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Cardinals beat Brewers to reach World Series Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:51 AM PDT MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Oct 17 — The St Louis Cardinals advanced to the World Series yesterday after a 12-6 victory over Milwaukee in Game Six sealed the National League Championship Series. The Cardinals will play American League champions Texas Rangers, who travel to St Louis for Wednesday's opener of the best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship. St Louis scored four runs in the first inning, one in the second and another four in the third to seize a 9-4 lead and were never headed as they clinched the series 4-2 and booked their first return to the Fall Classic since winning it in 2006. St Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols (right) joins relief pitcher Jason Motte (centre) and catcher Yadier Molina (on ground) as they celebrate advancing to the World Series. — Reuters pic Cardinals starting pitcher Edwin Jackson went only two innings, but as they did all series long, their relievers shut the Brewers down to secure the win. Third baseman David Freese, who belted a three-run blast in the first inning, was named NLCS Most Valuable Player after notching three home runs, nine RBIs and hitting .545. Freese's homer followed an RBI single by Lance Berkman to put the Cardinals ahead 4-0. The outburst continued a St Louis trend as the Cardinals scored first in every game, putting runs on the board four times in the first inning during the series and scoring in the second inning of the other two games. "They were unbelievable in the first inning," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. "We couldn't get away with anything. We just never had a chance to get into our comfort zone, get into our rhythm. They just didn't let up on us." Early action The early action felt like a home run derby as six were hit in the first three innings and nine of the first 10 runs came from round-trippers. Corey Hart homered in the first for Milwaukee, Rafael Furcal matched his solo homer in the second, while in the Brewers' half of the second, Rickie Weeks and Jonathan Lucroy cleared the fences to bring the home team within one at 5-4. Albert Pujols's blast leading off the third made it 6-4 and the Cardinals added three more runs on a sacrifice fly by Nick Punto and a two-run single by pinch-hitter Allen Craig. After a sloppy showing in Friday's Game Five in St Louis, in which Milwaukee committed four errors in a 7-1 loss, the Brewers were once again loose in the field with three miscues. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa used five relievers to secure the victory. In all, St Louis relievers pitched a remarkable 282/3 innings against just 241/3 innings by the team's starters. "They pitched with a lot of heart," La Russa said. "You don't get in the postseason unless you have great starting pitching. But it was a unique and weird situation; the starters couldn't make a mistake and get away with it." Freese, who went 3-for-4 to pace the Cards' 14-hit attack, saluted the team's relief corps. "I wish we could do eight or nine of these and give them to the bullpen," he said while clutching the MVP trophy. "What they did, they really deserve this award." Left-handed reliever Marc Rzepczynski registered the win, while Milwaukee starter Shaun Marcum, who was tagged for four runs in his lone inning of work, took the loss. Jason Motte closed it out in the ninth, setting off a group hug and chant of "Happy Flight, Happy Flight", in the middle of the diamond, repeating a theme that brought the Cardinals wins in their last 17 games on travel days. The Cardinals now travel home for the World Series opener after winning their 18th National League pennant. St Louis, who trailed Atlanta for the wild card by 101/2 games with one month to play, clinched the playoff berth on the last day of the regular season. "They never quit," said La Russa. "Once they got going, the guys played every game as if it were the last game of their lives." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

