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Britain to stick to doping ban law despite CAS ruling Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:18 AM PDT LONDON, Oct 6 – Britain will retain a by-law preventing its athletes found guilty of wilful doping from competing in any Olympics, British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan said today. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) earlier cleared the way for several dozen former doping offenders to compete at next year's London Games after dismissing the validity of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule banning them. The IOC Rule 45 was introduced in 2008 and banned athletes, including American Olympic 400 metres champion LaShawn Merritt, from participating at the next Games if they have been suspended for six months or longer. The BOA said its by-law was an eligibility rule and not a sanction like the IOC case so the CAS decision was not binding on Britain. "It is tough but it is fair. It has a strong appeal mechanism," Moynihan told a news conference. "Fundamentally the BOA by-law addresses eligibility and is not a sanction." British sportsmen like cyclist David Millar, who said the CAS ruling was a "good thing", and sprinter Dwain Chambers have fallen foul of the by-law but the BOA is confident it would win a case if either of them went to CAS because of the distinction that not being picked is different from a sanction. "This is a by-law introduced with support of the athletes for the athletes. It has consistently had 90 per cent support from the athletes," Moynihan continued. He showed a letter the BOA had received from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) saying the association's anti-doping laws complied with the global standard. CAS said its ruling on the IOC case was not in compliance with the WADA's code. Moynihan has also written to the IOC, who he said would be hugely disappointed by the CAS ruling, asking for support. "It is a sorry day for the International Olympic Committee," he added. The BOA is also pondering extending the ban to athletes caught up in match-fixing – not just wilful doping, he said. Former doper Millar, banned from competing in the Olympics by the BOA, said lifetime bans for a first offence "does not encourage rehabilitation nor education, two things that are necessary for the future prevention of doping in sport". "Every doping case is different, as is every human being, we must not forget this. We expect fairness to be an integral part of the sports we watch, and yet fairness can be hard to find in the punishments of those athletes who make mistakes," the Scot said in a statement. "I hope this decision (by CAS) will pave the way for the development of global sports, and to creating a system that all athletes and sports fans can understand and believe in." – Reuters

Bayern’s Breno can be released from prison on bail: Prosecutor Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:40 AM PDT MUNICH, Oct 6 – Bayern Munich defender Breno can be released from prison if he posts bail after the Munich prosecutor said today there was no fear of flight and danger of suppression of evidence. Breno (picture) had been remanded into custody on Sept 24 after he was suspected of having played a role in a fire that destroyed his Munich villa earlier in September. "In order to be released he must first post bail," said the prosecutor's office in a statement. "When that might be cannot be predicted yet." There was no mention of the size of bail needed. The prosecutor also said there were 11 more conditions he would have to abide by once released, without naming any. Brazilian Breno, 21, who joined Bayern three years ago, had been recovering from an injury and was alone at home at the time of the fire which gutted the house in Munich's Gruenwald neighbourhood. Bayern are currently leading the Bundesliga standings and are top of their Champions League group. – Reuters

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‘My Week with Marilyn’ starring Michelle Williams Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:38 AM PDT LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 – The first trailer for My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain) as Marilyn Monroe, was released on October 5. Based on the memoir The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, written by Laurence Olivier's assistant Colin Clark, the film takes places during the 1956 production of The Prince and the Showgirl in England. The footage reveals a week originally missing from Clark's diary, when the assistant showed Monroe an idyllic time away from the tensions on the set between the actress and Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie), and the pressures of her Hollywood persona. After Monroe's husband, playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England, she has a fling with the young Clark, played by Eddie Redmayne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), who falls for the sex symbol. The film screens at the New York Film Festival this weekend and releases on November 4 in North America, November 18 in the UK, Denmark and Sweden in November and other markets in early 2012. Trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810178830/video/26836089 – AFP

