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Showing posts with label Lim Guan Eng. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lim Guan Eng. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Court Ordered Utusan Malaysian To Pay Guan Eng RM 200K For Defamation

Kuching
Thursday, 15th Dec 2011

Court Ordered Utusan Malaysia to pay LGE RM200,000 in damages and RM25,000 in costs.


KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 — The High Court today foundUtusan Malaysiaguilty of making “malicious”, defamatory and untruthful statements against Lim Guan Eng, and ordered the Umno daily to pay him RM200,000 in damages and RM25,000 in costs.
Utusan Malaysia Had Made LGE RM 200K Richer!

Justice G.V Varughese, in an hour-long judgment delivered in Penang, outlined seven paragraphs in an Utusan article titled “Kebiadapan Guan Eng” in which the paper had “maliciously defamed Lim (picture above), and made him and the DAP look as if they are anti-Malay and anti-Islam.”
“The judge ruled that the defendant showed selective vendetta against DAP and the plaintiff,” Lim’s lawyer Jagdeep Singh Deo told The Malaysian Insider
“The ruling stated that Utusan had shown disdain for the highest standards of responsible journalism,” added Jagdeep.
The lawyer said, among other things, the article had accused the Penang chief minister of “attacking Malay institutions, being racist, being opposed to Malays, demolishing Malay stalls and villages, and cancelling the state’s Maulidur Rasul celebration.”
“The learned judge, after listening to witnesses brought in by both sides, ruled that Utusan’s allegations were malicious and not factually true,” added Jagdeep.
Lim, who is also Bagan MP and Air Putih assemblyman, filed a suit against Utusan for publishing allegedly defamatory words in the article.
In his statement of claim, the Penang CM said the words used, among others, were meant to portray him as a racist who objected to anything related to Malays.
In an immediate response, Lim said that Utusan should take heed of this incident and avoid slanderous reporting in the future.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Personal Encounter with Lim Guan Eng: Comparison Between BN CM and Pakatan Rakyat CM

Kuching
Tuesday, 15th November 2011

In the past we used to compared Datuk Nik Aziz house with the houses own by the BN leaders and we always found that BN leaders' own the houses beyond their financial capabilities. Today we are going to see how Lim Guan En Chif Minister, the Minister of Pulau Pinang aboard in an Economy Class and in the Airport qued with the rest of the passengers. Ask Taib Mahmud how he travelled to Australia for his colon treatment. This article is taken from Mrmanager.Blogspot.com

Lim Guan Eng: Good leaders that have humility are worth respecting...   

As Ning and I were lining up to board our flight to Penang on Wednesday afternoon, I spotted a familiar face standing in front of us in the queue. So I whispered to Ning. Me: Look in front of us. It's Guan Eng.


Ning: Who?
Me: YAB Mr. Lim Guan Eng, the Chief Minister of Penang.
Ning: No lah.
Me: Yes lah! I know how he looks lah. It's the CM lah.
Ning: Takkan CM jalan sorang sorang. If he's the CM, where's the bodyguards and the officers and the rombongan and kaum kerabat?
Me: Tak percaya? Watch and learn.
So I walked up to Yang Amat Berhormat, introduced myself and asked to take a picture. He smiled and obliged. YAB CM: Hey, I know you! You're Ning Baizura!
Ning: YAB Lim, good afternoon.
YAB CM: Come, come, we take a picture. Vernon, here's my card. Email me the pictures OK.
Me: Definitely, sir. 

Ambik kau. CM pun peminat katanya! 
Ning and I really felt honoured. But we felt more surprised that the Chief Minister of a state was travelling all by himself like any normal rakyat jelata. But the biggest surprise in store for us was yet to come.

As usual, we sat in First Class. I expected the CM to be seated somewhere in front of us but then I realised he wasn't in First Class. Where did he disappear to???

