh 10.30 pg Ucapan Aluan Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng 11.15 pg Rehat dan Jamuan Ringan dihidangkan 11.35 pg Mesyuarat bersambung, Speaker mengumumkan p...

Kongres Nasional Khas DAPSY akan diadakan pada hari, waktu dan tempat seperti yang berikut: Tarikh: 16 Januari 2010 (Hari Sabtu) Tempat: Dewan Bonzai A & B, Hotel Syuen, Ipoh Waktu: 3.00 petang Tujuan Kongres Nasional Khas ini diadakan adalah untuk meminda beberapa aritikel-aritikel yang terkandung di dalam perlembagaan DAPSY bagi memantapkan lagi perjalanan pergerakan pemuda di dalam parti kami.

Muslim terrorists attempted to set fire to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church here, causing minor damage to the building, another Klang Valley Christian church attacked over two days. Church authorities said the building in Petaling Jaya Old Town was believed to be firebombed sometime between last night and this morning. “The fire-bomb missed a window and caused minor damage,” said Rev Dr Hermen Shastri, the general-secretary of the Council of Churches, Malaysia. When further reports and complaint were made to the police, the inspector-general of police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said that the police force were unable to provide full protection to the churches reasoning that their manpower were short. Tan Sri Musa's explanation was unreasonable given the fact that they had sufficient personnel in the force nationwide to curb the activities and peaceful protest organised by the Pakatan Rakyat component parties all these while. Are they telling us that politics of securing the positions of U...

A fourth Klang Valley church, this time in Kampung Subang, was reportedly attacked with Molotov cocktail which failed to explode while police have dismissed reports that cars with Christian symbols having their windscreens smashed in the Bangsar suburb today, hours after arson attacks on three churches. Police have sent a team to investigate the latest church attack in Kampung Subang which is linked to the controversial High Court ruling allowing “Allah” to be used by Catholic weekly Herald in its Bahasa Malaysia section that has outraged Muslim groups. Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the Molotov cocktail failed to explode. City police have also increased patrols in the middle-class Bangsar suburb after people reported cars with Christian symbols such as crucifixes and rosaries had their windscreens smashed. However, police say no cars have been found smashed. DAP Bagan Parliamentary Liaison Committee would like to the authorities concerned to gear up their presen...

PAS vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar (left) entered into the raging debate over Catholic weekly Herald’s use of the word ‘Allah’ in its Bahasa Malaysia edition, saying it was an attempt by Umno to divert the people’s attention from other pressing issues. The Pokok Sena MP said the heated discussion on the issue in the newspapers and online forums have distracted Malaysians from focusing on issues such as the stolen RMAF jet engines and the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. "We can see clearly, the print media which comes under the control of the Home Ministry, led by Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the electronic media continue to take advantage of the issue,” Mahfuz said in a statement released here today. He also questioned why the Home Affairs Ministry did not appeal immediately against the High Court’s Dec 31 decision allowing the Herald to use the word ‘Allah’ to describe the Christian God. "I believe when the debate gets out of ...