FIFA gantung Mohammed Hamman dan Jack Warner

ZURICH: Jawatankuasa Etika Persekutuan Bola Sepak Antarabangsa (FIFA) menggantung calon jawatan presiden, Mohammed Hamman dan Naib Presiden FIFA, Jack Warner manakala presiden persekutuan itu, Sepp Blatter bebas daripada sebarang penyelewengan.

Jawatankuasa yang dipengerusikan Petrus Damaseb, mendengar keterangan Hamman, Warner dan Blatter pada perbicaraan yang bermula dengan Hamman menarik diri daripada pemilihan jawatan tertinggi FIFA sekali gus membolehkan Blatter hadir sebagai calon tunggal.

Jawatankuasa Etika FIFA sudah membuat keputusan,” kata Blatter dalam kenyataan. “Saya tidak mahu mengulas secara terperinci. Tapi saya cuma ingin nyatakan bahawa saya kecewa dengan apa yang berlaku dalam beberapa hari dan minggu sebelum ini,” katanya - AFP

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Di mana-mana pun sekarang ini semua pihak kan cuba guna taktik dan permainan kotor politik. Menarik dan hampir serupa dengan taktik yang digunakan di sini.

Di antara sebab Bin Hamman tersungkur mungkin kerana FIFA belum bersedia lagi untuk diterajui oleh sesiapa yang berasal dari benua Asia. Terlebih lagi oleh seorang berbangsa Arab.  

Tapi Bin Hamman pun bukan hero saya. Dulu dia juga yang jadi penghalang kepada sebuah Kelab terkemuka Inggeris untuk mengadakan beberapa perlawanan persahabatan di sini. 

MyKad Error

PETALING JAYA: Your MyKad may be safe in your wallet or handbag. But is it usable?

Over a million MyKad holders reported faulty chips last year after the cards were rejected at banks and at the Immigration Department, Road Transport Department, Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and PLUS Bhd, among others.

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Source : The Star Online

I got my new Mycard issued to me less than 5 years ago and it is already broken on the edges and the smart chip is unreadable. 

The last time I tried opening a new account at a Public Bank branch in Kota Kinabalu, I was asked to return with my birth certificate after their machine failed to get a reading from the smart chip of my Mycard.

The NRD claimed that men forms the majority reporting of faulty Mycard smart chips. 

They must remember that as most men, we placed our Mycard in our wallets and we also normally have our wallets placed at the back pockets of our pants.

So they should come up with a better and improved method to produce better quality card which is not only durable but the smart chip doesn't easily deteriorate and rendered useless after short period of time. 

Granted it doesn't cost much to replace and obtain a new Mycard, it is the process - from the application itself right up until the replacement card is issued - are such time consuming. Maybe they should look into this and cut the whole process to the shortest time possible?

Finally, after all these there is still no guarantee that we won't have to go through the whole cycle again.

Khairy explains why Azman removed

KENINGAU: Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin yesterday said Keningau Umno Youth chief Azman Haji Ruslan was removed as Sabah Umno Youth chief to prevent a ‘cold war’ from escalating in the party.

Khairy said he had to change the leadership with a heavy heart as he wanted to save Azman and Sabah Umno Youth.

Speaking when opening the Keningau Umno Youth delegates’ conference at Hotel Juta here yesterday, he said the cold war had become an open secret. It not only existed in Sabah but also throughout the country, and Azman became the victim.

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Source : The Borneo Post

Give chance to locals in interior of Sabah to become teachers

TENOM: Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Radin Malleh has appealed to the Education Ministry to immediately review and relook at the decisions of the interviewers during an open interview for the teaching profession, meant for the locals in Nabawan and Kemabong in the interior of Sabah, on May 7.

He said this was because many parents and students felt that the interviews were not conducted according to the intended target.

“The main objective of the interview is to give opportunity to locals in the interior of Sabah, especially in Nabawan and Kemabong, to become teachers,” he told Bernama.

However, he added that candidates from outside the interior districts had also been taken in, depriving the locals of the opportunity to become teachers.

Radin, who is Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) vice-president, said he was made to understand that initially the target groups for the intake were locals in the interior who achieved six credits including in Bahasa Melayu and History in SPM, and active in co-curriculum activities

“Scoring ‘A’ (credit) is not compulsory for the interior students of Nabawan and Kemabong. The interviewers came all the way from Putrajaya; they didn’t know who these candidates were, so they just picked at random and the qualifications applied were the normal one, for example, 4As for male candidates and 5As for female, thus depriving the locals in the area,” he said.

Radin said what was saddening was the fact that local education officers were not being involved at all in the intake process.

“Hence the main objective to give opportunity to the locals is defeated. This is not fair to the locals in Nabawan and Kemabong,” he said.

If these things go on, he said, the locals would be forever deprived of the opportunity to become teachers.

“That’s why the parents want the decisions be reviewed so that the locals are given the chance to realise their dreams.”

Radin said that schools in the interior including in Nabawan and Kemabong were still lacking in many aspects including infrastructure and information technology facilities.

These should be taken into account in the intake of teachers through open interview, he added.

Source : New Sabah Times

Avoid teacher transfers: Dept

Tawau: The relatively poor academic achievement in the State is due to peninsula teachers being transferred to Sabah in huge numbers annually and then leaving the State when their time is up.

