Jumaat, 26 November 2010

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Che Dead: Ini semua pasal batal projek JAMBATAN BENGKOK...

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 07:50 PM PST

Sorry Tukar Tiub...it is nothing to do with 'waves of capitalist' or whatsoever...!! It is Jambatan Bengkok...He he!!

€90 BILON IRISH BAILOUT ENDS IN TURMOIL - NOW EUROPE FEARS CRISIS WILL SPREAD - guardian london

Financial markets were thrown into turmoil today amid fears that an imminent collapse of Ireland's beleaguered government would have a knock-on effect across the eurozone.
The announcement of the potential €90bn international bailout for debt-laden Ireland – of which the UK could contribute up to £10bn – offered only a temporary respite to nervous markets.

By tonight, concerns that Portugal and even Spain might also need their own rescue packages were rising and sent the euro and shares falling while the risk of holding the debt of potentially vulnerable countries rose alarmingly.

After a tumultuous day in Dublin, where protesters tried to storm the parliament building, the prime minister, Brian Cowen, defied calls for his resignation but conceded he would call an election in the new year. The move was forced upon him after the Green party pulled out of his fragile coalition government, unnerving markets on a day which was supposed to restore confidence in Europe's decade-old single currency.

Tahniah....Selangor Terbit "Selangor Times"...

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 07:40 PM PST

Selangor launches no-KDN newspaper
26 November 2010

A free newspaper, under political patronage
Selangor Times, a free weekly newspaper with a focus on community news, went on the streets today in a test of media freedom and setting the scene for a possible contest of wills between the Selangor government and the federal Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN) which licences the publication of newspapers.

The newspaper is supported by the Selangor government but produced as a private initiative, with a team of experienced news journalists led by KL Chan, formerly of The Edge.

The editorial team includes familiar names such as Deborah Loh (Nut Graph) and Neville Spykerman (Malaysiakini), and veterans James Ang (New Straits Times) and designer Jimmy Lim (once with The Star).
Among the contributors are other familiar names such as Patrick Teoh, Wong Chin Huat, Fahmi Fadzi, the Loyar Burok website, and civil rights lawyer Edmund Bon's My Constitution campaign — lending an air of "the usual suspects" to the venture.

The birth of Selangor Times (with executive councillor Teresa Kok a very active midwife) puts to the test a section of the notorious Printing Presses and Publications Act under which publications produced for the federal and state governments do not need the annual publishing permits required of all newspapers and magazines.

Media and opposition activists, principally Monash University's Wong Chin Huat and lawyer Haris Ibrahim, hold that this section provides a loophole to get around the requirement to obtain a newspaper licence before publication.

Wong and Haris have campaigned for the Pakatan Raykat-led governments of Penang and Selangor to make use of the section to produce their own newspaper in the face of negative reporting mainly by the traditional media, almost all of which are owned by Barisan Nasional parties or BN-friendly publishers.

Earlier this year, they submitted a policy paper to the Selangor govenment setting out their views of how to make use of the "loophole".

Pakatan Rakyat politicians have called for reform of media laws and licensing and have promised to uphold media freedom when in power but the actions of the Kedah, Penang and Perak governments in banning several media houses from press conferences has put their credibility on the line.

The Selangor government has also come under criticism for not doing enough for media freedom and other reforms. At the launch of the Selangor government's anniversary book The Road to Reform in September, the menteri besar, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, sportingly sat through two hours of highly critical comments from speakers and from the floor.

Jacqueline Ann Surin of Nut Graph also flayed the Selangor government for the blatant propaganda put out by its media outlets such as Selangor Kini and TV Selangor.

To politicians faced with the constant hammering carried out by Umno-owned newspapers, the need to put forth their views and to defend their political actions is always uppermost.

Living with a siege mentality means that it is almost impossible for politicians of either side to view criticism dispassionately: they live in a binary world where everything is black or white, for or against, with no middle ground.

Thus members of the Selangor government were astonished to find themselves being accused to not living up to their promises, and especially of producing propaganda.

Presumably the publication of Selangor Times, and its focus on community news rather than the political and party personalities, as well as the involvement of non-partisan journalists, is an attempt at redressing the balance.

A social issue affecting all Selangor residents. And also a political hot potato between Pakatan and Barisan.By sticking to community affairs and social issues, the paper will have a greater chance of gaining credibility and acceptance among the middle-class reading public — and, more importantly for its own survival, acceptance among the business community, whose willingness to advertise in the paper will determine its viability.

The lack of a clearly partisan agenda in its news coverage will also place the paper in a better position to fend off any attempt by KDN to shut it down on the ground that it does not have a valid KDN permit.

The Home Ministry has in the past acted swiftly to put pressure on the official publications of Pakatan Rakyat parties — Harakah, the Rocket, and Suara Keadilan — and especially against Suara Keadilan, which suspended publication after the Ministry conveniently dawdled on renewing its permit. It now publishes without a permit under different one-off titles.

The KDN permit is often wielded as an Umno political weapon, instead of an administrative necessity, and editors and publishers often face punitive action when coverage in their publications does not meet Umno's political objectives.

By lending official support to Selangor Times, the Selangor government has demonstrated a further commitment to press freedom, coming on the heels of the Freedom of Information Bill which it hopes to enact early next year.

However, the fact that Selangor Times depends on the Selangor government's patronage will make it dependent on the goodwill of Pakatan Rakyat politicians — as well as the goodwill of KDN officials and the Home Ministry itself.

The Selangor government's backing for Selangor Times, while creditable, must be recognised as only a half-measure and only makes it more imperative to press for full media reform.

Selangor Times is a free newspaper. But it is not yet a free press. As long as the press must depend on political patronage — just to exist, let alone prosper — it is just living in a different kennel.

Penjelasan Saifudin Nasution...

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 06:09 PM PST

Aku tak percaya Utusan rugi RM10 juta....

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:01 AM PST

Bro...aku tak percaya Utusan Melayu rugi RM10 juta.

Mana boleh RM10 juta saja???

Kawan2 aku yang kerja kat media semua gelak bila yang diumumkan kerugian cuma RM10 juta.... x 10 kot.

Utusan records RM10 million loss
Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25: Utusan Melayu, the company which publishes UMNO and its right wing offshoot Perkasa's mouthpiece, Utusan Malaysia, has recorded a pre-tax loss of RM10.682 million in the first nine months this year.

This is in contrast to the pre-tax profit of RM1.707 million for the same period last year.

According to a filling in Bursa Malaysia, Utusan attributed the decline in revenue from RM253.847 million to RM244.564 million to a decrease in advertising revenues.

Besides recording a lower pre-tax profit of RM1.736 million for the third quarter ending September 30, against RM10.128 million last year, Utusan's revenue only managed to improve by a dismal RM10,000, from RM89.53 million to RM89.54 million during the period under review this year.

Responding to the loss, former MCA Subang Jaya state assemblyman Lee Hwa Beng expressed sympathy to the paper's shareholders, and said that RM10 million spent for propaganda purposes were "cheap".

"RM10 million a year for propaganda is cheap. Only pity the shareholders," said Lee in a Twitter posting.

The loss drew an almost immediate response from none other than the paper's frequent target of condemnation, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who said the paper's drop in quality was also a factor.
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