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Massa signs off from Ferrari in frustration

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:43 PM PST

November 25, 2013

Ferrari Formula One driver Felipe Massa (second right) of Brazil carries his son Felipe on his shoulders as he is greeted by fans after the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, yesterday. - Reuters pic, November 25, 2013.Felipe Massa cursed race stewards for ruining his Ferrari farewell in front of his home fans at the Brazilian Grand Prix, yesterday.

The Sao Paulo driver had gone from ninth on the starting grid to fourth, with every chance of team mate Fernando Alonso handing him third as a parting gift, when he was given a drive-through penalty for fully crossing a white line at the pit lane entry.

"Unbelievable, unacceptable," he had shouted over the team radio when told. He shook his fists as he drove through the pit lane and was still incensed after finishing the race in seventh place.

"I'm really disappointed," he told reporters in the Interlagos paddock.

"For sure they (the stewards) didn't do the right thing. If you really need to do that, you need to penalise everybody who passed there, not just me. Its really unacceptable and I feel sorry because the race could have been completely different."

Massa, whose last win was at Interlagos in 2008 when he missed out on the title to Britain's Lewis Hamilton by a single point, said Alonso had told him before the race that he would help him to the best possible send-off.

"He just came to say wherever you are behind me, I let you by," said the Brazilian, who is moving to Williams after eight years at Ferrari.

Alonso, who had already made sure of second place overall in the championship, finished the race in third place and paid tribute afterwards to his departing team mate.

"He's been a fantastic team mate and even if we continue to see one another in the paddock, I will miss the relationship we have had. I wish him all the best for the future," said the Spaniard.

Massa is being replaced at Ferrari by returning 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen.

The drive-through cost Ferrari the chance of leapfrogging Mercedes for second place overall in the championship but the Italian team still made sure Massa was left in no doubt about their affection for him.

Given a guard of honour by mechanics as he drove out of the garage before the start of the race, they donned T-shirts afterwards thanking him for his contribution.

"I will miss the human part, you can see my relationship with Ferrari, how many friends I have here," said Massa. "It was a very emotional day, not only for me but for everybody that is working together with me and this is what I will miss more." - Reuters, November 25, 2013.

Last-gasp Kim holds Manchester United in Cardiff

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:33 PM PST

November 25, 2013

Cardiff City's Korean midfielder Kim Bo-Kyung (left) celebrates scoring the second equalising goal during the English Premier League match between Cardiff City and Manchester United at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, yesterday. - AFP pic, November 25, 2013.Wayne Rooney scored one, made one and was perhaps fortunate not to be sent off as Manchester United were denied a fourth successive league win by Kim Bo-Kyung's last gasp 2-2 equaliser in Cardiff, yesterday.

The England striker opened the scoring in the 15th minute and delivered the perfect corner for Patrice Evra in the 43rd, after Cardiff City had equalised through the former United youngster Fraizer Campbell.

However, Rooney was, perhaps, a touch fortunate to be on the pitch at the time after kicking out at Jordon Mutch in the eighth minute.

Referee Neil Swarbrick brandished a yellow card after speaking with the United star, but would have been wholly justified in showing him red.

In the end, Rooney and United returned home after their first visit to the south Wales outfit with only a point after substitute Kim headed home a 91st minute free kick.

There was plenty of bite, on and the field, as the game unfolded.

Cardiff, as they had against Swansea prior to the international break, closed down United's space and made life increasingly difficult for the likes of Marouane Fellaini and Tom Cleverley in a seriously congested midfield third.

However, when Antonio Valencia picked out Rooney on the penalty spot in the sixth minute, United might have been a goal to the good.

Unfortunately, for the 3,000-strong group of travelling fans, Rooney took a touch too many and his shot was easily blocked by Ben Turner.

At the opposite end, a typically precise free kick from Peter Whittingham saw Mutch head straight at David de Gea. Moments later, Rooney appeared to lose his cool after being dispossessed. He took an unnecessary swipe at Mutch and looked mighty relieved when the choice of card was yellow.

