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A fabulous buka puasa awaits at Vistana Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:22 PM PDT A selection of ulam, kerabu, ikan masin and tempeh... yummy. — Pictures by Eu Hooi Khaw KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 — The month of Ramadan begins in just a few days, and all the hotels and restaurants in town have already planned their buka puasa menus, with some already doing previews of the food. One of these is the Vistana Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, which has already held four previews of its buka puasa spread for guests and friends of the hotel. Relaxing... the poolside setting for the stalls. I managed to catch the last of the previews on Monday, and I was astonished to see how well attended it was. The dining room on the third floor of the hotel, which opens out to the pool, had a festive air, with the ceiling draped in colourful batik. The room seats 300 people, but if there are more, another room for 150 can be opened. It was like it was already Ramadan. At 7.30pm, diners went to get their food, long queues formed around the roast lamb and satay stall.  I headed for the appetiser side where there were fewer people, and helped myself to kerabu pucuk paku, papaya salad and Thai mango salad, and some fruit rojak. A piece of murtabak and I was ready to eat. There was also roti jala with chicken curry on this side of the pool. They turned out to be good choices. The fruit rojak of papaya, pineapple and rose apple had all the right nuances in the sauce which was not too sweet. The kerabu pucuk paku was of young shoots, so it had my vote, as did the papaya salad or som tam, and the mango salad with its right balance of hot, sweet and sour. A whole roast lamb at the BBQ section. The murtabak was filled generously with a spiced minced chicken filling. The roti had crispy edges and a bite spilled out the delicious filling.  I went back to the Makanan Kampung section, and was delighted with the Masak Tempoyak Ikan Sembilang. I had a small chunk of ikan patin in a light tempoyak or fermented durian sauce. It was scrumptious, so I went back for more. The sweet, salty and fruity Masak Lemak Ikan Masin dan Nenas makes you want to eat more rice. I wasn't so fond of the Masak Lemak Nangka though. Ayam Percik is usually chicken marinated with lemongrass, chillies, shallots, garlic, turmeric, tamarind and coconut milk,  and roasted over a charcoal fire. This one had a thick spiced gravy covering the chicken, and had a balanced flavour. The roast lamb, marinated with a lot of herbs before grilling, was tender, and tasted good in its lamb gravy. No wonder it was so popular. I should have eaten the chicken and beef satay without the peanut sauce – it was too sweet! I always wonder why so much sugar is used in both the marinade for the meat, and the sauce for satay. It's like having a dessert instead of something savoury. I had missed the Mamak food corner, so I went back for some Masak Daging Hitam, fried bittergourd with egg, Kobis Masak Mamak and Bendi (ladies fingers) curry. Fried Kwayteow hot from the wok was done well, and this together with some Mee Siam had me nicely filled. Later I went back for ice kacang and a jelly from the very colourful dessert table inside the room. It had rows of different coloured jellies, cakes (including tiramisu), mango pudding, chocolate mousse and kuih, pengat pisang and other sweet bubur. Later, Malay chef Hamdan Harun (left) pointed out the more than 100 dishes I had not tasted, and these included ikan bakar, bubur lambuk, pasta, a few asam pedas dishes, sup utara, sup kambing berempah, beehoon sup utara, nasi kandar and other curries and kerabu. There is also teh tarik and Nescafe tarik, air cincau and air longan. A jug of air selasih and some dates are placed on each table. At RM43++ this Ramadan buffet is really value for money. Children between six and 12 are charged RM28++. The Vistana Hotel is probably the best connected in the city in terms of transport. You can reach there by LRT, monorail, even the KL Hop on Hop Off double-decker city tour buses. It's located at 9 Jalan Lumut, off Jalan Ipoh, 50400 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-4042 8000 ext 8208. It's best to book as the Ramadan buffet is immensely popular, though I was told the first few days of the puasa month is usually quiet, as it's about breaking fast at home with the family. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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De Jonge and Simpson share lead at Greenbrier Posted: 30 Jul 2011 07:05 AM PDT NEW YORK, July 30 — Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge made the most of his growing comfort level on the Old White Course by charging into a tie for the lead in yesterday's second round of the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia. The burly 31-year-old, who finished third in the event's inaugural edition here 12 months ago, fired a sparkling three-under-par 67 to vault to the top of the standings at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs. De Jonge rebounded from an early bogey with four birdies to post a seven-under total of 133, ending a sun-splashed day level with American Webb Simpson, who sank a six-foot birdie putt at the last for a 68. Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman of South Africa, who set the first-round pace with a sizzling 64, was a further stroke back after carding a 70 while American world No. 6 Phil Mickelson missed the cut after shooting a 73. De Jonge, who had opened with a 66 in pursuit of a maiden victory on the PGA Tour, was delighted with his form at the picturesque resort venue situated in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. "I started out a little bit shaky but I made some good pars at the beginning of the round and got some momentum going," de Jonge told reporters. "It was nice. I felt like I had pretty good control of the ball." The Zimbabwean's best PGA Tour finish was his third place in last year's Greenbrier Classic and he said he had liked the par-70 layout when he first saw it. "I felt comfortable here from the start and I love the changes (since last year)," added de Jonge, who went to university at nearby Virginia Tech. "It feels good out there. It's a comfortable place for me." Long-awaited breakthrough De Jonge posted three top-three finishes on the 2010 PGA Tour and believes he simply needs to stay out of his own way if he is to pull off a long-awaited breakthrough victory on the US circuit. "It's very, very difficult to win out here; it's difficult to win anywhere," he said. "The biggest thing is just getting out of my own way. "Staying in your own routine . . . is the best way to put it." Britain's Brian Davis birdied five of his last nine holes for a scintillating 64 to lie two shots off the pace, level with Americans Gary Woodland (70), Michael Letzig (66), Derek Lamely (70) and Scott Stallings (65). The cut fell at one-over 141, with four-times major champion Mickelson the biggest name to fall by the wayside — his first missed cut this year in 15 PGA Tour starts. "I played really well, hit a lot of good golf shots," Mickelson said after mixing six bogeys with three consecutive birdies from the 12th. "I'm not disappointed at all. "I hit a few shots on the front nine that were actually really good shots that left me no chance to recover and I ended up trying to come back, but fell a couple of shots shy there." Former major winners Justin Leonard, fellow American Davis Love III and Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal, plus last year's Greenbrier Classic champion Stuart Appleby of Australia, also failed to advance. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Vettel storms back to take Hungary pole Posted: 30 Jul 2011 06:07 AM PDT BUDAPEST, July 30 — Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel roared back to form with pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix today after his Red Bull mechanics worked through the night to get his car up to speed. Sebastian Vettel gives the thumbs up to "the boys" for his pole position. — Reuters pic The German had failed to win the past two races but made sure Red Bull snapped up their 11th pole in 11 races this season, and 12th in a row, with his eighth of the campaign and 23rd of his career. Australian teammate Mark Webber, second in the championship but a massive 77 points behind Vettel, qualified down in sixth place. "I felt much more comfortable this morning," Vettel said. "I'm very pleased with the result; we changed a lot on the car overnight. The boys were working pretty hard and didn't get much sleep. I've got the confidence back." McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who won in Germany last Sunday when Red Bull's dominance from the first half of the season continued to ebb away, was quickest early on in the final session but had to settle for second on the grid after Vettel's flying last lap. "Still I think it is a great achievement for us. Today they seemed to pick up a bit of pace," said the Briton, twice a winner at the Hungaroring. Hamilton's teammate Jenson Button was third on the grid for his 200th grand prix but double world champion Fernando Alonso could only manage fifth for Ferrari behind teammate Felipe Massa. Spaniard Alonso, who was 30 yesterday, appeared to be heading for pole on his final lap but again lost time in the final sector as he feared. It was the first time this year that Massa had outqualified the Spaniard. Vettel also took pole in Budapest last year, when Webber won, but Red Bull had not been sounding confident in the run-up to this race after their recent mini-blip. As fans filled the stands on the steep grassy bank next to the home straight, the usual suspects were knocked out in Q1 while Sergio Perez surprisingly beat Sauber teammate Kamui Kobayashi in the second session and then qualified 10th. Seven times champion Michael Schumacher was just ahead of the Mexican rookie as Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg again outqualified his German compatriot by taking seventh on the grid. The sun had shone for the day's final practice where Vettel topped the timesheets. However, the overcast conditions from yesterday, when Hamilton was twice quickest, returned during qualifying. The forecast for tomorrow's race is mixed. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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New male vibrator claims to boost erections Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:12 AM PDT Viberect promises to enhance erections and deliver stronger orgasms in men. LOS ANGELES, July 30 – In recent days gadget bloggers such as Gizmag and Techgadgets have been buzzing about a new handheld gadget for men with erectile dysfunction (ED). Viberect, just approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The device promises to not only help men maintain rigidity without medications but also to deliver stronger orgasms. The new male vibrator is geared for men with mild to moderate ED, including those undergoing rehabilitation after a prostatectomy, or those with spinal cord injuries, which can interfere with the ability to ejaculate. To aid erections, Viberect is used about seven to ten minutes prior to sexual intercourse to stimulate penile nerves. "Instead of relying on a little blue pill to get things ready for the bedroom, the device, which looks a bit like a hair crimper, delivers targeted nerve stimulation to both dorsal and ventral surfaces of the penis using medical Softpads," writes Gizmag. The device will launch in the US after August 15, according to the website, and European sales will begin later this year. Price is US$300 (RM889.95). Another option for men who have trouble maintaining erections is a product dubbed the "Viagra condom." British biotech company Futura Medical has created the new condom, currently known as CSD500, that is coated on the inside with a vasodilator gel that increases blood flow and results in a stronger, longer-lasting erection. The product is nearing final regulatory approval, and condom company Durex announced its aim to unroll the condoms in Europe by the end of the year. Plans have yet to be announced on whether the manufacturers will apply for FDA approval to market the condoms in the US. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Jerry Lewis tight-lipped on telethon role Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT Jerry Lewis at the encore session for "The Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis" at the 2011 Summer Television Critics Association Cable Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 29, 2011. — Reuters pic LOS ANGELES, July 30 — Veteran entertainer Jerry Lewis has brushed aside questions about media reports that he was retiring as host of the annual US telethon for muscular dystrophy, suggesting they were false. Lewis, 85, announced in May that he would be making his final performance this September on the telethon, which he has hosted since 1966, and would sing his signature song "You'll Never Walk Alone". At the time, the comedian and actor did not give a reason for the final appearance, but a spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association said the programme would be changing its format from a 211/2-hour telethon on the US Labour Day holiday to a six-hour broadcast. Asked to reflect on his upcoming final telethon appearance, Lewis told TV journalists here at a bi-annual gathering of critics that they should not believe everything they read. "Who told you that? I never read it," he said. "Anything you read, read it twice." Asked to clarify what his role would be on the telethon, Lewis refused to specify, telling another reporter. "It is none of your business." He added: "I didn't mean to sound rude but on September 5, the day after that programme, I will have an international press conference . . . and I will have plenty to say about what I think is important and that is the future, not the past." Lewis made his remarks while promoting an upcoming Starz TV documentary about his life in showbusiness. Despite railing against reality TV shows and claiming that the life had been "sucked out" of the TV and movie industry by commercial pressure, Lewis described himself as "the happiest old man you ever, ever saw in your life". Asked whether he felt he had fulfilled his destiny, he replied, "not yet, but I am coming close", adding that he would not be satisfied until he had helped "get the cure for muscular dystrophy". — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Statue for Chuck Berry erected in St Louis Posted: 30 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT ST LOUIS, July 30 — Rock 'n roll pioneer Chuck Berry, spry and smiling at 84 years old, gave a wave of approval yesterday dedicating an eight-foot bronze statue of himself before a cheering crowd of about 500 people. Chuck Berry, wearing his trademark boating cap, in this file photo performing during the Bal de la Rose in Monte Carlo, March 28, 2009. The Bal de la Rose is an annual charity event in aid of Foundation Princess Grace. — Reuters pic The statue was erected in the Delmar Loop entertainment district of St Louis despite opponents who objected to the monument, citing Berry's legal troubles during his long career. "I won't keep you long," Berry, wearing his trademark boating cap, told a crowd that gathered despite heat surpassing 90 degrees Fahrenheit. "I don't know how to speak, I just sing a little bit. I'm