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A feast from Shunde Posted: 19 Aug 2011 05:23 PM PDT Great appetiser... Foie Gras with Apricot Mushroom. — All pictures by Eu Hooi Khaw KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 — Once in a while the Oriental Group of restaurants that includes Noble House, Oriental Pavilion, Oriental Banquet, Ming Room, Shark's Fin House and Han Room, lets diners have a gourmet experience courtesy of the best guest chefs, whether locally or from China. A secret family recipe, the Steamed Freshwater Prawns were delicious. "This is the fourth time we are doing this," said Datuk Phillip Siew, its chairman, "and this time we have a guest chef from Shunde, China." He and his group executive chef Justin Hor had visited and vetted the restaurants there, picking up the finest dishes suitable to our taste. Both Phillip and Justin, together with Shunde master chef Jacky Lam, presided over a tasting of the dishes at Noble House recently. Shunde is in Guangdong Province, located in the middle of the Pearl River in southern China. Shunde people are into home-style cooking, emphasising the freshness of seafood, and chicken which is slaughtered and immediately steamed. To hear Shunde chef Jacky Lam tell it, you literally put your hand in the river, catch the fish and steam it at once. "If they have a fish that weighs 15kg, six people will eat it all at one go!" he said. "If they eat a chicken that's fresh, they will order 10 chickens to be cooked in different ways." Shunde is also famous for its ginger milk pudding or "chong lai", made from fresh buffalo milk, tai tau choy or preserved salted radish, Tai Leong Yay Kei Kuen or slabs of pig fat wrapped round chicken and deepfried, among many others. Shunde cooking techniques are well-known, and the best Cantonese chefs come from the many cooking schools here. We dined off an eight-course Shunde menu that was so fine, varied and unusual that it's worth the RM2,188 it costs for 10 people. You could also order these dishes off the a la carte menu till September 15. Sesame Balls Stuffed with Seafood and Squid Ink -- a must-try. First, the Magnificent Six Treasures: Foie Gras with Apricot Mushroom, Rainbow Chicken Roll, Crispy Shiitake Mushroom, Sesame Ball Stuffed with Seafood and Squid Ink and Shark's Fin with Cucumber and Fresh Lily Bulb. Foie gras sits on a slice of mushroom that has been braised in a subtly spiced loh sooi. The creaminess of foie gras lands on the silky, flavourful mushroom at the bite. The Rainbow Chicken Roll, wrapped up with cucumber, red and yellow peppers and drizzled with a hot, sour and sweet Sichuan sauce, needed more oomph, but the Crispy Shiitake Mushroom tasted like a scrumptious honey glazed eel finished with fried ginger shreds. The Chilled Marinated Pork Jelly had a great mouthfeel, gelatinous with a little cartilage crunch from the pig's ear, and flavour from small chunks of pork. It was amazing eaten with the dip of vinegar, garlic, shallots and Thai chilli sauce poured over it. All the flavours of Shunde are distilled in the Sesame Balls stuffed with seafood and squid ink. It's a black, bouncy fishball (from the Lang Yue Tow or fishhead), with fragrant hints of mandarin peel or chan pei, dried shrimps and spring onion. Sesame seeds cling to this deepfried fishball which is delicious eaten with a pungent dip of fermented mussel meat with shredded ginger. Another appetiser I enjoyed was the Shark's Skin fried with cucumber and fresh lily bulbs. (In some countries, including the West, shark meat is regularly eaten). The almost gelatinous shark skin is so smooth and tastes wonderful against the cucumber slices, and sweet, crunchy lily bulbs, tossed in a light oyster sauce. Tender, soft Panfried Australian Abalone. Braised Superior Shark's Fin Soup with fresh crabmeat was flawlessly done, the stock had all the sweetness steeped from chicken, pork and dried scallops. Chef Lam taught us the proper way to eat this: first have the soup, then midway add in the bean sprouts (which act as a palate cleanser), and lastly vinegar. Only parsley is allowed from the start in a good shark's fin soup, as it gives it a fragrant lift. Roast Suckling Pig in the finest Macau Style had a super crispy skin, and a pair of scissors was passed round to snip at the pig for good luck. You could hear the crackling sound as this was done. The pig has been marinated on the underside with fragrant fresh herbs like thyme and mint, among others, in a Portuguese style. (Chef Lam is based in Macau. His