He might have been a touch fortunate to be on the pitch, but he finished with aplomb to put United ahead. Ben Turner gave away the ball in his own half and when Valencia's cross was flicked on by Xavier Hernandez, Rooney cut back inside and beat Marshall with a shot that deflected off the body of Gary Medel.

United had found their stride by now and with Cardiff beginning to find the pace and movement of Rooney and Hernandez difficult to cope with, there might have been a second shortly after.

A Fellaini header was beaten away by Marshall before Cleverley's back post volley was blocked by Andrew Taylor.

Cardiff stuck to their task and 12 minutes before the interval came up with the move of the game and an equaliser through Campbell.

Whittingham and Mutch combined in midfield before the latter threaded the most sumptuous ball into the path of Campbell who made no mistake from a dozen yards.

United were ruffled and needed something to settle themselves. It came two minutes before the interval when Evra headed Rooney's corner past Marshall via the chest of Taylor.

It was another header, this time from Fellaini, that caused Cardiff an early scare in the second half. Rooney's dipping free kick provided the pace, but Marshall, somehow, pushed the Moroccan's header around the post.

Cardiff might have been level for a second time, three minutes after that, when Campbell seized on a poorly-weighted pass from Cleverley to Rooney.

With de Gea stuck in no-man's land, the once-capped England striker could barely believe his misfortune as his deft lob came back off the crossbar.

A Whittingham free kick was Cardiff's next best opportunity, only this time, Cleverley came to the rescue with a desperate header over his own bar.

Cue a City onslaught that left United with no option but to employ a greater number of bodies in their own half.

Moyes introduced Ryan Giggs with 17 minutes remaining in a bid to provide a touch of stability to a side that looked a touch vulnerable.

With Danny Welbeck on too, United almost extended their advantage when the substitutes combined to create a golden chance.

Giggs, having pitched up on the right, sent in the most delightful assist for Welbeck, but the striker's first touch was heavy and Marshall pounced to avert the danger.

Here were one or two further opportunities at either end, thereafter, but nothing to write home about until Kim popped up to earn City a point.

United sit seven-points adrift of leaders Arsenal in sixth with Cardiff City three points above the drop zone. - AFP, November 25, 2013.

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Good times again for Daft Punk collaborator Nile Rodgers

Posted: 23 Nov 2013 09:40 PM PST

November 24, 2013

It's the guitar that Nile Rodgers (pic) says he cannot live without: a white 1959 Fender Stratocaster through which his music – to the tune of more than $3 billion, he says – has flowed for decades. Last month he left it on a train.

Without "The Hitmaker" as Rodgers calls it, some of the most influential music of the past 35 years would not have sounded the same.

From Rodgers' band Chic, which soundtracked the decadent rise of disco with hits such as "Le Freak" and "Good Times", to records that he produced or performed on for Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Daft Punk and others, the guitar has been a permanent fixture.

Losing it "was horrible – it felt the same as if I had a child kidnapped", Rodgers, 61, said in an interview with AFP.

"That instrument is so unique and so special, there is nothing in my world that is as consistent as that," he added on the phone from his dressing room before a concert in Tokyo.

Luckily, Rodgers found the guitar in the lost property area of a train yard hours after realising he had left it on the service to Connecticut, where his studio is.

It is just one element of good fortune in a year in which Rodgers has been given the all-clear from cancer, seen his "Get Lucky" collaboration with French electronic music duo Daft Punk become Spotify's most-streamed song over 24 hours, and headline festivals with his band Chic.

"It's great, but I'm very careful not to make a big deal out of it," said Rodgers, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in 2010.

"I know that it can all switch in an instant. The day before I was diagnosed with cancer, my doctor told me I was the healthiest patient he had.

"I felt great. However, I was asymptomatic, and the cancer was growing so fast inside me that it was just a matter of time."

Rodgers underwent surgery and in recovery decided to play as much music around the world as possible. He started a blog, "Walking on Planet C", to document his experiences and reached out to artists he wanted to work with through Facebook and Twitter.