going to say thank you again, and I love you all." Berry's rapid fire lyrics and revolutionary guitar riffs landed him in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and earned the lifelong St Louis resident a Presidential medal of honour. He is listed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the five top all-time rock acts along the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley. Berry, who first played in 1941, still performs every month at Blueberry Hill, across the street from the statue. Among those sending greetings to Berry was Elvis Costello, who said he was glad to see a Berry statue "in St Louis where it belongs", and from fellow rock pioneer Little Richard, who called Berry "the greatest entertainer in the world". Berry was joined at the podium by his wife, children and grandchildren, who joined his fans in singing "Johnny B. Goode", his signature 1957 hit, as the rock icon made his way through the crowd at the end of the ceremony. A plaza near the statue features illuminated walls with laser-engraved musical notes of "Johnny B. Goode". Concrete strips in the sidewalk are etched with the lyrics of Berry songs. Opposition to the statue came earlier this summer when a former city council member gathered 100 signatures aimed at delaying the installation. The opposition centred on felony convictions in Berry's early career, including a 1962 conviction for transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. Berry spent three years in prison, where he penned several songs, including "No Particular Place to Go". Berry collapsed during a show in Chicago last New Year's Day but recovered in time to play his next show in St Louis, and showed no signs of ill effects at the dedication ceremony. His next Blueberry Hill show is scheduled for August 17. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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The wait is almost over Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:59 PM PDT JULY 30 — With no World Cup or European Championship this year, it's been a pretty boring summer when it comes to football, and I say this without meaning any disrespect to the Gold Cup and the surprisingly boring Copa America this year. When you're a big football fan (worse if you're football crazy), June and July are pretty dire months in terms of football entertainment. Apart from fans of the bigger clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea who are lucky enough to get the opportunity to see their favourite stars "live" in action in Malaysia, fans of smaller fish (Tottenham Hotspur, for yours truly) will have to be content with catching up with the latest transfer gossip online. Thank God for the internet though. Trying to decipher what managers, players, club owners and agents mean whenever they come up with a statement regarding a player's transfer status has always been a fun riddle. But it's only fun if you're reading about other teams, and much less so when the subject is your favourite club's best player. When you're a Spurs fan, there's nothing more suspenseful this summer than watching how the transfer saga regarding Luka Modric, far and away the club's best player last season, is going to unfold. I'm sure most Spurs fans will agree with me that there's nothing we'd like more than to have Luka, aka the Little Genius, stay with us this season and help the club's ongoing progress. I'm not even going to delude myself by saying that no player is irreplaceable because while it is true that surely there is a decent or even better replacement for the Little Genius out there (like there were replacements for Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov when Manchester United came calling for them a few years back — thanks for the money, you Red Devils!), finding one with a decent price in this summer of crazy transfer fees is not going to be easy. The fact that Luka was clearly the engine that kept the team going for the past few seasons he's been at Spurs further points to how hard it is going to be to replace him, and get the team to click in the same way it did with him in it. On the other hand, I'm sure fans will also understand why he's been tempted by a move to high-rollers Chelsea, where not only will he be competing in all the major competitions and most probably challenging for all the big trophies but, if reports are to be believed, will also be offered triple the wages he's now earning at Spurs. If your job is playing football, a better office and higher wages are more than valid reasons for wanting to tender in your resignation and jump ship. I've read somewhere that the crazy and astronomical wages that football players earn nowadays make it a little hard for fans to empathise with their situation. Compared to the old days where a professional football player earns wages not much higher than your usual working class man, jumping ship when a better offer comes in is much easier to understand when the fans know how much that extra £500 or £1,000 (RM2,400 to RM4,800) might mean because they earn around the same as well. But when you compare that to the current situation where that extra money is £50,000 when you're already earning £50,000 a week, which is more than what most people earn in a year, it is kind of hard to empathise. Whatever do you need that much money for, right? But still, money is money and when you can get that extra cash in, I totally understand why you'd want to. The question now is probably only of "how much" and "when" Chelsea (or the many other clubs also linked with him) will offer to justify his transfer. Having seen Spurs play hardball before, I've no doubt that our chairman will milk the transaction for what it's worth (we got about £30.6 million for Dimitar Berbatov, whom we got for £10.9 million, and more than £16 million for Michael Carrick who cost us less than £3 million), but I sure hope this transfer saga ends as soon as possible so that we can use that cash to fund our own transfer adventures. To see rivals like Liverpool, Manchester City and even the notoriously stingy Arsenal already recruiting new blood and spending money to strengthen their squads is truly not much fun when your own team does nought in the transfer market (aside from signing the 40-year-old goalkeeper Brad Friedel). But looking at the seriousness of the other teams, this coming English Premier League season might be the most unpredictable yet, and therefore the most exciting. Only a couple more weeks to go, and I simply can't wait! * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

The decline and fall of Scottish football Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:52 PM PDT JULY 30 — In 1967, Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup, beating Inter Milan 2-1 to immortalise themselves as the "Lisbon Lions." A week later, cross-city rivals Glasgow Rangers were narrowly edged out by Bayern Munich in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Three years on, Celtic almost repeated their feat of 1967 before falling at the final hurdle with a 2-1 defeat against Feyenoord, and in 1972 Rangers secured their first European trophy with a Cup Winners' Cup final victory over Dynamo Moscow. The "Old Firm" of Celtic and Rangers have always been the dominant forces of Scottish football, but they weren't the only ones to enjoy success on the European stage as Aberdeen — managed by a young Alex Ferguson — claimed the Cup Winners' Cup in 1983, beating no less an opponent than Real Madrid in an exciting final; even provincial Dundee United reached the Uefa Cup final in 1987. There's no doubt about it. Back then, the leading Scottish clubs were on an equal footing with nearly every other nation in Europe. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Scottish football is now in a dire state, vividly illustrated by Rangers' 1-0 home defeat to Swedish side Malmo in the Champions' League qualifying round on Tuesday night, a result that will surely lead to them dropping out of the competition when the second leg is played next week. The lack of fanfare surrounding the start of the new Scottish Premier League campaign is another indication of the sport's decline north of the border (yes, apparently the new season is already underway... I didn't really notice either). A similar fall in standards has affected the Scottish national team. Throughout the Seventies and Eighties, the vociferous and good-natured Tartan Army of Scotland fans routinely graced the final stages of World Cups and European Championships with their boisterous presence. Even if their team largely underperformed, never progressing beyond the first round of any major tournament, at least they got there; that has changed now, with Scotland failing to qualify for any final series since the World Cup in 1998. So what has gone wrong? Why has Scottish football, at both club and international level, been transformed from a major force into a nondescript irrelevance in the space of 25 years? To provide a simple answer: It's all about money. Between the Sixties and Eighties, when the majority of revenue brought in by clubs consisted of matchday earnings such as gate receipts, Scottish clubs could hold their own thanks to the healthy attendances they regularly attracted — especially Celtic and Rangers. But when the English Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and the Bundesliga jumped on the satellite television bandwagon in the early Nineties, the Scottish game was quickly left behind. This was due to the fact that the potential television market for Scottish football is inherently smaller than many of their European rivals as a result of the country's significantly lower population size. Whereas advertisers and broadcasters in England, Italy, Spain, France and Germany know that they can capture the interest of a nation containing at least 50 million people, the population of Scotland is around 10 per cent that amount, at around five million. That makes Scottish football far less lucrative commercially and, within a few years of the satellite revolution in the early Nineties, Scottish clubs were earning significantly less, in comparative terms, than their rivals in many other European nations. Rangers and Celtic were initially somewhat insulated due to the combined effects of their huge pulling power within the country, the large crowds they attract on a weekly