consultancy services are much in demand in Hong Kong, China and Macau.) The roast suckling pig was simply scrumptious, the thin crispy skin gives way to succulent juicy meat. A glass of chilled lemon juice for digestion and we were off to the Steamed Freshwater Prawns, steamed with a 15-year Far Tiu wine and organic egg yolk. I keep bathing the prawn with this yummy sauce, slurping it up, and loving the taste of it with the prawn roe. Shunde master chef Jacky Lam panfrying abalone. The chef showed his mettle with the pan-frying of abalone that had been marinated with rice wine, oyster sauce, Sichuan hotbean sauce, then tossed in a combination of rice flour and sang fun. He added some chilli, spring onion and black pepper at the last, and served this tender, sweet and peppery abalone with a chilled glass of chardonnay. It was yummy. The Shunde Fried Rice was delicious to the last grain. The chef had fish pieces rolled in salted egg yolk and deepfried added to the rice, together with pine nuts, celery and lettuce. All the textures of these rolled round the palate, and we delighted especially in the crunchy bits of fish in salted egg yolk. The chef had promised that we would do the Fresh Milk or chong lai dessert ourselves. It was a marvellous experience. He poured one and a half spoons of sweetened Bentong ginger juice into a bowl, then we poured the fresh milk heated to 80 degrees C. The ginger juice sets the milk. A teaspoon put on top of my shiny smooth milk custard did not sink in! It was simply divine. Crystal Dumplings and Shunde Chicken Biscuits, the last more delicate than ours, ended this sumptuous lunch. Noble House is at 19 Jalan Delima, off Jalan Imbi, KL, Tel: 03-2145 8822. It's advisable to book if you want the RM2,188 menu. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Champion Clijsters pulls out of US Open Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT MASON, Ohio, Aug 19 — Champion Kim Clijsters has pulled out of the US Open due to a stomach muscle injury, the Belgian said in a statement released by the USTA today. "Two weeks of rehab was not enough to heal this injury. Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the US Open," said the 28-year-old, a three-times US Open winner. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Strike action postpones start of Spanish league season Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT MADRID, Aug 19 — The opening weekend of the Spanish football season, scheduled to start tomorrow, will be postponed due to strike action by the players' union (AFE) after talks failed to reach an agreement, the football league (LFP) said today. "Both parties have explained their positions and have agreed to continue with the conversations over the meetings already agreed, tomorrow and on Monday at the same time," the LFP said in a statement. The AFE are demanding greater protection for players' wages at clubs who have gone into financial administration and last week called a strike for the first two rounds of matches in the top two leagues. The AFE say around 50 million euros (RM213.5 million) is owed by clubs to more than 200 players, and that a proposed emergency fund of 40 million euros put forward by the LFP was not enough. The first meeting between the sides on Wednesday ended quickly with no resolution. "I prefer not to speak about what may happen," said Jose Luis Astiazaran, president of the LFP which represents the 42 professional clubs in the top two divisions. "There is a strike called for the first two rounds of matches. We'll have to wait and see what happens overall. We'll try and reach an agreement and seek solutions to avoid the strike for the second round of matches." Spokesman for the union, Luis Gil, told reporters: "We will meet tomorrow to try and narrow the differences. At least on this occasion they have put proposals on the table, something which didn't happen before. Now we need to evaluate them." — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Betty White voted America’s most trusted celebrity Posted: 19 Aug 2011 05:52 AM PDT Betty White seen here accepting the award for outstanding female actor in a comedy series for her role in "Hot in Cleveland" at the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, January 30, 2011. — Reuters pic LOS ANGELES, Aug 19 — Seems like former "Golden Girls" actress Betty White really does have the Midas touch. White, 89, is both the most popular and most trusted celebrity with Americans, and the person most likely to drive up the business