"That was my therapy. I decided that if you have a really good reason to live, you have a reason to wake up the next day," he said.

'Le Freak'

Aside from Chic, Rodgers co-wrote "We Are Family" for Sister Sledge, "Upside Down" for Diana Ross, produced and performed on David Bowie's biggest-selling album "Let's Dance" and on "Like a Virgin" for Madonna. And that's just scratching the surface of his discography.

In his 2011 autobiography, Rodgers describes a mostly happy childhood in New York, despite battling acute asthma and being raised by loving but heroin-addicted parents in a bohemian household "dotted with junkies".

As a teenager he joined the Harlem branch of the Black Panthers, dropped acid with LSD guru Timothy Leary and jammed with Jimi Hendrix.

After jobs in the Sesame Street band and at the Apollo Theatre, he went on to form Chic with his musical partner Bernard Edwards, whose death in 1996 left Rodgers devastated.

The disco lights are shining on Chic once more this year, helped by Rodgers' role in underpinning Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories", a dance album that pays heavy tribute to the 1970s and 1980s.

Its lead single "Get Lucky", featuring Rodgers on his trademark Stratocaster, was for many the song of the summer.

"When 'Get Lucky' first hit, I said to people 'I'm so excited for Daft Punk'," said Rodgers.

"This is their first number one record – my 20th, I don't even know how many I've had. This is a rare, unique club to be in."

After a year of celebrated live performances, Chic will headline the Shanghai Electric Disco Carnival and perform at Hong Kong's Clockenflap music festival on November 29 and 30, before dates in New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur and then Australia.

"You're just on a trajectory when, every now and then there's some kind of convergence and people go 'we like that' and I'm the beneficiary.

"I know it doesn't last," he said, dwelling on disco's demise in the late 1970s before its rebirth in later years as the undercurrent to newer sounds in hip hop and electronica.

Recent collaborations with British electronic act Disclosure and DJ David Guetta will feature on a new Chic album along with Daft Punk, Rodgers told AFP.

In doing so, he will extend an extraordinary body of work that Rodgers still hears daily, wherever he is in the world.

"Half the time you wonder why it sounds so familiar," said Rodgers.

"And then you remember that you wrote it." – AFP/Relaxnews, November 24, 2013.

Dr Who turns 50 with eyes on global space

Posted: 23 Nov 2013 05:05 PM PST

November 24, 2013

The BBC's 'Doctor Who' first aired on November 23, 1963. – AFP pic, November 24, 2013.Thousands of "Doctor Who" fans from across the world descended on London on Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a sci-fi series that has gripped generations with a quirky blend of time travel, merciless robots and evil aliens.

"Doctor Who", first aired on British television on November 23, 1963, is the world's longest-running science-fiction series according to "Guinness World Records", telling the story of a half-human with two hearts and the power to travel in time. It is now a major part of BBC efforts to press sales overseas.

From its inception, it had British children cowering behind sofas, untroubled by sometimes less than convincing sets and aliens that looked frequently like men in rubber suits.

The doctor's chief enemy, the Daleks, are an alien race forced by an apocalyptic war to retreat into robotic shells, bereft of all emotions bar hatred; man-sized salt cellar-shaped villains with probes reminiscent of sink plungers and flashing lights on their heads strangely similar to those on a car seen widely on British streets in the early 1960s.

Scrapped 24 years ago, it re-emerged in 2005 in what many view as a more sophisticated form, going from strength to strength.

As well as building a strong fan base in Britain among so-called "Whovians", the show has made its mark in the United States, Australia and Canada and is expanding in other languages to markets such as China, Brazil and Mexico.

Randy Bloch, a computer engineer from Chicago, Illinois, was one of an expected 24,000 fans gathering at a conference centre for a 50th anniversary edition, "The Day of the Doctor", to be broadcast in more than 90 countries and 15 languages.

Some wore Dr Who costumes, took part in workshops, bought up merchandise and took part in workshops.