I popped my head round the curtain that veils First Class and Economy Class and guess who I saw sitting in the front row seat of Economy quietly reading the newspapers?   
YAB Mr. Lim, you have my deepest respect. You have made history by being the first Chief Minister in this country to sit in Economy Class whilst in office as Chief Minister. You really mean what you say when you talk about cost-cutting. Sir, you have shown me leadership by example.

Ask Taib Mahmud How he travelled to Australia For His Colon Treatment?

Of course I asked permission to take his picture sitting in Economy and he laughed. And I said I'd blogged about it and he laughed some more, and gave permission. Ketua Menteri yang berjiwa rakyat.


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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Malay contractors association apologises to Guan Eng

Kuching
Sunday, 9th Jan 2010


The Malay Contractors Association of Malaysia, which has in the past accused Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s administration of marginalising Malay businesses, apologised to him today through a delegation to his office here.

The association’s deputy president Datuk Mohammed Fadzill Hassan, who headed the delegation of about a dozen members, personally tendered his apology to the state government.

He said they wished to cooperate and work along with the administration. Lim responded by describing the new outcome as a "positive turn of events".

"I hope we can start a new relationship based on facts and not emotion," he said.

Lim stressed that accusations that Malay contractors were sidelined under the current Pakatan Rakyat government were untrue.

"Malay contractors are able to perform very well, as most of those who have won contracts under the state’s open tender policy are Malays," he said.

He said that previously, companies won contracts with the state government because of political connection, but now under the Pakatan Rakyat administration, contracts were issued on merit, with considerations given to quality and best pricing.

It is understood that the delegation had also spoken to Lim about retracting the names of 49 contractor members listed in a circular by Lim’s office to all department heads in the state government.

Lim said the state had not blacklisted the any company.

"We only want to ensure that all government contractors are competent and qualified, and not cronies of anyone," he said at a press conference before the closed-door meeting with the delegation.

In one of his last attacks on Lim in December last year, Mohammed Fadzill, who is also the association's Penang branch chairman, had alleged that Malay contractors were awarded only state projects of insignificant value.

Lim had responded by showing records that Malay contractors had been given 94% of the state’s Public Works Department (PWD) contracts and all the state’s Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) projects.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

UMNO Semakin Berani Memainkan Isu Perkauman

Kuching, Sarawak
Wednesday, 1st September 2010

 UMNO Semakin Berani Mengorbankan Keamanan Malaysia Demi Untuk Politik Sempit Dengan Memainkan Isu Perkauman.




Apakah Motif UMNO sebenarnya? Dalam usaha untuk meraih undi Melayu mereka sanggup mengorbankan semangat toleransi anatara kaum. Terdahulu LGE telah dipersalahkan apabila namanya disebut semasa sembahyang Jumaat. Baru-baru ini Utusan Malaysia telah memainkan isu Teo Nie Ching memasuki surau, dengan harapan untuk menaikkan api kemarahan kaum. yang pelik kenapa tiada tindakan terhadap Utusan Malaysia? 

Marahpun ada, meluatpun ada apabila terbaca di Malaysiakini bahawa UMNO di dalam blog yang ditulis oleh penyokongnya dengan nama pena "PAS BERUK", memfitnah Lim Guan Eng dengan meletakkan gambar super impose beliau yang sedang menyembelih lembu.
Bodoh sangat ke LGE sampai sanggup melakukan benda yang beliau tahu yang beliau tak boleh lakukan? Sebagai rakyat Malaysia yang cintakan keamanan, saya menyeru UMNO agar menghindarkan diri daripada menggunakan platform perkauman untuk memenangi hati pengundi Melayu, dan mereka juga mesti ingat bahawa bukan semua kaum Melayu itu suka bersifat perkauman dan menyokong perbuatan mereka. UMNO perlu ingat bahawa Malaysia bukan lagi Malaya. Malaysia adalah sebuah gagasan yang terdiri daripada rakyat yang berbilang agama dan bangsa yang merangkumi kaum Cina, India dan pribumi Sabah dan Sarawak.
Dari segi pecahan kaum, Melayu hanya merangkumi 60 peratus sahaja daripada jumlah keseluruhan penduduk Malaysia. Daripada pecahan penduduk di atas adalah jelas sekiranya mana-mana kaum mahu memerintah Malaysia, mereka seharusnya mendapat sokongan daripada semua kaum. Untuk mendapat sokongan daripada semua kaum, pemimpin sesuatu kaum itu mestilah adil dan sanggup berkhidmat kepada semua rakyat Malaysia,  tidak mengira kaum.


