CM Lim Guan Eng (Adm) Kenyataan Akhbar Seteiausaha-Agung Dan Ahli Parlimen Kawasan Bagan Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur Pada 22.5.2013. BN Boleh Memberikan RM 1,200 BR1M Setahun Kerana Dapat Balik Daripada Cukai GST Yang Akan Membebankan Setiap Keluarga RM 5,000 Setahun. (BM/CN) BN boleh memberikan RM1,200 BR1M setahun kerana dapat balik daripada Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST), yang akan membebankan setiap keluarga RM 5,000 setahun. Pengumuman baru-baru ini oleh Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala bahawa kerajaan pusat akan menjana pendapatan RM27 bilion setahun dengan kadar GST 7%, membongkarkan satu penipuan besar BN kepada rakyat. Cukai GST 7% ini akan menaikkan kadar inflasi tetapi impak paling buruk adalah kepada golongan berpendapatan rendah kerana cukai GST merangkumi semua barangan yang dibeli dan dijual. Dengan kos tambahan ke atas rakyat Malaysia sebanyak RM27 bilion setahun, maka setiap rakyat Malaysia tanpa kira dewasa atau kanak-kanak akan dibebankan sebanyak RM 1,000 seorang setiap setahun. Dengan kata lain, sebuah keluarga 5 orang terpaksa membayar RM5,000 setahun. Itulah sebabnya Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak begitu yakin dapat membayar BR1M RM 1,200 setahun kepada setiap keluarga kerana telah dapat balik RM5,000 setahun daripada mereka menerusi cukai GST. Memang BN akan untung banyak sedangkan rakyat Malaysia, khususnya yang berpendapatan rendah, akan rugi besar. Pakatan Rakyat secara prinsip menolak sistem cukai penggunaan ini atau “consumption tax” kerana rakyat teramai belum lagi mempunyai pendapatan yang munasabah bagi mampu menjalani kehidupan yang bermaruah dan mampan. Macam mana boleh hidup lebih bermaruah bila hanya 60 peratus dari isirumah mempunyai pendapatan kurang dari RM3,000 sebulan? Menurut Laporan Tahunan Bank Negara 2012, Malaysia merupakan negara yang banyak berhutang dengan hutang peribadi setiap keluarga adalah RM 755 billion or 81% GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Pertumbuhan hutang keluarga adalah 11%, yang lebih tinggi daripada pertumbuhan GDP sebanyak 7.8%. Kita tidak boleh persalahkan rakyat berhutang bila kerajaan Malaysia berhutang sampai RM502 bilion pada akhir 2012, hamper 55% GDP. Lagipun keluarga Malaysia membayar 50% daripada pendapatan untuk membayar balik hutang. Dengan kata lain selepas membayar hutang, mana cukup untuk perbelanjaan makanan, pengangkutan, pendidikan dan keperluan asas lain? Itulah sebabnya PR menentang cukai GST 7% kerana ia hanya akan membebankan keluarga miskin dengan menambahkan perbelanjaan setiap keluarga sekurang-kurangnya RM5,000 setahun. PR akan lawan cadangan cukai GST 7% ini di Parlimen dengan mengingatkan BN bahawa sebagai sebuah kerajaan minoriti dengan undi popular 47% sahaja, ia tidak berhak mengenakan cukai GST ini ke atas majoriti rakyat. LIM GUAN ENG