"I like Doctor Who's idealism and optimism. It offers hope and acceptance for people who need it," Bloch, wearing a Dr Who-themed stripey scarf, commented.

The show, joined by current and past doctors, is a key part of the publicly-funded BBC's efforts to win a global audience for this and other drama shows.

Steven Moffat, the show's chief writer, attributed its success to having "a simple hero who can go anywhere in time and space" and transforming itself every few years with a new lead character and updated technology.

One centre piece is the Doctor's Tardis time machine, taking the form of a blue police box. The Tardis had been designed to melt in with its surroundings, which it did nicely in the 1963 broadcast set in a London where such boxes were a common sight, a constable's telephone link to the station.

Unfortunately, the function froze after the first series leaving the Tardis in the same, subsequently rather incongruous form for future visits to far away planets and distant times.

The show has its detractors, as even the BBC acknowledges.

"Daleks are like a wheelie bin with a plunger. I am simply not scared of them, no matter how much people may scream," wrote one observer, Chris Sallis, in an article on the BBCwebsite.

"The Tardis itself just doesn't interest me either. What is interesting about a blue police box compared with the star ship Enterprise or the Millennium Falcon?"

Yet the fans keep clamouring for more.

The lead role has been played by 11 actors, starting with William Hartnell in 1963 through to the incumbent doctor Matt Smith who will hand over the keys to the Tardis later this year to the 12th doctor, Oscar-winning Peter Capaldi. – Reuters, November 24, 2013.

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Ronaldo, slivovitz and World Cup economics

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 04:05 AM PST

November 24, 2013

'Yes, I did it... I helped to boost the Portuguese economy with my goals to help the country qualify for Brazil 2014', is what Ronaldo is thinking as he celebrates in last week's match against Sweden in Stockholm. - AFP pic, November 24, 2013.When Cristiano Ronaldo completed his stunning hat-trick against Sweden last week, he didn't just book Portugal's place at next year's World Cup in Brazil.

He also had the heads of his country's national airline, travel agents and main television station punching the air as they contemplated a massive boost from a tournament in the spiritual home of football.

As the former colonial power, Portugal has myriad business, cultural and sporting links with emerging economic heavyweight Brazil, to whom it bequeathed its language.

For a small, under-pressure economy like Portugal's, World Cup qualification is the kind of thing that can make a difference.

The broader, macroeconomic benefits of the boost to national morale are not easy to quantify but, in certain sectors, the Ronaldo effect goes straight to the bottom line.

Just ask Goncalo Rebelo de Almeida, a board member at Vila Gale, a Portuguese hotel group that generates 40 percent of sales in Brazil.

"The Portuguese who head for Brazil to watch the World Cup are going to prefer a hotel they know," Almeida says with relish.

For troubled national air carrier TAP, which flies more people to Brazil than any other European airline, a World Cup hosted by the five-time winners with Portugal included is manna from heaven.

Executives have already decided to bring forward the opening of new routes between Lisbon and Brazil's northern cities of Belem and Manaus by one month to the beginning of June, a fortnight before the big kick-off.

Similar bonanzas are being anticipated by public broadcaster RPT, which gambled heavily on Ronaldo's talent when it shelled out for the broadcasting rights to Brazil, and the Seleccao (national squad)'s principal sponsors.

They include brewer Sagres, the BES bank and TMN, the mobile arm of Portugal Telecom, which has recently merged with Brazilian operator Oi.

Not a football country

Experts in France have poured cold water on suggestions that the national team, Les Bleus' stirring comeback against Ukraine in their qualifying play-off will provide the country's stagnating economy with the shot of adrenaline it so badly needs.

But France is a big economy, by definition much harder to turn around, and, as Manchester United legend Eric Cantona is fond of reminding his compatriots, it is also not a country that lives and breathes football.

That cannot be said of Portugal or of Croatia, which also came through a play-off last week, joining Greece in the group of four countries to claim the final tickets from Europe to Brazil.

