Nike Shoes

Air Jordan Winterized 6 Rings

2010-12-31T13:08:00.000+08:00

Jordan Brand takes a seasonal approach with the Air Jordan Winterized 6 Rings. Much like the Winterized Spiz’ike, they sport superior construction that was built to withstand harsh conditions. They also boast a premium leather and mesh upper, brown accents, metal lace loops, and a lugged outsole. Now, thanks to the Air Jordan Winterized 6 Rings, winter is actually looking really good.

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Nike Air Force One Mid Retro Lifestyle

2010-12-01T09:56:00.000+08:00

The Nike Air Force 1 has often been referred to as the greatest sneaker of all time. It has spawned many imitators and even more followers. Released in 1982 and designed by the legendary Bruce Kilgore, the Air Force 1 was the first sneaker to feature “Air” technology and was named after the Air Force One aircraft that is used by the President of the United States. As Nike’s most popular sneaker, everyone from mail carriers to NBA greats have laced them up. Plus, since 1982 the Air Force 1 has been produced in over 1,500 different color combinations. And, there’s absolutely no end in sight.

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Nike Air Force One '07

2010-12-01T09:52:00.000+08:00

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Nike Air Max 90

2010-09-03T22:40:00.000+08:00

The Nike Air Max 90 was first named the Nike Air Max III until it was reissued and renamed in 2000. Its current name comes from the year this iconic sneaker was launched, 1990. The Air Max 90 was originally constructed with a Duromesh upper, synthetic suede, and synthetic leather. Striking color combos, comfort and clean lines made this model an instant hit, and the Nike Air Max 90 is still extremely popular today.

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Nike Air Force 1 '07

2010-09-03T22:37:00.000+08:00

It has often been referred to as the greatest sneaker of all time. It has spawned many imitators and even more followers. Released in 1982 and designed by the legendary Bruce Kilgore, the Air Force 1 was the first sneaker to feature “Air” technology and was named after the Air Force One aircraft that is used by the President of the United States. As Nike’s most popular sneaker, everyone from mail carriers to NBA greats have laced them up. Plus, since 1982 the Air Force 1 has been produced in over 1,500 different color combinations. And, there’s absolutely no end in sight.

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Nike Dunk High

2010-09-03T22:33:00.000+08:00

Originally released in 1985, the Nike Dunk was introduced as a technical basketball sneaker. They were designed with “paneling” and a lower profile enabling you to have more control during basketball moves. But, what really made the Nike Dunk was their variation of colors specifically designed to match college team uniforms. After a period of cease production on the Nike Dunk, they were re-released in 1998 and now have become an icon available in every colorway imaginable.

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Converse CT Split Mid

2010-04-05T07:09:00.000+08:00

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers are an American original. Converse created the first basketball shoe - the grandfather of all athletic shoes to follow. In 1923, Chuck Taylor, an all-star professional basketball player from Akron, worked with Converse to improve their shoes and the game of basketball. For the rest of his life, Chuck Taylor served as the Ambassador of Basketball for Converse, traveling across America to inspire youth, coach basketball clinics, and spread his love for the game and Converse shoes. Converse may have disappeared completely if not for the saving grace of Nike who bought the failing company in 2003 and put their innovative designers to work. These classics are the same great sneakers with the most basic technology, but are available wild new colors, styles, and materials. For more information about the history of Converse sneakers, please click on the following link. For more information about the history of Converse sneakers, please visit our Sneaker academy article the History of Converse

Air Jordan Spiz'ike

2010-04-05T07:01:00.000+08:00

The shoes that MJ has never worn.... The Air Jordan Spiz'ike is a fusion of the best qualities of the Air Jordan III, IV, V and VI and pay homage to Spike Lee and his famous character, Mars Blackmon. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, "Mars Blackmon", an annoying, "Brooklyn-loving", sports-loving, die-hard New York Knicks fan, became the primary character in Nike commercials for Air Jordans. In these commercials, Mars Blackmon popularized the phrase "Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? … it's gotta be the shoes."

Timberland 6in Waterproof Premium

2010-04-05T06:58:00.000+08:00

When Nathan Swartz created Timberland boots in 1918, he meant for his boots to reflect a rugged, durable outdoor style. Now, more than 80 years later, his innovative design has become a fashion statement and moved the brand from being a favorite of fans of the outdoors to a favorite of the concrete jungle. Practical and stylish...these are Timberland boots. Click on the following link to read about the history of Timberland.

Nike Air Force 1 '07

2010-04-05T06:54:00.000+08:00

It’s often been referred to as the greatest sneaker of all time. It has spawned many imitators and even more followers. Released in 1982 and designed by the legendary Bruce Kilgore, the Air Force 1 was the first sneaker to feature “Air” technology and was named after the Air Force One aircraft that is used by the President of the United States. As Nike’s most popular sneaker, everyone from mail carriers to NBA greats has laced them up. Plus, since 1982 the Air Force 1 has been produced in over 1,500 different color combinations. And, there’s absolutely no end insight.

Nike Air Max 95 (X-Men Edtion)

2009-05-19T21:49:00.002+08:00

$159.99

Designed by Sergio Lozano in 1995, the Air Max 95 has become one of the most loved sneakers that Nike has ever produced. Stated many times before, the inspiration for the shoe is the human anatomy. The midsole represents the spine, graduated panels resemble muscles, lace loops are the ribs, and the mesh for the skin. At the time of its release many were skeptical of the Air Max 95 because of the price, yet it was never a factor. The Air Max 95 was the first sneaker by Nike to feature the Air Max cushioning system in both the heel and forefoot, it has been re-issued many times, and released in over 150 different colorways.

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Nike Air Max+ 2009

2009-04-29T17:18:00.003+08:00

$159.99

The Air Max+ 2009 is an innovative sneaker that provides comfort, support, and stability. The extremely light upper is constructed with Flywire technology that uses strategically placed nylon filaments to comfortably hold the foot in place. They have full-length Max Air unit for maximum cushioning and it allows for a smoother, more natural range of motion. Plus, the Air Max+ 2009 contains a Nike+ pocket under the sockliner that “talks” to your iPod (Nike+iPod Sport Kit required).

Nike Terminator Hybrid

2009-04-29T17:08:00.003+08:00

$109.99

The Nike Terminator, produced in 1985 as a team shoe for the Georgetown Hoyas. The Nike Terminator is a design hybrid of the Nike Legend and the Big Nike with its large "Nike" printed on the heel, flexpoint lacing and colored sole. The Terminator was reissued in 2003 and has been produced in leather and canvas, high and low top versions. These retro Nike basketball shoes are yet another reissue of Nike’s stylish classics from the 80’s.

Nike Air Force 1 Low Premium

2009-04-03T08:20:00.002+08:00

$124.99

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Adidas Aditennis Hi Lux

2009-04-02T17:21:00.001+08:00

$74.99

The aditennis collection takes cues from adidas' 60 year legacy of sporting classics, bolstered for a contemporary consumer with durable vulcanized outsoles. This luxurious, high-cut premium leather interpretation of the vintage "Tennis" silhouette takes on a rugged elegance, thanks to the addition of leather foxing over a vulcanized midsole.

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Nike Vandal Low

2009-03-25T17:11:00.002+08:00

$54.99

The Nike Vandal and Vandal Supreme, produced from 1984 to 1987 is one of the latest retro basketball shoes to be released. Nike has reissued several of their of hi-top classics such as the Blazer and the Vandal. These shoes are most popular with adults reliving the glorious days of youth. Girls like them for their tomboy cool factor, and the younger generation is learning just how cool it can be to learn their history with these retro styles.

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Nike Cortez Basic

2009-03-24T11:25:00.002+08:00

$39.99

The Nike Cortez was released in 1972 as the Tiger Corsair, but in 1972 it was renamed the Cortez after the partnership between Nike (still called Blue Ribbon Sports at the time) and Onitsuka Tiger disintegrated.The original model was made of leather with seven lace holes, but was also produced in nylon and suede models in the 70's. A women's version was also released called the Senorita Cortez. The Nike Cortez was reissued in the mid-90's and in 2003 the Cortez was added to the Nike ID lineup, allowing fans and collectors to personalize their Nike Cortez shoes by choosing their own colorway from a range of available colors. The Nike Cortez is available in Basic, Deluxe, and Nylon editions.

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Nike Blazer High Premium (Tiger Woods)

2009-03-23T21:56:00.003+08:00

$99.99

Tiger Woods is not only one of the greatest to ever swing a club, but one of the most dominating athletes the world has ever seen. He currently has 14 major wins and 4 Green Jackets from the Masters Tournament. With this Blazer High Premium, Nike decided to commemorate Tiger’s accomplishments at the Masters tournament and they did it very well. The Blazer High Premium features a white upper with dimpled leather to resemble a golf ball, a Nike swoosh with faux tiger camo fur (for obvious reasons), a Master’s Tournament logo on the heel, and a green jacket on the tongue (which is given to the winner every year). The clever details on this Blazer are appreciated and so is tribute to golf’s leading man.

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Nike Dunk Low CL

2009-03-23T21:48:00.002+08:00

$69.99

Back to basics. Now popular with skaters, basketball players, and the fashionable alike, the first ever production of the Nike Dunk shoe was in 1985. Before the Nike Air Jordan I, the Nike Dunk, which later influenced the Jordan I, was the team basketball shoe of choice. It was available in high and low versions in a variety of team colorways to match an uniform, and it came with a matching box and two sets of different color laces. The original Dunk is a highly sought-after collectors item and due to consumer demand, the Nike Dunk line was reissued in 1998 and numerous colorways have been made available on a regular basis since then. Nike released the skate Dunk in 1999 featuring a padded tongue and ankle collar. In 2002, they collaborated withe the Supreme Skate brand to produce the Supreme Dunks, and in 2004, Nike released the new, never-before-seen Nike Dunk Mid. Other special and limited editions include holiday models for Valentine's Day and Christmas, Laser Dunks that feature laser-engraved artwork, Harris Tweed Dunks with famous British tweed fabric, and The Inside Out Dunks. Technologically, the Nike Dunk line of shoes has the most basic of technologies, but its simplicity and wide variety of colors leaves this line of 80’s retro basketball shoes compatible with many styles and make them perfect for casual wear.

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Air Jordan 6 Rings

2009-03-22T11:57:00.003+08:00

$159.99

Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player that ever laced up a pair of sneakers, and during his time in the NBA he won 6 championship titles with the Chicago Bulls. The Jordan 6 Rings model commemorates that achievement by including elements of all 6 Air Jordan models that Jordan wore while winning his rings. This Jordan “hybrid” style has also been seen in the popular Spi’zike and Dub Zero models.

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Nike Zoom Kobe IV

2009-03-21T16:39:00.002+08:00

$119.99

Kobe Bryant is without a doubt one of the greatest, most acknowledged, and well known players to ever grace the presence of the National Basketball Association, and a hardwood court in general. He is more then Number 24 on the Los Angeles Lakers. More then one of the greatest shooting guards in history. Not just a 10 time NBA All-Star, youngest player to ever reach 20,000 points in a career, youngest slam dunk champion. While it takes an extreme amount of raw talent to be a legend, he didn’t get there on flip-flops. Great basketball shoes can make or break your game - Your offense, Your defense, your reaction time towards the break-away. Choosing the game sneakers of a legend just might give you the upper hand you were looking for.

Nike WMNS Track Racer

2009-03-20T09:01:00.002+08:00

$74.99

Here’s a stylish and sleek sneaker from Nike that was definitely inspired by their classic running models. The Track Racer keeps it simple with a soft synthetic fabric upper, leather overlays, mesh lining, and a low profile rubber outsole. It’s the perfect Nike model to wear when you just want to be comfortable. They’re sporty, versatile and add a simple flair to complete your look.

Nike Terminator Hybrid

2009-03-20T08:57:00.002+08:00

$109.99

Nike Dunk Low

2009-03-17T21:13:00.001+08:00

$44.99

Nike WMNS Blazer High

2009-03-17T21:11:00.001+08:00

$74.99

The Nike Blazer was released in 1972 and represented by George Gervin, better known as the Ice Man. These low-tech basketball shoes were some of the first produced by Nike and used the high temperatures of an autoclave to fuse the outsole to the upper for durability.

Nike Zoom LeBron VI

2009-03-15T22:09:00.003+08:00

$54.99

The start of another NBA basketball year would not be the complete without the release of another LeBron James signature model. And, the Nike Zoom LeBron VI is arguably the cleanest model we have seen. It was designed to perform on the court and look good off of it. The features include a full-length Zoom Air bag, double stacked heel for impact protection, a black/varsity red - white colorway, and superior stability. Nike also implemented signature LeBron details throughout the sneaker to give it a personal touch.

Big Nike High LE (GS)

2009-03-14T15:48:00.002+08:00

$54.99

The Big Nike High debuted in 80’s and has not scene the light of day since. At first glance you’ll notice that the design is a mash up of the Dunk and the Terminator. This combination makes for an appealing classic sneaker model. The Dunk is represented nicely with the midsole, and the heel area features “NIKE” printed in capital letters similar to the Terminator. Although it has never had the popularity of other classic Nike models, the Big Nike High can definitely holds its own.

Nike WMNS All Court

2009-03-14T15:45:00.000+08:00

$59.99

Funk meets fashion with the All Court model for the ladies.

Nike Air Pegasus '89

2009-03-14T15:37:00.001+08:00

$79.99

Many consider the Air Pegasus the foundation of Nike’s running shoes. They originally debuted in 1983 and were designed for the “everyday runner.” Since then, the Air Pegasus has been updated many times with new innovation and technology. Yet, the model has always remained fashionable, comfortable, and durable. This runner is a true classic and is perfect to run laps or errands in.

Nike WMNS Dunk Low 6.0

2009-03-12T17:24:00.001+08:00

$74.99

Part of the Nike 6.0 line that caters specifically to action sports (skateboarding, motocross, snowboarding, etc.), the Dunk Low 6.0 picks up the design from the classic Dunk. This sport-specific model features a flexible rubber outsole with full cupsole stitch for supreme durability and traction, along with a low-profile cut for unsurpassed board control. The mesh tongue and vamp perforations allow ultimate breathability, while the full-length EVA midsole provides lightweight cushioning and response.

Nike Air Max 90

2009-03-12T17:18:00.002+08:00

$84.99

The Nike Air Max 90 was first released in 1990 and was known as the Air Max or the Air Max III until 2000 when Nike reissued these classic Nike running shoes. The Air Max 90 was originally produced with a Duromesh upper, synthetic suede, and synthetic leather. The striking color combinations, clearn lines made the Air Max 90 highly sought after in its original release and still extremely popular today. The all black and all white leather models are the most sought after and also extremely difficult to find.

Air Jordan 1 High Strap (A Tribe Called Quest)

2009-03-11T20:04:00.001+08:00

$129.99

Timeless, classic, unparalleled. The Air Jordan I debuted in 1985 and changed the way we view athletic shoes. No longer functional footwear, sneakers became art and the Jordan I was the beginning of a long legacy. Rejected then retroed and re-retroed, but never forgotten, the Air Jordan Retro I is sure to be a favorite.

Air Jordan 1 Retro High

2009-03-11T19:48:00.001+08:00

$129.99

The Air Jordan 1 is the sneaker that started it all. And, recently Jordan Brand has provided new, fresh variations to its founding model. The Air Jordan 1 Retro Hi Premier has a rich colorway and multi-colored laces. The leather upper is almost completely Varsity Red and features suede accents. The swoosh is Dark Army and the two-tone laces really bring these colors together. This twist on the original confirms once again that great design is timeless.

Nike Men's Bandollier II Mid GTX Lightweight Hiking Boot

2009-02-24T19:02:00.002+08:00

When hitting the trails in inclement weather, the mid-height Nike Men's Bandollier II Mid GTX provides your foot premium GORE-TEX® waterproof, breathable protection to last from sunrise to sunset. A GORE-TEX® lined, leather reinforced mesh upper gives outstanding lightweight support, and a precise fit on your pre-dawn start. A full-length phylon midsole provides enduring cushion as you take in the first morning light under a blanket of new fallen snow. Heel and toe bumpers protect against foot bumps in the dark, while a supportive shank between the midsole and outsole minimizing foot fatigue and protects against hidden stones. The Nike All-Trac Trail outsole offers exceptional traction on the varying winter terrain surfaces as you take in the Buena Vista sunset.

GORE-TEX® (GTX) waterproof, breathable lining
Leather reinforced textile upper is designed for great comfort, fit, and lock down
Gusseted tongue seals the foot and keeps rocks out
Heel and toe bumper for protection against rock impacts
Full-length phylon midsole for all-day cushioning
Pressure Shank between midsole and outsole for support and minimizing foot fatigue
Nike All-Trac Trail outsole designed for exceptional traction on a variety of outdoor surfaces.
Mid-cut boot

Price: $79.95

Nike Men's Air Zoom Vomero +3 Running Shoe

2009-02-24T15:36:00.004+08:00

Get set for the ultimate ride in the Nike Air Zoom Vomero+ 3 Men's Shoe, an ultra-cushioning running shoe designed for the perfect fit and unbeatable comfort.

FIT: Innovative stretch panel for dynamic midfoot support
External moulded heel counter
CUSHIONING: Cushlon midosle with Zoom Air in heel and forefoot. Highly decoupled crash pad for impact absorption
TRACTION: Duralon outsole for superior comfort and traction

Price: $124.95

Nike Women's Air Zoom Vomero +3 Running Shoe

2009-02-24T15:30:00.003+08:00

Get set for the ultimate ride in the Nike Air Zoom Vomero+ 3 Women's Shoe, an ultra-cushioning running shoe designed for the perfect fit and unbeatable comfort.