Sehingga Sekarang pemimipin katak ini masih tidak diambil tindakan oleh pihak berkuasa atas ucapan dan tindakan "perkauman melampau" beliau sebagai pemimpin PERKASA. Apakah bezanya PERKASA dengan HINDRAF?

Semua orang tahu bahawa PERKASA adalah UMNO. Jadi UMNO jangan cuba berselindung dibelakang PERKASA. Kalaulah PERKASA itu bukan UMNO, nescaya sudah lama Ibrahim katak kena tahan di bawah ISA. Apa bezanya PERKASA dengan HINDRAF?
Ramai orang tahu bahawa HINDRAF adalah off-shoot MIC manakala PERKASA adalah off-shoot dari UMNO. Jadi PERKASA apapun alasannya orang tahu siapa sebenarnya mereka ini.


Bertindak sebagai "whistle Blower" tetapi telah dikritik oleh pemimpin UMNO serta dipanggil untuk siasatan oleh pihak PDRM. Besar sangatkah kesalahan beliau kalau dibandingkan dengan pengetua yang bersifat "perkauman melampau' yang bernama Siti Inshah ?

Dari kes yang melibatkan Siti Inshah. Beliau yang merupakan seorang pengetua boleh terlepas daripada tindakan cercaan daripada pemimpin UMNO tetapi NAMEWEE atau nama sebenar beliau Wee Meng Chee, yang hanya bertindak sebagai "whistle blower" tetapi telah mendapat kritikan dan kutukan daripada pemimpin UMNO. Kalau  tindakan tidak cukup, hanya dengan 3 laporan Polis beliau telah disiasat oleh polis dengan sert-merta. Tetapi apakah pula tindakan kerajaan pimpinan UMNO terhadap pengetua yang bersifat perkauman melampau ini?
Dari segi layanan terhadap semua kaum rakyat Malaysia, UMNO juga perlu ingat bahawa penduduk Malaysia yang berbangsa Cina dan India sekarang bukanlah terdiri daripada mereka yang dibawa masuk untuk tujuan berkerja di lombong timah serta ladang getah lagi. Mereka adalah generasi yang lahir dan membesar di Malaysia. Manusia jenis apakah kita yang memberi status warganegara yang berstatus bumiputera hanya kerana mereka mengamalkan hidup cara Melayu kepada pendatang Kemboja, Indonesia dan Selatan Filipina tetapi masih menganggap rakyat kita sendiri iaitu rakyat daripada kaum Cina dan India sebagai kelas kedua yang ditidakkan untuk menikmati "perk" sebagai rakyat Malaysia?
NEP Hanya Relevan Untuk Bumiputera Sabah , Sarawak dan Orang Asli di Semenanjung
NEP yang diperkenalkan lebih kurang 40 tahun lepas adalah bertujuan untuk menaikkan taraf hidup kaum Melayu agar ianya sama dengan penduduk yang lain dalam kes Malaysia, sama dengan kaum Cina.
NEP pada dasarnya telah berjaya mencapai objektifnya. Tetapi untuk kaum Melayu menyamai taraf pencapaian rakyat yang berbangsa Cina adalah mustahil. Kerana kaum Cina dan Yahudi merupakan kaum pilihan tuhan. Pepatah ada mengatakan bahawa kaum Cina kalau diletakkan di tengah-tengah pulau ataupun di tengah gurun pasir yang gersang , mereka akan dapat meneruskan kehidupan. Tetapi kalaulah bangsa Malaysia yang lain diletakkan di tempat yang sama akan mati kebuluran.
Di sebalik kejayaan NEP di dalam menaikkan taraf kaum Melayu, tetapi pemimpin yang terdahulu masih melakukan kesilapan kerana hanya memberikan tumpuan kepada kaum tertentu tetapi melupakan kaum India. Ini telah menyebabkan kaum India hidup melarat serta jauh ketinggalan kalau dibandingkan dengan kaum Cina dan Melayu. Perkara ini juga menyebabkan kadar jenayah yang tinggi dilakukan oleh kaum India.
NEP dari segi tujuannya masih diperlukan di Sabah dan Sarawak dan juga kepada kaum orang Asli di Semenanjung. Ketiga-tiga kaum ini masih memerlukan NEP kalau tidak Malaysia tidak akan dapat mencapai Wawasan 2020.