The high stakes involved for Croatia's services-based economy were underlined by a headline in newspaper Vecernji List: "(Coach) Niko Kovac can pull Croatia out of recession."

On the evidence of Croatia's latest appearances at major football tournaments, economists expect each match played by Kovac's squad in Brazil to deliver a €50-million boost to national GDP: that may not sound like that much, but for Croatia the three guaranteed matches at the finals will add around 0.35% to annual economic output.

In Portugal you can call it the Ronaldo ripple. In Croatia it is more of a "slivovitz" effect: fans can be guaranteed to toast a victory or drown their sorrows with the fiery national drink and most of them will do it on the terrace of cafes which are counting on a 30% surge in business during the tournament.

"Anyone who has a cafe in Croatia gave a double cheer when we qualified -- firstly as fans and secondly as businessmen," said Dean Barac, who has two bars on the Adriatic coast.

"I've got a big screen TV in my cafe but just now I cannot attract anyone with it," he told AFP. "For Brazil I'll have to upgrade the equipment because the matches will be played during the day and we'll need better resolution.

"As long as Croatia gets to the second round, the investment will be worth it. Croatians love to spend after a victory."

France made football history by overturning a 0-2 first leg deficit to Ukraine to clinch their place in the finals, but even those heroics are expected to make little difference to Europe's second biggest economy.

"Elimination would have dampened the current climate still further but it doesn't follow that qualification will restore the economy's sparkle," says Marc Touati of economic consultancy ACDEFI.

"The French reality of very high unemployment, non-existent growth and strong fiscal pressure remains the same."

A boost to the national brand

For all its current problems, France has greater reserves of wealth than its fellow play-off winners and the upmarket travel sector has already been rewarded for Franck Ribery and co.'s heroics at the Stade de France.

"Our World Cup newsletter went from 3,000 to 5,000 subscribers in the morning after the match," said Jean-Francois Rial, the CEO of travel agent Voyageurs du Monde, which has the French rights to sell official hospitality packages for the World Cup.

But the size of the French economy means a boon for a handful of companies is unlikely to make a difference overall.

"If football created growth, Spain would be the richest country in Europe," Pascal Perri, the economics expert of RMC Sports radio, noted with a wry smile.

For smaller countries there is also the boost to the national brand that comes with qualification, according to Gregory Papanikos, a Greek who is honorary economics professor at Stirling University in Scotland.

"For a non-host country, the chief benefit is fame," Papanikos said. "If properly exploited (Greece's participation in Brazil 2014) will have a positive effect on tourism. The country gains exposure abroad."

He believes Greek travel agents will be busy if Greece gets past the first round but he cautioned against investing in TV companies. "Don't forget that many Greeks will turn off the TV set if the team is 3-0 down." - AFP, November 24, 2013.

Watching sport can make you fitter - study

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:14 AM PST

November 24, 2013

Watching sport can make you fitter, according to research Sunday that said viewing other people exercise increases heart rate and other physiological measures as if you were working out yourself.

The study, published in the international journal Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience, showed that when watching a first person video of someone else running, heart rate, respiration, skin blood flow and sweat release all increased.

They returned to normal at the conclusion of the "jog".

Researchers said that importantly, for the first time, it was shown that muscle sympathetic nerve activity increased when people watched physical activity.

"Recording this nerve activity provides a very sensitive measure of the body's physiological responses to physical or mental stress," said one of the lead researchers Vaughan Macefield, from the School of Medicine at the University of Western Sydney.

"We know that the sympathetic nervous system -- which supplies the heart, sweat glands and blood vessels, as well as other tissues -- increases its activity during actual exercise.

"Now we have shown that it increases when you are watching a moving scene as if you were running yourself."

During the study, very fine needles were inserted into an outer nerve of nine volunteers to record the electrical signals of nerve fibres directed to blood vessels, providing a very sensitive measure of the body's physiological responses to physical or mental stress.