Red carpet rolls at new Busan film festival home Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:36 AM PDT (L to R) Director Song Il-Gon,actress Han Hyo-Joo and actor So Ji-Sub attend a photocall for 'Always', the opening film of the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), during the press conference at the Busan Cinema Center on October 6, 2011 in Busan, South Korea. – AFP pic BUSAN, Oct 6 – Asia's largest film festival rolls out the red carpet at its stunning new US$140 million (RM445.13 million) home today, hoping a parade of stars will usher in a new era for cinema in the region. "Today is a day of great meaning and significance," said Korean director Song Il-gon, whose romance "Always" was chosen to open the 16th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). "Busan has long played an important role in Korean cinema and in Asian cinema and it now has a building of significance that reflects that role. This is a landmark for cinema." Scaffolding was coming down at the new Busan Film Center, a complex covering 30,000 square metres and including a 4,000-seater outdoor theatre, just hours before the stars were due to arrive. Around 150 faithful film fans had camped out overnight in an effort to ensure prime star-gazing positions for the big event and they were to be joined by more than 4,000 official guests for the evening festivities. Among those expected to grace the red carpet were Korean idols Song Hye-kyo and Ahn Sung-ki, alongside Taiwanese heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and China's Tang Wei, here to promote the Peter Chan-directed blockbuster "Wu Xia". International A-listers include veteran French actress Isabelle Huppert, French director Luc Besson and Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh, star of Bessons latest film, "The Lady", on the life of Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi. They will be joined by one of Hollywoods rising stars, Logan Lerman, promoting the 3D feature "The Three Musketeers". Chinese director/producer Tsui Hark is also in town to collect the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award for a career spanning three decades that has included credits on the likes of the gangster classic "A Better Tomorrow" and the ground-breaking fantasy "Zu Warriors". Song, whose opening film "Always" is a romance between an out-of-luck boxer (So Ji-sub) and a young woman who is going blind (Han Hyo-joo), said he was "honoured and thrilled" to play his part at the new venue. Festival director Lee Yong-kwan said he was happy that South Korea and the world could see what his team had been working on for the past three years. "Our new centre is a place for films and a place for people," he said. "We are confident it will serve more than the festival but become the home of cinema in Asia." BIFF has lined up 307 films to be screened over nine days, with 135 either world or international premieres, meaning they are screening outside their home nations for the first time. The Busan festivals major award, New Currents, offers two US$30,000 (RM95,385) prizes for first or second time Asian filmmakers and has attracted a final field of 13 productions, representing 11 countries. The diverse range of finalists includes a Sri Lanka production that looks at life in a drought-plagued village ("August Drizzle") and a Chinese drama set against the backdrop of the search for missing rock climbers ("Lost in the Mountain"). The New Currents jury is headed by the Taiwanese-born filmmaker Yonfan ("Peony Pavilion"), whose work is also the focus of a retrospective at the festival. BIFF has this year raised the prize money for its secondary Flash Forward award for first or second time European filmmakers to US$30,000 from US$20,000 in an effort to boost ties between Asian and European film-making communities. A jury headed by Australian director Gillian Armstrong will judge the 10 contestants. Europe is extensively represented at this year's festival, with 80 films screening and a large delegation of filmmakers expected for the Asian Film Market, the trade-led sideshow to the festival from October 10 to 13. The festival proper continues until October 14, when the winners of the New Currents and Flash Forward awards will be announced. Last year's edition of the festival attracted 200,000 people – a record for the event. – AFP

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Drunk on Facebook? That could be a problem Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:53 AM PDT NEW YORK, Oct 6 — College students' Facebook pages might hold clues to which of them are at risk of alcohol dependence and abuse, according to a study. Researchers found that students who had pictures or posts about getting drunk or blacking out were more likely to be at risk of drinking problems, based on a screening test. That was not necessarily the case for students who mentioned alcohol or drinking on their pages, but not in a way that showed that they drank too much or in unhealthy situations. It's possible that Facebook pages could help schools find out who needs to be assessed for alcohol-related problems — although privacy and ethical concerns might make that complicated, researchers said. The question was whether "what's being found on these sites . . . is actually predictive of clinical conditions", said Dr James Niels Rosenquist, a social media researcher and psychiatrist from Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in the study. The findings suggest that messages on Facebook sites did seem to be linked to what happened in the "real