FIT: Innovative stretch panel for dynamic midfoot support
Breathable mesh
External molded heel counter
Medial strap for a women's specific fitCUSHIONING: Cushlon midosle with Zoom Air in heel and forefoot. Decoupled radiused crash pad for impact absorption
TRACTION: Duralon outsole for superior comfort and traction
Women's specific flex grooves.

Price: $124.95

Respon Mahasiswa Terhadap Isu Perak

2009-02-23T10:58:00.000+08:00

Sejak kebelakangan ini, saya jarang menulis. Bukan kerana tidak mahu menulis, akan tetapi terdapat perkara lain yang perlu diberi perhatian serius menyebabkan saya perlu tinggalkan sebentar dunia penulisan dan merangka kembali jadual kehidupan saya.

Saya juga tidak mahu menulis isu berkaitan politik di negeri Perak ini terlalu awal. Ini kerana, saya percaya bahawa isu ini bakal berdepan dengan kemelut-kemelut yang menunggu di sepanjang perjalanan sejarah negeri Perjanjian Pangkor ini.

Saya yakin anda mengetahui isu berkaitan dengan negeri Perak ini. Dan saya juga yakin bahawa episod-episod yang akan datang menjanjikan seribu satu kejutan yang tidak boleh kita jangkakan, jika kita menilai daripada keadaan di negeri tersebut ketika ini.

Apa yang saya bakal coretkan, adalah apa yang saya percaya, serta apa yang saya rasa perlu diutarakan daripada suara mahasiswa itu sendiri. Saya cuba mengupas isu ini sedaya yang termampu, berdasarkan kepada pembacaan-pembacaan yang saya ambil daripada dua sumber yang berbeza, daripada media arus perdana serta daripada media arus alternatif.

Perak merupakan negeri yang menjadi bahan eksperimen kepada permainan politik golongan partisan. Permainan yang dikawal dari jauh ini berkemungkinan besar merupakan satu agenda yang digunapakai untuk meningkat rapport seseorang pemimpin yang mungkin dilihat tidak lagi releven untuk memegang jawatan-jawatan tinggi dalam kerajaan.

Saya akan sentuh beberapa isu yang masih menjadi misteri serta cuba diselubungi oleh pihak tertentu. Isu-isu ini barangkali merupakan isu yang menjadi kunci kepada peti keangkuhan dan kesombongan sesetengah pihak jika ianya terus menerus diteliti dan diselidiki. Ianya boleh jadi persoalan, atau kebarangkalian yang jika ianya berjaya dihubungkan, kita akan dibawa kepada satu kebenaran yang dinanti-nantikan oleh ramai pihak. “We are waiting for the genuine truth behind the truth.”

1. Kebisuan sultan berkenaan dengan hal politik di negeri Perak

Sultan adalah lambang penyatupaduan masyarakat Melayu Islam di negeri-negeri yang mempunyai Raja. Dalam hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan yang termaktub di dalam perlembagaan, Tuanku Sultan memainkan peranan yang cukup besar dalam memastikan rakyat terus bersatu dan negeri berada dalam keadaan aman.

Tuanku Sultan Azlan Shah, merupakan sultan yang tercerdik dan terpintar yang lahir di kalangan sultan-sultan yang sezaman dengan baginda. Baginda adalah bekas hakim dan diangkat menjadi sultan setelah kemangkatan sultan Perak Raja Idris Syah dan Raja Muda Perak yang tarikh kemangkatan kedua-duanya adalah hampir jaraknya.

Ketika itu baginda menjadi Raja Di hilir Perak. Oleh kerana kecerdikan bagindalah maka Tun Mahathir pada ketika itu rasa tercabar dan berusaha untuk menghapuskan imuniti raja-raja melayu. Pelbagai perancangan serta muslihat telah diguna pakai untuk menundukkan Tuanku dan akhirnya Tuanku mengaku kalah dan tunduk kepada Tun Mahathir (perdana menteri ketika itu).

“Ampun tuanku beribu-ribu ampun, sembah patik harap di ampun. Walaupun patik bukanlah rakyat jelata yang bernaung di bawah kekuasaan tuanku, patik turut sama meminta Tuanku memberikan penerangan yang jelas berkenaan dengan tindakan yang Tuanku ambil.

Ini kerana, Tuanku perlu sedar bahawa zaman yang kita duduki ini merupakan zaman fitnah. Dengan adanya teknologi canggih serta kesedaran yang tinggi di kalangan rakyat jelata, seharusnya setiap isu itu diperjelaskan dengan penjelasan yang sewajarnya. Jika tidak, patik khuatir yang luka isu ini semakin membarah dan bakal memendekkan nyawa keamanan di negeri jajahan takhluk Tuanku.

Rakyat jelata yang kini sudah celik tentulah berpuas hati dengan setiap penjelasan yang Tuanku tuturkan. Disebabkan Tuanku merupakan bekas hakim, patik yakin bahawa setiap patah perkataan yang terbit daripada mulut Tuanku sendiri akan melegakan semua pihak. Ampun Tuanku. “

Persoalannya sekarang, mengapakah Sultan Perak membisu serta tidak mengeluarkan sebarang penjelasan berkenaan dengan keputusan yang baginda keluarkan ? Adakah baginda ditekan golongan tertentu daripada mengeluarkan sebarang kenyataan susulan ?

Memang benar baginda berhak untuk mengeluarkan arahan tanpa memerlukan sebarang penjelasan, akan tetapi pada saya, kemashlahatan ummah itu perlu lebih diutamakan. Lebih baik jika penjelasan dilakukan, daripada melihat rakyat bertelagah dan bertetakan.

2. Bersihkah nama Parti, jika ADUN yang kotor diserap masuk ?

“Politician got the last rank in the list of trusted profession. The second last from the bottom of the rung is the lawyer.”

Mengambil kira daripada apa yang dikatakan oleh orang yang dipertanggungjawabkan untuk membimbing saya dan rakan-rakan, sememangnya ahli politik tidak boleh dipercayai keseluruhannya, kecuali jika ahli politik tersebut memperjuangkan agama Islam serta undang-undang yang termaktub di dalamnya. Selebihnya, hanya ALLAH

Jika Umar Al-Khattab masih memerintah ketika ini, saya yakin jika tidak dicambuk oleh Al-Faruq, mereka ini akan ditampar dengan tangan beliau jika terdapat perkara yang dilakukan oleh mereka selaku YB(yang berkhidmat) yang menjadikan mereka itu orang yang memakan harta rakyat serta yang terlibat dalam kes-kes yang tidak bermoral seperti rasuah seks.

Pada saya, jika benar mereka terbukti bersalah, maka mereka adalah benar-benar orang yang kotor. Dan orang yang kotor sepatutnya tidak wajar diserap ke dalam parti yang mahukan pembersihan nama dilakukan, melainkan parti tersebut juga kotor dan menghampiri kekotoran serta tidak berusaha untuk lari daripada kekotoran yang menghantuinya.

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Ini merupakan sebahagian coretan persoalan yang sempat saya lontarkan untuk semua. Terdapat banyak lagi persoalan yang dirasakan wajar untuk dilontarkan ke dalam artikel kali ini.

Akan tetapi, saya perlu tangguhkan hasrat ini terlebih dahulu bagi memberi laluan kepada isu lain yang saya fikirkan lebih penting. Semoga dengan perkongsian ini, mahasiswa tidak terus leka dan dapat menilai serta memperjuangkan apa yang difikirkan perlu untuk kesejahteraan rakyat.

Mohd Anwar Md Yassin,
Students Representative Council
Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

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2009-02-20T11:32:00.002+08:00

Episod 2: Penggantungan

2009-02-20T07:54:00.002+08:00

IPOH - Politik Perak memasuki satu lagi episod kecoh apabila Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Perak, V. Sivakumar menggantung Menteri Besar, Datuk Dr. Zambry Abd. Kadir dan semua Exco kerajaan negeri daripada menghadiri Sidang DUN secara serta-merta mulai semalam.

Sivakumar yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Tronoh mewakili DAP melarang Zambry daripada menghadiri sesi Sidang DUN Perak selama 18 bulan.

Enam Exco kerajaan negeri lain iaitu Hamidah Osman, Zainol Fadzi Paharuddin, Datuk Ramly Zahari, Datuk Shaarani Mohamad dan Mohd. Zahir Abdul Khalid dan Dr. Mah Hang Soon pula digantung selama setahun.

Menurut Sivakumar, kesemua tujuh wakil rakyat Barisan Nasional (BN) itu sebelum ini diberi notis saman supaya tampil di hadapan Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan DUN Perak berikutan satu aduan yang dibuat oleh ADUN Canning (DAP), Wong Kah Woh.

Kah Woh mendakwa majlis angkat sumpah jawatan Zambry dan Exco baru Perak daripada BN itu bertentangan dengan Undang-undang Tubuh Negeri Perak dan menghina DUN kerana Menteri Besar Ke-10, Datuk Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin belum meletak jawatan secara rasmi.

“Setelah meneliti aduan tersebut, saya telah mendapati satu kes prima facie terhadap Zambry dan enam yang lain,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini.

Sivakumar berkata, beliau telah memanggil Zambry dan semua Exco berkenaan untuk memberi penjelasan di hadapan jawatankuasa tersebut.

Kemunculan Rooney bantu MU tewaskan Fulham

2009-02-19T10:09:00.000+08:00

MANCHESTER: Penyerang England, Wayne Rooney menamatkan tempoh rehatnya akibat kecederaannya selama enam minggu dengan menyumbat gol membantu kemenangan selesa Manchester United menewaskan Fulham 3-0 di Old Trafford, awal pagi tadi.

Kali terakhir Rooney diturunkan apabila United bertemu Wigan pada 14 Januari lalu dan kemunculannya itu sekali gus memastikan MU kini terpisah lima mata di depan pesaing terdekat Liverpool.

Gol Rooney yang ketiga untuk MU itu muncul pada separuh masa kedua hasil sepakan lintang pemain sayap Korea Selatan, Park Ji-Sung yang masuk menggantikan Dimitar Berbatov.

Paul Scholes membuka tirai jaringan MU, sebelum gol kedua menerusi Berbatov, menjadikan United mendahului 2-0 pada separuh masa pertama. - AFP

Sumber: http://www.bharian.com.my/

Adun Changkat Jering batal waran tangkap ke atasnya

2009-02-19T10:07:00.000+08:00

IPOH: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Changkat Jering, Mohd Osman Jailu hadir di Mahkamah Sesyen Ipoh, jam 8.50 pagi tadi bagi membatalkan waran tangkapnya kerana gagal hadir di mahkamah, Selasa.

Beliau ditemani Adun Behrang, Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi yang kedua-dua menghadapi tuduhan rasuah seks berhubung satu projek pembangunan di Bandar Iskandar.

Sumber: http://www.bharian.com.my/

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2009-02-18T09:47:00.004+08:00

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Sony Ericsson to unveil its high-end 12M camera phone 'Iduo'

2009-02-16T17:03:00.000+08:00

BARCELONA, Spain (AVING Special Report on 'MWC 2009') -- Sony Ericsson unveiled its new high-end 12M camera phone 'Iduo' during Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. Adopting a 3.5-inch 16:9 touch screen, the Iduo features a built-in GPS receiver and WiFi support. According to the company, it is expected to be available in the 2nd half of the year in the selected countries.

Genius to present its forcefeedback joystick 'MetalStrike FF'

2009-02-16T16:58:00.000+08:00

LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on 'CES 2009') -- Genius(www.geniusnet.com) presented its forcefeedback joystick 'MetalStrike FF' at the CES 2009.

A 4-axis design including the rudder is ideal for simulated flight games and can provide Aileron, Elevator, Throttle, and Power controls. MetalStrike FF also provides an adjustable handle position for comfortable control.

It also has 13 programmable buttons, an 8-way "point of view" hat switch, and a Turbo function for auto-repeat so you can fly your aircraft just like a real plane.

Satelit AS, Russia berlanggar

2009-02-13T09:08:00.001+08:00

LAKARAN artis Agensi Angkasa Lepas Eropah (ESA) menunjukkan bumi dikelilingi 18,000 objek termasuk satelit.

MOSCOW: Satelit Amerika Syarikat dan Russia berlanggar di angkasa lepas buat kali pertama dalam sejarah menyebabkan sisa serpihannya mungkin mengancam pesawat lain di orbit, kata pakar dua negara itu.

Buat masa ini, ia tidak memberi risiko besar kepada Stesen Angkasa Lepas Antarabangsa (ISS) yang mempunyai tiga krew, dua daripada mereka angkasawan Amerika, kata jurucakap Kawalan Misi Russia, Valery Lyndin.

Perlanggaran berlaku pada 1700 GMT di ruang angkasa utara Siberia membabitkan satelit Iridium LLC dan satelit tentera Cosmos-2251 kira-kira 780 kilometer di ruang Artik Russia.

Ketinggian berkenaan biasanya digunakan satelit memantau cuaca, menyampaikan komunikasi dan melakukan pemerhatian saintifik.

“Orbit itu memang penting bagi satelit. Kami percaya ini kali pertama dua satelit berlanggar di orbit,” kata Kolonel Les Kodlick dari Ibu Pejabat Strategik Amerika.

Pusat Operasi Bersama Angkasa Lepas Amerika kini memantau 500 hingga 600 serpihan satelit berkenaan, ada sekecil 10 sentimeter selain 18,000 objek buatan manusia lain di angkasa lepas, katanya.

Unit Tentera Angkasa Russia berkata, ia juga memantau pergerakan serpihan berkenaan pada ketinggian 500 kilometer dan 1300 kilometer di ruang angkasa bumi.

Keutamaan diberi kepada keselamatan ISS yang berada di orbit 350 kilometer di bawah lokasi perlanggaran.

Lyndin berkata, pemantauan serpihan tertumpu kepada usaha memastikan tiada serpihan itu mendekati ISS. Stesen itu juga mengubah orbit bagi mengelak serpihan satelit berkenaan. - Reuters/AP

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2009-02-11T20:15:00.004+08:00

Jawab, jangan tak jawab!: 'Sudah banyak kali dia buat perangai'

2009-02-11T08:03:00.005+08:00

Gitaris Meet Uncle Hussain, Taja, akhirnya bersuara mengenai ketidakpuasan hati mereka dengan sikap vokalis, Lan

TERCEMAR sudah imej dan reputasi kumpulan yang baru saja lagunya dinobatkan sebagai juara Anugerah Juara Lagu ke-23 yang baru lalu. Semuanya kerana masalah disiplin serta tidak bertanggungjawab membabitkan vokalis mereka, Lan.

Bukan sekali dua, malah sudah banyak kali cerita negatif mengenai sikap vokalis kumpulan Meet Uncle Hussain (MUH) ini sampai ke telinga media. Datang lewat ketika persembahan, tidak hadir sesi fotografi, bersikap acuh tak acuh ketika ditemubual dan kerap bertelagah dengan pihak pengurusan adalah antara perkara yang cukup sinonim dengan penyanyi ini.

Biarpun sudah beberapa kali perkara ini dibawa berbincang namun hasilnya tetap sama. Menurut jurucakap serta gitaris kumpulan MUH iaitu Taja, setiap kali mereka bersemuka, perubahan hanya akan berlaku untuk sementara saja. Esok lusa, Lan kembali ke perangai lamanya.

Pun begitu, jelas Taja mereka masih mengharapkan supaya Lan akan berubah suatu hari nanti dan seandainya hasrat itu tidak menjadi kenyataan serta keadaan menjadi semakin genting, tidak mustahil suatu hari nanti nama MUH hanya akan tinggal sejarah.

Hip: Benarkah dakwaan yang mengatakan Lan sering mendatangkan masalah kepada MUH?
Taja: Sebenarnya perkara ini sudah lama berlaku iaitu sejak kami memenangi anugerah Kumpulan Baru Terbaik sewaktu Anugerah Planet Muzik tahun lalu. Masa itu permasalahan antara kami boleh diibaratkan seperti luka kecil saja. Tapi kini ia sudah merebak menjadi tahap kudis dan tak mustahil boleh menjadi barah. Sudah banyak kali dia buat perangai. Tak datang sesi fotografi, sidang media, sesi bertemu peminat dan ada sesetengah persembahan, dia selalu datang lambat. Kadang-kadang, show dah tamat baru nampak batang hidung dia. Tapi apa yang lebih membuatkan kami terkilan adalah kerana kelemahannya untuk berkomunikasi membuatkan kami sering terlepas show yang besar-besar. Kebanyakan penaja korporat ini dia bukan saja mahu kelebihan menyanyi tetapi juga kemahiran dalam berkomunikasi dan melayan pelanggan mereka.

Hip: Jadi disebabkan sikap Lan, MUH kehilangan banyak tawaran?

Taja: Itulah situasi yang kami lalui ketika ini. Disebabkan nila setitik, rosak susu sebelanga. Dia memang menghadapi masalah komitmen dan kerana dia, nama kami semua menjadi busuk. Apabila dia kerap datang lewat, tak datang sesi fotografi, saya akui perkara ini memberi masalah kepada semua anggota MUH. Bayangkan Bakri yang hanya menjadi pemuzik undangan dan mempunyai kerja tetap pun boleh memberikan komitmen, inikan pula Lan yang seratus peratus bersama MUH. Bukan kami tak pernah berbincang mengenai perkara ini, tapi setiap kali kami bersemuka, ada saja alasan yang diberinya. Dan dia juga tidak sudah-sudah menyalahkan kami seolah-olah kami yang banyak memberi tekanan padanya.