Exotic Food in Skun Cambodia

Phnom Penh is a capital city of Cambodia or Kampuchea as the locals call it. It has a very diverse populations comprising of the natives, Chinese and foreigners. The country allows free religious belief and the government does not discriminate against any of its citizens. They are allowed free assess to what they want such as educations etc. There are a considerable number of private institutions that use English as a teaching medium. More Chinese schools are also coming up where the ethnic Chinese parents who lost their mother tongue place their children to study the Mandarin language. The Chinese dialects spoken are mainly Teowchew and Hokkien in Phnom Penh. The foods are indeed full of varieties ranging from local simple loveable tastes to the continental culinary. Pizzas and KFC are abound and there would not pose any problem for your culinary pleasure. The frying food is not popular here. They take mainly noodles with pork or beef. Driving further towards north taking National Highway 6, towards Kampong Thom, passing through many small towns where the tourist buses would stop for rest and lunch is a town called Skun. This place has its special exotic food ranging from birds and chicken fried the Khmer style, there are additional special additional ones. They are the grasshoppers, crickets and spider that have been fried with tasty additives. The Grasshoppers & Crickets The Spider These insects according to the locals, have medicinal value for the men. Believe it or not you have to taste and find out.

Jakarta NGO deplores M'sia's lack of sensitivity

Do we need such incidence to repeat? Is it not a shameful act by the security personnel to do a despicable and uncivilised act? Malaysiakini 4:17PM Nov 17, 2012 An Indonesian non-governmental organisation today condemned Malaysian authorities for lack of sensitivity in handling the rape case of an Indonesian restaurant worker allegedly by three police officers at the Prai police barracks.

Dewan Ulama PAS syor Hadi jadi PM

Dewan Ulama PAS syor Hadi jadi PM Petikan dariMalaysiakini Nigel Aw 5:01PM Nov 17 2012 MUKTAMAR PAS Wakil Dewan Ulama PAS Pusat, Hairun Nizam Mat Hussain hari ini menegaskan bahawa Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang adalah calon terbaik untuk menjadi perdana menteri. "Siapa orang paling terbaik, (kalau) bukan Tok Guru Presiden (Abdul Hadi)? "Sepatutnya Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi jadi kepala (ketua) kerana beliau orang paling mengetahui hukum Allah dalam membentuk kerajaan orang Islam," katanya. Sebelum itu, Asri melahirkan rasa bimbang apabila PAS mahu mendapat kuasa politik tetapi akhirnya menggadaikan peranan dakwah. Sementara itu, dalam sidang media selepas itu, Abdul Hadi berkata seorang pemimpin diajar dalam Islam, bahawa tidak boleh minta untuk menjadi pemimpin. "Kita anggap (jawatan itu) satu amanah berat dan besar. (Ia) satu tanggungjawab. Apa yang penting kita ambil alih Putrajaya dulu. "Siapa jadi PM, diterima oleh rakyat. Yang menyatukan rakyat. Tegakkan keadilan untuk rakyat, kita terima... Saya sanggup jadi nelayan balik," katanya.

GE 13th?

The country will go into 13th General Election (GE13) within the next 4 months or so. Have you prepared for the new form of governance or continue with the present system? I had talks with some of my contemporaries and their views vary. One of the said to my surprise with a tone of fear. " I don't want the repeat of the history 43 years ago" Another said THAT "Old or new governance it will be the same." The third man said with firm assertion " We must change." So just as we have been reading in the news media since the government lost 4 states in the last GE12, the country is very uncertain of where it is heading and what the people really think about the country until perhaps recently. Security of each ethnic group should not be put in jeopardy and that the educational system of the country should not be pawned for just one group of race but should be continued as it has been laid down by our forefathers while seeking independence. No particular race should presume only its race is supreme or above anyone else. Politics of race and religion is a very sensitive matter are brought to the fore. For the extreme group to raise its prominence is just like telling others to shut up and leave them to run the country as they like. So with too much power under one race is tantamount to deprive others of their rights of the country constitutions. From such imbalance of power by one race would render the country into totalitarian rule and abuse of executive authority that can lead to the destruction of peaceful nation as a whole hence chaos. Such unwarranted authority would lead to the flourish of clique and cronies. With the birth of these ills the country could be landed in disharmony and tension of dissatisfaction and dissent. Animosity exists and hatred begins. Abuse of power could lead to severe corruptions and protectionism towards the cronies who abuse monatorily and materially creating unhappiness to the lower income groups and the have nots. It is thus the leader who should make it right before it is too late. Good leader should rectify the wrongdoings of his subordinates and bring to face the consequences rather than let the cancer enlarge unless he is himself involved in the matter that cannot be known by the citizens of his own country.