NBA lockout puts star focus on Euroleague Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:47 AM PDT BELGRADE, Oct 17 — The cancellation of the first two weeks of games in the US National Basketball League (NBA) has left Europe's Euroleague, albeit temporarily, as the world's top club competition promising an exciting season. League owners and players in the NBA have been unable to resolve a labour dispute, meaning that the season will not start before November 14 and more games are under threat with a collective bargaining agreement still looking distant. Star quality of Europe: Panathinaikos players celebrate after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Euroleague final in Barcelona, May 8, 2011. — Reuters pic Europe's premier club competition, which starts today with a curtain-raiser between six-times winners CSKA Moscow and Lithuanian team Zhalgiris Kaunas, has benefited as a result, with some top contenders bolstering their ranks. But Jordi Bertomeu, the Euroleague's chief executive officer, warned the exodus of NBA players to Europe was only temporary as most of them had pledged to return when the lockout across the Atlatnic ended. "Teams that have decided to sign players knowing they are likely to leave understand the risks, both good and bad," Bertomeu said on the Euroleague's official website. "The good one is that such a player will help win games while he's here, the bad one is that team chemistry will be difficult to maintain when a player leaves. "But fans new and old can expect to see great basketball, first and foremost. "The way our competition is structured, with almost no games that do not impact the standings in some way, the teams are playing for survival from the opening night." The top four teams from each of the four preliminary pools of six will advance to the second stage, featuring four groups of four, where the top two teams from each group will qualify for the business end of the competition. The knockout stage begins with best-of-five quarter-final series from which the winners advance to the Final Four, with this season's showpiece tournament set for Istanbul in May. Clear vision Anadolu Efes Istanbul, who were already boasting a stack of top European performers, have welcomed former Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic, who joined the Turkish contenders from the New Jersey Nets. The Slovenian, part of the Lakers roster that won the NBA titles in 2009 and 2010, was delighted to have arrived at one of the favourites to reach this season's Euroleague Final Four in their own Sinan Erdem Arena. "I am very excited to be with a team with a great history, with a clear vision where they want to be in the Euroleague and what they want to accomplish," Vujacic said. "It's going to take a lot of hard work to adjust to the European game and adapt to it, but seven years in the NBA, 61/2 of them with the Lakers, helped me mature as a player and a person. "Like the NBA, it's a long season in the Euroleague; it's a marathon and not a sprint so what matters is not how you start but how you finish," said Vujacic, who signed a one-year deal with Efes with an option to extend. Efes start their campaign with tricky tie on Thursday at Serbian champions Partizan Belgrade, whose Pinoir Arena resembles a cauldron and is one of the most intimidating away courts for any opponents. Defending champions Panathinaikos Athens, whose squad has remained virtually intact, are at home to Spaniards Unicaja Malaga while last season's finalists Maccabi Tel Aviv are away to Emporio Armani Milan. Real Madrid, who have signed Dallas Mavericks forward Rudy Fernandez until the NBA lockout ends, visit Belgian champions Belgacom Spirou while bitter Spanish rivals Barcelona travel to Slovenians Olimpija Ljubljana. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Why Black Death was the mother of all plagues Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:59 AM PDT Bubonic plague bacteria taken from a patient. Plague germs teased from mediaeval cadavers in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics. – AFP pic PARIS, Oct 17 – Plague germs teased from mediaeval cadavers in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics. The DNA of Yersinia pestis shows, in evolutionary terms, a highly successful germ to which the population of 14th-century Europe had no immune defences, according to a study published recently in the British journal Nature. It also lays bare a pathogen that has undergone no major genetic change over six centuries. "The Black Death was the first plague pandemic in human history," said Johannes Krause, lead researcher and a professor at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. "Humans were (immunologically) naive and not adapted to this disease," he said in an email exchange. No bug or virus has wiped out a greater proportion of humankind in a single epidemic than the Black Death. Brought to Europe from China, it scythed through the continent from 1347 to 1351, killing about 30 million people – about one in three of Europe's and nearly one in 12 of the world's population at the time. Remarkably, more recent variants of the bacterium hardly vary compared to the original microbe, says the paper. "Based on the reconstructed genome, we can say that the mediaeval plague is close to the root of all modern human pathogenic plague strains," said Krause. "The ancient plague strain does not carry a single position that cannot be found in the same state in modern strains." This deep similarity between ancient and modern plague calls into question the long-held assumption that virulence-enhancing mutations are what made Y. pestis so deadly to the Middle Ages. Like Native American Indians who were exposed to smallpox, Europeans had never been exposed to the bacterium, said Krause. "Plague was among the strongest sources of selection on the human population in the last few thousand years," he added. "People who were less susceptible due to mutations might have survived, and these (beneficial) mutations may have spread." Another likely factor that worsened the Black Death's toll was social conditions, which were far worse compared to the 18th or 19th centuries. Poverty and malnutrition were rampant, and even the concept of hygiene was non-existent. The onset of the so-called "Little Ice Age" could also have favoured the spread of the disease which, like many pathogens, travels more quickly in cold climes. The same goes for the rats that carried the blood-sucking insects – fleas or lice, perhaps both – that transmit the disease. Indeed, the species of rodent, Ratus ratus, that sowed terror across a continent in the 14th century is not the same as the one that transports plague today, Ratus norvegicus, Krause said. The 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic killed by some estimates 50 million people. In absolute terms, this was the deadliest pandemic in human history. But with a world population that was close to two billion, the toll in relative terms was far smaller than that of the Black Death, when the number of humans was in the hundreds of millions. The first outbreak of plague occurred in China more than 2,600 years ago before reaching Europe via Central Asia's "Silk Road" trade route, according to a molecular "family tree" – mapped out last year – of 17 Y. pestis strains. It then spread to Africa, probably by an expedition led by Chinese seafarer Zhang He in the 15th century. In the late 19th century, plague came to the United States from China, arriving in the ports of California via Hawaii, according to this evidence. – AFP Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Green vegetables shown to help boost immune system Posted: 17 Oct 2011 12:02 AM PDT Eating green vegetables like broccoli has been shown to help regulate the immune system. — AFP pic CAMBRIDGE (England), Oct 17 — If you're constantly fightng off colds, tuck into a big bowl of greens. That's the conclusion of a new study from researchers at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, where scientists found that green vegetables turn out to be the source of a chemical signal that's important for a fully functioning immune system. The study, published online in the journal Cell October 13, found that these chemical signals ensure that immune cells in the gut and skin function properly. Known as intra-epithelial lymphocytes or IELs, the immune cells exist beneath another barrier of cells that cover inner and outer body surfaces and act as a first line of defence and help with wound repair. In lab experiments on mice, researchers found