Hip: Apakah kerana Lan merasakan dia adalah tunggak kejayaan MUH menyebabkan dia mula naik tocang dan berasa hebat?

Taja: Saya tak nafikan yang dia mempunyai vokal yang unik. Tapi untuk dia mengatakan yang dia adalah tunggak atau kerana dia MUH popular atau berjaya di AJL ke-23 yang lalu, itu tidak relevan sama sekali. Kalau hanya ada suara yang menarik atau unik tapi tidak disertakan dengan lagu yang menarik, tak mungkin Lagu Untukmu mampu dijulang sebagai juara. Lagipun, ingin saya jelaskan di sini, sewaktu AJL tempoh hari, suara Lan ada mengalami masalah. Namun disebabkan sokongan penonton yang sangat memberangsangkan maka kesalahan itu tidaklah ketara sangat. Jadi semuanya nampak lancar saja. Begitupun, Azmeer ada memberitahu yang juara malam itu bukan saja terletak dari segi persembahan tetapi juga elemen lain yang terkandung dalam lagu itu.

Hip: Dalam sisipan Metro, Rap Isnin lalu ada menyatakan yang MUH akan mencari anggota lain sekiranya Lan berterusan dengan sikap tidak berdisiplinnya itu. Ulas sikit?

Taja: Setakat ini kami tidak bercadang untuk menyingkirkan Lan seperti mana yang didakwa. Kami masih memberi peluang kepadanya untuk memperbaiki keadaan. Tapi itulah, peluang yang kami beri padanya itu sudah terlalu lama dan tak tahulah sama ada dia boleh berubah atau tidak. Dan seandainya dia tidak juga mahu berubah dan dia mengambil keputusan untuk meninggalkan kumpulan ini, kami tidak akan menghalangnya. Sebelum ini pun dia sudah banyak kali memberitahu yang dia memang ingin bergerak secara solo cuma masalah kontrak saja yang membataskan dia untuk berbuat demikian.

Hip: Apakah ini bermakna MUH akan mencari pengganti kepada Lan jika dia undur diri?

Taja: Tidak. Kami tidak akan mencari pengganti Lan. Kalau boleh kami tidak mahu dengan adanya pertukaran anggota, akan berlaku masalah perbandingan vokalis. Lagipun saya fikir biarlah MUH muncul dengan anggota asal. Dan tidak mustahil andai itu menjadi kenyataan (pengunduran Lan), MUH mungkin akan dibubarkan. Biarlah MUH berkubur kerana itu saya rasakan lebih baik.

Sorry...Maaf

2009-02-11T07:54:00.003+08:00

To all my friends and all blogger, I want to say sorry if I cannot visit your site or blog. I am so busy right now. I hope you all can understand. :)

Salam kepada semua rakan blogger, saya ingin meminta maaf kerana tidak dapat mengunjungi laman anda buat masa sekarang. Saya terlalu sibuk buat masa sekarang. Saya harap anda semua faham. :)

Karpal Disiasat

2009-02-11T07:50:00.001+08:00

PERDANA Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berucap merasmikan Persidangan Eksekutif Muda Khidmat Awam 2009: Kepimpinan Masa Depan Sektor Awam dan Misi Nasional di Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya, semalam. - Foto David Khoo

Bekas MB Perak ditegah masuk pejabat

Pengerusi DAP enggan mohon maaf

PUTRAJAYA: Polis sudah memulakan siasatan terhadap Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh, berhubung dakwaan menghina Sultan Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, kata Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Perdana Menteri berkata, sebarang tindakan ke atas Karpal akan diputuskan Peguam Negara selepas meneliti laporan siasatan itu.

Abdullah bagaimanapun berkata, setakat ini kerajaan tidak bercadang menggunakan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) terhadap Ahli Parlimen Gelugor itu.

"Tidak ada rancangan untuk gunakan ISA... mungkin tak payah gunakan ISA kerana siasatan dah dimulakan dan pada waktu ini siasatan masih berjalan.

"Apabila selesai, laporannya akan dikemukakan kepada AG (Peguam Negara) untuk apa juga tindakan wajar yang perlu diambil," katanya pada sidang media selepas merasmikan Persidangan Eksekutif Muda Perkhidmatan Awam 2009 di Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya, semalam.

Karpal Singh

Beliau mengulas desakan pelbagai pihak yang mahu tindakan segera diambil terhadap Karpal termasuk di bawah ISA kerana keceluparannya mempersoalkan keputusan Sultan Perak memperkenan pelantikan Menteri Besar daripada Barisan Nasional (BN) selepas Pakatan Rakyat kehilangan majoriti di Dewan Undangan Negeri.

Malah, Pengerusi DAP itu semalam menegaskan beliau tidak akan memohon maaf kerana menganggap rancangannya untuk menyaman Sultan Azlan Shah bukan menghina atau mencabar kedaulatan Sultan.

Mengenai keengganan Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin keluar dari kediaman rasmi Menteri Besar, Abdullah percaya bekas Menteri Besar dari Pakatan Rakyat itu akhirnya akan keluar dari kediaman itu.

Beliau berkata, kerajaan negeri tidak perlu menggunakan paksaan untuk meminta Muhammad Nizar keluar dari kediaman rasmi itu, sebaliknya memadai dengan memberi nasihat yang tegas.

PEMUDA Umno Kota Bharu, Kelantan, menyuarakan bantahan terhadap kenyataan Karpal Singh dan menyokong penuh kedaulatan raja-raja di Balai Polis Daerah Kota Bharu, semalam. - Foto Zaman Huri Isa

"Menteri Besar sekarang (Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir) mengambil sikap tak apalah, duduklah kerana dia (Dr Zambry) ada rumah sendiri, dia ada kereta sendiri... fahamlah cara dia bercakap tu.

"Saya percaya dia (Muhammad Nizar) akan keluar akhirnya dan tidak akan mengambil masa panjang kerana kerajaan Perak sudah memperingati beliau berulang kali yang dia mesti tinggalkan pejabat dan kediaman rasmi itu kerana Menteri Besar (baru) dah dilantik," katanya.

Kronologi Politik Negeri Perak

2009-02-10T11:03:00.001+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: Berikut kronologi politik di Perak sejak pilihan raya umum ke-12, 8 Mac tahun lalu sehingga hari ini:

9 Mac 2008: Gabungan parti DAP, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dan PAS membentuk kerajaan negeri selepas memenangi 31 daripada 59 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) manakala Barisan Nasional (BN) hanay mendapat 28 kerusi pada pilihan raya umum ke-12.

17 Mac 2008: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Pasir Panjang dari Pas, Datuk Seri Ir Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Besar Perak.

19 Mac 2008: Istiadat angkat sumpah 10 anggota majlis mesyuarat kerajaan negeri (Exco) diadakan di Istana Iskandariah, Kuala Kangsar.

25 Ogos 2008: Dua anggota Exco Kerajaan Negeri Perak, Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi dan Kapt (B) Mohd Osman Jailu dihadapkan di Mahkamah Sesyen atas tudahan rasuah berhubung projek pembangunan bernilai RM180 juta. Mahkamah tetap 10, 11 dan 12 Feb 2009 sebagai tarikh perbicaraan.

25 Jan 2009: Adun Bota dari Umno, Datuk Nasaruddin Hashim mengisytiharkan keluar daripada Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menyertai PKR.

26 Jan 2009: Menteri Besar Perak mendakwa sekurang-kurangnya tiga lagi wakil rakyat daripada Umno akan mengikut jejak Adun Bota, Datuk Nasaruddin Hashim menyertai PKR.

28 Jan 2009: Ahli Majlis Tertinggi (MT) Umno, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim mencadangkan satu gerakan massa perlu dijalankan bagi mendesak Adun Bota, Datuk Nasaruddin Hashim mengosongkan kerusi itu untuk memberi laluan kepada pilihan raya kecil.

29 Jan 2009: MT Umno menerima peletakan jawatan Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali sebagai Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan Negeri Perak berkuat kuasa serta-merta.

30 Jan 2009: Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin menafikan laporan mengenai anggota Exco kerajaan negeri, Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi dan Kapt (B) Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, daripada Parti Keadilan Rakyat, akan menyertai BN.

1 Feb 2009: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tidak menolak kemungkinan terdapat Adun daripada pembangkang di negeri Perak akan menyertai BN. Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin meminta dua Adun dari PKR yang “hilang” sejak 26 Jan supaya mengisytiharkan segera pendirian mereka jika telah keluar daripada kerajaan negeri Pakatan Rakyat Perak. Speaker DUN Perak, V Sivakumar berkata, beliau menerima surat peletakan jawatan Adun Behrang Jamaluddin Mat Radzi dan Adun Changkat Jering, Mohd Osman Jailu yang dihantar ke rumahnya pada jam 5.45 petang. Kedua-dua ADUN PKR menafikan meletakkan jawatan, sebaliknya mengakui pernah menandatangi surat janji taat setia bersama enam lagi Adun PKR yang tidak bertarikh bahawa jika mereka keluar parti, mereka secara automatik perlu mengosongkan kerusi masing-masing.

2 Feb 2009: Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin mengadap Sultan Perak di Istana Kinta. Beliau tidak mengulas kepada media berhubung istiadat mengadap itu. Speaker DUN Perak, V Sivakumar memaklumkan kekosongan kerusi DUN Behrang dan DUN Changkat Jering kepada Pengarah Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) Perak. Pengerusi PKR Perak, Osman Abdul Rahman berkata, kedua-dua wakil rakyat itu tidak membuat pengumuman keluar daripada PKR. Seorang pegawai kepada Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi memberitahu media di Sepang bahawa wakil rakyat itu masih ahli PKR. Seorang kenalan Adun Changkat Jering, Kapten (B) Mohd Osman Jailu menafikan peletakan jawatan Adun itu pada sidang akhbar di Shah Alam.

3 Feb 2009: SPR memutuskan bahawa tidak berlaku kekosongan kerusi DUN Changkat Jering (N14) dan DUN Behrang (N59) serta tidak perlu mengadakan pilihan raya kecil bagi kedua-dua kawasan itu. Adun Behrang, Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi menganggap dirinya sebagai wakil rakyat Bebas selepas PKR menghantar surat peletakan jawatannya sebagai Adun kepada Speaker DUN Perak V Sivakumar. Ketua DAP Perak, Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham memberi tempoh 48 jam kepada SPR supaya mengkaji semula keputusan tidak mengadakan pilihan raya kecil.

4 Feb 2009: 1 tengah hari - Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin dijadualkan mengadakan sidang akhbar untuk membuat pengumuman penting.
1.30 tengah hari - Mohammad Nizar menangguhkan sidang akhbar tanpa memberi sebab. 2 petang - Pengerusi SPR Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof berkata SPR tidak akan mengkaji semula keputusannya untuk tidak mengadakan pilihan raya kecil.

3 petang - Mohamad Nizar membuat tindakan luar biasa dengan mengumumkan pembubaran DUN serta merta sebelum memohon perkenan Sultan.

3.50 petang - Mohammad Nizar dilihat memasuki Istana Kinta untuk menghadap Sultan Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah.

4.35 petang - Empat Adun Perak iaitu Adun Behrang Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, Adun Changkat Jering Mohd Osman Jailu, Adun Bota Datuk Nasarudin Hashim dan Adun Jelapang, Hee Yit Foong berada di Pejabat Timbalan Perdana Menteri di Putrajaya.
5 petang - Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan BN Perak kini mempunyai majoriti mudah untuk menubuhkan kerajaan apabila tiga ADUN dari PKR dan seorang ADUN dari DAP mengumumkan keluar parti. BN kini mempunyai 28 kerusi, Pakatan Rakyat juga 28 kerusi dan Bebas tiga kerusi.

5.55 petang - Mohammad Nizar yang mengadap Sultan Perak Sultan Azlan Shah untuk meminta perkenan baginda membubarkan DUN meninggalkan Istana Kinta di Ipoh tanpa memaklumkan kepada media keputusan baginda. - Bernama

Tanda2 qiamat yg dah nampak

2009-02-05T16:54:00.000+08:00

1) Penaklukan Baitulmuqaddis.
Dari Auf b. Malik r.a. katanya,Rasulullah s.a.w
telah bersabda:
"Aku menghitung 6 perkara menjelang hari kiamat."
Baginda menyebutkan salah diantaranya, iaitu
penaklukan Baitulmuqaddis." - Sahih Bukhari

~ dah jadi dah...

2) Zina bermaharajalela.
"Dan tinggallah manusia2 yang buruk, yang seenaknya
melakukan persetubuhan seperti himar (keldai). Maka
pada zaman mereka inilah kiamat akan datang."
- Sahih Muslim

~ dah nampak dah...

3) Bermaharajalela alat muzik.
"Pada akhir zaman akan terjadi tanah runtuh, rusuhan &
perubahan muka." Ada yang bertanya kepada Rasulullah;
"Wahai Rasulullah bila hal ini terjadi?" Baginda
menjawab; "Apabila telah bermaharajalela bunyian
(muzik) & penyanyi2 wanita" -Ibnu Majah

~ S'pore Idol, Malaysian Idol, Akademi Fantasia,
Anugerah

4) Menghias masjid & membanggakannya.
"Di antara tanda2 telah dekatnya kiamat ialah manusia
bermeg ahan dalam mendirikan masjid" - Riwayat Nasai.

~ memang dah nampak dah...

5) Munculnya kekejian, memutuskan kerabat & hubungan
dengan tetangga tidak baik. "Tidak akan datang kiamat
sehingga banyak perbuatan & perkataan keji, memutuskan
hubungan silaturahim & sikap yang buruk
dalam tetangga." - Riwayat Ahmad dan Hakim.

~ ada anak tak mengaku ada mak/bapak pasal malu

6) Ramai orang soleh meninggal dunia.
"Tidak akan datang hari kiamat sehingga Allah
mengambil orang2 yang baik & ahli agama di muka
bumi,maka tiada yang tinggal padanya kecuali
orang2 yang hina & buruk yang tidak mengetahui yang
makruf dan tidak mengingkari kemungkaran" - Riwayat
Ahmad

~ boleh kira berapa jer para ulama' yg tinggal

7) Orang yang hina mendapat kedudukan terhormat.
"Di antara tanda se! makin dekatnya kiamat ialah dunia
akan dikuasai oleh Luka' bin Luka'(orang yang bodoh &
hina). Maka orang yang paling baik ketika itu ialah
orang yang beriman yang diapit oleh 2 orang mulia"
Riwayat Thabrani

~ george bush

8) Mengucapkan salam kepada orang yang dikenalnya
sahaja.
"Sesungguhnya di antara tanda2 telah dekatnya hari
kiamat ialah manusia tidak mahu mengucapkan salam
kepada orang lain kecuali yang dikenalnya saja."
~Riwayat Ahmad

~ jiran sesama islam pon tak bertegur sapa...

9) Banyak wanita yang berpakaian tetapi hakikatnya
telanjang.
Diriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah r.a. "Di antara anda2
telah hari kiamat ialah akan muncul pakaian2 wanita &
apabila mereka memakainya keadaannya
seperti telanjang".

~ fesyen zaman skarang (tube, spaghetti strap,
g-string etc etc)

10) Bulan sabit kelihatan besar.
"Di antara tanda2 telah dekatnya hari kiamat ialah
menggelembung (membesarnya) bulan sabit." - Riwayat
Thabrani

~ tak caya gi tengok...

11) Banyak dusta & tidak tepat dalam menyampaikan
berita.
"Pada akhir zaman akan muncul pembohong2 besar yang
datang kepadamu dengan membawa berita2 yang belum
pernah kamu dengar & belum pernah didengar oleh bapa2
kamu sebelumnya, kerana itu jauhkanlah dirimu dari
mereka agar mereka tidak menyesatkanmu & memfitnahmu"
- Sahih Muslim

~ try baca akhbar2 & majalah2 yg popular skarang
nie...

12) Banyak saksi palsu & menyimpan kesaksian yang
benar.
"Sesungguhnya sebelum datang nya hari kiamat akan
banyak kesaksian palsu & disembunyikan kesaksian yang
benar." -Riwayat Ahmad

~ tengok kes peperangan Iraq

13) Negara Arab menjadi padang rumput & sungai.
"Tidak akan datang hari kiamat sehingga negeri Arab
kembali menjadi padang rumput & sungai2" - Sahih
Muslim

~ Dubai dah turun salji... Mina dah kene banjir

TOLONG FORWARDKAN KEPADA TEMAN2 LAIN!

Dari Abdullah bin 'Amr r.a., Rasulullah s.a.w.
bersabda,
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Misil Iran mampu ke AS

2009-02-05T11:33:00.000+08:00

Keupayaan lancar satelit buatan sendiri bimbangkan Barat

WASHINGTON: Keupayaan Iran melancarkan satelit buatan sendiri ke orbit adalah isyarat bahawa negara itu semakin hampir mencapai matlamatnya membina peluru berpandu jarak jauh yang mampu mensasarkan Eropah dan Amerika, kata pakar.

Jurucakap Agensi Pertahanan Peluru Berpandu Amerika, Rick Lehner berkata keupayaan Teheran menghantar satelit ke angkasa lepas, digabungkan dengan program nuklear dan pengkayaan uranium, mewujudkan andaian bahawa Iran berkemungkinan besar mempunyai simpanan peluru berpandu antara benua.