Malaysia Day 16 September 2010

I thought coming back for a holiday in West Malaysia I could enjoy the Malaysia Day celebration with joy. Unfortunately, to my surprise there was no activity at all over in Penang or Butterworth! It was all silent.

Disappointed with such atmosphere, I could not imagine it was just a day not as good as normal Sunday week end etc. Perhaps everybody was busy attending the celebration in Sabah. With the PM, Ministers and the Opposition parties all centered there.

Finding the day dull and called up friends in Sarawak in Sibu, it was just the same and very quiet. Perhaps the Federal Government needs to focus more of Malaysia Day next year and make it more than than the Merdeka day as the whole nation celebrates the day instead of West celebrates Merdeka while the East celebrates Malaysia Day!

Sibu - The wake up call for Change

The Rejang River, the longest river in the country, meanders like a dragon descending from the heaven with its four legs carrying messages to the people of Sibu with significant inspirational call for change. The waters from Ulu Rejang passing through the Sibu town that empties the umpteen years of murky water into the south China Sea This was due to the greedy cronies in search of the incessant foraging timber in the once rich timber haven.

The Change is for the improvement of the people of Sibu and the betterment for the people of the country. Sibu - The Fuchow of China - has a highest Fuchow population in the country. Dogged by the constant flooding even with a few drops rain. The people have got used to its phenomenon, but when talk about this subject the Siburen can only sigh and take a long breath.

For 48 years after joining Malaya with Sabah as the Federation of Malaysia, there has not been much changes in the Swan city whose population is touching 280000 made up of different ethnic groups, except a few extra high rise buildings and some new shopping outlets where the citizens of Sibu can pass their free time.

The great changes that can be seen are the jungle where vast lands of jungle forests have dwindled into the barren land of negligence in the native own lands. The change from the dicotyledon trees into the monoctyledon palms! The bustling sound of palm oil mills fill the air rather than the chirping sounds of morning birds sing to their favourite tunes to wake you up.

Politically the change has emerged with the recent tsunami of by election where the recent alibi of infamous call of 'you help me, I help you' that put the leadership into a laughing stock and citizens of Sibu are in the vacuum uncertainty! But this was short lived and the whole scenario was changed when the result of the by-election was announced at 2230 on 16 May 2010. The Opposition party has won with a meagre 389 votes majority.

With a marginal loss by the ruling party it was seen as a greatest blow to the present government plagued by a varieties of statutory mismanagement such as cronyism, corruption, prejudice, political vandalism etc. 'You name it Sarawak has it' as mentioned by an elderly man of Sibu.

1。Does this act as a wake up call for the ruling party to reconsider its strategy and revamp its policy of nepotism and totalitarian?

2. Does it allow further erosion of democracy in the hands of a few greedy leaders?

3. Does it remind the citizens of this country to emulate the decisions made by the Siburen to get the change in the next general election?

4. Does the present government Central or State think of fair play and justice to all?

5. Does it remind the Peninsula moron heads who harp on racial supremacy is out of date and primitive?

6. Does it make sense after nearly half a century these nincompoops still have to live on crutches?

7. Does the peninsula leaders realise that the petroleum siphoned from Sarawak to build the highways and their suckers stting on the toll booths to suck on the citizens hard earned money while the children of the oil producing state is suffreing in agony and cry for development?

8. Doe the government in KL understand the simple measure of give and take?

9. Does it remind us to think as a whole big family in this multi racial country as the Opposition leader says 'wo men too shi yi jia ren'? 我们都是一家人。

Sibu has awaken and do the brothers and sisters in Peninsula?