Anwar Dropping Out His Plan ? ?

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Opp state chiefs under fire
Pakatan dogged by weak governance and internal bickering
By Carolyn Hong, Malaysia Bureau Chief Nov 18, 2008

(Penang's government has been embarrassed by the cancellation of a touted tennis exhibition. Eight months after the election, leaders of opposition states have come under critical media scrutiny.)


KUALA LUMPUR: The Penang government must have winced each time the local newspapers splashed photographs of bleachers being dismantled along its Esplanade last week.

The stands were being taken down after a much-trumpeted tennis exhibition that was to have featured big names like Pete Sampras flopped as the organisers could not raise the funds.

The state government was embarrassed as it had promised to forgo the RM200,000 (S$84,600) rental fee if the event was successful, and had waived a RM2 million damage deposit.
But Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was defensive.

'We were neither the organiser nor co-organiser of the event. So why blame the state government?' he said on Sunday.

His critics say that the government could have collected the RM200,000 fee earlier.

Mr Lim, who used to be a harsh critic of the former government, has suddenly found himself in the unfamiliar position of having to defend official decisions.
He is not alone in his predicament. Leaders of the four states won by the opposition Pakatan Rakyat in the March general election have also taken flak in the media recently.

The sudden spate of bad news sits in stark contrast with the more forgiving reports of the early months following the election.

And while some of the 'controversies' are petty, others highlight the real problems facing Pakatan.

The problems appear to be twofold - issues of governance due to inexperience, and issues of negotiations within the Pakatan coalition.

Penang's tennis exhibition fiasco is clearly one of a misstep in governance, exacerbated by poor damage control when the government attempted to shift blame to the local council.

There will be more such fiascos but these are less serious than the fundamental problem of Pakatan cohesion. It is evident that eight months after the election, it has yet to work out a cooperation mechanism, especially for resolving sticky issues arising from its promised multiracial platform.

'Pakatan still does not have any mechanism to resolve high-level disputes,' said political analyst Ong Kian Ming.
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This has left the three component parties - each with its own communal interests - squabbling openly over new policies of the Kedah and Selangor governments in recent weeks.

Selangor Chief Minister Khalid Ibrahim, from Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), was criticised by his Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) colleagues for promoting a Chinese woman to head the state economic development board.


Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak, of PAS, drew anger from his Democratic Action Party (DAP) and PKR partners after his government reserved 50 per cent of new houses in the state for Malays.

These squabbles go to the heart of Pakatan's promise of racial justice, and are of greater public concern. Open quarrelling does not inspire confidence, especially when it takes on a belligerent tone.

Mr Azizan has chided his opposition colleagues and even his party's supporters club president Hu Pang Chaw for giving their views on the Malay housing quota.

'I know who he (Mr Hu) is...If he is really concerned about the policy and is a true PAS supporter, he should voice his opinion or suggestion properly,' Mr Azizan said yesterday.

He clarified that the ruling applied only to new developments on Malay reserve land converted to freehold status.

It is clear from these episodes that Pakatan has a rough road ahead. Mr Ong believes the onus is on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to build a more concrete coalition, but notes that the former deputy premier has shown little interest in this.

He points out that Datuk Seri Anwar has not set up a shadow Cabinet for the same reason that it would quickly reveal the rifts within Pakatan.

An opposition MP told The Straits Times that he, too, felt there should be more focus on building up the coalition's cohesion.

'I think there's a loss of focus after the first few months,' he said.

Mr Anwar has expended much energy on wooing lawmakers from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition to defect, in a bid to topple the federal government.

He had earlier claimed to have the support of enough defectors, but, after missing several self-declared deadlines, he has dropped the issue. ? ? ? Malaysiakini list up =>

(exclusive by JP - the 3rd PARTY a Barisan Rakyat 's non-bias blogger said:

for I don't think Anwar is dropping the issue to topple the federal government !

Some people might just think that he failed but actually he is (too cunning) in forming up a new strength (mainly on his monetery part) and re-structure his plan to woo over BN 's MP.

He won't just keep himself satisfy with his Permatang Pauh 's parliamentary seat but making himself quiet (out of the topple issue) for this moment would certainly make people like you and me (expecially foe-BN) to think that he is dropping his plan.

He just like a "sleeping tiger" !)


Some observers point out that the Perak government helmed by PAS' Nizar Jamaluddin is the only one to have escaped serious controversies, apart from the petty issue of his demand that a photographer delete pictures of him being served a lawsuit.