world", he told Reuters Health. Dr Megan Moreno from the University of Wisconsin-Madison led a team of researchers from her university and the University of Washington in Seattle who surveyed the Facebook pages, including photos and posts, of 224 undergrads with publicly available profiles. About two-thirds of those students had no references to alcohol or drinking on their pages. The rest of the pages mentioned or had pictures of social, non-problematic drinking or more serious and risky alcohol use, including riding in a car while drunk or getting in trouble related to drinking. The researchers brought all the students in for a 10-question screening test used to determine who is at risk of problem drinking. That test assesses the frequency of drinking and binge drinking as well as negative consequences from alcohol use. Close to six in 10 of the students whose Facebook pages had references to drunkenness and other dangerous drinking scored above the cutoff showing a risk of alcohol abuse and dependence, as well as other drinking-related problems. That compared with 38 per cent of students who had more minor references to alcohol and 23 per cent of those who did not mention alcohol or drinking at all, according to findings published in the Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. In addition, close to one in five Facebook-implicated risky drinkers said they had an alcohol-related injury in the previous year. Moreno and her colleagues proposed that peer leaders such as residential assistants could be trained to use Facebook to see who was at risk of problem drinking, and refer those students to get screening. Or, parents and administrators could talk to school counsellors if they were worried about alcohol-related content on a student's page. "You might have someone who, if they write in a Facebook posting about being drunk . . .  that might be a red flag," Rosenquist told Reuters Health. But, he added, with social media "you get very small snapshots into people's lives", so perusing Facebook pages alone might not be enough to see who needed to be screened for alcohol problems. And there were other concerns as well, he said, including how appropriate it was to go scouting on students' pages for certain information. Moreno said that a college RA already had a connection with students and was there to look out for them — and this study was showing that "there is some legitimacy in approaching students that you're worried about", including if that worry was coming from Facebook posts. But, she added, "paying attention to people's privacy concerns is really big". Moreno suggested that universities could have links to the health centre or to online screening tests that show up as Facebook advertisements for students who use terms such as "blacked out" on their pages. "With the targeted messaging, there's not that (feeling) that someone you don't know is creeping on your profile," she told Reuters Health. — Reuters

Beatlemania revived ahead of auction in Argentina Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:30 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES, Oct 6 — An original drawing by John Lennon is part of the more than 120 lots of Beatles memorabilia that will be auctioned in Argentina by South America's largest collector of the Fab Four. Lennon original among the more than 120 lots of Beatles memorabilia up for auction. — Reuters pic Lennon's sketch starts at a bidding price of 100,000 pesos (RM76,080) and features stick figures of Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. In a corner of the picture, an inscription reads: "1+1=John+Yoko. 'Tis simple math guys". The trove that will be auctioned on October 13 by Banco Ciudad is owned by Argentine Raul Blisniuk, who entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1998 as South America's greatest collector of Beatles mementos. It also features pristine black-and-white photographs, a bass autographed by Paul McCartney, signed cheques, LPs and even real dollar bills with pictures of the world's most influential rock group placed over George Washington's face. "My passion for The Beatles comes from childhood," said Blisniuk, who began collecting photos of the group's records at age 13. "I grew up with Beatlemania and I'm a Beatles fanatic. "I came from a poor family so my dad couldn't afford the records, but over time, I started saving newspaper clippings, magazines, and my collection grew," he said. At an event to present the items in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, members of a Beatles tribute band called Danger Four arrived in a London Black Cab wearing dark suits and sporting Beatles hairstyles. They played some of the group's best-known tunes to commemorate the Beatles' last live performance: an impromptu concert on January 30, 1969, on the roof of their Savile Row Apple headquarters before surprised Londoners on their lunch break. Danger Four performed instead on the top of the Banco Ciudad building in downtown Buenos Aires. Below, screaming fans in 1960s garb, played by actors, and curious onlookers snapping pictures with cell phone cameras clogged traffic. "The Beatles are energy and that's why we know they're always attention-grabbers," said Blisniuk. "They're unique and I don't think there will be anyone like them again. "I've always said that the most important things in my life are my family, and then, the Beatles," he said. — Reuters