of a brand she might choose to endorse, according to a poll released here. But the Reuters/Ipsos poll suggested that companies should stay away from Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen if they want to promote their products. Socialite and reality TV actress Hilton, and fired "Two and A Half Men" star Sheen topped the list of the most unpopular and least trusted personalities, and were deemed most likely to damage any brands they choose to support. White, the only surviving member of the key cast members of TV's "Golden Girls" 1980s comedy, has enjoyed a career resurgence in the past few years as a saucy senior in films such as "The Proposal" and the TV show "Hot in Cleveland". She also won an Emmy Award last year for hosting satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live". White scored an 86 per cent favourable opinion in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, beating Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock and Clint Eastwood in the survey of the 100 most popular personalities. She easily edged out Britain's Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton (5th), Oprah Winfrey (6th), and US First Lady Michelle Obama (15th) in the most trusted personalities ranking. Some 44 per cent of those questioned said they would be more likely to do business with a company if White endorsed it. At the other extreme, 54 per cent of the 2,012 Americans questioned for the poll said they would trust a company less if it were endorsed by Sheen, with Hilton coming in second. Pop star Britney Spears, actor Mel Gibson and golfer Tiger Woods — who lost several major endorsements after his 2009 sex scandal — also fared badly. Below is a list of the top 10 most popular personalities, with their "favourable" rating by percentage of voters. 1. Betty White 86 per cent favourable 2. Denzel Washington 85 3. Sandra Bullock 84 4. Clint Eastwood 83 5. Tom Hanks 81 6. Harrison Ford 80 7 tie. Morgan Freeman and Kate Middleton 79 9. Will Smith 77 10. Johnny Depp 76 Below is a list of the top 10 most unpopular personalities, with their "unfavourable" rating by percentage of voters. 1. Paris Hilton 60 per cent unfavourable 2. Charlie Sheen 52 3 tie. Britney Spears and Kanye West 45 5. Arnold Schwarzenegger 44 6. Tiger Woods42 7. Kim Kardashian 38 8. Mel Gibson 33 9. Donald Trump 31 10. LeBron James 29 The full Reuters/Ipsos poll can be seen here. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Five dead after storm strikes Belgian pop festival Posted: 19 Aug 2011 12:26 AM PDT Police officers look at the wreckage of a collapsed tent at the Pukkelpop music festival, August 18, 2011. — Reuters pic HASSELT, Aug 19 — The death toll has risen to five at a Belgian pop festival struck by a fierce storm that knocked down screens and collapsed tents, officials said today. A further eight festival-goers were seriously injured and Hilde Claes, mayor of the eastern Belgian city of Hasselt told Belgian television that some 65 people had more minor injuries. Some 60,000 to 65,000 mainly young people were attending the sold-out festival when the storm struck early in the evening. Many were sheltering in large festival tents, which were whipped away by the wind. "The storm struck in an incredibly sudden way," said Claes, who was there. "It was a real whirlwind. I have never seen anything like it in Hasselt before." The three-day Pukkelpop festival was set to have featured rapper Eminem and US bands Foo Fighters and The Offspring. Organisers decided early today to cancel the rest of the festival. The Belgian disaster comes just five days after five people died when an outdoor concert stage collapsed in heavy winds at the Indiana State Fair in the United States. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Percayakah Najib mahu jadi PM disokong rakyat Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:26 PM PDT 19 OGOS — Ketika mengumumkan kerajaan setuju menubuhkan Jawatankuasa Terpilih Parlimen mengenai transformasi pilihan raya, Perdana Menteri Najib menyebut bahawa beliau dan kabinetnya tidak mahu jadi Perdana Menteri dan menteri yang tidak jelas disokong rakyat. Ia adalah semangat dari amalan demokrasi di mana-mana jua dan bagi siapa jua yang menganut dan mengamalkan demokrasi. Ia bukan sekadar suatu yang Najib saja mahu tetapi itulah yang dituntut oleh semua orang dan semua bangsa dulu, kini dan selama-lamanya. Negara kita akan jadi aman jika Najib dan sesiapa juga yang jadi Perdana Menteri berfikir dan berpegang dengan apa yang Najib