Credit, analysts say, must be given to Mr Nizar, who seems to have managed coalition politics effectively with the DAP, which holds the majority of the seats in the state.


carolynh@sph.com.sg

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Prelude of MCA Internal Conflict episod 7 马华 . 笼里鸡 前奏7

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Wounds open up again in MCA
By Leslie Lau
Consultant Editor

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 – Just weeks after its party elections, the gloves appear to have come off as MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and his rivals have started engaging in another battle for control over the beleaguered party.

Tee Keat came out swinging today in defending his choices for the party's new leadership line-up, saying his decisions were not meant to please a “certain group of persons.”

He also said that in any political party there could only be one person at the helm, in what was a pointed reference to deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, who has been at odds with him since the party election campaign period.

“Did you see Annette Lu giving out commands when Chen Shui Bian was the president of Taiwan? The same goes for Ma Ying-jeou, you will not see Vincent Siew standing out and making comments. And I am quite sure you don't see PKR's Syed Husin Ali giving out orders,” he told the mass-selling Sin Chew Daily in an exclusive interview published today.

Announcing key leadership posts on Tuesday, he sidelined Dr Chua from any significant responsibilities in the party.

In response, Dr Chua said yesterday that he wanted to apologise to party members because “it is not that I do not want to work for MCA but I have been given limited space by the president.”

Tee Keat also denied today that his leadership line-up was meant to oust leaders associated with former president Ong Ka Ting's Team A faction.

“Everyone has a right to making their own interpretations,” he told the newspaper.

“As for the various comments, I will treat them as if I were reading the entertainment news. It will be like one extra entertainment page in the newspapers.”

Tee Keat also dismissed as “strange” the roiling speculation that former deputy president Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy who was part of the party's Team B faction was behind the slew of unexpected appointments to key posts.

On Tuesday, Tee Keat removed Datuk Ong Ka Chuan, who is Ka Ting's brother, as secretary-general, replacing him with the relatively unknown Datuk Wong Foon Meng, who is together with the new treasurer Tan Sri Tee Hock Seng, said to be close to Chan.

Known as the party's so-called “Lone Ranger,” the party president appears to be fighting on many fronts against a slew of forces aligned against him.

While there are high expectations among MCA members for him to help the party close ranks, his behavior and demeanour so far has been of a leader under siege.

While the party has been wracked by severe divisions into two rival Team A and Team B factions previously, it now appears to be fragmented into many more blocs.

Asked why certain leaders were left out of key positions in the party, he would only say that “you will understand me later.”

He did however point out that it was not party tradition for the deputy president to be appointed the disciplinary bureau chief, in reference to the appointment of Datuk Ng Cheng Kiat instead of Soi Lek.

Soi Lek has been appointed head of the relatively unimportant position of head of the party's government policy monitoring bureau.

The party No 2 also said yesterday that he would leave it to the members to decide if Tee Keat's appointments will help the party close ranks or whether it is to strengthen his own grip on MCA.
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Sympathy to an touching INDIAN Story

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Rubber tapping before school for Malaysian Indian girl
Sunday 23rd November, 2008
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The Malayasian Indian Congress (MIC) is collecting money to help student Margatha Ambiga, who has to wake up early morning and work on a rubber plantation for three hours before going to school, so she can support her family.

Ambiga has to get up at 3 a.m. and go to a rubber estate about 10km away, and help a neighbour tap rubber for three hours before returning home at 6am, cleaning up and then going to her school.

She gets RM20 ($6 approximately) a day tapping the rubber, with which she supports her father, who suffers from diabetes and blood pressure and asthmatic mother, as well as paying for the education of her younger brother Suriya, 10, who is studying in a Tamil primary school.

However, there is no work on days when it rains and she does not get any money then.

Ambiga's plight was brought to the attention of Negri Sembilan state's MIC chairman, T. Rajagopalu who visited the family.

Her mother, Tamil Selvy told him that her family members had refused to help her out and instead, had advised her to get her daughter married off.

' I want my daughter to study hard and be somebody in life. I have confidence in her,' she pleaded.

Ambiga is currently sitting for her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations and hopes to become a teacher.

Appealing for charity for Ambiga, Rajagopalu said he would assist the children with their education.

He has also made arrangement for Ambiga's parents to receive treatment at Seremban Hospital, The Star newspaper said.
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