The participants were initially shown a static image on a computer screen while the researchers monitored their muscle sympathetic nerve activity and other physiological parameters.

These measurements remained constant while watching the non-moving landscape image, but that changed when shown a 22-minute video shot by a runner on a vigorous jog.

"Although these changes were small, they were all appropriate physiological responses to exercise," said Rachael Brown, who conducted the study with Macefield, considered a top world expert in recording human sympathetic neurones in health and disease.

"As the volunteers were sitting relaxed with no muscle activity it indicates that the responses were psychogenic - that is they originated from the mind and not the body.

"This dovetails with our recent work on the emotions, where we found that viewing emotionally charged images, such as erotica, increases our sympathetic nerve activity and sweat release."

While the study concluded that your body will get a small workout from simply watching others exercise, Macefield cautioned that nothing compared to real physical activity.

"While watching other people exercise may increase your heart rate and have other physiological effects, nothing can replace the health benefits of getting off the couch," he said. - AFP, November 24, 2013.

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Pemilihan PAS: Kempen agresif kumpulan pro ulama memakan diri

Posted: 23 Nov 2013 04:46 PM PST

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Pertandingan Naib Presiden pamer tiga elemen kepimpinan dalam PAS

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:32 AM PST

November 24, 2013

Datuk Husam Musa (kanan) beremosi apabila Datuk Mahfuz Omar kalah dapat jawatan Naib Presiden PAS. Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Afif Abd Halim, 24 November, 2013.Barisan Naib Presiden PAS yang dipilih pada Muktamar PAS ke-59 mewakili tiga elemen kepimpinan dalam parti itu iaitu ulama, aktivis dan profesional, kata muka baru penyandang jawatan Naib Presiden Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.

"Mungkin orang melihat Salahuddin sebagai aktivis parti, Husam sebagai profesional, dan ana (saya) dilihat dalam konteks ulamak," kata Pesuruhjaya PAS Pahang itu, yang memenangi jawatan itu bersama penyandang Datuk Husam Musa dan Salahuddin Ayub dalam pertandingan lima penjuru.

Pengumuman keputusan pemilihan jawatan Naib Presiden itu ditangguhkan ke hari ini berikutan pengiraan semula undi semalam.

Sementara itu, penyandang yang tewas dalam pertandingan itu Datuk Mahfuz Omar memohon maaf di hadapan kira-kira 1,129 perwakilan terhadap sebarang kekurangan ketika memegang jawatan itu selain menyifatkan soal jawatan atau kedudukan bukan suatu kepentingan sebaliknya perjuangan parti.

"Saya tidak kisah (kalah) kerana saya sudah tiga kali bertanding jawatan itu. Saya redha dan hormati keputusan yang dibuat perwakilan," katanya selepas pengumuman keputusan, sambil menolak andaian pengiraan semula undi menjadi punca kekalahannya.

Husam, yang berjaya mempertahankan jawatannya setelah meraih 520 undi, pula meluahkan rasa sedihnya apabila Mahfuz yang disifatkan sebagai sahabat "tergelincir" dalam pemilihan kali ini.

"Pada saya beliau lebih layak kerana beliau lebih petah dan mempunyai banyak idea berbanding saya ketika bermesyuarat.

"Apa pun keputusan telah dibuat, saya terima dengan hati terbuka. Tugas kita sekarang adalah untuk menyatupadukan PAS dan lupakan sengketa ekoran pemilihan ini, marilah kita melihat ke hadapan," katanya.

Ditanya mengenai majoriti tipis 16 undi yang diperolehinya dengan undi yang diterima Mahfuz, beliau berkata perkara itu sudah diduga.

"Sama ada saya atau Mahfuz, kami telah menjangkakan salah seorang daripada kami mungkin tergelincir," katanya.

Salahuddin pula berkata walaupun mendapat undian terbanyak iaitu 917 undi, beliau turut merasa sedih kerana pencabarnya Datuk Abu Bakar Chik yang dianggap sebagai abang tewas.