"More than 20 per cent of teachers are from outside the State," State Education Director, Datuk Dr Muhiddin Yusin, said, adding that about 700 to 1,000 teachers choose to be posted to their own State after completing their contracts here."Newly recruited teachers are normally those without experience.

Hence, the importance of keeping teachers with experience," he said.

One step that has been suggested to remedy the situation was for priority to be given to locals in the recruitment of teachers for Sabah, Muhiddin told reporters after attending the State Teacher's Day celebrations here.

"The proposal had a positive reaction from the Ministry during the recent Open Registration for Teachers, especially from interior such as Bangi Island, Tenom and Telupid.

"They have since carried out interviews in rural areas of Sabah to find suitable candidates to be trained as teachers," he said.

Speaking after launching the Teachers Day Celebration here, Thursday, he said about 20 teachers were issued with show cause letters for abseentism.

Stern action would be taken against those caught involved in other endeavours without prior permission from the school, Muhiddin said.

He acknowledged the increased passing rate in the UPSR, PMR, SPM and STPM in 2010.

For SPM, those scoring A were 152 compared to 95 in 2009. Sabah, for the first time achieved a passing rate of 94.87 per cent in 2010 compared to 92.54 per cent in 2009 in the SPM national level.

Arjunan A/L Selvamani (SM Sung Siew, Sandakan) received the Best Student Award 2010 national level.

While Syivero Patrick (SMK Kota Marudu) received the Best Student STPM 2010 national level in the rural category.

Source : The Daily Express

Masing to Perkasa chief: Mind your language

KUCHING: PRS president Dato Sri Dr James Masing considers Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali’s call for Muslims to declare a “crusade against ungrateful Christians” as extreme and detrimental to the 1Malaysia concept.

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Source: The Borneo Post Online

Prices of RON95, diesel and LPG to stay

PUTRAJAYA: In a move that will please many Malaysians, the government has decided to maintain the prices of RON95 petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas for the time being.

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Source: The Star Online

When the government first announced that the subsidies will be reviewed next month, I had this gut feeling inside telling me that there will not be any increase at all. Not so soon anyway.

 

For it is clear if they really go for it, then it will be their political suicide. 

Oh, they will review it eventually for they had to. It is not sustainable for a government to set aside large chunk of its revenue on subsidies forever. 

But then why make that announcement to only retract it later? Perhaps we have been subjected to a type of mind game. The type which portrays a government that cares with the rakyat welfare being the paramount importance. 

This would win votes of course. 

Rape victim cries foul over police treatment

MUKAH: A 22-year-old female rape victim last Monday lodged a police report against a male police inspector claiming that the investigating officer used harsh  and  dirty  words when taking her statements at the police station on Saturday.

According to her police report made available to local reporters at her workplace yesterday, the woman from a village in Dalat claimed that apart from  talking  to her in a high-pitched voice, the inspector also asked many foul questions like the size of the rapist’s  private  part, normal sex  and oral sex, all of which  she  (the victim) claimed to be humiliating and not normal.

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Source : The Borneo Post Online

Don't they have female officers in that police station at that given time?

Why I Work And Stay Overseas.

Why I work and stay overseas — Alex Yap

MAY 24 — Rather than harping on race issue, I am writing as a Malaysian not as a Chinese Malaysian. My point is to get the new graduates in Malaysia to see the bigger picture, and hopefully my article can help them get a direction in their career.

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Source : The Malaysian Insider

When scoring straight As comes to nought

PETALING JAYA: Some top scorers are baffled that they have not been offered Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships despite having excelled in their examinations.

Yeoh Zheng Yi, who scored st-raight As in his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), said he thought he had done well during PSD's scholarship selection interview.

He was disappointed that he was not selected.

“My parents are retiring soon and my younger sister needs to go to college, too. I need this scholarship to ease my parents' financial burden.

“I would prefer to study engineering, particularly in Germany.

“But at this point, I wouldn't mind accepting any scholarship from PSD just as long as I get one,” said the student from SMK Tinggi Bukit Mertajam in Penang.

He said he was required to submit his parents' salary statements with his application.

“The form which is downloaded from the PSD website is no longer available now that applications for scholarships are closed,” said Yeoh.

SMK Taman Jasmin 2 student C.M. Vishnu Arvindran, who scored 9A+ and 1A, said he had not received the scholarship he had applied for.

“Yet, some of my friends who got 8A+ obtained their scholarship of choice,” he said.

He added that he had wanted a scholarship to do a degree course in medicine but was awarded one for a diploma in science.

Both students hoped they would still be awarded the scholarships after submitting their appeals.

Source: The Star Online

I could think of several reason why these two were "overlooked" but that would be mere speculations on my part. The best party to answer and offer explanations would be the PSD itself.

RON95 TO BE REVIEWED IN JUNE.

It's been a while since I last update this blog of mine. Anyway, let me start by sharing this piece of good news from the The Star for everyone out there. Cheers!

 

Price of RON95 petrol will be reviewed in June: Ismail Sabri

IPOH: The prices of all petroleum products, including RON95 petrol, will be reviewed in June, said Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Tuesday.

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Source: The Star Online