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Parliament Questions Time, 24 February 2009

Control of Auditing Firms in Public Listed Companies …

Soalan:
(PR-1221-L17798)

Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan apakah tindakan yang telah dan akan diambil untuk mencegah firma-firma audit di Malaysia daripada membantu syarikatsyarikat tersenarai dalam Bursa Saham Malaysia memalsukan laporan kewangan mereka demi merahsiakan keadaan kewangan mereka daripada para pelabur am, memandangkan kejadian melibatkan pemalsuan laporan kewangan oleh Megan Media Berhad serta syarikatsyarikat ternama seperti Enron, Worldcom, Bernard Madoff dan Satyam Computer Services dan firma audit terkenal seperti Arthur Anderson.

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Parliament Questions Time, 23 February 2009

Khazanah’s losses amounting to RM18 billion …

Soalan:
(PR-1221-L17792)

Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan sebab-sebab Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) mencatatkan kerugian kewangan besar RM18 bilion seperti yang dilaporkan dalam surat khabar pada 20 Januari 2009 dan memberi senarai penuh semua syarikat di mana Khazanah adalah pemegang saham serta jumlah saham yang dipegang oleh Khazanah dalam setiap syarikat tersebut serta jaminan kepada syarikat-syarikat tersebut dan catatan untung atau rugi mereka pada tahun-tahun kewangan 2006 hingga 2009.

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Launch of Danau Kota Flat Residents Association

Perlancaran Persatuan Penduduk Rumah Pangsa Danau Kota

Sunday, 22 February: This morning I was invited to the launch of the Danau Kota Flat Residents Association. DBKL, the Police, Rela, Hokkien Association of Setapak and Jabatan Bomba were represented.

Ahad, 22 Februari: Pagi ini, saya telah dijumput ke upacara perlancaran Persatuan Penduduk Rumah Pangsa Danau Kota. Pihak DBKL, Polis, Rela, Persatuan Hokkien Setapak dan Jabatan Bomba turut hadir.

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Third from left: Encik Ahmad Bin Omar, President of the Danau Kota Flat Residents Association
Ketiga daripada sebelah kiri: Encik Ahmad Bin Omar, Presiden Persatuan Penduduk Rumah Pangsa Danau Kota

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Your MP's Question of the Week #46

The Abdullah Badawi government, for some reasons, has been most caring and generous with Air Asia.

The patronage and molly-coddling it receives seems to make the budget airline appears to be the “most favoured son or company.”  What it asks for, it gets. It can do no wrong. The budget airline can even avoid forwarding airport tax it has collected on behalf of the authority and get away with it. For lesser folks and companies, when taxes are owed, the offence is liable for a hefty fine and maybe even a jail term.

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Parliament Questions Time, 19 February 2009

Grading of Session Court Judges …

Soalan:
(PR-1221-L17760)

Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan mengapakah 30 orang Hakim Mahkamah Seksyen hanya di naik pangkat kepada Gred Khas C manakala Timbalan Pendakwa Raya yang tempoh perkhidmatan lebih singkat telah dinaikkan ke Gred Utama C dengan gaji dan elaun yang lebih tinggi dan adakah hakim ini di diskriminasi supaya mereka akan akur kepada Kerajaan.

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Ministry of Health's 'partners in crime' in wasteful advertising

“Rakan kongsi subahat” Kementerian Kesihatan dalam pengiklanan nan serba membazir

My office was recently forwarded the following information.

Since questions were raised as to which advertising companies were involved and what were their allocated budgets in the respective campaigns, I am duty bound to furnish the information here for the interest of the public.

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Parliament Questions Time, 17 February 2009

What actions have the Minister of Home Affairs taken or will take against ever increasing crimes in Wangsa Maju as well as in other parts of the country?

Soalan:
( PR-1221-L17752 )

Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI DALAM NEGERI menyatakan apakah tindakan yang telah dan akan diambil untuk menghadapi peningkatan lagi gejala jenayah yang sudah berleluasa seperti rompakan, kecurian, jenayah kekerasan di Wangsa Maju serta tempat-tempat lain pada waktu negara kita sedang mengalami kemelesetan ekonomi yang akan memaksa lebih ramai lagi orang terjerumus dalam kancah jenayah akibat tekanan hidup.

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Confirmed: Badawi stepping down as PM come end March

Sudah sah: Badawi akan berhenti menjadi Perdana Menteri menjelang March

For some time vicious rumours have been circulating claiming that Abdullah Badawi may not step down as Prime Minister come end March.

The Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, has cleared the air in Parliament today and put the rumour to rest once and for all.

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Your MP's Question of the Week #45

Was this the attitude of the Ministry of Health? …

“Who cares about the message and quality, let’s spend the budget!”

Soalan Mingguan WR Anda ke-45

Adakah ini sikap Kementerian Kesihatan?  …

“Usah bimbangkan maklumat dan mutu iklan, habiskan peruntukan dulu!”

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Recently, a reader of this blog cared enough to highlight to me what most of us would normally have let slide.

Apparently just before the end of 2008, the reader noticed that the Ministry of Health had suddenly embarked on a blitz of mass-media public awareness advertising campaigns like there was no tomorrow.

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