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Sweden’s Transtromer wins Nobel literature prize Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:19 AM PDT Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer poses for photos his home in Stockholm October 6, 2011. — Reuters pic STOCKHOLM, Oct 6 — Sweden's most famous living poet Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel prize for literature today, more than 20 years after a stroke severely limited his speech and movement, but not the power of his writing. The Swedish Academy gave the award to a Swede for the first time in more than 30 years, saying it chose Transtromer "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality". "I would like to say that he is one of the most foremost poets in the world today," said Peter Englund, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy after the announcement of the prize, which comes with 10 million Swedish crowns (RM4.60 million). He said the poet had taken the news in his stride. "I think he was surprised, astonished," Englund told Swedish television. "He sat relaxing and listening to music. But he said it was very good." Transtromer had a stroke in 1990, limiting his speech and movement down his right side. A keen pianist, he still plays with his left hand. Englund said Transtromer's work evoked strong emotions with an economy of expression in deftly constructed poems. "It is visionary poetry," said Neil Astley, founding editor at Transtromer's British publishers, Bloodaxe Books. He described the works as being full of "psychological insight and metaphysical interpretation of the world". Transtromer has been nominated for the prize every year since 1993. The prize last went to Sweden in 1974, when it was shared by Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson. The fact that they were both members of the academy made the decision controversial. Transtromer was born in Stockholm on April 15, 1931 to a schoolteacher mother and a journalist father. His 1954 work, "17 poems", was one of the most widely acclaimed literary debuts of the decade and, after gaining a degree in psychology he divided his time between writing and work as a psychologist. As well as being popular in Sweden, his collections have been translated into more than 50 languages. While difficult to pin down, American poet Robert Hass once said of the Swede's work: "Tomas's poetry gave a piercing sense of what it's like to be an ordinary person going about their life at the moment when that life goes off the tracks." The Academy said his works had been characterised by economy, concreteness and poignant metaphors. His latest collections, "The Sorrow Gondola" and "The Great Enigma", had shifted towards an even smaller format and a higher degree of concentration, the Academy added. — Reuters

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Pakatan’s hudud puzzle Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:52 PM PDT OCT 6 — Students, place your writing instruments on the table, write neatly your name on the top right corner, and begin. You have an hour: Nik Aziz is inseparable from his Islamic beliefs, and Lim Guan Eng is not going to become a Muslim anytime soon. There is a country, and the only people in a position to form a government outside Barisan Nasional (BN) have a large gaping ideological divide. There are general elections every four years or so, and in first-past-the-post parliamentary system, voters will cast a single vote each to decide their support on 100 different issues bundled together with the hudud (Islamic criminal law/prescriptions). PAS and DAP — two-thirds of the opposition coalition — cannot form government without a complete unified position. Form a solution for Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Any graduate student asked to form an essay for their comprehensive examinations will spend more time staring at the paper, rather than pen an answer. It is a monster question, and in political terms a constant slippery slope. In terms of graduate study, something you skip. So, with that in mind, the column will address how any fair examination of the situation can proceed with PR in mind. Already the validity of hudud, and the strengths of a secular government are postulated often enough, and these will not be rebutted or embellished here. However they will be kept in plain sight, while the political question which is a different solar system altogether is approached. Theirs, as much as ours The false couching of the challenge is that it is a PR problem alone. It is not. BN has exactly the same conundrum. It too cannot formulate a clear position on the matter. Hudud is a Malaysian challenge, not just Umno's or PAS's, and their respective partners'. The matter really rises on PAS's outwardly theological credentials. Irrespective of all moves to moderate the party internally to a welfare state platform, the party's name keeps it psychologically two steps ahead of Umno in its overt commitment to Islam. So to the Malaysian electorate generally, hudud has more meaning to PAS than Umno. The increased Islamisation by Umno and constant encroachments into the country's secular Constitution are often overlooked. Which is fine. Even if PAS is more worrying than Umno when it comes to hudud, the voter cannot abrogate Umno's own stake in hudud. Leading the talking, not deciding Second, the level of maturity in Malaysian politics has been tightly regulated by Umno over half a