that a diet rich in green vegetables like broccoli or bok choy was found to help regulate this complex immune system, while the same was true of the reverse. After depriving mice of vegetables for three weeks, researchers said they found that 70 to 80 per cent of the protective cells disappeared. The weakened mice showed lower levels of antimicrobial proteins, heightened immune activation and were more vulnerable to injury. When researchers intentionally damaged the intestinal surface, for example, their bodies were slow to recover. The implications of their findings could help with conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, scientists say, which shares the same characteristics observed in the mice. Another study published last year in the British Medical Journal also found that eating more leafy green vegetables can significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. — AFP-Relaxnews Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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NYC’s Occupy Wall Street: Democracy in action Posted: 16 Oct 2011 05:26 PM PDT OCT 17 — When hundreds of protestors were penned in with orange netting and arrested on Brooklyn Bridge earlier this month, I knew something big was brewing out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, now entering its fifth week. More than 700 people were arrested by the New York Police Department on October 1; the largest arrest of non-violent protestors in United States history. Their crime? Having the audacity to draw the world's attention to the inequities of corporate America. For a developed nation the statistics (mostly sourced from the US government's own data) make a sobering read: more than 14 million unemployed; 43.6 million live in poverty (annual earnings less than US$22,000 (RM70,400) for a family of four); one in six lives without healthcare coverage; as many as 3.5 million will experience homeless this year and a national debt exceeding US$14 trillion. Robert Carlson, who works in New York City's financial district, took a week's holiday to join the movement. — Pictures by Helen Hickey Set against this deeply-depressed economy, a grassroots movement of humble beginnings began on September 17 around the corner from Wall Street and its bankers, the recipients of numerous taxpayer-funded bailouts. I don't think anyone could have predicted that that first hundred or so people, with their wads of cardboard and Sharpie pen-markers, would spark a mass anti-austerity movement of tens of thousands not just in New York, but across America including Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC. I grabbed my camera and headed down to the financial district's Zuccotti Park, now renamed "Liberty Square", as thousands — including several major labour unions that had just announced their unanimous support to the Occupy Wall Street movement — prepared to march to New York City Hall a week last Wednesday.  I arrived just after noon to a sea of placards, a band playing, and thousands milling around the small private park filled with ad hoc food canteens, spare clothes stalls, tarps, sleeping bags and an increasing number of camera crew. The march was scheduled to start at 4.30pm, just after Wall Street's closing bell marking the end of the business day. The "I-could-lose-my-job-for-having-a-voice" placard held by a young man with an American flag shoved down his back grabbed my attention. Without removing the green one dollar bill taped across his mouth, 25-year-old financier Robert J. Carlson said he had taken a week's holiday to join the movement because: "I want to raise awareness to some very serious economic issues that are happening in the world today, and to get leaders to talk about solutions before it is too late." He told me he had met nurses, doctors, professors, teachers, Wall Street bankers and "even two off-duty police officers" in the crowds over the past few days. These people are all "potentially sacrificing their jobs to participate in this peaceful movement — it's amazing that it has come to this," he added. A healthy cross-section of society; this is what I saw too. Hardly the picture painted by Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, of a movement fuelled by the great unwashed, unemployed or marijuana-smoking hippie-types (OK, I admit there were some). More moderate news outlets like CNN cautiously hedge their bets. While coverage from the traditionally liberal leaning The New York Times has ranged from outrageously dismissive (check out Ginia Bellafante's column of September 23) to the positively respectful, following President Obama's concession in a recent press conference that the movement might have a point: "I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel."   