Nazir of CIMB, Azran of AirAsia X vs Umno-owned Utusan, Najib of Umno. Guan Eng: "Now everyone should be like Nazir" ;)

Guan Eng: More Malaysians should be like Nazir

By Opalyn Mok
June 12, 2013

Lim accused Utusan of setting Malaysians against each other. — Picture by KE OoiGEORGE TOWN, June 12 ― Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today commended Datuk Seri Nazir Razak for his outspokenness, even as the CIMB Group boss continues to come under attack for defending AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman Rani for the same trait.

Lim urged Malaysians to emulate Nazir in speaking their minds despite the risk of backlash.

“I hope his brother (Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak) can be just as brave as him,” he said while condemning a news article in Utusan Malaysia that had labelled Nazir as “anti-Malay” for his praise of Azran.

Azran had criticised Utusan Malaysia for an inflammatory headline, “Apa lagi Cina mau?”, which it ran immediately after the Election 2013. This led to the newspaper to take aim at him and proclaim a boycott against advertising from the airline that he helms.

On Monday, Nazir defended Azran for his forthright attitude, saying that this is the “mark of a leader”, leading to attacks against the banker.

Lim also accused Utusan Malaysia today of turning Malaysians on one another through what he called racially-toned articles.

“Malaysians do not want to be enemies with each other so I hope more Malaysians will be like Nazir,” the DAP secretary-general said in a press conference at his office this afternoon.

Malay-Muslim groups have criticised both Nazir and Azran for their views, branding both of them as “anti-Malay” and for forgetting “their roots”.

Yesterday, the Muslim Consumer Association of Malaysia had in a statement reminded Nazir and Azran of their roots and told them not to be arrogant because of their wealth, position and property.

In a blog post reproduced by Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia today, former information minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin accused Nazri of plunging brother Najib and Umno deeper into a post-polls “crisis of confidence” by coming to Azran’s defence.

He said Nazir, the CEO of CIMB Group and the younger brother to Prime Minister Najib, had likely thought that Barisan Nasional (BN) would recapture some of lost support from the Chinese had Utusan Malaysia not targeted the community.

“But in truth, Nazir only added to the problems faced by Datuk Seri Najib and Umno,” the former minister said in a blog posting that was published in Utusan Malaysia today.

Zainuddin further asked if labelling Azran forthright and frank meant Nazir was joining the ranks of those who have accused Utusan Malaysia of being racist.

Zainuddin went on to justify Utusan’s “brave” backing of Umno in fighting off the rival elements that have eroded public confidence in the government, which he said had opened the newspaper to financial risks.

Google buys Waze, a free social GPS Israeli app for $1.3 billion. In 2003, Mahathir, then PM of Malaysia, said Jews rule the world

Yes, Jews rule the world!

Founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin - both with Jewish roots.

Larry Page's mother is Jewish and Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, to Russian Jewish parents.

Now, together with Waze, an Israeli navigation app, the Jews rule the whole wide world and web!

Waze is a free social GPS application featuring turn-by-turn navigation, developed by the Israeli start-up Waze Mobile which is now owned by Google for GPS-enabled smartphones with a data plan. Waze supports Android, iPhone, Symbian, and J2ME (RIM).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/11/four-reasons-for-google-to-buy-waze/

Four Reasons Google Bought Waze

Nazir Razak, CIMB Group CEO, commended Azran Osman Rani, AirAsia X CEO: Apa lagi Utusan dan Najib Razak mahu? www.airasia.com

AirAsia X CEO finds backing from Najib’s brother for ‘speaking his mind’ on Utusan

June 10, 2013

Azran has come under fire after criticising Utusan Malaysia for its racial instigation.KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Once scorched for speaking his mind, Azran Osman Rani earned high praise today from CIMB Group CEO Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, who commended the AirAsia X chief executive’s forthright manner as the “mark of a leader”.
The captain of the long-haul budget airline, which will be making its market debut next month, had been the public target of Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia’s venom for much of last month, after he criticised the Malay broadsheet for what he saw as racial instigation in the aftermath of the May 5 polls that split the country apart.
Nazir, the lead banker for AirAsia X’s listing on Malaysia’s main bourse, praised Azran for speaking his mind and doing what he believed was the right thing.