century. The politicians are a reflection of the people in it. Since citizens are actively shunted from being political, political space constantly wedged, the level of political discourse therefore becomes limited. (In my days in UKM, the national university, only political science students with written permission from their lecturers can access the "contentious" books inside the restricted section. Stuff like Jean-Jacque Rosseau's "The Social Contract". Malaysians have been artificially forced to not have a political opinion. And since their leaders are surprise, surprise, Malaysians too, they too develop myopia. Which is why both sides of the divide, BN and PR, line up the same people to talk about all the issues facing all Malaysians. The usual suspects are probably a group of 50 politicians in total from both BN and PR. Even both coalitions don't trust the vast majority of their legislators and party leaders to champion specific issues, small or big. During the Perak Assembly bust-up, assemblymen from both sides were in pitched battle in their official wear, but after the dust settled the more "refined" leaders were seen to talk about all things Perak. Which means, the larger community of politicians itself is struggling to have a quality discussion over the place of religion in politics, because of the elite nature of Malaysian politics today. Most of us are too. For Malaysia to move forward on the contentious issues, not only hudud, more of us have to be co-opted into the politics that affect us all. A Malaysian voter must decide if the quality of the discourse, hudud in this case, will improve under a BN government.  The country is at step four of a mile trek into a multi-layered issue. Will this government provide the platform for this multicultural society to democratically resolve the place for religion in criminal prosecution? Or will it politicise the matter to keep its own power-grip? There has been peace in Northern Ireland, the type generations have not known. Yet a vote to decide whether those in Ulster want to stay in Britain or join Ireland is delayed even though there are centuries of opinions on the matter, mostly drenched in blood. Because the issue is more than just being Protestant or Irish or European. Which is why real leadership helps the population address the issue over time. Debate, discussion, reflection and time. Because big questions are not just sorted by a show of hands at an emotionally charged moment. A nation of issues, mind the plural As much as religion holds great sway in the hearts and mind of most Malaysians, it is not the only issue Malaysians grapple with daily. There are not millions of Malaysians right now, young and old, graduates and high school dropouts, Michael Learns To Rock fans or not, who are grimacing at a wall at home or office trying to reconcile their religion with a secular state. They probably worry at times about lunch, paying the phone bill, checking out the latest prices in Econsave supermarket, planning their New Year and avoiding traffic during peak hours. Or the rising national debt, defence spending, policies to increase white-collar employment and public education. As much as abortion divides the United States, more practical concerns override voting patterns. The Republican party does not deride some of its more overzealous Christian foot-soldiers, but that does not mean a gay person voting Republican think his vote will mean the end of his civil liberties. Neither the converse, that a gay person might vote for the Democrats because they are more inclined to inclusion. That gay person might be personally inclined to a party that cuts federal taxation and increases defence spending. And being gay is not the only thing about a person. And in the same not, being Muslim is not the only thing about a Muslim. PR has to be respectful to all voters' views, for they are the views of Malaysians, and the Malaysian must be respected by all political parties at all times. The parties are different today than they were in 1990 when religion always broke up non-BN coalitions. The voters are different than those in 1990. Just as it is noted that less than three per cent of those who voted in the first general election in 1955 are still in the electoral roll, it might be instructive to know how many per cent of those voting today were not voters in 1990. Electoral truths PR may not have to come up with a solution. No one expects political parties to resolve the question of the afterlife, or possible life in Mars. And parties need not pretend to have the solution. They are separate parties because their ideologies are divergent. They have to argue why it is worth keeping together. They might want to reiterate, that the reason BN keeps banging away at their differences is because the parties in PR have the right to act and speak of their differences. Can the same be said about Umno's partners in BN? But more importantly PR has to assert that its model is not a BN model. That whether it is in opposition or in government, the same process of consensus will prevail. That is really what the Malaysian voter needs to decide, irrespective of whether they are for hudud or not. They have to decide if the political process in PR is right or wrong, for the individual voter. That will decide the future of hudud and 99 other key issues affecting the future of Malaysia under a PR government. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist.