Abu Bakar, yang sebelum ini adalah anggota Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat dan memperoleh 364 undi pada pemilihan itu, berkata beliau bertanding dengan jangkaan yang beliau akan tewas.

Abu Bakar bagaimanapun berkata beliau tetap menawarkan dirinya kerana merasakan parti memerlukan sumbangannya berdasarkan pengalaman beliau dalam kepimpinan pusat selama 30 tahun termasuk memegang jawatan Ketua Pemuda PAS selama 10 tahun sejak 1988.

Dengan pengalamannya dalam bidang pendidikan sebelum ini, Abu Bakar berkata beliau yakin dapat melakukan sesuatu bagi mengatasi masalah parti itu yang mengalami kemerosotan sokongan masyarakat Melayu.

Ini termasuk meningkatkan hubungan dengan mereka yang terlibat dalam sektor sosial dan ekonomi seperti ahli perniagaan, wakil-wakil industri dan teknokrat di Malaysia.

"Apa pun, para perwakilan PAS sebenarnya telah memikirkan siapa untuk mereka pilih kali ini," katanya. – Bernama, 24 November, 2013.

Ganti khidmat pengawal keselamatan dengan polis bantuan, cadang Ku Nan

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 01:14 AM PST

November 24, 2013
Latest Update: November 24, 2013 05:33 pm

Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor (gambar) mencadangkan khidmat pengawal keselamatan di semua pejabat kerajaan digantikan dengan khidmat polis bantuan bagi mengelak perkara tidak diingini berlaku.

Sambil berharap Ketua Setiausaha Negara Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa menimbangkan cadangan itu, beliau berkata langkah itu wajar terutama di pusat pentadbiran Putrajaya yang turut menempatkan pejabat menteri yang menyimpan banyak dokumen rahsia kerajaan.

"Saya risau jika pengawal keselamatan di 'outsource', mereka akan mempunyai kunci pendua pejabat dan pelbagai perkara boleh dilakukan oleh mereka, oleh (itu) kita mahu pastikan perkara-perkara yang tidak diingini tidak berlaku," katanya.

Tengku Adnan yang juga ahli Parlimen Putrajaya berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan Majlis Berkhatan Beramai-ramai di Putrajaya hari ini.

Katanya beliau turut mengusulkan cadangan kepada anggota Kabinet agar syarikat-syarikat keselamatan diambil alih oleh kerajaan agar kakitangannya dapat dilatih sebagai polis bantuan.

Beliau turut meminta syarikat keselamatan lebih bertanggungjawab dalam pengambilan pengawal keselamatan supaya kejadian rompakan dan menembak mati pegawai bank di Ambank, Subang Jaya baru-baru ini melibatkan pengawal keselamatan bank itu sendiri tidak berulang.

Dalam perkembangan lain, Tengku Adnan memberitahu pihaknya telah memberi satu taklimat kepada Brunei Investment Agency mengenai pelan pembangunan di Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur.

"Kita juga telah mengarahkan Perbadanan Pembangunan Kampung Baru untuk menghantar satu pasukan ke Brunei bagi berbincang dengan pihak mereka untuk bersama-sama membangunkan kampung tersebut," katanya.

Sementara itu, Tengku Adnan turut memaklumkan dua lokasi di Putrajaya telah dikenal pasti menjadi tempat saki-baki kumpulan Al-Arqam menyebarkan ajaran mereka.

"Dua tempat tersebut ialah di klinik dan surau yang kini sedang dipantau oleh Jabatan Agama Wilayah Persekutuan dan saya menyarankan agar orang ramai berhati-hati dengan aktviti penyebaran ajaran sesat itu," katanya.

Mengenai kadar baru cukai pintu di Kuala Lumpur, Tengku Adnan berkata satu mesyuarat akan diadakan esok dengan Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Thalib dan pihak Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, dan akan memastikan kadar baharu tersebut tidak membebankan rakyat dan adil kepada pemilik hartanah. – Bernama, 24 November, 2013.

Kredit: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com

Ahad, 24 November 2013