kata itu. Kata Perdana Menteri itu adalah betul tetapi yang betul itu tidak akan jadi betul jika ia tidak dibuktikan. Najib mesti membuktikan dulu apa yang diucapkannya itu sebelum orang boleh bercaya dia berpegang kepada kata-katanya itu. Setakat ini Najib tidak dapat dipercayai bahawa beliau berperang kepada kenyataannya itu. Bukti dia tidak berpegang pada cakapnya itu dapat dilihat dari kejadian di Perak menjelang dia jadi Presiden Umno dan Perdana Menteri. Dia mencabul amalan demokrasi seperti yang dikatakannya itu sebaik dia menjadi ketua Umno sementara di Perak menggantikan Tajol Rosli dan selepas menjadi Presiden Umno dia jadi ketua Umno Selangor, diyakini mahu menjadi Selangor seperti yang telah berlaku di Perak. Di Perak jelas dalam PRU 12 Mac, 2008 Barisan Nasional tidak mendapat sokongan rakyat. Yang memegang kuasa majoriti di Perak ialah Pakatan Rakyat yang masa itu belum diwujudkan. Sama ada tiga ADUN Pakatan Rakyat yang hilang dan kemudian dijumpai menjadi ADUN Bebas, jadi begitu kerana mainan politik Najib atau mereka secara siuman atau kurang siuman rela lari dari Pakatan Rakyat, terbukti rakyat Perak setahun  sebelumnya tidak menyokong BN. Sekali pun tiga ADUN itu kemudiannya tidak menentang kerajaan BN yang ditegakkan di negeri itu, keputusan rakyat di negeri setahun sebelumnya menolak BN. Ini demokrasi sebenarnya ada pada rakyat  telah membuktikan untuk tempoh lima tahun ialah mereka menolak BN. Ajaran dan amalan demokrasi yang disetujui dunia, sokongan rakyat atas sebuah kerajaan itu ialah selagi tiada pilihan raya baru diadakan. Kerajaan Perak yang ada sekarang adalah kerajaan yang ditunjuk oleh Istana dan BN pimpinan Najib tetapi ia belum dibuktikan disokong oleh rakyat seperti yang Najib sebut ketika membuat kenyataan dia tidak mahu jadi PM yang tidak disokong rakyat. Baru setahun rakyat Perak menyatakan tidak menyokong BN secara jelas, Najib menegakkan Menteri Besarnya yang tidak diketahui disokong atau tidak disokong rakyat. Adakah yang dia tidak mahu hanya jadi Perdana Menteri dan menteri yang tidak disokong secara jelas oleh rakyat, untuk menjadi Menteri tidak mengapa tanpa sokongan jelas rakyat? Katakanlah ketika tiga ADUN di Perak itu sudah membebaskan dirinya dari kerajaan masa itu, maka dalam keadaan semasa sudah tidak jelas kerajaan pimpinan Nizar itu disokong rakyat, tetapi pada masa itu juga tidak jelas Zamri Abdul Kadir disokong rakyat. Katakanlah keadaan itu tidak jelas, tetapi Najib menyokong pembentukan kerajaan yang tidak jelas juga. Apabila kes di Perak itu dibawa ke mahkamah, Najib lebih rela menyokong kerajaan yang ditegakkan oleh mahkamah dari kerajaan yang asalnya disokong oleh rakyat secara jelas. Kemudian dia beralih ke Selangor. Berbagai pergolakan berlaku di Selangor. Adalah dipercaya jika boleh apa yang berlaku di Perak hendak dilakukan juga di Selangor. Mungkin tidak bertujuan begitu, tetapi dari bacaan politik dia boleh dipercayai bertujuan begitu. Oleh kerana satu ADUN saja di Selangor yang lari dari Pakatan tiadalah dapat gantikan kerajaan yang sah itu dengan satu kerajaan yang tidak disokong secara jelas oleh rakyat. Najib juga cuba ganggu di Kedah hingga seorang Exconya dari kaum India terpaksa meletak jawatan. Tetapi Pilihan Raya Kecil di Kedah itu dimenangi juga oleh Pakatan Rakyat. Setahun selepas kerajaan di Kedah itu ditegakkan, terbukti rakyat menyokongnya lagi. Jika kejadian di Kedah dalam masa setahun itu rakyatnya tetap menolak BN, maka kemungkinan rakyat di Perak juga sama masih bersama Pakatan. Dalam keadaan tiga ADUN di Perak berubah kedudukan, berlaku keadaan yang jelas di sebelah Nizar dan tidak jelas juga di sebelah Zamri. Dalam keadaan semuanya tidak jelas, yang s ewajarnya Najib mesti bersetuju kepada satu pilihan raya baru supaya Perak dapat sebuah kerajaan yang jelas disokong rakyat. Tetapi Najib memilik untuk menegakkan sebuah kerajaan yang tidak jelas disokong rakyat. Ini berlawanan dengan kenyataannya konon tidak mahu jadi Perdana Menteri yang tidak jelas disokong rakyat. Justeru itu ada transformasi pada diri Najib sendiri. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