"Salah satu kebimbangan kami paling besar ialah bahawa mana-mana negara yang boleh menghantar satelit ke orbit, bermakna ia juga boleh menghantar senjata nuklear pada jarak antara benua dan ini termasuk juga dalam kes Iran," katanya.

Seorang lagi pakar Geoffrey Fordan dari Institut Teknologi Massachusetts berkata kejayaan Iran melancarkan satelit itu dianggap mengagumkan di sebalik halangan antarabangsa, termasuk sekatan terhadap teknologi berkaitan peluru berpandu.

"Di sebalik tentangan dunia dan sekatan yang dikenakan, Iran kini menyertai 'kelab eksklusif' negara yang berjaya menghantar satelit ke orbit," katanya.

Pemimpin Iran menyifatkan pelancaran satelit Omid (Hope) Isnin lalu sebagai satu peristiwa penting dan menjadi lambang kebanggaan negara, namun kejayaan itu meningkatkan semula kebimbangan Barat mengenai cita-cita nuklear Iran.

Ia mungkin memberi kesan secara tidak langsung dalam menyokong perdebatan untuk mewujudkan sistem pertahanan peluru berpandu di Eropah, di sebalik petanda Presiden Amerika Barack Obama mungkin melambatkan program itu bagi mengurangkan ketegangan dengan Russia.

Patrick Clawson dari Institut Dasar Timur Dekat Washington, berkata, penyokong dasar pertahanan peluru berpandu Amerika sejak sekian lama melihat Iran sebagai negara yang boleh mengancam Eropah.

"Perdana Menteri Russia, Vladimir Putin sebelum ini 'memperlekeh' kenyataan Amerika mengenai kemampuan Iran mempunyai satu sistem yang boleh sampai ke Eropah dan menyifatkannya sebagai 'karut'," katanya.

Dengan tindakan Iran yang tidak mempedulikan tuntutan antarabangsa agar membekukan program nuklearnya, pelancaran satelitnya ke angkasa lepas sudah pasti merumitkan lagi hubungan antara negara itu dengan Eropah dan Amerika, ketika presiden baru Barack Obama, cuba meredakan ketegangan dan bersikap terbuka mengenai kemungkinan mengadakan dialog. - AFP

Murid Gaza guna abjad luah derita

2009-02-05T07:58:00.002+08:00

FATMA Zidane El-Banneh, 8, mangsa bom fosforus ditemani ibunya Azza, kembali ke sekolah Beit Lahiya, Gaza yang musnah dibedil Israel.

ABC rujuk kepada perang

GAZA: Bagi kanak-kanak yang menjadi mangsa kegilaan Israel mengebom Gaza, perkataan baru untuk disesuaikan dengan abjad semakin biasa dengan mereka dan semuanya menggambarkan apa yang diharungi selama 22 hari.

"A bagi Apache (helikopter tempur), B bagi blood (darah). A untuk apple (epal) dan B bagi ball (bola) tidak sesuai lagi sekarang. C untuk coffin (keranda) dan D bagi destruction (kemusnahan)," kata Shaimaa, 10, pelajar sekolah rendah.

Dalam buku notanya, Shaimaa menulis koleksi sempurna abjad, semuanya berdasarkan serangan besar-besaran rejim Zionis yang meragut lebih 1,350 nyawa termasuk 437 kanak-kanak dan mencederakan 5,450 yang lain.

Menegaskan koleksinya lebih sesuai dengan perbendaharaan kata yang digunakan rakan sekelasnya dalam kehidupan seharian mereka, Shaimaa berkata, abjad baru itu perlu dimasukkan dalam kurikulum sekolah.

Ramai kanak-kanak di Gaza seperti Shaimaa, menghasilkan perbendaharaan kata baru berdasarkan kekejaman yang mereka saksikan sepanjang serangan Israel.

Amal Yunis, seorang guru, tidak melihat koleksi abjad Shaimaa, tetapi berkata ramai kanak-kanak dalam kelas tadika menggunakan perkataan sama.

Dia mengingatkan kembali ketika memasuki kelas sambil memegang gambar epal, bunga dan arnab, dengan harapan warna terang gambar itu dapat menggembirakan pelajarnya.

"Anak-anak, siapa tahu perkataan apa bermula dengan F," tanya Yunis dan dengan pantas dijawab oleh Amgad: "Saya tahu. Ia adalah 'F-16' (pesawat tempur)."

Yunis sedaya upaya meyakinkan Amgad jawapan betul ialah flower (bunga) tetapi sebaliknya terkejut apabila perkataan lain yang dikeluarkan kanak-kanak itu ialah fear (ketakutan), flee (melarikan diri) dan fire (api).

Di seluruh Gaza, kanak-kanak bercakap bahasa baru yang membayangkan pengalaman menakutkan selama 22 hari. - Agensi

Palestin iktiraf ICC untuk siasat jenayah perang Israel

2009-02-04T09:23:00.000+08:00

THE HAGUE, Belanda: Pihak Berkuasa Palestin mengiktiraf bidang kuasa Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa (ICC) dalam usaha membenarkan siasatan berhubung jenayah perang semasa serangan ganas Israel terhadap Gaza.

Menteri Kehakiman Palestin, Ali Khashan, mengutus surat pengiktirafan itu kepada ICC pada 21 Januari lalu.

Mahkamah itu hanya boleh menyiasat jika diminta Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu atau negara terbabit yang mengiktirafnya.

Sementara itu, Israel berkata usaha Palestin itu akan gagal.

“Piagam ICC diterima negara berdaulat dan Pihak Berkuasa Palestin belum lagi diiktiraf sebagai negara berdaulat dan tidak boleh menjadi anggota ICC," kata jurucakap Kementerian Luar Israel, Yigal Palmor.

Israel, seperti Amerika Syarikat, tidak mengiktiraf ICC. - AP

Erdogan: “Peres, Anda Pakar Dalam Membunuh”

2009-02-03T09:15:00.001+08:00

ANKARA - Perdana Menteri Turki, Recep Tayyip Erdogan menegaskan bahawa pergerakan Hamas merupakan sebuah parti politik bukannya sayap Iran, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Beliau berkata demikian dalam satu wawancara dengan majalah Newsweek yang disiarkan di Internet kelmarin.

“Sekiranya seluruh dunia memberikan Hamas peluang menjadi pemain politik selepas memenangi pilihan raya mungkin pergerakan itu tidak akan menghadapai situasi seperti ini,” katanya.

“Keinginan politik penduduk Palestin tidak diendahkan oleh dunia dan masyarakat antarabangsa juga gagal menghormati kewujudan Hamas yang sah,” ujarnya.

“Wilayah Palestin kini umpama sebuah penjara terbuka,” jelasnya.

Erdogan juga mendedahkan berhubung rundingan antara Israel dan Syria yang dimeterai dengan bantuan Turki pada tahun lalu.

Menurutnya, beliau terlibat secara langsung dalam rundingan diplomasi melalui telefon antara Perdana Menteri Israel, Ehud Olmert dan Presiden Syria, Bashar Assad.

Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa pergerakan Hamas harus terlibat dalam rundingan antara Syria dengan rejim Zionis tersebut.

Erdogan mendapat pujian ramai setelah bertindak keluar dari sesi dialog semasa sesi Forum Ekonomi Dunia di Davos, Switzerland sedang berlangsung pada Khamis lalu.

Tindakan itu dibuat setelah beliau tidak berpuas hati kerana pengacara majlis memberinya 15 minit untuk bercakap tetapi membenarkan Presiden Israel, Shimon Peres bercakap panjang lebar mengenai isu Gaza.

Keberanian Erdogan menerima banyak pujian daripada dunia Islam termasuk Presiden Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Sementara itu di Baitulmaqdis, Menteri Luar Israel, Tzipi Livni mahu Ankara menimbang semula hubungannya dengan Hamas dan Iran.

“Terdapat perbezaan dalam hubungan dua negara dan ia tidak dapat disorokkan,” kata Livni. - KOSMO

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Revolusi Islam untuk dunia: Iran

2009-02-01T12:28:00.000+08:00

AHMADINEJAD (kiri) menyerahkan trofi kepada bekas tahanan Israel, Samir Kantar pada majlis memperingati revolusi Iran. - AFP

Ahmadinejad peringati tokoh guling Shah Iran

TEHERAN: Presiden Mahmoud Ahmadinejad menyifatkan revolusi Islam Iran tidak terhad di negaranya saja, ketika Teheran mengadakan majlis mengingati tokoh yang mengetuai gerakan menggulingkan Shah Iran 30 tahun lalu.

"Revolusi masih hidup selepas 30 tahun. Kita berada pada permulaan laluan dan cabaran hebat menanti di depan," kata Ahmadinejad pada majlis sempena ulang tahun kembalinya bapa revolusi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dari dalam buangan.

Turut sama pada majlis yang diadakan di makam diraja Khomeini, selatan Teheran ialah pemimpin agung Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameini selain anggota kerajaan dan komander tentera.

Setiap tahun, bagi meraikan kepulangan Khomeini selepas 15 tahun dalam buangan, sekolah, kereta api dan bot membunyikan loceng tepat jam 9.33 pagi, saat pesawat yang membawa tokoh itu mendarat pada 1 Februari 1979.

Negara itu mengadakan 10 hari keraian menyambut ulang tahun ke-30 penyingkiran kerajaan Shah Iran yang disokong Amerika Syarikat yang memerintah Iran hampir empat dekad tetapi melarikan diri dua minggu sebelum Khomeini pulang.

Makam Khomeini dihiasi poster besar ulama yang berusia 76 tahun ketika turun dari pesawat Air France dengan dibantu seorang pramugara � imej yang terukir dalam sejarah dunia.

Revolusi itu membawa kepada penubuhan kerajaan ulama yang semakin terpinggir dari pentas dunia.

"Revolusi Islam adalah hasil pengorbanan mujahidin," tulisan pada kain rentang memaparkan antara petikan popular Khomeini.

"Kami akan mengawal legasi hebat dan prinsip Imam Khomeini," ikrar Khamenei pada satu lagi kain rentang mengenai mentornya yang meninggal dunia pada 1989.

Sekumpulan militia Basij kelmarin merenjis air mawar pada kubur Khomeini - adat Iran bagi menghormati si mati dan kemudian ditaburi bunga, lapor stesen televisyen kerajaan.

Perayaan tahun ini disambut empat bulan selepas pilihan raya presiden, dengan Ahmadinejad bertanding untuk sepenggal lagi. � AFP

Fatah sekat bantuan ke Gaza

2009-02-01T12:26:00.000+08:00

LONDON: Penghantaran bantuan kemanusiaan ke Gaza disekat Israel dan pihak berkuasa Palestin (PA) sendiri sehingga menyukarkan usaha membantu mereka yang benar-benar memerlukan.

"Hanya 120 trak dilaporkan dapat membekalkan bantuan ke Gaza bagi purata sehari berbanding 500 sehari yang dilakukan pada 2007," kata John Clancy, jurucakap bagi Pesuruhjaya Pembangunan Kesatuan Eropah, Louis Michel.

Clancy berkata, pihaknya meminta Israel membenarkan pekerja bantuan masuk dengan cepat ke wilayah itu. Pada masa ini, ia memerlukan lima hari bagi seorang pekerja untuk memasuki Gaza dan EU mahu ia dipendekkan kepada 48 jam.

"Ia satu tanggungjawab untuk membenarkan kemasukan dengan segera dan penuh. Tidak dapat diterima kerana kemasukan semakin berkurangan," kata Clancy.

Beliau berkata, Israel mengkaji permintaan itu.

Clancy berkata, Kesatuan Eropah memperuntukkan 58 juta euro (RM272 juta) sebagai bantuan bagi Gaza tahun ini tetapi angka berkenaan masih dikaji berikutan meningkatnya keperluan selepas serangan selama tiga minggu Israel terhadap Hamas. � Agensi

Ukiran kasut wartawan diturun

2009-02-01T12:25:00.000+08:00

KANAK-KANAK di pusat kebajikan anak yatim di Tikrit membuka bungkusan kasut gergasi yang diturunkan, semalam.

BAGHDAD: Ukiran kasut yang dibina di Tikrit sebagai menghormati wartawan yang membaling kasut kepada bekas Presiden George W Bush sudah diturunkan, menurut laporan.

Media asing melaporkan, ukiran kaca fiber berwarna gangsa itu diturunkan atas arahan pihak berkuasa tempatan. Ia didirikan di tanah milik pusat kebajikan anak yatim.

Ia dilakukan sehari selepas ditunjukkan kepada orang ramai di kampung bekas Presiden Saddam Hussein.

Ketua pertubuhan Childhood, yang memiliki pusat kebajikan itu, berkata beliau diarah menurunkan tugu itu dengan segera oleh Pusat Penyelarasan Bersama Wilayah Salaheddin.

"Saya segera menurunkan ukiran itu dan memusnahkannya. Saya tidak bertanya mengapa," kata Shahah Daham kepada agensi berita Jerman, DPA.

Timbalan Gabenor Salaheddin, Abdullah Jabara, memberitahu DPA: "Kanak-kanak tidak sepatutnya dibabitkan dalam isu berkaitan politik. Disebabkan ini adalah pusat anak yatim tugu itu masih boleh diingati oleh mereka." � Agensi

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2009-01-30T21:29:00.001+08:00

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Obama, tentera buntu hal Iraq, Afghanistan

2009-01-30T10:30:00.000+08:00

OBAMA bersama Naib Presiden Joe Biden (kiri) berbual dengan pegawai kanan tentera Amerika Syarikat, di Pentagon kelmarin.

Presiden baru AS tidak beri petunjuk pengunduran tentera

WASHINGTON: Presiden Barack Obama kelmarin berkata 'sukar untuk membuat keputusan' mengenai Iraq dan Afghanistan selepas menghadiri pertemuan pertamanya sebagai ketua angkatan tentera di Pentagon dengan pegawai atasan tentera.

Tiada keputusan dibuat pada sesi 90 minit itu dengan ketua tentera, kata pegawai, dan Obama tidak memberi sebarang petunjuk sama ada beliau berhasrat untuk meneruskan jadual pengunduran tentera Amerika dari Iraq dalam masa 16 bulan.

"Kami sukar membuat keputusan berkisar Iraq dan Afghanistan. Jelasnya, usaha untuk memburu pertubuhan ekstremis yang mengancam negara adalah paling utama," katanya.

Obama perlu menyeimbangkan risiko pengunduran segera di Iraq dengan permintaan komander supaya menambah 30,000 lagi anggota tentera di Afghanistan, yang hampir menggandakan kehadiran tentera Amerika di negara itu, sebagai reaksi kepada keadaan yang semakin buruk.

Obama muncul daripada pertemuan di bilik persidangan dikenali sebagai 'the Tank' dengan naib presidennya, Joe Biden. Mereka berjabat tangan dan berjenaka dengan pemimpin kanan serta pegawai yang berbaris untuk bertemu presiden baru itu.

Obama memberitahu wartawan beliau mengadakan perbincangan 'menyeronokkan' dengan pegawai tentera yang berlangsung lebih lama daripada sepatutnya, pada hari pertama di Pentagon sejak bergelar presiden.

"Kami berbincang mengenai Iraq, selain Afghanistan. Kami berbincang mengenai beberapa risiko global yang semakin meningkat, dan penyelarasan mungkin muncul antara tentera kita dan pasukan awam.

"Kami juga berbincang mengenai memastikan kesihatan anggota sentiasa dalam pengawasan," katanya. - AFP

Askar upahan AS Blackwater tinggalkan Iraq

2009-01-30T10:26:00.000+08:00

MOYOCK (Carolina Utara): Blackwater Worldwide, pengawal tentera elit untuk diplomat Amerika di Iraq berkata pasukannya akan meninggalkan Baghdad dalam masa 72 jam selepas lesan operasinya ditamatkan.

Bagaimanapun, pengasas Blackwater, Erik Prince berkata, sementara syarikat berpangkalan di Carolina Utara itu turut kehilangan kontrak dengan Jabatan Negara Amerika, tindakan meninggalkan Iraq hanya akan menggugat keselamatan diplomat sejak peperangan menjatuhkan regim Saddam Hussein.

“Peninggalan kami nanti tentu akan menjejaskan keupayaan askar Amerika untuk membina semula Iraq serta tugas diplomat di sana," katanya.

Pegawai Iraq berkata, kejadian tembak menembak pada September 2007 di Dataran Nisoor Baghdad membabitkan tentera elit itu mengorbankan 17 orang awam Iraq.

Kejadian itu mengeruhkan hubungan antara Washington dan Baghdad sehingga merebaknya perasaan dan tentangan anti Amerika di Iraq.

Lima bekas pengawal Blackwater sudah mengaku bersakag di Amerika Syarikat terhadap tuduhan melakukan kekejaman, termasuk 14 tuduhan membunuh.

guards have pleaded not guilty to federal charges in the

Keputusan Iraq menamatkan lesen operasi Blackwater di negara itu diumumkan semalam.

Mengikut perjanjian keselamatan baru AS-Iraq yang berkuat kuasa 1 Januari lalu, membenarkan Iraq menentukan negara Barat mana yang boleh beroperasi di negara itu. - AFP

Israel terus bom sempadan Gaza-Mesir

2009-01-29T11:19:00.001+08:00

BANDARAYA GAZA: Pesawat tempur Israel dilaporkan terus meledakkan bom ke kawasan sempadan Semenanjung Gaza-Mesir hari ini yang didakwa mereka bagi memusnahkan terowong menyeludup senjata api.