Dressed in pink scrubs, Tammy Vick, a 49-year-old medical secretary from Connecticut, said: "I've been waiting since the '80s and the [right-wing] Reaganomic-years for this movement to take place." It's finally happened: "I just had to come down here to voice out about the inequalities that is going on in this country." Vick recently lost her job after she lodged a complaint over unfair working conditions. I eavesdropped on an interview with a Californian construction worker wearing a hardhat and sporting a tattoo on his left arm reading "Union Ironworker Built America". Carl Armstrong, a 48-year-old Ironworkers Union member since 1996, joined the movement on Day Three after his job in lower Manhattan was postponed. The movement attracted a healthy cross-section of society, including this group of musicians. "I am very proud of my job, and I love what I do for a living... but if only America would wake up to the fact that the rich keep getting richer and the poor, poorer, and an increasing number of the middle classes are on the brink of poverty." These people "can't even pay their bills and feed their children" let alone pay their taxes, he added. He wants tax reform and Washington DC lobbyists to back the movement. A fresh-faced student, who went by the name of "Sugts", held a placard reading "Wall Street is Stealing the American Dream". The senior, about to graduate in economics and politics from Seaton Hall University, timorously confided that he was joining Wednesday's march because the economy is in such a mess that his "job prospects don't look at all good". He wasn't alone; two other students from the same university stood at his side. A class-action suit has been filed over the mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge. Occupy Wall Street lawyers argue police invited them to march on the roadway, as opposed to the pedestrian crossing.  Rightly or wrongly the NYPD were just doing their job, albeit one helped along by a US$4.6 million gift recently given to New York City Police Foundation by JPMorgan Chase — the largest private donation ever received by foundation. As with this year's Arab Spring uprisings, the more democracy in action is suppressed the bigger the explosion of support. The Occupy Wall Street protests have gone global this weekend. Thousands have marched in anti-austerity protests in Rome, Madrid, Sydney and London. But what will become of this movement? Are we watching history unfold? Who knows. The only certainty right now is that the protestors are not ready to be silenced. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Nandurin Karang Awak Posted: 16 Oct 2011 04:28 PM PDT 17 OKT — Hakikat yang diketahui umum adalah bahawa karya-karya yang terbit dalam bahasa-bahasa utama seluruh dunia akan segera diterjemah ke Bahasa Indonesia. Langkah ini secara langsung dan tidak langsung membuka ruang serta peluang kepada penduduk di seluruh negara berkenaan membaca kandungan karya dari seluruh dunia dalam bahasa rasmi negara tersebut. Tentu sahaja tidak adil dan tidak wajar untuk membandingkan keadaan ini dengan realiti di Malaysia; walaupun Oktober diiktiraf Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan. Berbalik pada situasi di Indonesia, suatu lagi hakikat yang menarik dan wajar diberi perhatian adalah bahawa karya-karya yang ditulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia turut diterjemah ke bahasa-bahasa lain, khususnya Bahasa Inggeris. Dalam hal ini, saya tidak hanya bercakap mengenai karya-karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Putu Wijaya dan beberapa penulis vateran yang terkenal pada peringkat antarabangsa. Antologi 'Cultivate the Land Within' dilancarkan di Ubud, Bali. Novel "Laskar Pelangi" karya