“That is the mark of a leader,” Nazir said at AirAsia X’s prospectus launch here this morning.
The remarks appeared to be in reference to Azran’s run-in with Utusan Malaysia, although Nazir made no specific mention of the newspaper.
The younger brother to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak added that it was these qualities in the airline’s management team which had seen it register a 70 per cent annual growth in its revenues since it launched its first flight in November 2007.
Azran had come under the right-wing daily’s hammer last month after criticising Utusan on his Twitter account, @azranosmanrani, for what he reportedly saw as a racial instigation in the aftermath of the May 5 polls.
He was also reported to have criticised Malay group Perkasa for its hardline stance as an irrelevant organisation that had caused Malays to be myopic.
In response, the paper had published daily views from Perkasa leaders, the Muslim Consumers Society of Malaysia and pro-Umno activists who slammed Azran, branding him “arrogant” and a Malay who had forgotten his roots.
AirAsia X chairman Tan Sri Rafizah Aziz and director Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan had also come under attack from various groups after the duo had defended Azran’s comments.
Self-declared Malay rights champion Perkasa, the Ex-Servicemen Association of Malaysia, Malaysian Reformists Movement and the Malaysian Malay Network were among the groups that lashed out at both Rafidah and Kalimullah and demanded the duo apologise for their remarks against Utusan which they say is the voice of the Malays.
Perkasa’s acting president Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar had rallied to the paper’s defence and blasted Azran, saying the latter could not have climbed up to his present position without the “Malay power fought for by Utusan Malaysia”.
“Has Azran never thought also that the licence issued by the government to AirAsia is because at first the airline was owned by Malays?” Abdul Rahman was quoted as saying in one such report.
On May 19, Utusan columnist Awang Selamat — the nom-de-plume for the paper’s collective editorial voice — told the Umno-owned paper to stop taking the airline’s ads until its sister company’s chief executive apologises for criticising the broadsheet’s racist piece.
“Awang would like to suggest that the Utusan Group not accept any AirAsia ad as long as there is no apology. Let the company’s advertisement go to another paper, but not Utusan.
“Without AirAsia, Awang Selamat will not have any problem. Furthermore, the value of the advertisement given is very small, lower than advertisements for herbal and hair treatments,” it said.
The columnist also compared Asia’s biggest budget flier to Malaysia Airlines (MAS), and described the national carrier as having better service and a strong nationalist spirit.
“To those who serve we are polite, especially the Malaysian airline whose service is better and thick with nationalism,” it said.

Crushed Perodua Kelisa under collapsed ramp of Second Penang Bridge photo @ Batu Maung: Satu lagi projek Barisan Nasional!

Updated: 
The owner of the car was Rohaizad Md Sofar but the victim who was trapped and died in the car was Tajudin Zainal Abidin.

Published: Friday June 7, 2013 MYT 11:32:00 PM
Updated: Friday June 7, 2013 MYT 11:48:04 PM

Penang ramp collapse: Dad was on the way home with dinner, says tearful daughter   

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/6/7/nation/20130607233510&sec=nation

By KIATISAK CHUA

The victim's wife Sharifah Ramli (third from right) being comforted by her youngest daughter, seven-year-old Nur Ain Maisara (second from right).

GEORGE TOWN: The victim killed in the collapse of the Second Penang Bridge's flyover ramp was on his way home after buying dinner at a hawker centre in Bayan Lepas.

Tajudin Zainal Abidin

Nur Aina Syazwani, 11, the daughter of the late Tajudin Zainal Abidin, said her father called home at 6.30pm to ask what they wanted to have for dinner.
"But by 8pm, he did not return home," said Syazwani.
Tajudin's wife, Sharifah Ramli then went out to search for him.
Sharifah refused to talk to the press.
Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin said that Sharifah told him that she continued calling him but there was no reply.
"When it was revealed that the car crushed under the rubble was a silver Kelisa, she had a very bad feeling," Sim said.
He added that she was almost sure something had happened to Tajudin after seeing pictures of a partial car number plate on the Internet.
The body of Tajudin will be buried at the Kampung Perlis cemetery in Bukit Merah Saturday.