When it comes, they will run Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:42 PM PDT OCT 6 — The return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China was imminent. After years of a hands-free approach taken by the colonial government, the citizens of Hong Kong were used to a liberal atmosphere. The prospect of a continuous liberal environment after the 1997 handover was unclear however. The uncertainty convinced many to fear the worst. Rather than suffer the uncertainty, they took action and sought refuge elsewhere. They applied for permanent residency and citizenship in other countries to escape the possibility of living in an oppressive society. The PRC, regardless of what it is now with all of its contradictions, was perceived as a repressive and decidedly communist country. The 1989 Tiananmen Square incident was still fresh in everybody's minds. Money is not always the only consideration in any decision regarding migration. There are other factors that are not necessarily less important than money. Security is one. Love is two. Freedom has often been cited as a factor. A way of life is another. The implementation of hudud or the adoption of more comprehensive Islamic laws will affect the way of life in Malaysia. Proponents of hudud argue that the implementation of such laws will be applicable to Muslims only. They guarantee it. Neither their argument nor their guarantee is good. The argument of exclusive application is unlikely to be true. Previous conflicts from child custody to death and burial have proven that even the milder version of Islamic laws as practised in Malaysia impacts non-Muslims. These proponents might have forgotten these episodes. They must be reminded of it because these conflicts do create a fear of creeping Islamisation in the hearts of non-Muslims as well as others who care for religious freedom. These past conflicts can tell us what to expect in the future. The likelier outcome of the wider implementation of Islamic laws is this: whatever affecting the majority will likely affect the minority. A more comprehensive version will not leave non-Muslims alone, even if the legal rights are discriminated among citizens so strongly. It is naïve to believe such an incredible guarantee. The minority will float along with the majority, whether they like it or not, for better or for worse. The wider implementation of Islamic laws will be a change in lifestyle for everybody. It will first affect the lifestyle of Muslims, regardless of their piety. The group will become more conservative, voluntarily or otherwise. Then through the interaction between Muslims and non-Muslims, the lifestyle of the latter will be affected. The rest will have to respect the new conservativeness. In the end, whatever is the way of life that prevails will change. Whatever openness and liberalness within the society that exists will gradually vanish to satisfy rising conservativeness. Whatever lifestyle that was will have to give way to the Islamic one, however the Islamic laws are defined by those in power. The outlook of Malaysian society itself will change. None will escape such a wholesome change unless they leave. There is a point where the religious and non-religious minorities along with Muslims who hold more relaxed religious positions will choose migration over further tolerance of growing Islamisation within their society. The potential lifestyle change can be too drastic to stomach. There is a point where enough is enough. If it comes, there will be those who will walk off to a more open society permanently. They have the means to do so, just like many former citizens of Hong Kong. That is how the pre-1997 Hong Kong experience is relevant to Malaysia. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist.

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Ku Li: Klip Undilah bagus, tapi kalau nak haram teruskan Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:41 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Okt – Ahli Parlimen veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah mempertahankan peranan beliau dalam klip video Undilah dengan menegaskan beliau hanya membawa mesej yang menggalakkan rakyat agar mendaftar untuk mengundi semasa pilihan raya. Meskipun berhadapan dengan kritikan kononnya mesej klip itu anti-Barisan Nasional (BN), pemimpin Umno itu sebaliknya menunjukkan isyarat tanda bagus. "Bagus. Tetapi jika mereka yang berkuasa mahu mengharamkan, maka teruskan," kata beliau ketika ditemui di bangunan Parlimen hari ini. Dalam komen pertamanya ini, Razaleigh berkata segmen melibatkan beliau, yang muncul di peringkat awal, dirakamkan secara berasingan tanpa kehadiran mana-mana peserta lain dan ketika itu tidak tahu siapa lagi yang akan menjayakannya. "Saya hanya meminta orang ramai agar mendaftar untuk mengundi. Sebenarnya, ramai orang Melayu masih belum mendaftar," kata beliau yang juga Ahli Parlimen Gua Musang. Klip itu yang telah ditonton lebih 500,000 kali juga memaparkan kemunculan penulis lirik kontroversial Wee Meng Chee, yang dikecam mengkritik Malaysia