“Serangan udara ini adalah ke atas kawasan yang diketahui mengeluarkan senjata api di Rafah untuk digunakan menyerang sempadan kami di selatan," kata jurucakap tentera Israel di sini.

Saksi memberitahu, serangan berlaku di timur Rafah, kawasan yang mempunyai terowong tetapi tiada dilaporkan cedera.

Sebelum ini, tentera Israel berkata, roket dilancarkan ke atas kawasan mereka di Bandar Ofakim oleh puak militan Palestin.

Semalam, Hamas mendakwa pihaknya membalas serangan dengan motar ke atas tentera Israil yang menceroboh masuk ke Semenanjung Gaza. - AFP

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Obama ikrar dunia Islam bukan musuh Amerika

2009-01-28T10:29:00.000+08:00

Presiden mahu kunjungi kota negara Islam sampaikan mesej

WASHINGTON: Presiden Barack Obama memberitahu dunia Islam bahawa Amerika Syarikat (AS) bukan musuh mereka dan memperbaharui ikrar untuk mengunjungi sebuah ibu kota negara Islam untuk menyampaikan mesej itu.

Obama berkata beliau pernah tinggal di Indonesia selama beberapa tahun ketika kecil dan lawatan beliau ke negara Islam meyakinkannya bahawa semua orang, tidak kira fahaman masing-masing, memiliki harapan dan impian yang sama.

"Saya mempunyai ahli keluarga yang beragama Islam. Saya pernah hidup di negara Islam."

"Tugas saya kepada dunia Islam ialah untuk meyakinkan mereka Amerika Syarikat bukanlah musuh...kami kadang kala silap, kami bukannya sempurna," kata Obama dalam satu temubual dengan rangkaian televisyen satelit, Al-Arabiya.

"Tetapi jika anda melihat kepada sejarah... Amerika bukanlah kuasa kolonial dan tidak ada sebab kita tidak boleh kembalikan hubungan serta penghormatan di antara Amerika dengan dunia Islam seperti 20 atau 30 tahun lalu.

Ketika kempen pilihan raya 2008 Obama berikrar untuk meningkatkan hubungan Amerika Syarikat dengan dunia Islam dan berkata bahawa beliau akan ke satu forum Islam utama di luar negara untuk menghantar mesej.

"Kita akan merealisasikan komitmen agar saya berucap kepada dunia Islam dari satu ibu negara Islam," kata Obama dalam satu temubual.

Obama bagaimanapun tidak memberikan masa atau tempat bagi lawatannya itu ke sebuah ibu kota Islam.

Sementara itu, wakil khas AS ke Asia Barat, George Mitchell memulakan misinya dengan kunjungan ke Kaherah semalam selepas mendapat arahan daripada Obama supaya berusaha keras untuk mencapai perkembangan dalam rundingan damai di antara negara Arab dan Israel.

Obama memberitahu Al-Arabiya, beliau tidak mahu berpura-pura bahawa kemajuan di Asia Barat boleh dicapai dengan pantas. - AFP

Israel lancar serangan udara ke terowong Gaza

2009-01-28T09:37:00.001+08:00

BANDARAYA GAZA: Pesawat pejuang Israel hari ini melancarkan serangan udara dengan mengebom terowong di sekitar sempadan Semenanjung Gaza-Mesir yang didakwanya digunakan militan untuk menyeludup senjata.

Saksi memberitahu, bom dan misil yang besar dijatuhkan di sekitar terowong berkenaan tetapi tiada yang dilaporkan cedera.

Salah satu daripada tujuan serangan Israel ke atas Gaza selama 22 hari sehingga lebih 1,300 Pelestin terbunuh ialah untuk memusnahkan terowong berkenaan.

Israel mendakwa terowong di sempadan itu digunakan puak Hamas untuk menyeludup masuk senjata termasuk roket yang digunakan untuk memerangi mereka. - AFP

Tourism Malaysia

2009-01-25T15:48:00.004+08:00

Multiculturalism has not only made Malaysia a gastronomical paradise, it has also made Malaysia home to hundreds of colourful festivals. It's no wonder that we love celebrating and socialising. As a people, Malaysians are very laid back, warm and friendly.

Geographically, Malaysia is as diverse as its culture. There are two parts to the country, 11 states in the peninsula of Malaysia and two states on the northern part of Borneo. Cool hideaways are found in the highlands that roll down to warm, sandy beaches and rich, humid mangroves.

One of Malaysia's key attractions is its extreme contrasts. Towering skyscrapers look down upon wooden houses built on stilts, and five-star hotels sit several metres away from ancient reefs.

For the perfect holiday full of surprises, eclectic cultures and natural wonders, the time is now, the place is Malaysia.

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2009-01-24T23:00:00.002+08:00

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2009-01-24T22:47:00.001+08:00

Gaza recovery in doubt as Israel pressures Hamas

2009-01-24T14:39:00.001+08:00

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel dismissed on Friday international calls for a full reopening of border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, leaving a shaky ceasefire and post-war reconstruction in doubt.

A rainbow is seen above an Israeli military staging area outside the northern Gaza Strip January 23, 2009. Israel dismissed on Friday international calls for a full reopening of border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, leaving a shaky ceasefire and post-war reconstruction in doubt. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

While a U.N. official praised Israel's "goodwill" for letting 120 truckloads per day of food and medicine into Gaza, other diplomats decried restrictions on steel and cement imports needed to make repairs after Israel's 22-day offensive.

Israel also blocked the Western-backed Palestinian Authority from sending cash to Gaza, despite international warnings that President Mahmoud Abbas's standing was at stake.

"They are afraid it will go to Hamas," a senior Western diplomat said of the cash. Barring a swift change in Israeli policy, the diplomat said the emergency response and long-term reconstruction were "bound to fail".

U.S. officials voiced support, under certain conditions, for opening the crossings more fully, but they set no timetable.

John Ging, who heads the operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Gaza Strip, said the end-result of Israel's war, which killed 1,300 Palestinians and injured more than 5,000 others, was "more extremists".

Thirteen Israelis were killed: 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire.

Hamas has conditioned abiding by the ceasefire, which took effect on Sunday, on Israel lifting its crippling blockade.

But a top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared to rule that out. "If opening the passages will strengthen Hamas, we won't do it," he said.

Israel believes the restrictions at the crossings will give it leverage in Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Hamas to free Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006.

But Israel finds itself under increasing pressure to do more to ease hardships for Gaza's 1.5 million residents.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday Gaza's border crossings should be reopened to both humanitarian and commercial goods under a "monitoring regime" that includes Abbas's Palestinian Authority, Hamas's rival.

Obama plans to dispatch his Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, to the region soon to try to shore up the ceasefire, which Israel declared after Washington and European powers promised to help stop Islamist Hamas smuggling in weapons.

PREVENT ARMS

France said it was sending a frigate to patrol international waters off Gaza and help prevent arms coming in by sea.

The new U.S. administration has met with scepticism from Hamas, which won a 2006 Palestinian ballot only to be shunned by the West for refusing to renounce violence and recognise Israel. The isolation deepened when Hamas routed Abbas's secular Fatah to take over Gaza 18 months later.

Obama on Thursday said an outline for a "durable ceasefire" included Hamas stopping cross-border rocket fire, which Israel had cited as the reason for its Gaza offensive. He also voiced sorrow at civilian suffering in the impoverished territory.

"We had expected Obama to express willingness to talk about the real and the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people," said Hamas official Mushir al-Masri.

He urged the new U.S. president to "stand at an equal distance in the Palestinian-Zionist conflict, and break with the flagrant American historical bias".

Hamas dispatched a delegation to Cairo for ceasefire talks. Israel's envoy, Amos Gilad, held talks there on Thursday.

Western diplomats said a humanitarian aid coordination conference for Gaza would be held around Feb. 12 in Egypt but would not deal with long-term reconstruction. Another meeting of major powers and donors was slated for late February, they said.

Reeling from an air-and-ground assault which wrecked Gaza's infrastructure, Palestinians gathered for weekly prayers on Friday as Hamas security forces led clean-up efforts.

Absent were Hamas chiefs, still in hiding out of concern Israel may try to assassinate them.

Despite assertions by Israeli leaders that Hamas had been dealt a serious blow, nearly three out of four Israelis expected more violence to break out in the next year or two, according to a poll in the Maariv newspaper.

Diplomats said the Israeli restrictions and Palestinian infighting meant even modest repairs would be difficult to make.

Hamas still controls the Gaza Strip and plans to start distributing up to 4,000 euros ($5,000) in cash to families hard hit by Israel's offensive.

But the Palestinian Authority under Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad wants to take the lead in any rebuilding, prompting calls for formation of a unity government.

Israeli officials have ruled out dealing with such a government unless Hamas abandons its rejection of coexistence with the Jewish state.

(Additional reporting by Douglas Hamilton in Gaza and Estelle Shirbon in Paris)

Obama discusses Gaza with Saudi ruler

2009-01-24T14:15:00.000+08:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday asked Saudi King Abdullah for support in halting weapons smuggling into Gaza and underscored the importance of U.S.-Saudi ties in his first talks with the Arab ruler since becoming president, the White House said.

An Israeli soldier sits atop a tank (R) at a military staging area outside the northern Gaza Strip January 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

Obama spoke to Abdullah during a series of phone calls with foreign leaders, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the White House said in a statement.

The call to Abdullah coincided with the publication of an article by Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States, warning Obama the United States was putting Saudi ties at risk with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In an article on the Financial Times website, Turki said former President George W. Bush had left a "sickening legacy" in the Middle East.

"If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle East and keep its strategic alliances intact -- especially its 'special relationship' with Saudi Arabia -- it will have to drastically revise its policies vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine," Turki said.

Israel waged a 22-day offensive against the Islamist Hamas group in Gaza earlier this month, killing some 1,300 Palestinians and injuring another 5,000. The offensive, which Israel said was aimed at ending Hamas rocket attacks, left 13 Israelis dead, including three civilians killed by rockets.

Obama, who took office on Tuesday, named former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell as his envoy for the Middle East conflict on Thursday and vowed to aggressively pursue peace.

Hamas has said Obama's policies were no different from Bush's, and Israeli officials have said the new U.S. administration was likely to continue shunning Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. government.

In his phone call with Abdullah, Obama underscored the "importance of a strong U.S.-Saudi relationship" and expressed his appreciation for the Saudi ruler's support for interfaith dialogue and peace initiatives.

"He asked for Saudi support for efforts to stop weapons smuggling into Gaza and expressed interest in continuing counter-terrorism cooperation," the White House said.

Obama also discussed the situation in Gaza with the British prime minister, the White House said. Obama and Brown also talked about the need to make the Afghan conflict a top priority, it said.

Obama told Brown he looked forward to strengthening the special relationship between Britain and the United States. They also discussed the global economic crisis and Obama's desire to attend the upcoming G-20 summit in London.

In his call with Harper, Obama reiterated his pledge to visit Canada on his first trip outside the United States as president. He also discussed "the shared challenges we face in Afghanistan" as well as climate change and the global economy.

Obama lantik 2 pendamai Asia Barat, Afghanistan

2009-01-24T13:12:00.001+08:00

OBAMA dan Hillary sebagai pasangan mantap.

Tindakan pantas sebagai usaha jarakkan dengan dasar Bush

WASHINGTON: Presiden Barack Obama semalam memilih dua pendamai berpengaruh untuk Asia Barat serta Afghanistan dan Pakistan, dalam satu lagi tindakan pantas menjarakkan beliau dengan dasar pentadbiran bekas Presiden George W Bush.

Dalam langkah agresif mencapai keamanan di tempat paling sukar dikawal di dunia, Obama lantik tokoh kedamaian Ireland Utara, George Mitchell bagi Asia Barat dan orang tengah krisis Balkan, Richard Holbrooke untuk Afghanistan dan Pakistan.

Diiringi kedua-duanya, Obama memberitahu diplomat Amerika beliau dan Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat, Hillary Clinton, meminta wakil berkenaan 'menyuarakan keseriusan matlamat mereka' berdepan 'kepentingan dan kesukaran cabaran yang dihadapi.'

Clinton pula menambah: "Kekurangan usaha diplomatik akan menggagalkan pencarian keamanan yang berpanjangan dan berkekalan di tempat berkenaan."

Bekas Wanita Pertama itu berkata, Jabatan Negara 'gembira' kerana Obama, baru hari kedua menduduki pejabat, sudah mengambil langkah segera untuk menangani 'dua dasar paling mencabar buat masa ini.'

Pemilihan kedua-dua tokoh dihormati itu menunjukkan arah baru hal-ehwal global dalam pentadbirannya - satu lagi perbezaan dengan dasar Bush yang menolak langkah itu.

Katanya, beliau menghantar Mitchell ke Asia Barat secepat mungkin untuk membantu mengukuhkan perjanjian gencatan senjata rapuh yang diadakan minggu lalu selepas serangan tiga minggu Israel mengorbankan lebih 1,330 penduduk Palestin.

"Ia akan menjadi dasar pentadbiran saya secara aktif dan agresif untuk mencari keamanan berpanjangan di antara Israel dan Palestin, serta Israel dan negara jiran Arabnya," kata Obama.

Sementara itu, Mitchell berkata beliau 'tidak memandang ringan kesukaran' tugasnya.

Mitchell, penganut Katolik Maronite yang beribukan wanita Lubnan, berjaya membawa pemimpin komuniti agama di Ireland Utara dengan gabungan janji dan rundingan untuk menandatangani perjanjian bersejarah Good Friday pada 1998.

Holbrooke, arkitek Perjanjian Dayton yang menamatkan perang Bosnia, pula akan bertanggungjawab melaksanakan strategi perpaduan kepada dasar Amerika mengenai Afghanistan dan Pakistan. AFP

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2009-01-24T12:52:00.002+08:00

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2009-01-24T12:49:00.000+08:00

Cita-cita

2009-01-23T22:56:00.000+08:00

Seorang guru tadika sedang memupuk rasa percaya diri kepada pelajarnya-pelajarnya. Guru tersebut meminta mereka untuk memperkenalkan diri sekaligus memberitahu tentang cita-cita mereka.

Abu berdiri dan berkata, “Nama saya Abu bin Dolah. Bila besar nanti saya ingin jadi juruterbang, jadi bolehlah saya pergi ke Australia, Eropah, Iraq dan sebagainya”.

“Bagus Abu. Terima kasih. Siapa lagi?”, tanya cikgu.

Seorang pelajar perempuan yang duduk di tepi berdiri dan berkata, “Nama saya Noni binti Samad. Kalau besar nanti, Noni nak jadi suri rumah tangga dan mempunyai anak-anak yang comel”.
“Bagus. Jadi suri rumah tangga merupakan cita-cita yang mulia. Siapa lagi?”.

Seman berdiri dan berkata, “Saya Seman bin Leman, bila besar nanti saya bercita-cita untuk membantu Noni mencapai cita-citanya…”.

Sumber: Lawak.net

Classic bikes add colour to ceremony

2009-01-23T12:38:00.000+08:00

FOUR villagers riding classic British motorcycles honked their way down the roads in Kampung Manjoi in Ipoh as they accompanied 34 children in a parade to celebrate a mass circumcision ceremony.

Rite of passage: Nadzri spraying the boys with water from a hose before their mass circumcision ceremony held in Kampung Manjoi, Ipoh.

As the bikers rode around, they were greeted with waves and cheers from the villagers.

The procession lasted about 15min before the children returned to the Kompleks Dewan Serbaguna Manjoi at 9.45am.

The children, aged between five and 12, were treated to breakfast and later, Manjoi assemblyman Datuk Nadzri Ismail gave them a shower of water before the ceremony.

Obama orders Guantanamo shut, names conflict envoys

2009-01-23T11:38:00.001+08:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closing of Guantanamo prison and named veteran trouble-shooters for the Middle East and Afghanistan as he moved swiftly to repair America's tarnished image abroad.

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to newly appointed Mideast envoy George Mitchell (R) at the State Department in Washington January 22, 2009. At left is Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

In a flurry of activity focused squarely on rolling back some of predecessor George W. Bush's policies, Obama set a one-year deadline for shutting Guantanamo, barred harsh treatment of terrorism suspects held there and closed secret CIA jails overseas.

The prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba -- where prisoners have been detained for years without charge, some subjected to interrogation that human rights groups say amounted to torture -- had damaged America's moral standing in the world.

"The world needs to understand that America will be unyielding in its defense of its security and relentless in its pursuit of those who would carry out terrorism or threaten the United States," Obama said after signing a series of orders.

But he said his new administration wanted to send "an unmistakable signal that our actions in defense of liberty will be (as) just as our cause."

While working behind closed doors with advisers to confront the worst financial crisis in decades, Obama used his early public appearances to put foreign policy and national security on the front burner.

"We can no longer afford drift and we no longer can afford delay," Obama said as he waded into the thicket of diplomacy with a visit to the State Department to preside over the announcements of new conflict envoys.

Former Sen. George Mitchell, a seasoned diplomat, was named to help revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, which Bush was criticized for failing to give enough attention.

Obama seized the opportunity to pledge to "actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as Israel and its Arab neighbors" and work to ensure a durable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

He made a point of backing Israel's "right to defend itself" against cross-border Hamas rocket fire, but also said it was "intolerable" for Palestinians, who want a state of their own, to face a "future without hope."