Andrea Hirata sudah diterjemah ke Bahasa Inggeris dan beberapa bahasa lain. Novel "Negeri 5 Menara" karya A. Fuadi yang dilancarkan pada 6 Oktober 2011 sempena Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) juga sudah diterjemah ke Bahasa Inggeris. Sebuah lagi buku yang menarik minat saya adalah antologi "Nandurin Karang Awak — Cultivate the Land Within" yang mengumpulkan prosa dan puisi karya 17 pengarang Indonesia yang menyertai UWRF. Majlis pelancaran dan pembacaan teks daripada antologi berkenaan berlangsung pada 9 Oktober di Warung Pulau Kelapa, Jalan Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Bali. Selesai acara, saya berpeluang berbual bersama-sama Toni Pollard, seorang wanita Australia yang merupakan bekas guru Bahasa Indonesia dan kini menjadi perunding serta penterjemah bebas. Katanya, ini tahun keempat beliau terlibat dalam membantu kerja-kerja menterjemah karya Bahasa Indonesia ke Bahasa Inggeris bagi antologi khas sempena UWRF. "Saya bangga dapat memberi sumbangan ke arah memperkenalkan hasil karya penulis Indonesia kepada khalayak lebih besar," katanya. Suatu perkara yang menarik perhatian saya adalah bahawa Toni tidak melakukan terjemahan secara langsung. Sebaliknya beliau menggunakan teknik tertentu yang saya percaya wajar juga dipelajari dan dipraktikkan di Malaysia. "Saya akan membaca seluruh cerpen dan kemudian menulis terjemahannya menggunakan tulisan tangan. Semasa menaipnya kemudian, saya kemaskan lenggok bahasa supaya sesuai dengan gaya penulisan karya Bahasa Inggeris. "Selepas membaca dan menyunting beberapa kali, saya akan serahkan manuskrip Bahasa Inggeris sahaja kepada orang lain untuk perhatikan sama ada mereka boleh membaca dan menghayati keindahan kandungan karya itu," wanita berkenaan menceritakan. Sering kali Toni selaku penterjemah berpengalaman perlu membuat beberapa keputusan penting, khususnya berhubung perkataan-perkataan dalam bahasa tempatan serta istilah tertentu yang menggambarkan budaya setempat. "Ada kalanya saya mengubah judul karya supaya sesuai dengan versi terjemahan dan khalayak pembaca karya Bahasa Inggeris. Ramai juga penterjemah yang selalu meletakkan nota kaki untuk menerangkan perkataan, istilah atau frasa dalam bahasa tempatan. "Saya ingin menasihatkan penterjemah supaya menggunakan terus istilah Bahasa Inggeris kerana nota kaki dan glosari mengganggu proses penghayataan sebuah karya sastera," Toni memberi panduan. Saya yakin pada panduan dan saranan yang diberikan oleh wanita berkenaan kerana beliau berpengalaman sebagai guru Bahasa Indonesia selama 44 tahun di beberapa sekolah menengah di Australia. Toni juga menjadi pensyarah selama 12 tahun di University of Western Sydney, sebelum bersara enam tahun lalu. Sejak itu, beliau menjadi penterjemah profesional. Satu lagi sikap terpuji Toni adalah bahawa beliau menjadi tenaga sukarelawan bagi menjayakan UWRF dan penterjemah karya bagi antologi "Cultivate the Land Within". Antara karya dalam antologi itu yang diterjemah oleh Toni adalah "Weddings of Defiance" iaitu petikan novel "Nika Baronta" karya Alan Malingi dan "Hongkong" iaitu petikan novel "Sebongkah Tanah Retak" karya Rida Fitria. Toni turut menterjemah "Surat Berdarah untuk Presiden" tulisan Jaladara sebagai "A Blood Stained Letter to the President" dan petikan novel "Rumah Debu" karya Sandi Firly iaitu "The Long Night". Cerpen "Lali Panggora" karya Saut Poltak Tambunan pula diterjemahkannya menjadi "The Hawk That Heralds Death" kerana bagi Toni, judul dalam versi Bahasa Inggeris perlu sesuai dan menepati kandungan cerita. UWRF kali ini disertai sekitar 130 penulis dari 27 negara dan hampir 170 acara berlangsung di 57 lokasi. Walaupun khalayak yang menghadiri majlis pelancaran dan pembacaan teks "Cultivate the Land Within" tidak ramai, penerbitan buku itu amat bermakna. Tambahan pula, pengasas UWRF, Janet De Neefe berkata, antologi dwibahasa berjudul "Reasons for Harmony" (2008), "Compassion and Solidarity" (2009), "Harmony in Diversity" (2010) dan "Cultivate the Land Within" (2011) terbitan Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati dengan kerjasama HiVOS dihantar ke pelbagai universiti, pusat penulisan dan perpustakaan di Indonesia dan seluruh dunia. "Saya amat suka melakukan kerja-kerja terjemahan kerana memang