Salah sebuah daripada rumah panjang di kawasan N25-balai Ringin. Kalau kita tengok di dalam surat khabar Sarawak, hampir tiap hari kita akan dengar pemimpin-pemimpin BN terutama yang berbangsa Iban yang mengatakan hanya kerajaan BN yang dapat membawa kemajuan kepada penduduk rumah panjang. Inikah kemajuan yang dinyatakan? Dengan tiada kemudahan asas bekalan letrik, air bersih dan jalanraya..

  
Di dalam tulisan saya yang lepas, saya telah menyentuh kedaifan hidup penduduk rumah panjang iaitu kampung Gayau, yang terletak di bawah N25-balai Ringin . Semenjak mencapai kemerdekaa serta penyertaan di dalam Malaysia 43 tahun yang lampau, tidak ada perubahan yang ketara berlaku terhadap kaum Iban serta peribumi yang lain.
"Semenjak penubuhan Malaysia sehingga sekarang tidak ada perubahan yang berlaku. Kalau dulu tak ada letrik sekarangpun sama, kalau dulu tidak ada jalan raya, sekarangpun masih menggunakan jalan sungai, jadi apakah kemajuan yang kerajaan war-warkan ?" kata seorang penduduk daripada Ulu Baram semasa konvensyen PKR yang diadakan pada pertengahan tahun 2009.
Statistik mengatakan bahawa 90 peratus daripada keseluruhan rumah panjang di Sarawak masih tidak ada bekalan elektrik dan kemudahan jalan raya, dan 60 peratus daripada mereka masih lagi hidup di bawah paras kemiskinan. Oleh yang demikian, Malaysia seharusnya berusaha agar rakyat peribumi Sabah-Sarawak dapat meningkatkan taraf ekonomi dan sosial mereka setaraf dengan penduduk malaysia yang lain.
Dari segi kemudahan bekalan letrik, jalan raya dan air bersih, penduduk Orang Asli mempunyai nasib yang jauh lebih baik daripada penduduk peribumi Sabah-Sarawak. Walau bagaimanapun dari segi ekonomi, mereka tidak jauh ketinggalan daripada peribumi Sabah-Sarawak . Oleh itu usaha hendaklah dilakukan oleh kerajaan untuk menaikkan taraf ekonomi Orang Asli.

Kesimpulan
UMNO seharusnya tidak bersifat perkauman kerana rakyat berbilang kaum memerlukan antara satu sama lain. Pemimpin Malaysia seharusnya menjaga kepentingan semua kaum kerana keamanan Malaysia hanya dapat dikekalkan dengan kerja-sama serta semangat toleransi antara kaum.
Dasar NEP dalam keadaan sekarang hanya boleh dipakai untuk menaikkan taraf hidup kaum peribumi Sabah-Sarawak serta kaum Asli di Semenanjung .
UMNO merupakan parti rasis-melampau yang hanya menekankan kepentingan kaum Melayu semata-mata. Sekiranya rakyat Malaysia sayangkan keamanan di mana kaum yang berbilang kaum dapat berkerjasama serta menghapuskan syak wasangka terhadap satu sama lain, maka saya menyeru agar rakyat Malaysia semua berani untuk berubah.......SINGKIRKAN KERAJAAN BARISAN NASIONAL YANG DIPIMPINAN OLEH UMNO YANG BERSIFAT RASIS MELAMPAU DAN UNDILAH PAKATAN RAKYAT (PR)!
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Dayak Leaders Can Fool The Dayak But Not PAKATAN RAKYAT