A Hamas spokesman in Lebanon told Al Jazeera television that Obama was off to "an unfortunate start" and represented no change in policy from Bush. An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he thought the Obama administration would continue Bush's policy of shunning Hamas.

Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was appointed the first U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a region Obama called "the central front" in the battle against terrorism.

Obama has ordered a full review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, where he has pledged to boost troop levels. Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the remote, mountainous border region of Pakistan near Afghanistan.

LITANY OF FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES

The announcements came as Obama, an Illinois Democrat sworn in on Tuesday as the first black U.S. president, acted to tackle a litany of foreign policy challenges bequeathed to him by Bush and highlighted during his run for the White House.

Those include pursuing a policy of broader engagement overseas than Bush, who was criticized for "cowboy diplomacy," and refocusing the fight against terrorism away from the unpopular Iraq war and back to the Afghan conflict.

Obama's decision to visit the State Department before the Pentagon could signal the importance his new administration will put on diplomacy, rather than military muscle, in tackling major conflicts.

Obama made no direct mention of U.S. foe Iran, but seemed to allude to the Islamic republic when he said, "Going forward, we must make it clear to all countries in the region that external support for terrorist organizations must stop."

He has pledged to engage diplomatically with Tehran, in contrast to Bush's strategy of trying to isolate it.

Obama's orders on Guantanamo, established by the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, signaled his determination to reverse some of his predecessor's security policies that drew outrage from human rights advocates.

The European Union and human rights groups praised Obama's move, which kicked off a review process to deal with relocating, releasing or prosecuting the remaining detainees.

Some Republicans said it left too many unanswered questions on what to do with prisoners considered dangerous.

Deciding to close the prison is just the first step in a complicated process to decide the fate of its 250 inmates.

A separate presidential decree requires the CIA to close secret detention centers overseas that generated controversy in Europe and prohibits creation of such sites in the future.

On the domestic front, with markets volatile, Obama held his second daily meeting with top economic advisers to try to chart a course out of the worst financial crisis in decades.

Obama's pick to head the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, won Senate Finance Committee backing, clearing the way for a full Senate confirmation vote that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hoped to hold around 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) on Monday.

"I do," Reid told reporters when asked if he expected Geithner to be confirmed.

In a stark sign of the problems, new data showed the number of U.S. workers lining up for jobless benefits surged last week and home-building slumped to a record low in December.

Israel tetap kenakan sekatan terhadap Gaza

2009-01-23T11:25:00.001+08:00

TEL AVIV: Israel menolak pembukaan semula semua pintu sempadan Semenanjung Gaza selagi Hamas mentadbir wilayah itu dan mendapat keuntungan daripada kelonggaran sekatan itu, kata penasihat kanan Perdana Menteri, Ehud Olmert.

Bercakap sehari selepas Olmert berbual menerusi telefon dengan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama, penasihat itu menyatakan keyakinan pentadbiran baru di Washington akan mengekalkan dasar George W Bush tidak berurusan atau berunding dengan Hamas.

Penasihat itu berkata Israel akan membenarkan kemasukan "maksimum" makanan, ubat, minyak dan gas ke Gaza bagi membantu 1.5 juta penduduknya pulih daripada kesan serangan yang meragut lebih 1,300 nyawa.

Namun, katanya, kemasukan barangan lain seperti keluli dan simen yang diperlukan untuk pembangunan semula Gaza belum lagi dibenarkan.

Israel percaya kekangan itu akan memberi kelebihan kepada pihak rejim untuk menekan Hamas supaya membebaskan askar Israel yang ditawan, Gilad Shalit.

Diplomat dan agensi bantuan menyatakan kekangan itu akan menghalang pembanguna semula Gaza yang dianggarkan sekurang-kurangnya AS$2 bilion.

Hamas mengadakan gencatan senjata yang menamatkan serangan Israel selama 22 hari Ahad lalu dengan syarat rejim Zionis itu menamatkan sekatan terhadap Gaza.

Hamas yang memenangi pilihan raya Palestin pada 2006 dan menguasai Gaza 18 bulan kemudian selepas mengusir pasukan keselamatan Presiden Mahmoud Abbas, dipulaukan negara kuasa Barat kerana tidak mahu mengiktiraf Israel dan menamatkan perjuangan bersenjata. - Reuters

Hackers Menjalankan website Palsu Tentang Barack Obama

2009-01-22T22:16:00.000+08:00

Acara pengangkatan Barack Obama sebagai Presiden Amerika ke-44 merupakan acara dan hari terbesar dalam sejarah Amerika. Berbeda halnya dengan para hacker di dunia maya, tampaknya merekapun ikut memeriahkannya dengan cara memanfaatkan kesempatan ini untuk menyebarkan virus lewat internet. Berdasarkan sumber di Paris Perancis untuk menyebarkan virus di internet, para Hacker menggunakan puluhan website palsu terhubung dengan pelatikan Barack Obama sebagai presiden

Menurut perusahaan Panda Security, ada sekitar 70 website lebih yang menjalankan berita palsu yang berjudul "Barack Obama has refused to be a president" hal ini untuk mengelabui para pengguna internet, cara kerjanya yaitu apabila berita tersebut di klik akan keluar pop-up dan user diminta untuk mendownload informasi tersebut

Panda Security juga menegaskan "File ini sangat berbahaya, apabila user menginstal file tersebut maka akses user akan di alihkan ke sebuah PC Zombia dan nantinya akan di kontrol dari jarak jauh oleh para Hacker"

Mereka juga menyatakan bahwa beberapa cyber-attack tersebut berasal dari china, hal ini berdasarkan analisa dari nama domain yang telah dibeli oleh sebuah perusahaan Cina yang terhubung ke cyber-attack sebelumnya

Kalau virus-Protection anda kurang powerful sebaiknya pengguna internet disarankan untuk tidak mengunjungi beberapa situs-situs berikut ini, bestbarrack.com, jobarack.com, thebaracksite.com

50 scholarships up for grabs

2009-01-22T10:38:00.000+08:00

BEIJING: Fifty scholarships will be given to Muslim students in China to further their studies in Malaysia.

MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said the Al-Bukhary Foundation would be offering the scholarships annually.

The move was to help the poor students gain an education, he said during a lunch hosted by the China Islamic Association at the Muslim Tulufan Restaurant here yesterday.

Ong is leading a political and trade delegation to Beijing to mark 35 years of China-Malaysia diplomatic relations.

There are 22 million Muslims in China and Islam is one of the five major religions in the country.

China Islamic Association secretary-general Ibrahim Hong Changyou (second from left) and vice-president Mustafa Yang Zhibo (third from right) briefing MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and his delegation on the history of the Niujie Mosque in Beijing yesterday. — NG KOK LEONG/The Star

“We hope the exchanges will help provide Malaysians an opportunity to know the Chinese Muslims,” Ong said.

He said both China and Malaysia shared a common goal – to create a harmonious society.

He introduced the non-Muslim Malaysian entrepreneurs to the China Islamic Association which he said could serve as a bridge for the Malaysian entrepreneurs to enter the vast halal market in China.

Ong also said that the Chinese have commended the Royal Malay- sian Navy for its quick response in rescuing a Chinese merchant ship which was under attack from Somali pirates recently.

“The Chinese Transport Ministry gave an official note of appreciation to us,” he said.

On the proposal to get motorcycles off the roads in Kuala Lumpur as a move to tackle the snatch theft problem, he said he would meet the relevant authorities for further discussions on the matter.

Ong and his delegation also paid a courtesy visit to the Civil Aviation Administration of China yesterday.

Kumpulan terakhir askar Israel tinggalkan Gaza

2009-01-22T10:03:00.000+08:00

JERUSALEM: Kumpulan terakhir askar Israel meninggalkan Semenanjung Gaza hari ini dan meskipun wujud gencatan senjata, anggota tentera lautnya masih melepaskan tembakan ke arah pesisir pantar di Utara Gaza.

Kumpulan tentera laut Israel itu dikatakan menembak penyeludup yang kononnya mendiami terowong yang selama 23 hari lalu dikaitkan dengan kumpulan Hamas yang aktif di sempadan Mesir.

Pihak tentera Israel berkata, mereka juga akan melakukan siasatan terhadap dakwaan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dan badan hak asasi manusia bahawa mereka menggunakan bahan kimia dilarang - posporous.

Meskipun penggunakan senjata posporus dibenar oleh undang-undang antarabangsa, Pertubuhan Amnesty International menuduh Israel melakukan jenayah perang dengan menggunakan senjata itu di kawasan padat penduduk.

Sedang askar Israel meninggalkan sempadan Gaza, fokus kini tertumpu kepada sejauh mana bertahannya pelan gencatan senjata berkenaan.

Ini kerana, Menteri Luar Israel, Tzipi Livni kini berada di Eropah untuk mengadakan kempen menarik sokongan negara dunia untuk menghentikan aktiviti penyeludupan senjata ke Gaza melalui Mesir.

Usaha Israel itu untuk menghalang militan Hamas membawa masuk menggunakan ratusan terowong di sepanjang lapan kilometer di sempadan Gaza-Mesir.

Israel pula mendakwa tenteranya berjaya memusnahkan 60 peratus daripada terowong berkenaan. - AFP

Obama tunai janji selesai konflik Gaza

2009-01-22T09:32:00.001+08:00

WASHINGTON: Presiden Barack Obama menunjukkan komitmen segera dalam mewujudkan perdamaian di Asia Barat, khususnya menamatkan konflik Gaza dengan membuat panggilan telefon empat pemimpin rantau berkenaan, hari ini.

Obama menelefon Presiden Mesir, Hosni Mubarak, Perdana Menteri Israel, Ehud Olmert, Raja Jordan, Raja Abdullah dan Presiden Palestin, Mahmoud Abbas.

“Dia (Obama) menggunakan peluang pada hari pertama berada di Rumah Putih untuk berhubung dengan pemimpin terbabit.

"Ini komitmen terbarunya untuk mewujudkan perdamaian antara Arab-Israel selain berharap mendapat kerjasama daripada mereka," kata Setiausa Akhbar Rumah Putih, Robert Gibbs.

Sejak Israel mengadakan serangan agresif terhadap Palestin, seramai 1,300 penduduk Palestin dilaporkan terbunuh dengan separuh daripadanya membabitkan orang awam.

Gibbs berkata Obama 'menekankan soal kesungguhannya' untuk membantu mewujudkan gencatan senjata serta usaha untuk memulihkan semula kehidupan masyarakat Palestin di Semenanjung Gaza.

Obama kata Gibbs juga berikrar kepada pemimpin terbabit bahawa kerajaannya akan sentiasa memberi kerjasama untuk memastikan usaha itu berhasil.

Rumah Putih menyifatkan perbualan telefon antara Obama dengan pemimpin terbabit berjalan dalam suasana baik dan penuh dengan semangat kerjasama. - AFP

Pendirian Obama terhadap Palestin terus dipersoal

2009-01-22T08:00:00.000+08:00

OBAMA melambaikan tangan kepada orang ramai di sisi anaknya, Malia selepas majlis angkat sumpah sebagai Presiden Amerika Syarikat ke-44 di Washington, semalam.

WASHINGTON: Ikrar Presiden baru Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama untuk mewujudkan 'hala tuju baru' dalam hubungan dengan dunia Islam selepas menghadapi masalah selama lapan tahun di bawah bekas presiden, George W Bush dialu-alukan oleh tokoh Islam, tetapi pendiriannya terhadap isu Palestin masih dipersoalkan.

"Ikrar hala tuju baru itu adalah sesuatu yang baik tetapi beliau perlu mengubah dasar negaranya terhadap konflik Israel dan Palestin terlebih dulu," kata pemimpin Nahdatul Ulama, Maskuri Abdilah yang mengetuai pertubuhan Islam terbesar Indonesia.

"Penyelesaian isu ini amat penting kerana ia menjadi punca kepada semua keganasan dan ketegangan di antara dunia Islam dan Barat."

Dalam ucapan sulungnya sebagai presiden kelmarin, Obama selain berikrar mahu memperbaiki hubungan dengan dunia Islam, turut mengulangi janjinya ketika berkempen bahawa Amerika Syarikat akan 'mula menyerahkan Iraq kepada rakyatnya dan meneruskan usaha perdamaian di Afghanistan.'

Obama, yang menghadapi cabaran hebat di kalangan dunia Islam - dari wilayah Palestin hingga ke Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan dan Pakistan, akan memperkenalkan cara baru serta menjanjikan keseimbangan dalam pendekatan diplomatik, ketenteraan dan bentuk kuasa lain.

Beliau juga berkata, pemuliharaan keselamatan selepas pasca 9/11 di Amerika, tidak akan diusahakan dengan mengetepikan idealisme kebebasan AS dan kedaulatan undang-undang, yang dikritik ke atas pentadbiran Bush dalam perangnya terhadap keganasan.

KELUARGA lima beranak Palestin makan dan minum dalam keadaan menyedihkan di kediaman mereka yang musnah dibedil tentera Israel di kem pelarian Rafah, selatan Gaza, kelmarin. Gencatan senjata membolehkan agensi antarabangsa menilai kemusnahan teruk di Gaza.

Di PAKISTAN, seorang pemimpin kanan parti Jamaat-i-Islami, Khurshid Ahmed mengucapkan selamat berjaya kepada Obama tetapi agak hampa presiden baru itu masih sunyi sepi terhadap pembunuhan rakyat Palestin di Gaza.

"Saya hanya mampu berdoa. Saya memegang harapan (terhadap Obama) tetapi turut bimbang," katanya.

Di AFGHANISTAN, penganalisis dari Pusat Penyelidikan dan Kajian Dasar Haroun Mir berkata ucapan Obama memberi isyarat kuat bahawa beliau mahu memperbaiki hubungan dengan dunia Islam.

"Sudah wujud keyakinan terhadap kepimpinan Obama di dunia Islam," katanya.

Jurucakap Taliban, Yousuf Ahmadi berkata kumpulannya yang digulingkan tentera Amerika pada 2001 tidak mempunyai masalah dengan Obama jika beliau mengundurkan tentera negaranya dari bumi Afghanistan.

"Beliau mesti mengambil iktibar daripada pengalaman Bush dan tentera Soviet sebelum ini," katanya dari Kabul.

Di GAZA, majlis mengangkat sumpah bersejarah Barack Obama tidak membawa sebarang makna.

"Obama tidak akan menghidupkan semula suami saya," kata Leila Khalil yang kehilangan suami akibat dibunuh tentera Israel dalam serangan mereka ke atas wilayah Palestin itu.

Di seluruh wilayah itu, penduduk tidak menaruh harapan tinggi Obama akan menghilangkan penderitaan mereka selepas tiga minggu dizalimi tentera rejim Zionis.

"Tiada Presiden Amerika yang akan membayar ganti rugi kepada apa yang kami hilang dari perang, tidak akan menghidupkan mereka yang syahid atau menyembuhkan luka atau membina semula rumah," kata Samih Zouhdi, 53.

Bagi Umm Mohammad, Obama tidak membawa sebarang harapan kepada anak-anaknya yang masih trauma.

"Bush atau Obama tidak akan membuat kami lupa kepada ketakutan dan ketiadaan rumah seperti yang kami harungi ketika itu," katanya.

Sekurang-kurangnya 1,300 penduduk Palestin, termasuk 410 kanak-kanak, terkorban dalam serangan udara, laut dan darat tentera Yahudi ke atas Gaza. - AFP/Agensi

Skuad Sathia 0, UAE 5

2009-01-22T07:49:00.000+08:00

PENJAGA gawang negara, Syamsuri Mustafa (kanan) menumbuk bola dalam pergelutan bersama pemain UAE, Mohamed Omar Mohd Ahmad sambil dibantu seorang lagi pemain negara, Thirumurugan Veeran (tengah) dalam pusingan kelayakan Piala Asia 2011 di Stadium Cheras, malam tadi.

Malaysia dihukum dalam saingan awal kelayakan Piala Asia

GAMBARAN wajah duka terus menghimpit skuad bimbingan B Sathianathan yang tersungkur di tangan Emiriyah Arab Bersatu (UAE) 0-5 dalam aksi sulung Kumpulan C pusingan kelayakan Piala Asia 2011 di Stadium Bola Sepak Kuala Lumpur, malam tadi.

Kekecewaan itu terjelma angkara beberapa kesilapan yang bingkas dihukum lawan, biarpun gambaran awal menampakkan petanda menggalakkan dengan penguasaan pada tempoh 25 minit, ketika UAE sekadar mengancam menerusi cubaan jarak jauh sepanjang tempoh itu.

Satu cubaan sebegitu menyaksikan palang gol negara bergegar pada minit ke-15 menerusi cubaan Ismail Salem Ismail Saeed sebelum Zaquan Adha menyaksikan rembatannya, selepas pergelutan dalam kawasan penalti lawan empat minit kemudiannya, terkena jaring sisi.

Namun kecuaian pada minit ke-28 menyaksikan umpanan Ismaeil Matar lolos di celah-celah kaki benteng negara untuk Mohamed Omar Ahmad Al Shaddadi meluru dan merembat menewaskan penjaga gol, Syamsuri Mustafa.

Skuad negara cuba melawan tetapi usaha itu dihancurkan pengadil, Benjamin Williams yang menganugerahkan penalti buat lawan pada minit ke-44 selepas Ismail Salem menjatuhkan diri selepas sekadar berselisih dengan Hardi Jaafar. Mohamed Omar tidak tersilap menyempurnakan anugerah itu.