50 years on, returning to my university Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:19 PM PDT AUG 19 — I have just returned from a pilgrimage of sorts to my old stamping ground, Hobart, Tasmania where I went to university. It was exactly 49 years ago that I arrived to take up residence at Hytten Hall. This recent visit was made in response to an invitation by the Chancellor of the University of Tasmania to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws (h.c) in recognition of "your long-standing campaign to promote transparency and integrity in government and business..." It was a humbling experience that my own university had seen fit to honour me in this way for my small contribution to the fight against corruption inside my country as well as in the wider world. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I was told some months ago that the Council of the University of Tasmania had decided to admit me to the degree of LL.D honoris causa. In my Occasional Address I told the assembled audience of academic luminaries, high officers, graduates, diplomats and parents that if anyone had suggested to me when I was a student all those years ago that one day I would be conferred such an honour, I would have told them that I did not believe in miracles "but as you can see, I do now." By a happy coincidence, the students at this conferral ceremony were drawn from the faculties of law and business, many of whom were foreign students. I spoke to them about integrity in personal life, and by extension, national life. Addressing them as future chief justices, high court and appeal court judges, attorneys-general, corporate lawyers, and other high-flying legal eagles and business tycoons, I reminded them that "there is no substitute for personal integrity. Also remember that integrity is about doing what is demonstrably right when no one is watching you. So many reputations have been ruined because so many people have chosen to ignore a fundamental rule of integrity." The day before the conferral ceremony, a reception was held for overseas students and their parents. I was invited to address the students from various parts of the world, including sizeable numbers from Malaysia. I told them what the university meant to me beyond acquiring a degree. It offered an opportunity to live and work among Australians, to make friends and be a part of the university in the real sense of the word. I hoped they had not spent their years overseas living in their own little communes. If they had not made some Australian friends and got to know some local families they had really wasted their time. To the Malaysians I said their journey had not ended with their degree; the journey would be long and arduous. It was good to see their bright-eyed enthusiasm. I only hope that we will treat our non-Bumi young men and women without discrimination on their return. Discrimination should be made a criminal offence. They have an absolute right to equal opportunity; the Constitution guarantees that. The Chancellor, Damian Bugg AM, QC, is an eminent and distinguished member of the Australian Bar and has served as the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. At a special Chancellor's Dinner which he gave, I had the opportunity to ask him about the role of the Attorney-General and that of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions functions independently of the government. Although the ultimate authority to prosecute lies with the A-G, but because his is a political post, and it is preferable to have a non-politician carry out this function, the A-G's prosecution powers are normally delegated to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Bugg, who occupied this office from 1997-2007, has written and spoken extensively on the role of the independent prosecutor and the rule of law. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is an indispensable feature of the justice systems in many democratic societies, and its introduction is long overdue as far as our country is concerned. For the rule of law to take root in Malaysia, we must work towards embedding a system of justice free of political interference so as to generate public confidence in our prosecution service. * 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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Pemimpin PAS: Putrajaya tak serius, panel khas Parlimen hanya ‘penghias jendela’ Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:41 AM PDT Pemimpin PAS: Putrajaya tak serius, panel khas Parlimen hanya 'penghias jendela' KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Ogos — Naib Presiden PAS Salahuddin Ayub menegaskan matlamat pembentukan jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen mengenai pembaharuan pilihan raya tidak akan berjaya sekiranya ia hanya melibatkan perbincangan satu hala. Beliau juga menyifatkan pembentukan jawatankuasa itu sebagai "penghias jendela" selain menegaskan