dan dilabel anti-Melayu. Bagaimanapun minggu lalu Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Naji Razak menyifatkannya sebagai pendukung kuat gagasan 1 Malaysia. Banyak pihak yang mengecam tindakan kerajaan mengharamkan klip itu daripada disiarkan oleh stesen penyiaran tempatan. Misalnya, Ketua Pemuda BN dan Umno Khairy Jamaluddin berkata, langkah Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM) melarang penyiaran klip video Undilah menerusi televisyen tempatan satu tindakan yang tidak wajar selain merosakkan imej perikatan itu. Baru-baru ini Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim berkata, klip video Undilah tidak sesuai ditayangkan kerana ia mengandungi babak yang tidak disenangi segolongan masyarakat. "Klip video itu juga mengandungi iktibar yang tersirat yang mengelirukan beberapa pihak," kata Rais. Katanya, penarikan semula penyiaran klip video itu dibuat kerana ia tidak mendapat kelulusan Lembaga Penapisan Filem (LPF). SKMM, agensi di bawah portfolio Rais, sebelum ini menyatakan klip video Undilah belum mendapat kelulusan LPF untuk siaran, dan oleh itu, ia tidak sepatutnya disiarkan menerusi televisyen. Kenyataan SKMM itu menyusul laporan The Malaysian Insider yang menyebut bahan terbitan Pete Teo itu dilarang diterbitkan kerana memaparkan kemunculan beberapa wakil rakyat pembangkang dan juga mesej Tengku Razaleigh yang menyentuh bahawa Malaysia berhadapan dengan beberapa masalah. Difahamkan SKMM memberi arahan kepada stesen penyiaran tempatan minggu ini selepas ia mula ke udara sempena sambutan Hari Malaysia. Selain Tengku Razaleigh, yang juga Ketua Umno Gua Musang dan Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong dari MCA-BN, turut menjayakan klip itu ialah Timbalan Menteri Kesihatan Datuk Rosnah Abd Rashid Shirlin yang juga Ketua Puteri Umno. Personaliti lain termasuklah Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara Tony Pua, Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar, Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam Khalid Samad dan Adun Seri Setia Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad masing-masing dari DAP, PKR, PAS dan PKR. Pelakon Afdlin Shauki dan Wee merupakan antara individu terpilih untuk mendendangkan lagu Undilah. Pilihan raya umum ke-13 disebut-sebut akan diadakan dalam waktu terdekat. Kira-kira empat juta rakyat negara ini yang layak untuk mengundi belum mendaftar sebagai pemilih. Turut disenaraikan dalam klip itu ialah pemain badminton negara Datuk Lee Chong Wei dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif AirAsia Tan Sri Tony Fernandes.

MTUC masih mahu pindaan Akta Kerja ditangguh Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:06 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Okt – Menteri Sumber Manusia Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam menegaskan Rang Undang-Undang Kerja (Pindaan) 2010 bukan satu usaha kerajaan untuk menjadikan agensi pembekal pekerja sebagai struktur dalam industri. Sebaliknya, kata beliau, pindaan itu bertujuan mengawal agensi terbabit agar tidak diperluaskan sewenang-wenangnya serta membantu dan memberi perlindungan kepada pekerja. "Apa yang kita buat bukan bertujuan untuk melesen atau memberi permit atau mewujudkan satu jenis pekerjaan yang baru. Tetapi tujuan kita ialah melindungi pekerja yang mana pekerja menjadi mangsa kepada pembekal-pembekal ini. "Kita cuma mahu mereka mendaftar diri dengan kementerian supaya kerajaan mengambil langkah-langkah memberi perlindungan kepada mereka, itu saja," katanya pada sidang media selepas mesyuarat bersama Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) di bangunan Parlimen hari ini. Bagaimanapun, beliau dipetik Bernama Online berkata, kerajaan bersedia untuk berbincang dengan MTUC bagi mengenal pasti dan menangani isu berbangkit. Sementara itu pada sidang akhbar berasingan, MTUC sekali lagi menggesa agar rang undang-undang  itu tidak dibentangkan pada sidang Dewan Rakyat kali ini kerana pindaan tersebut boleh membawa impak negatif kepada pekerja. Presidennya Khalid Atan berkata pihaknya berhasrat menemui Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak bagi menyuarakan bantahan mereka berkenaan perkara itu. "Saya juga ingin menyeru kepada Perdana Menteri supaya dapat dengar suara rintihan kaum pekerja yang cuba kita suarakan hari ini," katanya. Khalid juga memohon agar satu lagi rundingan diadakan bagi memastikan tidak ada kelemahan dalam cadangan pindaan yang cuba dibuat oleh kerajaan. Rang Undang-Undang Kerja (Pindaan 2010) dibentangkan bagi bacaan kali pertama pada sesi Parlimen 8 Julai 2010, namun ditarik balik pada sesi Parlimen 12 Okt tahun yang sama, bagi mengambil kira pandangan saat akhir daripada pelbagai pihak termasuk MTUC mengenai pentakrifan sub-kontraktor untuk tenaga kerja kepada kontraktor bagi tenaga kerja di bawah Seksyen 2 Akta Kerja 1955. Isnin lalu, Dr Subramaniam berkata beliau akan meneruskan pembentangan bagi bacaan kali kedua rang undang-undang itu pada sesi kali ini walaupun menerima bantahan keras MTUC.

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