mencabar untuk 'mencipta' semula sebuah karya seni atau sastera seorang pengarang ke dalam bentuk lain atau bahasa lain untuk dihayati khalayak dengan latar budaya yang lain," kata Toni yang tinggal di Paddington, New South Wales. Toni Pollard berasal dari Australia. Tentu sahaja amat menarik untuk mendengar penjelasan Toni bahawa karya yang diterjemah ke Bahasa Inggeris (atau mana-mana bahasa lain) perlu mampu berdiri sendiri. Maknanya, pembaca perlu berupaya membaca, memahami dan menghayati karya berkenaan tanpa perlu membaca atau memahami karya dalam bahasa asal. Sebagai pembaca tegar karya-karya sastera yang diterjemah ke Bahasa Inggeris daripada bahasa-bahasa utama dunia, saya amat bersetuju dengan pandangan dan pendirian Toni dalam hal ini. Mungkin ada pihak yang mengatakan bahawa Toni (dan saya) "membunuh" keaslian karya asal kerana menyokong usaha terjemahan "konteks" cerita berbanding terjemahan "perkataan demi perkataan". Dalam hal ini, saya ingin melihat secara khusus pada pengarang yang karya mereka dimuatkan dalam antologi "Cultivate the Land Within". Saya berpeluang bertemu mereka serta mendengar mereka berkongsi pengalaman menerusi beberapa sesi diskusi. Rata-rata mereka bukan menutur dan pembaca karya Bahasa Inggeris. Mujurlah mereka memahami bahawa apabila karya yang mereka tulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia diterjemah ke Bahasa Inggeris, aspek "pemahaman" khalayak perlu diambil kira. Kita perlu faham bahawa khalayak yang membaca karya dalam versi terjemahan itu mungkin tidak tahu Bahasa Indonesia dan mungkin tidak tahu adat, budaya dan latar masyarakat di Indonesia. Maka, Toni bukan setakat "menterjemah" karya-karya itu supaya sesuai bagi khalayak pada peringkat antarabangsa. Sebaliknya, beliau "menyesuaikan" dan "mengadaptasikan" karya berkenaan supaya mampu dibaca, difahami dan dihayati masyarakat di seluruh pelosok dunia. "Saya tidak bermaksud hendak 'membunuh' karya itu. Sebaliknya saya berusaha membantu khalayak umum memahami kehebatan karya dan budaya Indonesia," katanya dengan penuh bersemangat. Betapa baik jika semangat yang sama dapat dikongsi pelbagai pihak (individu dan organisasi) di Malaysia dalam usaha menterjemah karya Bahasa Tamil dan Mandarin ke Bahasa Malaysia; serta karya ketiga-tiga bahasa itu ke Bahasa Inggeris. Saya yakin bahawa semangat "Nandurin Karang Awak" UWRF yang dipetik daripada sebuah gaguritan (puisi tradisional) karya sasterawan terkenal Bali, Ida Pedanda Made Sidemen, boleh turut memberi inspirasi kepada penduduk pelbagai kaum dan agama di Malaysia. Selamat menyambut Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan! Om shanti shanti shanti. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Penulis Indonesia gemar menggunakan bahasa kebangsaan. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Bayi dengan kesan kelaran ditemui di asrama sekolah Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:45 AM PDT BETONG, 17 Okt – Seorang bayi perempuan yang dipercayai dilahirkan semalam ditemui mati dengan kesan kelaran di bilik asrama perempuan sebuah sekolah menengah di sini hari ini. Susulan kejadian itu, polis menahan seorang pelajar perempuan berusia 16 tahun pada 9.15 pagi ini bagi membantu siasatan. "Selepas menerima laporan daripada pihak sekolah, pasukan Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Betong ke lokasi kejadian dan menemui seorang bayi perempuan yang sudah meninggal dengan beberapa kesan luka di bahagian leher, perut dan belakang badan," kata  Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah Betong ASP Hendry Nyuhai dipetik Bernama Online. Beliau berkata mayat bayi itu ditemui terbaring bersebelahan katil pelajar perempuan berkenaan. Katanya polis turut merampas sebilah pisau yang ditemui disorokkan dalam selimut di tempat kejadian. Pelajar perempuan itu dihantar ke Hospital Umum Betong bagi mendapat rawatan, manakala kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Malaysia bakal lewati had hutang, Anwar cabar Najib debat Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:10 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 17 Okt – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata kritikan Datuk Seri Najib Razak yang melabel Belanjawan Pakatan Rakyat 2012 sebagai "belanjawan Republikan aliran kanan yang gagal memahami kehendak rakyat" adalah sesuatu yang dangkal. Malah Anwar (gambar) berkata, kenyataan itu membuktikan Najib mengelak dari isu asas yang menjangkiti pentadbiran beliau seumpama tadbir urus yang goyah, rasuah berleluasa dan dasar Barisan Nasional yang memperkaya keluarga dan kroni. Sehubungan itu Ketua Pembangkang berkata, beliau mempelawa Najib berdebat berkaitan kedudukan ekonomi negara dan persoalan berkaitan belanjawan. "Debat tersebut seharusnya disiarkan secara langsung dan ditayangkan melalui televisyen ke seluruh negara. Semenjak Pakatan Rakyat melancarkan Buku Jingga pada 2010, saya sudah pun mempelawa Datuk Seri Najib untuk berdebat," kata beliau dalam satu kenyataan dikeluarkan hari ini. Anwar yang juga Ketua Umum PKR berkata wacana umum antara Pakatan Rakyat dan pentadbiran beliau pastinya memberi manfaat tidak terhingga kepada rakyat terutamanya ketika ekonomi negara memasuki wilayah yang tidak dikenali serta kegagalan pentadbiran beliau untuk melonjak ekonomi Malaysia. "Sewajarnya Datuk Seri Najib Razak perihatin terhadap kebimbangan meluas berkaitan kenaikan kadar hutang negara, bukannya mengejek kekhuatiran tersebut," kata beliau. Bekas timbalan perdana menteri dan bekas menteri kewangan ini berkata kadar hutang negara ditetapkan oleh pelbagai peruntukan undang-undang. Antara peruntukan tersebut adalah Akta Pinjaman (Tempatan) 1959 (Pindaan 2004) dan Akta Pelaburan Kerajaan 1983, yang menetapkan gabungan pinjaman tempatan tidak boleh melewati kadar 55 peratus dari KDNK Negara. "Manakala Akta Pinjaman Luar Negeri 1963 (Pindaan) mengehadkan pinjaman luar negeri pada RM35,000 juta pada sesuatu masa. "Selain dari kadar yang ditetapkan oleh peruntukan undang-undang, Perbendaharaan juga mengenakan peraturan ketat untuk diikuti demi mengukuhkan displin fiskal," kata beliau sambil berkata, "amalan ini, malah ditetapkan sebelum dari saya menjadi Menteri Kewangan lagi." Sebagai contoh perbelanjaan pengurusan untuk tahun terbabit tidak boleh melebihi unjuran pendapatan, katanya. Begitu juga pinjaman yang dibuat kerajaan hanya untuk dibelanjakan demi pembangunan, tambah beliau. "Oleh itu, wacana umum berkaitan kadar hutang negara kini menjadi persoalan undang-undang dan berkepentingan nasional, apatah lagi pentadbiran Datuk Seri Najib kini hampir melanggari kadar hutang negara yang dihadkan undang-undang serta cuba untuk menyembunyikannya dari pengetahuan umum," katanya. Menurut Anwar, laporan terkini Bank Negara menunjukkan hutang negara kini berada pada RM437,000 juta pada suatu tempoh yang berakhir pada 30 Jun 2011. Jumlah tersebut merupakan pecahan dari RM421,000 juta hutang tempatan dan RM16,000 juta hutang luar negara. Ini bermaksud negara kini sudah berada pada 51 peratus dari nisbah hutang tempatan kepada KDNK negara, sepertimana yang ditetapkan oleh undang-undang,  yang hanya membenarkan tambahan hutang sebanyak RM 33,000 juta. "Oleh itu berdasarkan fakta ini adalah jelas kerajaan tidak mempunyai dana secukupnya untuk membiayai perbelanjaan selebihnya bagi 2011 dan defisit RM46,000 juta untuk dibiayai oleh hutang lebihan sebagaimana yang diumumkan dalam Belanjawan 2012," kata Anwar lagi. Menurut beliau, rakyat sedar unjuran pertumbuhan sebanyak lima hingga enam peratus yang diumumkan Najib dalam belanjawannya tidak tepat dan berkemungkinan besar pentadbirannya terpaksa bergantung kepada hutang demi membiayai janji janji pilihan rayanya. "Oleh itu debat serta wacana awam berkaitan ekonomi merupakan sesuatu yang mendesak terutamanya ketika pentadbiran Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan data ekonomi yang tidak meyakinkan dan sagu hati pilihan raya yang pastinya tidak mampu melonjak ekonomi negara. "Akan tetapi sekiranya Datuk Seri Najib Razak merasakan agenda ekonomi beliau mampu memberi manfaat kepada rakyat, adalah mustahak agar beliau memperincikannya kepada umum termasuklah menyatakan alasan mengapa beliau gagal melaksanakan perubahan struktur ekonomi secara menyeluruh termasuklah melaksanakan gaji minimum sejagat kepada seluruh pekerja dan merungkai monopoli di sektor barangan serta perkhidmatan awam," katanya. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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