Putrajaya tidak serius untuk melakukan reformasi sistem pilihan raya. "Apabila mereka hanya menggunakan pendekatan sehala sahaja tanpa berunding tentang penubuhan ini, apa maknanya pembaharuan pilihan raya yang mereka nak buat sedangkan tidak mungkin jawatankuasa ini akan mencapai matlamat sekiranya pengerusinya sudah pasti seorang menteri dan mereka majoriti dalam jawatankuasa ini. "Ini hanya penghias jendela sahaja dan ini membuktikan kerajaan tidak serius menangani isu yang kita tuntut dan jawatankuasa ini sekadar melepaskan batuk di tangga dan untuk mengalih pandangan daripada isu sebenar," katanya memetik Harakahdaily. Salahuddin (gambar) juga berasa kecewa dengan kenyataan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang meminta Pakatan Rakyat tidak berprasangka buruk terhadap komitmen kerajaan menubuhkan jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen. Beliau berkata, kenyataan itu hanyalah untuk menutup kesilapan mereka tidak memanggil Pakatan Rakyat untuk berunding sebelum penubuhan jawatankuasa tersebut diumumkan. "Perkara yang paling penting untuk diingatkan ialah kita (Pakatan Rakyat) langsung tidak dirundingkan dalam penubuhan jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen ini dan kita rasa bahawa kita mungkin boleh bersetuju dan mungkin tidak bersetuju untuk menyertai jawatankuasa khas ini. "Macam mana mereka kata kita bersangka buruk sedangkan kita bersedia untuk bekerjasama dan menyertai jawatankuasa Parlimen ini jika kita dipanggil untuk merundingkan perkara ini," katanya. Semalam Muhyiddin meminta Pakatan Rakyat menggunakan kesempatan berkenaan sebagai medium untuk mengemukakan sebarang isu yang dibangkitkan sebelum ini bagi menambah baik sistem pilihan raya sedia ada. Beliau berkata Pakatan Rakyat seharusnya ikhlas memandangkan usaha Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak membolehkan kesemua pihak membahaskan sistem semasa. Salahuddin yang juga Ahli Parlimen Kubang Kerian menambah, Pakatan Rakyat akan mengadakan mesyuarat dalam masa terdekat untuk memutuskan pendirian mengenai jawatankuasa itu. "Pakatan akan mengadakan mesyuarat dalam masa terdekat untuk memutuskan bersetuju atau tidak untuk menyertai jawatankuasa ini. "Tapi kalau beginilah caranya kita kecewa dengan kerajaan," katanya. Pembentukan jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen diumumkan Najib Isnin lalu. Jawatankuasa itu akan terdiri daripada sembilan anggota iaitu lima dari Barisan Nasional (BN) termasuk menteri selaku pengerusi, tiga lagi mewakili Pakatan Rakyat dan satu Bebas. Usul bagi penubuhan jawatankuasa khas itu akan dibentangkan di Dewan Rakyat pada sesi Parlimen Oktober ini. Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz berkata jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen itu akan diketuai oleh seorang menteri bukannya wakil Pakatan Rakyat. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Perkasa: Umno, PAS, PKR korban Islam kerana undi Kristian Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:05 AM PDT Syed Hassan Syed Ali mengetuai demonstrasi yang diadakan di pekarangan Masjid Negara hari ini. — Foto oleh Choo Choy May KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Ogos — Perkasa hari ini menuduh pemimpin-pemimpin Melayu dari Umno, PAS dan PKR mengorbankan Islam semata-mata mahu mendapatkan sokongan masyarakat Kristian dalam pilihan raya. Kumpulan membela hak Melayu itu mengadakan satu demonstrasi di Masjid Negara di sini — disertai kira-kira 20 orang — menuduh kumpulan Kristian memurtadkan umat Islam. "Gereja biadab," kata Setiausaha Agung Perkasa Syed Hassan Syed Ali di sebalik persekitaran panas terik. "Mereka berkeras mahu menggunakan kitab injil versi Bahasa Malaysia. Sekarang mereka cukup berani untuk memurtadkan umat Islam, yang mana ia menyalahi undang-undang. Pemimpin-pemimpin Umno, PKR dan PAS terdesak mahu mendapatkan undi penganut Kristian sehingga sanggup mengorbankan Islam," tambahnya. Peserta-peserta demonstrasi turut membawa kain rentang yang tertulis "Haramkan guru-guru Kristian di Sekolah", "Istana perlu mengajar pemimpin Melayu" dan "Guru Kristian sudah melampau! Halau mereka daripada mengajar pelajar Melayu". Penganut Kristian sekitar 9.2 peratus daripada 28.3 juta rakyat Malaysia, menurut bancian terbaru. Mereka juga terdiri daripada hampir separuh 2.4 juta penduduk di Sarawak, negeri Malaysia timur yang dianggap undi kemenangan Barisan Nasional (BN). MENYUSUL LAGI Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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