PEMAIN Malaysia, Mohamad Zaquan Adha (jersi biru) mengawal bola dengan kemas daripada pemain UAE, Haidar Alo Ali, malam tadi.

Daripada gerak serang balas pantas yang menyusul, Malaysia mendapati diri ketinggalan 0-3 apabila umpanan lintang Mohamed Saeed Rashed disambut Ismaeil Matar buat menggamamkan Syamsuri, seminit kemudian.

Kesilapan kapten, Norhafiz Zamani Misbah cuba menggelecek Ismaeil Matar di depan gawang menyaksikannya hilang bola untuk penggempur berbisa itu mencurinya dan merembat menewaskan penjaga gol gantian, Syed Adney Syed Hussein untuk gol keempat UAE pada minit ke-75.

Sentuhan pertama pemain gantian, Ahmed Khalil Sebait Mubarak, menyaksikannya merembat masuk gol kelima UAE pada minit ke-85 buat melengkapkan sengsara skuad negara.

Malaysia: Syamsuri Mustafa (Syed Adney Syed Hussein), Fauzie Nan, Norhafiz Zamani Misbah, V Thirumurugan, Aidil Zafuan Adha, Hardi Jaafar, Indra Putra Mahayuddin, Khyril Muhymeen Zambri, Amirulhadi Zainal (Hairuddin Omar), Zaquan Adha (Mohamad Ashari Samsuddin), Safee Sali.

Sathianathan

UAE: Majed Naser Humaid, Haidar Alo Ali Mohamed, Walid Abbas Murad Yousof, Hamdan Ismaeel Mohemad, Mohammed Fayez Sbait Khalifa, Abdul Raheem Jumaa Anbar, Al Junaibi Abdulsalam Jumaa, Mohamed Omar Ahmad Al Shaddadi (Ahmed Khalil Sebait Mubarak), Ismail Salem Ismail Saeed, Mohamed Saaed Rashed, Ismaeil Matar Ibrahim.

Pengadil: Benjamin Williams (Aus)

Kenali As-Syahid Sheikh Said Shiam

2009-01-21T07:59:00.003+08:00

Jumaat ,16/01/2009 - Menteri Dalam negeri Palestin, pimpinan Ismael Haneya, Syaikh Said Shiam syahid bersama anak dan enam saudaranya digempur F16 Israel petang semalam (15/1). Ketika itu, beliau sedang berada di rumah saudaranya di Yarmuk Gaza City. Paling kurang tiga sanak saudara dan 30 yang lain meninggal dalam peristiwa tersebut.

Setengah Abad Berjuang dan Berkorban

50 tahun beliau berjuang dalam ketaatan pada Allah. Hidupnya dipenuhi pengabdian dan pengorbanan, berjihad dan berjuang serta membela nasib rakyat Palestin.

Syaikh Shiam lahir pada 22/7/1959 di kem tentera Shati Gaza, bahagian barat kota Gaza. Silsilah keluarganya berasal dari marga Jaurah dekat Eskelon, wilayah Palestin jajahan 48. Beliau merupakan lulusan diploma matematik dari Darul Mualimin Ramallah pada tahun 1980. Kemudian melanjutkan pelajarann di peringkat ijazah dalam bidang pendidikan Islam dari Universiti Al-Quds(tahun 2000).

Seorang Guru yang Soleh

As-Syahid pernah bekerja sebagai pengajar di beberapa sekolah dan badan bantuan sosial antarabangsa di Gaza dari tahun 1980 hingga tahun 2003. Kemudian beliau keluar dari badan tersebut kerana desakan akibat keterlibatanya dengan gerakan Hamas. Lalu beliau menjadi imam dan khatib sukarela di masjid Yarmuk Kota Gaza. BeliaU juga berperanan menjadi penasihat dan khatib di beberapa masjid di Semenanjung Gaza.

Syaikh Shiam bergabung dengan Jawatankuasa Rekonsiliasi yang dibentuk Syaikh As-Syahid Ahmad Yasin untuk menyelesaikan pertentangan antara pelbagai kumpulan pejuang Palestin sejak intifadhah pertama yang dikenal dengan “Intifadhah Masjid”. Beliau berkahwin pada tahun itu dan mempunyai enam orang putera.

Jawatan yang Pernah Disandang As-Syahid

Sepanjang hidupnya Asy-Syahid memegang banyak jawatan penting. Di antaranya sebagai ketua Jawatankuasa Guru di Gaza. Ahli Persatuan Pegawai Arab di perwakilan pertubuhan sosial antarabangsa. Pegawai pengurus hubungan luar negeri dalam Gerakan Pejuang Hamas, anggota pimpinan politik Hamas di Gaza. Beliau juga menyandang jawatan anggota Dewan Sekretariat Jenderal Universiti Isam di Gaza, Anggota Dewan Pendiri Center Research Future. Pada tahun 1980 As-Syahid memegang jawatan anggota Persatuan Mahasiswa, Darul Maualimin di Ramallah. Pada tahun 2006 beliau menjawat jawatan sebagai menteri dalam negeri dan urusan sivil.

sumber: www.palestinkini.info

Wujudnya Agen Propaganda

2009-01-21T07:50:00.000+08:00

Mari kita lihat ke bawah sebentar setelah meneliti perjalanan Pilihanraya di Kuala Terengganu dua hari yang lepas, iaitu pilihanraya kampus. Lebih spesifik lagi kita ke kampus panas Universiti Malaya yang sentiasa kecoh dengan aksi pilihanraya mereka.

Sudah pasti untuk menjayakan suara demokrasi antaranya adalah dengan menjadikan pengundian sebagai salurannya. Pendek kata pemilihan pemimpin tertinggi dalam kampus adalah berdasarkan suara keramat dari siswa dan siswi universiti tersebut. Pun begitu, pengundi mungkin akan memilih hanya berdasarkan pengetahuan yang terbatas berkaitan individu bertanding itu. Contohnya, calon itu dinilai berdasarkan janji manis(menifesto), akademik(pointer), aktiviti (lagi banyak lagi debom!) dan sedikit sebanyak paras rupa seperti yang tertera dalam kertas kempen mereka itu.

Maka itu sebenarnya tidak cukup dalam menilai siapa yang layak untuk menjadi pemimpin mereka, oleh itu harus ada satu sessi bicara ataupun pidato yang mana itu adalah platform untuk melihat kualiti kepimpinan dalam susun atur kata dan pemikiran mereka. Ruang ini kadangkala juga tidak berjaya menembusi kepompong pemikiran tertutup sesetengah siswa kerana persediaan mental yang lemah dalam diri mereka dan sekatan dari pentadbiran kolej yang berfikiran sempit.

Dengan itu harus ada ‘punch line’ dalam jalan cerita pilihanraya. Kewujudan beberapa fitnah mampu menarik kepekaan dan menghangatkan suasana dari agen propaganda. Hasil telitian mendapati perkara inilah yang menjadikan sesetengah siswa tidak mahu terlibat dalam politik kampus. Maka kesempatan akan di ambil kepada siswa yang terus menerus tidak peka dan tiada minat itu oleh agen propaganda untuk membobrokkan pihak lawan.

Perkara yang mengguris hati umat Islam ialah apabila tindakan kurang ajar menghina Islam berlaku. Sama ada dengan merendahkan individu muslim di khalayak, merosakkan surau dan masjid adalah satu yang tidak sepatutnya berlaku. Orang yang melakukan ini barangkali licik dan terancang, supaya pergerakan mereka tidak di hidu oleh sesiapa melainkan sesama mereka sahaja.

Kejadian kepala babi yang diletakkan di surau adalah perbuatan yang melampau dan mengguris semua hati umat Islam. Berita ini tidak didedahkan di media utama, kecuali malaysiakini. Ada beberapa aspek difikirkan atas perkara ini:

1.Wujudnya sejenis manusia yang sentiasa benci mendalam kepada Islam. Mereka menzahirkan kebencian kepada masjid, surau, dan muslimin secara menghina seperti apa yang telah berlaku.

2.Bertujuan melaga-lagakan antara agama, kaum, dan seteru politik seumpama batu api. Propaganda adalah senjata utama dan mereka tidak senang melihat kejayaan orang yang berjaya dan sentiasa mengintai titik kelemahan seteru mereka.

3.Terakhir, umat Islam ambillah iktibar kerana kelalaian kita dalam mengimarakkan dan menjaga rumah ALLAH. Pengajaran keras buat semua siswa yang berat datang surau ;”Apabila kepala khinzir boleh berada di surau, di manakah anda ???”

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2009-01-20T17:51:00.002+08:00

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Israel set to quit Gaza before Obama inauguration

2009-01-20T16:11:00.001+08:00

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel planned to complete a troop pullout from Gaza before Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, Israeli political sources said, in what analysts saw as an effort to avoid any tension with the new U.S. president.

A Palestinian woman walks in a cemetery surrounded by destroyed buildings after Israel's offensive in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip January 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Anja Niedringhaus/Pool)

With a ceasefire entering its third day, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon planned to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and view first-hand the devastation of a 22-day Israeli offensive.

He will be the highest-ranking international figure to visit the territory since separately declared ceasefires by Israel and Hamas ended the Israeli offensive and Palestinian cross-border rocket attacks.

Ban, on a Middle East peacemaking mission, would also visit southern Israel, Israeli officials said.

More Israeli forces left the Gaza Strip on Monday and the Israeli political sources said all would be out before Obama was sworn in at 1700 GMT.

World leaders were keen to cement a truce and avoid any more bloodshed in Gaza where more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in Israel's air and ground strikes launched on Dec. 27 with the declared aim of ending rocket attacks.

Gaza's infrastructure was left in ruins and the repair bill was estimated by the Palestinian statistics bureau to be about $1.9 billion.

Hamas said 5,000 homes, 16 government buildings and 20 mosques were destroyed and that 20,000 houses were damaged. Israel has said militants hid weapons inside the mosques.

Palestinian militant groups said 112 of their fighters and 180 Hamas policemen were killed. Israel put its dead at 10 soldiers and said three civilians were killed in rocket attacks.

Gaza medical officials said the Palestinian dead included at least 700 civilians. Israel, which accused Hamas of endangering non-combatants by operating in densely populated areas, said hundreds of militants were among the dead.

WHO WARNING

In Geneva, World Health Organisation head Margaret Chan warned of a looming health crisis for many among the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the sliver of territory wedged between Israel and Egypt.

Chan said she was "deeply concerned" about an interruption of immunisations and other life-saving care in the territory, and of the availability of only 2,000 hospital beds in Gaza.

Saudi Arabia pledged $1 billion for rebuilding and the European Union said the bloc's foreign ministers planned to meet in Brussels to discuss humanitarian aid and Israeli demands for the prevention of weapons smuggling to Gaza.

Israel had launched its offensive with a vow to "change the reality" for southern border towns that had been the target of rocket fire from Hamas and other militant groups since 2001.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared the mission accomplished, noting diplomatic efforts by the United States, Egypt and European nations to prevent Hamas rearming. Israel has vowed to respond to any renewed flow of arms to Gaza.

"We've created a new equation whereby not only (rocket) fire is a provocation against Israel but also rearming will be seen as a motive for an (Israeli military) operation," Tzahi Hanegbi, an Olmert ally and legislator, told Israel Radio.

The fighting ended just weeks before a Feb. 10 Israeli election. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party is still the front-runner but Defence Minister Ehud Barak's Labour party has gained in popularity.

Hamas proclaimed victory despite the destruction in Gaza, and its armed wing vowed to replenish its arsenal of rockets.

But Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said talks would continue on Egypt's proposal for a long-term truce that would assure the reopening of crossings into Gaza, including the Rafah terminal with Egypt that was the main access to the outside world.

Ban, in comments to Arab leaders on Monday, urged rival Palestinian factions to take what many see as an unlikely step of uniting behind Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to help heal Gaza's wounds.

Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas's Fatah forces in 2007 after winning an election the year before. Israel and the West boycotted governments led by Hamas because the group rejects Israel's right to exist.

The long wait is over

2009-01-20T15:51:00.001+08:00

Gorgeous details: The new Macbook features an all new design with a glossy 13.3in LED backlit screen.

We finally get our hands on a shiny new Macbook and come away suitably impressed with its design and performance.

By CHONG JINN XIUNG

THE biggest news that emerged from Apple’s September announcement wasn’t Steve Job’s health, but rather the company’s brand new line of redesigned Macbook notebook computers.

Mac fans everywhere have been waiting for an update of the popular Apple notebook for years and at long last, their wait is over.

Big changes

ALL METAL: The new Macbook looks just as good on the outside with a metal aluminum casing

The biggest change you will find in the new Macbook is that the version has an aluminum chassis, similar to that of the higher-end Macbook Pro.

The Macbook is a solid block of aluminium carved from inside out to form the shape of the notebook with the components neatly tucked inside — an aesthetically pleasing design indeed.

The new Macbook is a solidly built notebook that not only looks great but it feels thinner and lighter than its predecessor.

While it is slightly slimmer, I can’t say that it was easy to carry around as it did feel heavy in my backpack as I lugged it around from place to place.

Other improvements include a large multi-touch trackpad that removes the single button and integrates the click button below the trackpad. Essentially this means you can click anywhere on the trackpad to engage the button.

Aside from it being big, another more subtle change in the trackpad is its new touch-based gestures that we first saw on the Macbook Air in January.

What this essentially allows users to do is navigate with their finger gestures. While the two-finger sliding motion for scrolling down pages is commonplace, there are other more cool gestures that nicely integrate with the Mac OSX.

For instance, placing four fingers on the trackpad and sliding it up and down will give you the ability to engage Exposé or hide all running applications. You can also switch between running applications using the App Switcher by flicking four fingers to left or right.

The new trackpad is fairly accurate in detecting where you point your finger and it is a joy to use with such a large surface area to move around.

In fact, I found the trackpad so usable that rarely I found a need to use a mouse save for performing delicate tasks like correcting an image on Photoshop.

Simply striking

A strikingly attractive glossy 13in LCD screen (1,280 x 800pixel resolution) covered by a single sheet of glass, dominates the Macbook’s interior.

Both pictures and text look brilliantly clear, colourful and sharp on the screen and it was a plesure to read webpages. Even in the dark, the screen is very visible thanks to its LED backlighting to keep it bright while consuming less power.

While I had no trouble using the Macbook indoors, using it outdoors proved to be quite difficult with all sorts of things reflecting back on the screen, making it difficult to view what I was reading or typing. Suffice to say, it is advisable to do your work indoors with the Macbook.

Another notable change to the interior portion of the Macbook are the keys, which now bear more resemblance to the Macbook Air with jet black keys that light up in the dark. While typing this review I found the keys were well-spaced and comfortable to type on.

The inclusion of shortcut keys on the top row of keys make it easy to access various features such as widgets, Expose and media playback functions.

All the Macbook’s connectivity ports — two USB ports, Ethernet port as well as a headphone and microphone jack occupy the left side of the Macbook.

Some of the things you may notice missing from the usual line of ports is a Firewire port and VGA-out port.

Firewire users may need to stick to their older Macbooks if they are still keen on using their cables.

Another new addition is the use of a Mini Display port to link your Macbook to project images on a bigger monitor. The drawback to this is that the various extension cables for VGA and DVI-out are sold separately.

The Macbook has an above-average battery performance. I were able to get three hours of power, which is pretty decent for a notebook this size.

One cool feature we liked is how the Macbook has its own built-in battery indicator located on the left side of the notebook. There’s a small button with some tiny LED lights, indicating how much battery power is left in the notebook.

Although it’s a bit small, it’s still a useful tool to have.

Performance

Looking at the hardware side of things, the new Macbook runs on the standard Intel Core 2 Duo processor, with two stock variations one with a 2GHz chip and another with a 2.4GHz chip. Both variations come standard with 2GB of DDR3 RAM that’s expandable up to 4GB.

The processor holds up pretty well while multitasking with different applications running in the background.

We put the Macbook through the paces, using it for some web surfing, watching YouTube videos and playing a DVD movie on the notebook’s optical drive while typing this review.

In the end, I have to say I was pretty impressed that the Macbook was able to do all this without even slowing down.

Storage doesn’t prove to be an issue on the Macbook either, as you get a minimum of 160GB and a maximum of 250GB (found in the 2.4Ghz model).

The Macbook can alternatively be fitted with a smaller and faster, 128GB solid-state drive — however the trade-off is the significantly higher cost.

If you are looking to do more than just web surfing on the Macbook, you are in luck. Apple has done away with the old Intel integrated graphics chip and have instead equipped all new Macbooks with an nVidia GeForce 9400M chip, which gives the Macbook the added power to perform tasks typically reserved for the desktop such as playing games as well as performing some video/photo-editing.

Conclusion

After spending a few days using the Macbook, I have to say that I came away impressed.

On the surface, the new Macbook is a stunner that is sure to catch the eye of any gadget enthusiast.

I also like the inclusion of the bigger trackpad with touch gestures, which makes things like browsing webpages to simple tasks of navigating around the notebook a breeze.

In terms of performance, it’s hard not to like the Macbook. It’s a solid performer and packs enough punch to handle basic games and video/photo-editing applications.

However, there are a few issues that prevent the Macbook from earning a maximum score. For one, the screen is overly glossy to the point that it is just too difficult to use outdoors no thanks to the reflections.

Also, the lack of any VGA or DVI-out port forces users to purchase them separately.