basis, and their regular qualification for the Champions' League. But it was only a temporary respite, and the relative drop in television income suffered by Scottish clubs eventually caught up with even the Old Firm, reducing their ability to attract top class players and leading to the financial problems that almost saw Rangers go into administration last year. Two remedies have been proposed: Allowing Rangers and Celtic to join the English Football League or Premier League, which would make commercial sense but would be met with resistance by many supporters from both sides of the border (not to mention Fifa), or allowing the biggest clubs to leave the SPL and join a newly-formed "Atlantic League" alongside leading teams from other secondary European markets such as Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. While both of those possible ventures would significantly benefit Rangers and Celtic (and anybody else who might be invited to join the Atlantic League) by immediately increasing the television revenues they could command, it wouldn't do a great deal for the Scottish game as a whole — can you imagine how much the SPL would suffer if Rangers and Celtic weren't even in it? But ultimately, something has to be done and the Atlantic League is probably the best option — Rangers and Celtic are too big to remain hamstrung by the commercially lightweight SPL for much longer, and there are plenty of clubs in Sweden, Belgium and so on who are facing similar predicaments (big club, small domestic league) and would find a new league covering seven or eight territories equally appealing. Until then, the Scottish football will stutter on, with increasingly poor teams playing in front of increasingly empty stadia in a league that is increasingly ignored outside Scotland. And the "Lions of Lisbon" will become an increasingly distant memory, incongruous with the harsh realities of the present. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Muhyiddin: Kerajaan kaji kaedah atasi kenaikan harga barang Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:15 AM PDT PAGOH, 30 Julai — Kerajaan akan mengkaji langkah baru untuk menangani kenaikan harga barang bagi mengurangkan bebanan rakyat, kata Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Beliau berkata antara langkah berkenaan ialah membantu petani, penguatkuasaan undang-undang, imbuhan khas kepada rakyat dan menambah subsidi untuk rakyat selain subsidi minyak. Jawatankuasa Kabinet Mengenai Bekalan dan Harga Barang akan bermesyuarat tidak lama lagi bagi mengkaji langkah berkenaan dan merumuskan formula untuk mengurangkan beban rakyat berikutan kenaikan kos harga barang-barang, kata Muhyiddin yang juga pengerusi jawatankuasa itu. Langkah itu nanti akan menidakkan dakwaan bahawa kerajaan tidak ambil kisah mengenai beban yang ditanggung rakyat berikutan kenaikan harga barang-barang keperluan, katanya dipetik Bernama Online. Pada Rabu lepas, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan kerajaan memutuskan untuk menambah satu lagi Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara (NKRA) iaitu yang berkaitan usaha untuk memerangi kos kehidupan yang semakin meningkat berikutan kenaikan harga barang-barangan terutamanya makanan, yang dilihat sebagai fenomena global dan membebankan rakyat. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Najib: MIC dapat menteri penuh ke-2, Palanivel sertai Kabinet Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:57 AM PDT PUTRAJAYA, 30 Julai — Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan MIC, parti komponen BN itu, akan menerima satu lagi jawatan menteri penuh — amalan yang dipraktikkan ketika pentadbiran bapanya Allahyarham Tun Abdul Razak. Dengan keputusan itu kata Najib, Presiden MIC Senator Datuk G. Palanivel (gambar) akan dilantik sebagai Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri bagi membuktikan komitmen pentadbirannya ke atas masyarakat India. Perkembangan itu dilihat satu lagi strategi Najib memikat sokongan masyarakat India menjelang pilihan raya umum ke-13 selepas merosot teruk tiga tahun lalu. Permintaan agar BN memperuntukkan jawatan menteri penuh kedua telah dibuat sejak era kepimpinan Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. "Saya hendak kembali ke era Tun Razak apabila ada (wakil) India Malaysia dalam Kabinetnya," kata beliau ketika berucap merasmikan Perhimpunan Agung Tahunan MIC di sini petang ini. Najib berkata Yang di-Pertuan Agong sudah memberi perkenan atas keputusannya dan Palanivel, kini merupakan Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Perusahaan dan Komoditi, akan mengangkat sumpah dalam waktu terdekat. Palanivel dilantik sebagai senator pertengahan tahun lalu. Beliau tewas dalam pilihan raya umum Mac 2008 dan gagal menjadi calon pilihan raya kecil kerusi Parlimen Hulu Selangor April 2010. Sebagai kompromi beliau dilantik menjadi anggota Dewan Negara dan dijadikan timbalan menteri. Beliau menggantikan Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu sebagai Presiden MIC pertengahan Disember lalu. Ini perhimpunan agung pertama baginya selaku ketua MIC. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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