Dayak leaders need to accept the fact that they cannot fool their own people as Pakatan Rakyat are watching them. Their latest blunder was highlighted by Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng. Lim Guang E ng during his visit to Sarawak suggested for the formation of Dayak Endowment Board (DEB) to help the marginalised and the poor Iban-Dayak. According to Lim, with the board in place, the government would not only be helping in terms of money, but also opportunities.
“I’m just saying that we want to help those who have been marginalised. So I do not see what is wrong in helping them. Are we going to allow them to continue to be marginalised?” he said to The Borneo Post during a DAP gathering called “A Night With Guan Eng” at Batu Kawa here on Thursday.
His proposal with DEB has been wrongly intrepated by majority (if not all) of the Iban-Dayak leaders from Barisan Nasional. They did not want to accept the fact that Iban-dayak are being marginalised and amongst the poorest in Malaysia. Some of them even went on and dared Lim Guan Eng to visit the longhouses.
YB Snowdan Lawan, the State Assemblyman ( YB) for N25 Balai Ringin (where Bukit Tunggal is located) disagreed with Lim opinion, and said that the households in his constituency earned a monthly income of RM500 or more (less than 25% where as another 75% under poverty).
“I know my area very well. Many of the children are working overseas earning RM10,000 or RM15,000 per month. I do not think it is true that rural families earn RM200 or less a month. At least, not in my constituency, otherwise they will not be able to have a car or a van to transport their crops to the market,” .
Reported in Borneo Post yesterday, Friday, 31st July 2009.
YB Snowdan Lawan should cut the crap and wake up from your sleep and Stop dreaming. I dare you if you can proof to me that 5% (just 5%) the people from the longhouses in your contituecy can afford to buy Kanchil or van as claimed by you, I will sacrifice by closing this blog,and if that is not enough, I'll throw my vote to you forever.
When I read this YB statement in Borneo Post yesterday, I laughed. How could, a YB of the most poorest contituency in Sarawak dared Lim Guang Eng , a Chief Minister of one of the richest state in Malaysia to visit the longhouses in his contituency. Was it a joke ? To YB Snowdan, do you want me to take the photograph of some of the longhouses in your constituency like Sg. Tenggang, Aping, Dadak, Abok, Empaling, Tekuyong, Ubah, Isu..etc, and put them here in my blog so that the whole world know that you lied to them?
I would like to remind you to STOP using the size of Sarawak as an excuse for not developing the Iban-Dayak. You and your band of f*cking Iban-Dayak leaders in BN have been cheated by Taib Mahmud to use this excuse agains your own people.
We all knew that all of the Iban-Dayak leaders in BN are not clever, but please do not show to the whole world that you all (the Iban-Dayak leaders in BN) are stupid.....
Instead of asking Lim Guang Eng to visit the longhouses, you and the rest of your STUPID and F*CKING Iban-Dayak leaders in BN, should organise a working visit to the two States under Pakatan Rakyat rules , Selangor and Penang. See the developments in the kampong there with your own eyes. Came back from there, and if you are not happy with the development of the longhouses in your contituencies , send a petition to Tok Uban and Alantuya lover request for more development for Iban-Dayak areas.
All the F*cking Iban-Dayak Politicians in Barisan Nasional must now realised that the era where the leader can bluff the voters in the longhouses has past......Please be careful with what you said in the future...
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