Al-Fatihah to Rohaizad Md Sofar.

Pemilik kereta yang terperangkap di dalam runtuhan dikenal pasti

Jun 07, 2013

Seorang lagi lelaki yang masih belum dikenal pasti identitinya ditemui mati di dalam sebuah kereta. - Gambar oleh K.E. OoiGEORGE TOWN, 7 Jun — Polis mengenal pasti pemilik kereta jenis Perodua Kelisa yang terperangkap di dalam runtuhan akibat dihempap oleh tanjakan konkrit susur keluar Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang di Batu Maung di sini sebagai Rohaizad Md Sofar.
Jurucakap polis berkata bagaimanapun polis tidak dapat mengesahkan sama ada Rohaizad, 43, yang beralamat di Sungai Dua, Gelugor di sini, adalah mangsa yang masih tersepit di dalam kenderaan itu.
“Kita meminta kerjasama semua pihak yang mengenali pemilik kenderaan itu untuk membantu siasatan bagi mengenal pasti mangsa,” katanya.
Mangsa bagaimanapun belum dapat dikeluarkan lagi dari kereta itu dan kerja mengalih sisa tanjakan konkrit yang telah dipotong itu sedang giat dijalankan.
Semalam, runtuhan penyambung susur keluar Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang di Lebuhraya Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu di Batu Maung itu menghempap sebuah kereta dan seorang mangsa dipercayai terperangkap di dalam runtuhan itu.
Dalam kejadian itu, dua bahagian konkrit iaitu 180 ton konkrit keras dan 100 ton konkrit lembut runtuh secara tiba-tiba dan menghempap sebuah kenderaan.
Tiga orang iaitu dua pekerja asing dan seorang wanita tempatan cedera dalam kejadian itu.
Sementara itu, kerja mengangkat sisa runtuhan tanjakan konkrit yang dipotong sedang giat dijalankan oleh pasukan penyelamat di kawasan kejadian.
Jurucakap bomba berkata runtuhan tanjakan konkrit dan besi itu terpaksa dipotong lebih kecil bagi memudahkan kerja mengalih dan mengangkut dilakukan.
Katanya setelah runtuhan tanjakan itu dialih, barulah bomba dapat mengeluarkan mangsa yang tersepit di dalam kereta akibat dihempap tanjakan konkrit itu.
Beliau berkata lebih 300 anggota pasukan yang terdiri daripada polis, bomba, Jabatan Pertahanan Awam, pekerja syarikat pembinaan dan kontraktor sedang bertungkus-lumus mengalihkan runtuhan konkrit dan besi seberat beratus-ratus tan itu. — Bernama

Read the posting here by Curi-Curi Wang Malaysia on Jambatan Kedua Sdn Bhd, the concessionaire for Second Penang Bridge and all the lies that BN spin:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=505169766215437&set=a.505169739548773.1073741862.159764004089350&type=1&theater

German robbed @ Jalan Cenderawasih near Bukit Aman. Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim shot dead near the Putrajaya police station!!

Who would have forgotten the tragic death of Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim, the Royal Malaysian Customs deputy director-general II, who was shot dead near the Putrajaya police station last April?

Today, a German robbed near Bukit Aman!

Where is the safest place in Malaysia now?

06 June 2013| last updated at 12:40AM

German robbed near Bukit Aman

By ELIZABETH ZACHARIAH | elizabeth@nst.com.my

Read more: German robbed near Bukit Aman - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/german-robbed-near-bukit-aman-1.294814#ixzz2VS1BqZS7

Datuk Shah Rukh Khan, Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh. Will Psy too get a Datuk or Tan Sri? Hannah Yeoh is First Lady Speaker Selangor

Minister Shabery Cheek: In a 11:50 AM incident, daughter fell victim to snatch thieves in Proton Satria @ Tesco Ampang car park

MALAYSIA IS STILL A SAFE PLACE. ;)

Read more: Minister's daughter falls victim to snatch thieves - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/minister-s-daughter-falls-victim-to-snatch-thieves-1.289352#ixzz2UvmjJ25s