Nevertheless, the new Macbook is worth considering as it manages to strike the right balance between power, looks and portability.

Pros: Excellent new design; multitasking is not a problem; decent battery life; big trackpad with touch-gesture support.

Cons: Lacks VGA and DVI-out port; screen is too glossy for outdoor use.

MACBOOK

(Apple)

Portable notebook

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.4GHz)

Memory: 2GB DDR3 RAM

Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM

Display: 13.3in

Storage: 250GB

Connectivity: WiFi 802.11n, 10/100 Ethernet port,

Optical Drive: 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD-R DL/DVD-RW/CD-RW)

I/O ports: Two USB ports, Mini Display port (extension for VGA and DVI sold separately), headphone/microphone combo jack

Other features: Built-in iSight webcam

Operating system: Mac OSX Leopard

Dimensions (w x d x h): 32.5 x 22.7 x 2.41cm

Weight: 2.04kg

Price: RM5,899

Big Bad World

2009-01-20T15:43:00.001+08:00

Artist: PLAIN WHITE T’s

Genre: Rock

(Hollywood/Universal)

Reviewer: JACOBUS RAJ

THE Plain White T’s, purveyors of some mighty fine pop-punk, might have burst into the limelight with their Grammy-nominated acoustic ballad Hey There Delilah in 2007 but the seeds of the group were actually planted a decade earlier when Tom Higgenson teamed up with Ken Fletcher and Dave Tirio.

Initially contenting themselves with gigs at various clubs in Chicago, the band really took it to another level after 1999 when a life-threatening accident left Higgenson with a newfound appreciation for life.

This album proves to be a great listen as the band demonstrates its talents and shows off just why it hit it so big with Hey There Delilah. While there isn’t anything here that quite matches the hooks in their breakaway effort, there’s more depth to this effort and it certainly proves that these guys are no flash in the pan.

It’s a light, breezy album that is firmly anchored in the pop-rock range but the fine harmonising between the band members on some of the tracks shows off their skills well. In fact, one of my favourite tracks on the album is Sunlight, a very laid-back song that harks back to the sounds of light rock in the 1970s.

There are a couple of ballad-like numbers here with another hot pick of mine, Rainy Day, displaying an interesting sense of maturity and an obvious level of professionalism.

The acoustic-driven 1, 2, 3, 4 is also a standout track on the album. Listening to this really made me wonder how they had stayed under the radar for so long but there’s little doubt that we’ll hear from them again, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Whether or not you liked Hey There Delilah, this album won’t disappoint and is in fact a good pick for a lazy afternoon at home, chilling out with a cup of coffee or two.

One World

2009-01-20T15:35:00.000+08:00

THE Klang Valley might be slowly turning into a multi-national metropolis, but there are still very few places like colleges or universities where you can find people from all over the world celebrating a common cause.

At least that's what Unifest, a concert organised by the students of UCSI University last week, proved to some extent.

With students from Malaysia, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, Botswana, China, South Korea and many more all gathered to celebrate the school's recently-awarded university status, it turned out to be more of a celebration of culture, diversity and youth.

"It really helped to bring together all the international students to have some fun with us," said event coordinator Kua Mei Cher, 21, a final year mass communications student.

There were a great variety of things to do at the Unifest bazaar

"Students from different countries don't always get along because of certain cultural barriers. But as we saw at Unifest, once young people get partying, none of these things matter anymore."

And since private colleges/universities in Malaysia these days tend to have large groups of international students, it's plain courtesy to try and make some of them feel welcome.

Like Mei Cher tells us, it's often not just the Malaysian students who take time to get used to the different cultures, but foreign students coming in as well.

"I've had some Middle Eastern students who told me it took them over five months to get used to how things work here," she said. "It's not as easy for them as it appears to us. Just because they look fine when they group together doesn't mean they don't struggle."

Fellow student Navid Gazerani, 19, went through that phase a year and a half ago when he first came to Malaysia from his native Iran, and he believes events like Unifest could help to ease that transition period for others like himself.

"There were so many things that were different and new when I first came here. I lost 12kg because I wasn't used to the food, I couldn't cope with the weather because it's just hot all year round here. I also found it very difficult to communicate (with people).

"But students this year are lucky because at Unifest, I could see many of them from different countries getting to know each other. I think it worked because everyone was invited. When I got here I only stuck to Iranian friends," said Navid.

The concert also gave the foreign students a peek into what the local music scene is like with established artistes like Juwita Suwito, Liang and Army of Three performing. Up-and-coming college bands like Bus Company and Free to Fall were also there, and both showed why they are bands to look out for in 2009 with crowd-pleasing performances.

Popular band Scene at the Movies

Bus Company in particular has had lots of experience playing college and university events, and frontman Samuel Oh says most of them have international audiences these days.

"The foreign students are usually very supportive. A lot of them turn up for these events, and you'd get a good mix of people in the crowd," he said.

"It was really also interesting to notice how different people enjoy different music. When we played this Justin Timberlake remix, the Africans were totally digging the groove! Every group seemed to enjoy a particular style more than the rest."

Also at the concert to enjoy the performances was UCSI's vice president of student affairs associate professor Dr Lachman Tarachand, and he paid tribute to the students not only for organising the event, but also for playing their part in helping the institution achieve its university status.

"We were given the title (of university) last October, but we're only celebrating it now because we wanted to wait for all the students to come back from their breaks. This isn't just an accomplishment of UCSI and the lecturers, it's also the students'," Lachman said.

Lachman also said that the university's management was very pleased with the students' efforts in organising the event, not only because it showed that the students were capable of pulling off such a huge event, but because it showed foreign students what Malaysian university life can be like.

"I thought the event was a lot of fun! We not only showed the foreign students how Malaysians have fun, but we were able to promote Malaysian universities as a place where students from all races can be brought together."

Two-horse race at Anugerah Juara Lagu

2009-01-20T15:03:00.000+08:00

If this weekend’s Anugerah Juara Lagu was anything to go by, Malaysian music is truly on the rise and a couple of great acts will lead the way.

It was a case of déjà vu as a duo of artistes made repeated returns to the podium at TV3’s annual music competition, Anugerah Juara Lagu’s 23rd instalment at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday night. The venue was packed to the rafters with enthusiastic fans – all 15,000 of them – who were there to celebrate the nation’s crème de la crème in the music industry.

The six-category event (Juara Lagu Champion, Best Creative Ethnic Song, Best Ballad, Best Pop/Rock Song, Best Performance and Best Vocal) this year was themed “Music Illuminates”, a brief that was backed by a splendid display of pyrotechnics, lights and great music.

Sticking to tradition, the selection process for AJL has remained the same over the years – nominees are derived from a list of local songs that garnered the most votes in weekly episodes of TV3’s long-running Muzik Muzik variety programme throughout the year and then progress into the semi-finals, from which 12 songs – four songs, or fewer, from the three categories (Pop/Rock, Ballad and Ethnic Creative) – are nominated by a panel of judges for the grand final.

Lan of Meet Uncle Hussain, the main winner of the 23rd Anugerah Juara Lagu, giving a rousing rendition of Lagu Untuk Mu.

Speaking of judges, the night of the finals comprised music industry players like Hazami, Acis, Muhaziz Yaakub, Saharuddin Musthafa, Adibah Noor, Dr Wan Zawawi and Helen Yap, with panel head Azmeer sitting in the hot seat.

As the clock struck 9pm, viewers throughout the nation – whether in the stadium or at home – were riveted to the spectacle onstage. Beyond the brief display of flashing pots and what-not, hosts Cheryl Samad, Faizal Ismail and Ally Iskandar – all of whom did brilliantly in keeping the audience entertained and informed – first addressed the atrocities taking place in the Gaza strip in Palestine and encouraged the audience to donate to a fund set up to help the victims of the war there.

Pop rock act Sofaz got the ball rolling and warmed the crowd somewhat with its slick performance of Bukan Di Sini. Throughout the night, the pendulum wrenched from one extreme to the other, with sterling performances on one end and abysmal at the other. Then there were some that were simply inexplicable.

What do you get with “sweat” (generated by plain water from a pail), hairspray and a couple of fans (the air-blowing variety)? A Faizal Tahir performance, but of course. Surprising would not be an adjective used to describe the One in A Million alum’s performances for the night with his offerings of Cuba (ballad) and Sampai Syurga (ballad). The audience rattled the roof with their rapturous applause and squeals of delight.

Even if some of the onstage dramatisation went overboard, Faizal certainly knew how to work the crowd with his superb vocal delivery. His two performances were of show-stopping proportions – lovely melodies paired with easy-on-the-ear song structures.

Indie darling Meet Uncle Hussain was no pushover either. The band may have looked like it had borrowed KISS’ makeup kit but that certainly didn’t detract from the charm of its performance of Lagu Untukmu (pop/rock), a Killers’ inspired ditty that hit all the right notes to get the crowd going. The band’s noisy die-hard fan base simply made the atmosphere electric.

Nominee Stacy (of Akademi Fantasia fame) in a superb performance of pop song Aku Stacy. – Pics by KAMARUL ARIFFIN / The Star

There were certainly other noteworthy performances; an audience favourite was stalwart Ziana Zain on Dingin (ballad), in which the petite singer displayed her powerhouse vocal capacity even if the song was rather drab. But in the words of one wise Simon Cowell – she could probably sing the phonebook and get away with it.

Easily one of the best songs for the night was Stacy’s ode to herself, Aku Stacy (pop/rock). It was reminiscent of a Cyndi Lauper-type zaniness paired with an irresistibly infectious hook. The choreography routine merely heightened her performance.

Farawahida was also right on the money with Persoalan Cinta (ethnic creative), even if the song’s chorus melody bore a striking resemblance to Barbra Streisand’s Woman In Love.

Some of the more “unique” presentations of the night included Aiman’s Dusta Berkalang and Estranged’s Yang Pernah. Aiman was dressed like a voodoo medicine man while his dancers looked like they were a lost tribe from the Amazon. A group of back-up singers that looked like Manchester City FC’s new board of directors, replete with sheik outfits and corresponding head gear, didn’t do the performance any favours either.

Estranged opted for a more chic presentation, taking a page out of Malaysian culture, and as hosts Faizal and Ally rightly pointed out, mengandungi unsur-unsur wayang kulit (contains elements of shadow play). Shadow play at AJL … definitely a first!

And almost traditionally, Ramli MS helmed the band to stirring effect, conducting a conventional band and an orchestra simultaneously.

As the night wore on, the moment of truth finally arrived. Faizal coolly swooped three out of the six awards, for Sampai Syurga – Best Ballad, Best Vocal and Best Performance. Apart from the treble clef-shaped gold trophies, Faizal received enough bouquets to open a florist shop. Farawahida bagged the Creative Ethnic category.

Faizal Tahir working the crowd with his performance of Sampai Syurga.

The main winner for the night was Meet Uncle Hussain, who not only cashed in on the Best Pop Rock Song category but was voted Juara Lagu Champion for 2008, winning a total cash prize of RM37,00 ifor Lagu Untukmu.

If certain portions of the audience and the media sensed disappointment from Faizal’s quarters at losing out to Meet Uncle Hussain, the rising star proved them wrong. He was magnanimous in defeat, saying; “I’d been telling everyone that I thought they (Meet Uncle Hussain) would and should win. I’m a big fan and I can tell you that they are pointing us in the right direction. I know after winning three awards it seemed like the momentum was with me, but there wasn’t a moment where I thought they wouldn’t win it.

“Frankly, this is all about the music. I gave a one-of-a-kind performance tonight … this kind of presentation has to be crazy and is inspired by thinking out of the box. I can only say I am pleased,” he added.

A band of fewer words, Meet Uncle Hussain was awestruck with its win. “We really didn’t see it coming. Having said that, the band exists out of the music we play, and if that was appreciated, then great,” revealed guitarist Taja. “I guess, in a way, we are grateful that there is a trend towards bands at the moment, but with most other things, there is always a lifespan,” shared lead singer Lan.

Winners always have immediate plans and Meet Uncle Hussain’s is an honest one. “We just plan to sleep because we’ve been slogging for the past two weeks preparing for this,” Taja cheekily offered.

Chief judge Azmeer had no doubts about Meet Uncle Hussain’s victory. “Meet Uncle Hussain champions good new music, good vocals and a great stage presence. It was a pretty unanimous decision. Faizal was certainly up there but performances are about giving the audience goosebumps, and Meet Uncle Hussain did just that.”

Keputusan Penuh Anugerah Juara Lagu 23 (AJL 23)

2009-01-19T17:28:00.002+08:00

Pemenang Persembahan Terbaik:
Sampai Syurga- Faizal Tahir

Pemenang Persembahan Vokal Terbaik:
Sampai Syurga-Faizal Tahir

Pemenang Kategori Balada:
Sampai Syurga-Faizal Tahir

Pemenang Kategori Pop Rock:
Lagu UntukMu- Meet Uncle Hussain

Pemenang Kategori Etnik Kreatif:

Persoalan Cinta-Farawahida

Juara Lagu:
Lagu UntukMu- Meet Uncle Hussain

Indie band wins best song at TV3 contest

2009-01-19T09:31:00.002+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: For the second consecutive year, Anugerah Juara Lagu has acknowledged an indie band.

Lagu Untukmu was named Best Song at the 23rd edition of TV3's annual song competition at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil last night.

The number, sung by indie band Meet Uncle Hussain, and written and composed by band members Tass and Lass, also came up tops in the Pop Rock category.

The band received RM37,000 and two trophies for this entry.

Last year, Estrange took home the award with the upbeat number Untuk Kamu.
Sampai Syurga, sung and written by Faizal Tahir and composed by Audi Mok, won in the ballad category. They walked away with RM12,000 and a trophy.

Faizal also won the best performance and best vocal awards, receiving RM10,000 in prize money for each category. All in, Faizal received RM32,000.

In the Ethnic Creative category, Persoalan Cinta came out tops. Composed by Julfekar with lyrics by Ku Seman and Izza Rosley, the composition beat two entries, Dusta Berkalang and Doa Dalam Lagu.

The prizes were presented by the wife of the deputy prime minister, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Media Prima chairman Datuk Abdul Mutalib Mohamed Razak, Media Prima's Television Networks chief executive officer Datuk Seri Ahmad Farid Ridzuan and TV3 chief executive officer Datuk Amrin Awaluddin attended the event.

AJL 23, which kicked off the music calendar for this year, was hosted by Ally Iskandar, Cheryl Samad and Faizal Ismail.

The event, themed "Music Illumination", saw performances by M. Nasir, Jamal Abdillah, Jaclyn Victor and Gang Starz 2 champion One Nation Emcees.

AJL 23 was carried live by TV3 with live streaming via HotFM and www.tv3.com.my.

Resource: The New Straits Times Online

Azan Tetap Bergema Di Gaza

2009-01-19T08:09:00.002+08:00

Jemaah tidak gentar serangan bom Israel bersolat di atas runtuhan masjid

GAZA: Serangan udara bertali arus yang dilancarkan tentera Israel langsung tidak menakutkan penduduk Islam Palestin yang bergegas ke masjid sebaik mendengar azan dilaungkan untuk bersolat jemaah.

Walaupun sukar mendengar azan di tengah kebisingan pesawat tempur rejim Zionis yang berlegar, orang ramai membanjiri masjid di seluruh kawasan penempatan Sheikh Radwan di barat Gaza.

Dalam cuma beberapa minit, mereka bercampur dengan jemaah lain yang tidak gentar dengan pengeboman Israel.

“Sebaik mendengar azan, penduduk segera datang. Kami bersolat di atas runtuhan masjid ini,” kata imam masjid di kawasan penempatan itu.

Seperti yang lain, masjid Al-Taqwa hampir musnah selepas menjadi sasaran tentera Yahudi. Lebih 50 masjid dimusnahkan oleh Israel dalam serangan ke atas wilayah berpenduduk padat itu.

Serangan paling buruk ialah ke atas masjid Ibrahim Al-Maqadma ketika waktu solat, menyebabkan 16 jemaah gugur dan ramai lagi cedera.

Namun di seluruh Gaza, masjid yang dibom tetap berfungsi lima kali sehari.

“Pada hari serangan tentera rejim memusnahkan masjid, kami ketakutan tetapi mendengar laungan azan pagi berikutnya, semangat kami pulih kembali.

“Masjid akan tetap penuh tidak kira apa yang berlaku. Kami tidak akan membenarkan penceroboh mengosongkan ia,” kata imam masjid Kholafa Rashedeen di utara Gaza, Awad Al-Sha`er.

Seperti ramai jirannya, Abu Anas Al-Zaharna, berani mengharungi peluru tentera Israel setiap hari untuk ke masjid.

“Tinggal di rumah bukan jaminan nyawa akan selamat. Jika sudah sampai masanya, kita tetap akan mati,” katanya.

Masjid yang dibom mencabar mesin tentera Israel bukan hanya dengan menghimpunkan jemaah tetapi juga dengan membantu menyembuhkan kesakitan yang dirasai penduduk.

“Sejak perang bermula, masjid semakin tekad membantu penduduk,” kata imam masjid Al-Bukhari, Mohammed Ashour.

Seperti masjid lain di wilayah itu, Ashour mengetuai masjidnya melancarkan kempen mendekati keluarga yang memerlukan.

Sukarelawan melawat rumah di kawasan penempatan untuk menawarkan makanan dan minuman kepada keluarga yang kesukaran mendapatkan bekalan dalam suasana keperitan itu.